Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

After Li Ming arrived at Fu's house, he asked the yamen who were guarding there if any guests had left.

"I would like to follow the order of the Governor of the White House, and respectfully ask all the guests not to leave for the time being, but the concubine will not be able to stop him. I have already warned my subordinates to go to the Governor of the White House immediately. If they still do not open the door after burning incense, he will I will kill it." When the Yacha saw the princess coming, he knew that someone who could calm down the situation had finally come, so he hurriedly reported everything.

Li Mingda nodded, and just as he sent people to leave, he heard hurried footsteps coming from the mansion, Li Mingda also went to the mansion, just in time to meet the oncoming Fang Yiai.

As soon as Fang Yiai saw Li Mingda, she immediately rushed over to salute, and then said: "Is your lord here to investigate the cause of Fu Sanniang's death?"

"Yes, do you have any clues to provide?" Li Mingda asked.

Fang Yiai shook her head helplessly, and said anxiously to Li Mingda: "But my elder brother was suspected of being the murderer by them, and these rude people actually kept him under surveillance. It's unreasonable, I'm going to the palace to ask the saint to make the decision. I asked my father to come over to help, but they actually stopped me from going out, it was really too much!"

During the day, Ming hurriedly apologized to Fang Yiai.

Fang Yiai stared at Bai Ming, not giving him face at all, snorted coldly, and turned sideways, not bothering to look at him.

In desperation, Bai Ming could only look at the princess with a wry smile.

"Whether Baifu Yin is doing it right or not depends on the situation. Don't worry." Li Mingda gently persuaded Fang Yiai, and walked inside without waiting for his answer.

Fang Yiai stood there in embarrassment and thought for a while, then followed Li Mingda, "Okay, let's listen to the princess, I want to see what is going on in this case, why should I frame my elder brother as the murderer. "

"It's not that Fang Shizi is the murderer, it's just that he is suspected. Fang Shizi was identified as the last person to see Fu Sanniang, and after the others left, Fu Sanniang never saw anyone else. Right now he is just identified as The suspicion is the heaviest, but I have always believed that with Fang Shizi's character, he would definitely not commit murder." Bai Ming said.

Fang Yiai didn't appreciate it at all, and pointed at the tip of Baiming's nose angrily, "Stop talking about these useless polite words, you are the one who arrests people, and you are the one who said they misunderstood you, everything is yours, but my elder brother did it for nothing." Wronged. Just wait, if my eldest brother proves innocent today, our Fang family will never forgive you."

Li Mingda looked sideways, seeing Fang Yiai's grievances for his elder brother, he guessed that their brothers should have reconciled these days.Some time ago, when Fang Yiai was addicted to alcohol, the relationship between Fang Yizhi and him could be said to be extremely dull.It seems that during these days, Fang Yi has been repairing the relationship between their brothers.

Tianming was threatened, so he rushed to Li Mingda's side in aggrieved manner, and begged the princess to help him to speak a word of justice.

Li Mingda took a special look at him, "If Shizi Fang is really wronged, how can I be fair? If you really want to say something, you should apologize to others properly at that time, and apologize until they forgive you."

Fang Yiai raised her chin even higher when she heard this, and felt that someone had finally said something fair.He snorted harder, stared at Bai Ming with more hatred and anger, and warned: "Just wait!"

Tianming wiped the cold sweat off his brow, and didn't know what to say, so he could only silently choose to stay by Li Mingda's side.

Li Mingda spared where the guests were, and went straight to Fu Hongmei's residence.

Dali Temple Minister Fu Chunliu had been waiting there since he got the news. As soon as he saw the princess coming, Fu Chunliu, his wife and two eldest sons hurriedly knelt down to welcome the princess.

"All free."

Fu Chunliu's wife was still crying, choked up and so sad that she had lost her words.Fu Chunliu's two sons supported her, bowed their heads in silence, and were immersed in grief.

Fu Chunliu's face was quite calm, but there was also heavy grief in his eyes. He trembled his arms, and begged Li Mingda to make the decision, and he must severely punish the murderer who killed his daughter.

"You just want me to punish the murderer severely instead of investigating the murderer first. It seems that you have already identified who the murderer is?" Li Mingda asked.

Fu Chunliu promised, "This person is Fang Gong's eldest son, Fang Yizhi. Before my daughter died, he was the only person I saw. I never imagined that my daughter would be poisoned by my students one day."

"Where is the evidence?" Li Mingda asked.

Fu Chunliu's expression changed from mourning to astonishment, and he looked at Li Mingda puzzledly, "Your lord, are you trying to protect Fang Yizhi? I have heard some rumors that the princess has solved many strange cases with him , the hatchback can be regarded as good friends."

"Fu Zhengqing, the princess is doing business. I just asked you for evidence. You didn't provide any evidence. Instead, you said that you didn't have any of these things. What do you mean?" Zuo Qingmei immediately scolded.

Fu Chunliu was stunned, and then he bowed his hands to apologize to Li Mingda, but his attitude was very stubborn, "The official just lost his daughter, and he only wanted to severely punish the murderer. Maybe he said something offensive in a hurry. My lord, please forgive me. But if Fang Yizhi is the real murderer. How could he bend the law for personal gain because of his noble status, disregarding the "Law of Zhenguan" written in black and white by the sage? As the secretary of Dali Temple, the next official is the one who corrects the criminals. How can a subordinate be afraid of exposing his crimes just because of his noble status and because of his father's status as prime minister? How can this be worthy of my daughter who died unjustly, and also disregard the common people in the world In my heart, Dali Temple has the name of "justice at heart."

"It's just talking about the evidence. Fu Zhengqing's statement is a bit biased." Li Mingda said flatly, and asked again, "You said that Fang Yi killed your daughter straight away, is there any evidence?"

"Reporting to the princess, there are witnesses. All the maids in the courtyard at that time can prove that Fang Yizhi was the last one to leave the room of the little girl. Shortly thereafter, the maid entered the room and found her dead in the room. No one came in or out during this period. There is only Fang Yizhi in the little girl's room." Fu Chunliu repeatedly emphasized, "Such an obvious murder case, why do we need to investigate it!"

Li Mingda was standing deep in the courtyard outside the courtyard, and he could already smell a strong smell of blood. It seemed that the wound of the deceased was deep, and he must have bled a lot.

"Who has seen the dead body?" Li Mingda asked.

"Xiaguan's wife and a few maidservants. Xiaguan wanted to see it with her own eyes, but she stopped her and said that it was not suitable for me or anyone else to watch. She just sent people to guard the door of the house and did not let anyone in. My lady After she said this, she passed out. Before the princess came, she just woke up not long ago." Fu Chunliu said this, his expression was extremely sad, he paused for a while, and then continued, "I'll be an official later. I just heard the servant girl talk about the situation in the house. The death of the little girl is really tragic. Those maidservants have never experienced such a world. It's already scary enough to make the subordinate officials unbearable."

When Fu Chunliu said this, his eyes turned red, and he knelt down suddenly, begging Li Mingda to be the master and punish the murderer severely for his poor daughter.

"Fu Zhengqing just took office as Minister of Dali Temple not long ago, probably because he hasn't settled many cases, so he doesn't have much experience, and he doesn't know the principle of 'determining the law based on emotion and seeking clarification'."

Fu Chunliu could hear the princess mocking him, and raised his hand to look at Li Mingda in surprise, as if seeing a completely different Princess Jinyang.Didn't all the princesses in the rumors say they were 'understanding and intelligent', why are they speaking so viciously to him now?

"Punishment must be a crime. Fu Zhengqing didn't fully investigate the case, but just based on one side of the story, and decided to be the murderer. Regardless of whether the estate is a nobleman or a white man, what you do is suspected of killing people's lives. How many people in this world Injustice cases are caused by the arbitrariness of officials. As the minister of Dali Temple, who has prosecuted criminal cases across the country, you don’t even understand this truth. How can you make people understand you and sympathize with you?” Li Mingda questioned road.

Fu Chunliu did not expect that he would be reprimanded by a little girl in public like this, and he had just lost his daughter, even if the other party was a princess, he didn't even give him any face. Also showing a very uncomfortable look of anger.

"Fu Zhengqing has a high academic reputation in this dynasty, and I know it. But you are good at learning, but you may not be able to solve cases. Everyone has shortcomings. If you can't recognize your shortcomings in solving cases, you are right. After listening to my words, you don’t even have the slightest self-examination, then you really don’t deserve to be called a celebrity and admired by everyone. After all, even seven or eight-year-old children do things like ‘examine yourself three times a day’. Fu Zhengqing is old, but still can't do it."

After Li Mingda finished speaking, he glanced coldly at Fu Chunliu and ordered him to follow behind him.

After all, Li Mingda went straight to the main room, which was the room where Fu Hongmei died.

Fu Chunliu froze on the spot in surprise, looking at the princess, he didn't know how to react at the moment when he was humiliated by the words.And it was his taboo to go to the place where his daughter died. He knew that his daughter died naked, and his wife also said that he could not enter the house.

Li Mingda walked to the door of the house, saw Fu Chunliu behind him looking livid, hesitated, and said with a sneer: "If you don't have the guts to go in, I'll tell you later that there is evidence that Fang Yizhi killed your daughter, so don't shout, You have to apologize sincerely."

"Let's go!" Fu Chunliu bowed his neck, bowed his hands to Li Mingda, and followed Li Mingda into the room.

The smell of blood became stronger as soon as I entered the room. There was nothing special outside. When I went to the inside, I saw a white-skinned woman lying on the couch with her whole body lying sideways on the bed. A wisp of bright red blood flowed out from the chest, along the body, flowed to the thigh, and then dripped on the stone floor.The silk quilt on the bed was also mostly soaked in blood.

From the first glance he entered the room, Li Mingda knew that Fang Yi hadn't directly killed the person.This affirmation was originally based on the character and mind of Fang Yizhi, but now it is based on reasonable inference and evidence.

Fu Chunliu who entered the door only took a look, then immediately turned his head, covered his eyes and turned around. Then Li Mingda heard the man's low sobs, and he was very forbearing.

Li Mingda asked the maidservant to prepare a white silk and lifted it above his head as a cover.The maid was still standing near the door, and no one was near the corpse.

"You can turn your head around now, I'm sorry you can't bear it, but you are not convinced, so you can only do this. This white silk, you can vaguely see the situation over there through it, but you won't see too much Clear. Zuo Shanggong didn't have anything on her body. I'll let her go for an autopsy. No one else touched your daughter's body except her. This way you can supervise and avoid seeing what you don't want to see. Arrived, how is it?" Li Mingda asked.

Fu Chunliu turned his head tentatively, and when he saw the white silk, he nodded, and hurriedly bowed to thank the princess for her thoughtful consideration.Now he finally understood the princess's 'understanding'.

"If you're worried about my favoritism and forging evidence against Fang Shizi, you can send two more courageous maidservants to watch."

"The subordinate dare not."

"Don't be afraid, just call the two of you. I do things aboveboard, and I'm not afraid to look at them, and I won't argue with you because of this." Li Mingda narrowed her eyes slightly, she was still angry at Fu Chunliu's arbitrariness, and felt wronged in her heart Fang Yi groaned, but she still had the patience she should have.

Fu Chunliu followed his orders and called two maidservants over.Li Mingda took the two maids and watched from a place far away from the room where the corpse could just be seen.

After Zuo Qingmei washed her hands, she ran to the bed.

Fu Chunliu stood behind the white silk, looking anxiously at the silhouette of the shadow over there, waiting for the results of the autopsy.

The corpse had no clothes left, and the wound on the chest was not thought of. Zuo Qingmei only needed to check whether other parts of the body were injured, and then check whether there was any possibility of poisoning. Basically, the preliminary inspection could be completed.

Zuo Qingmei looked at Li Mingda solemnly, and shouted: "My lord, this wound—"

"I saw it." Li Mingda replied immediately before Zuo Qingmei could finish speaking.

Fu Chunliu heard the clue, and turned his head to look at Li Mingda suspiciously.

"Have you searched the house for the murder weapon?" Seeing that Fu Chunliu shook her head, Li Mingda ordered someone to cover the body first and searched the house. There were bloodstains in the eye, and when the window was pushed open, there was a row of clear footprints under the rear window, leading directly to the rear wall over there.

The soil is yellow.

Seeing that the body was covered, Fu Chunliu walked a few steps, and then went behind Li Mingda, and then saw the footprints.

"This footprint..." Fu Chunliu was surprised.

"It's so big, it should be a man's foot." Zuo Qingmei also came over and told the truth expressionlessly, then she looked at Fu Chunliu in doubt, "Could it be that Fang Shizi met your third wife before?" After that, go to the window?"

"No...no." Fu Chunliu said with embarrassment, "It may have been left by the attendant during the renovation of the house a few days ago."

"There is still a drop of blood on that footprint." Li Mingda pointed.

Fu Chunliu stretched his neck to look carefully, and vaguely saw that there was indeed a reddish drop on the piece of loess where the footprints were printed.

Li Mingda then pointed out the blood on the window lattice to Fu Chunliu.

Fu Chunliu was stunned again.

Li Mingda then asked Zuo Qingmei to explain the cause of Fu Sanniang's death.

"Fu Sanniang was stabbed with a stick-shaped hard object, about the thickness of the arm of a three- or four-year-old child, and a blood hole was poked in her chest. Judging from the size and location of the fatal injury, it is different from the one discovered by Der Spiegel before." The rotting corpses seem to be consistent."

"And the murder weapon was not at the scene, it should have been taken away by the murderer." Li Mingda added.

"I found it." The maid in charge of the search hurriedly reported back, and sent up a piece of blood-stained woman's clothes and a branch covered with green leaves that she searched from under the bed.

Li Mingda and Zuo Qingmei immediately recognized this branch as a winter jasmine stem.Now there are no flowers, and only green leaves grow at this time.But for the murderer, whether the thing has flowers or not should have the same meaning, and it is a kind of "merciful" wish from the murderer to the deceased.

"What are these things?" Fu Chunliu saw the branches at a glance, then saw the blood-stained woman's clothes, and said with emotion, "Could it be that the murderer was a woman? After the murder, he found blood all over his body, so he changed his clothes and left. .”

"This is a winter jasmine branch. Zuo Shanggong will explain to you the reason why it appears here." Li Mingda continued to talk about the bloody clothes, and asked someone to ask if the maid beside Fu Hongmei knew this dress.

The maid later recognized that the clothes Fu Hongmei was wearing today.

Li Mingda looked at Fu Chunliu.

Fu Chunliu looked embarrassed, "Before I was dismissed from office, I was busy socializing in the front yard, so I didn't pay attention to the girl's attire."

"There is a blood hole in your daughter's chest, which is the main cause of her death. And this blood hole should be caused by a sharp stick. When it is pulled out, there will be blood spattering , I guess this piece of clothing is used to prevent blood from splattering, and the murderer took it casually to plug the wound, so that the murder weapon can be pulled out smoothly, and his body will not be stained with blood. It can also be seen that the murderer has committed the crime Not the first time."

Fu Chunliu suddenly realized, nodded, and had to admit that Li Mingda's deduction was very reasonable.

"Then why did this winter jasmine branch appear, please tell Zuo Shanggong." Fu Chunliu saluted Zuo Qingmei and asked for advice.

At the moment, he has been slapped in the face by the facts, and he understands that the princess's previous lessons to him are very reasonable and truthful.He can't admit it or not, so he can only make amends and ask for advice humbly.

"Since you know that you are wrong, should you release Fang Shizi first, so that you can apologize to him, and then let Zuo Shanggong explain to you the reason for the winter jasmine branch." Li Mingda said.

When Fu Chunliu heard the words, he hesitated.

Zuo Qingmei said angrily: "These evidences are enough to prove that the murderer is someone else. Even if you don't agree, Fang Shizi will still release it. The evidence is here. You deny it, but others will not deny it. The reason why the princess is like this Let me tell you, I just gave you a chance, but you still dare to put your nose on your face!"

Fu Chunliu quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Li Mingda, apologizing repeatedly.

"Fang Shizi is indeed innocent. The reason why the lower official hesitated just now was because he felt that he had lost face, and he didn't know how to apologize to him. Your lord and Zuo Shanggong have taught him a lesson. I will go and apologize to Fang Shizi." After Fu Chunliu said he was going, he turned to look at Li Mingda questioningly, wondering if she would go or not.

Li Mingda is a princess, if he and Fu Chunliu went to pick up the estate at this time, Fu Chunliu would definitely think about it later.And right now, Li Mingda also had more important matters to investigate, so he only sent Fu Chunliu to go by himself.

Li Mingda stayed in the room, and as soon as Fu Chunliu left, he immediately summoned the maids beside Fu Hongmei and asked them carefully what happened at that time.Just because of Fu Chunliu's presence, Li Mingda couldn't bear to ask.Because she knew that Fu Chunliu would definitely not let the maidservants tell the whole truth for the sake of protecting her daughter.

"The maidservants actually don't know why Sanniang called Fang Shizi, let alone why Sanniang didn't wear any clothes in the house afterwards."

"You guys are not telling the truth." Li Mingda said.

The maids all looked at me and I looked at you, and then they all pursed their lips and remained silent.

In the current situation, anyone who knew that Fu Hongmei died naked would probably think that there was something between Fang Yizhi and Fu Hongmei that was either voluntary or forced.Otherwise, how can a good-looking girl not wear clothes?

After Li Mingda tested these maidservants, he could infer from their facial expressions that there was obviously something inside about this matter.

Based on Li Mingda's understanding of Fang Yizhi, it is impossible for him to meet a woman alone for no reason, and he is still in the woman's boudoir.Not to mention that Fang Yizhi has always been a man of courtesy, and would not engage in adultery.Even if you are a flirtatious person, you also know that the place of cheating should not be in such a grand place, at least it should be in a remote place.

"If you still don't tell the truth, there is nothing you can do. I can only bring you back to the Department of Mirrors and torture to extract a confession."

Li Mingda asked Tian Hanshan to be responsible, so he told them about the methods Yuchi Baoqi used when interrogating Shi Hongyu.

The maids were all horrified when they heard this.

Li Mingda immediately asked Tian Hanshan to talk to the maids alone. Before the conversation, she deliberately asked Tian Hanshan: "If no one confesses, they will be taken back to the Department of Mirrors for torture. If there are confessions, they must be protected. Make him bullied."

When the maids heard that they were going to the Der Spiegel Department if they didn't confess, they became even more frightened.

After Li Mingda gave these instructions, he left first, and Tian Hanxi was fully responsible for the questioning of the testimony.

Li Mingda was waiting in the main hall of the Fu family. During this period, she heard many comments from the guests who stayed here.Many of them were Fu Hongmei's little sisters, because they were left here, they chatted together, and they were very chatty.Li Mingda also learned from their words that Fu Hongmei usually likes Fang Yizhi very much, and has reached the point where she doesn't shy away from it.However, in Chang'an City, there are not a few women who admire Fang Yizhi.Because Fang Yizhi is a well-known talented and handsome person, many women are proud of liking him. In short, these are all private conversations of the girls in the boudoir behind closed doors, so Fu Hongmei's frank 'It's not ashamed either.

"I remember that she once said in private that she would be willing to die if she could get close to Fang Shizi. Now, isn't this fulfilled!"

"Stop talking about it, it's creepy, anyway, I won't dare to admire Fang Shizi in the future."

"I don't dare either."

……

Tian Hanshan came to report to Li Mingda at this time: "I have explained everything, it was Fu Sanniang who tricked Fang Shizi into her courtyard, and Fang Shizi didn't even know that the courtyard was her residence before he went."

"How to cheat?" Li Mingda asked.

"It was the maidservant of the Fu family who deliberately soiled Fang Shizi's clothes and led him to this 'unoccupied' courtyard to change clothes. After seeing him enter the door with the clothes, the maid closed the door, and then Fang Shizi stayed inside. It didn't take long to go out with anger."

Li Mingda knew that Fang Yizhi didn't like being waited on when he was changing clothes, so Fu Hongmei probably used this method after hearing the news.

"Fang Shizi is here." The messenger said.