The wind was blowing, the rainstorm that had been brewing for a whole day came fiercely and fiercely, the raindrops of beans were pouring down, Sun Zhao, who was wearing a cloak and cloak, had already been drenched, he stood in front of a ruined scripture hall, quietly waiting for his subordinates to come to report, half of the fire in the scripture hall was extinguished by the slaves, half was extinguished by the heavy rain, at this moment only a black empty shelf stood between the halls, fortunately this place is in a partial location, otherwise it is not impossible for this fire to burn down the Weiyang Palace.

"My lord, I found it, this cowhide still smells of pine oil."

"My lord, there is still a window lattice left on the northeast side, and there are indeed traces of nails on it. ”

The two guards of the Imperial Forest Army came one after another, and Sun Zhao nodded and looked at the entourage beside him, "Write it down." ”

Sun Zhao's entourage was a scholar who looked to be only more than ten years old, looking young, but his demeanor was very solemn, and he nodded heavily when he heard the words, "My lord, I have written it down, my lord, I am afraid that the frost clear hall is about to have results."

Sun Zhao looked at the scorched earth wall in front of him and squinted his eyes, after the fire, it was impossible to leave too much evidence that could naturally be burned down, and the two points found now are just corroborating what the Fulan prince said, the thirteenth prince Feng Ye was indeed murdered, and someone wanted to burn him, but there was still no clue who the murderer was.

"Has the slave who was guarding this place been found?"

Sun Zhao's voice was gentle, but when he inquired about the case, only the word "Zheng" remained, although at the moment he was assigned not the guards of the Imperial Mansion, but the Imperial Forest Army, but these guards did not dare to slack off when they heard his voice.

"Lord Huiqi, I haven't found it yet, all the guards today are placed around the altar and viewing platform of Weiyang Palace, and it is inevitable that there will be some negligence in other places, and there are too many people entering the palace today. ”

Sun Zhao frowned, "The servants of the Inner Mansion are all registered, and even then they can't be found?"

This was to express his dissatisfaction, and the little lieutenant who was left behind by Lin Ci to listen to the dispatch here did not dare to speak, but only bowed his hand again, "Lord Hui, the news from the inner mansion says that the slave who stayed here today was assigned by Qin Tianjian They really don't know, but the villain has already determined who the slave left here is, and has ordered the entire palace to be investigated under martial law." ”

The palace of the king of Shu is so big, it is very simple for a person who is familiar with the palace to hide for a while, not to mention that it is raining so heavily tonight, and it is indeed a little difficult to track down, Sun Zhao nodded, now is not the time to harshly criticize his subordinates, he still has more things to do, "I'll go to the Shuangqing Palace to have a look, continue to search here, and new physical evidence will be presented immediately." ”

The rain is so heavy, the night is so dark, no one wants to work so such a stormy night, but tonight the king was furious, and handed everything over to this court captain, even the royal forest soldiers who are above the top on weekdays do not dare to be presumptuous, the little lieutenant is another hand, his expression is very respectful, "The villain obeys, please rest assured." ”

Sun Zhao nodded, turned around and walked in the direction of the Shuangqing Palace, and when he walked out of the palace, he could see the brightly lit Weiyang Palace, Sun Zhao glanced over there, "Is there still an interrogation inside?"

The attendant nodded hurriedly, "Yes, they are still interrogated, and it is going well, but some people are starting to be reluctant to say a lot." ”

Sun Zhao pursed his lips and didn't say anything more, it was normal to be reluctant to say it, but he had to say it after all.

If it weren't for the fact that things were really tricky to a certain point, how could Feng Qin hand over the affairs of the palace to the court lieutenant to deal with? The exposure of the royal affairs to the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty was, after all, a matter that made the royal family and the king look disgraced, and everyone else also knew that from the moment Feng Qin handed over these cases to his Sun Zhao, the court lieutenant mansion was endowed with supreme rights.

The rain poured down, and everyone returned to the main hall of Weiyang Palace, fortunately, the main hall is very wide, there are a number of side halls on both sides, the main hall is divided into men and women, and a number of seats are set up in the side halls on both sides, all of them have to be questioned separately by the people arranged by Sun Zhao, and the words of these people must be written down word for word, there are many powerful people who participate in the ceremony, and even the entourage around them must be interrogated, so that they must be tossed all night, the first to ask will go first, and if anyone does not cooperate, they can only be stayed, and if there is any confession between each other does not match, they must also be left for interrogation。

Only those who have checked all the details and are not abnormal can be released from the palace, if someone wants to resist and want to leave, the Imperial Forest Army has already surrounded the Weiyang Palace, not to mention people, even a fly can't fly out, this method must have provoked many people to be angry, many of them have never been interrogated like this in their lives, and most of them feel that they are suspected of being humiliated and unbearable, but these emotions are nothing in Sun Zhao's eyes, he doesn't care if they can sleep or not, if they don't cooperate, then they can spend one night, two nights and three nights here, there are those who are looking for death and pretending to be sick, and there are imperial doctors who look at you and let you suffer but you won't die, he is Sun Zhao, and the law of the prison king of Shu is not said in a few words.

The rain is still getting heavier, it is obviously spring, but it is like a summer thunderstorm, but there is no thunder tonight, only endless depression and silence, half an hour later, before Sun Zhao arrived at the Shuangqing Palace, all the servants in the Shuangqing Palace changed into plain clothes and knelt in the middle hall, Yu Meiren's body was dirty and was placed on the long table in the hall, and an old man in gray clothes was looking at it.

Sun Zhao entered the main hall and took off the cloak on his body, his clothes were almost completely wet, but he didn't seem to see it, he only walked to Yu Meiren's corpse, circled around the long table, and waited to stand before he said, "Say it." ”

The old man in gray is the inner government responsible for the funeral rites into the history of the order, not only familiar with the royal family burial etiquette, but also a good hand at testing the dead body, the Tingwei Mansion originally also had a proficient history of this order, but first, the deceased was a palace concubine, and secondly, the old eunuch in the inner house has been doing such a job for many years, Sun Zhao has never passed on the new order history into the palace, and his "say it" is to say this order history.

The gray cloth order took a step forward in history, "Lord Qiyu, beauty is drowning." ”

Sun Zhao has seen countless corpses, and he doesn't know how many of them are more cruel and bloody than this, so he looked at Yu Meiren, who was still with his eyes wide open, and his tone was light, "Go on." ”

Gray-clothed Ling Shi continued, " There is sludge in the throat of the beauty, which is inhaled when she struggles violently, the chest and abdomen are swollen, it is water, although the chest is not broken to see, but the slave thinks that there must be sludge and water in the chest and lungs, in addition, there is white foam in the mouth and nose of the beauty, which is inhaled cold water and then struggled to discharge it, and more than two hours after the death of the beauty, the corpse spots on the body are not obvious, which shows that she struggled violently when she died, and because she was in cold water when she died, the corpse stiffness was serious, in addition, the beauty of the dress, the shoes and shoes can have a lot of sludge in the nails, and it is still a sludge that is not easy to be washed away by violent friction, which can also prove that the beauty struggled violently before deathIn addition, there was no fatal wound on the beauty and no signs of poisoning, so it can be concluded that the beauty was indeed drowned, and the beauty was forcibly drowned."

Gray-clothed Ling Shi Xu had seen many corpses in the palace, so when he said this, he was not in a hurry, and when he said the last sentence, Sun Zhao turned his head to look at him, "Why did you see that you were drowned?"

"There are bruises on the shoulders and back of the beauty's neck, which are caused by forced pressure by human hands, and the most important thing is that the slave found something in the beauty's nails." ”

Sun Zhao raised his eyes, and saw something coming out of his sleeve in gray clothes.

It was a folded white scarf, he put the handkerchief in the palm of his hand, and then carefully opened it, opening layer by layer, until finally, Sun Zhao saw a trace of cloth on the white scarf.

The small nail cover of the cloth was grabbed by Yu Meiren's nails, and Sun Zhao recognized where the cloth came from at the first glance, if nothing else, it was really too common for this cloth to be seen, and the lowest-level little eunuchs in the palace were wearing such clothes, Sun Zhao picked up the cloth and looked at it, frowning slightly.

"As far as I know, the ship has sunk once before. ”

Later, Yu Meiren was delirious and was helped back by others. ”

Sun Zhao meant that this cloth was not necessarily on the murderer, it might not be on the other little eunuchs, but as soon as he finished speaking, a maid kneeling on the side of the middle hall opened his mouth, "My lord, no." ”

Sun Zhao turned his eyes and glanced at the slave, his brows furrowed slightly, the slave seemed to know that he had overstepped, and was busy bowing to the tunnel, "My lord, please atone for your sins, just because the slave is the close maid of the beauty, and the beauty was indeed wet and stained with some dirt when she was helped back at that time, but the slave had already taken care of her very cleanly when she was serving the beauty." ”

Saying that, the servant raised his eyes and glanced at the cloth strand in Sun Zhao's hand, "Such a large piece of cloth, the slave will never miss it." ”

The servants naturally had to do their best to serve their masters, and at that time, a trace of excess dust on Yu Meiren, who was delirious, was washed away, not to mention such a large piece of cloth, Sun Zhao nodded, turned around and put the cloth in the white towel of the gray-clothed Lingshi, "I heard that Yu Meiren drank medicine and fell asleep before, I don't know what the imperial doctor said?"

The gray cloth Ling Shi took a step back, and the attendant immediately said, "The imperial doctor is waiting outside, our people have seen the medicine residue, and there is no problem, the imperial doctor said that his medicine only makes people fall asleep and not faint, so it will still be affected to wake up, such as loud noises or being pushed and shaken, adults, small speculation is that the murderer woke up when the beauty was caught out, and the murderer probably wanted to throw Yu Meiren into the lotus pond to cause her to drown, but he didn't want to wake her up."

Sun Zhao didn't answer immediately when he heard this, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and then he nodded and looked at Yu Meiren's corpse, "What does the king mean, when the inspection is completed, we will prepare the funeral of the beauty, right?"

The attendant nodded, "That's right, that's right, that's it." ”

Yu Meiren in front of her was swollen, her face was even more pale, and her eyes were still wide open, as if to show how unwilling she was to die, Sun Zhao nodded, "Okay, let's prepare for her funeral." ”

Yu Meiren didn't need too many autopsies in this matter, what the gray-clothed Ling Shi said was enough, and naturally he wanted to let the dead rest in peace, but I don't know if Yu Meiren can rest in peace, Sun Zhao came back to his senses, turned his eyes and fell on the kneeling slaves.

"What are we going to do with these people?"

The attendant blinked, leaned over and whispered in Sun Zhao's ear, "According to the law, they are all going to die." ”

The royal palace is not within the scope of the law, this entourage said, it is just the rules of the inner palace, the master has an accident, most of the people will not live long, no matter what is wrong, the slaves are not optimistic that the master did not die for the masters, Sun Zhao was silent, "Take them into custody first, maybe they will be used later." ”

For the sake of the case, there is nothing wrong with this, and the entourage immediately responded.

Sun Zhao's main purpose of coming over has been achieved, he subconsciously walked a few steps to the door, it was still pouring rain outside, and the water was still dripping and dripping on his official uniform, the biggest suspect in arson in the Jingtang was a little eunuch, and the murderer here seemed to be a little eunuch, these two little eunuchs were not necessarily really little eunuchs, but at least that's all they know for now.

Just as he was distracted, a guard suddenly walked in in the heavy rain, it seemed that he was looking for Sun Zhao, and when he saw Sun Zhao, he hurriedly stepped forward, "Lord Qiqi Tingwei, the thirteenth prince has woken up, and the king has ordered the villain to inform you." ”

Feng Ye woke up? Sun Zhao raised his eyebrows, turned around and took the cloak hanging aside, and the entourage hurriedly came up to help.

"My lord, where are we going?"

Sun Zhao put on his cloak and said, "Go to Jiachen Palace." ”

Jiachen Hall is the palace of the thirteenth prince Feng Ye, this is knowing that Feng Ye is awake and wants to go over to inquire.

Sun Zhao acted decisively and neatly, put on the cloak and left, the entourage and the guards who came to pass the ceremony followed, and the three of them disappeared in the rain curtain very quickly, the frost Qing Hall to the Jiachen Hall is not far away, the three of them traveled all the way, and the hour of a stick of incense arrived in front of the Jiachen Palace, and before the Jiachen Palace, he saw that there were many entourages waiting in front of the palace, and at a glance, he knew that there were many people in the Jiachen Hall at this moment, Sun Zhao's footsteps were slight, and the entourage seemed to know his worries.

"My lord, I'm afraid it's inconvenient to inquire at this time. ”

Feng Ye was already favored by Feng Qin, but he suffered so much today, and now he is awake, and the people in this palace have to show their concern, this is when there are many people, Sun Zhao squinted, but walked straight forward.

The entourage thought that with Sun Zhao's temperament, he would avoid the limelight a little, but he didn't want him to go over, although Sun Zhao walked in front, he seemed to know what he thought, and said, "It's best to inquire now." ”

The entourage blinked and was a little puzzled, but Sun Zhao had already walked to the door, the courtyard door of the Jiachen Hall was closed, Sun Zhao was about to step forward to open the door, but the door opened from the inside, and he was dressed in red, Sun Zhao narrowed his eyes, stood in front of the door and did not give way or speak, he looked at Sun Zhao day and night, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said in a calm voice, "Lord Tingwei." ”

It seems that these four words brought Sun Zhao back to his senses, he moved his eyebrows and turned sideways, Chaoxi is a princess, he is a minister, it is natural to make way, Chaoxi is standing alone in front of the door, still holding a moon-white paper umbrella in her hand, where is she going?

Seeing him give way, he nodded and walked out, without saying much, and walked into the rain curtain with an umbrella.

The rain was too heavy, and she was alone, Sun Zhao couldn't help but say, "The thirteenth prince just woke up, doesn't the princess listen to what he says?"

Chaoxi didn't seem to expect him to talk to her, she turned around with an umbrella at her feet, the rain was too heavy, the hem of Chaoxi's red dress was wet, she stood alone in the rain curtain, with black hair and red dress, and the moon white holding an umbrella, especially thinly covered, giving people a sense of weakness for no reason, just want to ask someone to pull her back under the eaves, or hold a bigger umbrella for her.

Chaoxi curled his lips when he heard this, "The thirteenth prince is still a little uncomfortable, my father wants to hear the mantra, I'll go get the piano." After a slight pause, he said again, "I have heard the name of Lord Tingwei for a long time, my lord can rest assured, I have long wanted to see the wind of adult detectives." ”

It turned out to be to fetch the qin, Sun Zhao naturally knew that Feng Qin gave the invitation platform to Chaoxi, and even knew that Chaoxi had a famous Tianhuang qin, so he went to fetch the qin to stroke the qin for Feng Qin and Feng Ye? Sun Zhao looked at Chaoxi and did not answer again, and this side of the box did not say much, turned around and stepped into the rain curtain, Sun Zhao looked at her back and became blurred a little bit, then turned around and walked in, and when he turned around, he saw a strange-looking entourage, and the entourage followed him for a long time, and the expression was to say, how can you also be confused by beauty? !

Sun Zhao didn't want to explain, pursed his lips and walked into the door, but he was about to cross the threshold, and there was a sound of footsteps in the door, this time it was not a person, but a group of people, as soon as Sun Zhao looked up, he saw Yang Lianxin with two maids and maids who were about to come out in a hurry, and when they walked to the door, Yang Lianxin also saw Sun Zhao who had just arrived, and a glimmer flashed in her eyes, "It turned out to be Lord Tingwei!"

Sun Zhao took a step back, raised his hand and bowed to Yang Lianxin, "Madam." ”

Yang Lianxin glanced at the courtyard and knew what he was here for, so she smiled helplessly, "Originally, I came to see the thirteenth princess, but the next person came to report that the eleventh princess was a little bad, so I'll go back and take a look." ”

Feng Nianzhi was injured, although it was not a serious injury, but she probably had some emotions.

Sun Zhao nodded, took the initiative to get out of the way, Yang Lianxin nodded and walked away, and disappeared into the rain curtain in a few moments, Yang Lianxin went in a different direction than the direction of the morning and evening, Sun Zhao looked at this side, and then looked at that side, but he didn't expect that as soon as he came, two people left, one would come back, so what about the other? He didn't want to let go of anyone's expression.

Sun Zhao glanced at the direction Yang Lianxin left again, and then raised his feet and entered the door.

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