Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

"What kind of investigation are you guys doing together? Is it really a joke? I think His Majesty of your country just wants to use you as a shield to block my way so that Changsun Huan has time to fly away. I won't be fooled, my country How can the deputy envoy die in vain!"

"What has already been agreed, why do you need to say more."

Ashiya Yuanjing was suddenly annoyed, and wanted to get up to Li Mingda to defend himself, but because he walked too fast, his left foot tripped over a raised stone road, his body tilted, and he threw his whole face at Li Mingda.

Li Mingda took a step back almost at the same time as she made the movement.Ashiya Yuanjing fell to the ground by herself and did not hit Li Mingda.

"Presumptuous!" Zuo Qingmei went up and grabbed Ashiya Yuanjing's collar, and pulled it out, "What kind of identity do you have to dare to offend the princess with words and deeds like this!"

Ashiya Yonjing covered his face and was about to speak when a sudden gust of wind hit the left cheek hard.The scorching pain immediately turned into shame, spreading from both sides of the face to the whole body, Ashiya Yinjing was furious, trying to tell who had had his arms strangled.

"let me go!"

Zuo Qingmei raised her hand and gave another slap.

Seeing this, the attendants around Ashiya were about to draw their knives to resist, but they were surrounded by the guards around the princess before they could take out the knives.

Seeing this, the leader of the Japanese guards was anxious and shouted: "You know who she is, you lowly status dare to beat her!"

Li Mingda's gaze landed on Ashiya Yard's collar again, it seemed that she guessed right before, this Ashiya Yard had a different identity.There was a little white powdery substance on her left collar, and she exuded a faint fragrance of powder that others couldn't smell but she could easily distinguish, and her breasts were faintly visible.Li Mingda saw through her daughter's identity.

Zuo Qingmei snorted coldly: "Who cares what your status is, you offended the princess first, so the punishment is light, even death is fine!"

"Indeed, with your current status as an onmyoji, there's really nothing wrong with treating you. It's just that you have a special status. In Datang, you are guilty of deceiving the emperor." Li Mingda said.

Ashiya was stunned for a moment, then looked at Li Mingda in surprise, "Did you find out that I—"

"The powder on your collar is very white, and it is only used by Japanese women. Of course, there are other possibilities. If you want to distinguish, you can find out by looking at other places." After Li Mingda said, his eyes fell on Ashiya Yuanjing's chest.

Ashiya Yinjing immediately covered her chest with her arms, blushing.

"I was wrong to offend the princess in a hurry. Please forgive me. But I am very dissatisfied with your investigation. It is obvious who the murderer is, but you keep procrastinating and changing people to do useless investigations." Ashiya Yuanjing told Li After Mingda performed the Chinese salute, he said sonorously.

"What everyone wants is the real murderer. Finding out the facts is good for everyone. If the murderer is really Changsun Huan, no one will spare him. Changsun Huan is also being wanted at the moment, but the person has not been found yet. Let's investigate later. It won't hinder anything if you check it, why are you so excited, could it be that this matter was done by your own people?"

"No! Okay, I'll wait, but it won't be too long." Ashiya Yuanjing immediately denied it, and then leaned to Li Mingda's side and whispered to him, "Since you already know the identity of my princess, you should know more about this matter. I will never let it go.”

Li Mingda: "She was originally the daughter of the king of the Wa Kingdom."

"You are...that... you are amazing." Ashiya Yuanjing suddenly realized that she had been cheated, she was helpless and admired, and then she handed over to Li Mingda, "To be honest, I fell in love with the princess at first sight, to be precise It’s appreciation, I really want to be friends with someone like the princess.”

"It's difficult for you to conceal your identity first and offend later. Let's see how you behave in the future." Li Mingda smiled and continued walking.

Ashiya hurriedly followed, and whispered to Li Mingda why he concealed his identity.

She and her loved one experienced life and death, and the heartache was too much, so the king took advantage of the opportunity to send the Tang delegation to Datang, and asked her to come here to relax.It was also because she came to Datang just to relax, so she didn't want to go through the etiquette of entertainment and greetings, so she stayed in the mission in the name of an onmyoji. Of course, it was also because it was safer to hide her identity.

"Princess, please keep it secret for me for the time being." Ashiya Yuanjing cupped his hands, "In Datang, I am not some inner prince, I am Ashiya Yuanjing."

"I won't deceive the emperor." Li Mingda smiled, and then asked Prince Tian Hanshan next to him what he meant. Tian Hanshan was about to explain, but Li Mingda immediately interrupted and said, "Just follow us Tang's name, just call her 'Princess of the Japanese Kingdom', and it's easy to call her."

Li Mingda decided everything with the attitude of a master.

Ashiya was stunned, gritted his teeth, but couldn't say anything.

Li Mingda is also a person of etiquette. He didn't insult Ashiya Yuanjing any more, but said to her in the posture of a princess of a great country: "You lied first, which is a serious crime. I won't hide it, but I will try my best to be a saint. Come to help you explain."

"Thank you, princess." Ashiya bowed quietly, feeling admiration for Princess Jinyang in his heart, feeling grateful.

The relationship between the two has eased a lot because of this smile.

Li Mingda then told Ashiya Yard not to delay the investigation, even out of etiquette, Datang will definitely explain to the Wa Kingdom, "It's not because the Wa Kingdom is a small country, you will despise it, and you don't have to show your strength. Existence. You have no choice but to believe in Datang, if you don’t want to break diplomatic relations with Datang.”

Although Ashiya Yuanjing was upset, she also understood that what Li Mingda said was true, so she nodded, expressing that she would wait for the results to be found out.

"But there must be a time limit for this matter. It can't be delayed for a year or a half, right?"

"I don't care about it with you, so I will give you a time limit. Three days are enough for such trivial matters."

Ashiya was stunned, looking at Li Mingda's back in a daze, and suddenly felt that he was too far away from her as a princess.

Afterwards, Li Mingda went to Changsun Wuji's place, lobbied for a while, and persuaded Changsun Wuji to order everyone in the Changsun Mansion to cooperate with the investigation.

Youzheng.

All those who had direct or indirect contact with Sanjiro Michigaki gathered in the Dayi Hall of Changsun Mansion.

Changsun Wuji also came, but facing this kind of scene, he was in a very bad mood and had a gloomy face.The seven or eight sons around Changsun Wuji all shut their mouths with sullen heads because they were overwhelmed by his arrogance.Only Chang Sun Chong kept his usual attitude and told everyone what happened that day objectively.

Changsun Chong: "After the banquet, Changsun Huan and Daoyuan Sanshilang chatted very congenially, so they set up wine in the bamboo hut and continued to chat and drink. After drinking for about half an hour, Daoyuan Sanjiro came out to respect, and around him With four entourages. At this time, Changsun Huan ordered someone to fetch the green plum wine he had stored in his cellar. Different, he is not willing to drink words."

"Everyone knows what happened afterwards. Daoyuan Sancilang was poisoned and vomited after drinking alcohol, and his seven orifices bled to death. At that time, a total of [-] followers saw it with their own eyes in the bamboo hut. After that, there was a bit of chaos. He... took advantage of the chaos and escaped, and he has not been seen so far."

After Changsun Chong finished speaking, he added that the Changsun Mansion had been searched no less than eighteen times in the past two days, and not a single inch of it was left behind.

"Then where did he go?" Li Chengqian wondered.

Li Tai and the others frowned.

Li Mingda's eyes quickly swept across the crowd, and finally landed on Yuchi Baoqi.Everyone else's expressions were puzzled and curious, but he was different. He turned his eyes and glanced away, his posture was stiff, and his mouth was tightly closed, as if he was afraid of uttering something that shouldn't be said.

"Where's the murderer? Can you find any clues?" Li Chengqian asked again.

The crowd shook their heads.

Changsun Wuji thought that His Majesty dismissed a useless Li Daozong, but sent some juniors who were even more inexperienced than Li Daozong to make trouble.Hearing that Li Chengqian is so stupid, he only knows how to ask, but doesn't know how to check, and he feels even more disappointed. With a dark snort, he cupped his hands and bid farewell to the crown prince and the king of Wei.

As soon as Changsun Wuji left, the atmosphere in the room froze.

Li Mingda suddenly asked the servants who were serving in the bamboo hut at that time, "Why did Changsun Huan want to take green plum wine? Did he mention it suddenly, or is there some other reason?"

"It was Deputy Envoy Daoyuan who was half drunk and said that the wine was tasteless, so Erlang ordered the servants to make a pot of green plum wine that he buried under the tree three years ago." The servant girl replied.

"The wine is buried in the soil, now dig the soil?" Li Mingda asked.

"Exactly."

The four maids who were drinking at that time all said that they went to drinking together, and they were sent to the bamboo hut immediately after drinking, and they never met other people, nor did they stay anywhere.

"Li Daozong has checked all these. Do you have anything new? After the servant girl delivered the wine, Changsun Huan was alone in the bamboo hut with the wine, and the rest were waiting outside the bamboo hut. They didn't know what was going on inside the pavilion. It can only be him who poisoned, and no one else is possible. Don’t tell me that four maids have drugged together in order to save Changsun Huan’s life, it’s unbelievable.” Li Mingda said that he really didn't intend to embarrass them, but there is solid evidence that Changsun Huan is the murderer.

If Changsun Huan hadn't poisoned the wine, then the poison must have been poisoned before the four maids beat the wine.

Li Mingda immediately went to Changsun Huan's residence together with Li Chengqian and others.

Under the peach blossom tree where the wine was stored, the excavated soil was piled aside. There was nothing special about it, and there were no clues worth noting around.

Li Mingda just stood in the distance and sniffled, then remained motionless.

Li Chengqian and Li Tai found it boring after a glance, and because it was getting late, they ordered more people to go down to find Changsun Huan, and told everyone to leave for the time being and check tomorrow.

Li Mingda winked at Tian Hanshan and asked him to lead someone to follow Yuchi Baoqi.She said goodbye to Li Chengqian, saying that she would stay in the Changsun Mansion.Seeing this, Ashiya Yonjing also wanted to stay, but because her face was so swollen, she had to go back and get some medicine.

After the group dispersed, Li Mingda returned to Changsun Huan's residence. Following the smell of traditional Chinese medicine she smelt before, she walked to the back wall of the house. Sure enough, she saw some black things on the top of the wall. Li Mingda picked them up. He picked up a wooden stick, scratched it, and then sniffed it to his nose to confirm that it was this thing, it should be black plaster.

Li Mingda intends to go around to look behind the wall, but unexpectedly sees Fang Yi standing upright by the wall, because there are many plane trees around the back wall.Fang Yizhi probably saw that he was coming from a distance through the gap between the trees, so at this moment he was already saluting himself in a gentle manner.

Li Mingda walked over to take a look, and saw a pair of obvious footprints three feet away on the right side of the house, printed in the soil, and the position of the shoe prints just corresponded to the wall where the medicine was glued.

"cloth shoes?"

"Yes." Fang Yi replied in a low voice, with a bit of worry on his brows, "The Changsun's mansion is strict in employing people, and the Japanese who entered the mansion at the third time of Suidaoyuan all wore wooden clogs. This murderer was not barefoot, but was wearing Tang's Cloth shoes, and looking at the prints, we can see that the inner side of the sole is worn, which can be seen from long-term wearing or walking.”

Li Mingda frowned.

"It seems that the murderer is really from our Datang."