Chapter 26 Su Xiaolangjun
However, this dungeon is not big. There are only three cages for holding people along the way. The most important thing is that there is no one in these cages.

The environment here is much neater and cleaner than the dungeon in Jingzhao Prefecture. The floor paved with bluestone tiles is spotless.

This is obviously a place where special prisoners are held.

When Su Liuyue passed by those cages, he glanced inside and saw a bowl of half-eaten food in two of the cages.

Just as she was staring at the food thoughtfully, a familiar clear voice came from not far away, "Miss Su, why are you staring at these cages like this? But what's so great about these cages?"

Su Liuyue looked up and saw Ping Shaoyin, whom she had just met yesterday, standing in an open space not far away. He was wearing a dark-patterned round-necked, narrow-sleeved robe and was standing there leisurely.

After he finished speaking, he said with a faint smile in his eyes: "No, today I should call you... Su Xiaolangjun?"

On an execution rack not far from him, a man in prison clothes and covered in dust was tied to it. His exposed skin was covered with scars of varying sizes. His eyelids were slightly drooping, and his wrinkled face showed unspeakable despair and discouragement.

It formed a sharp contrast with the tall and handsome man standing next to her.

Su Liuyue glanced at him, walked over and said, "I was just thinking that the food in this prison is pretty good. I wonder if my cousin can eat such good food."

Ping Shaoyin raised his lips slightly, and his expression seemed to be somewhat interested. "Miss Su is now assisting me in investigating the case, so I dare not treat Miss Su's cousin harshly."

Su Liuyue was too lazy to talk nonsense with this guy and looked directly at the man on the execution rack. "Is this the former Minister of Justice Kang Mingyong, the Junior Magistrate of Jingzhao Prefecture fifteen years ago?"

The Minister of Justice, he must have been so glorious in the past, but now he has become an old man tied to the execution rack, at the mercy of others.

The Kang family he belongs to is a family that suddenly emerged in the last years of the previous dynasty. With the support of the Lu family to which the queen of the previous dynasty belonged, they developed rapidly in the last ten years of the previous dynasty and were on the verge of catching up with the five major families. Who would have thought that their head of the family would become so cowardly today.

For the first time, Su Liuyue truly felt what a change of dynasty meant to some people.

The man on the execution rack looked up at Su Liuyue, then drooped his eyelids unhappily, as if nothing could irritate him anymore.

Su Liuyue turned to look at Ping Shaoyin, "Did Ping Shaoyin ask him a question just now?"

Ping Shaoyin shook his head. "I have just been here for a short time. If Miss Su has anything you want to ask, just ask."

"Okay." Su Liuyue was not polite and went straight to the point, her sharp eyes shooting directly at the man on the execution rack, "Mr. Kang, you were responsible for the serial murder of women fifteen years ago. There were six victims back then, but the name of a seventh person appeared on the list of victims that year, and it was crossed out. What happened to that person?"

Kang Mingyong raised his eyes and glanced at Su Liuyue, with a hint of disdain showing in his turbid eyes.

Su Liuyue was slightly stunned and couldn't help but laugh out of anger.

This guy, even after falling to this point, still has the energy to look down on her.

Before she could say anything, a calm but cold voice came from beside her, "If you don't want to cooperate with the government in the investigation, I'll beat you, Feng Yang!"

His voice was somewhat different from his usual voice. It carried a heart-shaking sense of oppression and ferocity, and also had a hint of bloodiness.

Feng Yang immediately said: "Yes!"

As he spoke, he loosened the whip in his hand.

Kang Mingyong's face suddenly changed, and he quickly said, "I...I'll tell you everything! If I remember correctly, the woman's surname was Yao, but I don't remember her specific name!
When the case happened, a woman would go missing almost every month, and... and the missing women were all 28-year-old women with pretty faces but poor family backgrounds. Therefore, any similar disappearance of women during that period would attract our attention.

When this woman surnamed Yao disappeared, it was exactly one month after the previous victim died. According to past experience, the murderer would start committing crimes again at this time. Her features looked similar to the previous victims, and... and she also disappeared while walking alone in the outer city, so we thought that she was also one of the victims in these cases..."

Su Liuyue's eyebrows sank slightly, and she asked, "Why did you cross out her name later?" "Because... she was found two days later."

Kang Mingyong said: "I remember it very clearly. It was in the afternoon two days after she disappeared. Her family suddenly...suddenly came to Jingzhao Prefecture and said that she had returned home. The so-called disappearance was just a misunderstanding. She was just angry with her family two days ago and ran away to her grandparents' home outside the city to stay for a while. They told us not to look for her anymore..."

Going home?!

Su Liuyue was stunned and asked quickly: "How did she go back? What did she look like when she went back? Did she really go to her grandparents' home? Did you find someone to verify it?"

Kang Mingyong looked at the woman in front of him with surprise, a bit of embarrassment on his face, and he was speechless for a long time.

Anyone with a discerning eye would know what he meant by this. Su Liuyue looked incredulous and wanted to kick the man in front of her hard, "Her family said she's back and there's no need to look for her. Are you really going to ignore everything?!"

Previously, even before the body was found, the girl was arbitrarily included in the list of victims.

How perfunctory were they in handling the case back then!
Kang Mingyong seemed to be a little afraid as he secretly glanced behind her. He stiffened his neck and said, "Jingzhao Prefecture has to handle countless cases every day. How can we take up other people's precious time for something that is obviously a misunderstanding..."

Su Liuyue couldn't help but sneer, they were justified in doing things perfunctorily? !
"So? You were so busy, but did you find the murderer who killed those six poor women?!"

Kang Mingyong's face turned slightly pale and he was speechless.

Su Liuyue suppressed her anger and said, "What do you remember about Miss Yao? Where does she live? Who is in her family?"

This series of questions almost made Kang Mingyong collapse. "No... I don't remember. I really don't remember. Who can remember something that happened fifteen years ago so clearly? I only remember that her family lived in the outer city..."

The outer city is so big, and there are countless families with the surname Yao. It’s the same as saying nothing about this information.

"last question."

Finally, Su Liuyue could only say coldly: "Among the people who disappeared during that period, only Miss Yao fits the description of the victim in that case?"

Finally someone came up with an answer, Kang Mingyong quickly said, "Yes, yes! Otherwise, we wouldn't have thought that the murderer had taken her away when we heard that the woman was missing."

"it is good."

Su Liuyue calmed down her emotions and looked at the man beside her, "Does Ping Shaoyin have anything else to ask?"

Ping Shaoyin glanced at Kang Mingyong indifferently, frightening him so much that his hair numbed. He then retracted his gaze and said, "No, go out. Anyway, the Dali Temple is not far from Jingzhao Prefecture. If you have anything to ask, you can come over anytime."

After saying that, he looked at Kang Mingyong with a half-smile, "Don't worry, Mr. Kang. Since you have been investigating the case so diligently before, I will come to see you from time to time even if I am fine."

Kang Mingyong almost cried.

Even though he has begged the King of Hell for mercy and has already accepted his fate, can't you just let him go?

He really didn't want to see his face again!
After Su Liuyue and Shao Yin Ping came out of the dungeon one after another, Su Liuyue immediately looked at Shao Yin Ping and said, "Since Miss Yao's family went to Jingzhao Prefecture to report the case, there must be records left. Shao Yin Ping, please send someone to find the files related to this girl or the people who followed up on the case back then.

I suspect that she was indeed captured by the murderer, but for some unknown reason, she escaped back then.

After that, the murderer didn’t know why and didn’t commit any more crimes until today, fifteen years later, when a similar case happened again! ”

Thanks for the tip from refreshing lemon juice~Hold~