The psychic Xi ​​Lan

Chapter 21 The Missing Girl

Ji Jinjiang stared at her brightly illuminated cheeks, and answered after a moment: "I know you are very smart, but I wasn't the one who led you past!"

Long Xilan thought about it secretly, nodded again and said: "It's really not you!"

That Ji Jin who has turned into a female ghost is painted on Zhang Liu's body, so it is not a person who lures her to Ji's mansion, but a ghost!
It's like the dead Ji Jinhua wanted her to take her place, but why?
"If it weren't for this hairpin, I wouldn't have known that Mr. Long, who has a holy name in the Jianghu, is actually a daughter." Ji Jinjiang looked at her face, his eyes spread away, as if he was looking for a focus to refocus.

Long Xilan looked at those sincere and humble eyes, and slowly lowered her eyes, which was also ironic. When she changed into women's clothes after wearing men's clothes for 17 years, she turned into another person.

Facing the face in front of him, which looked exactly like his sister, he knew very well that it was not her, and said in a low voice, "Jin Hua will never die!"

Long Xilan once thought that he would not be sad, but it was not, he just hid all his emotions in his heart.

"What does this have to do with me?" But Long Xilan still couldn't understand, she just came to Beijing to find her mother, and has nothing to do with anyone around now.

When Ji Jinjiang withdrew her hand, she saw the pink jade hairpin in her hand.

"She chose you! You've seen her face, maybe it's God's will!"

God's will, man's will, or ghost's will, Long Xilan doesn't know. She only knows that if her identity is revealed, she is dead. If she continues to pretend, she still has a chance.

When they returned to the wooden pavilion, Ji Jinjiang didn't stay for long. After he left, Long Xilan also prepared to go back to the small courtyard.

"Jin Hua, are you feeling better?" Li Huai noticed that when she came back from talking with Ji Jinjiang just now, she seldom spoke, as quiet as if she was thinking about something.

Long Xilan was full of thoughts about why the ghost thing that killed her came here, when she suddenly heard Li Huai's voice, she turned her head dully, and forcefully forced a smile. "I am very well!"

Before Li Huai asked any further questions, he personally sent her back to the small courtyard.

In the evening, when the last rays of the setting sun faded from the walls of the pear courtyard, Long Xilan, led by Liu Jin, came down to the East Wing.

The study room was full of candlelight, and Li Huai was sitting next to the desk, holding in his hand the portrait of a young girl that Yan Ting had brought back from Dali Temple.

"My lord, why did you call Jin Hua?"

After Liu Jinren came in, he retreated contemptuously and closed the door.

Li Huai put the little photo in his hand on the table, Long Xilan's eyes were sharp, and she naturally saw it for real, so she couldn't help but frowned.Isn't the person in the painting the same woman she met at the Lantern Festival the night before?
"Jin Hua, do you know the girl in this painting?" Li Huai naturally noticed the change in her eyes, so he asked softly.

Long Xilan shook her head and said with a smile: "I don't know, I just wonder why the prince is here alone, staring at such a portrait of a young girl?"

This explanation is reasonable, but Li Huai didn't really believe it. He asked calmly, "Do you still remember the lantern that my king bought for you last night?"

"Remember, the prince also arrested an uncle who was selling lanterns!" Long Xilan didn't panic at that time, and now she doesn't have to show her helpless look.

Li Huai glanced lightly at the portrait on the table. "Dali Temple has found out that the lamp seller had imprisoned the girl in the painting for several days, and the criminal has confessed to what he committed. If it weren't for your unintentional words at that time, this king would never have found out about the girl in the painting. There is a problem with the flower lamp."

Long Xilan's eyes flickered, she was not stupid, she could tell that King Xu was testing her.

She smiled slightly, and said very calmly: "If you have any questions, you can ask Jin Hua directly."

Li Huai raised his head to look at her calm face with a calm expression. King Xu, who was good at observing words and expressions, couldn't see through the woman in front of him.

He paused for a moment, then asked out his doubts.

"Jin Hua, at that time you just looked at the lantern from a distance without even touching it. How did you find out that there was something wrong with the lantern?"

When Long Xilan came to Beijing, she had heard that Li Huai was extremely smart and had helped Dali Temple solve several murder cases, and her reasoning was extremely logical, but at this moment, it proved to be true.

She did discover the problem at that time, so she reminded Li Huai.

It's just that this person doesn't believe in ghosts and gods. If she tells her about ghosts, with Li Huai's temperament, she will only think she is lying, right?
Seeing her bow her head and say nothing, Li Huai called out, "Jin Hua?"

"It's just that I was in a lively lantern festival at that time, and everyone around was very happy, but when the lantern seller saw our group walking by, he immediately avoided my sight with guilt, so I speculated that he must have done something wrong, but he didn't want to By accident, the lord discovered the crime of this person!" She had an idea, and came here casually.

Li Huai pondered her words carefully, and couldn't help but praise: "I never thought that your observation is so small."

Long Xilan didn't know whether he believed it or not, so she asked cautiously: "Then, can the body be found in Dali Temple?"

The girl followed her to the Guanlong Pavilion in the end, thinking that the body was not cold enough to rest in peace, she needed to find the body and bury it properly to do a ritual.

When Li Huai heard this, his eyes looked suspiciously over. "Did the king mention the corpse just now?"

Long Xilan was taken aback for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, Li Huai did not say that.

She was also very puzzled and asked: "My lord said that the criminal in Dali Temple has been brought to justice, and he confessed to what he committed. Could it be that the crime he confessed to was not that he killed someone?"

Li Huai shook his head, and said with certainty: "The criminal's confession is that the girl has fled to another place, so this case is not a murder case. I believe that Dali Temple's confession will not be wrong."

"Why can't the confession be wrong? That girl..." Long Xilan had to swallow the rest of the words in the middle of the sentence.

(End of this chapter)