Jing Rong didn't sleep when he returned to the palace, but took the dart and looked at it. Everyone knows that Xiaohou Mansion uses darts as the sharp weapon of the town government, so the Xiao family, whether it is the master or the slave, will be equipped with darts, which is also the family custom of the Xiao family in Nanling. And now, whether it is this dart, or the disagreement between King Pingjun, his uncle and Xiao Li, it is not good for the Marquis of Jingyuan.

Jingrong's eyes lit up, and he remembered that there was also such a dart in his mother's relics. He stood up and walked to the edge of the bed, squatted down, and twisted a few times in a protruding place under the bed, and one wall of the back door of the flat gold fill-in-color character screen on the black lacquered side seat slowly opened. He walked in and pulled out a wooden brocade box from one of the rooms. Inside the box was a moire grate comb and a pair of gold bracelets with dragons and phoenixes, as well as a dart. He took out the darts and compared them with the one he took out from the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment, but he didn't find any difference. The hope that had been kindled was like a basin of cold water pouring him from head to foot.

But he was not reconciled, holding two darts in his hand, constantly rubbing the two darts with his fingertips, even if the appearance is exactly the same, the texture will be different. He groped his way from the tip of the knife to the hilt, but still didn't perceive any difference.

He put away his mother's relics and sent them back to the previous room, but when he was about to lock the door, he smelled a strange fragrance coming from his hand, he touched his hand to his nose and sniffed it one by one, only to find that there was a strange fragrance on each fingertip of his right hand, and the dart left by the gangster happened to be held by this hand. It's just that this fragrance is so strange, it doesn't look like the incense powder used by ordinary women.

He was overjoyed in his heart, and finally had a clue, and his mind was moved, and he rushed outside and called: "Yue Feng, find someone who understands incense and bring it back to the palace." ”

After Yue Feng left, Jing Rong followed closely out of the house. Today's court is based on the assassination of King Pingjun last night, and the Marquis of Jingyuan is suspected of the biggest theme.

Some people believe that both the Marquis of Jingyuan and the Marquis of Jingyuan have always acted above board and will never do such a ruthless thing, while others use the evidence at the scene and the conflict between the Marquis of Jingyuan and the King of Pingjun as the motive for committing the crime, thinking that the Xiao father and son have major suspicions. After arguing all morning, the two parties were always arguing, and Emperor Xuanwu was also troubled by their quarrel, so he pushed this time to the Criminal Department, Jing Zhaoyin and King Chen, who were in charge of the case last night.

Although King Chen's uncle is the Marquis of Jingyuan, King Chen is in charge of Gyeonggi Wei and has a very good reputation, so no one cares about it. Besides, although Gu Mingxu, the secretary of the Criminal Department, is cunning and sophisticated, he is an upright person, and the ministers will not think that he will sell him a favor to King Chen, so no one raised objections.

It's just that because the evidence at hand now points to the Nanling Marquis Mansion, Emperor Xuanwu ordered the Praetorian Guards to surround the Marquis Xiao's Mansion, which can be regarded as a disguised imprisonment.

Marquis Jingyuan looked at the holy decree issued by Emperor Xuanwu and the dozens of Praetorian Guards outside the mansion, his heart was cold, he looked up to the sky and laughed, with endless sneers, and sighed: "Brother Mu Xian, I'm afraid that I, Xiao Chenghei, will also follow your old path." ”

And King Chen's Mansion is also investigating in an orderly manner, Yue Feng is a real person, King Chen just wants him to find someone who is proficient in spices, but he brought back several. However, none of them were useful, and they all said that they had never smelled this incense. I had no choice but to let them go.

Chasing the star looked at the dart curiously, sniffed and smelled, and said: "This incense is so weird, other incense powders have long lost their smell for so long, but this incense has not lost its fragrance after a night of volatilization, but the aroma has become more and more intense." Between the lightning and flint, he had an idea, and said: "It is said that women have always been the most fragrant, and when she accompanied the princess to the street in the past two months, the princess would go to the spice shop." Thinking that the princess is a person who likes incense, it is better for the princess to ask the princess and see if she knows this fragrance. ”

Jing Rong's eyes flashed brightly, as if he had just woken up from a dream, and said: "Why did this king forget her, then the king of Japan still sees that she is mixing spices, and he may know this fragrance." ”

Mu Xuefu slept well last night, and when she woke up today, she was in good spirits, not as lazy as usual, but sat in front of the dresser and put on makeup by herself.

"Princess, the prince is here." Qing Zhuo opened the bead curtain and poked into the inner room.

"It's finally here." Mu Xuefu gently crossed the peak of her eyebrows with a snail, and then lifted it up when she was on the tail, looked at the impeccable makeup in the mirror, and said softly.

Mu Xuefu was wearing a rose purple dress, the skirt was embroidered with large and small thousand-petal chrysanthemums, and a light purple belt around her waist showed that her waist was even more unsuffocating. She stood at the door, smiling at Jingrong approaching without greeting her. But his eyes were staring at his face, and he thought to himself, why is this man so good-looking without sleeping all night?

Jing Rong's mind was on the case, thinking about what else was worth scrutinizing about the case as he walked, and he didn't pay attention to Mu Xuefu's good observation of him.

"Lord Wan'an, I heard that the prince didn't return last night, why didn't he rest, but ran to the concubine." Mu Xuefu looked at him as if he was deep in thought, smiled slightly, and said secretly: I found it so quickly, it seems that it is faster than expected.

"This king has something to worry about the princess." Jingrong is not like the warm and soft words that he usually pretends to be, his expression is serious, and there is a faint irritability between his eyebrows.

Mu Xuefu smiled decently and generously, and did not feel a trace of concern because of the change in his attitude, and said: "The prince's words are a bit serious, how can you say the word tired, I don't know where the concubine can serve the prince." ”

Jing Rong picked up his lowered hand, brought the dart to her, and said: "This king knows that the princess has always loved incense, and I think she knows something about spices, but I don't know if you know the incense on this dart?" ”

Mu Xuefu's beautiful eyes moved slightly, raised her jade hand and calmly picked up the dart and looked at it, then slowly shook it a few times in front of her nose, her nose was silent, and she took it to the tip of her nose and sniffed it carefully. frowned slightly, didn't speak, and walked directly into the side room.

Jing Rong's eyes lit up, and he followed her into the side room, watched her open boxes of rouge powder and compare them carefully, and asked eagerly, "Is there the same?" ”

Mu Xuefu put down a box of spices, "It's very familiar, but I don't know which one." "Don't look at him, keep sniffing the next one.

Jing Rong also picked up one of the boxes, and then compared the taste on the darts, his expression lit up, and he said happily: "This is very similar." ”

Mu Xuefu took the spice in his hand, only smelled it, then shook his head and said: "No, this taste is light, not as strong as the fragrance on the dart, and it is not so unique." ”

Jing Rong's cheeks twitched slightly, how could he feel that the two incense were the same.

I smelled it around, but I never found the exact same taste. Mu Xuefu pinched the tip of her nose with her hand to remove all kinds of scents that hit her nose. Then take out one of the boxes, open it and let Jing Rong smell it, "You smell it, these two incense images are not like each other." ”

Jing Rong sniffed it carefully, his expression instantly lit up, and he stared at her and said, "This is right, whether it is the fragrance concentration and unique smell, it is the same." ”

"Lord Wang, your nose is not good at all. These are clearly two flavors. Mu Xuefu shook her head helplessly, looked at him with an instantly gloomy expression, and then said: "But it is very similar, the most similar of all the spices here." It can be said that there are similarities, but if you investigate carefully, I am afraid that it is sold in one place, but the ingredients for preparing spices are different. ”

The dim eyes rekindled the flame of hope, and Jing Rong said, "Which store bought this?" ”

Mu Xuefu raised her finger and lightly tapped her temples, as if in memory, and finally shook her head regretfully: "The concubine doesn't remember, there are too many spices, and the concubine just thinks that the spices are good, but she doesn't remember which shop." ”

"The princess gave the slave and maid a sniff." Bai Yi interjected.

Mu Xuefu turned her eyes and smiled, and said, "By the way, your nose is the smartest, and you usually buy it with me, so you must remember it." ”

Bai Yi took the box, sniffed it carefully, and said with a smile: "The princess is really a noble person who forgets things, don't you remember how this box of spices came from?" Looking at Mu Xuefu's blank face and King Chen's anxious look, he paused and said, "Because we are still competing with others for this box of incense, we finally spent three times the original price to get it." ”

"Oh!" Mu Xuefu was reminded, and instantly recalled his memory, stroked his palm, and said: "This is a Persian spice, which is said to be benzoin, which is not only full of fragrance, but also can ward off evil spirits." ”

"Remember where the store is?" Jing Rong asked.

"On Yongfu Street in Dongcheng, I can't remember which store it is." Mu Xuefu turned back to Bai Yi and asked, "Do you remember?" ”

Bai Yi thought for a while, but he was not sure, and hesitated: "It seems to be called incense, this slave and maid have forgotten, but it seems that there are two jewelry stores nearby." By the way, the jewelry store once sent someone to send the head noodles over and asked Steward Zhou if there was any record. ”

"No wonder there is a strange smell, it turns out to be Persian stuff." Jing Rong shook his head, he found a clue, he looked at Mu Xuefu, patted her shoulder, and said, "Thanks to Concubine Ai's help this time, when the matter is clarified, this king will definitely reward you well." The king still has something to do, and this box of incense has been taken by the king. ”

"It's good if you can help the prince, and the reward is not necessary." Mu Xuefu pointed to the incense box he had taken away, and said coquettishly: "However, if the prince takes one box, he has to return ten boxes to the concubine." It's better to bring back all the spices from that shop, and the concubines in the province will have to pay three times the price to buy them. ”

"Okay, as long as the case is investigated, this king will even buy that shop back for you." Jing Rong Langlang smiled, slowly dispersed the haze that had been involved with his uncle, and left the East Courtyard with a light scrape of his hand on Mu Xuefu's cheek.

Mu Xuefu walked slowly to the window and smiled at the back of him striding away, even with a smile in her eyes, like a happy woman watching her husband leave.