I was a princess in ancient times

The fifth option: trust Mrs. Yu, and use the limited time to investigate whether the clues provided by Mrs. Yu are true.

According to the meaning disclosed in the two successive letters, the Yu family is facing the crisis of being regarded as a scapegoat by the remnants of the previous dynasty and the family.

With the current situation where the Yu family is completely separated from the court, they can only count on Yu Heng to help them get out of trouble.

However, Yu's arrogant attitude does not have the slightest sense of urgency that he may be framed by a villain at any time, and his family will be ransacked and his family wiped out.

The two pretentious letters were not so much a request for help, but more like throwing a rope at Yu Heng and Ji Xinxue who were trying to climb the mountain but couldn't find a point of strength.

Ji Xinxue shook her head, too lazy to find out whether Mrs. Yu was really arrogant or had other evil intentions, so she took a pen to write down his choice.

'Assassins' and 'Jailors'.

Because of the lack of cooperation of the assassins, they pretended to be Jinwu Guards to deceive most people, and there are still several key points that cannot be explained.

Only when this line is completely clear can the courtiers feel at ease.

What they are most concerned about is not what purpose the mastermind behind the scenes wants to achieve, but whether there are any unexposed assassins lurking in the Chang'an city defense, posing a threat to their safety.

Liu Shan is just a branch in the assassination incident.

The task of Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng is to find out all the 'Liu Shan' no matter whether they live or die

As for the family...

Ji Xinxue has high hopes for them, and if it is not necessary, she will not do anything in a short time to force them to jump over the wall.

What's more, there is Yu Shi who took the initiative to come to the door.

If Yu's two letters did not lie, Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng only need to wait for the two sides to tear their skins apart before they can get all the answers they want from the desperate Yu.

Even if Mrs. Yu is lying, it doesn't matter.

They didn't spend any cost, but the Yu family turned from the dark to the bright, and took the initiative to expose their malice.

For Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng, it is still a matter of making money without losing money.

Eliminate the rest of the options one by one, just to free up enough time and energy for Ji Xinxue's most concerned poisoning jailer.

Although when reorganizing the files, there were no flaws in the records about the poisoned jailer, but if there is no flaw, it is often the biggest flaw.

The big case that shocked the entire court, the dossier that recorded the assassin's information, the three lines of spring and autumn records, and the five elements turned upside down.When it was the turn of the jailer who poisoned the assassin, the dossier was clear and clean, without a single word of nonsense.

It is said that the former is recorded by the supervision of Ji Jingyu, while the latter is recorded by the supervision of Abu Hanbing.

No matter how profound Abu Hanbing's understanding of Yu Chao's Mandarin is, how can he be better than Ji Jingyu in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding semantics?

joke.

After two breaths, Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng picked up the rice paper and turned around at the same time.

'assassin'

'jailer'

The gestures are different, but the handwriting is exactly the same.

Ji Xinxue raised her chin proudly, as expected, Yu Heng was not fooled by Yu Shi's little trick.

How can a normal person resist the fact that a loved one raises his head on his own initiative?

Especially when there are seemingly non-existent obstructions from the elders outside, pig teammates inside who make trouble every now and then, and there are endless business affairs, and it is rare to have leisure time alone with the loved one.

Feeling the warm and numb touch of her lips, Ji Xinxue's eyes suddenly widened, and an unbearable shyness appeared in the depths of her eyes.

Although we have explored many wonderful new things together, it is still unprecedented to indulge desire in broad daylight while there are still many business lines waiting to be processed.

Ji Xinxue reluctantly responded, staring fixedly at the dark pupils close at hand.

How can this be?

However, Ji Xinxue's self-condemnation, in Yu Heng's eyes, is tacit encouragement.

Yu Heng silently increased the strength around Ji Xinxue's waist, raised his hand to cover the eyes that were destroying his rationality, and bit the soft tongue that was reserved like a master as if punishing.

Ji Xinxue first lost her sense of light and could only feel Yu Heng's presence, and then was suddenly attacked by a new trusted person, and she was suddenly aroused with fierceness.

After flinching briefly, he immediately took revenge on the man who was caressing the wound as if apologizing.

Just as the two of them gradually put all their minds into the fight between the lips, and gradually forgot about Jinxihexi, the door of the room was suddenly opened from the outside.

Ji Cheng ran into the door with a face full of panic.

"Feng Lang! My brother just came here to tell me about going back to Qinghe County Palace to celebrate the new year. Why do I feel that not only my grandfather, grandmother and aunt want to beat me, but he and his elder sister-in-law are also waiting to teach me a lesson..."

When there were only three steps away from Yu Heng and Ji Xinxue, Ji Cheng finally realized belatedly that there was a third person in the study.He stopped quickly and covered his mouth slowly.

You guys don't lock the door in the clear sky and broad daylight!

Immediately the palm moves upwards, turning into covering the eyes.

Ji Xinxue was speechless with anger at Ji Cheng's reaction.

Everyone is a gentleman, and no one has anything more or less than anyone else.

What are you doing covering your eyes?

It's the most real thing to get out quickly!

Although Yu Heng has often been in and out of the military camp in the past two years and saw many shirtless people, his views are still more conservative than Ji Xinxue's.He helped Ji Xinxue pull up the robe that was piled up at his waist, and carefully smoothed out every fold.

Seeing this, Ji Xinxue couldn't tell whether she was more grateful for not delaying her business, or more indescribably disappointed. She smiled at Ji Chengdao who was stuck in place like a wooden stake, "Since ancient times, there has been a 'New Year's reunion' ’, what’s wrong with grandchildren asking you to go back to celebrate the New Year?”

Ji Cheng was shocked when he heard the words, just moved the hand in front of him, and immediately pressed it back.

"No!" He shook his head crazily, begging for mercy repeatedly, "If I go back, I will spend lying on my bed until March."

Yu Heng bent down and picked up the belt at Ji Cheng's feet, and said with a sneer, "Don't you have any other business that can't be delayed by recuperation?"

"Yes! Yes! Yes! I want to help you and Your Highness investigate the case!" Ji Cheng said immediately.

Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng graciously accommodated Ji Cheng's request, and the people from the Order and Punishment Department specially prepared more rooms for Ji Cheng to rest and stay overnight.

While testing the assassin's untouched weakness, they calmly sorted out the files and roster of the minor officials, waiting for the next reaction of the Yu family and the family.

The assassins were still as smelly and hard as the stones in the latrine, neither torture nor coercion could make them speak.

In desperation, Ji Xinxue could only take a slanted edge.

He asks Dr. Zhu to study a pill that can cause the illusion of death.

When Imperial Physician Zhu heard this, his white and fat steamed bun face immediately wrinkled into a bun.

He whispered, "This is a banned drug. If the news spreads, not only will the minister suffer, but you and the county king may also be implicated."

"Is there really such a medicine?" Ji Xinxue showed a satisfied smile.

Doctor Zhu immediately forgot how he planned to persuade Ji Xinxue to change his mind, wishing to turn back time, he would definitely slap himself unconscious with a slap in the first place.

Considering the wide application of the 'fake death drug' and the possible consequences, Ji Xinxue did not want to embarrass Imperial Physician Zhu either.

He pondered for a while, then said meaningfully, "I just need to use the fake death pill to fool the assassins in the prison."

"Huh?" Imperial Physician Zhu was full of pain, trying to reason with Ji Xinxue, "In case you and the county king fail to completely block the news, the forbidden medicine appears..."

Ji Xinxue waved her hand and repeated what she said earlier, "I just need to use the fake death pill to fool the assassins in prison."

Except for him, Imperial Physician Zhu, and the Jinwu Guard who had close contact with the assassin who took the medicine, the rest of the people would only think that it was the medicine that made people trance.

When Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng took Ji Cheng to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the streets and alleys of Chang'an gradually spread a strong sense of the New Year.

On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, Princess Huai'an's Mansion held a plum blossom feast, inviting unmarried men and women of the right age in Chang'an.It is tantamount to an official announcement that the tide of blind date banquets at the end of the year and the beginning of the year has officially begun.

According to Emperor Changping's request, Ji Mingtong accompanied Ji Jingrou to various banquets.

From the 25th of the twelfth lunar month to the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, in just four days, I traveled to six mansions, participated in eight banquets, and met countless lords.

On the New Year's Eve palace banquet, Ji Xinxue, Yu Heng and Ji Cheng took time to rush back to the palace, which immediately attracted the attention of all the courtiers.

"Your Highness has worked hard and lost a lot of weight recently. I have two exotic snow lotuses to make up for me."

"Will the county king be hindered when he investigates the assassin? If there is a place where I can be used, feel free to send someone to pass the message. As long as your majesty does not summon the minister, I will definitely arrive immediately."

"Recently, I have nothing to do to tidy up old things, and I suddenly remembered something about the past. When the late emperor was still there, the selection criteria of the Jinwu Guard were quite different from now. Your Highness, please listen to me slowly."

……

This is the first time that Ji Xinxue has felt the unreserved enthusiasm of the courtiers for many years.

Half a step too late, the courtiers who couldn't get close to Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng looked at Ji Cheng one after another.

Ji Cheng subconsciously took half a step back. If he hadn't been afraid that he would be captured by the Qinghe County Prince's Mansion if he ran around, he would not have stayed where he was and faced these wolf-like gazes.

"How is Ping Guogong? Is the investigation going well?" Dali Temple Shaoqing took the lead to greet him, "My son told me a few days ago that I didn't expect you to be as good as His Highness the Fifth Highness and Xianglin County King. "

"Don't dare, I'm just trying to strike them down." Ji Cheng showed a smirk, easily perfunctory the young minister of Dali Temple.

If he was really comparable to Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng, he would rather be arrested by them because he was afraid of being beaten.

The courtiers did everything possible to inquire about the progress of Ji Xinxue and the others' investigations, but Ji Xinxue and the others calmly and perfunctorily, and the lively appearance was especially in line with the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year.

Ji Mingtong went to rub Ji Jingrou's seat openly.

Here, Ji Cheng happened to be able to see Ji Cheng without any cover.

Compared with the last time we met, he was much thinner, and he didn't know whether it was because of the responsibility of Prince Qinghe County, or because of the hard work of working with A Xue and Feng Lang.

Ji Jingrou had a panoramic view of Ji Mingtong's rare melancholy appearance, and suddenly felt his scalp tingle.

When Emperor Changping asked her to bring Ji Mingtong into contact with the right-age man, he told her personally that Ji Mingtong was young and ignorant, so he had the idea of ​​messing around with Ji Cheng.If there is a more suitable person, Ji Mingtong will change it.

Ji Jingrou still has a fresh memory of Emperor Changping's oppressive eyes.

Under the watchful eyes of Emperor Changping, she swears on the spot that the man she has not valued so far is just because she doesn't like him.

Although the idea of ​​swearing came out of nowhere, the effect was immediate. Aye's condensed expression immediately eased, and a smile appeared in his eyes.

"Don't forget to promise Aye." Ji Jingrou reminded in a low voice.

Ji Mingtong nodded obediently, still staring at Ji Cheng's figure in a daze, without any intention of looking away.

"Ji Mingtong!" Ji Jingrou reminded again.

"I know, I said, I want Aye, not Ji Cheng." Ji Mingtong turned his head to look at Ji Jingrou, and said confidently, "Aye doesn't allow us to speak, and I don't allow Axue and Fenglang to pass messages for us. I just watch See, I won't talk to you."

Ji Jingrou was stunned.

Just looking at it shouldn't be a problem... right?

Fortunately, Ji Jingrou didn't worry for a long time, Ji Xinxue, Yu Heng and Ji Chengcheng who were sitting together left the table early, and went back to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to continue to investigate the assassin.

Originally, Ji Xinxue was worried that Ji Cheng would be frustrated because there were obviously more men vying to please Ji Mingtong first.It wasn't until Ji Xinxue was forced to listen to Ji Cheng talking about Ji Mingtong's height, shortness, fatness and thinness that Ji Xinxue had to admit it.

Pure people are indeed happier than people who think too much.

On the same day, Yu Heng received another letter from the Yu family.

This time, Mrs. Yu didn't do any more tricks of mystery, and left Mrs. Yu's unique marks on the envelope and letter paper respectively.

It was signed by a person who called himself Uncle Yu Heng.

It started with the usual greetings for the New Year, and then he was concerned about whether Yu Heng's business was going well, and euphemistically expressed that he could not write two Yus in one stroke, and the Yu family could be Yu Heng's backing.

In addition, there are valuable annual gifts.

Ji Xinxue lay on Yu Heng's back and shook her head, mockingly, "Greedy ghost."

He wanted to use Yu Heng to break the situation, but also wanted Yu Heng's favor.

Yu Heng put away the letter paper according to the creases, without any emotion in his heart.

If he really couldn't write two Yus in one stroke, Chu Mo would not have died quietly in the south of the Yangtze River back then.

The Yu family has long been no longer the Yu family who devoted all their efforts to protecting Yu Qing, and he is not Yu Qing either.

On the second day of junior high school, Imperial Physician Zhu finally dispensed the fake death medicine requested by Ji Xinxue.

Ji Xinxue has made arrangements in advance, pretending to be investigating the matter through other means, and handing over the matter of interrogating the assassin to Ji Cheng.

At the beginning, Ji Cheng was very patient, talking with the assassins one by one, using all kinds of threats and lures.

It's a pity that the assassin had already had two rounds of rich experience. Not only was he indifferent to Ji Cheng's kindness, but he also deliberately pretended to be asleep to stimulate Ji Cheng's emotions.

Assassins dared to be monsters, Ji Chengcheng dared to show them madness.

Within a few days, Ji Cheng's mood became completely irritable, and he frequently ordered Jin Wuwei to whip the assassin.

However, Ji Xinxue specifically asked the Jinwu Guard to keep the assassin alive, no matter how fierce Ji Cheng yelled, the assassin would not be afraid.There were even people who had been imprisoned for a long time and whose spirits were no longer normal, deliberately shouted, "When the Duke comes next time, don't forget to bring medicine for the brothers."

At that time, Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng happened to stop at the door, listening to the laughter.

With the feigned death medicine in hand, Ji Xinxue gave Ji Cheng another order.

The next day, Ji Cheng changed into new clothes that were extraordinarily bright in color, and his face was livid in complete contrast to the color of the clothes.

"His Highness Fifth and King Xianglin have found Liu Shan and others who had worked in Jinwu Guard, Habayashi Guard, Qianniu Guard, and Daying in the suburbs of Beijing." Ji Cheng looked around with a straight face, "I will give you the last A chance, do you want to say it?"

The lingering sound dissipated, leaving only silence in the cell.

Most of the assassins kept their original postures, and the increasingly dishonest ones turned over or raised their hands to cover their ears to provoke Ji Cheng.

It was rare for Ji Cheng not to get angry.

He lowered his eyes, his tone was cold and calm, and he clearly heard everyone's ears, "If you confess before His Majesty the Fifth Highness and Xianglin County King thoroughly investigate this matter, and give me a chance to ask for a reward in front of Your Majesty, I will I beg Your Majesty to spare the lives of your family members."

Still no one would answer.

After a long time, Ji Cheng suddenly grabbed the jade pendant around his waist and slammed it against the railing.

The translucent jade pieces fell apart immediately, and even though the original appearance could not be seen at all, the value of the jade pendant could be seen through the water head and size.

At least one thousand taels, no back cover.

"Still refusing to say it? What's the use of keeping you!" Ji Cheng pulled off his cloak and slammed it on the ground, kicking up dust all over the sky.

"Come on!" He yelled at the expressionless Jinwu Guard with his completely distorted face, "Give them numbers! I will draw three people out every day to give them to death!"

After speaking, Ji Cheng immediately turned around and left without giving the assassin any chance to spy on his expression.

Ji Xinxue outside the door helped her forehead helplessly.

If it weren't for the blessing of Ping Guogong's status, Ji Cheng's performance could only score two points.

Loud enough, plus one point.

One point for clear enunciation.

[-] points out of [-].

Ji Cheng smiled big at Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng, and asked impatiently, "How is it?"

"Very good!" Ji Xinxue gave a thumbs up.

Yu Heng nodded, "Not bad!"

The smile on Ji Cheng's face suddenly became brighter, and he took the initiative to take Ji Xinxue's arm and walked out, his tone was light and quick, "Tell me how to behave at night, I will practice in advance in the afternoon."

Ji Xinxue quickened her pace along the strength of her arm, and sighed with emotion, "I didn't expect you to be so interested in interrogating assassins."

Yu Heng who fell behind looked thoughtfully at the back of Ji Cheng's head.

A tiger father has no dog.

Uncle has served as Minister of Dali Temple for many years, so it is normal for Ji Cheng to be interested in trial.

When this matter is over, he will ask His Majesty for Ji Cheng to ask for a position in the Ministry of Punishment, at least he will not be sent out of Chang'an easily.

Ji Cheng smiled and said nothing.

As long as you don't ask him to sort out endless files and rosters, let alone interrogate assassins, even ask him to grab bones from the dog bowl!

The Jinwu Guard is as efficient as ever.

Half an hour later, each assassin had a numbered cloth strip on his arm.

There were also assassins who became more and more presumptuous deliberately looking for trouble. As soon as Jin Wuwei left, he took off the cloth strips tied around his arms and threw them out in front of Jin Wuwei.

The price was losing his shirt and getting a 'tattoo' on his arm.

Seeing this, the rest of the assassins who were about to make a move all tightened the cloth strips with both hands and mouths, and said, "Ping Guogong can tease, Jin Wuwei can't." 'Keep it in mind.

As the sun goes down, Ji-sung returns to the prison.

He stared at the assassins with a sneer and sneered, took the initiative to cover his eyes with cloth strips, squatted in front of the wooden box brought by the Jinwu Guard, and picked up three wooden balls.

Ji Cheng checked the marks on the wooden ball one by one, his brows filled with unconcealed sternness, "Six, eighteen, 21, give them medicine and drag them away tomorrow."

Jin Wuwei took the wooden ball with both hands.

On the surface, the assassins didn't care about Ji Cheng's actions, but in fact they immediately checked the cloth strips tied to his arms in various ways to determine whether their memories were wrong.

Before everyone could see the numbers on the cloth strips, the Jinwu Guard had already precisely opened the cell and walked into their target under the smoke of special incense sticks.

21's peripheral vision has been completely attracted by Jin Wuwei.

He is a person who is obviously afraid of death but always pretends to be good.

Because of his stubbornness, he didn't have time to see the number on the cloth strip on his arm.

It can't be said that way, after all, when the Jin Wuwei just tied cloth strips for everyone, they had already kept their own numbers in their hearts.

just in case……

Seeing that Jin Wuwei was walking straight in his direction, 21 immediately forgot all the "what ifs" and subconsciously raised his arms.

21? !

"Impossible!" He jumped up from the ground suddenly, looking at the person who had hidden in the corner without knowing it, "I'm not 21, who stole my cloth strip, it's..."

Jin Wuwei grabbed 21's neck bone with one hand, and the other hand holding the pill effortlessly pressed down the wide open mouth to the throat.

21, whose eyes were almost protruding from the eye sockets, swallowed obviously, and then began to struggle frantically.

Do not!

He is not 21!

There's still time, as long as he can spit out the pill in time!

It's a pity that 21 used to be a Jinwu guard, but he was just a Waiwu, and the person who pressed him to feed the medicine was the Neiwu.No matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't get any response.

Shiba's reaction speed was far faster than 21's. He immediately threw away the cloth strip with the number written on his arm, and ran towards the other assassins.

However, the reactions of the other assassins were very different from his expectations.

Those people fled as if being chased by a flood of beasts, for fear of having any contact with him.

Shiba was afraid and hated at the same time, and chased after them like crazy, as if as long as he could catch one of them, the person who was given death would be someone else.

It's a pity that Shiba hadn't caught the scapegoat yet, and was already caught by the Jinwu Guard, and was forced to swallow the pill like 21.

At the same time, the assassin No. [-] shook his eyelids violently, took the initiative to put the pill into his mouth, pretended to swallow it, and secretly swallowed the pill.

Although he knew that if Pingguo Gong Jinkou Yuyan said the words of death, even if he was not poisoned to death today, he would not be able to escape other methods of death tomorrow, but the ants still steal their lives.

He used to think he was a swan, but he didn't realize that he was just an ordinary bird until he faced life and death.

If I could choose again...

Feeling that the pill in his mouth is getting smaller and smaller, but the body fluid is getting more and more, Liu subconsciously wants to spit out the accumulated body fluid and the remaining pills.

The Jinwu Guard who was standing beside him suddenly raised his chin.

The pill was mixed with body fluid and fell down the throat unimpeded.

Without the support of Jin Wuwei, Liu collapsed on the ground decadently, staring in the direction of the gate in a daze.

late.

Two quarters of an hour later, the incense sticks were completely reduced to ashes.

Without warning, the Jinwu Guard guarding the incense raised the saber around his waist and struck the bottom of the copper basin, scaring the nineteen lucky ones who were not selected. They trembled without exception, and subconsciously looked at the voice. incoming direction.

The Jinwu Guards guarding six, eighteen and twenty one turned around and exited the cell.

Ji Xinxue and Yu Heng stood guard outside the door, through the barely visible small hole, and captured everyone's reactions in their eyes.

People who are fed fake death drugs will completely stop breathing in full view of the public, their bodies will become stiff, and then they will be dragged to another place and held alone tomorrow morning.

Ji Xinxue once thought about letting the assassin's family members take the medicine in front of the assassin, but was stopped by Yu Heng.

He said to Ji Xinxue, "As long as these assassins have half of their family in mind, they won't refuse to recruit anything so far."

Ji Xinxue felt that it was reasonable, and decided to follow Yu Heng's suggestion and leave all the opportunities to experience death to the assassin.

He didn't believe that there were still 22 bewitched people alive, and none of them would be enlightened after experiencing 'death'.