"If it doesn't matter, what I found at this time now is also cut off my head, I'm afraid no one will believe it. But if it is related, the distance between these two places is too far, who will kill someone in the house on Changyin Street and then go to Yanliu Lane to kill Zuo Zhengguang. He also deliberately threw people's heads nearby, for fear that others would not see it, for fear that others would not know? Su Yunjun said, no longer sleepy.

Chen Jingheng was also very puzzled when he heard this, this matter was really a little weird, and he couldn't understand why he killed someone, and threw a disfigured head in the courtyard of the Hua family, and the other two in the swill bucket of the Hua family.

Isn't this person really related to the Hua family?

Throughout the night, whether it was the Song Palace, the Hua family, or the Jingzhao Mansion, basically everyone had no sleep all night.

When he got up the next morning, Zichong came to return to his life.

Su Yunjun was still grooming, and as soon as Chen Jingheng came back from the court, he opened the maid outside and listened to the refill.

I heard Zichong say respectfully: "Lord Wang, now this matter is afraid that it has nothing to do with the Hua family." ”

"What did you find?" Chen Jingheng wiped the thin sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief and asked.

Hearing this, Zichong said 1510 of the news he got outside: "The Hua family lost a small house, and the Hua family didn't pay attention to it originally, but it was a small servant in the outer courtyard, and this morning in the firewood pile of the house, a headless corpse was found, wearing the clothes of the Hua family's small house." Huada took the housekeeper to see it in person, and it was really that little guy. ”

"In other words, someone from the Hua family also died in that house?" Chen Jingheng asked rhetorically when he heard this.

Zichong nodded: "And I checked the corpses, these corpses were all cut off after death, and judging from the wounds, they are not the same murder weapon." Some of them were injured by sharp knives, some were like big knives, and the head of the Hua family's little guy was cut off by an extremely blunt knife, and the wounds were uneven. ”

Chen Jingheng nodded and didn't speak, and at this moment Su Yunjun came out of the room.

Zichong hurriedly saluted: "My subordinates have seen the princess." ”

Hearing this, Su Yunjun just waved his hand: "You go on." ”

"The head that was thrown into the Hua family, which was already unrecognizable, was the little guy of the Hua family." After Zichong finished speaking respectfully, he looked at the faces of Chen Jingheng and Su Yunjun, and stood aside.

"How?" Su Yunjun spoke first when he heard this.

Zi Cheng said respectfully: "The wounds of the corpse in the house are divided into three kinds of murder weapons, but only that one is different from the one next to it. The incisions were uneven, so after finding the body, it was quickly checked. ”

Hearing this, Su Yunjun was stunned: "Let's not talk about how the little maid of the Hua family appeared in that house, Xu heard the movement at night and got up to see if it was discovered, but why did the murderer smash the human head beyond recognition, and then throw it in the courtyard of the Hua family?" What is this for? ”

Chen Jingheng couldn't figure it out, and now everything seemed to be confused.

That's seven corpses, seven lives.

Su Yunjun frowned deeply: "The two human heads found in the Hua family's swill bucket can now be identified?" ”

Zichong shook his head when he heard this: "I still know who these two people are, I heard that the yamen has been painted by someone Xiao Xiang overnight, and it will be posted at the city gates tomorrow to see if anyone knows each other." ”

Chen Jingheng continued: "There are now seven corpses, two of which have clear identities, but they are people who have nothing to do with each other. The other two heads were also found, but the whereabouts of the three heads are unknown, and there is no clue who Zhao Yu was knocked out of the house. Today in the court, the father was furious and ordered the Jingzhao Mansion to strictly investigate the case and find the murderer. ”

"At the feet of the Son of Heaven, such a thing happened in this imperial city, and the emperor was naturally furious. After all, this also involves the son of an official of the imperial court, so I'm afraid that the Shangshu of the Criminal Department will not feel good at the moment. Su Yunjun asked.

Hearing this, Chen Jingheng smiled: "It's not uncomfortable, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department asked my father to hand over the case to the Criminal Department for trial." It's just that this case involved his son's life after all, and his father did not agree, and it was still investigated by Jingzhao Mansion, and Dali Temple assisted Jingzhao Mansion. ”

"It's really hard for this criminal department to meddle in this case now, if it is really tried by the criminal department, I am afraid that it will be said later that the criminal department is unfair because of his loss of his beloved son, and the emperor wants to keep the book of the criminal department." Su Yunjun nodded.

But it caused Chen Jingheng to laugh for a while.

"What are you laughing at?"

Hearing this, Chen Jingheng looked at Su Yunjun and said, "It's not so much that my father wants to keep the book of the Criminal Department, but that my father wants to balance." ”

Listening to Chen Jingheng's words, Su Yunjun was stunned: "Balance? ”

"The criminal department is the prince's person." Chen Jingheng said patiently, and with just one sentence, Su Yunjun suddenly understood.

Seeing this, the smile in Chen Jingheng's eyes was even worse: "The previous aunt's approach was really a little arrogant, although my father didn't say it, but he saw it in his eyes. So he has to help the crown prince now, so that the prince and the imperial aunt are evenly matched. ”

Su Yunjun was a little crying and laughing when he heard this: "Father is still thinking about how to balance the crown prince and the imperial aunt, isn't he tired of the competition between these two?" ”

"Maybe, maybe it's annoying, but now that he's come to this point, he has to do it. If the crown prince is blindly suppressed by the imperial aunt, the East Palace is bound to be unstable, and if the East Palace is unstable, the world will be uneasy, and the father and emperor also know in his heart how many people are ambitious to stare at that position. But if the imperial aunt is suppressed now and the crown prince is blindly made bigger, the father is worried that his position will be unstable. Speaking of which, it is still for the sake of the word rights, even if the father is now tired of their fight, there is no other way to do it, but to maintain the existing balance. Chen Jingheng said and sighed.

Then he looked at Su Yunjun and said, "Clean up, and I'll accompany you back to Su's house to see your sister-in-law later." ”

"Hmm." Su Yunjun responded and ordered Mingcha to prepare everything.

On the carriage to Su's house, through the curtain, Su Yunjun saw that there were many more officers and soldiers patrolling outside.

Chen Jingheng specially asked the carriage to turn around from the door of Hua's house, and saw that not only the city gate, but also the streets and alleys were also plastered with portraits at the moment.

There was a man and a woman in the portrait, looking at the appearance of Danqing, Su Yunjun felt a little headache in his heart, he really didn't know if it was Jingzhao Mansion playing around, or the person who painted Danqing in the yamen didn't sleep well today.

"This painting is so abstract, just a few outlines, so that people can recognize it."

Hearing this, Chen Jingheng picked up the curtain and looked at it, and then said with a smile: "It seems that you have seen less, and the portrait at the yamen has always been like this." ”