Detective Ghost Empress

Chapter 428: An old legend

" Mother!" Qin Mu Yan screamed as he rushed to the decapitated body which was lying on the ground with blood staining the grass. His scream was full of agony and pain—— and as Yu Lingyun chased after him after hearing his scream, the latter's felt the ground slip from underneath his feet as soon as his gaze fell on the decapitated body of the old Madam Qin.

What was going on? First, it was Concubine Qin who vanished into thin air and now it was the old madam who was killed by someone? Yu Lingyun looked around the surrounding before he turned to look at his soldiers and then said in a gruff voice, " What are you waiting for? Look for the murderer! He must be hiding somewhere close!"

Old Madam Qin's scream came only a few seconds ago which meant that the murderer was standing in front of her till now, there was no way whoever was behind this murder would be able to escape!

That was what Yu Lingyun thought but as his soldiers dived into the depth of the forest while leaving him with the crying and grieving Qin Mu Yan, none of them was able to find anything! The soldiers were carrying flaming torches in their hands as they looked in the dark forest but forget about catching the culprit who killed Old Madam Qin, they could not even find a single drop of blood!

Even the weapon which was used to kill Old Madam Qin could not be found!

" What...What is this?" One of the soldiers could not help but ask as he looked around the entire forest which was clean and devoid of any blood. " The grass around Old Madam Qin is covered with blood but why is it that there is not another drop of blood discarded anywhere close to the killing sight?"

His doubts were exactly what everyone else wanted to ask, the ground near the body of Old Madam Qin was coloured red but other than that spot the entire place was squeaky clean! How was that even possible? Even if the murderer was someone skilled? He should have dropped at least a single drop of blood while running. And that too when he was in such a hurry!

"Did he use martial arts?" Another soldier asked as he looked at his colleagues who shook their heads before the soldier with a scar on his nose stated in a clear voice, " I asked those who are skilled in martial arts to look at the branches of the trees but they are clean as well, not a single drop was dropped on the tree or its leaves."

" Wah… it's... it's very similar to that old legend!" While the soldiers were discussing the murder and how it took place, one of the youngest soldiers could not help but speak up as he looked around the forest.

His words attracted the attention of the other soldiers as well as Yu Lingyun who came to look for the soldiers to find out what was holding them back.

" What legend?" An elderly soldier asked from the sidelines, though he did not believe that this was a job of a legend or a ghost, he was willing to listen, after all, many times there was a hand of a human behind such legends, which helped them greatly when it came to committing the dirty deeds in the silence of the night.

" You don't know? I thought everyone heard about it!" The young soldier who just cried about the legend stared at the elderly ones with wide eyes and when he saw that they were shaking their heads, he immediately opened his mouth and then started to tell them about an old legend which was rather popular among the commoners.

" It is a forty-five-year-old legend,  back when the Late Emperor was still alive——"As the young soldier spoke he lowered his voice and then brought the flaming torch near his face as he continued speaking, " It is said that there was once a scholar who was studying under an old minister since he did not have the money to partake in any academy.

The old minister took the scholar under him because he was good-looking and smart under the conditions that he will marry his daughter as his official wife and will never marry someone else, something that the scholar agreed to."

" But the old scholar ended up falling for a courtesan who was much more prettier than the old wife whom he married and took into his house, the old wife whom the scholar married could not withstand the blow and fell sick slowly withering away with the passing of time —— but the scholar who was infatuated with the courtesan could not wait!"

" He wanted his wife to pass away as soon as possible so that he will be able to marry that courtesan, which was why he brought her to this hunting ground during one of the hunting seasons and then killed her by ripping her limbs and then chopping those limbs into pieces before scattering it all over the place!

To this day no one has ever found the intact corpse of that old wife, it is rumoured that she still lurks in the forest and kills anyone who falls into her hands!"

After the young soldier was done speaking, he turned to look at the soldiers who were looking at him with expressions which were a combination of being speechless and terrified.

It was the middle of the night! Almost three in the morning and this guy was telling such a scary story to them! Was his brain flooded with water or what?

As the soldiers were thinking about this, they heard the sound of a twig snapping from behind and immediately turned pale, slowly, very slowly they turned to look at the thing behind them and when they saw a terrifying face which was looming over them under the glow of the flaming torch, all of them rushed towards the person who was standing next to them and then hugged that person tightly.

" AHHH!"

" ITS A GHOST!"

" MOTHER, I AM SCARED!"

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