Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

"It seems that murder changed his cowardly temperament." Li Mingda frowned.

"The pond has been filled with water and excavated, and it won't be long before we know the answer." Fang Yi said directly.

"Your lord, son, Ji Siniang has started to make trouble again." Luo Ge entered the door and replied.

Li Mingda remembered Ji Siniang's matter, and turned his eyes to Fang Yizhi, "Isn't it resolved?"

Fang Yi apologized straight away, and quickly ordered Luo Ge: "Put it in prison."

"Imprisoned?" Li Mingda was surprised.

"It's a crime to obstruct the government's handling of the case." Fang Yizhi explained, "It's reasonable to imprison her."

In fact, Li Mingda had heard about Ji Siniang's love for Fang Yizhi a long time ago. When she was sick two days ago, Xiao Wuniang went to see her and gossip about these things to her.So when Li Mingda heard that Ji Siniang was making a fuss, he probably knew who she was running for.Fang Yizhi probably also knew what Ji Siniang was thinking, so when he knew that Ji Siniang was making a fuss yesterday, he didn't try to comfort her.But Li Mingda didn't think that Fang Yi didn't come to be soft first, but directly came to be hard, without the slightest intention of pity.

Now that Ji Wang has been convicted of murder, if Ji Siniang continues to mess around, it will indeed affect the government's handling of the case.Since he was acting in compliance with the law, Li Mingda had no reason to stop him.

"What is your lord thinking?" Fang Yi fell into deep thought after seeing Li Ming take a look at him, knowing that she was thinking about himself in her heart.What others think of him is not curious, but Li Mingda is different, Fang Yizhi really wants to know.

"I miss you so much." Li Mingda said meaningfully.

"It's a compliment." Even though Fang Yizhi could see that Li Mingda's words were ambiguous, he still raised the corners of his mouth happily, "And removing the last four words is enough for me to think about it for a while."

Fang Yizhi saluted and thanked him, and passed the testimony of last night's interrogation to Li Mingda.At this time, news came from the General's Mansion that something had been discovered in the pond.Fang Yizhi resigned first to check the situation.Please ask Li Mingda to go after reading the testimony.

Li Mingda focused on the testimony, nodded, and went straight with Fang Yi.She read the testimony for a while before she realized that Fang Yizhi had just said to delete the last four words, so that only the first two words remained in the sentence, which became "missing you".

Li Mingda was stunned for a moment, and muttered fiercely: "You really dare to speak!"

"What did your lord say?" Tian Hanshan asked nervously when he heard the princess's voice, but couldn't hear what she said clearly.

"Di Dalang and Xiao Erlang are here."

"Master Yuchi has also arrived."

After Li Mingda heard the report, he asked puzzledly, "Wei Shuyu didn't come?"

As soon as the words fell, a government official came to report and told Li Mingda that Yuchi Baoqi asked to see him.

Li Mingda nodded, immediately dismissed Yuchi Baoqi's courtesy, and let him speak directly.

"Duke Wei is seriously ill, Shuyu asked me to ask the princess for leave." Yuchi Baoqi said with a serious expression.

"How is Wei Gong doing now?" Li Mingda also heard about Wei Zheng's illness, and thought that he had an old illness just like last year, and he would recover after a few days in bed.

Yuchi Baoqi shook his head, he always liked to laugh, but his expression was very solemn today, "I went back with him to visit Duke Wei last night, his face was as white as paper, his energy was very poor, he was so thin that he couldn't eat , I vomited after eating, and felt weak all over.”

"What did the imperial doctor say?" Li Mingda asked again.

Yuchi Baoqi glanced at Li Mingda, and shook his head indifferently, "Time is running out, and it is said that it will not last for a few more days. So during this time, Shuyu wants to stay with his father all the time, the Department of Mirrors..."

"Of course it's his father's matter that matters." Li Mingda looked mournful, "I will implore the sage to send a few more imperial physicians to Wei Gong to see, hoping there will be a cure."

Yuchi Baoqi saluted, "Let me thank the princess on behalf of Shuyu."

"Go ahead, pass on the message first and then come back." After Li Mingda sent Yuchi Baoqi away, he sighed several times, and the people who had looked good a few days ago were going to die in a blink of an eye.

"Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature, your lord, don't be too sad." Tian Hanshan advised, "They are all poor people. The dead people in the case that your lord is investigating now don't even have the chance to die of old age, sickness, and well. His life was taken away by others."

Tian Hanxi was worthy of being the number one eunuch next to Li Mingda, his words hit Li Mingda's heart.

"You're right. I should have solved the case with ease."

After Li Mingda finished speaking, he picked up the testimony on the table and read it carefully from the beginning.At this time, word came from outside that they had found ten corpses in the pond of the General's Mansion.

"It's just a shallow dig at the moment, and it's just started. It's estimated that it will be more than ten times in one day."

Li Mingda was shocked, and immediately set off for the General's Mansion.By the time she arrived, Yacha had dug out more than 20 bones from the mud.

Fang Yizhi was sitting in a gazebo near the pond, flipping through some files.

Li Mingda didn't want to disturb these people to continue digging up the corpses, so he didn't call for notification when he came.After dismissing the yamen who answered in a low voice, she went straight to the pavilion where Fang Yizhi was.

After Luo Ge noticed the princess's arrival, he quickly reminded Fang Yizhi.

Fang Yi raised his head straight, and a smile appeared in his indifferent eyes after seeing Li Mingda.Get up and salute.

"Don't be polite to me, you are so courageous."

After Fang Yizhi heard this sentence, he pursed the corners of his mouth, realizing that the princess had realized the meaning of his previous words.He deliberately turned his eyes to observe the princess, and seeing that there was no annoyance on her face, the smile on the corner of Fang Yizhi's mouth widened.

Li Mingda directly picked up the file that Fang Yizhi was looking at, and found that he was checking the records of Jingzhao Mansion about the situation of beggars in Chang'an City in the past year or two.

"I've never seen a beggar when I go out on the street." Li Mingda sighed.

"This is normal. For the sake of safety, beggars are not allowed on streets like Zhuque Street in Chang'an City." Fang Yizhi immediately circled the number on it with a cinnabar pen, "So if anyone breaks the rules, he will be arrested." .”

Li Mingda was stunned, "Most of the soldiers patrolling the streets are in charge of mighty generals. You mean..."

"There are no beggars, so I will arrest them in this name, I'm afraid no one will find anything unusual." Fang Yizhi explained.

Li Mingda pondered for a while, then suddenly thought of something, looked up at Fang Yizhi, "Why did you think of watching this?"

"As the princess expected, the number of bones to be excavated in this pond cannot be explained by the number of missing persons."

Li Mingda narrowed his eyes and shivered.

Fang Yizhi: "I suspect that Ji Wang is not the only one responsible for the number of murders. I'm afraid his subordinates are not clean."

Li Mingda frowned in surprise, puzzled: "But the servants of the general's mansion you interrogated, didn't you say that Ji Wang was the only one who killed people in the forest?"

"It was nearly half a year ago, and the number has probably been figured out. There are almost thirty people." Fang Yi met Li Mingda's shocked eyes. I hope that some of his cronies and subordinates can come and go."

"That is to say, the bones in this pond should be the bones left by Ji Wang and his subordinates after slaughtering and having fun. The ones in the Department of Mirrors were left by Ji Wang later?" Li Mingda deduced and asked.

Fang Yi directly agreed: "This is probably the reason, but the specific reason for this needs to be investigated carefully. I have ordered all the generals in the general camp to invite all the generals to the Department of Mirrors. But these people are the most courageous and loyal, and they are good at Unanimously, I am afraid that they will not be frightened and confess easily. We need to ask the princess to help confirm that they are indeed the murderers, so that we can go further and interrogate them ruthlessly."

Fang Yi said it straight away, seeing that Li Mingda didn't say anything.Considering that she might disagree with her idea of ​​torture and interrogation, she deliberately explained: "These people are rough and fleshy, and they won't be able to answer if they are not ruthless. As long as they are not innocent, they will be fine if they die under severe punishment." There is nothing wrong with them, those who were innocently killed by them, what did they do wrong?"

Li Mingda looked at the pond following Fang Yizhi's gaze, and more and more skeletons were dug out from the mud of the pond.As expected, the number is astonishing. If it is dug at night, it will not be ten times of ten, and it will be more than twenty times and thirty times.

"It's not a pond at all, it's a death pit." Li Mingda sighed, and looked at Fang Yizhi firmly, "No matter what method is used, it's easy to interrogate."

Fang Yi directly agreed.

At this time, Zuo Qingmei brought a few bones over, all neck bones, belonging to different people, but each neck bone had traces of being cut by a knife, with different depths, and the width of the scratch wound was also different.

"It was done by different people." Li Mingda sighed, these few neck bones further confirmed Fang Yizhi's previous judgment.

Zuo Qingmei didn't expect the princess to recognize this at a glance, she froze for a moment and nodded in agreement.

"Judging from the wounds, there are at least three or four murderers."

"Check!" Li Mingda said sonorously.

Fang Yizhi and Zuo Qingmei immediately took orders.

At this time, someone came to report again, saying that Ji Siniang was causing trouble, forced her way out of the house, and knocked down the two guards.

"Catch him and put him in prison!" Li Mingda turned his eyes to look at Cheng Chubi, and ordered in a sharp voice.

Cheng Chubi took the order and immediately took people to do it.However, the matter hadn't stopped yet, someone from the other side came to report, saying that Princess Gao Yang's carriage insisted on breaking into the forbidden street.

"what happened?"

"The subordinates don't know either. The subordinates guarded the two streets near the general's mansion according to their orders, and prohibited any idlers from passing. But just now, Princess Gaoyang's carriage was about to go from here. After intercepting it, Princess Gaoyang personally If you come forward, you must go this way. Princess Gaoyang has a noble status, and the subordinates have no choice but to ask your lord for advice."

"Stop it, don't enter, I'll be there later." Li Mingda gave up his orders, and walked to the pond, looked at the bones that had piled up into a hill, gritted his teeth, and said with emotion, "Ji Wang's crime is unforgivable, and everyone involved in the case Everyone must be severely punished, and no one will be spared.”

Fang Yi directly agreed, saying that the matter of the interrogation would be handed over to him.

"My lord, Princess Gao Yang's carriage has rushed over."

Li Mingda immediately set off to go out, and she quickly intercepted Princess Gaoyang's car on a fast horse.

The coachman stopped the carriage immediately, and the sweat on his head fell down his forehead like rain.

After a while, Princess Gao Yang lifted the curtain and looked at Li Mingda.

"Are you finally willing to come out?"

Li Mingda looked back at Princess Gao Yang with some puzzlement, "What do you mean?"

"What do you mean? You still have the nerve to ask me what I mean, and I still want to ask you." Princess Gao Yang said.

Li Mingda frowned slightly, "I don't have time to chat with you, if you come to find fault, there is no need, please go back."

"You are presumptuous, why are you talking to your seventeenth sister?" Princess Gao Yang asked sharply.

"After the fief was lowered, Seventeenth Sister seems to be even more prestigious." Li Mingda smiled helplessly, "But this is also my territory, you can't enter."

"Sure enough, you just want to fight against me on purpose. Yes, my family background is not as good as yours, and the feudal city is not as good as yours. Then I can take a carriage and walk on the Great Wall, it's always okay, even this is not good, I send someone to stop me halfway Target me, make things difficult for me. Do you really think I'm easy to bully? I've become downcast, and I'm also a person with face, so I can't help you!" Princess Gao Yang said aggressively.

"Misunderstood, I won't be so boring, I'm going to argue with you." After Li Mingda explained, he turned and got on the horse, telling Princess Gao Yang to leave quickly and stop causing trouble for her.

"Why should I leave? It's obviously your fault. If you didn't deliberately send someone to stop me, how could you appear at this time. Don't you just want to see me make a fool of myself? How could you be willing to leave so easily? Stop making things difficult for me?"

"No one stopped your carriage on purpose." Li Mingda said, "We are investigating the case, so this place is blocked. If you really want to leave, you can leave."

Li Mingda didn't want to entangle with her any longer, so he turned around and rode away.

Seeing this, Princess Gao Yang was even more angry, and ordered the coachman to chase after Li Mingda.

"What case? Where did the case happen? There is only one general's mansion on this road."

"We must clarify the matter today, why do you have to target me like this!" Princess Gao Yang opened the curtain and shouted to Li Mingda through the window screen.

Li Mingda squinted dissatisfiedly at Princess Gaoyang, and stopped his horse.

"What the hell are you going to do?"

Princess Gao Yang looked to the left and right, with embarrassment in her eyes, but she pursed her mouth and said nothing.

At this moment, Li Mingda really wanted to have Princess Gao Yang arrested and imprisoned.But it is indeed because of her status as a princess, it is not easy to move casually.Especially now that everyone knows that the relationship between her and Princess Gao Yang is not good, if she makes people attack Princess Gao Yang now, some people will definitely think that she is avenging public affairs.This kind of discord between the sisters spread to his father's ears. Even though his father favored her and knew that she would not be what Princess Gao Yang said, Li Mingda also knew in his heart that his father would definitely not like to see these sisters. Such a discord, and it became like this in public.

It's not that Li Mingda can't help Princess Gaoyang, but he doesn't want to let his father worry about this kind of thing, so he doesn't want to make a big deal out of it, but he didn't expect that Princess Gaoyang would go so far.

"Don't you think I'm deliberately troubling you, I was going to visit Miss Sixteen today by car, and I just wanted to see her sooner, so I took a shortcut, but I walked on this road and was stopped by your people. For someone else, if the government handles the case, I’ll be fine. I’m familiar with the guards around you, and when I think about it, there’s no case happening on this road, aren’t you just trying to stop me?” Gao Yang The princess sneered.

Li Mingda: "Don't talk about this, you will understand sooner or later."

"Stop, since you've seen everything, speak clearly, but this is not the place to talk." Princess Gao Yang said.

Li Mingda breathed a sigh of relief, sent someone to inform Fang Yizhi, and brought Princess Gao Yang back to the Department of Mirrors.

"Your place is magnificent, tsk tsk, the nineteenth sister is really amazing. Our Tang Dynasty unexpectedly produced a princess who can solve the case." Princess Gao Yang praised sourly.

"It's convenient to talk here. If you have anything to say, just say it."

Li Mingda sat down to drink tea and didn't care what Princess Gao Yang said.When she said she was tired, she raised her eyes indifferently and asked what was the matter.

"Fang Yiai, my son-in-law, has submitted the paperwork for the third time, asking to be released as an official." Duke Gao Yang rolled his eyes, "You think I'm kept in the dark, don't you? You are checking the defense machine behind my back."

Li Mingda was surprised and looked at Princess Gao Yang, "Where did you get such unreliable news?"

"Is it unreliable? I have sent someone to check secretly in the past two days, and there are indeed people watching near my mansion." Princess Gao Yang looked at Li Mingda with a sneer, "You want to kill me that much?"

"What exactly do you want to tell me?" Li Mingda lowered his eyes, not looking at Princess Gao Yang.

"Let's make peace, I won't trouble you, and you don't want to investigate my affairs anymore." Princess Gao Yang said succinctly.

"I can't understand you."

Princess Gao Yang was even angrier when she heard the words, "Si, you are amazing, and now you have learned to open your eyes and talk nonsense, pretending to be confused with me?"

"Miss Seventeen, please, I don't want to keep you here." Li Mingda's voice was lingering.

Princess Gao Yang stared at Li Mingda, and with a low voice, she gritted her teeth and warned her: "Whatever you do to me today, I will repay you twice."

After finishing speaking, Princess Gao Yang left angrily.

Tian Hanshan looked at Li Mingda worriedly, "Your lord, we have completely offended Princess Gaoyang this time."

"I've already offended her a long time ago, and now she comes here to slander and threaten me with cruel words, she is guilty of guilt." Li Mingda said.

"Guilty?" Tian Hanshu was stunned for a moment, then realized, "So the story about Monk Bianji is true."

Li Mingda nodded, still wondering why Fang Yizhi's actions were so late?So far there has been no movement.

Before Li Mingda could continue to think deeply, there was a word from over there that several of Ji Wang's cronies and subordinates had been summoned to the East Courtyard of the Der Spiegel Department.

Li Mingda immediately set off to the next door of the East Courtyard, and after taking his seat, he heard the discussions of these cronies who were left alone.

"Do you know why they called us here?"

"do not know!"

"Could it be that our affairs have been exposed?"

"How is it possible, the general is fine, and we don't say anything about it, only heaven and earth know about it, and heaven and earth can still file a complaint."

"Hey, now that I think about it, I really regret it."

"Shut up and be careful, the walls have ears."

"Don't worry, no one can hear such a low voice."

……

After Li Mingda wrote down their conversation, he put it in an envelope and asked someone to hand it to Fang Yizhi.They can safely interrogate these cronies, each has questions and sounds like they were involved in the killing.

After Fang Yizhi got the news, he immediately took action together with Yuchi Baoqi.

An hour later, Li Mingda was rushed back to the palace by Li Shimin. When he returned to the Lizheng Hall, he saw Princess Gao Yang kneeling in the center of the hall, and realized that it might be about the monk Bianji.

Princess Gao Yang's eyes were already swollen from crying, but she didn't look at Li Shimin again. She put her hands on the ground so that no one could see her face, but she could feel the anger emanating from her body.

When Li Shimin saw Li Mingda, his anger eased a little, but he didn't let Li Mingda stay, but sent her to go back to the room first, and talk about the matter later.

"You are so courageous! If the Jingzhao Mansion hadn't caught this thief and revealed your good deeds, would you and that monk named Bianji plan to have an affair for the rest of your life?"

Princess Gao Yang trembled in fright, she had no room to refute in front of the fury, she could only cry.She lowered her head and wept silently, with a hint of despair on her face.After the last Li Shimin finished speaking, Princess Gaoyang still tried to intercede for Monk Bianji with a trembling voice and save his life.

Li Shimin became even more angry, and immediately wanted to kill Monk Jianji.

Princess Gaoyang burst into tears upon hearing this.

At this time, Li Mingda entered the door, and after saluting Li Shimin, he asked what happened and wanted to help Princess Gaoyang.

Li Shimin immediately yelled at her, don't do that.

"You were not informed, how did you come in?" Li Shimin said angrily.

Li Mingda knelt down, "I saw Seventeenth Sister was crying a lot, so I couldn't bear to come in without authorization, please forgive me, Aye."

"Go away, I don't need you to beg for mercy, you don't need to be so kind here, this matter is most likely designed by you, and you are plotting against me!" Princess Gao Yang turned her eyes to look at Li Mingda, and shouted with extreme hatred .

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Li Shimin's eyes widened and he let out a rage, "The mistakes you committed yourself have nothing to do with your sister."

"Aye, she sent people to monitor her daughter's mansion. Her daughter did something wrong, but Sizi is not an innocent person." Princess Gaoyang and Li Shimin complained, she was desperate and crazy, since If you want to 'die', you have to pull another one in.

Li Shimin glanced at Li Mingda suspiciously, and asked her, "Is that so?"

Princess Gao Yang hurriedly said: "How could she admit it! But not long ago, I confronted her and she admitted it."

"It was monitored." Li Mingda said.

Princess Gao Yang and Li Shimin were both stunned.Princess Gao Yang did not expect Li Mingda to agree.Why didn't Li Shimin expect Li Mingda to monitor Princess Gaoyang.

Princess Gao Yang was mad with joy, and excitedly said: "Aye, look, she admitted it!"

"Yes, I admit it." Li Mingda glanced at Princess Gaoyang, then raised his hand and said to Li Shimin who was still in astonishment, "Because the monk in Seventeenth Sister's Mansion, that is, Monk Bianji, is not the same as what I am doing right now. One of the murderers who was investigated is connected. The person I sent to monitor is not Princess Gaoyang's mansion, but Monk Bianji."

Princess Gao Yang, who was a little proud, was stunned.

Li Shimin opened his eyes wide and narrowed them again, his anger became even worse, "What's going on? Tell me clearly!"