Cuihong Courtyard has been open in Qingyuan County for so many years, and Lin Boqin is still the first time to set foot in it.

Wu Guangbi's two entourage, sitting on the brocade bench in the corner of the Cuihong Courtyard, were already trembling, and their faces were pale.

Lin Boqin took Hu Yu Yang La and a group of servants to the private room on the second floor, and saw the top card of Cuihong Courtyard inviting Yue, his hair was scattered, and he was lying on the ground in disheveled clothes and crying: "Wronged, the slave family is really wronged!" The slave family was asleep at that time, and they didn't know anything! ”

Ying Yue couldn't stop crying, thinking that the two officials before were going to arrest her and punish her, she couldn't help crying again.

Lin Boqin was annoyed by her crying, took two steps forward, and asked in a deep voice: "Invite Yue, what happened last night, you recruited from the truth." ”

Ying Yue raised her sleeves and wiped her tears, choked up and replied: "Lord Qiqi, the slave family served Lord Wu last night, served well, and went to bed together after drinking......" When she said this, she looked at Lin Boqin with some embarrassment, presumably everyone understands.

"Lord Wu has good energy, and the slave family drank too much wine, and he couldn't support it in the second half of the night, so he fell asleep." She didn't know what to think, and there was a slight horror in her eyes, "In the morning, the slave was in a hurry to urinate, so she woke up." But at this moment, he found that Master Wu had a sword in his chest, and the blood was all over the bed...... I was so scared that I raised my hand to listen to Lord Wu's heartbeat, only to find that his hands and feet were cold, and I was afraid that I didn't know how long he had been dead......"

"A sword?"

"A bronze sword."

Ying Yue lifted her skirt and stood up, opened the bead curtain, and walked to the back room with Lin Boqin and his party.

The furnishings in the back room are very simple, just a large round couch with pink gauze tents and gold threads, which looks very charming and dreamy. Through the layers of gauze tents, a figure faintly appeared inside.

Lin Boqin stepped forward and raised his hand to open the gauze tent.

But I saw that Wu Guangbi was only wearing a pair of pants, his eyes were wide, his face was blue, and there was a simple bronze heavy sword stuck in his ribs to his heart. His body was covered in blood, and it had solidified into a dark red color because of the cold weather.

Who dared to assassinate an official of the imperial court?

Lin Boqin's face sank, and he raised his hand to beckon Xue Yao and asked him to check it.

At the entrance of the autopsy, Gu Jingtong walked over with Zhao Qi and Cai Gaoyi, and he said to Lin Boqin: "The three adults were all in one place last night, and they only separated when they were about to be a child. It was only when the moon was invited to find out that Lord Wu was dead, so the murderer only committed the crime at the time of Chou Shi and Yin Shi. ”

Cai Gaoyi's face was very bad, I don't know if it was because Wu Guangbi was dead, or because of the accountability of the imperial court.

He looked at Lin Boqin and sighed: "No matter what, this case must be investigated as soon as possible, and I will hand over the fold to the top tomorrow...... Estimate...... Hey, it is estimated that Qingyuan County is to blame this time. ”

Lin Boqin didn't know.

But he was not afraid, but said: "The top priority is to find out the murderer of Lord Wu." ”

As for the demotion of officials or accountability, it is not within the scope of his consideration.

Lin Boqin asked Wu Guangbi's two entourages again, and their teeth trembled in fright, and what they said did not have any useful information. The key people were all blinded, and Lin Boqin didn't know where to start, and was frowning and thinking, when he saw Xue Yao presenting the bronze long sword of the murder weapon: "Lord Qiqi, the time of Lord Wu's assassination should be around three minutes, this long sword pierced the lung bone, and it was a fatal injury." ”

Cai Gaoyi frowned and concluded: "In this case, if you find the owner of this sword, you can find the murderer." ”

Lin Boqin looked at this sword, his eyes dim and inexplicable.

The sword is familiar.

If I am not mistaken, Xiao Xuan is carrying such a bronze long sword, with a pattern like fish scales engraved on the edge, and the cold light is exposed...... However, this is only doubt. There are countless heroes in the world, and even more so swordsmiths, who dares to guarantee that this sword is Xiao Xuan's?

Therefore, he hesitated and said: "Lord Cai's words are biased, maybe the owner of this sword has nothing to do with this matter." ”

Cai Gaoyi knew that what he said was arbitrary, but he couldn't care so much at this time, he waved his hand: "No matter what, the owner of this sword has a lot to do with this case, I hope that before the punishment of the imperial court is lowered, Lord Lin can solve the case quickly." Not only to avenge Lord Wu, but also to protect you and me! ”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Wu Guangbi's corpse again, sighed, and left with his sleeves.

His career was already bumpy, and now he finally accompanied the supervision of the imperial history on patrol, but the supervision of the imperial history was hacked to death, he Cai Gaoyi, it is simply unfavorable for the passing year, unfavorable for the passing year!

There is no need for Cai Gaoyi to remind him of this, Lin Boqin also understands.

He handed over the follow-up affairs to Gu Jingtong, and then instructed Hu Yu and Yang La to go to Xiao Yu to come to the yamen.

The two of them had met Xiao Xu, and at the black inn of Second Sister Chun, thanks to Xiao Xuan's help.

Hu Yu and Yang La glanced at each other, and asked Chi Chi: "Could it be that the adults are suspicious......

Lin Boqin waved his hand with a calm face to stop him from continuing: "You don't have to disturb others, and you don't need to write a detention order, just say that I have something to inquire about." ”

The two of them received their orders, and then turned and walked away quickly.

However, they searched all over Qingyuan County, and they didn't know where Xiao Qi went.

***

Cuihong Courtyard was full of people, and soon the entire Qingyuan County heard that the big officials from the capital had been assassinated and killed, and now the bodies are still in the county office.

Chu Cheng heard the news from Xie Luoying.

At that time, the two were sitting in the pavilion making tea and watching the snow, and Su Yu and Xie Tongtong were having a snowball fight outside the pavilion. Su Yu's snowball accidentally hit Chu Cheng's trouser legs, and she didn't come back to her senses.

"Wu Guangbi is really dead?" She pulled the white fox fur and put her hand in it, and was very surprised.

Xie Luoying nodded, but her expression was normal: "Didn't Lord Lin tell Madame these days?" Not only Qingyuan County, but even the Wangzhou Mansion is busy, and it is bound to arrest the murderer. She paused in a tone, thinking of her relationship with Wu Guangbi, and said with great disgust, "Madam, we have known each other for so long, and I don't want to lie to you." Then Lord Wu, I think it's good to die! ”

Chu Cheng raised her eyebrows when she heard this: "Oh? Why? ”

"Someone said before that this Lord Wu is not a good official in the capital, and every time he is ordered to inspect, he is collecting the people's fat and ointment. But since ancient times, seeing is believing, hearing is false, and I will never listen to these words, until the morning before yesterday, when I ...... Xie Luoying knocked down Wu Guangbi's entourage and told her that he wanted to take her to the capital as an outer room, and he was still angry.

Chu Ji's face also darkened, and she snorted: "That is the case, Wu Guangbi is innocent of death. ”

She is in the harem and doesn't care much about court affairs, but now with Lin Boqin, I don't know if it is contaminated with his temperament, and she has become more and more jealous and hateful.

Thinking that Wu Guangbi died in Qingyuan County, it brought a lot of trouble to Lin Boqin. Her father, the emperor, was not able to be told by Taishi Chen, and he would dismiss Lin Boqin's official.

Thinking of this, Chu Ji lifted the teapot from the small stove, poured herself a cup of green plum hot tea, frowned and asked, "The murderer hasn't been caught yet?" ”

"Nothing has progressed." Xie Luoying sighed, "But some people say that it may have been done by Jiangyang's great thief Yu Xuanji." ”

Chu Cheng took a sip of tea, and couldn't help but squirt out "poof".

"Jade Xuanji?! What's the matter with Guan Yuxuanji? "She has been pretending to be Li Siniang honestly for more than half a year, and the person who poured dirty water on her is crazy, right?

Xie Luoying thought she was hot, so she was not surprised, but said: "That murderer is good at sword, and he knows martial arts, and Wu Guangbi died in Cuihong Courtyard, so some people think that Wu Guangbi will have anything to do with Yu Xuanji before, and Yu Xuanji kills people because of love......" Speaking of this, she couldn't help laughing, "Everyone is quite good at nonsense." ”

Chu Ji was inexplicably angry now, but she didn't dare to show it, so she could only echo: "Isn't it...... By the way, what did the government say? ”

Xie Luoying shook his head: "I don't know very well, but I heard that Yu Xuanji is seriously suspicious." Lord Lin has now ordered the yamen to go all out to arrest Yu Xuanji. ”

She looked at Chu Cheng strangely and asked, "When Siniang came from the city, didn't you see Yang La and the others leading people to post notices everywhere?" It is Jade Xuanji's sea fishing document notice. ”

Chu Cheng laughed twice and said, "I didn't pay attention, I'll take a look when I go back." ”

The two talked about some things again, and after drinking a pot of green plum hot tea, Su Yu and Xie Tongtong were also tired of playing, so they went home separately.

Chu Ji had a headache when she thought about the three words "Jade Xuanji".

But no matter how much headache she had, she had to go and see it.

Sure enough, as Xie Luoying said, the sea fishing documents that had been broken and weathered were reposted today, but the portrait was uglier and not half similar to her. But even so, being a thief with a weak heart, Chu Cheng still didn't dare to stay too long in front of the notice.

The news that Yu Xuanji killed Wu Guangbi will definitely spread.

Her master, Huo Ying, will definitely come to Qingyuan County......

If Huo Ying saw her, he would definitely not be able to escape. Before Wu Guangbi's case was solved, she still tried to shrink into the house as much as possible and didn't go out to show her face.

made up her mind, Chu Cheng really pretended to be sick in the next few days and didn't go anywhere.

Lin Boqin has been busy with Wu Guangbi's case in the county office, and he didn't notice her for a while, but one day Gu Jingtong leaned against the door frame, touched his chin and asked, "Why hasn't Li Siniang come to you recently?" ”

"I don't know." Lin Boqin replied stunned.

Only then did he realize that Chu Cheng had indeed not come to the yamen for many days.

It just so happened that Hu Yu came over with a stack of confessions about the top and bottom of Cuihong Courtyard, and when he heard the discussion, he couldn't help but interject: "I heard Su Yu say that Mrs. has suffered from the wind and cold and has been sick for many days. Adults are busy handling cases, I'm afraid they don't know yet, right? ”

Is Li Siniang sick?

When?

Looking at the snowflakes falling outside the window, with such a changeable weather, a person of her temperament really won't take good care of herself.

Uncle Lin put down the inspection form in his hand and groaned slightly: "Sheng Feng, you are watching here, I will go back when I go." With that, he turned around and took out the morning glory tassel umbrella from the corner, and hurriedly held the umbrella and left.