Chapter 168 Another person died.
"Young Master, do you really think it's some kind of notorious thief or murderous maniac causing trouble?" After Qi Quan finished telling Feng Qingge, he felt a chill run down his spine and his heart was filled with unease.
Feng Qingge lay on the soft couch under the window, enjoying the breeze and cracking melon seeds, feeling utterly content.
Upon hearing Qi Quan's question, he replied calmly, "Where would so many audacious madmen come from under the emperor's nose? Don't listen to their nonsense. Perhaps something has happened to them. This world, tsk tsk." He then clicked his tongue twice to express his opinion.
Qi Quan nodded, "That's true." The young master knows more.
"However, it's uncertain whether this case can be solved." He grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds and continued cracking them open.
Helpless, Qi Quan turned to look at the floor of the room, which was covered with white sunflower seed shells, like a carpet. How many pounds of sunflower seeds must this young master have eaten?
Just as Feng Qingge said, this case is very mysterious and it is probably not going to be solved anytime soon. However, she is trapped in the mansion and cannot go out to join in the fun.
Several days have passed, and the authorities haven't found anything, but there haven't been any more deaths in their sleep, so the panic is only temporary.
Furthermore, the discussions in the capital have decreased significantly in the past few days, and the lives of ordinary people have basically returned to normal. The government officials are busy searching for commonalities among the deceased to see if someone deliberately killed them, but to no avail. These people have nothing in common, except that they are from wealthy families.
The case has made no progress, and Qin Hong is worried sick. The deceased was an official, and this matter has far-reaching implications. If it is not handled properly, it will attract a lot of rumors and gossip.
I thought the matter was over, but unexpectedly, two days later, someone in a family in the capital died.
This time, it wasn't a wealthy young master or nobleman who died, but Hua San'er, a local ruffian from the East Alley. Like everyone else, his death was also suspicious. He was found dead in his home the next morning.
Early in the morning, someone found him dead in his bed at his house, looking peaceful, as if he were asleep, no different from the previous victims.
Now, the government officials were in trouble. This common feature that was once a feature of wealthy families was now useless.
Hua San'er lived alone, both his parents had passed away, and he had never married, so he lived a muddled life. He was a notorious hoodlum in the East Alley, who was fond of whoring and gambling, and most people didn't like to be around him.
It was only when one of the men who often gambled and whored with Hua San'er that day came looking for him at the gambling den that they discovered he had died at home, so they immediately reported it to the authorities.
When the officials arrived and saw that it was the same situation again, they simply took Hua San'er's body away.
This alley is full of ordinary people's homes. Everyone knows what's going on in each other's lives. Now that someone has died, and in the way that was discussed a few days ago, things have really gotten interesting.
I thought death was far away from me, but then one day my neighbor was gone. From then on, everyone was on edge. At night, we would close our doors and windows, and the whole family would huddle together, afraid to even sleep, for fear that some kind of killer who could fly over walls would come.
The series of deaths, with their bizarre circumstances, coupled with the Jingzhao government's prolonged inability to solve the case, caused panic among the people of the capital, eventually alarming the imperial court.
Therefore, the emperor decreed that the Regent Prince would personally take over the case, with the assistance of the Jingzhao government, to solve it together.
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