frightfiction Chapter 289 Headless Case
Chapter 289 Headless Case
Gu Qingyun suddenly felt that the Kyoto prefect was really interesting. He made a fuss about everything. It seemed that he had been with those "old foxes" for too long, so he found anything "new" interesting.
The two of them returned to the Dali Temple one after the other. There were already quite a few people standing in front of Wuhuan's table.
"I remember that girl had a pair of almond-shaped eyes. She looked at me several times and I remembered it."
"That young lady is not tall, but she looks very tall and straight."
"That young lady always walks so softly and gently that I was scared by her several times."
"Yes, yes, the most amazing thing about that young lady is that she always looks very sad. Her appearance and temperament are very sad."
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Gu Qingyun returned to his desk with satisfaction. The governor of Kyoto, who had hurried back, was shocked. He was really good...
"Your Excellency, you can rest assured now. Go back to your office and handle the case."
Gu Qingyun looked at the Governor of Kyoto, then looked at the people in line, and signaled the Governor of Kyoto to go back quickly.
"I'm just waiting for the portrait!" the governor of Kyoto said righteously. In fact, he was fed up with Yan Gui Pavilion recently. He had no worries about food and drink inside, but he couldn't stand the relatives outside.
Although I don't force my way in, it's still very annoying. I stand at that door and watch every day. Whenever I see myself, I keep complaining. I feel very annoyed.
It was a rare place to hide away in peace at this time, so he naturally didn't want to run away.
"You really don't plan to let those people from Yan Gui Pavilion go." Gu Qingyun frowned, feeling a little gloating.
"Alas, it's easier to invite the gods than to send them away. Alas, no matter what I do, it's wrong. If I don't release them earlier, those people will almost tear my house apart. If... I let them go, it won't be so easy to catch them again."
Gu Qingyun looked at the expression of the Kyoto prefect and finally stopped gloating over his misfortune. Suddenly, someone could understand his misfortune.
"But it's not right for you to pamper others like this every day, and there is no evidence." Gu Qingyun had no choice but to remind him, "If you continue like this, the impeachment memorial against you will be higher than that of the emperor."
"Who said it wasn't? I can only take it one day at a time. I estimate that everyone will be released today or tomorrow. I am just waiting for the portrait. If the portrait is OK, I will go back and release them."
The prefect of Kyoto didn't want to leave. He always felt that the Dali Temple gave him a strong sense of security, which prevented him from losing his mind.
Gu Qingyun was too lazy to care about him, "Zhao Huaiqing, go find Madam Rong's scroll."
Zhao Huaiqing raised his eyelids and said, "That case is very difficult. I won't go."
The governor of Kyoto had been so shocked by the thunder that he no longer found anything strange about what happened in the Dali Temple.
"Difficult? If you don't go to get it, the case will be handed over to you." Gu Qingyun didn't care and looked at Zhao Huaiqing nonchalantly. A threat of this magnitude from Zhao Huaiqing was no problem at all.
Zhao Huaiqing then stood up reluctantly and took it.
Several people took the scroll and began to study it, reading it step by step from the beginning.
"This doesn't seem right... Why does every link seem to be missing something?" Zhao Huaiqing had carefully read this scroll last year, but he felt that the feeling was even stronger this year, as many things seemed to be missing a corner.
"No one has touched this file. I remember it very clearly. It was like this last year." Gu Qingyun said after reading it once. The governor of Kyoto also nodded, indicating that it had not changed.
Several people kept flipping through it, trying to find something wrong over and over again.
"This scroll looks complete, but in fact, there should be something missing from each part."
Zhao Huaiqing pointed to the beginning.
"From here on, the person who reported the case didn't even explain the cause and effect, he just said that the person was missing, as if something had suddenly gone missing from the house. Normally, when someone in the family goes missing, the person who reports the case will recall the last time they saw each other, some trivial matters in life, and the places the missing person liked to go. But this person who reported the case only said that the person suddenly disappeared, and he didn't know anything else, as if he had suddenly disappeared."
"Also, whether we ask the people around Madam Rong, the steward, or Madam Rong's maids and servants, their testimonies all seem to have been reconciled in advance. Some of the maids even answered as if they didn't know Madam Rong."
"After that... Madam Rong disappeared. Apart from the person who reported the case, no one mentioned this matter. When our people went to inquire, those people didn't take it seriously. Everyone liked to say that they didn't know, forgot, or that business was too good to pay attention..."
"In short, every sentence seems to be abnormal, but I can't find out anything."
Zhao Huaiqing analyzed it word by word. Many people didn't even have any suspicion. After all, everyone could prove each other's existence. But only Madam Rong seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. No one could prove it, and no one could seek justice for her.
Or maybe she really had some good times, but no one knew about it?
This is like an unsolved mystery. If it weren't for Madam Xiaorong's incident, Madam Rong would probably have disappeared quietly among the many courtesans, just like every other courtesan who had shone brightly in this era.
"This is so confusing, how can we investigate it..."
Zhao Huaiqing was not the only one who felt desperate, but he was the only one who expressed his despair.
"Did you go to the brothel where Madam Rong stayed later?" The prefect of Kyoto looked at the scroll. Logically, there would be a new record if the Dali Temple had been there, but these answers without any clue were basically reported by the Kyoto government.
"Yes, we have been there many times. Our clerks have almost run their legs off. Unfortunately, we can't get anything out of it. If the people in the city were really concerned about this, the case would not have been stopped. But this is a gorgeous courtesan, so naturally... many people hope that she has really disappeared."
Gu Qingyun read it several times, but still couldn't find any clue.
"I have searched almost all of her patrons, but there is really no clue at all."
"Besides that, almost all of the girls who were close to her said they had never seen her during that period. Her personal maids, because they were in that kind of business, all wore masks on their faces. When we asked them, they all said that those two were her personal maids. But how could a personal maid be so ignorant?"
Zhao Huaiqing pointed to a sentence on the scroll, [The two maids of Madam Rong mentioned by Hualou were not even aware of Madam Rong's allergy to milk.]
"We suspected at the time that the two maids were not her personal maids, but we had no evidence, so we just accepted what Hualou said."
This is the person who is drifting in the wind and rain. There is no basis for him, and no one really works hard for him.