"Sir, another corpse was found on the East Street. Like the corpses I had found before, they were cut off their throats." A servant came to a chief of the Ministry of Justice to report.

People die every day in the capital, some starve to death and some die of illness. In winter, it is normal to have more than a dozen corpses in one night.

Usually, if a body is found on the street, there will be a special person to deal with it. It is usually sent outside the city to bury it.

However, many of these corpses were accidental deaths, and they were all beggars who could not eat on the street. No one would care about such people if they died.

However, several corpses were found on the street with wounds, and it was obvious that they were murdered at a glance. Such corpses need to be handed over to the Wucheng Military Office and then from the Wucheng Military Office to the Ministry of Justice.

When the head of the Ministry of Justice heard that someone was killed again, he frowned.

Five corpses have been found in the past few days alone, but the case has not been solved so far, and there has not been any clues found, and even the victim has not been found.

For this reason, he was scolded by Shangguan Hao when he was on duty yesterday.

"Have you found the victim?" asked the head of the Ministry of Justice.

The officer shook his head and then said, "The identity of the deceased is confirmed. He is a coolie who works for the carriages and horses. There is no father or mother, no wife or child in the family, and even the residence is someone else's yard."

"It's another headless case." The head of the Ministry of Justice became ugly.

There is not even a victim, and there is no direction to investigate the case. Even if you guess such a case is probably caused by revenge, if you want to find the murderer, you will undoubtedly find a needle in a haystack.

"The body has been brought back to the yamen. Do you want to take a look?" The officer saw that the in charge in front of him was full of unhappiness and became cautious in his speech.

The head of the Ministry of Justice said with an irritable look: "Let the coroner hurry up and send the result over, but I can't go there."

Usually, such murders may not be encountered once every ten or half a month. Now, six murdered corpses have been found for three consecutive days.

"The little one goes to leave first." The servant bowed and bowed.

The head of the Ministry of Justice waved his hand impatiently.

There have been so many cases in the jurisdiction under his rule. For him, if the murderer cannot be found, the assessment this year will only be the subordinates. Not to mention promotion, it will be difficult to even maintain the existing black hat.

"Come!" The head of the Ministry of Justice shouted outside.

A man with a knife walked in and bowed and said, "Sir, what are your instructions?"

"Call all the servants in the yamen who have nothing to do and go to East Street with me. I want to investigate from house to house, but I don't believe that I can't find the murderer." The head of the Ministry of Justice made up his mind.

The officer went outside to convey orders.

It didn't take long, and dozens of servants came out of the yamen and walked towards the East Street in a mighty manner.

A few poor laborers died in the capital. No one took the officials and nobles in the court in the capital seriously. Even some noble families died in the family for various reasons every year.

Murder cases like this cannot alarm the adults in the court at all. Even the Ministry of Justice itself only has a few questions and urges the subordinates or the chief officer to solve the case quickly. That's all.

"I'll ask you, Mr. Luo." Outside a cloth shop, a coolie wearing a short-shot smiled and talked to the cloth shop's shop's shop.

The guy looked up and down the coolie, stood on the steps and said condescendingly: "Go, go, go, you, as a poor hard worker, you still have to meet our shopkeeper, go what you should do!"

Coolie said with dirty clothes. The guy didn't think such a person would know their shopkeeper and just spoke up to drive people away.

Cooli's eyes turned slightly cold, and his smile remained unchanged, "I really know your shopkeeper. If you don't believe me, go and call Mr. Luo. If a person named Xu comes to him, he will definitely come out to see me."

"Do you really know our shopkeeper?" The guy said so surely when he met the coolie in front of him, and hesitated.

Coolie nodded and said, "I really know Manager Luo. I talked with Manager Luo not long ago."

"Okay, you're waiting here, I'll find our shopkeeper." The guy finally decided to call his shopkeeper for the coolie in front of him.

"Thank you." Coolie bowed to the clerk.

When the guy returned to the cloth shop, the coolie took two steps forward, came to the bottom of the wall, and squatted down against the wall, but his eyes were looking around.

Not long after, the guy walked out of the cloth shop and said to the coolie who was squatting at the wall: "I didn't expect you to really know our shopkeeper. Come in, our shopkeeper agreed to see you."

Coolie hurriedly stood up from the ground, patted the soil on his body, and followed the guy into the cloth shop.

The cloth shop is divided into two courtyards in front and back.

There is a cloth shop in front, and the warehouse and residence of the cloth shop behind.

The guy took Kuli into the backyard and went straight to the main room opposite the cloth shop.

"Shopkeeper, someone has brought it." The guy said respectfully to the shopkeeper sitting in the room.

Manager Luo glanced at the coolie beside the guy and said, "Okay, you go back and do things!"

The guy bowed and stepped out.

"It's better for you here, there are people to serve you, and there are delicious food and drinks." Kuli stepped forward two steps, sat on the seat beside him, reached out and grabbed a piece of snack on the table and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Why are you here?" Luo Zhongwang looked at the coolie in front of him, his face a little bad.

Like him, the visitor was a spy arranged by Li Yongfang to the capital. In private, they never contacted them, even if they knew each other, they often pretended not to know each other.

The last time the other party stopped him, it was the only time the two of them had been alone for so long.

Xu Jinshui grabbed the teapot, put it beside his mouth, poured the water inside from the mouth from the mouth through the air, and stopped until he swallowed the snacks in his mouth.

Putting down the teapot, he said, "The opportunity is here, it's time for us to do it."

"What does it mean?" Luo Zhongwang raised his eyebrows.

Xu Jinshui said: "You won't know that someone was killed on the East Street these days! It shouldn't be. You have never heard of it when you open the door to do business?"

"What's new about this whenever no one dies in the capital!" Luo Zhongwang said disapprovingly.

After hearing this, Xu Jinshui looked at Luo Zhongwang and said, "It seems that you have too many good days and have no vigilance at all. Do you know who are the people who have been killed in the past few days?"

"Who?" Luo Zhongwang asked with a thought.

Xu Jinshui said: "We all came from Liaodong. Who do you think they are?"

"You mean they are..." Halfway through the words, Luo Zhongwang stopped talking, and his face suddenly changed.
Chapter completed!