with words in mind

Chapter 85 The Case of Bai Ling Palace Maid 6
In the Ci'an Palace, Lu Jiu and Qi Yun were guarding the gate of the inner courtyard. The two little father-in-laws brought a medium-height, slightly thin and tender white father-in-law. This man was the father-in-law Feng, and Lu Jiu only let him enter alone. .

Eunuch Feng bowed his body and came to the inner courtyard of Ci'an Palace, bowing his head and not daring to make a sound. When he saw several nobles, he quickly knelt down and saluted, "This servant has seen a few masters."

Yan Mo: "Do you know Xiaolu?"

"I know it." Eunuch Feng glanced at Xiaodai, who was beside him, and dared not deny it, "This servant knows Xiaolu."

Yan Mo: "When did you start eating with Xiaolu?"

Eunuch Feng: "About a year ago"

Yan Mo: "Tell me what kind of person Xiaolu is in your eyes."

Eunuch Feng raised a pair of small eyes, looked at Yan Mo, lowered his eyes and said: "Little Lu is a poor person and has not had a good life after following Li Guiren. She is always hurt, and the servant can't bear it. I often give her medicine and food. She will be next to the slave." He paused and continued, "Next to the slave, he said how bright the stars are in the sky and how beautiful the moon is. How happy would we be if we were an ordinary couple. "

Yan Mo observed Eunuch Feng, a trace of sadness and panic flashed in his eyes, and asked, "Do you remember the last time you saw Xiaolu?"

Eunuch Feng recalled: "The day before yesterday, the servant gave Xiaolu some medicine for wounds. She was either covered with scars or bruises."

Yan Mo: "Xiaolu has been injured all the time? Li Guiren is long gone, where did Xiaolu get hurt?"

Father-in-law Feng: "The slave asked her several times, but she said that she fell and drank it by herself. The slave has been unable to ask the reason, and then she stopped asking, and just silently gave her medicine."

At this time, Lu Jiu came in with a list and handed it to the prince: "This is from the Shang Palace Bureau."

The prince took it and looked at it, and handed the list to Yan Mo: "Princess Yi'an, this is the list of the people in the palace, and his name is also on it."

Yan Mo looked at it. The list was quite long. Several people were marked with red dots. The prince explained it to her. The ones with red dots were the palace servants who reported the loss of the cloth.

Yan Mo: "There is a dark silk cloth left at the scene of Xiaolu's death, which is exactly the color of your body"

"It's not a servant!" Before Yan Mo could finish speaking, Eunuch Feng shouted, "Dark silk cloth. The cloth that the servant received was stolen a few days ago! Although I don't know what happened, it has nothing to do with the servant! No! Not a slave!! It must be that person!!!”

Yan Mo: "That person? Who?!"

"Xiaolu has eaten other people, and the slave is only one of them!" Eunuch Feng said urgently, "Life in the cold palace is difficult, the slave only sends some medicinal materials and food, and has no spare energy to send other items, but she sometimes brings flower hairpins. Meeting, although it is not a delicate object, it is definitely not something that the palace people living in the cold palace can get!!”

At this moment, Guard Qi held a small dark brown porcelain bottle, and when he came in, he didn't know who to give it to, but he should recognize his own master, and said to Yan Mo: "Master! The guard sent this, saying that it was from here. The poison found in the little public house."

Yan Mo took the porcelain bottle, opened it and smelled it vigilantly, there was a slight aroma: "It's Acacia!"

When the prince heard this, he shouted at Eunuch Feng: "Little scumbag, how dare you cause trouble in the palace! Hidden poison and killed Xiaolu! Still not honestly explaining it?!"

"No! This is not a slave!! Xiaolu is a hang." Eunuch Feng, who was eager to defend himself, quickly covered his mouth!She shivered and fell to the ground.
"Hang? Xiaolu was hanged?" Yan Mo asked tentatively, "Is it your hand?"

"No, no, no." Eunuch Feng's eyes dodged, "No. The slaves don't want to."

Prince: "Do you still want to argue?! The evidence is conclusive! I haven't explained it yet! How poisonous are you?"

Yan Mo stood in front of the prince with one hand, and his eyes signaled to let her come. After the prince agreed, he watched Yan Mo pull Qi Ming, who was full of curiosity, away from everyone, and stood in a corner.

Yan Mo asked, "What is the maximum penalty for causing trouble in the palace?"

Qi Ming understood as soon as he heard it, and said with a smile, "Zhu Jiu Clan."

Yan Mo: "Just killing the palace maid, what punishment will he get?"

Qi Ming: "It's just a death sentence."

When the two returned to their original positions, Yan Mo walked over and squatted down to look at Eunuch Feng and asked, "It's a big crime to punish the Nine Clan by secretly storing poisons and causing trouble in the palace!"

When Eunuch Feng heard this, his whole body shuddered, he was drenched in cold sweat, and panicked! !

Seeing this, Yan Mo shouted loudly, "I'm not going to explain the process of hanging Xiaolu to death!"

Eunuch Feng whimpered a few times before opening his mouth: "The servant was free in the afternoon the day before yesterday and went to the cold palace to deliver medicine to Xiaolu. There are not many guards in the cold palace, so it is not difficult to escape the guards. one person."

On that day, Eunuch Feng carefully hid the wound medicine, thinking that he could see Xiaolu, he was both happy and distressed, and came to the outside of the cold palace, following the big tree, he climbed in and came to the door of Xiaolu's room , I heard Xiaolu's voice soft and flattering.
"Who are you, other father-in-laws can't be compared to you!" Little Green in the back room was lying in one's arms, trying to please him, "They are not men, but you are different~ You have given me such a gift these past few days. Do you feel bad for me?"

A voice that was not rough enough sounded: "Hehehe, Xiaolu, you are mine, do you know?"

Little Green: "Of course I'm yours~"

"It's still the old rules!" Another voice sounded again, with a bit of anticipation in the words.

After a while of rubbing the cloth, the two people in the room took on a strange posture.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" From time to time there was a sound of thrashing mixed with a pleasurable gasp.
Sharing a woman's jealousy and resentment with others, making Eunuch Feng, who was eavesdropping outside, blushed with murderous intent!
"The servant knows that Xiaolu's injury is not because someone bullied her, but a game between her and that person." Eunuch Feng's eyes were blank, he knelt on the ground in the inner courtyard stupidly, and then said, "She is always in front of the servant. Pretend to be pitiful, but the servant is not angry. Recently, the palace is haunted, and Bai Ling appears in the cold palace, saying that it is the ghost of Li Guiren. So!" Having said this, his eyes were full of anger, "At night, the servant sneaked in while the guard was not there. Xiaolu's room, knocked her out! Quietly carried her into the house where Li Gui lived before and hanged her on the beam!! She cheated the servant!! She cheated the servant's sympathy!!!" said He started whimpering again, "Woo woo ah ah. But after a while, the servant regretted Xiaolu. She appeared on the palace wall! She came to find the servant!! She came to ask for the servant's life! She asked the servant why he killed her?! Are all those friendships fake?!! Are those words to comfort her all rhetoric?!! The servant is really obsessed!!!!" He beat the ground hard, sobbing.
Yan Mo: "When you hanged her, she didn't struggle?"

Eunuch Feng muttered, "No."

Yan Mo: "Where are those Bai Ling? Did you arrange it?"

Eunuch Feng said remorsefully, "When the servants entered, those white silks were there, and the servants just used one of them to hang Xiaolu to death."

Yan Mo: "Where's the piece of cloth? But you left it?"

Eunuch Feng said nervously: "It's not a servant. The servant's cloth was really stolen, just a few days ago!"

The prince, Qi Ming and Yan Mo looked at each other, and they understood, Yan Mo said, "He is not the first murderer"

At the same time, the palace staff came to report, saying that it was Mr. Chen, a member of the Ministry of Punishment, who asked to see King Yi'an.

Prince: "Perhaps Lord Chen has further clues, Xuan."

Chen Li, a member of the criminal department, came in and saluted the three of them, saying, "His Royal Highness King Yi'an, the princess, there is another murder on the porch leading to the transfer desk. A palace maid was poisoned to death, but the murderer has been caught! "

The three were surprised: "Have you caught the murderer?"

Chen Li respectfully said, "It's the prime minister's eldest son, Ji Shenwen."

The three were even more surprised! !
"I imprison this person." The prince pointed to Fenggong's justice, and then turned to Yanmo, "Let's go to the transfer desk to have a look."

Yan Mo: "Transfer desk? Where is that?"

The prince explained: "The central hub for paperwork, all wills and documents are drafted and distributed at the transfer desk."

Qi Ming asked Lord Chen, "Where's Ji Gongzi?"

Chen Li: "I'm on the way to take him to the Heavenly Prison."

Qi Ming said to Yan Mo, "Go to the prison first and ask Ji Gongzi what happened."

Yan Mo looked left, looked right, and said, "We have to go anyway, go where you can go first!"

The queen mother behind the screen has been paying attention, because her ears are not very good, and the maids on the side will quietly explain to her what is going on in the courtyard.

A group of people set off to the transfer desk. Qi Ming and the prince walked on both sides of Yan Mo, and the three of them walked in the front.

Yan Mo looked behind him and said softly, "His Royal Highness Prince Jin, why are you interrogating this case in the Queen Mother's Palace?"

Prince: "There are many people in the East Palace, and the Ci'an Palace is different, but not everyone dares to put in the eyeliner, so that you can do things easily."

After listening to this, Yan Mo smiled at the prince. This smile was not only captured by Qi Ming, but also by Mammy Hu who was separated by a few people behind her!

On the other side, Wu Zhao, the Minister of Punishment, was standing at the gate of Tian Prison, when he saw Ji Shenwen being escorted by the guards and came over
Wu Zhao: "Put him in!"

When Qi Ling, who had been peeking around the corner, heard it, she pushed aside the palace people and rushed to the gate of the Heavenly Prison!

The little princess: "He is the gentleman of this little master! No one can hurt him!"

"See Princess—" The crowd saluted Qi Ling.

Wu Zhao: "The Fourteenth Princess?!"

oops!My sister really is! !They are all noble concubines, why are their hearts so big! !They all warned her not to let the little princess get involved! !It's all on the ear! !Wu Zhao thought so, and said to Qi Ling: "I have seen the princess, this person is a murderer! Princess, please go back to the palace, this is not the place you should come!"

Qi Ling held two small pink fists and said, "He looks so good-looking! How can he be a bad person!! Uncle, you are talking nonsense, nonsense is not a good boy!!"

When Wu Zhao heard this, he looked at Ji Shenwen carefully, he was really a gentleman and a handsome man!It's all genetic makeup!How can the two girls look alike! !People who are both good-looking and bad are the most terrible! !

Wu Zhao: "Princess, this person was caught on the spot, so you can't let it go! This is a prison in heaven. If your majesty knows that the princess has come here privately, you will be angry!"

"Don't use your father to scare this young master!" Qi Ling pushed aside the guards and grabbed Ji Shenwen's hand, "He is the gentleman of this young master! That's it!! You can't catch him!!"

"Hey!" Wu Zhao couldn't help Qi Ling, "Quick! Go and invite Concubine Wu!!"

"Yes!"

In the transfer table, the prince stepped into the highest position, Qi Ming and Yan Mo sat on both sides of the second seat.

After the Hanlin scholar Jiang Yan, who was in charge of the operation of the transfer desk, saluted, he had someone bring up the body of the palace maid. Master Chen stood aside, his face was calm, and he just watched the change.

Jiang Yan: "The maid's name is Sui Lan. She was a servant of the transfer desk. She died of poisoning half an hour ago."

Yan Mo got down from the high position, and looked closely at Sui Lan's body, Qi Yun also followed.

Sui Lan's face was cyanotic, her eyes were wide open in horror, she touched her arm through the white cloth, her muscles were stiff and hard as a stone.

Yan Mo: "Guardian Qi, what's your opinion?"

Qi Yun also pinched Sui Lan's arm, then carefully opened the white cloth, and checked carefully, and found that Sui Lan's left hand had the most obvious cyanosis, and her fingers were swollen and ugly, which was extremely inconsistent with her slender figure.
Qi Yun took out a handkerchief from himself to cover Sui Lan's eyes and tried to let her rest, but after letting go, Sui Lan's eyelids still rebounded.

"The preliminary conclusion is that she has been poisoned by spiders. Look, Princess, but it has only been half an hour, and her muscles are already stiff." As Qi Yun said, he tried to break Sui Lan's elbow, and found that he could still move, "This kind of The stiffness is not corpse stiffness, but muscle stiffness caused by toxins, and her inability to close her eyelids, which are symptoms of spider venom."

Yan Mo wanted to check the sting marks on Sui Lan's body, but was stopped by Qi Yun: "No, Princess, this poison can kill her, which means it is deadly. If you accidentally touch the toxin that has not been absorbed completely , maybe it will be poisoned too!"

Yan Mo retracted his hand and said, "Since it is a poisonous spider, it should have sting marks."

The prince stepped down from the high position and said to the palace people: "Quick! Check around, don't let the poisonous spider sting you again!"

A group of palace officials went out to inspect.

Qi Yun started to check carefully through the white cloth, but found no sting marks.

Yan Mo: "The sting marks on this hand are so swollen, it's hard to identify them."

Qi Ming was worried, afraid that Yan Mo would still look at the body with his bare hands, so he crouched beside her just in case, he raised his head and asked Qi Yun, "Do you know what spider it is?"

Qi Yun: "Well, it can poison people and can be bought in the market. It is most likely to be a tarantula!"

Prince: "Could it be an accident?"

Qi Yun: "Not to mention the palace, even the entire capital, it is difficult to see poisonous spiders, and ordinary spiders are not fatal, so this is definitely not an accident, someone must have brought it in!!"

"His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi, His Royal Highness King Yi'an, and the Queen Mother, it was this person who saw the incident at the time." Jiang Yan introduced a guard beside him.

Yan Mo: "Tell me what you've seen, and don't let any details go."

The guard cupped his hands and said, "Princess Qi, my subordinate was on duty at the porch at the time, and when I saw Young Master Ji hurriedly approaching, he happened to pass by Sui Lan, the palace maid, and at that moment, Sui Lan twitched and fell to the ground. Sudden death. After I saw it, I immediately went to check it, and at the same time subdued Ji Gongzi, and informed Lord Jiang and the Ministry of Punishment."

Yan Mo: "Who collected the corpse?"

Guard: "It's a subordinate. When the subordinate sees that the corpse seems to be poisoned, he doesn't dare to carry it directly. He will have it wrapped in white cloth before putting it aside."

Yan Mo: "You said that Ji Gongzi and Suilan passed by and died of poisoning. Did you see that Ji Gongzi cast the poison?"

Guard: "From the point of view of my subordinates, the two just brushed shoulders, and Ji Gongzi didn't touch Sui Lan in the slightest."

Yan Mo frowned and thought for a while, then said, "If that's the case, then go to Heaven Prison and ask Master Ji."

Afterwards, the prince led a group of people to the Heavenly Prison, and Lord Jiang stayed behind at the transfer desk, and Lord Chen and Mammy Hu accompanied him.

As soon as he entered the gate of the prison, Yan Mo saw the guards escorting Ji Shenwen to the inside
"Don't touch my flowery gentleman!! You all get out of the way!!!" The little princess and Yan Mo, who closed her eyes and fluttered her short arms, rushed on the rampage! !The two collided! !

With one hand, I picked up the soft and cute body, and turned it around in a circle!

With her eyes still closed, Qi Ling struggled in Yan Mo's arms and shouted: "Who is blocking the way! This little master has something important to do!! Life is at stake!! Let me go!!"

Yan Mo took a closer look: "Hey! It's your little gun barrel!!"

　Qi Ling Meng fierce: "This little master is a small barrel, you are a big barrel!!"

　　Yan Mo: "!!" It seems right
　　I'm not sure whether Acacia has a fragrance, after all, I haven't touched the real thing, but there is a legend that adding its stem to tea can add fragrance, so here it is considered to have a fragrance!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)