Chapter 309 Another Option
"The bones are quite thin. Judging from the stature and bone structure... it must be a woman."
Yan Haochu looked serious and quickly made a judgment.
only……
He looked at the extra leg bone and rib next to him and clenched his fists.
There's more than one body in this pool.
"Keep searching!"
Yan Haochu gave the order sternly.
"Leave two of you on the shore to sort out the remains, and the rest of you, go down and search! Not a single inch of the bottom of this pond can be left uncovered!"
He took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, jumped into the pond first, and began to explore with all the servants.
Zhiluo exchanged glances with Yun Qingqing, and secretly raised her hands, and a faint light that ordinary people could not see rolled out.
With just these people, it would take an unknown amount of time to fish out all the skeletons, but with Zhiluo's secret efforts, four complete skeletons were soon gathered on the shore.
Yan Haochu led his men ashore and frowned as he looked at the skeletons.
All four skeletons were women. The clothes on one of the skeletons were not completely rotten, and there was a jade bracelet of average quality on her wrist. Judging from the degree of decay of the clothes, they should have been rotten within the last year or so.
"Master Lu, how do you explain all this?" Yan Haochu asked coldly.
"I really don't know anything! As you can see, my family has many servants and many relatives and friends who come and go every day. I can't always keep an eye on a pond. How could I know there was a corpse in it?"
Lu Yu's face was full of grievance and he argued confidently.
"But it is a fact that the corpse appeared in your house. No matter what, you as the head of the family cannot escape the responsibility of negligence. You'd better cooperate with the government in the investigation and confess everything you know!" Yan Haochu said, and prepared to let the police take the man back to the government office.
"Wait a minute!" Lu Yu looked at Yun Qingqing hurriedly. "Master Qingyun, you promised to help my Lu family find our guardian deity first. Now that we haven't even started looking, you've already reported me to the police and had me taken away. Isn't that unreasonable?"
"Even if I want to cooperate with the investigation, I have to wait until you fulfill your promise first!"
He had long seen that the captain clearly respected Qingyun Daqing very much, so he thought that as long as she was willing to say a word, the captain would definitely give her this face.
Only after he gets through this hurdle will he have time to make arrangements and suppress these murders!
Yun Qingqing's face was cold and she said calmly:
"I did say I would help the Lu family find their guardian angel, but don't get me wrong, I never said I was helping you find it!"
Lu Yu's face froze.
"You...you're kidding me!"
Yun Qingqing uttered a "huh":
"But now that we've come to this, I can tell you what happened to the Patronus and why it suddenly disappeared."
"Really! Quickly, tell me what happened!" Mr. Lu was frightened by the corpse before, but after hearing these words, he finally came to his senses and asked hurriedly.
Yun Qingqing said calmly:
"The guardian gods you're talking about are originally the guardian spirits of the northern region. To be frank, they're just some mountain spirits and wild monsters with good cultivation and who don't mind humans."
"This guardian deity that your Lu family's ancestors contracted with is considered gentle and kind among the spirits. It has protected the Lu family for more than a dozen generations and has even willingly followed you to the Imperial Capital, thousands of miles away from your hometown. It has truly done the Lu family the most benevolent of deeds."
"It's just that six years ago, this guardian deity encountered a calamity and nearly had its spirit scattered. It barely managed to preserve its spirit and has been recuperating ever since."
"However, not long after that, your Lu family's second son grew up, but he turned out to be a sinister, selfish, and lustful person, secretly doing many immoral things..."
When she got to this point, Lu Yu interrupted her angrily:
"That's pure nonsense... Ugh!"
Yan Haochu raised his hand and had someone hold him down and cover his mouth.
"Master, please continue!"
Yun Qingqing nodded at him and continued:
"Generally speaking, the guardian deity of the house only needs to eat the offerings from the house. However, this one in your Lu family has some unique characteristics. The offerings made in the contract with your ancestors are for merit. Therefore, the ancestral teachings of the Lu family have been to do good and accumulate virtue, and not to do evil."
"It's just that in recent generations, the Lu family has gradually forgotten their roots, treating the ancestral teachings as just nice words. But thanks to the good deeds accumulated by their ancestors over the years, they have been able to live well until this disaster happened."
Yun Qingqing pointed at a skeleton on the ground with a cold gaze:
"This girl was the first one killed by Lu Yu. She violently resisted the assault and was killed by mistake. Then she was thrown into this pool and treated as if nothing had happened."
"After that, not only did he not reflect on his actions, but he became even more daring. He thought that as long as he could do bad things without being discovered, he would still be the free and easy second young master of the Lu family. He had no remorse at all."
"The evil things he has done in secret these past few days are not limited to these few corpses."
Yun Qingqing looked directly at Mr. Lu:
"I suppose your eldest son's illness came on so suddenly that he died in three days. You probably also suspected something was wrong, didn't you?"
Mr. Lu was shocked:
"What do you mean by that... Could it be..."
"It's true that he had an acute illness, but he died suddenly instead of being cured. It was all because of your second son who secretly replaced the medicine!" Yun Qingqing said.
Old Master Lu looked at Lu Yu in shock, only to see that his mouth was blocked and he couldn't speak, but he kept shaking his head.
The old man was in turmoil and didn't know whether he should believe it or not. He didn't know what to say for a moment.
But Yun Qingqing hadn't finished speaking yet, she continued:
"The first time he harmed someone, the Guardian Immortal was recuperating from a weakened spirit, completely powerless to intervene. Furthermore, because Lu Yu had ruined the Lu family's karma, the Guardian Immortal's recovery never improved, yet he was bound by the contract and couldn't escape."
"It wasn't until over a year ago that the Lu family did something that finally made the guardian deity leave this dangerous place. After he left, the statue shattered."
Having said that, Yun Qingqing paused for a moment and looked at Mr. Lu.
"Since you woke up, have you not noticed who is missing from this yard?"
Mr. Lu looked around blankly, and suddenly realized:
"It's... the eldest daughter-in-law? Where is she... And Ayuan, he's not here either. Where did the mother and son go?"
"After grandpa fell ill, my aunt and Ayuan were kicked out of the house by my second brother." The youngest sister of the Lu family, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke softly.
"This... why is this?" The old man frowned.
"My second brother said that Ayuan was a jinx who had killed my eldest brother and could no longer stay in the Lu family to cause harm to others. My aunt protected Ayuan and was driven away as well." The younger sister of the Lu family spoke in a low voice, but her logic was clear.
Mr. Lu's expression changed, and he turned to Yun Qingqing and asked:
"But... you just said that the guardian angel had a contract with my Lu family, so he couldn't leave, right? Why was he able to leave after driving away the eldest daughter-in-law?"
Yun Qingqing sneered:
"It should be said that it was fortunate that Lu Yu drove away the mother and son, which gave the guardian spirit another choice."
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