Mu Changan wanted to take a shelf and wait for Pei Xia to take the initiative to come to him, but who knew that he would wait for the housekeeper and Yun'er to say that the person had left.

"What?" Mu Changan said incredulously, "She left like this?" You didn't stop her? ”

The housekeeper was inexplicable: "Isn't it Your Highness, as long as Miss Pei doesn't go to the study, you don't have to stop you from going anywhere else?" ”

Gao Yicheng cast a sympathetic glance at the housekeeper, he was also inexplicable today.

The housekeeper looked at Mu Changan's face, pondered his thoughts, and asked tentatively: "Then why don't I go and invite Miss Pei back?" ”

"Forget it." That girl is probably really in a hurry, so why bother to be like a nerd. Mu Changan was angry on the one hand, and felt a little happy on the other. Pei Xia, who dealt with him carefully with exquisite thoughts, was certainly interesting, but Pei Xia, who was a little more straightforward, was more vivid.

This is probably sick, and it is not light. I've been too relaxed lately, as a prince, if you want to look like a prince, how can you keep messing around with your subordinates.

After Mu Changan finished reviewing herself, she felt that she had adjusted her mentality, so she continued to ask: "What did she do before leaving?" What do you have to say? ”

"Miss Pei went to visit Wei Jiu." The housekeeper replied.

I didn't come to visit Wei Jiu to thank her life-saving benefactor, but the more I grew up, the more promising I became.

Mu Changan maintained the calm on his face, pretending not to care, and then he saw Yun'er's hand behind his back.

"What's in your hand?"

"Sister Pei made up the crickets for me! She said that she would come back to visit Her Highness when she was empty. Yun'er took out a straw cricket like a treasure.

not only went to see Wei Jiu, but also made up crickets for Yun'er! I only left one word for him, and I didn't come to tell him personally!

Mu Changan took a deep breath and forcibly snatched Yun'er's cricket. Yun'er froze for a moment, and cried out with a "wow", and several people in the courtyard were in a mess, Mu Changan felt comfortable now, he had never been so comfortable in a few years. Anyway, the emperor is far away, and no outsiders know about it in his own house, so at this time, I can't help but wait for Hu Lai?

Pei Xia didn't know that she had just caused a small mess in the Suiyuan Palace, she originally wanted to thank Mu Changan in person, but she heard from the housekeeper that after His Royal Highness came back, he was worried about her and Wei Jiu's condition, and he hadn't rested well, which would make up for his sleep, and if something happened, he would wake up His Highness.

Pei Xia thought about Mu Changan's weak body, and was really moved. Mu Changan was not in good health, and according to Wei Jiu, it would be even more uncomfortable when he went to a cold place, so he personally went to the mountains to find her, and personally carried her back. She's just here to say goodbye, nothing important, so why bother, and as for thanks, she can make a special trip to visit another day.

Pei Xia explained these things to the housekeeper, and felt that the etiquette was passable, so he left. After all, she is not an important person, and the housekeeper does not stop her, which means that the prince has not specially explained that he wants to keep her, if she has to rely on seeing the prince before she is willing to leave, it will be rude.

Pei Xia's thoughts are not a problem, the fault is that she doesn't know that her identity has been exposed, she miscalculated her weight in Mu Chang'an's heart, and she didn't expect that the deep-thinking King Suiyuan could be so naïve that he even grabbed children's things.

Back at the Criminal Prison Division, everyone was busy, a cadre of errands was busy washing the bones, and Lu Fang was putting the washed bones on the mat and putting them together and putting them on the hemp rope. Fortunately, Pei Xia wrapped several bones separately when he dug up the bones, although it was not so careful, but it was basically right. If they were wrapped up indiscriminately, just sorting out a few bones would be enough to give you a headache for a while.

"Why did you come back? Didn't you say to let you rest for a few more days? Seeing Pei Xia come back, Lu Fang asked in surprise.

"It's no big deal, it's not a broken hand and blind, it doesn't affect things." Pei Xia stepped forward to give Lu Fang a hand.

She came back by herself, this King of Suiyuan can't blame me! Lu Fang was indeed busy enough, and he was not polite to Pei Xia, so he asked Pei Xia to move a chair to sit on and work with him.

Except for Fan Xi's skeleton, the rest of the bones in the pit don't know if they were thrown down one by one, and the back one smashed the front, plus Pei Xia fell into the pit and stepped on it, and some parts were broken badly. The two pieced together all night, and Kong first came back to help put together together, and it was not until noon the next day that all seven skeletons were put together.

In the courtyard behind the prison department there was a cellar five feet long, three feet wide, and two feet deep, which was specially dug for steaming bones and examining injuries. The servants first piled up the charcoal inside, burned the cellar red, removed the fire, and then poured two liters of good wine and five liters of sour vinegar into the cellar, and carried the bones into it while it was steaming, and covered them with mats.

Pei Xia had used this method before, but there was no such ready-made cellar, and it was all a pit dug on the spot, which was much rougher than this.

When he was steaming his bones, Lu Fang patted his forehead and said to Pei Xia: "Lord Cao has already written to Peiling Zhixian and the Shaanxi Prefecture Criminal Prison Department, you write a confession of the details of what you saw in the village that day, and I will send it over again." ”

Pei Xia wrote his confession and waited another hour, the cellar cooled, and the messenger carried the skeleton out of the cellar. Pei Xia took out a red oil umbrella from the room and opened it against the sun, revealing that almost all the bones of his body were covered with large patches of blood.

Pei Xia has examined so many corpses, and the bone examination is not once or twice, and he has never seen this kind of situation.

"This is ......," Pei Xia was so shocked that he was speechless for a while.

"This is killing people alive...... Lu Fang muttered.

Although several people present had heard the rumors of Fan Xi, they were still young at that time, and they had never seen the children around them have accidents, so of course they would feel terrible, but they would not be as shocking as they are now.

At this time, it was already past the time of Shen, and it was too late to steam the second skeleton, but with this one, it was already conceivable that the bones of the next five teenagers should be in a similar situation.

Everyone's mood is heavy. Although those villagers are very hateful, one yard is one yard, this is not a reason why Fan Xi can be so cruel.

"Such a heinous person died before he could taste the taste of a thousand knives himself...... Kong Xian was very upset.

Fan Xi's bones were blackened, obviously poisoned to death, of course, whether anything else happened before death will not be known until the bone examination is completed. However, according to the surrounding environment of the place where Fan Xi's bones were found at that time, Pei Xia did not look like he had been cut alive, and there was no blood in the entire house.

That night, Cao Yanzhang also finished dealing with the case in hand and rushed back, after listening to the results of Pei Xia's investigation in Peiling, he only arranged for Lu Fang to be responsible for continuing the bone examination, and the rest were all sent out to find the mysterious person Pei Xia met in the mountains.

Everyone slept at night, and set off early in the morning to find someone.

Since Liu Wu moved to Liujia Village, according to Kong Xian's investigation, he has never left Qiuzhou, which means that the mysterious person should have been in Qiuzhou at that time. Of course, all this has to be based on Pei Xia's speculation, if the mysterious person has nothing to do with Liu Wu's death, then this case has to be reorganized.

Not to mention the entire Qiuzhou, there are more than 100,000 people in Qiuzhou City alone, even if Kong Xian has found out where Liu Wu went before his death, it is still a needle in a haystack to find people.

Three days passed, no progress at all, and the case reached a dead end.

Maybe the man just glanced at Liu Wu on the side of the road, and Liu Wu didn't even notice him; Maybe that person didn't live in Qiuzhou at all, but just passed by, and no one knew him; Maybe the person who killed Liu Wu was not Yun Sheng's son at all......

For the first time, Pei Xia felt so depressed that he even fell into deep self-doubt.

On this day, Pei Xia was just about to go out, when someone suddenly knocked on the door outside.

"Wei Jiu!" Seeing the people outside the door, Pei Xia was a little surprised. When she left the Suiyuan Mansion that day, Wei Jiu was still in a coma, and the doctor said that there was no danger, but he hadn't woken up yet.

"Why are you here?" Pei Xia let Wei Jiu in the door, only to see that Wei Jiu was still followed by Yun'er.

"Sister Pei!" Without Mu Changan in front of her, Yun'er was much bolder and pounced on Pei Xia to hug her.

"Yun girl is arguing in the house every day and says she wants to see you. His Highness said that I was well recovered, and I should tell you too, so that you would not be worried, so he let us both come together. Wei Jiu took Yun'er off Pei Xia and put it on the stool.

"I brought Sister Pei my favorite osmanthus cake! Sister Pei, can you make another cricket for me? Yun'er looked at Pei Xia expectantly.

"I don't have a grass that can weave crickets, didn't I weave one for you last time?" It's only been a few days, so it shouldn't break so quickly.

"I'll bring it!" Yun'er uncovered the cloth on her small basket, which was filled with a bag of osmanthus cake and a full of grass.

"So many ......" Pei Xia was shocked.

mentioned this Yun'er and was aggrieved: "Sister Pei, make up a few more for me, otherwise I will ask His Highness to rob them again." ”

Hearing Yun'er talk about what happened after she left that day, Pei Xia couldn't cry or laugh, feeling that she needed to get to know this King of Suiyuan again.

Pei Xia was weaving crickets, and Wei Jiu chatted with her casually: "Miss Pei has been very busy lately, why don't you go to the palace to sit?" This was asked by Mu Changan to ask, and Wei Jiu didn't think much about it, Gao Yicheng, who was present at the time, understood as soon as he heard it, what Wei Jiu had recovered in front of him should go to Pei Xia to see, lest people worry about it as a pretense, this sentence is the point.

Speaking of the recent past, Pei Xia wilted again: "The case has been a headache recently, and I have been investigating for many days without results......"

"Is it complicated?" Wei Jiu asked.

Pei Xia nodded and shook his head again. In fact, it is not too complicated to say that it is complicated, that is, Pei Xia doesn't know whether she should continue to investigate according to her train of thought, if she thinks wrong, it may not only waste everyone's time, but also delay the timing of arresting the criminal.

Wei Jiu didn't understand what this nodding and shaking his head meant, and pondered for a while, probably because Pei Xia himself was also very conflicted, so he said, "Since you can't even figure it out, why don't you ask Master Pei?" ”