Tang riddles

This night is destined to be an eventful night.At the time of the chaos in Chongyifang, a shrill scream from a woman suddenly sounded in the Jin Kingdom Princess Mansion located in Changlefang.In the guest room in the West Wing, Zhang Ruohan, who was sleeping, suddenly woke up. When she got up, she found that there was another person beside her. It turned out that Shen Sui had returned at some time, and sat up before her, and was sitting on the edge of the bed, wearing shoes.

"Chishi? I don't even know when you came back..." Zhang Ruohan asked in a daze, feeling a little dizzy.

"I just lay down not long ago." Shen Sui said.

"What happened outside?" Zhang Ruohan also stayed on the bed.

"Lotus Maid, just sleep a little longer, I'll go." Shen Sui knew that Zhang Ruohan must have felt unwell when he woke up from a deep sleep.

"I'm fine, I'll be with you." Zhang Ruohan insisted.

"Okay." Shen Sui didn't say anything else, she quickly put on her clothes, helped Zhang Ruohan dress and cut her hair, then lifted her own snow knife with one hand, took Zhang Ruohan with the other, and walked out of the room.

Shen Sui roughly judged the source of the screams, and decided to go north of the Princess Mansion.

At the same time, Yang Yuhuan, who was sleeping soundly, was also awakened.The little girl lay on the couch with her eyes open, unable to react for a moment.After a while, she called to the maid beside her:

"Listen to the rain, listen to the rain?"

"Little lady." Outside the dormitory, Ting Yu came in.Tingyu was originally Li Jinyue's maid, but because Yang Yuhuan has moved to Li Jinyue's main courtyard recently, she ate and slept with Li Jinyue, so Tingyu became Yang Yuhuan's maid.

"Has the princess not come back yet?" Yang Yuhuan's first question was not the exclamation just now, but where Li Jinyue was.

"Not long after I came back, I'm currently taking a bath in the bathroom."

"What happened outside?" She just asked.

"I don't know, the guards on duty should have gone to see it. If something happens, someone will come to report to the princess."

Yang Yuhuan nodded, feeling tired and her eyelids looked heavy.Gu Zi sat on the bed with her knees hugged, her black hair flowing down her back, and the ends of her hair scattered on the bed, her chin was resting on her arms folded on her knees, and she said to Yu listlessly:

"Go and rest, I'll wait for the princess to come."

Ting Yu glanced at the new guest of the Princess Mansion, and responded: "Here." When she turned to leave, she couldn't help but feel strange emotions once again in her heart. Could it be that this little lady will really become our daughter in the future? Master?This is already the common conjecture of all the servants in Princess Jin's Mansion.

After Ting Yu left, the little girl glanced at the cold and empty bed beside her, couldn't help sighing, and pursed her lips unhappily.Why hasn't Yue'er come yet? I'm so sleepy.

When the exclamation sounded, Li Jinyue had just finished washing her hair, and had not been soaking in the tub for a long time.Hearing the ear-piercing screams from the north, she frowned, and stood up from the bathtub with a "wow".Li Jinyue doesn't like being served by others when taking a bath, she does everything by herself, this is a habit she has developed in the military camp.She hastily twisted her wet hair with a dry towel, dried her body and put on her clothes, quickly pushed away the bathrooms, and walked out with bare feet and toothless wooden clogs.Her wet hair hadn't been bundled up yet, and all of it was scattered on her back, wet the back of her white robe.She hurriedly walked towards the front hall of the main courtyard.

Walking on the corridor, I bumped into a female guard from the Gongyue Army hastily entering the gate of the main courtyard, and was about to leave for the front hall.Li Jinyue stopped her immediately, and the female guard hurried forward to salute, Li Jinyue found that her complexion was pale and not very good-looking.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Reporting to the princess, someone died in Beiyuan, Beiyuan Yelang Chen Bi... died."

"Chen Bi? Who?" Li Jinyue was a little confused. Even though they were from her family, she didn't know everyone, let alone just a Yelang who cleaned the pails and picked up excrement and urine.

"Chen Bi is an old slave in the mansion. He used to be a servant in the palace. Just after the princess mansion was built, he was transferred from the palace to the mansion. He has always been Yelang in the mansion. Now he is very old, but Somehow, he was killed, and the way of death was quite miserable."

"How did you die?" Li Jinyue had already started to go to Beiyuan to have a look, but the female guard hurriedly stopped her and said:

"Princess, don't go, so as not to stain your eyes. The place where Chen Bi lived was already smelly and messy, and his head was cut off and held in his own arms. He died a terrible death." .”

Li Jinyue frowned even tighter: "Can you see the murderer?"

"No, the patrolling soldiers never found any suspicious person sneaking into the mansion."

"I'm afraid he's a master." Li Jinyue said, she turned and walked to the back bedroom, and told the female guard, "I'll go change my clothes and I'll be here in a while, just wait and show me the way later."

"Yes." The female guard knew that her persuasion might be ineffective.

When Li Jinyue hurried to the door of the dormitory, Tingyu happened to be standing there.Seeing Li Jinyue coming, she immediately curtseyed.

"Yuhuan is awake?" Li Jinyue asked.

"Yes, I'm waiting for you." Ting Yu said.

"Bring me a set of plain clothes that are easy to move. I want to change into them." Li Jinyue ordered.

"Here."

As soon as Li Jinyue stepped into the dormitory, there was a gust of fragrant wind. She opened her arms, and the girl threw herself into her arms, and she had to take two steps back to stabilize her figure.

"You girl, I'm going to be broken by you sooner or later." Li Jinyue stroked her hair and smiled.

"I miss you so much." The girl whispered.

"Well, me too." Li Jinyue kissed the top of her hair, "But I can't help it, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight. Something happened in the house, and I have to deal with it."

"Then I'll be with you." Yang Yuhuan looked up at her and said.

"No, you'd better not go." Li Jinyue shook her head.

"I...I want to go..." Yang Yuhuan said, "I also want to know what you are doing."

"Huan'er, if I'm just talking with Bo Zhao and the others on weekdays, I'll take you there. But this time it's different. Someone died in the mansion, and you have to go to the scene of the murder? It's scary." Li Jinyue patiently explained .

"I..." Yang Yuhuan hesitated, "Then I'll wait for you outside, I won't go in. Anyway, I can't sleep now, I want to be with you."

Li Jinyue thought for a while and said, "Okay, let's go change."

The little girl smiled happily, tiptoed to kiss the corner of her lips, and then quickly ran back to change her clothes.By the time both of them had changed their clothes and arrived at the scene led by the female guards, Shen Sui and Zhang Ruohan had already completed the preliminary on-site investigation.

The crime scene was in a corner of Beiyuan, in a small yard separated by a fence.Yang Yuhuan was so obedient that he didn't go in, but just stood outside and waited. When Li Jinyue walked into the scene, Shen Suizheng and Zhang Ruohan were standing not far from the crime scene, talking in a low voice.When Li Jinyue walked over, it was Zhang Ruohan who saw her first, and then Shen Sui followed Zhang Ruohan's gaze.

"Maomao, you're here." Shen Sui said, "Come on, I'll take you to see the scene."

As she spoke, she turned around and walked towards the northeast corner of the small courtyard. Li Jinyue glanced at Zhang Ruohan, who understood her meaning and replied:

"This person died too strangely, Maomao, Chishi and I speculate that this person may have a deeper background."

Li Jinyue nodded.

Shen Sui, who was in front, had already walked to the side of the corpse, and turned sideways for Li Jinyue to look at.Li Jinyue immediately frowned, and saw a headless male corpse kneeling on the ground. His body was so stiff that he could maintain the kneeling position all the time.And in his arms, he was holding his own severed head. The section of his neck was very smooth, and it should have been chopped off with a sharp knife.Some dust and grass seeds were stained on the head, the expression looked confused, and the eyes were wide open, as if staring into the distance.The deceased looked old, at least past the age of knowing destiny.There was an unpleasant stench around his residence, coupled with the strong smell of blood on the corpse, it made the whole scene very strange and frightening.

"It has been at least an hour and a half since this person died. Calculating the time, he may have been killed at the beginning of Hai. At that time, both of us were still in the Zhongwang Mansion. The maidservant Lian said that she had already gone to bed at that time, and the mansion was basically No one will come to Beiyuan." Shen Sui said to Li Jinyue.

"Then how was this person discovered? Who was that screaming person?"

Shen Sui pointed to the woman squatting under the eaves of the hut in the distance, surrounded by several female guards, and said:

"It's her. I asked her. Her name is Zhen'er. She is the adopted daughter of the deceased. She is a washer in your mansion. She works until late at night every day, and she returns home at this time. When she came back, she was found His adoptive father died under the courtyard wall of Beiyuan."

"Steward Wang!" Li Jinyue yelled, she was calling the steward of Princess Jin's Mansion, named Wang Wen, who used to be a high-ranking servant in the palace, and was once the head of the Treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.After Princess Jin came out of the pavilion to build a mansion, he was transferred to be the manager of the princess mansion. He was actually Gao Lishi's eyeliner, responsible for monitoring Li Jinyue.Everyone is well aware of this matter, but it has not been exposed on the surface.Wang Wen is a very capable person. Under his management, everything in the Princess Mansion is in order. He is also very knowledgeable and rarely provokes the relationship between Li Jinyue and the saint, so Li Jinyue is very tolerant to him.

Wang Wen, who was comforting Zhen'er, heard Li Jinyue calling him, hurried over and saluted Li Jinyue.

"What happened to the deceased Chen Bi? How did he get into the princess mansion, what did he do before? Who did he offend?" When Li Jinyue asked, her tone was calm, but her anger was already evident.Wang Wen broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly replied:

"Back to the princess, the old slave is not very clear. This Chen Bi heard that he was a servant who made a mistake in the palace and was kicked out. He came to me and asked me to give him a place to live. He is already homeless. The old slave had some friendship with him, so he made him the Yelang of the princess mansion. The old slave knew that he was a scapegoat, so he was afraid that he would harm the princess, so he kept him far away on purpose and never let him get close Princess. The old slave didn’t expect that he would... oh..."

"This man turned out to be a guilty servant..." Li Jinyue murmured to herself in a low voice, "It's just that the way he died was too cruel. If it wasn't for the deep hatred, I'm afraid he wouldn't kill like this. Moreover, the murderer is obviously very serious. Good at swordsmanship, able to cut off the head with a single knife, definitely not an easy person."

"That's right." Shen Sui analyzed, "The murderer was a person who was acquainted with the deceased. Before he drew the knife to kill, the deceased might not have realized that he would be killed. The murderer should be a very tall man, at least half a head taller than the deceased. He attacked from the back of the deceased, and his sword skills were faster than lightning, so that the deceased was decapitated without realizing it. After cutting off the head of the deceased, the murderer put the body of the deceased in a kneeling position and asked the deceased to hold his own head. This posture may represent some special meaning."

"Is it related to those recent cases?" Li Jinyue looked at Shen Sui, she didn't make it very clear, but Shen Sui knew that she was asking if Qin Zhen arranged for someone to do this case.

Shen Sui just shook her head, her face became very serious, and said:

"Anayi and the others are in prison. I don't know who else will continue to commit crimes. Maomao, I'm very worried..." She stared at Li Jinyue's eyes, leaned into her ear and whispered, "I'm worried about my grandpa. He was being used, he thought he did it all, but in fact, it wasn't at all, he voluntarily became someone else's scapegoat."

Li Jinyue shuddered.

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