Wandering among the heavens, learning has no end.

"Correct."

The guard nodded.

Fang Duobing then looked at Yun Jiao: "Do you know this young lady?"

"She is our second young lady's maid, and she is as close to our second young lady as a sister. She came out with us to look for our second young lady."

The guard immediately replied.

Fang Duobing looked at Yun Jiao: "You came out to look for your second young lady, but instead of looking for her, you deliberately came back disguised as your second young lady. What are you planning?"

"me……"

Yun Jiao was too flustered to speak.

At this moment, a figure appeared on the second floor, and then a needle flew towards Yun Jiao.

Fang Duobing was quite skilled in martial arts; as soon as the needle came, he immediately swung his sword to block it.

Yun Jiao's face paled; she recognized the flying needle.

At the same time, Ji Yuan's figure flashed and he arrived directly on the second floor.

The man tried to run away after throwing the hidden weapon, but Ji Yuan grabbed him, pressed his pressure points, and threw him from the second floor to the first floor.

"City...City Lord..."

The guard was dumbfounded.

What's going on?

"Is this Jade Blue?"

Fang Duobing immediately looked at the guard and asked.

"Yes……"

The guard nodded.

"How interesting! Your second young lady has gone missing, her personal maid has been caught impersonating her, and now the city lord wants to kill the maid. What kind of drama is this?"

Ji Yuan stood on the second floor, looking down and smiling as he spoke.

"Miss Yun Jiao, what exactly is going on?!"

At this moment, the head guard also sensed that something was wrong and looked at Yun Jiao to question her.

Yun Jiao trembled all over and couldn't speak.

Seeing this, Fang Duobing looked at Yu Mulan, then at Yun Jiao and said, "You put on this show, you must have been working with Lord Yu, right?"

"If the plan is exposed, he'll kill you to silence you. What else is there to hide?"

Upon hearing this, Yun Jiao looked at Yu Mulan.

Yu Mulan's eyes widened as if he wanted to say something, but Ji Yuan had just pressed his speech acupoint, so he could neither move nor speak.

"I said...I said..."

Yun Jiao didn't know what she was thinking, but she collapsed to the ground crying.

"The second young lady is dead..."

Yun Jiao's words stunned the guards.

"What!?"

The head guard exclaimed in surprise.

"How can it be……"

"Nothing is impossible. Since you say your second young lady is dead, that means you did it, right?"

Fang Duobing looked at Yun Jiao, who was slumped on the ground, and Yu Mulan beside her and said.

"It's over...you really killed the Second Miss!?"

Tell me quickly, what exactly happened!

The guard asked, his face filled with terror.

At the same time, all the other guests in the inn's lobby ran away.

Good grief, if they don't leave now, they're worried they won't be able to leave later.

Next, Yun Jiao told everything.

Yu Mulan is the city lord of Yucheng, but he has actually been having an affair with Yun Jiao.

One day, the second young lady suddenly barged into Yun Jiao's room and caught the two having an affair.

The second young lady turned and left in disbelief.

The next second, Yu Mulan took out a hidden weapon, the Soul-Stealing Needle, and shot it into the Second Miss's heart, thus killing her.

Yu Mulan said he wanted to see this Soul-Stealing Needle, so Yun Jiao went to get it for him.

Yun Jiao went to the Second Miss and asked her to take a look. The Second Miss took the weapon from the armory for her. Little did she know that this would become the murder weapon that killed her.

After the second young lady died, Yu Mulan, in order to avoid being exposed, and Yun Jiao, in order to survive, planned a ghost killing incident.

Today is the day to carry out the ghost murder incident.

Yun Jiao first arrived at Xiaomian Inn with her guards, then found an opportunity to leave the inn, and then returned disguised as the Second Miss.

Finally, they went up to the second floor, where one person played two roles and had a conversation to dispel the suspicions of the guards outside.

This requires a prop: a shadow puppet, to play two roles.

Yu Mulan is Yu Cheng, who married into the family. His original name was Pu Mulan. He came from the Pu family of Hujiang, a small martial arts sect more than ten years ago. The Pu family was famous throughout the world for their shadow puppetry.

As a result, more than ten years ago, his entire family was wiped out overnight because of gambling debts.

Through shadow puppetry, Yu Mulan and Yun Jiao planned to convince the guards that the Second Miss had truly returned.

Immediately afterwards, as the wind picked up outside, rainwater drifted into the inn, and several bloody footprints appeared inside.

These bloody footprints must have been drawn in advance with special pigments, so they would become visible when exposed to water.

They even put fireflies on some windows, so that when the inn's candles are extinguished, it will look like green ghosts are moving around in the windows.

Finally, Yu Mulan will randomly kill someone to attract everyone's attention.

At this point, the guards will discover that the second young lady has disappeared and will definitely search the entire inn for her.

Then they will find the Second Miss's body in a box in a room belonging to several people from a security escort agency.

The second young lady's body was naturally arranged by Yu Mulan in advance.

Inside the box, Yu Mulan had calculated the time precisely. She had sealed the corpse with blood ice, and today the blood would seep out, allowing the guards to discover it.

After Yun Jiao finished speaking, the guard immediately picked up water and splashed it on the ground, which indeed revealed bloody footprints. Then he checked the windows and the upper floor.

They also found fireflies and shadow puppets.

The guards' faces turned somewhat pale.

It's over, it seems the second young lady is really dead.

If the eldest young lady finds out that the second young lady is dead, all of them, the guards, will surely be killed.

Finally, the group arrived at the Crane Escort Agency's room.

The guard pushed the door open.

Inside the gate, the people from the Crane Escort Agency had noticed the commotion outside, but they didn't bother with it. After all, their most important task was to protect the goods as long as they were safe.

But now that a group of people have barged in, it's no longer safe to sit here.

Inside the room, one of them stood up and clasped his hands in greeting: "I am Cheng Yunhe, the chief镖头 (bodyguard) of Hexing镖局 (Hexing Escort Agency). You are all guards from Yuncheng."

We've always kept to ourselves, so what brings you into my room?

The lead guard didn't care about anything else at the moment and directly used his knife to cleave open a box.

Upon uncovering it, there was a human head.

Upon seeing this, Cheng Yunhe immediately shouted, "What are you all doing?!"

"Cut the nonsense!"

"you dare!"

Cheng Yunhe was surprised by the arrogance of the guards in Yuncheng. They seemed to be deliberately making trouble for him, so he immediately drew his sword.

"Chief Escort Cheng, you'd better not stop them. The second young lady of Yuncheng has been murdered, and it happened inside your shipment..."

The innkeeper's waiter quickly called out.

"What... How is this possible!"

Cheng Yunhe was also startled.

Cheng Yunhe was also dumbfounded. Wasn't he transporting human heads?

When Yu Mulan approached him, she simply told him that these were heads that had just been chopped off by the yamen and that she needed to help transport them home.

Escort agencies generally don't deliver these kinds of items, since inns usually don't allow them to enter when passing by.

He accepted the escort mission simply because Yu Mulan offered him a lot of money.

However, human heads are considered unlucky, so after checking one of the boxes and confirming that it contained human heads, he didn't bother to inquire about or check the remaining boxes.