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Hua Qianyu recalled over and over again the scene of yesterday's conversation with Wang Meng, trying to find clues related to Wang Meng's sudden suicide...

They did not disclose the matter of Mrs. Wang's suicide. It is impossible for Wang Meng, who was trapped in the prison and restricted from visiting, to suddenly get the news that he wanted to die in love... unless someone secretly passed on the news...

Martyrdom?Suicide?Is it really suicide?Does he really have no memory of the world?So that you don't even want to leave a word?Even the words of remorse, even the love poems of the underworld?

Hua Qianyu closed her eyes, put her right thumb against her chin, and pressed her middle finger between her eyebrows. She screened out useless images in her mind, and finally landed on the table of food.He opened his eyes, got up and turned around, and said to the four guards standing at the door of the cell: "You are not jailers."

"No," the guard who replied to him at the gate of the official prison before took out the token of Yushitai, "I am ordered by Xiao Yushi to come to the prison to find out."

It seems that Xiao Yushi's news is faster than them.

"You also figured it out, why didn't you go back and report?" If it was purely for the purpose of investigation, there was no need to send four people to act together.

The guard held the badge, folded his fists and bowed his head: "Investigation is only secondary. The main purpose of the subordinates here is to assist Hua in monitoring the actions of His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince and accompany them around. Just give orders."

"Surveillance?"

The four knelt down on one knee at the same time and said in unison: "Don't dare!"

Hua Qianyu smiled and said: "Get up, just joking." As the supervisor of the censor, he is still a member of the censor's platform. Isn't it considerate for the chief to transfer people from Taichung to assist his subordinates?As long as Xiao Zhenglian is innocent.

"Does Xiao Yushi have any other instructions?" Hua Qianyu walked out of the cell, walked past them, and asked.

"Just let us follow the orders of Hua Supervisor and His Highness the Fourth Highness."

Hua Qianyu didn't answer, walked up to the sixteen guards standing respectfully in four rows, and asked them, "Who were on duty here during the period from Wang Zhongshu's arrest to his death?"

The official prison is divided into four, and the one where Wang Meng is located is located in the deepest part of the official prison, and it happens that only one important prisoner, Wang Meng, is detained in it.There is a table and four benches where Hua Qianyu is standing, for the guards on duty to rest. From here, you can see Wang Meng's situation... Looking outside, there are two standing on each side of the stairs leading to the exit. The jailer, there are four guards on duty outside the closed wooden gate... Who can avoid these guards and kill Wang Meng?Hua Qianyu felt that the idea of ​​Wang Zhongshu being murdered was too random—unless there was an insider.

All the jailers lowered their heads and did not answer. Instead, the guard spoke: "The body was found after the shift change at Maoshi. All the guards before the shift were here—these four found the body after the shift and reported it. The four One person was guarding the gate at that time, and these four people were standing guard in the corridor, and these four people were patrolling here." He pointed from left to right and introduced row by row.

Hua Qianyu turned to look at the guard and said, "You arranged them to wait here?"

The guard should be.

Hua Qianyu asked for his name, and the guard replied: "Li Hebai." Hua Qianyu nodded, without expressing his appreciation, but then asked the guards: "You come and answer, when the body was found, and who was first?" Discovery? Speaking carefully, I need a process." He wanted to complete the picture he had never seen through the reply of the person involved.

An Mingxi left the cell at some point, came slowly, and stood behind to listen to their conversation.

The jailer at the head of the first row raised his head and said: "When we patrolled the cell in the morning, we heard someone coming to exchange value, so we went out. We were about to go home to rest, but Ah Qiang caught up with us suddenly, let's not wait. Let’s go, we were just wondering when we heard that the prisoner died in prison.”

"What about you?" Hua Qianyu raised his chin, and motioned for the second row to explain the situation with his eyes, but the jailer at the head of the third row thought Hua Qianyu was talking to himself, so he replied: "We are guarding the gate, and we did not let anyone People come in."

The person at the head of the second row also said: "In the second half of the night, we stayed under the stairs and didn't move at all. We didn't know anything about the situation inside."

Here's what the body finders said—

"We went inside, the cell was dark, at first we didn't find the bloodstains on the wall, Hosoki first found the prisoner lying on the ground, in a strange posture, opened the lock and saw that the prisoner was dead, knowing that The matter was extraordinary, so I asked Ah Qiang to call Boss Zhao and the others back."

An Mingxi, who was silent for a long time, asked, "Is the blood on the wall dry?"

The guards didn't know whether they understood what he meant, or they couldn't answer. They just looked at the people around them and didn't answer.An Mingxi asked again: "When the body was found, was the blood on the wall dry?"

"No... didn't pay attention."

An Mingxi glanced at him coldly, and said, "I asked if the blood on the wall was dry? Can no one answer me?"

Unsure, they only dared to look at the ground and said, "No, it's not so fast, is it?" Everyone's opinions seemed to be the same, only one person whispered something different: "It seems to have been done." When Qianyu heard it, Hua Qianyu pulled the man out as if he had found a treasure, and asked him to repeat what he had said.

Looking at Hua Qianyu's expression, the jailer named Hosaki became more confident: "Although the light is too dark to see clearly, the blood looks dry." He looked back at the others and added Said: "Actually, I'm not sure."

For Hua Qianyu, this sentence is enough.He has always thought that coincidences are mostly cunning, and he believes in his heart that the "suicide" that escaped so many eyes is not suicide.He put his eyes on An Mingxi, intending to listen to An Mingxi's thoughts first.

After meeting Shang Hua Qianyu's eyes, An Mingxi turned his eyes away and asked the jailer: "According to what you said, the prisoner died during the time when you were changing shifts—you said," in order to avoid the "early bird" Hosaki Being the target of public criticism, An Mingxi pointed to another person in the same team as Hosoki and asked, "Except for today, where is the shift on weekdays?"

The man pondered for a while, glanced at Boss Zhao, quickly retracted his eyes, and lowered his head: "Usually...it's here."

An Mingxi, who caught his gaze, turned to Boss Zhao, "Why didn't you stay here to change shifts this morning, and led the people out first?"

Under An Mingxi's pressing questions and everyone's gaze, Boss Zhao couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, but he still pretended to be calm and replied: "Today is my daughter's birthday, I want to go home early."

An Mingxi's face darkened, and he said to Li Hebai: "These four people, arrest them."

"Yes!"

The four of them panicked and cried out for their innocence. An Mingxi ignored them and said to the other teams: "Just because they were arrested doesn't mean you are innocent. Tell us what you have to say!"

One of the four people stationed at the stairway stood up and said: "The prison is too big, we are some distance away from here, and we can't hear anything clearly, but, but... for a while, I haven't seen half a person come out of it. , the work inside is easy, as long as you walk around and patrol from time to time, you can be lazy more often, not to mention that there is only one prisoner here... I just think they are lazy."

One of the people controlled by the guards suddenly broke free from the guards, but was suppressed again as soon as he took a step. The man knelt on the ground and kowtowed to An Mingxi: "It's Boss Zhao! It was Boss Zhao who gave us strong wine. The wine There must be something wrong! We fell asleep not long after drinking...the criminal died after waking up!...But Boss Zhao threatened us, saying that if we stole the drink, it would be dereliction of duty, and a big mistake would inevitably lead to punishment...We just Afraid of death!"

Boss Zhao also knelt down: "I'm wronged! I'm wronged, my lord! I bought the wine at the restaurant... I didn't know that this would happen!"

An Mingxi ignored their begging for mercy, and said to Li Hebai: "Put it down, and find out the origins of them and the so-called restaurant."

"Yes!"

……

Hua Qianyu walked backwards in front of An Mingxi, and said to An Mingxi: "Mingxi is so powerful, at first I only thought that there might be something hidden in the food, but I didn't think there was something wrong with the jailer."

An Mingxi looked straight into his eyes indifferently, and asked, "Did you really think about it?"

Hearing what he said, Hua Qianyu felt guilty and didn't answer for a moment.Although he didn't panic, he really didn't think about it at first.

An Mingxi spared him: "You don't have to just say nice things to please me, I don't like to hear it."

Hua Qianyu sighed intentionally: "Oh, Mingxi is so nice, no good words can describe you one ten thousandth of the time... But you always think that Qianyu is making up things to please you... Alas, Qianyu is good. sad."

An Mingxi ignored his grievances, and only said business: "There is still no evidence that Wang Zhongshu was killed by the jailer."

"But something was wrong, and the prison guards were deliberately made unconscious. It can't be because they are working hard, so that they can have a good sleep."

What's more, even if there is really something in the meal, it can't be found until now, so it's better to hope that Boss Zhao can tell the person who assigned him.

"If the evidence is not sufficient, maybe we need to go to Suzhou again—you go to Yushitai to find out the news, and I will go back to the palace and ask my father if there is any investigation."

Hua Qianyu took a quick step forward, grabbed his left wrist, and asked: "Is Mingxi blaming me for not giving priority to work yesterday?" If he is not so confident that he can find out the identity of the "benefactor", he will enter the palace to say hello after visiting Wang Meng In Qingxuan's case, they might have told Wang Meng the fact that he was cheated last night, and they might have had time to pry something out of Wang Meng's mouth.

An Mingxi didn't break free from Hua Qianyu's hand, but turned to face him, looked Hua Qianyu directly in the eyes and said, "Do you think it's wrong?"

"Maybe, but I don't regret what has happened, and there is no evidence that I chose another road at that time, and the answer we want will be there on the road. Besides, I like everything last night, it is more beautiful than a dream."

An Mingxi lowered his head and saw that Hua Qianyu's right hand was intertwined with the ten fingers of his left hand. He murmured as if to himself: "Me too." He shook Hua Qianyu's hand, but after a while he still twitched Holding his hand, he raised his head and said, "But if we could choose, we would all choose another path, wouldn't we? Let's separate, we should choose a more efficient approach."

Hua Qianyu looked at him without saying a word.

An Mingxi took two steps back, and at the same time said: "Look, you will agree." After speaking, he turned and walked towards the imperial city.

Did we have to separate just because we chose the same path?Hua Qianyu looked at An Mingxi's back and thought, always feeling that such a choice will be made thousands of times in the future.

Hua Qianyu looked back and walked in the direction of Yushitai.

...But, we always belong to each other.

……

Seeing An Qingxuan, An Mingxi first asked and did not mention Wang Meng——

"Why did you let me go south with Hua Qianyu?"

An Mingxi with a cold face suddenly made An Qingxuan feel a little strange, but at the same time he was also happy to see An Mingxi's growth.

"Interrogation? You have never spoken to me with this attitude." An Qingxuan was still serious.

"I'm always trying to please you, aren't I? Isn't it natural for a child to please his father who is uncertain?"

"Then you are... giving up now?"

"If you hate it," An Mingxi paused, and took a deep breath with his nose, "No matter how careful I am, it's all in vain, isn't it?"

An Qingxuan suddenly laughed: "Hate you? My child misses me so much?"

An Mingxi didn't flinch, and even said bluntly: "Otherwise, why did you send me south?" It takes courage to speak bluntly, but he is already tired of doubt and suspicion.

An Qingxuan let go of his smiling face, but his expression was no longer as serious as it was at the beginning: "Do you think I put you in danger on purpose? Or do you think I'm using you to draw an undercurrent?"

"Otherwise?" An Qingxuan's tone was in denial, but An Mingxi wanted to hear more, wanted to know more.

"Remember when you were fifteen, that is, last year, I asked you what you wanted, and how did you answer me?"

An Mingxi couldn't think of it for a while, so An Qingxuan answered for him: "You drank some wine with me...that was probably when you were the most frank."

An Mingxi didn't have a deep impression of what happened that night. When he woke up with a hangover and couldn't remember what happened the night before, he vowed never to drink again.

"I said... what?"

"You said you wanted to be Zhen. You wanted to be emperor, you wanted to fight for the heir - I just gave you this chance."