Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

"You—" Li Mingda blushed uncontrollably. The words were too explicit, and she was a little flustered.

"Does your lord understand?" Fang Yizhi kept his gaze fixed, never moving away, and asked more bluntly.

It was obviously a teasing remark, but he was not shy in a serious manner.

Li Mingda couldn't be so thick-skinned, staring at a branch on the left, he chose to pretend to be confused and said, "I don't understand, I must be too simple. I'm really simple and don't accept rebuttals."

Fang Yi looked at Li Mingda's flushed cheeks, and couldn't help laughing.He nodded in agreement with Li Mingda.Then he followed Li Mingda's gaze and looked at the branch. The branch was very ordinary, and the emerald green leaves hanging on it were also very ordinary.

"The peach blossoms are shining brightly, and the son returns home, suitable for his family. This sentence is well written, what does your lord think?"

"I think it's not easy for you to recite this sentence to such a branch."

"Probably because he has a peach in his heart." Fang Yi said bluntly, and slowly turned his averted eyes back to Li Mingda.

Suddenly a gust of spring breeze blew, making Li Mingda's broken hair at the temples move slightly, and lightly brushed the delicate cheeks glowing with pearls.It is not easy to look away from here.

Li Mingda coughed in embarrassment, covered her cheeks with both hands, and continued to stare at the branches.

After thinking about it, Fang Yi, who started talking first, has never been shy, so why should she be shy?She was shy, which just exposed her not pure nature.Li Mingda plucked up his courage, took out the princess statue, and turned his eyes to Fang Yizhi boldly.Immediately, Fang Yi caught his eyes straight, and the hot fire burned over him immediately.

Li Mingda blushed again, realizing that he was not as thick-skinned as Fang Yizhi, "Then...will you work hard to pick peaches?"

"Yes." Almost as soon as Li Mingda finished speaking, Fang Yizhi replied immediately.

"Then you have to be careful with your words and think carefully, and plan first. Things don't seem to be that easy." Li Mingda alluded to the words that Fang Yizhi said in front of Li Shimin in order to reject Princess Gaoyang's marriage.

After Fang Yizhi listened carefully, he nodded. , Ruoyu smiled slightly on her face, and thanked her.

Li Mingda's expression was very relaxed when he saw Fang Yizhi, as if he had already figured it out, so he smiled and didn't say anything, in fact, she wanted to say a few words of comfort.

"Actually, I have no idea." Fang Yizhi suddenly sighed.

"Really?"

Fang Yi nodded.

"Then...you have to work hard to realize that phrase 'too bad' as soon as possible." Li Mingda didn't understand why, so he said such a sentence suddenly.

Fang Yizhi's eyes lit up, as if he was satisfied, he promised with a smile: "I will obey your lord's orders."

"I didn't order you anything." Li Mingda said with a hot face while reflecting on how he failed in learning.How did the two of them go from having a good chat to become like this?What did this nonsense talk about!

Fang Yi saw that Li Mingda was in a daze, so he silently accompanied him with a smile on his face.

Li Mingda came back to his senses, and heard Fang Yi speak again.

"The saint seems to be very anxious and busy looking for a son-in-law for the lord, but in fact it's 'thunder and rain', and it's not settled so quickly. The Cui family's matter will be resolved soon, and your lord doesn't have to worry."

Li Mingda was stunned for a moment, knowing that Fang Yizhi was explaining to himself to make him feel at ease.So she nodded confidently, but also asked Fang Yizhi not to take any risks, and just do what is within her capacity.If there is a difficult place, she can also come forward.

Fang Yi thank you very much.

Li Mingda was stunned. They seemed to have discussed the matter so naturally just now?

Li Mingda felt that he was led astray by Fang Yi, and he agreed to come here to discuss a case.It's better to tell him the business, otherwise I don't know where he will take him, Li Mingda hurriedly said to Fang Yi: "You have to send someone to watch over Bianji, or I will send two more guards to follow?"

"It's not necessary. Too many people will increase the risk of exposure and make the other party more vigilant. But after Jiang Lin, the Taoist nun of the Fu family escaped, would she hide in the private house where she and Bian Ji met? We Instead, we can send someone to follow him, pretending to be a guard patrolling to capture him by chance when he goes out. In this way, we can not only capture the Taoist nun, but also avoid alarming the debate." Fang Yizhi suggested.

Li Mingda felt that Fang Zong's idea was a good idea, and asked Cheng Chubi to take charge of the matter, so he could rest assured that the secret would not be leaked out.

Fang Yizhi immediately sent Luoge to take Cheng Chubi to the private house to see if Jiang Lin was hiding there, if it was there, and then plan to arrest her.

"You said that if the murderer is really Jiang Lin, what is her purpose of killing?" Li Mingda frowned slightly, thinking.

"If she was the child who was with Nun Huining back then, and the three people who grew up together in the same place all committed murder in the end, there must be something strange in it. I checked the files about these bandits, and although the means It's a lowly job, stealing people's money, kidnapping people's wives and daughters, but they didn't commit the crime of taking people's lives." Fang Yi said straight.

Li Mingda nodded in agreement, "I have seen it too, and it is indeed as you said, there was no murder."

"However, there is a strange thing. I don't know if your lord has noticed it. The eleven nuns who were taken away by the bandits happened to die one after another within two or three years of the government's suppression of the bandits, and there was not one left." Fang Fang Left straight.

Li Mingda frowned, "Is there such a thing? I only checked the testimonies of these bandits, but no one mentioned how those nuns died. I thought they were tortured and died one after another within a few years. How did you find out?" To these?"

"Since I have been ordered by the Holy Spirit to go to the Department of Mirrors to assist your lord in investigating the case, I will naturally do my part." Fang Yi said with a straight smile.

Li Mingda looked at him seriously: "Then how did you find out this information?"

"I found the officials who tried the case back then. I asked everyone about it. I also found the pawnshop owner who did business with those bandits. After these bandits robbed the money, some valuables would be exchanged for money in his pawnshop. He has done this kind of black business with bandits for seven or eight years, so he can understand the situation in the mountains. He learned about the nuns' death time from him." Fang Yizhi explained seriously.

Li Mingda: "Are you thinking the same as I do, thinking that the deaths of these nuns are likely to be related to Hui Ning and the other three children. Three or four years before the bandits were suppressed, these children were about nine years old She looks ten years old. She's not that old. If they were the ones who killed her, it would be terrible. I heard what Hui Ning said earlier. Calling them 'mothers'. It doesn't make sense why they should be killed if you pity them."

Fang Yizhi: "Maybe it's too pitiful, I feel that they are better dead than alive."

Li Mingda was surprised, and when facing the unusually calm Fengmu of Shangfang Yizhi, he also somewhat agreed with his statement in his heart.Fang Yizhi's words really reminded her that Nun Hui Ning's thoughts were indeed a little paranoid, and perhaps it was really because of this that they killed these nuns.Of course, all of this is speculation. If you want to dig deeper into the reason, you still need to arrest Jiang Lin and go through a careful trial before confirming it.

Li Mingda shrugged, stretched his shoulders, then turned his head to Fang Yi and said with a smile, "We've finished talking, we can check Jiang Lin's room and see if there are any clues."

Fang Yi nodded in agreement, and then the two went to the Taoist temple together.It is said to be a Taoist temple, but it is actually a three-room house built on the soil slope behind the rockery in the back garden of the Fu family.Surrounded by white walls, there are plum trees planted inside, and there are several clusters of winter jasmine outside the wall.

After Fang Yizhi and Li Mingda saw the winter jasmine, they glanced at each other knowingly, and entered the Taoist temple one after the other.

The stone statue of the Queen Mother is enshrined in the main hall, and there is a lot of burning incense in the incense burner, which is emitting green smoke.Therefore, the fragrance in the room was very strong, but it did not cover the slight smell of blood.Li Ming followed the smell to the back of the stone statue of the Queen Mother.The bottom of the stone statue has been covered by the queen mother's skirt.Pull off the covering cloth, and you can see a square gap behind the back stone seat, which shows that this is a living room.Immediately, someone took out the slate, and sure enough, they got an iron pestle-like thing from it, but one end was pointed, and there was still blood stains on it that hadn't been wiped clean.

This thing can be seen at a glance, it must be the murder weapon.

"It's empty inside, and there are still things." After saying that, the guard reached out and continued to dig out, and then took out two pairs of big shoes with wooden feet.

Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi were naturally familiar with this, because when they were in Plum Blossom Nunnery, nun Hui Ning also used this kind of thing to create footprints disguised as men.Because the case was not heard in public, outsiders do not know some details of the case.So Jiang Lin must have thought that she used this method to disguise as a man's footprints, which would make people believe that the murderer was a man, and directly rule out the suspicion of a woman.Li Mingda even felt that the purpose of Jiang Lin's complicated and brutal method of killing people by inserting a pointed iron pestle into his chest was to make people think that this method of killing was done by a man, not a woman.This is the same as the purpose of leaving male footprints, which is to directly exclude suspicions based on gender.

"This nun, like Hui Ning and An Ning, is very good at falsifying evidence to mislead the government's investigation direction." Li Mingda frowned and looked at Feng Fang Yi Zhi, "If no one taught them this , I absolutely don’t believe it.”

"The murder method is brutal, decisive, and thoughtful. Neither Jiang Lin nor Hui Ning An Ning is like the first murder. It is very likely that it is as we expected before. They were on Wutou Mountain, and the mountain When the gangsters were together, they had already practiced with those nuns." Fang Yi speculated.

"If that's the case, then the three of them are a bit too scary. Why do good girls suddenly become so bloodthirsty?" Speaking of bloodthirsty, Li Mingda thought of those bones again, "I suddenly discovered that these two What all these cases have in common is the relationship between the bones and rotting corpses of Der Spiegel Division. Although the methods are different, the murderers are all using extremely cruel and bloodthirsty methods to kill. One is brutal in the killing method, the other is in the The number of murders was brutal."

Fang Yizhi was stunned for a moment, then nodded to Li Mingda in admiration, "Princess is wise, indeed."

Li Mingda burst into laughter when he heard the words, and looked at Fang Yizhi with crooked eyebrows, "What is wise or not, you don't have to be so polite when you are in front of me in private."

Fang Yizhi immediately smiled and nodded, his face was so poignant that people couldn't help but take a second look.

The guests got impatient after waiting for a long time, and they sent people to ask Bai Ming if they could leave, but Bai Ming couldn't bear it, so he had to come to Li Mingda for advice.

"You can let them all go, but just in case, you need to keep a list. From the master to the entourage, there must be no one missing from each family." Li Mingda instructed.

Tian Ming is happy to agree, so let's do it.

Not long after that, someone came back and forth to tell Xiao Wuniang that she wanted to come to see the princess.

When Li Mingda heard the words Xiao Wuniang, he immediately shook his head to express his absence.

Xiao Wuniang probed first with a smile, and then she appeared at the entrance of the Taoist temple, and smiled at Li Mingda in the courtyard: "I'm here, don't you see me?"

Li Mingda nodded with a headache, indicating that she could come in.

Xiao Wuniang happily responded, saluted and thanked him, and hurriedly walked up to Li Mingda, and saluted again.Then she looked around curiously, stretched her neck to look at the main room of the Taoist temple, and asked Li Mingda curiously why he came here.

"The princess is here to investigate the case, right? You are investigating the murderer of Fu Sanniang, right? But why did you come to this small Taoist temple? Could it be that the murderer is hiding here?" Xiao Wuniang really deserved to be Xiao Wuniang. Come and ask four times.After she finished speaking, her curious eyes turned to Fang Yizhi again, she only glanced lightly and didn't dare to look any further, because she knew what Fang Yizhi's temperament was, and she didn't bother to mess with such a person.

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask." Li Mingda gave Xiao Wuniang a stern look.

Xiao Wuniang was not afraid, she approached Li Mingda with a smile, and took her arm, "It doesn't matter if a good sister reveals something. But since Fang Shizi is here, he is not under surveillance like before, that is to say he It's not the murderer, the murderer must be someone else. I heard that Fu Zhengqing insisted on arresting Fang Shizi because he was the last person Fu Sanniang saw. Now that Fang Shizi is innocent, I think it must be Fu San What's wrong with Mother. Could it be that she not only became lustful towards Fang Shizi, but also did something, and she suffered retribution?"

Xiao Wuniang is indeed worthy of being the most gossipy person among the noble girls. In this regard, Li Mingda feels that she can really be called the king.

After Xiao Wuniang finished speaking, she saw that Li Mingda hadn't responded, so she went to see the room again, but she didn't get a response.

Xiao Wuniang laughed again, and took Li Mingda's arm, "It's fine not to speak, but it's also fine to show an expression, give me a hint."

"I'm afraid you're talking nonsense, I don't even dare to blink my eyes now, so stop these curious thoughts soon. If you don't change this problem, something will happen sooner or later." Li Mingda said helplessly to Xiao Wuniang.They had a good relationship since they were young, and Xiao Wuniang often 'saved' her when she was young.When Li Mingda was naughty when he was a child, he liked to jump up and down. When he fell down several times, it was Xiao Wuniang who jumped in front of her and made her a human mat.This sisterhood is still there, but Xiao Wuniang likes to gossip, and Li Mingda doesn't agree with it, so he keeps a distance from her for a while, but this doesn't mean that the relationship between the two sisters is not good.

In terms of conduct, Xiao Wuniang is at least open-minded, saying one thing and saying the other.Li Mingda still admired her very much.

"Okay, if you don't say it, don't say it. It's fate today, and it's easy to see your lord once, so let's go for a walk and talk." Xiao Wuniang decided to take a detour because the straight path was different.

Li Mingda naturally understood Xiao Wuniang's careful thinking, but he had heard from the maid beside Fu Sanniang that the relationship between Xiao Wuniang and Fu Sanniang was pretty good.Li Mingda just wanted to listen and see if Xiao Wuniang had any clues here.

Li Mingda looked at Fang Yizhi and asked him and Bai Ming to continue searching Jiang Lin's residence to see if there were any other clues.

Fang Yizhi and Bai Ming took orders at the same time.

"Then let's go." Xiao Wuniang smiled and tugged at Li Mingda's arm, "I know where the Fujiayuan's house has a good view, and I'll take you there."

Li Mingda nodded, followed Xiao Wuniang to lead the way, and happened to talk to her while walking.

"I heard that you have a good relationship with Fu Sanniang?"

"What's the matter, it's just a casual acquaintance. The relationship between me and the princess is really good, we can talk to her, and I can barely talk to her. I have a good temper, enthusiasm, and I don't put on airs. I often have people I feel that my relationship is very good, but in fact it is just a superficial relationship. I know very well what the relationship with them is. When my father was demoted in an accident, none of these little sisters were willing to send him away. A message came to comfort me."

Xiao Wuniang sees this very clearly.

"It doesn't matter what you think, as long as Fu Sanniang treats you as a friend. Did Fu Sanniang say anything special to you before she died?" Li Mingda asked.

Xiao Wuniang thought about it seriously, "It's nothing. Anyway, she likes Fang Yizhi's words. It's not surprising. Among the sisters I know, at least six out of ten like him. Your lord You said, what is so good about this house, why didn't I see why so many people admire him."

"Everyone has his or her own. As you said, there are six out of ten, so there are four. It's not surprising that you are among them." Li Mingda became curious, and then asked Xiao Wuniang what kind of man he likes.

"My second brother's kind is very good, but literary and military, suitable for quiet and moving, everything is complete. I think I will just look for him like him in the future, and I am afraid that there will be no second one." Xiao Wuniang Said with a look of admiration.

"It's still the same." Li Mingda couldn't help laughing. Xiao Wuniang admired his second brother Xiao Kai very much since she was a child, but she didn't expect that she would still be like this when she grew up.

"My second brother is actually very powerful. He is too low-key, and outsiders don't know much about it. Your lord, I'm really not exaggerating at all. Otherwise, you can be my second sister-in-law. My second brother is really very good. Talented, I will never let you down." Xiao Wuniang begged, shaking Li Mingda's arm, "If you are willing to be my second sister-in-law, I swear that I will change my love of gossip, how do you want me to change? I can change it however I want. Let me be an obedient puppy in front of your lord, and I am also willing."

Li Mingda chuckled, and slapped Xiao Wuniang on the forehead with his hand, "What nonsense are you talking about? You are not married yet, so you are here to worry about me. I can see it. If you don't gossip, It is estimated that [-]% of them will be a matchmaker, and they will definitely draw red lines everywhere."

"Your lord knows me too well. In fact, I did have this kind of thought. When I, Aye, was demoted, I thought about going out to be a matchmaker to support my family." Xiao Wuniang laughed.

"What about Taoist nun, did Fu Sanniang mention Taoist nun to you?" Li Ming brought the conversation back to the point.

Xiao Wuniang thought for a while, "Your lord is talking about the Taoist girl who often follows her, what is her name Jiang Lin?"

Li Mingda nodded.

"I've met her twice. Fu Sanniang has a good relationship with her, and she recommended her to us. I don't like this Daoist Jiang very much, but her other little sisters like to get along with her. This person seems easy-going. , nothing wrong with her, but sometimes, her words have a feeling that the world is full of filth and she is alone, so I don't like her very much." Xiao Wuniang also admitted, "But even if I don't like it, I don't like her. Didn't show anything, I don't want to offend anyone."

"It seems that you don't have any important clues, so let's go." Li Mingda waved Xiao Wuniang bluntly and sent her away.

"It's useless for your lord to provoke me, I really don't know much," Xiao Wuniang said after thinking about it, "Just one thing, Fu Sanniang admires Fang Yizhi very, very much."

Li Mingda smiled, "It's not to provoke you, it's to let you go. I'm going to continue investigating the case, and you should go home with your mother as soon as possible. Don't let the family worry."

Xiao Wuniang stomped her feet unhappily, "But I haven't heard anything from your lord, it's your lord who is asking me."

"Well, that's right, that's exactly what I mean." Li Mingda said.

"Ah, annoying." Xiao Wuniang pouted, "There is nothing that can make me happy, unless your lord invites me to the Department of Mirrors to take a look at another day."

Li Mingda nodded and accepted her.

Xiao Wuniang immediately cheered up and left happily.

Not long afterward, Fang Yizhi sent the news that there were no important clues in Jiang Lin's house, but she could see some of her preferences. The paintings and calligraphy were only related to lotus, and some of them said that they came out of mud and not. dyed meaning.

Someone from the other side came to pass the news that Xiao Kai and Di Renjie had returned.Li Mingda immediately got up and went to the Department of Mirrors. The matter of the Fu family was basically cleared up, and he was short of arresting Jiang Lin, so he simply handed it over to Fang Yizhi.

Not long after Li Mingda left, Fang Yizhi wanted to leave the Fu family to meet up with Cheng Chubi who was going to arrest Jiang Lin, but he didn't want to just meet Xiao Wuniang and his brother Xiao Rui.

Fang Yizhi knew in his heart that this "just coincidence" was not a coincidence, but he didn't show it, and greeted the two brothers and sisters.

"Fang Shizi was wronged. I heard from my sister that you were misunderstood as the murderer before?" Xiao Rui asked.

"Yes."

"What exactly is going on?"

After the eldest brother asked, Xiao Wuniang looked curiously and looked at Fang Yizhi with bright eyes.

"It's hard to say more. Although I was wronged, the name of my daughter's family is very important. Since the person is dead, why bother to pursue it."

This is enough!Xiao Wuniang's eyes sparkled even more after hearing these words.

……

In less than half a day, the rumor that Fu Sanniang destroyed her innocence and plotted against Fang Yizhi spread secretly among the noble women.

After Fu Chunliu heard this rumor from his wife, he was so ashamed and indignant that he immediately wrote a letter to blame Fang Yizhi.Now that he has regained his composure, he has realized that Fang Yi Zhi Ji hates him.He knew his student too well, and he held grudges the most, so Fu Chunliu believed that Fang Yizhi did this, but there was no evidence.So after the letter was written, he was so angry that he could only tear it up.