Chapter 55: Death

Duanmu Rui didn't say anything, he hugged her waist from behind, rested his head on her neck, and breathed hard the fragrance coming from her collar.

Feeling Duanmu Rui's scorching breathing, Su Wanyan was so nervous that she couldn't say anything, "You, what are you going to do?" You wouldn't be, you wouldn't have been drugged, would you? ”

Su Wanyan grabbed Duanmu Rui's tiger mouth and broke it out, Duanmu Rui retracted his hand in pain, and Su Wanyan temporarily broke away from his control.

"Do you want me to ......?"

Before she finished her sentence, she was pulled into her arms by Duanmu Rui again, lowered her head and kissed her mouth accurately.

She struggled a few times, but Duanmu Rui's hands were tightly clasped around her body, and she couldn't move at all.

The hot snort hit her nose, and her mouth was also hot, Su Wanyan felt that she couldn't breathe, and her brain soon became confused.

By the time she found out, Duanmu Rui's hand had already reached into the hem of her robe, going all the way up her waist, bringing a layer of trembling on her delicate skin.

No, no, you can't let it go! Otherwise, otherwise what has become of her!

Su Wanyan took advantage of Duanmu Rui's unpreparedness and knocked his head, and he immediately fell soft on the bed.

She struggled to carry his legs to the bed, and then lit the candlestick, and there was a maid outside to wake up, she heard the sound of walking, and hurriedly walked to the door to let the maid go back to her room to sleep, she remembered one thing to write down, and did not want to be disturbed, so the maid left.

She didn't need anyone to get up in the middle of the night to serve, but the maids insisted on being on duty all night, so she should have someone outside to sleep with her, and she never changed this habit again.

She took Duanmu Rui's pulse, and while observing his face, she judged what was wrong with his body through the beating of the pulse and the performance of his facial features, so as to infer that there were some ingredients in his medicine, and she could prepare the antidote.

Duanmu Rui was also very uneasy when he was unconscious at first, as if his body was pranayama itself, and it didn't take long for him to be quieter.

He woke up when his body was restless again, and saw Su Wanyan walking around the room lightly, there was a light smell of herbs in the air, and she seemed to be grinding something from time to time.

He felt that his heart was burning again, so he quickly got up and meditated, trying to breathe as much as possible to keep himself calm.

It didn't take long for Su Wanyan to prepare the medicine, add the ingredients to make the pills, and walked to the side of the bed and saw Duanmu Rui's faceless sweat, as if he was steaming.

She shouted, "Duanmu Rui." ”

Duanmu Rui slowly opened her eyes, there were still a lot of bloodshots on her eyeballs, she hurriedly took a step back, "Don't come again, I told you that I have prepared an antidote, and I will help you check the pulse to see how the situation is now." ”

Duanmu Rui nodded sluggishly, and Su Wanyan picked up his hand, but still looked at him vigilantly.

After the pulse, he gave him medicine, and he quickly fell asleep, and after more than an hour, he woke up again, and Su Wanyan gave him another dose of medicine, so that he never woke up again, and he slept very peacefully.

When Duanmu Rui woke up the next morning, he saw Su Wanyan kneeling on the ground, and his upper body was lying on the edge of the bed and falling asleep.

He still has some impressions of what happened last night, maybe because the time when he moved his hands and feet to Su Wanyan was the most out of control, so he didn't remember.

He knew that it was Su Wanyan who dispensed medicine for him overnight and he got better, but he let her sleep on the side of the bed, he felt guilty for a while, and he wanted to wake up Su Wanyan and say something to her, but he didn't want to disturb her sleep.

While he was hesitating, Su Wanyan woke up, saw him looking at him, touched his cheek, and felt that he had wrinkles printed on his face.

"Are you feeling better?" She even opened her mouth to ask him about his condition.

"I'm fine." Duanmu Rui hurriedly got off the ground and said to her seriously, "Thank you, you saved me again." ”

"I'm saving myself, if I don't heal you quickly, you ......"

Su Wanyan suddenly lost her words when she said this, and hurriedly reached out to cover her mouth.

"What's wrong with me?" Duanmu Rui asked half-curiously, half-worriedly.

Su Wanyan couldn't let him know what he had done to him, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to see him in the future, she shook her head vigorously, "No, you're fine, but you startled me when you came in suddenly." ”

But Duanmu Rui was still worried, "I won't do anything to you, right?" ”

"No, you hurry up, the maids are coming soon."

Su Wanyan seemed to have heard the maid's voice, and hurriedly pushed Duanmu Rui, and Duanmu Rui had to leave quickly.

As soon as he returned to the courtyard where he lived, someone came in in a panic and reported that Princess Shuya was dead.

"What did you say?" Duanmu Rui couldn't believe it, didn't he drug him well last night, why did she still die when she got better.

The maid hurriedly said, "Princess Shuya died in her room. ”

Duanmu Rui immediately went to the courtyard where Shu Ya lived, and there were already many people standing in the courtyard, including the maids she brought, as well as the people from the palace who were called to her courtyard, and the female officials also came.

He asked the female official: "Chen Zhangshi, what's going on, is it convenient for this king to go in and see?" ”

"Princess Shuya died in bed, wearing her underwear, and the rest is waiting for the prince to come and see."

"Let's go, go in and have a look." Duanmu Rui asked his subordinates to be good at judging such things, and he took Chen Zhangshi and a maid beside Princess Shuya into the house.

I saw that there was no trace of a fight in the house, and everything was normal and orderly, but Duanmu Rui still stopped and looked at it carefully, and asked, "Who came in first?" ”

The palace maid beside Shu Ya said: "It's the slave maid, this is the situation when I came in, the slave maid didn't move anything." ”

Duanmu Rui knew what to do, so he went inside, walked all the way to carefully see if there were any suspicious items on the ground, and when he entered the inner room, he saw Shu Ya lying on the bed, covered by a quilt, wearing underwear, and it seemed that he had died in the process of sleeping.

Duanmu Rui took the handkerchief from the female officer's hand, covered his fingers before touching Shu Ya, he opened his mouth and looked at her mouth, and then looked at her neck, there was nothing abnormal in these places, he avoided it, and asked Chen Zhangshi to lift Shu Ya's clothes to take a closer look at whether there were any wounds.

Chen Zhangshi quickly said that there was a red spot on his chest, which looked like he had been injured with a hidden weapon.

At this time, Duanmu Rui's subordinates came down and communicated with Shu Ya's maid, and at Duanmu Rui's strong request, the maid allowed others to come in to see Shu Ya's corpse.

After looking at it, his subordinates took out a magnet from his body, and sucked out a silver needle from Shu Ya's chest, which was quenched with poison, but this poison would not be seen from the appearance of the body for a while and a half.

He checked the rest of Shu Ya's body again, and then quietly reported to Duanmu Rui.

At this time, Jin Shangshu also rushed over, took a look at Shu Ya's corpse, and shouted to meet the emperor, at this time the early dynasty should not be dispersed, Duanmu Rui thought that he could handle things clearly on the main hall, so he let people control all the maids and maids around Shu Ya, and people were optimistic about Shu Ya's corpse, so he and Jin Shangshu went all the way into the palace.

When he arrived at the top of the main hall, he heard that Princess Shuya died in the palace, and the ministers inevitably discussed and speculated, the emperor was happy and worried, happy to see how Duanmu Rui escaped from death this time, and worried that he was afraid that Nanyuan Guo would use this as a threat and put forward some unreasonable poisonous demands.

Jin Shangshu really said: "Emperor, the favorite princess of the lord of Nanyuan died in your king's mansion, you must give an explanation, otherwise it will be difficult for the minister to return to Nanyuan." ”

The emperor asked Duanmu Rui: "Brother Huang, tell me, what's going on?" Why did a good person die in your house? ”

Duanmu Rui didn't show the slightest nervousness and urgency on his face, but asked Jin Shangshu: "Lord Shangshu, if the princess really dies in this palace, what do you need us to do to give your lord an explanation." ”

Jin Shangshu said solemnly: "In any case, the princess died in your mansion and died on the land of your country, and she must be compensated, and she can only stop when the lord of our country is satisfied." ”

Duanmu Rui asked: "But if this king is making a hypothesis, what if she committed suicide or was killed by your people themselves, do we still need compensation?" ”

"This, this ......" Jin Shangshu was a little flustered for a while, but immediately calmed down and said angrily, "How could the princess commit suicide if she was so good, let alone be killed by her own people." Does the prince want to evade responsibility, erase the facts, and frame us? ”

Duanmu Rui still said calmly: "This king is just an assumption, in the laws of your country, or is there such a precedent, in other countries, if your nobles commit suicide or are killed by their own people, will this country be compensated?" ”

"Well, of course not." Jin Shangshu was a little undecided, because he didn't know much about it, and the princess's maid didn't have time to tell him anything.

"Okay, Jin Shangshu said this clearly, you represent the Nanyuan Kingdom, and you must speak responsibly."

Duanmu Rui glanced at the panicked Jin Shangshu, hugged his fists at the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, the younger brother went to see the body of Princess Shuya with his own eyes, and the doctors in the palace also saw it, and found that Princess Shuya was indeed killed by someone, and a poisonous needle was nailed into her chest. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a burst of surprise among the ministers, and Jin Shangshu was also shocked.

Duanmu Rui continued: "But what is suspicious is that the younger brother entered the princess's house and found that the outhouse was in good order, and it should have been moved by someone from the details, and the earrings worn by the princess last night were seen from the corner. ”

"May I ask the prince, how do you know that it is the earring that the princess wore last night?" Jin Shangshu asked pretending to be puzzled.

"At the end of last night, the princess came to find the king, we drank tea and chatted in the courtyard, the king naturally recognized her earrings, but there were no earrings on her body, what does this mean? And her body was wearing undergarments, and the dress she wore last night was not found in the house, what does this mean? ”

Duanmu Rui glanced at the emperor sitting on him, and saw that his eyes were like eagle falcons staring at himself, he knew that he had said too much, contrary to his usual clumsy style, but these were only his observations, and he did not show too much wisdom, and if he didn't defend himself in front of all the ministers, would he really want them to blame the murder in the palace?

"Back to the outhouse, it's clear that there may have been a fight in the outhouse last night, and the person who fought the princess is most likely the murderer."

Jin Shangshu wanted to say something to refute again, but was stopped by Duanmu Rui with a gesture.

"In addition, the king also wants to say a puzzling thing, yesterday to meet the princess and the mission, after a little repair will start again, but the princess frame of the horse was shocked, after the king saved the princess, Jin Shangshu to investigate the cause of the matter, according to common sense must first suspect the guards who put the horse, the king also felt that something was wrong, in order to test the mission, the king had an extra heart, in the place where the horses were grazing, pulled a weed at random and said that this is a broken intestine grass, the horses will soon have unbearable abdominal pain after eating, so that it is uncontrollable, As a result, Jin Shangshu did not suspect it at all, and said that this kind of grass is very common in the south, and everyone usually pays attention to it. ”

After speaking, Duanmu Rui looked at Jin Shangshu, "This king wants to ask what is going on?" ”