After Cui Daoyu left, a maid asked Cui Ning to come out.

"What did my grandfather and father say, it was so mysterious. Cui Ning smiled and saluted him.

"Sit down. Cui Xuanbi looked at her, "What do you feel about going out on this trip?"

Cui Ning sat down and said, "I don't feel it, I just feel that the world is so big, and I shouldn't always stay within the walls of Chang'an City." ”

She didn't know what had changed in herself, but Cui Xuanbi saw it very clearly, she was more calm and calm than before, which showed that traveling far away was very beneficial to her.

"How's the Si case going?" asked Cui Xuanbi.

Cui Ning was surprised, "Isn't the family unhappy that I wade into troubled waters?"

"It's your father's idea, right?" Cui Xuanbi looked at her and said, "It's okay for me to raise an extra grandson, provided that you have real skills, if you are like most female officials today, you can rest your mind and wait at home to get married as soon as possible." ”

Cui Ning didn't plan to seriously mix with officialdom, but Cui Xuanbi's words made her think about it seriously, the higher the official position and the greater the power, the greater the chance that she would be able to find the magic sword.

After only a moment's consideration, she quickly made a judgment, "I may not be as smart as my little brother, but I will definitely work harder." ”

Cui Xuanbi nodded with satisfaction, the hard work of running around in the past few months has not made her flinch, which shows that this child is indeed determined and persevering, "Compared with intelligence, perseverance can be closer to success." ”

Ah Ning understood. Cui Ning said.

"Maybe you feel that your family is a lot of constraints on you now, but when you really start to walk this path, you will understand that there are many more advantages to this bond than to fight alone. Cui Xuanbi said, "Go on, one day you will become strong enough, then you will get used to the choice, you will control yourself, even if you encounter difficult choices in the future, you will understand how to do it right." ”

"Did grandfather do it?" Cui Ning felt that his grandfather was very powerful, but he could not make the right choice for everything, such as feelings.

Cui Xuanbi understood what she was talking about, and now she saw a lot more of it, and said with a faint smile, "I killed the female official who provoked trouble, and I thought about it for a long time, and it was only recently that I understood why I came to this point with your grandmother." for she is none other than my wife. ”

Cui Xuanbi has a hard temperament, if others have a conflict with him, he will have all kinds of ways to make the other party defeated, but he will not use those methods against Xie Chengyu.

Xie Chengyu is the same, with her ingenuity, she can firmly control so many people, but she has never used those tricks against him.

So even if they end up sad and separated, they are still protective of each other and this marriage.

Until many years later, when Cui Ning was decisive, she would still think of today's conversation, but at that time, she also understood a truth, no matter how powerful she is, there is something that cannot be chosen after all.

And now, she listens very carefully, but in fact she doesn't really understand.

While they were chatting calmly, something was in full swing.

Overnight, the entire south wall of the observatory was demolished, and the qiē hidden in the gloom was exposed to the sun, fleeing snakes and rats, and piles of rotting corpses.

That kind of scene, even the soldiers who have been on the battlefield to kill people feel frightened.

When Cui Ning arrived early in the morning, the broken corpses had been cleaned up, straw mats and white cloths were spread on the ground, and the bones were placed on them, some of them were still carrion, and some were completely white bones.

Wei Qian was squatting on the side and personally watching the autopsy.

Cui Ning watched from afar, the scene of the mountain of corpses and the sea of fire flashed in his mind piecemeal, and beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead.

She pursed her lips and walked over with her feet up.

"Cui Dianshu. "An errand officer handed her sheepskin gloves and a face mask.

Cui Ning put it on and shouted to Wei Qian, "Fifth brother." ”

"Hmm. Wei Qian responded, "Two female corpses have been spelled out over there, and there are three or four more here." ”

Qi Zuo raised his head, and when he saw Cui Ning coming over with a pen and paper, he knew her identity, and while piecing together the corpses, he said, "The two female corpses are between fifteen and twenty years old, one is five feet one inch tall, and the other is five feet four inches and three points tall. The short one, the whole posterior occipital bone is about to shatter, if someone knocks something with it, the strength is really unbearable, and her whole body is broken in many places, so I think it fell from a great height. Except for the sawn place, the tall one did not have any obvious scars before his death, and the condition of his flesh and bones did not look like he had been poisoned. ”

Cui Ning quickly recorded what he said, and then wrote two small notes and pressed them next to the two corpses with separate stones.

It was difficult to piece together a complete person from so many body pieces, but fortunately, the corpses were still stained with clothes that could help identify them, and even then, by the time the six bodies were put together, it was already dark.

This is also the result of the cooperation between Wei Qian and Qi Zuo.

"Five women and one man, all of them are very young, and most of them are apprentices of the Heavenly Prison. Wei Qian took off his gloves and asked Cui Ning, "It's dark, why don't you go back?"

"Hey, I've got the big tree, I talked to my grandfather for a while last night, and I think he'll agree with me staying. Cui Ning beckoned an errand officer to come over and ordered, "Please help me go to Cui Mansion and say, I'm going to be busy with the case tonight, and I'll go back later, ah, by the way, I must talk to Master Cui Shangshu!"

"Yes!" the officer ordered to leave.

Wei Qian looked a little surprised, but he didn't ask anything, just said, "I didn't eat lunch, okay?"

"Hmm, does Fifth Brother want to have dinner?" Cui Ning asked rhetorically.

"Good. Wei Qian readily agreed.

The evening breeze was gentle, and the two walked side by side on the maple road of the Hun Tianjian, and the red leaves swirled down with the wind.

If you don't count the half-demolished stargazing platform and corpses all over the ground, the years are really quiet.

Because there was something to do at night, Wei Qian didn't take Cui Ning far away, and went to a nearby noodle stall to eat casually.

Cui Ning sucked the noodles and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to eat in such a place." ”

Wei Qian's temperament is noble, and when he sits down to eat together a few times, he just lazily moves his chopsticks a few times, as if he doesn't eat fireworks in the world, who would have thought that he would also sit on the street and eat noodles now?

Wei Qian didn't speak, and took a large piece of mutton from the dish and stuffed it into her mouth.

Autumn evenings are a bit cold, and a big bowl of hot noodle soup goes down, and the whole person warms up.

Wei Qian settled the account, "Let's go, try the case." ”

"How can there be a prisoner?" Cui Ning hurriedly followed.

"I think there are already suspects. Wei Qian said.

Ninety percent of the six corpses may be the disciples of the Heavenly Prison, so most of the murderers are also in the Heavenly Prison. The decomposition of these corpses is different, some of them have already completely turned into white bones, and they have died at least three years ago.

"Six bodies, although of different causes, were cut into pieces after death, and it is possible that the same person had done so. So the person we are looking for is: a middle-aged man who has been in the Hun Tian Prison for more than three years, has a certain status, is slightly thin, understands medical science, and has strength. ”

Cui Ning didn't directly ask him how he judged these characteristics, but thought about it for himself first: more than three years is based on the inference of corpse bones, killing people may require skills, but dismembering corpses is a hard work, and you must have energy. And to do this, it is necessary to hide people's eyes and ears, and it is easier for officials with a certain status to do it.

"Why is it a thin man?" Cui Ning wondered. R1152