Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

Li Mingda and Fang Yi looked at each other directly: "Since you have searched many places and can't find anyone, could this person be dead already?"

"If you die, you should see the corpse," Fang Yizhi guessed in his mind, he narrowed his pupils, and looked at Li Mingda.

Li Mingda nodded to him, then continued to go to the backyard, looking around, the horse shed on the east, the firewood house on the west, and several bedrooms in the middle facing south.These houses in the backyard don't look grand, they should be the residence of servants.

Fang Yizhi immediately introduced it to Li Mingda.

As expected by Li Mingda, this backyard is where the servants of the brothel lived and worked.

Li Mingda looked at the row of kitchens behind the woodshed, and felt that the arrangement of the kitchen was a bit strange, because it was hidden behind the woodshed. "Did you find anything when you searched over there?"

"Fengyue Tower has nearly a hundred guests every day, and the banquets are luxurious. There are a lot of beef and mutton, fresh fish, and other kinds of wine and vegetables." Fang Yi replied directly.

"What about the pot?"

"In the pot? Could it be..." Fang Yi was stunned for a moment, surprise flashed in his eyes, "When the guards came to search for the first time, there was a big pot of mutton stew in the kitchen."

Li Mingda went straight to the kitchen.

Fang Yi called her directly, "Your Majesty,"

Li Mingda stopped and looked back at him.

Fang Yi spat out two words, "Take your time."

Li Mingda nodded, called Zuo Qingmei, and entered the door together with her, Fang Yizhi followed closely behind, Cheng Chubi, Changsun Huan, Yuchi Baoqi, Wei Shuyu and others followed.

As soon as I arrived in the kitchen, I smelled a strong smell of meat, and there were some slight smells of spoiled food.

Yuchi Baoqi covered her nose, snorted in disgust, and then saw Changsun Huan winking at her.

Yuchi Baoqi looked at the princess without knowing why, and found that the princess didn't cover her nose, neither did Fang Yizhi.Even the eldest Sun Huan, who is usually a dandy, has a look of forbearance at this moment.That made him look delicate again, Yuchi Baoqi hastily put down his hands.

Li Mingda was standing in front of a large pot at this time, which was full of soup and large pieces of bone-in mutton.Because the meat had been cold for a long time, some white mutton fat condensed on the surface of the soup and stuck to the naked mutton.

There were more than a dozen flies flying back and forth on it, and a few of them landed on the mutton and mutton fat, not afraid of sticking their feet.

Yuchi Baoqi felt a little disgusted when he saw this, but he didn't dare to be disgusted, at least he couldn't be the first disgusting person in this group, otherwise he would appear coquettish in front of the princess.His father was a famous titan in the Tang Dynasty, he couldn't be so ashamed!

There was a long wooden spoon beside the pot, under the instruction of the princess, Zuo Qingmei picked up the wooden spoon and dipped into the pot.

As soon as it was stirred, the whole pot of mutton moved, and more flies flew around and buzzed.

Li Mingda kept staring at the contents of the pot.Soon she shouted to stop and pointed to the side of the pot.

Zuo Qingmei hurriedly fished out the piece of meat near the side of the pot, took a closer look, and then reported to the princess, "This is indeed a piece of mutton."

"It's not about this one, it's the one that sticks to the side of the pot. It looks like a strand of hair." Li Mingda said.

Zuo Qingmei looked over and looked carefully, and found that there was a strand of hair sticking to the side of the pot, because the hair was black and the pot was also black, so it was not easy to find, and it seemed to be blocked by a big piece of mutton just now.

Zuo Qingmei jumped onto the stove, took a serious look, and then pulled the lock of hair with her hands.

Seeing this scene, Yuchi Baoqi's heart trembled wildly, the maid next to the princess was really extraordinary, extraordinary.

"It's human hair." After Zuo Qingmei said, she put her hair into the cloth bag prepared by the attendant, and then continued to squat on the stove and scoop it up with a spoon. The pot is quite deep, and the spoon is small and slippery, so it's not easy to scoop it out. .Zuo Qingmei finally fished out a half-arm bone, very thick, one side was cut off, the meat on it had been stewed badly, and the flesh and bones were only a little sticky.

"There doesn't seem to be such a bone on the sheep. It must not be a human bone." Yuchi Baoqi felt a little disgusted, and took a step back to hide behind Changsun Huan.

"Mr. Yuchi is wrong. This is the bone of lamb, from the leg of lamb." Zuo Qingmei casually picked up a pottery plate beside the pot, poured the bone in, pulled it out, and pulled out a slender piece from between the bone and the flesh. Yes, the skin crumbles to the touch, but a nail is visible on the tip.

"This is manpower." Wei Shuli said immediately.

"It's a finger, and if I'm not mistaken, it's a woman's finger, delicate and slender." Zuo Qingmei commented.

Yuchi Baoqi was about to cry when she saw this, Zuo Qingmei said her finger was slender even though it was a thick finger, is she blind?

"But I see that these fingers are quite thick, how can you tell that it is a woman's hand?" Changsun Huan expressed Yuchi Baoqi's heartfelt feelings.

Zuo Qingmei's eyes slid to Changsun Huan's hand, "To be offensive, Changsun Erlang's hand will definitely be twice as thick after boiling for so long."

puff!

Yuchi Baoqi couldn't help laughing.This smile made him less shy and afraid, he just patted Changsun Huan on the shoulder and joked with him.

"Look at your disbelief, why don't you try?"

Changsun Huan took Yuchi Baoqi's hand and looked at it, "Our two are about the same size, since we are good brothers, why would you want me to suffer, of course you are the one!"

"I don't dare, I still want to eat with this hand." Yuchi Baoqi withdrew her finger, glanced at Changsun Huan, then at Zuo Qingmei, his face immediately turned pale, his eyes widened, he opened his mouth, and continued to speak Can't tell either.

Wei Shuyu's face had already turned pale, and he stood stiffly on the spot, too shocked to speak.

"Look at your guts, it's just a human finger, ah - a human head!" Changsun Huan then looked over and saw a face whose scalp had been peeled off, boiled and swollen, and the facial features were distorted. He was shocked. With a cry, he felt his stomach churn immediately, and he turned around and ran out to vomit all over the floor.

Yuchi Baoqi expected that there might still be 'material' in the pot, so he was prepared to be calm, and it was a bit disgusting to be teased by Changsun Huan, but he had to hold back.

Fang Yizhi suggested that it is more convenient to move the pot out, pour out all the soup, and then check one by one.

Zuo Qingmei nodded in agreement, "The pot is too deep, it's really not an option to fish it this way."

Li Mingda took advantage of the time when Zuo Qingmei and the Ministry of Justice were handling the body parts in the pot, asked Fang Yizhi to lead the way, and inspected Fengyue Tower himself.

"Where are the people in the building?" Li Mingda asked.

"They were all locked in Tianzi No. [-] room." Considering their identities, Fang Yizhi felt offended, so he told them to avoid them before Li Mingda came.

Li Mingda walked around from room to room, this Fengyue Building is decorated elegantly, each room in the upper class room is decorated with expensive sandalwood furniture, famous calligraphy and paintings, there are pianos, orchids, and the gauze curtains are hazy, and the curtains are dim. The wind was blowing, and those who didn't know thought it was the boudoir of some noble girl.

There are a total of eighteen upper-class rooms, most of the tables are leftovers, it seems that half of the fun was interrupted by Fang Yizhi's yamen and left halfway.

Li Mingda immediately went downstairs, walked to the second-class room, and saw a large plate of unfinished mutton stew on the table at a glance.There were a few pieces of gnawed bones lying around the table. Although they were chopped into pieces, they did not look like sheep bones in thickness and shape.

Li Mingda looked at Fang Yizhi, and Fang Yizhi just discovered this problem, and looked at Li Mingda.The two sides looked at each other, and they both affirmed the thoughts in each other's hearts.

"I have seen several skeletons so far. According to my opinion, this place looks like a human leg bone."

Yuchi Baoqi brought up the eldest Sun Huan who had finished vomiting, and when she heard this scene, she leaned over to have a look, hehe laughed, "Look, I really hit the spot. I think it's probably the fake mother of Fengyuelou who found out that things were exposed. , in order to hide the crime, he killed Shi Hongyu, and because there was no place to hide the body, he stewed Shi Hongyu and shared it with the guests."

"Even if this bone is a human bone, it must not be Shi Hongyu's." Li Mingda said.

Baoqi was surprised when she heard this, "Why do you say that?"

Fang Yi said straightly: "These bones are stewed very badly, as long as they touch the meat, the bones will fall off. Shi Hongyu ran in for less than half an hour yesterday, and we sent people to seal the place. It takes two people to stew a chicken until it is rotten." With time and effort, will human flesh be so easy to stew?"

"What, what does this mean?" Changsun Huan's face turned even paler.Yuchi Baoqi supported him, but his complexion was also very bad.

In the past, when they came to Fengyue Tower, they always saw beauties and enjoyed themselves.This time, apart from horror and panic, all that was left for them was nausea.

"In other words, someone else died in Fengyuelou. Before that, someone mixed another corpse into the mutton pot and stewed it." Li Mingda explained.

"Oh——" Changsun Huan covered his mouth and was about to vomit again, and hurried downstairs.Yuchi Baoqi was stunned for a moment, thinking that when he was in Fengyue Tower, he seemed to have eaten stewed mutton and drank mutton soup.

Yuchi Baoqi was immediately disgusted beyond measure, with a pale face, covered her mouth and followed Changsun Huan downstairs to vomit.

"He finally vomited." Li Mingda sighed.

Fang Yi looked down at Yuchi Baoqi who was throwing up in a panic downstairs, and said to Li Mingda in a leisurely tone: "He often comes to Fengyuelou, and whoever hears the news probably can't stand it."

"Ha," Li Mingda half-jokingly said to Fang Yizhi, "There is a knife on the head of Sezi, this is what happens to you men who are lustful, so you should be careful."

"Men and women are colorless, why is Qin and Jin so good? Yizhi is also unavoidable, but Yizhi will only have sex with a woman in the future." Fang Yizhi turned his head to look at Li Mingda, and there seemed to be something slightly burning in the bottom of his eyes.

Li Mingda was stunned for a moment, and said to Shangfang Yizhi's gaze, "It's my words that don't convey my meaning. Just don't be sentimental about what I mean. It's very good for you to be like this, it's rare."

Li Mingda shifted his gaze and turned downstairs.She clutched the railing on the second floor with both hands, suddenly she lost her patience, and was a little anxious why Zuo Qingmei didn't come back to report.

"The servant girl put together what was in the pot. It seems that there are only the head, hands and feet, and the torso is not there." After Zuo Qingmei said, she went to check the bones on the wine table and asked someone to bring a basket. A basket of human bones was picked from a dozen wine tables in the waiting room.

"If the head and feet belonged to Shi Hongyu, where is the torso?" Li Mingda pondered,

"In such a big brothel, where should some meat be stored?" Li Mingda asked suddenly.

"In the northernmost corner of the backyard, there is a storage warehouse similar to a cellar. The ground inside is dug half a foot deep, and it is cool and cold. There are five dead sheep hanging there. If it is said to hide the dead, the belly of the sheep is feasible." Left straight.

Li Mingda: "Sheep's belly...there is only one place to hide right now."

Fang Yizhi immediately asked Wu Zuo to check, and Zuo Qingmei also followed.

Not long after, a government officer came to report, and sure enough, they found the body parts in the stomachs of those dead sheep.

The body was cut into eight pieces, stuffed into the belly of the sheep, and then the belly of the sheep was sewn with red thread.Because the house was not very bright, everyone was focused on finding the living during the search, so they didn't notice the problem of the sheep's belly.

Immediately the body parts were sorted out.

Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi went to check.Seeing this, Yuchi Baoqi and Changsun Huan waved their hands to express that they would not go. Although Wei Shuyu's reaction was not so violent, he chose to follow Yuchi Baoqi and Changsun Huan, unwilling to see the bloody and terrifying corpse again.

Yuchi Baoqi and Changsun Huan supported each other, and stood at the door of Fengyue Tower with miserable expressions.Both of them tried their best to recall whether they had ordered lamb stew here.

Hearing this, Wei Shuyu's face became a little calmer. He never liked to eat stewed mutton, only grilled.He has only been to Fengyue Tower twice, so he probably has no chance to eat human flesh.But thinking about cooking dead human meat and other dishes in the same pot, he still felt sick and his stomach was tumbling up, which made him unbearable.In fact, he really wanted to vomit like Chang Sun Huan, but the act of vomiting was really indecent and affected his handsome demeanor.

Yuchi Baoqi and Changsun Huan finally got over their nausea, got some water to drink, and turned around to see Wei Shuyu standing aside with an embarrassed expression, his facial features were almost pulled together.Yuchi Baoqi hurriedly patted Wei Shuyu on the back, "Brother, what are you putting up with, it's not shameful for you to vomit such a disgusting thing."

Wei Shuyu glanced at Yuchi Baoqi, but said nothing.

Yuchi Baoqi shrugged, feeling that she might be talking too much, and instead discussed with Changsun Huan, when would be the best time for her to talk to Princess Jinyang Dao Ming.

Changsun Huan was holding a water bag to drink, when he heard Yuchi Baoqi's words, he bowed his waist and immediately spit out the water.

"Cough cough..."

Luckily, Yuchi Baoqi dodged in time, otherwise she would have been vomited all over by Changsun Huan. "What are you doing?"

"You actually told me this at a time like this," Changsun Huan lamented helplessly, "But the sooner this kind of thing happens, the better."

"why?"

"It's better to be rejected than to miss out. At least you won't regret it." Changsun Huan continued.

"Well--"

Changsun Huan and Yuchi Baoqi suddenly heard the voice and turned their heads to look over.

Wei Shuyu vomited while leaning against the wall.

After he vomited, he wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, but after rinsing his mouth with the water handed by the attendant, he wiped his mouth again with a new handkerchief, and then straightened his clothes before turning around and walking towards Changsun Huan and Yuchi Baoqi.

"That's right. You see, after you vomited, your complexion improved a lot. You can't hold it back." Yuchi Baoqi patted Wei Shuyu's shoulder happily.

Wei Shuyu cast a cold glance at Changsun Huan, "What did you just say? You like Princess Jinyang?"

"Hush—" Yuchi Baoqi hurriedly covered Wei Shuyu's mouth, then looked left and right, and sent all the attendants around Wei Shuyu away with winks.

Wei Shuyu pushed Yuchi Baoqi, "What are you doing?"

"Pay attention to secrecy!"

Wei Shuyu laughed, "What you said so loudly just now, are you keeping it secret?"

"Where is it loud, I didn't hear it, but you were close enough to hear it, and let you hear it as a brother." Changsun Huan said, "Only you and I know that Baoqi likes the princess, and you are not allowed to go outside. vent."

Wei Shuyu nodded, then glanced at Yuchi Baoqi, and said with a smile: "You like the princess? I'm afraid it's just a whim, and it will disappear in a few days. The princess is different from others, so I advise you not to provoke her."

Changsun Huan put Wei Shuyu's shoulders on his shoulders, and said to him carefully: "I was just like you when I first heard the news. But Baoqi sent away all her confidante for this thought, and now she just wants to beg Marry, never mind."

Wei Shuyu looked at Yuchi Baoqi in surprise, "Seriously?"

"En." Yuchi Baoqi replied proudly.

Wei Shuyu was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and apologized to Yuchi Baoqi, "When I take back my words, I wish you success."

"Thank you, as expected of my good brother, support me." Yuchi Baoqi smiled and clenched his fist, lightly hitting Wei Shuyu on the shoulder.

Wei Shuyu also smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.He himself didn't understand, he should be happy, why couldn't he be happy now.

At this time, I saw a girl in a green skirt, jumping off the carriage with a food box, and was about to go to Fengyue Tower.

"Please tell me, I am Cheng Weiwei's younger sister"

Seeing this, the guards hurriedly stopped her and asked her what the guards were and what was the matter.

"Like I said, it's Cheng Weiwei's younger sister. I saw that he didn't go home for dinner. I thought he must still be investigating the case. He has a stomach upset recently, so he can't be hungry. I'll give him some steamed stuffed buns."

"The government investigates the case, and idlers are not allowed to disturb." The guard said stiffly, "Sorry, no!"

"Okay." Cheng Lanru turned to leave, but she was a little unwilling, and turned her head to discuss with the guards whether they could bring the food box in.

"Who is this girl's elder brother?" Changsun Huan saw that this girl was cute and cute, and she was a bit silly, so she leaned over to ask with rare interest.

Cheng Lanru turned to look at the noble young man who had just walked over with a gentle smile, and replied, "My third brother is Cheng Chubi, do you know him?"

"I know you, so you are brother Cheng's younger sister, come on, I'll take you in." Changsun Huan said enthusiastically.

When Yuchi Baoqi heard that she was Cheng Chubi's younger sister, she hurried over to introduce her identity, and introduced Wei Shuyu as well.

After seeing the ceremony, Cheng Lanru looked at Wei Shuyu more, "So you are Wei Shuyu,"

When Wei Shuyu saw that the girl was always looking at him specially, he understood it, and smiled casually to put it off.

"My third brother used to mention you a lot." Cheng Lanru continued to smile generously, "But after returning from the trip to Anzhou, I didn't say much. Is there any unpleasantness between you?"

Wei Shuyu's face instantly became embarrassed.

Changsun Huan chuckled, and looked at Cheng Lanru appreciatively, "As expected of Cheng Gong's daughter, she is really informal and straightforward."

Yuchi Baoqi also laughed, "There is such a good girl in the family, but she never told us about it."

Cheng Lanru blushed when everyone praised her, but she was only shy for a while, then she poked her head in and looked at Changsun Huan expectantly.

Changsun Huan understood, and hurriedly led Cheng Lanru inside, and sent someone to inform Cheng Chubi.

Cheng Lanru heard the voice of the princess in the backyard, and said happily: "There's no need to report, I'll just go and see him myself." After saying that, Cheng Lanru walked quickly to the backyard.

Changsun Huan hurriedly wanted to stop her and reminded her: "The view in the backyard is not very good."

When he finished speaking, Cheng Lanru had already walked to the backyard.

It was the first time Changsun Huan had seen a woman walking so fast.He thought about it and hurriedly followed.There were straw mats on the ground in the backyard, corpses were placed, and a large pile of plant ash was piled up on the ground, and the ash was mixed with bone residue.

Changsun Huan went to see Cheng Lanru, at the moment she was being scolded by her third brother Cheng Chubi with her head down.

"Lan Ru just brought you food." Li Mingda interjected, not allowing Cheng Chubi to scold him too much, "What did you do?"

"Our Cheng family has a secret steamed bun." Cheng Lanru was stunned by Cheng Chubi's reprimand the moment before, but the next moment she heard the princess talking to her, she cheered up.

"It sounds delicious." Changsun Huan said hurriedly.

"If Changsun Erlang likes it, you can try it. I brought a lot, enough for it." Cheng Lanru said.

"There is a restaurant across the street, let's go there to eat, this place is not suitable." Li Mingda said.

Cheng Chubi glared at his sister, still feeling that she was a bit reckless, and after advising the princess again, he took Cheng Lanru away.Changsun Huan and Yuchi Baoqi also followed.

Wei Shuyu didn't leave, and accompanied the princess and Fang Yizhi to continue discussing the case here.

Wei Shuyu looked at the broken bones mixed in the plant ash, "Could it be human bones?"

Zuo Qingmei nodded, and picked out a few large pieces from the pile of dust, the bones of the thigh and femur, and the sphenoid bone, and two of them happened to come from the same place.Under the tree next to the firewood house over there, there are people from the office who are constantly digging up the pile of ashes.From time to time, a piece of unburnt bone will be found out.

"The bones are dry and brittle, and there are traces of smashing on the edges. They should have been smashed before being burned. Only in this way can more bones be burned, and only the parts that are not easy to burn remain." Zuo Qingmei explained.

"Can you judge exactly how many people died?" Li Mingda asked.

Zuo Qingmei shook her head, "I don't know how many people there are, but at present, there are at least three people."

There are two sphenoid bones in the plant ash, and the broken bones picked up from the dining table are the other.

"The cook must not be able to escape the responsibility, as for the others, we need to examine carefully." Li Mingda said.

Fang Yi agreed, seeing that it was getting late, I asked Li Mingda to have dinner first before proceeding with the trial.

Li Mingda instructed: "Be careful not to leak the news, the surprise review is the most effective." In this way, it is easier for her to observe the flaws in her expression.

Fang Yi agreed, and then ordered his subordinates to keep a close eye on those women in Fengyuelou, and no one is allowed to talk too much.

"These women serve people with sex, I'm afraid they will play some tricks, no matter what the situation is, remember that no one is allowed to get along with the people in Fengyuelou alone, and there must be more than four yamen servants present in any situation." Fang Yizhi added.

The yamen servants agreed and kept guard according to their words.

When it was time to eat, the yamen sent in some Hubing steamed buns.

Seeing this, the false mother winked at Miao Feifei.

Miao Feifei hurriedly clutched her stomach and complained of pain, saying that she wanted to go out.

At this time, several other young ladies immediately complained. They had been imprisoned for a day, and their stomachs were about to explode.

The leader of the guards scolded everyone not to make noise, and then arranged six guards to take a woman to the latrine, so that everyone should not rush forward.

"Come one by one, wait!" After saying that, they didn't listen, and directly drew the knife to their necks.

The girls had no choice but to give up honestly and come one by one as promised.If you really can't bear it, you can also solve it in the wooden barrel prepared earlier.

After Li Mingda and the others cleaned their hands in the wanton building, they tasted the steamed stuffed bun brought by Cheng Lanru.

The buns have just been reheated in the back kitchen of the restaurant.Her buns are different from other buns. The fillings are wet. She uses dried meat, dried fish and honey beans as fillings. It is a bit similar to bean buns, but it tastes more layered than bean buns.It’s like fish stuffing, which is grilled fish with a sweet, spicy and salty honey sauce. The first bite is fishy, ​​and you can taste the fresh sweet juice that smells of fish blooming on the tip of your tongue after chewing carefully.

"It tastes so special, I've never tasted it in the palace, it really deserves to be the secret recipe handed down by your Cheng family." Li Mingda sighed.

Cheng Lanru hurriedly got up and thanked Li Mingda for his compliment.

"Don't come over rashly in the future." Cheng Chubi told Cheng Lanru, "Third Brother won't die of starvation even without your food."

"Look at what you said. I don't know how good it is to have a younger sister who cares about me. I'm so envious that I don't even have a younger sister. There are a lot of younger brothers in the family, but I don't have a single younger sister. You are lucky. You don't know how lucky you are if you were born in a blessing." Sigh enviously.

Cheng Chubi glanced at him, but said nothing.

Cheng Lanru was happy, thanked Changsun Huan for his help, and smiled at him.

Changsun Huan was overjoyed and laughed too.

"In the future, if your third brother doesn't like to eat, you can give it to me. I really like it." Changsun Huan said bravely.

Cheng Chubi gave him a hard look: "What nonsense, why does my sister cook for you? I think it's better for you to dream."

The crowd burst into laughter.

Cheng Lanru asked Li Mingda what case she was investigating, and if she could learn more.

"By the way, has the case of the unnamed female corpse with a bad face that was discovered before been solved?"

Cheng Chubi glanced at Li Mingda, wondering if he should say it or not.

Li Mingda said to Cheng Lanru: "Today's case is the follow-up to that case. I will give you a rough introduction later."

After dinner, Li Mingda and his party went to the Ministry of Criminal Justice.On the way, she talked about the case with Cheng Lanru, and sent Cheng Lanru home along the way.

Cheng Lanru was a little reluctant, and watched them go, so she gave up, turned around and bounced back home.

Cheng Chubi had been sullen all the way since then, he ignored Changsun Huan and Yuchi Baoqi who talked to him, and was bored.

Sensing that Cheng Chubi was wrong, Changsun Huan gave Fang Yizhi a wink and begged him to help.

"But you think your sister is rude to the princess, do you feel ashamed?" Fang Yi spoke straight to his heart.

Only then did Cheng Chubi speak: "I've taught you many rules, but I'm just disobedient. I'm sorry princess."

"I think the princess likes her quite a lot, but you are too reserved. She is just at the age of trouble, so it would be nice to be more lively. Do you want her to be as lifeless as you to be happy?" Changsun Huan said in surprise.

Fang Yizhi also laughed, "Exactly, Chu Bi filtered it."

Cheng Chubi was said so by everyone, and he also doubted whether he was too strict.But it still depends on what the princess says, so I looked at the princess.

Li Mingda didn't speak, and rode forward without saying a word.

"Cousin?" Changsun Huan called out in a low voice, he really wanted Li Mingda to help him say something.

Li Mingda regained his senses, then turned around and saw everyone looking at him, thinking that everyone was analyzing the case like her, and said: "I still don't understand, this Shi Hongyu died too fast."

"Indeed." Fang Yi directly agreed.

Yuchi Baoqi and the others were all taken aback for a moment, and then began to think about the case.

Li Mingda only realized now that some words about Cheng Lanru seemed to float in her ears just now, so Li Mingda gave Cheng Chubi a word of advice.

"When I was as old as her, I was more playful than her. You don't have to be too strict with her."

Cheng Chubi agreed.

Wei Shuyu rode behind Yuchi Baoqi all the time. He didn't participate in the discussion of Cheng Lanru's matter, nor did he think about the case. Instead, he kept looking forward in a daze, sometimes looking at the princess's back, and then watching Yuchi Baoqi peeking at her. Princess look.

A group of people then went to the Ministry of punishment.

The yacha who guarded the gate recognized Fang Yizhi, Wei Shuyu and other aristocratic princes at a glance.And look at these noble young masters, they all respect the newly appointed Chief Li.

It's amazing!The gatekeeper felt that he should curry favor with Mr. Li, so he had a pleasant smile on his face and hurried forward to lead the horse.Unexpectedly, the entourage beside him was agile, jumped off the horse and held him in two or three steps, obviously farther away than him, but faster than him.

Immediately, the guard at the gate saw Mr. Li looking straight ahead, and quickly entered the Ministry of Punishment, ignoring him again.When Mingming came to report for duty for the first time, he looked at him with friendly eyes, so he turned his face and refused to recognize anyone.The gatekeeper yamen hummed quietly twice, and sighed, "We'll see, sooner or later you will be down."

Li Mingda just walked to the trial room, and his footsteps only paused a little.Fang Yizhi found out and asked her what happened.

"It's okay, I heard a fly screaming."

Fang Yi looked around and saw no flies. He guessed that someone must be gossiping about the princess behind her back, but the princess listened to her again.In fact, this ear is very sharp, sometimes it may not be a good thing, the princess is really not easy.

After the group sat down in the hall, Fengyuelou's fake mother was the first to be brought up.

The fake mother was so frightened that she almost lost her mind when she heard what the yacha told them about what they had found in Fengyuelou, she shook her head and said she didn't know, and shouted for injustice.

"I really don't know what that girl's name is Hongyu. I saw her when she came yesterday. Because when this girl came to me to sell wild game, I saw her pretty and lovely, so I intentionally picked her up." Take it into the building. But he is a good family, and I can't force it. Yesterday she suddenly came to me and said that I would do her a favor, so she promised me that I would perform in Fengyue Building for three days. I thought that since she was willing to come in, No matter how many days, she will not be able to run away sooner or later, so she thought it was a good deal, so she agreed to help her. But I really didn't know that the officials were chasing her. She said that some men in the village wanted to take advantage of her. I just ran away and asked for help." The fake mother just confessed, feeling regretful, "Such a beautiful little lady, it's not surprising that someone chased her, so I didn't think much about it, who would have wanted to cause such a big trouble."

"Then why didn't you explain later?" Fang Yi asked directly.

"Anyway, the people are gone. If I explain that, the yamen don't believe it, and instead say that I cover it, then my Fengyuelou will definitely not be able to continue. People who do business have always hoped that more things are worse than others." One less thing. I didn't expect that a little girl like her could commit a big case and work so many nobles to investigate her." The false mother continued to explain with a clever tongue.

"What about these?"

After Li Mingda asked, Zuo Qingmei put a basket of human bones in front of the false mother.

"This..." The false mother looked embarrassed and panicked, her body trembling violently.

"Tell me how you killed this man."

"The master is wronged. I really didn't kill anyone. This is a human body with good bones, but it's a dead body." After the false mother explained in a panic, seeing everyone staring at her, she didn't understand why she didn't explain. She continued, "What the concubine means is that this person He will be dead when he arrives at our Fengyue Tower, he is a dead body bought by someone entrusted by my concubine."

"What? Buying a corpse?" Changsun Huan exclaimed, unbelievable.

Yuchi Baoqi covered his mouth with a fan, lest he would be too surprised and open his mouth too wide to be polite.

The fake mother swallowed her saliva, brewed a little courage from her panic, and continued to tell: "Three years ago, this Fengyuelou was not called Fengyuelou, but it was an unknown place. The business was not good. He eloped with the nursing home and asked me to lose everything. Later, I asked a Taoist priest named Qingfeng to look at it. He said that the yang energy in my place is too strong, and women belong to yin. He gave me a solution, one is to change my name, the moon is Yin, and it is called Fengyue Tower; the other is to enter the dead, add Yin Qi, and must be eaten by the guests. But it is not like this every day, once a year All you need is a tool. Who would have thought that such a coincidence would be met by all of you."

Horrific as it was, the explanation turned out to make sense.

Li Mingda turned his head and discussed with Fang Yizhi for a few words, then asked the fake mother to shut up and wait for orders, and summoned the four cooks from Fengyuelou for questioning.

These four cooks are all men, with big arms and round waists.According to the pseudo-mother's account, these four brothers were hired by her with a lot of money, and she was willing to keep them secret to cook for her.And these four brothers inherited a dumb disease in their family, so all four of them are dumb.

When the four brothers were reprimanded by the yamen to kneel down, the ground almost trembled.

"Can you kill Shi Hongyu?" Li Mingda asked.

The four brothers lowered their heads, and they all nodded yes.

"Why did you kill her? Where is the map on her body?" Li Mingda asked again.

The four brothers did not speak.

Ask again, or don't say.

"Before the arrest, both the room and the person have been thoroughly searched, and there is no map." Fang Yi said straight to Li Mingda.

At this time, one of the brothers raised his hand and gestured with his hand.

The fake mother hurriedly conveyed: "He said that after they took off the clothes on the little lady, they burned them directly, and didn't pay attention to the map."

"Then you ask why they want to kill people?" Li Mingda said.

Then make another gesture.

The false mother said: "He said that when the brothers saw the beautiful girl who came to hide, they felt malicious in their hearts, but who knew that she would not follow, so they strangled the little girl to death with excessive force."

"Why cut off the head and feet and put them in the pot, but kept the torso?" Li Mingda continued to ask.

"Because the meat in the pot was full, the head and feet were too easy to tell if it was a human being, so I threw it into the pot and cooked it. The torso was kept, and I planned to mix it with mutton and sell it together." The false mother continued to convey.

Li Mingda squinted his eyes and looked at the expressions of these brothers. The four of them had no objection to what the false mother said.It seems that the false mother did not misrepresent what they said.

Afterwards, they interrogated the other people in Fengyuelou, and they all said that the false mother usually did not allow them to go in and out of the kitchen and the cellar where the vegetables were stored, and they didn't know about the four brothers' murder and stew.

After interrogating them one by one, using both hard and soft tactics, and cheating, the testimonies of these young women are basically consistent, so they must not have lied.

"It looks like this case is over." Fang Yizhi sighed when sending the princess back to the palace.

Li Mingda nodded, "If Shi Hongyu hadn't stolen the map and connected this case with the death of an unknown female corpse in Yuchi's mansion, then this case would seem to have no flaws."

Fang Yizhi: "Things are not simple, the other party's planning is very thorough, they probably even thought of possible accidents."

Li Mingda very much agrees.

The two separated immediately and went home separately.

When Li Mingda rode back to Chengtian Gate, it was already dark.

From a distance, Li Mingda saw a person standing on the side of the road leading a horse, with a familiar figure, she recognized Yuchi Baoqi at a glance.It's so late, who is he waiting on the side of the road?When they just separated, he was clearly anxious to leave first.