After hearing her follower, Wu Yang stopped and said, "Miss Xu is waiting. I'll go to the forest to find out."

"Let's go together."

Xu Mingyi caught up with him in a few steps.

This was originally her business, and he was very grateful to her for helping her. How could he have been waiting in the carriage and throwing everything to him?

After all, it was not a coolie hired for money.

Wu Yang didn't say anything else. Just as he was about to take a step, he suddenly heard something coming from the forest.

"Beware--"

As soon as his reminder was finished, a group of black things broke out from the forest, making noises.

Wu Yang subconsciously took a step sideways, raised his arm to block Xu Mingyi's eyes.

Azhu walked over with a wind lamp, and quickly returned to quiet.

Wu Yang put down his arm and walked into the forest, saying, "Don't be afraid, it's just a fruit bat in the forest. It should be because he was disturbed by the heavenly purpose and rushed out."

Xu Mingyi nodded and said "Yes".

She didn't feel scared either.

But Wu Shisun just protected her righteously. If she said she was not afraid, she would be a little rude.

Tianmu flew lowly to lead the way. Several people walked in the forest for about half a quarter of an hour. When they had reached the depths of the forest, Wu Yang slowed down.

Xu Mingyi looked at him.

"Young Master Wu also smelled it?"

There is a faint smell here, like the smell of animal rotting.

Wu Yang frowned slightly and nodded.

The two followed Tianmu and continued to move forward, and the smell gradually became stronger and more pungent.

Xu Mingyi's expression began to be a little solemn.

This forest is more than twenty miles away from the city, and it is just an ordinary wood forest, not a fruit forest, and there are no households nearby. There are only some fields not far from the forest. Now it is not a busy time of farming. I think few people will set foot on weekdays.

Ruoqing's cousin's hairpin was really found here by Tianmu, and she really appeared here...

Thinking of the worst possibility, Xu Mingyi's heart sank.

Tianmu stopped and fell on the trunk of a tree and yelled.

This is the strongest place for the rotten smell.

"Tianmu was raised by me since I was a child and had never eaten rotten meat. However, vultures are so naturally, I think it was attracted by the rotten meat nearby." Wu Yang looked around as he spoke.

Tianmu, who was squatting on the tree trunk, shouted in agreement.

It doesn't want to eat it, but likes to see which kind of person dies so miserably.

"Girl, there is a dead thing here."

Azhu found a rotten fur animal corpse under a tree and guessed: "Maybe it is the smell of this object."

Xu Mingyi took a look with the lamp in her hand.

"impossible."

The boy next to him expressed her thoughts: "This place is not a closed place. An animal corpse of such a size cannot continue to emit such a strong smell."

Xu Mingyi nodded and said, "But if someone passes here by chance and smells the foul smell, and sees the animal's corpse, and then hides his nose and leaves quickly, he will subconsciously only treat it as the object scattered, and there is no time to think about it."

"That's right."

Wu Yang said with a firm tone: "Someone deliberately put this dead object here to cover up the real stinking of the corpse."

Xu Mingyi's eyes moved inch by inch.

The moonlight is thin, and the sound of insects ringing everywhere is rising and falling. Under the concentration, it only makes people feel noisy in the quiet and contradictory.

The girl's soft embroidered shoes stepped on the dead leaves, making a sound of awakening.

Xu Mingyi stopped by a sealed well.

Wu Yang followed closely.

There is farmland not far away. In recent years, the imperial court has paid great attention to agricultural work and has opened new wells by the fields.

For example, this old well in the forest was abandoned after a while. It is also common to prevent someone from accidentally falling into the well when passing by and sealing the well with stones.

But the smell here is obviously stronger.

Xu Mingyi even couldn't bear it and covered her mouth and nose with a veil, frowned and said in a muffled voice: "I'm afraid there is something in this well-"

Wu Yang nodded.

"You step back."

When the boy was about to move the stone away, the maid pretending to be a servant walked over quickly, and without saying a word, lifted the stone, threw it aside, and patted the dust on his hands.

Wu Yang was silent for a moment.

There seems to be nothing to help.

Azhu lifted the wind lamp and stood above the wellhead and looked into the well.

The next moment, he took a steep step back and said with a pale face: "Girl, there is a dead person..."

Even though the little girl is very skilled and brave, she has never seen a human face that is so rotten. At this moment, she suddenly saw this scene and was so scared that she screamed that she was too brave.

Xu Mingyi grabbed his fingers slightly and asked hurriedly: "Is it a man or a woman?"

"I didn't see clearly."

Xu Mingyi made a quick decision: "Catch up the body."

Azhu, who had calmed down, looked at Wu Yang.

She seemed to have snatched what Wu Shisun wanted to do just now. It would be better to give it to Wu Shisun as compensation than to take out the work of catching the body.

“…”

Seeing the maid's eyes, Wu Yang twitched the corners of his mouth.

Why does this maid think that his family, a noble family, can go down the well to retrieve the body?

I am afraid but not afraid, but I really don’t have this habit of looking for Xun.

"Come out."

The boy's voice fell, and four secret guards in black immediately appeared in the darkness.

"Salvage the corpse in the well." Wu Yang ordered.

After hearing this, several secret guards tried their best to look like a qualified and calm secret guard.

Several people endured the smell of corpse and quickly caught the body and placed it flat by the well.

"It's a young man." Wu Yang glanced at him and decided.

Xu Mingyi breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the corpse's clothes, and guessed: "This may be Qi Lin."

The other party’s clothes were no different from what the guy described in the teahouse just now.

Wu Yang said "yes" and then ordered: "Search his body, then sneak into the well and see if there are other missing items."

The secret guards should go out.

"Young Master, this person has two silver notes hidden in his shoes."

"A woman's hairpin was found at the bottom of the well."

Wu Yang took the hairpin and handed it to Xu Mingyi.

"It's just a pair of those before." Xu Mingyi looked at the corpse again, and there was roughly a guess in his heart.

This person was bought by others and deceived her cousin Qing out.

That pair of hairpins should have been taken from the coma Qing cousin. This shows how strong his love for money is - it is not surprising that such a person will be easily bribed.

After the matter was completed, he probably didn't dare to stay in the capital anymore, so he hurried out of the city and deliberately stayed away.

Now that someone throws into this dry well, it is most likely that he has been silenced.

The pair of hairpins should have accidentally dropped one nearby when he ran into this dense forest. Later, Tianmu accidentally picked it up by chance. Tianmu had a good vision, so the reason why he picked it up was that he was like Wu Yang, who mistakenly recognized the hairpin for her things.

But……

Xu Mingyi frowned and suddenly felt something was wrong.

Tianmu picked up her hairpin, why didn’t he send it back to the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion, but to Wu Yang?

This made people wonder, but now there is something important, so Xu Mingyi has no intention of thinking about such trivial matters.

At this time, a secret guard who checked the body made a new discovery.
Chapter completed!