Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 1041 Murder and Silence

When we came down from the mountain, it was already completely light. Groups of people began to appear on the official road of Wangyun Mountain. Sometimes these people would look at the anxious and angry imperial guards with curiosity. After all, their attire was different from that of ordinary soldiers and constables.

But perhaps because they were afraid of getting into trouble, the common people just took a look and no one dared to go up and ask.

Yang Yiyi just went to the village closest to Wangyun Mountain to inquire, but didn't find any clues. So, under the rising sun, she immediately rushed to the second closest village.

If we still can’t find her, then it will be difficult to deal with, as the princess may have been moved away.

This was a quiet little village by the river, with probably only a few hundred people. When Yang Yiyi arrived, the strong laborers who had worked in the fields early in the morning had just returned home, and wisps of smoke were rising from the chimneys of every household.

"Uncle, are you busy? I want to ask you something."

Yang Yiyi stopped an old man carrying a shoulder pole. The old man looked at Yang Yiyi's attire and thought she looked like a gangster:

"No need to be so polite, lady. What's the matter?"

"Are there any hunters in our village? I want to buy some leather."

Yang Yiyi turned sideways, revealing the steel mace behind her:
"Make a pair of holsters for my weapons."

When you go to the village to inquire, of course you can't just come up and ask whether you have seen Princess Mingzhu.

People who are very familiar with Wangyun Mountain are unlikely to be ordinary villagers. After all, who has nothing free time to go up the mountain every day? There are a lot of work waiting to be done in the fields.

The most likely one is of course the hunter.

There were no hunters in the first village they went to. Yang Yiyi asked around but didn't find anyone suspicious, so she went to the second village.

When he heard that they were looking for hunters, the old man pointed to a house on the edge of the village.

"There is a hunter in our village who sells furs to the town on weekdays, but..."

The old man seemed a little embarrassed to speak, but still said:
"But that kid is not doing his job properly. He goes to the city to play for money all day with a kid named Wang from the village."

Such a person is truly a disgrace to the village.

Perhaps out of fear of damaging the village's image, the father-in-law added:
"If he makes any rude requests, the lady will just treat it as a fart, and I, the old man, will deal with him."

When Yang Yiyi heard about the hunter, she felt that there might be hope, so she asked:
"What about that kid named Wang you just mentioned?"

"He's not a good guy either. The two of them have been together since they were young. The Wang family kid also likes to make money. He has spent all the two acres of land in the family. On weekdays, he relies on chopping firewood in the mountains to make a living."

woodcutter?

Coincidentally, this is also a suspicious target.

"Where does he live?"

The father-in-law was a little surprised why Yang Yiyi was so interested, but he still said:

"It's next to the hunter's house."

"Thank you, husband."

After bidding farewell to her father-in-law, Yang Yiyi walked quickly towards the hunter's house.

According to my father-in-law, there lived a woodcutter named Wang next to the hunter's house. Both of them were not doing their jobs properly, but they seemed to have a good relationship in their words and deeds.

Since the woodcutter's house was relatively close, Yang Yiyi arrived at the woodcutter's door first.

I knocked on the door several times, but there was no response for a long time.

The villagers had already gotten up at this time, and Yang Yiyi felt puzzled.

At this moment, a faint smell of blood suddenly entered the nose.

"Climb over the wall and smell blood. We may have found the right place."

The earthen wall of the farmyard was not high to begin with, and Yang Yiyi jumped in. It was not an illusion, after entering the yard, she could clearly feel that the smell of blood was much stronger.

There was only a shabby thatched hut in the yard, and a chicken coop on one side, but there was not a single chicken in it. According to my father-in-law, this addicted gambler might have sold even the chickens to raise money for gambling.

The door of the thatched house was ajar. The closer Yang Yiyi got, the clearer the smell of blood became. She drew out her steel mace, stood by the door and pushed it open.

The room was quiet, without any sound. Yang Yiyi waited for a moment, then leaned over to look into the room. At a glance, she saw a man in his thirties or forties leaning against the simple bed, covering his neck with his hands, his eyes wide open, and blood flowing out from between his fingers, spilling all over the floor.

There weren't many furniture in the room, and there was no place to hide people. Yang Yiyi confirmed that there was no ambush, and rushed up to check.

"This should be the Wang Qiaofu that my father-in-law mentioned, but it seems that he has been silenced."

Yang Yiyi moved his fingers away and saw a sword wound in the middle of his throat. The man was stabbed in the throat by a sword. The person who did it was quick, accurate and ruthless. It was obvious that he was a martial artist and this was not something that an ordinary person could do.

Li Chengxi guessed the place correctly, but seemed to be a step too late.

"Go check on the hunter, I hope he is still alive."

My father-in-law just said that the hunter and the woodcutter have a very good relationship and have been together since childhood. If the kidnapping of the princess is really related to him, the hunter will also be suspicious.

Yang Yiyi nodded when she heard this, ignored the corpse, stepped on the bed board, climbed out of the window, and quickly walked into the hunter's house.

There is no earth wall here for the hunters, just a fence. On the left side you can see a carport, and on the right side there is something like a rack for drying furs.

As soon as she got closer, Yang Yiyi realized something was wrong, because the door of the hunter's house was ajar and the closer she got, the more she smelled blood.

Quickening her pace a bit, Yang Yiyi rushed into the hunter's house.

Almost like the woodcutter, a man in his thirties or forties was lying not far from the bed, covering his neck with his hands.

But the good news is that this person has not yet died completely.

He was even somewhat conscious and noticed Yang Yiyi coming in. He opened his mouth as if wanting to ask for help, but only a "huh" sound came out and no words came out.

The hunter was also wounded by a sword in the throat, but the sword was a little shallow and he did not die on the spot.

Yang Yiyi immediately used gold needles to stop the bleeding. When she wanted to ask him something, the hunter's eyes turned white and he fainted, probably due to excessive blood loss.

After a lot of effort, they found a clue, but in the end one of them was dead and the other one was unconscious. Yang Yiyi was so frustrated that she wanted to punch the wall.

"It seems that the princess's kidnapping must be related to these two people. Look at the firewood pile next to the stove. There is a butt mark on the left side. Someone must have been sitting there."

Moreover, after Li Chengxi enlarged the lens, even though it was a pixelated picture, he could recognize that it was a mark left by a woman's butt.

In fact, it is enough to distinguish between men and women just by looking at the buttocks. After all, due to the need for reproduction, the shape of women's pelvis is different from that of men, and the shape of their buttock prints is also different.

Considering the way these two people were silenced, it is very likely that someone hired them to kidnap the princess, and then relied on their familiarity with the mountains and forests to rush down the mountain and return to the village before the palace guards blocked the area. The princess may have been sitting by the stove not long ago.

But the person behind the scenes killed the witness and took the princess away.

Li Chengxi suddenly remembered that he saw a carriage shed next to the hunter's house before entering the door, but there was no carriage inside. Maybe that thing was used to transport the princess away.

Just a step late.

"The clues are broken again, Brother Li, what should we do now?"

Yang Yiyi was at a loss and didn't know what to do.

"Don't panic, what's that in the hunter's hand?"

After hearing Li Chengxi's reminder, Yang Yiyi noticed that the hunter was holding something in his hand. She spread out her fingers and found that it was something woven with thin threads that looked like a sword tassel, or a jade tassel tied on a jade pendant.

The workmanship seems to be quite delicate, not like an ordinary object. If you turn it over, you can see the word "Tang" embroidered in black letters on a white background in the center.

"Fuck, could it be that Miss Tang Lianyu has something to do with the princess being kidnapped?"

(End of this chapter)