After Wuka suddenly appeared and found no other useful clues, Yunqi sent Lu Anran back to Jiqingfang and spent the whole night speechless.
Early the next morning, when Chun Miao was sitting in the yard picking beans, she thought to herself: The young lady has a lot of secrets recently, and she doesn’t take her with her wherever she goes.
I also wonder if there are too many dogs here. Why are there five or six squatting at the gate every day when I open the door?
In my wild thoughts, I saw a dark shadow flashing quickly from the direction of the kitchen, and there was still the aftertaste of meat buns in the air.
Chunmiao was puzzled, where did the young lady find the carriage driver? He seemed to have abnormal thinking when talking and acting, and he also liked to eat secretly.
"Mo Yan! If you steal food from the kitchen again, I will tell the lady!"
On the roof, Mo Yan's foot slipped and he almost fell down.
Lu Anran opened the door, "What's wrong?"
Chun Miao held the basket and curled her lips and said, "Miss, the coachman stole the breakfast I made for you again. He also stole two pieces of the pumpkin cake last night."
When Lu Anran heard this, his face immediately turned serious, "Next time, put some medicine on the plate."
Mo Yan took a bite of the meat bun and didn't know whether to swallow it or not.
Chunmiao blinked: "What will you do if you eat it, miss?"
"It's okay, I have an antidote." Lu Anran washed his hands in a basin filled with water. "Some poisons can also enhance the fragrance and flavor. You can try it."
Mo Yan's eyes widened: What a poisonous woman!
After breakfast, Mo Yan, as the coachman, sent Lu Anran to Jixia Palace with a face full of complaints. When Lu Anran entered the room to do some work, he squatted next to the big words "Yi Bian Zong" and rubbed the pearls vigorously. A man stumbled over.
"Junior sister, junior sister..."
Lu Anran did not let Lu Tong in this time. He stood outside the door and said, "Senior Brother Lu Tong, what happened?"
Lu Tong patted his chest and said calmly: "Junior sister, I heard that you are renting in Ji'anfang now?"
Lu Anran shook his head in confusion: "I live in Jiqingfang."
There is one word difference between the two, but they span a river of seven stars.
"Ah, I remembered it wrong." Lu Tong patted his head and said hurriedly: "That's good, that's good."
"What happened to Ji'anfang?"
"Junior sister, you don't know. There was a murder there last night!"
Lu Anran pressed her brows lightly, a premonition flashed through her heart, and she asked, "Senior brother, do you know what's going on?"
Lu Tongtong: "I also sent a boy to the city to replenish some pens, inks, paper and inkstones. He came back and told me that someone died in Ji'anfang. As soon as I heard that you seemed to live there, I rushed to tell you, in case you didn't know to go back. Then I was frightened."
Perhaps after the contact, Lu Tong felt that Lu Anran was not as withdrawn and eccentric as the rumors said, and he felt guilty for not being able to help last time, so he hurried over after hearing the news.
Seeing Lu Tong's sincerity, Lu Anran felt more favorable towards this senior fellow from a different sect, "Thank you, senior, for informing me specifically."
"It's okay, just go ahead and get busy. If you have anything to do with me, Master, please come to me."
After Lu Tong left, Lu Anran stood there and thought for a while, and then thought that if the murderer really committed another crime, Yunqi would probably come to her later.
"Tsk, I've never seen a man look so distracted." A soft hum came from above.
Lu Anran looked up, and Mo Yan twisted his face arrogantly.
After watching for a while, Lu Anran took something out of his arms and threw it over.
Mo Yan caught a glimpse of a small black shadow from the corner of his eye and stretched out his hand to fish it out. In his hand was a porcelain bottle with a white background and blue flowers. He could smell the smell of medicine.
His eyes suddenly opened wide: "You vicious woman, you really want to poison me to death!"
Lu Anran was silent. Guanyue and Su Ji were both very capable around Yunqi. Why did a guy with a wrong style suddenly appear? He even suspected that Yunqi sent him to torture him on purpose.
"Hey, what's your look like?" Mo Yan squatted down, dragged his chin with his hands, and leaned out.
"Scar removal cream." Lu Anran dropped these words and turned around to leave.
Mo Yan grabbed the bottle and threw it up to catch it, and said triumphantly as if he had seen through everything: "You want to bribe me, haha." I'm not such a cheap person.
Before entering the door, Lu Anran turned his head and said, "Five hundred taels per bottle."
Mo Yan immediately grasped the porcelain bottle with both hands and asked, "What the hell is that only five hundred taels?" Nothing made of gold can be sold for this price. Also, why would this woman give me such an expensive thing?
She really wants me!
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When we went down the mountain in the evening, Yunqi's carriage was indeed waiting at the foot of Yanshan Mountain.
Lu Anran looked at this mediocre carriage and was curious as to why this gentleman was so surrendered today.
"Stop that look in your eyes." Yun Qi lay back against the wall of the carriage, leaning on the window with his right elbow, and mocked: "The Special Prime Minister's Office originally scheduled the case to be heard in three days, and directly convicted Xu Shaokai, but today the murderer was found guilty Send a 'big gift'."
Lu Anran hummed and said calmly: "But the one who is embarrassed is the Criminal Division."
No one cares whether the Chief Minister or the Criminal Division has the final say in this matter, because what everyone sees is that the Criminal Division arrests people in a big way, and it is known throughout the city that the murderer has been caught. However, the 'murderer' is still in prison, and there are people outside. Someone was killed.
Yun Qi glanced at her dissatisfied, "It just so happens that everyone knows that this prince only knows how to be romantic and doesn't know how to investigate cases."
Lu Anran could completely imagine that after this incident, Yun Qi would become the laughing stock of many princes and nobles.
It was hard to tell before, but Yunqi had never concealed it in front of Lu Anran, so she knew what kind of person he was, so she asked, "Did you do it on purpose?"
Yun Qi smiled, "Little girl, it's rare to be confused, but you're not really confused."
The carriage stopped outside Ji'anfang, and the two walked side by side through two townhouses and stopped at the entrance of an alley connecting the east and west houses.
The alley is long and thin, with peeling walls on both sides, and the bottom is covered with old accumulated moss, giving it a damp smell of spring.
But the smell that was stronger than that was the blood that wouldn't go away.
Standing at the entrance of the alley on both sides was a burly prison official with a sword on his waist, preventing the people from passing by.
Although for a period of time, I am afraid people would rather take a long way around than dare to go here.
Just out of curiosity, there were still a few people standing outside looking at each other and gathering in a group to make irresponsible remarks. When they saw Yun Qi and Lu Anran coming over, they all secretly discussed their identities.
The Yamen clasped his fists at Yun Qi and said, "Sir."
Yun Qi waved his hand and dismissed him: "I'll take some people to have a look around, but you can stay on your own."
The official's face was concealed, but there was a bit of contempt in his eyes, and he thought in his heart: Ha, he is indeed a playboy. He never forgets to take a little girl with him wherever he goes. He really thinks that investigating the case is like playing house with a child.
Yun Qi and Lu Anran, one was used to being casual and deliberately caused the world to misunderstand him, and the other never cared about other people's eyes and opinions, so regardless of Ya Chai's thoughts, the two walked directly into the alley.
The place where the murder occurred was in the middle of the alley. When you turn around, you can see the Yamen's figure, but the sound cannot travel that far.
The corpse had been moved away, and an outline was drawn on the ground with lime powder to represent it. What surprised Lu Anran was——
"Why two?"
Yun Qi stood next to her, "I forgot to tell you that there are two dead this time."
Lu Anran glanced at him and walked slowly.
Three small circles on the edge of the kneeling outline represent wine glasses, and one small circle is the position of the soul-drawing flag. These are exactly the same as the previous case. The biggest difference lies in the other outline.
The limbs are spread out in a large character, and the head is completely connected.
Lu Anran frowned: "Weren't you beheaded for sacrifice?"
"Yes." Yun Qi followed over and said, "The person who died was an old woman. After the murderer killed someone, he even took a veil from her body to cover her face."
Covering the face of the deceased means respecting the deceased and allowing him to rest in peace.
Lu Anran stood there for a moment, then raised his head and looked at the surrounding environment. "The blood stains on the wall were in the shape of a spray. The range was small and evenly distributed. It was dot-shaped. Starting from the position of the spray, it formed a columnar blood stain downwards. The height was..." Comparison Looking at his height, he said, "About four feet five six."
The walls were mottled, giving off a rotten and old smell, and the dried blood painted a ferocious portrait.
Yun Qi asked: "What does this mean?"
Lu Anran walked in another direction and said calmly: "Judging from the height and blood stains, the deceased's fatal injury was a cut throat."
Yunqi's peach blossom eyes opened slightly: "You have seen all this."
Lu Anran turned back, his dark eyes were clear and clear, as if he could see through people, "The prince deliberately didn't say anything, didn't he mean to test me?"
"You can think of it as a class test."
Lu Anran squatted down, twisted a handful of mossy soil on the ground with his fingers, and said, "The prince is a good talker, and he can also be a teacher."
"A gentleman's journey is as white as jade." Regarding such irony, Yun Qi never refuses anyone who comes. "The rest are for you to slowly discover."
Lu Anran rubbed the mud off his hands with two fingers, then changed places, until some distance away, he touched the wall and fell into deep thought.
Yunqi glanced at it, and saw that the dry moss in winter had come back to life, giving birth to a green color, and said: "This wall is so old, I don't know how many times the moss has grown."
Lu Anran suddenly turned his head and said to Yun Qi with bright eyes: "The lameness is not an act!"
Within a ray of sky, in the narrow and dark alley, the whole place was filled with brilliance because of the eyes burning like brilliance.
"Look what's on the ground?"
Yun Qi lowered his head: "Blue Brick?"
"Look at the wall again."
"Huh? Break the wall."
Lu Anran opened his mouth, feeling as if he didn't know what to say.
Yun Qi chuckled lightly and flicked Lu Anran's forehead with his index finger. "Okay, just kidding you. I saw it. It's covered with moss. It probably rained too much a while ago. The weather is getting warmer and the alleys are full of moss all year round." It’s dark and damp, which is normal.”
Lu Anran took a step forward and was about to say something when she slipped on the ground and almost fell down. Fortunately, Yunqi grabbed her by the back collar.
"Be careful, don't break your brain again, and your only advantage will be gone."
Lu Anran had no time to refute Yun Qi's teasing this time. He pressed a button on the wall and said, "The murderer has always been very careful, but he may not understand the weather in the south, so he inadvertently left evidence."
