Half an hour later, the box was found.

A thick stack of notes is full of orders received by the rudder of Jixiang Casino this year, twenty or thirty sheets. Ji Xiao took a look at it, up to the official wealthy, down to the merchant squire, in addition to Xia Jinse, there was even the name of a third-grade official.

Ji Xiao's face turned blue when he saw it, this is a big case, I didn't expect so many people to die, and it will definitely cause a sensation in the government and the opposition if it is reported. It can be seen that the Soul Chaser Building is not a simple Jianghu organization, there must be important officials in the DPRK and China, and maybe even the royal family involved.

Looking at the notes in the box one by one, Ji Xiao finally handed one of them to Xia Jinse.

Xia Jinse took it and looked at it, and on the palm-sized note, a few small words were clearly written: Xia Jinse, the eldest daughter of Xia Yanxiu, a thousand taels of silver, dead!

Name, identity, a thousand taels of money, and a few words decided the fate of the original owner.

Unexpectedly, someone actually spent 1,000 taels to kill her, which is a huge amount of money.

The price of goods in the Daqing Dynasty is not high, two copper plates can eat a bowl of Yangchun noodles, a stone of rice is about 125 catties, and a penny of silver can be bought. Even if it is Xia Yanxiu, the official is a first-class left-hand minister, and the monthly salary is only one hundred taels, and it is only more than one thousand taels a year.

Of course, Yulu is not equal to actual income, but it can be seen how strong this person's heart is to want Xia Jinse to die!

Ji Xiao said in a deep voice: "Miss Xia, do you know this handwriting?" ”

There was no other information on the paper, and Xia Jinse stared at the handwriting, unable to determine whether it was written by the person who bought the murder. Although this font is small and beautiful, it is likely to be written by a woman, but who knows if it was written by a scholar or a maid?

She shook her head, "I don't know, but the papers seem to be a little different." ”

There are a total of twenty or thirty notes in this box, Ji Xiao roughly checked it, some of the paper is of better texture, smooth and white, some are rougher, and some are even written on yellow paper and straw paper. It can be seen that the owner of each piece of paper is different, either deliberately, or when writing at that time, there was only this kind of paper around.

"There are not many four treasure shops in the capital, and Ji Zhutou can start investigating from the person who bought the paper, although he is not sure what can be found, but at least it is a direction." Xia Jinse reminded.

The one in her hand is not the best peach blossom xuan, but it is also a normal letter paper, white and soft, and many scholars and officials are used to using this. If the person who wanted to kill her didn't deliberately hide it, then this person at least has a good life, at least a well-off family, otherwise where would it cost a thousand taels?

Her first reaction was a few people from the Prime Minister's Mansion. Could it be the Zhao family, or even Xia Yanxiu?

"Can I take this note?" Xia Jinse asked, she wanted to take it back and check the handwriting of Zhao and others.

But Ji Xiao refused: "I'm sorry, Miss Xia, this is important physical evidence, and I can't give it to you." ”

Since this is the case, Xia Jinse can't force it, so he can only write down this handwriting carefully, and prepare to go back and slowly check it from the people in the prime minister's mansion. She can't participate in the rest of the matter, this case is too big, Ji Xiao already plans to report it immediately, what the result is, she can only wait for the investigation of the imperial court.

After being busy for so long, when Xia Jinse left Jingzhao Mansion with Mu Xiang, Ji Xiao was lame and asked Wang Yu to quickly support him and personally send Xia Jinse out.

"Miss Xia, thank you so much today, it's getting late, be careful on the way back."

Mu Xiang waited in a panic, and wanted to say, Master Cousin, if you are really worried about Miss, why don't you hire a sedan chair to send Miss? What's the use of just talking?

Xia Jinse nodded, and asked Ji Xiao to hurry back, pay attention to his injuries, and just as he was about to leave, Ji Xiao called out to her again: "Miss Xia......"

"What else?" Xia Jinse wondered.

"Well, can you ......?"

Ji Xiao wanted to speak and stopped, very embarrassed, and said after a long time: "It's the medicine that Miss Xia gave me to treat the injury just now, a little bit can stop the bleeding, it's amazing, can you give it to ...... No, no, no, sell to below? ”

Fell in love with her Yunnan Baiyao? This head-catching cousin still has some vision.

Xia Jinse took it out of his sleeve, handed it over and said, "You don't need to buy it, it's good to give it to Ji Zhutou, thank you Ji Zhutou for doing your best for my case, and you were injured." This medicine is specially used for trauma and has a good effect on hemostasis, but it is suitable for Ji Zhutou. ”

At first, she did have some doubts about Ji Xiao, but after this night, she had a different opinion of him. If it weren't for someone who really handled the case, she would never have taken such a risk, and she saw his injuries in her eyes.

Ji Xiao was overjoyed, thanked him repeatedly, and sent two more headhunters to send Xia Jinse back.

By the time she returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, it was almost time to give birth.

Needless to say, Mu Xiang's worries went without saying, as soon as Xia Jinse entered the door, a girl came to report, saying that the old lady had been waiting for her for one night, and she was very angry, so she asked the eldest lady to hurry to Rongxi Hall.

Xia Yanxiu and Zhao didn't sleep, and when they saw Xia Jinse coming, Xia Yanxiu's ugly face became a little more gloomy. But in view of the previous few times, he didn't get angry immediately, and forcibly held back his anger and said: "Jinse, you, a woman who has not left the cabinet, actually ran out of the door without permission, and came back so late, and was known, have you ever thought about the consequences?" ”

"Father, I went to the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion, and the case has progressed." Xia Jinse said.

Xia Yanxiu's eyes suddenly burst when he heard this: "What did you say?" ”

Zhao's heart sank even more, he originally wanted to reprimand Xia Jinse, but now he was only uneasy and nervous.

Xia Jinse blessed his body and said, "Today, Ji Zhutou sent someone to inform me, saying that he had caught the suspect and asked me to come over to identify him." Later, the man confessed and said that he had chased the soul building, and it turned out that someone had bought and killed me. ”

"Who is it?" When Xia Yanxiu asked this, he found that his fists were clenched, and he, like the Zhao family, stared at Xia Jinse, not knowing whose name would come out of her mouth.

Zhao was even more annoyed, didn't he let Hu Yuan stare at it a long time ago, why didn't he tell her in time that such a big thing had happened?

Who knows, Xia Jinse only glanced at the two of them: "Ji Zhutou said that this case is very important, not only involving the Prime Minister's Mansion, but also involving many officials of the imperial court, and it must be reported to the imperial court immediately and asked the emperor to decide." The daughter cannot disclose the facts of the case at will, and asks her father for forgiveness. ”

Report to the imperial court, it is so serious?!

Xia Yanxiu's heart was tight, he didn't expect that he would be negligent for a while and get into such trouble.

The Soul Chasing Building is notorious, he has also heard of it, he didn't expect it to be like this, he can't wait to teach Zhao a hard lesson. It's a pity that the matter has come to this point, and it can't be reversed, so we can only take one step at a time.

Xia Yanxiu didn't have the heart to teach Xia Jinse a lesson, and he didn't even pay attention to her saying goodbye and returning to the room, and when she came back to her senses, Xia Jinse had already left, leaving Zhao Shi looking at him in despair: "Master, what should I do now?" Things turned out to be a big deal. ”

"It's all your fault, the woman's opinion, it's stupid!"

"Who knew it would be like this, but master, what is the Soul Chasing Building?"

"What's the use of asking so much, it's all you, not only did you not stop it, but you added fuel to it!"

Zhao Shi panicked, trying his best to calm down: "Master, I don't think this girl Jinse may know anything, otherwise her attitude towards us would not be so peaceful." Besides, even if it is found out, the matter is not done by us, there is a debtor who is wronged, and she has the ability to take revenge herself. ”

The more Xia Yanxiu listened, the more upset she became, remembering that Xia Jinse would have to enter the palace in a few days, in case she was really taken by the queen's mother......

"Enough, since Xiao'er is in charge of this matter, while he hasn't reported it yet, you hurry up to him overnight and ask him what's going on, what if we are deceived by that girl? Ask clearly. ”

didn't even have time to sleep, Zhao went in a hurry, Xia Yanxiu returned to the room with a gloomy face, and he didn't sleep for a long time.

……

On the side of Begonia Garden, Xia Jinse also freshened up and fell asleep, but he didn't fall asleep, and he was thinking about a few things.

Just now she deliberately said that the case was eyebrow-raising, and said that Ji Xiao was going to report to the imperial court, and she found that the Zhao family was obviously a little different. Even Xia Yanxiu looked very nervous, but he definitely didn't care about her, but he was afraid of being exposed.

She was sure that most of the two men knew about her assassination.

The handwriting of the note has been clearly remembered, as long as he sees it again, Xia Jinse will definitely recognize it. It's just that there are so many people in the Prime Minister's Mansion, who wrote the word, and it will be difficult to check for a while.

As long as Zhao is not too stupid, even if she did it, she will not write the note herself, then she will have to check from the people around Zhao. Although Xia Ruxue and Xia Mengyao are impossible, they can't relax, as well as the henchmen around the Zhao family, two big girls, two grandmothers, and even two housekeepers.

As for the rest......

Aunt Su and her girl, as well as Xia Yanxiu's third concubine, Shen Shi, is a mysterious figure. It's been more than a month since Xia Jinse came back, and he hasn't seen her yet, and he doesn't know what this Shen family is doing all day.

Is it possible that the third uncle's family did it? Xia Jinse is not sure, just to check everyone's handwriting, this is a big project.

It seems that she is going to find a few more girls, although Mu Xiang and Aunt Yao are loyal, but there will only be more and more things around them, and they can't be busy at all. She didn't worry about the people transferred by the Zhao family, and planned to have the opportunity to find them herself.

On the second day, Xia Jinse was thinking about finding someone, and Aunt Yao came in a hurry.

"Miss is not good, I just went to the street to buy something, but I didn't expect to hear a lot of people gossiping about Miss."

Xia Jinse is a little strange, what gossip does she have?

Aunt Yao said angrily: "Although Miss is the daughter of the Prime Minister's house, she mixes with men all day long, she didn't say anything at the border before, but now she just went out at will as soon as she returned to Beijing, and even mixed with a group of fast catchers all day, what she said is ugly!" ”

Mu Xiang was wiping the table, and his eyes were round when he heard it: "Who spread it nonsense, so hateful!" ”

Aunt Yao was even more worried: "Miss, you will enter the palace in two days, if this kind of words reach the ears of the queen mother and the jade concubine, how can it be good?" What should I do......"

When Xia Jinse heard this, he seemed to understand something.

She only went to Jingzhao Mansion yesterday and came back, and this kind of thing came out today, so it can be seen that the person who passed the word must know her very well. She only told Xia Yanxiu and the Zhao family, if she said that this matter was not their 'credit', she really didn't believe it.