see you tonight princess

A strange case happened, and the capital of a state died. It was a big deal, but the murderer couldn't be found.And inexplicably, the only son of the head of the Xia clan, the main family in Jiangzhou, was involved.Jiangzhou Chengfu Yin was under a lot of pressure, and the sweat on his forehead came out one by one like beans. He nodded and bent down, followed Xia Mengfu's back and kept wiping with a handkerchief.

Xia Mengfu walked into the courtyard of Liuyuan, and walked into Xia Lvsi's hall under the bow of Xiao Zhuzi.Xia Mengfu reprimanded with a straight face, "Look at what you did! You tore up my old face!"

"Damn the lower official! The lower official is guilty!" Fu Yin slapped himself, and asked with a bitter face: "Why don't you let the prince out immediately, what do you think..."

"Fart! I caught it in front of everyone! If she doesn't give her an explanation, and just let it out so vaguely, how will my son gain a foothold in the future? Where will I put my old face in the future?!" Xia Mengfu was angry, and directly played domineering: " I don't care, solve the case tomorrow and find out the real culprit."

"Yes. Yes." The prime minister is the prime minister, and his speech is quite artistic.You can't bend the law for personal gain, but you want to solve the case "tomorrow" and give the prince an explanation... The governor's veil was wiped and his forehead was wet again.

At this moment, Xiao Zhuzi brought them to the table: "Master, the son usually uses this desk, and this is where he met Ma Zhizhou that day. This is the drawer."

Xia Mengfu stretched out his hand and pulled the drawer, but the drawer was empty.

"What's going on? Where is the contract book?"

"This, this! I don't know! Just put it here as the son said." Little Zhuzi panicked, and hurriedly flipped through the book case.

"Don't look through it. The contract book has been lost, you can go down." Fu Yin sighed, and waved Xiaozhu to go down.

Xiao Zhuzi walked out of the hall and closed the door.Xia Mengfu was panting heavily.Fu Yin cupped his hands and said, "Prime Minister, it is about the ownership of Jiangzhou. I don't know if I should say something or not."

"If you fart, let it go!" Xia Mengfu slapped the table.

"According to the law deed, there are three copies, and the one in the hands of the state government is the arbitration certificate. Why did Ma Zhizhou bring such an important thing here without the prime minister's instruction? Why did the prince suddenly beat Zhizhou in a rage, But left the contract book alone? Why did Ma Zhizhou disappear and die later, but the contract book disappeared.”

"What do you mean?" Xia Mengfu was not happy, co-authoring implied that his son was the murderer, would you be happy to hear that?

"If the contract is lost, then the Prime Minister and the Crown Prince will not be able to change the ownership of Jiangzhou. Although the Prime Minister's family business will also belong to the Crown Prince in the future, but in the current situation, if the Crown Prince occupies Jiangzhou, it will be used by the Eldest Princess and the Zheng family. Who will benefit?" Fu Yin cupped his hands again: "The prime minister has to make a decision."

"She—" Xia Mengfu gritted his teeth and squeezed his fist tightly: "Unworthy daughter, unworthy daughter! Talented but can't be used by me, I would rather she be an idiot! The saint princess is getting more and more popular, and Xia Chi is behind her." If you support me with all your strength, you will ruin my great affairs, and destroy the century-old foundation of my Xia family! You can't give birth to a son and a half for my Xia family now, so what's the use of it, what's the use of it!"

A contract book seemed to be some kind of introduction, which made Xia Mengfu suddenly feel extremely jealous and suspicious of his heir.Xia Mengfu was so angry that he swept all the things on the desk to the ground, and then he was about to leave.

"Prime Minister," Fu Yin followed behind, "I will try to send the son back to the mansion safely tomorrow."

Xia Mengfu paused in his footsteps, and finally said in a deep voice: "No need. Let her stay inside! Let her beg me, let her think clearly that she can rely on my father! Ma Zhizhou is dead, the truth still remains." More importantly, let me find the "Six Commandments", Ma Zhizhou is dead! After that, it disappeared, and I have to dig three feet to find it!"

Fu Yin nodded in agreement, followed Xia Mengfu and left Liuyuan with a bow and wait.

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Xia Lusi is quite familiar with such things as "getting into the game", after all, she used to get into the game every day.But she still underestimated the ancient "game".She was taken to the Yin Yamen of the Jiangzhou city government. Once she entered, it was cold and bone-chilling, and the stone walls were dripping with water.

The strong musty smell in the cell was expected, but Xia Lusi did not expect the smell of feces and urine inside.Especially on the pile of broken straw mats, all kinds of black spots and water stains flowed, just like the litter in the piggery.

I also know that there were no flush toilets in ancient prison cells, let alone the operation of the jailers scrubbing the toilets for the prisoners, so it is conceivable how the three urgent problems of the prisoners were solved anywhere.Xia Lusi almost came out, pinching his nose and sitting in a slightly dry corner, Xia Lusi muttered to himself: "Oh, old Pei, the pig farm we drilled when we went to Zha Yuheng's laboratory I didn’t expect to travel to 1000 years ago, and I would have to do it again. The name of pigsty detective, I’m going to be sure!”

The other two, Zhao Wu and Zhang Tian, ​​were stripped naked and put in a torn sack and pushed into the cell next door. They were still blaming each other.

"You killed someone!"

"You killed it!"

"It's you!"

Xia Lvsi smiled helplessly, it seemed that Fu Yin could not find anything from the two of them.Three people were detained, all of whom were disgusted, but there was no evidence to confirm them.So what exactly is it?

Xia Lvsi recalled that she took a preliminary look when she was at the scene.The wooden door of the warehouse is a single door panel, which is very thick and can only be opened inward.There is a barrier between the door panel and the door frame, and it is impossible to directly use a knife, a thin iron sheet, or the like to insert it in and pry open the door bolt inside from the outside.

Then this case entered an endless loop. The two people in the house accused each other of killing each other, and outsiders could not enter. So who killed Ma Zhizhou?

So could it be that the two conspired to kill Ma Zhizhou, and then blamed each other, deliberately leading the case to a stalemate, so that people could not solve the case?Xia Lu thought for a while, and this speculation was obviously not the case.

Because if it was Zhao Wu and Zhang Tian who conspired to murder someone, they shouldn't have mentioned that they had bolted the door in the warehouse and locked the door from the inside, creating such a "secret room" that obviously locked the murder suspect homicide".

If it is not the secret room, they can push the murder charge to the "fourth person" who kidnapped them and locked them in the warehouse.This is more reasonable, and you can exonerate yourself without risk.

Could it be that some of them conspired to let the fourth person in and kill Ma Zhizhou before letting him go?This speculation is obviously meaningless.It is even more unnecessary to go around in such a large circle to put yourself under suspicion of murder.

Xia Lvsi leaned against the wooden fence door, thinking quietly all night.On the second day, no one came to Lixia Lusi for the whole day, neither took her to identify the scene, nor interrogated her.Xia Lvsi was a little anxious. She came in to investigate the case, so it's not her style to waste time like this.

"Hey, come! I want to see the governor. I'm going to investigate the murder scene. Otherwise, I can go to the hall for questioning and discuss the case. Come here quickly!" Xia Lusi shouted.

Unexpectedly, after Xia Lvsi shouted for a long time, there was no one there.Xia Lvsi began to feel that something was wrong. Jiangzhou was the sphere of influence of the Xia family. The ordinary Xia family committed crimes. Neither the magistrate nor the prefect dared not lose face.

And she is the eldest son of Xia Mengfu, the head of the Xia family. Not to mention that the governor will kneel and lick her or bend the law for personal gain, but at least she won't be thrown into prison and then left alone, even if she yells and ignores her.This is not right!

So two guards came, and when they opened the door to put handcuffs and anklets on Xia Lusi, Xia Lusi paid extra attention.

"Why are you arguing?" A tall and strong jailer was about to wrap an iron chain around Xia Lusi's body, while saying to the other: "Tie her up, give her a bond, and go back quickly after finishing it."

"Wait! What's the charge? First, there is no trial, and second, there is no evidence. You go and invite the governor." Xia Lvsi said seriously.

The two quickly looked at each other, and then showed a murderous look: "I told you to talk too much nonsense, arrest me!"

"Get out!" Xia Lvsi broke free from the chain, and quickly punched the jailer in the face.

"Aiyo!" A jailer covered his mouth and screamed, his hand opened and two teeth fell out, blood in one hand: "I'll kill you!"

The tall and strong jailer stretched out his hand to hit Xia Lusi.The other one stretched out his hand to block it: "Slow down, hit the body, not the face!"

"Who are you guys?!" Xia Lvsi was foolish enough to guess when she heard this sentence, that these two people came to trouble her.So they said they couldn't slap her in the face, they just couldn't let others see her being beaten and injured. These two people are not from the government office!

Danger!

"Go!" The jailer attacked from left to right.One used a whip, the other an iron rod.

Fortunately, the belt that Duan Lingge made for her was embroidered with the Duan royal family's crest stitch by stitch, and it was obvious at a glance that it was a gift from the emperor. No one dared to touch her belt when she was locked in.In addition to the ingenious design of the belt, the Willow Leaf Sword wrapped inside looks like a gem belt buckle, and it is completely impossible to see that there is a sword inside, so she still carries the Willow Leaf Soft Sword with her.

Xia Lusi drew out his soft sword and fought with all his strength, but the cell was too small to use it, and being pinched by two people, Xia Lusi received a heavy whip on his left arm: "Hiss——"

Xia Lvsi was not polite either, and went over to pick the jailer's tendon with a tooth for a sword.

"Ah—" the man cried.

Seeing this, the other jailer took the opportunity to hit Xia Lusi severely in the abdomen with an iron rod.Xia Lvsi immediately burst into tears from the pain, and broke out in cold sweat, but she would not let anyone take advantage of her, so she pierced the jailer's abdomen with a willow-leaf soft sword.

"My mother—" the jailer also cried.

"Let's go!" Another person ran over quickly, helped his companion up, and the two stumbled out of the cell.

Xia Lusi's arm was numb with pain, and her abdomen was also dull.She struggled, locked the cell door by herself, then slid down the door all the way, closed her eyes and lay on the ground.

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This night in Feiyan Pavilion, it was already midnight.Xiao'e was on duty at night, as usual, she entered the princess' bedroom in the middle of the night to see if the princess was asleep. If Duan Lingge was already asleep, she could squint her eyes and sleep for a while in the second half of the night.

But Xiao'e didn't expect that she would be taken aback as soon as she entered the dormitory—because the princess hadn't slept yet, and she was still leaning on the head of the bed!

Xiao'e called softly: "Princess? Princess? Are you awake? Or are you still asleep?"

Duan Lingge's tone was light, but her voice was sober, which showed that she had never fallen asleep. "Xiao'e, immediately send someone to the post office to check if there is a letter from Jiangzhou, and send another person to the dock to see if her ship has arrived. Report back after checking."

Xiao'e was a little surprised, "Princess, do you stay up because you are waiting for the letter from the son-in-law? But, the family letter is usually delivered in the early morning of the next day."

Jiangzhou's flying ship usually set off at night when the son-in-law was busy with his day's work, galloped all the way, and arrived at Zhaoli City in the middle of the night three days later.If the son-in-law came back in person, he would most likely come into the palace in the middle of the night after washing up with the princess's jade token, and directly touch Her Highness's room.If it is a letter from home, it will be delivered in the middle of the night, and the messenger will wait outside the palace gate, and when the palace gate opens, he will rush to present the letter to the princess.

The princess has never tried this before, staying up in the middle of the night just to wait for a letter from home, or to wait for that summer idiot, it is really unexpected, it is not at all like the usual indifferent and peaceful, Her Majesty the princess who is not in a hurry before the collapse of Mount Tai .

"No." Duan Lingge simply got down from the couch, and when she lifted the gauze curtain, Xiao'e was surprised to find that the princess was still holding the family letter sent by her son-in-law the day before.

"The time is wrong." Duan Lingge said: "The family letter should have been delivered this morning, but it was not delivered this morning, and it has not been delivered until now."

In other words, the consort did not write a letter to the princess after the letter from the day before yesterday.Xiao'e comforted her and said, "Could it be that the son-in-law didn't write you a letter from home?"

Duan Lingge said softly to herself: "No. She said in the previous letter that she would leave the next day and come back, and she should have arrived the day before yesterday, but she didn't come the night before yesterday. I received a letter from her home yesterday, It is said that there is some entanglement, and the return date may be postponed for another day. Then by early this morning, there should be a letter from her family, or before early morning...she should have returned by midnight."

Duan Lingge bit her lip: "But today, until late at night, there is no letter from home, or any trace of her. This is not right."

"No!" Duan Lingge's usual indifferent and calm expression suddenly changed, and her face was pale and her tone of voice showed panic: "A Si has an accident! I want to find her!"?