Zeng Ziyang later learned that after the two of them fainted after taking fake death medicine, Jiang Cailing's people met him and rushed into the cottage to rescue him.

In the final interrogation, it was found that the owner of the village had indeed colluded with people in the case of the collapse of the silver mine, and the people involved had been secretly escorted back to Nan'an for further investigation, and the rest of the bandits were also handed over to the local government office.

This is the only inn on the road back to Nan'ancheng that is not full of customers, located in a place where there is no store in front of the village, and the environment can be said to be simple.

Jiang Cailing lives in a north-facing room, the shady room is always very humid no matter what season it is, and there are faint yellow traces and turquoise mildew spots on the walls of the room, if it weren't for He Xiaoxiao's incense, there would have been a rotten old smell in the room.

"Niangniang, you have just woken up, is it okay to live in a place like this?" Cui Ping glanced up and down the room and asked worriedly.

She had served the eldest princess since she was a child, and even when she was a lowest-ranking little maid, she had never lived in such a humble room.

Jiang Cailing smiled and shook her head, "It's just to stay for one night and leave early tomorrow morning, there's nothing." ”

It's much better than the firewood room where I used to sleep in the winter.

Jiang Cailing got up and walked to the window, and saw a seal tied to the window, a yellow piece of paper like a charm, with strange symbols painted with cinnabar.

Eighty percent is a prank of whom.

Tearing off the seal, Jiang Cailing pushed open the window, her eyes touched the scenery outside the window, and her heart jumped.

It was a not very empty clearing, and a few big trees stood on this land in a dense manner, and in the middle of it there were also piles of graves, new and old tombstones, and the mottled shadows of the leaves cast on it, and the whole clearing outlined a strange formation, like a weeping human face, which became more and more eerie.

"Guest officer!" After Xiao Er outside the door saw it, he screamed strangely, and hurriedly rushed in and closed the window tightly, picked up the seal on the ground and reattached it to the crack in the window, and said something in his mouth, as if he was saying a spell.

After a single move last night, Xiao Er's face regained its bloody color, and he said to Jiang Cailing, "Guest officer, this window can't be opened." ”

"Why?"

Xiao Erzhi got up, "Anyway, it's right if you can't open it." ”

Cui Ping's face turned pale, "Is it something unclean?" ”

The people who grew up in the palace, how could their hands not be stained with blood, and they had never heard of the matter of unjust souls asking for their lives, even if they were as calm as Cui Ping, they were a little frightened.

Jiang Cailing was not afraid at all, she was a ghost who borrowed the corpse to resurrect her soul, if it was really something unclean, then the eight achievements were her.

Besides, she didn't do anything after she touched the seal of the ghost drawing talisman just now, so it can be seen that if there is really a powerful ghost asking for her life, she can't resist it.

It stands to reason that in order to prevent the panic of the guests, the inn will seal this window so that the guests will not know that there is a mass grave outside the window.

However, the shop acted as if there were no silver taels here, and put up a charm, hoping to let everyone know that there was something wrong with this room.

Apricot eyes are half-narrowed, this inn is very weird.

Unlike the trembling Cui Ping, He Xiaoxiao seems to be eating and drinking for no one, and the master in her dream taught her that as long as people are kind and behave well, they are not afraid of encountering unclean things.

Seeing Cui Ping's frightened face, He Xiaoxiao raised her lips and smiled, "Aunt Cui, don't worry, my life is hard, I can stop it." ”

"Knock-"

There was a knock on the door, and as soon as the door opened, I saw Zeng Ziyang's face.

Zeng Ziyang walked in quickly, closed the door tightly, and said with a serious expression: "I just received the news that the owner of Qingfeng Village has committed suicide by taking poison. ”

"What?" Jiang Cailing's apricot eyes were round, and seeing that there was no joke on the other party's face, she couldn't help but twist the Sichuan character between her eyebrows, "How can you take poison if you are good, are you sure that it is suicide or homicide?" ”

"The people who have access to him are my confidants, and it is impossible for anyone to do anything about it."

Jiang Cailing raised her hand and rubbed her eyebrows, with a look of regret in her eyebrows, "It's my carelessness, it seems that this village owner has some handle in the other party's hands." ”

If His Majesty pursues the death of a criminal in the imperial court on the way back to Beijing, he will inevitably be implicated, and the most important thing is that he cannot let the real murderer who tried to frame others after killing more than 100 people continue to go unpunished.

"I've already asked people to go to check the background of the prisoner." Zeng Ziyang raised his eyes and changed his words, "But we are not without gains, and we found this on the body of the Qin prisoner." ”

Jiang Cailing lowered her eyes and looked at the other party's hand, "Jade pendant? ”

"He hid this in his abdomen, and when he was imprisoned, he only treated it as a wound and didn't care about it, if he hadn't died, we would never have imagined that he could be so cruel to himself."

It's not uncommon to use something with her body to carry something, but she still shivered unconsciously all over.

Under the bright light, the jade pendant presents a warm texture, delicate as white grease, and what is even more difficult is that the jade pendant has no flaws in the whole body, and it is worth at least 100 gold on the market.

Jiang Cailing looked at the jade pendant with a straight face, her apricot eyes were half-narrowed, "The style of this jade pendant is very different, it should be made privately, not a commodity that has been circulated in the world." ”

"Niangniang, can you let the slave and maid take a look." Cui Ping said behind him.

After handing it over to Cui Ping, I saw that she first studied the jade pendant very seriously, and then closed her eyes and groped on the jade pendant with her fingertips, as if she had found something, and her eyes opened instantly.

Before Jiang Cailing and Zeng Ziyang stopped her next move, Cui Ping wrapped her handkerchief around the jade pendant and fell heavily to the ground.

It was as if jade was striking, and the crisp sound was beautiful and desperate.

"Aunt Cui, are you—"

Before Jiang Cailing's words fell, the handkerchief wrapped in the jade pendant automatically wrinkled and stretched, and when she looked closely, the jade pendant was intact!

Cui Ping smiled, "Hui Niangniang, this is not an ordinary jade pendant, the jade is soft and hard, but this jade pendant itself is an extremely hard stone, which can only be bought and sold in Beiliang, and only the craftsmen of Beiliang will build it."

When the envoys of the Northern Liang came to me for the pilgrimage, they once presented a jade bracelet made of stone to the Empress Dowager of Chai Xian, and now the jade bracelet has been passed on to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess of Xiaohe, and the texture and color are not different from this jade pendant, the same color, the same hardness. ”

Zeng Ziyang frowned, "But the Northern Liang Kingdom and my Great Chu are far apart, and it will take half a year to arrive quickly, how can the head of this small cottage be connected with Beiliang?" ”

North Beam?

Jiang Cailing quickly searched for information about Beiliang in the roster of Nan'an City that she had compiled before, and her eyes lit up, "The current master mother of the Wang family, that is, the biological mother of Empress Chu, is the county lord of Beiliang State. ”

There were very few Northern Liang people in Nan'an City, and there was no Northern Liang blood in the upper class except for the Wang family.

When Zeng Ziyang heard this, his body moved, and his delicate face was full of surprise.

If it is really according to what Jiang Cailing said, then this is a bloody drama of royal brothers fratricidal. In order to frame the Ten Princes, the East Palace did not hesitate to use the lives of innocent people to create public opinion.

Is such a vicious future lord really worthy of his support?

Thinking of Wu Xiaoyao, Zeng Ziyang felt shaken for a moment in his heart. Once he presents this matter to His Majesty, the East Palace will be hit violently, and Wu Xiaoyao will inevitably be affected.

Jiang Cailing saw Zeng Ziyang's entanglement, and was a little worried in her heart, whether this infatuated child would choose to protect the East Palace because of Wu Xiaoyao.

However, thinking of what Zeng Ziyang had said before, this worry gradually disappeared, and he put the jade pendant in the other party's hand again, "I know that you will feel embarrassed about this matter, but if our current analysis is correct, what kind of life will the future Chu State be?" ”

The jade pendant in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and it hurt his wrist very much.

Jiang Cailing's eyes were firm, "You let your subordinates strengthen protection, once the mastermind behind the scenes knows that you have obtained this jade pendant, it is very likely that you will secretly do it." We must return to Beijing smoothly, tell Your Majesty the truth of the matter, and give a fair account to the people who have lost their sons, husbands, and fathers. ”

After Zeng Ziyang left, He Xiaoxiao, who had not made a sound for a long time, was puzzled, "He likes Wu Xiaoyao so much, aren't you afraid that he will deliberately lose this jade pendant?" ”

Jiang Cailing shook her head and said with a chuckle: "Although he sometimes makes mistakes, he is a good official. ”

And she also had her purpose in doing this just now, the purpose was to make him accept his trust, so as to increase his sense of justice, if nothing else, after this matter was settled, Zeng Ziyang could be used by Su Qingcheng.

……

It's night.

The clouds cover the moon, and the wind howls.

"Uh-huh-"

There are always strange sounds coming from the north window, like a woman's laughter and more like a child's cry, accompanied by the roar of wolves, which makes people feel a little frightened.

Because he was worried that the Wang family would send someone to sneak attack, the candles in Jiang Cailing's room were lit all the time, illuminating the room in the dark and dim. He Xiaoxiao and Cui Ping kept watch at night, and if they heard the slightest disturbance, they immediately entered the state of alert.

However, the night of this inn was too noisy, and the sound from time to time made He Xiaoxiao, who was keeping vigil, very tired.

As the saying goes, soldiers don't get tired of deceit, just when He Xiaoxiao thought it was the sound of the wind, the next moment, seven or seven people in black rushed into the room, surrounding them.

Everything is in silence.

"Who!" He Xiaoxiao roared, Jiang Cailing and Cui Ping in their sleep instantly woke up, and the three of them were back to back, looking around at the black-clothed people.

The sound of "ding" came, and the sound of fighting had already sounded in Zeng Ziyang's room next door.

Battle, on the verge of breaking out.

Zeng Ziyang also divided a group of people to help Jiang Cailing, and He Xiaoxiao always protected Jiang Cailing in front of him, and gradually fought his way out.

However, when I walked to the courtyard, I saw black-clad men who looked like crows gathered outside in an orderly manner, and crossbowmen in all directions were full of bows and arrows, ready to go......

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