As soon as the sky was bright, Ji Xiamo got up, instructed Aoki to put away the prepared red clothes, put on a plain white robe, briefly freshen up, and left the plum garden.

Maybe it was because he didn't rest well last night, Ji Xiamo's eyes were faintly blue, and the whole person was a little listless. For breakfast, I just drank a bowl of porridge, ate a vegetarian dumpling, and some pickles, and lost my appetite.

After the three of them had breakfast, they left the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the carriage sent by Feng Shaojin was already waiting outside the mansion early. Jin Wuji was worried that Ji Xia Mo would be hungry, so he packed some fruit and put it in the car. Just after winter, what was prepared in the house was just some ordinary apples, pears and the like, Ji Xiamo sat in the center of the car and played with a pear absently, but his mind didn't know where to go.

Ji Xiamo's carriage stopped outside Pan's house, Feng Shaojin had already arrived, and the two guards guarding the door had obviously been ordered in advance, and when they saw Ji Xiamo coming, they respectfully welcomed them into the house.

Ji Xiamo stabilized his breath and pinched his face to make himself look as energetic as possible.

"Brother Jin, you have to protect me when you encounter danger in a while." Ji Xia Mo leaned over to Jin Wuji's side and laughed quietly.

Jin Wuji glanced down at Ji Xiamo's small head, suppressed the urge to touch it, and whispered.

was taken to the living room by the guards, Feng Shaojin was sitting in the hall talking to Pan Zilong, and when he saw Ji Xiamo coming, Feng Shaojin got up and greeted him. "It's coming, it's really good to wait for this king."

Ji Xiamo held a beautiful fan with a bone fan in his hand, and his hippie smiling face was not in shape. "Isn't this helping the grandmother cross the road on the road, doing good deeds without leaving a name for delay? There are a lot of the five princes, no wonder, no wonder! ”

"You!" Feng Shaojin shook his head and smiled. "It's full of nonsense, and it's not a good shape."

"Ji Changgongzi." Pan Zilong greeted him and bowed his hand. "I heard from the little pheasant yesterday, Zilong is here to thank the eldest son of Ji for saving him."

Ji Xiamo looked at Pan Zilong, the smile in his eyes narrowed a little, and he bowed slightly. "Thank you for your efforts."

After a laughing and talking, several people sat down one after another, and the scholar Xiao Pheasant served tea, and waited quietly behind Pan Zilong, burying his head in silence. Ji Xiamo glanced at the pheasant lightly, picked up the hot tea, and covered the corners of his mouth.

Feng Shaojin took a sip of tea and moistened his mouth, and looked up at Ji Xiamo. "Xiao Mo, last night you sent someone to spread the word, saying that you have solved the murder case of Panfu, and you will tell the truth."

Ji Xiamo blew away the floating tea leaves, and the heat that spread out reflected Ji Xiamo's face hazy, making it impossible to see the virtual reality.

In the quiet living room, Ji Xiamo drank half a cup of hot tea, and then put the cup down, his dark eyes took away the smile, and looked at Pan Zilong indifferently. "Mr. Pan, I don't know how the injury is now?"

Pan Zilong's hand moved, and the gentle smile on his face stiffened a little. Feng Shaojin and Qin Yan looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Pan Zilong put down the cup and looked at Ji Xiamo with a smile, "I don't know what the eldest son Ji meant?" Zilong was stupid and didn't know the deep meaning of Pan Changgongzi. ”

Ji Xiamo played with the bone fan, leaned lazily on the back of the chair, and looked at Pan Zilong with a faint expression. "You couldn't kill me in Panfu that night, and then I was seriously injured in the chest by Jin Guard, I don't know how the injury is now."

As soon as these words came out, Feng Shaojin and Qin Yan, who were seated, suddenly got up, Jin Wuji stepped forward with his sword in hand to protect Ji Xia Mo behind him, and looked at Pan Zilong coldly with a pair of black eyes.

Pan Zilong stared at Ji Xiamo, his fingers tapped on the tabletop, his face calm. "Listening to what the eldest son Ji said, it seems that he is doubting me?"

Ji Xiamo hooked the corners of his lips and got up to signal Jin Wuji to get out of the way. "That night when I visited Pan's Mansion, I accidentally found some very strange black on the rockery, which were bloodstains."

"Thirty-seven members of the Prime Minister's Mansion were all burned overnight, and only two of them had fatal wounds. One is Master Pan, who was injured in the left back of his head. The other person was the second son, Pan Zikai, who was wounded in the throat and killed with one blow. ”

"I checked their room and found that the beds were all charcoal-burned, while some of the other wooden fixtures in the house were only charcoal-blackened on the outside and preserved on the inside. This shows that the two were burned after their deaths, and the fire in Pan's Mansion was also in these two places. ”

"What did you say!" Pan Zilong got up suddenly and looked at Ji Xiamo in amazement. "You say my father was killed before the fire?"

Ji Xia Mo frowned slightly, but still nodded. "That's right. If my prediction is correct, the bloodstains I saw on the rockery that night were Pan Zikai's, and it was the first scene of the crime. ”

"Mr. Pan haunts the Pan Mansion late at night, I'm afraid he wants to hide something unsightly, right?"

Pan Zilong narrowed his eyes and sneered. "What does Ji Changgongzi mean that I killed Pan Zikai?"

"Or else?"

"Where's the evidence!" Pan Zilong said coldly. "Since Ji Changgongzi said that I am a murderer, where is the evidence! Or does Ji Changgongzi want to press me into a prison and make a trick? ”

"Evidence?" Ji Xiamo's eyes crossed Pan Zilong and stayed on his chest. "The evidence is the sword wound on your chest, and the callus on your hand left over from years of sword practice."

"The day before yesterday, I came to Pan's house to inquire about the missing maidservant, and I smelled a faint smell of medicine on you, although it was covered by a very strong incense, but when I went back and compared it with many medicinal smells, which are gold sore medicines that specialize in treating sword wounds."

"And yesterday, I met your scholar on the street, and he told me that you want to eat porridge, and I came to buy some red dates and lotus seeds, and these are all used to replenish blood."

Pan Zilong's hand in his sleeve tightened, and he spoke coldly. "I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child, and it is a common thing to get injured, and Ji Changgongzi just used this to implement my murder charge, I am afraid that it will make people unconvinced."

"First, Jin Guard's sword is not an ordinary thing, even ordinary doctors can see some clues. Second, if my expectations are good, Pan Gongzi entered Pan's Mansion at night that night, I'm afraid it was for this gadget, right? Ji Xia Mo opened his palm with a smile, and a crystal clear jade bead lay in the palm of his hand.

Pan Zilong's pupils suddenly tightened, and his body swayed slightly.

Ji Xiamo played with the jade beads, smiled and looked at the scholar pheasant behind Pan Zilong, and a cold light flashed in his eyes. "You must be familiar with this little thing, right? Pheasant? In other words, I should call you the third Miss Pan Fu, Pan Han'er. ”

"What!!" Qin Yan exclaimed in surprise, and Feng Shaojin's eyes widened, his face full of astonishment.

"What nonsense are you talking about!!" Pan Zilong shouted loudly, and raised his fist to swing at Ji Xia Mo. Jin Wuji's eyes were cold, and he flashed forward, slamming his palm on Pan Zilong's chest with one hand. Pan Zilong snorted, staggered back, and a mouthful of blood overflowed.

"Zilong!!" The little pheasant exclaimed in surprise and stepped forward to support Pan Zilong's crumbling body.

Ji Xiamo took two steps forward and looked at Pan Zilong with an unchanged expression. "Among the thirty-seven corpses in Pan Mansion, Pan Han'er's bones make me feel very strange. Pan Han'er's corpse has wide bones, and there are even bone cocoons on the inside of the thumb and shoulder, which can only be formed after years of labor. Originally, I thought that Pan Han'er, as an illegitimate daughter who was not favored, was not like those pampered daughters, but your words the day before yesterday caught my attention. ”

"You said that when the missing maid was rescued by Pan Han'er, her left leg was broken, and later, although Pan Han'er tried her best to find a doctor to treat her, she still left the root of the disease."

"It's a coincidence." The corners of Ji Xiamo's mouth hooked up a cold arc. "When I performed an autopsy, I found that the body of 'Pan Han'er' had a slight deformation of the bones in his left leg and a very fine crack in the inner bone crack."

"Actually, it's not the maid named Xiao Lian who is missing, but Pan Han'er! The dead body is the missing little mercy. ”

"It's not!" Qin Yan felt that his whole head was messed up. "But, isn't Pan Han'er a daughter? How could it be ......"

"yes." Ji Xia Mo looked at the little pheasant holding Pan Zilong with a smile, and his body trembled slightly. "I'm afraid that the people in Pan's Mansion would never have dreamed that that the cowardly and timid Miss Pan's Mansion would be a man! In this way, I always felt that this scholar was obviously a man, but he was full of fat powder to explain it. And his hands, which were pampered and unafflicted. ”

"Yesterday him

"I asked the fifth prince to check this jade bead, and finally found a jade pavilion, this kind of jade bead seems ordinary, but in fact, each pair is different and unique."

"According to the boss in the Jade Pavilion, there are a total of thirty-four jade beads, made into two jade bracelets, which were bought by a man and a woman half a year ago, and one of the two jade bracelets is engraved with a word, dragon and pheasant."

Ji Xiamo said, signaling to Jin Wuji beside him, Jin Wuji understood, turned around and left the living room, bringing back a middle-aged man.

The man bowed down into the parlor and knelt on the ground, trembling like chaff, not daring to look up.

"Let's take a closer look, these are the two people who went to your store to buy jade bracelets that day." Ji Xia Mo said.

The man raised his head tremblingly, looked at Pan Zilong and Xiao Pheasant for a moment, and kowtowed again and again. "That's right, it's the two of them, although the girl changed into a man's clothes, but the villain will not admit it."

Pan Zilong closed his eyes, and his pale face was filled with some despair.

Ji Xiamo waved his hand to signal the man to step back, took the brocade box handed by Jin Wuji, and threw it in front of Pan Zilong, and the bracelets made of two jade beads fell out of the box. "This is what Guard Jin found in your room."

"In addition, I entrusted the fifth prince to send someone to Pan Han'er's hometown, secretly investigated, and found the midwife who delivered Pan Han'er's mother Luo Yao back then, and learned that Luo Yao gave birth to not a daughter, but a son! The word is named pheasant! ”

"Pan Zilong, so far, what else do you have to say!!

"Huh! Hahaha......" Pan Zilong covered his face decadently, laughing crazy and crazy. "I thought that when everyone died, I could take the pheasant away and find a place to live in seclusion, and no one would break us apart again. However, after thousands of calculations, I didn't count the appearance of your Ji Xia Mo. ”

"......" Ji Xia Mo

Did he hear something he shouldn't have heard?

"Don't blame him!!" The little pheasant got up and stood in front of Ji Xia Mo and shouted loudly. "It's me, it's all my fault!!"

"Little Pheasant ......"

"I hate the Pan family, I returned to the Pan family to take revenge, but I didn't expect to meet Zilong, I couldn't control my heart and fell in love with him. I know it's taboo, it's incest, and I won't end well with him, but I can't help it......"

"Little pheasant!!" Pan Zilong snorted, struggled to get up and held the pheasant tightly in his arms, and looked at Ji Xiamo coldly. "I killed Pan Zikai! Nothing to do with pheasants. ”

"Zilong ......"

"I like the pheasant, the manly man loves love, the people here can't tolerate us, then we go, the world is big, there will always be a place for us." Pan Zilong looked down at the little pheasant with tears on his face, his eyes were full of tenderness.

"That night, everyone was busy with my father's birthday banquet, I was intimate with the pheasant behind the rockery, discussing elopement, but I didn't want to be heard by Pan Zikai, a bastard, he ignored my and the pheasant's bitter pleading, insisted on reporting to my father, I was anxious, I could only kill him."

"After killing Pan Zikai, I took him back to the room and knocked over the candlestick, I only wanted to cause Pan Zikai's accidental death, I didn't expect to kill so many people!"

"Nonsense!" Qin Yan shouted angrily, glaring at Pan Zilong with his eyes, eager to chop people up with a knife.

"Lord Pan was also killed and cremated, the entire Pan Mansion was already dead before the fire started, and the entire Pan Mansion was poured with a large amount of kerosene, aren't you the one who did it?"

"We don't know!" The little pheasant raised his head and stared at Qin Yan in disbelief. "Zilong and I only killed Pan Zikai and moved to the room to burn, and then left, I don't know anything else!"

"Dare to be hard when you die! Pan Zilong! Thirty-seven lives, you killed your father and slaughtered your brother, and a thousand knives are not enough to pay off your debts! ”

Pan Zilong sneered. "It's because you can't find the real murderer, and now it's all up to me."

"You ......"

"Someone!" Unwilling to do more nonsense, Feng Shaojin frowned and coldly shouted a group of guards to surround Pan Zilong and the little pheasant.

"Escort these two people back to the prison of the Criminal Department, and the verdict will be heard!"

"Yes!!"

"One person does things and one person does, if you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect, let go of the pheasant!!"

"It's your incompetence!! You can't find the real murderer! Unconscious!! ”

…………

"Are you alright?" Jin Wuji walked up to Ji Xiamo's side, and a melancholy flashed in his eyes.

Ji Xiamo raised his head and shook his head silently, his tightly locked brows never loosened.

"Ji Xia Mo!" Qin Yan walked to Ji Xiamo's side with a smile, and wanted to give him a punch of love, but was stopped by Jin Wuji's cold eyes, and the fetus was stillborn.

Qin Yan rubbed his hands together and smiled dryly. "Ji Xiamo, okay! Ben Gongzi really underestimated you, and you really cracked a clueless case. ”

Ji Xiamo glanced at Qin Yan coldly, and walked towards the door without saying a word.

Feng Shaojin followed, looked at Ji Xiamo's tightly knit brows, and groaned. "What's wrong? You don't seem to be happy. ”

Ji Xiamo paused slightly, was silent for a moment, shook his head and said, "I don't know what's going on, I always feel that there are some very important things that I have forgotten." ”

"I guess I'm too tired these days, right? Next, you have a good rest, and I will ask for credit for you from my father's side. Feng Shaojin reached out and patted Ji Xiamo's shoulder and comforted.

Ji Xiamo nodded hesitantly and said no more.

The three of them went out of Pan's house, and Feng Shaojin got into a sedan chair and went back to the Five Princes' Mansion. Qin Yan didn't pester Ji Xiamo anymore, said goodbye to Ji Xiamo, and went back to his home.

Sitting in the carriage, Ji Xiamo didn't spin the bone fan in his hand for a while, thinking about what had just happened in his mind, and he only felt that his brain hurt terribly.

Jin Wuji stretched out his hand and pressed Ji Xiamo on his shoulder and spoke in a low voice. "Take a break."

Ji Xia Mo nestled in Jin Wuji's arms, was silent for a long time, and said hesitantly, "Brother Jin, I think that Pan Zilong is not the only murderer. ”

"Rest first, then look for evidence."

"Does Brother Jin believe me?"

"Yes."

“…… Brother Jin, I don't believe it. I couldn't find evidence to refute the inference I just made. ”

"Let's get some sleep first."

"Okay."

Brother Jin, you'll be there all the time, right?

Just like now, I will always find you when I open my eyes, whenever I need to.