Chapter 163: The Strange Book of Shang

"Oh? Key? Liu Zhaoqi said: "Have you checked?" ”

"The minister has asked his subordinates to check, it is not the key of the Su family, and Lord Su has no mansion outside, so the minister can't figure it out!" Zhang Fen is in his fifties, but he is still very tough and has a clear voice.

Liu Zhaoluo pondered: "I have to tell Yang Zhen these things, I can trust him, he is dedicated to solving the case for Master Su, and he will definitely find out." ”

After discussing the case for a while, the three of them quit the palace.

Sui'er brought Liu Zhao tea after the meal and said, "Your Majesty, do you remember Li Xia?" ”

Liu Zhao put down the teacup and said, "Of course I remember, he also saved my life, but his martial arts are extraordinary." ”

Sui'er smiled and said: "He is not only martial arts, but his knowledge is not ordinary, he is proficient in easy reasoning, and his knowledge is good!" ”

"Oh! Does Sui'er want me to reuse him? Liu Zhao took the sweat towel handed over by Sui'er, wiped his face and asked.

"Your Majesty, Sui'er is not casually boasting, Brother Li does have something extraordinary. Sui'er didn't let His Majesty seal him at will, now Yang Zhen wants to solve this case, Sui'er thought, he is a literati, and there is no one around him to protect him, if he encounters a strong enemy, what danger is there, what can he do? Brother Li is the one who can be used, so wouldn't it be helpful to let him follow Lord Yang? ”

Liu Zhao nodded, "Yes, Sui'er is reasonable, if you don't say it, I just omitted this issue, Yang Zhen is not afraid of it is one thing, and whether he can deal with these people is another thing." Okay, I'll have someone summon Li Xia! ”

Sui'er smiled and said, "Your Majesty, since Sui'er and Your Majesty mentioned Brother Li, I want to talk to Your Majesty about another person." Can you please give this person to Sui'er! ”

"Oh? Who are you talking about? Liu Zhao was very surprised, Sui'er usually didn't ask him for anything, but now he wanted someone with him.

"It was Zhou Bo, the chief manager of the Queen Mother's side, and a few days ago, Manager Sun and Sui'er mentioned that after the death of the Queen Mother, the emperor originally asked the queen to settle him well, and the queen may have forgotten. And they sent him to sweep away the temple. Sun Jue cried as soon as he mentioned it. People are old and useless, and they still do these menial jobs. In this palace is the sorrow of the white-headed man. The concubine was sad when she heard this, and asked the emperor to give me a favor and let Zhou Bo come to my West Palace, although I can't let him be a manager or anything. can always let him retire and be comfortable. It's better than letting him clean the palace in his old age! Sui'er said, and her eyes turned red.

Liu Zhao heard her sad, so he took her hand and said: "I originally asked the queen to assign him a light living pension, but who knew that the queen misunderstood what I meant. Let him do the heavy work, since you said so, how can I not agree? Sun Jue! ”

He called. Sun Jue appeared at the door and came in to give a salute. Liu Zhao said: "You are a kind person, God will give you a good reward, pass on my will, let Zhou Bo come to the West Palace to do things, no need to clean the palace." ”

"Emperor Xie!" Sun Jue knelt down and thanked him, glanced at Sui'er gratefully, and turned around and went out.

"I'm tired, Sui'er should serve me for a rest meeting!" Liu Zhao looked at the figure he went out and sighed, "I feel that there are a lot of things going on today, and I am really exhausted!" ”

Sui'er hurriedly instructed Zhao Yu and the others to make up the bed, and then went back to the apse with Liu Zhao to rest.

After Li Xia was summoned to the palace, he came to see Yang Zhen non-stop, and Yang Zhen had just come out of the court hall and happened to meet him. Li Xia gave a salute and said: "Lord Yang, Li Xia was ordered by the emperor to assist the adult in handling the case, and asked the adult to give him a lot of advice." ”

Yang Zhen looked at Li Xia, and saw that he was burly, with a sword on his body, and a long scar on his face, so he thought he was a martial artist, so he only snorted and said, "Okay, since it was sent by the emperor, you can follow!" ”

"My lord, are you going to Lord Su's mansion?" Li Xia asked.

"yes!" Yang Zhen responded casually, and had already mounted his horse, and a team of soldiers followed behind.

Li Xia said: "My lord, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not!" ”

"Oh? You say! Yang Zhen glanced down at him.

"My lord, there are two kinds of investigations, one is to lead a team to investigate the scene, and the other is to investigate the scene secretly, at that time, a division has already sent someone to investigate, my lord is here, it must be a secret investigation, if you bring so many soldiers, is it still called a secret investigation?"

Yang Zhen was taken aback, and then he was impressed by Li Xia, and said to the people behind: "You don't have to follow, you will meet at the Tingwei Division at night." ”

Then he said to Li Xia: "Then Master Li will go with the lower officials to check!" ”

Li Xia nodded, also got on the horse, and the two rode away.

Su Youfang's home was behind the Taicang Gate, and the two of them didn't speak all the way, only feeling that the cold wind was blowing in their ears, and their whole bodies were cold. When I arrived at Su Youfang's house, I saw that the mourning hall had been set up, and there was an endless stream of worshippers.

Yang Zhen saw that his heart was sour, and he was about to cry again, so he endured his grief and got off the horse, first went to the mourning hall to worship, cried for a while, and saw that Su Youfang's wife Zheng had cried into a tearful person, so he comforted him a few words and asked, "Is Lord Su's body in the coffin?" ”

Zheng was a woman who had never read a book, where did she know so many things, so she only cried: "It has been put in the coffin of the Lord." ”

Yang Zhen nodded and said: "I came to investigate the case by the emperor's order, when I entered Beijing on the order of my mother, I was the same apprentice as Youfang, and I will do my best to find out the real murderer for him and avenge it, what do you have to say, just say it to me." ”

Zheng nodded, his heart was sour, he got up and took Yang Zhen to the backyard, pointed to a house and said: "This is the master's study, what he used to do in it, I never asked, and I didn't know anything, I only cleaned it for him every day." I can't read, so if you want to see it, go in and see it. ”

"Mrs. Su, what did you say to you when you came back?" Li Xia asked.

He didn't say anything, only said that he was too tired, he wanted to rest early, and early tomorrow morning, he would go to the court to hand over the evidence of the crime to the emperor. So saying, he went into the study, and came out after a long time. After eating, they went into the back hall to rest. Who knows—" She said this, and began to weep sadly.

Li Xia and Yang Zhen glanced at each other, and both of them understood that there must be something strange in the study, so they thanked Zheng and entered the study to check.

The study is not big. Outside the window, the four walls are full of dill, enter the study, and see an incense burner in the room, the incense is swirling, like the reverberating sound of the piano, which leads people to the meditation of the mountains and flowing water. Bring people into the realm of vast clarity.

The room has a rich collection of books. Poetry and painting, four blessings in the study, several cases of screen shelves. All are elegant and elegant, with their own taste.

Yang Zhen said to Li Xia: "You and I will each take a look, and if we see something strange, we will inform each other." ”

"Whoa!" Li Xia agreed. He bowed respectfully and began to look inside the room. Yang Zhen was extremely satisfied with Li Xia. This person is not only polite, but also extremely intelligent, and more importantly, he understands what is important and what can be put down. This is the good assistant I need.

Li Xia saw that there were as many as three or five wall bottles in the room. Flower arrangement at four o'clock, but also elegant, wall music hanging guqin. There are a few in the middle, and there are lacquer niches on the several. Zongbroom, iron Ruyi, although not luxurious, but extremely quiet. Four carved screens are blocked in front of a couch, and there is only a thin quilt and a stone pillow on the couch, and there is nothing.

He picked up the stone pillow casually, shook it, and saw that it was not hollow, so he put it down again, and turned his head to see that there was also a wall bottle next to the couch, but there were no flowers in it, only a book. Except when I picked it up and looked at it, it was "Shangshu". I thought it was because Su Youfang usually reads, so he put it next to the couch so that it was convenient to read, and he was about to put it down, but he suddenly noticed that after the book was rolled up, there were many small ink dots next to it, he was very strange, so he looked carefully and found that it was not leaked when writing, the small dots were not irregular, and he couldn't see what it was!

He took it and came to Yang Zhen and said, "Lord Yang, I find this scroll a little strange. ”

"Weird?" Yang Zhen took it and looked at it, and also saw the ink spots, so he asked, "What are these ink spots?" ”

"I also found it strange, so I showed it to adults!" Li Xia opened the scroll and put it on the desk, and found that it was just some irregular dots, and there was still nothing special.

Yang Zhen said: "I checked for a long time, but I didn't find anything!" Could it be that this book is the key? ”

"This scroll must be what Master Su usually reads, it has been polished very smooth, and it is placed on the couch, so I think it is strange. Is this a message left by Master Su? Li Xia frowned and analyzed.

Yang Zhen nodded and said, "Yes, but how can you know the meaning of these small dots?" ”

At this time, I suddenly saw Zheng coming from outside and said: "Two adults, there is an adult named Li He outside, saying that he is waiting for the two of them and has something to discuss." ”

"Li He?" Li Xia was overjoyed when he heard this, he knew that Li He must have come to assist on Liu Qing's orders, and with this person's help, the case would definitely go very smoothly.

The two came out of the study with books, but they met Lieutenant Lu Lin, who smiled and said, "Isn't this Lord Yang?" Xiao Ke came to worship, but he didn't expect to meet Lord Yang, who had heard the good name of the adult before, and knew that the adult came to Beijing, so he had the opportunity to see it. ”

Yang Zhen remembered the case in his heart, and he didn't have time to listen to his greetings, so he only coped with one sentence: "I just entered Beijing, may I ask who the adult is?" ”

"He's Lieutenant Lu Lin!" Li He came out from behind Lu Lin and said with a grin.

"It turned out to be the lieutenant, thank you for your concern, my emperor is here, please forgive me." He casually put the book into his sleeve and glanced at Li He. He had just met Li He and knew that he was the person next to King Qinghe, and he also knew his special identity from Zhang Fen's words. He saluted very respectfully and said, "Lord Li, I don't know if King Qinghe has any orders!" ”

Li Xia said: "Lord Li, did the prince ask the lord to help solve the case?" ”

Li He smiled: "Exactly, what Li Xia said is all right." He looked at Yang Zhen and noticed his small movements, so he nodded at Li Xia, "Two, this is the mourning hall, you can't speak loudly, there is a wine shop in front, let's go there and talk!" ”

That Lu Lin was cold, and he had to smile awkwardly: "Then how about a treat?" ”

Li Xia was very annoyed when he saw that this person was mixed up, and said coldly: "Lord Lieutenant, a few of us are analyzing the case, since the adults are here to worship, let's pay a good worship here, I think we don't have time to talk to the adults!" ”

When he said this, he saw that Li He had already pulled Yang Zhen out, so he ignored him, and then followed out.

Lu Lin looked at their figures coldly, and turned back to the person who followed behind: "Go follow them, see what evidence they find, and come back and report to me." (To be continued)