Chapter 141: The Faceless Corpse
After Ji Yunshu sent Lu Jiang to inform Jing Rong that she was going out, she left the Rong estate with Wei Yi. Alongside Wei Yi, she looked for a good restaurant and ordered so dishes. Wei Yi was extrely happy and imdiately started to eat when all the dishes were served. He ate with relish, but he didn’t forget to put a pair of chopsticks in Ji Yunshu’s hand and repeatedly said, “Shu’er, you should eat too.”
“Hmm.” She picked a piece of at and put it in her mouth. The flavor slowly spread on her tongue. She imdiately frowned and hurriedly spat out the at.
“The taste of this at… Why it is a bit… unusual?” She muttered.
She used her chopsticks, picked up the at, and observed it attentively. It didn’t look any different. ‘Can it be that the at was kept too long? Expired at?’ Wei Yi, who was about to pick so at up, was stopped by Ji Yunshu. “Eat the other dishes.”
“But Shu’er, this is at!”
“I know this is at.”
“But…” Wei Yi pitifully looked at her. He didn’t want to let go of that piece of at. His expression revealed yearning and desire for that juicy at.
Unfortunately for him, Ji Yunshu resolutely didn’t let him eat it. She moved that dish to the side and called the waiter.
The waiter thought she wanted to order more, so he eagerly ran to her and bowed before asking, “Dear guest, do you need anything else?”
Ji Yunshu took her chopsticks and tapped the plate containing the at. “How long has your restaurant been famous?”
“Ah?”
“Waiter, are your ears not good?”
The waiter smiled awkwardly while waving his hands. “No, not at all. My ears are good. It’s just that I don’t really understand what you an.”
Ji Yunshu didn’t speak in a roundabout way. She lifted her eyes and looked at the waiter with a sharp and cold expression, making the waiter tremble in fear. “Is this at dish fresh?”
The waiter glanced at the at dish. His heart was filled with apprehension. The aning was quite obvious, so he hurriedly explained, “O-Of course it’s fresh. Guest, our inn has a long-established reputation in the capital. All of the food is made on the sa day. Freshness is guaranteed!”
“Then, you try this.”
‘You dare to say our food is not fresh? You are clearly searching for trouble.’ The waiter thought for a mont and still took a bite of the at. However, as soon as he took a bite, his face twisted, and embarrassnt could be seen in his expression. He opened his mouth and mumbled, “Guest, this… This is absolutely an accident. This thing, I’ll exchange it right away for you.”
Ji Yunshu wasn’t fond of bullying people, thus she nodded in agreent. “Alright, be quick.”
“Yes, right away. Please wait for a mont. I’ll co replace it imdiately.” The waiter took the plate and was about to run to the kitchen when Ji Yunshu stopped him. “Forget it. There’s no need to replace it.”
“You’re not exchanging it?”
“Hmm!”
Since she couldn’t determine if all of their at was spoiled, it was better not to eat any. The waiter mulled for a mont, then scratched his head before leaving. He was fortunate to et such a nice guest. If it was soone else, they would have demanded compensation from the restaurant or they would have deliberately caused trouble. Even worse, they could have damaged the restaurant just like Li Shiyan and Jing Xuan.
During the whole ti, Wei Yi was staring at her with big glistening eyes like a puppy. Ji Yunshu glanced at him and asked, “Do you want to eat this at very much?”
Wei Yi nodded.
“If I don’t let you eat, will you be angry at ?”
He shook his head.
“That’s good then. This table is filled with delicious and mouth-watering food. Eat those instead. Don’t be wasteful.”
Wei Yi nodded once again. Probably due to the other dishes being tasty, Wei Yi didn’t bother with the at dish and stuffed himself until he was bloated. After eating their fill, Ji Yunshu paid the bill and went downstairs. She was about to leave the restaurant when Wei Yi pulled on her sleeve and pointed at sothing. He spoke in a low voice, “Shu’er, look. They look so pitiful!”
Following the direction where Wei Yi pointed, she looked at the stage set in the restaurant. On the stage, there was an old man with grizzled hair sitting on a chair holding an erhu. Next to him stood a pretty and delicate girl. Her age shouldn’t be more than 16 years old. She wore light blue clothes and had a very pretty smiling face.
The old man played the erhu while the young girl sang. A mont of leisure and enjoynt! Ji Yunshu fished out so money and gave it to Wei Yi. “Go and give her this. Tell her to sing ‘The Caged Woman’.”
“Alright!” He took the money and went to the stage. He stood in front of the girl with his tall physique towering over her, completely hiding the girl’s slender body.
After he did what Ji Yunshu told him, he returned to her side and said in a small voice, “Shu’er, I asked that big sister and she told that her na is i Xiang’er. Her na is really nice to hear, but it still can’t beat Shu’er’s.”
Since when did Wei Yi learn to be a smooth talker?! The singer held the money in her hand and looked at Ji Yunshu with gratitude in her gaze. Other than gratitude, there was a hint of shyness within her eyes. It was not surprising. Even with her male clothing, Ji Yunshu couldn’t hide her tender and soft looking skin which gave her a charm that not even Jing Xuan could resist, let alone a common young girl.
Ji Yunshu departed from the restaurant with Wei Yi, but behind her, she could still hear Xiang’er singing “The Caged Woman”. They didn’t return to the Rong estate imdiately and strolled around the streets instead. The rchandise found in the capital were many tis more diverse and elaborate compared to Jingjiang. There were many objects that Ji Yunshu found which, even as an archeologist, she hadn’t seen before.
During the whole ti, Wei Yi shouted at everything he liked; thus, Ji Yunshu ended up buying a pile of things that were useful and so that were not. The main point was that as long as Wei Yi liked sothing, she would buy it for him. In the end, they returned to the estate while holding a large pile of weird objects.
When they entered, she t Jing Rong who she wanted to avoid. Lang Po who was standing near him hurriedly retreated a few steps. He didn’t want Wei Yi to make him hold that pile of strange toys, thus he kept his distance. Jing Rong grabbed onto Ji Yunshu’s sleeve and asked her with quite a serious expression, “The capital governor sent you information concerning the missing girls case, was it useful?”
“Not at all!”
“Then, why do you still have the ti to bring that guy out to play?”
Ji Yunshu fiercely glared at him. “Is this place a prison? Do you want to put shackles on and forbid from going outside?”
Jing Rong’s grim expression imdiately cracked. “You know that that is not what I ant. This case is particularly thorny; I’m just worried that…” He had yet to finish speaking when he was interrupted by Ji Yunshu.
“Since I accepted the case, there’s no thorny matter that can’t be resolved. Shouldn’t you believe in more?”
“Of course I believe in you!” He hastily replied without hesitation.
His reply made Ji Yunshu feel a bit embarrassed. Suddenly, a man ran into the estate in panic. He was wearing a uniform. It was soone working for the capital governor. The man was still panting, but he still bowed to Jing Rong and said, “Your Highness, the cap… capital go… governor wanted to… to inform you… That we found… a body, but…” The man took a deep breath.
‘A corpse?’ Jing Rong and Ji Yunshu’s expressions imdiately sank. “Whose body?”
“It… It’s a woman’s corpse. A naked one… Furthermore…” The man closed his mouth when he spoke to that part. His face twisted into an ugly sight as if he was stopping himself from vomiting.
Jing Rong was soone who hated wishy-washy people the most. He strongly urged the man, “Hurry up and spit it out! Furthermore what?”
The man repressed the urge to spit out the contents of his stomach and continued but lowered his voice a bit, “Furthermore, the corpse’s hands were chopped off and her face… was also peeled off. We couldn’t determine her appearance because of that, and… the sight of it is extrely sickening.”
The corpse’s description was enough to horrify people. Ji Yunshu frowned. ‘The face was peeled off, and the hands were chopped off? What a strange murder.’
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