I wish for a long time

"When did it happen?"

Chu Shishen took out a booklet and handed it to the two, "Last night, it was discovered by the changing guard this morning."

Xiao Lanfeng glanced at it, raised his head in surprise, "Was killed by someone in the pavilion?"

Ye Jiu frowned when he heard this, "Since Mr. Fang is from Zhu Ge, he should have martial arts. Didn't he struggle?"

Chu Shishen took the words, "Fang Weihong is the deacon division among the three divisions, in charge of assigning personnel and transferring within the cabinet. He has not personally performed tasks for many years."

Xiao Lanfeng shook his head, "Even so, Mr. Fang also has skills by his side. This matter is a bit strange."

Ye Jiu thought of another thing.

A few days ago, Chu Shishen just let out the news that he was assassinated on the way to investigate, and within two days, one of the third divisions in charge died. This is really a coincidence.

She raised her head to look at Chu Shishen, and found that he was also looking at her, and nodded slightly.

Ye Jiu was startled.

Chu Shishen took out a jade token from under the desk and handed it to the two of them, "This is the token to enter and exit Zhuge. Zhuge is not in the palace, so I can't check it myself. You two will go for me. Be sure to check it out. The murder of Mr. Qingfang."

"Yes, Wei Chen's decree."

……

Zhuge is located on the root of the imperial city. It is an inconspicuous small building, which is adjacent to the back mountain. It is difficult to find without deliberately looking for it.

"Young Master, are you okay?"

Seeing Ye Jiu sitting on the threshold, Xiao Lanfeng thought for a while, then stretched out his hand and passed a handkerchief.

Ye Jiu was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and reached out to take it, "Thank you, Mr. Xiao."

Xiao Lanfeng smiled, "If you are an adult or not, please call me Mo Ru."

Ye Jiu wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded, "Xiao... Mo Ru can call me Xiao Jiu too."

Xiao Lanfeng hesitated for a moment, and said, "Xiao Jiu, are you feeling better?"

Ye Jiu took a deep breath, raised his head and forced a smile, "It's much better."

When she first received the errand, she didn't feel that there was anything to scratch her head, but just now, when she stepped into the first scene of the crime, she was in a bad mood.

In order to wait for the emperor's order, Zhu Ge's people worked diligently to protect the scene, so that until now, the poor Mr. Fang is still lying on the desk, with dried blood dripping all over the floor, and the air is filled with a bloody smell.

So Ye Jiu went crazy.

There was a churn in her stomach, she turned around and ran out the door, taking a few breaths of fresh air, but the cold sweat was still breaking out.

If possible, she would like to kill Shen Shi's dog with a knife.

"If you are unwell, just stand here, and I will let you know after I go to investigate."

Xiao Lanfeng thoughtfully stopped Ye Jiu who was walking in, Ye Jiu was relieved for a while, then shook his head, "I'm mentally prepared."

She breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the desk.

Fang Weihong looked at Forty or so, lying on the table at this time, his eyes were wide open, and his mouth was slightly open.

Ye Jiu frowned, and looked down at the table.

The table was a bit messy, and the splashed blood almost covered the entire desk. After a long time of mental work, Ye Jiu finally decided to reach out and flip through the books on it.

"Xiao Jiu, let me come."

Seeing her distressed face, Xiao Lanfeng motioned for him to come.

Hearing this, Ye Jiu was about to nod, but suddenly saw something and stopped him immediately, "Mo Ru, wait a minute!"

Xiao Lanfeng paused with his hands, and turned to look at Ye Jiu.

Ye Jiu frowned, and pointed to a stack of books on the desk, "Look at that, is there something wrong?"

Hearing this, Xiao Lanfeng stood in her position and looked carefully. After a long while, he shook his head, "What's wrong with this?"

Ye Jiu frowned, and said two words in a deep voice, "Blood."

She pointed to two volumes, "These two volumes are reversed."

"You can see that these blood stains were sprayed out, more on the top and less on the bottom, and these two are obviously the opposite."

Xiao Lanfeng suddenly realized when he heard the words, he quickly went around to the other side of the table and pulled out the two books.

Ye Jiu took one of the books and turned to the back, only to see some blurred blood stains on the blue cover.

"it is this!"

Hearing the words, Xiao Lanfeng leaned over, looked at the handwriting on the book, and read aloud: "Zhu Ge's entry and exit list records Shi Geng Ji."

When Ye Jiu heard his heart move, he quickly pulled out the book inside.

The top one is the last three months, because it has not been filled, the second half is blank.

Ye Jiu flipped forward quickly, and suddenly his fingertips paused, skipping a page.

She hurriedly searched for two pages carefully, only to see that the directory at the end of January and the beginning of February had been torn out.

Xiao Lanfeng was taken aback for a moment, and his face sank immediately, "There is indeed something strange."

Ye Jiu stuffed the book into Xiao Lanfeng's hands, walked around Fang Weihong again, and suddenly squatted beside him.

"Mo Ru, come and see."

Xiao Lanfeng hurried forward, only to see Ye Jiu pointing at Fang Weihong's fingertips, there were some traces of rubbing on them.

The two looked at each other, and then split up around Fang Weihong to find the place where the handwriting might have been left.

There are no desktops, desks, or even Fang Weihong's clothes.

Ye Jiu frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly squatted down and crawled under the desk.

Sure enough, a blood-stained line suddenly appeared on the back of the desk.

"It seems to be the word 'one'."

Ye Jiu's voice was muffled, and Xiao Lanfeng squatted beside him to make a distinction, "From this point of view, it is indeed 'one'."

Ye Jiu saw that he didn't have any other useful information, so he got out.

"What exactly is Mr. Fang trying to say?"

Xiao Lanfeng hooked his hair with one finger, and frowned.

Ye Jiu didn't speak, but stared at Fang Weihong's face seriously.

At this time, most of his thoughts were on investigating the case. Looking at it like this, he didn't react as violently as before.

Ye Jiu squinted his eyes, and asked in a low voice, "Who is Mr. Fang on good terms with in court?"

Xiao Lanfeng pursed his lips, "Xiao Jiu doesn't know, this Zhuge is a special place, in order to keep the royal family's privacy, generally they don't have any contact with the ministers."

He paused, then suddenly said: "But speaking of it this way, Mr. Fang's niece is the concubine of the former crown prince."

Ye Jiu was taken aback when he heard the words, "The former prince's concubine's room?"

Xiao Lanfeng nodded, "Yes, Mr. Fang has been in charge of Zhuge for 20 years, and he has been loyal to his duties. The late emperor felt his heartfelt heart, so he gave his niece to the prince as a concubine, which can be regarded as winning people's hearts."

Ye Jiu thought for a moment, and suddenly looked at Xiao Lanfeng with a bitter face: "It seems that we have stepped on a big hole."

……

After leaving Zhuge, Xiao Lanfeng saw that Ye Jiu's expression was really bad, so he dragged her straight to a tavern.

"Xiao Jiu, drink two cups to get rid of bad luck."

Ye Jiu stretched out his hand to take the wine glass handed over by Xiao Lanfeng, without hesitation, he gulped down.

With a bit of spicy wine flowing down his throat, the creepy picture in his mind gradually subsided, no longer jumping before his eyes one after another.

"Mo Ru, it's a coincidence that my wife and I went to visit yesterday, but you were not at home."

Xiao Lanfeng was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "I heard about this from the gatekeeper, and I was called into the palace before I had time to report to your residence."

Ye Jiu laughed lightly when he heard the words, "It's okay, my wife and I were passing by too, seeing that the mansion's begonias were in full bloom, so we thought about going in to have a look."

Xiao Lanfeng lowered his head, poured himself a glass of wine, and served Ye Jiuman again, "I really missed it, I'll fold a few flower branches and send it to my wife some other day, how about it?"

Ye Jiu didn't dare to say that his family's flower branches had already stood upright in the vase by her bedside, so she sneered, "That's no trouble at all."

Xiao Lanfeng didn't speak any more when he heard the words, looked at Ye Jiu and smiled lightly, then raised his head and drank another cup.

Ye Jiu lowered his head, his fingers were stained with wine, and he scratched gently on the table.

Xiao Lanfeng glanced at him, "I'm thinking about Mr. Fang."

Ye Jiu nodded, "What exactly is he trying to say..."

Xiao Lanfeng suddenly remembered something, "What you said just now, we stepped on a big hole... is... what do you mean?"

Ye Jiu looked up at him, still writing on his hand, "Master Fang's eyes are wide open, his brows are tightly frowned, it can be seen that he must have been very surprised and puzzled before he died."

"Tell me, what did he see?"

Xiao Lanfeng thought about it carefully, and said slowly: "Maybe he was wondering why the murderer wanted to kill him?"

Ye Jiu nodded, "So the murderer should be someone he is familiar with, or at least someone he has dealt with before."

Xiao Lanfeng leaned forward, a little surprised, "That's why you asked him if he has any acquaintances in court?"

"Well, it's just that it seems that the murderer or the person behind the murderer should be someone who has an interest relationship with Mr. Fang, so he will kill at this time."

Xiao Lanfeng thought for a moment, then suddenly opened his eyes wide, "You suspect..."

Ye Jiu quickly stopped his words, "It's not known yet, any one is possible."

At this time there was a sudden commotion outside the door, both Ye Jiu and Xiao Lanfeng put down their wine glasses and looked outside.

I saw a big archway opposite the tavern, with four big characters "Hongfa Gambling Square" written on it.

At the entrance of the gambling house, a group of thugs in gray clothes were shouting loudly around a young man in an ultramarine robe.

"who's that person?"

Ye Jiu frowned and asked sideways.

Xiao Lanfeng looked at it twice, then hummed: "Who else is there, the good son of the Shangshu family of the household department."

Ye Jiu became interested when he heard this, "Oh? How dare his son, whose father is an official, dare to make such a fuss?"

Xiao Lanfeng curled his lips, "Just because his father is the Secretary of the Household Department, a member of the third rank in the court, how can the capital not treat his family well, don't worry, this matter will not cause trouble."

Ye Jiu raised her eyebrows, she seemed to remember Dong Fei once said that this son has already owed a lot of gambling debts, and this time he might lose again.

She bent her lips and smiled, leaning against the wall and quietly watching the movement over there.

The crowd of people watching on the street gradually increased, Ye Jiu was about to say how this would end, but Xiao Lanfeng said calmly, "Don't worry, just watch."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a group of official officers suddenly appear on the street, pushed away the crowd and rushed in.

Xiao Lanfeng pouted: "See, being an official in this capital, everyone has to weigh it. It's not a big deal, and there can't be trouble."

Ye Jiu was a little curious, "But this is a private matter, even the Jingzhao Yamen can't control people's debt collection, right?"

Xiao Lanfeng chuckled lightly, with a soft but deep smile on his face: "Like this kind of gambling and brothel, there is no clean place, there are always a few lives in hand, the money is necessary, but This face has to be given."

Not long after, the situation gradually calmed down, and the crowd scattered. The group of officers and soldiers said a few words to the son of the Minister of the Household Department, and then sent him away.

Ye Jiu looked at the crowd and suddenly blinked twice.

Behind the group of officers and soldiers, a familiar black figure slipped away a man in thin and shabby clothes.

That figure, that technique, and the glance she gave her before she left.

Ye Jiu only felt a chill on the back of his neck.

She looked up at the sky, got up quickly, and patted Xiao Lanfeng on the shoulder under Xiao Lanfeng's surprised eyes, "Mo Ru, my wife is still waiting for me at home for dinner, so I will take my leave first. See you in the old nest!"

Xiao Lanfeng: "???"

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