Ji Jingyang entered the palace late at night for this strange water case.

A small eunuch walked in front and carried a lantern to lead the way, Ji Jingyang, who was wearing a black cloak, followed him, and the figures of the two people who were elongated by the yellow candle flame and the white moonlight hurriedly rushed to the direction of Qingyuezhai.

When the little eunuch pushed the door open from the outside, the cold moonlight leaked into the quiet and dark room. Luo Sinan, who was standing next to the corpse and watching the autopsy, and another eunuch all looked back at Ji Jingyang.

Ji Jingyang lifted the hood of his cloak, and in the dim candlelight, his expression also looked uncertain. He was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Qi Yue, the close eunuch beside the emperor, to be there. So, he saluted the two of them and said, "Father-in-law Qi, Lord Luo." ”

Qi Yue is not very old, the left is only about twenty, and the person who serves in front of the palace is bound to be outstanding, because of his special identity, his outstanding appearance is also a little feminine and beautiful, if he dresses up, he will not lose to the palace concubines. It's just that because he is the most talkative eunuch around the emperor, although he always smiles, the smile rarely reaches the bottom of his eyes, he speaks slowly, and his voice is not like other eunuchs, slightly boyish and low, but sometimes very majestic.

At this time, he smiled at Ji Jingyang and said, "Lord Ji is polite. Summoning adults into the palace late at night is really urgent, and it is really hard to bother adults to make this trip. ”

Ji Jingyang saluted respectfully and said: "This is a matter of duty, Father-in-law Qi should not be polite." ”

At this time, in this house, except for a corpse, there were only Luo Sinan, Qi Yue, and Ji Jingyang as four people. The little eunuch who led the way had already closed the door and was waiting outside.

"The little father-in-law said it simply, I don't know what the case is?" Ji Jingyang asked.

Luo Sinan said: "You come and see this corpse." ”

Only then did Ji Jingyang come up and stand beside the corpse with the other two.

The carbonized corpse was completely black, its limbs were indistinguishable, and its facial features were blurred, as if it would turn to ashes at the slightest touch.

Ji Jingyang looked at Luo Sinan and waited for him to continue talking.

"Burned." Luo Sinan said, and after speaking, he was silent again.

If it weren't for the presence of Qi Yue in the palace, Ji Jingyang would have wanted to have a few words with him.

It's all carbon, who doesn't know it's burned to death?

Qi Yue continued: "This is a little palace maid from Jinyang Palace, named Cui'er. In the evening, together with the other two palace maids, I sent things to Concubine Ning Niangniang of Jixian Palace. When she reached the palace wall behind the Imperial Garden, she suddenly burst into flames. ”

Ji Jingyang looked sideways at Qi Yue, his brows furrowed slightly.

The little palace maid closest to her also said something. Luo Sinan added: "'It is burned from the inside out. ’”

"That's right." At this point, he spoke.

All three looked at him.

At this time, the corpse of the hard state had been disemboweled, and the stomach of the corpse was also black, and all kinds of internal organs were burned into charcoal, squeezed together, and there was no way to distinguish the heart, liver, spleen and lungs.

"This corpse was really burned from the inside out, and there was no part of the internal organs that had not been burned, and the degree of charring was far greater than the surface of the corpse." He also pointed them out to the three of them one by one.

Ji Jingyang and Luo Sinan were used to seeing all kinds of tragic corpses, but they were used to it, although Qi Yue frowned slightly, he didn't show a scared expression.

"Let's put it this way, even if a dead person is cremated, it can't be burned so cleanly and thoroughly." He also added.

"Do you see anything fueling the combustion?" Luo Sinan asked.

He shook his head and said, "There is no slag left." ”

Luo Sinan said: "Master Ji, I don't know if you see any clues?" ”

Ji Jingyang picked up the candlestick on the table and carefully examined the open internal organs of the corpse one by one, and suddenly he twisted up a layer of black particles under the ribs with his hand and asked, "What is this?" ”

It was a few black particles the size of a sesame seed, sporadically attached to the inner wall of the chest cavity, if it weren't for Ji Jingyang's sharp eyes, it would be difficult to notice.

He frowned and shook his head: "Xiaguan has been conducting an autopsy for many years, but he has never seen such a thing on other corpses. ”

"The relics look like this?" Luo Sinan also leaned over to look.

Ji Jingyang turned his back to Qi Yue and gave him a roll of his eyes.

"Lord Luo laughed, this can never be a relic." Ji Jingyang replied.

Ji Jingyang took out a paper bag from his arms and put the few black particles into the paper bag.

He said to Qi Yue and Luo Sinan: "It's weird, it's hard for me to figure out what is going on for a while, and I ask Lord Luo and Father-in-law Qi to give the officials a little time to investigate carefully, and there will be a reply before sunset tomorrow." ”

Qi Yue said: "This case happened in the palace, and the stakes are very high, and the two adults can't be careless. Won't it disturb the holy driver, I will not report this matter first, and then I will think about it before sunset tomorrow. ”

Everyone had decided, and Qi Yue said that he was going to wait for the emperor to change his clothes and go to court, and left in a hurry.

Only then did Luo Sinan look at Ji Jingyang and said: "You boast well in Haikou, you don't even give a discount, your boss and I are in a cold sweat at the moment." ”

Ji Jingyang said: "Let Gong Qi speak openly, maybe it's noon tomorrow, don't you see him in a hurry, and he speaks faster than usual?" ”

The servant put away the tools, put on his backpack, and asked, "Two adults, what should we do with this corpse?" ”

Luo Sinan said to him: "You go back first, I will send the corpse to Xuanjing Hall, and then there will be nothing for you." ”

Xuanjingtang is located in a small alley of Nantang Street, at first glance it looks ordinary, a row of bungalows is no different from the surrounding residents and shops, it is nothing more than a little bigger, several adjacent households are exactly the same mansion is opened through the wall, and the people who come in and out every day are also strange. The sun rises and the sun sets, and you can't see what kind of business it is. But in the capital, there are all kinds of trades, and all kinds of strange people and strange things are not uncommon, and no one pays attention to them.

In the southeast corner of this row of bungalows is where Thunder has been staying on weekdays. He is Ji Cunyan's uncle, and his son has also been familiar with the Ji family's brothers and sisters since childhood, and he is Lei Qi, one of the top ten masters of Xuanjing Hall. However, Lei Ting's own martial arts are mediocre, but he is in the company of some strange organs, herbs, and animals all day long, because of his excellent medical skills, there is also a "divine doctor" No. 1 in Xuanjing Hall.

At this time, he was packing up the herbs that had been drying for a few days in the patio outside the room, and it was gloomy today, so he asked his colleagues in the front hall early in the morning to see if the sky was cloudy, and his colleagues told him that there would be a little light rain this afternoon.

He returned to the house with a basket of medicinal herbs, and saw Ji Cunyan holding his pu fan against the fire of the keel soup he was boiling.

Thunder almost had a mouthful of phlegm, he hurriedly dropped the worthless medicinal materials in his hand, snatched the pu fan in Ji Cunyan's hand, and said to Ji Cunyan: "Ouch, my little ancestor, what are you doing?" ”

"I'll help you make medicine! I know this, three bowls of water are fried into one bowl of water! Ji Cunyan said aggrievedly.

"What boiling medicine? Shall you boil water and drink it? The keel should be simmered slowly over low heat, otherwise it will turn into a lump of sticky glue, with no medicinal properties, and a fart! ”

"Huh? And such a statement? Ji Cunyan was very surprised.

"Ugh." Thunder sat down and removed a few pieces of the charcoal fire from the small medicine stove, symbolically saved the bowl of dragon bone soup, and asked, "You easily come to me to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace, what's wrong?" What kind of treasure did you break your brother and take refuge from me? ”

"Who said that? I haven't my third brother for several years. It was my third brother who told me that I am not too young, and I must learn to 'cultivate my self'. Everyone says that Uncle Thunder, you are the best at self-cultivation here. ”

Lei Ting sighed: "Where is this for you to cultivate your self-cultivation, this is for me to cultivate your self-cultivation!" Let you embroider a flower and learn a piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which is called self-cultivation. ”

"Hey, that's so boring, I still prefer three bowls of water to fry into one bowl of water." As he spoke, Ji Cunyan smiled and went to grab the thunderous fan.

"Hey! This little girl, are you looking for a fight?! Your third brother is here! Your third brother is really here! While hiding, Lei Ting pointed to the gate to remind Ji Cunyan.

Ji Jingyang looked at the scene in front of him, and could only cough lightly a few times.

Ji Cunyan really saw Ji Jingyang when he turned around, and immediately quieted down, and called him very obediently: "Third brother early!" ”

Ji Jingyang sighed: "You better go home and sleep lazy!" ”

Ji Cunyan frowned and said: "If you don't come on time every day, you will be deducted!" ”

Ji Jingyang took out his money bag from his waist and handed it to Ji Cunyan without counting.

"Why are you letting me go, do I see people with money eyes like that?" Ji Cunyan complained while taking the money bag.

"The third son has something to do with me?" Thunder noticed that Ji Jingyang's expression was a little solemn.

Ji Jingyang said: "Uncle Thunder, please come with me to the house." ”

What Ji Jingyang showed to Thunder was the charred corpse in the palace "from the inside out".

"Tsk, it's become a piece of charcoal." Thunder sighed.

"In the palace where the incident happened, it was the palace maid in Concubine Cao Guifei's palace again, and Lord Luo attached great importance to it and wanted us to investigate it thoroughly." Ji Jingyang said.

Thunder frowned, lowered his head and carefully examined the corpse, and said, "It's really strange, she really burned it from the inside out." ”

"Did you swallow lamp oil by mistake?" Ji Cunyan asked.

Thunder shook his head: "Definitely not." If you swallow something that is easy to burn, the center of the fire will be the throat, esophagus and stomach, and it will not reach the intestines. This corpse is burned evenly. ”

"What's so evenly burned?" Ji Cunyan asked again.

"It's the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, which are burned so thoroughly, and there is no burning point that can be determined. To use an analogy, a fire is lit in your internal organs, everywhere at the same time. ”

Ji Cunyan thought for a moment, and then pursed his lips, as if he was afraid of swallowing something combustible.

"Uncle Shi, you have been walking the rivers and lakes for a long time, have you ever seen such a way to die?" Ji Jingyang asked.

Thunder shook his head.

"I found these things in the guts of the corpse, look at them." Ji Jingyang handed the few black dots the size of sesame seeds in the paper bag to Thunder.

Thunder took it, squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, twisted another one, put it on his nose and sniffed it.

"That's how the relics come out?" Ji Cunyan said the same thing as Luo Sinan.

Ji Jingyang sighed and said, "Don't talk nonsense. ”

Thunder said: "I can't see it for a while, wait for me to go back and study it carefully." ”