Playing bad and eating melons: The whole court is laughing? No, no

Chapter 453 Face Changing

After the people from the three provinces and six ministries congratulated them, they said goodbye one after another and went back to work.

After everyone left, Ke Ming took out a file.

"Master Xiao Jiang, I have a case here." Ke Ming handed over the file in his hand. "A few days ago, a murder occurred in Qingxi County. The victim died in a tragic way..."

The Qingxi County Magistrate led his men to investigate for several days but found nothing, so he handed the case over to the Ministry of Justice.

The Ministry of Justice handed the murder case over to Ke Ming, who led his men to investigate for two days but found nothing.

Jiang Yueyang listened to him while opening the file in her hand. The general content of the file was that three years ago, three murders occurred in succession in the capital, and the faces of the victims were peeled off by the murderer.

Moreover, all three victims were women.

Because the deceased's face was destroyed and he had nothing on his body to prove his identity, the authorities have been unable to ascertain his identity.

Ke Ming: "The modus operandi of this murder is the same as the three cases three years ago. I suspect it was committed by the same murderer."

Bai Ze had also been involved in the serial murder case three years ago, and couldn't help but walk over to listen closely.

Prince Yan and Jiang Xun also came over with interest.

Because the others were not familiar with Jiang Yueyang, the Shangguan, they did not dare to go over rashly and could only listen from afar.

Jiang Yueyang frowned and asked, "Master Ke, have you confirmed the identity of the deceased?"

"The deceased was a dancer named Shaoyao from Qionghua Tower. Her real name was Su Xiaoxiao, and she was from Jiangzhou."

Jiang Yueyang asked again: "Have you found out if Su Xiaoxiao has any enemies? Or has she behaved unusually recently?"

Ke Ming shook his head. "Su Xiaoxiao is new to Qionghua Tower. She's new to the capital and knows almost no one. People in Qionghua Tower say she has a good temper and is a law-abiding person. There's nothing unusual about her."

Jiang Yueyang pretended to be in deep thought, but in reality, he was asking the system, "Xiaogua, do you know who the murderer of this case is?"

[Of course!] The system is particularly proud.

When Jiang Yueyang heard this, he hurriedly asked: [Who is the murderer?]

Ke Ming couldn't help but get nervous. He almost asked out who the murderer was when he heard the system knew it.

System: [The murderer is the daughter of Huichuntang's owner—Shen Zhiyi.]

[Huichuntang?] Jiang Yueyang frowned in thought, [Sounds familiar.]

[The half-sister of Imperial Physician Zhou is the female doctor of Huichun Hall.] The system reminded.

Jiang Yueyang immediately remembered it, "Oh! I remember now. It's that cliché about lovers becoming siblings."

Ke Ming thought to himself that the owner of Huichuntang seemed to have a daughter, but it was said that she was ill all year round and could not even leave the house.

Is the illness fake?

Jiang Yueyang suddenly thought of something and immediately asked: [Xiaogua, does Shen Zhiyi have any defects in his appearance?]

【Hehe, the host reacts quickly! 】

After hearing what the system said, Jiang Yueyang asked Ke Ming again, "Master Ke, is the dancer named Su Xiaoxiao in Qionghua Tower particularly beautiful?"

Ke Ming nodded, "She's quite pretty."

"Have you ever thought that the murderer killed them because he was jealous of their beauty?"

Ke Ming nodded again. "We've thought about it. We've investigated this aspect, but we still can't find anything."

"That's not right." Jiang Yueyang shook her head. "The murderer was jealous of their beauty. He could have just destroyed their faces. Why did he have to peel off their entire faces?"

[Because she wants to change her face!] The system suddenly said.

Ke Ming was stunned. What had he just heard? Face-swapping?

Jiang Yueyang also suspected that she had misheard, [Xiaogua, what did you just say?]

[I said the murderer peeled off the victim's face in order to replace it with his own!]

Jiang Yueyang gasped, [Can you...change your face?]

[No.] The system changed the subject, [However, the killer's craftsmanship in making human skin masks is very good. The masks fit the skin very well, and the effect is almost the same as a face transplant.]

Jiang Yueyang frowned. Killing people just to become beautiful is too crazy and too cruel!

Seeing the two of them remain silent for a long time, the system then said with relief: [Fortunately, Shen Lingshuang is the daughter of the Dali Temple Minister. Otherwise, with her appearance, she would have been killed by the murderer long ago.]

Hearing this, Jiang Yueyang suddenly realized that Shen Lingshuang had been secretly treating patients in Huichuntang.

She was a little worried. Just because the murderer hadn't attacked Shen Lingshuang before didn't mean he wouldn't do it in the future.

In order to prevent anyone else from being harmed, she must obtain evidence as soon as possible and bring Shen Zhiyi to justice.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yueyang immediately asked: [Little melon, how did Shen Zhiyi kill people?]

Her method of killing people was actually very simple: she would drug people into unconsciousness, then take them away and stab them to death.

Where is the first crime scene?

[The cellar of Huichun Hall.]

Jiang Yueyang lowered her eyes in thought. Without evidence, the government couldn't search arbitrarily...

Moreover, since this was the first case after the establishment of the Supervisory Department, she wanted to handle it neatly and not with violence.

The system saw this and said, "If the host wants to arrest Shen Zhiyi, he can go to the scene where the body was dumped. There is evidence there."

[What evidence? 】

A hairpin.

Jiang Yueyang silently repeated the word "hairpin" in her heart, a little worried that the hairpin could not be used as evidence.

The system knew what she was thinking the moment she looked at her expression, and continued, "Host, that's a hairpin made of Aconitum. Aconitum is usually only available in pharmacies."

Jiang Yueyang immediately understood what the system meant. "You want me to search Huichuntang under the pretext of the Wutou hairpin?"

Yes~

Jiang Yueyang looked at Ke Ming, "Master Ke, can I go to the crime scene and take a look?"

"of course."

"Let's go now." Jiang Yueyang stood up immediately.

"Jiang Yueyang, I want to go too." King Yan spoke first.

Then, Bai Ze curled his lips and said, "I've handled that case before, but I failed to catch the murderer. I've always had a knot in my heart. Si Zheng, look..."

"Si Zheng..." Jiang Xun also called out.

"Then let's go together."

After saying this, Jiang Yueyang glanced at the others eager to try, and immediately smiled at them and said, "I'm going to go out for a while. You guys take care of the house. I'll bring you some delicious food when I come back."

It was really conspicuous with so many people passing by.

Moreover, it was really outrageous that no one was in the yamen on the first day of the establishment of the Supervisory Office.

If the people from the Censorate come for a walk and don’t see anyone, all the staff of the Supervisory Office will be impeached tomorrow.

Those who were left behind watched them leave with regret.

Half an hour later, Jiang Yueyang and his group arrived at a riverside covered with weeds.

Ke Ming looked at the river and said, "The murderer threw the victim's body into the river."

【Xiaogua, where is the hairpin? 】