Leng Linjiang raised his eyelids, smiled when he saw the person coming, "I knew you couldn't wait any longer."
Yao Yao curled his lips: "It's obvious that you are lazy."
Leng Linjiang laughed playfully: "Who is it obviously?"
Yao Yao groaned and squatted down to carefully examine the body lying on the ground.
She recognized the girl at a glance. She was the maid who entered the main room last night and stole the four beautiful pictures. However, at this time, her pale and bloodless face looked a bit ferocious.
The girl's body was still warm, and she had obviously just died. Her eyes were staring, the rims of her eyes were slightly protruding, and they were covered with deep and shallow bloodshot eyes. Her purple lips were slightly open, and the tip of her tongue was sticking out. , a row of fine tooth marks are imprinted on it, and the color is slightly darker.
The waterfall-like black hair spread messily on the ground, stained with gray soil and dust.
"Her name is Shichun, she is the second-class maid in the Annan County princess's room. She was bought from the tooth shop five years ago. She is responsible for the snacks and tea for the main room." Leng Linjiang sat with peace of mind and said with a lazy look on his face. .
Without raising her head, Yao Yao opened Shichun's eyelids and found that there were dots of bleeding spots under her eyes.
She opened Shichun's mouth and nose again, took out a bamboo tweezers from her sleeve, searched for it for a moment, then stared at the clean tips of the tweezers, and asked in a deep voice: "What's going on in the front hall?" ?”
Leng Linjiang looked confused: "It's strange."
"It's weird?" Yao Yao raised his head, slightly confused: "I was injured by an arrow, why is it weird?"
Leng Linjiang shook his head helplessly: "When the prince was brought back, he was very bloody. Zheng Yicheng from the Imperial Medical Office personally came to see the injuries. Dr. Zheng was the best at seeing injuries, but after seeing the prince's injuries, he hesitated. She didn't dare to agree. Later, the princess of Annan County pressed her again and again, and she said that the prince's arrow wound was not serious and that he could just pull out the arrow. But the troublesome thing was that the bleeding after pulling out the arrow was not easy to stop, and the arrow was quenched. When you are poisoned, you have to identify what kind of poison it is so that you can use the antidote."
"He is a heir apparent with no title. Who would go to such great lengths to harm him by shooting arrows and poisoning him?" Yao Yao raised Shi Chun's chin and saw a purple patch two fingers wide on his neck. She reached for the thick hemp rope on the ground next to her and gestured at the strangulation marks. She raised her eyebrows slightly and pursed her lips into a weird smile.
Leng Linjiang said helplessly: "That's right." He paused slightly: "Just now, the second manager of the mansion came over and said that Jiuchao was here. I guess he came for this matter. Let's see how he handles it. "
Yao Yao was not surprised at all that Han Changmu would come. He even felt that he came a little too late. He should have arrived in a hurry as soon as Meng Sui sent the message.
She was surprised that it was delayed until now.
Yao Yao closed Shi Chun's mouth, put his hand on the frightened and unwilling eyes, raised his head and glanced at the upright bed, and snorted coldly: "This bed should be a little further away from your feet."
Leng Linjiang said "Yes": "More than one foot."
Yao Yao clapped her hands and walked around the room inch by inch. When she came to the long table under the window, she suddenly wrinkled the tip of her nose and took a hard sniff: "Do you smell anything? "
Leng Linjiang also sniffed and frowned: "It doesn't smell. What's the smell? I didn't take off my shoes." As he said that, in order to prove that he was the same, he raised his feet high and He wiggled his toes twice triumphantly.
The thumb-sized beads adorned on the toes of the shoes are round and gentle, which is particularly eye-catching.
Yao Yao snorted and glanced at the shining bead with disdain: "Old Leng, you are getting more and more coquettish. You like to dress up more than a big girl."
Leng Linjiang smiled nonchalantly: "A person depends on his clothes."
Yao Yao laughed dumbly, bent down close to the long table, raised his hand thoughtfully and fanned the air, frowned tightly, turned around and said, "Come and take a look."
"What's wrong?" Leng Linjiang hurried over and looked at the empty long case, full of suspicion.
Yao Yao pursed his lips and said nothing, took out a handkerchief and handed it to Leng Linjiang. Then he carefully scraped the long table with a slender and flat bamboo strip. The surface of the table that originally looked clean was scratched. A thin layer of dust has appeared and accumulated on the edge of the case. Although it is still a very small amount, it can still be seen through the gray dust.
When Leng Linjiang saw this, he quickly held the handkerchief with both hands and held it at the edge of the case.
Yao Yao scraped all the dust into the handkerchief, wrapped it up, and stuffed it into his sleeves.
Leng Linjiang saw a glimmer of clarity in his confusion and asked hesitantly: "What's wrong? There is a problem with this case."
"I suspect that this case has been lit with incense." Yao Yao whispered, she moved Shi Chun's head to one side, pointed to the unscarred back of her neck and said: "Look, this place is very clean, and the front The strangulation marks were close to the top of her neck and were consistent with the thickness of the thick hemp rope next to her. From this, it seems that she had indeed hanged herself, right?"
Leng Linjiang nodded, and then shook his head: "It seems so, but it doesn't happen. She hanged herself. The bed is so far away from her feet. Could it be that she stepped on the stool and jumped into the hanging rope?"
Yao Yao raised her eyebrows: "Yes, look at this again," she raised Shi Chun's hand. The green-white fingertips were slender and delicate, and the nails were rounded and clean. This shows how beautiful it is to be alive. She shook her hands and said, "Look, her nails are clean. When she was hanged, she didn't even scratch the hemp rope with her hands. You must know that even a person who wants to die will At the moment of death, she will become unconscious due to suffocation, and then instinctively pull the hemp rope with her hands, leaving some debris in her nails. Her clean hands can only prove that she was hung He was indeed still alive when he hit the beam, but he had fallen into a deep coma and was completely unable to make any instinctive reactions."
Leng Linjiang nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "The only way to make a person fall into a deep coma is to knock her out or use incense."
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Yao Yao nodded, raised Shi Chun's head, put his hand through her long hair, and pressed the head carefully inch by inch. He found no scars from the attack, and the other parts of the body were also intact, so he shook her head. Shaking his head: "Now we can completely rule out the possibility that she was knocked unconscious. Shichun's mouth and nose are also clean, and it is impossible for someone to cover her up and pass out in advance, but her death from suffocation cannot be faked. , then only Mixiang is left."
Yao Yao concealed the fact that Shi Chun had stolen four beautiful pictures from the main house, and she took the pictures from this room. She felt that Leng Linjiang could stay out of the matter. The less he knew, the harder it would be. He was feared by Emperor Yong'an.
As for the cause of Shi Chun's death, Yao Yao can guess a thing or two. Perhaps Shi Chun stole the four beautiful pictures and was discovered by the princess of Annan County, so they were disposed of, or the person who instigated Shi Chun to steal the pictures After discovering that she had failed, he was afraid that her mouth would be pried open by the people from Annan County Prince's Palace and the secret would be revealed, so she was silenced.
But no matter what the possibility was, Yao Yao could not tell Leng Linjiang directly that this matter would either be handled by the Annan County Prince's Palace itself or handed over to Han Changmu.
She looked at Shi Chun's body and asked attentively: "Shi Chun is the maid of the Prince of Annan County after all. If the Prince of Annan County treats her as a suicide and refuses to report the case to Jingzhao Mansion, Master Shaoyin, even if the cause of this person's death is There are too many anomalies, and we can’t interfere.”
Leng Linjiang was also puzzled. She was just a maid. How could she have such a deep hatred against her and deliberately kill her and then set up a suicide plan. If there was really something wrong with this maid, the Prince of Annan County would deal with it. It doesn’t have to alarm anyone at all. Without such a big fanfare, selling, or killing with sticks, it can be done silently.
Such a method of death that is full of loopholes is more like a demonstration and a warning.
Thinking of this, Leng Linjiang's eyes suddenly lit up and he said eagerly: "A Yao, do you think Shichun's death may be related to the prince's poisoning?"
Yao Yao said a confused "Ah": "I don't understand."
Leng Linjiang said: "The prince was poisoned by an arrow, and even Zheng Yichen was helpless. At this time, another unimportant maid died. It was still such a way of death. It was said to be suicide, but after a little in-depth investigation, it was found out that it was suicide. Those who were killed, do you think the person who attacked the prince was warning the Prince of Annan County not to do anything without permission, otherwise the prince would be like this maid and die in an ugly way."
"This..." Yao Yao was stunned for a moment, and her expression slowly solidified. At first, she was only thinking about silencing or dealing with it, but Leng Linjiang's words were like a thunder, making her suddenly realize Become cheerful.
Yes, if the people around Annan County Princess discovered Shichun's actions and dealt with her, but the stolen four beautiful pictures were not found in her room, Annan County Prince's Palace should have started a riot by now, no. There will be peace now.
But if you can kill people to silence them, kill chickens to scare monkeys, and force the princess of Annan County to hand over the four beautiful pictures, then this spring is the best use of human resources.
Yao Yao calmed down, stretched out his hand to pat and touch Shi Chun's body, and began to search carefully.
Leng Linjiang frowned and asked, "What are you looking for? What does she have on her?"
Yao Yao concentrated and said: "You will have to find it to find out."
Hearing this, Leng Linjiang's expression became serious and he also started searching.
After entering April, the weather in Chang'an City seemed to have heated up overnight, and there were still cool breezes in the morning. After the sun broke through the clouds, the sun was shining in the city, and a light smell filled the air. heat wave.
There are two grand scenes in the Prince's Mansion of Annan County. One is planted with willow trees, and the other is surrounded by clear water. In such a gradually hot weather, the breeze blows over the water, bringing with it bursts of wet coolness, and the stretches of willow branches stretch endlessly. Lots of greenery and shade.
After Han Changmu received the message from Meng Suige, he rode his horse all the way. He was covered in cold and sweat soaked his temples. He faced the blazing midday sun along the way, but his face did not show any sunburn. The red marks have become whiter and whiter.
An Qi leaned slightly and led Han Changmu and his party to the front hall, with a hint of fear and defensiveness in his respectful attitude.
Since Han Changmu entered the Annan County Prince's Mansion, he didn't ask any questions. He pursed his lips tightly and his expression became colder and more serious.
An Qi waited beside him with a low eyebrow. He glanced at Han Changmu, who had a look on his face that told no strangers to enter, and then at the internal guards who were following him with the same coldness. He felt more and more uneasy. He really couldn't imagine who these people were. What are you here for?
Such an open fire fight is so menacing that it doesn't look like a good thing.
Before he even reached the front hall, there were already bursts of crying and howling that echoed through the sky. He Zhenfu was so frightened that he staggered and almost sat down on the ground.
He quickly stood up and looked around. No one noticed his gaffe. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It was okay, not too embarrassing.
The cry was heart-wrenching, and it was mixed with screams: "What can I do! How can I live like this! My son, my son!" The man was burping and crying bitterly. The sound suddenly stopped, as if she was choked. After a while, she let out a breath and continued to cry hoarsely: "My son, who is it? Who has harmed you? Who has harmed you? Mother concubine, mother concubine must be I won’t let him go, my mother-in-law will let him suffer all kinds of torture! Let him die badly and without a burial place!”
Han Changmu turned to look at An Qi and twitched the corner of his mouth. Is this the princess of Annan County who is always famous for her beauty in the capital?
Han Changmu was born into a family of royal relatives and had served in the army for many years. He was used to hearing dirty words from soldiers, but he had never seen what a shrew looked like. After hearing the cries of Princess Annan County, he thought that although she was not half as good as It's a dirty word, but it's as fierce as a shrew.
An Qi also smiled awkwardly with an ugly face. The Annan County Prince's Palace was now in a state of embarrassment. All dignity and dignity were lost to the Princess.
The group of people walked to the front hall with their own thoughts, and the cries of Princess Annan became more and more deafening.
An Qi subconsciously wanted to cover his ears, but after restraining himself for a long time, he said sadly: "Sir, our prince is seriously injured, and the princess is in grief. I'm afraid, I'm afraid I won't be able to entertain you."
Han Changmu also looked solemn: "I have something to ask the princess."
An Qi nodded helplessly, stood outside the door, and whispered back through the dark yellow bamboo curtain: "Mother, Mr. Han, the envoy of the Internal Security Department, has arrived."
As soon as she finished speaking, Ruyu opened the curtain and came out. The light fell into the room in an instant. She saluted with a heavy look on her face: "My maid has seen Mr. Si Shi. The prince is seriously injured. The queen has to take care of the prince and has no time to see the prince." Sir, Sir, please come back."
Han Changmu's expression changed. He had never received such a hard rejection since he entered the capital. However, he seemed to have expected this rejection. He took out the letter he had prepared earlier from his sleeve and handed it to Ruyu: "Give this to the county." princess."
Ruyu was stunned for a moment, took the letter, turned around and entered the house suspiciously.
In just a moment, Ruyu hurriedly walked out and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, your Majesty has invited me."
