Chapter 17: Sleepless (1)
Putting down the silk, Jiang Li took out the small notebook in the box and opened it to see.
This is actually Cai Ping's diary.
She sat down on the edge of the bed, opened her book, and read carefully.
I started writing it last year.
"He came with his colleagues today, but I am afraid that there are many troubles in the officialdom, and his brows cannot be stretched. The sisters toasted him, and it was okay, it was okay, and he ignored it. ”
"He hasn't been here for a long time, and in a few days it will be the selection day of the Oiran lady, I don't know if he will come."
"I'm glad that I've become an Oiran lady so that I can see him often."
............
"I know that he and Zhang Gongzi are colleagues, I don't know if he has heard others mention me, I don't know if he suspects the ...... between me and Zhang Gongzi"
"The noble man came to me, and he said that the woman that the prince liked was Her Royal Highness, the eldest princess of Nanli Country......"
"Today he is here again, and he is very happy."
............
"I picked up a handkerchief from him, and he kept it close to him. I was very happy to find his veil, but I couldn't be happy when I saw the closed moon pattern on the veil......"
"The noble man said that he was looking for me with something important today, but the prince will also come today...... I wonder if I can get close to him, and if he will say that I am like my sisters...... But what's the difference between me and my sisters......"
With that in mind, it's over.
Jiang Li couldn't help but wonder, Ni Caiping was already an Oiran, and the people she saw were either rich or expensive, even Zhang Tingyun could refuse, what kind of character was the "nobleman" in her mouth?
Who is the son she is thinking about in her heart?
Who could pick up Jiang Shuyue's lost veil, and who dared to move his admiration for Her Royal Highness the eldest princess?
Jiang Li only felt that the clues in front of him were intermittent, flickering and dimming like stars in dark clouds, and only by connecting it into a line could we see what constellation this twinkling star was.
At this moment, only Wang Zicong has not been interrogated.
At this moment, the sky was about to dawn, but Jiang Li was not half sleepy, she ordered the coachman to hurry to the prison of the criminal department before the people were infested, and when she arrived, it was about the time when she arrived.
The main hall of the criminal department is spacious and bright, and the prison is dark and damp, and there is no daylight.
Jiang Li told the prison manager that there was no need to bring the prisoner up, and she went in for interrogation on her own. All you have to do is keep up with the two jailers who can use the torture instruments.
Xu was deliberately arranged, and as soon as Jiang Li stepped in, he felt cold.
Wang Zicong's cell was at the end of the corridor, and the jailer actually kept him in the same kind of prison as the heinous serial murderer and arsonist. There are no high iron bars here, and there are cockroaches and rats everywhere.
"Miss, let's go......" Seeing the unknown creature scurrying around under her feet, Jiangxue trembled with fright, and directly grabbed Rin Shuang and hid behind her.
"There are no cowardly and timid people in my Huangli Palace." Jiang Li's voice was still faint, she gently lifted her floor-length skirt and walked straight into the door of the cell.
The cell in front of him was cramped, and he could only see an unkempt man lying in the corner.
He didn't lift his head when he saw someone coming in, but he was still curled up in a very depressed and exhausted manner, as if he was accustomed to having jailers come in and out.
"You all stand down, and I have something to ask him alone." Hearing the woman's clear voice, the man in the corner slowly raised his head.
His face was covered with dust, except for a pair of eyes, black and shining, like stars scattered in the desert. The light in these eyes made Jiang Li feel that the person in front of him was not hopeless.
"See Lord Huangli." He propped himself on the ground with one hand, knelt down and kowtowed.
"No, you're suffering." The petite woman standing at the door a few steps away had no intention of stepping forward to help. Thinking about her young age, she is also afraid of getting dirty,
"I have the heart to avenge your grievances, but I still ask you to answer truthfully."
"Yes." The man's eyes darkened.
"Are you acquainted with the late Cai Ping lady?" Jiang Li straightened her skirt and stood upright.
Thinking about it, he had been interrogated many times, and he was tired: "It's just a few faces, how can you talk about familiarity?" ”
"On the night of the crime, do you remember where you were when everyone came home drunk? What are you doing? Jiang Li expected him to be like this, so he was not discouraged and continued to ask.
"I didn't drink much that day, but somehow I got very drunk. My little girl...... I don't remember exactly, but I'm afraid that he and other servants went quietly to find wine and drink...... I didn't ride home, it was like, as if I had collapsed in the Bonus Courtyard. Wang Zicong lowered his head, as if recalling what happened that day,
"What happened that night, I really can't remember, I can't remember at all. Then the next morning, I was woken up and found that I was in a strange room in the Huahong Courtyard, and then there was a woman hanging on the beam......
"I was very frightened, and before I could react to what had happened, someone from the Criminal Department came to arrest me, saying that Lord Yin of the Shuntian Mansion had sent someone to arrest me, a murderer."
He smiled bitterly, yes, who would have thought that his father, who loved him the most and respected him the most, would be in the same league with others, suspecting that he had killed someone.
Jiang Li listened and nodded in understanding: "That'...... Have you ever said anything to Cai Ping? ”
He thought for a moment and muttered: "From the beginning, Tingyun wanted to accept her as a concubine, I looked down on him for such a move, but I couldn't bear to see him so infatuated but couldn't ask for it. At his behest, I went to ask Cai Ping what she meant in her heart. She looked at me and told me that she had a crush...... Due to the identity and the difference between men and women, it was inconvenient for me to talk to her more, so I nodded and took my leave.
"But when I talked to her that day, I only said a few words, and I actually thought that she was not like an ordinary flower willow, and she was very well educated. I finally understood why Brother Tingyun was so infatuated with her, and the dream was unforgettable.
"But no matter how much she is a Qinglou woman, I still persuade Brother Tingyun to give up early, he refuses, and he has to go to see Ni Caiping himself before he can die."
The reward sighed in his heart, as if he already knew most of it: "Then when Ni Caiping talked to you, was there anything wrong?" ”
She looked at me, I don't know how to describe it, maybe it was affectionate...... However, most of the women in the Qinglou looked at the men in the Red Courtyard with such eyes, and they were very light. Wang Zicong frowned, and the expression on his face consciously showed his dissatisfaction.
No, it's not.
Jiang Li heard before this that the Oiran lady named Ni Caiping was very tall, and her eyes were cold and disdainful when she looked at anyone.
She suddenly changed her words and said coldly: "Do you know that it is a capital crime to secretly hide the belongings of my Nanli royal family, especially the private belongings of the princess who has not left the palace?" ”