The people of Dali Monastery and the nine gates ran around for a whole day,
After investigating the entire city, they finally obtained some useful information at night.
Xu Ting found a private residence,
The preliminary deduction was that it was Liu Rui's private residence.
It was only bought in the name of a manservant under Liu Rui,
But that residence was so big and expensive that it was impossible for a manservant to afford it.
Even if it was just a side residence in the west of the city.
They found out that the manservant had recently bought a batch of bedding and bedding,
They were all high-grade materials, and they were all sent to this residence in the end.
It was already very strange that a manservant could afford such a big residence,
It was definitely not just strange that he would use such luxurious bedding and pay so much attention to it,
It was unreasonable.
In the evening,
Master Chen mobilized a few dozen men from all directions and gathered in a small alley in the western part of the city.
When they arrived at the side courtyard, they only caught an empty courtyard.
This courtyard seemed to have long been empty.
Chen Jue stood at the entrance of the courtyard,
He pushed the door open,
He had this feeling.
Wang Yi blocked Chen Jue's path,
He waved his hand,
A few guards took the lead to enter the courtyard.
"What if there's a trap or an ambush inside..." Wang Yi explained.
Chen Jue rolled his eyes at him,
It was as if he disliked Wang Yi's superfluous action,
But he still stood at the door obediently,
He only stared at the few guards,
He didn't overestimate himself and really barge in.
The guards pushed open all the doors on guard,
But they didn't find a single living person, not even a corpse.
It wasn't until they pushed open the innermost large bedroom that a strange smell came out of the room that had been closed all this time..
"Sir, there's no... no living person inside." A guard took the lead and walked out to Chen Jue and said, "But there's a corpse."
The possibility of danger was eliminated. Chen Jue stepped into the courtyard.
The entire courtyard was very spacious, but it was just a large courtyard. The courtyard was big enough that there were many rockery and a few tall trees, which looked very old.
In this courtyard, even if there were several people standing around, they could still hide from each other and not see each other at a glance.
Chen Jue did not enter the house immediately. Instead, he walked around the yard a few times. Behind a tree, he saw a pool of blood.
The bloodstains showed that the victim had tried to climb up the wall behind the tree to escape, but he did not succeed.
There were also bloodstains on the trees beside the wall. It seemed that a person had been killed and fell backwards onto the tree. Why would a person who wanted to escape by climbing the wall fall backwards onto the tree?
Chen Jue stood by the tree for a long time before he turned around and left, heading towards Lian Jian's room.
There were three rooms in the courtyard, but each room had an indoor corridor. The rooms were arranged next to each other, like a teahouse or an inn.
Chen Jue entered the rooms one by one and looked around, not letting go of any details.
He soon found that this house, from the courtyard to the rooms, there were probably more than five people who had died. But... there was not a single corpse.
The bloodstains were not cleaned up very well, but the places that would reveal the traces of the murder had been cleaned up.
Chen Jue pursed his lips. The murderer should be someone who understood the way of investigating a case, or at least someone who was smart.
If it was Liu Rui, then he would fit the first criteria. He was the son of the Dali Monastery's Shaoqing, Liu Tianping. Even if he was ignorant and incompetent, he should have learned a lot of things under the influence of others.
After a long time, Chen Jue finally arrived at the last room. Here, there was a corpse.
The corpse was properly placed on the huge bed in the bedroom.
Everything in the room was extremely luxurious. It was obvious that this was the master bedroom of the entire courtyard.
Through the various details in the room, Chen Jue determined that this should be the place where Liu Rui lived, or rather, the place where Liu Rui committed the murder.
However, the corpse lying on the bed... or rather, lying upright on the bed, covered with a quilt, as though it was sleeping, did not belong to Liu Rui.
It was not even a beautiful woman or a beautiful young man.
Because although this corpse was a dried corpse, it was not like the dried corpses that had been discovered before, which originally belonged to a beautiful young woman.
Although this corpse had dried up, it would be difficult to find even a drop of water or a drop of blood in the body.
However, there was a genuine beard on the corpse's chin.
With a long beard, it was obvious that this was a middle-aged man.
Chen Jue stared at the corpse for a full quarter of an hour. Then, he frowned and began to search the room.
There was almost nothing.
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Chen Jue stood at the door of the room. He frowned deeply and stared at the 'peaceful' corpse on the bed. His expression was so gloomy that it looked like he wanted to eat someone.
"Sir, this corpse …" Wang Yi stood behind Chen Jue and looked at the dried corpse again and again.
He could not help but think in his heart: Did Liu Rui not catch Li Zhao, so he was so hungry that he could not be picky?
A middle-aged man with a big beard?
Could it be a very handsome uncle?
But looking at this dried corpse, it was really difficult to distinguish between beauty and ugliness …
"Wang Ju." Chen Jue said.
"Ah?
Ah … "Wang Yi was stunned for a moment, but he immediately reacted.
He glanced at the dried corpse on the bed several times in disbelief. Then, he was dumbfounded.
"This … how can this be?
Isn't Wang Ju Lord Liu's assistant?
He often gave advice to Lord Liu. When Lord Liu left Beijing, Wang Ju even helped to discipline Liu Rui … Could it be … No … "Wang Yi was a little confused.
"If Liu Rui was annoyed that Wang Ju was meddling in other people's business and killed him out of disgust, he wouldn't have used such a method …" Chen Jue frowned. "Unless Liu Rui can make people bleed and turn them into dried corpses without using the bedroom."
"Ah … Could it be that Mr. Li lied to us …" Wang Yi frowned.
He had learned about Liu Rui's supernatural ability from Mr. Li. Unless Mr. Li was lying.
After all, other than communicating with Li Ru, they hadn't caught any other … living witnesses.
Chen Jue pursed his lips and didn't say anything. After a while, he said, "Take the corpse back and let the coroner do an autopsy."
"Yes, sir," Wang Yi answered, but he hesitated. "Then the scene …"
"It's okay. The murderer has cleaned up the scene and even cleaned the room.
I'm afraid there are no other clues here other than the corpse. "Chen Jue waved his hand.
After leaving the room, Chen Jue stood in the courtyard and observed for a while. Then, he began to search the courtyard again.
He squatted here and there for a while.
Xu Ting followed Chen Jue and tried his best to learn and analyze what Lord Chen was looking at and what he was thinking.
Chen Jue walked in a big circle and picked up a piece of cloth from a tree root. It was only a small piece.
He held the piece of cloth and looked at it for a long time under the oil lamp. It was a piece of dark purple cloth that seemed to have been torn.
Torn by a beast?
It didn't make sense. How could there be a beast in the capital?
Then, how did it get torn like this?
It was obvious that the thing that tore this piece of cloth was very sharp, and the speed at which it was torn was also very fast.
He handed the cloth to Xu Ting and asked him to take it away. Chen Jue walked around the courtyard a few more times. Other than that … he found almost nothing.
This courtyard was probably empty long ago. Many things in the courtyard were gone, and he didn't know where the corpse was taken.
Even a lot of the smell had dissipated.
"Leave two people here to guard this place for two days. This place has been abandoned." After Chen Jue finished speaking, he turned and left the courtyard.
He rode on a tall horse and squeezed the horse's belly. The horse carried him home.
Riding on the horse, facing the wind, the wound on his shoulder stung slightly.
Chen Jue had a feeling that his opponent didn't seem to be a spoiled brat. Instead, he seemed to be a smart man who thought highly of himself.
Liu Rui was a spoiled brat who was extremely stupid. Every time he threw away a corpse, he would do it in a simple and crude way … How would he know to deliberately decorate the courtyard and the rooms in such a place and wait for him to come?
Yes!
Chen Jue had this feeling when he entered the courtyard. It was as if … the murderer had expected him to come, so he cleaned up the courtyard and got rid of the bloodstains and scattered corpses in the courtyard.
He even tidied up a few rooms and then … seriously killed the person and arranged the corpse so that it looked like the person was asleep.
The murderer even covered the corpse with a quilt and cleaned up the bloodstains in the room and the footprints on the ground.
When Chen Jue thought of this, he felt a little unhappy.
The murderer seemed to be playing a game.
He even made fun of the investigating officer!
He narrowed his eyes slightly.
What a self-righteous and arrogant murderer.
Was it Liu Rui?
What exactly did Liu Tianping teach his son to be?
Was it really … Liu Rui?
It must be … After all, this kind of killing method is not something that anyone can do.
At least, the murderer of the Dried Corpses Case was a person.
But … was it really Liu Rui?
Or was it just Liu Rui who was used as a shield and the real murderer was someone else?
Then … what role did Li Ru play?
When they arrived at the House of Chen, Chen Jue felt a headache coming on.