The eye is the majestic Xuanwu Temple, and the distance from the palace is only a wall.

The elders of the Taoist temple have been practicing here since the time of the previous dynasty, and there are many tables placed here, as well as water bowls, and containers with corn grains, all of which she has never seen in the palace, let alone know its purpose.

And the elder who was standing in the square outside the Xuanwu Temple, holding a peachwood sword, walked up to the table and various rice millet utensils, and was making strange movements.

"This is going to ...... How?" Lu Zhaoyi has figured out the usefulness of these things.

It's just that Li Qian didn't care about these things, and rushed directly into the crowd and scattered the crowd.

"Your Majesty has an order, you need to explain the case in detail to your own official, and as for the rest, you must not say more." Li Qian said in a deep voice, his eyes scanning the surrounding environment, and then, he gestured towards her.

Lu Zhaoyi bypassed the Taoist elders who were doing the law and walked towards the crowd, most of them were guards sent by Xia Pei, all of them looked solemn and looked very flustered, but Lu Zhaoyi felt that there must be something greasy in this!

"Tell me if you found anything before and after the crime, and tell me what you saw and heard."

Then, they began to tell, and under the description of the guards, they revealed little by little some things in this Taoist temple tonight.

According to their descriptions, the time when the envoys left the Taiji Hall at the fifth quarter of the unitary hour and arrived at the Xuanwu Temple was the seventh quarter of the unitary hour.

At the beginning of the day, the envoy ate in the temple, and after two moments, after dinner, no one saw him again.

It was already dark, and while the guards were patrolling, they could vaguely see the shadows of the envoys walking back and forth in the windows through the candles in the room.

No anomalies were noted.

Until seven o'clock, they could still see the shadows moving in the room.

Speaking of this, Lu Zhaoyi suddenly found something abnormal.

"Wait......" she frowned, "from the beginning of the day to the seventh quarter, can a person walk by the window for three quarters without leaving the window, and all the time under your noses?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the rest of the guards also chimed in.

"Exactly."

This affirmation made her think about it in her heart, and she raised her hand to signal them to continue talking.

And then, at the beginning of the day, the gong of the guard outside shook the sky, and it was the turn of the guards to change shifts.

But at this moment, there was a shout in the temple, and the shadow by the window suddenly fell, and the guards who were changing guards in the two shifts immediately captured this move and immediately went up to take the initiative to ask.

But in exchange, there was a scream.

Immediately, the shadow guards, Jin Wuwei and Henan Yin Ya who were squatting nearby were shocked at the same time, and came towards the Xuanwu Temple, and the scene became very chaotic.

The first person to open the door was none other than Shadow Chong, one of the shadow guards, and as soon as he entered, he saw the envoy lying on top of the mattress, with a dagger stuck in his chest and a pool of blood flowing around him.

When he first entered, he still had a breath of air, and before the imperial doctor ordered Lin Xingzhi to arrive, he lost his breath and lost his life.

In an instant, the smell of blood in the room immediately made everyone present lose control, but it was still Yuying Chong who stabilized the scene and evacuated everyone from the room, protecting the place where the crime occurred.

After hearing all this, Lu Zhaoyi's face was extremely ugly, and he bowed his head to Xia Yuancheng and said a word, asking him to find a shadow and rush to see her. forthwith

, from among the guards, picked a person and asked him to take her and Li Qian to the room where the crime occurred.

Along the way, she thought deeply, and kept thinking about who the shadow by the window would be after nightfall. Is it a dead envoy?

Li Qian also sensed that something was wrong with this detail, but it was of little significance to guess out of thin air, and it was necessary to speculate based on the situation of the place where the crime occurred to be more accurate.

Thinking so, they had already arrived outside the room where the envoy was sleeping.

Here, it is a bedroom in the courtyard of Xuanwu Temple, which is obviously much smaller than the usual courtyard.

The whole yard is only bigger than the inner bedroom

The difference is the size of one or two rooms, and as soon as you open the courtyard door, it only takes ten steps to reach the door.

The fence of the courtyard was low, and one side of the bedroom was attached to the fence, and the shadow that the guards saw was on this wall.

Seeing this, Lu Zhaoyi was slightly stunned.

"What's wrong? Seventh lady......" Li Qian glanced back at her.

"This ...... It's not quite what I thought." She replied.

The wall, which was connected to the fence, was on the left side of the bedroom, and she guessed that the bed in the room was also on this side.

Thinking of this, she took a step and rushed straight into the room, which was indeed in line with her assumption.

The guards who took the lead explained that the shadow they saw in the window was three steps away from the bed, and that when they found the envoy, the man was lying on the bed.

Now, observing the layout and traces of the room, after entering the door, turn to the left, and directly in front of the inner room is a wall, and the window that the guard sees, on the left hand side against the wall are some bookshelves, and tables, and on the right side are the beds.

I saw that on the floor by the window, I could clearly see a bloodstain, extending all the way to the bed, and in a short distance of three steps, there were nearly thirty drops of blood, connected in a straight line.

This also means that before the envoy died, he did walk from the window to the bed and died on the bed.

Lu Zhaoyi had a basic judgment in his heart, so he looked at the place where the corpse was originally lying and asked, "Has the corpse been disposed of?"

Hearing this, the guard hurriedly replied, "Your Majesty has ordered the body to be sent to Gwangan-ri and handed over to the servants who live there for an autopsy......

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment and added, "Because the envoy was assassinated, His Majesty ordered Henan Yin to take charge of this matter, and when the results of the autopsy come out, he will definitely be sent back."

Since he said this, Lu Zhaoyi could only answer, and then raised his head to look at the other suspicious places in the room.

And she also saw that Li Qian was standing at the end of the bookshelf and table, silent.

Seeing this, she gently patted the other party's back, which made Li Qian come back to his senses.

"What did you find?"

Li Qian swallowed his saliva, and after swallowing, he said something shocking.

"If this place isn't destroyed, is there a possibility...... The deceased is not a Xianbei person...... Most likely, it's the Central Plains!"

"What?!" Lu Zhaoyi was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Central Plains people, how is this possible?

"Seven Niangzi, look at ......" He stretched out his hand and pointed to the table and the bookshelf, obviously there were traces of someone moving, the books were flipped through, the pen on the table, and the position of the inkstone, at a glance, it was the characteristics of the Central Plains people.

And throughout the whole room, there is nothing about what the Hu people carry.

He began to explain at this moment, "Although I have not dealt with the Xianbei people, I have had contact with the Qianghu people of the Shuofang tribe, and they never use an inkstone box for writing, but will stain every hair of the pen with ink, and once the ink becomes hard, it will touch the tongue and make the ink soft......." z.br>

At this time, the guard spoke, and he said, "Li Fuyin doesn't know anything. I heard that the Tuoba Department has studied the Central Plains since Tuoba Namu Yedan became the Great Khan, and now many habits are no different from those of the Central Plains. What's more, today, when I saw the envoy of the beggar tower, I didn't look like a Hu man at all."

After hearing this, Lu Zhaoyi was also in a trance.

Tuoba Namuya......

She hadn't seen it, and since this year, she has been paying close attention to the war in Bingzhou, and she can also speculate that this person's tricks with soldiers are extremely deep in the city, and there are several duels between yang conspiracy and conspiracy, and in the end, there is still no winner or loser.

On the contrary, in the face of the Murong Department, it is vulnerable.

In the case of searching for the main army of the Yuwen Ministry, she once found that such a barbaric tribe could actually hold down their hearts and hide outside the Manyi Valley without moving.

From that moment on, in Lu Zhaoyi's heart, he no longer regarded the Xianbei tribes as the former Hu Yi.

"I don't think it's like ......" Li Qian still kept shaking his head, from the collapse of the Kebineng Department to the topping of the Tuoba Department, this

How many years have passed? Can you achieve this level of proficiency in the habits of the people of the Central Plains?"

When his words fell, Lu Zhaoyi's pupils shrank suddenly, and his heartbeat accelerated suddenly, and he couldn't help but look at Li Qian.

Li Qian was also a little flustered.

He didn't expect that his words could cause such a big reaction from Lu Zhaoyi.

"What the hell is going on?" He asked, his tone looking tentative.

But Lu Zhaoyi completely ignored it, and the topic they were arguing about just now asked the next one, "How long did Imperial Doctor Ling Lin Xingzhi get here?"

The guard recalled for a moment, and immediately affirmed, "Two teas are not enough!"

"Alright. You go out first. If there is something, I will call you......" Lu Zhaoyi breathed a sigh of relief and ordered instead.

The guard immediately bowed to the two, and then exited the room, and went out of the courtyard door to wait.

After the person left, her face was cloudy, and it seemed that they were two different questions, but in the end she came to a conclusion.

"Li Qian...... From now on, you must not focus on the identity of the deceased, this matter has nothing to do with this case, you just need to find out the murderer, and you don't have to care who the deceased is!"

Her tone was suddenly serious and calm.

Li Qian didn't know why, he wanted to ask again, but looking at Lu Zhaoyi's grim face, he seemed to have some speculation in his heart.

And for her, none of this matters.

Just after this period of free time, Xia Yuancheng finally rushed over with Ying Chong.

"My subordinates have met my lady and met Li Fuyin." Shadow rushed to the two of them and bowed, then stood up.

Similarly, as soon as they met this time, they asked him to tell the situation at the time of the crime.

This is also to confirm whether what the guards said is true, or if it is something that others have not paid attention to before.

Under Shadow Chong's narration, it is roughly exactly the same as the words of the previous guard.

He didn't hear it except for the first shout, but he did hear the next two screams.

And these two times, the interval between the front and back is no more than half a cup of tea, that is, the first time the shadow guards heard it, and the second time they arrived in the Xuanwu Temple, it was only this short time, how could there be such an obvious deviation?

This is indeed a new testimony.

Previously, the guards had only heard a scream once, and Lu Zhaoyi had only heard it once in the Fengman Building where they were at the time.

But why did the shadow guards including Ying Chong hear it twice?

Weird, extremely weird.

Suddenly, Xia Yuancheng, who had not spoken, raised a hand and said weakly, "I also heard it twice?"

This time, Lu Zhaoyi and Li Qian were even more surprised.

It was clear that they were all together at that time, how did he Xia Yuancheng hear it for the second time?