Chapter Eighty-Five: Headless Corpses
"Lord Wang, you're back." After Li Jingrui dismounted, he took the clean silk handkerchief handed over by the attendant on the side, and strode towards his yard, while wiping his fingers carefully, as if there was something unclean on it.
Li Jingrui glanced up and found that the man who came out was not Hongyi, so he couldn't help frowning. "What about Hongyi? Go and call him to the king. ”
The man who came forward didn't seem to be stunned, he opened his mouth to ask about Hongyi's whereabouts, and hurriedly replied. "My subordinates have already sent someone to find Hongyi."
Li Jingrui hummed casually, since Hua Zijing didn't want to leave a living mouth, then just let him dispose of it, imagining that when Hua Zijing dealt with the aftermath, he found that the group of people who died tragically under him, but they were all the female dependents in the Zhao Mansion, what kind of expression would be on their faces, Li Jingrui couldn't help but sneer.
It's just a little doll whose hair hasn't grown, and she thinks she has clever means, Li Jingrui secretly shook her head.
The man couldn't see what he was thinking from his face, and when he was wondering what he meant, he heard Li Jingrui ask again. "What?"
After being reminded by Li Jingrui, the man seemed to have just thought about what he had come to do, and hurriedly hesitated. "Someone sent a box before, saying that it was a gift for the prince."
"Gifts?" Li Jingrui's footsteps paused, and he couldn't help but squint at the man.
That look seemed to say, such a trivial matter, is it worth him to stop himself at this door? After all, he is now a hot figure in Kyoto, and there are more people who want to slap him up every day, and there are still fewer gifts received by the porter.
"But." The man hesitated for a moment before speaking. "The subordinates looked at a letter on it, and it was written on it that the prince himself had opened it."
As he spoke, the man took out a white envelope from his arms and respectfully presented it to Li Jingrui with both hands, who glanced down.
After examining it carefully, he didn't see anything dirty on the letter, so he reached out and pinched it in his hand through a layer of silk handkerchief.
He opened the letter and took out its contents.
At first glance at the handwriting in the letter, his pupils shrank suddenly, and his fingers twitched unconsciously, but this time it was so subtle that no one paid attention to it except for the one who had been walking side by side with him.
Li Jingrui's footsteps unconsciously stopped at the door of the room, and immediately read the letter at a glance, pinched the letter, and asked with a calm face. "Where's the stuff?"
The man reacted immediately, waved his hand, and then someone presented the ebony square box to Li Jingrui.
The ebony box is carved with a cumbersome pattern, it is a curled up karmic fire phoenix, carved vividly, especially the pair of shining scorching eyes, although it seems that the phoenix is very painful, but if the karmic fire is reborn, everything will be different.
After Li Jingrui saw the pattern clearly, his heart sank, he took a deep breath, stretched out his hand and slowly opened the square box, the square box was not locked, but simply pinned with wood cutting, this is something that Li Jingrui asked to open by name, and others did not dare to move.
In the small box, there were five thick fingers, and looking at the length, it should be a man's left hand, but it was cut off by the roots, because there were several layers of thick oiled paper inside, so the blood did not flow out of the gap.
Li Jingrui's face sank, so he closed the wooden box, his face was very gloomy and ugly, he reached out and crumpled the letter in his hand into a ball, and threw it out.
"Go and call Hongyi to this king!"
The man did not dare to delay, but hurriedly answered the call and pushed the door and went out.
Li Jingrui had a gloomy face, stretched out his foot and kicked the door open, only to kick the door open, but the door just opened.
The smell of blood mixed with sandalwood immediately poured into the tip of Li Jingrui's nose, and the irritated Li Jingrui couldn't help but take a step back.
His face sank suddenly, and he glanced at the attendant on the side.
The attendant immediately entered the room, and in a short time came out with a black cloth bag.
Because the cloth bag had been on the table for a long time, the blood had already stuck to some of the books on the table, and the attendant hesitated, but still didn't dare to pull the books down, so he carried them out together.
When Li Jingrui saw the black cloth bag, his eyebrows jumped, and a touch of uneasiness suddenly appeared in his heart.
At this moment, the person who had left earlier ran over in a panic and said in a loud voice. "Lord Wang, there is a headless corpse floating in the small pond in the inner courtyard."
"Looks like..."
His gaze fell on a black cloth bag that the man was carrying, and he couldn't help but stop his rampage in surprise and glanced around the cloth bag.
"Open!" Li Jingrui only felt that his eyebrows kept twitching, and these two words were squeezed out by him from between his teeth.
The attendant hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand and slowly untied the cloth bag, but because his hands were shaking, he didn't hold it steady for a while, and the people inside rolled out with a gurgling face.
Li Jingrui looked at the head without blinking, his eyes kept tracing the head, and at this moment he met the person's gaze, and he trembled with anger.
"Hongyi."
Hongyi has been with him for several years, and he is his most trusted confidant.
His weight is naturally incomparable to others.
Now that he is out of the mansion, Hongyi who stayed in the mansion was killed and thrown away, not to mention, he also beheaded him and placed it in his room.
Thinking of this, Li Jingrui's body couldn't stop shaking, he didn't stand firm for a while, and his head slammed on the door.
In the exclamation of the attendant, Li Jingrui seemed to remember something, held his aching forehead, stepped into the room in a few steps, and was about to touch the purple gold incense burner when he stopped abruptly.
He glanced around coldly, then casually pointed to one of the guards and commanded. "You, come here."
Under Li Jingrui's cold gaze, the guard unconsciously shrank his neck, and under Li Jingrui's gaze, he reached out and touched the incense burner, turning it lightly.
Li Jingrui made people light the candle and went all the way down to the bottom.
He looked gloomily at the unnamed iron prison that was originally trapped in the unknown, where there was still an unnamed shadow.
Li Jingrui only felt his anger surging, and he couldn't hold back for a while, and reached out and slapped it heavily on the wall.
Then he felt a surge of blood in his heart, and his throat was sweet, and he fainted directly.
"Lord Wang!"
......
Naturally, Weiming couldn't bring it back to the Dehuai Palace, Yun Zhen pondered for a while, and then let the seventeen people who came to meet carry Weiming back.
"Any news?" Yun Zhen glanced at Liuli who came over, and asked in a deep voice.
Liuli made a calm face and said hesitantly. "Of the thirteen female dependents in that courtyard, only two female dependents survived, one was rescued by the eldest young master of the Zhao family, and the other was spared when the courtyard collapsed."
"What's wrong with Zhao Shaoqi?" Yun Zhen had a slight look of surprise on her face, and she couldn't help but glance at Liuli.
Yun Zhen's eyes narrowed slightly, and she thought carefully for a moment, she remembered that Zhao Shaoqi only accepted a few concubines, and did not marry a wife, but she heard that those concubines were all handled by Mrs. Zhao, and she was not pleased. "Who did he take?"
"An Le, an orphan girl rescued by Zhao Lao a few years ago, and then was carried by Mrs. Zhao as an aunt, although she is only famous with Zhao Lao, but I heard that these days, she is waiting in front of Zhao Lao's couch."
Yun Zhen's eyes narrowed slightly, and she suddenly asked. "Where did you find that bamboo tube?"
Liuli was stunned by her question, thought carefully for a moment, and said in a low voice. "It's in the courtyard on the east side."
"Who lives in that yard?" As soon as Yun Zhen asked, Liuli immediately understood what Yun Zhen meant.
The room was assigned by her, and she had seen it too, and when she was asked like this, Liuli immediately reacted, and her face immediately changed, but she remembered something, and she said again. "There are a lot of people living in the courtyard, and An Le lives with the surviving Aunt Tong."
"Although Aunt Tong was spared, she was arrested by General Qian."
"As for An Le, although he was brought out by Young Master Zhao together." Ruri shook her head slowly. "It's just that on the way, in order to protect Young Master Zhao, she was hit by an arrow in the chest, and I heard that the injury was not light."
"Save it, only one breath is left."
Hearing this, Yun Zhen's eyes gradually sank, since the suspect was either injured or arrested, as long as the news could not be leaked, the rest of the things didn't matter.
Since Zhao Shaoqi is so concerned about Na An Le, he will briefly mention Zhao Shaoqi and let him pay attention to it, thinking that Na An Le will not be able to turn over any storms even if he is seriously injured.
After a long time, Yun Zhen nodded slowly.
"If that's the case, then don't worry about it anymore."
She took two slow steps, then glanced back at Ruri. "What is Qian Qian's movement?"
Hearing her mention this, Liuli thought for a moment, and picked some brief words. "I heard that General Qian is having a very hard time these days, and from time to time he is carried into the palace by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and scolded him."
"I heard that for these things, General Qian has not been back for a long time."
Hearing this, Yun Zhen's footsteps froze slightly, a very strange smile appeared on her face, and then she slowly shook her head, but she didn't know how to evaluate Qian Qian's elm pimple.
But because Qian Qian was picked up by her, if she didn't mention one or two, she felt that it would be a pity.
Now Zhu Mo has been cut off five fingers by himself, which can be said to be completely wasted, and it is still unknown whether he can keep his current position as General Zuo.
Since Zhu Mo has no strength to fight, as long as Qian Qian is a little smarter and moves closer to Hua Zijing, then the position of president will naturally not fall elsewhere.
She was afraid that this stupid big man would drill the tip of the horns and let the duck fly recklessly.
After thinking for a moment, Yun Zhen spoke.
"If you have time, let someone pass him a message."
Liuli was stunned for a moment, then leaned to Yun Zhen's lips, and after listening to Yun Zhen's instructions, she nodded and said that she understood.
"County Lord." Hearing the hesitation in Liuli's words, Yun Zhen couldn't help but glance back at her and asked in a low voice. "How?"
Ruri hesitated and spoke. "County Lord, do you know that the right minister is back."
"What?" Yun Zhen hadn't taken this matter to heart before, but looking at the indescribable strangeness on Liuli's face, she couldn't help but think carefully for a moment, wondering if she had neglected something.
During this period of time, she was overwhelmed by the things such as Concubine Jing and Zuo Xiang, who were very capable of tossing, but she ignored the right phase for a while.
"Isn't the right minister returning to his hometown?"