Early in the morning, the drizzle was accompanied by a cold wind, and it was cold when it was said. The cold wind hit the entire Ming'an City, and the streets were empty. The people took out their thick clothes and quilts to prepare for the winter.

In the private house, Si Mingcong sat with Gao Zhen, Ouyang Xia and Si Zhengnan. To be precise, Ouyang Xia was called by Si Mingcong.

While drinking hot tea, Si Mingcong looked at Ouyang Xia, and asked, "Did you find out?"

They have also been helping to find it these few days, but Ming'an City has a very large area and a large population, so how could it be turned upside down.

Ouyang Xia shook her head and said, "I didn't find it."

Gao Zhen stroked his beard, frowned and said, "We found a shoe and sock of the prince on Ming'an City East Street."

Si Zhengnan was surprised: "It means that the prince and brother are really in Ming'an City."

"That's right." Gao Zhen met his gaze, and said in a deep and deep voice, "I suspect that the crown prince may have been caught."

Ouyang Xia didn't think so, and said: "I don't necessarily think so. If he is really here, it means that the other party has not planned to kill the prince. As long as he is alive, he will definitely be found."

Si Mingcong nodded, and said: "It's really good. I have asked the magistrate to secretly control the whole of Ming'an, and report any suspicious situations immediately."

"it is good."

Si Mingcong put down his teacup, looked sideways at Ouyang Xia: "How is Auntie's injury?"

"Fortunately, it's just a broken foot. I can't get out of bed for half a year."

"Yeah." Si Mingcong thought for a while, and said, "I originally wanted to look at her yesterday, but the prince can't move it at will."

"Everything is fine, thank you for your concern."

Ouyang Xia put down the teacup in her hand, with a faint smile in her eyes.

Si Mingcong looked at the drizzle outside, and said, "His Royal Highness has been missing for several days, I hope he can be found sooner."

He had some uneasy premonition, thinking that the prince's disappearance could involve other things.

"Hope you're safe."

Ouyang Xia straightened her sleeves, her tone was a bit cold.

They didn't stay for long, and Si Zhengnan and the two returned to the post house in a carriage.

In the carriage, Ouyang Xia leaned crookedly in the carriage, and looked at Si Zhengnan with a smile: "Do you think His Highness the Crown Prince would have been killed long ago?"

Si Zhengnan frowned, and said, "I'm just curious, why did the other party want to arrest him?"

Si Zhengdi is suspicious, but as a prince, he always only thinks of himself. Such a person is unlikely to achieve great things.

Ouyang Xia chuckled and said, "No matter what the reason is, it has nothing to do with you and me."

They are just courtiers, and they are not involved in the affairs of the court. This is a matter that the emperor and ministers should care about.

Si Zhengnan nodded, knowing that he was speaking politely.

When returning to the post house, Ouyang Xia heard Jin Guo's sharp and unpleasant cry as soon as she stepped into the courtyard, and the maid coaxed her softly.

When I went in, I found that the maid in the corridor was holding the struggling golden fruit, her face was very embarrassed, and the back of her hand was still bleeding.

"what happened?"

"Sir, are you back?"

The maid really breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him, and handed him the golden fruit.

"I don't know what's wrong with Jin Guo, she's been barking all the time."

"Did you feed it?"

After taking the golden fruit from her hand, Ouyang Xia could feel that the golden fruit seemed extremely disturbed.

The maid nodded, and said: "The one that has eaten, it wandered around the yard when it was not raining, and suddenly flapped its wings very anxiously, and then it has been very impatient."

"Understood, let's go down."

The slender fingers caressed the top of its head, secretly soothing its restlessness.

The maid nodded, and Fu Lefu retreated quietly.

Ouyang Xia held Jin Guo up to her eyes, and said with a smile on her face: "Look at what's wrong with my girl? What's wrong? Or was she scared? Tell daddy to listen, daddy will decide for you."

Looking at Jin Guo's voice, it seems that he saw something bad, otherwise it would not be the case.

Jin Guo raised his head and barked, his voice was very strange, Ouyang Xia had never seen it so flustered.

"what happened?"

Jin Guo turned her head to look at the side room, her voice became sharper, and her wings kept flapping.

Si Zhengnan said: "Is there something in that courtyard?"

"Let's go take a look."

Jin Guo has always been quiet, and Ouyang Xia also felt that something in the side room made Jin Guo uneasy, and the two walked towards the house.

The inside of the room was a utility room, where the boxes that Zhou Zhengdong and Wei Chuan brought back were placed, but there was nothing else.

Gently pushing the door open, Ouyang Xia smelled a bloody smell as soon as he stepped over the threshold, he paused, and the golden fruit in his arms screamed even louder.

"What's wrong?" Sensing his abnormality, Si Zhengnan stopped.

"There is a fresh smell of blood coming from the box." Ouyang Xia came to a box, put the golden fruit on the side of the box, squatted down and looked at Tie Suo.

As Si Zhengnan approached, he also smelled the smell of blood coming from inside, and suddenly his eyes were attracted by the blood oozing from the side of the box: "There is blood flowing out."

"Jiang Xiao, quickly break the lock."

"Yes."

Jiang Xiao stepped forward, cut Suo off with his sword up and down, and then opened the box.

When they saw what was inside the box, Ouyang Xia and Si Zhengnan opened their eyes wide in shock.

Lying in the box was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who had been missing for a long time. At this time, his carotid artery was severed, and blood sprayed all over the box, covering his whole body.

"Hurry up and save people!"

Ouyang Xia reacted the fastest, grabbed his neck deftly and dragged him out, then put him on the ground.

At this time, blood spurted out from his neck, and Ouyang Xia knelt down, covering it with all his strength, regardless of others.

"Quick, medicine!"

Si Zhengnan snatched the medicine from Jiang Xiao's hand, poured it tremblingly on the wound on his neck, and was instantly washed up with blood.

The blood spattered and stained the clothes of the two of them, and the strong smell of blood permeated the whole room, which was very frightening to watch.

Si Zhengdi's face was dead pale, his powerless hands firmly grasped Ouyang Xia's wrist, he opened his mouth wide to breathe desperately, but blood overflowed from the corners of his nose and mouth, he struggled like a dying fish.

At this moment, there were chaotic steps and sounds outside the courtyard, gradually approaching, as if a large number of people were coming.

At the moment His Royal Highness died, the door was pushed open from the outside, Si Mingcong, Gao Zhen, Zhou Zhengdong, Wei Chuan and others stood outside the door, looking at Ouyang Xia and Si Zhengnan who were holding the prince's neck, Suddenly dumbfounded.

Siming Congming reacted first, pointed at Ouyang Xia and Si Zhengnan and shouted: "You guys are so brave, you dare to kill His Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Wait!" Zhou Zhengdong and Wei Chuan ran into the house and stretched out their hands to protect Ouyang Xia and Si Zhengnan, saying in unison: "There is a misunderstanding here."

With a cold face, Si Mingcong shouted: "There is no misunderstanding, we saw them kill His Highness the Crown Prince with our own eyes."

Ouyang Xia stood up, her eyes were slightly cold: "Prince Hengjun, we just found out that His Highness the Crown Prince is here."

Gao Zhen quickly came to Si Zhengdi, stretched out his hand to touch his neck, and found that he had already passed away.

Immediately, Gao Zhenxin was shocked, the crown prince was killed, and the court would usher in turmoil. He could imagine how furious His Majesty would be.

Standing up, he stared at the two of them seriously: "King De, the prince of Tang Guogong, why did His Royal Highness appear here?"

Si Zhengnan took a step forward, and said: "When we came in, we found that Brother Huang was trapped in this box and was trying to rescue him. He was punctured in the carotid artery by the blade in the box, and it has nothing to do with us."

"Still saying it has nothing to do with it." Siming Cong said harshly, "Then tell me, why is His Highness the Crown Prince here? You must have hid him here and waited for an opportunity to kill him."

Ouyang Xia held his head upright to meet his gaze, and said loudly: "You think I'm stupid, if I have a thousand ways to kill him, why am I here? And why did you happen to see me?"

"Your Majesty, tell the evidence in everything!" Gao Zhen stroked his beard and looked at him with deep eyes: "This place is heavily guarded, so please tell me, Your Majesty, why a large living person can't be found in a box?"

Zhou Zhengdong said anxiously: "This box is a gadget we found on the street a few days ago, and we opened it at that time."

Ouyang Xia glanced at him and said, "Is there a box that hasn't been opened?"

In other words, the unopened box might be holding His Highness the Crown Prince. Thinking about it like this is creepy.

Zhou Zhengdong looked at him in surprise, he was speechless for a while, and the memory rushed in his mind.

Yes, there was one box that was not opened. At that time they brought back three boxes, only two were opened, and the third one was not opened.

Si Mingcong didn't talk nonsense with them, and said loudly: "Come here, arrest everyone here, and charge them with murdering the prince!"

"Yes."

As soon as his words fell, the soldiers behind rushed in, pointing all the swords in their hands at Ouyang Xia, Si Zhengnan and the others.

There was a breeze outside, and everyone felt the cold wind hit their backs, and then countless guards rushed into the small courtyard, and a faint fragrance wafted in with the wind.

Ouyang Xia's nostrils moved slightly, and she smelled a familiar fragrance, seductive and blurred, like the best spices, making people want to stop.

Pupils opened slightly, Ouyang Xia couldn't believe it, looking at the slender figure walking outside, noble, cool, elegant and calm, coming with a non-angry but majestic Han Tafeng, the wind blows the cranes on his body to play with the warm sun The cloak is like a god coming to the world.

"Respect the prince!"

Gao Zhen and the others were surprised, they did not expect Prince Jing to appear here.

Si Zhengnan hurried forward and said anxiously: "Uncle, Uncle, the prince is dead, but it's none of our business."

Si Yelin looked around at everyone, his eyes lingered on Ouyang Xia for a second, and finally fell on the dead prince on the ground, with a breath of cold horror overflowing.

"what happened?"

Ling Shui immediately stepped forward to check for breath, and finally shook his head at Si Yelin: "Master, His Royal Highness has passed away."

Si Mingcong stepped forward with a sullen look on his face, "When we came in, we saw Ouyang Xia and King De were pressing His Highness the Crown Prince to the ground. At that time, blood was sprayed all over their bodies. Prince, they must have killed the Crown Prince." Your Highness."

Si Yelin glanced at him coldly, and said, "As the prince of the county, have you checked other places?"

King Heng's eyes shrank. He had just seen Si Zhengnan and Ouyang Xia strangling the neck of His Highness the Crown Prince, covered in blood, but he didn't observe anything else.

Ouyang Xia looked at Si Yelin, and said: "There is a mechanism in the box. His Highness the Crown Prince was stuffed into the box a few days ago, and then the mechanism was triggered to cut off the carotid artery."

Gao Zhen quickly came to the box full of blood, and he saw a very small mechanism inside. The mechanism was made of special soft iron and bamboo sticks, and there was a leak on the top. There was nothing inside. There are many small iron beads under the box, which are stained with blood and rolled all over the box.

He also found a bottle in the box, picked it up and smelled it carefully, it smelled like Ruanjinsan.

Years of experience in handling cases made Gao Zhen think that this is a murder plan that has been planned for a long time. First, His Royal Highness is stuffed into a box, and then a mechanism is made. There are blades at the bottom of the mechanism, and the upper part is controlled by iron beads. When the iron ball finished falling, the blade pierced His Royal Highness's carotid artery, causing blood to flow like a river to death.

This is an extremely perfect plan, the other party has thought very carefully, and the methods are vicious and cruel.

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