There is a hill outside the south gate of the Liang Palace, and there is a dense forest on the hill. It was night, dark clouds covered the moon, and the cold wind was miserable. There was silence in the forest, and only one or two black cries could be heard in the distance. Even more eerie.

Jiang Yulin, dressed in a night suit, shuttled through the dense forest. He originally planned to take advantage of the opportunity to return to Shengjing to rest for a few days, but he didn't expect it to be even harder than he was in the barracks.

He couldn't help complaining. He didn't actually need to interfere, and Murong Yu had warned him that this matter was not simple. However, Jiang Yulin is not a character who does not hit the south wall and does not give up. The people involved in it have a lot to do with him, and it is really difficult for him to stand idly by.

He deliberately chose a remote route, so that the forest was very dense, and the thorns and grasses were everywhere, and it was especially difficult to walk through.

If it weren't for the ability to train in the army to walk at night, the direction and road could be discerned through the faint light and shadow in this dark night, and ordinary people would have been lost in it.

The more you go, the deeper and more exposed. Jiang Yulin felt a burst of yin qi attacking. It should not be far from the place where the corpse was dumped.

In the sky, only a little moonlight appeared behind the heavy clouds, illuminating the trees in the forest. The faint-hearted may think that there is a ghost hidden in the dark.

Jiang Yulin said in his heart: "I am yang! Don't be afraid of ghosts! "But there was still some fear, but the fear was fleeting.

On the battlefield, the corpses that have been seen are piled up, and no matter how tragic the situation is, I have seen it. It's just a little spooky and nothing scary. comforting himself like this, Jiang Yulin felt confident in his heart and continued to move forward with bated breath.

After walking for a while, two bodies wrapped in bamboo mats were found at the bottom of a small cliff. The eunuchs and maids in the palace are really miserable. has served others all his life, and he doesn't even have a coffin after death.

Thinking of Aunt Luo, who I had only seen yesterday, had turned into a cold corpse today, I felt a lot of emotion in my heart.

Approaching the two corpses, and opening one of them, it was a eunuch of some age. On a pale face, his eyes were wide open, and he couldn't bat himself. The expression on his face was distorted, and at a glance, he knew that he was in great pain when he died. Rolling down from the small cliff and hitting several places, the corpse's posture was even more eerie and terrifying. Jiang Yulin hurriedly covered the bamboo mat on the male corpse.

The mouth reads: "How much offense, how much offense." ”

He was a little afraid to look at another corpse. If the one just now is not, then the rest should be Aunt Luo's. Strangers still make him feel afraid, and the people he knows will make his heart more burdensome. But Jiang Yulin only frowned, and lifted the bamboo mat on the other corpse.

That's right, it's Aunt Luo's corpse.

Fortunately, Aunt Luo's body is still neat. Except for an extremely obvious rope strangulation mark on his neck, it looks like he is asleep. The bloodless lips showed that this fairly handsome woman would never wake up again. Jiang Yulin felt another pity in his heart.

He carefully placed Aunt Luo's corpse, and then said a few words to the corpse: "Aunt Luo, if you have a spirit in the sky, you must give me some clues." If you really committed suicide on your own, don't blame me for disturbing your rest. I'll help you get buried later. ”

Suddenly a gust of wind blew, and Jiang Yulin shivered. I thought to myself, this is not a ghost around him. But he couldn't care much, and then gently turned Aunt Luo's head to look carefully at the strangulation marks on his neck. The marks are obvious, penetrate deep into the skin, and have a deep purple color. Jiang Yulin is not a pretend, and he can't see the clue for a while. Then look at the mouth and nose of the corpse, etc., and there seems to be nothing unusual. Aunt Luo's hands were neatly folded on her abdomen, as if she had been deliberately placed like this.

That's right! Aunt Luo was hanged. How can it be so peaceful? And the hands should be hanging down at the sides of the body, and they should never be properly placed on the abdomen.

Jiang Yulin rummaged through the corpse for some clues, but found a brocade silk thread in Aunt Luo's fingernails. Maybe it was Aunt Luo's somewhat open nails that scratched the murderer's clothes and pulled his clothes. Because the light in the forest was too dim, Jiang Yulin couldn't see the color of the silk thread clearly, so he carefully took out a handkerchief and wrapped the silk thread in it. Then tuck it into your arms.

Keep looking and see what clues remain.

Jiang Yulin suddenly realized that the magnolia hairpin on Aunt Luo's head and the pair of white jade earrings on her ears were gone. So before Aunt Luo died, she should have taken off all these jewelry? Could it be that she is already planning to go to bed? No wonder he looks so serene! It should have been after Aunt Luo lay down, and then someone killed her in her sleep. Jiang Yulin suddenly had a bold guess. Maybe the person who killed Aunt Luo didn't necessarily have a grudge against her. Aunt Luo was already terminally ill and did not live long. The murderer's method of killing people seems to make Aunt Luo's death more comfortable. But what is the intention of committing suicide?

Jiang Yulin made no more discoveries. Seeing that the sky was showing a trace of fish belly white, I had to go back to the house first.

Thinking of his own name as a dignified general, he has been doing some eavesdropping on autopsies these days. Jiang Yulin sighed, he might have to go to Ganquan Palace again tomorrow.

Jiang Yulin, who returned to the house, immediately locked himself in the room. He lit a candlelight, took a handkerchief from his bosom, and unfolded it in the candlelight. A navy blue brocade thread is lined with a ginger handkerchief. Jiang Yulin felt that this color was a little familiar, and he must have seen it somewhere. But I couldn't remember it for a while.

Helplessly tired all night, Jiang Yulin was no longer able to continue thinking. I quickly took off my night clothes, got into the bed, and quickly fell asleep as soon as my eyes were closed. Hei Tian slept and didn't even have a dream.

On the second day, Jiang Yulin slept until three poles in the morning. When I woke up, the weather had cleared, and the sun was shining on people who did not dare to look directly. Lazily came out of the bed, and found that he had slept with his head covered yesterday, and his body was covered in stinky sweat. He didn't really mind, he just wanted to enter the palace later, so he had to ask someone to fetch water and take a bath and change his clothes. It was busy until noon, so I simply had lunch and went out again.

When I arrived at the gate of Ganquan Palace, it was already afternoon.

At this time, Jiang Yulin looked at the vermilion lacquer gate, which was no different from the day before yesterday. It's just that the people in this door won't be the same anymore. Suddenly the feeling of things is the sense of human non-being. He knocked on the door, and it was a young eunuch who opened the door. Jiang Yulin looked at the eyes.

"It's General Jiang!" Before Jiang Yulin could speak, the little eunuch recognized him at a glance.

"This father-in-law is new? Haven't seen it before, I don't know what to call it? ”

"The little one is Xiao Anzi, and the prince asked the little one to come to Ganquan Palace to take care of it. General Jiang Xiao is coming in quickly, if you need anything, just give orders. ”

Xiao Anzi smiled, extremely courteous, after all, Jiang Yulin's identity is very noble.