111. Quicksand

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Chu Ning had no choice but to negotiate a compromise with him, allowing him to stay in the worry-free dormitory for the time being.

After the last palace banquet, Forget Huan lived in King Qi's bedroom, nourishing King Qi's body with natural pure yang energy. Forget to worry is a girl, according to the witch doctor, it is not good for the sick body of King Qi, so Song Ji still allocated a separate palace for her to live in.

Forget is used to living alone with her younger brother, and even though her new residence is more than twice the size of the previous one, she still doesn't like being surrounded by flattering people. Her palace is probably the only place in the entire Eastern Qi Palace, where there is only a master and no servant, so it is convenient to hide Hezhen in it.

Chu Ning is a good hand at discovering adultery, just looking at a few eyes that forget worries, he knows that his judgment is roughly the same, and the crooked ideas in his heart turn and turn, and he feels that if he can't subdue He Zhen in person, it is also good to rely on forgetting worries to turn him into a finger twister. In addition to his coarse words and demeanor, Hezhen is also worthy of forgetting his worries in other aspects, at least his face is a face that will not get tired of looking at it.

He Zhen had suffered Chu Ning's loss, but he didn't really believe her, and with the keen intuition unique to beasts, he recognized that it was more reliable to look cold and forget worries, and insisted that he only eat the food prepared by forget worries, otherwise he would rather go on a hunger strike. After several bargains, half-pushing and half-pushing, a man transformed into a heavenly horse lived in the bedroom of Forget Worries, forget Worries as the princess of Dongqi, wash her hands every day to make soup, and personally serve the uncle's three meals a day.

The officials of the Eastern Qi Dynasty can take a day off for every fifteen days of work, and the inner priests have always followed this rule, and they can go back to rest every fifteen days of duty in the palace. It's just that in the past, there were two classes of priests who took turns on duty, and since the palace maid's heart-to-heart incident, all the quasi-priests who newly entered the palace were assigned to various palace rooms, and they could only go home to rest for a day, and they had to return to the palace immediately to continue to be on duty.

Su Jinyao was still being guarded, so Chu Ning went home alone to take a turn, and brought some things with him by the way. I don't know if the queen forgot or did it on purpose, but after the palace maid was dissected and died again, she still didn't mention that she wanted to let her out.

Jiayin had already received the news in advance and helped Chu Ning prepare a change of clothes and powder that needed to be replenished. Without Princess Ankang, all the expenses in the house, Jiayin can be at your disposal, and the things she prepared for Chu Ning are all good.

But Chu Ning didn't dare to trust her, so she only took her clothes, but she said that she was not used to what others had prepared and refused to take it away. After all, the composition of the powder is complicated, and if Jiayin mixes something in it, it will be difficult for her to identify it.

"I don't know what's wrong," Jiayin was not annoyed, seeing that she didn't accept it, he splashed the prepared skewer powder into the pool, "I didn't hesitate to believe you when you found me before, but now you doubt me." I have returned to Su Lang, and I have found my Yao'er, it couldn't be more complete, all thanks to you, how could I harm you. ”

She took out the other two packets of things, and ordered someone to open them on the spot and show them to Chu Ning: "If you don't believe me, forget it, please do me a favor, you will always agree." Yao'er can't come back, you can help me bring some things to her, the herbs in it, let her take one portion of each day, fry it with water, and take it until the residual poison of the worm is completely discharged. ”

Chu Ning's gaze swept over the two bags of things, except for the medicinal herbs, the neatly folded clothes, all of which were the purple dresses that Su Jinyao liked, the clothes were light and soft, and they couldn't hide anything. She nodded, motioned for the servant to put the things in the carriage, and turned away.

At the entrance to the corner gate of the palace, the guards were still conducting a routine inventory of the belongings of each quasi-inner priest. The little empty fox last time, listlessly sniffing at everyone, licking its paws from time to time, has significantly more work than before since the palace has been strengthened.

After passing through the corner gate, all the quasi-inner priests were stopped again, saying that they wanted to check everyone's belongings again. Almost all of the quasi-inner priests are noble ladies from famous families in Lindu, and it is simply a humiliation to check their personal belongings in public, and some people have already begun to whisper, and they are very dissatisfied with their words.

But the voice of Suo Suo's voice quickly fell silent, because the king of Qi and the queen came to the corner gate together, behind the king of Qi, followed by Meng Liangyan, who had just taken the initiative to ask for orders to track down the palace maid's heart-to-heart incident.

Although these quasi-inner priests have been living in the palace for half a month, they have never seen King Qi's face. Chu Ning quietly raised his eyes to take a look, only to feel that King Qi had obviously lost a lot of weight, his cheeks and eye sockets on both sides were deeply sunken, it seemed that he was indeed ill, he didn't know what medicine the witch doctor gave him, he was still in good spirits, and there was even a flash of almost exuberant light in his two eyes.

King Qi tilted his head slightly and said to Meng Liangyan: "Qing said that there can be a result today, and now all the selected quasi-inner priests and the things they brought are here." ”

Meng Liangyan took a few steps forward and replied to King Qi, but his voice was enough for everyone to hear: "I have already explained to the king last time, fine sand from the royal tomb was found in the wine cellar, and then I went to the dining room to check and found some fine sand, as for the other crime scenes, because the time is too long, even if there is fine sand remaining, it is difficult to confirm." ”

"I dare to guess that the person who has repeatedly dissected the palace maid's heart is from the Lisha family that is supposed to guard the royal tomb, and the people of the Lusha family can turn the sand into things, and they can also gather sand into things, which can explain why the palace guards have never caught anyone with suspicious whereabouts," his gaze swept over the faces of dozens of girls one by one, "Whether it is a bribe or a deed to control the envoy, as long as you have contact with the people of the Lisha family, there will definitely be fine sand left on your belongings, you have just returned from home, you don't have to check your things, Just look at who brought something with the sand of the king's tomb on it, and you will know who is the real culprit who instigated the murder. ”

This statement was too mysterious, and there was a whisper among the girls present, and finally someone couldn't help but ask: "Master Yan, how can you be sure that the person who instructed the Lu Sha family to kill people and dissect their hearts is among us?" The Lu Sha family only obeyed the orders of the Great Zhou Tianzi, how could others order them? ”

The other girls also echoed, hoping that Meng Liangyan would give an explanation.

Meng Liangyan nodded at the somewhat panicked aristocratic girls in front of him, signaling them to be at ease, he has always been elegant and moderate, and when he was questioned in public at this time, he was not annoyed, but patiently explained: "It is true that the Lusha family is under the orders of the Great Zhou Emperor, but it has been hundreds of years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and no one can guarantee that the prohibition set at the founding of the country is still effective. It has indeed happened in the past, and there is a case of the children of the Lysa family secretly escaping from the royal tomb, which shows that my suspicions are not unfounded. ”

He smiled calmly at the girl: "As for searching from among you, it is because you are all from the most skilled family in Eastern Qi, if anyone can instruct the unscrupulous children of the Lu Sha family, except for the father, brother and relatives in your family, I can't think of any other possibility." You may be innocent, but if you find anyone with the sand of the royal tomb on their belongings, you can narrow it down and search your home. ”

Meng Liangyan has always been very prestigious, and he explained it clearly and clearly, and the girls had no objections, waiting silently to see how he verified it.

Chu Ning already knew his verification method, she had already seen it that night in the cellar, and she used a special spell to gather the scattered fine sand, and she was not as curious as the others.

Meng Liangyan put the spell stick in his hand and opened the spell, and after a while, there was really a pale yellow fine sand, gathering in the direction of the spell stick, but the source of those fine sand was something that Chu Ning brought. No one expected that the results of Meng Liangyan's verification would point to Chu Ning, after all, he himself had always made no secret of his preference for Su Tianxin and Chu Ning. Meng Liangyan himself seemed to be a little surprised, slowly collected the spell, held the spell stick and fine sand in his hand together, and did not speak.

Queen Qi reminded in a low voice: "Master Yan, is there a result?" ”

Meng Liangyan walked up to Chu Ning, pointed to the package that had fine sand flying out just now, and said, "What is inside, can you open it and take a look?" ”

In front of King Qi, Chu Ning had no right to refuse at all, so he could only nod, Meng Liangyan personally squatted down and opened the knot on the package, which was the medicine that Jiayin asked Chu Ning to bring to Su Jinyao, divided into small packets and wrapped in oilcloth.

"Are these things yours?" Meng Liangyan asked with a pleasant face, still sounding like he was trying to find a way to exonerate her.

Chu Ning replied loudly: "It's my new second aunt, the medicinal herbs prepared for her daughter, please bring me in." She squinted at Meng Liangyan and then at Queen Qi: "Please send a message to the past, summon my second aunt, and ask her face to face." ”

Obviously, someone has already laid out the game, step by step to this result, so come on, she wants to see what other tricks these people can come up with.

The Suyin family was not far from the palace, and a guard was ordered to go there, and soon returned with Jiayin. Jiayin is still not the wife who Su Yu officially married, and naturally she has never had the opportunity to enter the palace, and many of the people present saw her for the first time, and couldn't help but look carefully and look at her, secretly comparing her with Princess Ankang.

Meng Liangyan was about to ask her something, but Jiayin suddenly opened her mouth first: "I am a woman who has never seen much of the world, although I have a little practice, I don't know many things, if I don't know the rules and annoy the king and queen, or if I say something wrong, but cause trouble, can you invite my husband over, and I can also mention me." ”

The stakes are very high, and her request is not excessive, so the queen simply ordered the people around her to bring Su Jinyao, a monk who is in the palace, over.