Just as Gu Muyan and Ruoshu were talking energetically, a figure suddenly appeared outside the door.

"Master told me that you would be here, and sure enough, you are here!" Cheng Qi looked at Gu Muyan with a smile and said, that smile was like a spring breeze.

It seems that in his previous life and now, he has not seen Cheng Qi's appearance so seriously, his long eyelashes are meekly attached to his dark brown eyes, and his nose is firm, just like his character, stubborn and resolute.

The two slightly thick eyebrows, although they are at the border all the year round, their skin is still fair, their lips are pursed, and their angular contours make Gu Muyan stunned for a while.

By the time Gu Muyan reacted, Cheng Qi had already walked in front of him, tilting his head slightly to look at him.

"Ahem." Gu Muyan hurriedly tilted his head over, stabilized his mind slightly, and then asked, "Is there something wrong with Big Brother Cheng?" ”

"Hmm." Cheng Qi nodded, sat aside, nodded at Ruoshu and said, "I have something to say to Ah Yan." ”

If the book didn't know Cheng Qi, he naturally asked Gu Muyan with his eyes, and after Gu Muyan nodded, he retreated.

After only Gu Muyan and himself were left in the entire courtyard, Cheng Qi took out a handkerchief from his arms and handed it to Gu Muyan and asked, "Ah Yan, you may smell the fragrance on this handkerchief?" ”

Looking at the handkerchief handed over by Cheng Qi, Gu Muyan took it with some doubts, sniffed it lightly and said, "This should be something from the rouge shop in the east of the city, and ordinary officials and ladies will not use the spices there." ”

"You mean the people of the Green House?" Cheng Qi took the handkerchief from Gu Muyan's hand and took a closer look, frowned and asked.

And Gu Muyan nodded slightly and asked curiously, "Brother Cheng, where did this veil come from?" ”

"Do you know about the destruction of the entire family of the Ministry of Shangshu? His Majesty ordered the Ministry of Punishment to produce results within three days, but no trace was found, and His Majesty was furious today, so he asked me to assist in the investigation of the case, and the deadline was one day today. Cheng Qi frowned and said, one day when the murderer was found, even he was not completely sure.

"Time is so tight?" Gu Muyan looked at Cheng Qi with some concern and said.

Then, as if he had thought of something, Gu Muyan looked at Cheng Qi as usual and asked, "Brother Cheng, can I go and have a look at the Ministry of Shangshu's Mansion?" You might find something wrong. ”

At first, Cheng Qi was a little worried that Gu Muyan would be frightened, but now that the corpse capital there has been disposed of, although the traces are still there, they are not as permeable as at the beginning, but those mottled bloodstains still made him hesitate and asked: "Ah Yan, the bloodstains there are still there, if you are afraid of us, you can come back?" ”

"yes, okay." Gu Muyan nodded seriously, he hadn't seen anything in his previous life, so how could he be afraid of this?

But when Gu Muyan came to Shangshu Mansion with Cheng Qi, he was still startled by the dried blood stains in the courtyard, how many people would have to die to cover this place?

However, this kind of thinking was only for a few moments, and after a while, Gu Muyan calmed down and asked, "Brother Cheng, can you tell me about the situation here?" ”

"Four days ago, it was the people who rushed to gather early to find that there were blood stains in Shangshu Mansion, so they had the courage to open the door to see, at that time the whole house had been destroyed, but the strange thing is that there were clear traces of struggle in this courtyard, but none of the people nearby heard the movement that night." Cheng Qi said as he walked inside.

The courtyard outside was stained with blood, but the courtyard inside was spotless, still a garden well tended by rich and noble families, as if everything that happened outside had nothing to do with the inside.

"It's... How can the whole house be in the courtyard? Gu Muyan asked in surprise.

"This is also something we can't understand, people's instincts should be to survive, why do they get together when they flee in all directions?" Cheng Qi also shook his head, and looked blankly at the back garden in front of him as if nothing had happened.

Suddenly, Gu Muyan looked at Cheng Qi and asked, "Did everyone in this mansion die in the outer courtyard?" Are there any survivors? Or is it someone who happened to go out and escape? ”

"This... I really haven't checked with the people from the Criminal Department. Cheng Qi seemed to realize something, and after saying this, he gave a few orders to the people next to him.

Not long after, the criminal department Shangshu came with the official book, and this comparison found that he had only noticed the people in the family of the Ministry of Justice, and had never paid attention to those subordinates.

Although none of the officials in the Shangshu family were spared, three of the subordinates did not appear in the corpse, and they have not appeared until now, so the reason for this has to make people think deeply.

"Someone! Go and bring the three people circled in this booklet back to the Criminal Department for interrogation! The Shangshu of the Criminal Department circled the missing people one by one on the booklet with a pen, and directly threw the booklet to the guards next to him and ordered.

After the guard respectfully took the booklet, he left with a group of people from the palace, and suddenly there were many fewer people in the mansion of the official department.

"It's still thoughtful." Cheng Qi looked at Gu Muyan approvingly, as if he was looking at a treasure, as if he would never know what other surprises he could get from Gu Muyan.

"Brother Cheng must have never been in charge of the house, so he must have done it for the housekeeper, right?" Gu Muyan said with a chuckle.

"As Ah Yan said, there is only one thing now, that is, why didn't any of the people around hear any movement that night?" Cheng Qi was still frowning, unable to understand the reason for this.

Gu Muyan didn't know what was wrong with this, so he only replied: "After the disappeared person in the mansion is found, maybe he will be able to know it, I think as long as this suspicion is revealed, this case should be over, right?" ”

"Well, let's wait for now, Ah Yan wants to go home first?" Cheng Qi glanced at the sky and asked, after all, Gu Muyan has been out of the house for a long time, if the prime minister blames him, it is Ah Yan who suffers.

"I'll go back after noon, my father won't take care of me." Gu Muyan said it lightly, but it hurt in his heart when he heard it, he had heard his master often talk about Ah Yan's disgrace in the Prime Minister's Mansion, but now he heard it with his own ears It was another matter.

Especially looking at Gu Muyan as if nothing had happened, the more uncomfortable Cheng Qi's heart felt, what kind of harsh treatment was there, so that Gu Muyan didn't care about all this at all.

"Okay, let's deal with lunch outside." Cheng Qi looked at Gu Muyan, who was still thinking seriously beside him, and asked softly.

But Gu Muyan shook his head while meditating and said, "No, this place is not far from my grandfather's house, why don't we go and eat, my grandfather's fish soup is delicious!" Snow white! ”

Looking at Gu Muyan's way of describing the gesture while speaking, Cheng Qi was stunned unconsciously, and it wasn't until Gu Muyan turned around and stared at his eyes that he finally reacted, and nodded mune.

Who knows, Gu Muyan was also stunned, because Cheng Qi's appearance was really like a great general in his previous life, who commanded thousands of troops and horses, and easily saw through the enemy's attack, but he was defenseless like a child in front of him.

"Ahem."

Just as Gu Muyan and Cheng Qi were looking at each other in a daze, Shangshu of the Criminal Department walked over from the front yard and said, "General Cheng, those subordinates have found it, this..."

"Why don't Ah Yan go to my master's house first." Cheng Qi was worried that Gu Muyan was hungry, so he proposed that she go to the Taifu Mansion to eat first.

"No, I just want to know what they will say." Gu Muyan shook his head and said after Cheng Qi.

By the time a few people arrived in the front yard, the three people who had been captured were already kneeling on the ground, but just looking at this appearance, the three of them didn't look like people who could kill everyone in the Ministry of Shangshu's Mansion.

"Where were the three of you on the night of the accident in the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Officials?" The Shangshu of the Criminal Department asked with a straight face, and in an instant, the three of them looked at the Shangshu of the Criminal Department with no blood.

But Gu Muyan saw that something was unusual, and immediately said out: "Since you are so afraid, I'm afraid you won't be able to answer the questions of the government, and there is also an accident in the Shangshu Mansion of the left and right officials, these subordinates should be in the mansion, so it's better to send them out." ”

In an instant, these people were like being beaten with chicken blood, and they unceremoniously yelled at Gu Muyan and Shangshu of the Criminal Department: "Why did you send us out!" Beware of us going to the government! Let's just say that you enslave the people! ”

"That's right! Enslave the people! The other two also echoed for a moment, not at all as scared as they had just now.

Cheng Qi naturally understood this, and after giving Gu Muyan a look, he ordered: "Come on, take these three people down and torture them separately!" ”

"Yes!" The people around Cheng Qi are all in the army, and the methods of interrogation are naturally different from those of the Criminal Department, and now that the Criminal Department and the people in the army are interrogated together, I am afraid that it will not be long before they can know some clues.

Cheng Qi also suddenly realized something at this time, frowned and said to the Shangshu of the Criminal Department: "My lord, the matter of this Ministry of Shangshufu, I am afraid it is impossible to catch the real mastermind behind the scenes, the reason for this is that the adults should not ask, they will explain it to Jinshang, but if the adults give an explanation to Jinshang, it is still okay." ”

"Then thank you General Cheng!" The Shangshu of the Criminal Department nodded and thanked him, knowing that what Cheng Qi said was true, and the reason behind this would naturally not be investigated further.

"You're welcome, it should take some time for the results of this interrogation to come out, why don't you go and eat first?" After Cheng Qi made a gesture of please, after waiting for the Shangshu of the Criminal Department to nod, he also left with Gu Muyan.