Jade Without Fragrance

   Chapter 222 Portrait

   Soon the pen, ink, paper and inkstone were placed in front of Qi Shuo.

  Qi Shuo chose a thin pen, indicating that the man can speak.

   "The guest looks in his thirties, rather thin, with dark eyebrows and eyes..."

  Qi Shuo drew a sketch and asked the man, "Are the eyes similar?"

   The guy took a closer look and hesitated: "It seems to be a little more detailed."

  Qi Shuo nodded and redrawn his eyes with a few strokes: "So?"

   "That's right, that's it!" The guy got excited.

   "What's the nose like?"

"nose……"

   Just like this question and answer, time passes without knowing it.

   Director Jia never took his eyes off the drawing paper, and was anxious and did not dare to disturb Qi Shuo's portrait.

  Lin Hao was much calmer, sitting by the side quietly watching the young man who was writing and painting.

   I didn't expect Ah Shuo to be good at drawing people.

   After an unknown amount of time, Qi Shuo suddenly stopped writing, and the ink on the tip of the pen condensed and dripped onto the white paper to form a cloud of ink.

   "Why doesn't the prince draw anymore?" Mr. Jia asked in confusion.

   Qi Shuo suddenly threw the drawing paper aside.

   Director Jia was shocked.

   Why did you throw it away after drawing for so long?

   Just as he was about to pick up the drawing paper, he saw Qi Shuo spread out another piece of paper and began to draw. This time, he painted very quickly, almost in one go. A portrait was finished in less than half an hour.

   The young man with white fingers stained with ink fixedly looked at the portrait and frowned slightly: "Okay, look."

  Lin Hao looked at the lifelike portrait, and a chill rose from his heart.

   is Chen Mu!

  Although there is a slight deviation from Chen Mu's face, he can still be recognized at a glance as the person in the painting.

   This discovery made Lin Hao look solemn, pursed his lips and said nothing.

   A group of people headed by Chen Mu intended to blow up Jinxiu Street. The others were captured by Jin Linwei, and only Chen Mu was left without a trace. Unexpectedly, there will be another movement, which is such a big event as the murder of Princess Yuliu.

   "Is it this person?" Qi Shuo put down his pen and asked the man.

   The guy nodded desperately: "That's right, it's him!"

   He was obviously shocked by Qi Shuo's amazing painting skills: "It's too similar! Too similar!"

   Mr. Jia held back his amazement and pointed at the table with his finger: "Other people also look, have you seen this person."

   Another guy recognized it: "This person was greeted by the small people when he walked into the teahouse."

   "Did he come in before the two princesses or after?" Mr. Jia asked.

   "Behind the two princesses." The man said without hesitation.

   "Can you be sure?"

   "When the two princesses came in, Xiaomin couldn't help but look at him a few more times. He didn't pay attention to the guests behind him for a while. The man even coughed to remind me..." The man explained.

   Director Jia breathed a sigh of relief.

   Not to mention whether I can find this person or not, with such a person here, at least I can explain it to the superior.

   "Thanks to the prince today." Director Jia sincerely thanked Qi Shuo.

   Qi Shuo smiled: "It's good to be able to help Master Jia."

   Director Jia carefully picked up the portrait: "This portrait is to be taken away by the officials. After Shangfeng reports the situation, he needs to use the portrait to arrest this person."

   Director Jia is very clear about the above attitude. It is imperative to post a portrait and offer a reward. Only in this way can more people know that there is someone else who killed Princess Lingque in the shortest time, and the stigma of killing Princess Yian can be washed away.

   "I must invite the prince to drink tea someday." Director Jia handed over and hurried away with the people.

   Qi Shuo looked at Lin Hao: "Let's go back too."

   As soon as the two of them left, there was a heated discussion among the guys.

   "Don't talk nonsense, beware of getting into trouble." The shopkeeper reprimanded.

   "That lord didn't say that he will be listed as wanted soon, but he will know it by then, so it doesn't matter if we talk about it."

   The shopkeeper thought about it too, he didn't say anything, just gave the guy who casually let people go behind him a lesson.

   Everyone in the teahouse couldn't keep their mouths shut when they knew about such an amazing inside story, and it quickly spread.

  Lin Hao and Qi Shuo returned to the flower shop, avoiding others to talk about the portrait.

   "That person is Chen Mu." Lin Hao affirmed.

  Qi Shuo had seen Chen Mu in the follow-up: "I didn't expect that he was the one who was drawn, and it turned out that the fish that slipped through the net had endless troubles."

   Once Yuliu chose to join forces with Qi due to the death of Princess Lingque, the people of Dazhou would suffer the most in the war.

   "Ashuo, what are your plans?" Lin Hao thought of Chen Mu's gloomy face, and his heart sank.

   "I'm going to see Cheng Maoming." Qi Shuo hesitated, paying attention to Lin Hao's reaction, "Maybe we can try to find out Chen Mu's whereabouts from Du Qing's mouth."

   "Is Du Qing still in Jinlinwei?"

"Um."

  Lin Hao thought about it and made a decision: "I'll go see him."

  Qi Shuo hesitated for a while, but still nodded: "Okay."

   After the two negotiated, they did not delay and went straight to Jinlinwei Yamen.

  Cheng Maoming received a report from his subordinates that Prince Jing was visiting, and immediately came to the spirit.

  Prince Jing is a very particular person. He gives him benefits every time he meets. Why did he come here this time?

"please come in."

  Cheng Maoming waited with inexplicable anticipation for Prince Jing's son and——Ding Ding gave Lin Hao a look, Cheng Maoming was stunned.

   His eyes are still accurate, is this a girl disguised as a man? Taking a closer look, I recognized it: the second girl from the General's Mansion, the daughter-in-law of Prince Jing's son who has never been there!

   Cheng Maoming glanced outside blankly.

  The sky is still bright, not a dream.

  Why, now it's popular to visit Jinlinwei with a daughter-in-law who hasn't been there yet?

   "This is Lin Er girl." Qi Shuo pointed out Lin's good identity, and his attitude was magnanimous.

   Cheng Maoming greeted him and became more and more at a loss: Is he still open and aboveboard?

After the    greeting, Qi Shuo said his intention: "Have you heard about the murder of Princess Lingque, Governor Cheng Da?"

   This topic made Cheng Maoming forget everything else: "Cheng Mou naturally heard about it."

  Although the emperor handed the case to the Ministry of Justice for investigation, Jin Linwei was not easy, and Jin Linwei was quietly watching over the guest house.

   "The two princesses stayed at a flower shop before going to the tea house. That flower shop was the property of the General's Mansion. At that time, Miss Lin happened to be there—" Qi Shuo paused.

   "The people from the Ministry of Punishment have found Erlin Lin?" Cheng Maoming asked quietly, thinking that Prince Jing's son was here to please people this time.

   "I went to ask, and it happened that I was there."

   Cheng Maoming looked at Qi Shuo a little strangely.

   The dignified Prince Jing went to the incense powder shop for his daughter-in-law who had never been there. If this was his son—oh, he didn’t have a son.

Qi Shuo didn't care what Cheng Maoming was thinking, and continued: "Since we met, we did our best to help Director Jia find a suspected tea customer. After listening to the description of the man who had seen him, I drew it. A portrait, and it turned out that the man was one of the gang that attempted to bomb Jinxiu Street."

  Cheng Maoming's face changed suddenly: "Is the prince sure?"

   (end of this chapter)