Conspiracy

Chapter 215 Dandelion Falls into Porcelain

On the way out of Huanyu Mountain, Su Zhen once asked Jingyao insinuatingly, trying to find out about the mute slave from her mouth, but her mouth was very strict, Su Zhen just didn't pry out any clues.

However, she kept her mouth shut, which also proved that Su Zhen's train of thought was not wrong.Jing Yao is helping the dumb slave to hide some secrets, which must be related to the horse thief case back then.

However, when they rode into the city of Kyoto, they saw many hawker stalls with all kinds of enamel porcelain, and the patterns drawn on them were detailed and lifelike.

Su Zhen jumped off the horse with wide eyes, walked to a vendor, picked up a porcelain doll and looked at it, the surprise in her eyes came from the bottom of her heart.

Jing Yao approached on horseback, twitching the corners of her mouth as if she didn't care, "I didn't expect you to like these gadgets so much."

Su Zhen frowned more and more, this cloisonné enamel is so precious, how could it be everywhere in a day?

"That's not right! This is a fake!" Su Zhen didn't know how to distinguish this at all, and just said nonsense, "Boss, you are not authentic! You actually sell fakes!"

The peddler's face changed in an instant. If he hadn't seen Su Zhen wearing an official uniform, he would have rushed out and beat her up, "My lord, you can't talk nonsense, how can this be a fake!"

"Really? I don't know which master wrote yours?"

"This, my lord, you see it is everywhere, why are you staring at the villain?"

"Then tell the truth, where did these things come from? They didn't exist yesterday!"

"My lord, it is said that rare things are valuable. This thing is true, but because there are too many, it is worthless. You may not know that at noon today, a lot of purple dandelions floated from the sky. It's everywhere, and when it hits the ground, it becomes these porcelain dolls."

"Dandelion? This girl has only heard of turning stones into gold and turning beans into soldiers. I haven't heard of dandelions turning into porcelain dolls."

Jingyao's laughing trembling on the horse made it clear that she didn't believe what she said to the peddler.

"Girl, how dare a villain make up nonsense to lie to you. If you don't believe me, you can ask."

The nearby stalls also sold gadgets, and he interjected, "What he said is true, those dandelions are much bigger than normal ones, and they look pretty pretty."

Su Zhen finally understood why Yu Changqing didn't take someone to Huanyu Mountain in person, it was because of this strange incident.

Putting the porcelain doll back in its original position, she quickly got on the horse and rode away.

"Where are you going?"

Su Zhen didn't respond to her, and quickly turned around the street corner, disappearing from Jing Yao's sight.

Seeing that she was about to leave, the peddler hurriedly said, "Girl, do you want to buy a few back?"

"Tch, keep it to yourself."

Jing Yao glanced at her in distaste, and instead of continuing to follow Su Zhen, she decided to go back to the palace first.

Siwei's government office.

When Su Zhen returned to Si Wei's mansion, it was already dark, she got off her horse and handed the reins to the guard at the door.

"Su Shaoqing, you may be back, Master Yu has been waiting for you for a long time."

Su Zhen nodded and walked quickly inside.

Along the way, Su Zhen kept hearing them talking about dandelions turning into porcelain dolls.

Inside the Yamen, Yu Changqing and Jin Lian were seriously flipping through the files in front of the table case, and beside them were a few well-dressed old men who were identifying the porcelain dolls on the table case, one of which was found by Li Jiu in Xiyan's room that.

When Su Zhen pushed the door and entered, she attracted everyone's attention.

"Master Yu."

"Well, I'm back." Yu Changqing looked up at her slightly, then picked up a pen and wrote a few lines on the paper, "What did you find in Huanyu Mountain?"

"Master Yu, I would like to bring up the case about Princess Jingyao being robbed by a horse thief in the [-]th year of Shangde."

"What are you looking for? The most important thing now is to find the murderer for Li Jieyu." Jin Lian said.

"As far as I know, when Princess Jingyao sneaked out of the palace when she was eight years old, she was robbed by horse thieves. In the same year, a group of horse thieves wantonly killed refugees and kidnapped many women to go up the mountain in order to rob the escort. The cottage where those horse thieves are located is on the same mountain as Princess Jingyao. One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and there is only one cottage on that mountain."

"anything else?"

"Among the women snatched by the horse thieves, there is a woman named Yue Xian'er. I suspect that the dumb slave is Yue Xian'er!"

Su Zhen untied the cloth bag on her back, revealing the painting inside, "Look carefully at this painting."

Yu Changqing put down his pen and looked at the painting together with Jin Lian, but he didn't understand why.

Su Zhen explained, "This painting was found in Xiyan's room, you can take a closer look, no matter the handwriting or painting style, it's totally different from Xiyan's. And look at the pictures in this picture of beauties. The background is the river connected behind Huanyu Mountain, I have already inquired, and lotus flowers were indeed planted there in the past."

"Do you suspect that the dumb slave, the Yue Xian'er you mentioned, drew this painting for them?"

Jin Lian still finds it inconceivable that the case of Jieyu's disappearance could involve the horse thief case and the princess robbery case.

In fact, Su Zhen couldn't tell what was going on, she always felt that a very crucial connection point was missing.And Mo Chen said that she still can't figure out what the hell Yin Shen said before he fell into a coma, as well as his gestures.

"The dossiers from previous years are all in the torture chamber. You go with my token, and they won't stop you."

Su Zhen took the token and said solemnly, "Yes, thank you."

When Su Zhen went out, Jin Lian pursed his lips and asked, "My lord, do you really believe him? I feel that we are almost being led into a ditch by him. The more we investigate, the more we get lost."

Yu Changqing shook his head, "The appearance of these weird porcelain dolls has proved that we are going in the right direction. The more we think it is impossible and the closer we are to the truth, the more we must continue to investigate. If Su Zhen is right, the palace The one who died was Yueluo, so why did Xiyan and Li Jieyu hide?"

"A woman from the Red Mansion, a lady Jieyu from the palace, and a maidservant next to the princess. No matter how you think about it, these three people seem to be at odds with each other, right?"

"Whether there is any connection, we will find out after further investigation."

"Yes."

Jin Lian was flattered on the surface, but he was uncomfortable in his heart. Ever since Su Zhen was assigned by the emperor to their Siwei's office, Master Yu seemed to value that young man very much.

There are many files stored in the torture room that Yu Changqing said, after Su Zhen inquired a few times, she went around and found the torture room.

This place is heavily guarded, and there are no trees around to cover it. If there are thieves or assassins, they will be found immediately.

"Stop! Who are you?" As soon as he approached the courtyard, someone stopped him immediately.

Su Zhen showed her dental plaque and the token that Yu Changqing gave her, "Two elder brothers, I'm Su Zhen, under the orders of Lord Yu, to check the files of previous years."

The guard took the two signs and identified them. After confirming that they were correct, they returned them to her, "Go in, move quickly, and don't linger inside."

"Understood, thank you."

(End of this chapter)