Conan's physique? The Crown Princess is involved in a murder case again

"I suspect Qionghua's death is related to a serial murder case."

As soon as he entered the room, Lu Xu skipped the polite greetings and directly told Xu Xingyin and Tian Tian what he had found out over the past few days.

It turned out that Lu Xu had been using the silver needle as evidence to follow the clues to investigate further these days.

But I didn't find any useful information until this morning...

Lu Xu met Cao Tianhe at the door of a craftsman's house, and Cao Tianhe also had an identical silver needle in his hand.

When they met unexpectedly in such a scene, they were both stunned. After talking for a few words, they found that their purpose of coming here was the same!

In this way, the two had nothing to hide, so they found a secluded place to sort out the two cases.

According to Cao Tianhe, victims of the silver needle murder case began to appear in the capital city ten days ago.

On April 1, the first person to die was Dou Weicheng, the commander of the southern city, who died suddenly during a night patrol.

Since most of the residences in the south of the city were occupied by officials from the capital, and Dou Weicheng had been in charge of the south of the city for several years, he had more or less offended some powerful officials.

Therefore, Cao Tian and his team initially targeted officials who had a grudge against Dou Weicheng.

On April 9, the second death was Hou Tianci, a student of the Imperial College, who died in his bed in the men's dormitory of the Imperial College.

Hou Tianci is the son of Hou Xueshi of the Hanlin Academy, but he has not learned any of his father's knowledge. Therefore, Hou Xueshi tried his best to squeeze Hou Tianci into the Imperial College, hoping that Hou Tianci would follow the path of shadowy education.

Although Hou Tianci was a bit naughty, he was a timid person and had few enemies, which made Cao Tianhe and the others at a loss as to where to start.

On April 10, the third death appeared. This deceased was not as prominent as the previous two. He was a night watchman, and the neighbors called him Niu Er.

He died while on night watch. As he had no relatives at home, no one noticed his disappearance until a passerby found his body in an alley and reported it to the government office.

The three deceased had no external injuries, but died from a silver needle inserted directly into the Baiguan acupoint.

Strangely, these three dead people had nothing in common except the silver needles.

Therefore, Song Tuiguan of Shuntian Prefecture asked Cao Tianhe to investigate further using the silver needle as an important clue.

Lu Xu and Cao Tianhe hit it off and believed that Qionghua's death might be the breakthrough to solve the two cases.

Therefore, Cao Tianhe was asked to go back and ask Magistrate Song to ask the Royal Guard to join the investigation of this case.

Lu Xu came to Xu Xingyin and the others with the news.

"When can we have definite news?" Xu Xingyin asked.

"If Magistrate Song agrees, the invitation will be sent to the Northern Pacification Office tomorrow."

Tian Tian understood, "Then I will ask mother to let us go back to school tomorrow!"

Lu Xu nodded, hesitated for a moment and then said, "If we follow this timeline, Qionghua died on March 28th, the first one to die. Other than that, we don't have any clues."

Tian Tian was a little discouraged when she heard this, but Xu Xingyin was very calm.

"The more people you kill, the more loopholes there will be. If you put the four cases together, you can always find some common points."

The other two felt relieved after hearing this. They said a few more words to each other and then went back separately. After all, it was not good to be away from the Hundred Flowers Banquet for too long.

Xu Xingyin had just walked out of the moon cave door while talking to Tian Tian when he unexpectedly met Jing Zhichen, who was wearing a black brocade robe.

His eyes were so deep that one could not see the bottom of them, and they made people shiver unconsciously.

After coming back to his senses, Xu Xingyin politely pulled Tian Tian and bowed.

"Greetings to Your Highness."

Unexpectedly, the person snorted and turned away, leaving only the afterimage of her clothes. The two people who stood up were stunned. What are they doing...

What did you do to offend Jing Zhichen?

Xu Xingyin was usually heartless. Since Jing Zhichen had already left, she was too lazy to worry about what his deeper intentions were.

He pulled Tian Tian and walked back, completely forgetting about Jing Zhichen.

That’s right, Xu Xingyin had indeed offended Jing Zhichen.

This matter needs to go back to a time before the incense stick.

Jiang Chengpian caught a sneaky figure outside the bamboo pavilion. When he pulled her over and asked her, he found out that she was the maidservant of the Grand Princess.

Since the Grand Princess was involved, Jing Zhichen sent everyone else away and asked the maid a few questions alone.

The maid said that Princess Yongyi and the Seventh Miss Xu came together to pay their respects to the Crown Prince, but the Grand Princess was afraid that Princess Yongyi would cause trouble, so she sent her to keep an eye on things.

As a result, she couldn't find the two people anywhere and was caught as a spy.

Jing Zhichen knew this maid, and she was indeed a close confidant of the Grand Princess, so he did not doubt her words too much.

But the two men were late, probably because something went wrong on the way.

Jing Zhichen didn't know whether Xu Xingyin would cause trouble, but he knew that if Yongyi got into trouble, it would probably be no small matter, so he sent the secret guards around him to look for him.

The secret guards around Jing Zhichen were all carefully trained, so finding someone was naturally no problem.

The secret guard quickly brought the news of the two to Jing Zhichen, and said...

Miss Xu Qi is having a secret meeting with a man outside her family.

Is Xu Xingyin blind? With herself, the most handsome man in Dayan, standing in front of her, how could she have time to look at other men?

Jing Zhichen didn't believe it.

So Jing Zhichen went to the place the secret guard said.

After waiting for a while, I saw a man sneaking out of the yard. After a while, Xu Xingyin and Tian Tian came out of the yard in an attempt to hide their identities.

But Xu Xingyin acted particularly innocently.

It was as if she was not the one having a secret meeting with the man, and she greeted Jing Zhichen calmly.

Jing Zhichen originally wanted to say something sarcastic to her, but at that time he was unwilling to say a word to Xu Xingyin, as if even saying one more word would not be enough to suppress the anger in his heart.

Xu Xingyin is really nice!

As for Xu Xingyin and Tian Tian, ​​as soon as they returned to the pavilion, they saw the Grand Princess with a cold face, glaring at Tian Tian fiercely.

"Where did you go? Chunmei just came back from the prince's place, so you'd better tell the truth."

Tian Tian was choked by the Grand Princess' question and quietly tugged at Xu Xingyin's sleeve. Xu Xingyin understood and took over the conversation.

"Yongyi and I just got lost after taking many detours. We finally found our way back. I'm sorry to have made the Grand Princess worried."

"Yeah yeah."

Tian Tian nodded like a chick pecking at rice, "That's right, mother! On the way back just now, we met our cousin the prince. Thanks to our cousin for showing us the way, we were able to find the way smoothly."

After hearing Tian Tian bring up Jing Zhichen, the Grand Princess believed it for the most part and glared at Tian Tian in reproach.

"Your cousin was thoughtful. He heard that you were going to pay your respects to him, and he was afraid that you didn't know the way, so he sent someone to look for you. Otherwise, you should be prepared to find your way on an empty stomach today."