Comprehensive film and television: The Queen of Rolls Opens the Roll Again

Gong Yuanzheng was still thinking about this puzzle even after he went to the next room to help Gong Shangjiao screen for suspicious items.

"Brother Yuanzheng, what are you mumbling about?" Gong Shangjiao couldn't help but ask.

His five senses were very sensitive, and Gong Yuanzheng's words were not normal, so he repeated them over and over again in a breathy voice, which sounded like a spell and the buzzing of flies, and it gave him a headache.

Gong Yuanzheng was stunned for a moment, and actually showed a bit of worry: "Nothing, I just noticed that Miss Zheng's lips are not as bright as before? I don't know if it's blood loss caused by internal bleeding. But her internal energy can function normally, so it shouldn't be... She won't let me get close, so I can't feel her pulse, it's really troublesome."

"Ahem." Gong Shangjiao suppressed his smile and instructed him, "Brother Yuanzheng is still young, so he naturally doesn't understand these things. Women love beauty, and brides must put on makeup before they get married. You saw that the color was bright before, that's because Miss Zheng Er put on lipstick. Later it wasn't as bright, it's just that time has passed, the color has faded, and she needs to touch up her makeup."

"I see." Gong Yuanzheng suddenly realized, "No wonder it was still bright red when I woke up, but it faded a lot when I moved to another room, and it turned pink just now..."

Although the new knowledge I learned from my brother seems to be useless, lipstick fades so easily and it sounds troublesome to have to touch up the makeup from time to time.

Is she also troubled by this?

Why not, he take some time to study how to fix the color of lipstick?

Gong Shangjiao's eyebrows jumped: "Okay. You will have plenty of time to learn about these things in the future. Now concentrate on your work and see if you can infer some of the purposes of the assassins from the things they brought into the palace."

Gong Yuanzheng responded and quickened his pace.

From the two dowry boxes of Cheng Angyun, the third daughter of the wealthy Cheng family in Yuanjiang City, the following items were found:

A black nightgown sewn into the lining of a thick skirt;

a small roll of "gold thread for embroidery" so sharp that it could easily cut a person's throat;

A handheld device consisting of eighteen pills with a cool plum scent that can cause uterine cold and infertility.

"It seems that someone really wants Miss Cheng San to die. Her fate was determined long before she entered the palace." Gong Shangjiao hooked the roll of "gold thread" with his fingers and took a closer look. He was also wearing the same black and gold-thread protective gloves as Gong Yuanzheng.

Even if Cheng Angyun wanted to deny that she was the assassin without a blade during the interrogation, and that she only held Gong Ziyu hostage because she was panicked and wanted to save her life, the first two items hidden in her dowry alone would be enough to prove her identity as an assassin.

"Combined with the information brought back by the person in charge of the outpost before his death, we can be sure that Miss Cheng San was the pawn thrown out by Wu Feng to attract our attention and save the other two Wu Feng assassins."

Gong Yuanzheng was stunned: "So, Wufeng deliberately let the person in charge of the outpost live and bring the news back to the palace gate, just to make us think that there was only one Wufeng assassin who sneaked into the bride candidate list."

He laughed happily: "Brother is indeed the smartest. Brother understood the problem that Zhi Ren and the former young master could not find at a glance!"

"Brother, you are on a long expedition, don't make rash comments and be careful with your words." He is indeed still a child, talking nonsense about the truth.

"Yes, brother." Gong Yuanzheng lowered his head and continued the search.

Soon, they searched the dowry box of Yun Weishan, the daughter of the Yun family in Yunxi Town, and found:

A small box of light crimson silk floss lip balm laced with aphrodisiac;

A small box of six sticks of incense mixed with musk, which can cause miscarriage;

A pair of gold showerhead hairpins that can be unscrewed to put medicine powder or small notes inside.

The most special thing was found in the dowry box of Shangguan Qian, the second daughter of the Shangguan family in Dafu City:

A jade pendant, the white jade is warm and smooth, but it is the style used by men;

A box of Dafucheng's specialty sauce flower tea and a box of six incense sticks called "Autumn Cicada Sleep". Both are good things for calming the mind and helping sleep when used separately, but when used together, they will become a kind of cold poison that hurts the mind and attacks the heart.

At first, it can make people feel confused. After a few days, the poison becomes more serious and people will mutter to themselves as if they are hysterical, become cold and infertile, and eventually go insane and die. If the poisoning is not discovered and treated in time in the early stage, even if the poison is removed, the body will be damaged. Not to mention pregnancy, catching a cold when the wind blows is already a sign of good health.

This was the first time that Gong Yuanzheng encountered such an example of mixing elegant things to create a poison. He was as excited as a child who had gotten a new toy. If Gong Shangjiao hadn't been staring at him, he would have taken the things back to the pharmacy to study them.

"It looks like they are all used by women to compete for favor..." Gong Shangjiao picked up the jade pendant from the table with two fingers and turned it in front of his eyes. His fair face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost. "So that's why. Their target is the former young master and me."

"Brother, how did you know that?" Gong Yuanzheng looked at him in surprise.

Gong Shangjiao held the jade pendant in front of him and showed it to him: "I lost this jade pendant four years ago."

He closed his eyes and looked calm, but a chilling aura emanated from his body.

Gong Yuanzheng closed his mouth tightly, feeling a little nervous and a little worried. This meant that Gong Shangjiao was angry.

Gong Shangjiao had a very good memory. He calculated the approximate time when the jade pendant was lost, and it only took him a short time to dig out the memories of that day from his huge memory.

On a cold night, near the east gate of Dafu City, a young girl was huddled in the corner and shivering. In front of her, four or five hooligans with foul language were surrounding her and trying to do something indecent to her.

Just as Gong Shangjiao was riding out of the city, the group of people blocked the road, so he whipped them.

The whips cracked loudly, and the hooligans screamed and struggled to escape.

Before leaving, Gong Shangjiao glanced down at the girl, then rode away.

When he arrived at the next stop, he discovered that the jade pendant with an eagle flapping its wings carved on it that his father had given him on his seventeenth birthday was missing.

Now, the jade pendant appeared here.

Gong Shangjiao opened his eyes expressionlessly, stroked the warm jade pendant with his fingers, and then put it into his sleeve pocket.

His eyes were like frozen snow, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, with some contempt and amusement: "This Miss Shangguan's target is me. Wufeng started this scheme against me four years ago."

He briefly told Gong Yuanzheng what happened that year.

Gong Yuanzheng was so angry when he heard this: "Who dares to plot against my brother like this!" His brother clearly saved someone, but the other party was setting a trap to take the token from his brother.

"Just wait, I'll go to the dungeon and give her a good beating tomorrow." The rebellious young man sneered, with ferocity in his eyes.

Gong Shangjiao glanced at him helplessly, but did not expose the fact that his silly brother had forgotten that the Wufeng Assassin was still unconscious.

However, the problems with the palace itself revealed by this inspection were not small.

"Brother Yuanzheng, go and get some doctors from the clinic right now, and take my warrant to the ladies' courtyard to find Madam Fu. Ask her to send a maid to go with you and re-check the dowry boxes of the seven brides to be selected."

Gong Shangjiao was not the kind of person who cared about what time it was. He went out and told Jin Fu, "Go to the sickroom where the seven brides are. Before they wake up, have the maids search them and bring their belongings here for inspection."

Recalling Zhang Xueming's method of hiding things in the past, he reminded again: "Let your hair down and look carefully to see if there is anything hidden in it. The same goes for nails, to see if there is any problem with the nail polish, to see if there is any powder hidden in the nail crevices. Check if the earrings can rotate and whether they are hollow inside..."

Gong Yuanzheng was stunned when he heard this: "Brother, you are too amazing, how do you know so much about women?"

"Be careful with your words." Gong Shangjiao glared at him and went in to write a warrant for him.

Gong Yuanzheng looked at his back, frowned slightly, and murmured in a low voice: "Could it be that my brother has a close relationship with a woman outside?"