Overnight, a fire burned the courtyard to the ground.

The two charred bodies lay in different places, both charred and unrecognizable, making it difficult to distinguish their gender and identity.

I don't know who reported to the official the next day, but everyone sent by the county magistrate came over and found the body, and quickly turned back and pulled out more people to help.

This is the first case this year in which a house was burned down with a person.

After checking and measuring it, the people of the government determined that it was an accident, and the candle accidentally fell over and lit the table, and along the way, the entire courtyard was set on fire.

In fact, such a judgment is not rigorous.

Because after a false examination, the bodies of these two sentences were dead before the fire burned, and it is obvious that this is a murder and arson case.

But the reason why the case was closed like this was because someone saw Lord Qi, an important minister of the imperial court, appear here with his subordinates last night.

How could it be that Lord Qi led someone to kill people and set fires? This is absolutely impossible.

Therefore, this case ended in a hurry.

As for the identities of the two people who died, they were a man and a woman, and they were also determined, because the names written on the title deed were Li Jicai and Li Jiye, and this was the other courtyard they had just purchased.

Everyone knows that Li Jicai was in the small restaurant business before, the business was very prosperous, and she saved a lot of money, so it was not particularly difficult for her to buy an annex, plus this annex is a little remote, and it is also very common to have a few rooms and a courtyard, and the surrounding area is very bleak, and there are few families.

But even if the government wants to calm things down, there are still good people who have been talking about it for a long time.

There are different theories about this. The teahouse and the wine shop can't help but quarrel over this matter.

All kinds of conspiracy theories emerged one after another, and all of a sudden, public opinion was very loud.

But this matter, for Emperor Gao De, who is very resourceful, he naturally doesn't care about this matter.

What he cared about was that Qi Qingchu didn't imprison the person, but let him run away.

There was a lot of anger in the imperial study, and Qi Qingchu endured it silently.

Emperor Gao Dedi asked him to tell the ins and outs of the whole thing, and his eyes were very sharp.

Qi Qingchu couldn't, so he had to explain the changes that had happened in the past two days carefully and carefully to Zai.

It also included what he thought and took to act, and it didn't sound like anything serious, but Emperor Gao Dedi noticed something unusual in it.

"In the past, you wouldn't make a move easily, but this time it's clear that you're flying your kite, so why are you running around doing all that useless work? Or, did you deliberately let him go? ”

"Wechen didn't dare, this matter, it was really my decision-making mistake, so I gave the other party a chance, even if someone in the court did an internal ghost and implemented any means, but Wechen didn't see that he recruited someone else's way, it was really Wechen's incompetence." Qi Qingchu honestly confessed.

After all, when he remembered it afterwards, he felt that what he had done was really irrational and lacked basic judgment.

"Is that the woman's reason?" Emperor Gao De felt that Qi Qingchu seemed to have an inexplicable affection for Li Jicai.

"Back to Your Majesty's words, it's definitely not, it's just because the other party should cooperate with the outside, and the means are ingenious, and there is a skill of disguise change, creating multiple clones, minister, I really didn't expect it."

This time, Qi Qingchu was convinced.

"I have always trusted you very much, but this time it is really disappointing to me, several years of planning have been in vain, how can I not be called me, heartbroken."

Emperor Gao Dedi slapped the table heavily, and the brushes used to circle words fell to the ground.

Don't know why? This should have been admonished, but Qi Qingchu unexpectedly wanted to refute.

If Emperor Gao De had made a decision earlier, he would not have dragged on for three or five years to watch people change from a deposed prince to a prince with the possibility of inheritance, from broken copper and iron to gold, silver and jade, and he would have missed the best opportunity when he wanted to fish again.

In the past, he had reminded him countless times that they could imprison him, but Emperor Gao De rejected his idea for various reasons.

Sometimes Qi Qingchu really felt a little incomprehensible.

"The minister is incompetent, and I hope that His Majesty will punish him, and the minister knows that he has made a big mistake and is willing to be punished."

Looking at this splendid imperial study, listening to Emperor Gao De's reprimand, Qi Qingchu, who had a humble face in the past, was not depressed, and felt irritable in his heart for no reason.

He knew that the courtyard had burned down, and that they had found two bodies, a man and a woman.

It's just that I don't know if the woman's body is Li Jicai.

If yes......

Emperor Gao De also said it well, and when he was talking, he found that Qi Qing's original intention was absent, and he immediately lost the mind to continue preaching.

Qi Qingchu's anger also deepened.

After all, every time Qi Qingchu does a good job, he may be a little satisfied in Gao Dedi's heart, but as long as he does something bad, Gao Dedi will suddenly feel very disappointed and angry with Qi Qingchu, and his previous good impression will no longer exist.

Qi Qingchu was in such an environment, and he always said that he was His Majesty's favored retainer from the outside, but in fact, only he knew what kind of life his favored retainer lived.

Favored ministers are also ministers, no different from other people, accompanying the king like a tiger.

Today, he is a favorite of His Majesty, and tomorrow he may be a different person.

Qi Qingchu has always felt that what he can do well is the heart of a pure child and loyalty to the Chu State.

"You go down first."

Seeing Qi Qingchu's expression, Emperor Gao De was very disgusted and directly expelled Qi Qingchu.

Qi Qing saluted at the beginning, and then left decisively without looking back.

When Emperor Gao De saw this, his heart was even more annoyed.

Any disobedient and rebellious courtier is the beginning of his rejection.

After Qi Qing first left the palace gate, he did not return to the mansion immediately, but rushed to the official mansion non-stop.

If he went to see the corpses of those two sentences, he wanted to know whether the corpse of that woman belonged to Li Jicai.

At that time, his people searched in the raging fire, but they did not find Li Jicai, which made Qi Qingchu feel a little relieved, because he felt that as long as Li Jicai's body was not found, it meant that Li Jicai was not at the scene at that time.

It's good that she's not dead.

But they didn't find anyone at the scene except Li Jiye, and now that they found two corpses, does it mean that someone put a corpse after the fire, or that someone threw a corpse into it when the fire was burning?

Destroy the corpse.

After the fire, the damage to the corpse was so great that it was impossible to tell who this person was from the face.

But even so, Qi Qingchu still wanted to take a look.

I can't tell the feeling, maybe it's just because he and Li Jicai have met once, after all, it is an acquaintance, after all, he used to look at her body so ungentlemanly.

And it's strange when did you buy this annex? How could it be that Li Jicai and Li Jiye bought it, they had never been to this place before.

This fire came strangely and was full of questions.

The reason why the government didn't dare to investigate Qi Qingchu himself knew it because of his own reasons.

The people in the government were afraid that the final murderer would find out that he was Qi Qingchu, but the people who were present at the time and his subordinates could prove that he did not do it, but his subordinates could not act as witnesses, unless a third party saw that he did not kill and set fire.

But without evidence, Qi Qingchu couldn't defend himself.

Perhaps someone with a heart, such as a speech official, may also refer to him in front of His Majesty.

Qi Qingchu soon came to the official mansion, said hello to the people in the official mansion, and entered the morgue, there was only one official government in the Yingdu who was in charge of the entire Yingdu.

He inquired, and the two blackened corpses were now in the morgue, because Li Jicai and Li Jiye had no other family members, so no one could come to claim them.

Li Jiye and Li Jicai are usually either busy with the imperial examination or busy with business, and they don't move around their neighbors and neighbors very much, and they are not familiar with the few people who were in Suiyuan before.

The burial of the corpse is to pay for the burial, those people in the past were poor, and they didn't have much money to bury Li Jiye and Li Jicai, but after the announcement, a person named Niu Runze came over and said that he wanted to bury Li Jiye and Li Jicai.

Qi Qingchu was not interested in these trivial things, and he didn't want to hear about them.

With a wave of his hand, he let everyone out, he wanted to see the two bodies individually.

Truth be told, both bodies were burned to the point where it was impossible to identify the man and woman.

Qi Qingchu was a little at a loss, because he didn't pretend that he didn't know which was male and which was female.

He guessed that one of them might be Li Jicai, maybe on his left, or on his right, if he could guess correctly, but what he wanted to guess the most was that these two corpses were not Li Jicai.

Li Jiye's running away did not make Qi Qingchu too sad, maybe because of his own dereliction of duty, maybe it was providence, or maybe it was for various reasons.

In fact, I have been watching Li Jiye and Li Jicai's life for two or three years, and it suddenly ended like this, maybe it was just because he was not used to it, Qi Qingchu desperately made excuses for himself in his heart.

I don't know why, Qi Qingchu felt as if he had become a little less like himself. In the past, anyone who died would not cause him to care, even if he was old and passed away, he did not feel too uncomfortable, after all, reincarnation is constant.

Only this time, the woman who had lived with him for more than two months, a very troublesome, very annoying, very, very difficult woman was gone, and it was gone.

Qi Qingchu felt as if he was very unaccustomed to it.

How to describe this feeling, it's like suddenly the sweet soup you like becomes bitter, as if you have forgotten your favorite poem by memorization. It's like there's a place in my heart that's missing.

Without feeling that the smell in this morgue was unpleasant, Qi Qingchu stood next to these two scorched bodies for a long time.

In fact, he asked if there was a way to prove the identity of this person, the identity of this woman.

If it were a woman from another family, maybe it wouldn't be Li Jicai.

I asked when I was on the way here, but I just showed him the way, and then apologized to him and said that he couldn't do it, and it was all burned like that, how could he identify it?

What's more, there are so many women in this capital, and it is even more difficult to find out the true identity of this corpse.

Qi Qingchu had a rare expectation, or a prayer, the substance of this sentence should not be Li Jicai's, maybe not long after, Li Jicai suddenly appeared in the capital, and then told him that she just left overnight with Li Jiye, and now she is back.

If only it were true, that would be it.

With the joint help of Su Qing and Su Bai, as well as Jiang Xihu, Li Jiye finally escaped from the capital, and then changed his route all the way from water to land, and sometimes even detoured, just to avoid pursuit.

But they also know that it is even more difficult to catch them, and it is difficult to reach the sky.

Those clones that had already been arranged in the capital had already confused their sight, and it was already difficult to identify them in a short period of time, let alone successfully find their route out of the city, and then track them down.

Therefore, the matter of escorting Li Jiye back to Yan Kingdom has basically been successful for most of the time.

The plan they planned to completely destroy Li Jiye's identity and bring Li Jiye back to Yan Kingdom alone has been successfully realized.

Although Li Jiye's nature is not too high.

It's just because they didn't take that Li Jicai with them, but for Su Qing and Su Bai, bringing Li Jicai back is not in their plan, and the second is that if Li Jicai goes back and wants to sit in the position of the prince, then Li Jicai is a good weakness for him, and the emperor can't have weaknesses.

Once someone grasps Li Jiye's weakness, then Li Jiye's future road will not be easy, even if the master has governed the court of Yan State steadily and temporarily restored a peaceful order, but there are still many people, many ministers are eyeing each other, waiting for the opportunity to pick quarrels and provoke trouble.

These are the invisible crises.

What's more, that Li Jicai is from the Chu State, and Li Jiye is about to go back to restore his identity as the third prince of the Yan State, if a Chu State and a Yan State person go so close, it will inevitably cause unnecessary trouble.

Those who are not of my race will have different hearts.

The relationship between the Yan State and the Chu State was not as friendly as it seemed on the surface.

Even though there are frequent business exchanges, there are still many collisions, and the pain caused by such collisions cannot be resolved.

Therefore, Li Jiye can't have it around him, and there shouldn't be any Chu people.

Su Qing and Su Bai believed that the two of them had good intentions in doing this, and sooner or later Li Jiye would see it clearly.

And they also resolutely carried out the master's will, the master will never be wrong, if the master chooses to assist Li Jiye at that time, they can be regarded as doing a good thing.