After the old eagle left, Gong Chengyan stood in the messy ancestral hall, he was still thinking about the words of the old eagle in his mind, for some reason, he was very disturbed by those words, thinking of the old eagle said, 'the evidence left by the old man', he couldn't calm down.

Gong Chengyan paced back and forth in the ancestral hall, thinking back to the situation when he died last night, in addition to the scars on his hands, what did he leave behind?

"Master, after Elder Ying left, the carriage went to the Hou Mansion, and it seems that he will not leave for a while." The little guy went into the house to report.

Gong Chengyan frowned, looked at everything in the room again, and ordered: "Let people clean up this place, everything is arranged according to the original arrangement, and no business trip can be deviated anywhere." ”

The little servant should be, and he hurriedly went out to call someone to come in and clean up, while Gong Chengyan waited by the side until everything in the ancestral hall was restored to its original state, and then he ordered everyone to retreat, let his personal entourage guard outside, and open the secret room and walk in by himself.

There was no trace of anyone entering the secret room, and there was no trace of any struggle, Gong Chengyan paced back and forth in it twice, and finally picked up the fire candle on the wall, looked around in the small secret room again, and walked until he walked to the 'Gong Chengyan' spiritual position card, only to be attracted by the incense burner filled with incense ash.

The finger prints in the incense burner made him suspicious, and he reached out and took it inside, and after a while, he finally showed a mocking smile, and after his hand was stretched out again, a jade pendant stained with incense ash appeared in his hand.

Gong Chengyan recognized this jade pendant, those four old things, each of them had one, which could be said to be a jade pendant that symbolized their identity. It seems that the Eagle Elder means this jade pendant, and the Eagle Elder must have noticed that the jade pendant that he carried with him was missing, so he said with such certainty that the Elder Chang left evidence.

"Haha--old immortal. When you are dying, you still want to harm me, I am no longer the beggar you brought back in the first place, but thank you for the reminder, otherwise how would I have found such an important clue. Gong Chengyan smiled, put away the jade pendant, walked out of the secret room, and then restored everything to its original state.

Princess Haining has been asking the ghost slave to pay attention to the changes in the Hou Mansion, so after the eagle went to the Hou Mansion. She knew the news right away, and told the ghost slave to keep an eye on her, especially what the room had said and done. All things must be reported to her.

Elder Eagle was helped into the house by Ling Yi and Gong Xiru to rest, Gong Xiru found that Elder Eagle's face was not very good, and said with concern: "Is the old ancestor unwell?" Or rest in bed and wait for dinner to be ready. I'll call you up again. ”

"No need. I can't sleep. Elder Eagle waved his hand, not wanting to lie on the bed, so Ling Yi asked Ori Yu to spread the cushion on the chair to make Elder Eagle sit more comfortably.

"I heard that His Royal Highness is already in charge of the investigation of this murder?" Elder Ying asked Gong Xiru.

Gong Xiru nodded: "The Fourth Highness is indeed already starting an investigation, don't worry too much about the old ancestor, it is impossible for the murderer to leave no clues." In fact, Ji Laozhong's poison already has another clue. ”

Elder Ying looked shocked: "Didn't you already find the Tooth Flower plant in Ling Mansion, is there still one?" Although I know that this is framed by someone, I can spend it in Lingfu. was found by Luo Hui on the spot, it was really indefinite. ”

Ling Yi said with a smile: "God also has eyes." The growth of the tooth flower is extremely strict, and it cannot be separated from the soil for half a moment, and to refine its poison, the flowers must be cut at the moment when the flowers bloom, so before Ji Lao was poisoned, the murderer must have planted the teeth in his own yard in order to facilitate the picking of flowers.

But they must not have imagined that before the flower bloomed, even the surrounding soil would seep into the toxins.

Therefore, wherever the tooth has been planted, the plant within one zhang will dry up and die, and the toxin will not flow away for three years, that is, even if other plants are planted, they will die within a day.

The tooth poison is all in the flowers, and a plant has no toxicity at all. By the time the tooth flower was transplanted to my Ruomeng Pavilion, the flower had already withered.

After the flowers, it was just an ordinary plant, so there was no damage to the plants in my yard. ”

Eagle Lao didn't seem to understand, and asked tentatively: "If you find the place where the tooth flower was first planted, where it will explain everything?" ”

Ling Yi nodded, with a determined smile in his tone: "I can already determine where the flowers grow, now that it's getting late, I'll go tell His Royal Highness the Fourth Highness tomorrow." ”

After hearing this, Eagle Lao was still a little uneasy: "This poisonous soil alone can explain everything?" What if they come and don't admit it? ”

"What's so difficult about this, it is convenient for His Royal Highness to enter and leave the palace, and he directly brought the imperial doctor to check and find out, the toxins in the soil, the imperial doctor naturally has a way to identify them, and when the time comes, everything will be revealed."

Ying Lao was excited when he heard this, coughed a few times, and said unsteadily: "It would be good if this was the case, the murderer would no longer be at large, and the second and third children would be blind if they knew about it." As he spoke, he began to weep again.

Gong Xiru noticed that there were some blood stains on the corners of his mouth, and hurriedly asked, "Old Ancestor, are you injured?" ”

"Don't get in the way, you can't die, I was punched by that brute." Eagle Lao rubbed his chest with a faint pain, "That beast still doesn't know that he is in danger, and the third child's jade pendant is not on his body, so I know that he must have left the jade pendant in the ancestral hall."

At that time, as long as His Royal Highness asks the fourth highness to lead someone to search the ancestral hall, he will definitely be able to find the jade pendant of the third child, once that time, he will be speechless. ”

The ghost slave listened to the conversation in the house clearly, and said that the big thing was not good, so he immediately withdrew back to the palace and told Princess Haining everything he heard.

After hearing this, Princess Haining angrily scolded: "Didn't you confirm that you didn't leave any clues?" Why haven't you noticed something so important? ”

The ghost slave was also annoyed: "The subordinates only noticed that all the evidence of Teng Shuge was cleared, but I didn't expect that woman to know so much, before the teeth bloomed, a huge toxin would indeed be produced in the soil, I thought no one would know, no-"

Seeing that Princess Haining's face was getting more and more ugly, the ghost slave hung his head and didn't dare to continue.

"Useless stuff. Waste--" Princess Haining grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it at the ghost slave, "What are you doing in a daze, waiting for those people to come tomorrow to catch you?" Don't hurry up and deal with it! ”

The ghost slave endured the sharp pain of being smashed by a teacup. Said respectfully: "The subordinates will deal with it, please rest assured, the evidence left by the other lord is also-"

"I'll tell my father about this, and you go and dispose of the pile of waste in the courtyard first." Princess Haining snorted coldly and went out to Bihetang to find Gong Chengyan.

After telling Gong Chengyan about the evidence left by the elder Chang, the latter did not look in a hurry. Princess Haining wondered: "Did my father already know?" ”

Gong Chengyan smiled proudly: "That old guy wants to calculate me, I want him to lose his wife and soldiers, you just need to deal with your side of the matter." I want you not only to deal with the evidence, but also to make his surname Ling speechless, as for me here, you don't have to care. ”

"I know how to do it." Princess Haining sneered. Now that Gong Chengyan is already sure, she doesn't have to worry about it anymore.

After going back. The ghost slave had already packed a large bag of dirt in a burlap bag. It looks like it's going to be thrown away.

Princess Haining Senran asked, "Do you know where to lose it?" ”

The ghost slave sneered: "The subordinates know, the princess can rest assured, the subordinates will not disappoint the princess this time." After saying that, he left the palace with a bag of soil, and looked at the direction, but he was heading towards the Ling Mansion.

At this time, it was already dark, and the ghost slave quietly came to the backyard of Ruomeng Pavilion, after Ling Yi got married, Ruomeng Pavilion was unoccupied. So there is no need to worry about being found out.

He found the place where the tooth had been planted and plucked all the plants around it. Then sprinkle a bag of dirt all around.

After doing all this, the ghost slave wiped the sweat from his forehead with great satisfaction, but just as he was about to leave, many torches suddenly appeared in the courtyard, illuminating the surroundings as if it were day, and he was exposed in the light without warning.

The ghost slave was panicked for a moment, and immediately pulled the face towel on his face up, but fortunately, he was wearing a night suit and a mask on his face, so he was not seen by these people.

He looked up at the roof, said that it was too late, and when he was fast, he jumped up to the roof with a thud with a thud on his toes, but before he could stand firm under his feet, he was punched in the head, and he was dizzy and dizzy in pain, and he staggered under his feet and did not stand firmly, and rolled directly from the roof to the ground with a plop.

The ghost slave was in severe pain, he could feel that he had broken at least two ribs, and if he continued like this, he must not be the opponent of the man on the roof, so he immediately changed his route, and chose the nearest guards as a breakthrough point, trying to rush out.

Qi Mo could see his thoughts at a glance, and shouted loudly: "Archers prepare." ”

As soon as the words fell, behind the guards holding torches, two more teams appeared, one team held shields, one team held bows and arrows, and the three elements cooperated with each other to surround the ghost slaves in a circle, and the archers set up bows and arrows, and saw Qi Mo's gestures down, and immediately fired arrows towards the ghost slave in the middle.

At this time, in the Hou Mansion, Gong Xiru and Ling Yi were having dinner with Ying Lao, there were not many people in the Hou Mansion, Gong Sheng and the others were waiting in the dining room, so that there were no people in other places, except for a few patrolling guards and busy maids.

Gong Ermao sneaked into the backyard of the Hou Mansion with his waist on his waist, because he had learned about the terrain of the Hou Mansion in advance, and he didn't have much effort to find the courtyard where Gong Xiru and Ling Yi lived.

There was no one at the gate of the courtyard at all, he was a little inexplicably worried in his heart, he hid outside the courtyard gate and waited for a while, but he didn't see anyone coming out inside, is there really no one in the heart of the courtyard? !

He threw a stone into the courtyard without giving up, and the stone made a knocking sound on the bluestone, but he didn't wait for someone to come out of the house, it seems that there is really no one, Gong Er was secretly happy in his heart, and quickly touched into the courtyard and came to the door of the main house.

It was pitch black in the room, and he couldn't hear any sound, and he was completely sure that there was definitely no one in the house, so he carefully pushed open the door and crept in on tiptoe.

"Poof-" A thumb-sized flame lit up in the house, but it was Miyaji who blew the fire and illuminated a small part of the house.

There was a dressing table next to the bed, and with a sneer on his face, he walked straight over to open Ling Yi's jewelry box, and something he put into the box.

"Since you want to send something, why don't you send it openly, what do you do so secretly, in case there is no one in this house, don't you know who sent it." Suddenly, there was a sound in the room that seemed to be laughing but not laughing.

Gong Er's hand shook in fright, and the fire broke to the ground, and it was extinguished with a pop, and the room fell into darkness again.

He stood there with bated breath, terrified to death, but there was no sound in the room, as if he had just misheard.

Could it really just be that I misheard? Gong Er was puzzled and groped on the ground to find the fire fold, but when he reached out to test it, his hand was grabbed by a pair of cold hands without warning. Gong Er screamed in fright and fell backwards with a thud.

Poof, there was a little fire in the house, and after a while, more and more fires were burning in the house, and when Gong Er came back from the fright and stood up, what he saw was the guards in the room, and Luo Hui standing in front of him.

Luo Hui blew out the fire fold in his hand with a snort, threw it on Gong Er's body, and circled around him with a sigh: "It's late at night, and you still come to give gifts to the Hou Ye and Mrs. for your master?" I don't know what kind of gift it is, I'll see-"

As he spoke, he was about to rummage through Ling Yi's jewelry box, but Gong Er didn't know what to think, so he grabbed the jewelry box and turned around and ran out.

Luo Hui didn't chase after him, and waited with a smile for him to run to the door and stand by himself, because outside the door, he had already been surrounded by water.

"Say you're stupid, you're really not smart, you don't run, the official thought you were here to give gifts, but you turned around and ran, which made the official have to doubt——"

Luo Hui walked up to Gong Er, snatched the box that the latter was holding in his hand, and sneered: "You are running, judging from the official's many years of experience in handling cases, I feel that you have done something wrong, come, go back to the official and talk about what you are doing here so late." ”

Three or four people stepped forward and grabbed Gong Er left and right, so that he couldn't break free.

Gong Er's cold sweat flowed in a hurry, he was caught, he didn't have anything to do, he didn't know what to do, he thought about it, and then hurriedly said: "I am-I was sent by the master, and the lord is worried about the master-"

Oh no, the lord misses the Hou Ye, and this kind of thing happened again in the past two days, so the master asked me to invite the Hou Ye to go back to the palace to live for a while. ”

He talked incoherently nonsense, and the more he talked, the more panicked he became, because the ridicule and cat-and-mouse interest in Luo Hui's eyes let him know that no matter what he said now, it was in vain.

Luo Hui slapped Gong Er's face for a while, and said with a smile: "I won't say much else, just one sentence you said to the point, it was Gong Master who sent you." ”

Gong Er's face turned pale, and he looked at Luo Hui with wide eyes in horror.

"What are you doing staring at me, let's go, let's go back to the yamen and have a good chat, I remember that you kept saying that the Ling family and Ji Lao had a dispute before they separated, did you remember it wrong at the time? This Ling clan is a person with a soft personality, how can he argue with his elders. ”

Gong Er's face hung his head like ashes, and he let the guards take him away, but there was nothing he could do. (To be continued.) )