Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

Wei Shuyu's deduction convinced Li Shimin, but he was also furious because of it.

All the children didn't have a good face, and the group dispersed immediately.

Yuchi Baoqi couldn't help but question Fang Yizhi why he insisted on talking about rags.

"Even if the princess's fall from the cliff is really strange, it has nothing to do with you. You don't even think about the identity of the person who dares to frame Princess Jinyang. Why do you need to talk too much, just to cause trouble."

Yuchi Baoqi sighed after seeing Fang Yizhi and didn't take it seriously, so he told Fang Yizhi's bodyguard Zheng Lun and the two court ladies who were kicked out of the Lizheng Palace died successively.

Only then did Fang Yizhi close his eyes and look at Yuchi Baoqi

Yuchi Baoqi: "This is the news from my Aye's old department, it's accurate."

Fang Yi didn't say a word, instead he started to walk quickly.

Yuchi Baoqi quickly caught up with him, and continued: "Even this heavily guarded deep palace says that death is death, how mysterious you are. The matter of Princess Jinyang's fall from the cliff is not easy, I advise you to intervene as little as possible. It caused a commotion for your Fang family."

"Baoqi."

"Ok?"

Yuchi Baoqi finally heard Fang Yi speak out, thinking that he made an exception and would agree with her point of view, she was very happy.

But Fang Yi cupped his hands, bid him farewell politely, and then walked away with a breeze.

Yuchi Baoqi was stunned for a moment, staring blankly at Fang Yi's figure going away, only to realize that he just called her just to say goodbye to her.

Yuchi Baoqi opened his mouth, but finally remained silent.Tired, that's all, ignore him.

Yuchi Baoqi snorted, opened the folding fan, and fanned it.

Xiao Kai and others rushed up later, seeing Yuchi Baoqi alone, and asked where Fang Yizhi had gone.

"Dump me." Yuchi Baoqi said loudly dissatisfied.

Xiao Kai and the others laughed.

"You must have said something that offended him. Let me tell you, Yi Zhi's temperament is not as gentle as it seems. He has a dark heart and holds grudges." Xiao Kai solemnly patted Yuchi Baoqi on the shoulder, kindly reminding him.

Yuchi Baoqi pursed her lips, not thinking so much, and invited Xiao Kai to have a drink together.After the two left Chengtianmen, Xiao Kai and Yuchibao rode to the West Market.

Not long after the two left, they saw several women on both sides of the street praying.

Yuchi Baoqi was delighted, "Are they waiting to see us?"

Xiao Kai smiled, "You think too much, most of them are waiting to see Wei Shuyu, no matter how bad it is, it will be left to see the house, it's not your turn."

Yuchi Baoqi sighed with a broken face, lamenting that the world is different, "When I was in Xiazhou, whenever I went out, there would be many young women peeking at me on the street. Wait for me to pass by. In terms of appearance and talent, I, Yuchi Baoqi, is the most outstanding in Xiazhou. When it comes to Chang'an City, I am the last."

"The truth." Xiao Kai couldn't stop laughing at Yuchi Baoqi's self-examination, and gave him a thumbs up, "Looking around in Chang'an City, there are rich and powerful children everywhere, and there are not a few talented and virtuous ones. But you also It's not easy, among the beautiful boys in Chang'an City, although you can't rank first, you will always be ranked fifth and sixth."

"Then tell me, who is number one?" Yuchi Baoqi asked.

Xiao Kai: "It's hard to say who is number one. In terms of appearance, no one can compare to Wei Shuyu. In terms of virtuousness, no one can compare to Fang Yizhi."

"I'm convinced. Brother Yi Zhi is well-informed and has deep strategies. He is very much like his father Liang Gong. Naturally, I can't compare him. As for Wei Shuyu, why do you think he looks like his father? He is so handsome. Come." Yuchi Baoqi sighed in surprise.

As soon as Yuchi Baoqi called Wei Shuyu by his name, he immediately attracted the attention of the women on the street.

Xiao Kai smiled, "Be careful, don't provoke public anger, he is very popular with women, if you say brother Yi Zhi, it will be better."

"Don't say it, don't say it, I won't say anything to anyone." Yuchi Baoqi objected.

The two then went to the wanton building and bid farewell to each other until they were very drunk.

Tai Chi Palace, on the east bank of Nanhai Pool.

Li Mingda squatted in front of a cactus and had been looking at it for a long time.The thorns of the cactus are somewhat black, only a small part is white.This thing is rare in Chang'an City. It was transplanted from the south. Li Mingda didn't pay attention to it when he went to the garden before, so he didn't have much impression.

Although the thorns on this pearl cactus are somewhat different in color from the broken thorns in her hand, they are very similar in shape and length. They should be from the same species, but not from the same plant.

Li Mingda summoned the palace servants to question: "I came here yesterday, why didn't I see it?"

"Return to your lord, the cactus must be transplanted inside the house in winter, and it has just been transplanted in the garden at this moment."

"Which other places are planted in the palace?"

"Concubine Wei, Concubine Yang, and Xu Chongrong have their residences, as well as the three gardens on the Xihaichi side." The consular eunuch in charge of the gardens replied.

Li Mingda asked the eunuch when these cacti were transplanted.

"Wei Guifei's side was ten days ago, and the rest were transplanted today."

"Why did Concubine Wei leave early?" Li Mingda asked.

The eunuch hurriedly said: "The imperial concubine likes to see cactus flowers very much, so she asked about them early, and the slaves planted them as soon as possible."

Ten days, just before she fell off the cliff.

Li Mingda then went to the Daji Palace where Concubine Wei lived, and indeed saw six cacti in the backyard.However, Concubine Wei's cactus is also the same as the one at Nanhai Pool, every thorn is black, and these six cactus are the same as those in the garden, they are planted very carefully, not a single thorn is broken or damaged.

Concubine Wei quickly came to entertain Li Mingda enthusiastically, and invited her into the house for tea.

"I know you like to drink tea, and just now I asked someone to fry it for you. Try it."

Li Mingda took a sip and shook his head, "I can't taste it, it's sweet."

Concubine Wei suddenly remembered, and patted herself on the head, "Look at my memory, I forgot, you don't like sweets, you just need to add salt to your tea."

"Now I don't even add salt. The injury is not healed. The imperial doctor told me to eat less salty. I found that this tea does not use salt and ginger. It tastes better if it has a light fragrance." Li Mingda laughed.

Concubine Wei Gui was very surprised, "It's so? Then I will try it later."

Li Mingda smiled again, and said goodbye to Concubine Wei Gui.Concubine Wei was a little bit reluctant, and warmly took Li Mingda's hand, telling her to come often when she was free.Anyway, the Daji Hall where she lives is adjacent to the Lizheng Hall, not far away.

Concubine Wei Gui kept smiling at her, but Li Mingda felt extremely uncomfortable.

Since her eyes became better, she found that when she gets along with people, she sees more detailed expressions, and thus discovers more differences.For example, comparing the smiles of her father and brothers to her, and the smiles of Cong Xiumei, Luhe, and Princess Gaoyang, she discovered the difference between a fake smile and a real smile.Although the corners of the mouth are pulled up when smiling, the corners of the mouth are turned up naturally when the smile is real, the eyes are squinted, and the corners of the eyes are wrinkled, and the eyebrows are slightly tilted.

The smirk was exaggerated, the corners of the mouth were forced up, but the corners of the eyes hardly changed.Even if the whole face is crowded together, giving the illusion of squinting eyes, it still looks exaggerated and false.

And through careful research these days, Li Mingda also discovered the most important point to distinguish between real and fake smiles.In a real smile, the mouth and eye movements don't happen at the same time.A real smile starts from the corners of the mouth and then moves the eyes.

Li Mingda left the Daji Palace after perfunctory Concubine Wei.She then slowed down her pace and listened to Concubine Wei's sigh coming from Daji Hall.It turned out that she hoped that she could say the words to let her go to the Lizheng Hall often, so that she would have the opportunity to meet the saint.And judging from Concubine Wei's tone, she probably doesn't like her very much, at least she doesn't have a good impression of her, but she didn't say anything bad about her, it's just Aye's partiality.

Li Mingda took a deep breath slowly, and strode back to the Lizheng Hall.

Li Shimin had already reviewed the memorial in the main hall, seeing Li Mingda just came back, he wanted to ask her where she went with a smile.

"Nanhai Pond." Li Mingda stopped Fang Qirui who was serving juice, and brought it to Li Shimin himself, and by the way, tilted his head to look at the content of the memorial that Li Shimin was reviewing.

Li Shimin said "Yes", and simply presented the memorial to Li Mingda and asked her what she thought.

"Report merit and ask for grace."

"It just so happens that there is a vacancy for the governor of Jingzhou, so do you want to be promoted or not?" Li Shimin looked at Li Mingda with great interest.

"That depends on whether what he did is as good as what he said. Aye already knew it in his heart, so he just asked me." Li Mingda winked playfully at Li Shimin, and glanced at the small wooden box on the table from the corner of his eye. There was a piece of torn gauze.

"This is?"

"Fang Yi picked it up from your cliff." When mentioning this, Li Shimin's eyes darkened, "Si still can't remember what happened that day?"

Li Mingda shook her head, she picked up the rags, "Silk jade yarn, dyed with cinnabar. I also have this Lingyu yarn, I used it as a handkerchief."

Li Mingda immediately ordered someone to fetch the lotus handkerchief and showed it to Li Shimin, "This is the handkerchief I found at the place where I fell off the cliff, but it is not mine."

Li Shimin lived in the Lizheng Palace and spent a lot of time with Li Mingda. When she embroidered this handkerchief, Li Shimin still had an impression, "How does it look like yours?"

"The embroidery method is different, and only I can identify it, so I dare not talk nonsense. Now that Fang Yizhi found this piece of yarn from the cliff, it confirms my belief. This silk and jade yarn is light and thin, and is often used for making Handkerchiefs and summer clothes. Although it is spring now, but it is not yet the hot season, no one will go out in gauze clothes. Then this broken yarn must be torn from the handkerchief, and I feel that this piece of broken yarn is probably from My veil."

Li Shimin was very surprised by Li Mingda's analysis, "According to what you mean, you were arguing with someone at that time, which caused you to fall off the cliff, and the veil just happened to be scraped on the crack of the rock on the edge of the cliff. It just so happened that the murderer had the same veil as you , and threw it away as a cover-up?"

"If it had been premeditated, it wouldn't be a 'coincidence' if the handkerchiefs were the same." Li Mingda said.

Li Shimin's face turned cold suddenly, Xiao Sha was furious, "Aye will definitely decide for you, and punish to the end."

"Aye, the matter of falling off the cliff, and the death of the two maids I drove away are very strange. I really want to investigate it myself. I just heard that it is not convenient for the foreign ministers at Ye Ting Palace to investigate. , Aye, why don't you let Sizi try it?"

Li Shimin saw his daughter looking at him expectantly with dark eyes, how could he bear to refuse, and his son's deduction just now also showed her intelligence and wit, she should have the ability to investigate cases.

"Forget it, I will allow you. But your wound has not healed yet, so don't bother too much, let Cheng Chubi protect you with you. It is convenient for you in Ye Ting Palace, but it is inconvenient for you to investigate the death of the guard Zheng Lun. Then find someone to help you. But remember that the investigation of this case must be conducted in secret and cannot be announced to the public." Li Shimin naturally understood that there might be a big conspiracy brewing behind this matter.