Chapter 59: True and False, True and Murderer
Chinese Although Bianzhou is a small border city, it is a fortress connecting various countries, and merchants from all over the world gather here, among which there are not many merchants who do spice business, so Su Liuying, who was born and grew up in Bianzhou, has seen all kinds of strange spices, but what she smelled in her nose at this time is something she has never smelled.
So, she felt a little curious about the figure behind the screen. A red figure came from far to near, and when she crossed the screen and appeared in front of the two, Su Liuying was shocked to realize that the woman who delivered the wine was actually the red-sleeved girl who was dancing on the high platform downstairs.
She came to Lou Yue in a red dress and stepped on the carpet barefoot, the tulle on her face had not been removed, and a pair of wonderful eyes looked at Lou Yue who was sitting upright affectionately and with surprise, and her eyes froze after seeing Su Liuying sitting opposite him.
In the next moment, she lowered her eyes, respectfully knelt down at Lou Yue's feet, and bowed deeply.
"The slave family has red sleeves, and I have seen the prince and the girl." As she approached, the strange fragrance became clearer and richer, but it was from her body that emanated.
When he looked up again, Red Sleeves gently raised his hand to remove the veil on his face, revealing a beautiful face that was clear and refined.
At a glance, it was five points similar to Su Liuying. Su Liuying kept staring at her, and when she saw her true face at first glance, she was startled for a moment, and looked at Lou Yue opposite hesitantly.
Since the red sleeves came in, Lou Yue has been drinking his own wine by himself, and he hasn't raised his eyelids. The red sleeves straightened up, held the pot in his hand and poured wine for Lou Yue, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and whispered softly
"This is a pure brew of flowers brewed by the slave family himself, please taste it." The snow-white slender hand handed the wine glass full of bright wine to Lou Yue's hand.
He didn't blink his eyes, let alone raise his hand to pick up the wine glass in Red Sleeves' hand, and said coldly
"Get out!" After looking forward to seeing him again for three years, Red Sleeves was so excited that she couldn't express it, and Fang Cai's dance was the result of her three years of hard practice, so she looked forward to him coming to the building to dance for him.
Therefore, as soon as she heard that Lou Yue was coming to the building, she danced with all her might, hoping to keep his gaze for a moment...... However, he tried his best to get close to him, but he let her out without even looking at her, how could Red Sleeves be willing in his heart?
But no matter how unwilling he is, he is the prince of the world, but he is a prostitute who is low into the dust, and it is the distance between heaven and earth...... She trembled and got up, but she finally didn't have the courage to say another word, and finally glanced at Lou Yue with affection.
When his gaze swept to Su Liuying's face on the side, his eyes were dead and gray, and he retreated silently. As soon as Redsleeves left, the room fell silent again.
"Three years ago, someone sent her to me." Lou Yue suddenly spoke, but he took the initiative to talk to Su Liuying about the red sleeves.
From the moment she saw the face of the red sleeves, a trace of doubt flashed in Su Liuying's heart, but she thought that it was not strange for people who looked like each other in the world, so she didn't take the red sleeves in her heart, but she was a little surprised by her deep affection for Lou Yue.
Now that she heard Lou Yue's words, her heart tightened, and she realized that there was such a relationship between this red sleeve and Lou Yue.
The index finger of his right hand lightly tapped the pear wood tabletop, and Lou Yue said slowly with his eyelids half-closed
From her appearance to her dancing skills, she deliberately imitated it. But - it's hard to draw the skin and bones of a tiger, no matter how similar she is, I also know that she is not you. In the end, Lou Yue raised his eyes and quietly looked at Su Liuying, who was drunk red on his face, and it was difficult to hide the tenderness in his misty deep eyes.
His face became hotter and hotter, and Su Liuying realized that the sentence he said before was "less than one in ten thousand" was actually talking about this.
And Lou Yue's unabashed confession of her affection for her made her panic even more. She dodged the deep meaning in his eyes, buried her head in another sip of wine, and said in a muffled voice
"It's late at night, and I have to go back to the Punishment Department. The prince should also go back to the house to rest early, but I am afraid that I will have to deal with the assassin case early tomorrow morning. With that, she got up and walked out.
She couldn't take two steps, her mind became dizzy, and her steps were shaky. Lou Yue supported her from behind and said coldly
"How do you go back to the Punishment Department like this? I'll send you back to the Punishment Department with you. Not allowing Su Liuying to refuse, Lou Yue pulled her back on the horse and drove to the criminal department.
The assassination in the west of the city once again alarmed Emperor Huicheng, so the officials of the Criminal Department investigated the case overnight, and even Li Zhi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, came forward in person.
Li Zhi's father and son walked out of the gate of the Criminal Department and were about to take the carriage back to their homes, but they happened to see Lou Yue coming back with Su Liuying.
Seeing Su Liuying and Lou Yue riding together, Li Xiu's already haggard handsome face became more and more pale, and when his eyes fell on Su Liuying's delicate and ruddy face, his whole body was even more frozen, and it was difficult to hide the pain in his eyes.
Li Zhi on the side saw it, slowly lowered the curtain, and said coldly
"My father has said a long time ago, these days she has been in and out of the criminal department with this son all day long, but you don't believe your father's words. Is what you see with your own eyes now? Therefore, don't worry about her anymore, and it is only right to calm down and marry Princess Rongqing. Li Xiu's heart clenched tightly, there was no blood on his pale face, and his clear eyes lost the last of their brilliance, and he opened his mouth numbly and desperately,
"Father is relieved...... The son did everything his father had planned. "I didn't sleep all night thinking about the package last night, and today I was tired and running all day, and after Su Liuying, who was already seven points drunk, got on the horse, she was blown by the night breeze and fell asleep in Lou Yue's arms...... I don't know if it's because of drunkenness, Su Liuying slept very sweetly this night...... Lou Yue didn't return for a night, Su Shiyu got the instructions of the old lady in the house, and brought him a change of clothes to the Criminal Department before dawn, and was led to Lou Yue's room by the officers of the Criminal Department.
Thinking that she hadn't seen Lou Yue for half a month, Su Shiyu couldn't help but feel a little excited before entering the door.
Before knocking on the door, she nervously turned around and asked her personal maid Xingyu if there was anything wrong with her makeup.
Looking at her master's cautious appearance, Xingyu felt sorry for her in her heart. Her own young lady is first-class in appearance and character, and she is even more infatuated with her uncle, but her aunt doesn't put any thought on Miss, but she is thinking about Su Liuying, who has disappeared for four years...... And in the past four years, my uncle has never stayed in the courtyard, and even the number of times he has stepped into the pear courtyard is only a handful...... In his heart, he thought that his young lady was not worthy, but Xingyu smiled on his face
"Miss is beautiful, I will definitely like it when I see it." Su Shiyu listened, and then turned around and knocked on the door with confidence.
Inside the house, Lou Yue heard a knock on the door, and lowered his brows
"Come in!" The next moment, the door had been opened, Su Shiyu stepped in, and was about to step forward to say goodbye to Lou Yue, but his eyes caught a glimpse of the woman on the couch behind him, and suddenly, the whole person was stunned...... When Su Shiyu entered the house, Lou Yue had not yet gotten up from the couch.
And the person who fell asleep on the couch behind him was Su Liuying. After Su Liuying fell asleep on horseback, Lou Yue directly carried her into his room.
Placed her on the couch where he usually rested, and he himself had been sitting on the edge of the couch and holding her hand since last night in order to prevent Su Liuying's nightmare, even if he fell asleep from exhaustion later, the hand holding her never let go...... Therefore, after Su Shiyu entered the door, she saw her sister sleeping on the couch, and the hand on the stairs was still holding her hand, and in an instant, it was like five thunderbolts blasting overhead, shaking her so much that she couldn't say a word.
Lou Yue glanced at her lightly, and then withdrew the hand holding Su Liuying, put her hand into the futon, and said
"Why are you here?" A heart is like falling into an ice cellar, and it is like being roasted in a fire, Su Shiyu is in great pain in her heart, but she tries her best to suppress the pain on her face and tremble
"The prince didn't return for a night, and the old lady asked the concubine to bring a change of clothes to the lord." With that, he gently placed the package in his hand on the chair next to him.
Lou Yue nodded and said indifferently
"Is the old lady okay? You go back and tell her that when I enter the palace and see the emperor, I will go back to the house to greet her old man, so that she doesn't have to worry about me. Go back first. After meeting and saying less than two words, he opened his mouth to let her go, this is Lou Yue's daily habit of getting along with Su Shiyu, he usually treats her so coldly, and she has never complained.
But today, looking at her sister on the bed and Lou Yue's hand that she had been holding tightly, Su Shiyu's heart seemed to be pierced by countless steel needles, piercing thousands of holes and bleeding...... He came to see his husband with joy, but he spent the night with his sister who was a lonely man and a widow, so how could she be willing to leave?
! The steps under her feet seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, she couldn't move a single step, gritted her teeth to suppress the tremor of her voice, and her lips pulled out a smile that was more ugly than crying, and said with concern
"What's wrong with my sister, I haven't woken up at this hour, but I'm sick? Do you want to call a doctor? After that, without waiting for Lou Yue to stop him, he stepped forward and shook Su Liuying's body and called
"Sister, wake up, but it's not comfortable there, my sister will help you call a doctor." Su Liuying, who was sleeping sweetly, was suddenly woken up, opened her eyes and looked at Su Shiyu in front of her ignorantly, her brain was a little dull after being drunk, and she didn't react for a long time.
"Sister?" She sat up and called hesitantly, waiting for her eyes to look at the scene in the room, as well as Lou Yue sitting on the side, she suddenly woke up, and looked at the man's clothes covered on her body in a daze, so familiar, she recognized Lou Yue at a glance.
And the room she was in was also Lou Yue's room. Her brain was 'buzzing', what was wrong with her?
How can you sleep here? Without waiting for her to understand, she raised her eyes and saw Su Shiyu's pale and bloodless little face and slightly trembling lips, and her heart was suddenly shocked - my sister must have misunderstood.
However, lonely men and widows are in the same room, and anyone is afraid that they will be misunderstood! Su Liuying hurriedly got down from the couch, and was about to pull Su Shiyu to the side to explain well, when there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, Nanshan came in with a happy face, and said
"Master, there is news from the palace just now, saying that Concubine Ning Guifei has found out the murderer behind the scenes who instructed Qinghui to murder the prince." Hearing this, Su Liuying and Lou Yue were shocked.
Since the assassin was killed, Su Liuying and Lou Yue have been extremely depressed and frustrated, not only because they can't account for the emperor's concubine, but also because the black hand hidden behind the scenes is like a sharp needle pierced in the eye, and it is difficult to live in peace if they are not removed for a day.
Now that they suddenly heard the good news from the palace, Lou Yue and Su Liuying breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, but they also had doubts in their hearts - they couldn't find clues, how did Ning Guifei find out the real murderer?
Su Liuying's big stone hanging in her heart was put down, but what she was most concerned about was, who was the person behind the scenes, and why did she have the same Buddha beads as A-Niang in her hand?
She asked urgently
"Nanshan, do you know who that person is?" Minamisan Road
"It is said to be Chen Zhaoyi of Xianfu Palace." Hearing this, Su Liuying's brows tightened unconsciously, and she hesitated a little in her heart, and couldn't help asking
"How could it be her? How did Concubine Ning find out about her? Nanshan glanced at Concubine Su, who was standing aside with a white face, and looked at Lou Yue hesitantly.
The matter of the palace can not be said to outsiders many times, although Su Shiyu is Lou Yue's side concubine, but it should still be avoided.
Lou Yue said to Su Shi
"We're going to the palace soon, you can go back." Su Shiyu's eyes slowly swept across Lou Yue's face, with an indifferent and decent smile on her face, and after bending down to salute him, she silently withdrew from the house.
The moment the room was closed, the smile on Su Shiyu's face instantly turned into a heavy pain, and tears couldn't stop falling uncontrollably.
Xingyu was heartbroken, and her eyes were red, and she said resentfully
"How can these two young ladies be like this? She refused to marry her uncle back then, but now she is entangled with her uncle unclearly. I heard that she was secretly messing with her uncle in this criminal department all day long, and the young lady didn't want to believe it, but now, the two of them are living in the same room......
"Say no more!" Su Shiyu's heart kept aching like a pinprick all the time, and her whole body was numb with pain. She choked up
"I believe that Sister Hotaru will not lie to me, and I believe ...... I believe that she will keep her oath and will not get together with the prince......" Hearing this, Xingyu said angrily
"Miss, you've caught a girl in bed, do you still believe her? She is just lying to you, on the one hand, she pretends to clear up her relationship with the prince in front of you, and on the other hand, she hooks up with the prince. Now that it has been exposed on the spot, Miss can no longer believe her. With that, she blamed herself again
"Miss, it's useless to be a slave, and you can't do any errands......"
"I don't blame you!" Su Shiyu stopped the maid's words, wiped her tears with a silk handkerchief, and said bitterly
"Everything is fate...... inside the house, Nanshan told Lou Yue and Su Liuying the news from the palace one by one.
It turned out that after Su Liuying told Ning Guifei that the string of rosewood Buddha beads in Qinghui's hand might come from the palace, Fei'er was reprimanded by Ning Guifei for giving Ning Guifei an inappropriate idea, in order to prevent herself from losing trust in front of her master, she pretended to go to the palaces to move around, and secretly inspected that the master of each palace could have the same red sandalwood Buddha beads around her mother, and in the end, she actually found a string of red sandalwood Buddha beads that were almost identical to Qinghui in Chen Zhaoyi's palace.
And this Chen Zhaoyi's biggest enemy in the harem is Ning Guifei, the two are constantly fighting for favor, and last year Chen Zhaoyi also slipped a child, and many people in the palace rumored that Ning Guifei was the poisoner...... Therefore, when Concubine Ning Guifei saw the string of Buddhist beads found from Chen Zhaoyi's palace, she couldn't care about anything else, and escorted her to Changxin Palace and forced her to confess......
Moreover, just after the assassin's escape from prison shocked the capital, some people anonymously went to Jing Zhaoyin to expose it, saying that before Ning Guifei's assassination, he had seen Chen Zhaoyi's brother have been in private contact with people in the rivers and lakes. Just now, Jing Zhaoyin was ordered to go to the Chen Mansion to get people, the Chen Mansion had already gone to the empty building, and the fear of guilt Liang absconded......" After speaking, Nanshan sighed heavily,
Now, all the evidence confirms that Chen Zhaoyi was responsible for the murder of Ning Guifei's miscarriage and the assassination at the foot of Anguo Temple Mountain. The people behind the scenes have finally found out, so that the master doesn't need to worry about Xiao ...... anymore I can't give an account to the emperor. Nanshan wanted to say that if the real murderer was found, his father would no longer have to worry about the safety of Miss Xiaoman in the palace, but when he saw Lou Yue's eyes glaring, he hurriedly changed his words.
After listening to Nanshan's words, it seemed that Chen Zhaoyi's plot to kill Ning Guifei's heir and buy a murderer to kill him was conclusive, but in the ears of the stairs, he faintly felt a trace of unusual flavor - they had tried their best to search before, but there were no clues.
Now, as soon as the assassin was silenced, it was as if all the evidence was in front of him at once. He couldn't help but look at Su Liuying, who also frowned and looked at him.
On the way to the palace, Su Liuying couldn't help but ask
"Does the prince also think that Chen Zhaoyi is the real murderer behind the scenes?" Lou Yue looked at the front with flat eyes and said coldly
"The emperor has his own judgment in this matter, you don't need to pay attention to it." No matter who the real culprit is behind the scenes, and no matter what the final direction of this matter will be, as far as Lou Yue is concerned, he doesn't want her to be involved in the cruel struggle of the palace concubine and thus be harmed.
Chen Zhaoyi has always pleaded not guilty, but in the end, the palace maid next to her, Lu Mo, couldn't stand the torture and torture, and admitted that Chen Zhaoyi bought off the Zhidian Qinghui of Anguo Temple, and added musk to the spices in the hall, which caused Ning Guifei to have a slippery tire.
After the incident, he bought a murder ...... At this point, the case of Ning Guifei's miscarriage was finally decided. Emperor Huicheng thought that Chen Zhaoyi had the fifth princess, Princess Linglan, and spared her capital crime, and was demoted to a concubine and sent to the cold palace.
but executed Chen Zhaoyi's palace attendants, and all of them were beaten to death...... The heavy snow fell all night, but it couldn't hide the bright red all over the ground, and even the smell of blood wafted in the air...... Su Liuying carried a small half basket of black charcoal and followed everyone into the cold palace.
A newcomer was added to the cold palace, and the division bureau sent the simplest utensils to Chen Shuren as usual, which was nothing more than a thin quilt and half a basket of black charcoal, so that she could survive the cold winter.
Entering Chen Shuren's room, Chen Shuren no longer cried and shouted grievances. She sat with her back upright in front of the dusty old table and chair, her sharp and gloomy eyes looked coldly at the people who moved things in, and her pale face was as gloomy as frost.
Although he was cut down and demoted to a concubine and entered the cold palace, Chen Shuren's face was described as solemn and solemn, with a majesty that could not be taken lightly, as if he was still the high-ranking Zhaoyi Niangniang.
When Chen Shuren's eyes crossed Su Liuying's face, the moment the four eyes met, Su Liuying's heart was suddenly shocked.
Until she walked out of the cold palace, Su Liuying's heart was still trembling, and her whole body was cold! From the moment she learned that Chen Shuren was the real murderer, Su Liuying couldn't wait to come to the cold palace to see Chen Shuren in addition to putting down a big stone in her heart, and asked her about the origin of the string of rosewood Buddha beads!
As far as she knows, Chen Shu is a native of Beijing, and her maiden name does not have the word 'Qiong', why is her Buddha bead exactly the same as A-Niang, and A-Niang's surname is still engraved?
Her instincts made her feel that it couldn't be a coincidence. Therefore, taking advantage of the fact that she came to the cold palace to deliver things, she specially brought Buddha beads to meet Chen Shuren, wanting to find an opportunity to ask her about Buddha beads.
However, when Chen Shuren's eyes fell on her, the moment they looked at each other, Su Liuying made an astonishing discovery - perhaps, the real murderer behind the scenes was not Chen Shuren at all!
For the past few days, Su Liuying's mind has been reminiscent of what the Assassin leader had said to her before he died.
He said that the master of the Buddha beads was the one who wanted her life. Moreover, the Assassin recognized her at a glance, presumably having seen her portrait before.
In other words, someone specifically ordered the Assassin to take her life. And just after a hurried meeting with Chen Shuren in the cold palace, Su Liuying was shocked to find that her eyes were sharp and gloomy, but she didn't know her description at all.
Seeing her is exactly the same as watching other palace people who send things into the house, there is no other deep meaning, and there is no hatred that wants her life!
If Chen Shuren is really the real murderer behind the scenes, the one who bought the murder and asked for her life, how could he not know her?
! Therefore, the real culprit must be someone else! Su Liuying was shocked by her discovery, and cold sweat broke out layer by layer - if it was really as she guessed, Chen Shuren was wronged, and the real murderer was someone else, then this real murderer was indeed too terrible!
Returning to the bureau in a daze, when she was thinking about whether to tell Lou Yue or Ning Guifei about this discovery, someone from Changxin Palace came and said that Ning Guifei wanted to see her.
When Su Liuying went to Changxin Palace, she saw Fei'er standing at the gate of the palace in a brand-new dress and directing the palace people to work, and when she saw her coming, her chin was raised, and she snorted coldly at her with her nostrils.
Su Liuying suppressed the clutter in her heart and smiled indifferently at her
"Congratulations to my sister for making a great contribution this time and helping my mother find out the real culprit behind the scenes." Fei'er not only had a new dress from Concubine Ning Guifei, but also the tuancui bead flower on her head was also given to her by Concubine Ning, as well as the red gold earrings, which made her look radiant, standing in a crowd of palace people, she was extraordinarily eye-catching, not like a slave, but like a master in the palace.
Hearing Su Liuying's congratulations, Fei'er became more and more proud, and glanced at her disdainfully
"You are a little clever, but when it comes to solving the worries of the mother, it has to be the old man who follows the mother." After that, he raised his hand and said coldly
"Go in, I'm still waiting for you." Su Liuying couldn't help but feel worried in her heart—she had messed up the assassin matter.
Although Fei'er now helped Ning Guifei find out the 'real murderer', she was still worried that Ning Guifei would punish her.
In addition, she has been struggling in her heart, whether to tell Ning Guifei about her discovery in the cold palace. told her that Chen Shuren was not the real murderer behind the scenes, and the real murderer was still at large...... However, this time, Ning Guifei unexpectedly did not punish her, but rewarded her with a bunch of things, including clothes and jewelry, and judging by the style, it was even better than the one given to Fei'er.
Seeing this, Su Liuying's heart became more and more panicked. Sure enough, the next moment when she heard Ning Guifei's words, her heart was about to jump out in shock.
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