Chapter 482 The purse (two chapters in one)(1/2)
The next day, the seventh prince Chai Yan slipped out of the prince's mansion and was impeached by the censor.
As for what he sneaked out to do, the censors didn't say.
The censors have their own way of survival. They know what they can say and what they cannot say.
The Seventh Prince sneaked out of the mansion, and this was only the Seventh Prince's own business, and the emperor punished the Seventh Prince.
But if you take it to the Duke of Ding, then this matter will be a little troublesome.
The emperor could not point to the Duke of Ding, so he could only suppress this matter. After a while, the Seventh Prince would not be punished for this. And those who were censors could also offend Duke of Ding.
When the emperor heard that the seventh prince went out during the confinement period, Long Yan was furious and the seventh prince could not go out before the wedding.
Soon, no one mentioned the second confinement of the Seventh Prince, so there was a bigger thing in the capital.
Yongning Hou passed away triumphantly.
This time, the Marquis of Yongning captured Sun Chaihui, the King of Fu, and defeated Chaihui's 10,000 private soldiers to the point of falling, and the Marquis of Yongning made new contributions.
The prison car escorting Chaihui drove past the noisy Changchun Street. The onlookers pointed at the rotten vegetables, leaves and rotten eggs, and smashed them mercilessly at the people on the prison car.
The man in the prison car had a disheveled hair, his face was covered in blood, and he was in a mess, and he could no longer see his original appearance.
The eldest sister of the Wen family, no, actually, her surname is not Wen, but Bai, and there is also a very nice name called Bailan. This was given to her by her father when she was alive, and after she got married, she was Geng Bai's family.
Bailan was dragged out by Wen Xiu to watch the fun. Wen Xiu booked a private room in the teahouse facing the street. During the Chinese New Year, Wen Xiu met the shopkeeper of the teahouse.
Today Wen Xiu treated her to Lu Ying'er and Tang Ru, as well as Xia Erjie and her daughter Guo Jie'er.
"The person in the prison car is the son of the Fu Prince's Mansion?" Bai Lan lived in Pingcheng for several years. Although she had never seen Chai Hui, she had also heard that in her heart, that person was in the clouds. In any case, she could not connect with the person in the prison car.
Wen Xiu nodded: "You haven't seen him. At that time, he held a banquet for more than ten days in our restaurant. His style and style, and he was tsk. There was no other one in the entire capital."
Although it only takes ten days, it is enough for Li Shiji to eat for the first half of the year.
Xia Erjie sighed: "This person is to be content. If you don't do it, you must be a thief, and you deserve it."
Sister Guo was young and she couldn't even get in with her aunts. So she lay on the window and watched the excitement on the street. The prison car had already walked over, and the ground was covered with vegetable leaves and rotten eggs. Several official slaves who were sweeping the street were cleaning.
"Hey, there is a purse on the ground." Sister Guo'er's eyes were sharp-eyed. She saw a pink purse mixed in the garbage.
Lu Ying'er smiled and said, "It's probably because it was squeezed out. Could it be that it was thrown out by itself?"
Sister Guo said "Huh" again: "That street sweeper put his purse in his arms."
When Xia Erjie heard this, she said, "If you don't steal or rob, you can pick it up by yourself, who can still talk about him?"
Sister Guo wrinkled her nose: "But that day I picked up a bunch of keys in the alley, but you asked Tang Long to ask who lost it from house to house. I didn't steal or rob it, I picked it up by myself."
Sister Xia said to Wen Xiu: "Listen, this girl always argues with me. Do you think picking up a purse and picking up a key can be the same?"
As soon as Sister Xia finished speaking, she heard Sister Guo screaming: "Ah, that man fell down!"
Sister Xia didn't even look at it, and was still talking: "Listen, the girl in her teens is so fussy all day long. You learn to learn Ying'er and Tang Ru, look at how many of them..."
Before Xia Erjie finished speaking, she was interrupted by a series of screams. Bailan, Lu Ying'er and Tang Gu all squeezed to the window. Xia Erjie was curious and came over with Wen Xiu. She saw a worn-out woman lying on the ground, her whole body twitching, and blood flowed out from the corners of her mouth and nostrils.
The onlookers were frightened, and no one dared to approach, staring blankly at the people on the ground.
The woman twitched a few more times, stretched her legs and stopped moving.
"Is this dead?" Xia Erjie said in disbelief.
Wen Xiu nodded: "It looks like he is dead, so I have to report it to the official."
While we were talking, several yamen runners squeezed in from the crowd of onlookers. The streets were lively today, and all the yamen runners from the Beijing government office were sent out, so the yamen runners soon ran over after hearing the sound.
The yamen runners asked the onlookers, but it was noisy here just now and people were still in the prison car that was driving by, and no one noticed the street sweeper.
The yamen runners asked for a long time but did not find any useful clues. They were about to take the body back to the yamen when they heard a tender voice coming from their heads: "She picked up a purse."
The other yamen runners didn't care, but one of them raised his head and saw a little girl with double snail bun in the window on the second floor of the teahouse poking her head out.
"Who did you say picked up the purse?" asked the yamen runner.
"It's the dead person. She picked up a purse. I saw it. If you don't believe it, you can search her body, and the purse is still on her." said Sister Guo.
Sister Xia pulled her from the front of the window, and leaned her head to the yamen runner below and said, "Brother, the kid is talking nonsense, don't take it seriously."
Sister Guo was dissatisfied and shouted loudly: "I didn't say anything, I really saw it."
"Say less and don't cause trouble for the boss." Xia Erjie scolded in a low voice.
The yamen runner originally wanted to go upstairs to ask in detail, but remembered that the little girl said that the purse was still on the deceased, so he said to his companion: "Let's see if she has purse on her."
My companion was a little embarrassed: "Although this is an official slave, it is a woman after all. If we search for her in public, we will definitely be sued for going to court."
This is not good to be a businessman in the capital. If you are not careful, you will be unable to take advantage of it.
When the yamen runners thought it was true that there were women in the yamen who specialized in probing the dead's autopsy, so let them do this.
"Wait, I'll ask who the girl's name just now. If you need it, you'll have to ask her to put her handprints as a certificate."
After finally going out to go shopping and have tea, they unexpectedly bumped into someone dead. Wen Xiu and Xia Erjie were both angry, Guo Jie'er and Lu Ying'er, and Tang Ru, who was usually beautiful, were very excited.
Wen Xiu suggested a different place to have tea, but Xia Erjie agreed, but the others did not respond. At this moment, the teahouse client came in and looked apologized: "Shopkeeper Wen, I'm so embarrassed to bother you. The official official has come. I want to ask something. Do you see it? If you don't see me, the young man will ask the shopkeeper to come forward and send him away."
Sister Xia was curious and asked, "Can you shopkeepers dismiss the yamen runners?"
But the guy smiled and Xia Erjie suddenly realized, why did she forget that the shopkeeper of this teahouse knew Wen Xiu, who was Wen Xiu? Li Shiji's shopkeeper, whose industry is Li Shiji? The wife of the Duke.
Wen Xiu thought for a moment and said, "No, I'll go out and have a look."
When Sister Xia saw this, she pushed Sister Guo: "You go with Aunt Wen."
Sister Guo pouted: "You didn't let me speak just now."
"I've asked you to say it now, go and say it quickly." Sister Xia was helpless.
Sister Guo had never dealt with the yamen runners before, so she was so excited that she followed Wen Xiu out happily.
After a while, the two of them came back, and Wen Xiu said, "Okay, it's okay. Sister Guo explained everything she saw clearly, and the dead were carried away. Do you want to stay here, or should we change the place?"
"Stay here, this dried fruit is delicious."
“Diet too.”
The girls all expressed that they didn't want to leave. Although Wen Xiu and Xia Erjie thought it was unlucky, they could let them go.
Although it happened to the dead, for them, this was just a small episode. After everyone guessed for a while, the topic returned to Chai Hui.
They never expected that the dead street sweeper was carried back to the yamen, less than half an hour later, a person died in the yamen.
The dead person is the old woman who tests the body of this street sweeper.
The next day, the case was taken over by the Ministry of Justice at the fastest speed, and Feiyuwei sent someone to assist in the investigation.
The commander of the Feiyu Guard, Han Feng, personally took charge of the Ministry of Justice. Now the seventh prince Chai Yan has been banned. Han Feng feels a little regretful. He asks someone to inquire, but finds that although Chai Yan is not there, Lu Jinxing is there.
Lu Jinxing has officially entered the Ministry of Justice, and is officially and has a salary.
Han Feng greeted the Minister of Justice and asked Lu Jinxing to participate.
"The mother who was post-mortem found a purse from the arms of the deceased. She put the purse to her nose and smelled it, and put it in the tray containing the evidence. When she was about to continue to check the body, the man fell to the ground, first twitching, and then bleeding from his seven orifices."
"The purse is poisonous. Even the purse used for poison is soaked in poison juice. This poison is extracted from a poison called Wugenhua. This Wugenhua is a foreign country with a strange fragrance. However, after its refinement, its toxicity is even stronger than that of the Hedinghong. People from Honglu Temple said that in the early years they heard the foreign country envoys who came to Beijing said that many years ago, a foreign country merchant brought the seeds of Wugenhua to Dawei. Some people bought it to plant it, but they had no life. The merchant also paid for it."
When Lu Jinxing heard about Han Feng’s conversation with the Minister of Justice, he continued to look at the case in his hand: “It is said here that someone saw the purse picked up by the street sweeper from the ground?”
Han Feng looked at him and nodded: "Yes, Mr. Lu may have seen that little girl. She and her mother leaned against the Li family in Qingping Lane."
Lu Jinxing thought about it and then knew who it was. The mother and daughter who defected to Qingping Lane were Xia Erjie and her daughter.
"Since I am a member of the Li family, I will not give false confessions. It seems that the purse was really picked up by a street sweeper," Lu Jinxing said to himself, but a thought flashed through his mind, and he said, "Why is that little girl there?"
Han Feng smiled. He found the right person, and Lu Jinxing really saw the trick.
He remained silent: "Go to watch the fun, Yongning Hou will be proud of his success."
Although Lu Jinxing didn't go to watch the fun yesterday, he heard that there were many people on Changchun Street yesterday. When Chai Hui's prison car passed by, he even harvested countless rotten vegetables and rotten eggs.
Lu Jinxing immediately understood, no wonder a street sweeper died, which could alarm the Feiyugu.
"So, this purse should have been thrown out with the rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs. But it was too messy at the time. The purse could not be thrown into Chai Hui's prison car. Also, because it was too messy at the time, the purse that fell to the ground was not discovered immediately, but was picked up by the street sweeper?"
Han Feng looked at Lu Jinxing deeply. There was something he certainly couldn't say.
This is not the only one that is thrown in the purse that is stuck in the leaves of rotten vegetables and rotten eggs.
This one was not accurately thrown into the prison car, but there was still a purse in it.
The "Chai Hui" in the prison car is dead!
Of course, that Chai Hui is fake. The real Chai Hui committed suicide as early as the time when she was taken back to Beijing by the Seventh Prince.
Originally, neither the Seventh Prince himself nor Han Feng had doubted the cause of Chai Hui's death. They all believed that Chai Hui committed suicide.
Now it seems that Chai Hui may not have committed suicide, but was killed. It was just that due to the circumstances at that time, the killer could not be sure whether Chai Hui was really dead when he left.
The news of Chai Hui's death was hidden and it was said that Chai Hui was captured, and he got a substitute in the prison car. The substitute was five points similar to Chai Hui, but after disguising, it was six or seven points similar. In addition, there was blood on his face. People who had met Chai Hui but had no close friends would easily regard the substitute as the real Chai Hui.
Along the way, Yongning Hou took great care of the fake Chai Hui. Therefore, it was not until he came to the capital that the killer took advantage of the chaos and let Chai Hui die again.
Although Lu Jinxing didn't know that Chai Hui in the prison car was fake, he became interested in the case. He said to Han Feng: "Is there a merchant from foreign countries in the capital now?"
To be continued...