Volume 1 Chapter 8 Ink Tea
"What? She's not Arthur? Mrs. Wu was pleasantly surprised: "But she obviously has the same face as Arthur!"
"Arthur has been with Madame all these years, doesn't Madame know that she has a twin sister?" Qi Shi'an looked at Mrs. Wu and said slowly.
"I haven't heard of this yet!" Mrs. Wu muttered.
"It was Arthur's own sister Ah Zi who attacked Luoxi!" Qi Shi Andao.
"Then the Nine Princes, do you know where Arthur is now?" Mrs. Wu couldn't help but ask.
"Isn't Miss Arthur in the Mansion now?" Qi Shi'an asked.
"Yes! I went back to my hometown ten days ago to worship my ancestors, Arthur said that she had something at home and could not follow me, and I just came back today and heard that Arthur had an accident. Mrs. Wu replied, her eyes slightly red.
"It seems that she and this maid named Arthur do have a deep love affair!" Luoxi thought to himself.
"Mrs. Wu can report to the official, post a notice, and find Arthur!" The Nine Princes pondered for a moment: "If the news of Ah Zi is released, maybe Miss Arthur will appear!"
"The prince's words are wrong, if Arthur can come back, she must have returned to the house, and if she hasn't come back until now, she must have been controlled or framed!" After Mrs. Wu finished speaking, her eyes became more and more red, and tears rolled in her eyes, "I just went to her house to look for it, and found that her house has long been deserted, and there is no one, I don't know why she lied to me?"
Luo Xi looked at Mrs. Wu and was very moved, she was so high in a high position, she was willing to plead for a little maid in such a low voice, and she was so worried about the safety of the maid.
"Luoxi begs the prince to help Mrs. Wu find Arthur!" Luo Xi stepped forward and tugged on Qi Shi'an's sleeve.
"It's difficult for you to protect yourself, and you still care about other people's affairs, Han Luoxi, it's better to heal your foot injury first, and then talk to this king about something else!" Qi Shi'an didn't even look at her, and said with disdain on his face.
"Qi Shi'an! You are so rat-bellied, how can you achieve great things in the future?" Han Luoxi thrust his waist and began to count him in righteous words.
"Han Luoxi! Shut up this king! This king has always longed for a life in a paradise, and he didn't want to make a big deal! The biggest thing this king can do right now is to shut up!" Qi Shi'an grabbed her hand and threw her to the bed, half-hugging and half-hugging.
At this time, Ji Wu, the personal guard of the Nine Princes, came in and whispered something to him, Qi Shi'an's face turned blue and said angrily, "Who is so bold that he dares to commit a crime under the nose of this king!"
"Lord Wang! But what happened had anything to do with Arthur?" Mrs. Wu seemed to hear something and asked with concern.
"Her sister Ah Zi was beheaded in the precept room, and the murderer left no traces!"
"Ahh
There was a dead silence in the room.
"How did the prince determine that the person in the precept room was Ah Zi and not Arthur? Where's the evidence?" Ji Wu asked curiously.
Mrs. Wu suddenly became nervous, she was only worried and sad just now, how could she forget to ask such a key question?
"Yes, how can the prince be so sure that she is not Arthur?"
Qi Shi'an hesitated for a moment and took out a letter from his arms, and he handed it to Mrs. Wu.
"Madame, look!"
The letter is a pink letterhead with two swaddling babies depicted on it, one with the word "Se" written on it and the other with the word "purple", the baby with purple characters is kept in a cage, but the baby with the child is placed in a large courtyard.
The two words were written crookedly, and it was obvious that he didn't want others to recognize his handwriting.
"How do you tell it's a twin?" Mrs. Wu looked at it and asked.
"It's very simple, these two babies are exactly the same, you see the swaddling pattern is the same." Luo Xi pointed to the image and explained to Mrs. Wu.
Qi Shi'an nodded approvingly, and his face was pale.
Qi Shi'an's appearance Luo Xi saw in her eyes, she glanced at her mouth, and secretly thought in her heart, "Virtue!"
"It might be a kid's prank, and it doesn't mean anything!" Mrs. Wu was skeptical.
"Then please ask Madame to go to the precept room, since Madame and Miss Arthur have been together for more than ten years, I must be able to recognize whether the headless corpse is her, wouldn't it be more convenient?" Ji Wu proposed.
Qi Shi'an nodded in agreement: "What Ji Wu said is very right! Please take a visit, Madame!"
Mrs. Wu nodded.
"I'm going too!" Luoxi raised his hand and said, he was used to school, and he always wanted to talk and raise his hand.
"Not allowed!" Qi Shi'an glanced at her with disgust, and said undoubtedly.
"I am the party and have an obligation to identify the murderer! I'm going to go!" Luo Xi stubbornly glared at Qi Shi'an.
"Lord Wang! The princess should indeed go! She must have met the murderer!" Ji Wu also interceded for Luoxi.
"Not allowed!" Qi Shi'an's tone was resolute, and there was no room for negotiation.
Luo Xi picked up the pillow from the side of the bed and threw it at Qi Shi'an, who caught it quickly, and the corners of his mouth were lightly raised and a hint of evil smile leaked.
"I love to see your anxious face! It's so much fun! Haha!" Throwing away the pillow and laughing out the door!
After everyone left, the room was quiet again, and Luo Xi sat on the edge of the bed sulking, and no one paid any attention.
Xiaolian didn't dare to say anything when she looked at her, and sat quietly with Mama Zhang, doing needlework.
There was silence in the room, "Whoosh!" A ringing arrow entered through the window with the sound of the wind and stuck straight into the armrest of Luoxi's bed, Luoxi was startled, stood up, and was touching the wound on the soles of her feet, the pain in her heart, she sat on the ground with an "oops".
Xiaolian and Mama Zhang rushed over when they heard the sound, saw Luoxi on the ground and the arrows inserted into the armrest of the bed, and shouted, "There are assassins!" Come on!"
Luoxi waved his hand at them, "It's okay! Pull out the arrow, there's a letter on it!"
The letter paper is still pink letterhead, with no words, and only two objects are drawn, one is an inkstone with a block of ink being grinded, and the other is a steaming teacup with a few tea leaves floating in the teacup.
"Miss! What does that mean?" Xiaolian looked at the letterhead with a question mark on her face.
"The inkstone is very small, the ink block is very large, the teacup is very blurry, but the tea leaves are very clear, the ink block, the tea leaves!" Luoxi frowned, but he couldn't hide the joy in his heart.
She likes this kind of picture guessing game the most, I remember when she was a child, whenever she finished her homework, her father would quickly draw a few pictures for her to guess, at first she guessed very slowly, Dad patiently handed her the method, and after a few times she became a master, every time she guessed correctly, Dad would conjure up a variety of delicious food for her.
That was when her childhood mouth was at its happiest.
"Ink block! Tea! Ink, tea, Mocha!" It only took her a few more glances to see what the picture meant: "He's reminding us of this, Mocha!" Right! It must mean this!" Luoxi was triumphant, she handed the letter to Xiaolian, and explained to her very proudly.
"Wow! Miss is so smart! I can even understand this!"
Xiaolian's face was full of admiration.
"Little Lotus! You go and quickly hand over this letter to the Nine Princes!" Luoxi Road.
Luoxi blinked, and suddenly smiled, "Miss Ben also has two sentences to explain, Xiaolian takes a pen and paper!"
The two letters were folded and handed to Xiaolian, who went out to the precept room.
After about three pillars of incense, Xiaolian came back panting.
"Mama! Give Xiaolian saliva to drink! I'm so thirsty!" Mama Li smiled and poured her a glass of water.
"Little Lotus! Did you write it to the prince? What did he say?" Luoxi asked eagerly.
Xiaolian drank water and handed a letter to Luoxi: "This is what the prince asked me to give to you!" He writes so fast, I blink an eye and he's done! Look at it!"