Xilingyue reacted for a moment, and then remembered that this was a famous sentence in "The Preface to King Teng's Pavilion", but Li Qi reversed the order of the two sentences and made them into a pair, which was also neat and suitable for the occasion. Her gaze moved down, and she saw a triple screen around the Luohan couch resting under the pair, and a small case was placed on it, dividing the Luohan couch into two people.

With this Luohan couch as the central axis, the study pattern can be divided into two, the western half from north to south is successively placed with drawer board high feet flat head small case, red sandalwood hollow multi-treasure macker, character railing bookshelf, next to the bookshelf hangs a true calligraphy of Yan Lugong, the red sandalwood painting case is placed in front of the shelf, and there is a sheng hoof in front of the case and behind the case.

Look at the east half again, the left hand side of the Luohan couch is a pear wood phoenix pattern hanger, the northeast corner is placed with a basin rack, to the south is the pear blossom wood claw pattern joint two cabinets, two rolls of horn tooth case, waist low foot square stool, and the southeast corner is placed with a three-legged incense table.

Opposite the west wall, there is also a calligraphy work on the east wall, but I don't know who wrote it, it is written by Wang Zi'an, one of the "Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty", "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng", which shows that Li Qi really likes this Fu. Xiling Yue saw that there was no payment on it, so she didn't pay much attention to it, and turned her attention back to the layout of the study.

As she could see, it wasn't too big, and the elderly didn't like too big a study, and the candles couldn't shine brightly, and the room was dim, which was easy to damage the eyesight. It is indeed not easy for such a small place to appear out of thin air, after all, there is no place to hide, and there is no side hall to rest. All the maidservants rested in the cubicle at the back of the house, and the way to the cubicle was outside the door.

Xi Lingyue walked around the study, and finally stood in front of the Luohan couch where Li Qi was sitting, and asked, "Dare to ask the servant, where did you and your guests sit last night?" ”

Li Qi pointed to the place where he was sitting: "On this arhat couch, the official and the distinguished guest live on one side, and he sits on the left side of the official." ”

The Tang Dynasty has always respected the left, and Li Qi is the one who can sit on his left after the clan, but he is really a "distinguished guest". Xiling Yue originally wanted to meet that distinguished guest, but now that she learned that he was so noble, it was difficult to come forward to question. She had no choice but to give up this idea and ask again: "Where was the first time you saw that puff of green smoke last night?" ”

"It's right inside the door, right in front of the officer." Li Qi pointed to the location of the door.

Xilingyue walked over: "You had a discussion with your distinguished guests last night, and the door was always closed?" ”

"Yes," Li Qi replied, "and the official is sure that the assassin did not break in." ”

The door to the study was closed, and the assassin did not break in, but escaped with a puff of smoke? Xiling Yue pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Have you been in front of the Luohan couch when you fought with the assassins?" ”

"No," Li Qi stretched out his hand and pointed to the southeast corner of the room, "the official broke down a few tricks with him, hit the southeast corner from the front of the couch, and knocked down the incense burner." Eventually, he turned into smoke and disappeared into the censer. ”

Ha! A big living person turned into a puff of green smoke and entered the incense burner? I didn't believe it when I killed Xilingyue. But she knew that Li Qi had no reason to lie, and that the assassin must have done some trick to let Li Qi and the distinguished guests witness his disappearance, so that he could easily get out.

Xi Lingyue stood beside the incense table, reached out to touch the incense burner, picked it up again, and looked at it again, and then said after a while: "Servant, Shizi, I want to walk around this study building." ”

Li Heng looked at her suspiciously: "Take a walk?" ”

"No, no," she changed her mind in an instant, "let's go two laps!" ”

Seeing her like this, Li Heng didn't believe that she could find any clues, but Li Qi was quite tolerant, and said with a smile: "It just so happens that the doctor is going to change the medicine for the official, and the lady of the Jiang family can avoid it for the time being." ”

Xiling Yue returned the salute with a smile, and then exited the study. Li Heng looked at the back of her leaving, his eyes showed a little curiosity, and Li Qi said, "You go and have a look." ”

"Yes." Li Heng followed Xiling Yue out of the study.

He thought that Xi Lingyue said "walk around the study building twice" to go out to find some clues, but he didn't expect that she really just walked around twice. The only difference is that the circle she walks in is very small, almost clinging to the flowers on the periphery of the library.

Li Heng suddenly regretted bringing her to his father, and couldn't help but persuade: "If you don't have a clue, don't force it, I will explain it to my father." ”

"Who says I don't have a clue?" Xiling Yue showed a sly smile and turned back to the study on the first floor.

At this time, Li Qi had also changed the medicine, and there was still a slight smell of medicine in the house. The sky is getting late, the sun has set in the west, the afterglow of dusk spills in through a few windows, and the gentle golden yellow is exuding, Xiling Yue looks at the sunset outside the window, and smiles faintly.

Seeing this, Li Qi asked, "It seems that Mrs. Jiang is already in her chest?" ”

"There are indeed some clues," Xiling Yue asked modestly, "Dare to ask the servant, when you were assassinated last night, the first guard to come in to protect the lord broke through the window?" ”

Li Qi recalled for a moment: "Exactly. ”

"Of the few guards who came later, were any of them unarmoured?"

"Not bad." Li Qi was curious, "How did Mrs. Jiang know?" ”

Xilingyue didn't answer, but said: "Please also ask the servant to shoot these two people to come and confront them." ”

The night is low, the stars and the moon are hazy, and the lights in the study building of the Jiedu Embassy are dim, like an unpredictable human heart, which is depressing.

The two guards stood in the middle of the study, receiving Xiling Yue's wordless scrutiny—

The first guard to break in last night was tall, and the guard who was not wearing armor was thin, and the comparison of the figures of the two made Xiling Yue more convinced of his guess. She silently nicknamed the two of them: the tall guard, the short guard.

She walked to the incense table in the southeast corner, pointed to the window behind her, and speculated: "Look, the assassin turned into smoke, but it was just a little trick." The incense burner was placed very close to the window to disperse the smoke, and the Assassin was supposed to be deliberately luring you to the window in order to escape by jumping out of the window and pretending to be a smoke. ”

At this point, she turned to look at the tall guard, and said firmly, "The first guard to break through the window is the accomplice who covered the assassin's escape. ”

"Nonsense!" The tall guard immediately retorted, "As soon as I heard the fighting, I rushed over and broke through the window in my armor, and the green smoke had not yet cleared. The servant and the guest saw it with their own eyes! How can I cover the Assassin's escape? ”

Li Qi also came forward to testify for him: "That's true, Jiang Niangzi is afraid that she misjudged." ”

"There was no misjudgment," Xiling Yue explained, "Servant Shot, you were deceived last night. The tall guard did break through the window, but not after the Assassin had disappeared, but before the Assassin had disappeared. He broke through the window to get in as a cover-up, and the Assassin unleashed a smoke bomb that jumped out of the slammed window when your view was blocked. ”

There seemed to be some truth in this, and Li Qi looked puzzled.

Xilingyue took the opportunity to ask: "Before the assassin disappeared last night, was the green smoke thick?" ”

Li Qi thought back for a moment: "It's not thick, but the official is afraid that the smoke is poisonous, so he temporarily sealed his five senses and avoided it." ”

"That's it, you seal your five senses, naturally you have to close your eyes and bow your head to block your nose, the tall guard broke through the window at this time, and the assassin took the opportunity to jump out of the window, just a moment, when you reacted, the assassin was already gone, and the tall guard became his best cover."

(End of chapter)