Chapter 354 A Deliberate Plan
"What are you laughing at?" Ling Ce frowned.
Jueming's smile grew increasingly strange.
"As someone who frequently handles cases, you should know that once a person dies, their entire body will stiffen within an hour."
Purple spots would appear on the body within two hours, so using the skin of a dead person was really too difficult.
Moreover, the corpses collected by the mortuary were mostly prisoners or homeless beggars, whose skin was rough and cracked, and many of them were unusable.
Sometimes, after painstakingly collecting a corpse, all you can find in the end is a small piece of usable skin.
He paused for a moment, then chuckled.
“Living people are different, especially the skin of fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls, tsk tsk tsk, so clean and tender.”
If carefully nurtured for a period of time, its skin will become even more delicate and smooth, as tender as could be.
Raising?
What did he take those girls for?
Hearing this from behind the screen, Chen Chu felt a surge of anger and wished she could go out and kick Jueming twice.
Ling Ce, who was outside the screen, could no longer hold back and kicked Jue Ming to the ground.
"You beast, you are inhuman and depraved. I have never seen such a vicious thing as you."
One kick wasn't enough for him, so he kicked her several more times.
Jueming was kicked and curled up into a ball.
Shen Chu gently tapped the screen, afraid that Jue Ming would be kicked to death by Ling Ce before he could sign the document.
She whispered a few words to Hongxiu.
Hongxiu went out and whispered her message to Ling Ce.
Ling Ce withdrew his foot, snorted coldly, and glanced at Fang Mama, who was kneeling on the ground with a face as pale as paper.
"You two colluded in secret. You looked for fair-skinned girls in the Mingde Class, and then tricked them into going to Tianxiang Tower under the pretense that they could study there for free if they were good students?"
Granny Fang's face was ashen, a mixture of emotions including annoyance, regret, sorrow, and fear.
Her lips trembled as she whispered, "At first, when Jueming approached me, I refused, but later..."
Granny Fang served the Empress Dowager in the palace for several years. As the Empress Dowager grew old, she devoted herself to Buddhism.
Life in the palace was dull and boring. When she was twenty-five, she was released from the palace and then hired by a wealthy family to work as a governess for five years.
Later, the girl from that family got married, and the family gave her a large sum of money. She then returned to her hometown of Yangzhou to live out her retirement.
She had no relatives left, so she returned to Yangzhou and opened the Mingde Class.
At first, she genuinely taught those girls, teaching them to read, write, and do needlework, as well as the rules and etiquette of wealthy families.
Many of the girls who graduated from the Mingde Class married well, and gradually, the Mingde Class became more and more famous in Yangzhou.
When she walked down the street, people would respectfully address her as Mr. Fang.
She was respected and had plenty of money, but she felt very empty inside.
More than half a year ago, she went to Qingshan Temple to worship Buddha and to visit Daqingshan Mountain. She accidentally slipped and fell down the mountain path and sprained her ankle.
My feet were swollen like steamed buns, and I couldn't go down the mountain.
The maidservant who served her couldn't carry her at all, and just as she was getting anxious, Jueming appeared.
Jueming carried her down the mountain step by step.
At first she was a little embarrassed, but Jueming said, "Monks have long since transcended worldly affairs and there is no distinction between men and women."
Jueming has a gentle and handsome appearance, with full, upright earlobes, making him look just like a deity or Buddha enshrined in a temple.
When she climbed onto Jueming's back, she realized for the first time how broad a man's back was and how powerful a man's body was.
Later, Jueming would often come to see her, and over time, the two gradually became familiar with each other.
Jueming showed her great care and concern.
She was gradually drawn to Jueming, and the two grew closer and closer until they finally ended up in bed together.
When the past was mentioned, Granny Fang's lips trembled even more violently.
"My lord, at first I did not know his true purpose. He said that he could select outstanding girls from poor families and send them to study at Tianxiang Tower."
I genuinely believe he was trying to give girls who were in dire straits a way out.
Some girls didn't want to go, so he asked me to provide them with good food and good things at the Mingde Class, and even let them take baths with flower petals.
I thought Jueming was genuinely kind, until one day, Baihehua secretly slipped away to play at Tianxianglou.
Bai Hehua overheard Jueming explaining to Steward Zhao their next target and the details of the operation.
Bai Hehua ran back in a panic and told me what had happened. Only then did I realize that the missing girls were related to him.
The next day, Bai Hehua disappeared. I went to question him, but he pointed to a big drum in the square and said, "See? The drumhead has just been replaced with the skin from Bai Hehua's back."
It was then that I realized that Jueming's approach to me was all part of a carefully planned scheme; his goal was to obtain human skin materials from me.
Recalling the scene, Granny Fang trembled, her face turning even paler than before.
Upon hearing this, Chen Chu couldn't help but stand up.
When she first saw the prayer drum of Qingshan Temple, she noticed that the drumhead was made of leather.
It felt just like human skin.
I never expected that the drum was actually made of human skin.
It's absolutely cruel.
Ling Ce's furious roar echoed outside.
"So, Fang, from now on you've joined forces with Jueming and become his accomplice in evil deeds?"
Those girls were all your students, especially Bai Hehua, who told you everything she heard.
She trusted you so much, and yet you let her be murdered without saying a word.
With red eyes, Granny Fang said, "What can I do? I'm scared too."
If I were to say these things, I would be finished; everything I had worked so hard to build would be gone.
Ling Ce: "In the end, you are just selfish and self-serving. You can disregard the lives of your students for your own selfish interests."
You are not worthy to be their husband at all.
Granny Fang's face turned deathly pale instantly, and her lips moved slightly.
"That's because you've never seen how Jueming deals with those girls."
Recalling what she had witnessed, a strong sense of fear flashed in Granny Fang's eyes.
He said that during the skinning process, the person must not die first, otherwise the skin will not be fresh.
So he used a special hallucinogenic drug to make the girls dazed, then drilled a hole in the top of their heads, poured mercury in, and that would ensure the skin and flesh separated.
I watched as he swiftly removed the flesh from the skin with his knife, separating the different parts of the skin according to their location.
Do you know how terrified I am? How scared I am?
"If I dare to utter a single word, Jueming will kill me too."
Ling Ce was so angry that smoke was practically billowing from his nostrils.
He thought to himself that this job of his junior sister was really inhuman; it must take an incredibly strong mind to listen to these perverted criminal acts.
If it weren't for his junior sister's reminder, he would have killed that beast Jueming with a single stroke.
He pinched the bridge of his nose, suppressing his anger, and continued to ask questions as Shen Chu had instructed.
"Besides making drums and lanterns made of human skin, what else did you make? How much profit did you make? Where did all the money go?"
Jueming said, “Different parts have different uses. The drumhead of the big drum is made from the skin on the back, and the lantern is made from the skin on the legs.”
"Oh, you can also make human skin masks, sir. Do you know which part of the skin is used to make human skin masks?"
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