Yao Yao chuckled jokingly: "This person did it on purpose."
Han Changmu raised his eyebrows and smiled noncommittally.
Yao Yao glanced at his mouth and showed a disdainful smile.
Not long after, He Zhenfu hurried into the room and shouted loudly: "Sir, I found it, I found it!!"
Han Changmu's face changed slightly and he took two steps back hastily.
"Mr. He Qi, did you fall into the manure pit?" Yao Yao retreated to the wall in panic, covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and asked with a look of embarrassment on his face.
Only then did He Zhenfu realize. He was so happy that he forgot to change his clothes first. After smelling his sleeves, he scratched his bun and laughed awkwardly: "Ji Zhi, I am so happy that I got carried away."
Han Changmu smiled nonchalantly: "It's okay. Thank you for your hard work. What did you find just now?"
He Zhenfu quickly took out a ball of cloth and opened it layer by layer.
In the middle of the plain white handkerchief, there is a dark yellow jade-carved four-petal plum blossom. The carving is excellent. The half-palm plum blossom is lifelike, and the subtle lines on the petals and the stamens are all carved to perfection.
There are no holes in this jade carving. It is obviously not hung on something, but used for inlay.
Han Changmu was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Yao Yao.
Yao Yao was shocked. He looked at Han Changmu and murmured at the corner of his lips: "This, this..."
Her stunned expression revealed the turmoil in her heart. This jade carving was obviously related to the mysterious Xie Liang, or in other words, to Prince Huaizhang.
Could it be that everything that happened in the Gongyuan was actually controlled by Xie Liangzhan?
She could no longer calm down and looked at Han Changmu in disbelief.
Han Changmu nodded and sighed softly: "You guessed it right. I didn't expect that his power was so great. He could even infiltrate the Gongyuan Academy and try to control the provincial examination." He raised his eyes and looked at He Zhenfu: "But Did you find anything else?"
He Zhenfu shook his head: "All four pits were cleared, and only this jade carving was found."
Han Changmu frowned when he heard this: "Didn't you find the other shoe of the deceased?"
He Zhenfu said: "No."
Han Changmu's heart sank, and he stretched out his hand to rub the center of his brow in distress.
If it is not necessary, no one would go to great lengths to take away the deceased's shoes after killing someone.
Unless there is some fatal mark or secret on that shoe.
That's why the murderer took the risk and took the shoes away instead of leaving them at the scene at the risk of being searched and exposed.
Since the murderer took away the shoe, he must have found a way to take it out of Gongyuan.
At dusk, the scholars are about to leave the Gongyuan. If the murderer is a scholar, he will definitely take this opportunity to take his shoes out.
The officials in Mingyuan Tower can only leave the Gongyuan after the results are released, so the shoe will either be hidden in the room or on themselves.
Han Changmu carefully recalled the condition of the officials in the official hall. They were all wearing very thin clothes and could not hide a shoe close to their body.
His eyes flashed and he said to He Zhenfu: "Instruct the internal guards to search all the rooms carefully again. If there are any single shoes, bring them over."
He Zhenfu was also puzzled. He didn't understand what secrets could be hidden in a shoe. When he heard Han Changmu's words, his eyes suddenly lit up and he went to make arrangements in high spirits.
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As soon as Bian He Zhenfu left, Meng Suigu came back thoughtfully.
Looking at Meng Suige's face, Han Changmu became suspicious and asked in a deep voice, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Meng Suige had a strange look on his face and said thoughtfully: "Sir, I just said that I went to the official hall and walked around. No one else had any abnormal reactions. Only Mr. Wang Jingzong of the Hanlin Academy, his expression changed. It changed, but it quickly returned to normal.”
"Wang Jingzong?" Han Changmu asked in astonishment, "Did you read that correctly?"
"No." Meng Suige nodded firmly: "Except for Mr. Ge who is sitting at the top, the other three examiners are all in the first row at the bottom. I saw it as soon as I entered. There is no way I can make a mistake."
For some reason, Han Changmu felt a little anxious and paced slowly in the room with his hands behind his back.
Meng Suige had nothing to say, so he lowered his head and began to untie his belt.
"Don't move." Yao Yao's eyes flashed and he suddenly shouted.
Meng Suige's hands trembled with fright and he looked up blankly.
Yao Yao took the topaz jade carving and compared it with the dent on the jade buckle in the middle of the belt. He tilted his head and thought for a moment.
Meng Sui was so scared when Yao Yao looked at him, he lowered his head and asked, "Yao Canjun, what are you going to do?"
Yao Yao ignored Meng Suigai and just held the jade carving and gestured to buckle it into the depression. However, as he gestured back and forth, beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, he could not securely install the jade sculpture in the depression.
Han Changmu came over, leaned forward and said: "The depression is so shallow, and the jade carving is relatively heavy. There is no place to fix it in place. I think the jade carving and the belt are not together."
Yao Yao disagreed.
She had seen the methods of those like Xie Liang, and the strange key she kept close to her body with unknown origin and purpose was made up of three seemingly unrelated jade carvings.
Just looking at each jade carving, there is nothing that can be fixed and inlaid.
But putting three jade carvings together, through clever mortise and tenon joints, they can form an impenetrable connection that is difficult to open without skill.
At least the key was in a pouch and kept close to her body. It bumped around with her but did not fall apart at all.
She was inexplicably confident. If this topaz jade carving was indeed made by Xie Liangzhan and others, then with their skills, she believed that this jade carving could be placed in a recessed place.
She was stubborn and stubbornly struggled with these two things.
Meng Suige's body was a little stiff, and he was so overwhelmed by Yao Yao's manipulation that he didn't dare to move.
Han Changmu watched from the side and suddenly said: "Turn it over and try it."
Yao Yao was stunned for a moment, and turned over the yellow jade pendant as if he was enlightened.
Her hands carefully rubbed the recesses of the jade button. There were some very slight uneven places in the recesses.
It's just that this kind of unevenness is very common in jade carvings. People will only think that this jade buckle is not polished well enough, but they never thought that it is actually an ingenious mortise and tenon structure.
Yao Yao's eyes lit up, he raised his eyebrows, and pressed the side of the yellow jade with the four-petaled plum blossom into the depression.
The uneven four-petal plum blossom touched the uneven depression, making a very slight friction sound.
Han Changmu and Meng Suige both held their breaths and stared at Yao Yao's hand motionlessly.
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There was only a soft click sound, and the jade carving was locked in the recessed place tightly.
She raised her eyebrows at Han Changmu triumphantly: "Sir, try it?"
Han Changmu was surprised. He grabbed the topaz jade carving and pulled it out hard, but the jade carving didn't move at all.
He showed a faint smile of understanding, held the topaz jade sculpture and slowly turned it in the opposite direction. It only turned half a circle, and sure enough, there was another soft click.
He raised his eyebrows, easily took off the topaz jade carving, turned to stare at Yao Yao, and asked casually: "Have you seen such a thing before?"
Yao Yao's heart suddenly sounded alarm, he smiled as usual and quickly replied: "No, it's the first time I've seen him."
Han Changmu narrowed his eyes and smiled: "You don't have to think about it anymore?"
Yao Yao blinked twice guiltily, his eyebrows were as crescent-shaped, and he smiled sincerely: "This is the first time I've seen you."
Han Changmu let out a long oh, the last note was raised very high, and he obviously didn't believe Yao Yao's rhetoric, and doubt was clearly written on his face: "Really, then Yao Junjun is really talented. Well, the first time we met, we were able to break the mechanism."
Yao Yao pretended to be surprised and said with an innocent face: "Can this be called an agency?"
The sarcasm in these words was like a slap in the face of Han Changmu, mocking him for his lack of knowledge.
Han Changmu updated: "..."
Meng Suige couldn't hold it back and burst into laughter.
Han Changmu glanced at the two of them, without saying another word, he pushed the topaz jade carving back and patted Meng Suigai on the shoulder: "Okay, you go to the official hall again."
Meng Suige sighed and turned around helplessly.
The light flickered gracefully and fell on the piece of topaz. Among the yellow-orange colors, a dazzling white light suddenly flashed through.
Han Changmu suddenly said: "Wait a minute."
Meng Sui stumbled and stopped abruptly, almost tripping over his left foot.
Han Changmu walked closer and stared at the topaz carving carefully.
This jade carving is indeed an ordinary piece of topaz, with good texture, bright luster, and pure bright yellow color throughout.
As for the bottom side, there are some light white cotton wool floating slightly in the yellow, which makes the jade more flexible. The bottom is carved into an extremely regular arc shape and polished smooth and shiny, like water flowing on it.
How could such a jade, such a clear yellow, suddenly appear such a dazzling white light?
Han Changmu bent over and kept changing directions to look at the topaz carving, but he never saw the white light just now.
This is completely impossible.
Han Changmu was puzzled.
Yao Yao walked up quickly and asked in surprise: "Sir, what happened?"
Han Changmu pointed at the topaz jade carving and asked in confusion: "When the light shone on it just now, I saw a flash of white light above, which was very bright and dazzling."
Yao Yao frowned: "White light, how can there be white light on topaz?" She teased: "My lord, you must be dazzled by lack of sleep."
Han Changmu snorted and said to Meng Sui: "Go and take a walk around the official hall."
Meng Suige pursed his lips and smiled and walked out.
Han Changmu still didn't see the dazzling white light, so he stopped thinking and thought no more, thinking that he was indeed dazzled.
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