In broad daylight, a living person could run in through the back door of the yamen?

Ji Yunshu: “…”

The servant quickly said again, “I’m truly sorry, Master Ji. I’ll chase him out right now.”

With that, the servant forcefully pulled the man out from under the desk!

While saying, “This is the yamen! Which household’s madman are you? How did you run in here? If you offend someone, they’ll skin you alive! Really, hurry up and leave, hurry up.”

“There’s a ghost, there’s a ghost, a ghost has come to claim a life, a ghost has come to claim a life…”

The man gripped the door frame tightly, absolutely refusing to go out.

“Hurry up and leave. If you don’t leave, I’ll find people to carry you out. Hurry up.”

The two struggled against each other again.

But the man’s strength was great, and the door frame creaked and groaned from being pulled.

Still couldn’t determine who would win or lose!

Wen Lingyang walked over from behind the desk, unable to decide whether to step forward or just stand there.

In the end, he became completely motionless.

Just watching with eager eyes!

During the struggle between the servant and the man, Ji Yunshu suddenly noticed a mark on the man’s clothing.

Her sensitive nerves kicking in, she immediately stepped forward and grabbed the man’s sleeve to examine it.

Her heart tightened, her brow furrowed.

A nameless premonition rose within her!

The servant was probably confused by Ji Yunshu’s behavior and also released the man, standing stiffly at the door.

Ji Yunshu’s eyes deepened, and she asked curiously and seriously, “You, who exactly are you?”

The man was completely crouched on the ground, arms hugging his knees, mouth repeating that previous phrase.

“A ghost has come to claim a life.”

The servant quickly said, “Master Ji, let me still take him out, so as not to delay you and Secretary Wen from your proper business.”

“No need.” She stood up. “Please trouble yourself to go ask Young Master Mo to come here.”

“Now?”

“Now.”

The servant scratched his head, unable to understand, but still hurried off to call someone.

Wen Lingyang couldn’t understand what was happening and stepped forward to inquire, “Master Ji, what’s wrong?”

“You’ll know when Young Master Mo arrives.”

“Oh.”

He closed his mouth and stopped asking, quietly observing the changes.

In no time, the servant brought people over.

Besides Muruo, there was also Jingrong and the Shi siblings.

This formation—were they coming for a group brawl?

Jingrong saw that she had run from her own courtyard to here, restraining his anger inside.

This woman was truly busy every single moment!

If this continued and she exhausted her body, what would happen to my little Jingrong?

But then, his gaze was attracted to the man crouched by the door frame!

Muruo swayed over, squinted at the man twice, and furrowed his brows tightly.

He asked Ji Yunshu, “Master Ji called me over so urgently—do you want me to treat this person’s illness? Or do you want me to guess who he is?”

Can you not be so snarky?

Ji Yunshu didn’t respond to his words, but instead lifted the man’s sleeve. Before she could raise it high enough for Muruo to see clearly the mark on it—

Jingrong’s sarcastic words came out. “When did you develop such a strange fetish?”

What?

“Always going around pulling at men’s clothes. Last time you brought one from the Chang household, and this time, even better—you’re stripping it right off someone’s body.”

Your foot!

Ten thousand alpacas stampeded through Ji Yunshu’s mind.

Hey, hey, hey, did your and Muruo’s mouths receive professional training from childhood?

The words that come out can always choke a person to death.

After rolling her eyes, Ji Yunshu ignored him and lifted the man’s sleeve again, gesturing for Muruo to look at the ink stain on it.

Muruo looked and immediately understood!

He quickly lifted his robe, crouched down, and rubbed his hand over that neither-too-large-nor-too-small but very obvious mark, then pondered deeply for a moment.

He nodded at Ji Yunshu!

With this nod, Ji Yunshu felt goosebumps all over her body.

And this man kept repeating “a ghost has come to claim a life.”

Muruo asked strangely, “Who exactly is he?”

“Don’t know. He ran in on his own.”

“Ran in on his own?” Muruo carefully examined this man, listening to what he was saying, and pondered softly, “Ghost claiming a life? Could it be that…”

The words weren’t spoken.

Ji Yunshu and Jingrong actually already understood.

But the others completely failed to understand what this actually meant.

Ji Yunshu once again instructed that previous servant, “Please trouble yourself to go notify Lord Fang to come here.”

“Huh?”

The servant was stunned!

Jingrong raised his voice, “Why aren’t you going yet?”

“Oh, yes yes yes…”

He went to notify him, tumbling and crawling.

Very quickly—

Fang Mingsan came.

Ji Yunshu also explained the entire sequence of events and reasons once.

Everyone understood!

“So Master Ji’s meaning is, this madman is the murderer?” Fang Mingsan said.

“Not certain, but this person keeps repeating something about a ghost claiming a life, and his clothing has the exact same ink stain as Old Master Chang’s clothing. This case may be related to him.”

Actually, she herself didn’t have much confidence at the moment either.

However—

“Then he must be the murderer! A madman killing people is inherently perverted—the three cases make perfect sense!” Chief Zhang said in his rough voice.

Perfect sense, your foot!

Old Zhang, can you not be so impulsive, not be so hasty?

Ji Yunshu negated his words. “A madman can kill people, but to use such a meticulous method of murder is not something a madman can accomplish.”

Chief Zhang thought about it, pointed at the person on the ground, and said, “Then could he be pretending to be foolish?”

“You’re the fool! If he were pretending to be foolish, he wouldn’t throw himself into the trap by drilling into the yamen.”

Come to think of it, that made sense!

Chief Zhang smiled awkwardly and still said nothing, lest people think him uncultured.

Due to professional habit, Wen Lingyang had already grabbed his notebook and brush at the first moment and started recording.

He also raised a question. “If Master Ji feels the murderer may not be him, then what relationship would this case have with him?”

Ji Yunshu: “Perhaps he didn’t kill the person, but the talk of ghosts isn’t baseless, and the ink stain on his clothing isn’t fictitious either. If he’s related to the case, I think that on the night Old Master Chang died, he perhaps saw something, or to be bold and say it—he saw the murderer and even had contact with the murderer, which is why he has this ink stain on his body.”

Everyone pondered and nodded.

Fang Mingsan bent down and asked the man, “This official asks you, did you go to the Chang residence? Did you see the murderer?”

“A ghost has come to claim a life.”

“If you know who the murderer is, don’t be afraid—just speak up.”

“A ghost has come to claim a life.”

“Who exactly are you? And why did you appear at the Chang residence that night?”

“A ghost has come to claim a life.”

Darn!

Not a single clue could be extracted.

At this moment, a constable from the front suddenly came running over.

Out of breath, he said, “My lord, that… that Li Mingzhou has come.”

Huh?

“What’s he come for? Hasn’t he already been cleared of the charges?”

“He says he’s come to find his younger brother.”

“Younger brother? Where in my small yamen residence would his younger brother be? Go look elsewhere.” Fang Mingsan waved his sleeve.

But the constable’s face twisted, his finger trembling as he pointed at the man on the ground, saying, “Li Mingzhou says this person is the younger brother he’s looking for.”

WHAT?

It seemed this case was not only suspicious but also extremely complex!

And it was destined to be inseparable from Li Mingzhou!