After hearing this, Xiao Qisheng nodded: "Since this is the case, then follow your wishes." First of all, bring the repair drawings to His Highness to see. ”

The craftsman handed over the final draft of the drawing, and Xiao Qisheng said while looking at it: "That's it." ”

After that, Xiao Qisheng handed over the main task of repair to those technicians and construction personnel. Xiao Qisheng is only responsible for supervising the construction on site every day, and constantly checks the progress of the renovation of the annex and the quality of the annex under repair.

Since taking over this task, Xiao Qisheng has been raising his heart every day and doing everything himself, for fear that Xiao Qiming will find some gap to catch him off guard.

But even if it's day and night, things that shouldn't happen still happen.

The night before the royal annex was about to be repaired, the chief craftsman in charge of the repair suddenly came to the palace in a panic to find Xiao Qisheng.

Xiao Si didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly brought him in to see Xiao Qisheng.

As soon as the master craftsman saw Xiao Qisheng, he immediately knelt down: "Your Royal Highness, the repair drawings of the Royal Palace have suddenly disappeared, and I have searched through the entire repair site and have not found them." ”

Xiao Qisheng was furious after hearing this. If the drawings are lost, it means that the repair work is exposed, and people with ulterior motives only need to do a little bit according to the procedures on the drawings, then the failure of the repair work will be all his fault Xiao Qisheng.

"No wonder Xiao Qiming blocked the full text of the military officials at the beginning and said that he would hand over all the work to him!" Xiao Qisheng remembered what Xiao Qiming had said, and a cold sweat instantly appeared on his back.

"What about the person in charge of the drawings?" Xiao Qisheng stood up with a grim expression.

"All of them were killed." The master craftsman lay on the ground, trembling.

Things have come to this point, Xiao Qisheng has no other way, and now the expedient measure is to enter the palace immediately and report this matter to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the drawings for repairing the royal palace today have been stolen, and all the people in charge of the drawings have also been killed. Now, the finishing work of the repair cannot be completed on time, please ask the emperor to surrender! Seeing Emperor Liang Wen, Xiao Qisheng knelt down directly and asked him for his guilt.

"Drawings stolen, people killed?" Emperor Wen Liang was immediately furious when he heard this, and directly grabbed the celadon cup next to him and threw it on the ground: "Since something happened, let's investigate it well!" I have three days for you to find out all the circumstances of this matter, and find out who is behind it, and bring him alive to see me. ”

"Son's Honor!"

Because of Xiao Qiming's shirk at the beginning, the main person in charge of the repair work is only Xiao Qisheng.

After the story of the theft of drawings and the killing of people came out, Xiao Qiming even let go of his responsibilities and shirked his responsibilities, and said in front of Emperor Liang Wendi: "Since this incident happened when the sixth brother was in charge, then the sixth brother should investigate this matter." ”

Xiao Qisheng listened, knew that he was wrong, and did not refute, but quietly stood in front of Emperor Liang Wen with his head down.

Emperor Wen Liang saw Xiao Qiming's shirk, although he was displeased with him, but Xiao Qisheng should indeed be fully responsible for this matter, after thinking about it, he said: "The two of you should be responsible for repairing the royal palace, Qisheng is because you don't understand the burden for you, and now, you should also share the burden for him!" ”

So Emperor Wen of Liang ordered Xiao Qiming and Xiao Qisheng to jointly find out the matter.

The bodies of the men in charge of guarding the drawings were sent to the government office, and the coroner carefully examined several of the people who had been killed, and found that they had all been poisoned with ecstasy on the night of the crime.

"Ecstasy?" Xiao Qisheng looked at the coroner and asked suspiciously.

"Yes, Your Highness. And the difference between this Ecstasy incense and ordinary Ecstasy incense is that his fragrance will make people hallucinate, and they will be deeply immersed in it, and even if they wake up, they can't tell what the real reality is. Another thing is very special, one of the spices of this ecstasy incense is very rare, it is only produced in the Western Regions, and the number of them in the capital is only a handful. The coroner knelt to answer Xiao Qisheng's doubts.

"In that case, let's start with this spice." Xiao Qisheng closed his eyes, leaned on the back of the chair, and thought quietly.

After a while, Xiao Qisheng opened his eyes and said, "Xiao Si, go and check the information of all the merchants in the Western Regions in the capital in a year. If you find out, report it to me. ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Xiao Si immediately went out to check.

However, Xiao Si used all his connections and manpower and material resources, but he did not find any record of selling this spice.

"No records? Either no one really needed it, or someone deliberately erased all the records. Xiao Qisheng listened to Xiao Si's report and guessed.

However, both of these possibilities are too small. How could no one need such a good ecstasy incense? Moreover, even if the records are erased, it is impossible to leave them without clues.

"Go check the information on the smuggling side." Xiao Qisheng commanded again.

But Xiao Si secretly disguised himself and visited and investigated for a few days, but he didn't find that there was a trade in this spice, and even most people had never heard of this spice.

"However, we found out that when the envoys from the Western Regions came to our Great Liang Kingdom to pay tribute the year before last, one of the tributes was this spice. It's just that this spice was rewarded by the emperor to the favored ladies in the palace. Xiao Si suddenly told Xiao Qisheng the news.

"Speaking of this spice, a few days ago, when Zhao Lingshu, the concubine of the Duke of Weiguo, was summoned to the palace by Cui Guifei, she was given to her by Cui Guifei." Xiao Qiming, who had already planned to be the shopkeeper, suddenly appeared on this day, saying that he wanted to investigate the case with Xiao Qisheng.

After listening to Xiao Qiming's words, Xiao Qisheng still had a trace of doubt in his heart, and he felt that this was Xiao Qiming's deception to him. However, Xiao Qiming didn't say much, just an expression of love or disbelief.

"I've told you the clues, and next, let's trouble the sixth brother to continue to investigate the case." Xiao Qiming said, got up from the chair, stroked the crumpled clothes on his body, and Shi Shiran walked out of the room.

After Xiao Qiming left, Xiao Qisheng immediately wrote a letter for Xiao Si to hand over to Zhao Lingshu.

Zhao Lingshu got the letter and opened it, and there was only one sentence on it: "Did Concubine Cui Guifei send you spices a few days ago?" ”

After reading this sentence, Zhao Lingshu looked confused: "What does this mean?" How can this question be asked all of a sudden? ”

Doubts are questions, Zhao Lingshu still replied.

Xiao Qisheng, who was affirmed by Zhao Lingshu, finally let go of his vigilance against Xiao Qiming, and immediately sent Xiao Si to investigate all of Zhao Lingshu's whereabouts in the past few days.

The three-day deadline has arrived, but Xiao Qisheng has not found out anything yet.

On the morning of the third day, when he went to the court, Xiao Qiming knelt down directly in the court and played Emperor Wen of Liang: "Your Majesty, the case of the theft of repair documents, my sixth brother and I have not yet seen an eyebrow. It's just that we found that there was a kind of ecstasy incense from the Western Regions in the bodies of those who were killed. Chen thoroughly investigated this ecstasy incense and found one of the special spices, which all the merchants of the Western Regions had no record of selling. Only, a few days ago, the princess of Weiguo gave this spice to Concubine Cui Guifei. Chen dared to guess that the concubine of the Duke of Weiguo, Zhao Lingshu, was the mastermind behind this murder! ”

"Wei Guogong? Zhao Lingshu? After listening to Xiao Qiming's performance, Emperor Liang Wendi did not immediately speak. Now that the Patriotic Princesses are powerful, it is reckless to believe in either side at will.

"What? Zhao Lingshu is behind the scenes? Xiao Qisheng, who was thinking about finding clues, heard the news from Xiao Si's eyeliner in the palace, and finally understood why Xiao Qiming suddenly mentioned Zhao Lingshu having spices yesterday.

"Xiao Si, prepare the horse to go to the palace!" Xiao Qisheng immediately rushed out and rushed to the palace without stopping.

"Father, now all the clues have pointed to Zhao Lingshu, and the son took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the Weiguo Mansion to arrest Zhao Lingshu and thoroughly investigate the reason for the theft and murder!"

As soon as Xiao Qisheng entered the palace, he heard Xiao Qiming kneeling on the main hall and saying to Emperor Liang Wen.

Xiao Qisheng hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down, saluted Emperor Wen Liang, and then took out information about Zhao Lingshu from his sleeve.

"Father, Zhao Lingshu is just an ordinary eldest lady of a family, and she rarely even goes out to the Weiguo Mansion, how could she become the mastermind behind the murder of thieves? Besides, the spices in her hands were also given to him by Cui Guifei, if they were used to kill people, wouldn't it be a thief shouting to catch a thief? There must be some misunderstanding in this, please check it out! Xiao Qisheng leaned over and kowtowed, his voice loud.

Emperor Liang Wendi flipped through the information about Zhao Lingshu presented by Xiao Qisheng and carefully examined it. Originally, he was skeptical of Xiao Qiming's statement that Zhao Lingshu was the mastermind behind the scenes, but now looking at Xiao Qisheng's evidence, how did an innocent girl become a murderer? I don't believe Xiao Qiming.

At the end, Emperor Liang Wen found that Zhao Lingshu often went to the medicine building today, and he was very close to the people in the medicine building.

What is the reason for a young lady from a family to go to an organization on the rivers and lakes? Emperor Liang Wendi became suspicious again.

"This Zhao Lingshu, I go to the medicine building very often today." Emperor Liang Wen slowly closed the evidence and spoke.

"I heard that Zhao Lingshu is very interested in the art of Qi Huang, and has always wanted to worship Yao Wuwu, the master of the Yao Loulou, as a teacher, but Yao Wuwu has always avoided it." Xiao Qisheng explained to Zhao Lingshu.

"Oh? Most of the people who practice medicine are men, and she is also interested in this as a noble lady of a family? It's really rare. After listening to Xiao Qisheng's explanation, Emperor Liang Wendi had great curiosity about Zhao Lingshu in his heart.

"Father, since Zhao Lingshu is close to Yaolou, doesn't it mean that she is inseparable from the murder of thieves?" Seeing that Xiao Qisheng had almost cleared his suspicion of Zhao Lingshu, Xiao Qiming was anxious and wanted to continue to place charges against Zhao Lingshu.

"Don't say it." Emperor Wen Liang patiently interrupted Xiao Qiming's words, "I can see if Zhao Lingshu is suspicious." It's you, who are in a hurry to convict Zhao Lingshu before you find out, do you want to find out the case, or do you want to bring down the Weiguo family? Get out of here, and from today onwards, be confined in your own house for a month, and don't come out without my permission! ”

"Son's Honor." Seeing this, Xiao Qiming didn't dare to say anything more, so he could only agree.

Xiao Qiming stood up from the ground, and when he turned to leave, he glanced at Xiao Qisheng viciously: "Xiao Qisheng, you wait for me!" Then he went out of the palace.

"Go on, what else did you find?" After Xiao Qiming left, Emperor Liang Wendi's anger subsided a little, and then asked Xiao Qisheng about the process of the murder case.

Xiao Qisheng reported the progress of the case to Emperor Liang Wendi, who knew that after hearing this, Emperor Liang Wendi said very unhappily: "The three-day deadline has arrived, and you have checked these things?" Such an unsuccessful investigation is enough to prove that you are not effective! ”

"The minister is guilty." Xiao Qisheng hurriedly bowed his head and admitted his mistake.