Reincarnation of the powerful minister

New Year's Day, at noon.

Su Yan and the crown prince rode in a carriage together, and under the guard of Jin Yiwei, they arrived at Honglu Temple.

Jin Yiwei from Beizhen Fusi received the order and rushed to Honglu Temple before them, and was inspecting the scene.

As soon as Su Yan entered the Moon Gate, he saw Shen Qi wearing magenta gold-woven gold flying fish swaying beside the snow-covered carp pond.

Shen Qi is used to wearing cool colors such as blue, blue and gray on weekdays. Firstly, the blood is not visible, and secondly, due to her temperament, even the curtains on the bed are dark crow blue. This time, it is better to wear bright red for the occasion of the festival. He felt more energetic than usual, and his complexion seemed to soften a bit.

Su Yan took a good look at it with an appreciative attitude.The prince next to him suddenly became annoyed when he saw it, and pulled Su Yan's sleeve hard: "Look at who, the eyeballs won't turn! What's so interesting!"

"Let go, young master, don't tear my official robe." Su Yan protested in a low voice.

The prince loosened his sleeves, and turned to shake the hand inside his sleeve.

"Turn your face away, look here, here." Zhu Helin puffed up his chest, showing off a brand-new red leather jacket, gold crown, red tassel, and crimson gauze robe. The development of the waist, wait for two or three years to fully grow, and you will have an extremely heroic and tall man's physique, "Master, don't I look good?"

Su Yan laughed: "It looks good. Young master is best suited to wear red."

At the same time, he pulled his hand back uncomfortably—I don’t know where this kid learned such a sticky grip, and he insisted on interlocking his fingers, so that people could see what he said.

The prince clasped it tightly and threatened: "Don't break free, just hold it like this, go over and show him!"

Su Yan's hand strength was not as strong as his, so he had no choice but to compromise: "Okay, okay, I won't look at him, let's go and look at the four corpses. It's important."

The crown prince let go of his hand reluctantly just now, and gave him a warning look of "Young master is watching, don't flirt with me and the wild man".

Su Yan was both angry and funny, and approached the scene of the crime with a flick of his sleeves, planning to go to see the corpses they salvaged from the pond first.Zhu Helin immediately ran after him.

Jin Yiwei, Fusi of Beizhen, who was present at the scene saw the prince coming in person, saluted and called the prince a thousand years old.Zhu Helin waved his hands impatiently: "Continue to do your business, leave me alone."

Su Yan walked past Shen Qi and exchanged glances with him.Shen Qi nodded slightly, and didn't say much.

The corpses of the four Oala envoys, stripped naked, were frozen in the frozen pool water before, but now they were placed on the slate floor in white and blue, looking very creepy.

Beizhen Fusi has his own work, and is doing an autopsy at the moment. It is preliminarily believed that the four of them entered the water while they were alive, and died of freezing and drowning. Other than that, there were no injuries on their bodies.

The clothes of the four people were scattered by the pool, including underwear and robes.Su Yan looked at it carefully, and felt as if he had taken it off and thrown it under his feet. The underwear was on the bottom, the outer robe was on top, and there were footprints matching the cowhide boots beside it.

"In such a cold day, unless forced, it is impossible to take off your clothes and go into the pool by yourself," said Jin Yiwei, an investigator of Beizhen Fusi.

Another Jin Yiwei said: "But Beimo people have a strong temperament. If they are forced to commit suicide, they will be furious and retaliate. It is impossible to have no wounds on their bodies. Look around here, there is no trace of a fight, it is too strange .”

Shen Qi looked through the corpses in silence, then patrolled around the walls and roofs, as if looking for the footprints left by the murderer, but found nothing.At four o'clock last night, there was a thin snowfall, and even if there were traces, they could not be seen now.

Su Yan also found it strange, how did the murderer make these four people voluntarily throw themselves into the water without any resistance?He racked his brains to recall the criminal investigation films, suspenseful reasoning, and even the 800-year-old primary school student Conan who died wherever he went...

drug control?Mental brainwashing?

It should be said that although technology is underdeveloped in this era, Furutake's power is beyond his imagination.He originally thought that the so-called zhenqi was all fabricated by later generations when they wrote martial arts, but he learned a lesson from Jing Hongzhui—there are almost mysterious skills such as the sword energy release and the nightmare technique. .Did it really exist in history, or is it a built-in setting of the parallel world?

Su Yan couldn't figure it out for a while, but he thought of a possibility. Could the four dead people have met a murderer who was good at performing ecstasy?Whether it is through drugs or exercises.

After Wu Zuo consulted Shangguan for instructions, he moved one of the corpses into the room for autopsy, mainly to check whether there was any poison in the stomach.However, after taking out the contents of the stomach, it was found that there were only frozen meat and turbid wine, which were mixed with the meat and fed to the dog. The dog was still alive and kicking after eating, without any abnormality.

Seeing that the sun was setting to the west and it was getting dark, no matter whether it was the room, the pool or the surrounding environment, including the investigation of the corpse, there was no progress.

The servant persuaded the prince to go back to the palace to rest.The prince pointed to Su Yan and said, "He is a frail scholar and he didn't cry tired, what should I rest for, my lord?"

Su Yan was wrapped in a fox fur cloak, pacing up and down under the eaves.The prince held a hand stove with red lacquer and gold dragon and phoenix patterns, stuffed it into his hand, and said, "It's too cold, and your constitution is weak, take warm hands."

While speaking, she glanced hostilely at Shen Qi at the bottom of the steps, thinking in her heart: No matter how you look at it, Shen Qi has a sinister and evil look on her face, very annoying.Su Yan took care of him day and night while he was recovering from his injuries, so he probably took care of him in bed?It shouldn't be so, he lost half his life at that time, how could he do that?But it's hard to say later, before Su Yan left Beijing, he often met with him.When I returned to Beijing a few days ago, didn't Chu Yuan also say that someone broke into the Meixian Tang at night and had a fight with Su Yan's bodyguard... Could it be him that wild man broke into the soup pool?

"Ha!" Su Yan suddenly called out, which startled Zhu Helin.

"What did Qinghe think of?" Zhu Helin asked.

Su Yan nodded to him, walked in front of Shen Qi, and explained a few words.Although Zhu Helin was unhappy, seeing what they were talking about was official business, he didn't step forward to stop it.

After hearing this, Shen Qi ordered people to move the other three corpses into the autopsy room, closed the doors and windows tightly, moved several large charcoal pots in, and burned the charcoal fire extremely vigorously.The temperature in the room heats up rapidly.

Wu Zuo hesitated and said: "The cold winter can only keep the corpse intact. If the temperature rises too much, I'm afraid it will start to rot within a day or two."

Su Yan said: "It doesn't need a day or two, it only needs to be baked for half an hour to soften the corpse. Ask a few people to stay by the corpse and observe the changes carefully."

In less than half an hour, the change appeared, a little melted blood flowed out from the ear holes of the four people, the amount was very small, and it was easy to ignore if you didn't look carefully.

"Could it be that there is trauma in the ear hole? I just remembered that there was a case before. The murderer poked the victim's ear hole with a long nail and nailed it into the brain to death. Because the nail went deep into the ear hole, it was almost missed." Wu used the light to illuminate it. went, but no foreign body in the ear canal was found.

Su Yan said: "It's not a nail. I suspect it's the high-frequency sound waves that shattered their eardrums and caused bleeding in the inner ear. But the amount of bleeding was not large, and it was frozen, so it couldn't flow out without heating."

"What are high-frequency... sound waves?" Wu Zuo asked blankly.

Su Yan ignored it, thinking to himself: High-frequency sound waves can damage hearing, but they can't control people's behavior.The greater possibility is the infrasound wave, whose oscillation frequency is similar to the rhythm of the human brain. When it resonates, it will strongly stimulate the brain, causing people to be insane and in a state of madness. This can explain why the deceased took off his clothes and dived in the winter... Although the principle is very simple , It is enough to reduce the frequency of the sound wave to below 20 Hz, but the technological level of this era has the ability to manufacture infrasound wave generators?

Could it be caused by some weird technique?

He thought about his choice of words, and asked Shen Qi: "Is there any martial art in Jianghu that can attack through sound, such as lion's roar skill, blue sea tide singing, sound transmission and soul search Dafa, and so on."

Shen Qi had a half-smile that was not a smile: "Master Su said several kinds of exercises, which I have never heard of before."

Su Yan was a little embarrassed and disappointed.

Shen Qi went on to say: "But those who use melody as an attack weapon, there is indeed such a way in the world. In the previous dynasty, there was a master who used the harp, and he called himself 'Plain Girl Fifty Strings'. It is said that music can hurt people from the air. People. There is also the Tianyin sect established in the early years of this dynasty, which uses wind instruments such as Xiao, flute, and xun as weapons."

"This Tianyin faction, what's the situation now?"

"It doesn't exist anymore. It was destroyed in the battle between Jianghu and Jianghu about 20 years ago."

Su Yan asked: "That is to say, almost no one in Jianghu can attack with rhythm?"

Shen Qi thought for a while, "Maybe there are still orphans of the Tianyin Sect, or maybe the disciples are dead, but the exercises have been handed down. It's hard to say, Beizhen Fusi's collection of information on the rivers and lakes is not as meticulous as that of the court. "

Su Yan thought, there is a ready-made Jianghu master in my family, ask him.

"Why, do you suspect that the death of the Oala envoy is related to the rhythm?"

"It's hard for me to say, after all, it's a questionable breakthrough point. You might as well start looking into it from here."

Shen Qi frowned: "If it's really related to the Jianghu sect, then the instigator behind it should be even more vigilant. Because the other party can not only control the Jianghu forces, but also understand the direction of the government, otherwise how could there be suspicions with Wala in our dynasty? At such a critical juncture, the precise killing of the Oirat envoy was clearly targeted."

Su Yan nodded: "I'm also worried about this. I always have a premonition that people behind the scenes are playing a game of chess. Wala, the Great Ming Dynasty, Jianghu... are all stars on his chessboard. Heiduo Shaman, Wala whose life and death are unknown The prince, the young master who was assassinated, the blood-eyed assassin who died madly... Maybe there are more characters we don't know, all of them are his pawns."

Zhu Helin was originally listening to the affairs of the world with great interest, but now he couldn't help but say, "Using the country as a chessboard and power as a chess piece, this chess player is very courageous and terrifying."

Su Yan said: "Do you know what is the scariest thing in a game of chess? You follow your opponent's moves, thinking that you have sealed his way out step by step, but at the end, every move he passed was connected to a line. Intertwined into a big net, covering your head with a pocket, instantly determining life and death."

Zhu Helin imagined it for a while, and it was a little scary, but it also aroused vigorous fighting spirit, and said with a smile: "Then let's fight and see who wins in the end."

Seeing that the sky was dark and cold, and it was about to start snowing again, Shen Qi said to Su Yan: "Let's call it a day, go back to eat and rest, and check tomorrow."