After Lu Jinping asked, he realized that Xiaoxiao was originally the personal bodyguard of his mother Shangguan Wan'er, the commander of the Meihua Inner Guard. However, after he lost his memory, he had never returned to the capital. Now he has finally recovered his memory. When he saw them, he greeted them one by one, and said in surprise to Lu Jinping: "You are actually the commander of the Meihua Inner Guard. It's amazing. Then I am also your subordinate."

"Haha, it was my mother who asked me to take care of it. Of course, Prince Li Longji also had this meaning, so I took care of it. In fact, it is indeed a bit inappropriate for me to take care of a group of girls. It's just right for you to come back, so you'll take care of it for me."

Xiaoxiao was not polite: "Then it's okay. I'll help you take charge. Everything is subject to your command and dispatch."

"Okay, let's go back to the capital. I'm still waiting for me to do a lot of things. There are some new tasks to do with the Plum Blossom Inner Guard, so you will be responsible for it. I'm alone and I'm not able to do it."

Lu Jinping did not write this in the cloth strip tied to the snow sculpture Rufeng's legs, because it was of great importance. Xiaoxiao didn't know these important secrets. When she heard this, she leaned over and asked, "What's the task?"

"The prince asked my Meihua Inner Guard to be responsible for the collection of important information in the capital and all over the country, which is actually to supervise whether there are any signs of rebellion among the court officials."

Xiaoxiao nodded and said, "This should be no problem, and I will leave it to me to handle it. Inquiring about the news is an important responsibility of our Plum Blossom Inner Guard. When the Emperor was in power, he organized the Plum Blossom Inner Guard to serve as a guard on the one hand, and on the other hand, he collected information from officials and continued to expand and deepen."

Lu Jinping said: "That's great. After this incident, my mother was disheartened. She squatted in the palace all day long and didn't go anywhere, and didn't tell me these things. Maybe she didn't want to interfere with these things. Now it would be great if you come back and run the network again. The prince has allocated a large amount of funds for us to spy on intelligence. We can expand our scope and recruit some people in need."

While the two were chatting, the group continued to walk towards the capital and arrived in the capital soon. Lu Jinping asked Xiaoxiao: "Where are you living?"

"I used to live in the palace and stayed with Shangguan Zhaoyi. Now the Empress no longer controls the Meihua Inner Guard. You are responsible, of course you will arrange my residence."

Lu Jinping smiled and said, "That's OK. My Prince Zhong's Mansion is very big, so it's okay to live in you. Otherwise, you'd better live in my place? I'll give you a yard alone, so you can help me at any time."

Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up and she said, "That's great, I can't ask for it. I can follow the prince's orders at any time."

So Xiaoxiao moved into the Zhong Palace in Lu Jinping, who arranged a separate residence for him.

According to Lu Jinping's instructions, Xiaoxiao reorganized the Meihua Inner Guard to meet the needs of the new task. At the same time, he selected ten powerful martial arts masters as Lu Jinping's personal bodyguards, and he personally led them.

A few days later.

Lu Jinping was urgently summoned by Huang Ding, the minister of Dali Temple, saying that he had important official duties.

This is the first time Lu Jinping has taken over the official duties of Dali Temple since he served as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, because he usually assisted Li Longji in Jingzhao Prefecture. However, if there is no particularly important case in Dali Temple, he will not bother him, so after Lu Jinping received the notice, his heart skipped a beat. Could it be that another major case occurred?

Lu Jinping hurried to Dali Temple. Although Dali Temple was mainly a case-trial agency in the Tang Dynasty. It was similar to the Supreme Court, since the Tang Dynasty solved the case and the case-trial agency were responsible for the same agency. It was not separated, Dali Temple also undertakes the review and even the investigation of some important cases. It mainly involves committing crimes across multiple places, or some major cases with a wide impact. At this time, people from Dali Temple need to be sent to preside over the investigation.

If it is a simple trial of a case, Lu Jinping will not be asked to look for Lu Jinping, because Lu Jinping's research on Tang Lu is not very profound. Since he is going to touch him, such cross-regional cases usually need to be solved, but the prefectures and counties cannot coordinate, or the corresponding work cannot be carried out, so the Dali Temple is reported to Dali Temple. Dali Temple decided to let Lu Jinping be responsible because his ability to solve cases is already well-known.

Sure enough, it was not as expected by Lu Jinping. After meeting, Huang Ding was very polite. Although he was a minister of Dali Temple, Lu Jinping was the prince, and his title and taste were above him, so he would never dare to treat Lu Jinping as his subordinate.

After Lu Jinping came in, he had already arrived at the door to greet him, and first bowed and said, "Greetings to the prince."

Lu Jinping also quickly returned the greeting and said, "I wonder if the adults are so anxious to call me. What's wrong?"

Huang Ding nodded, his face was a little heavy. After he asked Lu Jinping to sit down, he did not rush to speak. After the servants took the tea and left, he said: "There is an exile office in Bazhou, Shu, which has connected some murder cases. Local officials cannot solve them. People are in panic. Several times, service personnel attempted to escape or even riots, so they had to send troops to guard them. However, if this case is not investigated in time, if similar cases occur again, these thousands of exiled personnel may eventually cause chaos."

In ancient times, penalties were a severe punishment method second only to death. It was to send criminals to some remote and barbaric places thousands of miles away to serve hard labor. They were suffering from leaving their hometowns. At the same time, they had to suffer from physical torture. Many people died of exhaustion in the exile.

The exiles of the Tang Dynasty generally implemented a crisscrossing method, that is, those in the north were sent to the south, those in the south were sent to the north, those in the east were sent to the west, and those in the west were sent to the east, and those in the east were sent to the east, and those in the crisscrossing.

Therefore, there are various exile sites in the border areas of the Tang Dynasty. The Bazhou area was a wilderness in the Tang Dynasty. The prince was demoted to Bazhou and was finally sentenced to death by Wu Zetian. There are also exile sites in the Bazhou area specifically used to detain transgressive prisoners and were sent here for thousands of miles to serve their sentences.

Because these places are located in remote and deserted wild places, they were allowed to reclaim the border, so there were not many soldiers guarding them. Generally speaking, the exiled people here were not prepared to escape, because in ancient times, transportation was extremely inconvenient, and if they wanted to escape, it was almost very difficult to escape by foot. As long as the checkpoint was set, they would be arrested soon.

Therefore, there are not many soldiers in the exile. If thousands of exiled people flee for some reason, or even riots will occur, it will be a very strict and virtuous matter. What the ancient kings fear most was someone to rebel. Once someone climbed up and shouted, and then raised his arms and revolted, it would probably cause other people to respond and flocked to follow, and they would roll bigger and bigger like snowballs. Once it became a climate, it would be difficult to deal with.

Seeing that the situation was urgent, local officials kept reporting this matter to Dali Temple, because there were continuous serial murders in the local area, which caused panic among the hard-working people. In this case, the best way is of course to solve the case and then arrest the real murderer to quell the panic among the people.

This is also the reason why Huang Ding called Lu Jinping here.

When Lu Jinping heard this, he knew what the other party was trying to do, and hurriedly said, "What happened in Bazhou? Please tell me directly."

Huang Ding quickly handed a letter from the coffee table to Lu Jinping and said, "What I said just now is on it. Look, I'm afraid I won't say it clearly."

Lu Jinping took the thick letter, expanded it and started reading it. It was written in half-white and half-classical Chinese. Although he couldn't understand some parts well, he could roughly guess what it meant.

After watching it, Lu Jinping's brows were tightly locked together.

This case seems to be a bit tricky, no wonder it causes panic in the local area.

It turned out that three murder cases occurred in the Exile Institute, and the three cases were all serious prisoners detained by the Exile Institute. Moreover, when the body was found, most of the heads were gnawed out and incomplete. No one heard any noise such as their screams, and of course no one witnessed them.

When they first discovered the murder, they thought it was done by wild animals. Because there were many wild animals in this area, the officers and soldiers organized a roundup to hunt this wild beast that ate people, and at the same time strengthened the vigilance of the exile.

However, after strengthening the alert, I went into the mountains to search for people, but no beasts were found to hunt people. After strengthening the alert, the exile station once again had a terrible incident in which most of the exiles were eaten away.

The exile began to panic, and they all guessed whether it was a ghost or a demon.

Of course, the officials of the Exile Institute did not dare not agree so. So they agreed that the wild beasts sneaked into the Exile Institute and ate people, so they invited several local experienced hunters to help hunt.

However, after these hunters arrived, they carefully checked the scene and found that there were no traces of human-eating beasts such as tigers, bears, and other human-eating beasts.

This statement further confirms the speculation in the minds of these serious prisoners in the exile station. That is, it is very likely that the evil demons and ghosts cannot control human power are causing trouble. In this wilderness, there are always all kinds of terrible legends, such as mountain monsters, evil demons, etc.

Of course, the officials who guarded the exile station would not believe in such ghosts and evil sayings easily, and began to doubt whether it was an insider who committed the crime.

However, I really can't figure out who the murderer would be? If they were to kill the person, they could completely suspect that it was done by people inside. However, according to the situation observed by the hunter, half of their heads was clearly bitten off, with obvious signs of gnawing. This could not have been done by people, but by wild animals.

Therefore, the garrison officials urgently requested assistance from the local garrison and mobilized the army to increase vigilance. At the same time, hunters and local people were organized to go to the mountains to search and hunt wild animals.

The search lasted for several days and killed a lot of prey, including hunting several tigers and bears. However, they did not know if the tigers and bears they hunted were the culprits of these two murders. (To be continued.)

Chapter 250: Terrifying and bizarre murders:
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