Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

Falling song promised.

"Bring him up." Fang Yi rubbed his temples, and then hid the tired look in his eyes.

Luo Ge bowed, then turned around and left.

……

The dusk is heavy, and the world is hazy.

Fang Yi stood straight at the back door of the General's Mansion, he frowned slightly, until he heard the sound of horseshoes, his brows were relaxed.

Li Mingda came galloping with a dozen people on a bay red horse.After jumping off the horse neatly, she looked at both sides of the road.

Fang Yi knew exactly what Li Mingda was worried about, and immediately said: "The road has been arranged to be closed, and no one else is allowed to enter."

Li Mingda nodded.

The two glanced at each other, then they understood each other and entered the general's mansion together.

The guards at the back door of the General's Mansion are now in charge of the guards under Cheng Chubi's command.

Luo Ge was also waiting for orders, followed immediately, and reported to the two of them: "The insider has already controlled it, the housekeeper in the mansion is quite clever, and listens to our orders very much, and our people are already present in the most important places in the mansion." Keep guard. Everything is calm, the only problem is..."

"What is it?" Li Mingda asked.

"It's Ji Siniang, she's making a fuss." The Luoge prisoner said, "It's hard to stop the splash."

Li Mingda looked at Fang Yizhi: "Go to persuade?"

Fang Yi raised his eyebrows, "It's not necessary."

"I still have to persuade her. If she really wants to make a fuss, I'm afraid it won't end well. After all, she is a woman, and she has some status. The guards are not easy to deal with her." Li Mingda said sympathetically.

"Princess Shengming, the princess is famous, presumably if she only needs to say a word, then Ji Siniang will be so frightened that she will obey her."

Li Mingda squinted at Fang Yizhi, "When did you learn to flatter?"

"I only figured it out a few days ago." Fang Yi said straight.

Li Mingda was stunned, Fang Yizhi was obviously not answering the question, so he asked him what he meant.

"I used to say that a modest gentleman should do something and not do something. It was only later that I realized that when I met the right person, there was nothing I would disdain to do." Fang Yi said straight.

The conversation went around for a long time, just saying that he was willing to flatter.

Li Mingda: "..."

Fang Yizhi took out a book from his arms and handed it to Li Mingda.

"What is it?"

"Daily life for the past two months."

Li Mingda almost forgot the promise he had made to himself earlier about this estate legacy, and couldn't help laughing, "I've been busy with the case lately, but you don't have to write about it every day."

"What you promise, you have to keep your promise." Fang Yizhi nodded slightly.

Li Mingda's eyes turned into crescent moons, he turned and walked forward quickly with his hands behind his back, Fang Yi followed closely behind.

At this time, Zuo Qingmei also arrived, and after meeting Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi, Zuo Qingmei briefly explained the results of the autopsy. "Dead in the morning. When I arrived, the body was still warm. I killed him with a single knife, straight into the chest. The knife was also there, so the blood didn't bleed a lot."

Li Mingda and Fang Yi listened to Zuo Qingmei's narration, then entered the house to check the situation.

Ji Wang died on his own bed, he looked like he just woke up in the morning and hadn't had time to change his clothes yet.The situation was exactly as Zuo Qingmei said, the dagger was stabbed in the left chest.

"When a person died, there was no one in the courtyard, so it was convenient for us to conceal the news." Cheng Chubi, who had been guarding the scene in the courtyard, stepped forward to report to Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi at this time.

In the General's Mansion with many servants, being able to know of Ji Wang's death at the first time, and to control the news so that most people in the mansion did not know about it, is very capable.

Li Mingda was somewhat curious, and asked Cheng Chubi what happened.

"The subordinates sneaked into the general's mansion with two people in disguise. When they were investigating, they just saw someone rushing out of General Ji's yard, terrified as if they were lost, and muttering about the dead. The subordinates immediately went to inquire about the situation and learned that General Ji died, so he quickly stopped the servant to prevent him from spreading the word, but he didn't want to, so he just knocked him out with a palm, threatened to control the steward, and then hurriedly informed the princess and the prince."

Li Mingda: "What a coincidence, there is no one in Ji Wang's yard, only a servant ran in to see his death. Could it be that he doesn't like to be served by others, so there is no one in the yard?"

Fang Yi shook his head, "When we were entertained yesterday, there were twenty or thirty domestic servants around him, and there were even more people in his yard. Before the incident happened, Ji Wang probably sent them away by himself. People are in the courtyard."

"Leave me alone in the courtyard?" Li Mingda pondered for a moment, then turned to look at the butler of the General's Mansion who had been brought over.

After the housekeeper heard the words, he promised again and again that it was true. "Actually, I don't know. I just took Guard Cheng to inquire. The servants who were supposed to stay in the yard explained that the general sent them away early in the morning."

"Did you say why?" Li Mingda asked.

The steward shook his head, "The general never tells the slaves why he ordered them to do things."

"Then did he ever have such a situation before, and suddenly sent everyone away?" Fang Yi asked directly.

The housekeeper recalled it carefully, "There have been times, but not many times, at most two or three times a year. Moreover, the general will specifically order that no one should be kept at the back door, and the latch should be opened."

Hearing this, Li Mingda turned his eyes and asked Fang Yizhi what he thought.

"It sounds like I'm meeting a mysterious person." Fang Yi said straightly, "When we mention the mysterious person, we will naturally think of the Jianglin case and the Meihuaan case."

"Then do you think it's the same one?" Li Mingda asked.

"It's probably not a coincidence that the corpses appeared in the same place in the two cases." Fang Yi said straight.

"Right now, Jiang Lin is the only survivor, and we must work hard on her." Li Mingda pondered, "But with Jiang Lin's temperament, I'm afraid it's hard to find anything."

Li Mingda was just feeling emotional, so he didn't speak in advance.Focus on the present and carefully observe the situation at the scene of the crime.

Ji Wang's room is furnished in a rich and grand atmosphere, everywhere is clean and tidy, except for the quilt on the bed, there is no clutter in other places, and there is nothing worthy of attention.

Li Mingda surveyed the whole room, and then said straight to Fang Yi who glanced at her from time to time: "I can't see any clues! The murderer should be as Zuo Shanggong said, simply and neatly. It is very likely that after entering the door, he took advantage of Ji Unexpectedly, he was killed with a single knife. But you can be sure, it must be an acquaintance who committed the crime!"

Fang Yizhi nodded, fully agreeing with what Li Mingda said.

"Simple, fast, and direct. The murderer was just as we had guessed before. He should have known about it and started investigating Ji Wang, so he deliberately came here to kill people before anything happened." Fang Yi said straight.

"Ji Wang's exposure made the murderer worried. He felt that if we continue to investigate, Ji Wang will definitely confess him." After thinking about this, Li Mingda frowned and looked at the house, "But Hui Ning However, Jiang Lin was different. After being arrested by the government, he had no intention of doing anything. If the two cases were ultimately attributed to the same person, why was there such a big difference? It was he who 'taught' Ji Wang what to do. It's just started, not enough to make him feel safe?"

"It's terrible to have killed so many at the beginning!" Tian Hanxi sighed in amazement.

Fang Yizhi: "It's only clear if you catch me. I will send someone to investigate the identity of this mysterious person as soon as possible."

Li Mingda nodded, and then came out of Ji Wang's room.Li Mingda went to the back garden instead, wanting to take a look at the dense forest beyond the legendary pond.

When Li Mingda was crossing the bridge, he saw that the fish in the pond were very fat, and looked at Fang Yizhi with a bad feeling.

"I'll let someone salvage it and have a look." Fang Yi replied directly, and he had noticed this a long time ago.

After Li Mingda crossed the bridge, he went to the woods, and under the guidance of Luo Ge, he found the place where there was blood before.

Li Mingda closed his eyes, stood in the woods and smelled it, then looked at Dongfang and whispered, "There is some rotten smell."

Fang Yizhi personally led people to search the forest in the east, and Li Mingda stopped at the place where the smell was the strongest.

But I have always seen fresh loose soil in it, and it was immediately dug up.

Li Mingda then turned around and continued to observe the situation in the forest, then she put her hand on the tree trunk.

There are traces of horizontal stripes on the trunk, with different shades, old and new.The old ones have faded to black, and the new ones are a little whitish.Judging from the formation of marks on it, it should be caused by cutting with a knife.

At this moment, Cheng Chubi reached out his hand and took out his knife, and chopped at a tree trunk at random, leaving the same marks on it as expected.

"It seems that this is where Ji Wang killed people. It's impossible that no servants knew about it. All the cronies around him were imprisoned and interrogated carefully." Li Mingda instructed.

Cheng Chubi took the order and went to do it immediately.

Not long after, the guards who were digging the soil got news that Li Mingda was not buried in the soil.

"It's a dog's body, there are five or six of them." The guard replied.

Li Mingda turned his head and took a look, and recognized that it was the dog's body, so he continued to walk back without saying anything.

On the way back, Li Mingda occasionally walked to a certain place and would sniff his nose slightly.Then squatted down, and carefully smelled the soil on the ground, or tree trunks and bushes.

Fang Yizhi has been standing by, silently accompanying.

Li Mingda stopped and walked, and after finally walking out of the dense forest, he looked at the pond in front of him like a moat.

"What did the princess find out?" Fang Yi walked up to Li Mingna and asked softly.

Li Mingda withdrew his gaze and turned to Fang Yizhi, "This forest should be the place where he killed. There should be a lot of bones in the pond, and the number will definitely not be less than that of the Mingjing Division. I smell There are many places in the woods where the soil has a very faint but strange smell of decay. It is guessed that it is the blood shed when Ji Wang killed someone."

"Indeed, a lot of blood will be shed when wiping the neck." Fang Yi folded his hands behind his back, narrowing his eyes slightly, "There are such cruel people in the world."

"It still depends on the results of the interrogation. The evidence is not enough right now. No one knows whether the blood is from a dog."

Fang Yizhi promised that he and Yuchi Baoqi would then interrogate Ji Wang's confidant servants, "The princess just needs to go back to the palace to rest, and I will see the answer tomorrow."

"It made you tired." Li Mingda thanked.

"This is the duty that should be done," Fang Yizhi said with concern in his eyes, "The princess has just recovered from her illness, so she must rest earlier."

After Fang Yi finished speaking, he saluted and sent Li Mingda off respectfully.

Li Mingda laughed and said, "You forced me before I said I would leave?"

"The body is the most important thing." Fang Yizhi did not accept Li Mingda's joke, and emphasized with serious eyes.

Li Ming was stunned for a moment, and found that Fang Yizhi was very serious when he mentioned her body, and he exuded the aura of "you must listen to me".

Li Mingda knew that Fang Yizhi had good intentions, thanked him with a good-natured smile, and said goodbye to him, left from the back door of the General's Mansion, and went straight to the Lizheng Hall.

Li Shimin had already finished approving the memorial, and sat sideways at the table, knocking on the table with his fingers impatiently, asking Fang Qirui over and over again if his daughter had returned. "People are still outside in the middle of the night. It's really worrying. How many cases are there for her to investigate?"

"Your Majesty, it's just getting dark today, and it's not midnight yet." Fang Qirui couldn't help correcting him.

Li Shimin immediately glared at Fang Qirui.

Fang Qirui shut up embarrassingly, and bowed his head in silence.Not long after, amidst Li Shimin's sighs, someone finally reported that Princess Jinyang had returned.Li Shimin hurriedly ordered the princess to come to see him immediately.

As soon as Li Mingda entered the door, he heard Li Shimin's questioning.

"What case are you investigating, and you have to investigate it in the dark?"

Li Mingda pursed his lips and went to Li Shimin, telling him that Ji Wang was dead.

After hearing this, Li Shimin was stunned in surprise, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time. He then looked at Li Mingda in disbelief, "You said Ji Wang is dead now?"

"Well, he's dead. My daughter personally saw his body." Li Mingda then explained to Li Shimin what she had investigated.

Li Shimin's eyes widened even wider than before.He frowned and remained silent for a while, then stood up with his hands behind his back, wandered back and forth several times in the center of the hall, turned to look at Li Mingda, opened his mouth to speak but didn't say anything, and continued to wander back and forth with his hands behind his back.After a long time, Li Shimin frowned and sighed angrily: "Are there no normal people among these nobles?"

"Yes, my daughter is."

Seeing that Li Shimin was very angry, Li Mingda pulled his arm to comfort him and act like a baby.

"But there are good people, and there are more good people than bad people. But think about it, Aye, there must be more serious crimes among the nobles than ordinary people. With more power in their hands, the accidents will naturally be bigger."

Li Shimin nodded if he realized something, his anger subsided a little, and then he looked at Li Mingda with a sense of relief, "Fortunately, I have you by my side, so I can find out and solve these big problems in time. Aye is proud of you, you can rest assured in the future , Boldly investigate the case, Aye fully supports you. But the late return cannot be discussed, you try to come back on time every day, if there is something unfinished by Der Spiegel, let Fang Yizhi and the others do it, you don’t have to do everything My dear. I have assigned subordinates to you, and you must use them, otherwise I will take back your official position in the Department of Mirrors."

"Aye, why don't you say this again, you don't love Sizi more and more." Li Mingda pouted. .

"It's because you love me so much, don't think that I don't know how you were doing yesterday. You just thought I didn't know how you were doing yesterday, huh?"

"Aye, I just kept it from you because you were worried." Li Mingda said aggrievedly, "There is no one who doesn't get sick, just take the medicine after seeing the doctor, don't you see that my daughter is already well now, really not something important."

"Okay, what you say makes sense, but there is no next time, and you are not allowed to hide it from me."

"Obey, obedient, my daughter must do what my father said." Li Mingda saluted Li Shimin with a smile and thanked him.

Li Shimin smiled helplessly. For him, his daughter acted like a baby to him, which was an insoluble problem, and he would never be able to resist.Li Shimin sighed, without any temper, and asked Tian Hanxi to take good care of the princess.Li Shimin asked Li Mingda carefully if he had taken the medicine, and asked the imperial dining room to prepare something delicious for her.

Li Mingda was very moved, thanked Li Shimin happily, and praised Li Shimin as the number one in ancient and modern times with his sweet mouth, coaxing Li Shimin from ear to ear.

Li Zhi had just finished a troublesome matter and ran back to his command. He originally wanted to claim credit, but seeing their father and daughter like this, he knew that his side was out of luck again.He wanted to win compliments, so he needed to calmly analyze the situation. Now it was not in his favor, so it was better to wait until tomorrow.

After analyzing these, Li Zhi asked the father and daughter what they were talking about without any jealousy.

"The case." Li Mingda said briefly.

"Or the Der Spiegel Pond case?"

Li Mingda agreed, but did not inform Li Zhi of Ji Wang's death.

The more people know about this secret knowledge, the more likely it will be leaked out.Even to his own brother Li Mingda, he kept his mouth shut and didn't say a word. Instead, he looked at Li Shimin and winked, hoping that Li Shimin would also keep her a secret.

Li Shimin raised the corners of his mouth a little funny, and didn't say anything, taking it as a tacit understanding between father and daughter.I just asked Li Zhi what else to do tonight.

"What do you want to do?" Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, and in his heart he just wanted to answer "I want to sleep when I'm tired", but he said that there was a famous book that he hadn't finished reading, and he wanted to continue to study and learn from it. .

Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction, thinking that asking a few questions was enough, so he sent Li Zhi away.

Li Mingda then reported the case to Li Shimin, telling him that he wanted to temporarily conceal Ji Wang's death for two days.

"Why do you do this?" Li Shimin asked puzzled.

"It took only a day to find him from Jiang Lin's case, and he was killed immediately. It is obvious that someone in the Der Spiegel Department leaked the news." Li Mingda explained.

Li Shimin was even more surprised, raised his eyebrows, "Who do you think is wrong?"

"It's not clear yet, so we need to continue to test." Li Mingda explained.

"Okay, Aye supports everything you do." Li Shimin agreed with a smile.

Li Mingda thanked Li Shimin again, "Yes, without Aye, Sizi can't do anything. Aye is so kind to Sizi!"

Li Shimin smiled and waved his hand.

After Li Mingda left the Lizheng Hall, he saw Li Zhi standing at the door, looking at him with a meaningful sour taste from the corner of his mouth.

"What's the matter?" Li Mingda raised his eyebrows and asked proactively.

"It's my duty to be a father." Li Zhi smacked his lips, pulled Li Mingda aside and whispered in a very sour tone, "He is also my father, but why do I feel that I don't look like his own son?"

"Brother Jiu eavesdropped on us?"

Li Zhi quickly waved his hands, "No, no, I don't dare, it's just that the words Aye said just now were louder, and I just heard them outside. Are you investigating some big case recently? Look at you, you are so mysterious Yes, but if you need Brother Nine's help, just mention it."

"No, I don't know when this case will be completed. It's a bit complicated. I don't know what to do now." Li Mingda thanked Li Zhi, and now he will part with him.

Li Zhi stared at Li Mingda and said, "Don't go, I have something to ask you."

Li Mingda turned to look at Li Zhi in surprise, "What do you want Brother Jiu to do?"

"Go to your room and tell." Li Zhi then pulled Li Mingda into the room, and mentioned Cui Qingji to him, "Have you seen him recently?"

"No, what's the matter? Why mention him?" Li Mingda said helplessly.

"You should go and have a look." Li Zhi hurriedly said goodbye to Li Mingda without saying anything.

Li Ming asked why, but Li Zhi returned to his room and did not come out.

Li Mingda thought about it, and found someone to see what happened to Cui Qingji.

Early the next morning, after Li Minglai had dinner, he got the news from Fang Yizhi.He and Yuchi Baoqi interrogated Ji Wang's cronies overnight, and immediately confirmed that Ji Wang was the murderer who massacred many missing people.And indeed, as Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi had expected, there were bones in the pond of the General's Mansion.Fang Yizhi has ordered people to start digging the pond of the General's Mansion.

About a year and a half ago, Ji Wang became bloodthirsty and instigated his cronies to pretend to be bandits to capture those people on the way, and then sent them to the dense forest of the General's Mansion, surrounded by guards guarding the exit.Ji Wang chased and killed these innocent people in the dense forest with a knife for fun.

Li Mingda had never heard of such a strange thing, she immediately set off to meet with Fang Yizhi.Immediately, the two discussed why Ji Wang had such a heinous act.

"Qi Qilang once said that Ji Wang was often ridiculed by his children for being weak and worthless since he was a child. Since ancient times, how can any father not look forward to his eldest son? What's more, Ji Wang was so weak when he was a child. He must be anxious and old. General. A few years before he took over the position of general, he was still a cowardly and dull person. Later, everyone discovered that after he took over the position of general, Ji Wang’s whole person suddenly changed. They are very refreshing. Many people think that this may be due to the general’s blood flowing through Wang Wang’s body, and the responsibility will naturally change. In fact, how can a person’s temperament change casually? I think that in his Before inheriting the title, there must be something wrong with him, and he made up for what he lacked at the beginning, which made him a qualified general, but also made him a murderer addicted to killing."