Chapter 19: Murder by the Sword
The Su brothers and sisters thought that the errand run of the prince's faction was just a small servant, and the two brothers and sisters didn't even have the intention of getting up, until the prince Shaobao Ke walked in. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Su Chi had a relationship with Ke Zheng in the palace, she was worried that Su Cen had just returned to the palace and didn't know her, and was about to introduce Su Cen to Su Ceng, and Su Cen had already invited Ke Zheng to take a seat. Although Su Cen is the only son of the Duke of Guo, he has not yet been appointed by the imperial court to be knighted. Ke Zheng said "don't dare, don't dare", but he couldn't resist Su Cen, and Su Chi was surprised that Su Cen and the crown prince Ke Zheng were still acquainted. Su Chi has always been slow to react, and ordered someone to serve tea to Ke Zheng, only to find that Ke Zheng was looking at her, Su Chi was slightly blessed: "Master Ke." ”
Ke Zheng hurriedly asked Su Chi to get up, "Girl, get up quickly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince often mentions girls." Although Prince Ning Lizhen didn't plan to just send a small servant casually, Ke Zheng actually asked for help. At that time, in addition to the subordinates, there were only two people in the study, the prince and Ke Zheng. Ning Lizhen said that he didn't dare to bother with trivial matters, but Ke Zheng smiled meaningfully: "If it's just a message, it's naturally not necessary, but Wei Chen, the future mistress of the East Palace, still has to meet in person." The prince just waved his hand, "Don't be in a hurry, when Ah Chi is old, it will be a matter of course." Ke Zheng has been an official in the East Palace for many years, and he knows the temperament of Prince Ning Lizhen, and he never minds harmless jokes.
Su Chi was stunned, and responded generously: "Thank you for Your Highness's concern." ”
His Royal Highness the Prince's favorite daughter of the Su family is not a secret among the subordinates of the East Palace, objectively speaking, with the reputation of the Su family woman in Jinling and the status of the Yasukuni Mansion in the court, this arrangement is beneficial and harmless, for the sake of insurance, Ke Zheng still plans to come and see the rumored daughter of the Su family in person. Now I see Su Chi's generosity and dignity, and I am very satisfied.
"The old man is also here to pass on a message to Gongzi Cen, and he already has some eyebrows about the case of the corpse of the City God's Lantern Festival. The deceased was Yangcheng Juzi Qiuwen, who had been dead for a while, and said that he was injured by a sharp weapon about a month ago, and died of serious injuries, and was sunk into the river after his death. Recently, the ice water on the river has melted, and people have put lanterns along the river at the lantern festival, and corpses have floated in the water. ”
Su Cen was not interested, but Su Chi remembered that this person was indeed the Qiu Wen mentioned by Xie Yu, so he asked casually: "Can the murderer be found?"
Ke Zheng didn't expect that she was a girl who was not afraid of the murder and asked about it, and she was also interested: "I'm afraid it's not easy, the deceased is not from Jinling, but he found a few suspects." Ke Zheng's tone obviously paused, but Su Chi and Su Cen didn't seem to realize it, Ke Zheng had no choice but to drink a cup of tea and continued: "This Qiuwen doesn't have many friends on weekdays, and he is low-key and doesn't have any holidays with people, but ?????? However, some people in the inn said that Xie Yu's son of Xie Mansion had a close relationship with him. The shopkeeper even said that one night before the exam, when he went to Qiuwen's room to deliver dinner, he heard that Xie Yu and Qiuwen seemed to have an argument, and there were many people in the inn at that time, so he didn't hear what was arguing. However, after half an hour, Xie Yu came out, and there was no seizure on his face, and Qiu Wen was still good in those days, and he didn't find anything unusual. It's just that there is no evidence, and there is no need to summon the people of the Xie family rashly, the Xie family ??????"
Su Cen looked at Su Chi, and he didn't plan to listen anymore: "So that's the case, but it's troublesome for the adults to go." ”
Ke Zheng was about to resign, and glanced at Su Chi again, only then did he remember that Xie Yu was the enlightenment teacher of Su Chi of the Yasukuni Mansion, and comforted him: "The girl doesn't have to worry about Prince Xie Yu, with the family background and character of Prince Xie Yu, it will definitely not be related to this matter." Moreover, there is no evidence for this matter, and the prince has already privately given compensation to the family of the deceased, and the case must be closed. ”
Although Su Chi didn't want to have anything to do with Xie Yu, he still said with a single life: "Your Highness will give a pension in private?"
"According to the regulations of our court, except for the soldiers and palace people who died, they will not easily approve the bereavement pension. His Royal Highness was benevolent, so he rewarded the bereavement from his personal use, and when the case was true, someone would return the body to the family. Ke Zheng had already stood up.
"Your Highness has always been like this. Su Cen and Su Chi were going to send Ke Zheng out of the house, but Sang Yu was already standing outside the door, please tell Ke Zheng about it, Ke Zheng naturally would not refuse. Su Cen and Su Chi also got up and sent Ke Zheng to Su Yuan's study.
Ke Zheng frowned slightly when he saw Su Chi approaching Su Yuan's study and the people under him were not the slightest surprised, which was captured by Su Yuan on the other side, and Su Yuan's words made Ke Zheng have no intention of caring about Su Chi's "faux pas".
didn't say hello, Su Yuan went straight in: "I'm afraid the case of the floating corpse of the city god can't be good." ”
"What does Guogong mean by this?" Ke Zheng was really a little confused, and he didn't know where Su Yuan started with this.
"Only then did the people find a burden in the forest by the river, and after the identification of Xiao Er and Tong Kao, it should be the relic of the deceased Qiuwen. But whether it is specific or not, we have to wait for Qiuwen's family to arrive in Jinling to discern it. At the same time as Su Yuan spoke, Su Chi stepped forward to add him tea.
"Found the baggage, but found new evidence in the baggage?" Ke Zheng is worthy of being the Shaobao of the East Palace, and he knows the crux of the problem as soon as he hears it.
"Most of the baggage is some poetry books, but there is also a cloth hidden in the poetry book, many words on the cloth have lost their color, after rough identification, the last few lines of words, the last few lines of words are related to the fairness of this spring. Su Yuan's voice was long.
"The old man doesn't understand what Guogong means, please explain it in detail. Ke Zheng vaguely felt that Su Yuan's attention to this matter was not simple, it was only two days since he found out about it, but he had died without a background, and even the Xie family did not send anyone to ask, but Su Yuan knew it so clearly. If it weren't for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I'm afraid that the officials would have covered up the people hastily, how could Su Yuan's identity care so much?
"The last few lines of the cloth are here. Su Yuan handed Ke Zheng a piece of paper, which was obviously copied down after finding someone to identify the cloth.
Ke Zheng read it in a low voice, and repeated it again after reading, dozens of words without beginning and ending were unspeakably familiar, Ke Zheng suddenly put the paper on the table, and stood up in surprise: "Isn't this the champion's examination room article? But in the end, the champion Lang made repeated mistakes during the examination, which made them puzzled, and some people even said that they must have received money from people, otherwise how could they choose such a champion? Poor few people were wronged in vain, and they couldn't imagine that this champion was cheating? This is not a trivial matter, Ke Zheng gave Su Yuan a look.
Su Yuan coughed: "Let's all go out." ”
For a moment, only Sang Yu went out alone, Su Chi didn't seem to hear it, and took his own books on the bookshelf by Su Yuan's window, Su Chi didn't seem to hear it, and drank tea absentmindedly. Ke Zheng was about to change his opinion of the two siblings, but Su Yuan spoke: "There are no outsiders now, Ke Shaobao can speak as bluntly as he can." ”
Ke Shaobao was a little contemptuous of Su Yuan for talking about business with children, but he still had to speak: "With the meaning of the Duke of the Kingdom, how should this matter be punished?"
"How about killing people with a knife?" Su Yuan took a sip of tea, becoming more and more satisfied with Su Chi's tea art, but the words he spit out made people chill.