with words in mind

Chapter 284: The Diverging Minds and Shadows 9
When Qi Ming was taking care of the prince in the teahouse, Qing Muhui arranged Yuan Xiao to commit suicide and locked the prison door before the guards arrived!Afterwards, he nimbly hid in the dark corner on the top of the cell!

After a few breaths, the guards who delivered the food took a closer look and seemed to have something wrong, so they quickly opened the lock to check, and panicked immediately!Several people came forward to check Yuan Xiao's breath, and after confirming that he was dead, they all ran out!Run straight to the dungeon gate! !
"Don't eat it! Quick! Inform your lord! Quick—"

Aoki Hui seized the right time, followed the running guards, walked lightly, and took advantage of the darkness of the lights to escape from the dungeon in the chaos!Move as fast as the wind! !

"!" As soon as the guard ran out of the gate, he felt a strong wind. He looked back vigilantly, only to find that his companions followed him!

I have to sigh, this brother's footsteps can be described as advancing by leaps and bounds! !

"You stay! Don't let anyone come near! You! You! Come with me!"

Aoki Hui took advantage of the darkness to hide, and left the government office quietly before the guard gave the order!
After returning directly to the Duke's mansion, he saw that Yuemingxuan was still empty, and guessed that Yan Mo and King Yi'an hadn't returned yet.
When he continued to sneak back to the guest house, unexpectedly, at the end, the real problem came!
Because Miss Yang sneaked into his room unexpectedly! !He was crossing his hands, half bent, staring at the raised mattress.
"!" Aoki Hui hurriedly shrank to hide!He wanted to enter the house to replace his subordinates, but at this moment he really felt that it was a bad time, which made him meet Yang Mitu! ! !
In fact, Yang Mitu saw that there was no sound in the house for a long time, so he went in to check it out, but he didn't want to, the young master was covered by the quilt and there was no movement at all, which made her stay in the house, hesitating back and forth, whether to lift the quilt to have a look Are people okay.
As everyone knows, under the quilt, the fake Aoki Hui is facing everything with his back, with a fierce look in his eyes, ready to use his sword at any time!

"!" Aoki Hui didn't want his subordinates to reveal their secrets, and he didn't want the other party to hurt innocent people because of this. At the critical moment, he rushed into the room wearing a night clothes and a butterfly mask! ! !

Long hands up and down!Just as Yang Mitu was about to look back vigilantly, someone restrained him from behind: "Yes!"

"go!"

After the two figures leaped out of the window, the subordinate in black threw off the quilt and hurried away!
The owner of the pavilion, the captive, never needs to say much!So he knew that the "go" just now was for himself!
The bright moon is in the sky, and the street scene is brilliant. Even if there are no fireworks on the street, those colorful lights also dye the night sky with layers of faint halos, which are colorful and extremely beautiful.
The wind blowing in the ears is familiar, and the skills of the people behind him are also familiar. Yang Mitu has already let go of his guard, and Xiao Lu slammed into his heart in anticipation: Is it you, the savior?

The corners of the dark green and yellow-green clothes are rustling, above the bustling street, two moving figures are like fairies descending from the Milky Way, exuding the charm and ambiguity of the whole life.
The world looks up at the stars,
Nine Heavens Fallen Dust, Yiren leads.

Dim lights have been silent,
Who knows Dou Nianmian.

As the voices faded away, Aoki Hui directly brought people to a well-decorated inn!After entering the guest room through the window, he let go of the other party, quickly dodged, and hid behind the bed curtain!
"Hero! Is that you?"

"Don't come over!" Aoki Hui warned, through the veil, he saw the other party stop before he continued, "I put the girl on the beach and left the island. I don't know if the girl is safe. Now you have no I'm relieved."

"Hero! Wait!" Yang Mitu tried to get closer, but when she saw the man backing away quickly, she hurriedly stopped, "Because the hero has saved me many times, this girl won't have time to thank you in the future, why don't you leave a name and make a friend~" said In the last sentence, her tone was full of joy and anticipation!

"Since the girl is a guest of the Duke's Mansion, I don't need to worry about it anymore. Duckweed has no roots, and I have no name and surname. Miss Quan pretends not to know me before!"

"That can't be done!" Yang Mitu was very reluctant, "For the grace of saving life, you should give it to me with your body?"
"?" For the unfinished sentence, Aoki Hui under the mask couldn't help frowning, and tilted his head slightly, wanting to wait for the other party to tell the truth, even he himself didn't realize that the expression under the mask was much uglier!I thought, it turns out that Miss Yang is a passionate lover.

"Repay him with a spring!" Yang Mitu immediately changed his words, although the other party rescued him many times, he was too handsome to be saved!But she pretended to be Mr. Aoki in her heart!

"." Aoki Hui couldn't help blinking his peasy eyes for a while before he calmed down, "Ahem. It's a little effort, girl don't care." After finishing speaking, he was about to rush out of the window
"Wait, wait!!" Yang Mitu hastily stopped him, causing him to stop!There was no light in the house, and she vaguely saw him through the veil through the light from the window, still wearing a butterfly mask, and said with great interest, "Since you don't want to reveal your name, can I call you Mr. Butterfly?" As she spoke, she pursed her lips unconsciously and said, "You can't let me call it hello, the title of a hero really doesn't match the temperament of the young master."

Aoki Hui didn't know why he was blunt. In fact, he didn't know why he showed up to save people when he was on the island. Maybe he didn't want to disappoint Yan Mo. After all, if something happened to Miss Yang, Yan Mo would definitely blame himself
Yang Mitu rolled her eyes, seeing that the other party didn't refute immediately, but was seriously thinking about it, she was secretly happy!
"If the girl wants to call like this, can you agree with me?" Aoki Hui asked after thinking for a while.

"Huh?" Yang Mitu's eyebrows danced brightly, brimming with joy, "Master Butterfly just say it~"

"Today, thanks to the name given by the girl. Why don't you let me treat guests and prepare a table of delicacies from mountains and seas. As long as the girl enjoys them, she will accept my thank you gift."

Yang Mitu just wanted to happily agree, but suddenly felt wrong: "But, the young master is my savior, how can I let my savior treat me?"

Seeing that Huyou was not in place, Aoki Hui's tone jumped a bit, and he continued: "Girl giving you a name is like recreating it for me. I can only save you by hand, which is more important?"

"It seems to make sense." Yang Mitu pressed his finger to his lips, shaking his body happily and said, "The girl in this book is more respectful than obedient~ I like all kinds of seafood! Generally speaking, I like the shells!"

Regarding this impoliteness, Aoki Hui was a little speechless, and at the same time felt that the other party was a bit stupid, but it was worth the effort to settle this big trouble!
"One more thing, I want to ask the girl to keep it secret."

Yang Mitu: "Master Butterfly just say it~"

Aoki Hui: "I'm a hacker, I can't show up in front of others, the girl has seen me, keep it a secret."

"It's easy to say, easy to say!" Yang Mitu said very boldly, "I understand the rules of the world! Don't worry, my lord~"

Hearing this, the corners of Aoki Hui's mouth could not help but relax, and even his tone was charming: "Girl just wait here, the seafood will come in a while, so farewell!"

After finishing speaking, the black figure flashed swiftly, no matter what Miss Yang said, he turned a deaf ear to it!Getting out is the top priority! !
"Hey! Don't Mr. Butterfly enjoy it together?!" Yang Mitu felt very regretful when he saw the other party disappear into the night outside the window!The exuberance just now is gone! "I thought. You would eat with me. How can two people eat happily if one person enjoys it?"

Tuk Tuk Tuk!
At this time, there was a knock on the door of the guest room!The waiter in the shop heard noises in the room, and wondered when the guest would come to this room?

Yang Mitu always behaved like a young lady, she didn't bother to do such sneaky things, so she opened the door generously, handed over a piece of silver and said, "Good tea, serve me! Light the lamp!"

"Hey!" The shop waiter greeted Yinzi with joy, "Okay! Guest officer~" After entering the door, he lit all the lights in the house and went out. After thinking about it, he shook his head and thought hard, this girl When did you come in?He has been busy on the first floor, how could such a beautiful girl not notice? !

Following swift steps down the stairs, the waiter was greeted by a strange wind just as he reached the first floor!
After the wind passed through, he only felt that his hands were heavy!Looking down, it turned out to be two ingots of gold and an order, all of which were delicacies from mountains and seas! !
"Send it to the lady in Furong Room!"

The waiter in the shop couldn't help trembling when he heard the voice coming from nowhere in the air!But seeing that the gold in his hand is real, no matter it is a ghost or a master, he dare not offend, he hurriedly said: "Hey! Don't worry, the master, I will do as I say." He quickened his pace and rushed to the back kitchen!

When Aoki Hui in the dark saw that things were stable, he flew away and disappeared into the night!

Just when Yang Mitu was depressed and enjoying a big meal, Qing Muhui quietly went back to the house, went back to his room, changed into a night suit, and hid in the bedding
And at this time, Qiming happened to bring Yan Mo and the prince back to the residence.
After Xiao Ren came back, he guarded the east wing and didn't check the guest courtyard, so he didn't know all the changes in the guest courtyard.

Back to the moment, Lu Jiu received a notification from the official, and immediately ran into the courtyard!He was also kind, seeing the imposing manner of the master, he was afraid that the princess would suffer, so he caught the important news and broke in directly!
Who wants to!The prince and princess are very hot!

He hurriedly covered his face, stood up straight and continued to report: "The official sent a letter saying that Yuan Xiao committed suicide in the dungeon in fear of crime!"

Qi Ming and Yan Mo were shocked at the same time!
Mingzhou government office.

Jiang Yan heard such bad news just after he came back from the outside world. He is so devastated that he really has nothing to do!

First of all, he asked the guards to guard all the entrances and exits and keep the scene!

Yuan Xiao committed suicide under his jurisdiction. This matter can be said to be big or small, if it is small or small, if it becomes big, maybe even the crown prince will be involved!

When Qi Ming and Yan Mo arrived, Jiang Yan had already paced back and forth several times with a sad face!

"Ah! The next official sees King Yi'an and Princess Yi'an."

Qi Ming: "What's going on?"

"Hey" Jiang Yan sighed, "Your Majesty will follow the official to see it."

After the three of them came to the dungeon, Yan Mo carefully inspected the structure of the dungeon, as well as the situation of the guards stationed there. Following Master Jiang all the way into the depths, she was also surprised when she saw Yuan Xiao behind the fence!
Inside the cell, Yuan Xiao was lying on a straw mat wooden bed, with a table pressed against his throat, and his hands and the corners of the table were tied together with cloth strips.
Yan Mo stepped forward quickly and asked the guards to bring the torch closer. After the fire was bright enough, she saw that what bound Yuan Xiao's hands was the other's waistband, one was torn into two, each tied one hand.

The two belts are the same, with one end tied to one hand and wrapped around the wrist several times, and the other end looped around the iron fence and tied to the corner of the table.

The edge of the table caught Yuan Xiao's neck and broke his throat.

"This is." Qi Ming followed Yan Mo to look around, and he had roughly understood it.

Yan Mo echoed the other party and expressed his conjecture: "He first tied the belt around the corner of the table and his wrist respectively. In order to let the table squeeze his throat, he shortened the length of the belt around his wrist until it was enough Short, unable to make him push the table away. So, when he can’t stand it anymore, the more he stretches out his hand to push the table away, the harder the table will squeeze. This is an extremely painful way to die”

"Qi Qi, my lord, my lord, my lord." A guard almost cried, and he knelt down to plead guilty very helplessly, "I am afraid that the prisoner will commit suicide, and I never leave things like ropes, and the belts, my subordinates also After checking, the length is the same as a normal belt, not to mention, there are no beams in the prison. All the meals used by the prisoners are the same as those of the brothers! The subordinates really don’t know that the prisoners will.”

As Yan Mo listened, he could tell that these guards were really careful. No one thought that Yuan Xiao could end his life in such a way.
"You didn't hear him calling for help?"

"No. It was dinner time, and everyone was sharing meals, and the last one was for the prisoner." The guard continued to report, "After the subordinates brought the food, they saw that the prisoner looked like this."

According to Yan Mo's understanding of Yuan Xiao, it was hard for her to imagine that the other party would kill himself.
She stepped forward to examine it carefully. Most of the deceased would cry out in pain and spit out because of difficulty breathing, and there should be remnants of saliva on the table. Traces, no obvious traces of saliva could be observed
Then, she saw that the fence entangled by the belt was a bit strange, and asked the guard: "In the dungeon, the two opposite sides are stone walls, and the front is the prison door fence. Why is there a fence on the back?"

"Reporting to the princess," the guard replied, "there is a small window at the back of the dungeon. Earlier, I encountered a prisoner who would not eat or drink, starved himself thin, and then cut the window grille, trying to escape from there. Therefore, in order to To prevent such things from happening again, the subordinates erected a fence in front of the window to prevent the prisoners from touching the small window. Unexpectedly, something happened."

Yan Mo turned her attention back, she wanted to untie the table and belt in front of Yuan Xiao
"Yan'er!" Qi Ming didn't want to see Yuan Xiao at all, and he didn't want to dirty his hands with Yan Mo. He winked at the other guards, so they could act conveniently.
After the table was evacuated and the corpse was carefully laid flat, Yan Mo stepped forward to check, "Undo all the belts in his hands." As she said, she knelt down to check, and found that a certain degree of corpse spots had appeared on the corpse, and Yuan There were obvious bruises on Xiao's wrist.
After the official yamen inspected it, he saluted and said, "Reporting to the princess, the corpse spot is still fresh. The deceased died for about half an hour. The cause of death was suffocation caused by the compression of the throat. The bruise on the wrist is the What was left before and after his death. The preliminary judgment is that he committed suicide."

Yan Mo generally agrees with Wu Zuo's conclusion, except that she does not believe that Yuan Xiao can strangle himself to death with such strong willpower: "After one hand is tied by a belt, the other It’s hard to tie a belt.”

Hearing this, Wu Zuo stood in front of the fence and fantasized about tying a belt for himself: "It's not impossible. After one hand is bound, the other hand can be tied with the lips and teeth. Besides, there is still room for movement before the belt is wrapped around. , the possibility that the deceased can do it is relatively high.”

Yan Mo pondered, even if it was feasible, why did Yuan Xiao commit suicide?

Qi Ming kept observing: "Yan'er, are you wondering why he did this?"

Yan Mo hummed: "I don't believe he would choose such a painful way to end his life, let alone he was sentenced to death."

"According to the emperor's brother, Yuan Xiao became delirious due to repeated humiliation on the way to the south of the Yangtze River." Qi Ming added, "It seems that they are all pretending."

Yan Mo: "Because of being humiliated many times, he was delirious and came to the south of the Yangtze River. Has he ever been tortured?"

Jiang Yan replied: "No. According to the imperial decree, His Royal Highness paraded Yuan Xiao through the streets. After the completion, he will be kept in the dungeon. For fear of accidents, the lower officials ordered early that he should not be tortured."

Yan Mo: "Since the humiliation is over and he has not been punished, why did he commit suicide? Is there any possibility of homicide?"

"Report to the princess." The guard saluted, "When the subordinates found out, the prison door was locked tightly, and there was no movement around."

Yan Mo: "."

"My lord! My lord! My lord!" Another guard found something on the ground and reported! "This is the suicide note of the deceased!"

(End of this chapter)