Chapter 25 and Cutting Expenses Again
"Isn't this place sealed? How can there still be guests? Aren't the prostitutes set free? Why is it still there? When checking the situation in Fengyue Tower, Qiu Luoxue asked.
"Well." Xia Ziyan thought about the wording and said: "Actually, although the brothels have been seized, there are still some secret prostitution restaurants in the capital, and after all, the manpower is limited, so they can't watch them all the time, so there are also people who secretly pick up customers." The situation in Fengyue Tower is a bit complicated, so there is still this kind of transaction in secret, but it is much more convergent than before. ”
"Hmph." Qiu Luoxue snorted coldly and said, "It's because of the existence of people like you that this kind of thing will be banned repeatedly."
"What do you call someone like me? I've never had anything to do with prostitutes, I'm just, just here to see the song and dance. Xia Ziyan explained.
"Tricksters." Qiu Luoxue said in disbelief.
"I didn't lie to you, I'm serious, if you don't believe it, you can ask those people, I'm really innocent." Seeing that Qiu Luoxue didn't believe it, Xia Ziyan explained more attentively.
"Why are you innocent to explain to me, anyway, I don't believe it, but I saw your ridiculous behavior in the mansion with my own eyes, alas~ It's really spicy." Qiu Luoxue said disgustedly.
She was about to enter the interior of Fengyue Building from the backyard, but it happened that Xia Ziyan was blocking the entrance at this time, Qiu Luoxue pushed him aside and said, "It's in the way."
Seeing Qiu Luoxue pass by him, Xia Ziyan also reacted, and asked himself, "Yes, why should I explain to him?"
When Xu Zhonghang passed by him, he heard this sentence and said very gossipsily: "Yes, why do you have to explain the innocence of the prince to Lord Qiu, you two are not real...... Is there really a personal relationship? ”
"Xu Zhonghang, you have a brain disease, why do you have a personal affair with him?" Qiu Luoxue heard Xu Zhonghang's voice inside, so she scolded loudly.
Xu Zhonghang, who was outside, was stunned for a moment and said, "Can you still hear it from such a distance?"
"It's you who are too loud." Xia Ziyan said truthfully, glanced at him sympathetically, and said, "You're going to be miserable, it is estimated that he will reduce your rations in the past few days, it's really pitiful." He patted him on the shoulder and left.
Entering the Fengyue Tower, this place is completely different from when Qiu Luoxue first came. The last time I came, I sang and danced, and it was very lively. Now it was desolate, bloodstained, and messed inside, and the gauze tents on the stage were red with blood and scattered everywhere.
"Why is this happening here?" Qiu Luoxue looked at the scene in front of her and asked.
"Maybe it was messed up during the fight." Nie Yuan said.
"Possibly, let's go to the box upstairs and have a look." Qiu Luoxue said and went upstairs with Nie Yuan. I looked at several rooms, and they were all the same mess, and the inside of the room was turned into a mess.
"Alas~ These people kill people when they kill, why do they make such a mess in the house." Xia Ziyan, who came in later, looked at the messy environment in the house and said with disgust, he stood at the door and didn't plan to go in.
"They're looking for something." Qiu Luoxue said.
"Why do you think so?" Xu Zhonghang asked.
"Every place here has been turned over, even the prostitutes' wardrobes, jewellery boxes and beds, if it weren't for the search for something, there would be no need." Qiu Luoxue explained.
"It's also possible that you want to kill your life, and you want to find something valuable to make this place troublesome." Xia Ziyan said.
Nie Yuan, who had been silent, said: "But those gold and silver jewelry have not been taken away, it should not be for money."
"Yes." Qiu Luoxue said approvingly, "Moreover, killing more than 20 people for just a little money is too perverted." ”
"Makes sense, but what are they looking for?" Xia Ziyan asked, he was also thinking about it.
"Only they know that." Qiu Luoxue said, "However, you said before that Yuji, the owner of Fengyue Tower, was missing, right? ”
"Well, yes, someone saw that she was still in Fengyue Tower last night, but her body was not found today, and no one was seen." Xia Ziyan replied.
Qiu Luoxue said with a thoughtful expression: "It's a little strange."
"By the way, where are the bodies of those people?" Qiu Luoxue asked again.
"In the Imperial Division." Xia Ziyan said.
"Then let's go for a trip, Imperial Doctor Xu, please have an autopsy." Qiu Luoxue said to Xu Zhonghang with a smile.
"Me?" Xu Zhonghang asked incredulously.
"yes, what's the problem?" Qiu Luoxue asked.
"No, I'm the imperial doctor, and my medical skills are among the best in our hospital, so you actually asked me to perform an autopsy?" Xu Zhonghang asked in surprise.
Qiu Luoxue said calmly: "Is there any problem?"
"Don't you think it's a bit overkill?" Xu Zhonghang asked.
"Ah~ It's my overkill." Qiu Luoxue said with an expression of understanding that I understood. After that, she asked, "Imperial Doctor Xu, how are you living in Shengge Courtyard?"
Xu Zhonghang didn't understand why she suddenly asked this, and replied in a daze: "It's good."
"Let's move to the firewood house tonight, I think that yard is a bit overkill for you to live in." Qiu Luoxue said with a smile, and left after speaking.
"I, you ......" Xu Zhonghang was dumbfounded for a long time, and he didn't know what to say.
Xia Ziyan looked at Xu Zhonghang sympathetically and said, "He has already started to take revenge on you, who made you just say that the two of us have a personal relationship, he hates others to say that the most."
"This is just the beginning, Brother Xu, take care." Xia Ziyan patted Xu Zhonghang's shoulder heavily and said.
Under the coercion of Qiu Luoxue, Xu Zhonghang, the royal physician of the dignified Qin Empire, who is expected to be in charge of the potential imperial physician of the Tai Hospital in the future, still reluctantly performed an autopsy on those dead bodies.
And the timid Qiu Luoxue entered the morgue and hid behind Nie Yuan the whole time and didn't dare to show her face. She grabbed Nie Yuan's arm from behind with her hand, rested her head on his back, and kept telling Nie Yuan: "Nie Shi, you have to stand up, don't move, don't move."
"Got it." Nie Yuan said, so he really didn't move. If it were Xia Ziyan, he would definitely use this opportunity to tease Qiu Luoxue.
Xu Zhonghang lifted the white cloth of a corpse and began to examine the wounds on the person, there was only one wound on the person's body, at the neck, which was a fatal wound.
"This wound is a little strange." Xu Zhonghang looked at the wound and said.
"What's so strange?" Qiu Luoxue, who was hiding behind Nie Yuan, asked.
"It's not like a sword wound, it's not a knife wound. The wound was not continuous, but the stab was very deep, more like being injured by something like a dart or a hidden weapon. Xu Zhonghang said.
Nie Yuan stared carefully at the corpse's wound for a while, and blurted out, "It's a four-horned meteor dart."
"Possibly, if it's a four-cornered meteor dart, it can explain the four parallel but discontinuous scars on the neck." Xia Ziyan said approvingly.
"Four-horned meteor dart? What's that? Qiu Luoxue cautiously poked her head out from behind Nie Yuan and asked curiously.
"It's a dart. The assassin who appeared in the Prime Minister's Mansion last night also used that kind of dart. Nie Yuan replied.
"Is that yesterday's assassin who killed the people of Fengyue Tower?" Qiu Luoxue was puzzled, and asked Xu Zhonghang again: "Imperial Doctor Xu, can you tell the time of death of these people?"
"Judging from the stiffness of the corpse, the time of death was between the ugly hour and the midnight last night." Xu Zhonghang replied.
"When did the assassin who infiltrated the Prime Minister's Mansion yesterday die?" Qiu Luoxue asked Nie Yuandao.
"He died before the fifth watch." Nie Yuan replied.
Qiu Luoxue thought for a while and said, "In that case, the person who killed people in Fengyue Tower and the assassin are not the same person, but they use the same kind of darts, is it a coincidence?"
"I don't think it's a coincidence, let's look it up." Xia Ziyan proposed.
The four of them came out of Tingwei Division, turned into a restaurant to eat, and discussed the case of Fengyuelou while eating.
"Did you find the person named Yuhime?" Qiu Luoxue asked while eating.
"The Tingwei Division has sent someone to look for it, but there is no news yet." Xia Ziyan stopped his chopsticks and replied.
"Did you flee or were you captured?" Qiu Luoxue used her brain and began to think about various possibilities, but thinking did not affect her appetite, and she ate a lot of food while thinking.
"It's a bit of both." Xu Zhonghang said, "But what is certain is that whether she escaped or was captured, what the killer was looking for was related to her." ”
Qiu Luoxue nodded while listening, and suddenly found that this Xu Zhonghang, who knows both medicine and martial arts, has a good brain, and is a usable talent.
"It makes sense, if you want to know the hidden secret, you still have to find Yuji first." Qiu Luoxue said approvingly, "There is also the origin of that dart, and it is very likely that the two of them are from the same organization. ”
"I've asked the shadow guard to check on the darts, and I believe there will be news soon." Nie Yuan said.
"That's right, my family's Nie Shi is still very far-sighted, and he has already started first." Qiu Luoxue looked at Nie Yuan with satisfaction and said that she was satisfied with how she looked at Nie Yuan recently.
"It's up to you to find out about the darts." Qiu Luoxue said, "Yuji's whereabouts, let the prince check it, you have a wider network." As she spoke, she saw Xia Ziyan again.
"And you......" she finally turned her gaze to Xu Zhonghang, "you just, well, just pay for the meal." ”
"Why am I paying, obviously you eat the most." Xu Zhonghang protested.
"If you want to pay, you will pay, where is so much nonsense." Qiu Luoxue said viciously.
After a pause, she said, "By the way, the Prime Minister's government has recently cut expenses, so from today onwards, your meals will be solved outside."
Xu Zhonghang was stunned when he heard her theory, and said: "Why are you cutting expenses again, you don't have to give those ministers a salary this month."
"Of course, it has to be cut, and the family eats more than one mouth for no reason, can it be poor." Qiu Luoxue said.
Xu Zhonghang thought that she was talking about Nie Yuan, and immediately expressed his understanding and said: "Ah, it turns out that Commander Nie is here, but it would be good if you asked him to call the food expenses, you can't cut the expenses to the point of not eating."
Qiu Luoxue looked at Xu Zhonghang and smiled, and said, "The extra mouth I said is you." Nie Shishi is the person who the emperor has come to protect me, how can he reduce his rations? ”
"I was also sent by the emperor to treat you." Xu Zhonghang said.
"But you didn't treat me." Qiu Luoxue said.
"Governance, who said that it will not be cured, it will be cured now." Xu Zhonghang said that he was going to take the pulse of Qiu Luoxue.
Qiu Luoxue hurriedly protected her pulse and said, "I'm not sick, so I don't need you to treat me."
"Anyway, I've already informed you, from today onwards, the Prime Minister won't cook for you, you can solve it yourself." Qiu Luoxue stood up and left after speaking, and suddenly remembered something and turned back to him and said, "By the way, remember to pay for this meal."
"As a prime minister, you should be tolerant and generous, how can you hold such a grudge?" Xu Zhonghang said speechlessly, and asked Xia Ziyan again: "He won't really give me food, right?"
"Thinking about his previous attitude towards me and towards my imperial brother, you shouldn't doubt this question." Xia Ziyan said with great feeling.
Xu Zhonghang suddenly remembered the day he first arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion, Qiu Luoxue's attitude towards Xia Ziyan, and the time when the emperor returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and instantly felt that life was hopeless.