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He hid in the shadows, listening to the movement around him.

There were footsteps outside the door, and then light came in through the paper door.

"Fifth Miss, are you okay?"

He opened his mouth and made a voice as crisp as a girl.

"I'm fine." He asked in such a delicate and gentle voice, "I'm already asleep, what happened?"

"Something happened next door, I'm going to go and have a look. Be careful yourself, and call someone if there's anything wrong."

He agreed.

The footsteps slowly fade away.

He turned his head, looked at the girl who was tightly tied up, with a horrified expression on her face, put his finger near his lips, and made a "shush" motion...

The sound of drums in the early morning came from a distant place, waking Yan Hai up from his not-so-deep sleep.

He was lying prone between the soft beds, but he couldn't move, as if he was tightly imprisoned by something heavy.

He thought, no wonder he had such a dream.

A warm breath puffed behind his ear.

Yan Hai's hairs stood on end, and the things that happened last night immediately came back to his mind.

Yun Ji grabbed him and kissed him for a long time, then...

Then nothing happened, but Yun Ji didn't want to go back to sleep in his own room, insisting on sleeping with him.

It's not safe here, I have to watch you, that's what Yun Ji said.

He turned his head secretly and saw Yun Ji's face.

Most of Yun Ji's body was pressed on him, his eyes were still closed, and the thick eyelashes cast a shadow under his eyes, if this was his original appearance... Yan Hai's entire face flushed red, and he turned his head quickly When he came back, he moved his body lightly, wanting to get out of the oppression.

The moment he turned his head, Yun Ji opened his eyes, silently watching his slow and clumsy movements.

He moved until he was close to the wall before completely separating from Yun Ji, but before he could breathe out, he was wrapped around his waist by a hand stretched from behind, and then hugged him into his arms.

In Yunji's arms, there was a faint smell of ice and snow, clear and shallow, cold and bitter.

Wrapping his arms around his chest, Yun Ji buried his head on his neck from behind, and through two thin coats, the temperature of Yun Ji's body was clearly transmitted to him.

"Yun Ji." He straightened his neck to stay away from Yun Ji, and said softly, "Can you let me go? It's a bit hot."

"Hot?" As expected, Yun Ji was awake.

Yun Ji's hand moved up from his chest, stretched in along the neckline of his jacket, and touched his neck.

"I'm not sweating!" After touching it, Yun Ji still smiled in his ear and asked, "Where is it hot?"

Yan Hai only felt a "boom", and all the blood in his body rushed to his forehead.

Yun Ji's fingers slowly slid down to the collarbone, and he suddenly reached out and held them down.

"Yun Ji, it's getting late." The flush on Yan Hai's face subsided in an instant, and even turned pale, but his back was facing Yun Ji, who couldn't see it: "It's time for us to get up." .”

"It's still early." Yun Ji freed up his other hand, waved it lightly, and put down all the bed curtains.

The bed immediately turned into a dark and isolated small place.

Yan Hai struggled for a while, but was pulled into his arms even harder.

"What is the fragrance... on your body..." Yun Ji asked in his ear, "How come... it smells so... tell me..."

He even stuck out his tongue and licked it.

"Snow... Snow Grape Flower..." Yan Hai was dizzy and murmured, "I used to drink its dew..."

"Flower fragrance?" Yun Ji stopped and thought for a while: "It doesn't look like..."

"Let me go!" Yan Hai finally broke free from him, panting and clutching his skirt, like a woman who had been molested.

Yun Ji laughed softly, and Yan Hai became more and more embarrassed.

His thoughts wavered again.

It's hard to say what effect the blood has, but it's obviously impossible to make Yunji become like this....

Yun Ji stretched out his hand again, but stopped halfway.

Footsteps came from outside the door.

"Are you two up?" Han'er said outside the door: "My lord invited you over, saying that I have something important to discuss with you!"

Yan Hai stepped into the gate, and was surprised to see Murong Ji.

Both Yin Yutang and Murongji were wearing court clothes, obviously they both came here together after they went down to court.

"What exactly do you mean?" Murong Ji's tone was not very good: "Just because he is a weakling who has no strength to restrain a chicken, can he be able to solve a mystery that even my big prison officer can't solve?"

"I know the county king is anxious, but please stay calm." Yin Yutang was much tougher than yesterday: "This is what the sage wants. Whether the county king is willing or not, this matter cannot be questioned by you or me."

Murongji's face was full of reluctance, but he stopped talking.

"My lord, the king of the county." Yan Hai and Yun Ji saluted them.

"Mr. Cuiwei is here, I've been waiting for you impatiently!" Yin Yutang didn't know whether it was intentional or not, his eyes turned around the two of them, especially when he saw Yun Ji's handsome face, he smiled. Very ambiguous. "Good nights are short..."

"The high bed and soft pillow in Chengwang's mansion, I could have slept through it accidentally." Yan Hai replied calmly, as if he didn't notice it at all.

Murong Ji sneered.

"I don't know why the prince and the county king called us here, what's the matter?"

"At the court today, the Holy Majesty was furious again over the murder case in the White Mansion, and ordered the jailer to bring the murderer to justice within [-] days, and..." He glanced at Murongji: "The Holy Majesty also sent an oral order in private, please Cuiwei-Jun Be sure to help with this."

"Me?" Yan Hai asked in surprise: "I don't have the strength to restrain a chicken, how can I have the ability to solve a murder case?"

"You are a little self-aware..."

"Mr. Cuiwei, don't rush to refuse, I have something to show you." Yin Yutang took a sealed box from the table beside him, opened it and handed it to him: "Mr. Cuiwei, look at it."

Yan Hai took two steps up and looked into the box.

In the box lay a dead butterfly.

The whole body is blue, with strange and gorgeous patterns. After unfolding, it is estimated to be a butterfly the size of an adult's palm.

"Where did you come from?" he asked looking up.

Although Murong Ji was disdainful on the surface, he was always paying attention to his performance. Seeing the change in his expression at this moment, he became more and more sure that this person was more difficult than he thought.

"Hua Lian is missing." He told Yan Hai: "Didn't I send someone to look for her yesterday? When I arrived at the Hongyu Tower, I found that her maid was dead and she was gone. There were such dead people everywhere in the house." butterfly."

"That's right." He added: "The dead maid's throat was slit, but the uterus was not removed. We checked and she was pregnant for three months."

"If you're pregnant, the womb is useless." Yan Hai held the box and carefully looked at the butterfly.

Murong Ji's expression froze.

"I guessed it." Yan Hai seemed to have finished reading, he closed the box and put it back on the table.

"Use? What's the use? How can I use it?"

"I said I was just guessing, and the county king doesn't need to take it seriously." Yan Hai had an expression of "I know, but I won't tell".

Murong was extremely angry.

"Since the Holy Majesty asked you to help me solve this case, why do you hide it? Could it be that you are related to this case?"

"Your Majesty, didn't you hear what the lord said just now?" Yan Hai was unmoved at all: "The emperor just said 'please me', so if I don't want to, I don't think he will force me. My lord, Do you agree?"

Yin Yutang coughed awkwardly.

"How are you doing?" Murong Ji's eyes flickered.

"I'm going to Hongyu Tower, and take a look at the corpses of Bai Lele and that maid."

"Others are easy to talk about, but the body of Second Miss Bai has been brought back by the Bai family, so it should be in the coffin at this moment."

"Then let the Bai family open the coffin for me to see."