Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

"Is there something wrong with my ears? What is the princess talking about? Why can't I understand?" Xiao Wuniang looked at Li Mingda with a puzzled face, she tilted her head slightly, and there was a glimmer of grievance in her eyes , people can't help feeling that these are really a pair of clear eyes.

Tian Hanshu couldn't help looking at Xiao Wuniang. In fact, he still feels unreal in his heart. He has been by the princess's side since he was a child, and the princess and Xiao Wuniang have been playing together since childhood.Then he can be regarded as watching Xiao Wuniang grow up from childhood to adulthood. She is a good-looking and lively child, and her usual speech makes people feel a little heartless. Tian Hanshan doesn't think Xiao Wuniang is like a murderer no matter what he thinks.Now look, it might be his eyes that make people feel that they are crystal clear and extremely pure.

It is said that to judge people's hearts, you must first look at people's eyes, but I didn't expect that one day the eyes will also deceive people.

Tian Hanshu sighed in his heart.

"Li Daliang, I said that your eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Li Daliang." Li Mingda said bluntly.

Xiao Wuniang covered her mouth with a sneer, "Princess, are you joking with me? What does Li Daliang look like? How could I look like him. To be honest, my appearance can be regarded as upper-middle-class in Chang'an City. I have seen him before." People say that my appearance is not bad. Li Daliang has an ordinary appearance, and can even be described as ugly. I don't know if the princess has already convicted me, so I have to contact the sinner who committed evil Together. Are you looking for similarities in appearance, so that you can condemn me? Why don’t you say that because he has a nose, eyes and mouth, and I have one, I am guilty.”

"No matter how eloquent you are, it can't change your fate." Fang Yi glanced at Xiao Wuniang coldly, and then discussed with Li Mingda that Xiao Wuniang's room should be searched, "except Xiao's mansion, she There must be another secret place, which can be used for her usual crimes to store some related things."

Li Mingda nodded in agreement with Fang Zong's scrutiny

, and immediately ordered people to investigate and torture Xiao Wuniang's subordinates.

"His subordinates must not be easy to interrogate, so just use the method I just did."

As soon as Li Mingda finished speaking, Zuo Qingmei said to Li Mingda, "The corpse that your lord asked to prepare earlier has been finished, and it is about [-]% like Xiao Wuniang."

Since it's a play, it's natural to do everything to make it more convincing.Li Mingda instructed: "Put on her clothes, mess up her hair, and carry her out."

Zuo Qingmei immediately understood, she needed to ask Xiao Wuniang to change her clothes, but Xiao Wuniang refused.Naturally, it was going to be hard, so Xiao Wuniang hugged herself with both hands and cried out in horror, "You can't treat me like this, anyway, I am also Xiao Gong's daughter, so you should have at least some respect for me."

"Didn't you say you were innocent? Why didn't you dare to change your clothes? If your subordinates really didn't do bad things to you, would they still be afraid of cheating?" Fang Yi asked directly.

Xiao Wuniang lowered her eyes and frowned for a moment, then looked up at Li Mingda, "Okay, I can cooperate. But what if my subordinates didn't confess anything to prove my innocence? Just relying on the princess so casually Wronged me?"

"Are you talking about conditions? Don't forget that you haven't explained clearly about the lotus temple. You have time to commit crimes."

"Don't you remember, princess? I've made it very clear. Everything I said before is the truth. But who would have expected Aunt Qinghe to be a lunatic? Anyway, I can only explain the facts I know, but I didn't There is a way to control what a lunatic will say." Xiao Wuniang said angrily, "I want to see my father, you can't just detain me like this and wrong me casually."

"Of course I can detain you. Mingjing Division is the place where Yufeng handles the case, and you are the murderer I suspect. I can arrest you and interrogate you until I am willing to let you go." Li Mingda and Xiao Wuniang He said sonorously, "And I suspect that you are not Xiao Gong's biological daughter. If Xiao Gong hears about my suspicion, do you think he will intercede for you?"

Xiao Wuniang stared at Li Mingda firmly, with many inexplicable emotions in her eyes.

"Princess Jinyang is a little too deceitful! Although I am the daughter of a courtier, although I am not as noble as the princess, I am a decent person, and I will be angry."

"The clothes are ready." Zuo Qingmei said.

Li Mingda: "Go and change first."

"I changed my mind! Since the princess has already found me guilty, there is no need for me to try my best to prove my innocence? If you want to commit a crime, there is no excuse!" Xiao Wuniang sneered, and then suddenly shouted, "The princess wronged me Don't be fooled—"

Before finishing the second half of the sentence, Xiao Wuniang was knocked out from behind by Cheng Chubi.

Tian Hanxi was in a hurry, "Oh, what can I do, everyone outside must have heard the shout, how can I confess?"

Li Mingda looked sideways at Xiao Wuniang who fell to the ground, "Spray some blood on him directly, carry him out, and leave his face exposed for them to see, so it looks more real."

Zuo Qingmei sighed that this was also a good idea, and immediately asked someone to jump out from the back window, and got some chicken blood and a piece of beef from the kitchen.Zuo Qingmei put the meat under Xiao Wuniang's left chest clothes, and then stuck a short knife into the meat of the left breast, and the chicken blood splashed on it.At first glance, it seemed that he committed suicide by stabbing a knife in his chest.It was too much to show, so when I left, I didn't deliberately mess up Xiao Wuniang's hairstyle, and put a few strands of her long hair on her chest, so that it looked more real.Afterwards, Xiao Wuniang was carried out like this.

The person has been knocked out, so it's not easy to interrogate, and Li Mingda also knows that if she doesn't have any solid evidence in her hand, it is not easy to interrogate Xiao Wuniang.After Li Mingda ordered Xiao Wuniang to be carefully guarded, he and Fang Yizhi rode to Xiao's house together.

And those followers who saw Xiao Wuniang's death with their own eyes were all shocked.It seemed that Xiao Wuniang shouted in the room to warn them not to be deceived, but now everyone saw Xiao Wuniang stabbed in the chest, shed so much blood, and died, naturally no one suspected it was fake.None of them expected that Princess Jinyang would be so ruthless in her attack. Xiao Wuniang was also from a famous noble family, so she would kill her if she said so.And after killing someone, she left easily by herself.

Tian Hanshan took the initiative to stay, and said to everyone present in his usual persuasive tone: "The evidence of Xiao Wuniang's crime is solid, and now that she is dead, her account will be settled, but you should bear the blame." We still have to continue. We won’t press you anymore. It’s a capital offense. Tomorrow noon will be your death date. But our princess is kind. If someone knows their mistakes and corrects them, if they know their mistakes, they can spare their lives. If you can say something new It would be even better, if our princess is satisfied, she can be pardoned, not only can she save her life, but she won’t even have to endure the pain of being exiled and going to jail.”

After Tian Hanshu said something, he waited quietly for a while to see if anyone was willing to provide clues.But he saw these dozen or so attendants, all of them lowered their heads, and no one made a sound.Tian Hanxi was disappointed and annoyed, he moved his lips, and wanted to say a few more words, but then he thought of the warning from His Royal Highness Fang before he left, that he should only say what he should say, not a lot of nonsense.

"Okay, just die clean, take them all down!" Tian Hanshan shouted angrily.As soon as he finished speaking, someone yelled weakly.

Tian Hanshu was overjoyed when he heard the words, but he didn't show it on his face, he looked at it coldly, and it was Xiao Wuniang's driver who said anything.As soon as the coachman made a sound, he attracted contemptuous looks from the rest of the people.Tian Hanshan waved his hand and asked someone to bring him over.

The coachman took the initiative to say: "I have something to say, and I am willing to repent!"

Tian Hanshan still kept Fang Yizhi's instructions in mind, and ordered in a cold manner: "Don't tell me, just bring him to the document to give a statement. The case is already clear, and your testimony is useless , it happened that our princess was celebrating her birthday, so she gave me a chance to be merciful. Otherwise, hehe, you scum, in fact, deserve to die."

"No, no, father-in-law, slave is not a scum, slave is just a carriage driver, and has never hurt anyone." The coachman explained quickly.

Tian Hanxi waved his hands impatiently, "Go quickly, I have a job for you."

After the coachman was taken away, two more people were ready to move, and then they successively expressed that they would also admit their mistakes and repent.

Qing Han, Xiao Wuniang's personal maid, was so angry that they scolded them assholes for betraying their masters.

"Don't listen to her, everyone is already dead, you have no master, how can you be a traitor. Besides, this life is your own, it's better to live than to die. Listen to what others say." Tian Han said.

After the next sentence, another person stood up tremblingly and joined the ranks of admitting his mistakes.

"My father-in-law is right. The slaves didn't do anything harmful to nature, but everything was arranged by Wu Niang. We also have family members, so we have to live!"

"that is!"

Tian Hanshan nodded with a smile, but was disappointed to find that no one came. It seems that the remaining eleven people are the kind of hardcore loyalists that the princess and the prince said. Hard interrogation of such people is useless. .Tian Hanshan waved his hand and sent someone to take those people away.Immediately, I went to urge the clerks of the Der Spiegel Department to make a statement, hoping very much that these four people could provide useful clues.

Besides, when Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi arrived at Xiao's house, they went straight to Xiao Wuniang's room.During this period, Xiao Yu and others sent messages over, wanting to see Li Mingda, but Li Mingda politely refused to go back.

In Xiao Wuniang's room, apart from the spices and rouge used in Tubo, there were only two paintings of Tubo scenery.The two paintings are inserted in the painting vat, and they look like other paintings, but the paper on the edges of the scrolls of the other paintings in the painting vat is all white, only these two paintings have a slightly yellowish edge. To see is to take it out and look at it frequently, so the edges are more likely to turn yellow.

"Xiao Wuniang is indeed very 'affectionate' for Tubo. My previous thought was correct. She and Li Daliang may really have a relationship." Li Mingda said straight to Fang Yi.

Fang Yi nodded his head, turned his head and still looked around the room, and also took a look at the wall behind the bookshelves to confirm that there were no hidden compartments, "I am very cautious, it seems that there will not be any important evidence in this room."

Li Mingda promised, "If she had another place, where would it be?"

"It depends on Eunuch Tian's ability. She is a woman in a deep boudoir, and it is not very convenient to go in and out, so there will be many people running errands around her. As long as you ask one, you will have a clue." Fang Yi said straight. .

Li Mingda nodded, "But I'm still wondering who revealed Ji Wang's clue to her. Xiao Kai said that he didn't reveal it, so it doesn't look like a lie."

"Xiao Kai is Xiao Wuniang's elder brother. Most people will preconceive it and think it is Xiao Kai. Princess, why don't you think about what is Xiao Wuniang's most powerful ability?" Fang Yi pointed out.

Li Mingda suddenly realized, "Gossip, she knows many aristocratic daughters, she has a good relationship with everyone, and she can get along with everyone, and she can get news from others... By the way, she and Cheng Chubi's second sister Cheng Lanru The relationship is also very good."

Li Mingda looked at his maid, Biyun, and asked her to lead someone to bring Cheng Chubi's younger sister here immediately.Not long afterward, Cheng Lanru arrived at Xiao's house, and stood in front of Li Mingda politely, waiting to be questioned.

Cheng Chubi repeatedly told Cheng Lanru that no matter what the princess asked, she must tell the truth.

"The day before General Ji died, I did play with Xiao Wuniang. When she asked about my second brother, I just mentioned what he was up to these days. She probably knew about General Ji at that time." Cheng Lanru said Well, eyes full of regret, bowed his head guiltily.

Cheng Chubi was surprised: "When did I tell you about General Ji?"

Cheng Lanru bowed her head even more guiltily, wishing she could bury her head in her chest, "Second Brother never said that, but I heard what Second Brother ordered his subordinates to go to the General's Mansion to guard outside the courtyard."

Cheng Chubi was stunned, and then knelt down to plead guilty, and scolded his sister for not knowing how to behave, so that she would be as easy to accept the crime as himself. "How your lord punishes, Chu Bi has no complaints."

"Forget it, now is the time for employing people. If there is a next time, I will punish you twice." Li Mingda said.

Cheng Chubi hurriedly led Cheng Lanru to thank her again and again.

Cheng Lanru was then taken down.

"Is Xiao Wuniang's nanny still there?" Li Mingda asked.

"exist."

"All the servants who served your wife to give birth to Xiao Wuniang were also called."

The servants of Xiao's family agreed, and immediately called Nanny Sun and ten other women who agreed with the request.

Li Mingda then asked the old servants who participated in the delivery, whether anyone had ever been alone with the child after the child was born.

Everyone shook their heads, saying no.

"When the child was first born, who was in charge of washing the body?"

"Nurse Sun and the midwife who delivered the baby."

"Is the midwife who gave birth to Xiao Wuniang still alive?" Li Mingda asked.

"Not anymore, he died a few years ago."

Li Mingda put his eyes on Nanny Sun, who was already sweating nervously and her fingers were trembling slightly.No need to ask, this person must have a problem.

"Take me back to the Department of Mirror for interrogation." Li Mingda immediately ordered.

"Everything has been sorted out, since there are no important clues here, let's withdraw." Fang Yizhi seemed to have expected something, and suggested.

At this time, someone from the Xiao family came to deliver a message for Xiao Yu, wanting to see Li Mingda.This person was naturally blocked by the guards, but because Li Mingda had a keen ear, he still heard it.Not long after Li Mingda was discharged from the hospital, he heard hurried footsteps, followed by Xiao Yu's urging voice.Li Mingda didn't want to be stumbled by Xiao Yu. Although the case is clear now, it's still not a certainty, so she can't explain everything to Xiao Yu yet.Turning around, he asked about the back door, and Fang Yizhi hurried out through the back door.

Xiao Yu didn't expect that he didn't stop the princess at the main entrance, and felt that Princess Jinyang avoided her on purpose because of her fault, so under the urging of her family, Xiao Yu decided to break out of the siege and insisted on going to Taiji Palace to face the saint.

Of course Li Shimin didn't see him, so he was stopped outside Chengtian gate and escorted back to his residence.Xiao Yu, on the other hand, has a violent temper and would rather go to jail than to see the saint.So Li Shimin granted his wish and sent him to jail.

Then the process of interrogating Nanny Sun went smoothly.Grandma Sun is getting older, and she is very good at judging the situation and understanding current affairs.

"When my family was in urgent need of money, someone came to me and asked me to help transfer the child. I know that this money is easy to get, but it may not be life-saving. Fortunately, I am the child's nanny and let the child eat my milk all the time, so They didn't do anything to me for the time being. Later, when Wu Niang was a little older, I tried to make her rely on me. Those people saw that I was still loyal, so they trusted me, and they didn't want to silence me anymore. I have been in Wu Niang all these years. Mother did her best in front of her, worshiping her is more important than loving her own daughter, Wu Niang has trusted me since she was a child, but I really don't know what she does outside, she always asks her trusted maid Qinghan to do it. "Nurse Sun explained truthfully.

Li Mingda asked again: "Then you have been serving Xiao Wuniang at home all these years, and you have never been ordered by him to go out?"

Grandma Sun thought for a while, "There was a time when Qing Han couldn't get away, so Wu Niang asked me to send a letter to the aunt in the Li family."

"Which Li Mansion?" Li Mingda asked.

"It's the servant of the Ministry of Punishment who was convicted before, the residence of Li Daliang."

"Li Daliang has a daughter?" Li Mingda didn't seem to have any impression, she turned to look at Fang Yizhi, hoping that the person with the best memory could give him some hints.

"Li Datou has a daughter, but she's a concubine. Because she can't get on the stage, it's normal for the princess not to know her." Fang Yi said straight.

"A concubine's concubine's concubine's daughter wrote a letter?" Li Mingda frowned, suspicious.

Fang Yi directly echoed: "It seems that it is just a fake excuse, the letter should have been delivered directly to Li Daliang."

"The appearance is similar, and there is a connection with each other. We seem to be able to confirm that Xiao Wu's identity is indeed false."

"It's a pity that Li Daliang is dead." Tian Hanshu sighed, "Otherwise, we might have interrogated him at this moment."

"It's better for this kind of person to die early, be practical." Fang Yi said straight.

Tian Hanshan thinks about it, and the danger of this kind of disaster will only be greater.

"Princess suspects that Xiao Wuniang is Li Daliang's daughter?" Fang Yi saw Li Mingda nodding, and continued, "But Li Daliang's second son is the same age as Xiao Wuniang, only three months apart. If Xiao Wuniang really Li Daliang's children were definitely not born to Li Daliang's wife. If the concubine was born, why must it be Xiao Wuniang instead of someone else? was sent out."

"Xiao Wuniang must have something special, maybe her mother is unusual?" Li Mingda pondered for a moment, and then pondered, "There is indeed a woman who is more powerful in helping each other, judging from her age, she can only help each other She is the Tubo female wizard, Shi Hongyu's master."

Fang Yi nodded in agreement.

Tian Hanshan waited on him with a smile on his face, and when the princess and Fang Shizi finally finished speaking, Tian Hanshan hurried back to report the results of his investigation, "The other three maids didn't explain anything useful, but the coachman said something very interesting. I have marked the important clues on the map. The place I go to the most is the jewelry shop called 'Niaoyuhuaxiang' in Pingkangfang."

"Singing birds and fragrant flowers?" This reminded Li Mingda immediately of the spice shop called 'Four Seasons Like Spring' when he solved the case of helping each other.

The four seasons are like spring, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, which is just a good sentence.

Li Mingda immediately ordered Niaoyuhuaxiang Jewelry Shop to be closed down.Then in the backyard of the shop, a large number of Tubo books, paintings, spell books of Tubo wizards, men's clothes, wigs, beards, and a dagger of the same style as that stuck in Ji Wang's chest were found.Ling also found six boxes of gold and silver jewelry and a pile of land deeds in the warehouse. In the deed, there was a lease of [-] mu of good land that Ji Wang transferred to the Xiao family at a low price.

Seeing these evidences is enough to prove that Xiao Wuniang was the murderer who killed Ji Wang, and also the main culprit who instigated Jiang Lin, Hui Ning and An Ning to kill.

"Princess, look at this painting." Fang Yizhi pulled out the scroll of paintings that looked the most yellowed from the painting, and after unfolding, let Li Mingda look at it.

Li Mingda took a closer look and found that the eyebrows and eyes of the woman in the painting were very similar to Xiao Wuniang, the only difference was that the woman in the picture was a little older, and she had a kind of spirit of Taoism and immortality.Looking at the inscription on the painting, it is in Tubo.

"Maybe you can understand who painted it?" Li Mingda asked Fang Yizhi.

"It should be Li Daliang. The inscription on this painting means 'Tianming' in Tubo. It is dawn, and what it is, it is naturally 'Daliang'." Fang Yizhi explained.

Li Mingda nodded in agreement, and looked at the painting again, "The person is painted like a fairy. It can be seen that when the artist painted this painting, the person in the conversation was full of love. I guess this witch is actually alive, It’s not as blunt and fairy-like as it seems in the words, it’s just a poisonous woman with a vicious and vicious mind.”

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." When Fang Yi agreed, his eyes never left Li Mingda.

Li Mingda looked back at the room, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw a dried branch stuck in a vase by the window, on which hung a brown fruit similar to the size of a soybean.Li Mingda ordered someone to choose two grains, grind them up, and found that it was the same as the powder found in the inner pocket of the clothes in the wardrobe at the back of the Zhenyun Temple.

"How could this be?" Li Mingda asked.

Fang Yizhi: "I'm going to ask Xiao Kai and see how he explains it."

Xiao Kai then looked at the powder and shook his head in a daze, still immersed in the shock of "my sister is not my own sister and is the real murderer behind the scenes".Xiao Kai replied weakly: "I don't know about this thing, I haven't seen it before."

"Earlier, someone saw a little nun going to the mountain behind Zhenyun Temple with long hair. Have you ever seen any nun?" Li Mingda asked.

Xiao Kai was startled.

"Correct your attitude and answer seriously." Fang Yi went straight to pat Xiao Kai on the shoulder, and whispered something in his ear.

Xiao Kai suddenly regained his energy, and hurriedly saluted Li Mingda to apologize, and then seriously recalled and replied: "That is not a nun, but my sister's maid. Ah, I remembered, when I just stayed in Zhenyun Temple, My sister sent her maid to borrow clothes from me, saying that she was greedy after being a monk for a long time, and wanted to go down the mountain to eat something good, but it was not convenient for female nuns and women to dress up, so she borrowed me a dress and left. I also understand him. At that time, I was just a monk and felt poor, so I gave her one. It took a long time to return it. At that time, I was growing up and the clothes were too small. I didn’t wear them anymore. It was thrown in the deep part of the cabinet. So it seems to be this one, I have a lot of clothes, I really didn’t remember much at the time.”

"Okay, everything is clarified." Li Mingda looked at Fang Yizhi, "Why don't we start the court now, interrogate Xiao Wuniang, and sentence him to death!"

The author has something to say: the case is over, two sweet chapters, a marriage, another incident, it is completely over.