The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 20 The Original Password

When the three of Zhao Xu came out of Daqing Hall, it was getting dark outside, and they had been inside for almost a day.

Although it was getting late, they did not dare to go back, nor could they slack off a bit. It was crucial to fulfill the emperor's order.

It was getting late, and lights were lit everywhere in the palace, especially here, there were not only lights, but also many torches, which illuminated everything around them like daylight.

The three of them knew that tonight was another sleepless night. Could this kind of thing be found through investigation? There was no other way, the emperor was watching!
"Master Zhang, His Majesty Father ordered us to investigate this case because of his trust in us. We must hurry up. I think we should go to the place where the crime happened?"

Although Zhao Xu was asking for their opinions, he believed that they would agree.If they are allowed to fight wars, they are nothing to worry about, but if they are asked to investigate cases, they may fall behind.

Sure enough, both of them nodded in agreement, and soon the three of them came to the place where the crime happened, a room in the Daqing Palace.

It's quite quiet here, and Chai Rong liked the atmosphere here, so he reviewed the memorials here at night.

When Zhao Xu and the others passed by, there were many imperial guards standing outside the door, all of them standing upright, with steel knives hanging from their waists and spears in their hands.

It seems that Chai Rong has already ordered a strict blockade to prevent anyone from entering. Looking at the guards around, the atmosphere is very tense.

As a result, the man who looked like a little commander was guarding the main entrance. Seeing Zhang Yongde and Zhao Xu walking over, he opened his arms:
"Stop coming, no one is allowed to enter without the imperial decree of the emperor!"

Although he knew Zhang Yongde and Zhao Kuangyin, and even knew that the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Army were a system, Zhang Yongde was their boss, but he didn't dare to let Zhang Yongde into it.

After the little commander finished speaking, he smiled all over his face and said flatteringly:
"My lord Zhang, my lord Zhao, this is the emperor's will, not to make things difficult for you, you see..."

His meaning is obvious, it's not that I won't let you in, I dare not let you in without the emperor's will, otherwise my head will be moved.

Zhang Yongde and the others were not unreasonable people. Instead, they praised him for being good, and then Zhao Xu took out the emperor's imperial decree, and the three of them entered the first scene of the crime smoothly.

Not only the three of them went in, but also two imperial physicians. Zhao Xu thought he would need them both later.

Zhao Xu followed behind Zhao Kuangyin and Zhang Yongde, and the two imperial physicians filed in, while the others stayed outside, blocked by the imperial guards.

Walking into the room where Chai Rong stayed yesterday, I saw that the inside was very messy, and many things had been knocked to the ground.

And it seemed that there was a fierce fight. At that time, Zhao Xu was surprised that if there was a fight, why didn't the guards outside hear it?
Perhaps seeing Zhao Xu's question, Zhang Yongde said:
"Your Majesty is here to review the memorial. It's just an occasional behavior. He doesn't come here every night. I also thought about arranging guards for him, but His Majesty refused."

Zhang Yongde went on to say:

"Your Majesty said that there will be no assassins in the palace. There is no need to arrange personal protection. The closest guard to His Majesty is 50 meters away."

Zhao Xu shook his head after hearing this. Chai Rong was really relieved of himself.After there were no doubts here, he looked at the corpses of the two maids.

At this time, Bianliang has entered the golden autumn, and the weather is gradually getting colder. I don't want the weather that autumn should have at all.

The weather was already cold, and it looked even more eerie in this room with corpses.I saw that the two court ladies were still wearing beautiful silk clothes.

It's just that it's already covered with blood, and the beautiful youth has been taken away by Hades, and their faces lying on the ground have long lost their luster.

Some are just pale and stiff, their skin has no elasticity, everything shows that they have no breath of life.

Zhao Xu reached out and was about to strip off the two girls' clothes, but was stopped by Zhao Kuangyin:

"Xu'er, the dead are the most important. What are you doing?" Even Zhang Yongde looked at Zhao Xu suspiciously, not knowing what he was going to do.

Zhao Xu knew what his father was thinking, but he couldn't care less about investigating the case. At that time, people were still in awe of ghosts and gods.

Men and women can't kiss each other, let alone a dead woman, it can't be justified to pull out her clothes at this time.

Zhao Xu turned around and said to the two of them: "Master Zhang, father can't control so much now. Only by finding out the whole story as soon as possible, can he be like His Majesty who has dealt with them and let them die in peace."

Zhang Yongde would die when he heard this, so he didn't say anything and let Zhao Xu do what he wanted. It was okay for him to fight. How could he understand this as an old man.

Zhao Kuangyin didn't say anything either. Zhao Xu let the two imperial physicians at the door come in. In fact, he had learned from Zhang Dejun that these two had worked as eunuchs before.

It was the so-called forensic doctor now, and it was the best in the country. That's why Zhao Xu called them, he wanted an autopsy.

After receiving Zhao Xu's signal, the two imperial physicians unceremoniously stripped off the corpse's clothes. To them, it was just two female corpses.

They took down a bright palace lantern from the side, which made the corpse look clearer, and slowly began to examine the corpse.

Soon the clothes of the two corpses were taken off, but their bodies were already covered with blood.

Just now they only saw bloodstains on the clothes, but when they took off the clothes, they saw that the surface of the corpse was covered with scars, and there were sword marks all over the body, which really looked like stabbed by random swords.

The two expertly inspected Liang Gu's female corpse, and the only conclusion they came to was that she was indeed stabbed to death by a random sword, and there was no other cause of death.

Zhao Xu shook his head in disappointment. He thought that he might get other useful information after the autopsy, but he really didn't think there was anything.

Zhao Xu shook his head at them. Zhang and Zhao were also very disappointed. There was no progress, so they turned and left to check the place where the two maids lived.

This time, Zhao Xu asked Zhang Yongde and his father Zhao Kuangyin to rest. He could go alone, and the two of them couldn't help much.

The residence of the two women has also been tightly sealed off, and the things inside are still placed as they were before, without any movement.

Zhao Xu found two clever soldiers and searched carefully, but found nothing, the only thing he got were a few books.

Moreover, these books were obtained in a box under the bed, and Zhao Xu looked through them on purpose.

Except for the dense numbers written on the first few pages, which seemed to record the expenses of the two court ladies, the rest were all poems and the like.

I heard from people outside that these two people are still from the same hometown, and they have always lived together.

The instructions were well-behaved, they didn't do anything wrong, and both of them were very kind, everyone liked them very much, and they died for some reason.

Looking at so many imperial guards, no one dared to say anything. Only one steward was answering. Zhao Xu said whatever he asked, and he had nothing to hide.

Suddenly his eyes fell on the book that Zhao Xu had found, and Zhao Xu would die to notice it.

"Why do you know this book?" Zhao Xu saw the steward staring at the book.

The steward replied tremblingly:
"These books, my lord, were all bought by the villain. The villain can leave the palace every half a month. Every time, the two of them will give the slaves some money. Let me buy a book for them, and it must be in their palace. I bought it from a bookstore."

He looked at Zhao Xu and the others, and there was nothing unusual before continuing:
"They said that except for the money for the books, the rest is for my hard work. The books are only a few copper coins, but they gave me a few pennies. I, I agreed."

Zhao Xu frowned: "You mean, every time they let you buy books at the same bookstore, it's just one book each time?"

"Yes, adults must be in the same bookstore every time, and there is only one book. It has been more than a year."

It has been more than a year, that is to say, there are more than 20 books, and there are only four or five books here, so where are the other books?
Why do I have to buy a copy every time, and it is still in the same store? There is something wrong with it.

"That is to say, you bought more than 20 books in total, so there are only four or five books here. Do you know where the others are?" Zhao Xu asked suspiciously.

"You said this, the villain once saw them burn some in the house. I think the one is their own book anyway. No one can ask if it is burned, and the slave doesn't care."

Zhao Xu asked a few more questions, but they were all irrelevant, so he waved him back.

In this era, court ladies are not allowed to leave the palace privately, unless the emperor allows them, they can only die in the palace.

The strange thing is that since these two court ladies buy books every time, they still spend a lot of money. This can be said to be an expression of love for books, so why burn them?
Zhao Xuyou strolled through the books on the table carefully, looking at the "financial statement" on it, who would be in a hurry for something in the book.

It's like a numbers game, wait what numbers game, isn't that...

In Zhao Xu's mind, there was a flash of inspiration, and he thought of the original code of later generations.

For a while, he slowly tried the above figures, and after several trials, he finally understood that the February cost on the first page of the book corresponded to the sixth page on the second page of the book. Character.

It took Zhao Xu an hour to finally restore these original passwords.

After reading the translated text, I finally understood that there was a reason why Hou Zhou sent it to the four states of Hou Shu.

These secret words were sent by the imperial court of Hou Shu. It seems that Hou Shu penetrated into the harem of Hou Zhou very early.

Zhao Xu didn't think much, so he hurriedly went to the side room to find Zhang Yongde and Zhao Kuangyin, and then they went to the emperor together...

(End of this chapter)