Chapter VI
Just when Qi Sheng's heart was slightly shaken, a knock suddenly sounded at the door.
"Lord, the woman who claimed to be the princess's maid is shouting outside to see the princess again."
The moon pinched the faint voice and floated in through the paper window, gently and softly.
The silver needles on Qi Sheng's cuffs were quietly taken back. A pair of bright eyes glanced at Ye Cao tightly, a little weak.
Ye Cao's bony palm gently pressed Qi Sheng's cuffs, and said with a smile, "What? The little lady is in a hurry, and she wants to murder her husband? Ye Cao always likes to be close to Qi Sheng's cheek and speak in a low voice behind her ear. followed closely, skillfully grabbed Qi Sheng's shoulder, leaned lazily on the edge of the couch, and his milky white clothes swayed gently. He added: "Call this little maid in and tell her that her master is awake." ”
Qi Sheng, who was cold by nature and not easy to approach, had already been in chaos in front of Ye Cao repeatedly. was teased by Ye Cao, and his little face turned red.
"Miss, miss." It took only half a cup of tea to comb her sideburns and a little girl in a pale yellow Suzhou embroidered skirt who hurriedly ran into the cabinet, panting heavily, and calling out to her young lady in her mouth, her tone was full of hurry and panic.
"Peach blossoms." Qi Sheng hadn't seen anyone yet, and when he heard it, he knew that this was the little girl from Peach Blossom. Raising his eyes again, Qi Sheng's eyes flashed slightly, and there was a rare joy between his eyebrows.
Because, Peach Blossom must have come to tell her father the news.
Qi Sheng gently broke away from Ye Cao's embrace, and hurriedly got up and dragged his body to welcome Peach Blossom in.
"How?" Qi Sheng's eyes were faint, and his voice was low and cold. Restored to an invincible arrogance. The deep eyes stared at the peach blossom faintly, and the slender fingers supported her.
What does it mean to father, how is everything going? Now Ye Cao's companion is inconvenient to speak too much, so he can only be vague.
This little girl is very clever.
Peach Blossom looked at Qi Sheng's eyes and knew that what her young lady meant was that there were some things to say and some things not to say. Qi Sheng, who was in the dark in the officialdom of the imperial court, told her that if she insisted on following the pavilion master, that is, Qi Sheng, if she said too much, she would die.
"Su Bai tried to take the head of the family to prison, but there was a murder in the Bamboo Crane Tower, and the matter was stopped for the time being, and Peach Blossom didn't know if Su Bai had escorted the head of the family back to Beijing, but it was certain that Su Bai and the others were set in the Bamboo Crane Tower at this time." Peach Blossom lowered her head slightly, and her eyes only dared to fall on her young lady's body. Thinking about it in his heart, Ye Cao really deserves to be the world-famous prince of Huainan, and his aura makes people dare not approach at all, which is not the slightest difference from the rumors. Especially with this beautiful face, it is no wonder that so many daughters of court ministers who have just reached the court want their father to ask the emperor for marriage.
"Yuexi, prepare horses, bamboo crane tower." Before Qi Sheng could make any plans, Ye Cao spoke up. A deep, deep voice reached the door.
-Bamboo Crane Tower-
When Qi Sheng, Ye Cao and his party arrived at the Bamboo Crane Tower, this place had been sealed and impassable. All exits are sealed, and the people inside the Bamboo Crane Tower can't get out, and the people outside can't get out. The boundary of the Bamboo Crane Tower itself is remote, and it was dark when Qi Sheng Ye Cao arrived. Taking advantage of the atmosphere at the scene of this murder, it was originally lively and noisy, but this place seemed to be infiltrating.
If it was an ordinary murder case, there would not have been such a big movement, let alone alarm Jinyiwei to come to solve the case for him. But I heard that this deceased is the illegitimate son of the current emperor, and although he is a dragon fetus, he cannot be called a prince. His mother was just a prostitute in Qinglou, and the emperor was born with a romantic personality before he ascended the throne, but he wandered everywhere but refused to give this woman a name. So his mother Zhao was so angry that she committed suicide, leaving her toothy child to live alone. Emperor Xu was also a little unbearable about this, and after knowing about this incident, he hurriedly passed the book to Su Bai and asked him to investigate the matter.
said that the emperor was affectionate, but after the death of Zhao, he did not take the child to his side to raise him, but let him live. If the emperor is ruthless, he wants to find the real murderer for his son.
Maybe he has his own helplessness and helplessness.
"The crime is serious, and idlers are not allowed to enter."
As soon as he got off the carriage, he was stopped by a group of brocade guards wearing flying fish suits and carrying embroidered spring knives at their waists. The Jinyi guard led by him showed displeasure, this group of people, only he had a different color of flying fish suit. So this is their leader?
Qi Sheng pushed away the embroidered spring knife on his neck with his white palm, and his eyes gradually became cold. "Take us to see Su Bai." It's still a cold voice, without the slightest emotion. Dressed in white, she was surrounded by an aura that was difficult to approach. The silver needles on the cuffs had long been unbearable, and they showed their heads slightly, and they were pinched by Qi Sheng on their wrists. As long as these brocade guards have the slightest murderous intent, Qi Sheng will definitely make them die unconsciously.
Ye Cao looked at Qi Sheng, who was full of vigilance, with some surprise, and thought to herself that she seemed to be a little impulsive.
"Commander Su, but you people can easily see it?" The Jinyi guard who was the leader looked Qi Sheng and Ye Cao up and down with disdain, and his eyes seemed to say that these noble sons were too incompetent to have fun to provoke Jinyiwei.
"Whoosh." Qi Sheng's wrist secretly exerted force, and the silver needle shot behind the ear of the Jinyi guard led by the slight rotation of his wrist, and only Ye Cao beside him noticed this unusualness.
With a "bang", the Jinyi guard led by him suddenly fell. Qi Sheng stepped forward and neatly pulled out the embroidered spring knife on the waist of the fallen man and pressed it against his neck. Without the slightest emotion, he said: "If you don't take us to see Su Bai, I will kill this one first, and then chop you up alive one by one." ”
is obviously harmless to humans and animals, but it is not against the harmony at all when he puts cruel words. On the contrary, it makes people afraid of the aura around her.
No matter how poor the Jinyi guard is, he is also the emperor's personal guard, and the emperor uses silver dollars to train elite soldiers. Even though Qi Sheng's aura is so strong that people don't dare to approach and slack off, but their Jinyi guards only obey the emperor's orders, how could they be bluffed by Qi Sheng, a woman who looks weak, at will.
The election of every Jinyiwei was not easy to come by.
In the process of electing Jinyiwei, the two will be arranged to practice martial arts together, and cooperate with tacit understanding. But the last test is to kill the brothers who have passed five levels and six generals with him, and only one of the two can become a brocade guard. Therefore, ruthlessness is the true character of Jinyiwei.
Therefore, this group of brocade guards did not care about the life or death of the fallen brocade guards.
The embroidered spring knife on his waist seemed to be pulled up, and he was ready to go.
Seeing this, Qi Sheng's deep eyes did not flash a look of surprise, but were unexpectedly calm, as if she expected this to be the end.
Qi Sheng's embroidered spring knife gently swiped along her mutton fat jade-like fingers, and a tuft of blood burst out from the neck of the fallen brocade guard, splashing on Qi Sheng's pale face. The silver needles on her cuffs also flew out, and the needles of the silver needles were black, which was smeared by Qi Sheng with the poison she had personally refined. There was no one that had just been pierced behind her ear, but since the rest of the people didn't listen to her, they did as she was told.
"Poof." Before this group of brocade guards could directly rush up and slash Qi Sheng, they were shot by her silver needle. Pieces of black blood spat out of his mouth, and then he fell to the ground in an instant.
It took only half a pillar of incense to make these brocade guards all fall.
Qi Sheng is the most bloodless, and now she can use such brutal means to kill people?
Ye Cao stared at Qi Sheng, and her face turned pale again.
No, no, Qi Sheng is not quite right. Ye Cao thought to himself. Qi Sheng would not be so impulsive and kill the emperor's personal guards in public. She looked more like she was lost in her mind now.
His face was pale, that sickly pale, with a trace of blood on his face, and his eyes were even colder than usual. The milky white cardigan skirt was stained with blood. At this moment, Qi Sheng is like a hell Shura.
But hasn't the poison under his Ye Cao been unraveled in these days? What did he say, the love Gu was actually just a trick by Ye Cao to deceive Qi Sheng and obediently stay by his side.
Ye Cao looked at Qi Sheng's current appearance, and he was a little panicked.
"Achu, the antidote from last time can be brought." Ye Cao's eyes glanced into the darkness.
A tall, muscular man dressed in black and carrying a long sword wrapped in black cloth suddenly flashed out of the shadows. He was like a dark guard in the night, silent. His face was wearing a mask with a gold filigree pattern, and half of his face was covered, but he couldn't resist the cold air emanating from his body. The eyes are as fierce as an eagle. Looking at the scene in front of me, I was not half surprised, it seems that I have been staying here for a long time.
"Back to the master, there is a belt." The deep voice of the man in black was not abrupt in the middle of the night. He bowed his head and offered a brocade box with both hands.
Hand it to Ye Cao.
Ye Cao exhaled lightly, his slender fingers opened the brocade box at will, took out the brown pills inside, and threw the brocade box into Ah Chu's arms.
Leaned down and hugged Qi Sheng, who was a little stunned, and signaled her not to be afraid. Then he pinched the pill with his other hand and threw it into his mouth and kissed Qi Sheng.
It's bitter. Qi Sheng's first feeling.
The second feeling is that he was slighted by Ye Cao, a bastard, again.
Qi Sheng wanted to push away Ye Cao, who was hugging her, but was hugged by Ye Cao.
"You're alright." Ye Cao hugged Qi Sheng, and the magnetic voice lingered in Qi Sheng's ears in a low voice. He had a feeling of being lost and regained, it seemed that it was really the root left by the poison before, which caused Qi Sheng's emotions to fluctuate a little and be impulsive. But the amount of poison was well controlled, and it should have been removed under his careful care for many days. It's weird.
Qi Sheng slowly exerted a lot of strength before pushing away Ye Cao, who was hugging her tightly. In my mind, I remember what happened just now, but I was a little flustered. It just feels like she did these things, and it doesn't feel like she did them.
Qi Sheng gently tugged on Ye Cao's cuffs and motioned for him to find Su Bai. Ye Cao took Qi Sheng's hand along the cuffs that Qi Sheng was pulling, strode in front of her, and protected Qi Sheng behind him. His eyes were like bright stars, shining brightly.
This bamboo crane tower Qi Sheng had come once before, but it was still for Ye Cao's appointment, and Ye Cao was a frequent visitor here, so there was no Ye Cao who was familiar with the terrain here.
Ye Cao took Qi Sheng's hand and led her to the cabinet. Her palms are small and soft.
Before he could enter the cabinet, he smelled of corruption.
It's the smell of corpses.
Qi Sheng instantly felt sick to his stomach, and he had the urge to retch. Walking further, I saw Su Bai in a red flying fish suit. Unlike the last time they met, there was also a woman in a pale pink skirt next to him. The woman's three thousand green silks were meticulously curled, with jade hostas inserted. The appearance is also very standard, although it is not as good as Qi Sheng's alluring country, but her cheeks still have the childish appearance of a girl, and she looks gentle and approachable. Beneath their feet were corpses that smelled of decay.
The corpse was swollen and appeared to have been soaked. Hitomi has lost her mind.
"Commander Su has also worked hard." Ye Cao held Qi Sheng's hand and waved at Su Bai slightly. Together with one of Qi Sheng's hands, Ye Cao also raised slightly.
It's hypocritical. Qi Sheng muttered in his heart again.
Qi Sheng easily opened Ye Cao's hand, ignoring the mutual greetings on the faces of the two of them.
She leaned down slightly, one hand covering her mouth and nose, and the other hand pinching the corpse's shirt.
The clothes were stained with water and had been soaked, and the corpses had been frozen.
The pupils are dilated, the eye sockets are blue, and the corpse spots are obviously not gone.
"Commander Su has been observing here for a long time, what conclusions can he draw?" Qi Sheng stood up, still unable to control his desire to retch. Her cold voice permeated the cabinet with only a little light.
"At the moment, it is certain that he killed him." The woman in the pale pink skirt spoke first, and her voice was crisp and graceful. The light brown eyes of the woman in pink lingered on Qi Sheng and Ye Cao, her eyes narrowed slightly, and her smile was as gentle and gentle as her temperament.
I saw her slowly walking up to Qi Sheng, and her slender and white palm held Qi Sheng's hand, "You and your husband are really a pair of beautiful people." ”
"No, no." Qi Sheng's movements seemed a little flustered, and he suddenly pulled out the hand held by the woman, took a few steps back, and stumbled a little. There was a flash of haste in her eyes, but she quickly hid it.
Ye Cao's big hand pulled Qi Sheng and protected her behind him. "The insider's health has been poor recently, so it is inconvenient to have too much contact."
Who's your insider. Qi Sheng was secretly complaining about Ye Cao in his heart. How can this Huainan prince, who doesn't know how to distinguish between men and women, always be so domineering.
"This deceased has a special identity, and Su is not sure about the gains and losses." Su Bai understood the relationship between Ye Cao and Qi Sheng, and in order to alleviate the embarrassment, he abruptly talked about the deceased. Immediately afterwards, he pointed his palm at the woman in pink and said, "This is a painter sent by the emperor to handle the case with me, and his name is Yu Ci." ”
Oh? Artist? Qi Sheng was a little surprised. It's the first time I've heard of a painter assisting Jin Yiwei in handling a case.
The night is getting heavier and heavier, and this bamboo crane tower is also a little shady. The wind blowing in from outside the cabinet knocked the curtain into a "bang, bang, bang".
Yu Ci got up and closed the windblown door, and lit a few more candles. Good raw placed on the candlestick.
"The deceased's eyes were blue and purple, and there were signs of movement of the corpse spots. The scene of the crime was an underground ice cellar, and when our group found it, the deceased was swollen from the cold and had traces of being whipped. But ---" Yu Ci talked about the situation of Fang Cai's corpse again, but suddenly said in a tone. In a blink of an eye, he swept Su Bai. He added: "The deceased does not seem to have been tortured much during his lifetime, and the whipping of the corpse was carried out after death. And Master Su and I found a silver needle behind the deceased's ear. The tip of the needle is blackened, as if it is poisonous. ”
Speaking of silver needles, Qi Sheng suddenly remembered the brocade guards outside the pavilion. She took out a bag from her cuff and threw it into Su Bai's arms. said to Su Bai: "Just now, your Jinyi guard didn't let us in, so they were all poisoned by me." This is the antidote. The brocade guard at the head didn't hurt them, but only intimidated them. Hurry up and arrange for someone to detoxify them. ”
Qi Sheng is a doctor, it is his duty to save people, and poisoning people is just a decision that he can't help himself. The doctor is benevolent, and he can't see death and can't be saved.
Su Bai caught the bag, he knew that this was Qi Sheng, the only daughter of General Qi Ye Qi, and he also knew that Qi Sheng had studied medicine since he was a child and followed his master to travel, but he didn't expect this Qi Sheng to use poison?