Jiapingguan Chronicle

"This is..." Jin Jing frowned, poured tea for herself, drank a couple of sips, handed the rest to Xue Ruitian, and said after watching him finish drinking, "Do you want to kill yourself? Or are you worried that you won't be able to stand the torture? Say something you shouldn't have said?"

"Suicide in fear of crime should be what those of us who already know the insider say. After all, they don't think they are guilty. Don't the people of the Qinglian Sect always think that they are saving the common people?" Shen Cha sneered, "As for Worrying that I would not be able to stand the torture, and saying something that shouldn’t be said, I was thinking too much, after all, they are the women of criminal officials, and generally they don’t use torture lightly.”

"Why is that?" Jin Jing was puzzled, "If they were alive, would Qinglian Church help them out?"

"No!" Shen Haolin drank Shen tea while shaking his head. After speaking, the two smiled at each other, and Shen Cha continued, "It would be a waste of manpower to save them. It's better to kill them and silence them, so we don't have to worry about them leaking. It's a secret."

"That's true." Jin Jing sighed, poured herself another cup of tea, snatched the pear from Jin Miaomiao's hand, took a bite, and said, "They are originally members of the Qinglian Sect, and they act against the Sect. He also knows his style very well, I guess he thought of this."

"Should be!" Shen Cha nodded, poured a cup of tea and handed it to Shen Haolin, took a small plate of fruit and put it in front of Jin Miaomiao, and said, "One more thing, I don't want to suffer." Seeing Xue Ruitian and Jin Jing looked at herself very blankly, and she sighed softly, "They have enjoyed the blessings of most of their lives, from being the personal servants of the Empress Dowager at the beginning, to being concubines in the Ning Mansion of Xijing, they are all very beautiful , although some of the things they do are relatively dirty, they are living a very good life, right? According to the practice of Daxia, the female relatives and family members of offenders are either put into the palace to do hard labor, or sold to the Jiaofang Division. Either be assigned by the inner court, assigned to the royal family or noble mansions as slaves. Do you think they are likely to accept these are the only options?"

"That's true." Xue Ruitian nodded, "I have lived a life of domineering and domineering for most of my life, and I have offended many people. If I sell it to someone they have schemed against, I would be better off dead!"

"Right?" Shen Cha raised her eyebrows lightly, "Besides, the Qinglian Sect is also watching their every move. If they don't stop themselves, I'm afraid they won't be able to survive until the next day."

Speaking of this, she stopped, looked at Xue Ruitian, then at Shen Haolin, wanted to say something, but didn't know if she was right.

"what you want to say?"

"I suddenly thought of something, but I don't know if it's right. At that time, the empress dowager was no longer around, and they all obeyed the new person in power. From this, can we judge that the new person in power was at that time Maybe it's in the capital?"

"Not necessarily." Shen Haolin drank half of the tea, and stuffed the remaining half into Shen Cha's hands, "Based on what we know now, the rules of the Qinglian Sect are very strict, requiring senior members, especially It is the kind that masters the core secrets. When encountering such an accident, you must kill yourself, so as not to leak the secrets in the sect and bring disaster to the Qinglian sect. This is a very rigid rule, regardless of whether the person in power is in Beijing or not. They all have to carry it out. Otherwise, as you said just now, if they don't take any action, there will be killers from the Qinglian Sect."

Shen Cha held the teacup, drank it slowly, nodded frequently while drinking, and said, "I just suddenly thought of this possibility. If the person in power was in Beijing at that time, we might be able to learn from time, From suspicious figures in Beijing to deduce who is in power, or to narrow down a scope, we will not be at a loss until now."

"Take your time. Anyway, we have a lot of news. We will probably know who the person in power is soon. After all, they are those who are close to the empress dowager. The empress dowager passed away. Give such a great power to the person she trusts the most." Xue Ruitian patted his leg, then turned to look at Shen Cha, "By the way, are they coming soon?"

"En!" Shen Cha nodded, "There are still about three days' journey."

"Have you met His Majesty?"

"No!" Shen Cha shook his head lightly, opened his mouth to eat a piece of pear that Shen Haolin fed to his mouth, and said after finishing eating, "It happens that the front and rear feet are staggered, they have been in a coma all this time, don't worry about them being demons."

"That's good." Xue Ruitian breathed a sigh of relief, and knocked on the board, "Come back to business, I think Haolin and Xiaocha's guesses are correct. At the scene where these people hanged themselves, a very strange thing appeared. Huge brazier."

"Brazier?" Jin Jing threw the pear pits into the garbage dish, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, and said, "If my memory is correct, it should be summer when Ningchang ransacked the house, or When the heat is in full swing, it doesn't feel cool to put ice all over the room, and they even made such a big brazier? Was the original plan to heat themselves to death, or to burn themselves to death? Or..." He slightly hooked the corners of his lips, showing a sneering smile, "What are you burning?"

"That's right!" Xue Ruitian snapped his fingers, "At that time, the yamen servants also thought it was strange, so they extinguished the fire in the brazier, and found that what was burning inside were paper-like things, but it must have been burning for a long time , were all burned to ashes, and I don’t know what it is.”

"Sure enough, it's burning things. It should be the letters they contacted with the Qinglian Sect and the Empress Dowager." Jin Jing nodded, looked around, took another apple, and said, "These two concubines It's not ordinary, he doesn't panic when things happen, he is very calm, he handles things in an orderly manner, and arranges everything properly before hanging himself, which is something ordinary people can't do."

"That's true." Xue Ruitian nodded and sneered, "Anyway, this person was trained by the Empress Dowager herself. How can he compare with ordinary people, right?"

"Hey, don't you want to bring so much resentment?" Jin Jing walked to Xue Ruitian's side, patted him, and said, "The dead are the worst, so it's better to be a little more careful." He looked at the relationship in the back house of the Ning family , "When the house was ransacked, Mrs. Ning seemed to be seriously ill?"

"En!" Xue Ruitian nodded, "The servants followed His Majesty's orders and did not embarrass Mrs. Ning or disturb her. She passed away in the house where she lived all her life."

"It's a beginning and an end!" Jin Jing felt Xue Ruitian's depression, put her arms around his shoulders, and shook him lightly twice.

"I'm fine, don't worry." Xue Ruitian smiled at him, "Let's talk about what happened when they were still alive!"

"It's mainly these two!" Jin Jing clicked on the names of Ruohong and Lushui, "How did they get into Ningfu?"