Chapter Fifty-Eight: The First Inspection
79_79301 When the twilight returned home, the sound of the five watches just sounded, according to the Daxing Dynasty, the courtiers should be waiting in front of the noon gate at this hour, but there is still an hour to leave the palace gate, and it should be too late to return to the palace.
At this time, the Yang clan had not yet gotten up, but Liu Heizi and Shi Dahai had already gotten up to practice. The Governor's Mansion is a three-entry mansion, which is a little smaller than the Shengjing Wang's Mansion, but there are few people in the mansion, and the living room is still very spacious. Twilight is cold, Bu Xihuan expected that there must be few guests in her house, so she changed the entrance hall to the main hall, changed the middle into the school field, the sword, gun, sword and halberd performance martial arts platform is complete, there are many pear trees planted on both sides, from the high place of the attic in the backyard looking at the window, it can be seen that the peach forest hugs the pear forest, the pear forest holds the martial arts platform, the scenery is quite beautiful.
Twilight Qing entered the middle courtyard and saw that when the martial arts platform was performed, Shi Dahai and Liu Heizi were fighting shirtless, the sky was not clear, the snow fell on the pear branches, if the thousands of pear blossoms bloomed, the scene was in the eyes, intoxicating, but the pear tree branches were not beautiful.
Moon Kill Ling Feng stood solemnly on the pear branch, the tip of the boot was on the branch, the wind moved the pear branch, the person did not move, and he looked like a chivalrous demeanor from a distance.
Twilight Qing glanced between the fingers of the moon kill, and sure enough, he saw that there was snow between his fingers, and he picked Shi Dahai and Liu Heizi to fight and bounced at the feet of the two of them. I saw that the two of them fell down with a bang, and before they got up, Moon Kill picked up the snow from the branch and bounced it to the martial arts stage again!
This training method has been going on for some days, and the monthly killing is demanding, and the two of them are required to fight shirtless in the cold winter, and there is ice under their feet but the two are not allowed to fall, and if anyone falls, they must step on the snow on the ice and stand up, and if they can't stand up and fall again, the snow will be more. These days, the two of them sleep on three shifts and get up on five watches, and they only rest for two hours every day, and when they fight until dawn every day, the snow on the stage often looks like ice flowers, and the bruises on the two of them are heavier day by day, and they have never faded.
Moon Kill trained people, and the harsh methods reminded Twilight Qing of a person, if Gu Nishang was there, maybe he had a common language with Moon Kill on this path.
"Governor?!" At this time, Liu Heizi and Shi Dahai saw Twilight Qing and couldn't help but say hello, and as soon as they spoke, several snow balls shot from the top of the pear tree! The snow ball looked soft, but it contained internal force, smashing people like iron, falling on the martial arts stage, and the ice was cracked!
The two fell to the ground again, Shi Dahai spit out a mouthful of blood, and got up on all fours with Liu Heizi.
Twilight walked past the stage and went to the backyard without saying anything.
When she first moved into the Governor's Palace, the two of them fell on the ice, and when she came in just now, she saw that they were already fighting for a while. At the beginning, they could all fall if they didn't make a move, but they fell when they attacked them in a sneak attack. Although this training is rigorous, but the two of them are willing to endure hardships, it has only been half a month, the progress is so obvious, in the long run, they will be able to escort her in less than a year, if there are three years, they will become two fierce generals!
Although Twilight Qing chose Liu Heizi and Shi Dahai as her personal soldiers, she didn't just want to train them as personal soldiers, in addition to their skills, they must also be able to track and lurk, collect intelligence, be close to be guards, and let them out to carry out tasks, what she wants is that the people around her can be one as ten, all of them are elites. But training people is not her forte, just leave it to the moon kill.
After Twilight returned to the attic, she went to the stove room to fetch hot water, and when she bathed and rested in the tent, it was already dark, and she didn't know how long she slept, and in her sleep she heard Yang calling her outside the tent.
"Governor."
Twilight woke up and glanced at the bed tent alertly, and saw that it was already dawn, but at some point, she pulled the quilt up a little higher and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Yang said outside the tent: "Master Hou is here, and I have been waiting for more than an hour. ”
"What time is it?"
"It's time."
In this way, Yuan Xiu came after the next dynasty.
Twilight Qing had a number in her heart, and said lightly: "I know, I'll get up now, you don't have to wait for me to get up in the morning, let Liu Heizi come." You go to the kitchen to prepare some breakfast, take it to the flower hall, and I'll use it with Master Hou in a while. ”
Yuan Xiu came after the next dynasty, so he must not have eaten breakfast.
"Yes, slave and maid will go." Yang answered outside the tent, but he was strange. The governor was quite alert when he slept, and in the past he would get up and go down at the tent, but now he is not out of the tent, and I don't know why. She knew that the governor had gone out of the house last night, and she had only come back on the fifth watch, so she was tired, but her voice couldn't hear sleepiness, but it was a little more clear and vigilant than usual.
Why is that?
Yang couldn't guess it, and was busy preparing for the morning, so he had to retreat with doubts.
When Twilight heard that Yang was gone, she breathed a sigh of relief in the tent, and turned her head to look at the chest strap next to the pillow, a little depressed. She has been in the barracks for half a year, she has always slept in her clothes, and after coming out of the underground palace, she didn't even take off her armor when she slept at night, and she slept with her hair on her hairpin, and never put it down. There are many inconveniences for women to dress up as men, she has always been cautious, the Yang family has been following her for a short time, even Liu Heizi and Shi Dahai don't know that she is a daughter, and she has no intention of suing the rest.
Originally, she slept in her clothes at night, and it was only because she bathed and cleaned herself before resting this morning, and she didn't know what nerves she wanted to start Xihuan and asked her not to tie her chest strap when she slept. Fortunately, Yang's Zhili didn't come to hang the curtain without her permission, otherwise it would have to be broken!
Twilight sat up depressedly, took the chest belt, put on her clothes and went to bed before Liu Heizi came in with hot water, and went to the flower hall in the front yard after washing.
As soon as the Yang family brought it up, Yuan Xiu was sitting on the side and drinking tea, and when he saw Du Qing coming, he smiled and said, "It's rare that you get up late." ”
Yuan Xiu didn't know about Dusk Qing's departure from the city last night, and the people in the governor's mansion naturally didn't talk much, so he thought that she was tired in the army for half a year, and she didn't have time to go back to Beijing, so she simply got up late when she didn't go to court these days.
Twilight sat down, took a sip of the hot porridge from the table, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Something must have happened in the court, otherwise Yuan Xiu would not have waited in the Governor's Mansion for an hour and not left. If he was idle, he came to the governor's mansion to find her to relieve his boredom, and he heard that she was still asleep and would definitely say another day, but he didn't leave, but waited in the flower hall for more than an hour, and even knew that Yang didn't stop her from calling her to get up, which means that he must have something to do here, and it is not a trivial matter.
"Last night, the magistrate of Fengxian County died in the prison." Yuan Xiu was straightforward.
Twilight was drinking porridge with her head down, her eyebrows raised, not surprisingly, she even felt slow, so she did it at this time.
"Yesterday's Shangyuan Festival, the holy general recalled the male concubine of the Bianhe Palace to Beijing, and the palace banquet was messy at night, and the magistrate of Fengxian County died in the prison at almost the hour of the palace banquet." Yuan Xiu said in a deep voice.
"Oh?" Twilight put down the porridge and picked up a vegetarian bun and took a bite, "Have you experienced corpses?" ”
When Yuan Xiu heard this, he sneered and said: "The person in the Shengjing Mansion was tested, and the person died in the prison, and no one found out all night, and it was only found that the person was dead when someone went to deliver food during the change of guard this morning. At that time, in the early court, the matter was directly reported to the Golden Palace, and all the officials made a fuss about your illness and did not go to court, saying that you were sick and inconvenient for the autopsy, and there was a work in the Shengjing Mansion, so he summoned the staff to go to the prison to examine the body. ”
It was still in the court, and it was inconvenient to leave the palace, otherwise he would have come to the governor's mansion to call her.
"What do you say?"
"Sudden death!"
Twilight finally looked up, "Why did you die suddenly?" ”
"If you want to ask what the old illness is, you can say that the person is dead and cannot diagnose the pulse, so I don't know, but I only say that the person is not poisoned, nor was he beaten, and there are no injuries on the body, but it can only be sudden death due to illness." Yuan Xiu frowned and said, he couldn't believe in the work of the Shengjing Mansion, he went to the heavenly prison to see it in person, and the corpse did not look poisoned, but he never believed that it was a sudden death, this was too coincidental!
"Where is the body?" As the two spoke, Twilight had finished eating a vegetarian bun.
"Yizhuang."
Twilight raised an eyebrow, "It seems that the murderer is quite confident, and I'm sure I can't find out the cause of death." ”
The murderer is so calm, I am afraid that first, she is confident that she will not be able to detect the cause of death, and second, she does not dare to deal with the body in a hurry. If you are in a hurry to dispose of the corpse, wouldn't it be suspicious that there are no three hundred taels of silver here?
"I ordered Zhao Liangyi to go to Yizhuang to look at the corpse, don't worry, no one can move." Because of this, when he came, he heard that she was still sleeping, so he didn't rush to wake her up, "When are you going to do the autopsy?" ”
"Now." Twilight got up and walked out, "If you're hungry, grab a few buns and eat them on the way." ”
The only confirmed criminal in the two cases of pension in the army is dead, how can Yuan Xiu be in the mood to eat? But looking at the buns on the table, he still took two, and he liked the food in her house, whether it was delicious or not!
Yizhuang is at the end of the west street and alley of the outer city, and the people are stored in the side hall, and they take a roll of straw mats at will, only revealing a pair of official boots to the outside of the hall.
Twilight Qing saw the scene in the hall, and suddenly stopped, and in a trance this scene was quite similar to the night of half a year ago in Yizhuang in Bianhe City, the difference was that there were snowflakes floating in the courtyard today, and there was no rancid smell in the hall.
"How?" Yuan Xiu saw that Du Qing was a little distracted, and there seemed to be pain between his eyebrows and eyes, so he couldn't help but ask with concern.
Twilight woke up suddenly, shook her head, and said, "It's okay." ”
Then he went to the church.
The servant in the Yizhuang in Shengjing City is also an old man, and he is the person who went to the prison for an autopsy this morning.
The old man saw that Yuan Xiu and Du Qing were coming, greeted him with a smile, knelt down and saluted, and then came to the corpse and said: "Hou Ye, Du Du, the old man has been serving in the Shengjing Mansion since the general of the court in the Wude period was appointed as a yamen servant, and now it has been more than two hundred years. ”
Twilight glanced at the old man, lifted the straw mat and saw that the corpse was not lying on its back, but on its stomach, and took off the corpse's clothes and pants and official boots from behind.
Yuan Xiu frowned, she knew her habit of autopsy, but after watching it a few times, she still felt awkward.
"Hey! What a white ass! Zhao Liangyi teased before picking the time.
"The dead are great!" Yuan Xiu scolded, and saw that Twilight Qing was scrutinizing the back of the corpse.
The back of the corpse was very clean, there were no corpse spots, and Twilight raised her hand to turn the corpse over, Yuan Xiu frowned fiercely, and rushed to help Twilight turn the corpse over before she touched the corpse.
Just watch it, it's not the first time she's seen it anyway, but if you can't touch it, you won't let her touch it!
The corpse spots are distributed in front of the body, and there are large purple-red corpse spots on the chest, abdomen, and limbs, and even the conjunctiva of the eyes is also bruised, indicating that the person was lying on his stomach when he died.
Twilight glanced at the corpse's face, she knew that the person was fake, so she paid attention to the corpse's face, because when the corpse was lying on its stomach, corpse spots would still appear on the face, and the person was wearing a mask, and experienced people could see that something was wrong at a glance. But I didn't expect that this mask was extremely thin, and the color of the corpse spots was dark red, and a dark color could be seen through the mask, although it was a little different from the color of the corpse spots in front of me, but it was really not easy to find if you didn't look closely.
Twilight Qing didn't mention it, but said, "Well, people have indeed been dead for six or seven hours, and when you calculate the time, it was indeed during the palace banquet last night." ”
When the old man heard this, he smiled and said, "The governor is an expert, and the old man said the same thing this morning." ”
Twilight didn't speak, she touched the top of the deceased's head with her hand, and the old man saw it, and said, "The old man has been tested, and there are no nails on the top of his head." ”
Folk homicides, there are often nails driven into people's Baihui, because there is hair covered, it is not easy to be found, but experienced people will look at the top of the deceased's head when conducting an autopsy.
After Twilight touched it, there were indeed no nails on the top of her head, and there were no injuries on the corpse, which did look like she had died suddenly.
"Didn't you make a mistake, did you?" The old man asked.
"When you arrived in the prison, you were lying on your stomach?" Twilight didn't answer the rhetorical question.
"Yes. When the old decay came, the man lay on his stomach beside the stone bed, lying prone in the hay, and he was already stiff. The old man replied.
Twilight nodded, looked at him deeply, said no more, and turned to leave.
Yuan Xiu was stunned for a while, and when he chased him out, Du Qing had already arrived at the gate of Yizhuang, and before he could ask, Du Qing said: "You will send someone to look at this corpse today, and tomorrow when you go to court, you will say that I have examined the body, and it is indeed a sudden death." The deceased is the greatest, and since the person is dead, he sent someone to send a message to the family members of the magistrate of Fengxian County, so that they can bring the body back for burial. ”
Hearing this, there was a deep meaning, and Yuan Xiu couldn't figure out what medicine was sold in Duqing's gourd for a while, Dusk Qing didn't explain, and went all the way back to the Governor's Mansion.
The family members of the magistrate of Fengxian County are in Yuezhou, and it takes three days for the hidden guards to go to Shengjing and Fengxian, but the footsteps of ordinary people are not so fast, at least five or six days.
On five or six days, she asked the murderer to appear automatically! ――
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This chapter from yesterday.