The mind-reading coroner drove the court crazy

"How do you check?"

"Isn't this difficult to investigate? Doesn't the letter say someone else has arrived? We only need to see who's new in the village to find out what's going on."

Qin Miaoxi pondered and said, "I always feel that this matter is not that simple. We still need to ask around."

As he was speaking, Shao Kun, the Minister of Justice, also arrived at the martial arts training ground. Seeing the people collapsed on the stage, he shouted sternly, "What are you doing?"

In an instant, those guys who were lying on the ground gasping for breath jumped up like a carp, lowered their heads in shame, and dared not answer.

Lu Qingchen chuckled and kindly explained, "Master Shao, it's not that the brothers from the Ministry of Justice saw how hard we were practicing at the Dali Temple and wanted to try their luck, but they didn't expect that after just two moves, they were lying flat on their backs."

Shao Kun's mouth twitched fiercely, "Young Marquis, why are you here too?"

"I am from the Dali Temple, so naturally I have to be with my brothers."

Upon hearing this, the yamen runners from the Dali Temple nodded repeatedly and cast admiring glances at Lu Qingchen. It turned out that the young marquis was indeed reliable and loyal.

Shao Kun angrily scolded: "Nonsense, this is the Ministry of Justice, why are you people from the Dali Temple here?"

Qin Miaoxi raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Master Shao, isn't this what you agreed to?"

Shao Kun's face was filled with confusion and collapse. "When did I agree to this?"

Qin Miaoxi said innocently, "Sir Shao, since you're borrowing me to handle a case for the Ministry of Justice, you should pay me. We don't want the money, but we'd like to borrow your Ministry of Justice's martial arts training ground for a while so that the brothers from the Dali Temple can practice more."

Shao Kun's eyes widened with anger. He had never heard of this before. Were the people in the Dali Temple as ridiculous as that old man?

And his intuition told him that there was a conspiracy.

"Master Shao, you wouldn't disagree, would you?"

Qin Miaoxi exclaimed exaggeratedly, "If the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple had a conflict of interest, it would be difficult to explain it to the Emperor. Now this actually solves the problem for you and Lord Liang, isn't it killing two birds with one stone?"

Shao Kun couldn't help but grit his teeth. He saw it all at once. Where was the extra one?

Could it be that all these useless guys from the Ministry of Justice were lying on the ground? He was so angry that he almost bit his back teeth off. These shameful guys were not even as good as the people from the Dali Temple. He would personally train them in the future.

"Master Shao, if you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent."

Shao Kun regretted it very much. He was wrong. This was not a conspiracy at all. It was definitely an open conspiracy!

Without giving him a chance to refute, Qin Miaoxi waved to the people from the Dali Temple and said, "Today's training is over. Everyone go back and rest for a while. We still have to investigate the case!"

Investigate a case?

Shao Kun shuddered when he heard this and tried to stop him, "That Xiao Qin! We have enough people in the Ministry of Justice. Let them accompany you to investigate the case, so there's no need to bother the people from the Dali Temple."

He had only employed one person and his Ministry of Justice was about to be turned upside down. If he really employed a group of people from the Dali Temple, who knows what would become of the Ministry of Justice. He had to solve the problem from the source.

Qin Miaoxi asked knowingly, "But aren't the brothers in the Ministry of Justice going to track down the whereabouts of the Ghost-Faced Judge? This is a matter of the utmost importance. How can we bother them with a small case?"

Shao Kun was choked and speechless when he saw her expression that said "Why are you so ignorant and don't know the seriousness of the matter?" He was a Minister of Justice and was taught a lesson by a little kid. Is there any justice in the world?

Qin Miaoxi raised her hand and said, "Brothers, let's go!"

The runners from the Dali Temple walked past the people from the Ministry of Justice with high spirits and arrogance. One could faintly hear their arrogant words "You're no good, you wimp". The faces of those people from the Ministry of Justice turned from red to black visibly. They wanted to kill them but they had no way to deal with them.

Lu Qingchen leaned over to her and whispered, "You didn't know that this group of people went to investigate the Ghost-faced Judge, so you deliberately brought everyone here to mess things up, right?"

Qin Miaoxi rolled her eyes and bluntly said, "You're the same. If you hadn't instigated them, those people from the Ministry of Justice wouldn't have gone up to compete and ended up getting beaten to the point of questioning their lives."

Lu Qingchen immediately smiled ingratiatingly, "Isn't this just to buy time for our example?"

Qin Miaoxi showed a pleased and satisfied smile, "This child is teachable."

A gleam of light flashed in Lu Qingchen's eyes, and he followed her closely and left the Ministry of Justice.

As soon as they left, Wen Zhu came looking for them.

"Master, I've found out that no outsiders have entered Fengshui Village in recent days."

Lu Qingchen was puzzled, "What's going on? Doesn't what he wrote in the letter mean that someone is coming?"

Qin Miaoxi couldn't help but fall into deep thought, "Who were those people who went to see the village chief last night?"

"They are all villagers. In the early years, because their families could not make ends meet, they had to work outside. They only returned to the village five or six years ago. However, their daily routines were very regular. After going out to farm, they would come home to eat and sleep, and occasionally have a drink. Nothing else happened."

“Just because it didn’t happen doesn’t mean it wasn’t done. Otherwise, why would they question the village chief?”

Qin Miaoxi murmured to herself, "If the twenty-one names on the tombstone in Houcun really buried the twenty-one skeletons in the moat, there is no way that one person could have completed it."

Lu Qingchen nodded in agreement, "It must be those grandsons behind this, and the village chief is also involved."

Qin Miaoxi remained noncommittal about the matter. "If we trace the root of the matter, it should be related to something that happened five or six years ago."

She looked at Wen Zhu, "Hasn't it been found out yet?"

Wen Zhu shook his head and said, "I haven't found out about that. It's just that the young men who had left the village gradually returned to the village to farm, and the food they grew was barely enough to make a living."

They had heard this from the old lady in the village since the first day they came to Fengshui Village, but now they felt different.

Lu Qingchen subconsciously shouted, "Could it be that they are really cursed by the Earth God?"

Qin Miaoxi sneered: "You believe this kind of thing."

Lu Qingchen puffed his cheeks and retorted, "If you don't believe me, let's check and see if that place is related to the Earth God."

Qin Miaoxi sneered. This young marquis had wild and imaginative ideas. Giving him something to do would give her some peace of mind.

When she thought back to the entire case, the only thing she could think of that was related to these cases was what the villagers said, that the elderly people disappeared inexplicably.

"Wen Zhu, have you ever asked the families of those who have disappeared?"

"I've done some research and found out that most of those elderly people were ill. Their families believe they left home because they didn't want to burden their children. They weren't missing inexplicably, so they didn't report the matter to the police for investigation."

"Then why pay with your life?"

"They understand it as the elderly sacrificing their lives for the children's. After all, if one mouth is missing, the children will have one more to eat. Everyone wants to stay alive."

In times of poverty, just being alive was a luxury.

“How many people have disappeared?”

"There are only eight in the entire village. That number doesn't match the skeletons found in the moat and the bodies trapped in the traps."

Qin Miaoxi's deep eyes flickered with a cold light. "Not only the missing people, but also those who left the village five years ago."

Lu Qingchen stared blankly with his clear eyes, and asked humbly, "Aren't the people who disappeared and left the village the same group?"

Qin Miaoxi turned a deaf ear to his words, but took out the yellow book and ticked the names of the missing people on it.

She had a feeling that those people would soon be found.