Tang riddles

On the morning of May 21st, Shen Sui stayed in the Princess Mansion of Jin for less than half an hour before leaving.During this period, he only talked with Li Jinyue and Xu Jie in the study room, and never left the study room.Before leaving, she didn't go to see Yang Yuhuan, she just asked about Yang Yuhuan's situation.After the little girl came back from the palace, she kept herself locked in the house and never came out, but she was still able to eat anyway, so there was no problem for the time being.

Shen Sui's whereabouts were also under the surveillance of the Jinwu Guards. Not long after, what she did in the Princess Mansion was reported to the palace.The reason why Shen Sui didn't get the pass order from Jin Princess' Mansion was precisely because the sage had doubts about her and the relationship between her and Li Jinyue.Because it was reported that Shen Sui had a close relationship with Li Jinyue when he was in Youzhou, and the emperor was always concerned about Li Jinyue's movements, so naturally he would not miss them.So when Li Jinyue was suspected of murdering Concubine Wu Hui earlier, the sage subconsciously became suspicious of Shen Sui, and felt that he could not let her go alone to solve the case, so he asked Ming Gui to preside over the trial of the case, and Shen Sui only acted as an assistant.The reason why Shen Sui was not completely excluded was that apart from truly appreciating her ability to solve cases, she also had the intention of probing her relationship with Li Jinyue.

Of course, Shen Sui knew all of this.When she was in Youzhou, she did deliberately reveal the news that she had a close relationship with Li Jinyue, and also intentionally let Chang'an notice that she and Li Jinyue might be in the same camp.Her purpose is also to test.The water in Chang'an Chaotang is very deep, how many people are Li Jinyue's potential enemies, even Shen Sui can hardly see clearly at once.She revealed a little bit about her relationship with Li Jinyue, and everyone who has changed can clearly see it at a glance.Even though a large number of people may still be on the sidelines, at least she can figure out some of the people who moved first, and this group of people is also the one who needs their attention the most.After they learned that Shen Sui might be loyal to Li Jinyue, they couldn't sit still. Obviously, they had a relatively strong stake in Li Jinyue.In other words, it is also a part of the more dangerous people.

Now it seems that this part of the people has surfaced.Right Minister Xiao Song and Huangmen servant Li Linfu, the power groups represented by these two people are likely to be involved to varying degrees with the culprit who planned the death of Concubine Wu Hui to frame Li Jinyue.When Li Jinyue was charged with murder, they tried their best to add insult to injury, and it was obvious what they did.

Xiao Song is a member of the Great Pope, and among the six priests, he is the Priest of Heaven.Shen Sui has been investigating him for such a long time, and already has solid evidence in his hands that he secretly operated black fire/powder, embezzled military supplies, colluded with cult members to make huge profits, and so on.Once it is revealed, it will definitely cause huge waves in the Longyou Army represented by Xiao Song.Xiao Song also probably knew Shen Sui's secret, but the strange thing was that he didn't say anything about it, probably because he followed the orders of the Great Pope.Although the two seem to have no contact and no enmity, they are actually incompatible.Xiao Song was the first to attack, and wanted to crush her and Li Jinyue to death, Shen Sui understood very well.However, the Great Pope above him was like a shadow. No matter how Qian Yumen searched, they could not find any clues. All the clues were cleverly cut off before the identity of the Great Pope was about to be identified.

Li Linfu, in Shen Sui's view, this person may not be a member of the cult, but he is a fool. He was favored by Concubine Wu Hui before, and he stood in the camp of King Shou. Therefore, Concubine Wu Hui passed away, so he will definitely take advantage of this opportunity To deal a heavy blow to King Shou's political opponents, at least the opponent must be unable to get up for a long time to be considered a success.Does he have anything to do with Concubine Wu Hui's death, and if so, what is the relationship?It is difficult for Shen Sui to judge at present.During the palace trial, although he also said a few sarcastic remarks, his attitude was actually ambiguous, and it was difficult to judge whether he really wanted to frame Li Jinyue.Perhaps in his opinion, King Shou and Li Jinyue were doomed to be difficult to form an alliance, or maybe he knew of the private alliance between Li Jinyue and King Zhong through some means, so that he could use the death of Concubine Wu Hui to attack Li Jinyue. This reason is not sufficient.

Li Linfu's mind was complicated, compared with that, the young Shou Wang looked very immature.However, the only advantage of King Shou is that he can endure. Perhaps it is because of his strong mother. No matter how he is attacked by others, he seems to be okay and doesn't care.This kind of demeanor is not bad.The matter of Yang Yuhuan this time was also a blow to him, and this girl "chosen" his father between him and his father, which made him feel ashamed.However, it is estimated that Shou Wang should also recall it now, and want to understand why Yang Yuhuan talked like that in the hall at that time.

At that time in the main hall, standing on the opposite side of King Shou, Xiao Song and Li Linfu were Han Xiu, Prime Minister of the Left, Yang Shuo, General of the Jinwu Guard on the Right, and Minggui, Shaoqing of Dali Temple.General Yang Shuo has always been loyal. He has served as a palace guard for so many years, and he is only loyal to the royal family and the emperor. His neutral attitude can basically be confirmed.Although this time, one of his generals guarding the palace gate strangely gave false testimony, so that he formed a very unfavorable testimony against Li Jinyue.But Shen Sui still didn't think it was Yang Shuo's instigation, because his motive was too weak to be ignored.There should be a deeper story behind that strange general.

The left chancellor Han Xiu and the right chancellor Xiao Song are political enemies, this is something that everyone in the court knows well.Xiao Song seems to be supporting King Shou right now, so if he wants to come to Han Xiu, he will naturally become a member of the loyal king's camp.However, Shen Sui thought that he was a straight minister. This person was notoriously straight-tempered, and he repeatedly made outright remonstrances, which annoyed the saint.In fact, Han Xiu is a very simple person. It is unlikely that he will be involved in the court battle. Even if he is involved, it will be difficult to win to the end with his temper.Therefore, Shen Sui basically excluded them.

Right now, there is one person whose behavior confuses Shen Sui, and that is Ming Gui.Originally, Shen Sui also believed that Ming Gui was a neutral position and should not be involved in the battle for the reserve position.But on the day of the incident, after Ming Gui talked to her, Shen Sui felt his scalp tingling.Because Ming Gui's words were inside and out, it seemed to be implying that Shen Sui should not get involved in the case too much, and leave everything to him to investigate.As the de facto highest official of Dali Temple, Ming Gui suddenly went into battle in person, not to mention that Shen Sui, the most powerful general under him, was actually left out by him, which is really unimaginable.

What secret is Ming Gui hiding?He's already in line?Or the case of Concubine Wu Hui, he was also involved in it, so he didn't want Shen Sui to find out?

With many doubts, Shen Sui left the princess mansion of the Jin Kingdom and entered the palace again to investigate.Although the sage did not allow her to pass through the princess mansion at will, the palace gate pass order given to her back then has not been withdrawn.Therefore, there is no problem for her to enter the palace.

The legs are on Shen Sui's body, Ming Gui can't control her if she wants to enter the palace to investigate the case.Shen Sui's first investigation target was the crime scene - Pearl Mirror Palace.But before that, she went to the general prison first, and looked through the recent repair records of various ministries in the palace.After that, she came outside the Pearl Mirror Hall.To Shen Sui's surprise, the Pearl Mirror Hall has been blocked by the Jinwu Guards, and the servants and maids who originally belonged to the Pearl Mirror Hall have been taken away by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the entire Pearl Mirror Hall has completely become a forbidden area.As for Concubine Wu Hui's body, it had already been restrained, and Shen Sui didn't know where it was right now.Yesterday, Shen Sui strongly asked Ming Gui to keep Concubine Wu Hui's body and ask her to conduct an autopsy to investigate the cause of death carefully, but it is not known whether Ming Gui has followed her request.

Looking at it now, does Minggui really want to completely exclude her from this case?There was an ominous premonition in Shen Sui's heart, she stepped forward and showed her token of Dali Temple, but the Jinwu Guard didn't stop her, and let her enter the Pearl Mirror Hall.Shen Sui breathed a sigh of relief, at least she was still able to enter and leave the scene of the crime, which meant that Ming Gui's interest in the case was not very great.

She went straight through the front hall and headed for the sleeping hall at the back.In the sleeping hall, everything seemed to be in the same state as when the crime happened, but after a careful search, Shen Sui found that the scene had been carefully cleaned.Some inconspicuous dust and stains that she had noticed before were wiped off, and most of the items that were originally placed in the house were also taken away.Including the items in the dressing table in the bedroom that Shen Sui most wanted to check.There used to be a lot of jewelry, accessories and dowry placed there. Shen Sui had been eyeing this place yesterday, but because of the interrogation episode of Li Jinyue, she didn't have a chance to check it out.Now, she clearly missed the opportunity entirely.

She put her arms around her chest, feeling a little headache.This is troublesome, there is nothing left of what she wanted to check, how can I check it?

Fortunately, I'm afraid no one has noticed that.

She went out of the bedroom again, came to the backyard, and looked at the eaves directly above the bedroom.Suddenly sprinting out, pumping up her energy and lightening her body, she pedaled alternately on the railing and the pillars with her feet, first turned over on the roof of the relatively low servant class room, and then quickly moved along the roof to the roof of the dormitory. Finally, she stopped The footsteps lingered in the direction east of the center of the roof for a moment, then squatted down, took out a small dagger from the leather bag hanging on the waist, and began to scrape the clay glued in the tiles, and it turned out to be the removal of the roof tiles. .

She moved very nimbly, and quickly removed about eight tiles from the roof. Then she stared down, with a smile on her lips.

I found it, and it was exactly as she expected.She scraped a few times with a dagger on the wooden rafters under the roof tiles, and scraped off a large thick, ointment-like black lumpy condensation, which smelled a strange and slightly pungent fragrance, just It is the source of the fragrance in the temple.She took a clean veil, wiped the black ointment from the dagger on the veil, wrapped the veil and put it in her arms, put the dagger back into the skin bag, put the tiles back in place, and then rolled over and got off the roof.

Where should we go next?Shen Sui lingered in the backyard of the Pearl Mirror Hall for a while, then turned around and left the Pearl Mirror Hall, heading for the Ministry of Internal Affairs.She had some questions, and wanted to ask the two maids who attended the bed that night—Dong Ling and Xia Qi.She had only talked to Dongling before, Xia Qi was taciturn and never spoke, Shen Sui knew nothing about her except her name.So she was the one she most wanted to ask.Was what she saw and heard that night the same as Dong Ling?It is crucial to determine this.

But what Shen Sui didn't expect was that as soon as she stepped into the scope of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, she heard several internal servants discussing something in a panic.Shen Sui did not step forward to disturb, but hid in a hiding place and listened attentively.Then I caught the second half of the sentence of a servant trembling with fear:

"...It was the ghost of Princess Taiping who appeared and killed Concubine Hui."

"Don't talk nonsense! You're going to lose your head!" Another servant stopped him.

"Pearl Mirror Hall was originally the residence of Princess Taiping before leaving the pavilion. Moreover, I heard that something happened in the former site of Princess Taiping's mansion, which is now Princess Jin's mansion. There was a soldier in the Jinwu Guard who said it was I saw something unclean in the Princess Jin's mansion." The servant argued.

"Really..." No. 3 waiter seemed to believe his words, tremblingly said.

"Right now, it's all spread. I just came back from the Xianju Palace, the Concubine Hua's place, and all the maids and servants there are talking about it."

Shen Sui was in the dark, listening to these words, the corners of his lips slightly raised, a smile that was not a smile.

Interesting, was that the original purpose?

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