Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty
Chapter 119 Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty
Before Li Mingda could blush, he felt a pair of warm hands covering his ears.
When Li Mingda raised his eyes to see Fang Yizhi, he felt a shadow pressing down on him.
Fang Yizhi bowed slightly, and was so close to Li Mingda that his eyelashes almost hit Li Mingda's forehead.
In an instant, Fang Yizhi's fragrance of Ming Ting filled his nose, covering the fragrance of plum blossoms around him.
Li Mingda felt that his ears could not hear anything, and he could only see Fang Yizhi in front of him.
"My fair lady, I long for it, but I can't get it, I toss and turn."
Fang Yi under the red plum branch is straight and handsome, and his voice is like a spring.
Li Mingda felt that he was surrounded by a kind of drunken warmth at this moment, his face was hot, and his palms were also hot.She glanced at Fang Yizhi, and she just met Fang Yizhi's eyes.
"My lord understands what I mean?" Fang Yi looked at Li Mingda with bright eyes, without any intention of dodging.
Li Mingda raised his pink cheeks slightly to look at him, and pointed to Fang Yizhi who covered his ears with both hands: "It's covered, I didn't hear it."
Fang Yi looked at her with a straight smile, they both knew how sharp Li Mingda's ears were, even if they were covered, they would still be able to hear his speech clearly.
"Say it a few more times, maybe you can hear it." Li Mingda blinked, and instead of looking directly into Fang Yizhi's eyes, he looked at the plum blossom above her head, and said in an uncertain tone.
Fang Yi laughed straight, and pressed his slender fingers on Li Mingda's forehead, "Then your lord, listen carefully, I'll say it again."
Li Mingda blushed and was about to nod his head when Cui Qingji's voice was heard at the gate of the courtyard, Li Mingda said straight to Fang Yi: "Here comes the man."
Fang Yi glanced straight at Li Mingda, took a step back with a smile, and kept a distance from Li Mingda.
When Cui Qingji entered the courtyard, he saw Tian Hanshan standing in the direction of the courtyard gate, feeling puzzled, turned around to search for the princess, and found that Fang Yizhi was also there, and the two were standing in a very thick and tall tree. Under the old plum tree that blooms just right.The woman's face was flushed, the man's eyes were affectionate, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.Cui Qingji is so smart, he immediately understood something.
At this time, Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi both turned to look at him.
Cui Qingji had a cold and solemn face, and greeted Li Mingda politely, "The king of Jin guessed that your lord would come out and couldn't help but investigate the case, so he sent Qingji to see if there is any need for help."
"Ninth brother is very careful." Li Mingda sent Cui Qingji to the residence of Mrs. Yong'an to take a look, "We have checked it all, but we didn't find any useful clues. If you look at it differently, maybe you will get something different. .”
Cui Qingji agreed, then turned around and ran to Master Yong'an's room.
Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi were still standing under the old plum tree, but they started discussing the case. They couldn't just focus on Jian Wenshan and the other five. It was necessary to examine the other three suspects who had no proof of presence. Let's see if any of them are suspected of murder and rule it out completely.Fang Yi directly agreed, so I went to ask someone to arrange it.
Li Mingda was still a little worried about the situation in Chang'an City. She looked in the direction where Cui Qingji was, and asked Fang Yizhi in a low voice, what was his expectation for the situation in Chang'an City from his own point of view.
"Your lord, do you really want to listen to the truth?" Fang Yizhi looked serious at this moment.
Li Ming
Pursing the corners of his mouth, he nodded, "Otherwise, I wouldn't be in a hurry to go back, I just want to know the result."
"People have their own problems, and they can't stand the investigation. Now, seeing that the sage has closed the gates of the city, even the lord and the king are not allowed to go back, it can be seen that the mind has been made up, and there is no change." Fang Yi said straight.
Li Mingda looked at Fang Yizhi nervously, "You mean that my elder brother will—"
"It depends on the benevolence of the sage, whether he is merciful or not. But one thing is for sure, everything he had before will not be there in the future, and he has to choose someone else for the position of the East Palace." Fang Yizhi said in a low voice.
Li Mingda frowned, took a step back, and simply leaned against the trunk of the old plum tree.
Fang Yi stared at him, and moved his hand slightly, but Li Mingda closed his eyes, as if he only needed one person to think quietly, so he stopped his hand and did not move again.Hearing movement behind him, he turned his head to look at Cui Qingji who had just walked out of the room.
At this time, Cui Qingji could also see the lonely and sad Princess Jinyang under the plum blossom tree, and seeing Fang Yizhi who was looking at her with no abnormal expression, and doubts arose in her heart, some doubts about what happened to the two of them just now.Although when he was in the house, he pierced the window paper, and while observing the situation in the house, he couldn't help but be curious to see the situation of the two people in the courtyard.But just now he clearly saw that the two of them just said a few words, to be precise, Fang Yizhi said a few words to Princess Jinyang, and the princess became sad and lonely, as if she had heard some news that made her very sad and desperate.
Cui Qingji glanced at the princess again, and then at Fang Yizhi, with a sense of reproach.
"This is your lord?"
"It will be fine in a while." Fang Yi said bluntly, only Cui Qingji found anything in the house.
Cui Qingji frowned, shook his head, a little dissatisfied with Fang Yizhi not only speaking carelessly, but also dissatisfied that he cared about the case at such a time.He was about to go over to inquire about Princess Jinyang's situation, when Tian Hanshan suddenly stopped Cui Qingji, greeted him and Fang Yi, and asked them both to go back.
Obviously the princess is in a bad mood at the moment, and she can no longer investigate the case.
Cui Qingji hurriedly cupped her hands and said: "Eunuch Tian, your lord seems a little sad, please comfort her more, if there is anything, you can order us as you like."
Tian Hanshan nodded, thanked Cui Qingji, and sent the two of them off with a smile.
After the person left, Tian Hanshan rushed to help Li Mingda, Li Mingda stretched out his hand, and signaled Tian Hanshan to ignore her.She stood for a while, and found that Tian Hanshan was watching her constantly, so she went around to the other side to lean against the trunk of the plum tree, and only let Tian Hanshan look at her back.
Tian Hanxi was embarrassed for a moment, then turned around holding his mouth shut, thinking about what made his noble lord behave like this.At the beginning, the princess and Fang Shizi had a good chat. Although he couldn't see him behind his back, he could feel the sweet atmosphere between the two.After muttering a few words just now, the princess's attitude changed drastically.Tian Hanshan couldn't help but immediately suspect that Fang Shizi might be a heartless man who just hooked up with his princess and then turned around and said cold words to her?
But after thinking about it, Fang Shizi shouldn't be this kind of person, and his princess shouldn't be a person who can be deceived by a few words of love to be so sad and sad.So after much deliberation, Tian Hanxi still couldn't figure it out.
After about a stick of incense, Tian Hanshan heard the footsteps of the princess approaching, he hurriedly turned around with a smirk, and asked the princess what she wanted to eat and drink, and he went to get it.
"I want to drink." Li Mingda sighed.
Tian Hanxi was stunned, and hurriedly said: "Your lord, if you are really sad about this emotional matter, drinking will not help. You are a noble princess, and you can't deal with a prince? The main reason is that you can't figure out a way, slave Let's do it, we can find a reason to deal with him!"
Li Mingda looked at Tian Hanshan in surprise, "What's going on in your head has nothing to do with him."
"Ah—" Tian Hanshu was stunned.
Li Mingda took two steps outside the courtyard, thought for a while, turned around and went into Mrs. Yong'an's room, checked around, went to her wardrobe, and smelled a faint fragrance, the incense of incense.She smelled this smell last time when she checked Mrs. Yong'an's room.The smell of burning incense in the nunnery is not new, but why the fragrance in the cabinet is stronger than that in the house.Logically speaking, even burning incense should be inside the house, not in the closet.Moreover, the clothes in the closet were neatly folded and put in after washing.
Li Mingda wasn't sure if this was a suspicious point, so he went to the rooms of Mrs. Ren'an and Mrs. Ci'an to check, and found that the fragrance in their wardrobes was stronger.The nuns in normal temples would always be more or less contaminated with some fragrance, but it seemed unreasonable that the washed clothes still had such a strong smell.
Li Mingda summoned nun Hui Ning and asked her, "Do you have any habit of washing clothes in the nunnery?"
"Habit?" Hui Ning asked puzzled.
"When washing clothes, will you add anything special, or after washing the clothes, is there any incense?"
Hui Ning shook his head, "They are all nuns, so how can they be so particular about it?"
Li Mingda asked Huining again if he could take him to her residence.
Hui Ning was puzzled, but the princess wanted to see her residence, so she was naturally happy, "But the room is small and shabby, please forgive me, princess."
"The hard work is the most admirable." Li Mingda said with a faint smile.
After hearing this, Hui Ning knelt down to Li Mingda and thanked her for looking down on him.
Li Mingda laughed again: "What's the matter, is it worth kneeling down? Get up quickly and lead the way."
Hui Ning promised, which led Li Ming to her room, and then told Li Mingda that she lived in the same room as nun An Ning.
Li Mingda nodded, and after entering the room, he found that the room was just as Hui Ning had said, not very big, with two beds, two cabinets, futons, tables and so on, so there was not much room for footsteps.But it is clean and tidy, and there is also a large character "Zen" hanging on the wall. Although the writing is not too beautiful, it also has a sonorous feeling.
Li Mingda asked the source of the words, and learned that it was written by Hui Ning, and sighed: "If you practice for a long time, you will definitely achieve something in the future."
Hui Ning was deeply terrified and hurriedly thanked Li Mingda for his compliment.
Li Mingda then looked at the closet and asked Huining if he could take a look.
Hui Ning hurriedly reached out to open the two cabinets, and introduced that the one on the east was his own, and the one on the west was An Ning.There were neatly stacked nuns' clothes in the two wardrobes, and there was nothing special about them, and Li Mingda didn't smell the strong incense smell like the one in Mrs. Yong'an's wardrobe.
Li Mingda asked who the nun in charge of laundry in the temple was, and went out, telling Hui Ning not to take care of himself, "You've been with me for a day, rest early."
Hui Ning thanked Li Mingda for his thanks, and followed him with Buddhist salutes.
When Li Mingda returned to the house, it was already dark.I asked the nun who did the laundry, but she didn't have anything special to say. She also said that Hui Ning and the others washed with the teacher, and they didn't treat them specially.
After Li Zhi and Bai Ming finished playing chess, he heard that Li Mingda was back, so he quickly chased after him.As soon as Li Zhi entered the room, he stretched first, then sat down, yawned and sighed: "It seems that we will be able to return to Chang'an City tomorrow."
"Back to Chang'an?" Li Mingda looked at Li Zhi in surprise, "Aye sent a message, let us go back?"
"No," Li Zhi was stunned, "But just now, Baifu Yin Ke said, we, Aye, have explained that as long as we solve the case of Meihua Temple, we can return to Chang'an City."
When Li Mingda heard this sentence, his eyes lost their light, "Brother Jiu may have misunderstood this sentence."
"What?" Li Zhi asked puzzled.
"The case of Plum Blossom Temple is a serial murder, and the murderer was unknown at the beginning, and there was no clue pointing to the identity of the murderer. How soon do you think Aye will think we can solve this case?"
"I definitely didn't expect us to solve it in a day. Although Aye knows that you have the ability to solve the case, he probably thinks that you can solve it in at least three or four days."
"That's it. Aye's intention is that we will stay here for three or four days. So even if the murderer is identified today, brother Jiu will bring people back to Chang'an City tomorrow, and I'm afraid we won't be able to enter the city." Li Mingda said.
"Ah—it's so." Li Zhi tapped his forehead with his fist, and said with a bored face, "Then we have to live in this Plum Blossom Temple for three or four days? I'm sure I'll be bored to the point of madness."
Li Mingda glanced at Li Zhi, didn't speak, sipping tea leisurely, thinking about what happened to her wardrobe just now.
After Li Zhi calmed down, he looked at Li Mingda, "By the way, what happened to you just now. When Cui Qingji came back, I saw his worried face and forced me to ask, only to say that when he walked away from you before, he saw Your complexion is not good, it seems that you are sad because of what?"
Li Mingda narrowed his eyes, turned to look at Li Zhi, "What else did he say to you?"
"That's all, I've said it all, so is there anything else?" Li Zhi asked puzzled.
Li Mingda was a little relieved, at least he felt that although Cui Qingji was meddling in his own business, he still spoke with discretion, "It's nothing, I just care about the situation in Chang'an City."
Li Zhi paused, then sighed: "Don't think about what can happen to Chang'an City."
Seeing that Li Zhi was not curious, Li Mingda knew that he had already guessed about the situation in Chang'an City, so he said this to comfort him because he was afraid that she would be worried.
Li Zhi has long been crowned king, and it is not surprising that he knows some signs.But Li Mingda didn't understand, why didn't he talk to himself and reveal something, thinking that her girly family couldn't bear it for a while?But in the end, when his father dealt with the prince, he couldn't hide it, and the news that came suddenly was even more exciting.
Li Mingda lacked interest, and when he was tired of telling him, he went to rest.
Li Zhi also saw that Li Mingda was in a bad mood, but he just felt baffled.After returning to the room, he said to Cui Qingji who had been waiting there all the time: "As you said, she is not in a good mood because she is worried about things in Chang'an."
"Your Majesty, you don't have to worry too much, maybe your lord will be fine tomorrow."
"Yes, girls are always sentimental sometimes." Li Zhi smiled, and then let Cui Qingji go to rest.
Cui Qingji went back to the room, took a shower and changed clothes, read a book for a while, discussed a few Buddhist scriptures with Mu Lang, his entourage, and understood the truth in them, and finally lay down to rest when he was so sleepy that he couldn't keep his eyes open.Mu Lang also turned off the lights and went outside to have a rest.
Li Mingda lay on the couch with his eyes open, worried in his heart, and naturally couldn't fall asleep. Instead, he heard Cui Qingji from the next room talking about Buddhist scriptures. Understand some words of the world.Li Mingda made some sense after listening to it. After the other side was quiet, she turned over and fell asleep after a while.
This time Li Mingda had a very long dream, woke up suddenly, but forgot all the content of the dream, only felt that the dream made him very tired, tears remained in the corners of his eyes.
Li Mingda rubbed the corners of his eyes, then sat up, and Biyun outside the door immediately entered the door with hot water to wait for Li Mingda to freshen up.Li Mingda, who had just washed his face, had delicate skin, and his cheeks were slightly red, like a lotus flower.
After Biyun finished combing her hair, Li Mingda took a look in the mirror and was very satisfied.
"If your lord wears women's clothing, she will be so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off it." Biyun sighed.
"Okay, I can save these compliments in the future. I know what I am. It's not too beautiful, so I can see it." Li Mingda said.
Biyun agreed.
That Xiangtian Hanshu heard the words, but couldn't help correcting him: "Your lord is self-effacing, Biyun didn't boast too much, he just told the truth."
"Exactly." Bi Yun agreed with a smile.
Li Mingda glanced at the two of them, "The sky is turned upside down, but it's a partnership that talks about me."
"Don't dare." The two said in unison, because they both knew that the princess was joking with them, so both Tian Hanshan and Biyun had smiles on their lips.
At this time, news came from Li Zhi, asking Li Mingda to come over for dinner.Li Mingda went there immediately, and seeing Cui Qingji was there, he remembered that she must be included in the meal.When Li Zhi passed on the meal, Li Mingda specifically asked him to share the meal with each other.
Li Zhi understood Li Mingda's intentions, glanced at Cui Qingji, saw that Cui Qingji's face was normal, without any special expression, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that he was calm.Li Zhi then whispered to Li Mingda: "Right now, this is in the nunnery, and the conditions are poor, so you don't need to be so particular about it."
"It doesn't matter how Brother Ninth lives in such a nice courtyard, why don't you live in a normal guest room?" Li Mingda asked back in a low voice, of course her volume could also be heard by Cui Qingji.
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, and glared at Li Mingda, blaming her for opposing him when she had nothing to do, she didn't look like a younger sister at all.
Li Mingda spoke in a lower voice this time, and said in a volume that only Li Zhi could hear: "Brother Jiu will look like an older brother first, and then I will look like a younger sister."
"Why don't I look like an older brother?" Li Zhi was really unconvinced, and confronted Li Mingda.
"That's right, don't mention this, I almost forgot that Brother Nine is my elder brother," Li Mingda said here, which immediately aroused Li Zhi's displeasure, and stared at her sternly, as if blaming her for forgetting himself.
"I thought Brother Nine was a matchmaker." Li Mingda took a breath before adding the next sentence.
Hearing this, Li Zhi realized that Li Mingda was mocking him for bringing things between Cui Qingji and her, and his face immediately became embarrassed.He thought that what he did was not so obvious, but he didn't expect to be discovered by her smart sister so soon.Li Zhi looked at the indifferent Cui Qingji over there, and muttered to Li Mingda, "I'm not doing it for your own good."
"Tell me after dinner." Li Mingda said.
Li Zhi nodded. After the meal, he immediately found an excuse to dismiss Cui Qingji and let Li Mingda continue. He insisted on clarifying this matter.
Li Mingda looked at the glass of pear juice in Li Zhi's hand, and said to him, "Jiu Ge likes to drink pear juice, but I insist on bringing a cup of clear tea to Jiu Ge. Tell Jiu Ge that tea can be used as medicine and is very good for the body. Brother Jiu must drink clear tea every day, how happy is Brother Jiu?"
"Of course I'm not happy, everyone has their own interests," Li Zhi immediately said, and when he saw Li Mingda smiling at himself with a genuine expression, Li Zhi was stunned and stunned, "What do you mean by that?"
"Brother Jiu is very clear in his heart, why bother to ask me again."
"You mean, Cui Qingji is your green tea, not your pear juice."
"On the contrary, I like to drink clear tea, but I don't like to drink pear juice. He is pear juice." When Li Mingda said this, the smile in his eyes disappeared, and he looked at Li Zhi seriously.
Li Zhi was startled again and again, "But... Cui Qingji and others... No, Brother Ninth doesn't have to force you on this matter. But the person who is thinking about your marriage with him is Aye, what can you say?"
"Aye, I have my own way to talk about it, but Brother Jiu, just don't force me to drink pear juice. If you like it, you can drink it yourself." Li Mingda said,
Li Zhi fixed Li Mingda, then pointed at her, and laughed, "Sometimes I can't help but want to scold you, but I can't do it because of my heartache. I can do whatever I want, and Brother Nine doesn't meddle in his own business." .”
Li Mingda immediately thanked him with a sweet smile.Li Zhi had no resistance to this, and sighed that as long as Li Mingda was happy, he would be happy.
Li Mingda said goodbye.
Li Zhi hurriedly called her to stop, and sent all the followers down, then walked in front of Li Mingda with his hands behind his back, and asked her: "Then tell me, who is your green tea?"
"When Sizi gets married in the future, brother Jiu will naturally know who Qingcha is." Li Mingda said.
Li Zhi didn't buy it, "After a few years, you will support me with one pole, and you will treat me as willing? I see that you already know it in your heart, Brother Ninth is not an outsider, let me reveal it?"
"A man with a white head and a lifetime together is not a joke. But Brother Nine, if I have any difficulties in the future, you can help me no matter what. If it is just a little effort for you." Li Mingda couldn't predict the future, so he said these words But it's more possible.If it was the fourth brother's place, she would do exactly as she said.After all, the candidate for the future emperor will only come from the two of them, and it is no longer possible for the eldest brother.
Li Zhi nodded, "What do you need to say? You are my dearest sister. We grew up together in the Lizheng Hall. Except for Aye, there is nothing that can compare to the love between us as brothers and sisters."
"I'm relieved with Brother Nine's words." Li Mingda saluted Li Zhi solemnly, and said goodbye.
Li Zhi nodded, watching her leave with emotion.After a long time, Li Zhi came to his senses, and the scorpion seemed to have bypassed him just now.Does she have a crush?She didn't seem to answer herself accurately, yes or no.
Li Mingda then called Fang Yizhi and Di Renjie to study the case together.
Di Renjie heard that both of them suspected that the five businessmen were not the murderers, and he was very glad that he could find someone who agreed with him, "I suspected it yesterday, and after thinking about it tonight, the more I thought about it, the more I didn't think so. I was worried that it was me Thinking like this alone, and knowing that your lord and brother Yizhi both think so, I feel at ease."
After Di Renjie finished speaking, he laughed twice.
"Why did you take off your clothes?" Li Mingda asked Fang Yizhi and Di Renjie to answer from their own perspectives.
Di Renjie: "Hate? Humiliation?"
"Or maybe they think they don't deserve to wear clothes." Fang Yi said straight.
Di Renjie nodded, but also puzzled: "But why did you wrap the bodies of the three of them with winter jasmine flowers? If it's really humiliating, and you think they don't deserve to wear clothes, then the flowers are worthy?"
"This is indeed puzzling." Li Mingda immediately asked Fang Yizhi, if there are any special meanings of the winter jasmine in some places, maybe we can start from here.
Fang Yizhi thought for a while, then frowned and said: "There is no such thing as death. The winter jasmine, as its name suggests, blooms to welcome the spring. It is a bright yellow that blooms first in the cold with the snow. It has a meaning, but also It just means new life, beginning.”
"This is too strange, to be undressed and humiliated, and to be wrapped around the winter jasmine to symbolize new life? Don't you want to fight these two points? I don't think it's possible. Could it mean nothing at all? Just take off your clothes and see. It's not enough for the eyes, so I can only cover it with flower vines?" After Di Renjie mentioned this, he suddenly thought of another one, and asked Li Mingda and Fang Yi straight, "Does flower mean 'flower'?"
Li Mingda was about to ask Di Renjie to explain the meaning of "flower", when he heard Fang Yi over there, he understood.
"The 'flower' he mentioned should be the 'flower' of a flamboyant flower." Fang Yizhi explained.
Di Renjie nodded hurriedly, and looked at Fang Yizhi excitedly with the look of "you really deserve to be the brother Yizhi I admire".
"There are usually women who commit adultery, so there are some clan rules that women should be stripped naked and paraded through the streets. The undressing may mean this, and the flowers just imply that they are promiscuous, so they should be punished." Di Renjie then explained.
"There is some truth in your statement." Li Mingda sighed.
Fang Yi nodded straightly: "It can be explained, and according to the clues provided by others before, Master Yong'an may indeed have a suspicion of adultery with Taoist Zhang Xuanzhen."
"So, yesterday, the White House Governor and the king decided that Henry Zhangzhen's son, Jian Wenshan, was the murderer. In fact, he was right? Adultery and revenge are in line."
"It's just that it sounds reasonable. The premise is that it can explain the death of Mrs. Tong Ren'an and Mrs. Ci'an. However, during the years when Zhang Xuanzhen and Mrs. Yong'an were in contact, the two teachers had not yet become monks in Plum Blossom Temple " said Li Mingda.
Di Renjie rubbed his chin, nodded and said in agreement: "Yes. This case is really complicated and confusing. Logically speaking, Plum Blossom Temple is so big, and there are so many suspects. However, we can't find who the murderer is, and even the motive for committing the crime is so complicated. It also makes people feel confused and can’t find out.”
"By the way, how did the Daoist Zhang Xuanzhen die back then?" Li Mingda asked.
"Dead of illness, I went away after suffering for six or seven days. I suddenly had abdominal pain and couldn't eat. The pain became worse when I ate. I heard that many famous doctors were invited to treat him. Even the imperial doctor in the palace went to see him, but he didn't It doesn't work." Fang Yi said straight.
Di Renjie couldn't help but sigh, "Brother Yi Zhi knows it clearly."
"Because my father went to see him when he was sick, and he vaguely remembers the situation at that time."
Di Renjie: "May I ask, how old was brother Yi Zhi?"
"Six years old."
Di Renjie was amazed, and felt that he was obsessed with playing hide-and-seek when he was six years old, and there was absolutely no way to compare with Fang Yi.
Fang Yi smiled, but couldn't elaborate.In fact, the reason why he remembered this incident at the time was because his mother had just quarreled with his father that day, but his father had to go out to visit because of Henry Zhangzhen's illness, so that his mother was a little upset.
"After the person passed away, the loss was handled very decently, and many royal family and nobles went to mourn. But the Qingshan Temple gradually declined a few years after he left, and it no longer exists today." Fang Yi said straightly, " On the contrary, Plum Blossom Temple has become more and more prosperous in recent years."
"It sounds like the reason for Henry Zhang's son's revenge has also come out." Li Mingda said with emotion.
Li Mingda then sent someone to ask Bai Ming if he interrogated the five businessmen today and if any of them confessed.Soon, the words over there were returned. Although the interrogation was over, there was still nothing important to explain.
"...The five people still don't admit it, they're lying." The Yacha who sent the message replied.
"Henry Zhangzhen's son wants revenge and murder, but he is looking for someone at the gate of the nunnery. This is too stupid. And the murderer's method of killing is meticulous, so I still believe that there is another murderer." Di Renjie sighed.
Li Mingda then asked the nuns in the nunnery what was the origin of Master Ci'an before his death.Knowing that she was a poor woman who was divorced because she could not bear a son, she hated and did not want to remarry, so she saw through the world and became a monk.
"Then Master Ci'an's name before she became a monk was really Zhao Furong?" Li Mingda asked five nuns this question at the same time, three of them didn't know, and the remaining two said they were indeed Zhao Furong.
"This incident is really a coincidence. Jian Wenshan said that his fiancée is also named Zhao Furong. Such a matter can be investigated. Just send someone to Dingzhou and ask those who have been in contact with Jian Wenshan, and they will naturally know. Isn't it?" Li Mingda said.
Fang Yizhi nodded, and said that this matter should indeed be confirmed.Li Mingda immediately ordered Cheng Chubi to choose two people and let them go to Dingzhou immediately.
"We still don't have a thorough understanding of the people involved in the case. The list needs to be rearranged, and all the people have to be questioned again carefully. As Huaiying said, the murderer is hidden in the Plum Blossom Temple, but we haven't found anything that can point to it. The identity is suspicious." Li Mingda sighed.
Fang Yi nodded in agreement, and said: "Since the murderer killed three teachers at the same time, there must be some common reason among them. And Jian Wenshan, if he is really innocent, he came to Plum Blossom Nunnery to look for Zhao Furong at this time. Man, who happened to be Henry Zhangzhen’s son. Could it be that someone planned it earlier, just to push him to be a murderer?”
Li Mingda agreed, and felt that Fang Yi's straightforward words made sense.
"The relationship between Zhang Xuanzhen and Master Yong'an needs to be investigated clearly. How the three dead teachers usually behave, and whether they are cheating people, we also need to find out." Li Mingda said, and then sighed, "I want to ask Jane The origin of Wenshan, her mother and Henry Zhangzhen, also have to ask clearly."
After sending people to do these things, Di Renjie couldn't help feeling: "Then what should we do next?"
"Wait."
Di Renjie shook his head boredly, "Waiting for the most boring news, but I don't know what to do."
"Go and study with your brother Bao Qi, you will have to take the imperial examination in two years." Fang Yizhi reminded.
Di Renjie answered in a hurry, so he went now.
Apart from the attendants, only Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi were left in the room.
Di Renjie's boring words just reminded Li Mingda, and Li Mingda asked Fang Yizhi if he had any books with him, so she could read them to pass the time.
"I never thought that I would stay for a long time. I only have the three books that I brought with me in the car. I will ask someone to fetch them. Your lord will see if it suits you first." Fang Yizhi said politely.
"The book you read should be interesting."
Fang Yi glanced at Li Mingda, smiled, thanked her for trusting him, and then sent Luo Ge to fetch the book.
"There is one thing that makes people feel emotional. After the accident of the three masters, everything in the nunnery is still in order. I thought these nuns would be in chaos and at a loss. But I was wrong. They still chanted scriptures and chanted Buddha step by step. Although they were shocked, they were not panicked, there was little discussion, and there was no speculation, so it can be seen that the three dead teachers were very strict with them." Li Mingda sighed.
Fang Yizhi nodded, expressing that he has always had the feeling that the nuns in the nunnery are very well-behaved and do things honestly.
"I'm a bit curious about whether this Mrs. Yong'an is a bad woman who murdered her classmates and committed adultery. There are also Mrs. Ren'an and Mrs. Ci'an," Li Mingda speculated, "What is the reason that makes people Hate so much that you must kill all three of them to relieve your anger?"
"As your lord said before, the investigation of the news is not enough. It's only been a day since the accident happened, and everything must be done slowly."
"En." The reason why Li Mingda wanted to investigate quickly was because someone couldn't wait and had already closed the case.She was afraid that if she didn't find out sooner, someone would die unjustly as soon as the gate of Chang'an City was opened.After all, the Jingzhao Mansion has the power to make immediate decisions without reporting.
Fang Yizhi seemed to understand Li Mingda's worries, and smiled, "No one can provoke your lord."
"Oh?" Li Mingda went back to see the room, "But why do I feel that someone 'provoked' me yesterday while I wasn't paying attention. I'm not sure if this is provocation, what do you think?"
When Li Mingda raised his eyes to see Fang Yizhi, he felt a shadow pressing down on him.
Fang Yizhi bowed slightly, and was so close to Li Mingda that his eyelashes almost hit Li Mingda's forehead.
In an instant, Fang Yizhi's fragrance of Ming Ting filled his nose, covering the fragrance of plum blossoms around him.
Li Mingda felt that his ears could not hear anything, and he could only see Fang Yizhi in front of him.
"My fair lady, I long for it, but I can't get it, I toss and turn."
Fang Yi under the red plum branch is straight and handsome, and his voice is like a spring.
Li Mingda felt that he was surrounded by a kind of drunken warmth at this moment, his face was hot, and his palms were also hot.She glanced at Fang Yizhi, and she just met Fang Yizhi's eyes.
"My lord understands what I mean?" Fang Yi looked at Li Mingda with bright eyes, without any intention of dodging.
Li Mingda raised his pink cheeks slightly to look at him, and pointed to Fang Yizhi who covered his ears with both hands: "It's covered, I didn't hear it."
Fang Yi looked at her with a straight smile, they both knew how sharp Li Mingda's ears were, even if they were covered, they would still be able to hear his speech clearly.
"Say it a few more times, maybe you can hear it." Li Mingda blinked, and instead of looking directly into Fang Yizhi's eyes, he looked at the plum blossom above her head, and said in an uncertain tone.
Fang Yi laughed straight, and pressed his slender fingers on Li Mingda's forehead, "Then your lord, listen carefully, I'll say it again."
Li Mingda blushed and was about to nod his head when Cui Qingji's voice was heard at the gate of the courtyard, Li Mingda said straight to Fang Yi: "Here comes the man."
Fang Yi glanced straight at Li Mingda, took a step back with a smile, and kept a distance from Li Mingda.
When Cui Qingji entered the courtyard, he saw Tian Hanshan standing in the direction of the courtyard gate, feeling puzzled, turned around to search for the princess, and found that Fang Yizhi was also there, and the two were standing in a very thick and tall tree. Under the old plum tree that blooms just right.The woman's face was flushed, the man's eyes were affectionate, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.Cui Qingji is so smart, he immediately understood something.
At this time, Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi both turned to look at him.
Cui Qingji had a cold and solemn face, and greeted Li Mingda politely, "The king of Jin guessed that your lord would come out and couldn't help but investigate the case, so he sent Qingji to see if there is any need for help."
"Ninth brother is very careful." Li Mingda sent Cui Qingji to the residence of Mrs. Yong'an to take a look, "We have checked it all, but we didn't find any useful clues. If you look at it differently, maybe you will get something different. .”
Cui Qingji agreed, then turned around and ran to Master Yong'an's room.
Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi were still standing under the old plum tree, but they started discussing the case. They couldn't just focus on Jian Wenshan and the other five. It was necessary to examine the other three suspects who had no proof of presence. Let's see if any of them are suspected of murder and rule it out completely.Fang Yi directly agreed, so I went to ask someone to arrange it.
Li Mingda was still a little worried about the situation in Chang'an City. She looked in the direction where Cui Qingji was, and asked Fang Yizhi in a low voice, what was his expectation for the situation in Chang'an City from his own point of view.
"Your lord, do you really want to listen to the truth?" Fang Yizhi looked serious at this moment.
Li Ming
Pursing the corners of his mouth, he nodded, "Otherwise, I wouldn't be in a hurry to go back, I just want to know the result."
"People have their own problems, and they can't stand the investigation. Now, seeing that the sage has closed the gates of the city, even the lord and the king are not allowed to go back, it can be seen that the mind has been made up, and there is no change." Fang Yi said straight.
Li Mingda looked at Fang Yizhi nervously, "You mean that my elder brother will—"
"It depends on the benevolence of the sage, whether he is merciful or not. But one thing is for sure, everything he had before will not be there in the future, and he has to choose someone else for the position of the East Palace." Fang Yizhi said in a low voice.
Li Mingda frowned, took a step back, and simply leaned against the trunk of the old plum tree.
Fang Yi stared at him, and moved his hand slightly, but Li Mingda closed his eyes, as if he only needed one person to think quietly, so he stopped his hand and did not move again.Hearing movement behind him, he turned his head to look at Cui Qingji who had just walked out of the room.
At this time, Cui Qingji could also see the lonely and sad Princess Jinyang under the plum blossom tree, and seeing Fang Yizhi who was looking at her with no abnormal expression, and doubts arose in her heart, some doubts about what happened to the two of them just now.Although when he was in the house, he pierced the window paper, and while observing the situation in the house, he couldn't help but be curious to see the situation of the two people in the courtyard.But just now he clearly saw that the two of them just said a few words, to be precise, Fang Yizhi said a few words to Princess Jinyang, and the princess became sad and lonely, as if she had heard some news that made her very sad and desperate.
Cui Qingji glanced at the princess again, and then at Fang Yizhi, with a sense of reproach.
"This is your lord?"
"It will be fine in a while." Fang Yi said bluntly, only Cui Qingji found anything in the house.
Cui Qingji frowned, shook his head, a little dissatisfied with Fang Yizhi not only speaking carelessly, but also dissatisfied that he cared about the case at such a time.He was about to go over to inquire about Princess Jinyang's situation, when Tian Hanshan suddenly stopped Cui Qingji, greeted him and Fang Yi, and asked them both to go back.
Obviously the princess is in a bad mood at the moment, and she can no longer investigate the case.
Cui Qingji hurriedly cupped her hands and said: "Eunuch Tian, your lord seems a little sad, please comfort her more, if there is anything, you can order us as you like."
Tian Hanshan nodded, thanked Cui Qingji, and sent the two of them off with a smile.
After the person left, Tian Hanshan rushed to help Li Mingda, Li Mingda stretched out his hand, and signaled Tian Hanshan to ignore her.She stood for a while, and found that Tian Hanshan was watching her constantly, so she went around to the other side to lean against the trunk of the plum tree, and only let Tian Hanshan look at her back.
Tian Hanxi was embarrassed for a moment, then turned around holding his mouth shut, thinking about what made his noble lord behave like this.At the beginning, the princess and Fang Shizi had a good chat. Although he couldn't see him behind his back, he could feel the sweet atmosphere between the two.After muttering a few words just now, the princess's attitude changed drastically.Tian Hanshan couldn't help but immediately suspect that Fang Shizi might be a heartless man who just hooked up with his princess and then turned around and said cold words to her?
But after thinking about it, Fang Shizi shouldn't be this kind of person, and his princess shouldn't be a person who can be deceived by a few words of love to be so sad and sad.So after much deliberation, Tian Hanxi still couldn't figure it out.
After about a stick of incense, Tian Hanshan heard the footsteps of the princess approaching, he hurriedly turned around with a smirk, and asked the princess what she wanted to eat and drink, and he went to get it.
"I want to drink." Li Mingda sighed.
Tian Hanxi was stunned, and hurriedly said: "Your lord, if you are really sad about this emotional matter, drinking will not help. You are a noble princess, and you can't deal with a prince? The main reason is that you can't figure out a way, slave Let's do it, we can find a reason to deal with him!"
Li Mingda looked at Tian Hanshan in surprise, "What's going on in your head has nothing to do with him."
"Ah—" Tian Hanshu was stunned.
Li Mingda took two steps outside the courtyard, thought for a while, turned around and went into Mrs. Yong'an's room, checked around, went to her wardrobe, and smelled a faint fragrance, the incense of incense.She smelled this smell last time when she checked Mrs. Yong'an's room.The smell of burning incense in the nunnery is not new, but why the fragrance in the cabinet is stronger than that in the house.Logically speaking, even burning incense should be inside the house, not in the closet.Moreover, the clothes in the closet were neatly folded and put in after washing.
Li Mingda wasn't sure if this was a suspicious point, so he went to the rooms of Mrs. Ren'an and Mrs. Ci'an to check, and found that the fragrance in their wardrobes was stronger.The nuns in normal temples would always be more or less contaminated with some fragrance, but it seemed unreasonable that the washed clothes still had such a strong smell.
Li Mingda summoned nun Hui Ning and asked her, "Do you have any habit of washing clothes in the nunnery?"
"Habit?" Hui Ning asked puzzled.
"When washing clothes, will you add anything special, or after washing the clothes, is there any incense?"
Hui Ning shook his head, "They are all nuns, so how can they be so particular about it?"
Li Mingda asked Huining again if he could take him to her residence.
Hui Ning was puzzled, but the princess wanted to see her residence, so she was naturally happy, "But the room is small and shabby, please forgive me, princess."
"The hard work is the most admirable." Li Mingda said with a faint smile.
After hearing this, Hui Ning knelt down to Li Mingda and thanked her for looking down on him.
Li Mingda laughed again: "What's the matter, is it worth kneeling down? Get up quickly and lead the way."
Hui Ning promised, which led Li Ming to her room, and then told Li Mingda that she lived in the same room as nun An Ning.
Li Mingda nodded, and after entering the room, he found that the room was just as Hui Ning had said, not very big, with two beds, two cabinets, futons, tables and so on, so there was not much room for footsteps.But it is clean and tidy, and there is also a large character "Zen" hanging on the wall. Although the writing is not too beautiful, it also has a sonorous feeling.
Li Mingda asked the source of the words, and learned that it was written by Hui Ning, and sighed: "If you practice for a long time, you will definitely achieve something in the future."
Hui Ning was deeply terrified and hurriedly thanked Li Mingda for his compliment.
Li Mingda then looked at the closet and asked Huining if he could take a look.
Hui Ning hurriedly reached out to open the two cabinets, and introduced that the one on the east was his own, and the one on the west was An Ning.There were neatly stacked nuns' clothes in the two wardrobes, and there was nothing special about them, and Li Mingda didn't smell the strong incense smell like the one in Mrs. Yong'an's wardrobe.
Li Mingda asked who the nun in charge of laundry in the temple was, and went out, telling Hui Ning not to take care of himself, "You've been with me for a day, rest early."
Hui Ning thanked Li Mingda for his thanks, and followed him with Buddhist salutes.
When Li Mingda returned to the house, it was already dark.I asked the nun who did the laundry, but she didn't have anything special to say. She also said that Hui Ning and the others washed with the teacher, and they didn't treat them specially.
After Li Zhi and Bai Ming finished playing chess, he heard that Li Mingda was back, so he quickly chased after him.As soon as Li Zhi entered the room, he stretched first, then sat down, yawned and sighed: "It seems that we will be able to return to Chang'an City tomorrow."
"Back to Chang'an?" Li Mingda looked at Li Zhi in surprise, "Aye sent a message, let us go back?"
"No," Li Zhi was stunned, "But just now, Baifu Yin Ke said, we, Aye, have explained that as long as we solve the case of Meihua Temple, we can return to Chang'an City."
When Li Mingda heard this sentence, his eyes lost their light, "Brother Jiu may have misunderstood this sentence."
"What?" Li Zhi asked puzzled.
"The case of Plum Blossom Temple is a serial murder, and the murderer was unknown at the beginning, and there was no clue pointing to the identity of the murderer. How soon do you think Aye will think we can solve this case?"
"I definitely didn't expect us to solve it in a day. Although Aye knows that you have the ability to solve the case, he probably thinks that you can solve it in at least three or four days."
"That's it. Aye's intention is that we will stay here for three or four days. So even if the murderer is identified today, brother Jiu will bring people back to Chang'an City tomorrow, and I'm afraid we won't be able to enter the city." Li Mingda said.
"Ah—it's so." Li Zhi tapped his forehead with his fist, and said with a bored face, "Then we have to live in this Plum Blossom Temple for three or four days? I'm sure I'll be bored to the point of madness."
Li Mingda glanced at Li Zhi, didn't speak, sipping tea leisurely, thinking about what happened to her wardrobe just now.
After Li Zhi calmed down, he looked at Li Mingda, "By the way, what happened to you just now. When Cui Qingji came back, I saw his worried face and forced me to ask, only to say that when he walked away from you before, he saw Your complexion is not good, it seems that you are sad because of what?"
Li Mingda narrowed his eyes, turned to look at Li Zhi, "What else did he say to you?"
"That's all, I've said it all, so is there anything else?" Li Zhi asked puzzled.
Li Mingda was a little relieved, at least he felt that although Cui Qingji was meddling in his own business, he still spoke with discretion, "It's nothing, I just care about the situation in Chang'an City."
Li Zhi paused, then sighed: "Don't think about what can happen to Chang'an City."
Seeing that Li Zhi was not curious, Li Mingda knew that he had already guessed about the situation in Chang'an City, so he said this to comfort him because he was afraid that she would be worried.
Li Zhi has long been crowned king, and it is not surprising that he knows some signs.But Li Mingda didn't understand, why didn't he talk to himself and reveal something, thinking that her girly family couldn't bear it for a while?But in the end, when his father dealt with the prince, he couldn't hide it, and the news that came suddenly was even more exciting.
Li Mingda lacked interest, and when he was tired of telling him, he went to rest.
Li Zhi also saw that Li Mingda was in a bad mood, but he just felt baffled.After returning to the room, he said to Cui Qingji who had been waiting there all the time: "As you said, she is not in a good mood because she is worried about things in Chang'an."
"Your Majesty, you don't have to worry too much, maybe your lord will be fine tomorrow."
"Yes, girls are always sentimental sometimes." Li Zhi smiled, and then let Cui Qingji go to rest.
Cui Qingji went back to the room, took a shower and changed clothes, read a book for a while, discussed a few Buddhist scriptures with Mu Lang, his entourage, and understood the truth in them, and finally lay down to rest when he was so sleepy that he couldn't keep his eyes open.Mu Lang also turned off the lights and went outside to have a rest.
Li Mingda lay on the couch with his eyes open, worried in his heart, and naturally couldn't fall asleep. Instead, he heard Cui Qingji from the next room talking about Buddhist scriptures. Understand some words of the world.Li Mingda made some sense after listening to it. After the other side was quiet, she turned over and fell asleep after a while.
This time Li Mingda had a very long dream, woke up suddenly, but forgot all the content of the dream, only felt that the dream made him very tired, tears remained in the corners of his eyes.
Li Mingda rubbed the corners of his eyes, then sat up, and Biyun outside the door immediately entered the door with hot water to wait for Li Mingda to freshen up.Li Mingda, who had just washed his face, had delicate skin, and his cheeks were slightly red, like a lotus flower.
After Biyun finished combing her hair, Li Mingda took a look in the mirror and was very satisfied.
"If your lord wears women's clothing, she will be so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off it." Biyun sighed.
"Okay, I can save these compliments in the future. I know what I am. It's not too beautiful, so I can see it." Li Mingda said.
Biyun agreed.
That Xiangtian Hanshu heard the words, but couldn't help correcting him: "Your lord is self-effacing, Biyun didn't boast too much, he just told the truth."
"Exactly." Bi Yun agreed with a smile.
Li Mingda glanced at the two of them, "The sky is turned upside down, but it's a partnership that talks about me."
"Don't dare." The two said in unison, because they both knew that the princess was joking with them, so both Tian Hanshan and Biyun had smiles on their lips.
At this time, news came from Li Zhi, asking Li Mingda to come over for dinner.Li Mingda went there immediately, and seeing Cui Qingji was there, he remembered that she must be included in the meal.When Li Zhi passed on the meal, Li Mingda specifically asked him to share the meal with each other.
Li Zhi understood Li Mingda's intentions, glanced at Cui Qingji, saw that Cui Qingji's face was normal, without any special expression, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that he was calm.Li Zhi then whispered to Li Mingda: "Right now, this is in the nunnery, and the conditions are poor, so you don't need to be so particular about it."
"It doesn't matter how Brother Ninth lives in such a nice courtyard, why don't you live in a normal guest room?" Li Mingda asked back in a low voice, of course her volume could also be heard by Cui Qingji.
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, and glared at Li Mingda, blaming her for opposing him when she had nothing to do, she didn't look like a younger sister at all.
Li Mingda spoke in a lower voice this time, and said in a volume that only Li Zhi could hear: "Brother Jiu will look like an older brother first, and then I will look like a younger sister."
"Why don't I look like an older brother?" Li Zhi was really unconvinced, and confronted Li Mingda.
"That's right, don't mention this, I almost forgot that Brother Nine is my elder brother," Li Mingda said here, which immediately aroused Li Zhi's displeasure, and stared at her sternly, as if blaming her for forgetting himself.
"I thought Brother Nine was a matchmaker." Li Mingda took a breath before adding the next sentence.
Hearing this, Li Zhi realized that Li Mingda was mocking him for bringing things between Cui Qingji and her, and his face immediately became embarrassed.He thought that what he did was not so obvious, but he didn't expect to be discovered by her smart sister so soon.Li Zhi looked at the indifferent Cui Qingji over there, and muttered to Li Mingda, "I'm not doing it for your own good."
"Tell me after dinner." Li Mingda said.
Li Zhi nodded. After the meal, he immediately found an excuse to dismiss Cui Qingji and let Li Mingda continue. He insisted on clarifying this matter.
Li Mingda looked at the glass of pear juice in Li Zhi's hand, and said to him, "Jiu Ge likes to drink pear juice, but I insist on bringing a cup of clear tea to Jiu Ge. Tell Jiu Ge that tea can be used as medicine and is very good for the body. Brother Jiu must drink clear tea every day, how happy is Brother Jiu?"
"Of course I'm not happy, everyone has their own interests," Li Zhi immediately said, and when he saw Li Mingda smiling at himself with a genuine expression, Li Zhi was stunned and stunned, "What do you mean by that?"
"Brother Jiu is very clear in his heart, why bother to ask me again."
"You mean, Cui Qingji is your green tea, not your pear juice."
"On the contrary, I like to drink clear tea, but I don't like to drink pear juice. He is pear juice." When Li Mingda said this, the smile in his eyes disappeared, and he looked at Li Zhi seriously.
Li Zhi was startled again and again, "But... Cui Qingji and others... No, Brother Ninth doesn't have to force you on this matter. But the person who is thinking about your marriage with him is Aye, what can you say?"
"Aye, I have my own way to talk about it, but Brother Jiu, just don't force me to drink pear juice. If you like it, you can drink it yourself." Li Mingda said,
Li Zhi fixed Li Mingda, then pointed at her, and laughed, "Sometimes I can't help but want to scold you, but I can't do it because of my heartache. I can do whatever I want, and Brother Nine doesn't meddle in his own business." .”
Li Mingda immediately thanked him with a sweet smile.Li Zhi had no resistance to this, and sighed that as long as Li Mingda was happy, he would be happy.
Li Mingda said goodbye.
Li Zhi hurriedly called her to stop, and sent all the followers down, then walked in front of Li Mingda with his hands behind his back, and asked her: "Then tell me, who is your green tea?"
"When Sizi gets married in the future, brother Jiu will naturally know who Qingcha is." Li Mingda said.
Li Zhi didn't buy it, "After a few years, you will support me with one pole, and you will treat me as willing? I see that you already know it in your heart, Brother Ninth is not an outsider, let me reveal it?"
"A man with a white head and a lifetime together is not a joke. But Brother Nine, if I have any difficulties in the future, you can help me no matter what. If it is just a little effort for you." Li Mingda couldn't predict the future, so he said these words But it's more possible.If it was the fourth brother's place, she would do exactly as she said.After all, the candidate for the future emperor will only come from the two of them, and it is no longer possible for the eldest brother.
Li Zhi nodded, "What do you need to say? You are my dearest sister. We grew up together in the Lizheng Hall. Except for Aye, there is nothing that can compare to the love between us as brothers and sisters."
"I'm relieved with Brother Nine's words." Li Mingda saluted Li Zhi solemnly, and said goodbye.
Li Zhi nodded, watching her leave with emotion.After a long time, Li Zhi came to his senses, and the scorpion seemed to have bypassed him just now.Does she have a crush?She didn't seem to answer herself accurately, yes or no.
Li Mingda then called Fang Yizhi and Di Renjie to study the case together.
Di Renjie heard that both of them suspected that the five businessmen were not the murderers, and he was very glad that he could find someone who agreed with him, "I suspected it yesterday, and after thinking about it tonight, the more I thought about it, the more I didn't think so. I was worried that it was me Thinking like this alone, and knowing that your lord and brother Yizhi both think so, I feel at ease."
After Di Renjie finished speaking, he laughed twice.
"Why did you take off your clothes?" Li Mingda asked Fang Yizhi and Di Renjie to answer from their own perspectives.
Di Renjie: "Hate? Humiliation?"
"Or maybe they think they don't deserve to wear clothes." Fang Yi said straight.
Di Renjie nodded, but also puzzled: "But why did you wrap the bodies of the three of them with winter jasmine flowers? If it's really humiliating, and you think they don't deserve to wear clothes, then the flowers are worthy?"
"This is indeed puzzling." Li Mingda immediately asked Fang Yizhi, if there are any special meanings of the winter jasmine in some places, maybe we can start from here.
Fang Yizhi thought for a while, then frowned and said: "There is no such thing as death. The winter jasmine, as its name suggests, blooms to welcome the spring. It is a bright yellow that blooms first in the cold with the snow. It has a meaning, but also It just means new life, beginning.”
"This is too strange, to be undressed and humiliated, and to be wrapped around the winter jasmine to symbolize new life? Don't you want to fight these two points? I don't think it's possible. Could it mean nothing at all? Just take off your clothes and see. It's not enough for the eyes, so I can only cover it with flower vines?" After Di Renjie mentioned this, he suddenly thought of another one, and asked Li Mingda and Fang Yi straight, "Does flower mean 'flower'?"
Li Mingda was about to ask Di Renjie to explain the meaning of "flower", when he heard Fang Yi over there, he understood.
"The 'flower' he mentioned should be the 'flower' of a flamboyant flower." Fang Yizhi explained.
Di Renjie nodded hurriedly, and looked at Fang Yizhi excitedly with the look of "you really deserve to be the brother Yizhi I admire".
"There are usually women who commit adultery, so there are some clan rules that women should be stripped naked and paraded through the streets. The undressing may mean this, and the flowers just imply that they are promiscuous, so they should be punished." Di Renjie then explained.
"There is some truth in your statement." Li Mingda sighed.
Fang Yi nodded straightly: "It can be explained, and according to the clues provided by others before, Master Yong'an may indeed have a suspicion of adultery with Taoist Zhang Xuanzhen."
"So, yesterday, the White House Governor and the king decided that Henry Zhangzhen's son, Jian Wenshan, was the murderer. In fact, he was right? Adultery and revenge are in line."
"It's just that it sounds reasonable. The premise is that it can explain the death of Mrs. Tong Ren'an and Mrs. Ci'an. However, during the years when Zhang Xuanzhen and Mrs. Yong'an were in contact, the two teachers had not yet become monks in Plum Blossom Temple " said Li Mingda.
Di Renjie rubbed his chin, nodded and said in agreement: "Yes. This case is really complicated and confusing. Logically speaking, Plum Blossom Temple is so big, and there are so many suspects. However, we can't find who the murderer is, and even the motive for committing the crime is so complicated. It also makes people feel confused and can’t find out.”
"By the way, how did the Daoist Zhang Xuanzhen die back then?" Li Mingda asked.
"Dead of illness, I went away after suffering for six or seven days. I suddenly had abdominal pain and couldn't eat. The pain became worse when I ate. I heard that many famous doctors were invited to treat him. Even the imperial doctor in the palace went to see him, but he didn't It doesn't work." Fang Yi said straight.
Di Renjie couldn't help but sigh, "Brother Yi Zhi knows it clearly."
"Because my father went to see him when he was sick, and he vaguely remembers the situation at that time."
Di Renjie: "May I ask, how old was brother Yi Zhi?"
"Six years old."
Di Renjie was amazed, and felt that he was obsessed with playing hide-and-seek when he was six years old, and there was absolutely no way to compare with Fang Yi.
Fang Yi smiled, but couldn't elaborate.In fact, the reason why he remembered this incident at the time was because his mother had just quarreled with his father that day, but his father had to go out to visit because of Henry Zhangzhen's illness, so that his mother was a little upset.
"After the person passed away, the loss was handled very decently, and many royal family and nobles went to mourn. But the Qingshan Temple gradually declined a few years after he left, and it no longer exists today." Fang Yi said straightly, " On the contrary, Plum Blossom Temple has become more and more prosperous in recent years."
"It sounds like the reason for Henry Zhang's son's revenge has also come out." Li Mingda said with emotion.
Li Mingda then sent someone to ask Bai Ming if he interrogated the five businessmen today and if any of them confessed.Soon, the words over there were returned. Although the interrogation was over, there was still nothing important to explain.
"...The five people still don't admit it, they're lying." The Yacha who sent the message replied.
"Henry Zhangzhen's son wants revenge and murder, but he is looking for someone at the gate of the nunnery. This is too stupid. And the murderer's method of killing is meticulous, so I still believe that there is another murderer." Di Renjie sighed.
Li Mingda then asked the nuns in the nunnery what was the origin of Master Ci'an before his death.Knowing that she was a poor woman who was divorced because she could not bear a son, she hated and did not want to remarry, so she saw through the world and became a monk.
"Then Master Ci'an's name before she became a monk was really Zhao Furong?" Li Mingda asked five nuns this question at the same time, three of them didn't know, and the remaining two said they were indeed Zhao Furong.
"This incident is really a coincidence. Jian Wenshan said that his fiancée is also named Zhao Furong. Such a matter can be investigated. Just send someone to Dingzhou and ask those who have been in contact with Jian Wenshan, and they will naturally know. Isn't it?" Li Mingda said.
Fang Yizhi nodded, and said that this matter should indeed be confirmed.Li Mingda immediately ordered Cheng Chubi to choose two people and let them go to Dingzhou immediately.
"We still don't have a thorough understanding of the people involved in the case. The list needs to be rearranged, and all the people have to be questioned again carefully. As Huaiying said, the murderer is hidden in the Plum Blossom Temple, but we haven't found anything that can point to it. The identity is suspicious." Li Mingda sighed.
Fang Yi nodded in agreement, and said: "Since the murderer killed three teachers at the same time, there must be some common reason among them. And Jian Wenshan, if he is really innocent, he came to Plum Blossom Nunnery to look for Zhao Furong at this time. Man, who happened to be Henry Zhangzhen’s son. Could it be that someone planned it earlier, just to push him to be a murderer?”
Li Mingda agreed, and felt that Fang Yi's straightforward words made sense.
"The relationship between Zhang Xuanzhen and Master Yong'an needs to be investigated clearly. How the three dead teachers usually behave, and whether they are cheating people, we also need to find out." Li Mingda said, and then sighed, "I want to ask Jane The origin of Wenshan, her mother and Henry Zhangzhen, also have to ask clearly."
After sending people to do these things, Di Renjie couldn't help feeling: "Then what should we do next?"
"Wait."
Di Renjie shook his head boredly, "Waiting for the most boring news, but I don't know what to do."
"Go and study with your brother Bao Qi, you will have to take the imperial examination in two years." Fang Yizhi reminded.
Di Renjie answered in a hurry, so he went now.
Apart from the attendants, only Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi were left in the room.
Di Renjie's boring words just reminded Li Mingda, and Li Mingda asked Fang Yizhi if he had any books with him, so she could read them to pass the time.
"I never thought that I would stay for a long time. I only have the three books that I brought with me in the car. I will ask someone to fetch them. Your lord will see if it suits you first." Fang Yizhi said politely.
"The book you read should be interesting."
Fang Yi glanced at Li Mingda, smiled, thanked her for trusting him, and then sent Luo Ge to fetch the book.
"There is one thing that makes people feel emotional. After the accident of the three masters, everything in the nunnery is still in order. I thought these nuns would be in chaos and at a loss. But I was wrong. They still chanted scriptures and chanted Buddha step by step. Although they were shocked, they were not panicked, there was little discussion, and there was no speculation, so it can be seen that the three dead teachers were very strict with them." Li Mingda sighed.
Fang Yizhi nodded, expressing that he has always had the feeling that the nuns in the nunnery are very well-behaved and do things honestly.
"I'm a bit curious about whether this Mrs. Yong'an is a bad woman who murdered her classmates and committed adultery. There are also Mrs. Ren'an and Mrs. Ci'an," Li Mingda speculated, "What is the reason that makes people Hate so much that you must kill all three of them to relieve your anger?"
"As your lord said before, the investigation of the news is not enough. It's only been a day since the accident happened, and everything must be done slowly."
"En." The reason why Li Mingda wanted to investigate quickly was because someone couldn't wait and had already closed the case.She was afraid that if she didn't find out sooner, someone would die unjustly as soon as the gate of Chang'an City was opened.After all, the Jingzhao Mansion has the power to make immediate decisions without reporting.
Fang Yizhi seemed to understand Li Mingda's worries, and smiled, "No one can provoke your lord."
"Oh?" Li Mingda went back to see the room, "But why do I feel that someone 'provoked' me yesterday while I wasn't paying attention. I'm not sure if this is provocation, what do you think?"
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