Brocade clothing

Chapter 212 Dead Man's Silver
On the afternoon of the first day of the Longevity Festival, Chu Qing went to the official kiln, took out the prepared gifts, found something specially wrapped, and handed it to the Ministry of Rites for registration in advance. She thought about it and thought of a name. Just call it "Fu Lu Shou".

Left and right also wished Li Tianxiao a long life and prosperity.

The clerk of the Ministry of Rites who recorded the birthday ceremony of hundreds of officials shook his hand and almost broke the Langhao pen of the birthday ceremony. Now that Yu Tixing is so flattering, isn't he afraid that he won't be able to capture the right place and be blamed by the emperor?Whoever gave the congratulatory gift just said that?Although they all wanted to do this, no one was so straightforward.

Chu Qing blinked innocently: "What? Is there a problem?"

The clerk shook his head quickly: "No, no problem, this subordinate will record it."

Chu Qing waited for him to finish writing, and heaved a sigh of relief, then turned around and left the Ministry of Rites, but when he reached the gate of the government office, he met Master Min with a dignified face.

After hearing the commotion, the master ran out. He was taken aback when he saw Master Min. He saluted Chu Qing, and then saluted Master Min. After all, he was going to the peak, but he didn't know how Master Min would do it. Come here at this time.

Chu Qing was also surprised, and asked directly: "Why is Master Min here?"

Lord Min waved his hand: "Go in and talk."

When a few people arrived in the study room, Master Min looked at the neatly placed tables and cases, his solemn face softened a lot, and then became serious again, explaining the purpose of coming.

After Chu Qing finished listening, she frowned: "You said the princess hasn't appeared yet?"

Lord Min nodded: "Not only that, someone reported that a corpse was found ten miles out of the city. It had been dead for two or three days. It was confirmed that it was Amon, the maidservant who disappeared with Princess Ayiyue."

Chu Qing's face also became solemn: "Where is Amon's body?"

If the case is more than a disappearance, it's big.

Tomorrow is the emperor's birthday...

Master Min said: "It's at the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Because of the seriousness of the situation, I have to come here. I need to find Princess Ayiyue as soon as possible, otherwise..." They were afraid that Princess Ayiyue was in danger.

Chu Qing didn't know what Master Min meant. The body of Amon was found and he had been dead for two or three days. I'm afraid that Princess Ayiyue was killed the night she ran out that day. The maid was with the princess. Together, the maid died, and the princess... Chu Qing felt her scalp tingle when she thought about it: "Have you reported this to the emperor?"

Master Min said: "After we found the body, we sent someone to the embassy to inform Prince Wuqing. After Prince Wuqing came to confirm that the deceased was Amon, he immediately entered the palace. Now, I am afraid that the emperor already knows. Tomorrow will be the emperor Birthday, this matter must be resolved as soon as possible. If Princess Ayiyue is still alive, it will be fine. If she dies in Cangshu and the murderer is not found, I am afraid that Prince Wuqing will not let it go." Although the other party is only a subordinate of Cangshu country, but if something happened to the princess on their side, they would ignore it, and they would be a head shorter.

Chu Qing's complexion was very ugly, and he rubbed the center of his eyebrows: "I see, since it has been raised to the prison case, Mr. Min, you can transfer the file directly, and I will investigate this case."

Master Min heaved a sigh of relief: "It's troublesome for you. If it's an ordinary case, it doesn't matter if it's delayed, but I'm not as good as you in solving the case. This time, I'll let you take more responsibility." Master Min gratefully wanted to pat her on the shoulder, Thinking that the other party was a woman, he withdrew his hand again.

Chu Qing directly asked the master to call for the assistant, took Ying Yatou and a few other servants, and followed Master Min.

Amon's body was parked in the morgue of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Chu Qing walked straight to the morgue without stopping, and walked in: "Where is the autopsy list?"

Almost at the same time as Chu Qing was speaking, the people from the criminal department took out an autopsy sheet and handed it over. Chu Qing glanced over and looked through it.

This Amon has indeed been dead for two or three days. According to the time, it was around midnight when the princess disappeared that night. The other party was hit on the head with a heavy object and died from the back. One hit hits the mark.

There were only so many things on the autopsy sheet. After Chu Qing asked someone to remove the white cloth from the corpse, he checked it carefully. Because it was found in a dry well in the suburbs, after Amon was beaten unconscious , was taken out, dragged to a dry well, and thrown down directly. The murderer was afraid that Amon would not die, so he threw stones into it.

This caused Amon to suffer multiple fractures in addition to the fatal injury to the back of his head.

"The other party's methods are extremely cruel, and the princess is afraid that the worst will happen." This is the reason why Master Min had no choice but to come to Chu Qing for help. As long as the princess has a one-ten-thousandth chance of surviving, they will race against time.

Chu nodded lightly, tensed his nerves, carefully observed Amon's body, and heard Master Min talking about other details: "In the past two days, we received a report from Prince Wuqing, and we took the portrait paper Many people searched for anyone who had seen the princess, and found that after the princess came out of the embassy disguised as a servant, she dressed up as a man and went to a brothel called Yinyuelou with her maid Amon, but after they entered, probably It was discovered that she was a woman, and she ran out within less than a stick of incense. I heard that the princess had a big fight with the people outside the Yinyue Tower, and then left with Amon. But after that, the two of them completely We lost our tracks. We thought the princess was hiding from us and refused to come out these two days, but we didn’t expect that someone suddenly found Amon’s body two hours ago. The body was found ten miles outside the city. We have sent someone I went to check it, there is nothing special there, but why did the murderer throw the body there?"

"There are few people around, so it's easy not to be found." Chu Qing said: "When this Amon's body was found, did he still have money on him?"

Master Min said: "Not really."

Chu Qing shook his head and said, "Where is the reporter who found the body?"

Master Min was puzzled: "Master Yu, you are looking for the informant, but you suspect the informant?"

Chu Qing shook his head and said, "No, I want to know whether this case is a murder case or a robbery and murder case."

If it's the latter, it's much easier. The other party watched the other party go to the brothel, and it was two women who had evil intentions and accidentally came up with the intention to seek wealth and death, but if it was the former...then the case would be much more troublesome.

First of all, Amon was killed, but the princess's body was not found. It's just that it makes people feel strange... Why is there only one body?Where did the other party take the princess?
When Master Min heard Chu Qing's words, his face became serious. If it is true that this is not a simple robbery and murder as Chu Qing said, it may be more troublesome. Today's envoys from all countries are here, and they are still there. There are several vassal states, and if it is really necessary to investigate, I am afraid that it will be quite troublesome and easy to offend others.He only hoped that the matter would not be more serious as Chu Qing said.

Almost after Chu Qing finished speaking, Master Min asked the civil servant to bring the reporter over.

While flipping through the files, Chu Qing glanced at the reporter, who was about 40 years old and was not well dressed. There were several holes in the shoelaces on his feet, and his clothes were also torn several times. It was mended with different cloth, and the stitches were crooked. Obviously, it was not done by a woman, and the other party should be unmarried.Chu Qing raised her eyelids and glanced at him. The other party lowered her head, folded her arms, and flinched. When she saw the two of them, she knelt down and kowtowed: "Liu San'er, a grassroots man, have you met my lord? .”

Chu Qing said: "Just raise your head."

Liu San'er tremblingly raised her head, her eyes wandered around, she just didn't look at her, which gave people a kind of vicious look, plus her back was arched and her neck was shrunk, like a bird huddled in a corner. Rats, people's first sense is not very good.

"My lord, didn't you already know the identity of the deceased? Why, why did you call the little one over?"

Chu gently sniffed the smell in the air, but the corner of his mouth twitched: "There are still a few details to ask, and I will ask you, what do you usually do for a living?"

Liu San'er's body froze: "Ah, I have to ask about this?"

Chu Qing put the dossier aside: "This is a natural question. After all, you were the first to discover the deceased, and that place is so remote. Why did you appear there? What did you do there? Or," she said. Speaking of this, the voice suddenly became louder, quite deterrent, "Are you actually the murderer?!"

The last few words frightened Liu San'er to death. He quickly shook his head in horror: "My lord! The little one is not a murderer! The little one is really not a murderer! Really not!" He had never seen such a battle before, and everyone stared at him. Looking at him, there were two high officials whom he could not afford to offend, who were shaking like chaff.

Chu Qing almost didn't give him a chance to react, and lied to him, and quickly continued to ask: "Then why do you have the dead man's silver bag on you? You are not the murderer, who is?"

"No! My lord, listen to the little one, this silver bag is..." Liu San'er was about to refute immediately, but in the middle of speaking, she met Chu Qing's sharp eyebrows and suddenly realized what she said, and her voice suddenly stopped Stopped, the neck was stretched, like a stalked duck, it looked quite funny, but because of this, the whole body trembled even more, and the face was frighteningly pale.

He swayed a few times for the last time, and fell powerlessly to the ground: "My lord..."

Chu Qing squinted her eyes: "Liu San'er, are you convicted?"

Liu San'er was frightened to death: "My lord, the little one really didn't kill anyone, just... he was just greedy... He took the dead man's silver bag, and definitely didn't kill anyone. How dare the little one have the guts, it really wasn't the little one who killed him... ..."

Chu Qing lowered her eyes and sneered: "The area around the dry well is sparsely populated, and there is no one there on weekdays. How did you find the body there? You still say you are not a murderer?"

Liu San'er was frightened to death by Chu Qing, in order to remove the suspicion, she quickly told what she knew: "My lord, the little one is really not the murderer, the reason why the little one is there... yes, yes ..." Liu San'er rolled his eyes, flustered in his heart, but when the words came to his lips, he rolled around a few times, but he couldn't continue.

(End of this chapter)