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Chapter 357 The Dead Appears

Jun Hao took a breath: "Damn it, we were careless!"

They actually forgot how the old temptress could be so obedient, and thought that the other party had given up, and they had been concentrating on dealing with Uncle Liu these days, so they were careless, this was carelessness.

"But since it's not Liu Guojiu's person, where did Empress Dowager Liu come into contact with these strange men in black?" Lang Feng asked beside him.

Chu Qing pondered, she actually didn't know if she should tell her guess, but after excluding a thousand people, she could only have this bold guess: "Your Majesty, Mr. Jun, have you ever thought about... It may have been involved with the Xiliang State for a long time."

As soon as the words "Xiliang Kingdom" came out, everyone's eyes in the Yushufang fell on Chu Qing.

"What do you mean? You, you suspect that the old temptress is... treason?" Jun Hao froze, unbelievable: "She can't do it, can she?"

But suddenly, he heard Li Tianxiao asking him to find out the reason why Xiliang's envoys came to Beijing suddenly.

At that time, the envoys from Xiliang came so strangely that the emperor had doubts about it.

It's just that these Xiliang envoys were really just strolling around, and the Xiliang princess and Junnan king were not suspicious at all, so they didn't doubt anymore.

But if... if it is really as suspected at the beginning, the purpose of Xiliang Kingdom's visit this time is not pure...

"I'm just guessing now, but if Uncle Liu didn't intervene in Mr. Yu's matter, although the Queen Mother Liu has been in charge of the government these years, she is a woman after all, and she can't really interfere in the government. Most of the things are left to Liu. Uncle Guo. Uncle Liu Guo is in danger of protecting himself now, and he will not really add fuel to the flames against the emperor at this juncture, but Xiliang is different. If they had prepared earlier, I am afraid that the Xiliang army may be silent now Entering Beijing...just like the Southern Kingdom back then." Chu Qing spoke out her guess.

If it was a peaceful and prosperous age, she might not say it so bluntly, but would check it out first.

But Yu Gufeng was tied up, and his life and death were unknown, so she had no time to procrastinate.

I can only peel off the cocoon, while stabilizing the murderer, while letting the emperor's people investigate secretly.

If it's fake, I can breathe a sigh of relief, but I'm afraid it's true.

Even if she really did what she said in the letter, the other party might not release her so easily.

Li Tianxiao also frowned, apparently feeling that Chu Qing's words were not unreasonable: "Send people to continue the investigation secretly, and send out the people around me. They have been with me for 20 years, and their skills are first-class. won't be found."

"But just in case, Your Majesty..."

"I won't go out of the palace these days. They are useless by my side. If it is Xiliang, they are not brave enough to break into the palace. The palace is safe." Li Tianxiao clenched his fists with a sullen face. .

Liu Yuxi is really good. Back then, for the sake of Mr. Hualun, she did not hesitate to kill her mother and concubine, and let the former emperor die in depression. Now, she is colluding with other countries, intending to destroy the entire Li family's country and society.

Well, that's really great, really worthy of the ruthless Empress Dowager Liu!
Jun Hao wanted to say something else, but somehow he thought of the human skin lantern back then. If Chu Qing hadn't noticed it earlier, Nan Guo would have almost taken advantage of it.

Jun Hao felt that his link between the inside and outside of the palace had really failed.

"I'll do it now, but Gu Feng's side..." Jun Hao looked at Chu Qing anxiously.

Chu Qingdao: "Mr. Jun, be calm and don't be impatient. Since this person dared to write this letter, he was probably too confident and confident. In this case, I will play a few tricks with him to delay the time. If it is an envoy from Xiliang It's nothing more than that Xiliang princess and the Junnan king are staring at them, but don't expose it, you can make a fuss at the right time, and continue to send people to check on Uncle Liu, so as to confuse the other party's sight."

Li Tianxiao hummed, and waved for Jun Hao to do it, and Lang Feng also sent him out.

When there were only Chu Qing and Li Tianxiao in the imperial study room, the two fell silent for a while.

Thinking of the previous kiss, Chu Qing felt a little uncomfortable: "Your Majesty, if there is nothing else, I will leave first. You these days...don't go out of the palace. If I have something to do, I will come to the palace to report. "

Li Tianxiao hummed, but when Chu Qing turned her head to leave, she suddenly walked a few steps quickly, bypassing the case, grabbed Chu Qing's wrist, and pressed her against the palace door beside her.

Chu Qing was startled, and quickly raised her head: "Your Majesty?"

Just raising his eyes to meet Li Tianxiao's pupils that were as dark as ink, filled with affection that cannot be ignored, Chu made a soft hoarse voice, unable to utter a single word.

"Chu Qing, you should understand what I mean. I know you need time, but you have to trust people. As long as you agree, I will never let you down." The deep voice was firm, like a hot spring pouring into it. bottom of my heart.

It's not that Chu Qing doesn't dare to move, she's just afraid.

The other party was the emperor, and there was always a way out, but she didn't.

As long as she nodded this head, once the other party changed his mind after many years, she would either be trapped in the harem forever, treated like a canary, or stay away from the court.

But she is not reconciled to being like her master, who obviously has lofty ambitions, but is oppressed by others and can only be subdued.

She wants to carry forward everything about her master, and a woman who can be called the emperor also represents that she has gone the opposite way.

Chu Qing lowered her head and said nothing.

Even if she didn't look at Li Tianxiao, she could still feel the disappointment surrounding Li Tianxiao.

Li Tianxiao held her wrist tightly, then let it go helplessly: "I'm being reckless, I'll give you time, promise me... think about it, okay? Don't reject me in such a hurry, hide from me ,OK?"

After all, Chu Qing was not cruel enough, she lowered her eyes and hummed softly.

After leaving the imperial study room, with the cool wind blowing on her face, Chu Qing became more awake. She raised her head, looked at the blue sky, and lowered her head again.

She forced herself to pull out these thoughts from her mind, and wait until the matter of Queen Mother Liu is resolved before thinking about it.

Chu Qing did not expect that the people behind the scenes would move so quickly. She had just left the palace and returned to the government office when she heard the servants come to report: "My lord, there has been a murder case."

Chu Qing rubbed the center of her brows, cheered up: "When did it come out?"

"An hour ago." The man opened the record and pointed it to Chu Qing.

Chu Qing counted the time, and it happened to be noon, when Yu Kufeng disappeared, it seemed that the other party had come prepared.

For a day, she gritted her teeth, "Where is the corpse?"

The yamen servant said: "It was found in the depths of the bone forest outside the city. Someone shot a dart directly outside the government yamen. There was this letter on it, and the location was indicated on the letter. Otherwise, it would be considered as dead for half a year. No one will find out."

This dry bone forest is a forest, but because there are too many rats, snakes, insects and ants, and there are ferocious beasts eating people, it is almost a deserted forest. No one dares to go in, and I don't know how the person who reported the crime knew that a murder happened there.

Chu Qing took the letter, looked at it, and sure enough, the handwriting was the same.

She twitched the corner of her mouth: "has anyone passed by?"

"Passed, confirmed that there is indeed a corpse, but the adults went to the banquet, we didn't dare to move, we just let people guard there, and sent an experienced assistant to go there first, but we still have to wait for the adults to take a look first. "The yamen servant reported.

"Well, you go there with me, and," Chu Qing paused, lowered his eyes, covering the darkness in his eyes: "The murder that happened during this period, don't let people destroy the scene, wait until I see it with my own eyes , and then deal with it."

"Are you too tired, my lord, you usually..."

"No, I will handle all the cases in the past few days by myself." Because there are many cases in the whole capital, after she became familiar with the Ti Xing Yamen, she trained many capable assistants.

After the assignment, she has saved a lot of trouble, otherwise, she would not have been able to follow Li Tianxiao to find Hua Lun for so long.

It's just that these three cases now concern Yu Kufeng's life.

She didn't dare to be careless at all.

When Chu Qing led the people to the depths of the dry bone forest, as expected, the government servants and gangsters who went there just stood there without moving.

She walked over, put on gloves, swallowed ginger slices, asked someone to open the autopsy box, and began the autopsy, while the autopsy was recorded by the autopsy.

Chu Qing squatted next to the corpse, looking at the young man lying on a tree with his upper body tilted, his eyes were wide open, his lips were slightly parted, and it was obvious that he was dying.

Her lips were purple and her orifices were bleeding. She took off the man's clothes without changing her face, and checked carefully.

Finally he opened his mouth: "The deceased was male, aged between 24 and [-] years old. The time of death was around noon two days ago. The cause of death was poisoning. There were no other wounds on his body, only two teeth marks on his calf, wrist and wrist. It is preliminarily determined that he was bitten to death by a poisonous snake and died of poisoning."

Chu Qing stood up and looked around. It was half an hour's journey from the entrance of the withered bone forest to here. If you bite, you will die from the poison immediately.

Such a poisonous snake, Chu Qing frowned, not to mention it was too coincidental, after all, this person didn't even seem to resist, being bitten, shouldn't the first reaction be to fight back immediately?
After all, when people encounter danger, they will have a stress response.

But this person didn't have it at all, just stared wide-eyed, and there was a glaring wound on his leg and wrist, unless he didn't notice it.

But bitten by a poisonous snake, maybe there is no reaction?

Another point is that since that person tried everything possible to tell them this information and took this case as the first one, it is impossible for him to die in an accident as simple as that.

Chu Qing circled around, and finally her eyes fell on the burden.

She walked over and opened it, and there were only a few clothes, guides, a money bag with some loose silver in it, and a few pieces of dry food, which were the same as the leftover half of the food in the hands of the deceased.

She opened each one and checked, and found that it was not poisonous.

She opened the Luyin, glanced at it, but slowly narrowed her eyes.

(End of this chapter)