It's not good to be a courtier

Ting Wei Shen Ruoli was at home having a banquet when he received the edict. At that time, he was about to enter the eighth day of the lunar new year. Before he arrived at the Si Ya, he somehow received the edict and came to the Plum Garden. After a circle, I feel that the facts are very clear. I just need to invite the lady to ask and the truth will be revealed, why Tingwei needs to take action.

After Fengyang changed his clothes, he put on the phoenix clothes and put on the phoenix hairpin. Shen Ruoli had already stood with his arms folded in the corridor of the atrium and waited for a while. At that time, he was standing beside him. The topic of conversation is actually Wang Qi, it is Wang Qi!

Regardless of his twenty-four years of age, Shen Ruoli was afraid that his old eyes would misunderstand the wrong person, so he stood there for a moment and rubbed his eyes seven or eight times, finally attracting Wang Qi's attention, Wang Qi said: "No matter how much you rub your eyes, my lord, I can't grow flowers on my face either."

"It's really a living Wang Qi," Shen Ruoli said flattered, and rubbed his hands vigorously, "Xiaguan Jiuwen has heard of Mr. Wang Qi's name. When I saw you today, it really is..."

"Princess is here!" Everyone in the courtyard fell down, Shen Ruoli saluted immediately, a pair of snow-blue shoes walked by him, and after a while, a crisp voice sounded, "Master Shen, how is the investigation going?"

Shen Ruoli immediately replied: "The facts of this case are simple and the events are clear. The lower officials have already made conclusions. Please ask the princess to investigate clearly."

"Oh, so fast," Feng Yang raised his eyebrows slightly, and tapped lightly on the table with his left hand, the phoenix ring flashed brightly, fascinating people's eyes, "Tell me, does this matter have something to do with Young General Feng?"

"It's not related," Shen Ruoli clasped his hands, "According to the testimonies of the princess, your highness, sir, and the young son of the Cui family, combined with Shao General Feng's pulse, the major general should have drunk the special drunken wine by mistake. When the lower officials questioned Miss Cui's servants, one of the servants confessed to have had contact with this wine, and today Miss Cui personally ordered it to be given to Young Master Cui and his friends to drink."

"What is rouge drunk?" Feng Yang asked, this wine has never been heard of before, and it has never been heard of before, judging from its name, its origin is extraordinary.

Shen Ruoli clasped his hands again and said: "Mr. should be more familiar with this wine than Xiaguan."

Wang Qi restrained his face and said lightly: "Rouge is drunk. It is brewed by the grass people according to the ancient recipe passed down in the "Nanshan Wine Classic". , the wine has a mellow aroma, and you can pour it down when you smell it. The bamboo charcoal burning in the snow pavilion today, the aroma of the wine is pervasive and lingering, even if you don’t drink this wine, you can still make people drunk. It’s a small altar, enough people and things to know for a long time.”

"Since you know that you are drunk with rouge, and you know that the wine is so intoxicating, why don't you dissuade General Feng and Xiao'er, and why did you pass out drunk in the pavilion without knowing it? You are clearly lying." Cui Xie asked.

Wang Qi narrowed his eyes and glanced at Cui Xieshi lightly, without saying a word.Feng Yang said: "In other words, Feng Yan disappeared after the two of you were drunk in the pavilion. It was two quarters ago, and I met him in the garden a quarter ago, and there was a quarter of time between them. At this moment, the servant girl of the Cui family was killed, how will she die?"

Shen Ruoli clasped her hands and continued: "The servant girl of the Cui family was stabbed with a knife in her chest, her body was covered in blood, and she died. The knife hit the heart impartially, and the technique of the knife was sharp and precise. It must be Lian Jiazi who struck."

"Young General Feng is such a Lianjiazi, isn't he?" Cui Xie said, "He grew up in the army since he was a child, and he is also the son of the Great General of Zhenguo. First place."

Feng Yang lightly tapped the handle of the carved chair with his right hand, and suddenly said: "I heard that the ancestors of the Cui family in Boling didn't like you very much, and at first I was very surprised. Madam is elegant and dignified. Dafang, why didn't he please the ancestors, now it seems that he knows some reasons."

Cui Xie's face flushed, and he said coldly: "Just ask, how many daughter-in-laws in the world can win the favor of mother-in-law."

Feng Yang smiled, raised his eyes to signal Shen Ruoli to continue, Shen Ruoli got the instructions and continued: "But this maid actually suffocated to death, and the blood on her body was also the chicken blood that was reapplied after the incident. The knife was also reapplied later, so the place where she was killed There was no splatter-type radial bloodstain, because the blood flow slowed down after the maidservant died."

"Oh, it is indeed suspicious to spend so much effort to cover up the traces of the murder. Can Mr. Shen make a judgment?" Feng Yang frowned and asked in a deep voice.

Shen Ruoli was about to speak, but Cui Xie robbed him and said, "Even so, it doesn't mean that the person was not killed by General Feng Shao. Where was he when General Feng disappeared?"

Feng Yang showed slight displeasure, because this Cui Xie family is really annoying.Just as she was about to speak, a lady in purple clothes came out from the crowd, and she knelt down in front of Fengyang with a "plop" of excitement, and said with the courage of a strong man: "My daughter has something to say, please allow me to speak, Your Highness the Princess."

Feng Yang raised his eyes, and the purple-clothed woman raised a delicate melon-seeded face, she was very at ease, she came out with unreasonable courage and stood in front of people.She raised her eyebrows and said enthusiastically, "Oh, tell me."

"Although the status of the courtier is low, she is sincere to the major general. The major general is covering up for the courtier, and the courtier feels ashamed. The major general was with the courtier two quarters ago." With deep affection, he bowed his head and said: "If the princess doesn't believe it, you can ask the young man next to you. He was there at that time and can testify for my daughter."

Feng Yang couldn't help laughing out loud, seeing Murong Qi's gloomy face, he paused and said: "Oh, I heard something really interesting today, you mean that you and General Feng had a private exchange At that time, my Eighteenth Brother was also present. What role did he play at that time, could it be a watchdog?"

The purple-clothed woman never expected that the young man who had never said a word was actually the prince, her face turned pale for a moment, she bit her lips tightly and said nothing.

Feng Yang took a sip of the cup of tea in front of him, put it down slowly, and then said: "Girl, you don't look at the occasion, nor do you look at whether you are worthy, but tell me, did you have a cup of tea two quarters ago?" Have you seen Feng Yan?"

The purple-clothed woman said with a trembling voice: "Qi...Princess, my servant has seen it before. At that time, my servant...was enjoying plum blossoms in the plum grove, and I happened to see His Highness and Young General Feng passing by."

"What this lady said is really suspicious. One moment she said that she had a great friendship with General Feng Shao, and the next moment she said that she just saw it. It's hard to believe." Cui Jiazhi said.

Feng Yang looked at Shen Ruoli, and Shen Ruoli said: "Actually, there is no need to be so troublesome. The murderer set up a suspicious formation to cover up one thing. Your Royal Highness, please check that all the princes present have someone wearing a jade wrench on their right hand." He walked towards Feng Yan. , took a closer look at his right hand, and quietly stood aside.

After a while, all the people wearing jade ring fingers in the garden stood in the atrium. Shen Ruoli checked and ruled them out one by one, with a serious face. Take off the wrench." The man hesitated for a moment, then suddenly knelt down and said, "Princess, please don't check, the one who strangled that maidservant was the servant."

Feng Yang stared at the emerald green finger wrench for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Why did you strangle that maid?"

The young master blushed and said: "It was just a romantic relationship. Afterwards, this lowly maid threatened me to marry her as a concubine, and even said that I would ruin my reputation. In a moment of anger, I strangled her to death."

"Then who covered it up for you afterwards, so there is no doubt?" Feng Yang asked, motioning Shen Ruoli, who was about to speak, to shut up, "I remember that my mother once praised you in front of me, Huan Tan, saying that you are clean and self-sufficient. , upright and upright, he is a rare good son of the Huan family."

Huan Tan laughed at himself with a pale face: "The Empress has misunderstood this minister, who has a human face and a heart of beasts. I can't bear this comment. I beg Your Royal Highness to forgive me."

Feng Yang cast a mocking look at Huan Tan who was lying on the ground, and said to Shen Ruoli, "Go on."

Shen Ruoli said again: "Those who have been to the flower pavilion should be familiar with the smell of the flower pavilion. There is a heavy lotus fragrance burning in the flower pavilion. Just now I came closer and smelled it. Mr. Huan does not have this fragrance on him. And this jade Lord Huan does not own the ring finger, and the person who wears the finger ring all the year round will have a deep mark on the thumb, and the murderer can only find someone suitable for this jade finger ring in a hurry, so the flaw is exposed."

"Would it be too sloppy to think of a murder case based on this alone." Murong You suddenly said.

Shen Ruoli cupped his hands and said to Fengyang: "The evidence is all there, just ask Miss Cui's family to find out the inside story, the minister's judgment is over here, please forgive me, Your Highness the Princess."

Feng Yang supported his forehead with his hands, his eyes dropped, and after a while he finally said: "Bring Cui Long'er!"

Cui Xie couldn't hide her panic, and hurriedly said: "Longer, she caught the wind and cold, and she didn't even go out of the yard today, so she doesn't know the reasons."

"Oh, what a coincidence, Bengong heard that she held two poetry ceremonies in a row two days ago, but she was very refreshed on happy occasions. How could she not join in the excitement today?"

"Your Highness...Your Highness," Cui Xie looked at Murong You, saw Murong You bowed his head and ignored him, and watched Zhuo Zhuo lead someone to pick him up, and stood aside with his fingers twisted.

Not a moment later, Cui Long'er slammed into the door in a panic, crying and saying: "I said, I said, I said it all." Without waiting for Fengyang to ask, she poured beans into a bamboo tube to make her arrangements in detail After confiding in it, Cui Xieshi stopped drinking again and again, but it didn't affect her in the slightest.

The matter has come to this point, the matter is basically clear, and then who is the murderer, but everyone is surprisingly unanimously silent.Fengyang took a group of people into custody and released those who should be released. On the sedan chair back to the palace, Fengyang looked at Murong Youyou's indifferent eyebrows and eyes and said suddenly: "Third brother, Fengyang remembers that you seem to have a jade piece too." Pulling the finger, I loved it when I first got it, and I have been wearing it and never took it off."

Murong You smiled faintly, "I broke that jade ring finger a long time ago. Unfortunately, this time, my hand was also injured, so I kept it in my sleeve and didn't take it out." He said and took out his hand from the sleeve. Come on, the thumb of the right hand is covered with blood. It was injured somehow, and the skin is very damaged.

"Third Brother, how did you get hurt? It's so serious, Zhuo Zhuo, call someone..." Feng Yang said anxiously.

"No need," Murong You withdrew his hand and put it in his sleeve again, and said calmly, "It's just that I was bitten hard by the cat I have always loved. It's okay, let's talk about it when we go back to the palace."

Feng Yang was startled, and laughed at himself, the cat I like very much, is that all?When did the two of them become so separated, walking so far away, as if there was a natural moat in the middle, and they couldn't take half a step back.

Murong You was silent for a while, as if thinking of something, he casually asked: "Why didn't Eighteenth Brother come back with us?"

"He..." Feng Yang put his hand on his forehead and said with a smile, "I'm also teasing the cat, so I'm not afraid of being bitten by that cat like Third Brother."

The excitement of the morning in Meiyuan has long since ended. Now that the Meiyuan is deep, it has changed from the bustle of the past and has become withered and deserted. Wang Qi holds a white feather fan and stands under the largest "Subai Terrace" in the Meiyuan. , standing with hands behind their backs, looking up at the blossoming tree, with erratic thoughts and far-sighted eyes.

"You haven't left yet?" A young man in white walked under the tree, his eyes flicked, and he said calmly, "I heard that you are now living alone and enlightened, do you understand?"

Wang Qi took a deep breath, turned to look at the young man in white and said, "Huan Tan, can this ridiculous competition of ours be over? You won."

Huan Tan pursed his lips, showing an innocent smile, "Obviously never, you have never tasted rouge intoxication, didn't you know from the beginning that this wine is imitation?"

"I didn't taste that wine because mandala was added to the spices burning in the snow pavilion, not because your rouge is as drunk as mine." Wang Qi frowned, a little impatiently.

Huan Tan raised his eyebrows, "So now you are just three inches away from me, because you smell my bones? You have been awake since the beginning, quietly watching this farce."

"You have too many murders in your hands, that's why I don't get close to you." Wang Qi said coldly, "Murong You is suspicious by nature and has no tolerance for others. It's only a matter of time before he bites back."

Huan Tan smiled shallowly, "Oh, you still care about me..."

"Huan Tan, the relationship between you and me was completely broken when you poisoned Wang Miao." Wang Qi turned his back, took a step, and said quietly: "From now on, you and I don't have to see each other again. "

Huan Tan's wonderful eyes were fixed on Wang Qi's back, his face was already pale, but his words were still calm, he said: "Tch, who cares, just passing by."

Wang Qi paused and walked away, Huantan's smiling face disappeared completely, the person had already disappeared, he still stood and looked into the distance, until a gray figure stepped in from the other side.

Huan Tan turned around immediately after hearing the sound, and when he saw the person coming, he smiled evilly, and joked: "His Eighteenth Highness is really impressive, mantis stalking cicadas and orioles are behind, no wonder even he will serve you."

Murong Qi looked back indifferently, and said quietly: "The reason why he served this Palace is because he wanted to find out the truth about that year. Don't you also want to know?"

"Wang Qi, who never forgets everything," Huan Tan laughed sarcastically, "He still can't let it go," his expression turned indifferent, "I can't let that bitch go!" After a while he turned to laughing and said, "Your Highness is looking for Huan Tan. , shouldn’t it be just a chat about the past?”

Murong Qi raised his eyes, Huan Tan's indistinct emotions surged in his amber eyes, but he found it interesting, only to hear the ten-year-old little baby open his lips and say coldly: "Kill Xue Zhiwei, I will Gong can consider telling you where Wang Miao is."

"Wang Miao is still alive!" Huan Tan's voice was suddenly sharp and fierce, "She, why is she? She lied to us, Wang Qi, and me..." Huan Tan trembled, Wang Miao was poisoned by no one in this world. I can understand, why she escaped, her thoughts flowed like a tide and settled down for a moment, another thing is the top priority, he said: "Xue Zhiwei came to Beijing on behalf of the Xue family, and his return is related to the direction of the Xue family, Your Highness Want to kill himself, or did he choose His Highness's enemy?"

Murong Qi raised his head slowly, his slanted eyes were filled with stretched plum blossoms, and after a long time, he asked: "Master Huan, what do you think this palace needs most now?"

Huan Tan said without hesitation: "Of course it is support!"

"Support?" Murong Qi snorted, and looked up at the blue sky, his eyes were distant and deep.