Chapter Ninety-Eight: Taste
Ah Qing staggered back and snorted, "Sure enough, it's you." ”
Jiang Yue was noncommittal, and looked at her steadily.
"This thing is a gift from His Majesty to the palace, the national teacher doesn't touch anything else, just take it, is it a taste?"
"Yes." His answer caught her off guard, and the warm luster of the blue hosta blurred between his ivory white fingers, subtle but intoxicating.
"You, you, you......" she never imagined he would reply, and for a moment she couldn't tell whether it was a joke or a blunt.
"I thought I wouldn't mind until I ...... Until I saw this hairpin......" he stopped talking, and there seemed to be a mist in his clear eyes.
"So you killed the palace maid?"
Jiang Yue frowned: "How have I ever killed someone?" ”
"Are you still quibbling? The palace maid's body was intact, and she couldn't find the slightest reason that could be fatal, and the whole person was as if she was asleep. If it weren't for the spell, how could it kill people invisibly? ”
"So it seems that it is indeed a magic ......"
"You are the only one in the palace who has a superb cultivation and is proficient in spells, who else will there be besides you who has this ability?"
Jiang Yue looked at her fixedly: "I'm not alone. ”
"What did you say?"
"Daomen spells, most of them are methods of reconciling yin and yang, sorting out the luck, and there are very few murder techniques. Even if you can borrow certain Dao methods to kill people, it will never be without traces. There is only one kind that can do it without a trace, and that is Gu. ”
Ah Qing was incredulous: "What did you say? Poison? The palace has always been peaceful, how can anyone raise Gu? ”
Jiang Yue thought for a long time before she spoke: "The murderer must have been to Qingzuo Palace within the time you left. ”
"Why does this palace believe you? Didn't you go to Qingzo Palace too? Dare to ask why the national teacher went to Qingzuo Palace? ”
"Qin Fu is a suspicious person. His Majesty made an exception to leave him in the palace, which was inconsistent. ”
Ah Qing laughed "poof": "It turns out that the national teacher heard that His Majesty was going to reward Xiao Qin's guards to the palace, and ran over to stop it~"
Jiang Yue's face turned a little pale: "I arrived at Qingzuo Palace, but you were not in the palace." After a few moments, I left. ”
"Who can prove it?"
"Shiro."
Ah Qing rubbed her chin thoughtfully, stared at the national teacher and looked at it, scanning it in all directions, only to see that he was calm as usual, and did not avoid her gaze. According to this, there is a good chance that his words are true, he knows that Siluo is loyal to Qingzuo Palace, and will never betray Qingzuo Palace for some personal gain, if he is lying, Siluo will definitely not testify for him, and there is no need for him to involve Siluo. I'll ask Silo later, and things will be clear. Thinking of this, her trust in Jiang Yue had been restored by seven or eight points.
"If the murderer really is someone else, who will it be?" Sharp questions were thrown, and she was keenly aware that he must have made an inference in his mind.
Who would have thought that he had been just looking at her meaningfully, and the answer seemed to be faintly related to her?
"Don't meddle in this matter again."
"How is that possible? People died in my palace, and Your Majesty also issued a decree to blame me, as the queen, how can I ignore the murderer's careless life? ”
"This is just the beginning."
"What do you mean?" Ah Qingru received a basin of cold water.
"Take me to see the palace maid."
Jiang Yue only had to glance at it and found the key - there was a small mole on the center of the palace maid's foot.
"It's just a mole, what's so strange?"
Jiang Yue took out a white jade medicine bottle from her sleeve and uncorked it, emitting a strange aroma. Gradually, the mole moved, as if something was about to crawl out from under the skin. Soon the mole turned into a small black worm, burrowing out of the epidermis and crawling into the bottle following the scent. The aroma has become stronger.
Ah Qing was dumbfounded: "Could it be this, this is Gu?" ”
She had only seen this kind of title in online novels before, and according to legend, it was an artificial poisonous insect cultivated with witchcraft, which was treacherous and impermanent, and was one of the three major evil arts in Southeast Asia. Unless the person who is under the Gu personally solves it, there is no medicine stone. I didn't expect that in the heavily guarded Forbidden City, there were still people who openly practiced this vicious trick? It's bold.
"Gu worms can't get too far away from the mother Gu, the murderer should have come to Qingzuo Palace in person."
"In other words, as long as it is clear that everyone has been in and out of Qingzuo Palace today, the murderer can be found?"
"Yes."
"But so many people come in and out here all day long, do you have to check them one by one?"
This has to be found in the Year of the Monkey? And the two mouths confessed their whereabouts, it is difficult to judge whether anyone sees it or not, and it is definitely not enough to rely on one's own strength. If only there was surveillance footage, where would there be such a hard work? Just find the time period when the crime is likely to be committed, and play back the footage. It was only at this time that Ah Qing deeply felt the greatness of the invention of the 21st century.
"Exactly. Unless, the Brahma mirror can still be found. ”
"Brahma mirror?" Is that the Buddha artifact? She vaguely seemed to have heard it somewhere, not when Silo explained it to her, "Wait...... Your Majesty, it seems that you have mentioned the Brahma mirror to me. ”
"When?"
"On the night of the Qushui Banquet, I was drunk, and His Majesty came to see me, and it seemed that he had mentioned something in a hazy way."
Jiang Yue's body was suddenly as cold as severe frost, and the air suddenly became tense. Ah Qing silently felt that something was wrong.
He didn't say a word, and took her to the Qianqing Palace without saying anything.