Chapter 58 – Deodorizing Pills +
After arriving at the destination, thanks to Gu Qing, Gu Yu and Mengyao Gu were not troubled and easily followed Gu Qing inside.
Outside, a group of government soldiers were gathered, and their protection was very tight.
However, considering the bad smell in the morgue, Gu Yu took out the deodorizing pills he had prepared in advance.
He handed them to Mengyao Gu and Gu Qing, telling them to stuff them into their noses to prevent them from vomiting directly from the stench as soon as they entered.
Mengyao Gu naturally wouldn’t refuse the pills given by Gu Yu, but Gu Qing was initially unwilling to accept them. He thought that as someone who had been through great storms, he could endure it without these deodorizing pills.
It was just rotten corpses, he had seen worse on the battlefield before…
Later, when Gu Yu saw through Gu Qing’s thoughts, he didn’t force his father-in-law to use them. After all, he would be the one uncomfortable if he didn’t.
However, in the end, under Mengyao Gu’s gaze, Gu Qing honestly stuffed the pills into his nose, and then led the few of them into the morgue together to examine the corpses.
“General Gu Qing, you’re here.”
“Yes, this is the assisting personnel appointed by His Majesty—Gu Yu. He will be investigating the case with the Vice Minister of Dali Temple this time. I hope we can get to the bottom of the murder of the Luoluo Kingdom envoy as soon as possible.”
“We will naturally do our best. These are the corpses of the Luoluo Kingdom envoys. Please take a look.”
After entering the morgue, not long after walking, Gu Yu saw Tang Yaowen, the Vice Minister of Dali Temple. He looked like a very serious person, extremely similar to Maoyuan Tang. If Tang Yaowen were not older, it would be difficult to distinguish between them.
While Gu Qing was talking to Tang Yaowen, Gu Yu also noticed Maoyuan Tang and Chengfeng Shan, who was wearing a government soldier’s uniform, standing in a corner with pale faces. They did not look professional, appearing very unable to accept these corpses.
Especially Chengfeng Shan, who was now directly covering his nose with his hand, looking like he was about to vomit. Maoyuan Tang kept nudging him to prevent him from actually vomiting.
Seeing Chengfeng Shan’s dishevelled appearance, Gu Yu was also thankful for his foresight in preparing the deodorizing pills in advance, otherwise he would have been as uncomfortable as Chengfeng Shan.
Not only did Gu Yu see Maoyuan Tang and Chengfeng Shan, but they also saw Gu Yu. Both of them had looks of surprise on their faces, clearly not understanding why Gu Yu would appear in front of them so openly.
Furthermore, he seemed to have a close relationship with General Gu Qing, and was an assisting personnel specially sent by the Emperor!
What about the person from Yang Family Village who was said to have no deep background!
This made Maoyuan Tang immediately look at Chengfeng Shan with confusion, only to see Chengfeng Shan shrug helplessly, clearly even he was bewildered now, not knowing why Gu Yu’s appearance today was so impressive.
When someone came to deliver a letter that morning saying Gu Yu could not come, Chengfeng Shan had still been regretting in his heart that he could not investigate the truth behind the death of the Luoluo Kingdom envoy with Gu Yu.
Who would have thought… Gu Yu not only came now, but directly appeared in front of everyone, without needing to disguise himself like Chengfeng Shan, it was truly amazing!
It seemed that the identity of the young man from the village was not real at all!
After the three met, due to the environment, they did not speak, but nodded to each other as a greeting.
Afterward, Gu Yu followed behind Gu Qing and looked at the corpses placed on the wooden bed.
Instantly, a crushing sense of nausea surged towards him.
After making Gu Yu’s face turn pale and green, he managed to suppress the urge to vomit.
At a glance, the corpses were so badly rotten that they would need to be pixelated to make people feel any better.
Investigating cases is truly not a good job!
While Gu Yu was suppressing his nausea, he immediately turned to look at Mengyao Gu beside him, thinking that his little wife might be scared.
As a result, Mengyao Gu was fine.
She was just frowning, thinking that the corpses were already so damaged, it would be even harder to continue the investigation.
Mengyao Gu was able to remain so calm because she had encountered many animal corpses left by fierce beasts while hunting on the mountain before. Sometimes, due to the hot weather, they would rot extremely quickly.
Having seen many, even though she saw the rotten corpses of the Luoluo Kingdom envoys now, Mengyao Gu did not feel it was a big deal.
However, it was also because Gu Yu had given her the deodorizing pills, otherwise the smell would have been even more unbearable.
Therefore, Mengyao Gu felt fortunate… that she didn’t have to smell that disgusting stench and could focus more on observing the corpses, not missing any clues.
“These are the relatively complete corpses. Some corpses were dismembered, making it impossible to distinguish anything.”
“This corpse does not seem to have too many wounds, only a fatal wound in the chest… According to the information already obtained, this should be Yi Lewen, the Luoluo Kingdom envoy!”
“That’s right, this is indeed Yi Lewen. Someone has already examined him. He only has this wound in his chest, and no other damage. He was killed from behind with a weapon like a dagger.”
“From behind?”
After Tang Yaowen introduced these corpses to Gu Qing, his expression was serious, clearly finding the problems discovered during the examination of the corpses highly suspicious.
When Gu Qing heard Tang Yaowen’s words, he also realized something was wrong, and for a moment, both of them fell silent.
“Yu, was the person who killed Yi Lewen a traitor from Luoluo Kingdom!”
“Why do you think so?”
“If it were Linfeng Kingdom soldiers committing murder, they wouldn’t stab into the body from behind with a dagger. That would be too troublesome… And the fatal wound in the chest indicates that Yi Lewen trusted the murderer extremely before his death, leading to him being ambushed when he was not paying attention.”
“Yes, Mengyao, your guess is very accurate. Therefore, before this, I suspected an inside job… Do you remember what happened in Xize Town? It might also be related to the murder of the Luoluo Kingdom envoy.”
“Is it because the clothes worn by those government soldiers were torn?”
“Yes.”
While Tang Yaowen and Gu Qing were silent, Mengyao Gu then leaned closer to Gu Yu and quietly asked if her guess was correct.
The wound on Yi Lewen’s corpse was clearly abnormal.
When Gu Yu heard Mengyao Gu’s question, he nodded to her, indicating that her guess was correct.
Immediately after Gu Yu mentioned the Xize Town incident, Mengyao Gu guessed the reason.
No wonder, the most important evidence in the murder of the Luoluo Kingdom envoy this time was the torn cloth with the Linfeng Kingdom’s emblem, which made the Luoluo Kingdom emperor furious, thinking that it was deliberately done by Linfeng Kingdom just to humiliate them.
However, Gu Yu thought that the killer’s plan was not meticulous.
If it were him, after killing Yi Lewen, he would also clean up the corpse, so as not to be like this now, where something was detected just by the wound.
Of course, the murderer might have felt it was unnecessary to clean up the corpse, because even if the sequence of events could be inferred from the wound, it could not prove Linfeng Kingdom’s innocence.
Simply put, there was a lack of conclusive evidence.
“Besides these, are there any other findings?”
“Temporarily, there are no other findings.”
Obviously, Gu Qing had also thought of this. When he spoke to Tang Yaowen, Tang Yaowen shook his head helplessly. Clearly, apart from the wound, there were no other findings.
This made the matter go in circles again, without any actual progress.
Afterward, the two discussed more, but it did not help the case. Although Gu Yu was ostensibly an assisting personnel, he was unwilling to go any closer to the corpses, so he was just a decoration at the moment.
Furthermore, Gu Yu was too young. Even though he was appointed by the Emperor to help, Tang Yaowen did not take him very seriously. Instead, he secretly pondered the relationship between Gu Yu and Gu Qing.
He must have wanted to earn more merit, which would also help him serve as an official in the imperial court in the future.
It had been several months since Gu Yu obtained the Iron Certificate of Immunity, so it was normal for Tang Yaowen not to remember it immediately. Moreover, Gu Yu occasionally showed a distressed and awkward expression, which was completely different from his calm and confident demeanor in the imperial court back then.
Gu Yu was happy to be at ease with such a result. He did not want this assisting personnel position in the first place!
Gu Yu just wanted to follow secretly and investigate, to see if he could find any clues. Unexpectedly, his father-in-law requested the Emperor to give him such an identity, which was really pressuring.
“Brother Gu, how did you get in like this! You’re truly amazing. I thought you wouldn’t be able to come today!”
“I came with my father-in-law. You guys arrived quite early. These are deodorizing pills. Just stuff them into your noses.”
“Oh my, this is a great help. I’m almost going to puke now.”
Afterward, when Gu Yu didn’t want to look at the corpses anymore, he stepped aside and walked towards where Maoyuan Tang and Chengfeng Shan were standing. The three of them mixed together again.
When Gu Yu first came in, he was thinking that Maoyuan Tang and Chengfeng Shan standing in the corner were indeed very unprofessional. Who knew… he would end up joining them.
Thinking about it now, it wasn’t unprofessionalism, but the corpses were too disgusting!
When Gu Yu took out the deodorizing pills, Chengfeng Shan quickly reached out and took them, stuffing them into his nose. Then, he breathed a sigh of relief and finally didn’t have to smell the foul odor anymore.
Seeing Chengfeng Shan like this, Maoyuan Tang also took the pills with curiosity. After stuffing them into his nose, he found that he really couldn’t smell any strange odor.
Even the imperial physicians in the capital could not research such miraculous pills. Who would have thought that Gu Yu, at such a young age, was so capable? His future was truly limitless!
Moreover, Gu Yu just said that Gu Qing was his father-in-law, right?
Now Gu Yu not only had the ability but also a very deep background!
