How to work

Shangjing has officially entered the winter moon, the sky is freezing, the dripping water turns into ice, even the crescent moon is extremely ruthless, sprinkled with a little silver light, it is not enough to illuminate, and at night, few people are willing to stay outside up.

Of course, this weather is not a problem for the well-trained hidden guards.

Xing Zuo lay on the eaves of the largest courtyard of Prince Ping's mansion, muttering in a low voice that life is boring, "The princess is angry and doesn't want the prince anymore. The prince doesn't think about eating and drinking. He looks for it outside every day. The old concubine in the mansion doesn't stop. The prince expressed his brotherhood and expressed his desire to help... I don't even think about whether he can help!"

Yuan Lianhu, who came over spontaneously to accompany him on duty at night, had sympathy in his eyes, "I really feel aggrieved for our lord, in such a situation, everyone would go crazy."

Xing Zuo wrinkled his nose, pointed at Yuan Lian and scolded, "It's not you! You didn't hide well at the critical moment, and the princess got caught!"

Yuan Lian touched the back of his head with his big hand like a cattail fan, and smiled embarrassingly, "I'm not worried about the princess... Besides, I was punished too, the prince's army stick is very ruthless this time, my whole body is lying on the bed for a long time It's a month!"

"Yes!" Xing Zuoxiu raised his eyebrows high, and poked him with his finger, "Call you a bad thing!"

Xing Zuo was about to start a fight with Yuan Lian, but he didn't because he saw a few people coming from a distance.The wind lamps on the front and both sides were illuminated, and the servants walked slowly towards the man in the middle, surrounded by stars like the moon.The man in brocade hat and sable fur, with buckskin flip-up boots on his feet, and a gold-thread hand stove in his hand, is full of nobility. He is the prince's half-brother Zhao Xi!

However, this full armor didn't seem to make him any warmer, Zhao Xi shrank his neck, picked his shoulders, arched his back, his nose was red from the cold...

"Hey, that quail is here again!" Yuan Lian's tiger eyes were full of sympathy, "Why do you think he has to find this sinner? It's not too close to walk this way, and he freezes himself like a grandson. I won't give him a little bit of good face, what is he trying to do?"

"Say you're stupid," Xing Zuoxiu raised his eyebrows, rolled his eyes sharply, and repeated the answer from Hong You to Yuan Lian in embarrassment. , does it make our lord even more rude, domineering and unreasonable!"

"It's useful! The prince is still a prince, what can he do?" Yuan Lian hissed, "If you say that this back house is ruining people, it's really... "

"But it's a good thing that the princess didn't come back with the prince, otherwise I couldn't deal with this quail who is full of eyes." Xing Zuo sighed with his chin in his hand, and bumped Yuanlian's shoulder after speaking, "Tell me, where is our princess? "

Yuan Lian shook his head, "I don't know where it is, but it's designated to hide from our prince."

"But the lord has been looking for it for so long, and he almost turned Da Xia upside down, but he still hasn't seen it. The wife of the concubine can hide!"

"The princess is so smart, if you can guess it, she is not the princess."

This Xing Zuo admitted that Hong You said that his brain is as big as a walnut kernel, and the princess is so smart, how could he guess it, but he couldn't help thinking, "You said...is it dark under the lamp?" ah?"

"It's dark under the lights?"

"That's right, our lord cast a wide net to search outside, maybe the princess has already entered the interior and came to Shangjing?" Xing Zuo forced his walnut-sized brain to use his imagination, "Then stay in an inconspicuous place , secretly watching the prince's actions, just to hide?"

Yuan Lian laughed twice, "You can pull it down, and it's still dark under the lights. The prince sent the picture down early in the morning. Those guards are blind and can't recognize it? Don't talk about other places, this is Shangjing. Our territory!"

Xing Zuo was not convinced, his face puffed up, "What if!"

"It's impossible to have that ten thousand..."

"Go check."

The two were talking, when suddenly a deep voice came from behind, startling them.

After seeing who was coming, Xing Zuo held his chest, "My lord... my lord."

He said, who can appear so silently without letting them notice, only the prince...

Yuan Lian didn't understand Zhao Zhu's meaning, his tiger eyes widened, "What are you looking for?" Was it the quail that was going to the yard soon?

Zhao Zhu narrowed his eagle eyes slightly, "Check if there is any news about Lu Li in Shangjing."

"Eh? Really want to investigate?" Yuan Lian stared at Xing Zuo, is this kid's words reliable?Besides, "My lord doesn't care about that quail?" They braved the cold wind and came to look for you.

Zhao Zhu ignored Yuan Lian, sat down cross-legged, and ordered Xing Zuo, "Bring me a jar of wine."

Xing Zuo nodded and was about to go, he inadvertently noticed the green and black stubble under Zhao Zhu's chin, and his bloodshot eyes.

Why was King Ping so depressed?Even when the battle at the border was at its worst, the prince was still handsome and imposing, his spirit was amazing!

Xing Zuo couldn't help but say a few more words, "Don't worry, my lord, the princess will definitely come back, maybe I'm missing you right now..." After speaking, he quickly slid down the eaves like a rabbit.

Lu Li...would miss him?

Zhao Zhu was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the sky.The sky on a winter night is very high and far away, and the stars are not as enthusiastic as in summer, hanging lazily and flashing from time to time, not at all kind.

Lu Li likes to look at the stars the most. I don't know where he is now, but what he is looking at is a starry sky?

Zhao Zhu's heart was full of longing, and it was very rare for him to be emotional.

Soon a slightly noisy sound came from the yard, Yuan Lian saw that the prince was motionless, as if he was about to grow on the house... He patted his forehead, well, let him go down to pick up the quail.

……

Lu Li was really looking at the stars.

In ancient times, there was not such serious air pollution. As long as it is not cloudy, the sky is always clean, and you can see beautiful stars when you look up.Lu Li likes the night. Whenever he is alone and looks at the shining stars outside the window, he feels very comfortable.

No matter what happens during the day or how bad the mood is, every time this happens, my heart will miraculously calm down.The starry sky is like his healing secret book. When he looks at it, his thoughts are endlessly ups and downs, and finally he becomes open-minded and cheerful.

Of course, it would be even better to have Dabai by his side.

Dabai pulled Lu Li's clothes, trying to crawl into his arms and sit down.

When he was a child, he especially liked to play with Lu Li. When he was tired, he would lie in his master's arms and let his master's gentle big hand caress him, which was very comfortable.But now it has grown into a mighty big dog, and when it ran back madly, it could even catch Lu Li. Lu Li's embrace was already too small for it.

Dabai is very unwilling, maybe because the previous feelings are deeply remembered in his memory, and he persistently performs this action.

Lu Li couldn't help it, so he simply put together two chairs, put cushions on them, sat on one side by himself, and then patted the seat next to him to let Dabai jump up.

"Wow woof—" Dabai jumped up very happily, happily put his head and front legs... into his master's arms.

As for the butt that can't fit, anyway, the cushion is soft and comfortable enough!

It whimpered and curled up in Lu Li's arms, acting like a baby.

It gets dark early in winter, although Lu Li is already looking at the stars, the time is only at the beginning of the hour, so there are visitors... very normal.

When Hu Weiwei brought Wen Qi in, Dabai yelled at him in a very unfriendly manner, as if to say: "Where is the idiot, get out of here, don't spoil the wonderful time between me and my master!"

"Dabai." Lu Li stopped it, kissed it, and rubbed its head with a smile, "Go and play with Sister Hu for a while, good boy..."

Dabai scratched his paws, yelled at Wen Qi twice in warning, and then followed Hu Weiwei.

Wen Qi watched the big white-haired dog go away with admiration in his eyes, "The dog is not bad."

Lu Li didn't respond to his topic, and pointed to the seat next to him and asked Wen Qi to sit down, "The castle owner is here—"

"Of course I got the confession, so I came to ask Mr. what he means."

Lu Li was a little surprised. If this was the case, shouldn't everyone be called together to talk about it?

Wen Qi laughed, "I thought I had shown enough sincerity, but it seems that my husband still doesn't believe me."

The first time I saw Lu Li was when I met a woman who sold her body to bury her father on the street.The woman was obviously playing tricks, he didn't want to answer, he didn't want to see Lu Li in bright blue clothes in a blink of an eye.

He has always done whatever he wants, and when he sees someone who suits his appetite, he will inevitably not want to flirt.Little did they know that rumors soon spread that the suzerain had appeared, not only holding the suzerain's order, but also possessing extremely powerful wielding skills.

The news came on the spot, as if it was tailor-made for him.Because he always felt that his father's death was strange, and he wanted to investigate, but he never had a chance... And the information he collected along with the news couldn't fool anyone. This Lu Li has indeed repeatedly solved strange cases everywhere and performed his autopsy skills. Liang's life-saving skills, it seems that as long as he is there, difficult cases will disappear and be solved immediately.

So he clearly knew that Lu Li's appearance was not simple and must have some purpose, so he still took him over.

Of course, testing is inevitable.

But he didn't expect this young man to be prickly and quite tempered.And it happened that Ruan Ying fell into the water and died, the young man immediately used his life-saving skills, which made him have to be convinced...

He believed in Lu Li.

I also believe that my eyes can't see wrong.

Lu Li smiled slowly.The little canine teeth shone in the candlelight, showing calmness and cuteness, "It's my honor that the castle master trusts me."

"I've asked about what you reminded me before." Wen Qi was a straightforward person, and went straight to the topic. "Sure enough, as I expected, a lot of things came out of the question..."

He said that when the maid Yuxiang got up at night, the light in Chunxing's room was on and the door was open.She looked over curiously, and found that Chun Xing's head was facing the outside, her eyes were wide open, her hands were hanging down, and she was motionless. She was so frightened that she immediately screamed out. She was just frightened at the time, and she wasn't sure if Chun Xing was dead. .Her cry immediately attracted the guards on the Zhuangzi, and when the guards entered the room to check, they were sure that Chun Xing was dead.

"But when I passed by, Chun Xing was lying on her back on the bed with her eyes closed. Mr. Wen Qi's past night should be consistent with what I saw." Wen Qi narrowed his eyes slightly, with a sarcasm on his lips, "Someone is watching me In Wenjiabao's territory, not to mention killing people, but taking advantage of the crowds and no one paying attention, they moved the corpses."

Lu Li tilted his head slightly, and his fingertips lingered on the teacup unconsciously, "There is such a thing."

"At that time, apart from the guards on Zhuangzi, all the people from the Jianghu were there, so the murderer must be among the people from the Jianghu I invited in advance. By the way, there is also a smell." Wen Qi's eyes darkened, "Yuxiang said that he really smelled it." When it came to the special smell, like the smell of wine mixed with some spices, she said it was a bit irritating, it was obvious. But when we went, the smell had disappeared. I wondered if the person who killed Chunxing drank too much, and left after killing someone , and stay in the room more, so the smell disappears so quickly?"

Lu Li nodded slightly, it made sense.

"So, I asked someone to find out who had drunk that night." Wen Qi snorted coldly at this point, "People in the Jianghu are so unrestrained, almost everyone drank that night! My second uncle was in the During the banquet, he was persuaded to drink, but he was very clever, and everyone else drank, but he didn't drink."

Wen Qi personally went to ask Wen Rang, and Wen Rang said that he had taken traditional Chinese medicine that day, and it had a conflict with the wine, so he didn't drink it.He also felt that it was a meritorious deed for him to help Wen Qi entertain guests, and he was very dissatisfied that Wen Qi came to ask him.He still refused to cooperate with regard to whether he had done other things before and after, and why he had to stand up and admit to killing Chun Xing.

Moreover, the attitude of the servants around him was wrong, they were evasive and unwilling to directly answer Wen Qi, the Castle Master's question.

"They don't want to say it, it doesn't matter, if they don't say it this time, they will never say it again."

When he said this, Wen Qi's eyes were full of hostility, and Lu Li knew that he had murderous intentions.

"Second Uncle couldn't find out here, so I asked Wen Jiuxian to cooperate with Yuxiang to search for it according to the smell, and I went to check what happened on the night when Ruan Ying's accident happened." Wen Qi's voice sank, and his expression became a little gloomy "Someone said that they met him and Chun Xing that night."

It was too dark, and the servant said he wasn't sure if he saw clearly, so Wen Qi asked Ruan Ying's mother again.

Ruan Er's family thought about it carefully, and suddenly cried.She said that she heard her son get up at night that night, and asked in a daze, Ruan Ying said to go to get up at night, and she would come back immediately, so that she could sleep peacefully.She was very sleepy, turned over and fell asleep again, and vaguely saw her son's back going to the east...but the clean room was clearly on the west!

The Ruan family hated themselves for sleeping too much and being careless, which caused their son to suffer such a catastrophe!

Wen Qi clenched his hands slightly, "I just don't know if Ruan Ying met Chun Xing before he got up at night, after he got up at night, or at that time."

Lu Li has lived in Zhuangzi for a few days, and already knows the directions of several important places.Hearing this, he frowned slightly, "May I ask the Castle Master, if the courtyard where Ruan Ying lived at that time, if he went east, where would he end up? Maybe... the garden where he drowned?"

Wen Qi's eyes dimmed, and he clenched his fists, "Yes. The two places are very close to each other. Ruan Ying only needs to bypass a small gate to get to that garden."

There was a sudden silence in the room.

There was a night wind blowing majesticly, the shadows of the candles on the table shook, and the table curtains swayed slightly.

Wen Qi's ears moved, he squinted his eyes and looked out the window, his mood suddenly changed, and he asked Lu Li in a crisp voice, "What do you think, sir?"

Lu Li pondered for a long time, but he didn't know what he was thinking, and suddenly asked, "Where is your father's accident...?"

"It was midsummer and the weather was hot. My father lived in the coolest water pavilion as before..." Wen Qi's pupils shrank suddenly, "The water pavilion is also in the garden! It is east and west of the place where Ruan Ying fell into the water!"

Why did Ruan Ying meet Chun Xing in secret? It is impossible to say that there is an affair.No matter how unhappy Wen Qi was, no matter how angry he was, he knew that this was impossible.Then why did Ruan Ying go to the garden when these people who didn't meet each other on weekdays suddenly met late at night?

"Is this really related to my father's death?" Wen Qi was very surprised.

"There is no evidence, and I'm just guessing." Lu Li sighed. He had received too little information about this matter, and it was really hard to speculate.But he could see Ruan Ying clearly.After waking up, Ruan Ying pretended to lose her memory, but it was to deal with Wen Qi.He could see that Ruan Ying's attitude towards Wen Qi was very complicated, as if he wanted to give up, but couldn't, so he ran away and forced himself to think clearly.

Because this situation is inexplicably similar to Lu Li, even though it is just some words and some eyes, Lu Li can almost see through Ruan Ying's mind.But no matter what, Ruan Ying will not hurt Wen Qi, no matter what happens, he only wants to help Wen Qi.

Wen Qi wanted to find out the cause of his biological father's death. No one else knew about it, but Ruan Ying definitely knew about it.Similarly, he should also know how much Wen Qi prepared for this matter, and how disappointed and sad he was because he couldn't do it.

When there is no chance, Ruan Ying can only accompany Wen Qi in pain, but once there is a chance... Ruan Ying will definitely want to search for clues.And in order to avoid Wen Qi's worry, he will not let Wen Qi know until there are obvious clues.

So... Ruan Ying should know something.

He would drown and Chun Xing would die, probably all related to this little clue.

The fact that Ruan Ying pretended to have amnesia after waking up may have lowered the murderer's vigilance by mistake and let him go.

Lu Li would have such a guess, and Wen Qi, who has spent more time with Ruan Ying and knows Ruan Ying better, can naturally guess, "Bai Shi has already said that Ruan Ying pretended to lose her memory... Ruan Ying will be in danger these days!"

Lu Li narrowed his eyes slightly, "So the castle owner should pay more attention to protecting the safety of patients."

Wen Qi recalled the defense at Ruan Ying's residence recently, and felt that there was no problem, so he resisted standing up and continued the topic, "It's also my fault... the accidental disappearance of my home caused a lot of trouble between me and him. Influence, he thought... I wouldn't trust him any more."

There is obviously something in the words, there must be something else behind Wen Qi's sudden disappearance that year.It's just that the person concerned didn't want to talk about it, and Lu Li didn't want to ask, so he said, "Did Ruan Ying... have seen something?"

Wen Qi shook his head, "I really don't know." He looked bitter, "He didn't tell me anything."

"If the Lord of the Castle believes in me, I want to wait for Ruan Ying's condition to improve and talk to him face to face."

"Okay." Wen Qi responded to Lu Li, looked out of the window, and his voice became a little more serious, "Then, according to Mr.'s opinion, how should we deal with the current matter?"

"Since everything is related to your father's death, things will be easy!" Suddenly a loud voice interrupted from outside the room, and following the words, there were footsteps, and someone was walking into the room.

Lu Li looked at Wen Qi, who had bright eyes, and was a little relieved, and when someone came in, he smiled knowingly.

It turned out to be Zhuo Xiuyuan and Bai Shi.

Zhuo Xiuyuan came striding forward, stroking his well-groomed beard, with piercing eyes and a solemn expression, "Open the coffin for an autopsy!"

Bai Shi was a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry...Uncle Zhuo and I went to find Master Wenbao. The people below said that Master Wenbao came to see Mr. Lu, so we followed. Seeing that the two of you are discussing the issue, we are afraid of delaying the case. Daring to disturb each other is not intentional eavesdropping."

The corners of Wen Qi's lips curled up, "Mr. Xiaobai, you don't need to be too polite. You should have been informed about this matter. It's just that I was in a hurry, so I came to Mr. Lu immediately."

Bai Shi's eyes curled up, "It's fine that the Castle Master doesn't blame me and Uncle Zhuo."

Wen Qi only looked at Zhuo Xiuyuan at this moment, "Uncle Zhuo just said..."

"Open the coffin and do an autopsy to find out the cause of your father's death!" Zhuo Xiuyuan looked upright, "Nowadays some people are blatantly coming to your Wenjiabao to harm people, how can you bear it! You convene a meeting of heroes and make this matter clear, I see who has the guts to object!"

"Thank you very much, Uncle Zhuo." Wen Qi said that he has no objection to this matter, but there is one thing that bothers him a little, "If the coffin is really opened for an autopsy, who will be in charge?"

Zhuo Xiuyuan looked at Bai Shi lovingly, "Of course it's our Mr. Bai!"

Lu Li was holding a teacup and drinking tea slowly, without any reaction, he had expected that Zhuo Xiuyuan would not support him.

"Bai Xiaoyou is superb in skills. He has solved many major cases in Shanghai. Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice have so many people rushing to visit and get acquainted with him. His reputation is not fake!" Zhuo Xiuyuan rolled his eyes around Lu Li, "Compared to a certain A muddy leg crawling from an unknown country is much stronger."

Bai Shi glanced at Lu Li worriedly, and pulled Zhuo Xiuyuan's sleeve, "Uncle Zhuo, there are hermits in the deep mountains, so don't be suspicious of others. Maybe this gentleman really has a good teacher, and no one has learned from him." Knowing the magical skills..."

"A good teacher?" Zhuo Xiuyuan sneered, "Who else in this world is more skilled than old Mr. Yu Zhiyu? Would you like to tell me his name?"

Bai Shi stopped talking and gave Lu Li an apologetic smile.

Lu Li still drank his tea calmly, ignoring anyone.

"Furthermore," Zhuo Xiuyuan looked at Wen Qi with a solemn expression, "Little friend Bai is extremely important to King Ping, and may attract King Ping—"

Seeing that Wen Qi remained calm, Zhuo Xiuyuan squinted his eyes, "As long as little friend Bai delivers a letter, King Ping will definitely come! At that time, you will open the coffin for autopsy, and you will be escorted by King Ping. Can be put together..."