A happy event in a fertile field: the black-bellied husband is as beautiful as a flower

Try your best

When Meng Yan met the queen, there were several concubines present.

Meng Yan said: "I heard that my wife's cloak was not found in the palace, even if I found someone to testify for my wife, it must not be completely convincing. Only when the murderer is found, everything can be revealed."

The queen said: "I also heard from the emperor that Princess Yin Wu wants to help me find the murderer, what good method does the princess have?"

Meng Yan said: "The concubine wants to ask the empress to call all the maids and eunuchs in the harem to verify and find the murderer."

As soon as this remark came out, the concubine next to her laughed and said: "There are thousands of maids and eunuchs in the harem, and Princess Yin Wu's cloak was not found, but now she is asking the queen to mobilize the crowd. Is the princess confident?"

Meng Yan took it for granted: "It's not that you have a plan, the murderer is not among the palace ladies and eunuchs, is it still among the masters of the harem?"

Another concubine said: "Princess Yin Wu, please don't talk nonsense."

The queen pondered slightly: "Searching for the cloak in the past two days has already made the harem restless, and now it is really a labor-intensive task to call all the palace ladies and eunuchs. Princess Yinwu, are you sure? "

Meng Yan said: "My wife is not sure, but I want to try my best. If it doesn't work, my wife is willing to be punished by the empress."

The queen thought to herself, if you don't try, the responsibility lies with yourself; but if you try, it will be good if you succeed, and the responsibility if you fail is not your own.

So the queen thought for a moment, and said: "Pass down the decree of the palace, and call all the ladies and eunuchs of the six palaces to gather in the square outside the palace."

The maids and eunuchs didn't know why, so they put down what they were doing and went to the square one by one.

An hour later, Meng Yan followed the queen out of the palace, and saw people standing densely in the square.The eunuchs and maids were neatly separated on both sides.

Yin Heng accompanied Meng Yan into the palace today, and went to play two games of chess with the emperor.

Meng Yan sent someone to pass a message, asking him to help prepare something.

When the emperor heard that the empress had summoned all the palace people with great fanfare, he raised his eyebrows and didn't say anything good or bad. He came over with King Yin Wu to have a look in person when he had time.

The eunuchs beside the queen raised their voices to all the maids and eunuchs in the square: "This time there was a murder in the palace. The nature of the murder is bad, and the empress will not tolerate it. It also concerns the innocence of Yin Wu, so the empress has an order. This matter must be investigated.”

The eunuch explained the general idea, paused, and said: "In the past two days, everyone has not been able to find the cloak of Princess Yin Wu, but the cloak of Princess Yin Wu is smoked with seven-day incense, and the fragrance will linger for seven days. If someone has touched it If it is, it will definitely be contaminated."

And this contact person, needless to say, must be the murderer.

As soon as these words came out, the palace people in the square were in an uproar.

Even if the fragrance of the seven-day incense can really last for that long, if someone has actually touched the cloak, the smell will be very faint, not to mention that the palace people still have various errands to do in the past two days, and it can still linger. How many points?

Eunuch Huang was the first to speak out: "This scent is something that is erratic. Even if someone has actually touched it, it is only in a very short period of time. Everyone touches complicated things, and the taste is different. How can you smell it? Woolen cloth?"

Meng Yan raised her voice and said, "People's noses can't smell it, but dogs' noses should be able to smell it. Last time I lost a handkerchief at the winter ceremony, but was chased and bitten by a group of dogs. Isn't it because of the dog's good nose?"

Most people in the palace knew about the hound attacking Princess Yin Wu.

When he said this, Eunuch Huang suddenly realized: "Oh yes, this old slave even forgot that there is a dog. This man can't smell it, but the dog is much more sensitive."

Immediately afterwards, Eunuch Huang asked again: "But the princess has been in the palace for the past two days, and there are not a few servants serving the princess. Don't they also get the seven-day incense?"

Meng Yan said: "I was born in the countryside, so I am not used to using those spices, so I have no fragrance on my body. Only the cloak was picked up and cared for by the servants of the palace, so it was scented. Besides, I also They are not used to being served close by, how can they get involved."

It sounded reasonable and well-founded, most of the palace people believed it, and whispered among themselves.

Among the crowd of eunuchs, one of them lowered his head and showed no expression, but his hands in his sleeves were slightly curled up.

Not long after, the people who were ordered by King Wu of Yin brought a dog.

The bark of the dog was powerful and majestic.

The emperor asked aloud, "Are there still hounds in the training ground?"

The emperor himself still remembered that after the last incident of hounds attacking people, all the dogs in the training ground had been dealt with, so there were no more.

What's more, this dog looks more ferocious than those hounds before.

Then the man who led the dog said: "Go back to the emperor, there are no hounds in the training ground, so this dog was found from outside, and it has not been domesticated yet. Please stay away from the emperor."

Yin Heng took the dog from him, and first led it to Meng Yan to identify the smell of Qi Rixiang.

Wherever it went, the surrounding palace people and concubines all retreated involuntarily.

I saw the dog with its head held high and its chest high, indeed full of momentum.

Meng Yan looked at such a big wolf dog, not to mention that it had not been domesticated, even if it had been domesticated, it would make many people's legs weak when they saw it.

She is used to being timid in front of people, her legs were still shaking in a playful way, and she said to Yin Heng: "My lord~~~ can you not let it get too close~~~"

Yin Heng looked at her and said, "If I catch it, what are you afraid of?"

All the concubines in the harem silently slandered: Even if you catch it, you can't change its terrible fact!
Meng Yan: "Then you have to catch up."

Meng Yan shrank her shoulders and watched the big wolf dog approaching her.

She flicked her sleeves, reached out and took out a brown ball, which was the seven-day fragrant pill that Meng Yan said.

From everyone's point of view, she wanted the dog to smell the scent of the seven-day incense first, and then asked the dog to find out the people who were contaminated with the scent among the palace people.

The big wolf dog squatted down in front of her, and Meng Yan carefully brought the fragrant pill closer to it. It moved its wet nose and sniffed, but suddenly bared its teeth, and the saliva trickled down the corner of its mouth. .

Everyone couldn't help breaking into a cold sweat.

Chong Yi, who was beside Meng Yan, also breathed a sigh of relief, and blocked the front to protect Meng Yan, guarding against the sudden attack of the big wolf dog.

Yin Heng hurriedly pulled it away and handed it over to the person who brought it.

While comforting the big wolf dog, the man said: "The strong aroma will stimulate its sense of smell if you get too close to it, and this dog has an unpredictable temperament and a certain fierceness. Please be careful, Wangfei."

Meng Yan hurriedly hid behind Yin Heng, grabbed his sleeve and said, "It's really scary..."

Then the eunuchs next to the queen arranged for the maids and eunuchs in the square to be inspected by the big wolf dog.

(End of this chapter)