Hearing the news of Xue Xiang's suicide, Jing Ziyan's face turned cold, and he hurriedly took Liu Jingyi to the prison of the Criminal Division.

In the prison of the Yamen of the Criminal Division, Jiao Zhen was frowning, looking at Xue Xiang's corpse with a bitter expression. Seeing Jing Ziyan coming, before Jing Ziyan could salute, he hurriedly wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead and said, "Jing Han, you are here, how do you say this." ”

Looking at the corpse lying on the ground with blood stains on the corners of his mouth, Jing Ziyan couldn't help frowning, "My lord, when did Xue Xiang commit suicide?" ”

"Hey, after I returned to the Yamen, I wanted to come over to interrogate Xue Xiang and ask him about the silver taels, but when I came, I found that he was already like this." Jiao Zhen sighed softly, "I have already experienced corpses, and there are no other scars, so I did die by biting them." Now, the last clue is broken. ”

Liu Jingyi stepped forward again to carefully examine the corpse, looked at Jing Ziyan and shook his head gently: "Childe, there is no other smell, and there are no other obvious external injuries. ”

This excludes the possibility of poisoning, or being killed by someone else. "Perhaps, knowing that he could not survive, he committed suicide in fear of sin." Jiao Zhen said.

Jing Ziyan pursed his lips, walked into the cell, looked around carefully, and saw the straw mat spread on the ground, near the corner of the wall, there was a protrusion, he walked straight over, lifted the straw mat, and his eyes instantly changed color. It was a silver mask, but he remembered that when Xue Xiang was captured that day, this mask was taken away by the yamen as evidence in court.

Why is this mask here? He called the jailer who guarded the prison, "How many days have anyone come to visit the prison?" ”

The jailer thought about it carefully, and replied with certainty, "No, since Xue Xiang was imprisoned, no one has come to see him, not even a food deliverer." ”

Jing Ziyan carefully checked the other locations, and there was no trace, but how did this mask come in? Liu Jingyi saw that Jing Ziyan looked puzzled, so she stepped forward and took the mask to look at it again and again, and suddenly found that on the edge of the mask, there were several extremely small openings, distributed in different places on the edge of the mask, as if it was strangled by something.

"Childe, I feel that this mask looks like it has been strangled with something before, and there are small strangulation marks on the edges," Liu Jingyi said.

Hearing this, Jing Zi took the mask and looked at it carefully, and the edge of the mask seemed to have been strangled by something extremely fine, so that the strangulation marks appeared. "It should be silk threads to show this kind of trace."

"But ordinary silk threads will not make such small gaps."

"It's Ice Silk." Jing Ziyan said coldly. He carefully observed the prison where Xue Xiang lived, and there was a small skylight diagonally above it, which was so small that no one could enter, but things could be thrown in through the skylight.

With a slight leap of his body, he went up to the position of the skylight, and on the edge of the skylight, he found a large number of strangulation marks.

"Someone threw this mask into Xue Xiang through the skylight." Jing Ziyan said.

"Could it be that Xue Xiang committed suicide when he saw the mask? Jiao Zhen was puzzled and said, "What is the meaning of this surface?" ”

There are no other clues other than the strangulation marks. "Xue Xiang is dead, but he has left behind a bunch of puzzles. This mask, we can only slowly probe. Jiao Zhen said.

"Jing Han, it's getting late today, so you will stay in the yamen for one night."

Jing Ziyan nodded. followed Jiao Zhen out of the prison and returned to the yamen of the Criminal Division.

"Jing Han, now you have also seen it, this case is far from over, if Xue Xiang is caught, we can only say that we have found the murderer of Sun Xinglai, and we have also found the murderer who poisoned Miss Yan, and we can also give Lord Yan an explanation, but behind Xue Xiang, it doesn't seem to be simple." Jiao Zhen looked at Jing Ziyan with eager eyes, "This official hopes that you can continue to serve in the yamen and help this official continue to investigate the case, and I hope that there will be a helper like you by my side." ”

After speaking, Jiao Zhen bowed to Jing Ziyan to show his sincerity.

Jing Ziyan hurriedly returned the salute, "My lord, you are serious, the villain originally intended to be the criminal master by your side and find out the truth of the case." ”

"Good, good, so good." Jing Han nodded with satisfaction. Then he instructed Zhang Tao to "go and prepare a bedroom for Master Jing and Miss Liu." ”

"In the future, you can move to the city to live, so that it will be convenient to go back and forth to the yamen."

Jing Ziyan nodded. Then he took Liu Jingyi out of the main hall, walked through the long corridor, and walked in the direction of the bedroom.

"Childe, do you really want to come to the Yamen to be a master?" Liu Jingyi asked softly.

Jing Ziyan nodded, now, although Xue Xiang is dead, he has left a bunch of puzzles. What's more, do you really believe that the poison I was in was because Sun Xinglai mistakenly took the sachet originally prepared for Yan Zitong and gave it to Ruoxue?

Liu Jingyi shook her head.

Jing Ziyan sighed softly, "Let's go and rest early, and we'll move to the newly bought house tomorrow." ”

"Childe, I have something to ask Childe." Liu Jingyi said in a low voice.

"Oh, you say."

"Childe, I want to open a medical center, and now I have moved to the city, which is no better than in the village, where I can treat diseases and save people, and secondly, I can subsidize my family."

Jing Ziyan shook his head, "When, I still need you to subsidize the family." In the past two years, I have been in the medicinal herb business, and I have also made a lot of money, which is enough for my family's expenses. What's more, although I will be a master in the house in the future, I will let you continue to take care of this medicinal herb business. ”

"You are now skilled in medicine, and it is a pity that you don't use it to treat diseases and save people, I won't stop you if you want to open a medical center, but you only care about treating diseases and saving people, and you don't have to think about subsidizing your family." Jing Ziyan said.

"I have carefully observed our newly bought house, and there is a medical hall on the back, but because the doctor of the medical center has treated people to death before, it is now in decline, and the owner of the medical center wants to sell the medical hall out. When I turned around, I asked you to take down the medical hall, so that the front and back were opened, it was a big house, you went to the hospital during the day, and went back to your small hospital to rest at night. ”

"It turns out that Childe has already thought about it," Liu Jingyi said in surprise.

"No, it's just that when I went to see the house, I accidentally found that the back of the house was actually a medical hall. But I didn't take it to heart, and now that you're going to open a medical center, I naturally remember. Jing Ziyan said lightly. Go and rest, but you have to go out for treatment in the future, not as idle as now, you have to think about it yourself. ”

Liu Jingyi suppressed the ecstasy in her heart and said: "Childe, you raised Jingyi and cultivated Jingyi all the way, Jingyi is grateful in your heart, Jingyi has been a doctor since she was a child, and it is Jingyi's wish to be able to use this medical skill to treat diseases and save people, how can you be afraid of hardship and suffering." Jingyi must live up to the cultivation of the childe. ”

Jing Ziyan nodded. "Okay, you grew up beside me since you were a child, this kind of kind word, don't say more, go down and rest. Tomorrow when you move, I'll let Aunt Youxi go and take care of that medical hall for you. ”

Because she was wearing men's clothes, Liu Jingyi bowed to Jing Ziyan and exited Jing Ziyan's room.

On the second day, Jing Ziyan took leave from Jiao Zhen to take care of the move. Originally, everything had been sorted out, and it was only time to be loaded on the road, but Aunt Youxi felt that the move was a big deal, so she had to come back to preside over it in person. Aunt Yu Xi also deliberately found a feng shui gentleman and calculated an auspicious time, and at the auspicious time, Jing Ziyan stepped into the door of the new house on time, so that the move was completed.

Jing Ziyan waited outside the new house according to what Aunt Youxi said, Chai Ruoxue took Jing Hanwen in a carriage, Liu Jingyi and Zisu and Youxi in another carriage, and Mo Yu and Han Che followed behind the convoy one after the other to protect them.

Although the new house is in Shou'an Fang in the west of the city, Shou'an Fang does not have to be prosperous in the east of the city, but this house is in Shou'an Fang, in the binary portal, it is already superior, and the careful repair of the house by the young pity, the whole house has been renewed.

Jing Ziyan looked at the door of the new house and sighed slightly in his heart. The main entrance of the new house adopts the Ruyi door system, the shape is not high, this kind of door is not limited by rank, and can be decorated at will according to the owner's financial resources, and the general people are more commonly used.

In Dachen, the main entrance of the mansion has a strict system, and the main gate system used at different levels is different, and it cannot be built at will. In addition to the imperial palace, it is the palace gate system used by the royal palace, the Guangliang gate system used by the court officials, the generals used by the military marquis and generals, and the golden pillar gate system used by the general eunuchs. These establishments should not be used freely, otherwise they would be guilty of trespassing.

Generally, wealthy merchants mostly use the barbarian door, which is similar to the golden pillar door in form, and the size of the door opening is similar to the size of the golden pillar door, but this door is directly inlaid on the wall, and there is no room outside the door. The golden pillar door, the door is inlaid between the golden pillars of the front eaves, and there is a large foothold space outside the door.

There are four hairpins on the door frame of the barbarian door, which is generally written as rich and auspicious, meaning auspicious, and the four hairpins also symbolize the financial resources of the owner.

Although Jing Ziyan has been in the medicinal herb business in the past two years and has accumulated a lot of wealth, in order to keep a low profile, he did not choose this kind of barbarian door, but chose the Ruyi gate used by ordinary people.

Thinking that the owner of the original house should be an extremely elegant person, although the main gate is not gorgeous, but it is also exquisite and elegant, not losing the barbarian door used by rich merchants. This door is two feet eight wide, located in the middle of the two gatehouses, made a large area of brick carving on the lintel, in the position of hanging, the eaves of the first floor, the bead mix, semi-mixed, the cover plate, the railing pillar of the column, carved the four gentlemen of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum, by the five steps to connect the door with the ground outside the door, on the top of the door of the clear water ridge, there is also decorated with a scorpion tail. On the hairpin under the lintel, the word Ruyi is written.

On the lintel of the upper room, on the new log-colored plaque, the word Jing Zhai is written in pitch-black ink.

Looking at this wishful door, they have come to the door of the new house. "Childe, the auspicious time has come, you can enter the door." As he spoke, Youxi stepped forward to open the door of the new house for Jing Ziyan.

Jing Ziyan stepped into the door with a little nervousness, and he knew that from the moment he stepped through this door, his life had changed.