Xiao Changyang frowned and felt something was wrong. He ordered: "Go and have a look."
The two guards stood up and walked out. After a while, one of them stumbled back.
He stretched out his hand to hold on to the door frame, gasping for air, his voice changing the tone due to emotion.
"Master, doctor, she, she is dead!"
Xiao Changyang wanted to sit up excitedly, but he accidentally pulled an injury on his body. The pain caused him to lose strength and lay back on the bed in an instant.
"What's going on!" He was carefully helped up by the guard and asked with a bad expression.
"I, when we went over, we knocked on the door for a long time, but no one opened it, and then the two of us went in directly. As soon as we entered, we saw her lying on the bed, neatly dressed, and even her shoes were on. I The two felt something was wrong, so they took a closer look and saw that the body was completely cold."
"How could this happen..." Xiao Changyang's eyes lost focus and he murmured feebly. After pausing for a while, he asked exhaustedly, "How did she die?"
"I don't know... She is clean and her face is very calm and peaceful."
If she hadn't still been wearing her shoes, the guards would have thought she died in her sleep.
Xiao Changyang didn't speak for a long time. He stared at the beams with his eyes open. The guards didn't know what he was thinking. They only heard his voice become hoarse when he spoke again.
"Go..." He paused, unable to continue, "Go and invite Young Master Jun over and ask her to do an autopsy."
She has always admired Jun Shao. If this were the case, it would be equivalent to Jun Shao sending her off for the last time.
The doctor, like the guard, was brought over from his family and traveled with him to many countries. The feeling of being with him day and night is indescribable.
The orange sky outside the window paper slowly lost its color, and the coldness made him shiver.
Xiao Changyang's eyes were blood red, and he clenched his teeth as he looked at the guards around him who looked worried.
Their relationship has long been no longer an ordinary master-servant relationship, so he will definitely find out the murderer who killed her!
In the Shangshu Mansion——
Different people look at the same sunset and naturally have different thoughts in their minds.
Juan Juan stared at the duck egg yolk as it fell, then touched his belly and muttered, "Juan Juan is hungry~"
Mrs. Lin came out at just this moment and took her back into the house.
"The coolness has gone down. Mom will take you into the house."
After Juanjuan was placed on the bed, he immediately lay down. His little arms and legs fluttered for a while before he sat up.
"Mom~ He hasn't come all day today~"
Mrs. Lin curled her lips and smiled, her tone gentle, "Yes, the emperor won this bet."
Nanluo Kingdom is the richest country among the four major countries. Its most famous specialty is South Sea pearls. A good-quality pearl can be sold for thousands of gold.
Now that the land deeds of their shops are all in the hands of the emperor, this means that the Rongxin Chamber of Commerce has to pay rent to the emperor every year. Based on the income and expenditure of the shop, each shop has to pay varying amounts of rent.
I don’t know how many lives this money can save in the future.
Lin was in a good mood and even walked briskly. Although Juanjuan didn't understand why her mother was so happy, she was also happy.
When her mother is happy, she is happy! whee.
After dinner, Yu Xiheng came back, and the servants who came to Jiangyunxuan to report could not leave as fast as he did.
He was dressed in travel dust and had a chill in his body. As soon as they met, he hugged Mrs. Lin into his arms.
"Why are you back at this time?" Lin asked him worriedly.
Yu Xiheng walked over and closed the door, and said seriously: "Ah Yue, you and Juan Juan are not allowed to go out for these two days."
His tone was serious. Ms. Lin was startled, and then asked, "What's wrong? Is something going to happen?"
The room was very quiet, but Yu Xiheng knew that King Yi was arranging Jin Yiwei's troops at this moment.
"I presented the last ledger to the emperor at noon this afternoon."
The capital may be filled with blood in the past two days.
Mrs. Lin looked sad, but she was most worried about her husband.
"Then, is there anyone involved in the household department?"
Yu Xiheng nodded calmly.
This kind of case involves too many things. The Wen family not only colluded with many parties to embezzle tax money that should have been paid into the national treasury, but also squandered the disaster relief food allocated by the court.
In order to fill this gap, local officials constantly plundered the people's wealth and oppressed the poor people.
This is equivalent to the fact that people have to pay taxes four times a year. One part of the tax is smuggled into the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the other part is smuggled and divided up by corrupt officials according to their size.
And all the disaster relief money went into their own pockets.
Corruption, corruption, and collusion.
If His Majesty hadn't asked someone to investigate the Wen family's expenses because he was suspicious of the imperial concubine, we wouldn't have found out that they spent money like water every day, and their daily turnover was more than an ordinary family's annual expenses.
The current head of the Wen family, Wen Ruoqi, has more than twenty outhouses in the capital, and there are singing and dancing in the house every day. You can imagine the level of extravagance.
How could the emperor not be angry when he was eating, drinking and having fun while stepping on the lives of the people?
Mrs. Lin was also frightened after hearing this. She held Yu Xiheng's hand with a worried expression, holding it tightly, with a layer of sweat on her palms, and a faint look of sadness on her eyebrows, "Husband, you must be careful."
The Wen family had never dealt with them, and now it was obvious that they would lose. Lin was really afraid that they would jump over the wall in a hurry.
She and Juan Juan had nothing to do with each other. As long as they didn't go out in the house, it would be fine until the incident calmed down.
Thinking of Juan Juan, Yu Xiheng's eyes softened a bit. He glanced at the small bulging ball on the bed and asked softly, "Is the little one sleeping?"
"Yes." Mrs. Lin was diverted from the topic. When Juan Juan was mentioned, her eyes became a little more tender. "No one played with her today. She was so bored that she went to bed just after eating. .”
Juan Juan's little ears moved in her sleep, as if she heard someone calling her. After a while, she felt her mother's body lying next to her.
Juanjuan, who was still dreaming, subconsciously nuzzled into her mother's fragrant and soft arms, and then went back to sleep contentedly.
What Yu Xiheng saw after returning from bathing was the peaceful sleeping faces of his wife and daughter. His eyes were cherished, and the corners of his slightly raised lips hid an obvious tenderness.
He went to the study and sat quietly for a while until the moisture on his hair dried before going back.
It was already midnight. Yu Xiheng was walking in the courtyard and could faintly hear the sound of neat horse hooves coming from the street outside the house, which seemed to be mixed with the sound of people crying and fighting.
He walked towards Jiangyunxuan with calm eyes, his moon-white clothes sprinkled with a layer of cold moonlight.
All he wanted in his mind was to make the night longer, because he would leave again at dawn.
