Gui Yuan

"Dead?" Tao Ji was obviously surprised, "How can a good person be gone?"

Ning Qing took a look, the body of the attendant was still in the twitching posture, his eyes were still open, but he was gone.

Wei Yao squatted down to check, and found that the attendant's lips were an unnatural reddish purple. He stood up and met the third prince's searching gaze, and replied, "It seems to be poisoned."

This can't be treated as a trivial matter and concealed. No one can say for sure whether the person behind it wants to poison the servant or the prince.

As soon as these words came out, the servants around the third prince suddenly became nervous. Zhao Min happened to come back, and Wei Yao directly asked him to go to the servant of the Ministry of Punishment, and asked him to send someone to deal with the scene.

During this period, Wei Yao led a group of soldiers to surround Juke Zhai secretly, and called the waiter who had just served the food to question him.

The shop clerk saw the horribly dead corpse on the ground, lost all three souls, and was surrounded by so many people, staring at him with unkind expressions and wanting to ask questions, he knelt down and begged for mercy: "Master, gentlemen, I don't know how little you are!" What happened, please tell me."

Ning Qing gave Wei Yao a hand: "Grandpa, with your courage, you will scare people to death before you ask anything. It's just a question, why don't you let me come?"

The waiter in the shop knew Ning Qing, knew that this was the son of Zuo Xiang's family, and was a frequent customer of the shop, so naturally it is better to be close than to be close, and to be familiar than to be born.

"Young Master Ning, Young Master Ning, you have to help me." The waiter seemed to have found a straw, begging while hugging Ning Qing's leg.

"Hey, what can I do for you?" Ning Qing managed to help him up, persuaded him to sit down again and again, and said, "Don't worry, just ask casually, and you can answer truthfully."

The shop clerk nodded quickly: "Yes, sir, just ask, the little one will know everything."

Ning Qing nodded in satisfaction, pointed to the table and asked, "You brought all the food, drinks and refreshments here, can you entrust others to handle it?"

The store owner looked at everything on the table with trepidation: "Mr. Ning, you are a regular customer, and I dare not delay, all of which are prepared by the back kitchen, and brought directly up while still braving the fire."

After thinking for a while, Ning Qing asked: "How long have you been in this store, is there a newcomer in the back kitchen?"

"The little one has worked in Jukezhai for five years. We are a famous restaurant in the imperial capital. The back kitchen is full of experienced chefs. There have been no newcomers in the past year."

After several questions, the waiter in the shop answered calmly although he was afraid, and there was nothing wrong with it. Ning Qing nodded to Wei Yao, and Wei Yao asked his subordinates to lead him down to wait for the criminals to come.

"How, what clues can I ask?" Wei Yao looked at him.

"In my opinion, the waiter is fine. I'm also a regular customer of Jukezhai. What he said is almost the same as what I know. It's not like lying. Besides, it's unnecessary. Lying about such things is easy to reveal."

Ning Qing sat down and poured a glass of water, but was stopped by Wei Yao: "You still dare to move around at this time, are you afraid of being poisoned?"

"I'm thirsty, it's okay." Ning Qing pushed Wei Yao's hand away with a smile, and drank it down. "The attendant seems to be poisoned, but it may not be related to the food here."

The third prince sat down and asked curiously, "How do you say that?"

"There is not much food left on the table of the attendants. Everyone has eaten it. If there is poison in it, it doesn't make sense that only one person will be poisoned."

Tao Ji really made sense after thinking about it, and asked humbly, "Then what?"

Being asked for advice is really a pleasure both physically and mentally, and Ning Qing is even more so.

"It would be even more strange if the poison was on these utensils. The bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses are all taken casually. How can we guarantee who is the poisoner? If you don't care who the poisoner is, what's the point of doing this?"

This makes sense, Wei Yao thought to himself that Ning Qing is not what he looks like on the surface, he only knows how to enjoy entertainment, his talent and knowledge are not achieved in a day, and his talents often have to be admired.

"Then why kill a servant?" Wei Yao asked.

Ning Qing raised his head and looked at him for a moment, then smiled and said, "How do I know that? I don't have the ability to judge cases like those in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, so it's just a matter of fact."

Before Wei Yao could respond, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment arrived with his subordinates himself.

The servant of the punishment department saw Wei Yao and hurriedly saluted: "The servant of the punishment department, Huang Jun, has seen the father-in-law."

Wei Yao introduced him: "This is the third prince of Beidi, and the one who died was the third prince's attendant."

"Ah." Huang Jun only heard that Zhao Min said that the father-in-law invited him, but he didn't expect that Prince Beidi was involved. This has a lot to do with it, and he quickly saluted: "I am a poor-sighted official, and I hope the prince will forgive me."

Tao Ji didn't care about these things: "It's okay, it's okay, Mr. Huang doesn't need to be too polite, let's send someone to take a look."

"Yes." Huang Jun called the assistant behind him and asked people to check the corpse first, and only then did he have a chance to ask about the situation, "I don't know what's going on?"

Wei Yao took a look at Ning Qing, but Ning Qing agreed on the surface but was not very happy in his heart: He is worthy of being An Guogong, with a noble status, and he needs a small person like him to rush forward and work hard.

"So that's how it is." Huang Jun understood that the aftermath of the incident was really not good-looking. "At the foot of the imperial city, someone poisoned the prince and his ministers. It is really lawless. Don't worry, my lord. I will do my best to investigate."

After the initial inspection, the author came back and replied: "It is poisoned, but the specific poison needs to be checked in detail after returning to the Ministry of Punishment."

"Okay, you guys pull people back first."

After this incident happened, the third prince's trip back to Beidi was delayed. After all, he was from Beidi. If he died in the imperial capital, he had to give Beidi an explanation.

The next day when Emperor Xiangfeng heard about this incident, Long Yan was furious: "Nonsense! Someone is so rampant and dares to do poisonous things in the imperial capital. Huang Jun."

The servant of the Ministry of Rites hurriedly knelt down and obeyed orders.

"How did you check?"

"Back to the emperor, Wu Zuo checked the corpse overnight, and finally found out that the prince's attendants were poisoned by Qingqianzi."

Qingqianzi is a highly poisonous herb unique to Da Wei, and Da Wei can't get away with it now.

"But there is something else?"

Emperor Xiangfeng's tone was no longer friendly, and Huang Jun replied with a slight layer of sweat on his forehead: "It will take some time."

Before Emperor Xiangfeng got angry, Tao Ji warded off Huang Jun's disaster: "Your Majesty, I have a heartless request, and I hope your Majesty will fulfill it."

Seeing that it was the third prince, Emperor Xiangfeng's complexion looked better: "Prince, it's okay to say."

"After all, the one who died was from Beidi, so I dare not bother Da Wei to worry too much for us. I would like to ask Your Majesty for some helpers, and I will investigate the murderer by myself."

Emperor Xiangfeng thought that this was reasonable, he was from Beidi after all, he was worried that he would lose face, now that the prince of Beidi asked himself to do so, it doesn't matter if he agreed.

"Of course it is possible. Who does the prince want to help?"

Tao Ji raised his head and said: "General Wei and Mr. Ning were also there that day, I would like to ask them for help, it will be more convenient."

Emperor Xiangfeng glanced at Feng Yu, and Feng Yu whispered in his ear, "He is the son of Ning Xiang."

"That's fine." Emperor Xiangfeng thought it was all right, and pointed to Huang Jun: "You, follow the arrangements of Prince Tao Ji and Duke An, and wish them catch the real culprit as soon as possible."

"Yes, I have taken orders, and I will do my best." At this point, Huang Jun breathed a sigh of relief.

Wei Yao knelt down to salute and accepted the order.

It was rare for Ning Qing not to go out of the mansion. When Tao Ji came with Wei Yao, he was sitting in the Linchi Pavilion in the mansion, drinking tea while playing chess with Lin Rong, killing Lin Rong to the point of exhaustion.As soon as he saw someone walking this way from a distance, Lin Rong said, "Young Master, the Lord and the Third Prince are here to look for you."

Ning Qing saw someone: "Okay, you put the chessboard away first, and play next time."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Lin Rong scattered all the chess pieces and put them in the chess box. Feeling his unfriendly gaze, Lin Rong hurriedly begged for mercy: "Young master's chess skills can't be compared with your master, let the younger one Let's go back. In this way, I will go to the kitchen to see if the tea cake that Young Master likes to eat is ready, and bring it to Young Master."

Ning Qing reluctantly spared him: "Go, go."

Accepting Lin Rong's gift, Wei Yao went to Ning Qing and sat down: "What's wrong with your masters and servants?"

"It's nothing more than playing tricks again, so don't mention it." Ning Qing bowed to Tao Ji, "Why is the third prince here?"

Tao Ji then told him what happened in the court.Ning Qing said helplessly: "Prince, you think highly of me too much. I'm just a little smart. How can I really solve the case?"

"It doesn't matter. Master Huang from the Ministry of Punishment will help us when necessary. That attendant has been with me for several years and has done his best. I want to find out the murderer myself, so that I will not be in vain."

Tao Ji's affectionate look was really touching, Ning Qing couldn't help it, and agreed: "That's good, but the third prince don't expect me to be of much help."

After breakfast the next day, Wei Yao and Ning Qing went to the Ministry of Criminal Justice first.

Hearing that the poison was Qingqianzi, Ning Qing felt really strange: "Qingqianzi is highly poisonous but far less poisonous than Hedinghong, which seals the throat when it sees blood. It is strange to ingest this poison."

Wu Zuo replied: "Exactly, there are quite a few cases of poisoning in the past, but most of them are arsenic | the poison is released quickly, clean and neat, and this is the first time I have seen it used as poison."

After thinking about it for a while to no avail, Ning Qing didn't think too hard, and suddenly remembered, and said to Huang Jun: "Before the case happened, there was another theft case in Juke Zhai, and the person should still be detained by the government. I don't know if it has anything to do with it, Master Huang." How about sending someone to bring the prisoner to the Ministry of Punishment for questioning?"

"There is such a thing, okay, the next official will immediately send someone to pick him up."

After leaving the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Wei Yao got into Ning Qing's carriage, saw several layers of mattresses on the carriage, and refreshments on the desk. All stripped clean.

"Just now you asked Mr. Huang to mention someone, do you really think the two are related?"

Wei Yao's sudden question brought Ning back to his senses: "The two should not have much to do with each other. It's just that the shopkeeper was a little strange when we intervened yesterday, so it's just unnecessary."

Wei Yao didn't say anything.After being quiet for a while, Ning Qing turned around and asked, "Grandpa, you are also a martial arts practitioner, I have something I don't understand and would like to ask for advice."

"What's the matter?" Wei Yao asked, closing his eyes and resting his mind, and opened his eyes to look at him when he heard his words.

"Will the exercise of exercise make the meridians active and the blood energy rise?"

"Yes, why?"

"There was nothing unusual about this attendant at first, but after a few tricks with the thief, he fell to the ground for a while, so I thought..." Ning Qing suddenly came to his senses, looked at him and said, "Could it be that the activation of the meridians caused the The poison spreads, so the poison is released in advance?"

"According to this calculation, this attendant would have been poisoned after returning. In the wing of the official post."

The two looked at each other, their hearts were like a mirror, so there was no need to say anything, Wei Yao knocked on the carriage, and Zhao Min asked, "What's the matter, General?"

"Changed to the third prince."