Datang traitor

Qin Yuan suddenly cut down the whole dim sum with a knife, cutting it in half from the center.

At this moment, Changsun Wuji, who had killed countless enemies on the battlefield, turned his head away and couldn't bear to watch.

The dim sum is wrapped with dark red sour plum sauce. After the dim sum is cut, it slowly flows onto the rice paper.

Qin Yuan dipped some sour plum sauce with the tip of his knife, and smoothed it on the rice paper. Looking carefully, there seemed to be nothing else but the flesh of the sour plum. Does not seem to have any other sundries.It doesn't look like there is something when you pinch it, and it doesn't look like there is anything with the naked eye.

Qin Yuan rested his chin and pondered, this might really be an ordinary snack.But for further confirmation, Qin Yuan ordered people to catch the rat and raise it for two days to see the situation.

Changsun Wuji heard that Qin Yuan asked someone to divide the food and feed it to the mice, so he turned to look at Qin Yuan and asked him what he was doing.

"It's so obvious, I'm checking if there's anything wrong with this dim sum." Qin Yuan ordered someone to invite Lu Qiaoer, and he specially left half of the dim sum for Lu Qiaoer to have a look at.

"If you only look at whether this snack is poisonous or not," Changsun Wuji said with a look of disbelief, "Why are you pinching it if you have nothing to do?"

"Who knows if there will be any strange things inside, maybe it will be different when you break it open, so squeeze it twice first. What's the matter?" Qin Yuan asked Changsun Wuji in puzzlement.

"Your excuse is so fake. If you just pinch it to see if there is anything in it, do you need to pinch it repeatedly? Look at how this thing has been deformed by you." Changsun Wuji I feel that Qin Yuan is making unreasonable words, "You can just tell me what your hobby is, and you don't need to hide it from me."

"What do you think!" Qin Yuan turned to look at the half-cut dim sum on the table, and suddenly felt that the shape was somewhat similar... Because of Changsun Wuji's words, it was difficult for him to look directly at the dim sum.

Qin Yuan helplessly explained to Changsun Wuji: "I'm worried that there is a Gu in it, which is rather special and will grow after steaming, so I'll pinch it every once in a while to confirm."

Changsun Wuji chuckled, "Your reason makes sense."

"This is not a reason, but a fact. Please don't think of me so wretchedly, Mr. Grandson, I am a gentleman in my heart." Qin Yuanyi clarified with righteous words.

"A gentleman? A gentleman is respectful but not difficult, peaceful but not comfortable, condescending but not flattering, lenient but not indulgent, beneficial but not frugal, straight but not straight." Changsun Wuji asked Qin Yuan what he could do.

Qin Yuan thought about it seriously:

First, be respectful and not make things difficult; he could have done this, but it is a pity that he just made things difficult for Changsun Wuji because of his displeasure, and forked it off.

Second, be quiet and not covet comfort; he will do whatever it takes to eat well, which is coveting comfort and forking off.

Third, be humble and not flattering; this point needs no explanation and must be crossed out.

Fourth, he is tolerant but not conniving; not to mention how he treats others, he has always been tolerant and conniving to himself, cross off.

Fifth, he is smart and not stingy; he seems to have achieved this, because he is a god and doesn't care about external things.

Sixth, be upright and not self-willed; how to live without self-will, resolutely fork it.

"Be kind but not thrifty!" Qin Yuan proudly said to his eldest grandson Wuji.

Changsun Wuji laughed loudly, "This is the only thing you have done, can you be called a gentleman?"

"Then you haven't done it at all. Just say that during the time I've known you, how many times have you made things difficult for me, how many times have you cared about me, how many times have you been stingy, and how many times have you been self-willed? Not to mention frugality, this word has nothing to do with you Don't get along!" Qin Yuan also laughed, joking that Changsun Wuji was not as good as him, and he didn't do anything.

Changsun Wuji said with a smile without blushing, "But I know myself well, and I don't pretend to be a gentleman."

Qin Yuan: "..."

"At any rate, I still have a little bit of pursuit. Is the elder grandson planning to degenerate himself?" Qin Yuan sighed.

Changsun Wuji: "..."

Half an hour later, Lu Qiaoer, who was wearing men's clothes, was led into Dali Temple.

Lu Qiaoer looked around curiously, and was then taken to the imposing side hall, where she saw two men in purple robes and official uniforms sitting there.The one sitting at the top, in his early thirties, has sharp eyebrows, and is fiddling with the dagger in his hand, which is not easy to mess with.The other one she knew well was the handsome brother Qin whom she had known since she was a child.

Lu Qiaoer immediately laughed, and then, at Qin Yuan's prompt, first paid homage to eldest grandson Wuji.

The eldest grandson Wuji looked at Lu Qiaoer with two eyes. She is a fair-skinned, delicate-looking girl who loves to smile. She is pretty good.Changsun Wuji couldn't figure it out, there was such a good girl who had known Qin Yuan since he was a child, how could Qin Yuan just like the gloomy-faced and emaciated Saturday mother.

Lu Qiaoer happily said to Qin Yuan: "After I returned to Chang'an City, I heard people say that brother Qin was promoted to the young minister of Dali Temple. Congratulations to brother Qin! I never thought in my life that I would have the opportunity to enter a place like Dali Temple. Thanks to Brother Qin."

After Lu Qiaoer finished speaking, she felt the majesty of Dali Temple.

Qin Yuan asked Lu Qiaoer to check the dim sum.After Lu Qiaoer tried several methods, she shook her head at Qin Yuan.

"Probably not, but I can't be sure." Lu Qiaoer explained to Qin Yuan that she is a half-baked person after all, and she just learned something superficially from her mother, which is not enough.

"Just to be on the safe side, I've already tested it with living things, and I'll find out in two days." Qin Yuan then asked Lu Qiaoer, "You just said you weren't in Chang'an a while ago?"

"Well, I went to Shangzhou with my aunt. There is a meditation temple there. My aunt is familiar with the Taoist nuns there. I want to become a monk." Lu Qiaoer reminded Qin Yuan that it was the first time she saw Qin Yuan after she came to Chang'an When I was a monk, I mentioned the matter of becoming a monk.

Qin Yuan nodded: "I didn't expect you to really have such a plan, so why come back this time?"

"Because of the severe drought in the pass, the Taoist temples in many places are overcrowded, and they have begun to pick people. The Taoist priest forbids me to become a monk, saying that I am not smart enough and not enlightened." Lu Qiaoer pouted, and now she is still sad when she says it, but she was rejected like this up.

Changsun Wuji couldn't help laughing, "It's because you can't become a monk, and the fate hasn't come yet, maybe you will be blessed because of it, and there will be better things in the future."

Lu Qiaoer did not expect that the eldest grandson, who looked stern and full of hostility, could actually talk to her with a smile, and felt very terrified and honored.

"Then I'll believe it, the grandson's words must be right." Lu Qiaoer said happily.

Changsun Wuji nodded in satisfaction, his eyes wandered from Lu Qiaoer to Qin Yuan.Qin Yuan keenly noticed Changsun Wuji's strange eyes, and immediately realized that there must be something strange in his strange head.

After Qin Yuan ordered someone to send Lu Qiaoer away, the eldest grandson Wuji really came up and said to Qin Yuan in a low voice: "You are so lively, much better than that Saturday mother."

Qin Yuan glared at Changsun Wuji, signaling him to shut up.The dignified uncle is still so gossip.

"Tell me what's good about Saturday's mother. I don't think she has big breasts, which doesn't meet your expectations." Changsun Wuji continued without winking.

Qin Yuan retorted to Changsun Wuji in surprise, "Don't spread rumors! When did I say that I like big breasts, and you, it's okay to see what other girls do with their bodies, wretched!"

"Normal men will look at it. If you don't look at it, you are abnormal." Changsun Wuji expounded his "unrivaled principles" generously.

Qin Yuan cast a blank glance at Changsun Wuji speechlessly, he had nothing to talk to him, and was even more ashamed to be with him.

"A gentleman is magnanimous, and a villain is a good man." Changsun Wuji said to Qin Yuan with a smile, "I can be regarded as magnanimous, with a little bit, not worse than you."

Look at Changsun Wuji, he is still cautious at this time, and he doesn't forget to make up for the previous debt.

"Although I'm not qualified to be a gentleman, I still know the difference between frankness and vulgarity." Qin Yuan retorted.

"I can tell the difference too." Changsun Wuji said cheekily.

Qin Yuan was even more speechless, too lazy to argue with Changsun Wuji, and bid him farewell.

"Where are you going?" Changsun Wuji asked.

"Investigate the case, the Wei Mansion case has not been resolved yet."

After Qin Yuan arrived at Wei's mansion, he called all the servants who were serving the Duan family to him.Ask them when Duan's appetite began to increase and he likes to binge eat.

"Half a month ago." The servants replied.

"That half a month ago, since no one in particular came to the mansion, did Madam ever go out?" Qin Yuan asked in a different way.

"I go to the Taoist temple to offer incense at the beginning of every month, and I have persisted for more than 30 years. Half a month ago, my wife and Mrs. E Guogong met to go to the Taoist temple to offer incense." The maids also told Qin Yuan that they would go to the Taoist temple. The most fragrant place is Yong'an Temple in Chang'an City.

Mrs. E Guogong refers to Yuchi Jingde's wife.

"By the way, Madam didn't feel any pain in her whole body on the seventh day after she came back from that Taoist temple. She was cured of all illnesses and her appetite became better. After that, her appetite became bigger and bigger."

The maidservants then presented Mrs. Duan's last remaining life-prolonging pill, and told Qin Yuan that this was the pill that Mrs. Duan would always bring back from Yong'an Temple every time.

"Why didn't you hand it over before?" Qin Yuan asked.

The maid shrank her neck and said: "This is Madam's old habit. Taking this medicine every day is like eating daily. It has been nearly eight or nine years, and there has never been a problem. The maids feel that this matter will not What is the problem."

The housekeeper also said at this time: "That's true. Madam eats and uses everything as usual. The younger ones don't think there is anything unusual. It's the younger ones' real job that they couldn't tell Qin Shaoqing about everything."

Qin Yuan took the pills to check Yong'an Temple first, led people to surround Yong'an Temple, and then sent people to invite Lu Qiaoer again.

Qin Yuan questioned Daoist Zhang of Yong'an Temple, "Do you still remember that Mrs. E Guogong and Mrs. Duan came here to offer incense half a month ago."

Zhang Daochang immediately agreed, and said to Qin Yuan: "The two wives will come here to offer incense every month in the middle of the month, without interruption."

"Then after he was incensed, did the Taoist priest give her anything? Such as talisman paper, elixir or something else? I advise Taoist Zhang not to lie to me. If you find out that you are lying, the charge may be directly charged to you It's on the head, after all, there is Mrs. E Guogong who can ask." Qin Yuan reminded him.

Daoist Zhang hurriedly dared not dare, and answered Qin Yuan truthfully: "It is the pill of prolonging life and longevity. Pindao refines this pill every month. There are several ladies in Chang'an City who have been taking this pill refined by Pindao. Because of the medicine It can only be stored for half a month at most, and it will lose its effectiveness after a long time. Therefore, the wives always come to pick it up when they come to offer incense at the beginning of the month and the middle of the month. This elixir of Pindao is to nourish yin and kidney, prolong life, and it is not harmful."

"Whether there is any harm or not you don't care, it will be clear after we verify it." Qin Yuan immediately ordered people to seal Daoist Zhang's alchemy room and bedroom.

Qin Yuan first asked Lu Qiaoer to check the last longevity pill that Mrs. Xia Duan had taken.Lu Qiaoer shook her head after the test, she didn't think there was anything wrong with the pill.

"But if it's really a voodoo, only one pill should be enough. Perhaps only one pill is poisonous, and the others are normal. Maybe Mrs. Duan just took this pill on the fifth day after taking it, and her body It's abnormal." Lu Qiaoer guessed.

Qin Yuan felt that Lu Qiaoer's statement had some possibility.Since it is possible, it is necessary to investigate and confirm whether this is the case.

It is still a blind search now, because there is no way to check Mrs. Duan's body, and it is impossible to confirm whether Mrs. Duan died of Gu poison.Qin Yuan is not sure whether this direction is right or not, so now he cannot judge the case based on subjective assumptions, but must rely on actual evidence to avoid unjust imprisonment.

Qin Yuan had no choice but to trouble Lu Qiaoer to continue, and he took people to check whether there was any poison or something related to the poison in the temple.

There are quite a lot of pills in Yong'an Guandan room, Lu Qiaoer tested each one, and only tested a small part in the middle of the night, and found no problems for the time being.

Not all Gus can crawl out of insects, some Gus are eggs, so different Gus will have different effects after being sprinkled with sulfur powder.This can only be judged by Lu Qiaoer herself, not others.

"How long will it take to check all these medicines in Guannei?" Qin Yuan asked.

"Maybe two more days." Lu Qiaoer pinched the back of her neck with her hand, and turned her neck wearily.

Qin Yuan asked Lu Qiaoer to go to rest first, and it would take so long, it would not work if he stayed up all night and his energy was not good.

"I don't think this Taoist temple is like a place to practice Gu, otherwise there would be some traces." Lu Qiaoer said.

"But it can't be ruled out that after they did something bad, they expected today to happen, so they cleaned it up in advance. In fact, I also think that they should not put the medicine with Gu in this alchemy room. But there are no other clues to check now. It is impossible to completely rule out that there is no problem with these things, so I can only trouble you."

Qingyuan not only lamented that this is the disadvantage of blind investigation, he has no idea whether the direction of the investigation is right, and he has to do a lot of useless work.

Lu Qiaoer hurriedly smiled and said it's okay, "I'm very happy to be able to help Brother Qin."

"I will go to the palace tomorrow to meet the saint. I hope the saint will allow me to inspect Mrs. Duan's body. Otherwise, this investigation will not only consume manpower, but may also be a waste of effort. In the end, the murderer will be allowed to go unpunished."

"I believe Brother Qin will be able to catch the murderer. Please don't worry about Yong'an Temple, and leave it to me."

Qin Yuan thanked Lu Qiaoer for his help, and then he went to visit Dai Zhou, and asked Dai Zhou to help Yong'an Temple.

After hearing about Qin Yuan's difficulties, Dai Zhou patted him on the shoulder with emotion.

"In many cases, investigating a case is not a pleasant thing, but a lot of meticulous and tedious work, which is difficult for you."

Qin Yuan tested Dai Zhou: "I thought you were going to help me play together, lobbying the sage to allow me to examine the corpse."

"This matter is not easy to handle, after all Madam Duan has a noble status." Dai Zhou sighed, "The dead are the most important. If Concubine Wei is not willing, we can't move casually."

"If you don't let the body be moved, and you suspect the cause of her death, how can you investigate?" Qin Yuan thought about it, and felt that he couldn't bear this matter. Even if Li Shimin was unhappy, he had to fight it.

The next day, just after dawn, Qin Yuan got up and prepared to face the saint.

He checked today's harvest, and it turned out to be pepper with a bitter taste.This shows that Li Shimin is not in a good mood today, and he is a little depressed and resentful.

This is really a double whammy.At this time, his question of begging for the corpse is likely to add fuel to the flames and affect himself.

Qin Yuan was hesitating whether he should wait another day to see.The eunuch suddenly came to the palace to send him a message, asking him to enter the palace immediately to face the saint.

Li Shimin must have encountered trouble.

After a stick of incense, Qin Yuan appeared in the Ganlu Hall as quickly as possible under the repeated urging of the eunuch.

Ganlu Hall is Li Shimin's bedroom, located behind Liangyi Hall where he usually works.

Li Shimin usually summoned his concubine in the Ganlu Hall to favor him.

Qin Yuan entered the main hall of Ganlu Hall, and saw Li Shimin wearing bright yellow obscene clothes, sitting on the top seat with a bad complexion, only the big eunuch Zhang De and five other young eunuchs were accompanying him in the room.

"You came."

Li Shimin seemed to be a little confused, the moment he saw Qin Yuan, his mood was much calmer.He saw that Qin Yuan wanted to be courteous, so he didn't have to come forward like this.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter?" Qin Yuan sensed that something was wrong. Normally around Li Shimin, there would always be more than a dozen courtiers standing on both sides to wait on him, but today there were very few people.

Li Shimin got up and asked Qin Yuan to follow him into the bedroom.

"Last night, I doted on a court lady named Zhou Lan. She bit me suddenly in the middle of the night, and I kicked her out of bed." Li Shimin suddenly explained.

Then Li Shimin didn't continue talking, and took Qin Yuan to the dormitory.

Qin Yuan just imagined the later scenes, such as the maid died, or suddenly went crazy and behaved abnormally.But when Qin Yuan followed Li Shimin into the dormitory, except for the messy bedding, the surroundings were empty, and he didn't see anyone or a corpse or anything unusual.

"His Majesty?"

Qin Yuan looked at Li Shimin with some doubts, waiting for him to continue explaining the following things.

"Zhang De and the others heard the movement, so they came in to look at me, and looked carefully with the lights on. There was no one in the room."

Li Shimin looked around the bedroom and told Qin Yuan that all the windows in the room were closed at that time.The dormitory is connected to the outer hall, and there is only one exit. As soon as he yelled, Zhang De and others came in.Moreover, there was a candle burning in the room at the time, and it wasn't too dark, so he disappeared in the blink of an eye.Li Shimin asked Qin Yuan how people could disappear out of thin air.

"I thought people wouldn't disappear out of thin air," Qin Yuan said.

"But Zhou Lan disappeared. When I summoned her, many people saw her." Li Shimin told Qin Yuan that this was not a dream.

Zhang De immediately agreed, saying that he saw it with his own eyes, and the other five eunuchs and the guards outside the Ganlu Hall also saw it.Zhou Lan actually entered the Ganlu Hall to meet the saint.

Zhang De told Qin Yuan in a low voice that Zhou Lan was the court lady whom the saint met at the West Sea two days ago, and she was originally in charge of serving the flowers and plants in the garden.The last time the sage was on a cruise in the West Sea, he happened to see Zhou Lan among the flowers on the shore. After summoning him, he had a brief chat with her, and he had a certain impression of her.Last night the sage suddenly remembered and summoned Lai Xing, but such a strange thing happened.

"It's really strange." Qin Yuan sighed.

Li Shimin hooked his fingers, called Qin Yuan to him, and asked him in a low voice: "Have you met a ghost?"

"Ordinary people can't see ghosts with their naked eyes." Qin Yuan didn't believe that what Li Shimin met was a ghost.Taking a step back, even if Li Shimin had a special physique and could see hell, Zhang De and several eunuchs and guards couldn't all have special physiques.

"Is this maid in the roster of palace maids?" Qin Yuan turned to Zhang De and asked.

Zhang De promised, "When I declared her an audience, I informed the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they brought the court lady Zhou Lan here as I requested."

"That's right, so many palace people have seen her, her identity cannot be false."

"If it was a human being, how could it disappear out of thin air!" Li Shimin couldn't figure it out.

"Then the imperial palace is under martial law, and no one is allowed to enter or leave. Has she been searched in the palace?" Qin Yuan asked again.

Zhang De winked at Qin Yuan, telling him that there is no way to deal with this matter.

"Why?" Qin Yuan asked doubtfully.

Li Shimin seemed to feel embarrassed at this moment, and turned his back.

Zhang De pulled Qin Yuan aside, and whispered to Qin Yuan: "Your Majesty just told Empress Changsun the day before yesterday that on the anniversary of the death of the Empress Dowager, one must eat vegetarian food and abstain from lust for seven days."

Qin Yuan understood, no wonder he felt that Ganlu Hall was very serious and low-key when he came.It turned out that Li Shimin was afraid that things would go out, and he would lose face in front of Empress Changsun.

Qin Yuan asked Li Shimin to allow him to check the dormitory.

Li Shimin nodded, and immediately saw Qin Yuan go to check around his bed, and found two hairs on the bed, and grabbed the quilt and put it to his nose to smell it.Li Shimin felt a little uncomfortable, because all this privacy was exposed in front of Qin Yuan.But after thinking about it, Qin Yuan is already regarded as his most trusted subject, so why bother about these things.He believed that Qin Yuan would serve him wholeheartedly and keep it absolutely confidential.

Then, Li Shimin saw Qin Yuan lifted up his robe, squatted beside the bed to check, then turned to push the back window of the dormitory, and checked every window in the dormitory.Then he went back to the second window from the left, looked out, and looked around the environment outside.

"How many guards were guarding outside the bedroom last night?" Qin Yuan asked.

"This..." Zhang De looked at Li Shimin in embarrassment.

Li Shimin nodded.

"There were no guards outside the sleeping hall last night, but there were guards guarding the main entrance of the Ganlu Hall and the east and west side doors that usually enter and exit." Zhang De explained, "If someone really leaves from here, they must pass through the pavilion gate. The guards should have seen it long ago."

"If it's true as you said, there are no ghosts in this world. How could this court lady disappear in front of me in an instant? Even the windows of this bedroom have never been opened." Li Shimin began to use his imagination, "Could it be a demon? Can be invisible through walls? If that's the case, those guards guarding the gate of the pavilion must be nothing to her."

Qin Yuan had an idea, suddenly thought of an opportunity, and said to Li Shimin: "I dare to make a request. Would your majesty be willing to make a bet with me? If I prove that Zhou Lan is not a monster this week and can't hide through walls, your majesty will agree." One thing."

Li Shimin frowned, and stared at Qin Yuan with displeasure: "At this time, you are so brave to negotiate terms with me!"

Qin Yuan saluted.

Li Shimin calmed down and asked Qin Yuan to talk about the conditions first.

"I want to examine Mrs. Duan's body. If the cause of death cannot be found out, it will be very difficult for me to investigate this case." Qin Yuan explained to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin frowned: "Forget it, the original intention of your bet is also to solve the case, so I promise you."

Qin Yuan then wiped the fine soil on the window sill with his fingers, and said to Li Shimin, "This is loess, the same as the soil in front of your majesty's bed."

Li Shimin and Zhang De both went to check.

"Your Majesty's bedroom must be cleaned by the palace every day. I have checked every window and it is spotless, except for a little dirt on the window sill." Qin Yuan explained, "Whether it is the Hall of Liangyi, the Hall of Manna or In other temples, the ground inside and outside the temple is paved with stone bricks, and usually no loess will be stepped on."

As Qin Yuan said, he asked Zhang De to look at his shoes.He served the saint every day before and after running, and he must have walked enough.

Zhang De lifted his feet obediently, and sure enough, he saw that the soles of his shoes were clean without any dirt on them.Qin Yuan asked Zhang De to step on the window sill to try. After stepping on it, the window sill looked relatively clean, with no traces of loess left.

"I just heard that Zhou Lan tends flowers and plants, and only where she walks will the soles of her shoes get so much dirt. I guess I was in a hurry when I called her, and I didn't have time to prepare clean shoes for her in the future."

Zhang De nodded, and was immediately glanced at by Li Shimin.

Zhang Deru hung his back, bowing his head in aggrieved manner.The sage favored the court lady, but did not prepare for her to bathe and change clothes. It is really impolite to say this.But he really couldn't be blamed for this matter. At that time, the sage had a sudden idea and had to sneak around so as not to attract attention. Naturally, he couldn't tell the sage in the Ministry of Internal Affairs that to favor Zhou Lan, the sage needed to get ready to clean himself, take a shower and change into new clothes.The Ministry of Internal Affairs just thought that he was going to name Zhou Lan for a lecture, so they hurriedly sent him here.

"Fortunately, he was wearing these shoes, so we were able to discover this." Qin Yuan realized that his words seemed to have added embarrassment to Zhang De, so he hurriedly added.

Zhang De looked back at Qin Yuan gratefully.

Qin Yuan then jumped out from the back window to check the palace wall behind the bedroom.It is impossible for ordinary people to climb over the Zhang high palace wall without any tools.Moreover, the walls of the palace walls are very clean, with no signs of being trampled on.

Qin Yuan suspected that Zhou Lan left from the west gate of Ganlu Hall.

There were four guards at the west door, and Qin Yuan summoned them to inquire. The four guards all said that they had never seen a woman come in or out after the sage went to bed last night.

"I thought that Zhou Lan left the Ganlu Hall through the gate, and she had no choice." Qin Yuan judged.

"How is this possible? Qin Shaoqing just heard what the guards said. They didn't see Zhou Lan leave last night." Zhang De expressed disbelief.

Li Shimin didn't quite believe it either. After all, four guards made a statement together, proving that Zhou Lan did not leave last night.The guards of the Palace of Ganlu were all chosen from thousands of people, and they were the personal guards among the personal guards. It was absolutely impossible for him to lie in front of him for a mere court lady, and four of them lied at the same time.

But at the same time, Li Shimin felt that Qin Yuan was so talented that he could think of things that ordinary people couldn't think of, so he asked Qin Yuan what basis he had for such a statement.

"Your Majesty's hair has no fragrance, but these few hairs have a faint fragrance, which is also stuck to the quilt, similar to the mixed smell of wormwood and musk." Qin Yuan explained, "Although there are only two hairs, but After I smelled it, I felt a faint feeling of not being very energetic, but it was not so drowsy. The leaves of datura have a faint musky smell, which, like wormwood, can make people slightly hallucinogenic. "

"Oh? Then you mean that what happened last night was my hallucination?" Li Shimin thought this could explain why people suddenly disappeared out of thin air, but then he thought it was wrong, "But she can't make so many people have hallucinations at the same time." , someone with such great ability is really not a human, but a demon."

After thinking for a moment, Qin Yuan lowered his eyes and said to Li Shimin: "Whether your majesty has hallucinations, you can tell by looking at your body. Your majesty said that Zhou Lan bit her majesty, which woke her up and kicked her to the ground. Does your majesty remember that?" Where did she bite you?"

"Bit me—" Li Shimin thought for a while, but he didn't come up with it. He checked his arm immediately, and there was no sign of being bitten.Li Shimin asked Qin Yuan to avoid him, and ordered Zhang De to check his body, and finally found no trace of being bitten on his body.

Li Shimin was completely confused now, did he really have hallucinations?

"But she was able to leave the widow's nectar hall in a dignified manner just by the smell on her hair? Those guards also had hallucinations because of the smell on her head, so they couldn't see it?"

"No, this smell in the hair won't have much effect, it just makes people feel a little unwell." Qin Yuan is also thinking about what method Zhou Lan used to confuse him, but his real purpose And how.

Qin Yuan first suggested that Li Shimin martial law the palace, and from now on, no one is allowed to leave the palace without the emperor's permission.If Zhou Lan hadn't left the palace, it was still possible to catch her now.

"Should it be so strict?" Zhang De sighed, "But there must be a reason."

"Just say that the things in His Majesty's palace are lost, and we need to investigate the thieves." Qin Yuan can make up a nonsense reason.

Zhang De looked at Li Shimin, waiting for Li Shimin to speak.Li Shimin nodded and asked Zhang De to follow Qin Yuan's instructions.

Li Shimin hesitated, coughed, and then said to Qin Yuan: "Don't publicize this matter for now."

Li Shimin was still concerned about the feelings of Empress Changsun.

"I think this matter should not be publicized in the future. If outsiders know that your majesty's bedroom has been successfully broken into by some people with supernatural powers. First, Wei Gong will probably persuade your majesty one after another; It is too dangerous for people to find other people to follow suit after learning about it.”

Qin Yuan immediately found several steps for Li Shimin to go down, which made Li Shimin feel much more comfortable after listening to it, and he nodded repeatedly in praise of Qin Yuan's thoughtful proposal.Li Shimin now has a legitimate reason, at least he won't be as embarrassed as before.

"What kind of supernatural power do you think Zhou Lan has that can lead to today's result." Li Shimin still couldn't figure it out.

"I think it should probably be soul-stirring. It's a mind-sucking spell, but it doesn't have much effect on people with strong willpower. Therefore, it needs to be supplemented with drugs to make the mind chaotic, and then perform this spell." It can be done." Qin Yuan expressed his doubts.

Li Shimin was surprised, but he also believed that, after all, similar strange things had happened in Chang'an City before.He asked Qin Yuan again, "If it's a soul-hunting technique, can he escape everyone's eyes and ears so arrogantly?"

"Inspiriting takes time, and it takes a few words to confuse people. She first confuses His Majesty, and then uses His Majesty's mouth to call in the eunuchs who are waiting outside, and also confuses them. , What she hints, people who are deluded will obey her words, turn her words into part of their own memory, and when they wake up, they will think that things really happened.”

Qin Yuan then gave examples such as 'I have never seen the maid Zhou Lan leave', or 'I woke up after lying down for dozens of counts, was bitten by the court lady, kicked the maid to the ground, and found that the person disappeared out of thin air'.

Li Shimin was surprised again, "This sorcery is so terrible, if she is always by my side, wouldn't I be at the mercy of this kind of person for a long time?"

"But this kind of insanity requires great concentration during the insanity, so the surroundings must be quiet and cannot be disturbed by the outside world. Otherwise, the person who is inspirited will wake up and will not be controlled. It can only be short-lived, and the insanity The memory left by the soul technique will gradually fade with time, and the situation that His Majesty really experienced at that time will eventually recover." Qin Yuan asked Li Shimin to wait for a while, and when he remembered what happened last night, he would naturally recover. I don't know if I have encountered a soul-destroyer.

Li Shimin nodded, his face had returned to indifference, but in his heart he was terrified.Fortunately, this court lady Zhou Lan had no intention of harming him, otherwise he might be a dead emperor by now.

Qin Yuan asked Imperial Physician Sun to take Li Shimin's pulse and check the situation.After confirming that Li Shimin was in good health, Qin Yuan asked Li Shimin to drink more water, and ordered the eunuch to burn the refreshing spices in the hall.

After Li Shimin drank three cups of cherry juice, some images suddenly flashed through his mind, and he felt quite a headache.

Qin Yuan asked Li Shimin to close his eyes and rest for a while, don't think hard.

After a stick of incense, Li Shimin opened his eyes, the bottom of which was dark.

"Your Majesty?" Qin Yuan asked hurriedly.

Li Shimin told Qin Yuan that after he was tender with the maid, the maid coaxed him to close his eyes and told him stories.Lying in the arms of the maid, smelling the fragrance of her hair, he seemed to have fallen asleep, and he had no memory of it anymore.

Not long after, Zhang De, who had been standing by, knelt down and eagerly apologized to Li Shimin, telling about his recovered memory.

"I just remembered that I and the other five eunuchs were called in by the saint in the middle of the night yesterday. The saint was lying on the couch and didn't get up. Zhou Lan came down and asked the slaves to stand up and see if she danced well. Said it was the order of the saint. After Zhou Lan spared a few laps in front of the slaves, the slave didn't remember anything. Later, the slave and five other eunuchs stood in the outer hall and heard the voice of the saint from inside the house. Suddenly woke up, and immediately went to check the situation of the saint. Qin Shaoqing already knew what happened after this."

The gate of the outer hall is facing the gate of Ganlu Hall. There are too many guards there, and Zhou Lan can't take it down with only soul-hunting. The number of guards is small, so it's easy to fool.Moreover, the east wind was blowing last night, so the smell from her hair would be blown away by the wind, and the guards at the west gate could smell it.

Not long after, the four guards also recalled that they had seen the court lady Zhou Lan that night, and they thought she had finished serving the bed and left, wondering why there was no eunuch to accompany her.Zhou Lan suddenly smiled and saluted, and told them stories, saying that she was ordered by the Holy Spirit, and if the stories were interesting enough to make them laugh, she would be rewarded by His Majesty.

A mere court lady, the guards didn't think much about it, they really thought it was a saint who favored her and deliberately had fun.After that, the guards lost their memories, and when they were asked if they had seen the maid, they subconsciously felt that they hadn't, so they all denied it.

Li Shimin slapped the table and lamented that the maid's behavior was too rampant, and he didn't understand why she did this.

Risking his life to do these things can never be just to scare him.

Qin Yuan agrees with Li Shimin on this point.He felt that the court lady Zhou Lan was deliberately seducing Li Shimin, waiting for a long time and preparing for a long time.So even if Li Shimin got up suddenly yesterday and decided to call her to bed, she could still be prepared.In doing so, she must have a long-planned purpose.