Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

If it was the fresh scene back then, Gu Yue felt that he should be able to find something. But after so much time had passed, and after so many ups and downs, and after being plundered by the Hidden Dragon Guards, it was unlikely that he would find any clues.

Gu Yue knew what he was here for.

On the surface, he was here to investigate the affairs of Chao Zhen's army on the orders of the emperor, but in fact, firstly, he had no other choice, and secondly, he also wanted to take this opportunity to come to Prince Shen's Mansion to see if there were any clues about Gu Xu's enemies.

The death of Prince Shen and his wife was the result of the emperor's coercion, but there are still some doubts about the whole matter, and Gu Yue wants to figure it out.

Gu Yue slowly pulled out the grass growing in the cracks between the floor tiles.

The emperor must have had ulterior motives in sending him to Yunxi.

The only possibility that Gu Yue could think of was that this was another plot to sow discord between them. They took the opportunity to tell Gu Xu that your adoptive father had taken refuge with someone else and was going to destroy your lair, that he was unreliable, etc. But what was the point of trying so hard to separate them?

What role did those rumors play?

Gu Yue casually lifted up two overlapping stone bricks leaning against the corner of the wall, stirring up a cloud of dust.

A piece of something like mud fell down lightly.

Gu Yue noticed the object immediately, but did not reach out to take it. It should be a piece of cloth, which had been sandwiched between the stone bricks for a long time and had almost weathered into soil. It was so thin that it was transparent and would crumble into dust if touched.

But Gu Yue could still tell that this was not some ordinary coarse cloth.

With the bright sunlight, Gu Yue looked carefully and first noticed the dark black marks on the cloth. Although most of the stains had been lost with the loss of fabric fibers, Gu Yue still saw that it seemed to be a word.

He turned around half a circle and quickly recognized that it was the word "injustice".

The cloth that was deliberately sandwiched between the stone slabs had the word "injustice" written on it.

Gu Yue stared at the piece of cloth. He could still vaguely see the pattern on it. He looked at it for a long time and felt a sense of familiarity for no reason.

Where have you seen it?

This pattern was not the common ones in Northern Qin, such as bats, flowers, precious flowers, sea water, etc. At least Gu Yue had never seen it before.

"Shi San, look at this." Gu Yue called out to Shi San behind him.

Shi San had already noticed that he seemed to have discovered something, so he walked forward and looked down at the cloth.

He automatically ignored the Northern Qin characters on it. He half-knelt down, frowned, and carefully identified the pattern on it.

Gu Yue looked at him, then at the piece of cloth, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

Cave...the cave where King Shen’s treasure is hidden!

At that time, he picked up a brocade fan from the ground. The pattern on it was exactly the same as the piece of cloth in front of him.

According to Gu Xu, that fan and other treasures mostly belonged to Su Huaiyue.

Shi San also gave the answer at this time: "The clothes worn by the Su family are... like this. Only Su..."

Thinking of the Su family, Gu Yue recalled the carriage they rode in when he met Su Yingjian. Probably to show their status, the material covering the outside of the carriage also had this pattern.

How come there was cloth with the Su family’s special pattern in the firewood room, and the word “injustice” written on it?

Before Gu Yue could think about it, Shen Wumou had already returned with his men. He only had two thin case files in his hands, which he handed to Gu Yue lightly.

Gu Yue had already kicked the cloth into the bushes.

He was not surprised to see there were only two such sloppy books. In order to cover up the truth, these people would naturally not investigate the case seriously, or more detailed results might have been sent to the capital and hidden.

When I opened the case file, what was written inside seemed detailed, but it was actually rough.

The couple of Prince Shen in the main hall hanged themselves to death, and their bodies were burned. The specific location of the bodies was recorded.

The bodies of twenty-eight people in the servants' courtyard were gathered together, all burnt to death in the fire.

Gu Yue sneered when he saw this.

There was a fire in the mansion, but nearly thirty servants were crowded in a small courtyard, stacking up like a pyramid, and then they were burned to death?

Turning to the next page, it says that the deceased was in the firewood room, facing the west wall of the firewood room, with a wound on his throat. The burn marks on his body were not serious, and there was a lot of blood in the field. The cause of death was not written.

Gu Yue took a look at the direction and saw that the west wall was the wall where the stone brick where the cloth fell out was leaning against.

The identities of the deceased were listed at the back of the case file. The deceased in the firewood room was... Su Huaiyue's dowry servant.

Gu Yue had a guess in his mind.

With the firewood room as the midpoint, he searched carefully along the road between the ruins, occasionally asking the yamen runners what this place was. The yamen runners remembered it very clearly and answered accurately, but Gu Yue did not find anything new.

After so long, even the bloodstains on the ground have been almost washed away by the rain, leaving only some burn marks.

Any paper clues had either decayed into ashes or been discovered and moved back by the Hidden Dragon Guards.

Gu Yue even went to investigate the small path behind the woodshed and found that it was indeed a defensive blind spot that was very suitable for invasion.

He returned to the courtyard and said to the yamen runner, "Has the study also been burned down to the same state as the main hall?"

"Yes." The bailiff nodded.

"Where is the yard where the couple usually live?"

"It's not that serious, but it collapsed a few years ago." The yamen runner said, "The adults looked for it, but found nothing."

"Take me to see it." Gu Yue said.

The yamen runner led the way. Going south, they passed several completely decayed and collapsed corridors and came to a courtyard. The buildings here were much taller and more magnificent, and there were many collapsed bricks and rubbles. Gu Yue grabbed half of the wall and climbed into the ruins of the original bedroom and searched inside.

Shen Wumou saw him searching very hard and felt a little weird. Was he too attentive?

"Uncle, do you want me to send some people to help us search?" Shen Wumou asked.

"No need." Gu Yue said.

It can be seen that the fire was very big that year. Most of the furniture buried under the bricks and tiles were broken and only half of them were burned. Gu Yue did not miss any gaps, because the fire started late at night. At this time, the couple was likely in the bedroom. If there was enough time, they might leave some clues.

But the more he searched, the more he felt that there was something fishy about the emperor sending him to investigate the affairs of Chao Zhenjun. The Prince Shen's mansion was cleaned so thoroughly that there was not even a piece of paper left. What was he looking for?

Together with Shi San, they moved a beam and half of a table was exposed. The tabletop was broken and tilted on the ground. The drawer was half open and empty: it seemed that the Hidden Dragon Guards had searched it carefully.

But he was different from the Hidden Dragon Guard - Gu Yue had read too many crime novels, so his first reaction was: Does this table have a mezzanine?

He grabbed the handle and pulled the entire drawer out, tipping it upside down.

There is no mezzanine.

Gu Yue looked into the drawer hole of the half-broken table again. Although it was still light outside, the table was blackened by smoke and he couldn't see anything clearly.

He simply pulled up the table and turned it upside down with the hole facing down.

There was a slight sound of moving parts coming from inside.