Chapter 65: Corpse Spot

  I'm suffocating with so many things I want to say, but considering his status, I swallowed them all back. "I'm really sorry, none of this is what I wanted, goodbye!"

  After finishing speaking, I rushed out of the restaurant like a fugitive. Afraid, I almost fell over and looked back several times while walking on the street, fearing that Ando was following behind me.

  As I passed by the Yin Yang Ghost Doctor's clinic, I thought of Xuan Yuan Mu's body and walked in.

  The wife of the ghost doctor was busy in the clinic, looked up and saw me, startled, took two steps back, didn't even respond, and rushed to the backyard.

  Then I was invited to the backyard by someone, and the strange ghost doctor asked me: "Personally coming out of the palace, there must be something?"

  "Yes, I came this time mainly to ask you...". I looked around and thought that since Gui Yi was so formidable, he must know Xuan Yuan Mu's identity.

  "It's about livor mortis? You know some people may be alive, maybe dead, but their body has developed livor mortis, which didn't exist before, just don't know why this time..."

  "Enough!" The yin-yang ghost doctor stood up: "I can only cure the illnesses of the living, not the wounds of the dead. So, I won't be able to help you!"

  His words completely dashed my hopes.

  "Don't you know anything at all? Even a little bit of news would be fine!"

  "To be honest, even if it were my master who was still alive, he wouldn't know either. After all these years, the crown prince... isn't... that person is the first living corpse I've ever met, there have been walking corpses and corpses that have changed, but a corpse with thoughts and feelings that's still alive, this is really my first time encountering one, so I really can't help you!"

  I believe in Ghost Doctor's words, he has helped us so much and won't stand by and do nothing about this matter.

  Out of the medical institution, my mood became increasingly depressed. In less than half a day without seeing Xuan Yuan Mu, I somehow missed him and worried about his body, fearing that he would change due to those corpse spots.

  As soon as I walked into the street, I heard a loud wailing sound. Curious, I walked in and found that it was coming from next door. Wang San Niang was standing at the entrance with the neighbors, whispering to each other.

  "What happened?" I walked up to the door of that house and asked Wang San Niang.

  "Madam, you're back?"

  "Uh-huh!" I nodded, but my eyes were fixed on that household.

  "The child is gone! The child who was born less than a month ago has been stolen!" Wang San Niang sighed and said: "How many times have there been cases of children being stolen in this capital city? They are all newborns, who would be so cruel to steal such young children?"

  I furrowed my brow, a child lost in the capital? Just as I was thinking about it, I saw a familiar figure darting past the street corner.

  "Sister Su?" I took a step forward and chased after her, but where was she? I stood at the intersection, and a bad thought emerged in my mind - could it be that she's the one who lost the child?

  I returned to the palace, and Xuan Yuan Mu saw me with a look of surprise: "Wasn't I told you to rest for a few more days? How did you come back?"

  I told Xuan Yuan about what happened when I lost the child in the capital city and saw Su Auntie on the street corner.

  "No wonder I turned the imperial palace upside down and couldn't find any trace of her, it turns out she escaped from the palace. Since she's outside the palace, we'll go outside to look for her."

  "But she's just a woman, can she really pull off something like stealing a child?" Xue Qiufeng asked strangely: "Think about it, in a city where babies are often lost, which family isn't guarding and protecting their own? A woman, especially one who doesn't know martial arts, how could she possibly climb over walls and sneak into a courtyard without being detected, and then quietly steal the child away?"

  "Maybe it was her who made the vengeful spirit do it?" I said aloud.

  "As far as I know, the vengeful spirits of the ghost babies are within the imperial palace. They can't get out, and even if they could leave the palace, they don't have the ability to pick up real things, let alone kidnap children!" Xue Qiufeng continued to analyze.

  Everyone fell silent, who could it be? Why would someone steal other people's children? What is the point of stealing such a young child?

  All cases must be solved, Xuan Yuan reported to the imperial court in the morning and decided to take personal action to solve the case and calm the people's minds.

  Although Xuan Yuan Qi was demoted from his position as king, due to the Emperor's reasons, the identity of the prince could not be removed. Xuan Yuan Mu proposed that he help solve the case, and the emperor agreed.

  As for these things, Xuan Yuan Qi knew more about them. This time, a total of eight children were lost, all of which occurred within nearly half a month, coincidentally around the same time I discovered that Su Aunt was raising ghost babies, so her suspicion is the greatest. The first thing to do is to search for and capture Su Aunt.

  After three days of carpet-style search, we still can't find her, she seems to have vanished into thin air, and there is no trace of her inside or outside the palace.

  At the same time, in a house on the west side of the city, a three-day-old baby suddenly disappeared, and his mother was stabbed to death in her bedroom.

  Looking at this family crying and weeping, my heart aches.

  Xue Qiufeng went to investigate the scene and almost got beaten up by someone's family member because he didn't solve the case quickly enough.

  "Who did I provoke? I'm just a Taoist priest, I'm not an official."

  "Who told you to touch that coffin? It's just been placed there, and you go and touch it?" Xuan Yuan Qi said with a smirk.

  "I wasn't trying to summon a soul or anything! I didn't expect it wouldn't work and almost got beaten up!"

  "Or else we try fishing?" Xuan Yuan Mu said.

  "Fishing?" Xuan Yuan Qi thought for a moment before responding: "But we don't have any children, how can we fish?"

  "Kids are indeed a problem!" Without babies, how can those thieves get their hands on them? Even if there were kids, it would depend on the opportunity. At this time, I'm afraid several cases of infant loss will occur again.

  It was too late, and we didn't come up with a plan. Xuan Yuan was afraid I'd get tired, so he sent me back to the old mansion to rest. Wang San Niang and Chun Er saw me return and pulled me into the house.

  "Madam, a crazy woman has moved in next door. She says that if you let her stay with your family, she can help find the child."

  "What? Crazy woman?" I suddenly thought of Aunt Su: "Have you seen what she looks like?"

  "I see, thin and thin, very clever. Come over..." Wang San Niang pulled me to the wall root, made a silent gesture with her hand, and asked me to listen carefully.

  As expected, voices of conversation came from next door.

  "If I help you find where the child has gone, will you dare to gather the people to demand their return?"

  "I absolutely dare, even if it's the king of heaven, I won't give in!"

  "I'm afraid you won't have the guts when the time comes!"

  It was indeed Su Auntie's voice, and I wondered if she knew where the child had gone. I listened carefully, but the rest of their conversation didn't make much sense, with the family members repeatedly asking where the child was. Su Auntie refused to say, only saying that they would have to wait until dawn the next day, when she would gather the villagers and take them there.