Wish Junshou and Tianqi

That night.

The bustling embers gradually disappeared into the thick night, most of the shops on the street were locked, and the streets were deserted and joyful.

A carriage was driving on the empty street, running without distraction.

Turning around an ordinary intersection, the people in the car couldn't sit still.

Gao Zhishui raised the bamboo curtain on the side window of the carriage, and looked out. The grass and trees are all soldiers, with a guilty conscience.

"Gaofu should turn left, what's going on? Stop!" She frowned and shouted to stop, but the driver outside the car continued to drive forward as if she didn't hear it.

Gao Zhishui was in a hurry, he bent down and climbed on the carriage and was about to lift the curtain and lean out to have a look, but was stopped by the "driver" outside: "Miss Gao, why don't you just sit quietly, obediently see you and I will let you go home safely .”

The "coach driver" drank again, the reins pulled on the horse, the whole carriage bumped forward, Gao Zhishui fell backwards completely weightless, and was thrown back on the seat.

Her heart was beating fast, stuck in her throat, her chest was tight, and it was difficult to breathe. She opened the bamboo curtain of the side window, trying to find out where she was at this time, but the surroundings were dark. She checked for a long time, and then put it down in despair.

After a while, the carriage stopped in an unknown alley. Gao Zhishui huddled in the corner of the carriage, her face paled. Hearing the footsteps of the "driver" gradually approaching the window, she inadvertently grabbed her group robe.

The curtain of the car was lifted from the outside by a big hand, and he saw his black robe along the hand, but the man didn't shy away from it, and showed his face straight.

Gao Zhishui saw the man's face clearly by the moonlight, with slender eyebrows and eyes, rebellious and rebellious, just after sending away a bodhisattva, another plague god came.

"Lu...Master Lu?"

Lu Xiaonian responded casually, hooked his hand to signal her to get off the car, and said coldly, "Come down."

Gao Zhishui got out of the car slowly, and before he landed, he saw that there was also a carriage on the opposite side. There was a person sitting in the driver's seat outside the carriage, his legs dangling in the air, and he was obviously smiling, but it made her shudder.

"Someone brought it to you, so hurry up and ask what you want to ask."

Chu Shou nodded towards Lu Xiaonian, he stepped to the side, and stood there quietly.

Gao Zhishui's heart was pounding, Chu Shou came here, probably... also because of that earring.

She swallowed nervously and walked forward slowly.

Chu Shou smiled and watched her walk step by step with her head bowed, bowed her body, and then asked timidly: "My little girl has met the princess, I don't know... the princess..."

Before the words fell, Chu Shou opened her mouth first. The corners of her mouth were curved, and she was covered in green clothes in the night. She was gentle and mysterious. Also at the banquet, I saw the disaster with my own eyes, and today I showed up wearing assassin earrings, are you trying to provoke the princess?"

Gao Zhishui hastily argued: "No... dare not."

"Don't dare? Why do I think Miss Gao is very bold?"

Chu Shou turned his eyes and saw the bloodstains on Gao Zhishui's ear, and sneered, "I said, why did Song Yanqing come to this kind of occasion? In order to make a big splash in Yaji, Miss Gao is really willing to go."

Gao Zhishui noticed Chu Shou's gaze, and was stirred up by her words, but he was a little bit tougher: "Back to the princess, this is just... just a transaction between me and Mr. Song, one thing for one thing, about the assassin The news has been truthfully reported to... Mr. Du Yushi, if the princess wants to know, you can ask Mr. Du Yushi."

"what--"

Chu Shou raised his eyebrows and let out a soft cry, and continued: "It's unfortunate that the princess just led troops to surround the Metropolitan Procuratorate a few days ago. Miss Gao is so sensible, why don't you help the princess to reconcile?"

"Miss Gao, the dew is heavy at night. I advise you to speak quickly while this person is still able to talk." Lu Xiaonian leaned against the wall with his arms folded and his chest closed, and tried to persuade him in a neutral manner. Leaving the school, and worshiping under the name of Wei Chou of Dali Temple, but also learned a lot, some of which are ways to make people talk.

Gao Zhishui gritted his teeth, pursed his lips and told the whole story: "When I came out of the palace that day, at the intersection of the long street, the carriage of Uncle Guo's house blocked the way, saying that I lost something, this earring is me... Xue Ying found it on the big box behind his family's carriage, and I saw a dark figure in a small alley on that street, maybe the assassin found it and came back to look for the earring."

"I swear, that's all I know!"

She saw Song Yanqing as early as in the panic at the Qianqiu Banquet. She has always regarded herself as noble, and before Song Yanqing returned to Beijing, she hadn't thought that there could be a son and young master in the capital who could match her, so when she found the assassin earrings , When she saw the figure of the assassin, she hesitated, and asked someone to catch the assassin and send him to the Metropolitan Procuratorate. It would be better to make herself the only witness and clue. It is more dangerous when it is dangerous, but it can always be connected.

Chu Shou lowered his eyes and thought, Zhao Qinghuai was dead, Gao Zhishui didn't know about it, Song Yanqing and Shen Yike were able to compromise with Gao Zhishui because of a dubious clue, they also had no clue about Zhao Qinghuai's death.

If she really escaped in Uncle Guo's car, along that road, her destination should be the Metropolitan Procuratorate. I am afraid that someone will appear on the road and take her away, and that group of people will be who?
One thing after another emerged, one person at a time, and the paths to find the truth were cut off one after another, leaving people at a loss for clues.

Lu Xiaonian opened his eyes and stood up, glanced at Chu Shou, waved his hands at Gao Zhishui and said, "Aren't you going?"

As he spoke, he kicked out a small stone, sighed, squatted down, picked it up between his index finger and middle finger, threw it towards the dark place in front of the left, and said lightly, "How long are you going to listen to? "

Gao Zhishui's footsteps in the car stopped, and he saw a person coming out of the dark place, dressed as a Confucian scholar, with smiling eyes, he said: "I have seen the princess."

"Wu Zhuo from the Ministry of Punishment, er... I went to the Yaji banquet today and saw that Ms. Gao's earrings are strange, so I came here to ask."

Saying that, Gao Zhishui bowed into the carriage like a breeze, and came to ask one after another, did she regret it?It doesn't seem to be the case. After tonight, this matter is considered a turning point for her.

Lu Xiaonian raised his hand, and a man walked out, led the carriage, and turned it out.

Chu Shou clasped his knees in one hand, and asked with his chin in his hand, "Since Mr. Wu has heard it all, what do you think?"
Wu Zhuo still squinted his eyes and smiled gently, and said: "The assassin mainly died of poison. I thought it was the poison on the princess's arrow. Later, I asked Mr. Chen. Princess, you don't have the habit of quenching poison. There is no trace of poison on the wound, and the broken heart may have been buried long ago."

After hearing this, Chu Shou laughed out loud, "Then I would like to thank the two adults for helping me remove the suspicion."

"However, princess, when you shot the arrow, you missed it a little bit, which is not like your style."

"Is that what Chen Ji said?"

"That sentence makes sense." Lu Xiaonian interrupted with a smile.

Chu Shou turned his head and gave him a white look: You talk too much...

"The most important thing is that a token for entering and exiting the palace was found at the discovery site, but I don't know who made it." Wu Zhuo took it out of his arms with a smile, then scratched his head embarrassedly, and said: " The lower officials have forgotten that this is considered evidence and cannot be shown."

When Lu Xiaonian heard the token, he turned his head and looked at Chu Shou with a look of scrutiny.

Chu Shou smiled and said: "At that time, the banquet was in chaos, and the princess had done her best to shoot an arrow in her shoulder and save the noble concubine. As for the arrest of the assassin and the resolution of the case, I still have to rely on the third division. "

"Naturally, I will try my best." Wu Zhuo bowed again with a smile, "It's just that the clue is broken, and I want to hear the thoughts of the princess."

Wu Zhuo's boss is the stern and selfless Master Xu Chun. He often follows Master Xu to have discussions with Wei Chou and Chen Ji. When he came out, he was obsessed with solving cases, so he was naturally very curious about the princess.

"I believe that everything that happens in this world has a reason. What kind of cause will bring about what kind of effect, and the decision of the case is nothing more than stripping away the cocoon, looking for the cause and the effect. Mr. Wu has a lot of evidence, where should I start to investigate? much clearer than me."

The dancer was selected by Luo Qi, the son of Xing Wang. The Ministry of Justice went to ask early in the morning. Luo Qi only said: He is only responsible for selecting the dancer and choreographing the dance. The selection criteria are mainly based on dancing skills. It's not like doing this kind of thing that lifts a rock and shoots itself in the foot.

Without evidence, Wu Zhuo is half-believing, and Luo Qi has a special status, so it is difficult to draw conclusions easily.

As for the deadly poison that was planted early, it also lasts for seven days. If there is no antidote, it will be poisoned. From last night to the previous seven days, she must have a connection with the person who planted the poison.

She often wears a soft sword around her waist, and uses her main force to assassinate noble concubines. It can be seen that she is well-trained, and she presumably has made arrangements.

After checking the information of the deceased, she was a dancer from Yanliu Lane in Kyoto, and she was selected by Luo Qi to perform dances for the Qianqiu Banquet. Eating and living with her, I haven't seen any clues.

Chu Shou and Wu Zhuo each had their own ulterior motives, what Chu Shou thought was: the token is not really evidence, and it can be explained that she picked it up in disorder, but Zhao Qinghuai obviously came to Beijing with them, She has a lot of connections with the Metropolitan Procuratorate, if she revealed it easily, wouldn't it put the Metropolitan Procuratorate in danger.

And she also knew about Song Yanqing's arrangement that the Metropolitan Procuratorate had arranged a banquet for people in black to cause chaos for thousands of years. As for Zhao Qinghuai, at first Chu Shou thought she was also arranged by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so at first she saw Zhao Qinghuai flying over with a soft sword At that time, she didn't think that Zhao Qinghuai would kill her, but the soft sword she drew was aimed directly at the imperial concubine's throat, which was full of murderous aura.

What if it's a fake show?That was her departure from the mission assigned to her by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Perhaps another group of people threatened her with the poison in her body to force her to act in a real act, then it would make sense for her to escape from the palace and be kidnapped by that group on the way to the Metropolitan Procuratorate .

The most urgent task is to find out the group of people behind her, they want to make the fake show real, and want to take the life of the noble concubine.

Among all the incidents, the only person who lied was the one who claimed that Zhao Qinghuai had been practicing dancing at the Shizi's mansion...

So the final key to this matter...is today's His Royal Highness—Luo Qi.

Wu Zhuo saw that the clue came to Gao Zhishui and was cut off again, and the fight he was going to do was unsuccessful, so he smiled and said: "Teach me, if this is the case, I will resign as an official."

After Wu Zhuo left, Lu Xiaonian drove the carriage again, and Chu Shou sat beside him, Su Tiying, Ah Shui and three thousand people in the carriage were already sound asleep.

"He wants to investigate with you, but it's good for you, what cause and effect..." Lu Xiaonian teased.

Chu Shou waved his hands and shook his head, "The third division should be responsible for this matter, I don't have that much time."

"That's right." Lu Xiaonian nodded, remembering that he asked Chu Shou to come forward to investigate his elder brother's jade smuggling, and said, "What about you, you just need to think about the jade that was smuggled to the Central Plains, and I have to leave the rest to me later. A little bit!"

Chu Shou nodded with a smile, turned to look at Lu Xiaonian who was driving, and said, "Of course, I'll be eight and you two, one price, how about it?"

Lu Xiaonian replied straightforwardly: "After investigating the smuggling matter, I'll sell it to you for nothing!"

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Metropolitan Procuratorate, study room.

"The princess asked Lu Xiaonian to find Miss Gao. After asking some questions, he also met Mr. Wu Zhuo Wu from the Ministry of Criminal Justice. After talking for a while, he has returned home now." Shen Yike stood beside Song Yanqing's desk with Unfolding the small rolled-up note, Song Yanqing recounted the content on the paper.

Song Yan nodded slightly after listening.

Shen Yike said again: "It seems that the princess chose to stand with us after getting angry again."

He stared at the earrings on the table in a daze. The earrings were not vulgar. The jade was warm and transparent, and then he said lightly: "It would be better if she didn't interfere in these matters, at least it proves what I said this morning." It's not in vain." Song Yanqing sat with his arms propped on the table, and sighed with his forehead closed.

"It's not in vain?" Shen Yike was surprised, "If the Princess listened to it, how could she ignore it and save the Metropolitan Procuratorate? It is clear that Zhao Qinghuai and we returned to the capital with her own eyes."

Shen Yike looked at Song Yanqing's face, and his voice became softer.

"The Ministry of Punishment has determined that Zhao Qinghuai died of poisoning, and we are starting the investigation from the beginning." Shen Yike said, with a smile in his eyes, if he didn't know that there was an organization leader behind Zhao Qinghuai who specialized in burying poisons, he might be blind in the dark. They are gone.

"Follow carefully, and if you find anything unexpected... report to me immediately."

Now it's just waiting for the Ministry of Criminal Justice to find out that there is an organization behind Zhao Qinghuai and make progress. By then, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will not be the only team to investigate and deal with the culprit.

Today they easily handed over the person to the Ministry of Punishment, and pretended to be bored, but in fact they had this kind of thought in their hearts.

After all, even if they monitored Zhao Qinghuai all the way, they couldn't catch the mastermind behind the scenes, so if you check and I check, the strength of unity is great!
"Also... Find out what happened to Lu Xiaonian recently." Song Yanqing's voice was muffled.

After hearing this, Shen Yike shook his head with a helpless smile, and said, "You might as well ask Princess Ruchuan yourself."