Song of Peach Blossoms: Alluring Princess

Chapter 254

On the second watch, when the lights were off and everyone rested, except for the occasional knock of the gong by the watchman on the street, there was only the humming sound of the wind blowing over the corner of the wall. At this time, any footsteps seemed particularly loud.After the watchman knocked the gong a few times, he heard the sound of chaotic footsteps from the opposite alley. He shrank his head and didn't want to be nosy, so he turned around and wanted to go around.

what!The screams sounded and he immediately stopped his footsteps, whoosh, the sound from the hem of his clothes flew past his head.He took a long time to go to the entrance of the alley and raised the lantern in his hand a little bit higher, killing people!

The incident happened two alleys away from the Yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, so it naturally became a case of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.When Shen Yu saw the corpse, he knew that this matter would not be easy, because the one who died was none other than the little servant who falsely delivered the imperial edict to him that day.

"He was killed with a knife, and his tongue was gone!" Zheng Wu came to this conclusion after an autopsy.

"What does the murderer want his tongue for?"

"Because of a kind of disgust or punishment, maybe this person once said something wrong to make people hold grudges, or he is usually a person who can't keep secrets... These may be the reasons for cutting off his tongue. "

Shen Yu went to the side and looked through the things found on the servant's body. There were two silver tickets, a ticket with pear blossoms on it, and some odds and ends.Shen Yu flipped through the ticket and looked at it, "Have you seen this ticket?"

"The opera tickets in Liyuan, but I don't know which one."

Shen Yu took the ticket and asked Lin Shan to find out which theater troupe would use this kind of ticket, and he left the Yamen with the fake imperial decree.

"You just cut out the words on it and arrange them in order again, and then find a skilled embroidery master to weave them with the same warp and weft threads, so that they look real." The owner of the calligraphy and painting shop touched them. Touch the root of the above and say affirmatively.

"That is to say, there was such a word, and this word was picked out and patched?"

"Can't be wrong."

Shen Yu put the things in his arms and left the painting and calligraphy shop. There were only eight words in the imperial decree: act immediately, regardless of life or death.There is no name to point to, making it difficult to guess who will receive such an imperial edict.

It cannot be ruled out here that some people have received the emperor's secret decree, so it seems that the scope of searching from the false imperial decree is too large.

The street was bustling with activity, Shen Yu took a look and felt familiar, then remembered that it was the street where Laidingbao's pastry shop was located when he tracked down Ruyifang.

The pastry shop has long been remodeled to do other business. He took a look and walked forward. There was a babbling sound coming from the alley when he turned the corner.

He stepped into the alley and followed the sound to a courtyard. It turned out that the theater troupe had packed up their outfits and was going to perform at a rich family's house that had been booked in advance.

Shen Yu didn't go in with his side, but walked into the alley from the door, because he saw the pear blossom mark on the box that was packed with the luggage, which was exactly the same as the ticket in his hand.

After following the opera troupe for a day, Lin Shan brought back news that there was a girl who sang danjiao in the opera troupe, who was from the same village as the dead servant. I fell in love with it, and I just snatched it away. Later, the girl hanged herself to death.So the little servant has enmity with this Prince Yi's mansion.

Shen Yu leaned back, thinking about the matter carefully, who would know that the servant hated Prince Yi's mansion?
"Ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which palace this servant belongs to."

"The servants in the palace are directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"How's that staff member in Prince Yi's mansion?"

"He was dismissed and went home, and his whereabouts are gone. Do you want to search the whole city?"

"No need, by the way, have all the properties that Prince Yi used to have in the capital have been turned over to the state treasury?"

"The subordinates don't know either."

Shen Yu ordered Linshan to go down to handle some errands, and then went to the household department in person to look at the properties registered in Prince Yi's Mansion. Except for a very small part, most of them had been handed over.

Shen Yu rummaged through the booklet carefully, "If I remember correctly, Prince Yi has a very good restaurant in the capital called Tianxianglou. Why isn't there any registration on it?"

"Tianxiang Tower was bought by Prince Yan, and it was converted into two pieces of silver and handed over to the treasury." After finishing speaking, the master secretary said in a low voice, "To tell you the truth, I heard that Prince Yan has long been interested in the restaurant that earns thousands of dollars every day. Because of her covetous heart, the housekeeper of Prince Yan's Mansion came before she could be registered this time."

Shen Yu glanced at him, "Is Tianxianglou very profitable?"

"Yes, all the dignitaries in the capital like to go, so the business has always been very good."

Shen Yu didn't answer, put down the brochure, took his leave and left.Hubu was already a staunch supporter of Prince Rui, so his words were inevitably biased, and he couldn't believe them all.

As soon as he returned to the yamen, the subordinates submitted a case file, which was sent by Jing Zhaoyin's yamen. Because he heard about the case of the servant who was murdered by cutting out his tongue, he took a similar case that Jing Zhaoyin received a few days ago. The case came.

The one who died was the staff member of Prince Yi's mansion that Shen Yu was looking for. He was found dead in his bed two days before the little servant was killed. He was also killed with a knife, and his tongue was missing.

The same method of death, but what purpose did this killer have in killing two people in a row?

Shen Yu pressed the volume, called Linshan to give some instructions in a low voice, and Linshan took the order to go down. Shen Yu frowned as he looked at the ins and outs of the case he had sorted out.

Let's see where you go this time!

It was late at night, and the lights were still on in a courtyard in the west of the city. The theater troupe was going to leave the capital tomorrow, and the handyman was packing up all night to prepare to leave early tomorrow morning.

At the end of one side of the side room is the stage pillar of the theater troupe, the room of the girl who sings the female role, the lights are turned off early in the morning to rest her voice.

The sound of rattling in the yard gradually disappeared, and the handyman closed the box and blew out the lantern and went back to his room to rest.In the second watch, when the moon was in the sky, there was a cat meowing in the yard, the window of the room at the end of the wing was pried open by a gleaming knife, and a black shadow jumped in.

After a while, there was the sound of fighting in the room, and then someone escaped through the window. Just as he was about to jump on the roof, he was kicked off by someone, and just as he landed, he was stabbed on the neck by the person who rushed out of the room. , then twisted his chin, and pulled out the medicine hidden in his mouth.

The lights were bright, and the veils on the faces of the people on the ground were removed, revealing their true colors, with a stubborn and mortal look on their faces. This expression seemed familiar to Shen Yu, and this tactic of intending to commit suicide by taking poison after being caught was also very familiar. picture.

It was at this time last year, when Chen Zhi was ambushed in Su City, and when he returned to the capital, Duke Qing wrote him a letter, implying that Prince Rui might have done that matter.

Now this matter is also related to Prince Rui?
(End of this chapter)