In the palatial palace, antique porcelain vases and jade carvings fell all over the ground, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting trembled and knelt on the shards, letting the blood flow from their knees but did not dare to move.

The queen smashed the bronze mirror of her makeup, her beautiful face was hideously twisted, her fingers pinched the edge of the table, and her round nails were dyed with bright scarlet.

Gao Yu quietly came in from outside the house, retreated from the people who were waiting around, and approached the queen to hand over the silk. "Niangniang, don't hurt the phoenix body, you can't mess up in the face of a crisis."

"What you did bastard!" The queen raised her hand and slapped it on Gao Yu's face, glaring at Gao Yu angrily and screaming.

Gao Yu bent down humbly, even though his face was burning in pain, he didn't dare to touch it, "It's all the slave's fault, I didn't expect that Ruyue's slut actually had a sister." ”

"They are all sluts, and they are against this palace everywhere." The queen said hatefully. "First Concubine Shugui, and then Concubine Mei, they all want to bring down the palace."

"Don't worry, Ruyu's slut is mute, born mentally retarded and illiterate, even if she knows something, she can't say it."

"Keeping it is a disaster after all, and you must think of getting rid of it." The queen turned and sat back down, her expression cold and grim.

"The assassination of Ruyu has already startled the snake, and it will be difficult to do it again." Gao Yu's eyes were shining, and his expression was cruel and vicious. "Prime Minister's Mansion Ji Xia Mo was ordered to try this case, if he can't investigate the case again, the case will be handed over to the Criminal Department at that time. There was a protector outside the palace to take care of it, and at that time, it was only necessary to find some substitutes for the dead ghosts, and the case was closed. ”

The queen's expression was unpredictable, and she groaned for a while, and the queen got up and shouted, "Prepare pen and ink, and this palace will write a letter to protect the country and understand the affairs in the palace." ”

"Yes, sissy."

Ji Xiamo wanted to hurry up and investigate, but Jin Wuji was really worried about his body after poisoning, and forcibly forced Ji Xiamo to recuperate for two days, and then agreed to Ji Xiamo to go out again with a cold face.

Ji Xiamo took Qin Yan to the place where Ruyu was held, that day Xiaotao's death frightened her, when Ji Xiamo came in, Ruyu was shrinking at the foot of the bed to wipe her tears, and her pitiful appearance made Ji Xiamo sigh.

Ji Xiamo walked to Ruyu's side, his eyes stared at Ruyu tightly, and his voice was cold and calm, "Do you want to avenge Xiaotao and your sister?" ”

Ruyu stared at her red eyes, like a frightened rabbit, and wanted to cry with her mouth flattened. Ji Xiamo patiently continued to communicate with Ruyu, "Tell me everything you know, I caught the murderer and avenged Xiaotao and Ruyue." ”

Ruyu hugged her knees and curled up her body, and the hesitation in her eyes was fleeting. Ji Xia Mo keenly grasped the subtle changes in Ruyu, and immediately confirmed that Ruyu must know something, "Did Ruyue meet you before she died?" What have you said, and what is the reason why she asked you to meet at the New Year's banquet. ”

Ruyu pursed the corners of her mouth and didn't say anything, Qin Yan was irritable and wanted to torture directly, Fang Lin Jun grabbed Qin Yan's arm holding the sword, and shook his head slightly to stop it.

Ji Xiamo and Ruyu were in a stalemate, Ji Xiamo's feet were sore, Ruyu slowly raised her head and showed Ji Xiamo her movements. Ji Xia Mo twisted his eyebrows slightly, turned around and instructed Qin Yan, "Prepare pen and ink." ”

Qin Yan looked at Ruyu in surprise: "Isn't she mentally retarded?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense." Jin Wuji's broken stain pressed on Qin Yan's back, Qin Yan bared his teeth in pain, glared at Jin Wuji angrily but didn't dare to fight back.

Qin Yan quickly prepared all the pen and ink, Jin Wuji moved a chair for Ji Xiamo to sit on, and Ji Xiamo researched the pen and ink and pushed it to Ruyu. "Write everything you know."

Ruyu hesitated for a moment in her grip on the pen, and then began to bury her head in motion. Although Ruyu is illiterate, she learned some painting when she was a child. She recalled every detail of the meeting with Ruyue and carefully drew it on the paper.

When Ruyue was painting, Ji Xia Mo looked at Qin Yan and asked, "How is the arsenic investigation?" ”

"Anyone who touched the ingredients was interrogated, and finally the remaining arsenic poison was found in the eunuch's house where he was cooking, but before he could be tortured, he committed suicide." Speaking of this, Qin Yan showed annoyance on his face, and he was angry and careless at the time.

"Even interrogation is useless." The expected knot did not surprise Ji Xiamo too much.

Qin Yan was puzzled, and Ji Xia Mo sneered coldly, "I have no grievances with the cook, why should he harm me, even if he really wants to kill me, the smarter ones know that the corpse is destroyed, why does he hide the remaining arsenic in the house." ”

"You're saying he's been framed." Qin Yan frowned.

"It's not necessarily a frame-up." A cold look flashed in Fang Lin Jun's eyes. "I guess I was coerced, and then I was exposed and made a substitute for the dead. And the poisoning is not necessarily for Xiao Mo to eat, what they really want to kill is Ruyu. ”

"Ruyu must know something, she is so anxious to kill her mouth, the murderer doesn't want Xia Mo to find out about the corpse of the female corpse in the lotus pond in the Imperial Garden." Chu Ling's ghostly path.

Ji Xia Mo listened carefully to Chu Lingyu and Fang Lin Jun's analysis, and laughed at Qin Yan with a sideways look, "Learn a little, these simple things can't be reasoned." ”

"I'm the head of the palace guard." Qin Yan stiffened his neck and retorted.

Ruyu's painting has been completed, sorted out the order and handed it to Ji Xiamo, Ji Xiamo looked at it seriously, and the more he looked back, the more serious his expression became.

Qin Yan poked his neck a little eagerly, "Xia Mo, do you know the murderer?" ”

Ji Xia Mo closed the painting and handed it to Qin Yan, sighed slightly, and said, "You guys take a look first." ”

Qin Yan took the painting and flipped through a few pages casually, his brows suddenly furrowed. These paintings are all simple figures or doors and windows, and there is no handwriting at all, and Qin Yan can't understand them at all.

Chu Lingyun and Fang Lin Jun looked through it carefully, but it was also fruitless. "Xiao Mo, what does this painting want to express."

"Ruyue met Ruyu twice before she was killed." Ji Xiamo opened the page, it was a hidden door and window, inside the window were two people talking secretly, and outside the window was a girl in plain clothes.

"Ruyue overheard the secret conversation between the queen and Gao Yu." Ji Xiamo turned the page, it was a painting of two girls meeting, in which the plain girl was crying, her expression panicked and frightened.

"Ruyue told Ruyu that she heard a secret and was afraid that she would be killed." At the feet of the plain girl is a blood-stained dagger.

"Not long after the second meeting, Ruyue secretly found Ruyu and brought her a cat." The plain girl squatted in front of the window and stuffed the cat in her arms to the girl in the window.

"Actually, Ruyue is a secret conversation sent by Concubine Shu to the Queen's Palace, and Ruyu wants Ruyue to go to Concubine Shu to save her life." The girl was holding the cat, and the direction of her finger was a three-legged bird. "This represents the biological mother of the third prince, Concubine Shugui."

"Ruyue discussed with Ruyu and prepared to sneak away on the night of your New Year's banquet, go to see Concubine Shu to tell her secret, and ask Concubine Shu to save her life. It's a pity that Ruyue was killed that night, and Ruyu waited until dawn and didn't see Ruyue. The girl holding the cat squatted in the corner of the deserted palace wall, looking at a rabbit that had been pierced through the throat with a dagger.

The room was eerily quiet, and I don't know how long it took, Qin Yan and Fang Lin Jun Chu Lingyu both gave a silent thumbs up. "I can understand this, admire."

Ji Xia Mo rolled his eyes and didn't want to mess with them, so he turned his head to look at Ruyu and asked, "Did Ruyue's secret tell you?" ”

Ruyu shook her head vigorously, and quickly took a pen and drew a cat for Ji Xiamo to see. Ji Xia Mo pondered for a moment and said, "Those cats were all handed over to you by Ruyue. ”

Ruyu nodded, Ji Xiamo leaned on the back of the chair to soften his body, and said in a low voice, "So I understand." ”

"Reorganize the details we've found." Ji Xia Mo picked up the pen and began to write on the paper. "Ruyue New Year's Banquet was killed, abandoned cats, residual spices, and secrets discovered by Ruyue."

"Can it all fit together?"

"Just add a little more, and all the doubts will be smoothed out." Ji Xiamo's eyes darkened. "Concubine Mei was frightened and had a miscarriage."

Thinking carefully about what Ji Xia Mo said, and then connecting them, suddenly the faces of the people in the room changed.

"I'll make my inference first." Ji Xia Mo drank saliva to moisten his throat, and then began to reason and analyze. "Concubine Mei is indignant that the queen is pregnant, secretly raises a cat, and then uses a plan to scare off Concubine Mei's child. Ruyue accidentally heard the truth of the matter and knew that she would not escape the fate of being killed, so she stole the queen's cat and handed it over to Ruyu to raise. ”

"Ruyue overheard the queen's secret, and it was Concubine Shugui's secret conversation, and the queen knew about it and became murderous."

"Ruyue wanted to find Concubine Shu to save her life at the New Year's Banquet, but the queen sent someone to cut her throat and abandon the lotus pond in the imperial garden."

"Femme fatale." Fang Lin Jun looked disgusted.

"Even if these are the truth, if there is no evidence, it will be just one-sided, and what should I do if the queen bites you and frames you when the time comes." Qin Yan said.

"Is that rag and the murder weapon all the results?" Ji Xia Mo asked thoughtfully.

"The result of the rag should be tomorrow, the murder weapon has been salvaged, I will order someone to send it to you later."

"Add internal guards to protect Ruyu's safety, and in addition, you spread the news in the palace, saying that Ruyu and Ruyue agreed to meet on the night of the New Year's banquet, and they have seen the appearance of the murderer, and I will take Ruyue to the palace the day after tomorrow to identify the murderer."

"Huh??" Qin Yan was stunned.

"Do what Xia Mo said." Chu Lingyou shook his head and smiled. "It's to startle the snake."

"Okay, I'll do it." Qin Yan turned around and left the room.

Qin Yan left the room, Ji Xiamo looked at the painting on the table and fell into deep thought, he always felt that there was something else strange about things, but he couldn't think of what was wrong.

"Let's go back." Jin Wuji put his cloak on Ji Xiamo's shoulder and whispered.

Ji Xia Mo came back to his senses and smiled at Jin Wuji, and then touched Ruyu's head to comfort, "You can live here with peace of mind, and when I catch the bad guy, I will let you go." ”

Ruyu lowered her head with red eyes, and Ji Xiamo sighed, "If you want to go home after the case is over, I can intercede with the emperor for you and let you out of the palace in advance." ”

Ruyue suddenly raised her head and looked at Ji Xiamo with wide eyes and disbelief. Ji Xiamo smiled and said, "When the time comes, I will give you some money to let your father and mother do some business to support the family, or you can go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to do things, it is better than being free in the palace." ”

Ruyu got up and retreated, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Ji Xiamo, tears flowed from her eyes, and her face was full of gratitude to Ji Xiamo.

Ji Xia Mo helped Ruyu up, told her to rest, and then left with Jin Wuji.

On the way, Jin Wuji followed Ji Xiamo expressionlessly, and Ji Xiamo was wrapped in a thick cloak full of coldness. Ji Xiamo turned around and looked at Jin Wuji helplessly, "Who are you angry with?" ”

"You're too good to her." Jin Wuji said in a muffled voice.

Ji Xiamo thought of Ruyu and couldn't help laughing, "Why are you jealous of anyone." ”

Jin Wuji tightened his face and remained silent, Ji Xiamo smiled and pinched Jin Wuji's nose, "Silly wood, she is a child, can I still eat tender grass with a shy face?" ”

"......" When he pushed Ji Xiamo at the beginning, Ji Xiamo seemed to be so big. There is a gap between him and Ji Xiamo by the age of his father.

Ji Xiamo also seemed to think of this, and was suddenly a little embarrassed. "I didn't mean to say what you meant."

"I know I'm eating tender grass." Jin Wuji was hard and angry.

Ji Xiamo was suddenly happy, pinching Jin Wuji's face and eager to kiss it. "I love your awkward appearance."

Jin Wuji's ears turned red, and Ji Xiamo dragged Jin Wuji's hand and walked back, "Stupid wood, a little confidence, are you still afraid of that kind of little girl?" ”

"I'm not afraid." It's just uncomfortable.

"I think Ruyu is very similar to Xiaokui, even if she really goes to the Prime Minister's Mansion, I will arrange for her to be accompanied by Xiaokui, don't think nonsense."

"I know."

"Whatever you want to eat, I'll listen to you tonight."

"Sugar Lantern Festival." Last time, Ji Xia Mo wanted to eat it, but he forgot about it.

"...... "Jin Wuji, you bastard."

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