Tang riddles

On May [-]th, Shen Sui, the special pusher who had just been appointed to investigate the serious murder case of the Five Elements in Chang'an, suddenly declared sick and submitted a medical leave letter to the imperial court. The sage allowed three days of sick leave. Three must report to Dali Temple to continue the investigation of the murder case.

Shen Sui was not making excuses, she was really sick.After returning from the prison, she fell into a high fever.Colleagues from the investigation team came to see her one after another, and everyone was taken aback by her severe illness. Shen Sui, who was always in good health, suddenly became so seriously ill, which really caught people off guard.

Zhang Ruohan was very worried, and stayed by Shen Sui's sick bed all the time, taking care of her in her clothes.Shen Sui was unconscious, sometimes falsely awake and sometimes fainted, and occasionally uttered inexplicable and ambiguous words, which could not be understood. Only some broken words were caught by Zhang Ruohan, and she stayed by Shen Sui's sickbed for a whole night Finally, he probably understood what happened to Shen Sui.

The memory of the night of the fire in Princess Taiping's mansion that was sealed deep in her heart finally returned.

During this time, everyone in Shen's residence got the news that Anna Yi suddenly died violently in the sky prison. Wu's autopsy confirmed that the tumor in the brain burst and the seven orifices bled to death.Annayi's death was so strange that Minggui suspected that there was something hidden in it, so he invited a descendant of the famous doctor in Chang'an, the medicine king Sun Simiao, to perform a new autopsy.It is concluded that this woman was poisoned by a very rare and extremely venomous Gu in the southwestern Bashu area in the early years, called Zhenyan Gu. When a person has the idea of ​​betraying the person who cast the Gu, the Gu poison will be poisonous, quickly destroying the human brain, and killing the person within half an hour.

Zhang Ruohan understood that Annayi's sudden death must be related to Shen Sui.Who was the one who played tricks on her?Could it be Qin Zhen?Zhang Ruohan intuitively thought it was not. After discussing with Shen Jin, Qianhe and others, everyone agreed that there might be something hidden about Annayi.The instigator was not Qin Zhen, but she might have done something to betray the instigator during her contact with Shen Sui, and she died of poisoning.

Zhang Ruohan searched for the robe Shen Sui was wearing at that time, and found a white silk gold ribbon and a jasper whistle in her sleeve pocket.She had never seen these two things before, so she judged that Anna Yi gave them to Shen Sui.She studied the two items carefully with Shen Jin, Qianhe, and Yingniang. The white silk and gold silk straps kept them puzzled. The only progress was that they found something in the whistle and opened it. The way is to find the corresponding password.There is a knob at the bottom of the small whistle, and around the knob is a circle of coordinates engraved with strange long and short line scales.Zhang Ruohan has seen this thing in Qianyumen. It is almost the same as the letterbox used by Qianyumen to transmit encrypted files. It is necessary to check the code and turn the knob to the specified scale to open the letterbox.So the question is, what exactly is the password?

Zhang Ruohan couldn't leave Shen Sui's couch. Shen Jin and Qianhe made a special trip to the Chang'an headquarters to mobilize all the password data left by the Chang'an headquarters to check. After spending a whole day and night, they finally found the password.It was a coincidence that Shen Jin actually found the wooden knife that Shen Sui used to practice the knife in the warehouse of the Chang'an headquarters, and found a small mechanism in the handle of the wooden knife, and there was a piece of yellowed password paper hidden in it.

So they hurriedly opened the jade flute, but what they took out was a piece of cowhide that had been cut into a very small size. On the cowhide was a map drawn with extremely fine brushwork. Shen Jin recognized that this map was where they were in Chong Yifang map.There is a point marked on the map, which happens to be within the Shen Mansion where Shen Sui and the others live now, and it is marked on the edge of the point that there are secret items hidden under the dry well.

"Is this a dry well?" Shen Jin was surprised, "I didn't even know there was a dry well in our house."

"This house was originally the place where Chishi and her... daddy lived. At that time, we were married not long ago. When we first came to Chang'an, she bought the house here. Later...we don't live here anymore. The house was sold, changed hands several times, and was finally bought back by Chishi. This child also has a heart." Qin Lian appeared next to them at some point, probably overheard them discussing the map.

It turned out that this house was actually the place where Yin Yu and Qin Lian lived, no wonder Shen Sui bought this house on purpose.It's just that she didn't tell anyone, even Zhang Ruohan didn't know about it.

"Come with me, I know the location of that well." Qin Lian asked Xiao Yuan to push the wheelchair, and led the crowd to the northwest corner of the backyard of the Shen residence.A carpentry workshop was built there, Shen Sui likes to do handicrafts here whenever he has free time.

Qin Lian smiled and said: "This child really resembles her father."

"Is the dry well under the carpentry room?" Zhang Ruohan asked.

"Well, let me see, it's probably around here." Qin Lian pointed to the westernmost end of the carpentry workshop.

Everyone entered the carpentry room. At the position Qin Lian pointed out, Hutuo and two other attendants in the house took tools and pried open the floor below. What they saw was only a layer of soft black mud below. A shovel came, shoveled the soil away, and dug down a few feet, when the shovel hit something hard with a "clang".After removing the soil and taking a closer look, it turned out to be a large bluestone slab with a very smooth surface.The bluestone slab is very thick, and it took a few people to barely remove it.After being removed, the dry well finally revealed its original appearance, with its dark opening waiting for everyone to explore.At this time, the few men who were working were out of breath and sweating profusely from exhaustion.After a whole afternoon of work, it was already the evening of the first day of June. The sky was dark, and nothing could be seen below. However, the matter was urgent. After the discussion, everyone planned to go down to the well overnight to search.

Everyone went to have a hasty dinner first, then found a large number of candle oil lamps for lighting, lit them around the dry well, and Kuta went down the well first.He tied a rope around his waist and dug it down bit by bit. The dry well was really deep. After going down a foot deep, he still didn't reach the bottom.Hutuo had no choice but to light the fire folder, because it was too dark around him, and he could no longer see things.When he descended to a position of about two feet, Hutuo finally landed on both feet, stepping on the wet bottom of the well covered with grass leaves.

Shen Jin found the glazed oil lamp made by Shen Sui before, lit it, tied it with a rope and lowered it down bit by bit, and finally hung it on the top of Hutuo's head, so that Hutuo could have both hands free.Kuta stood at the bottom of the narrow well and searched everywhere, but after an hour, there was no progress.The damp, hot and musty environment at the bottom of the well already made Hutuo feel very uncomfortable.

"Hutuo, why don't you come up first, let's rest first and change people before going down." Shen Jin shouted from above.

"No, I can still look for it again, I must have missed something." Hutuo said stubbornly, probably stimulated by what happened in Shen Sui's prison, Hutuo wanted to find the secret hidden in the things Annayi gave to Shen Sui.

"Try to see if there are any loose bricks." Qin Lian shouted.

"I'm looking for it, but there are too many, I don't know which one it is." Hutuo replied below.

Shen Jin suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly picked up the white silk and gold silk hairband, unfolded it and took a closer look.Under the perspective of the light, the gold thread can be seen to be embroidered with faint silver thread, and the silver thread forms a pattern of a Suzaku bird with its head facing down.With a flash of inspiration, Shen Jin hurriedly said:

"South! The last brick on the south!"

"Which side is south?" Hutuo asked hastily as he was down the well and couldn't tell the direction.

"Behind you!" Shen Jin reminded from above.

Hu Tuo turned around, squatted down immediately, and checked the few bricks at the bottom. At first, he found nothing. He was very disappointed, but suddenly remembered that at least 20 years had passed since Yin Yu hid his things, so he immediately started to clean the bottom of the well. weeds and moss.Sure enough, as he expected, several layers of bricks appeared below. It didn't take long for him to find the loose bricks and pull them out. He reached in and found a rusty copper box after a while.

"Found it!" Hutuo exclaimed excitedly, and then he checked the gap carefully to make sure that there was nothing else in it, and then he climbed up the well with the copper box.

"This person...maybe she knew her life was not long, and she had already noticed that there was something wrong with the people around her. It's just that she wasn't sure, and there was still a little luck left. Otherwise, she wouldn't have kept things so secretive, She even handed over the clues to Annayi who didn't know if she could trust her. At that time, there was probably no one else she could trust." Qin Lian looked at the copper box in Hutuo's hand and said sadly.

After hearing this, everyone became depressed.Shen Jin pursed his lips and said:

"Let's take a look at what's inside first." As she spoke, she opened the copper box carefully.The copper box was not locked, but the surrounding area was welded tightly and airtight by a special method. After several years of corrosion, the welded part was broken, so it was easy to open.Inside the copper box is a moisture-proof oilcloth bag, which is tightly wrapped on the left and right layers.After opening it, there was a thin letter inside, packed in a good kit bag.

Shen Jin trembled, wondering if he should open the envelope, but in the end Qin Lian took the letter and opened it to read.The others did not go over to watch together, but just observed Qin Lian's expression, her expression was always so sad that she shed tears at the end.After reading the letter, she handed the letter to Shen Jin, pulled Yiyan beside her and said:

"Xiaoniang, you go out with me for a walk."

Yizhuo was a little surprised, looked at Qin Lian, then at Shen Jin and the others, and finally hesitated to speak, followed Qin Lian and Xiao Yuan out of the carpentry room.

Only then did Shen Jin start to read the letter, and Yin Yu's familiar chic handwriting returned to her vision after 20 years. She read the first line of writing, and tears filled her eyes.

[Worshipers like to meet:

If I can find this letter, I must already have some understanding of what happened to Yu.I leave this letter to prevent future generations from falling into the same harm as me.The person who harmed Yu was Lu Yifeng, Yu's side attendant, whose real identity was Yin Yuyue, the son of Wang Shulang from Luanhuang Yin's family a hundred years ago.At the time of writing, I was not sure about this matter. If future generations can read this letter, they should be able to confirm it.

You should have some contact with Annayi, if she encounters misfortune, I hope you can be buried with her.

In the second half of his life, Yu was full of grievances. He conspired with Qin Zhen and Lu Yi, intending to take revenge on the imperial court. In ten years, he overthrew three generations of emperors, resulting in instability of the government and countless grievances.I know that I have committed a serious crime, and those who watch and believe can advise my future generations not to have a heart of revenge and not to step on the road of revenge.

The heart of Yuyue can withstand the darkness of the abyss.Taste good at disguising, especially good at watching people's behavior, imitating every move is the same.Li Daitao is stiff and hits the key figure in the situation, which is his usual trick.The only flaw is that the little finger of his left hand was broken when he was young, and the second joint was crooked.Yuyue also knew it in her heart, as a disguise, keep it in mind.

If you find Yuyue, you should get rid of it to avoid future troubles, and you must not be deceived by it with compassion.

Mengchun is still cold, the wind and rain are dark, and the time is full of hope.The book is not exhaustive, photographed by Fu Weizhen.

域字

The first month of Renzi year]

With trembling lips, tears streaming down his face, Shen Jin read the letter intermittently in a hoarse voice.

Suddenly, Kuta thought of something and murmured:

"No wonder Da Lang kept talking about 'protecting his mother' and 'he killed for his mother' in the carriage. It turned out that Yin Yuyue had an unreasonable desire for pity for his wife. In this way, he killed so many people for his sake of pity for his wife. ..."

Everyone couldn't help feeling sick when they heard the words, and they were speechless for a while.

The night outside was dark, and I could faintly hear the weeping voice of Yi Mao in the distance.

……

The next morning, the visitors to Shen's residence were Sima Chengzhen and his apprentice who hadn't seen each other for many years.Shen Jin received them with red eyes. The master and apprentice came, and before exchanging greetings, they spoke bluntly:

"The corpse we found in the secret passage back then was not Yin Yuyue. Yin Yuyue's left little finger was deformed, but his little finger was intact. We have been investigating Yin Yuyue's whereabouts for the past few years. Now this person may have come to Chang'an. Let us remind Bo Zhao Be careful, she is Yin Yuyue's biggest target right now."

The author has something to say: the bug has been caught.The next chapter will begin to write about the eve of the fire in Princess Taiping’s Mansion and the events of the outbreak, and will fill in some details.