Golden Stage

"Have you experienced a dead body? What does Wu Zuo say?"

The corpse was stored in the cellar of the North Prison, and it had been chilled with ice as the weather turned hot.Yan Xiaohan didn't shy away from the filth, so he checked it himself.The dead Jin Wuwei was extremely thin, his face was bloodless, and his eyes were black and blue. He didn't look like a guard who practiced every day, but like a young man who played songs every night and was hollowed out.

For some reason, Yan Xiaohan always felt that his face looked familiar.

"What was the cause of death?"

Wei Xuzhou stood far away, and said: "The emergency of exogenous impotence—it's the sudden wind. It passed on the spot, and I couldn't be rescued."

Yan Xiaohan opened the corpse's two palms, and sure enough, he saw red circles in the palms, red tendons all over the palms, and the circles were closed, which is a typical symptom of horse wind.He put his palm back and asked, "Since the cause of death is clear, what else is there to investigate?"

Wei Xuzhou smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, take a closer look, you really don't know this person?"

Yan Xiaohan looked at it seriously for a while, and finally realized: "I said this person looks familiar, look at his virtue, does he look like Yi Siming?"

Wei Xuzhou: "...No. My lord, this man's name is Yang Hexuan. His father is Yang Xu, the governor of Tangzhou. He is the nephew of the empress's natal family and the cousin of the crown prince. He can be regarded as a relative of the emperor. So this Apart from our Feilongwei, who else would dare to take the case?"

As soon as he mentioned the crown prince, Yan Xiaohan remembered: "Oh, the Yang family. Is General Nine Guards Yang Sijing his brother?"

Wei Xuzhou said: "Exactly."

Yan Xiaohan gave a cold laugh and didn't say anything else.However, Wei Xuzhou shuddered at his inexplicable laughter, and always felt that there seemed to be unfinished meaning in their adults' smiles.

Previously, the crown prince offered advice and recommended Yang Sijing to Emperor Yuantai, wanting him to marry Fu Shen, although the matter was rejected by Emperor Yuantai in the end, it did not prevent Yan Xiaohan from eating this old vinegar.He didn't have the slightest affection for the Yang family. For the sake of the dead, Yan Xiaohan didn't say the word "deserved it", but it was impossible to expect him to do his best to investigate the case.

Furthermore, the emperor attached importance to this case, but because two Jinwu guards were killed successively, people worried that this was a conspiracy against the guards.Yan Xiaohan knew that Mu Boxiu was dealt with by Fu Shen and had nothing to do with Yang Hexuan's death.He also saw that there was nothing strange about this case at all, it was just because of the face of the Queen and Yang Xu that he had to pretend to take it seriously.

"Bring me the testimony of the witnesses." Yan Xiaohan threw away the handkerchief that he used to rest his hands just now, turned around and went out to find water to wash his hands, and said as he walked, "It's all gone. Brother Wei and Jiang Shu will come with me tomorrow." Take a trip to the Cuijin Pavilion, and the others should do whatever they want. One case doesn’t make us go to war.”

Wei Xuzhou obeyed Yan Xiaohan's demeanor of taking everything lightly, obviously he was young and not from a noble family, but he never bowed his head to anyone except the emperor.Not to mention the Yang family, the emperor's relatives, civil and military officials, Wei Xuzhou has never seen anyone in his eyes.

When he reached the door of the cellar, Yan Xiaohan turned his head and told him as if he remembered something again: "Be careful about going to the Cuijin Pavilion tomorrow, and don't talk about it."

Wei Xuzhou was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that his admiration for Mr. Qincha Envoy was slightly shaken.

Then he thought about the great achievements of "that person", felt his conscience and comforted himself: "How can such a thing as fear be called fear?"

Speaking of the two most prosperous places in the capital, one is "Qizhen Square" and the other is "Selling Gold Cave". "Qizhenfang" refers to Dongshi in the east of the city.Most foreign merchants gather here, and there are all kinds of rare treasures and overseas products.The Cuijin Pavilion that Yan Xiaohan and the others are going to is located in Xinghua Lane in the west of the city.

Looking at the capital, the Cuijin Pavilion can be regarded as one of the most famous fireworks spots, but unfortunately encountered a murder case, the guests thought it was unlucky, and looked for other places one after another, so there were few people and the business was not as good as before.

The three of Yan Xiaohan and the others pretended to be traveling casually, and they didn't want to publicize it. Wei Xuzhou was a regular visitor here, and the madam recognized his face, so she immediately let him go as soon as she revealed her identity.Seeing this, Yan Xiaohan asked him to stay and question the bustard and prostitute, while he walked up the red wooden ladder to the third floor and pushed open the two sealed doors.

The furnishings inside the house are as old as before and are well preserved.He took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to rest his hand, checked the cups, plates and pots on the table one by one, and opened the small drawers of the dressing table to find out all kinds of pleasure-enhancing drugs hidden inside, and wrapped it up with a handkerchief. , ready to take it back for inspection one by one.

Next to the dressing table is a small table with a gold-plated copper suanni incense burner, and you can smell the faint fragrance when you get close to it.Yan Xiaohan wrapped a small packet of incense ash in paper, put it away, and raised the drooping gauze curtain.The bedding on the bed was messy, and even some personal belongings on the bed were exposed.When Yan Xiaohan saw the cloth socks on the bed that he hadn't taken away in time, his heart suddenly moved.

He squatted down, searched under the bed and on the floor, but couldn't find what he wanted, so he got up and went downstairs.Wei Xuzhou was listening to the madam and the prostitute Qin Zhensheng crying: "... I don't know what happened, although Mr. Yang is thinner, he is becoming more and more brave. He made sister Shuxian unable to bear it several times, and almost died. .The slave family also..."

Seeing Yan Xiaohan coming downstairs, her cheeks were flushed, she couldn't help covering her face with her sleeves, she was so ashamed that she couldn't continue.

Yan Xiaohan didn't realize it at all, and asked, "What are you talking about? You just said Yang Hexuan was 'brave'? Does he often use booster drugs?"

Qin Zhen's voice was like a gnat: "Mr. Yang, he... he used to hang around Xinghua Lane and wasted his body, so in that, that matter is just normal, and he needs to take medicine to cheer him up. It's only since last year, he doesn't know where. After making a new prescription, it turned out to be extremely powerful. My family often advised him not to use those medicines for tigers and wolves, but he said that he didn't use any medicine, so I told my family not to guess..."

"No medicine?" Wei Xuzhou was speechless, "It's almost windy and swollen face to pretend to be fat, this Mr. Yang is shameless."

Yan Xiaohan asked thoughtfully: "Where did Yang Hexuan go that night besides the Cuijin Pavilion?"

Qin Zhen said: "My family heard that he went to Baiying Tower first, and the number one girl, Feiyan, was not there. He thought the servants were not good, so he came to Cuijin Pavilion again."

Yan Xiaohan tossed the bag of aphrodisiacs and incense ash wrapped in a handkerchief to Jiang Shu: "Go back and find an imperial physician to test the prescription to see if there is any poison." He turned and walked out: "Brother Wei, follow me to Baiyinglou .”

The Baiying Tower is in another alley, which is completely different from the deserted Cuijin Pavilion. As soon as you approach, you can hear the singing of Yingying and swallows, and the sound of silk and bamboo orchestras.The gorgeous girl was waiting for customers at the door. When she saw Wei Xuzhou, a regular customer, coming with a handsome man whom she had never seen before. She hadn't even put on official uniform yet, so she took it for granted that they were here for fun, and immediately took out [-] cents. Coquettish and flattering, she climbed up softly and bonelessly: "What a handsome man, would you like to come in and have a glass of water and wine?"

The fragrance of fat and powder rushed towards his face, and Yan Xiaohan pressed his tongue on the tip of his tongue with a reprimand, and he was about to say it, when suddenly there was a familiar voice from behind that made his scalp tingle——

"Yo, are you busy?"

Yan Xiaohan turned his head in horror. The person he had been thinking about day and night was sitting in a wheelchair, holding an unopened folding fan in his hand, beating his palms regularly, and looking over calmly.

Holding the handle of the knife, Xiao Xun stood behind Fu Shen with a blank expression on his face. Shen Yuce looked hopeless, perhaps he had already started to recite the curse of death in his heart.Behind Yan Xiaohan was a stunned Wei Xuzhou and a row of Yingying Yanyan who was bare-chested and backless.The two groups of people met at the gate of the brothel in such a mighty and unexpected way.

Yan Xiaohan was tongue-tied and almost blurted out asking Fu Shen why you are here, but then suddenly remembered that he sent someone to the villa yesterday to tell Fu Shen to return to Beijing to attend the longevity banquet.

Fu Shen gave him a meaningful look, with words written all over his face: "You dare to go out whoring behind my back?"

Yan Xiaohan "flickered" in his heart, his strong desire to survive instantly overcame his reason, he even ignored the presence of his subordinates and outsiders, and blurted out: "I am wronged!"

Everyone: "..."

This is probably the legendary present newspaper.

Fu Shen smiled and said: "I have a blue sky above my head, how could I wrong you?"

While the two were talking, there was still an uninterested brothel girl who stepped forward to grab Yan Xiaohan's sleeve, and said with a coquettish smile, "What are you doing standing here? Please, gentlemen."

Mr. Yan probably spent his whole life on dodging this time, he just avoided the girl's hand in the crowded crowd, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Fu Shen say: "Eh, This girl is nice and pretty."

Yan Xiaohan's face turned green in an instant, and he stared at Fu Shen in disbelief.

Marquis Fu has a good reputation among the people, and he is much more popular than Yan Xiaohan.The girl also admired the young and handsome hero, and she threw flowers at him in the crowd back then.She recognized Fu Shen at a glance, immediately dropped Yan Xiaohan, let out a tender cry, and pounced on him pitifully——

"However," Fu Shen smiled and pressed his folding fan against her chest, "Compared to Zhuo Jing, it's still a bit worse."

A stroke of genius, a turn of events.Everyone turned their heads to look at "Clumsy Jing" in unison.

Yan Xiaohan: "..."

He figured it out, this bastard knew everything, his heart was like a mirror, and he was deliberately entertaining him, so that he could have fun for himself!

Master Yan, who was entertained, gritted his teeth bitterly, and ran through one hundred and eight ways to do Fu Shen in one way or another in his mind.

"Misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding!" Wei Xuzhou is worthy of being Yan Xiaohan's right-hand man. At this moment, he finally realized that he shouldn't just stand and watch the fun, so he quickly showed his waist card and shouted: "Feilongwei handles the case, idlers Retreat!"

As soon as the word "Feilongwei" came out, the customers and prostitutes suddenly became a mess, the madam screamed in terror, and everyone knelt down on the ground in the lobby.

Yan Xiaohan hurriedly proved his innocence to Fu Shen: "Don't be angry, I'm really here to investigate the case!"

Fu Shen snorted and said, "I'm sorry that you don't like this group of vulgar fans either. Do your best, I'll go back first."

He was really well versed in the way of "hitting a sweet date with a stick", Yan Xiaohan was soothed with just a few words.Fu Shen had had enough fun, and was about to retire when he was done, when Yan Xiaohan suddenly grabbed his hand in full view, with burning heat in his palm, and said without any rebuttal: "Master Hou, take a step to speak."