C85 (1/2)

”Song Lai, did you check the clues I asked you to pass on to the Magistrate Wang?”

Song Lai went to welcome Su Li, and seeing that she had returned safely from the palace, the solemn look on her face relaxed slightly, and she continued to tense up.

”Yes, we've checked the fire in the southeast. In the past one year, there hasn't been any news of people being burned to death.”

Su Li frowned and looked at Wang Quanan, ”Is Magistrate Wang looking for the clan scroll, or did he send someone to investigate?”

”I checked the records with Song Lai, but did not find anything, so I sent some people over, but the officials have not come back to report.” Wang Quanan replied. After a few seconds of silence, he asked again, ”Why is Fourth Miss so sure that the culprit must be related to the fire?”

”We've never been able to figure out the reason behind his increasingly mature method of digging graves.” Su Li squinted his eyes slightly, ”We can make a bold hypothesis, he needs to find a perfect piece of human skin for someone to make up for their lack of something, only the charred body is compatible with this motive, furthermore, the substance that he left behind after risking himself to steal away the ribs, indirectly confirms this hypothesis.”

”I understand.” Wang Quanan nodded his head, ”Next, we can only wait for the officials to return.”

”Fourth Miss, what if we go in the wrong direction? Should we check the northwest direction again? ” Song Lai asked.

Su Li shook his head, ”There's no time …”

Song Lai looked at her doubtfully. ”The Emperor gave him time, and there's still two more days. Could it be that just now, the Fourth Miss entered the palace …”

”You're thinking too much.” Su Li casually interrupted Song Lai's guess, ”This case is so chaotic, I'm worried that the culprit might be someone who will jump into a wall and not be able to skin the dead, and end up thinking about the living.”

Su Li's words caused everyone to be shocked, even a dead person being skinned was already so creepy, what would happen if a living person was skinned?

Mo Lianjin was the calmest of them all. After he sat down, he also pulled Su Li away and asked her to sit down.

”When we left the palace, the Imperial Advisor was in the process of issuing a decree. Did you forget?”

Su Li reminded himself to be calm after he said those words.

Emperor An wanted her to return the credit to the State Grandmaster, so she could only investigate the case privately. She could not let anyone else know or participate, otherwise, her life would be lost for nothing.

”If Fifth Prince hadn't reminded me, I really would have forgotten.”

”Fifth Prince, Fourth Miss, could it be that Lord National Advisor is in charge of this matter?” Wang Quanan asked boldly after hearing the door.

Mo Lianjin nodded slightly.

Seeing that, Wang Quanan's previously serious face instantly relaxed, and he happily exclaimed.

”This is great, with the Lord National Advisor interfering, no matter if it's an evil person or an evil ghost, they will naturally not be able to hide.

Song Lai was also like the Five Soldiers, the dark clouds on his face were completely gone, and replacing it was a wisp of curiosity, ”Fourth Miss … If there is nothing else, I would like to take a look at the Lord National Advisor's documents. ”

Su Li pursed her lips, it was fine if Song Lai did not follow by his side, but she did not need to think of a way to explain it to him.

”En, go ahead. Fifth Prince has something that he needs me to do, go watch the show. There's no need to look for me.”

The smile on Song Lai's face froze for an instant. Recently, Su Li and the Fifth Prince had always had private matters to settle, so he suddenly didn't want to watch the liveliness anymore.

But even if he did not go, Su Li would not let him follow him!

He could only get up bitterly and bid farewell.

Not long after Song Lai left, the officials who went out to visit him returned to the government headquarters!

However, the information obtained from their visit was exactly the same as recorded in the clan record. For the past six months, no one had been burned to death in the southeast direction!

Su Li suppressed his disappointment and bid farewell to Wang Quanan before he left the mansion.

Qing Mu's carriage was still waiting outside, she deliberately took the opposite direction, not wanting to follow Mo Lianjin anymore.

Unexpectedly, Mo Lianjin didn't want to let her off at all, and she had only taken a few steps when he grabbed her by the collar.

”What is it? ”Just now, you said that you have something you want to do for This King. Now, you're going to destroy the bridge after crossing the river?”

Su Li turned and stared at him with grievance, ”I was just fawning on them.”