beauty heart thorn

Chapter 46

With the arrival of summer, the scorching heat began to sweep through Gangneung City.

Chun'er put the ice cubes full into the wooden basin, and ordered people to carry the two basins of ice into the room.

Gu Mingzhu is painting.

Soon the iced mung bean soup to relieve the heat was brought out, and after drinking half a bowl, Yueyan and Ah San came back from outside.

Ah San put the food box on the table and said, "Miss, Uncle Guan asked me to bring back the cakes."

Gu Mingzhu asked: "The pastry chef is sick?"

"Okay, Uncle Guan still feels ashamed. If it wasn't for the pastry chef's illness, the pastries in Shisanyuan wouldn't have been delayed until now."

"It's never too late for good things."

Chun'er brought out a few extremely delicate snacks, and said in amazement: "Miss, this master is so skillful, he actually looks like a little rabbit."

There are five small and exquisite rabbit cakes placed on the plate, with pink eyes, snow-white body, and three-pointed innocence in the expression, anyone who looks at it wants to pinch it.

Look at another plate, it is a serious peach cake, the ordinary peach cake is a piece, and this plate is pink and white, peach blossom-shaped pastry, the most amazing thing is that the petals are lifelike Thousands of petals.

Gu Mingzhu touched it with her hands, and said, "It's the petals drawn by mixing peach pollen with honey. It's really ingenious."

She picked up the spoon on the side, took a sip, nodded and said, "Not bad."

Gu Mingzhu put down the spoon and said: "Keep this dish, and send the rest to Miss Yue's family, just say I gave it to you."

"Yes."

Chun'er packed up the food box and went out, Ah San simply followed along without incident, leaving Yueyan in the house.

Yueyan said: "Miss, on the way back, I saw Fan Zhong from the Ministry of Punishment leading his men to the palace."

"It's the third day, and it stinks."

The pavilions and waterside pavilions of Prince De Prince's Mansion are connected with the lotus pond. It is hot in summer, and the pond water soaked in corpses caught the attention of the maids in the mansion, who found the rotten corpse of their young master.

Fan Zhong was wearing a dark red official uniform, and there was nothing left in the narrow cracks of the rockery.

Fan Zhong looked serious, squatted down, and lifted the white cloth covering his face. The boy's face was as white as a ghost, lifeless, and there was a faint stench. The dagger penetrated into the abdomen and stabbed the vital point.

Wu Zuo finished the body examination: "He was pushed into the pool and drowned after being seriously injured and unconscious. The murder weapon was this dagger."

The dagger has been taken out, Fan Zhong took the murder weapon and looked at it for a moment, and found a mark in the shape of a maple leaf on the bottom of the dagger.

"Hongyelou!" Fan Zhong whispered.

Li Sui came over anxiously at the arch, Fan Zhong put away his dagger and went forward to salute: "I have seen the prince before."

Li Suili didn't pay any attention, and walked straight towards the person on the ground. After seeing the face of the person on the ground, his face changed drastically, and his legs softened involuntarily: "Yu'er...my Yu'er!"

The group looked at each other.

Prince De has two sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Li Yuan, is 24 this year, but he was born with leg problems. He was raised in the mansion since he was a child and rarely showed up. Only ten years old.

Li Sui grabbed Fan Zhong's collar suddenly, and said angrily, "Check it out for me! I'm going to tear him into pieces!"

"Humble job must do its best!"

The news of Ion Yu's murder spread throughout Jiangling City in an instant.

How courageous it must be to kill the son of the current prince!
"People from Dali Temple also went."

Gu Mingzhu turned a page of the book, and the half-emptied basin of ice cubes was filled again.

Gu Mingzhu said: "Let them check it carefully and collect all the accounts I have in hand."

"Yes."

Yue Yan went out.

Gu Mingzhu put down the book slowly.

Although she acted hastily, she was clean and quick, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice couldn't find her. The only people who knew were Yue Jingshu and Yueyan.

If Yue Jingshu betrayed her, then Yue Hua's affairs would not be concealed. If all Jiangling knew about this scandal, not to mention ruining Yue Hua's life, she would be treated as an accomplice by Li Sui.

It's already the sixth day, and it's time for the Ministry of Criminal Justice to investigate Hongyelou.

On the second day, the news that Li Sui was openly holding a knife at the gate of the palace shattered the chatter of the people in Jiangling City.

"It is said that Prince Rui hired someone to commit the murder, and paid a lot of money to hire people from Hongyelou to kill Ion Yu. The purpose is to make Prince De have no heir."

"No descendants?"

"It's no secret in Jiangling that the eldest son of Prince De's legs are paralyzed and inhumane."

Someone asked again: "Hongye Building? What is Hongye Building? Why haven't you heard of it?"

"I heard that it is a murderous building, and everyone in it looks like Yama, seducing their souls and killing them."

"Who did you hear?"

"The neighbor next door works in the criminal department. He told me yesterday when he was drinking with me."

"really?"

"Is that still fake?"

"If you say this city is really lively, there are so many murders. I also heard that outside the city a few days ago..."

The people in the tea shop chatted and gossiped after dinner.

Yueyan listened to it over and over, and then drove the carriage back to Gu's residence.

She hurried into the courtyard and found Gu Mingzhu who was taking a lunch break: "Miss, Chu Qiu's letter."

Gu Mingzhu was in a light sleep, but she opened her eyes when she heard that, and asked in surprise, "Chuqiu's letter?"

What will happen at this time?

Yueyan said: "Chu Qiu personally looked for me."

Gu Mingzhu sat up, opened the letter, read it quickly, her expression changed slightly, and handed the letter.

Yueyan took it, read it, and frowned instantly: "Someone offered 100 million taels for Xu Jue's head!"

She continued: "The pavilion ten miles outside Mingye City..."

"This person still wants to see you?"

Yueyan felt relieved and said, "Miss, this matter..."

"I'm very curious." Gu Mingzhu said slowly: "One million taels, take Xu Jue's head, at this juncture, who will it be..."

Yueyan sat down beside her, she frowned, thought for a moment, and said: "Crouching tiger, hidden dragon in Jiangling City, but there are not many who can take out 100 million at once."

Gu Mingzhu said: "This person wants to take advantage of the chaos and get rid of the serious trouble in his heart."

Yueyan was stunned, and quickly responded: "...Miss is suspicious? But, how did he find Hongyelou?"

Yup!

How did he find Hongyelou?

The two looked at each other, Gu Mingzhu sneered, looked at the note, and said, "It seems that there are traitors in the building."

"This person is in Jiangling!" Yueyan pondered: "It should not be an important person, this person did not directly find Hongye Pawn Shop."

"You go there yourself and think of a way. No matter what, you must find him out!"

night.

The wind is light.

The teahouse fell silent, and at the door of the firewood room in the backyard, two young women stood on the left and on the right.

Soon a person who was completely hidden in a cloak came in from the back door.

Covered in cold dew, Gu Mingzhu pushed open the door of the woodshed.

The firewood room's vision was dim, and there was a vague smell of blood, so Chuqiu lit the lamp.

A pair of white-faced embroidered shoes caught the eyes of the people on the ground.

The man was drugged and couldn't use any martial arts in his whole body.

Gu Mingzhu knelt down in front of him: "Historical official."

The historian's mouth was sour, and he called out in a dejected way: "The landlord..."

Gu Mingzhu smiled: "It's good that you still recognize me as the landlord. What benefits did he give you? Increased official status? Thousand hectares of fertile land?"

The historian shook his head: "No... no, I just heard that someone was looking for Hongyelou, a message of 1 taels... I just told him how to get in touch with us, my subordinate... my subordinate didn't say much Anything else."

Gu Mingzhu stretched out a hand, and raised his chin slightly, her smile was very soft, but the historian could see the murderous intent from that touch of softness, Gu Mingzhu praised softly: "You didn't expose the position, you did a good job, but……"

Gu Mingzhu's hand covered his throbbing Adam's apple: "Historical official, from the day you entered Hongyelou, you should know that betrayal has only one end..."

The historian's eyes were terrified, Gu Mingzhu twisted his hands, only to hear a click.

She clapped her hands and stood up: "Hang him in a conspicuous place for everyone to see."

Chu Qiu lowered his eyes: "Yes."

(End of this chapter)