Chapter 16: The Mystery Case Is Not the Truth
Pray for the king's house.
The silence was like a cold pool, and only the slightest breathing sound could be heard in the Ling Xuan Palace, and the old eunuch who passed the holy decree glanced at King Qi worriedly, shivered and lowered his head.
Shang Qimo rubbed the jade Ruyi in his hand, and his handsome face could not see joy and sorrow.
"Your Highness, there are still trivial matters in the palace, and the old slave has retired first."
The old eunuch really couldn't resist the unfathomable and inscrutable style of praying for the king, he had been standing here for a full hour, and the king of praying did not show a statement, and hung him directly, but the old eunuch could only break the calm and move slowly to the door cautiously.
"Slow, Grandpa Li." Shang Qi raised his eyebrows.
The old eunuch froze in place, looking at the tips of his shoes with a bitter face.
Knowing this, he should have called himself sick and avoided the great task of praying for the king's mansion this time, and the imperial capital rumors about the Yun Jiuji of the Yunze Mansion of the king of prayer, the saint was heartbroken, and finally issued an order to give marriage, and pointed out Miss Lu Suyan of the Shangshu family to the king of prayer as the concubine.
"I haven't rewarded my father-in-law Li yet, my father-in-law is leaving?" Shang Qi put down the holy decree and smiled faintly at him, with a hint of banter in his smile.
Gonggong Li raised his head and said with an embarrassed smile: "His Royal Highness the King of Prayer is polite, the old slave does not dare to ask for a reward, so he will leave." ”
King Qi is notoriously difficult to mess with, who knows what calculations he has in his heart, it is better to slip away early.
"This is a good thing, why don't you dare to ask for a reward? Isn't it a good thing that the Holy One cares about choosing a princess for the king? Shang Qi put down the jade Ruyi, patted Gonggong Li's shoulder, and turned his head sideways to Lu Yiyi: "Come here, reward Gonggong Li heavily." ”
Gonggong Li smiled: "Congratulations to Your Highness." ”
The guard took a piece of silver, and Gonggong Li took it nervously, thanked him busily, and carefully looked at the face of King Qi.
"Go and reply to the saint, this king has an intention and can't accept the order, so go back well."
Shang Qi glanced at Gonggong Li warningly, Gonggong Li is known as the 'big horn', and he likes to spread some gossip outside the palace in front of the saint, and if he doesn't knock, he is afraid that he will make the same old mistake again!
Sure enough, it's not that simple!
Gonggong Li took a few steps back, and said with a reluctant smile: "Yes, the slave will go to the Ming Sheng." ”
Shang Qi nodded with satisfaction.
Gonggong Li hurriedly left the place of right and wrong in the palace of the king of prayer, the cold-faced king of prayer is not something that his little eunuch can offend, it seems that the king of prayer is very dissatisfied with the marriage!
Lu Yi, a wooden man, secretly looked at Shang Qi several times in private.
Feeling Lu Yi's blazing gaze, Shang Qi glanced at him, and Lu Yi hurriedly lowered his head, as if he had done something wrong and was caught.
"If you have something to say, say it!"
Lu Yi raised his head and said dryly: "No, Your Highness is angry!" ”
Shang Qi snorted coldly, when did Lu Yi also learn to lie?
Seeing that the master was displeased, Lu Yi swallowed and said, "Your Highness, in case the saint ...... If you tell you who your sweetheart is, what should Your Highness do, should you? ”
No wonder Lu Yi is puzzled, he follows Shang Qi every day, where did he see any sweetheart for His Highness, inexplicably thinking of Miss Yun next door, he had a bad premonition in his heart, should His Highness push Miss Yun into the dire situation again?
Shang Qi's face darkened, Lu Yi's guards have been very idle recently!
Seeing Shang Qi's face darkened, Lu regretted it as soon as he finished speaking, knowing that no one in this world could stop His Highness's decision, he still owed his mouth to clean up, and raised his hand and slapped himself, "Your subordinates have lost their words, Your Highness is not strange." ”
Shang Qi shook his head helplessly.
"Okay, it's rare for you to open your head."
Lu Yi's hand froze in mid-air embarrassedly.
Shang Qi raised his eyebrows and said, "It's Yunze Mansion!"
Lu Yi sighed secretly, Miss Yun take care! His Royal Highness is going to plague you again......
Qingya Pavilion, like a handsome man sitting in the window, dressed in white like snow, always with an indifferent smile on his face, slender hands are whiter than women, slowly caressing the guqin of the oak golden pillow, raising his hand to pluck the strings, a series of beautiful sounds poured out, such as a gurgling stream makes people feel calm as if they are in a quiet valley.
'Boom! The door was kicked open, and a group of catchers broke into the room and held him down, and he was caught off guard and asked, "Why are the officials arrested?" ”
The piano case was squeezed by everyone, and the piano on the case fell to the ground, and the strings broke a few times.
"My Fuka!" A trace of distress flashed in the man's eyes, and he couldn't help but take the hand of the catcher, and begged: "Lord Guancha, let me pick up this piano." ”
The officials all looked disgusted in their eyes, and said condescendingly: "A mere lowly flower and willow artist, who has done an unseemly deed, still wants us to sympathize with you." As he spoke, a chubby catcher stepped on the strings, and the strings snapped.
The man's face turned blue in an instant, his eyes were fierce and crazy to resist, he pushed away the crowd of headhunters, jumped to the edge of the bed, quickly took out a sword from under the bed, and fought with the headhunters.
It took a lot of effort for everyone to catch him.
When the people of the Qingya Pavilion saw that they were arrested inorganically, their faces were all panicked, and they didn't know what he had done, which alarmed the government!
Boss Wu of the Qingya Pavilion received the news and hurriedly ran to the head catcher to plead, "Poor masters, what did you do inorganically?" Laborers mobilize teachers to catch people? With that, he took out a stack of silver tickets and stuffed it into the hand of the official who took the lead.
The official messenger stuffed his silver ticket back into him and reprimanded: "Boss Wu, there is no chance to let go, he has committed a big crime." As he spoke, he said to his subordinates: "What are you waiting for, escort away!" ”
Seeing that the crowd of catchers took Wuji away, Boss Wu picked up the stack of money and stuffed it into his sleeve pocket, angrily walked to the doorman and slapped him, and scolded: "You eat? I won't even shout when the official enters the door! Inorganic was caught, how many guests did Qingya Hall lose? ”
The guards lowered their heads and didn't dare to say anything, and one of them whispered boldly: "Boss, it's the head-catching knife that is on our necks." ”
"Stupid, will they kill you?" Boss Wu hated that iron could not become steel and kicked him, and slapped him a few times hard, and several people trembled, lowering their heads and not daring to speak.
In prison, he ate the crude prison meal slowly, and when the jailer went to collect the dishes, he found that he had committed suicide by swallowing poison, lying upright on the ground, bleeding from his mouth and nose.
The jailer hurriedly ran to report to the county lord, and the county lord hurried to the prison and examined his body, confirming that he had died of poisoning by taking Heding red.
Lord Xiancheng was shocked and immediately sent someone to tell Yun Jiuji the news.
Inorganic dead? Yun Jiuji was shocked, wouldn't that be the clue broken again? So he hurriedly ran to the mansion.
Several elders of the Bai Jiayun family were also invited by the county to come.
"My lord, what the hell is going on? How could a prisoner suddenly commit suicide in fear of sin? Second Master Bai turned around the inorganic corpse a few times, looking puzzled.
Yun Jiuji was also puzzled, this crime did not lead to death, why did he commit suicide by wearing poison with him? According to the law of Nanchang, it is a capital crime for the kidnapper to be caught, but they let Yun Jiuzhe go, and the death penalty can be avoided, why can't he think about it so much, but he just put himself to death? Unless it's the people behind him who don't want him alive!
Lord Xiancheng sighed, "Alas, this official didn't expect that he would find a short sight so quickly. ”
The second master of the Yun family said: "Could it be that nobles are involved?" He was afraid that he would be made public, so he simply cut himself? ”
Several masters nodded.
Yun Jiuji thought about it, she rarely offended people in the deep boudoir, and with the lintel of Yunze Mansion and the boundary of the Prayer Palace, how could ordinary young people dare to provoke? Isn't it strange that after fighting people and letting them go halfway, the prisoners still commit suicide in fear of sin?
The more I thought about it, the more confused I became, the mystery got bigger and bigger, and Yun Jiuji felt that she had fallen into a huge whirlpool, gradually sinking.
"This person confirmed that there was a scar on his hand, and it was also determined that he was the kidnapper in the mouth of Yun Jiuzhe's little son, but his identity was an orphan, he had been living in the imperial capital for ten years, and he came to the imperial capital when he was eight years old. The county is humane.
"My lord, the little girl asks the adult to perform another autopsy, this matter is not trivial!" Yun Jiuji arched his hand towards Lord Cheng of the county, with a solemn face.
Lord Xiancheng nodded, turned his head sideways and said to the servant next to him: "Check again." ”
He nodded, and checked again.
After the inspection, he said: "There is no abnormality in the inspection, but there is a small mark on the back of his left ear." ”
"Xu is a birthmark." As he spoke, he walked over to the inorganic corpse and pointed to his ears and ruffled his thick hair.
Yun Jiuji and the others walked over and took a look, it was a small crimson mark, like half of the lotus blooming, and it really couldn't be noticed if you didn't look carefully.
"It's not strange, it's just a birthmark." After seeing it, Yun Sanye was the first to stand up.
He smiled and remained silent.
Second Master Yun glanced at Third Master Yun, Third Master Yun smiled awkwardly and stepped aside.
Yun Jiuji said: "Thank you, Lord Zuo, for your careful investigation, have you found anything else?" ”
He shook his head, Yun Jiuji secretly kept the birthmark in his heart, and the scene fell into peace.
A guard hurriedly came in and whispered a few words in the ear of the county officer, and the county lord's face changed, and he said: "You are the family members of the victims, rest assured, this case will be thoroughly investigated!" This official has been busy recently, and there are still several cases waiting to be tried, and he is out of company! ”
Hearing the words of the county lord, everyone bowed and said goodbye.
When Yun Jiuji and his party walked out of the mansion, a layer of sweat had already appeared on the head of the county lord, wiped the sweat on his head, waved his hand to repel a group of officials, and asked the guards who had just passed the word: "What the hell is going on?" ”
The guard said: "My lord, I didn't say much about the secret decree, I just said that Yun Jiuzhe's matter does not need to be investigated, and the father-in-law who passed on the secret decree is waiting for my lord, my lord, please go quickly." ”
The county lord's face was solemn, and his eyes flashed with doubt, the saint actually intervened in this matter himself, it seems that he can't investigate this matter anymore.
took a step, sighed deeply and said: "In this way, the county can only do it, go, go to see my father-in-law." ”
Three days later, the county lord announced that Yun Jiuzhe's case was a joint plot between Qingya Pavilion Wuji and Li Zhuo, the purpose of which was to kidnap Yun Jiuzhe for extortion of property, because the two of them remorsefully released Yun Jiuzhe halfway, the victim was not injured or died, and the inorganic suicide was abandoned in prison, Zhang Zhuo was sentenced to eight years in prison, in order to follow You!
Yun Jiuji accepted the sentence of the county lord with full doubts, and drew a charge on the verdict book, there must be a demon when things go wrong, Shang Qi does not interfere, and the county lord shakes the pot, this matter is definitely not simple! Since the government doesn't investigate, she will check it privately!