Chapter 54: The Death of the Palace Maiden Cai'er

"I've admired the daimyo for a long time! Fortunately, I will be glad to meet you! ”

The two exchanged words.

Liu Wenchang, this name Zhenbei has never heard of in his previous life, presumably his family has just entered the elite circle in the past two years.

Zhen Bei looked at the other party quietly, her complexion was a healthy bronze, and her body was short, looking at her appearance, she knew that she was strong and her skills should be extraordinary.

At the same time, Liu Wenchang was also curiously observing Zhen Bei, he looked at the stains on Zhen Bei's clothes, and said, "Brother Gu, what is this?" ”

Zhen Bei looked down at the green ball, and said with a light smile: "I accidentally spilled some wine on it, don't worry!" ”

Sima Duanli was surprised: "It turned out to be a wine stain? I just thought that the ghost girl of Peony deliberately painted a butterfly on it! ”

The other two looked back at the stain when he mentioned it, and they were surprised to find that it really looked like a butterfly with its wings spread!

Only a person with a big line like Sima Duanli would think that someone would deliberately splash ink on his clothes to decorate!

"Brother Gu, the foolish brother still has a set of unworn clothes in the carriage, the two of us are not too different in height, I will let someone take it, if you don't dislike it, then quickly change it!" Liu Wen said.

At the lunchtime banquet, Emperor Nanyang will also participate, in order not to become the object of everyone's attention, Zhen Bei readily accepted the other party's good intentions: "In this way, it will trouble Brother Liu!" ”

Soon, the descendants of the Liu family brought their clothes in.

Zhenbei summoned a palace maid and asked her to take her to a room where the guests could rest temporarily.

Seeing that the palace maid was standing in the room and did not leave, Zhen Bei said: "I can do it myself, sister, please go quickly!" ”

The palace maid answered the "whoo", bowed slightly, and walked out quickly.

The robe worn by Zhenbei was made of smooth fabric, so the drink only soaked the outer robe, not the inner shirt.

She took off her outer shirt, changed into the clothes given by Liu Wenchang, and when she left the wing room again, she found that the verandah was empty.

Faintly from the next room, the voices of several palace maids came.

"Qiu'er, you said that this place is remote, just a few of us are serving, will we summon that thing?"

"Phew! Don't say anything unlucky, it doesn't dare to show its face in the blue sky! ”

"Yes! That Cai'er is really miserable, good people are just scared! When we first entered the palace, we were assigned to work in the imperial kitchen, but she was the most courageous! Every time she kills chickens and geese, she grabs it to do it, who would have thought that she would end up with such a result! ”

Zhen Bei couldn't help but stop when she heard this, and leaned her ears to listen.

"Alas! I heard that that night, it was another person who was assigned to make the soup, and she was so frightened when she saw that she was scared, so she responded on behalf of others, alas~ After all, it was fate! ”

"She's like this, I really don't know whether to praise her for her righteousness, or like to be in the limelight! Having said that, I met Yu'er two days ago, and she was dressed up glamorously, but she didn't look sad at all! ”

"How can I say it, although they are sisters, but in the end they serve the two masters, and those two are incompatible rivals. These days, something happened to Concubine Yan, and the other one couldn't sleep because of it? If Yu'er is seen with a sad face, she will not be beaten on the board! ”

"That's right!"

"A few dead hooves, idle and idle, know how to chew the root of the tongue! Who said that Yu'er is not sad, I met her this morning when I went to lord this month fat powder, and I saw her secretly wiping her tears while people were unprepared! ”

"And this?"

"It's a sister!"

"That's it! Don't go on any longer, Aunt Liu saw that we were lazy here, and the monthly silver for half a year had not been sent again! ”

A few people responded with a smile and dispersed.

Zhen Bei saw that the palace maid who had just brought her to come came out of the wing room, so she entrusted the dirty clothes she had changed into to one of her, and asked her to send them to the carriage waiting outside, and she walked in the direction of the banquet.

She walked slowly, pondering in her mind the conversation she had just heard.

didn't go far, and saw a few people hurrying over from the opposite side, and the first person was Qin Wuchen.

"Lord Qin, why are you in such a hurry?" Zhenbei asked.

"Ah, it's Brother Gu!" Qin Wuchen's speed under his feet did not decrease, and he said anxiously, "Something happened to the surviving palace maid!" ”

Zhen Bei's heart was shocked when she heard this, she was already obsessed with case reasoning, and at this time, she had already developed a strong interest in this case: "Are people still alive?" ”

"Brother Gu, if you don't have anything else important, you might as well go over and help together!" Qin Wuchen shook his head and said.

There was still a long time before the luncheon, and Zhen Bei turned around and chased after her: "What happened?" ”

"Less than an hour after I came over there, I was looking through the historical records of the cases in the library in the palace, and I received news that the palace maid had hanged herself! With so many people taking care of the left and right, they can let each other succeed! Qin Wuchen said indignantly.

Hearing this, Zhen Bei knew that he should have made a new discovery, but because of the presence of other people, he did not immediately ask.

After half a pillar of incense, Zhen Bei followed them into a high-walled courtyard, which was already full of people.

"Lord Qin, you're here!" An old man with pale sideburns dressed in the imperial doctor's robe greeted him.

Qin Wuchen hurriedly arched his hand to him, called "Xu Yizheng", and the two of them ignored too many greetings and hurriedly stepped into the wing room in parallel.

Zhenbei followed them and walked in.

This is a set of slightly cramped internal and external suites, the ridge is about three or four feet high, and the whole wing room is like a small bunker.

In the inner room, there is a couch with futon scattered haphazardly, and a small window sealed with wooden strips beside the couch.

In the outer room, there was nothing but a wooden table and a few wooden benches in the center.

The body of the palace maid Cai'er was laid flat on the floor of the inner room, and the white silk on the beam hung quietly in the air.

After carefully inspecting every corner of the scene, Zhenbei squatted on the ground and watched the corpse be examined.

Looking at the surface characteristics of the mouth and nose ruled out poisoning, there was no abnormality in the strangulation marks on the neck, and there were no other injuries on the body, and the case record was judged to have died by hanging.

On the other side, Qin Wuchen asked with a stern expression, "At that time, why didn't anyone stay in the room?" ”

Several imperial doctors' faces became more and more pale when they heard this, and several people looked at each other, not knowing how to speak.

On the side, Doctor Xu sighed and said, "There have always been people in the room to take care of them, but they are discussing the cure for epilepsy in the outer room, and they once thought that Cai'er, who drank the soothing soup, not only did not fall asleep, but also got up and quietly hung herself by hanging herself!" ”

Qin Wuchen and Zhen Bei glanced at each other very quickly, and said in shock, "What happened?" ”

Xu Yizheng sighed: "Because this Cai'er has been crazy and does not allow people to come close to heal, the old man added a few flavors of medicinal materials to the decoction she used to make her sleep peacefully, so as to facilitate the pulse!" ”

It turned out that on this day, not long after Qin Wuchen left, the emperor summoned Xu Yizheng to the Huixin Palace, and Yan Yanfei was sick again, so let her go to check.

At this time, Cai'er had just taken the medicine and fell asleep, and according to the past, the tranquilizing soup could make her sleep for at least two hours, so the other imperial doctors stayed in the outer room with peace of mind.

Who would have expected that when Doctor Xu came back from seeing Concubine Yan and was going to enter the inner room for Cai'er's pulse, he was shocked to realize that he had committed suicide by hanging himself!

Several imperial doctors panicked, they hurriedly put down Cai'er, and after confirming that he was dead, they hurriedly sent news to the Criminal Department to report the case, and asked Qin Wuchen, who was still in the palace, to come over.

Xu Yizheng, who has always been calm, couldn't stop his body from trembling after saying the last word.

This matter is full of strangeness, just how the deceased did it, without the help of any climbing objects, quietly concealed from a few people in the outer room, and hung herself on a beam several times her height, which was enough to make the backs of several people present chill.

A slightly younger imperial doctor, with a bloodless face, snorted: "Lord Qin, this Cai'er drank the medicine, and she would never wake up, should there really be that god and ghost?" ”