Leng Linjiang lifted his eyelids, saw the person coming, and said with a smile: "I know you can't wait." ”

Yao Qi pursed his lips: "It's obvious that you are lazy." ”

Leng Linjiang laughed: "Who is it?" ”

Yao sighed and crouched down to take a closer look at the body lying on the ground.

She recognized the girl at a glance, it was the maidservant who entered the main room and stole the four beautiful pictures, but at this time, her white and bloodless face looked a little hideous.

The girl's body was still warm, apparently just out of breath, a pair of eyes stared, the eyes were a little protruding, covered with deep and shallow blood, the purple lips were slightly open, the tip of the tongue poked out, and a row of thin tooth marks were imprinted on it, and the color was slightly darker.

The waterfall-like black hair spread out on the ground in a mess, stained with gray dirt and dust.

"Her name is Shi Chun, she is a second-class maidservant in the princess's room in Annan County, she bought it from the tooth store five years ago, and is in charge of the snacks and tea in the main house." Leng Linjiang sat comfortably and spoke with a lazy face.

Yao Ji didn't raise her head, opened Shi Chun's eyelids, and found that there were dots of bleeding under her eyes.

She broke Shi Chun's mouth and nose again, took out a bamboo tweezer from her sleeve, looked for it in her mouth and nose for a moment, and then stared at the tip of the clean tweezers, and asked in a deep voice, "What is the situation in the front hall?" ”

Leng Linjiang looked dazed: "It's strange." ”

"Weird?" Yao Qi raised his head, slightly dazed: "I was hit by an arrow wound, how can it be strange?" ”

Leng Linjiang shook his head helplessly: "When the prince was carried back, the blood on his body was quite scary, Zheng Yicheng of the Tai Medical Department came to see the injury in person, Zheng Yicheng is the best at seeing external injuries, but after seeing the injury of the prince, he did not dare to admit it, and then the princess of Annan County repeatedly asked and said that the arrow wound of the prince was not a big problem, and the arrow was pulled out, but the tricky thing is that the bleeding after pulling out the arrow is not easy to stop, and there is poison quenched on the arrow, and it is necessary to identify what poison it is, so that the antidote can be used." ”

"He is a son with an empty title, who would go to such great lengths to harm him, and he will release arrows and poison him." Yao Qi raised Shi Chun's jaw, and saw the blue and purple strangulation marks two finger wide on her neck, she reached out and took the thick hemp rope on the ground next to her, compared it to the strangulation marks, raised her eyebrows slightly, and pursed her lips to pull out a weird smile.

Leng Linjiang said helplessly: "That's what I said." He paused slightly: "The second steward of this mansion just came over, saying that the long dynasty is coming, and it is estimated that he is here for this matter, and let's see how he cooks." ”

Yao Qi was not surprised that Han Changdui would come, and even felt that he was a little slow to come, it should be Meng Sui who passed the message here, and he should come to the door in a hurry.

She was surprised that it had not come until now.

Yao Qi closed Shi Chun's mouth, wiped his hand on the frightened and unwilling eyes, raised his head and glanced at the upright Hu bed, and snorted coldly: "This Hu bed is far away from your feet." ”

Leng Linjiang said "um": "More than a foot." ”

Yao Qi clapped her hands, cruising around the room inch by inch, and when she walked to the long case under the window, she suddenly wrinkled the tip of her nose and sniffed it twice: "Do you smell anything?" ”

Leng Linjiang also snorted, frowned, and said, "It's tasteless, what a smell, I didn't take off my shoes." As he spoke, he raised his feet high and shook his toes twice triumphantly as he spoke.

The thumb-sized beads on the toes of the shoes are round and warm, and they are particularly eye-catching.

Yao Qi sighed, and glanced at the bright beads with disdain: "Old Leng, you are getting more and more sassy, and you love to dress up more than big girls." ”

Leng Linjiang smiled nonchalantly: "People rely on clothes." ”

Yao Qi smiled dumbly, bent down close to the long case, raised his hand thoughtfully and fanned the wind, frowned tightly, turned his head and said, "You come and see." ”

"What's wrong?" Leng Linjiang hurriedly walked over, looking at the empty long case, full of suspicion.

Yao Qi pursed his lips and said nothing, took out a handkerchief and handed it to Leng Linjiang, and then carefully scraped it on the long case with a slender and flat bamboo strip.

Seeing this, Leng Linjiang hurriedly held the handkerchief with both hands and continued on the edge of the case.

Yao Ji scraped all the dust into the handkerchief, wrapped it, and stuffed it into his sleeve.

Leng Linjiang saw a hint of clarity in his daze, and asked hesitantly: "What's the matter, there is a problem with this case." ”

"I suspect there was a cigarette on this case." Yao Qi said in a low voice, she moved Shi Chun's head to the side, pointed to the back of the neck without scars, and said: "You see, this place is very clean, and the strangulation marks on the front are close to the top of the neck, and they match the thickness of the thick hemp rope next to it, so it seems that she did hang herself, right?" ”

Leng Linjiang nodded, and shook his head again in an instant: "It seems to be, but it's not, she hanged herself, the bed is so far away from her feet, isn't she stepping on a stool and jumping into the hanging rope?" ”

Yao Qi raised her eyebrows: "Yes, look at this again," she raised Shi Chun's hand, the fingertips like green onion white were slender and delicate, and the nails were round and clean, which showed what a beautiful pair of hands it should be when she was alive, she shook that hand: "You see, her nails are clean, and when she hanged herself, she didn't pick up the hemp rope with her hands, you must know that even if she is bent on death, at the moment of death, she will be confused because of suffocation, and then instinctively pull the hemp rope with her hand, leaving some crumbs in the nails." Her clean hands only proved that she was indeed alive when she was hung on the beams, but she had fallen into a deep coma, and she could not react instinctively at all. ”

Leng Linjiang nodded again and again: "What can make people fall into a very deep coma, in addition to stuning her, is to use incense." ”

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Yao Qi nodded, lifted Shi Chun's head, put his hand into her long hair, and pressed carefully on her skull inch by inch, and did not find any scars after being attacked, and the rest of her body was also intact, so she shook her head: "Now it is completely possible to rule out the possibility that she was knocked unconscious, Shi Chun's mouth and nose are also clean, and it is impossible for someone to pass out in advance, but her suffocation and death cannot be faked, then only the fragrance remains." ”

Yao Qi concealed that Shi Chun had stolen the four beautiful pictures from the main house, and she took this picture from this room, she felt that Leng Linjiang could stay out of the matter, and the less she knew, the less likely she was to be jealous of Emperor Yong'an.

As for the cause of Shi Chun's death, Yao Qi can guess one or two, maybe Shi Chun stole the four beautiful pictures and was discovered by the princess of Annan County, so they disposed of it, or the people who instructed Shi Chun to steal the pictures found that she had fallen short, and they were afraid that she would be pried open by the people of the Annan County Palace to leak her secrets, so she was killed.

But no matter which possibility it was, Yao Qi couldn't say it bluntly to Leng Linjiang, this matter would either be handled by the Annan County Palace, or it would be handed over to Han Changdu.

She looked at Shi Chun's corpse and asked intently: "Shi Chun is the maidservant of the Annan County Palace, if the Annan County Mansion treats her as a hanged death and refuses to report the case in Jingzhao Mansion, Lord Shaoyin, even if there are too many abnormalities in the cause of this person's death, we can't interfere." ”

Leng Linjiang is also puzzled, just a servant girl, who can have such a big hatred with her, to kill her deliberately, and then set up a suicide bureau, if this servant girl really has a problem, the Annan County Mansion will be disposed of, it can be done without alarming anyone, without such fanfare, or selling, or caneing to death, it can be done silently.

Such a flawed death is like a demonstration, like a warning.

Thinking of this, Leng Linjiang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said eagerly: "Ah Qi, do you say that Shi Chun's death will have anything to do with the poisoning of the prince?" ”

Yao Ji let out a blank "ah": "I don't understand." ”

Leng Linjiang said: "The prince was poisoned by an arrow, and even Zheng Yicheng was helpless, and at this time, an inconsequential servant girl died, or such a way of death, saying that it was hanging, but a little in-depth investigation can find out that it was killed by someone, do you say that this is the person who attacked the prince of Annan County to warn the palace of Annan County, do you not move, otherwise the prince will die like this maid, and it will be ugly." ”

"This ......" Yao Qi was stunned for a moment, her expression slowly froze, she was just thinking about extinguishing or disposing of it at first, but Leng Linjiang's words were like a thunderbolt, which made her suddenly brighten.

Yes, if the people around Princess Annan County found out about Shi Chun's actions and disposed of it, but they didn't find the stolen Simei Picture in her room, the Annan County Palace's Mansion would have been in trouble a long time ago, and there would be no peace now.

But if you can not only kill people and kill people, but also kill chickens and monkeys, and force the princess of Annan County to hand over the four beautiful pictures, then this Shichun is the best use of people.

Yao Qi settled down, stretched out his hand and patted Shi Chun's body back and forth, touched it, and rummaged carefully.

Leng Linjiang frowned and asked, "What are you looking for, what is on her?" ”

Yao Qi condensed and said: "I have to find it to know." ”

Hearing this, Leng Linjiang's expression was grim, and he also rummaged through it.

After entering April, the weather in Chang'an City seems to be hot overnight, there are gusts of cool breeze in the morning, and after the sun breaks through the clouds, the sun shines in the city, and the air is filled with a faint heat wave.

There are two grand scenes in the palace of Annan County, one is planted with willow trees, the other is surrounded by clear water, so that the weather is gradually getting hot, the breeze blows across the water, bringing up a burst of wet coolness, and the willow branches are endless, full of greenery, and the shade of the trees is swaying.

After Han Changdui got the message from Meng Sui, he rode his horse all the way and came galloping, out of the thin cold, sweat beads soaked his sideburns, and he was under the scorching sun at noon all the way, but his face did not show any sunburn and red marks, but became more and more white.

An Qi bowed slightly, leading Han Changwan and his party to the front hall, with a hint of jealousy and defense in a respectful attitude.

Han Changdui didn't ask anything after he walked into the Annan County Palace, he pursed the corners of his lips tightly, and his expression became more and more cold and serious.

An Qi waited beside him with low eyebrows, glanced at Han Changdui with a face full of people who were not allowed to enter, and then looked at the internal guards who were also cold behind him, and his heart became more and more uneasy, and he really couldn't think of what these people were here for.

Such an open fire is menacing, and it doesn't look like a good thing.

Before he reached the front hall, there were already bursts of cries that resounded through the sky, which frightened He Zhenfu and almost sat on the ground.

He hurriedly stood firm, looked left and right, and no one noticed his gaffe, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, it was okay, not too ashamed.

The howl was painful, and the crying was mixed with a miserable cry: "What can I do!" How can I live! My son, my son! The man cried until he hiccuped, and his crying suddenly stopped, as if he was choked, and only after a while did he let out a breath and continued to cry hoarsely: "My son, who is it, who harmed you, who hurt you, mother, the mother will not spare him, and the mother will let him be tortured!" Let him die a good death, and there is no place to bury him! ”

Han Changwan turned his head to look at An Qi and twitched the corners of his mouth, this is the princess of Annan County, who has always been famous for her beauty?

Han Changdui was born in a royal family, and has fought in the army for many years, and is used to hearing the meat words of the soldiers, but he has never seen what it is like for a shrew to scold the street, this time he heard the cry of the princess of Annan County, he thought that although there was no half of the dirty word, it was as fierce as a shrew scolding the street.

An Qi also smiled embarrassedly with an ugly face, the Annan County Mansion was embarrassed and embarrassed now, and all the faces and honors were wailed by the princess of the county.

The group walked to the front hall with their own thoughts, and the cry of the princess of Annan County became more and more deafening.

An Qi subconsciously wanted to cover his ears, and restrained himself for a long time before he said gloomily: "Lord Envoy, our son has been seriously injured, and the princess of the county is grief-stricken. ”

Han Changdui also looked solemn: "This official has something to ask the princess of the county." ”

An Qi nodded helplessly, stood outside the door, and replied in a low voice through the dark yellow bamboo curtain: "Niangniang, the secretary of the internal security department has arrived with Lord Han." ”

When the words fell, Ruyu opened the curtain and came out, and the light fell into the house in an instant, she saluted, with a heavy face: "The maid has seen the envoy, the prince is seriously injured, the mother wants to take care of the prince, I have no time to see the envoy, please go back." ”

Han Changdui's face changed, since he entered Beijing, he had never eaten such a hard closed-door soup, but he seemed to have expected this closed-door soup, and took out the letterhead prepared earlier from his sleeve and handed it to Ruyu: "Give this to the princess of the county." ”

Ruyu was stunned for a moment, took the letterhead, and turned around and entered the house full of suspicion.

After a while, Ruyu hurriedly walked out and said respectfully: "Master Envoy, Niangniang is invited." ”