monopolize my master

Early the next morning, Ling Xiao arrived at the East Palace on time with two dark circles under his eyes.

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing Ling Xiao's listless look, Su Huang couldn't help asking.

"It's nothing. It's just that I didn't come up with any clues about yesterday's case." Ling Xiao smiled helplessly, "Let's leave this matter to Donghui Yamen to deal with. Maybe I overlooked some details..."

"...Well. You didn't sleep well yesterday, and you got up so early today... Can you hold on?" Su Huang was a little worried.

"I'm fine." Ling Xiao cheered up and smiled at Su Huang, "Your Highness is on time today."

"Hmph, except for the accident on the first day, when you didn't come before, I got up early." Su Huang turned her face away and muttered, "Hurry up and start. I asked Su Xin to prepare early. Xiu You can go eat after studying."

"Yeah." Ling Xiao smiled, forgetting about Zhang Wenju's murder for the time being.He began to concentrate on instructing Su Huang's swordsmanship.Su Huang's arm was slightly swollen, so his movements were not as smooth as yesterday.Ling Xiao changed his usual laughing appearance, and taught him hand in hand.After a while, Su Huang gradually became able to swing the wooden sword freely.

"Good job." Ling Xiao nodded in praise.

breakfast.

"That..." Su Huang hesitated, "If you are really worried, I can take you to Donghui Yamen to see the situation." Seeing Ling Xiao's preoccupied face, Su Huang couldn't help but said , "You... just take it as a reward for being my first martial arts master, how about it?"

"Really?" Ling Xiao's eyes suddenly brightened, "Can you really take me to Donghui Yamen?"

"I haven't been there before. But my father asked me to go to the yamen to help plan the disaster relief silver donation. So the governor of Donghui Mansion should know me." Su Huang thought for a while, "If in the name of my father, They probably won't say much."

"...Is it really possible? If it's inconvenient, forget it." Ling Xiao thought about it carefully, "Or, explain this matter to the emperor?"

"No need." Su Huang categorically rejected Ling Xiao's proposal this time, "If you're just going to have a look, there's no need to alarm Father. After dinner, you're ready to go, and I'll take you there."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Ling Xiao hurriedly got up and saluted Su Huang, but Su Huang stretched out his hand to block it.

"I just don't want to see you looking so sad all day long. Let's just thank you." Su Huang said in a low voice, poking the pastry on the plate with the small silver spoon in his hand.

An hour later, Donghui Yamen.

After some negotiations, Ling Xiao stared at the file in his hand, frowning.

This so-called dossier was not as simple as he imagined.

The description of Zhang Wenyuan's cause of death in the dossier was not much different from the reason he asked that day, but there was one point that caught Ling Xiao's attention.

"Zhang Wenyuan suffered multiple bruises, and his leg was clearly broken."

Ling Xiao followed Wu Zuo to see Zhang Wenju's body, but Mr. Zhang's death was very peaceful, it didn't look like he was killed after being seriously injured at all...it seemed like he was killed by a single blow or...

The poisonous hand of someone very close.

"Where are Master Zhang's relatives?" Ling Xiao asked.

"It was settled by the Holy One. I don't know where they are." Fu Yin replied, "The Holy One is really considerate. Mr. Zhang doesn't have many relatives. There is only an elderly mother and a new talker in the mansion. The son of the old man... the old man is inconvenient to move, and the Holy One is afraid that they will be murdered by the bandit party, so he arranges them well."

"The elderly mother and son? Where's his widow?" Ling Xiao frowned, "Where are the other people in the mansion? Maids and servants, did you find anything on the day of the crime?"

"All ran away." Fu Yin shook his head helplessly, and then said with emotion, "It's really a declining world, and people's hearts are not old...Master Zhang usually treats them well, and they all disappeared when something happened. When we rushed to investigate the case , the house is empty. I wanted to find some useful clues, but now I can’t do anything.”

"Where did his wife go?" Ling Xiao hurriedly asked, "The child is still there, how can a mother leave the child and run away with the old mother? This is too unreasonable."

"Who knows?" Fu Yin shook his head, "We now suspect that Mr. Zhang was murdered by his wife. But... because there is no evidence, we don't want to jump to conclusions."

Ling Xiao recalled Mrs. Zhang's appearance.In his memory, Mrs. Zhang was a very virtuous and virtuous woman, who had raised eyebrows with her husband for more than ten years. Ling Xiao would never have thought that that meek and respectful woman would kill her husband.

Besides, the scar on Master Zhang's leg reminded Ling Xiao that the matter was not that simple.

"Got it?" Su Huang's voice suddenly sounded behind Ling Xiao, "Ling Xiao, what is this place? Why is it so dark? It's almost time, we should go back."

"This is...the morgue. It's very cloudy, don't come in." Ling Xiao sighed, hurriedly walked to Su Huang's side and bent down gently to cover his eyes with a wide sleeve robe, "I see, Let's go back."

"How is the case? Is there anything wrong?" Su Huang was blindfolded. Although she didn't know how terrifying the morgue was, she couldn't help feeling a little nervous when she saw Ling Xiao carefully protecting herself. fear.

"There are a few suspicious points. Nothing else." Ling Xiao said softly, "I told you to wait outside for a long time."

"Soon." Su Huang replied, "But the atmosphere here is too heavy, I don't like it very much."

"Well. Let's go back then." Ling Xiao let go of his hand with a smile, "Thank you Your Highness for bringing me here today."

"You don't have to be polite." Su Huang tilted his head and thought about it carefully, "I've already said that, you promised to teach me martial arts, and this is for you... um, a reward?"

Hearing Su Huang's somewhat childish words, Ling Xiao suddenly felt relieved, as if the burden of haze that weighed heavily on his heart today disappeared in an instant.

"I am very useful." Ling Xiao replied with a smile, "I am very useful for your reward."

"Huh? You like coming to Yamen very much?" Su Huang was a little confused.

"How do you want to go back? Take a car or let me take you to try riding a horse?" Walking outside the door, Ling Xiao looked at Su Huang with smiling eyes.

"Can I ride a horse?" Su Huang's eyes were filled with anticipation, then he lowered his head after thinking about it, and said in embarrassment, "But I won't..."

"Fool." Seeing Su Huang's worried face, Ling Xiao couldn't help but patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "How could I let you ride a horse alone. Of course you are with me." After that, Ling Xiao He took a slightly older brown horse, put on the harness carefully, then picked up Su Huang who was still in a daze, and gently put him on the horse's back.Immediately afterwards, Ling Xiao also jumped on the horse.

"Sit still."

Ling Xiao instructed with a smile, and lightly kicked the horse's stomach.The horse ran briskly, under Ling Xiao's control, the speed was gentle, and the street scene slowly flowed in front of his eyes.Su Huang seldom goes out of the palace, let alone the market.The dazzling array of commodities and small vendors made Su Huang very happy.

"Ling Xiao..." Su Huang called softly, but his eyes stayed on a small vendor, "I want to go down and have a look."

"it is good."

Ling Xiao carried Su Huang off the horse.Su Huang tugged at Ling Xiao's sleeve, Ling Xiao tugged at the horse, and squeezed in front of the peddler together.

"What do you two want?" Seeing Ling Xiao and Su Huang's extraordinary demeanor and luxurious clothes, the peddler hurriedly left the girl who came to inquire, and came to greet them enthusiastically, "I have a lot of things... "

"I want..." Su Huang pointed at a pendant in the shape of a little rabbit, but was interrupted by Ling Xiao's light voice.

"I'm sorry boss, the girls next to me came first, and they also like your items very much, so let's tell them first." Ling Xiao nodded apologetically towards the two girls beside him.

"...The two girls are really sorry..." The peddler felt a little sorry, and hurriedly apologized to the two girls.And the two girls' thoughts on buying jewelry have disappeared. Although they are looking at the goods, they can't stop looking at Ling Xiao from the corner of their eyes.

"It's outside, not at home." Ling Xiao said to Su Huang with a smile, "First come, first served."

Su Huang blushed a little, and apologized gently to the two girls.

"Let me ask you, my lord..." A slightly bolder girl next to me asked coquettishly, "My lord, is this little lord next to you your child?"

Ling Xiao chuckled, "No, it's my... a cousin."

"Then..." Hearing Ling Xiao's voice, the girl couldn't help but blushed, "...does the young master...have a marriage?"

Ling Xiao: "... yes."

Su Huang and the two girls opened their eyes wide in surprise at the same time.The girl didn't want to look at the jewelry any more, she bowed lowly to Ling Xiao and left in frustration.

"Okay, what did you want just now?" Ling Xiao looked at Su Huang and asked.

"...don't think about it anymore." Su Huang suddenly let go of Ling Xiao's sleeve, turned and left with a look of anger.Ling Xiao was confused and hurriedly followed.

"What’s wrong with you……"

Before Ling Xiao finished his question, a burst of exclamation from the crowd behind him interrupted his words.There was the sound of galloping horseshoes, followed by the sound of the stall being knocked down.A man in black came quickly from the street with a long knife in his hand.

"careful!"

Ling Xiao pulled Su Huanghu into his arms, and picked up a bamboo stick at the same time. The man in black was fast, and he was behind the two of them in an instant.There was a flash in the eyes of the man in black, and then a blue light struck towards Ling Xiao.

Oh, clumsy.

The man's sword skills are not proficient, and his internal strength is average. Ling Xiao swung the bamboo stick, but he didn't follow the direction in which the man in black was coming. It hit the right arm joint of the man in black.The man in black felt the pain, his right arm went numb, and the long knife in his hand dropped.A sneer twitched at the corner of Ling Xiao's lips, and he wanted to fly and kick him off the horse, but unexpectedly, the man in black's eyes started to wander, staring at a certain place behind Ling Xiao.

"There is an ambush!"