The Jiang family's poisoning case involved more than 30 lives, and the situation was serious, and Fu Yin specially allocated many manpower to investigate the case.

There are only a limited number of places to stop the mortuaries in the mansion, and there are so many corpses that need to be examined in this case, so the government Yin ordered the officers and soldiers to guard the Jiang family's mansion day and night, and did not allow idle people to wait for them to enter again, and temporarily let the servants conduct an autopsy at the Jiang family nearby, so as not to delay for a long time and damage the physical evidence.

Jiang Jibai had rushed back to Luoyang. However, due to the murder in the Jiang family's mansion and the use of mortuary, he temporarily found another place to live.

Knowing that the prince had arrived in Luoyang, Jiang Jibai, dressed in plain clothes, rushed to the gate of Jiangfu.

As soon as he saw Zhu Yinzhou in dark clothes, Jiang Jibai saluted thoughtfully: "His Royal Highness is tired of running around for the family affairs of the ministers, and the ministers are panicking. ”

Zhu Yinzhou said lightly: "No need to be polite. ”

"This matter is your family affair, and it is also a business matter."

"Your Highness."

Jiang Jibai straightened up, said no more, and calmly walked into the Jiang Mansion with Zhu Yinzhou.

When passing by the corpse, Jiang Jibai's expression remained unchanged, there was no trace of grief on his face, and it seemed that his mood did not fluctuate.

Zhu Yinzhou quietly withdrew his eyes, no longer looked at him, and instead listened to An Fu Yin, who had just arrived, report on the current progress of the investigation.

"Your Royal Highness, the first person to discover this murder was the maiden sister of the Jiang family's wife Wang, she said that she had made an appointment with the Wang family to go to Qingyun Temple to ask for a signature, and she didn't wait for anyone to come to Jiang Mansion to find her."

But when she arrived, the gate of Jiangfu was closed from the inside, and no one answered the door, so she ordered the accompanying servants to climb up the wall and take a look. As a result, she found the corpses of several people lying in the courtyard, and she hurriedly ordered someone to report to the official. ”

"The little guy knows at a glance that the person inside is dead?" Zhu Yinzhou asked out loud.

"According to him, it was because the death of those men was so terrible that there was no living appearance anymore." An Fu Yin replied.

Zhu Yinzhou walked to the courtyard and lifted the white cloth to see a few corpses: "What kind of poison can you find out?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, it's a broken intestine grass. There were no external injuries on these men, other than the scars they had left on themselves from the pain of the poison. ”

Broken gut weed is not a specific poisonous weed, but a general term used to refer to those poisonous weeds that can cause abdominal cramping, vomiting, and death.

When the servants conducted the autopsy before, they found that the intestines of all the corpses of the Jiang family had turned black and adhesional, and these people all died of abdominal pain, which was in line with the poisonous characteristics of the broken intestine grass.

Zhu Yinzhou: "Where is the poison?" ”

An Fu Yin: "In the dinner of the night in Jiang Mansion. ”

Looking at the corpses that filled the courtyard, Zhu Yinzhou asked, "Except for Jiang Shoufu, who was far away in Chang'an that night, no one in the Jiang family was spared?" ”

"No one was spared." An Fu Yin replied.

Zhu Yinzhou's eyes stopped on Jiang Jibai on the side, and continued to listen to Fu Yin sort out the existing investigation.

An Fu Yin on the side couldn't help but secretly think:

Outsiders have rumored that the new prince has a cold temperament and treats people away, and it is true that he sees it today.

But Jiang Shoufu, who became a supreme minister at a young age, has been indifferent every time he faces the corpses of his family since he returned to Luoyang. Not to mention sad and weeping, but when he passed by the bodies of his parents, he did not pause in the slightest, and he seemed to be extremely cold-hearted.

Or is it because he has a cold relationship with his family?

Although Anfu Yin had his own thoughts in his heart, he didn't show it on his face, and continued to talk to the prince about business.

After grasping the existing clues, Zhu Yinzhou re-examined the more than 30 corpses of the Jiang family's murder overnight.

Jiang Jibai was not only the main person in charge, but also an important minister of the court, so he followed aside, answering some questions related to the Jiang family from time to time.

When it was close to dawn, Zhu Yinzhou said to Jiang Jibai, "Do you have anything you want to ask?" ”

Jiang Jibai arched his hand and said: "It's been hot recently, these corpses have been rancid, if His Royal Highness and the servants have completed the autopsy, I don't know when Weichen can hold a funeral?" ”

Zhu Yinzhou did not pause: "Tomorrow." ”

Seeing that the prince should have already planned this, Jiang Jibai didn't ask any more questions.

Zhu Yinzhou seemed to say casually: "Jiang Shoufu seems to be more concerned about the funeral than finding out the real culprit of the poisoning. ”

Jiang Jibai said in a steady voice: "The dead are the greatest, they died unexpectedly, and the corpses have been exposed for a long time, so they should always be buried in the ground." ”

Zhu Yinzhou said "um" meaninglessly.

Before Jiang Jibai returned to Luoyang, Ming Shubai had already made many arrangements for him in advance, and the things needed for the funeral were ready-made, so there was no need to spend time preparing for them.

After dawn, Jiang Jibai ordered people to inform relatives and friends everywhere that the Jiang government would hold a funeral tomorrow.

Jiang Jibai also ordered someone to send a message to the homes of each of his subordinates, informing them to come and recover the other corpses. People cannot be resurrected after death, and Jiang Jibai can only prepare a sum of money for these bereaved families.

When the news of the funeral was delivered to Ming's house, Mingshu Bai happened to be at home. He immediately went to Mingxi Courtyard and told Shen Hanshuang about it.

He remembered that Shen Hanshuang had said that he wanted to go to Jiang's house with him to mourn.

"The house has already prepared the couplet and other things in advance, so you can go with me then." Ming Shu Bowen said.

Shen Hanshuang nodded.

She had seen Jiang Jibai's most embarrassed and depressed appearance when he was a teenager, but it was really hard to imagine what kind of mood he would feel at this time when he lost his parents overnight.

Ming Shuxue on the side immediately said, "Can I go together tomorrow?" ”

Ming Shubai and Jiang Jibai have some contacts, and Ming Shuxue has also seen Jiang Jibai a few times.

Before being adopted by the Ming family, Ming Shuxue was already an orphan girl, but since she can remember, she has never experienced the separation of yin and yang from her loved ones. The Jiang family was tragically destroyed overnight, and she couldn't bear it.

"Okay," Ming Shubai agreed, "I will order someone to prepare plain clothes and send them to you." ”

Thinking that they were going to the Jiang family to attend the funeral tomorrow, Shen Hanshuang and Ming Shuxue couldn't even lift their minds to do anything else, so the two didn't go to Nanshi again as planned.

When.

The little guy came to report, saying that there were Shen Hanshuang's guests outside the house to visit.

Shen Hanshuang couldn't think of anyone who would come uninvited for a while.

When she walked to the door of the mansion and saw the figure she had seen not long ago, she couldn't help but be even more puzzled.

It turned out to be Lin Yuanhui.

How did he come to Luoyang?

As soon as Lin Yuanhuifu saw Shen Hanshuang, his eyes moved slightly, and he subconsciously took a few steps forward, and then stopped.

He didn't want to offend her.

Seeing the incomprehension in her eyes, Lin Yuanhui said in a timely manner: "I came to Luoyang Jiang's house to mourn the deceased on behalf of my father." ”

The two have known each other since childhood, and there is no hospitality that has always let people stand outside the door, Shen Hanshuang first instructed the little maid by the door to inform his cousin Ming Shubai, and then invited Lin Yuanhui into the mansion while saying: "The Jiang family has just set a funeral tomorrow, and you came over?" ”

"If you wait for the Jiang family to determine the date before setting off, it should be too late." Lin Yuanhui explained, "My father asked me to come over as soon as possible, and it was just in time. ”

Shen Hanshuang understood.

Jiang Jibai's parents have been dead for a while, and they have not been buried because they still have to investigate the case. Indeed, once it was certain that the funeral could be held, there could be no further delay.

But although they are also officials in the court, Lin Yuanhui's father, General Zhenxi, is a military general, and Jiang Jibai is a civil official, at least on the surface, the two have no contact on weekdays.

Moreover, there is little friendship between Jiang Jibai and the officials of the DPRK and China, which is also one of the important reasons why the first emperor appointed Jiang Jibai as the first assistant. General Lin and Jiang Jibai's parents should not know each other.

With such a colleague relationship, does General Lin need to deliberately let Lin Yuanhui come to attend the Jiang family's funeral for him?

Shen Hanshuang was still a little confused, but she didn't think deeply, she just thought that maybe there was something unclear about the relationship between the officials of the DPRK and China.

She led Lin Yuanhui to the main hall where the Ming family entertained guests.

Knowing that Lin Yuanhui, the second son of General Zhenxi, had come to Ming's house and his father was not in the mansion, Ming Shubai rushed back to the mansion as the eldest son to entertain guests.

Lin Yuanhui is two months younger than Shen Hanshuang, and Ming Shubai is a few years older. But when he saw Lin Yuanhui, Ming Shubai felt that he was not as mature and calm as an eighteen-year-old boy.

Sure enough, it was General Lin Xiao, who had been on the battlefield and made military achievements.

The two exchanged a few words, and when they learned that Lin Yuanhui had no relatives in Luoyang and planned to live in a city inn temporarily, Ming Shubai invited him to stay at Ming's house at the right time.

Lin Yuanhui quietly glanced at Shen Hanshuang on the side, and said kindly: "Then it's bothering." ”

Shen Hanshuang didn't notice anything, but Ming Shubai, who was sitting at the top, had a full view of Lin Yuanhui's small movements just now.

He was stunned in his heart, and immediately understood something-

I actually lured the wolf into the house.

*

City.

When Zhu Yinzhou came to Luoyang in the past, he lived with Shen Hanshuang in her Mingxi Courtyard.

But now that the two have reconciled, Zhu Yinzhou refused the accommodation arranged for him by Fu Yin and went to the inn on his own.

After hearing that Lin Yuanhui appeared today and went to the Ming family, and after staying in the Ming family, Zhu Yinzhou was quiet and didn't say anything, but continued to look at the clues found today.

After Zhu Yinzhou finished the autopsy, he has been investigating whether Jiang Jibai's parents have ever formed a personal vendetta.

Judging from the facts in front of him, the person who poisoned him may hate Jiang Fu very much, so he will do this, from the master to the subordinate, no one is willing to let go.

Jiang Jibai came from a scholarly family, and his father was admitted to the exam. Juren is actually an alternate official, but Jiang's father has been an alternate for a lifetime and has not been able to become an official.

But because of an ancestral family background, the Jiang family lived a good life, not only had land, shops, and could afford to raise concubines and more than 30 subordinates, Jiang's father was also kind and benevolent, helping many poor scholars, and was widely praised in Luoyang City.

But there is no personal vendetta.

Thinking of Jiang Jibai's indifference in the face of his parents' corpses, Zhu Yinzhou instructed to collect the rain: "Find out Jiang Jibai's past and what is the relationship between him and his parents." ”

After a pause, the ghost made the gods send a god, and Zhu Yinzhou turned to the broken cloud on the same side and said: "What reason did you go to the Ming family where you went to Lin Yuanhui, and which courtyard of the Ming family did you live in." ”

Lin Yuanhui should have also learned about his reconciliation with Shen Hanshuang.

That's why I stayed in Luoyang, and finally couldn't hold back what I wanted to fight for?

Zhu Yinzhou's eyes drooped slightly, and there was a fleeting frost and cold on his face.