At that time, the sky was just dawning, and a touch of early morning sunlight poured into the main hall through the window. All four of them were sweating and panting.

"Lord Cao, it's up to you." Yan Jiguang's breath was not even even, and he patted Cao Yuan's back.

"Hmm." Cao Yuanju didn't say much, and Cao Yuanju had experience in acting before the sentence, which was not difficult to deal with dead people. But this is the first time to help the royal family do such an errand, or to test the emperor's favorite concubine, and there is still a little drum in my heart.

He cautiously looked towards the coffin and saw that Concubine Jing's corpse was neatly dressed. The cheeks are thin, but they are painted with rouge gouache. The eyebrows and eyes are gently closed, and I can't see how painful it was before I was born, and if I don't distinguish it carefully, I even feel that I am just asleep. Although people die, their demure temperament can still be seen. The hair is not messy, wearing a gilt hairpin headdress of the concubine, and wearing a plain brocade funeral dress. After a few days, I will have to put on the court clothes of the concubine level again.

"Hey, what are you doing in a daze." Leng Buding heard Yan Jiguang's voice from behind, and Cao Yuanju was frightened.

"What's urging, isn't this just the beginning?" Cao Yuan sentenced him to the court when he was in his prime, and his medical skills were superb. He took out a handkerchief from his bosom and held the head of the corpse through the handkerchief, looking at the left and right sides of the neck. Sure enough, there was an imperceptible cyan color behind the ears.

"How? Is it poisoning? Yan Jiguang was already anxious to know the result.

Cao Yuan also used a silver needle to detect poison, but he also died of poisoning. He packed up his things and nodded to Yan Jiguang.

Yan Jiguang also nodded knowingly, his eyes were full of fierceness, and he frowned. "Come on, arrest everyone in the West Palace, I want to interrogate them one by one!"

The two deputies quickly went out to spread the word, and in just a moment, the soldiers outside the door rushed in and took down all the palace maids and eunuchs in the West Palace. Yan Jiguang and Cao Yuan stepped out of the hall. The sun had risen, but the sky was overcast, and a little snowflake was falling. Cao Yuanju watched Lord Yan give orders, stood quietly to the side, and stretched out his hand to catch a snowflake in the palm of his hand. It melted quickly, and he didn't really have the heart to appreciate it, because he knew that something big was going to happen.

Yan Jiguang has always been vigorous and resolute in handling cases. All the people in the West Palace, no matter how big or small, were escorted to the prison of Dali Temple, and the people below were ordered to be interrogated one by one. Not only that, but in the West Palace, a group of people were also brought to search for physical evidence. Surrounded by heavy troops outside the West Palace, not even a bird could fly in. Everyone in the harem knows that the emperor is in Chaxi Palace, but no one knows why they are investigating, and now they have found out. Now everyone is panicking, and rumors are flying all over the sky.

Yan Jiguang's progress was very fast, and in only half a day, he found a handkerchief in the palace maid's house, on which there was white powder of "night blood". Only through some simple torture methods, he locked the little palace maid Ruoming who was in charge of tea in the West Palace, and he didn't need much torture to recruit him, but he did it by himself.

Ruoming dictated that she decocted medicine for Concubine Jing that day, poisoned the medicine, and then served it to her. This medicine will only be drunk by Concubine Jing alone, and then she will have a seizure unconsciously. But unexpectedly, the emperor had a deep affection for Concubine Jing, and personally helped her test the medicine and feed it, which made the emperor also poisoned.

"Give me a retrial! If you can't judge who is behind the scenes, you won't be allowed to sleep with me! Yan Jiguang walked out of the interrogation room with a tired face. It's been a whole day, and Ruoming still hasn't recruited. She first pointed out that other people in the same room with her were framed, but she was spotted by the shrewd Yan Jiguang. and then pretended to have a personal grudge against Concubine Jing, and did such things out of impulse. Yan Jiguang would never believe that a palace maid would know such a rare poison as "crying blood at night", and all of them said that it was carefully planned. If it weren't for the emperor's mistake, it can be said that things would have been done cleanly. There must be someone behind it! Yan Jiguang rubbed his temples. It was already the afternoon of the second day, and the emperor gave him only ten days.

"My lord, Ruoming's family background that you asked the officials to check is a bit eyebrow-raising here." When he had a headache, his men were waiting at the door, and when they saw him come out, they greeted him.

"Oh? Say it. "Yan Jiguang's time is limited, and every second counts.

"This Ruoming is originally from Huaizhou, his original surname is Zhou, his parents died when he was a child, and he has only one brother named Zhou Chong. Speaking of this Zhou Chong, I wonder if there is any image of the adult? ”

"The name is indeed a little familiar, isn't it Zhou Chong, the Jianghuai Caokou who was recruited before?"

"Exactly. After Zhou Chong was recruited this time, he became a hundred households, but it didn't take long for him to get into a murder lawsuit. Killed the son of a prefect. was supposed to be sentenced to be beheaded in prison, but this kid had a good life, but somehow he got into a great relationship, and let people bail him out. Guess who saved this reckless man? "This temple is usually mixed up in officialdom like a fish in water, and a clever mouth tells things interestingly, which can't help but change in front of Yan Jiguang.

"Where do I know, don't sell me Guan Zi, you kid, say it quickly!" Yan Jiguang needs ten days to solve the case, where do you have the heart to listen to him.

This temple is knowing that Zuo Qing of Dali Temple is not a good talker, so he hurriedly gave up the fancy: "I found out that it is the collateral protection of the Wei family in Zhongzhou, but it must be indispensable to the above dots." As he spoke, he pointed to it and gave Yan Jiguang a color.

Kyushu is the two countries of Liang and Chu, and the center of Liang is Zhongzhou, and the Liang capital Shengjing is also among them. As mentioned above, the four major gates of the Liang State are mainly active in the Zhongzhou region, but the lush foliage also extends to several other states of the Liang State. And the Zhongzhou Wei family mentioned in this temple is the family of the queen Li.

Rao is an upright Qing official like Yan Jiguang, and he also understands that it is very difficult for a seven-grade and hundreds of households with no background to offend the prefect of the fourth-grade, let alone a life lawsuit. If it weren't for the pressure of a very powerful person, this prefect would definitely not give up.

"And what do you think?" Yan Jiguang asked tentatively.

The temple was hurriedly waving his hand: "Don't be embarrassed by your subordinates, I don't dare to explore the depth of this matter." The subordinates advised, don't dig deeper, so as not to get into trouble. ”

Yan Jiguang knew that this matter involved the Wei family in Zhongzhou, and it was by no means simple. If you continue to investigate, you will offend the four major valves, but if you can't explain to the emperor, your head will fall to the ground. What a hot potato!

"Only how can Zhou Chong's matter be regarded as evidence, don't catch the wind. Go and call the others in and see if there are any other clues. If I can't hand over the murderer within ten days, don't think about mixing up in Dali Temple! Yan Jiguang knew that just knowing this, he would never be able to explain it to the emperor.

Soon, Yan Jiguang explained: first, investigate who has been in contact with Ruoming recently; second, find out where this "night cry of blood" came from and how it got into Ruoming's hands; Third, if there is any abnormal person or thing in the palace, all of them will be reported to Dali Temple.

For a time, nearly half of the people in Dali Temple were used by Yan Jiguang. Soon there was new news. At this time, it was the fourth day.