female catcher

Chapter 97 The Emperor's Bad Taste
Regarding Jiang Xiyuan's teasing, Xia Chu said indifferently: "I usually come back to fetch water at night, didn't I hurt my foot yesterday? I'm living a good life, sir, there is no need to show such sympathy."

Jiang Xiyuan snorted.

"If my lord lives by himself, he's definitely not as good as me." Xia Chu shot back.

"Why do I have to live by myself? Are there maids, servants, husbands and cooks?"

Xia Chu opened his mouth, but didn't say what he wanted to say, but just shrugged, "Well, my lord is lucky, I won't argue with you on this kind of matter. My lord, let's talk about the second thing."

Jiang Xiyuan almost forgot about the second matter due to the interruption of the communication just now.

"The second thing is that Cao Xuelian has been missing for five days. The reason no one reported it is because she said she was going back to her mother's house for a while."

"But she didn't go back at all, did she?"

"Correct."

Xia Chu nodded, "What exactly is she going to Guangji Hall for? Not only does she not want people to know her whereabouts, but she also doesn't want people to know the reason. You said, she is a private club? But how could the private club go to her husband's territory? See what? People? But no matter who she meets, since she intends to hide it from her family, she shouldn't go to Guangji Hall."

"A person appeared in a place where she shouldn't have appeared, and was killed. The reason for her appearance must be the key to solving the case. Let's find out."

Wang Huai came in with tea, Xia Chu was surprised and said, "So fast?"

"I went to the courtyard next door to borrow a pot of hot water. Please drink it first, my lord. I'll fetch water to boil it now."

"I'm sorry to trouble you, Wang Huai." Xia Chu bowed to thank him, and Wang Huai waved his hand and left.Jiang Xiyuan took a sip of tea, frowned, maybe he was really thirsty, and then took a second sip before putting down the teacup: "It's not good."

"Hey, this is really full and scolding the cook." Xia Chu laughed.

"Bring some good tea later. Okay, can you tell me what you have gained today?"

Xia Chu told Jiang Xiyuan about the situation asked in Wing Embroidery Spring today, and then said: "Cui Guanshi said that the man pushed the door into the backyard, and excluded Tang Kui who said that he hadn't opened the back door in the past few days. The situation, that is to say, someone has already entered the backyard before him, without Tang Kui's knowledge."

"Well, you go on."

"Let's make a hypothesis. Assuming that the man is trying to steal money, then when he sees that the back door has been opened, he will generally think that there is someone inside. Under normal circumstances, he should not continue to act. After all, he only has It's very risky to be alone. What do you think, my lord?"

"I agree with this." Jiang Xiyuan smiled, "There are too many doubts, we might as well rule out the possibility of theft completely. The loss of silver should be considered as one of the clues, not the main clue."

"Sure!" Xia Chu nodded vigorously, picked up a pen and began to sort out the transcripts of the past two days.

Jiang Xiyuan watched her writing chaotically while drinking water. After half a quarter of an hour, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, and stretched out his hand to grab the barrel of the brush and took the brush out of her hand.

"How can you write well when you hold the pen like this?"

"I can't even write without holding the pen like this."

"You are really..." Jiang Xiyuan dipped in the ink and smoothed the edge of the pen, "Let me do it. Research ink!"

After simply reviewing the case, it was already dark, and several of them went out to have dinner together. At the beginning of Xia Xia, they packed some snacks for tomorrow's breakfast, and were laughed at by Jiang Xiyuan.

Xia Chuyuan thought that she would go to Baicao Village the next morning to inquire about the case, but Jiang Xiyuan didn't agree and asked her to raise her feet at home.Xia Chu agreed, thinking that Jiang Xiyuan would go for her, but in the end Jiang Xiyuan was called into the palace to face the saint.

When he arrived at the Imperial Study Room, Su Zhen threw him a note, which startled Jiang Xiyuan, thinking that someone was impeaching him.When I opened it, it was about the drought in Xingzhou.

"Since Grain Rain, there have only been one or two light rains over there. The beginning of summer is the critical period for crops to need water. If there is no heavy rain or two, the crops in Xingzhou will definitely fail. "

"I heard that the emperor has already sent people from the Ministry of Industry to preside over the construction of the water storage well and cellar. What's the matter? The drought is worse than expected?"

"It's a little more serious than expected, but fortunately, it's only Xingzhou, Linfeng and other four counties, so the impact won't be too great. I'm just worried about the local people's livelihood." Su Zhen flipped out another note while talking. He handed it over to Jiang Xiyuan, "I have asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to come up with a plan to reduce taxes and raise funds for disaster relief."

Jiang Xiyuan took it over and looked at it roughly, but didn't take it easy.He knew that Su Zhen definitely didn't come here to talk about these things, nor did he ask him to evaluate the work level of the household department.There must be a turning point later, and after the turning point, it is something that is closely related to me.And, certainly not a good thing.

"but……"

coming!Jiang Xiyuan thought secretly.

"The Ministry of Household Affairs also has its difficulties. The new dynasty has just established, and there are indeed many places to spend money." Su Zhen stopped at this point, and glanced at Jiang Xiyuan, "Do you have any suggestions?"

Jiang Xiyuan smiled wryly, and said in a calm manner: "The six counties of Gyeonggi, it should not be a problem to raise some money and food for disaster relief, and support the four counties of Xingzhou. I will go back and make arrangements, and seize the time to supervise this matter."

Su Zhen smiled slightly, and didn't ask any more, he knew that since Jiang Xiyuan said it, he would definitely be able to do it well.

"Except for going to court, you rarely enter the palace now. Is the government office busy?"

"It's okay to follow the steps."

"Then..." Su Zhen thought for a while, but finally he couldn't help asking: "Has Xia Chu's head-hunting gone smoothly?"

"Very good. Although he is young, he is very talented in investigating cases, and now he can suppress the gang of arresters under him. He is a qualified head arrester." When Jiang Xiyuan talked about Chu Xia, his face unconsciously brought a smile to his face. smile.

Su Zhen watched silently, a faint feeling of discomfort slipped through his heart.

"Is there any big case recently?"

"Well, a female corpse was found in the Guangjitang Pharmacy in Yongpingfang yesterday."

"Yongpingfang?" Su Zhen's eyelids twitched slightly.

"Exactly. Speaking of which, it's thanks to Xia Chu that he found the corpse. He went to Shunshui Building with his friends for dinner, and there was a strange smell nearby, and he thought it was the stench of corpses..." Jiang Xiyuan raised his eyes to see Su Zhen's expression was a bit uncomfortable. It looks good, and she quickly stopped talking, "The emperor forgives the sin, I shouldn't say that this is an insult to the sage."

Su Zhen touched his nose lightly, then picked up the fragrant tea and sniffed vigorously, only then blasted the strange smell from his memory out of his mind.Looking down to see the green tea soup in his hand, he unexpectedly remembered the swollen green corpse that Xia Chu said, and couldn't help thinking about it, his stomach churned for a while.

"emperor?"

"It's okay." Su Zhen took a big sip of tea, suppressing the feeling of nausea, "Go and do your work first."

After Jiang Xiyuan left, Su Zhen retched on the table.An Liangzheng almost came in from the back, but when he heard such a sound, he was frightened, turned his head and was about to run out to find the imperial doctor, but was stopped by Su Zhen.

"Your majesty, don't carry it if you are not feeling well, your body is important."

Su Zhen took a deep breath, and glanced at An Liang, "An Liang, do you still remember the strange smell you smelled in Yongping Square that day?"

"Your servant remembers." An Liang nodded because he didn't understand.

"Do you know what that smells like?"

"Returning to the emperor, isn't the medicine in the Guangjitang medicine shop broken?"

The corners of Su Zhen's lips curved slightly, "That's the smell of corpses. Corpse smells are the smells emitted by rotting corpses. According to Xia Chu, when a corpse rots, it will first swell to several times the size of a normal person , full of gas, green all over..." His tone was soft, and he looked at Anliang with half-closed eyes, which seemed to induce imagination.

"Emperor, Your Majesty..." An Liang took half a step back, covered his mouth, and swallowed.

"I remember, your car was parked at the back door of Guangjitang Pharmacy that day. It was very close to the corpse..."

"Your Majesty..." An Liang felt that something was in his throat, so he had to choke hard.

Su Zhen smiled slightly, picked up the notebook on the Longshu case, and said nothing more.

An Liang exited the imperial study room, hurried to the tea room and put a sweet and sour candied plum in his mouth, and then heaved a sigh of relief.Feeling wronged in his heart, he blamed himself at the same time, silently criticizing himself for not being able to persuade the emperor to leave the palace, when did a good young emperor become so naughty?
When the sun was in the west, Xia Chu was sitting in the yard, blowing the cool breeze, flipping through the files in his hand.Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.She raised her voice and asked who it was, but no one answered, so she had no choice but to stand up, take off her shoes, and limped slightly to open the door.

As soon as the door opened, Xia Chu was stunned.The one standing outside the door turned out to be Su Zhen, and when Su Zhen saw Xia Chu, he was also taken aback, "Xia Chu, what happened to your hair?"

Xia Chu hurriedly touched his head, only then remembered that he wasn't wearing a hat, so he had no choice but to bring out the rhetoric that the fire burned his hair again.

"Master Huang, why are you here?"

"Passing by, just want to see if you are there. Isn't it too abrupt?"

"No, no, no." Xia Chu said hurriedly, tugging at his clothes at a loss, and then remembered that Jean opened the door and invited Su Zhen into the courtyard.

This was the first time Su Zhen entered Xia Chu's house, and he was a little excited, although he didn't know why he was excited.

A grape trellis was erected in the yard, climbing the vines that had just spread out their new leaves, and there was a rough porcelain fish tank under the trellis.Su Zhen walked over and looked inside with great interest, but he didn't see any fish, only the water at the bottom of the tank with some green flocs floating there.

Chu Xia smiled awkwardly, "It's all left by the previous owner, I..., I haven't found time to take care of it yet."

Su Zhen saw that her walking posture was a bit strange, so he asked, "What's wrong with you? Did you fight with your arrester again?"

"How can I fight every day. I was run over by a car. It was an accident. It's just an accident. It's okay." Xia Chu hurriedly ran into the living room, took a teacup out, washed it with water, and poured it for Su Zhen. Tea.

"My tea here is very average, Mr. Huang can make do with it."

"You're welcome." Su Zhen sat down and took a sip of tea, then secretly smiled.

Xin said: Xia Chu is really not being polite, this tea is really ordinary.

(End of this chapter)