According to her, it is better to take this incident and directly sweep the ill-intentioned Jiang family out of the house, so as not to stay in front of her and respond to herself.

Mu Xiaofeng was already sick and weak, so he was even more reluctant to speak after drinking the medicine; However, seeing Qing Ruo's eyes shining and waiting for an explanation, he couldn't bear to be disappointed, so he looked at the red shadow.

The red shadow quietly pulled Qingruo's sleeve secretly, and then said softly, "I know this, I'll tell you later, don't hinder the young lady from resting now." ”

Qingruo looked at the tired girl on the half-lying couch, and covered her mouth full of guilt and was silent.

The next day, Maple Forest unexpectedly came to an uninvited guest.

Qing Ruo personally stayed in the room to guard Mu Xiaofeng, so the responsibility of entertaining this distinguished and uninvited guest fell to Hongying.

Looking at the indifferent figure who sat down in the octagonal pavilion as the master, the red shadow swallowed his saliva secretly, and then walked to the pavilion and stood far away, "Your Highness, my young lady has just drunk the medicine, and she will probably sleep for an hour." ”

So, is it okay to trouble Your Highness that you are leaving now?

Chu Li Ge'an sat down quietly, swept Zhang Hua out of the corner of his eyes, and Zhang Hua took the tea very consciously.

Then he glanced at the red shadow standing outside and said, "Red shadow girl, go get busy, if Miss Mu wakes up, you can send someone over to say it." ”

The master is worried about Miss Mu's long-term and repeated illness, and he has been restless for days, since he has come to Mufu today, how can he be willing to leave if he hasn't seen him.

If it weren't for the temper that Miss Mu insisted on, I was afraid that His Highness would not be sitting quietly in the pavilion with a scroll in his hand like this, but would go straight to Miss Mu's boudoir to guard.

The corner of Hongying's eyes silently glanced at the handsome figure sitting tall and upright in the pavilion, and after a slight thought, he replied softly, "Okay, then I'll go down first, if Your Highness has any needs, please feel free to order." ”

An hour later, there was a subtle sound of rustling in the boudoir, as well as Qingruo's soft voice, which was basically complaining about how His Royal Highness didn't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, knowing that the young lady was sick and needed to recuperate, and he was still so tired and hurt......ful.

Qing Ruo was babbling and complaining, when he heard a light cough outside the window, and then an extremely cold voice said, "You don't have to get up, I'll just stand here and talk to you." ”

Qing Ruo was startled, stunned, and immediately after coming back to his senses, he was nervously guarding the bed like a great enemy, staring at the window with a white face and wide eyes.

The girl who was halfway to the bed coughed low and said, "Don't be nervous. ”

That person said yes, since he said that he was outside, he would definitely not break in indiscriminately.

How could Qing Ruo not be nervous, whether it was to protect the reputation of the young lady, or because she was facing the iceberg that made her heart chill, she couldn't calm down as usual.

What's more, she was caught just saying bad things about people.

She stood in front of the bed vigilantly like a hen protecting a chick, Mu Xiaofeng shook her head when she saw this, and she didn't care about her.

Instead, he raised his head slightly in the direction of the window and said, "Why are you here?" ”

Outside the window, there seemed to be silence for a while, before Chu Lige said coldly as usual, "You can recuperate with peace of mind, and I will do other things." Sister-in-law Suo Ke Er said on the Internet, look at the most dizzying Yan Qing girl Er said"

The girl who was leaning on the bed and half leaning on her body was shocked unconsciously, Mu Yunxue, who he accompanied her to see in the prison that day, she stopped paying attention to Mu Yunxue after she asked that sentence, I am afraid that he also has a ...... in his heart.

Closing his eyes, Mu Xiaofeng's heart was turbulent, even though he wanted to make a move by himself, but his body was really ...... to fight; Moreover, Chu Lige is a person who really decides what to do, and where can he easily change his mind for others.

Sighing secretly, all kinds of emotions could only be put in his heart, and he only said softly, "Then you should be careful in everything." ”

Speaking of caution, the girl's voice lowered gloomily.

thought that she had experienced life and death, and she should be more hard-hearted than ordinary people.

But the indescribable pain of losing a loved one, no matter how many times it has been experienced, it is so vivid and numb, every time in the dead of night, it is as uncomfortable as ten thousand ants devouring the heart.

He, the secret poison in his body, if he ......, thinking of this, the girl sighed and sank a little.

The handsome figure outside the window seemed to be nailed to the spot, and after a long time, the cold and indifferent voice was heard again, "You have a good rest, I'm leaving." ”

As soon as the words were poured, there was no one outside the window.

Seeing this, Qingruo couldn't help but complain in a low voice, "I deliberately came to disturb Miss, and let people rest." ”

Mu Xiaofeng glanced at her lightly, and his mind fell on Chu Lige's previous sentence, but he didn't pay attention to her.

On this day, the weather was fine, and the wind was beautiful.

In the Imperial Palace Garden, where flowers are undefeated all year round.

Emperor Chu was rarely interested in enjoying the scenery in the imperial garden with a few concubines, and a group of people were walking towards a stone bridge with red willows and green.

Emperor Chu walked slightly ahead, and several concubines shook among them.

Walking and laughing and pointing out the scenery in the garden, it is also happy.

"Your Majesty, you see, the water lilies in the distance are blooming beautifully, and they really set off this pool picturesquely."

The one who half-covered her red lips pointed at was a young palace concubine who was closest to Emperor Chu at this moment.

Probably because Emperor Chu is old, whenever he visits the garden to soothe his mood, he loves to call young palace concubines to accompany him, as if looking at the young faces lingering around him, his mood will be a little more energetic.

It's good to be young, but the disadvantages of being young are sometimes obvious, just like this, this palace concubine has the heart to show off, but she can't think of any more elegant words of praise.

Emperor Chu was in a good mood, and he wouldn't bother with her about such a trivial matter, so he also looked at it casually, and even said in response, "Well, it looks good." ”

He spoke first to praise, and the rest of the beauties immediately joined in.

Emperor Chu listened absentmindedly and slowly walked towards the bridge.

Just as they walked to the top of the bridge, a palace concubine suddenly gave a frightened "ah"

After a while, about halfway through the scream, he remembered that Emperor Chu was in front of him, and he was also guilty of disturbing the holy driver, so he stopped abruptly as if someone had suddenly choked his throat.

Emperor Chu's brows immediately frowned, and he glanced back slightly, and his gaze full of majesty made people feel like walking on thin ice.

"What's going on?"

The low voice was cold and indifferent, and his majestic gaze fell very accurately on the palace concubine who had stopped halfway through the exclamation just now.

"Your Majesty......"

The young beauty was stared at by his majestic gaze, and her legs trembled in shock, but she had to stretch out her hand and point under the bridge, "The concubine and concubine didn't inadvertently see there there just now, there seems to be a ...... Person. ”

The dead are naturally taboo in front of Emperor Chu.

Just now, everyone unanimously followed Emperor Chu closely, and in order to please the Sacred Heart, they all looked into the distance very consistently, and no one paid attention to the bridge, and because of the angle, except for this exclamated palace concubine, others may not be able to find Duan Xuan even if they glanced at it for a while.

Emperor Chu's eyebrows jumped, and he walked quickly to the position of the palace concubine and probed under the bridge, and naturally saw the corpse that caused her to scream.

"Du Hai, call a few people here to salvage the corpse."

The chamberlain, who was far behind, immediately responded tremblingly, "Yes." ”

After the order, Emperor Chu was no longer in the mood to visit the garden and enjoy the scenery.

After all, no matter how good the mood was, after suddenly seeing a floating and swollen corpse, it disappeared in an instant.

This is the Imperial Garden, and there is a foreign man who died in the lotus pond.

No matter how you look at it, it's not pleasant.

After a while, the chamberlain led a few people into the water and salvaged the face-down floating corpse under the bridge.

"Your Majesty,"

After a while, Du Hai went to Emperor Chu to report in a restrained manner, "I can't see who it is, and I can't find any clues from him to prove his identity, the only thing that can be sure is that he is not from the palace." ”

This point was already seen by Emperor Chu at a casual glance on the bridge just now.

It was precisely because of it that Emperor Chu's complexion was gloomy and ugly.

What does it mean that an unidentified man died in the Imperial Garden?

Emperor Chu seemed to instantly feel that the white clouds above his head had turned into green .......

Du Hai looked at his ugly face, speculated for a while, and then said cautiously, "But this corpse is quite strange, his face has been deliberately scratched, and he has no clues on his body that can prove his identity, that is, his waist is ...... Yes, he had a sturdy thick hemp rope tied around his waist, and one end was tied in a dead knot to form a large shape. ”

The strange floating corpse is really puzzling.

Emperor Chu frowned and thought for a moment, raised his eyes and swept the pond in the distance, "I remember that the water of the pond was brought in from the Neicheng River?" ”

Du Hai was stunned, almost immediately thought of something, and hurriedly bowed his head and said, "The slave will find someone to comb the river." ”

If the unidentified corpse floated in along the river, it proves that there was something wrong with the river channel.

"There's no urgency."

Emperor Chu paced a few steps with his hands in his hands, and his heart was obviously interested in the unidentified corpse.

After being silent for a while, he said again, "Send someone to send this body to the Criminal Department, and send an edict to the Criminal Department Shangshu to investigate it quickly." ”

Under normal circumstances, an unidentified dead body is not allowed to be brought forward by the Ministry of Punishment.

The jurisdiction of the criminal department is generally a major case submitted by the local government, even if there is a murder case between the powerful people in the capital, it is also a matter of Dali Temple, and finally there is a result before it is gathered in the criminal department.

But now, when this nameless corpse appears in the palace garden, the situation is very different.

Of course, Emperor Chu would not point out that he wanted the Shangshu of the Criminal Department to take care of this matter for no reason, although the face of this swollen corpse is difficult to argue, but Emperor Chu is extraordinary after all.

At a glance, it was clear that the identity of this corpse was not ordinary, and furthermore, from the stiff and open hands of the deceased, it was obvious that there were traces of martial arts.

Of course, this was not his concern, but his concern was that he saw another thing in this trace.

As for whether it is or not, it will eventually have to be investigated before we can draw conclusions.

Although Du Hai didn't understand why Emperor Chu suddenly gave such an order, as a minion, it didn't matter if he didn't understand it, as a minion, as long as he did his duty and knew how to be obedient.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After respectfully responding to the peace, Du Hai immediately went upside down to make arrangements.

Without the interest in visiting the garden, Emperor Chu naturally went back.

An hour later, the corpse had been quietly transported out of the palace to the Ministry of Punishment.

In the yamen of the Criminal Department, at this moment, Yan Shoujing, the secretary of the Criminal Department, personally watched the corpse in the morgue.

It took about two quarters of an hour for the preliminary inspection to be completed.

"Lord Yan,"

He wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, stood up straight and looked at him, with a serious expression, "Preliminary examination, this person has been dead for at least five days, if it weren't for the cool weather right now, I'm afraid the body would have rotted long ago." ”

Yan Shoujing nodded, waiting for him to continue.

"There were a total of twenty-five wounds on his body, all of which were caused by thin and long sharp weapons, and were preliminarily determined to be long swords, and the fatal wounds were on the left rib of the chest and the lower right of the back; In addition, the rope tied around his waist, I guess it should be that the murderer tied a large stone and sank into the water in order to destroy the corpse. ”

Probably the river flowed and the stones came loose before the corpse floated up.

As for why he arrived at the Imperial Garden, this is not something that can be guessed.

Shangshu of the Criminal Department is more concerned about the identity of this corpse, "Can you find out if there are any special signs on his body?" ”

As if the murderer deliberately concealed the identity of the deceased, except for a sturdy thick hemp rope, the deceased had no valuable clues on his body.

The Shangshu of the Criminal Department was upset, since this matter was ordered by Emperor Chu to be investigated in person, I am afraid that the identity of the deceased will not be simple.

But at present, I can't even determine my identity, and the rest of the things are naturally impossible to go in.

He spread his hands and looked embarrassed, "My lord, I haven't found it for the time being." ”

There are no valuable clues at all, this is where Shangshu of the Criminal Department is annoyed and helpless.

"You double-check his clothes."

Except for the fact that the deceased's dark blue robe was made of high-quality materials, there was nothing useful at all.

Although the work of the criminal department is mainly to conduct an autopsy, since the secretary of the criminal department has ordered it and is watching from the scene, no matter how angry he is, he can't clearly refuse.

His lips moved, and he bent down again.

The clothes are made of luxurious materials, which can at least prove one thing on the side, that is, the deceased is not short of money.

Of course, the secretary of the criminal department can't just expect to solve the case from the guilt, and before he came to the morgue, he had already ordered people to check the files to see if there were any cases of missing persons in the capital recently.

Just as he was concentrating on examining the corpse again, a messenger walked in.

He arched his hand before reporting, "My lord, I have already inquired about it, and in the past month, no one has gone to the yamen to report the disappearance of his family. ”

Shangshu of the Criminal Department frowned, although he had a premonition that things would not go so smoothly, but when he heard the news, he was still inevitably disappointed.

He waved his hand to let the yacha retreat, and was thinking about how to start, when he heard a sudden and unexpected "Huh"

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