Chapter 55 - 44 Yin Ghost Jade
In ancient times, officials like Di Gong would set up mock trials in the underworld to crack adultery cases, and Bao Longtu would disguise himself as King Yan to scare the real perpetrators into confessing.
But these methods at most could be considered tricks, not truly able to consult the underworld to determine the real culprits.
Similarly, Xu Qing did not possess the ability to question the underworld, but he could read the Sutra of Salvation to view the deceased’s memories, returning to the crime scene to watch a replay of the government official’s death.
The government official who died under mysterious circumstances before him was named Wei Fang. Since his grandfather’s time, his family had been in this line of work. By his generation, it could be considered a well-established tradition.
With this background, Wei Fang naturally had intimate knowledge of all government office affairs, knowing what money could be pocketed and what couldn’t with just a slight contemplation.
For instance, regarding the unclaimed bodies in the government office, Wei Fang would find two familiar partners to sell them to corpse collectors in the funeral business without ever asking what they did with the bodies.
As long as there was money to be made, it didn’t matter to him if the corpses were used as stuffing for buns.
One day, through Li Si from the broker’s office, Wei Fang received a lucrative job — delivering a corpse to a newly opened funeral shop on Underground Street.
The young shopkeeper at this funeral shop was an interesting person, generous and principled. Once Wei Fang discovered this channel, he never sold bodies to anyone else.
That day, after Wei Fang and two quick-response government officials delivered the body, they were about to return to the government office when they heard an exclamation nearby. It turned out a gambler had stayed at an inn opposite the gambling house, and for unknown reasons, had died in his room early in the morning.