I am neither beautiful nor crazy

"My heart is very happy."

Jiang Yu looked down at the file on the table, and flipped through it routinely every day. Now he can almost recite the content of every letter backwards, but he still hasn't found any breakthrough.

How was the evidence that Ruoyang colluded with the enemy forged?

Who stole the body of His Highness the Crown Prince, and where was it hidden?

Where can I find the "Bing Tongue Grass" mentioned in Ruo Yang's letter?

Jiang Yu slowly rubbed the center of his brows, his eyes habitually fell on the upper left corner of the table, and the square handkerchief pierced by the short sword came into view impressively.

- I couldn't help being a little dazed for a while.

If you ask him, maybe...

"Your Highness." A strange young man's voice came from outside, "Young Master Gu ordered me to bring dinner to Your Highness."

As soon as he spoke, Jiang Yu skillfully put the file back to its original place, and with a click, the checkpoint under the bed closed.He looked at the sky outside the window, and said in a slightly displeased tone, "Why didn't Gu Yuan come by himself, and why did he deliver it so late today?"

The young man outside hurriedly apologized, explaining that Gu Yuan was not feeling well, so he asked him to send him off.

"It's okay, come in." Jiang Yu lighted the candle at the corner of the table and said softly.

As if due to nervousness, the young man's footsteps were a little flustered, and he finally walked to the door of the room rustling.

"Your Highness, can you open the door for me?" The voice said apologetically, "There are too many things on hand, and I really don't have time to spare."

"Then wait a moment." Jiang Yu said, but actually blew out the candle, got up silently, and shook out the soft sword hidden in his cuff.

The moment he was about to reach the door and push the door open, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.About one meter away from the door, the other end of the soft sword skillfully opened the door.

The moment the soft sword touched the doorknob, the situation changed suddenly.

The sound of pieces of porcelain shattering outside the door rang out one after another, and at the same time, the mud and grass on the roof were broken by brute force, and the sword was inserted into the position inside the door at a speed that was hard to distinguish with the naked eye. .

If he didn't pick the door with the soft sword just now, but stretched out his hand to open the door.Then now the long sword will be thrust into his shoulder instead of the ground.

A black figure fell from the eaves following the long sword, bringing down a piece of gravel and dust.

Jiang Yu backed away quickly when the first sound sounded, hiding in the well-shielded dark place on the side of the house.The right hand held the soft sword tightly, while the left hand reached to the waist, and took out an extremely thin silver needle.

It was the poisoned needle that stabbed the prime minister's arm on the night of the palace banquet.

Now, the advantage of Jiangyu just turning off the lights is obvious. In the dark, Jiangyu has the upper hand by relying on his familiarity with the terrain, waiting for the man in black to turn around to look for it, and then throw the silver needle.

But the opponent did not act as Jiang Yu expected.

After landing, he didn't search for Jiang Yu's figure, but rushed straight to the bed.

Jiang Yu suddenly understood the other party's intentions, and immediately flew up and raised his sword to block them. Both of them lost the opportunity and could only forcefully resist face to face.

In a small space, Jiang Yu's body skills should have had the advantage, but he found that the opponent's moves had a weird and subtle similarity to his.

Seeing that the other party was tightly surrounded by black clothes, Jiang Yu's pupils opened slightly, and a chilling guess suddenly appeared in his heart.

And the opponent's sword was extremely quick and fierce, taking advantage of Jiang Yu's half-moment of swaying kung fu, the opponent had already blocked Jiang Yu's figure, rushed to the front of the bed with a stride, and was about to slash down with his sword.

The other party didn't intend to be in Jiangyu, but collapsed the Ruoyang case file in the hidden compartment!

In desperation, Jiang Yu had no time to draw out his sword to stop him.Between throwing the poisonous needle and turning around to block the sword with his body, he changed his mind and chose the latter.

And just when he turned sideways, barely sandwiching himself between the long sword and the bed, the opponent's movements stopped abruptly.

The tip of the sword stopped suddenly a few inches from Jiang Yu's eyes.

But the moment the sword tip paused, Jiang Yu felt the coldness spread across his limbs and bones like a tide, and even his fingertips trembled slightly.

He is gambling.

And the least willing to admit that guess became true.

The other party probably didn't expect that Jiang Yu would block them like this, but the two of them were arguing very loudly, if not, more troops would be attracted, and it would be impossible to escape.

The opponent abruptly retracted his sword and turned around, then quickly rushed out of the house, stepped along the eaves a few times, and disappeared.

Jiang Yu chased to the door to look, only to see that the young man who had just come to deliver the dinner had fallen to the ground, spilling the food on the ground.His neck was twisted at a very unnatural angle, but there was a long feathered arrow stuck straight into his chest.

"Where is Gu Yuan?" Jiang Yu asked the guard who came forward.

Everyone's answer was no.

"Find."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Jiang Yu leaned on the door frame wearily, frowning, watching the guards drag the corpse away and clean up the blood in front of the door.

I became more and more irritable.

Early the next morning, Xia Zhixing hurried to Jiangyu Mansion to visit him, and he was relieved to see that he was not injured.

"How?" he asked anxiously.

"No injury, no loss." Probably because he didn't sleep last night, Jiang Yu's expression was a little pale.

"—I heard about this a long time ago, what are the characteristics of an assassin, do you still remember?"

Jiang Yu recalled for a moment, "I'm about the same height as me, my whole body is covered tightly, and my swordsmanship is good. How about the investigation, did you find anything?"

"There is no clue yet." Xia Zhixing frowned, "It stands to reason that they should not sneak into the palace to assassinate quietly, and they should be able to walk away without a trace, but it is true that all the pursuers were lost, and they are still there. Search in the capital."

"them?"

"More than one." Xia Zhixing looked serious, "Conservatively speaking, there were at least five corpses last night."

Jiang Yu's heart suddenly beat violently, and a feeling of uneasiness suddenly rose.

"Those corpses, I will take a look at them later." He glanced at Tanshang and said this.

The five corpses were lined up in a row, both tall and short, fat and thin, men and women.

What is horrifying is that each of them has a long arrow pierced straight into their chest.

"Can you find out the origin of these arrows?" Xia Zhixing asked the person next to him.

"Return to the Prime Minister, this arrow is made by our army. It is long and strong and can withstand severe cold. It is mostly used by the northern Xinjiang army."

Jiang Yu was next to Xia Zhixing, and suddenly reached out and tugged on the opponent's cuff.And when Xia Zhixing turned his head to look at it, he walked forward as if nothing had happened, and stretched out his hand to press the neck of the first corpse—it was the one in front of his house.

"The neck is broken, and the other four corpses have other wounds besides the arrow wound, which seems redundant." Jiang Yu turned to look at Xia Zhixing.

"Master Prime Minister, Your Highness the Seventh." An official bowed his hands and bowed, "There was not much blood on the chests of the five corpses. It is indeed superfluous to preliminarily judge that the murderer shot arrows after they died. The manner of the deceased was very different and does not appear to be the work of one person."

Jiang Yu carefully recalled the behavior of the man in black sneaking into the room last night and heading straight for the bed. His body seemed to be electrified, and he immediately turned around and said, "Pull out the arrow and see if the arrow has words on it, and..."

"And whether it is poisonous."

"What did you think of?" Taking advantage of the gap between everyone's arrow testing, Xia Zhi walked behind Jiang Yu, "Why do you need a drug test?"

Jiang Yu took a deep breath, and the clues that were suddenly connected made his scalp tingle.

"I once told you that Jiang Chibin's forearm was injured in northern Xinjiang, and a man in black came to treat him every day. And... the cause of His Royal Highness' death was the arrow in his chest."

"What is the connection between these two things?" Xia Zhixing suddenly opened his eyes wide, "You mean..."

Jiang Yu turned his head sideways, "I mean, the person who attacked my house last night, the man in black from Beijiang, and seniors Shen and Chen are all the same person."

"When I was in Beijiang, I felt very familiar with that person. And when we fought last night, I will never admit his swordsmanship." Jiang Yu took a light breath, "It is Senior Shen."

"When I was in Beijiang, I suspected that he was actually using healing as an excuse to poison Jiang Chibin. Even if I didn't do it in the end, he wouldn't live long. His goal last night was not me, but Ruoyang The file of the case." Jiang Yu's voice paused, "His pointing has never left His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Xia Zhixing pondered, but did not speak.

"One more thing." Jiang Yu raised his head, "Master Xia, have you ever heard of ice tongue grass?"

The moment this thing was mentioned, Xia Zhixing's eyes changed suddenly, as Jiang Yu expected, it was Ruoyang's image again.

suffice to say two things

Xia Zhixing knew about the ice tongue grass, but kept it secret;

Ruoyang's cause of death was related to Bingtonus.

"Your Highness, Prime Minister." The person behind called out, "The arrows of the five corpses have all been inspected. There is no lettering on the arrows, but they are highly poisonous."

"What poison?"

"Poisoned arrows are often used on the battlefield."

"Sure enough." Jiang Yu and Xia Zhixing whispered, "This is not for murder, but for intimidation."

The late emperor had expected that Jiang Qi was quick-witted and intelligent, but timid and cowardly, a bit short of the ruthlessness an emperor should have.

Now, within a few days of his ascension to the throne, this unsolved case came up in the imperial city, and he panicked all of a sudden.Maybe it was because he was specially told before that he deliberately put on a calm look, but when he saw the corpse, he still looked nervous and terrified.

"Seventh brother, the case happened in your house last night. Do you have any guesses about it?"

"My brother thinks that this person is a loyalist of His Highness the Crown Prince."

When this remark came out, there was an uproar everywhere.

"This man kills innocent people indiscriminately, and his methods are cruel, but the elder brother of the prince is kind and honest. Why did the seventh brother say such a thing?"

"Because the cause of His Royal Highness's death was a poisoned arrow piercing his heart, and the corpses have not been found yet. Now, the five corpses are all without exception. They are all poisoned by arrows in their chests. It is an arrow used by the Northern Xinjiang Army. It is unnecessary to say what it means."

Jiang Qi's face turned pale in an instant, "Seventh brother means, as long as we can't find the body of the prince's brother, he will... he will - directly?"

"I don't know." Jiang Yu cupped his hands, "We can only strengthen the defense of the imperial city's army at night, so that he has no chance to take advantage of it."

"You're right." The other party raised a slightly trembling hand, "Strengthen the defenses in the imperial city and increase the number of night watch soldiers."

After the crowd dispersed, Jiang Yu stepped forward again and said softly to Jiang Qi.

"Chendi thinks that there is still a point that I haven't considered thoroughly."

"Please speak quickly."

"The murderer of His Royal Highness' death is not us, but these people choose to intimidate in the imperial city. What's the point?"

"You mean..."

"One possible reason is simply revenge and intimidation; the second is that we hope that we can help him find the body of His Highness the Crown Prince and bury it in accordance with the etiquette; the third...is that the person may have some anecdotes and secret techniques. The purpose is to bring His Highness the Crown Prince back to life."

When the third possibility was mentioned, Jiang Qi's eyes suddenly widened, and the horror in it was hard to hide.

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: WY1; thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!