[Bao Qingtian] Why is peace?

This day is the busiest day of the market on the [-]th day of the Lunar New Year in Dali City. Merchants from all over the world and residents of ancient towns and villages in the southwest flock here with their local products to trade goods.

The bazaar was full of people, hawking in various dialects was heard endlessly, and the crowds were crowded, as if most of the people in the city had gathered here.

But this festive excitement was interrupted by an abrupt and elongated suona sound.

Suona, erhu, sheng, guan, flute... the music is mournful and desolate. In just one piece, the sunny city of Dali seems to be shrouded in a thick layer of black clouds.

Before most people had time to express their bad luck, they saw ghost coins like snowflakes scattered in the sky above the entrance of the market, and a group of people in linen and filial piety came slowly carrying an uncovered coffin.

Someone recognized the person walking in the front of the funeral procession: "Isn't this... Young Master Duan?"

The face of Duan Chengrui, the third son of the palace, is not unfamiliar in Dali City. When the prince is away, the third son often comes out to build a temple, give a porridge, and gain popularity. It is not surprising that someone can recognize him.

The third son's face was pale, and he described mourning, with hatred and anger in his eyes: "Everyone come and see! This is the second lady of the palace, my own sister! She was tortured in every possible way during her lifetime, and she couldn't bear the humiliation and committed suicide. And the one who killed her was the eldest son of Prince Duan's mansion, her half-brother! How can such a man dressed like a beast and devoid of conscience deserve to be the eldest son, and how can he be the future King of Dali!"

The crowd whispered to each other. Some people believed the words of the third son and scolded the prince for being a beast, while some did not believe what he said and firmly believed that the prince would not do such a crazy thing. Some people were more daring and stretched their necks Go to see the second lady in the coffin.

"Tsk tsk, what a miserable death! I'm afraid I don't have a piece of good flesh on my body... It's a pity for a girl who is as beautiful as a flower..."

"Second Miss still has her eyes open, and she's horrified to see her. If she dies, it's a great injustice!"

"Whether the son did it or not is unknown, but the third son is cold-blooded towards his own sister. After death, he doesn't even give her a piece of cloth to cover his body. I don't believe a word of a person with such character. .”

"What the old man said is right..."

The third young master was originally very relieved to hear someone slandering and scolding the crown prince, but he didn't want someone to spoil it, and instead incited others to discuss his character, he felt suffocated.

He wiped his eyes with a veil soaked in ginger juice, his eyes turned red from crying, and said heartbreakingly: "Everyone! What I said is the truth. If it weren't for my mother and concubine, I am afraid that my sister still has no People found out! If you don’t believe me, I’m willing to die to prove that what I said is true—”

After he finished speaking, he turned around and slammed into the coffin. The accompanying guards looked at each other and quickly stopped him. The third young master was crying so hard that he looked very pitiful.

This scene was also pre-arranged to win the sympathy of the people by proving itself with death.

However, at this moment, the third son let out a miserable howl, like a rooster being strangled by someone's throat, the scream was harsh and unpleasant.

Before everyone could realize what had happened, the screams stopped abruptly, and the third son bled from seven holes, and fell on his back, dying of breath.

All this happened so suddenly that everyone couldn't react.

After a while, the entrance of the market fell into chaos.

When Pang Yu and others arrived after hearing the news, the funeral procession was still at the entrance of the market. The coffin of the second lady was still lying at the entrance of the market. There was still a bloody corpse on the ground. They all stopped.

Among them was an old man who seemed quite respectable, and the local people respected him and asked him to deal with this bizarre and violent death.Without further ado, the old man asked his grandson to inform the Dali Palace, and he inspected the third son's body for a while.

Seeing the son coming, the elder replied calmly: "Returning to the son, according to the preliminary judgment of the old man, the third son died of the ginger-stained handkerchief in his hand."

"Ginger juice?" Pang Yuqi asked.

"He is afraid that he won't be able to cry, so he wears such a handkerchief, so he can act at any time." Bai Yutang poked at it mercilessly.

The old man nodded and said: "Just now, the old man also asked the guards of the third son, and it is true. The third son ordered someone to carry the coffin of the second young lady to this place, and made another show. I am afraid that he wanted to use the words of the people to discredit the prince. It's a pity... ...a ruthless person who can even take advantage of his dead sister, will die in the end."

Mr. Gongsun checked the veil carefully, and said: "This poison is called seeing blood to seal the throat. No matter it is taken orally, it gets into the eyes, or there are any small wounds on the body, it can kill quickly."

The old man couldn't help but look at Mr. Gongsun again: "This young master has good eyesight!"

"I don't dare to do it, it's just a bit of a dabble." Mr. Gongsun said a few words modestly, then knelt beside the third son to check it from the beginning to the end, and then said to the son: "The third son has no other wounds on his body, and the cause of death should be that wound. Poison, the corpse can be transferred, and it is not a problem to keep it at the entrance of the market."

The prince nodded, asked someone to carry the coffin, collected the third son's body, and sent it back to the palace.

As for the second young lady, she has more doubts, so naturally she has to be carried back together.

At this time, a young man next to him shouted: "His Royal Highness, did Second Miss really die because of you?"

The people around looked over one after another, and Shizi said with a blank expression: "I don't know where the second lady went after she disappeared. I am still investigating the assassin. The second sister died strangely. Before everything is settled, please Don't listen to groundless rumors, if the truth comes out, Xiao Wang will definitely tell everyone the truth."

"She died on your Zhuangzi, how to explain this?!" Someone asked again.

"I have never been to that Zhuangzi, and the person who manages Zhuangzi is still the father's king. I really don't know about it." The eldest son paused, and then said, "If I really want to harm the second sister, why should I take her with me?" On your own Zhuangzi, can you still be found by Concubine Liu?"

"His Royal Highness, I believe in you!" Someone in the crowd shouted, and then a few people responded, and in the end, more and more people believed that the prince would find out the truth.

Duan Shizi has done a lot of things to relieve the people in the past, which is what the people want. Even if there are some bad rumors in the past few days, it has not shaken the deep-rooted image of wisdom in everyone's minds.

The prince thanked everyone one by one, looked at Pang Yu, and said to everyone: "A while ago, rumors were rampant, and An Lehou's innocence was questioned, and his reputation was damaged. Please find out the truth, and don't embarrass the young master again in the future. He is a good man."

Pang Yu's nose was sore when he heard it. He hasn't heard anyone say that he is a good person for a long time.

Since what the prince said was well-founded and the possibility of him killing the second lady was so small, it was even less likely that Pang Yu, a young master who came from the capital and was not familiar with the place, was the one who abducted and spoiled the second lady.

What's more, if you take a closer look, Pang Yu's overly beautiful face is still a little uneasy, and his eyes are watery, so he doesn't look like a bad guy.

The women aroused their hearts of compassion and sympathized with the experience of the young master when he went out some time ago and everyone shouted and beat him. The sisters-in-law who sold melons and fruits picked out the freshest and sweetest fruits from the baskets and stuffed them to Pang Yu to comfort him recently. suffered.The vegetable seller's sister-in-law was not to be outdone, and stuffed Pang Yu with two handfuls of juicy vegetables.

In the end, the sister-in-law who sold the fur directly put a precious tiger skin on Pang Yu's body: "Young Lord, look at you are so thin, it's good if others don't come to bully you, how can you have the strength to bully others! It's immoral to speak ill of a dead person, but my sister-in-law is straightforward, and I have to say that the second young lady was used to domineering during her lifetime, and she went out with many people, and even these people can't look down on her, so how can you blame the young master!"

The sister-in-law's words are not rough, but in fact, if the three young masters were not behind the whole thing, there would be a lot of doubts.

People reflected on themselves who had believed the rumors like a madman some time ago, and their faces were a little hot.

On the other hand, Pang Yu was embarrassed by receiving so many gifts from others: "In fact, everyone didn't really do anything to me. It was because of being deceived by others. Just solve the misunderstanding."

Look, what a sensible child!The sisters-in-law feel sorry for the young master even more, and even the common people who are still skeptical feel that the person who can say such words is more reliable than the third son who even needs to rely on a handkerchief for mourning.

Now that the misunderstanding was clarified, Pang Yu breathed a sigh of relief—he would no longer have to worry about being beaten when he went out.

After bidding farewell to the people, Gongsun Ce immediately said to the prince: "Just now I asked the guards around the third son, that handkerchief was prepared for him by Concubine Liu's maid, she is the most suspicious, she should be tied up first. "

Bai Yutang saw that the crown prince spoke for the little crab, which made the people clear up the misunderstanding of the little crab. At this time, he came back rationally, and helped to analyze: "We are sending people there now. Whether Liu side concubine is willing to hand him over is a matter of opinion. It's one thing, and whether the maid is still alive is another thing."

"Brother Bai's implication is...?"

"My lord, let's guess, why did the third son die?" Bai Yutang asked back.

Shi Zi was stunned for a moment, and a ridiculous idea suddenly appeared in his heart: "Someone wants to frame me?"

"It's very close." Bai Yutang didn't intend to show off, and said directly, "These two lives are related to the assassin who assassinated Mr. Gongsun. The amethyst is a clue and a blindfold. The killer has indeed exposed himself, but the person is I don't know if it was sent by the second lady or the third son. If it is the third son, he can even use his own sister. He is inhuman, and he is the one who is most likely to send an assassin, but now even the third son can use it. If you die, this matter will become confusing."

"Now that the clues have been found on the third son, there are no other clues. Who would it be?" Pang Yu wondered.

Bai Yutang smiled and said, "Don't forget, Second Miss' body was found by Concubine Liu."

The crown prince reacted: "Someone is guiding side concubine Liu?"

"According to my preliminary deduction, as the third son, seeing the second lady's assassination failure, he imprisoned her in the son's territory and put her here.

It is very possible to plant the blame on the crown prince.However, side concubine Liu was 'instructed' to investigate the Shizi's Zhuangzi one by one, and then found out about the second lady, but it was definitely not what the third son wanted to see.If I were the third son, I would let the local people enter Shizi's Zhuangzi "inadvertently" and rescue the poor second lady. The facts spoken by the people are the "truth", and only then can I cause the greatest damage to Shizi . "Bai Yutang let out a hey, and said with a sneer, "It can be seen from this that although the second young lady, the third young master, and side concubine Liu are part of the same family and share the same interests, they have never communicated with each other. "

"The more you talk, the more confused I become. What's so interesting?" Pang Yu was still trying to understand what Bai Yutang said.

Bai Yutang sighed: "Let's put it this way, no matter how stupid Second Miss is, she would not let the assassin leave such an obvious amethyst. This is the first contradiction. And even if Second Miss is really stupid, a living The value of a person is still much stronger than that of a dead person, and the third son will not let her die at this time, this is the second contradiction."

Mr. Gongsun answered his words: "The third contradiction is that Concubine Liu, who shouldn't have found the body, found the body of Second Miss, while the third son, who was supposed to be the instigator of everything, died by Concubine Liu's maid. Fifth Master wanted to say that although the three of them were doing their own thing, behind them was a thread that manipulated them, held in the palm of the same person."

Pang Yu was terrified when he heard that.

"I...can I understand this?" Pang Yu tremblingly said, "Someone put amethyst on the assassin sent by the second lady, and tortured and killed the second lady when the third son imprisoned the second lady, and finally used Liu side concubine's The maid killed the third son?"

Mr. Gongsun nodded: "So the only surviving side concubine Liu will recklessly take revenge on the crown prince."

Bai Yutang was listening, but suddenly his thoughts changed, and his face changed suddenly: "No, right now, Concubine Liu is in danger!"