The moon falling to the ground

Chapter 269 Rockery

There was something wrong with that tea and fruit! Fortunately, he listened to the princess and didn't drink it.

Captain Wu was furious and looked at the butler with a terrifying look. But the butler was so sleepy that he didn't notice his unfriendly look.

"Brother Wu, there are bones here." a yamen runner shouted.

The scattered yamen runners gathered immediately. Captain Wu strode into the garden. He disliked the flowers and plants being in the way, so he picked up a handful and unexpectedly pulled out a few bones. Captain Wu paused, bent down to pick up the bones and looked at them, his face looking very ugly.

"Pull out all the flowers and plants and dig them all up." Captain Wu ordered.

The housekeeper, who was struggling with sleepiness, suddenly shuddered, struggled to open his eyes, and tried weakly to stop him: "No! Sir, these flowers and plants were bought by the master from outside at a high price with great difficulty. They are worth a fortune. Please show mercy, gentlemen."

The housekeeper knelt outside the garden and begged, but Captain Wu turned a deaf ear to him and ordered the runners to pull and dig.

The runners continued to dig deeper where the bones were found, and they found more and more bones.

"The fugitive has been found!" Fu Shiyi shouted.

The sound was as loud as thunder, scaring away the housekeeper's sleepiness. He tried to open his eyes wide and looked towards the place where the sound came from. He saw a man who claimed to be the princess's guard pulling a corpse out of the soil. And the corpse was the mute servant who escaped into the Jiang family.

Jian Yue glanced at the housekeeper: "Sure enough, he was murdered to silence him."

The butler felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. His hands and feet became cold, his face turned pale, and his body couldn't stop shaking.

The digging lasted for a full hour, and a large pile of bones was dug out. There were old bones and new bones with rotten flesh. These skeletons had one thing in common: thin skeletons, all of which were the skeletons of underage teenage girls. Moreover, these skeletons showed a strange green color, as if they were covered with a layer of green mold. Most people could not see the clues. But as a poison doctor, Jian Yue saw at a glance that this was caused by the deceased taking a poisonous aphrodisiac for a long time before his death.

Jian Yue's face turned pale, and her heart was as angry as if it was on fire. She didn't care about hiding her identity and gave a decisive order: "Arrest all the Jiang family members."

Captain Wu immediately led the yamen runners to the front yard. Fu Shiyi picked up the butler who had collapsed into a pile of mud and followed.

Fu Ba came over to report: "Princess, there is something wrong with the rockery. There should be a secret passage inside."

Jian Yue immediately went over to check.

The people trained by Ji Yunzhong are not only strong in martial arts, but also good at investigation. Several yamen runners walked around the rockery and found nothing wrong. However, several masters found a different boulder behind a tall green plant in front of the rockery.

The edge of this huge rock appears unusually smooth, as if it had been worn away by frequent use.

When Jian Yue went over, several people were looking for the switch.

Such a huge stone must have a mechanical button. However, several people searched every inch of the surrounding area and found nothing.

Jian Yue walked forward, touched the boulder, and tapped it with her fingers. Then she asked Fu Ba to chop it with a knife.

Fu Ba, with a mixture of faith and doubt, put all his strength into the sword and cut hard at the uneven protrusions on the boulder.

Click!

A piece of the boulder was actually chipped off.

Everyone was shocked. After a closer look, they suddenly realized that this was not a stone, but a piece of wood disguised as a stone.

However, no one knows whose masterpiece it was, it was so similar that even these masters believed it to be real.

Jian Yue asked everyone to retreat to the sides and not face the boulder. She also asked Fu Ba to chop from the side to prevent any hidden arrows from inside.

Fu Ba's sword was a precious sword that could cut through iron like mud. With a few chops, he chopped the wooden door disguised as stone into pieces.

puff!

A puff of white smoke came out. Fu Ba hurriedly dodged. The pungent smell made the people on both sides dizzy.

Jian Yue hurriedly took out another bottle of medicine and gave each person a pill to swallow. Then, she asked Fu Yun to shoot an arrow into the hole. This time, a white pill was tied to the arrow head. After the pill was shot in, there was a "chi chi chi" sound, and white mist instantly filled the air.

Jian Yue was not in a hurry and waited for the white mist to dissipate. However, there was a violent coughing sound from inside, and it sounded like there were several people inside.

Suddenly, a black shadow rushed out and pounced on the people nearby. Several masters quickly retreated and avoided the attack of the black shadow.

When the figure fell to the ground, everyone saw that it was a medicine man who was neither human nor ghost. The reason why they identified it as a medicine man was because he had a mixed smell of medicine.

"Don't touch him, he's poisonous." Jian Yue reminded.

When the medicine man heard Jian Yue's voice, his scarlet eyes suddenly looked over, and a bloodthirsty and bestial expression appeared on his pus-covered face.

Fu Ba and Fu Yun immediately stood in front of Jian Yue.

"Use fire attack, he is similar to Yan Xinning." Jian Yue finished speaking. Immediately, two experts went to get torches.

The medicine man had no sense of pain and was as ferocious as a wild animal. He would attack and bite. He was also very fast and could not be approached closely, so it was difficult to deal with him.

Captain Wu and Fu Shiyi, along with several runners, quickly returned with the people who were looking for torches. After lighting them, they started fighting back with one torch each.

Jian Yue asked Fu Yun and Fu Ba to get some dry firewood, and picked out some pulled flowers and plants to spread on the dry firewood, then stuffed it into the cave entrance and lit it.

The coughing sound just now proved that there was no secret passage leading to another place in the rockery. So, she thought of the method of smoking the rabbit. She didn't believe that the people inside could hold back and not come out.

Under the siege of the experts, the medicine man was soon pinned to the ground and burned by the torches. The shrill screams were heard far away, frightening the Jiang family members who were tied up like dumplings in the front yard.

Finally, the people inside the rockery couldn't hold on any longer and shouted to the outside: "Stop burning it, take it away, and let's get out." But no one paid attention to what they said.

No one would take action unless Jian Yue gave the order.

After burning for a while, the voices inside gradually became weaker, and Jian Yue said: "I will remove the fire. If you don't come out within five breaths, I will continue to burn it." Having said that, Jian Yue still hesitated for a while before asking someone to move the fire aside.

The exit of the rockery was inlaid with a wooden frame, and black smoke was coming out of the frame. The people inside couldn't wait any longer and rushed out impatiently.

As soon as he rushed out, a rope was put around his neck, strangling him so much that he couldn't breathe. Then, another person came out from behind and was also strangled by the neck.

Three people came out in succession, all dressed as medicine boys. The next ones to come out were Master Ye and Yi Tianxiao. The two were in a very miserable state, and the smoke made them cry and cough continuously.

The two brothers probably never dreamed that the dignified poison doctor from Ghost Gate would be smoked out by thick smoke one day.

"Master Ye, we meet again." Jian Yue said jokingly.

Yi Tianxiao threw a handful of powder unexpectedly. Unexpectedly, a gust of wind blew in the face, and all the powder fell on his and his junior brother's faces.

Yi Tianxiao & Master Ye: ...