Yuan Wenzhong, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, died.

At this time, it was less than three hours before Wen Zhirong's death and Kong Xiangyun's sudden madness!

At three o'clock, Yu Guangzheng, the secretary of Dali Temple, dragged his sick body of more than seventy years old, and quickly entered the palace, and reported the matter to the ears of the goddess who was in the back garden of the goddess hall and was sad.

Hearing about this case, the helmsman of the empire, Feng Yan was furious, and urgently ordered the Three Law Divisions, Huitong Dongchang, and Hongying Fang to thoroughly investigate the case within two days at all costs!

The Son of Heaven is angry, and the wind and clouds change color!

100,000 forbidden troops were transferred out of the inner palace and headed to all parts of the imperial city, and even the entire imperial capital was officially banned, like an iron bucket, not a single fly could fly out!

Li Ran stood at the gate of Guozijian, looking at the forbidden army team passing by, and his heart was also full of mixed feelings.

Tsk, in the end, it is the son of heaven in the world, as soon as the mouth is opened, there is such an appeal.

For a while, he was in a trance, outside the goddess hall last night, the woman who embraced him with all kinds of tenderness was really the Xuanyue Emperor who looked down on the world?

He shook his head and looked into the courtyard, where the six doors were being autopsied.

Because Guozijian was teaching at the time, the only witness in this secluded corner of the courtyard was Kong Sheng, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy who had reported the case with the deceased before.

"Master Guoshi, this case is very important, and many details are inconvenient to be exposed, so please recuse yourself. Wu Zhen, the chief catcher of the six doors, looked at Li Ran coldly, and that gaze could not be refused at all.

Li Ran didn't bother to pay attention to him, and looked at Xiao Qingxue with a pair of handsome eyes, revealing a well-behaved expression: "Second sister, can you let your brother-in-law listen to the side? ”

Xiao Qingxue originally listened carefully to the autopsy report, and when she heard what he said, she was immediately ashamed and angry, thinking that this disciple was really the most cheeky in the world, and she was really embarrassed to call herself "second sister"!

The frivolous and ambiguous words he said last night made him a second sister!

But then again......

I also blamed myself for being stunned last night, and I actually ...... this kid

That...... It was her first kiss!

Fortunately, Qiu Huaili, the eunuch, came over immediately to announce the decree, otherwise he would have almost ...... I almost felt sorry for Wan'er......

Thinking of this, Xiao Qingxue felt deep self-blame, and her disgust for Li Ran suddenly increased a little!

Li Ran looked at the expression of the second princess, and guessed a little bit of the other party's thoughts in his heart.

But he didn't feel the slightest guilt.

What are you kidding, he's the victim, okay?

You know, his first kiss yesterday was taken away like this!

"Wu Zhutou, Lao Fu sent two subordinates to send this Li Guoshi out-" Xiao Qingxue's tone was indifferent, and before she finished speaking, she saw Li Ran's frivolity and said with a serious face: "Believe me, this case is not simple, maybe I can help." ”

"You?"

Xiao Qingxue snorted coldly, glared at him, and was about to sneer and tell him to get out, but somehow, two pictures suddenly appeared in her mind.

One is in front of the square of the Shenwu Gate, and the other is in the ring of the martial arts conference......

In the center of these two pictures, the domineering and unruly figure is none other than the young man she hates the most in front of her!

She can't deceive her heart, although this guy is hypocritical and annoying, he does have some real skills, if it weren't for this, she Xiao Qingxue wouldn't be ......

"Well, you can stay, but keep your mouth shut. Xiao Qingxue took a deep breath and said in a cold tone.

"Okay. Li Ran responded obediently, and then his expression turned serious, because the eyewitness Kong Sheng was brought up.

He wants to hear this guy's testimony and whether there are any loopholes!

"Master Kong, please tell me how you found the body of the deceased Yuan Wenzhong. Wu Zhenhu frowned and asked.

That Kong Sheng was already so frightened that he was trembling when he walked, and he was held up by two catchers, so he reluctantly stood up and said in a trembling voice: "Fang ...... Just now, I was in the library with Lord Yuan, discussing the haunting last night, and he suddenly said that he was going to go to the thatched house...... I waited for almost half an hour, but I didn't see him come back, so I went out to look for him, but I didn't expect to see him when I passed through this outer courtyard...... Then I saw ......"

Speaking of this, I don't know what terrifying picture I remembered, he was so frightened that he cried and shrunk into a ball, and after a long time, he trembled and said, "Then I saw ...... She...... She wore an imperial crown on her head and a blood-red dragon robe, standing in front of Lord Yuan's corpse, she ...... She smiled at me, tried to kill me, and I ran and yelled as hard as I could, and then ...... Later, the supervisor and Gongsheng of the Chinese Academy also came out, and then ...... And I saw it...... Li Guoshi. ”

Hearing this, Wu Zhen and the others glanced at each other, and their hearts sank.

At this point, it can basically be determined that Kong Xiangyun's madness, Wen Zhirong's death, and the current death of Yuan Wenzhong are definitely the same person's doing, or...... The same ghost!

It turned out that Wen Zhirong and Yuan Wenzhong died in exactly the same way, both used the palace knife to cut the abdomen horizontally, and at the scene of Wen Zhirong's death, this identical royal phoenix hairpin was also found, and in addition, Kong Xiangyun and others also claimed to have seen a "ghost", so ......

It's really the Empress Qingya who came to ask for her life!?

Everyone was anxious and uneasy, and even faintly carried an air of panic.

Take Wu Zhen as an example, he has been a poor man in the imperial capital all his life, from a small catcher, to a golden knife catcher, and then to the current position of the head catcher of the six gates, and has broken countless large and small cases, but there are almost no pure strange powers like this!

But just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

In this world, there are ghosts and monsters.

This cognition is the common people of any ordinary people, not to mention, just say that in the Holy Beast Garden of the Imperial Palace, there are all kinds of rare and exotic beasts, when the little demon king Xiao Wan'er rode a colorful fire phoenix, a fire burned most of the houses in the southern suburbs of the imperial capital, and the megatron reminded people that the existence and horror of these extraordinary powers.

It's just that these things are far away from human towns, and all countries have monks and shamans who have been proficient in magic for more than a thousand years.

And now, a precedent has been set!

It can be called the first time since the founding of the Great Xuan Dynasty!

A ghost appeared in the imperial city, killed two ministers, and scared one crazy, and this ghost is none other than the resentful spirit of the previous owner of this imperial palace eighteen years ago, the empress of Qingya!

Isn't the thorn exciting?

Among the people present, the most courageous one is Xiao Qingxue, even though this Wu Zhen is brave and strong, but after all, he is a person in the public family and is controlled by the environment, but Xiao Qingxue is a real ten-year-old who went into battle to kill people, and beheaded more than a thousand bloody generals at the age of thirteen, there are really not many things that can make her afraid.

Xiao Qingxue calmly picked up the bloody phoenix hairpin, looked at it for a while, and asked: "You just said...... "she" is wearing a dragon robe and imperial crown, counting, then you have seen her twice before and after, do you still remember that her crown is adorned with this thing?"

After all, this Qingya Empress is her own second aunt, and she still can't bear to call her a "female ghost" after all.

That Kong Sheng was stunned for a moment, then recalled for a moment, and said, "Yes! She did wear this thing!"

"Oh. Xiao Qingxue nodded, her eyes were deep, and she said to Wu Zhen, "Lord Wu, is there anything you want to ask Master Kong?"

That Wu Zhen pondered for a while, and looked at Li Ran, this time his attitude was quite sincere, and he was indeed a master who was right about things and not about people: "Li Guoshi, this case involves ghosts and gods, you are the head of the world, do you have any opinions?"

"Oh, I promised Her Royal Highness the Second Princess, to remain silent, it's really not easy to speak. Li Ran shrugged his shoulders and looked at Xiao Qingxue with an embarrassed expression.

"You don't have to look at me, you can say whatever you like, I already have some eyebrows about this case, and your opinion doesn't matter at all. Xiao Qingxue said in a cold voice.

Li Ran was not angry, smiled, and walked in front of Kong Sheng: "Dare to ask Master Kong, how long has it been since you saw the female ghost and then ran out to see me?"

Hearing his question, Kong Sheng seemed to be very puzzled, recalled for a while, and said, "Returning to the country, probably ...... It's about a quarter of the time of the pillar of incense. ”

A quarter of the incense? hmm...... That's about eight minutes from a previous life.

"Are you sure?" asked Li Ran.

Kong Sheng thought for a moment and said: "This subordinate can be sure, on weekdays, I come to Guozijian to teach, from the outer courtyard of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to the door of the archway, almost this time!"

"Her Royal Highness, the National Teacher and Second Princess, it's really ...... It's really her! It's true, she's back! She's back for revenge! It's on the Qinglan Tower! We've all seen it! She's always been there!"

As if evoking some kind of memory, Kong Sheng's spirit began to fluctuate again, his expression distorted, and he screamed and mourned.

Li Ran sneered, glanced at Xiao Qingxue, and said almost at the same time: "Catch it!"

"You-" Xiao Qingxue's beautiful eyes widened, and she looked at the young man in front of her in amazement.

"Sister Qingxue is the smartest woman I've ever seen in my life, and there isn't one of them. Li Ran said with a sincere face, although he didn't know what Xiao Qingxue made this judgment on, but it was definitely different from his perspective.

But...... Why don't you have favorability this time!?

Tsk, it looks like she doesn't believe me at all now.