River...... State? ”

Few people call him by his first name.

Among the courtiers, if they call their names, they will undoubtedly point to their noses and curse. The close call of 'Jiang Yueyan' is unfamiliar, but it is only a flattering sentence 'Jiang Sanyuan', and the word 'Jiangzhou' sounds very indifferent.

Jiang Zhou's eyes were deep, and he glanced down at the embarrassed woman on the ground-

The woman who can make Uncle Liang abandon his previous suspicions and entrust his favor to Shuntianfu for the first time, apart from her, he can't imagine that there will be anyone else.

The gaze swept over her blood-drenched ten fingers, and Jiangzhou's cold face showed a rare gloom like porcelain:

"Mr. Zhang?"

The steward pulled a layer of old skin on his face, smiled awkwardly, just stiffened his mouth, and said with confidence:

"This mother-in-law is a hard bone, I'm afraid that Lord Jiang will be deflated tomorrow, and I can't ask anything, so I will make my princess anxious in vain, so let's take a hand first - we are slaves, if we can't share the worries of the heavenly family, then what are we going to live?"

The head catcher beside him was very clear about the temperament of Lord Fu Yin, and seeing Jiang Zhou's calm face, he immediately stepped forward, kicked the chest of the steward, and said hatefully:

"Shameless rumors, the dog slave vents his personal anger, don't involve your master, let the princess carry the black pot in vain"

The meaning of this is also vain: kicking you and beating you, not to give the princess face, but to teach you a lesson for her, since you recognize yourself as a slave, you have to endure this beating and scolding!

The steward's heart was open, so he didn't dare to squeak and choke back when he suffered this kick.

Jiang Zhou saw the filthy torture tools on the ground, and said coldly:

"It's all some unhurt babies, Manager Zhang didn't come on the orders of the princess, so there is no need to rush back at home......"

The more the steward listened, the more wrong he became, and a cold sweat broke out of his head, once he got rid of the princess, wouldn't it be difficult to protect life and death?

"Master Jiang! Master Jiang! You call this an abuse of lynching, wait for me to tell the princess clearly, no, no, let the emperor punish you! ”

Jiang Zhou smiled coldly, squinted at the wind and swept it, and nodded tacitly in the headcatcher.

Picking up the woman on the ground, Jiang Zhou walked outside the torture stone room, listening to the heart-rending noise of the steward, Jiang Zhou did not forget to turn around and add:

"Xiao Jia, greet carefully, don't let people say, it's our Shuntian Mansion that has neglected the guests"

"Yes, Master Jiang!"

After that, Xiao Jia picked up a handful of embroidered silver needles on the ground and stabbed them directly into the person's buttocks-

Screams rang out, but in this torture room, it was very commonplace, and the jailers and prisoners outside had long been accustomed to this kind of routine.

*

Luo Shi has not cleared the suspicion, and Jiangzhou has no way to take her out of prison, so she can only be sent back to the cell first.

The doctor had already gone to invite, and he put the person on the kang bed, turned over the cup and poured water, and acted neatly.

Helping the person to sit up, carefully bypassing her fingers, Jiang Zhou hugged Luo Shi's shoulders and fed her some water-

As soon as Luo's lips touched the water, like a dehydrated fish, after pouring a large cup, Fang felt that his dry throat was more comfortable.

"I never thought that after the separation of life and death, I could reunite and see each other again, but I was in the prison of the Quartet here"

Jiang Zhou's voice was very low, although he tried his best to hide his emotions, but the slightly trembling voice still revealed his ups and downs at the moment.

Luo Shi no longer has the strength to study, why Jiangzhou can recognize her...... It's just a blessing that he came.

As for the reason, she was powerless to calculate.

After taking the medicine, I bandaged it briefly, and took some decoction to dispel blood stasis and stop bleeding, and my hands were swollen into ten white radish, which were carefully rested on the edge of the kang, and it hurt when I moved.

Jiangzhou sent Xiao Jia out and stayed at the end of the aisle, not to let outsiders disturb him.

He took off his robe and sat down, and waited until Luo Shi's spirit was better, and then he said unhurriedly:

"I should have given you a good rest, but I don't have much time, and I have a lot of questions for you in advance - can you still afford it?"

Luo Shi was sweating profusely, although the pain made her eyes black for a while, but she still nodded resolutely:

"It's alright...... You ask"

"Good"

Obviously, Jiang Zhou has already learned about this case in detail, and he interrogated all the people who had contact with Mrs. Liang that day, and investigated everything he sent into his mouth.

In addition to the candied fruits eaten in the yard when enjoying the flowers, an old gentleman's eyebrows, the old lady has not touched other food, and again, there is only a bowl of somen noodles cooked in the stove room alone.

But according to what Luo Shi said, she made two bowls of somen noodles in one pot, and Uncle Liang also took a few bites with chopsticks at night, but there was no problem at all.

And the scene is well protected, those bowls and chopsticks were not touched by outsiders, they were all taken back by Xiao Jia himself for inspection - among the bowls used by the old lady, no toxins were detected with silver needles.

Whether there is evidence or not, in this regard, there is no reason for Luo Shi to ask guilt.

"Can I, then, be acquitted?"

Luo Shi pursed her lips and looked at Jiangzhou with her eyebrows, she was worried in her heart: If things could be so simple, Jiangzhou would not have come to her overnight to ask questions.

After Jiang Zhou said something in his heart, he said softly:

"The person who died is Liang Lao Taijun, the mother of Liang Gong, a good life, there must be no deliberate killer - what does it mean to have no killer? The princess's mansion is derelict in its duties, the Shuntian mansion is incompetent, and a cadre of people is waiting for the head to land, do you understand? ”

Luo Shi's thin lips moved, and his mouth was about to speak.

If someone must be responsible for the violent death of the old lady, that person will not be the little princess, it must be her lowly cook.

Even if the laws are clear and innocent, they can't withstand the ghosts of people's hearts and the nobility of class!

"So, in addition to proving that you didn't do it, find out who really started it, and even if, as you say, it was the princess's order, who is the one who does it for her? You can only live if this person dies! ”

"Someone around?"

"I've checked, the old lady doesn't like restraint, there is only one girl who is waiting by her side, and she has been by her side for 20 years......"

Jiang Zhou sighed and said: "The news that the Liang Mansion just came, that girl hit the coffin board when she cried, and she followed the old lady."

Luo Shi is very unhappy in her heart, it is impossible for such a faithful girl to do such a thing.

Even if it's really her, now that the lights are out, she can't ask anything.

Jiangzhou didn't intend to give up, thinking about it, he always felt that there must be some details, and he missed something crucial, so he had to let Luo Shi recall it again, and it was best to re-interpret the plot and dialogue at that time.

Luo Shi knew that the situation was serious and life and death were at stake, so she searched her intestines and scraped her stomach, closed her eyes, and told the scene little by little:

"The old lady is greedy, she can't eat greasy meat dishes, but it's just this bite, if it weren't for this, I wouldn't think of this compromise and cook that bowl of vegetarian meat noodles for her...... She ate very well, almost half a bowl down, and the eating made people laugh, like an old child, the red oil that fell on her fingers, and she ate it back without falling at all......"

"Wait a minute! Red oil that falls on your fingers? ”

A light flashed through Jiang Zhou's mind, so fast that he couldn't hold it, but his heart tightened, and he obviously had some clues.

Luo Shi didn't know why, so he only repeated the words and said tentatively:

"yes, it's like this—"

She was about to raise her fingers to perform, only to suddenly remember that her fingers had been wrapped into turnips, and as soon as she pulled the wound, she shivered in pain.

Jiang Zhou knew it in his heart, and he vaguely remembered that in the oral message book handed over by Xiao Jia, there was a daughter of Langzhong of the Internal Affairs Office who said-

She is good at grinding fairy juice, and when she was enjoying the flowers in the courtyard, she specially dyed her nails for the old lady! Moreover, it has long been rumored that when the old lady eats, he occasionally has the quirk of finger sucking.

He got up from his seat, Jiangzhou looked serious, and said to Luo Shi:

"I'll go and find out thoroughly, although you can rest assured, tomorrow in the hall, after the real murderer is punished, you can go home"

He had this case in mind, and he didn't want Luo Shi to stay in prison for one more day, and Uncle Liang was still waiting for news from him at night, so he had to act as soon as possible to avoid long nights and dreams.

Helping Luo Shi to lie back, after tucking the corners of the quilt for her, he turned around and left the cell.

*

The next day, because the case was seriously involved, in addition to the trial of Shuntianfu Yin, Dali Temple and the Criminal Department also sent people to jury.

Even the chief administrator of Ouchi was ordered to sit with him, and he came to hear the trial before being the son of heaven-

said that the emperor paid special attention to this case because of the Liang family, but it was better to say that he wanted to put pressure on Jiangzhou, and also showed his attitude: the little princess must not be involved, and the royal face must be maintained.

The prisoner was arraigned, reported to his family, and asked the events of the day in detail, and the charge of poisoning and murder by the cook was indeed not real.

And Luo Shi bit to death, he didn't know it at all, and he had no motive to poison and murder the old lady.

The case was tried for a long time, but no one in the hall was satisfied with this result.

Even Dali Siqing couldn't help it, and stepped forward to say bluntly to Jiangzhou——

He suggested that torture should be used to extract confessions, and the cook must be asked to confess to the detention, so that the case can be closed, and everyone can be considered meritorious.

Jiang Zhou smiled coldly, ignored it, and only smashed the startling wood fiercely, and the sound of two people coming in.

One is the post-mortem worker, and the other is a young girl, brightly dressed, like a lady.

"Who's in the hall? Submit your name"

"Lord Hui, in Xia Shun Tianfu, I was ordered to check for Liang Lao Taijun, and Lao Taijun was indeed poisoned by gold and stone"

"The daughter of Li Xuan in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, see your lords, see the chief manager"

The woman's name is Li Yixi, she is generous, beautiful in appearance, and has a little reputation in Beijing, if it weren't for being a concubine, she would have already obtained the qualification of a show girl, and she would have entered the palace to be selected as the concubine's little master, so she didn't have to go to the princess's mansion to seek the name of the concubine.

"Miss Li, this official also asks you, when you came into contact with Mrs. Liang that day, you painted the dankou on her nails for him?"

Li Yixi's face showed a moment of panic, but she quickly regained her composure, and she calculated the poison that Liang Lao Taijun had applied to her, and one point could be fatal, and it could not be detected with a silver needle.

Jiang Zhou didn't care, only turned his head and asked Xiang Zuo:

"If the dankou is coated with poison, can the old lady's noble body be revealed?"

"If there is, it will, the general poison will seep into the flesh, and after a few hours, there will be bruises and lumps on the fingers on the old lady's corpse."

"Then you've tested it, have you?"

"None"

To tell the truth, as soon as he said this, Li Yixi breathed a long sigh of relief, and secretly rejoiced in his heart: This poison is really unusual, if he can pass the test this time, it is all the credit of this strange poison.

"But ......"

He took out a white cloth from his arms, opened it carefully, revealed the two nails inside, and said in a deep voice:

"But the little one found that the old lady herself didn't actually have long armor, her long armor was pasted separately, so her fingers were not bruised, and it didn't prove that there was no quenching in the dankou!"

Li Yixi's face was pale, even if she endured it, she couldn't hide her bloody face.

Jiang Zhou took in her reaction, he looked at Luo Shi who was kneeling on the side, and thought to himself:

She is injured and should not kneel for a long time, this case should be resolved quickly, and the case should be decided earlier.

So, he patted the hall and said to Li Yixi, who was kneeling in the hall:

"Since you recognize your innocence, taste the dancome on these two long armors, and if you are safe and sound within half an hour, you can wash away your disgust and go home in peace."

"Nope! I don't want it! ”

Li Yixi slumped on the ground and kept retreating, she looked around at the people on the side, trying to find someone who could be rescued-

"Father-in-law! Father-in-law! Please help me with a word, little princess—"

With a "snap" sound, the chief manager jumped up from the chair as if he had stepped on a hot wheel, and he went up and gave Li Yixi a big slap, and scolded the male duck at the tip:

"Slut, full of nonsense, who else do you want to bite? Cut out her tongue! ”

"Slow down—is my father-in-law's will to cut his tongue your own intention, or is it the meaning of Long Live Lord?"

Jiangzhou Shi Shiran stepped out from behind the long case, looked at the north, and looked at him with a slanted eye.

"Our family is a slave, it's just the ears of the Long Live Lord, Lord Jiang can break our family by saying this, our family is not in a hurry, and we can't allow sluts to arrange a master's sentence."

"My father-in-law is considerate and loyal, and he should learn from himself"

Jiangzhou is sleek, he can't see through it, he has enough face for the general manager of Ouchi, and he also put down the ladder.

The chief manager of Ouchi got off the donkey down the slope, only saying that he would return to the palace to resume his life, and after watching Li Yixi being escorted to the prison, he left in a panic.

Xiao Jia, the head catcher on the side, felt that the situation was wrong, and stepped forward to ask one more question:

"My lord, I see that there are still people behind Li Yixi, do you need to send more people to protect them?"

With a sneer, Jiang Zhou shook his head:

"No need, keep her alone in a room, don't bother the others—oh, and, the jailer on guard, take a pot of drugged wine and save his life."

Xiao Jia understood what Jiangzhou meant, sighed secretly, and took the order to do it.

This case has been closed, the real murderer committed suicide in fear of crime, as for the motive, it probably has to rely on the selection of concubines?

is worried about how to write the closing statement, but in Jiangzhou's heart, Li Yixi is already a dead man.

The initiator was ambushed, and the radish and spicy vegetable team were naturally acquitted.

In order to avoid suspicion, Jiang Zhou had to pretend that he didn't know Luo Xi, but he notified her family early and hired a carriage to take her back.

Shengzi hugged Qiqi and waited anxiously outside the yamen, hearing that the case was closed and the spicy dish team was not guilty, he was simply crazy with joy!

Seeing that the eldest masters in the hall dispersed one by one, he quickly removed the shackles and chains for Luo Shi, he and Qiqi couldn't hold back any longer, pushed away the officials who were blocking the door, and rushed into the lobby.

"Mother! Qiqi misses you so much."

Qiqi's face was full of tears, and one flew and plunged into Luo Shi's arms.

Luo Shi really wanted to pick her up hard, but unfortunately her fingers were like this now, and she was helpless.

Li Chen followed, he calmed down a little, but when he saw that Sister A was injured, he ordered Qiqi not to entangle, and strode forward to help Luo Shi up.

Qiqi listened to his uncle's words very much, obediently crawled out of Luo Shi's arms, wiped away his tears, and said in a milky voice:

"Mother's relatives don't hurt, Qiqi will give you a shir-"

She tilted her little head and blew vigorously on Luo's fingers, as if the harder she worked, the less painful her mother was.