A dusty old case in the Li Jian, a ruthless killer, and the eldest son of Prince Jing.

The clues are intertwined one by one, but it does not make the puzzle of the truth clearer... but makes it more blurry.

Is there anything wrong with the prince?

What caused the massacre of the Wu family, and why did the murderer treat the mistress of the Wu family so viciously?

Who is the killer?

After searching all night, I found no answers, but more questions.

There was silence in the docket of the inner prison, and the flames of the oil lamps were straight, as if the air was no longer circulating.

It wasn't until the wick snapped and exploded into small sparks that Xifeng whispered: "Sir, let's not touch this case until Lord Golden Pig comes back."

Sitting across the table, Chen Ji hummed and said with a smile: "This is indeed not a case that we can touch. You and I will just treat it as the work of ghosts and no longer pursue it."

As he finished speaking, he saw the flame of the oil lamp on the table swaying, and a cold wind blew up from the depths of the inner prison.

Chen Ji felt the ice flow coming from the depths of the inner prison. Just like last time, as long as he stayed in the inner prison long enough, the ice flow would naturally come to him.

Xifeng felt the cold wind, and immediately stood up and drew his knife. He looked coldly at the source of the cold wind: "Sir, did you feel the cold wind just now?"

Chen Ji was happy: "I thought you really didn't believe there were ghosts in this world."

Xifeng was embarrassed for a moment: "Everyone says there is one. Although I have never seen it, I always wonder in my heart. There are even gods in this world. What if there are really ghosts?"

This time it was Chen Ji's turn to be startled: "Are there really gods? Have you seen them?"

Xifeng whispered: "Zheng Xu Shu, the deputy supervisor of Qintian Prison in Daning Dynasty, is a reincarnated god."

"Hey," Chen Ji was surprised, he had heard of this name.

On the previous Double Ninth Festival, when Buddhas and Bodhisattvas were parading in front of the Taiping Medical Center, Master once mentioned this Xu Shu. It is said that he was the only son of Xu Gong, the elder of Xu Ge. After his accidental death, Mr. Xu Ge spent a lot of money to hire Yuanjue Temple to host it. The Seven Treasures Lotus Lantern shapes his body and lives a new life.

How come Xifeng turned out to be a reincarnated god?

Chen Ji asked in confusion: "I remember he is the son of Mr. Xu Ge, how did he become a god?"

After thinking for a moment, Xifeng said: "I don't know how he became a god, but Master Wu Xiu said this to Master Jinzhu himself. Many people in the Supervisor of Ceremonies heard it. Master Wu Xiu will not talk nonsense."

"Wu Xiu?"

"The great eunuch Bingbi who serves as the Supervisor of Ceremonies is now serving the Long Live Master and is a famous figure in the inner court. Come on, sir, it's getting late. I'll take you back."

Chen Ji thought for a while and said: "Excuse me, Xi Feng, please step aside. I want to take advantage of the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in the inner prison to write a letter to my friend."

Xifeng said: "Okay, sir, I'll wait for you outside."

Chen Ji picked up the writing brush from the table, carefully considered his tone, and wrote a letter on a piece of paper.

When the writing was dry, he folded the letter in half and stuffed it into his sleeve.

After leaving the inner prison, Xifeng helped Chen Ji get into the car.

The carriage swayed for an unknown amount of time before he was placed on the side of the road in Dongshi.

The carriage slowly left, Chen Ji gently took off the black cloth from his eyes, and his thin figure turned to look at the back of the carriage.

Chen Ji walked back for a long time to make sure no one was following him, and then he found a little beggar lying on the side of the road.

He squatted beside the beggar and gave him a gentle feed.

The little beggar opened his eyes. When he saw the traces of the mask, he shrank in fear: "Don't catch me..."

Chen Ji stretched out his hand and opened his palm, revealing twenty copper coins in his palm.

The little beggar immediately reached out to grab it, but when he saw the traces, he closed his palms and withdrew his hand. He took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to the little beggar: "Send this letter to the Taiping Medical Center tomorrow evening. I will give you twenty copper coins, remember, Taiping Medical Center."

The little beggar nodded quickly: "Okay, sir, I'll deliver it early tomorrow morning!"

Scattered light snow began to drift in the sky again, falling lightly on the traces of hair.

The little beggar suddenly said: "Master, please give me a copper coin first and let me buy pancakes to eat, otherwise I won't be able to endure it."

Under the hazy night, Chen Ji dropped two copper coins, turned around, put his hands in his sleeves, and walked towards the west.

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In the early morning, Anxi Street became lively early in the morning.

Liang Mao'er, wearing a cotton-padded jacket, walked sleepily to the door of the hospital, where she saw a servant from the palace carrying buckets of salt and sprinkling handfuls of it on the snow-covered bluestone road.

He wondered, yesterday the palace only swept the snow in front of his house, how could he be willing to take thirty cents a pound of salt and sprinkle it on the ground of the entire street today?

Not only that, the servant also carried a basket and distributed handfuls of red Yanmen dates to each neighbor, which was particularly festive.

Someone in the hospital asked out of curiosity: "What is this doing?"

Liang Maoer looked back and saw that Liu Quxing had also put on clothes and came to the door.

At this time, the wedding cake was passing by the Taiping Medical Center in a basket, and she came forward with a smile: "Chen Ji, pocket the hem of your clothes and I'll pour you some more dates."

Chen Ji smiled and picked up the hem of his clothes. The wedding cake girl actually poured half the basket into the hem of his clothes.

Liu Quxing suddenly became sour: "Wedding cake girl, why are you so nice to Chen Ji? Pour some for me too!"

The wedding cake rolled her eyes at him: "This is for all of you. If you want to eat it, go and grab it from Chen Ji. Let's go, there are still many places to send it to."

Chen Ji looked at the back of the wedding cake girl and asked doubtfully: "Is there a big happy event in the palace?"

Liu Quxing thought for a while: "Are you afraid that the prince is coming back? Neighbors on Anxi Street say that when the prince is around, the prince's palace is usually very generous, but when the prince is away, the prince's palace becomes stingy... "

Just as he was talking, he saw those healthy servants fetching bamboo brooms again and sweeping the long street as cleanly as if it had never snowed.

There was a sound of climbing over the wall in the backyard, and the princess shouted: "Who removed the ladder? Please help, move the ladder over."

Liu Quxing hurriedly went to the back to greet him: "I'll come, I'll come!"

Chen Ji looked back and saw the princess climbing down the ladder, standing under the courtyard wall, untying the small purse hanging on her waist, taking a piece of silver and handing it to Liu Quxing: "Buy six cages of meat buns, four cages

Vegetarian steamed buns, yesterday I saw Brother Cat eating four cages alone and still wasn’t full, so I’m going to buy more today.”

Liang Maoer said with a simple and honest smile: "The princess is truly a bodhisattva."

As soon as he finished speaking, a dirty little beggar, covered in rags and tatters, tried to rush into the hospital holding a letter.

Liang Maoer quickly grabbed the collar of his neck and asked, "What are you doing?"

The little beggar hurriedly said: "Someone asked me to deliver a letter here, and I will be rewarded if I deliver it!"

Chen Ji took the letter, opened it and read: "Your Majesty, my brother, Hui Xin... Is this a letter to the Crown Prince?"

He came to the backyard with a calm face and handed the letter to the prince: "Your Majesty, this is a letter for you."

"For me?" The prince took the letter in surprise. He only glanced at it twice before his expression turned gloomy.

Chen Ji carefully observed the prince's expression and asked curiously: "Your Majesty, who can write the letter? You don't seem to be very happy?"

The prince sighed: "It's Zhang Ping, Wang Quan, Wang Wu, and Li Bo who were drinking with us earlier. They... they have to leave Luo City for something, so they can't drink together anymore."

Chen Ji suddenly felt that the prince didn't seem to know that these four people were dead.

The letter was written by Chen Ji. He wrote this letter just to see how the prince would react when he saw a dead person writing to him.

If the prince knows that these four people are dead, then no matter how realistic the other party's acting is, there will always be a little doubt in his eyes.

But the prince's first reaction was not doubtful, only sad.

While they were talking, even Bai Li came over. After reading the letter, she showed disdain on her face: "These people left because they had no shame in seeing us. Brother, why are you sad?"

The prince said softly: "We have been friends for a while after all."

Chen Ji suddenly felt that the prince should be fine.

Let’s talk about the first point first. The night before, Jin Zhu led the guards to surround Hongyi Alley. The Military Intelligence Department of Jing Dynasty had obviously received the news in advance. Even the Madam of Jinfang and Miss Yan’er had run away, but the prince still foolishly threw himself into the trap.

, this is not normal.

Let's talk about the second point. The prince has been in Donglin Academy for three years. If the other party is really ambitious and courageous, he should be patient and make friends with literati, instead of going to the mountain wine shop every day to make friends with people in the world.

etc.

Chen Ji suddenly felt that he might have been thinking in the wrong direction: the prince went to Jinfang in Hongyi Lane not necessarily because he wanted to go, but because the four people in the world knew that the Golden Pig was going to surround Jinfang and deliberately led the prince there.

If the prince is captured and imprisoned, who in the palace might benefit? Naturally, Concubine Jing and Concubine Yun.

Prince Jing obviously still has the ability to have children. If the only son in the family is gone, he will naturally find a way to have another child to continue the relationship. At that time, the heirs of Prince Jing's title will be the heirs of Concubine Jing and Concubine Yun.

And who in Prince Jing's palace would get the news in advance that Jinfang is about to be besieged? Concubine Yun!

A chill suddenly rose in Chen Ji's heart!

Concubine Yun!

If the whole thing was Concubine Yun's plan to send the prince to prison in order to seize the legitimate heir, and then sent people to kill four Jianghu people to silence him, it seems that many things would make sense.

He had heard before that the ancients were ruthless in seizing the heirs, but they were just used as artistic processing of novels and stories, and he had never experienced it personally.

But now, he really felt the cruelty of the prince's inheritance.

No, no.

Chen Ji turned around and laughed at his wild guesses... You must know that Bai Li was also in Jinfang the night before yesterday. Bai Li is Concubine Yun's biological daughter. Even if the other party wants to seize the legitimate daughter, they won't involve their own daughters.

Moreover, after the prince is taken to the inner prison, what if the entire palace is implicated?

Chen Ji gave up this conjecture.

Bai Li came over and saw that he was thoughtful and asked doubtfully: "What are you thinking about? I see that you are not in a good mood."

Chen Ji laughed: "It's okay, I'm in a good mood, very good."

While talking, Liang Maoer carried the tall cage and trotted back to the hospital with steaming white steam: "Chen Ji, princess, come and eat steamed buns."

Chen Ji responded with a smile: "Here he comes."

He looked at the Crown Prince and then at Bai Li. As long as the Crown Prince was not a very deep-seated person with evil thoughts, that would be fine.
Chapter completed!