The soldier scratched his head and said awkwardly: "Before I joined the army, I also went to the county government to help out. I was just helping Master Zhang..."
The Master Zhang he mentioned naturally refers to the coroner in the county government office.
Captain Shen nodded and asked someone to carefully clean out the bones.
Not long after, a complete corpse was placed on the mud ground, with several dazzling pieces of jewelry beside it.
Several soldiers nearby couldn't help but gasp: "Oh my God! This guy..."
Even if they looked at these things, they would know that they were very valuable, especially the phoenix hairpin with sapphire, which was obviously not an ordinary item.
They couldn't describe how precious the thing was, but they knew at a glance that it was not something that ordinary people could have.
Even Captain Shen's gaze became much deeper. He glanced at the corpses, turned his head and looked at the group of people who were now trembling and awake. He sat on the stool brought by the children in the village and asked in a cold voice: "Did you kill the people here?"
When they actually saw the soldiers, all of them shrank their necks, were terrified, and hurriedly shook their heads. When the centurion beside Captain Shen scolded them, they were so frightened that they almost wet their pants.
The dealer calmed himself down, put the gold bracelet in his sleeve, and tremblingly told the story of making a bet with someone last night and following that person here.
He was the leader of the group, so he was naturally a little more courageous. He swallowed his saliva and looked at Captain Shen cautiously and flatteringly: "Sir, we really followed him. We saw him running away, so we...we were greedy for a moment, so we came to dig things up. We really don't know what happened to this corpse..."
Captain Shen snorted indifferently and pointed at them with a sneer: "Where is the person who led you here?"
The banker swallowed his saliva and said, "We don't know either. We only know that he was talking nonsense and ran away after digging for a while..."
It took Captain Shen half an hour to interrogate them and he finally confirmed that these people were indeed just ordinary refugees. They had only fled to the capital last year. Judging from the age of the corpse, it had nothing to do with them.
Now, the identity of this corpse has become the most important question.
Zhang Tuiguan from Daxing County Government had taken over the case and often came to the village. One day, he suddenly slapped his forehead and said, "These jewellery look very unusual. Let's see if we can find any clues from them!"
If it were ordinary gold and silver jewelry, which everyone has, they would naturally be of no use. However, these jewelry are different. Just looking at them would make people's hearts flutter.
People who have such things are naturally of extraordinary status.
There must be places worth exploring.
Captain Shen naturally didn't care.
Zhang Tuiguan excitedly took the jewellery to the capital, and the first thing he did was to visit the most famous jewellery stores in the capital.
When he left, Ruan Xiaojiu followed behind him. He scratched his head and watched Zhang Tuiguan enter the Qianbao Pavilion very cautiously. Then he lowered his head and followed him in.
Tui Guan Zhang went upstairs. Not long after, the shopkeeper of Qianbao Pavilion was alarmed and went upstairs in a hurry.
Not long after, Ruan Xiaojiu saw the shopkeeper coming down from upstairs with a look of panic, and Zhang the Tuiguan also came down with a serious expression and left the door.
Ruan Xiaojiu was even more confused, but he kept Su Yao's instructions in mind and did not move. He waited until Zhang Tuiguan left before he stayed in the hall for a while. Then he left Qianbao Pavilion and went straight to the Su family.
Su Yao and Su Xingyi were preparing Su Rong's luggage and the personnel who would accompany him for his new post.
Ruan Xiaojiu waited for a while before Su Xingyi smiled and said to Su Yao, "It's almost done here. If you have anything to do, go and do it. I'll take care of the things here."
Su Yao nodded, took Ruan Xiaojiu to the side hall, and asked, "What happened?"
"Zhang Tui Guan took the pile of jewelry he dug out to Qian Bao Pavilion. The owner of Qian Bao Pavilion seemed a little unhappy..." Ruan Xiaojiu told the truth: "Zhang Tui Guan also looked solemn when he left."
He looked at Su Yao with some confusion: "Girl, you..."
What on earth are you busy with
He always felt that something was strange.
Su Yao smiled and lowered his head.
She was certainly of great use.
After finding out Xuan Yuan's identity, the doubts that had been lingering in her mind were completely cleared.
She wants to pull out these poisonous snakes lurking in the dark one by one and get rid of them personally.
"Go tell Tang Youlong that if anyone comes to his shop and asks about the origins of these jewels, tell him to tell the truth." Su Yao smiled and ordered, "Also, tell Tang Youlong to tell Zhang Tuiguan that not long ago, someone else bought the same batch of jewels as his colleagues."
Ruan Xiaojiu knew that Su Yao had already made plans, so he quickly agreed, went home to change his clothes, and rushed to meet Tang Youlong without stopping.
Tang Youlong was counting the accounts at home. Su invited him to go to Jin, and he was very happy. Lei Yun was a greedy person. Life was not easy under him and people were always in fear.
But it was different under Su Yao.
Su Yao is shrewd, but also very lenient. He would never be as stingy as the landlord.
When he met Ruan Xiaojiu, he was very attentive: "What do you want, young lady?"
Ruan Xiaojiu told Su Yao what he had said truthfully, and reminded him: "The girl said that you should be more tactful."
Tang Youlong's heart skipped a beat. When Su invited him to sell the jewelry that was revealed by the thunderclouds, he vaguely realized that things were not that simple.
Now it seems that it was a chess piece that Su Yao had buried, just waiting to be used at any time.
Although he was a little scared, Tang Youlong did not dare to be vague on the surface, and quickly agreed: "Yes, I know, you can rest assured, girl, there will be no mistakes."
The next day, Zhang Tui Guan really came to Tang Youlong's pawnshop.
Not long after Zhang Tuiguan sat down, he took out a cloth bag from his bosom, placed it on the table, opened it and showed it to the store's worshippers. He then carefully examined their faces and asked, "Have you ever seen something of this quality? It is said that these jewels are very precious..."
Tang Youlong had already been prepared. His face changed. He quickly picked up the sapphire hairpin and asked Zhang Tuiguan: "Where did you get this, Sir Zhang? This is not an ordinary thing!"
"You don't have to worry about that." Zhang Tuiguan smiled and said, "In short, please give me a definite answer. Is this thing valuable?"
"Of course it's valuable!" Tang Youlong put it in his hand and quickly took the silver polishing cloth beside him to carefully wipe one of the patinated silver hairpins. He sighed and said, "Master Zhang came to pawn it himself. Don't you know what it is? This was something that belonged to the Prince of Zhennan back then!"