After crossing over, I am popular with both men and women

The emperor ordered the Jinwu Guards to support each county, in fact, he had this consideration in mind.

If he were an ordinary yamen runner, when he encountered a place with a little background, he would have to wait for the announcement. Perhaps in just that short period of time, the criminal would take the opportunity to run away.

This is not the case with the Jinwu Guards. The Jinwu Guards are under the emperor's command and have the power to act at their discretion when investigating cases. They rely on surprise attacks.

Only by catching people off guard can the criminals be discovered and arrested in the first place.

This is the situation that Su Qinchao and his men are facing now. When they pushed the little boy aside, opened the door and rushed in, they happened to bump into several young blue-robed Taoists who were walking towards them.

Those blue-robed Taoists were all around 25 or 26 years old. They were originally talking and laughing, but when they saw Su Qinchao and the others, they all looked frightened and subconsciously wanted to flee.

Seeing this, Su Qinchao had nothing to understand. Human instincts could not deceive people. These Taoists must have a case to commit, which was why they behaved like this in front of him.

Immediately, he flew over and stopped several people: "Why are you running?" Su Qinchao chuckled and signaled with his eyes to other soldiers to arrest the people.

"Do you know who we are? How dare you arrest us?" The leading Taoist priest, who was dressed particularly gorgeously and had a handsome face, struggled and shouted loudly.

"I am a fourth-rank imperial guard general. I wonder if I have the qualifications to arrest you." Su Qinchao took out the fish token and gestured.

"..." The Taoist priest obviously didn't expect that the general in front of him was so powerful, so he immediately shut up.

"I wonder if this ring looks familiar to you."

Seeing that everyone was tied up and behaved himself, Su Qinchao took out the bloody ring from his pouch.

He slowly passed it in front of several Taoists one by one to make sure that they could see it clearly.

As he passed by, he deliberately stared at the faces of several people, afraid of missing any subtle expressions.

"No, we haven't seen it!" Immediately everyone stepped back to avoid the ring.

The head shook, as if it really had nothing to do with them, if it weren't for the obvious shrinkage of the pupils of two of the Taoists.

"Really?" Su Qinchao put away the ring, his tone becoming more and more indifferent:

"A herbalist reported that a female corpse was found on the cliff. She was holding a blue belt in her hand. Yes, it is exactly the same color as the cloth you are wearing."

After saying that, he pointed at their waists, causing them to tremble uncontrollably.

"Impossible, we were all dressed when we left that day!" One of the youngest Taoists suddenly screamed, causing the other Taoists to glare at him angrily.

"So you really were the ones who killed the man!" Su Qinchao laughed and ordered his men to take off all their clothes and check if there were any scratches on their bodies.

When he was observing the female corpse on the cliff, he noticed that there were dark red blood stains between the fingernails of both hands.

Therefore, he guessed that several people should have scratches on their bodies, and these scratches were the evidence of their crimes.

"You deceived us!" After hearing Su Qinchao say this, several Taoists immediately reacted, their expressions filled with anger and fear.

"What do you mean by cheating? If you haven't done anything wrong, how would I have the opportunity to cheat you?" Su Qinchao put the ring back into the bag and signaled the soldiers with his eyes to take action.

Sure enough, after the palace soldiers took off the clothes of several people, three or four of them had long bloodstains on their chests, abdomens, backs of waists, and even arms.

"Very good, tell me why you raped and killed this woman."

"She is just a lowly prostitute, not even a commoner. What's the harm in killing her?" The leading Taoist priest, with his upper body naked, turned his head away and spoke with disdain.

"Are prostitutes not human beings? When an emperor breaks the law, he is punished just like common people. Are you more special than the emperor?" Yuan Ji's lover is also a prostitute. They are in love at this time. She cannot bear to hear such words.

"That's right. If a woman isn't desperate, which woman would do this?" Yuan Ji's good brothers also stood up. They grew up among the common people and understood the sufferings of the world better than many nobles who were detached from the mundane world.

"that is!"

"That's enough!" Su Qinchao stopped the soldiers and asked again, "Tell me, why did you kill her?"

In fact, Su Qinchao was more concerned about why this woman appeared here. He suspected that this Dangxiang woman was related to the missing child case, otherwise why would she not go to Qingyun Temple, which was an easy place to go, but instead come here.

Because Qingyun Temple was particularly favored by the emperor of the previous dynasty, the mountain road was built very wide and easy to walk on. Ordinary people went there to burn incense and worship gods.

The terrain of this Taoist temple is even steeper. It would be scary for an ordinary man to climb up, let alone a woman.

"She just didn't give us brothers face. She thought she had won over the prince of Xiang and didn't even take us seriously."

"That's right. She's just a prostitute. How dare she pretend to be a chaste woman and reject us?"

Seeing that things had come to this, the Taoists knew that imprisonment and punishment were inevitable, so they immediately spilled the beans from a bamboo tube and told the whole story.

It turns out that the owner behind this Taoist temple is the Prince of Xiang. When the Prince of Xiang comes to the Taoist temple, he sometimes brings this woman with him.

Although this woman is older than ordinary prostitutes, her figure and charm are more enchanting and coquettish, which makes them salivate every time.

It was a few days ago, when they were coming back from the county after purchasing something, they met a woman who came down from Qingyun Temple alone, and they approached her.

Originally they just wanted to pay some money to have some fun, but they didn't expect the woman to refuse directly and even bring up the Prince of Xiang many times.

So the few of them looked at each other and lied to each other, saying that the Prince of Xiang was resting in their temple and so on, and coaxed the woman into their carriage.

Then he forced the woman to do what he did before, but he didn't expect that he would make a mistake...

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After understanding the case clearly, Su Qinchao randomly pointed to two soldiers and took the Taoists back to the county government office. The rest continued to search with him for clues about the missing children.

"Go and see if there are other people in the temple!" Su Qin waved his hand and ordered the remaining seven or eight soldiers to check around the temple.

They made such a big noise just now, but no senior Taoist priest came out to stop them. Su Qinchao had already felt that something was wrong.

I didn’t think I would encounter the same thing as my brother in Huzhou. The Taoist priest in the Taoist temple also suddenly disappeared.

"General, there is no one in any hall." After the palace soldiers who had been investigating various places in the Taoist temple returned, they reported the results directly to Su Qinchao.

Sure enough, Su Qinchao thought to himself, and immediately took people to search the entire Taoist temple carefully to see if there were any mechanisms or the like.