Chapter 21: on site

Several eunuchs greeted Gu Yi and the others into the inner hall. Yuan Luo was shocked as soon as he walked in.
On the ground to the west of the main hall was a brocade quilt, on which lay a female corpse, covered in bruise, with a terrible face, it was Liu Cairen who had just been salvaged.
This cold winter weather, soaking in the water for a day and a night, of course it will not look very good.
Yuan Luo regretted that she was curious and followed.
A middle-aged with a sad face stepped forward and arched his hands at the two Gu Yi: "Foreman Gu, Foreman Cai, the two came just right."
Gu Yi returned the gift and asked: "Manager Zhang, I don't know how things are going."
Director Zhang sighed: "Someone has already seen briefly that Liu Cairen was indeed drowned. The time was around midnight last night."
Another guard stepped forward and said: "The softness in the little eunuch's tea package has also been checked. It is Liu Cairen's private collection, and it is almost all the savings Liu Cairen has saved since he entered the palace."
The minion said when he left the palace before that there were only a few things in the package, but after opening it, he found that there was an interlayer inside the box with several precious pearl hairpins and pearl gems stuffed in it. And Liu Cairen had obvious bruises on her neck. Someone must have caught her so that she could not speak, and then pushed her into the lake.
"The palace maiden next to Liu Cairen was interrogated before, and he also confessed one thing. Two days ago, Xiangming was severely beaten by Liu Cairen for a trivial matter. Only when he held a grudge and murdered the master. "
The two phases confirm that it is almost possible to outline a plot of a greedy minion to murder the master and seek wealth in an attempt to escape the court.
"There is such a frenzied slave in the palace. Fortunately, the guards at the gate of the palace have noticed something wrong." Director Zhang continued to say with a grimace. He is the chief of several nearby palaces, and he has produced such a sinful slave. , He will also be punished.
Yuan Luo dared not look at Liu Cairen's body and turned to look to the other side.
A young with a delicate eyebrow was being held there by three or five sturdy eunuchs. His face was bruised and bruised. It was the fragrant tea.
Seeing that his crime was finalized, Xiangming didn't know where he was, so he spit out the rags in his mouth and yelled: "I was wronged! The slave was wronged! The mother had beaten me the day before yesterday. Even though she had resentment in her heart, she didn't dare to kill. Lord. There is also that box, which is really handed to the minion by the mother!"
Manager Zhang sneered: "Then why do you say that there are only three hairpins in the box, but after opening it is a box of jade jewelry."
"This...the slave doesn't know why." Xiangming was distraught, and suddenly thought after another thought, "Maybe because of the news from outside the womb a few days ago, Cairen's brother fell ill. Please ask the doctor to grab the medicine and the money. and so……"
General Manager Zhang shook his head: "Even if Liu Cairen asks you to carry some goods and quietly subsidize your home, there is no reason to take all your savings away."
It is impossible for the imperial concubine to go to the banquet daily without leaving any top jewelry, or whether it is decent.
Xiangming still wanted to call for injustice, the next to him had already picked up the rags and gagged his mouth.
An said: "A slave who commits a crime in the world, how can anyone confess his guilt obediently?
Manager Zhang touched his beard, "If the two foremen have no objection, I will take the person away."
Xiangming struggled fiercely. He knew that once he was brought into the Department of Sentencing, it would be equivalent to a finalization of the case and the crime of seeking wealth and murdering the owner.
Cai Yunheng thought for a while and asked: "I think this minion is thin and has no martial arts. How can he push Liu Cairen into the water without a sound?"
"Before interrogating the palace clerk, Liu Cairen usually trusts this minion the most. He was caught off guard and easily succeeded. Before, there were obvious footprints on the window behind the dormitory, as well as the vase that was pushed to the ground."
Cai Yunheng asked: "Since there is damage to the furniture, it means that Liu Cairen had struggled at the time, so why did the maids who watched the night never notice?"
"Liu Cairen is in poor health during this period and it is difficult to fall asleep, so the maid who lives at night slept in the outer cubicle, and did not rest indoors. If it weren't for this, it wouldn't be let this diao slave succeed.
Yuan Luo couldn't help but said, "Why is Zhang Manager so arbitrary."
Director Zhang looked at her suspiciously. He had been wondering before that the woman in front of him was dressed in plain clothes. She thought she was a court lady, but why was she wearing a hat? This is not compliant.
Yuan Luo smiled and said, "This palace is the Jieyu Li family of Yuxiu Palace."
General Zhang and all the eunuchs and guards were taken aback. Jieyu is the title of the fifth rank, and Liu Cai who is lying next to him is now the seventh rank.
People in the palace had heard that Li Jieyu was ruined for offending the imperial concubine, but his position was still there, and the patron of the East Sea King was not an ordinary slave to despise.
Everyone hurriedly saluted, Yuan Luo motioned to flatten her body.
Cai Yunheng gave Yuan Luo a curious look. Looked at Gu Yi again.
Manager Zhang asked cautiously: "What's your opinion?"
"My palace just feels there is a doubt." Yuan Luo walked to the table, and opened the seized parcel box on it. There are jewels, dozens of hairpin hand rings, and dozens of brilliant gems and pearls. Although there are not many cases of talented people, they are not a small amount of income if they are accumulated throughout the year.
"No matter how stupid this minion is, he should know that there is a rigorous search when he is out of the palace. Even if there is an interlayer, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not find it. There are many small pearls in this box. Wouldn't it be in the mouth? Swallow it into the stomach."
"This..." Director Zhang was dumb.
Gu Yi and Cai Yunheng entered the apse.
Yuan Luo thought for a while, and followed.
As the location of the murder, Liu Cairen's bedroom is very well preserved. Everything was what it looked like when I was resting last night, including the bed with neat bedding.
Cai Yunheng looked down on the bed and said with a smile: "If the little really killed Liu Cairen at night, he would have to abscond with his wealth, and he would still be in the mood to tidy up the bedding."
Yuan Luo used his imagination to say: "If it weren't for Xiangming, could someone else sneak into the room and silently kill Liu Cairen."
Cai Yunheng laughed: "Ha, the palace is patrolled tightly, how can there be any masters sneaking in? Even if there is such a peerless master, it will be directed at the one in Zichen Palace. How could it be directed at a talented person."
Yuan Luo:...
She seems to be lying down with a gun.
Gu Yi turned around and shouted in a low voice, "Shut up!"
Cai Yunheng glanced at the door and smiled: "Don't worry, I can't hear you."
With a smile, he handed over to Yuan Luo and said, "Speaking is impolite, don't blame Jieyu Empress." In his eyes, this is also a victim of Zichen Temple, not an outsider.
Yuan Luo nodded with a stiff face.
Li Jieyu certainly wouldn't blame it, but she just took down the account.
Gu Yi walked through the bedroom, through the compartment door and into the study.
Sure enough, there was a fallen flower pot shelf in the study. The vase on it was broken into pieces, and several flowers were scattered on the floor. There are still some messy footprints on the windowsill.
When I walked to the window, opened the window, a cold damp wind came in. Yuan Luo leaned to the window and immediately understood why Mr. Zhang had just asserted that Xiangming could push Liu Cairen into the water.
auzw.com This study was actually built along the water, with a faint lake outside.
Reading and writing in the room in summer, the breeze is breezy, the scenery is good, winter is not so comfortable.
Although there was a half-person-height copper stove burning in the room, and there were charcoal basins in both corners, it still couldn't stop the deep chill.
Yuan Luo's eyes fell on the charcoal basin. Suddenly, she stared blankly. She hurriedly approached. There were some burnt paper scattered around the charcoal basin. She picked it up and looked through it. The handwriting was beautiful, all poems, "Poor soul...turning cuckoo" in a few words.
"The poor soul has nowhere to return. You should turn the cuckoo on the branch." Gu Yi took a closer look, and even finished a poem.
Yuan Luo looked up at him in surprise.
Cai Yunheng rummaged through the desk carefully. Most of them were poems and paintings left by Liu Cairen in the past, but he still pulled out a few usable ones.
Yuan Luo leaned forward to follow through, and found that most of these words were sad and stagnant. There is also something like "Send your parents nostalgic, you are still a daughter in the river."
"This seems to be a desperate poem," Yuan Luo said.
Could it be that this Liu Cairen committed suicide by throwing water into the water, so he ordered his cronies to take all his savings out of the palace to his family before he died, but he did not know that he violated the palace rules and was intercepted?
Several people took these evidences out, and the director Zhang in the lobby looked over, but still doubted: "I have long heard that Liu Cairen is a small and famous talented woman. It is normal to hurt the spring and sad autumn. It cannot be concluded because of this. Suicide."
Cai Yunheng said: "I just asked a few ladies here by the way. They all said that Liu Cairen is sick and depressed these days, and he has mentioned the things behind him several times."
Several people were talking, suddenly a figure rushed in, crying: "Sister Liu!"
A young girl in a goose-yellow jacket rushed in and threw herself down next to Liu Cairen's body, crying. A maid followed in, persuading her.
"This is Dou Meiren of the West Hall of the Auspicious Palace, who has always had a good relationship with Liu Cairen." Director Zhang introduced.
After crying, Dou Meiren whipped up and stood up and asked: "Ms. Zhang, how did Sister Liu die?"
Cai Yunheng spoke quickly and immediately said the whole story.
Dou Meiren glanced at the little who was still kneeling next to him: "Xiang Ming was loyal to Sister Liu. Back then, this slave nearly died of illness. Sister Liu saved his life. It is impossible to be so ungrateful."
"It's Sister Liu, who is terrified these days, and has been ill..." At the end, she cried again.
Manager Zhang hesitated, "In this case, Liu Cairen might not be able to think about it for a while."
He also ordered people to come to the palace to make a careful inspection of Liu Cairen's body and the scene of the crime.
While waiting, Yuan Luo interrupted and asked: "What is Liu Cairen's disease?"
Dou Meiren looked at her unexpectedly.
Manager Zhang reminded: "This is Li Jieyu from Yuxiu Palace."
Dou Meiren was shocked, and hurriedly bowed and said, "Sister Li, the younger sister is rude."
Thinking of Yuan Luo's question again, she replied: "Since Liu had offended the imperial concubine in the Imperial Garden last time, she was frightened and frightened every day after returning, and she soon fell ill."
Yuan Luo: Meow meow? Why did it happen to her again.
She stared at Dou Meiren and looked up and down, and finally remembered, no wonder she was familiar with this girl just now, isn't it one of the two unlucky people who were caught on the spot when she said bad things about her in the Royal Garden last time.
However, I remember that Dou Meiren fainted in fright on the spot. Instead, Liu Cairen could say a few words. There is no reason for the cowardly Dou Meiren not to be scared, but the courageous Liu Cairen was scared.
Yuan Luo couldn't help but speak: "I heard that the imperial concubine and the empress did not pursue the matter, but also rewarded them with a snack, which made the two feel relieved."
Xiangming knelt beside, with a sad face upon hearing the words: "It is because of the dim sum gifted by the imperial concubine empress, we only ate it, and the vomiting continued, and the condition became more serious. Maybe there is..."
Without finishing a sentence, the next to him slapped his face with a slap.
"What can there be, dog stuff, you won't be comfortable if you don't go to the Department of Penalty, are you?"
Xiangming shrank and did not dare to speak.
Yuan Luo: ...this pot is too mysterious, everyone else is fine, why is Liu Cairen vomiting?
General Zhang's head is as big as a fight. He is not a slave to kill the master. He just breathed a sigh of relief, but the involvement of the imperial concubine is more headache than the murder of the slave. How should he report it to his head.
While hesitating, the who was in charge of inspecting Liu Cairen's body hurried over and said a few words next to him.
Then General Zhang's face turned pale.
He hesitated for a while, looked up at the people in the yard, and his voice trembled: "It's getting late, and Liu Cairen needs to be busy with things behind him. Please go back and rest first."
Yuan Luo looked surprised, everyone was too difficult to say anything, they all separated.

First sent Yuan Luo back to Yuxiu Palace, Gu Yi and Cai Yunheng returned to the guards.
After hesitating again and again, Cai Yunheng couldn't help asking: "That person just now turned out to be Li Jieyu?"
Gu Yi glanced at him. The two grew up together and naturally knew what he really wanted to ask.
"I met her when I was burning paper in a memorial ceremony by the lake a few days ago and said a few words."
Cai Yunheng recalled the atmosphere between the two people he had seen before. It was not just the friendship that had been said two sentences. The harem guards and concubines are taboo. But I heard that Li Jieyu's appearance was completely ruined, so I wouldn't criticize it.
"It's good if you have a sense of measure." Cai Yunheng still reminded him.

In Yuxiu Palace, Yuan Luo confessed to the maid to take care of the little thing carefully before returning to Zichen Palace.
Sixi waited for her to remove her makeup.
Lian Yanqiu came in in a hurry, and there was a person behind him, the director Zhang who had just met.
Yuan Luo's expression was subtle, even though she knew it was impossible to reveal her stuff, she turned her head away. Fortunately, Manager Zhang had a terrible expression, and he didn't dare to look up at the imperial concubine.
Lian Yanqiu stepped forward and reported in a low voice: "Niang Niang, Liu Cairen of Jixiang Palace was found to have committed suicide by throwing water early this morning."
Yuan Luo gave a hum, she knew it a long time ago, and walked there in person. However, Lian Yanqiu's words surprised her.
"After a detailed examination, Liu Cairen has been pregnant for two months."