After I became a widow

Xiao Beihuai came out from behind the screen. As soon as he moved, Su Jingqing smelled blood, which made him frown.

"Are you hurt again?"

Xiao Beihuai walked towards him at a leisurely pace. He was tall and straight, with a lean and powerful waist, and conspicuous long legs. He was dressed in black and black, making him a bit cold and stern.

Only there was some warmth in the dark eyes.

"No, it's not my king's blood," he gradually approached Su Jingqing and explained to him.

Apart from the glance two years ago, this was the first time Su Jingqing saw him in daylight.

It is much brighter than the night, and it has regained its former beauty, making it even more difficult to move people's eyes away.

After not seeing him for a few days, Su Jingqing realized that she still missed him a little bit.

"Come closer," Su Jingqing said, but his hand had already touched Xiao Beihuai's face.

Apart from the smell of blood on his body, His Highness Duke Huai took care of his body very cleanly today. Su Jingqing's fingers ran across the contours of his cheeks, then moved to the brows, the tip of his nose, and finally landed on his lips, as if he was painting it inch by inch.

"I lost weight," Su Jingqing stated.

Xiao Beihuai grabbed his fingers and kissed him, "Busy chasing people, hiding from people, living and living a bit rough."

Su Jingqing pinched his face, showing his own possessiveness, "This is mine, you have to take care of it for me."

"Okay," Xiao Beihuai was exceptionally obedient, got up and kissed him on the lips.

Then he said: "I'm sorry, my king was not able to go back to see you a few days ago."

Su Jingqing knew that he was talking about the fact that he had contracted a cold, so he shook his head, "I've made a note of it, and I'll pay it back in the future."

He is very talkative.

Xiao Beihuai laughed softly, "Okay, come to Japan, the king will make up for you."

Su Jingqing felt that he owed him a lot, and the debt might be unpaid in this lifetime.

He pointed to the screen, "When did you come?"

The moment he entered the door, he took Siyan away, and when he saw Xiao Beihuai's figure, he didn't hear any extra movement, which could only prove that this person was already in the house.

Xiao Beihuai said, "When someone died downstairs."

Su Jingqing asked again: "You guessed that I would come?"

Xiao Beihuai nodded, what happened in Princess Pingjia's mansion yesterday, Su Jingqing didn't need to tell him, someone told him.

It can also be said that this is the purpose of the man in black. When he shows up, Xiao Beihuai will definitely show up. As for whether he makes Xiao Beihuai's fake death come true or whether Xiao Beihuai catches him, it's hard to say.

Su Jingqing didn't know whether he should be angry or laugh, "My lord, you are really courageous."

"You know that the palace and I are under surveillance, yet you dare to come here."

"I want to see you," Xiao Beihuai said suddenly.

Su Jingqing was startled, surprised.

He blinked, "Say it again."

Xiao Beihuai fulfilled his wish, "I miss you, I want to see you, my princess."

Su Jingqing felt that the base of his ears was hot, he put his hand on Xiao Beihuai's neck, and said, "I want to taste your mouth."

Xiao Beihuai asked, "What?"

"Taste how sweet your honeyed mouth is."

The corners of his mouth raised unconsciously, Xiao Beihuai said yes, and sent himself there.

Su Jingqing really took a bite and found it sweet and soft.

It's completely different from him who looks cold and hard.

Su Jingqing commented with satisfaction: "The taste is very good."

"As long as the princess likes it, I am willing to let you taste it at any time."

Su Jingqing's eyes were stained, and he felt that this was a vixen, a male fox who only wanted to seduce him.

If it wasn't for the wrong place, he really wanted to peel off the male fox's skin and kiss Fangze.

Su Jingqing felt regretful and changed the subject, "When will you be back?"

He pointed downstairs, "If you don't come back, Xiao Yunyi will have to have someone dig your grave."

"Well, so it's hard work for the princess to help the king catch the murderer, and delay for a while," he said seriously, "There are already signs."

"The murderer probably won't be caught, and the people in the government office don't dare to catch it. At most, it can be proved that it wasn't the prince, you, a "ghost" who did it."

This was also one of the reasons why Su Jingqing came to the shop, the other reason was naturally to try his luck to see if he could meet Xiao Beihuai.

As it turned out, he was lucky.

"That's enough, as long as this king is not dead, Xiao Yunyi will have nothing to do with this king."

Xiao Beihuai was alive, even if he didn't do anything, he was still a stone on Xiao Yunyi's head, which could easily hit his foot, and could directly crush him to death.

Xiao Yunyi realized this, so he desperately wanted to get rid of him.

"You won't die," Su Jingqing affirmed, "Because I don't want to be a widow."

So he didn't allow Xiao Beihuai to die either.

"Of course, this king is reluctant to abandon the princess and go to hell early," he said with a smile at the corner of his mouth, showing his sharp edge, a gesture that must be won.

"That's good," Su Jingqing always liked such people.

"Yesterday I asked Bai Shu to bring back the Liangzhou guard from Princess Pingjia's mansion named Liu Shanren. He said that the rest of the people were locked in a dark prison. There is water in the dark prison. You can let people Go check it out, although there are traitors among them, but more of them are our own people, they cannot die."

Xiao Beihuai said: "This king knows that they followed me to fight Beiyi in Liangzhou, and followed me all the way back to Beijing. I will not leave them behind."

"This king also thank the princess for her troubles on their behalf."

Su Jingqing said, "It's okay, I'll just use you to pay off the debt," and he was definitely the creditor.

"The king is happy to do so."

Just as footsteps were heard on the stairs outside, Xiao Beihuai took out an account book from his pocket and handed it to Su Jingqing, "Keep it for me first, and I will come to pick it up next time."

Su Jingqing asked, "When is the next time?"

Xiao Beihuai said: "When this king returns home."

After Xiao Beihuai finished speaking, he got up, quickly kissed Su Jingqing on the face, and then hid behind the screen, where he disappeared.

There was a knock on the door, and Siyan said outside: "Princess, I bought some pastries."

"Come in," Su Jingqing said while staring at the screen, still feeling that Xiao Beihuai was a master of the screen.

Xiao Beihuai didn't know that once he met his concubine, he became a genius twice.

The door was pushed open, and the scent of mung bean cake was wafted into the nostrils. Su Jingqing turned his head away with anticipation on his face.

Siyan held the mung bean cake and pushed it in front of Su Jingqing, put the table on her body as if nothing had happened, and then took a piece of mung bean cake by herself, "Not to mention, Wangfei, you have a good eye, this mung bean cake is better than the one that Bai Zhu bought before." eat."

"Really? It looks like it's newly opened. I haven't seen this one before."

After Siyan finished eating a piece, he jumped around the room twice, and asked Su Jingqing to stretch out his hand after confirming that it was all right.

At the same time, he said: "I just inquired about it just now, and it's newly opened. It used to sell sweet-scented osmanthus cakes and rice dumplings, but today it's the first day to sell mung bean cakes."

"Really?" Su Jingqing looked down from the window, looking at the dim sum shops lined up below, "Then we are really lucky."

Siyan felt the same way, and even wanted to eat a mung bean cake.

"Take it yourself, and buy some to bring back to Xiangyu when you leave," Su Jingqing, the person who served by her side since childhood, still couldn't understand her little thoughts.

Siyan laughed cheerfully, and said that she would give some to Baishu who was guarding downstairs.

First he caught two loyal uncles who were guarding the door, and then distributed some to Chang Rong and Xiao Er who happened to come to deliver tea, and Siyan went downstairs.

Chang Rong reported to Su Jingqing, "Wangfei, the people from the yamen have just arrived and want to see Wangfei."

Su Jingqing ate a piece of mung bean cake, clapped his hands, and asked, "Who is here?"

"It's Lord Ye Xiaoye from the yamen."

Ye Xiao is the guard of the governor of the capital, and also supervises and investigates the case. He is in charge of the servants below him, and he is the one who can speak well in the government office.

Of course, what this Ye Huwei was really famous for was that he was the Tanhua Lang of the son-in-law Qian Zhengxuan.

Ye Xiao was appointed to an official position in the Imperial Academy, but he resigned before entering the Imperial Academy, and then turned around and went to another place.

Two years ago, Ye Xiao returned to the capital as the bodyguard of the governor of Kyoto. Instead of being a good official, he went to the Yamen as a bodyguard, which made many people talk about it.

But Ye Xiao is indeed a talented person. He has been in Beijing for two years, and he and the governor of the capital have repeatedly solved strange cases. Now when he walks on the street, everyone will respectfully call Ye Huwei, and he is also a real celebrity in Beijing.

"Since it's him, the princess should go downstairs and have a look."

Su Jingqing didn't drink tea, but just held the mung bean cake in his hands and followed Chang Rong downstairs.

When he went down, Ye Xiao was squatting on the beam to look at the traces left on it, and the other government servants were using the portrait given by Su Jingqing to restore the positions and movements of the customers in the store at that time.

Seeing Su Jingqing appear, these people wanted to salute one after another, Su Jingqing raised his hand, "There is no need to be too polite, the case is important."

There are still many people watching outside the shop, half of them are curious about what the people in the Yamen can find out, half of them are killed by ghosts, the Yamen is wasting their efforts, and there are a few sporadic people who have unique ideas, and they are betting when the ghost of King Huai will come to kill the Yamen. people were also killed.

"Rope," Ye Xiao called out.

Someone threw a rope to him, Ye Xiao tied it up and threw it down, and then asked one person to pull the other end of the rope, one person played the role of the dead man who was smoldering, and the other person played the role of the severed head.

The two dead people were not very close to each other in the shop at that time, the burning dead man was in the middle of the shop, a burst of fire burst out of his mouth suddenly, his companions yelled and walked towards him quickly, their neck just brushed the rope.

The fuming yamen servant covered his face in pain, the one whose neck was cut fell to the ground after hitting the rope, and at the same time the rope fell to the ground. Helping to put out the fire, the yamen servant who pulled the rope put the rope away as quickly as possible when no one asked.

Ye Xiao got down from the beam, spread out his palm, and inside lay a dart and a small knot of silk thread, "It's silk from the sky."

"Inferior silk silk, sharp and easy to break, can destroy evidence after killing people."

After the celestial silk was broken, the ones on the beams were nailed to the top by darts, and the ones below took advantage of the chaos to collect a broken thread that was invisible to the naked eye. It couldn't be easier.

It's not a difficult case, and someone who knows kung fu and is accurate can handle it.

People died in full view, and if rumors spread again, the common people will believe that it was the ghost of King Huai. Just like the previous murders, there was no need for the Yamen to settle the case to find the murderer, and they were detained on the ghost of King Huai in the name of revenge.

If the case is not solved today, a few people will die tomorrow, and a few people will die the next day, who will believe that the ghost of Duke Huai is not the murderer.

Su Jingqing asked Ye Xiao, "When you reported the crime before, was it also Ye Huwei who came here?"

Ye Xiao said: "When the portrait of the concubine was sent to the Yamen, the officials just arrested her and returned to Beijing."

"So, Ye Huwei wasn't in Beijing before?"

Ye Xiao nodded, "Yes, the official left Beijing half a month ago to arrest people, and only returned today."

What a coincidence, when the person died, the Governor of Kyoto happened to be short of someone who would be serious.

Su Jingqing suddenly felt that Xiao Yunyi was not as stupid as he imagined, at least he knew how to avoid people when he labeled Xiao Beihuai.

"Understood, then Master Lao Cui and Ye Huwei will settle the case and return justice to my prince."

Ye Xiao cupped his fists, "Wangfei is serious, this is the duty of a subordinate."

Ye Xiao called people back to the yamen, and when he went out, he explained to the people watching the excitement outside, "The murderer this time is not a ghost, but someone deliberately framed him, you can go to the yamen to listen to Master Cui's judgment on the case."

Some people didn't believe it, some immediately followed to watch the fun, and some kept praising Ye Huwei for being so handsome.

Su Jingqing's eyes fell on the bloodstain, and he told Chang Rong, "Clean it up."

Chang Rong was full of joy, and quickly called Xiaoer to work, while he himself praised Su Jingqing, "My concubine is smart enough to let the people from the yamen solve the case so quickly and return the prince's innocence."

Uncle Zhong also came to bow and salute, "Thank you, Princess."

However, in the past three to four months, Uncle Zhong and the others have seen too many people who were respectful in the past, but now they turn their backs and set foot on Duke Huai's mansion. Few people really take Duke Huai's mansion seriously. It's human nature.

Now that I have a princess, I am willing to bother to rectify the name of the prince, so why don't they be moved.

Su Jingqing said: "I am now a member of Duke Huai's Mansion, this is the home of me and the lord, not to mention that I promised you, Uncle Zhong, that I will guard Duke Huai's mansion well."

After finishing speaking, Su Jingqing turned around, and Xiang Yu just appeared outside the shop door, "Princess, someone from the palace invites you into the palace."

"understood."

……

Su Jingqing's entry into the palace was not summoned by the emperor, but someone from Shou'an Palace, who said that he was ordered by the Empress Dowager to go to Shou'an Palace to be a witness to Princess Pingjia.

As for what to do to witness, why did he go to Shouan Palace to witness, but he refused to disclose anything.

So, Su Jingqing, who didn't know anything, heard someone trying to persuade Princess Pingjia as soon as he arrived at Shou'an Palace.

"Eldest princess, just tell the truth, you are a princess, even if it's really because you are dissatisfied with the consort's parents, if you accidentally kill them, the emperor will not blame you."

"What's the point of you saying that you are so exhausted? Isn't this just making the queen mother sad and making her suffer for you?"

Su Jingqing didn't let anyone inform her, went straight in, knelt down and saluted the queen mother, "Jingqing has seen the emperor's grandmother."

The nurse who served beside her said to the Queen Mother in her ear: "Your Majesty, it is Princess Huai."

"Get up, get up," the queen mother immediately changed her attitude when she heard that Su Jingqing had arrived, she looked very happy and enthusiastic.

Su Jingqing got up, and the queen mother asked him to sit down.

Su Jingqing was not polite and wanted to step forward upon hearing this.

But at this time, there were people sitting in the capital on both sides of the empress dowager, no, it should be said that the hall was full of people, including the emperor's concubines and unmarried princesses.

"Oh, there's no room to sit here. Princess Huai should change her seat. Let me see if there is any space..."

Concubine Zhong Guifei was sitting at the lower left of the Empress Dowager, and on the right was the person who said to find a seat for Su Jingqing, and also the one who persuaded Princess Pingjia to confess to the murder.

Su Jingqing didn't know him.

At this moment, she searched for a place but couldn't find it, and then reprimanded the people below, "Everyone is blank, what are you doing, there is no place, why don't you hurry up and move a stool for Princess Huai."

"No need," Su Jingqing refused the suggestion to move the stool.

The empress smiled, "Hey, Princess Huai likes to stand, yes, you are a young man, so it's fine to stand."

"No," Su Jingqing denied her words, "Grandma asked me to sit next to her, my lady, please let me go."

The other party's face froze in an instant, full of disbelief, "What did you say?"

Su Jingqing was too lazy to listen to her pretending to be stupid, and said: "There are only two seats next to the imperial grandmother, you may discuss it with Concubine Zhong, anyone will do."

Su Jingqing said that he was not picky, but he made the concubine so angry that his face turned red.

As for Concubine Zhong Gui, she had never heard Su Jingqing's words at all, it was impossible to let her go, and no one except the Queen Mother dared to ask her to let her go.

Looking around again, the concubine felt as if everyone was laughing at her. She was so angry that she grabbed her handkerchief, and when she wanted to struggle, the queen mother waved to Su Jingqing again, "Come here quickly."

With that said, the concubine had to leave if she didn't.

In the end, she sat on the stool brought by the eunuch, staring at Su Jingqing resentfully.

The Empress Dowager was obviously a little mentally ill. Su Jingqing said to the nanny behind her, "Since the imperial grandmother is tired, she should rest. There are so many empresses here, so they will surely relieve the imperial grandmother's worries."

The queen mother shook her head, "No, the matter is not over yet, Aijia will not leave."

Su Jingqing gave Mammy a look, and Mammy went to get the cloak and came over, and took a pillow and put it on the Queen Mother's back, letting her rest here under the cloak.

After he watched the queen mother close her eyes, Su Jingqing turned around and heard the concubine speak again, "Look at this majestic and majestic person, those who don't know think you are the master of Shouan Palace."

"Concubine Liang, be careful!"

Before Su Jingqing could speak, Concubine Zhong Gui spoke up and reprimanded him first.

Su Jingqing also finally knew the identity of the other party, one of the four concubines among the virtuous and virtuous, second only to Concubine Zhong Gui in the harem.

After being scolded by Concubine Zhong, Concubine Liang also realized that she had said something wrong, so she silently shut her mouth.

Only the empress dowager can live in the Shouan Palace in this dynasty. To say that Su Jingqing is the owner of the Shouan Palace is tantamount to saying that he wants to be the emperor's mother.

"Okay, since Princess Huai is here, let's get back to business," another person said.

"That's the first of the four concubines, Empress Xian."

The nanny next to the queen mother stood behind Su Jingqing at some point and introduced someone to him.

Concubine Zhong Gui glanced this way, her eyes brightened, and she smiled indifferently, "If that's the case, then let me ask the question."

"Princess Huai, someone said that they witnessed you instigating someone to murder the son-in-law's biological father. Is it true?"