The first work of the imperial prison

Muya's arrival, in a word, made the atmosphere even more discordant.

Daha was the first to bear the brunt, feeling that he was being provoked, and his face immediately darkened: "What's the matter with you, why are you here, who asked you to come?"

This question was also what Jin Yiwei wanted to ask, since someone else raised it himself, everyone just waited, Ye Baiting and Qiu Xingqing glanced at each other quickly, neither of them said anything immediately.

Shen Jiang did the same, and even chose a shady place to stand, thinking that these two people could fight, and he was still cheering for both sides in his heart, fight!Do it!Beat it to death, it's better to make a big fuss!

Unexpectedly, Muya was very low-key, touched his left chest with his right hand, and saluted Daha, very humble and respectful, without any dissatisfaction or provocation, and his voice was very peaceful: "My lord is in a hurry to go out, I forgot to bring something , the subordinate was worried that it would be inconvenient for the adults, so he sent it over."

While talking, he really took out something, wrapped in a square handkerchief, I couldn't tell what it was, but in terms of shape and size... it looked like a small medicine bottle?A low-necked porcelain bottle of the sort used to hold small pills.

Thinking about Daha's illness, Shen Jiang pondered, this matter is reasonable and there is nothing wrong with it.

When Daha saw something, he had a big reaction. He looked around quickly at the first moment, then snorted coldly, grabbed it impolitely, stuffed it into his arms, and didn't thank anyone, but turned his head to look at Ye Baiting. He Qiu Yiqing: "How, now you know that I didn't lie! What is death without proof, empty words without evidence, isn't my deputy leader a witness? I am not a murderer suspect. I have reason and evidence to come here today, that is, Bi Zheng I came here for the contract, and when Bi Zheng made the contract with me, Mu Ya was there and heard it all, otherwise how would I know that I am here, and could still find me!"

Shen Jiang opened his mouth, just about to say what nonsense you are talking, you are all members of the mission, and lying to each other is normal, but after thinking about it, it is wrong, the young master and the commander have analyzed it, the mission is not It is a single piece of iron, and there are two factions inside, one is King Wala, the other is Uncle Nine Kings, the chief and deputy leaders have quite different behaviors, it doesn't look like a group of people...

It would be nice if they didn't trip each other up and dig holes. How could it be possible to cooperate sincerely and lie for each other?

But Shen Baihu was very disappointed that there was no fight.

Qiu Yiqing looked at Mu Ya: "You have a different opinion from Chief Da?"

Muya glanced at Daha, but didn't speak immediately, as if asking for instructions.

Daha glanced over the study room that was now tightly covered, and glared at Muya: "What are you looking at me for? You have come here, and the commander has also spoken, so just talk, what else can I do to stop you?" ?”

"Forgive me, Commander," Muya cupped her hands, "I didn't mean to snoop, but there was a lot of movement here, the porter at the door was frightened, and said 'accidentally', and now many people know that something happened to Lord Bi. "

Hatred and green jaws: "Talk."

Muya stood still: "What I said just now was not to provoke the leader of my family, but I just happened to encounter something last night, because it happened not long ago, and it was in a remote corner, I am afraid Jin Yiwei didn't know about it—I saw the Minister of Rites Mr. Zhong, was beaten by Su Tu, the owner of Suji Winery."

"Su Tu is a man with martial arts. Everyone says he is too upright and jealous of evil. Master Zhong can't escape his revenge, and Master Bi probably also...so I think he is more suspicious."

revenge?Why did Su Tu take revenge on Bi Zhenghe?

Seeing Ye Baiting frown, Qiu Yiqing gently wrote the word 'wine' on his back with his finger as a pen from an angle that no one else could see.

Ye Baiting thought for a while and understood, this wine is not that wine, this wine probably refers to people, Su Jiujiu.

Now they have found out that Zhong Xingyan is interested in Su Jiujiu, and Lu Ming is his confidant, the person who specializes in doing this kind of thing for him. Serious, like to have beautiful women at the wine table, happy to see beautiful women being embarrassed by wine, most of the people who used to have banquets are like this, and there may not be only one person who has crooked thoughts about Su Jiu...

So now there is evidence to prove that Bi Zhenghe is one of them?

He tilted his head slightly, and asked Qiu Yiqing with his eyes.

Qiu Yiqing knew that he understood, and nodded slightly.

This matter has indeed been confirmed. Before he came here, he had just received clues from his subordinates. It was undeniable, but the time was too tight and he hadn't shared it with Ye Baiting yet.

Of course Ye Baiting would not doubt Qiu Yiqing's news, but if that's the case...

Bi Zhenghe didn't resist women's sex at all, but he rarely took the initiative. Su Jiujiu was outstanding, and it was normal for him to have thoughts when he met him on different occasions. What he didn't understand was, why did Mu Ya know about such things?

Daha looked at Mu Ya, his eyes were still cloudy: "Our deputy leader is still very good, he can know everything."

Muya leaned down slightly again, and saluted Daha: "I dare not compare with the leader, it's just luck, I just happened to see Master Bi and the girl from the Su family talking in private."

Daha snorted.

Muya's voice was low, and her posture seemed more humble: "Although I, the Wala people, have always been enthusiastic and informal, and I really want to help Jin Yiwei, but after all, I am a guest from afar, and there are many inconveniences. Now the commander has to handle the case. , should we not bother?"

Daha was also persuaded, and hastily and Qiuqing cupped his hands: "In this case, we will leave, and wait for the good news that the commander will solve the case and arrest him!"

The two came and went quickly, and turned around very quickly.

"These two are still playing tricks!" Shen Jiang snarled, "It looks like a dog, hello, I'm good, but they might hold a knife to each other's neck in their hearts and scold each other, young master, don't you think so!"

Ye Baiting looked at the backs of the two, thoughtfully: "...Maybe."

Shen Jiang was stunned, then overjoyed, you are promising, Shen Baihu, you are also a Jin Yiwei who knows how to watch people!

"I still feel that Mu Ya's coming this time is a bit too coincidental," Ye Baiting looked at Qiu Xingqing, "it's more or less like a rescue."

Hatred and green jaws: "It's not convenient for them to tear their faces apart."

Ye Baiting pondered.

"But it doesn't matter how muddy the water is." Qiu Xingqing lowered his eyes and looked into Ye Baiting's eyes: "We investigate the case, looking for clues and looking for the truth."

Ye Baiting nodded: "Yes, the fact has already happened and cannot be changed."

What they need to do is to find the truth. No matter how true the lies are, no matter how many dramas there are, as long as the truth is clear, everything can be seen clearly.

Next, the division of labor continued, on-site inspections and interviews with Qiu Yiqing and Shen Jiang, Ye Baiting didn't stay any longer, and after the handover of the corpses was over, they went back to Beizhen Fusi together and sent them to the foreman's room for an autopsy.

Putting on the smock and gloves, he opened the box and prepared all the tools for the autopsy.

The deceased was neatly dressed, wearing ordinary clothes at home. There were no special folds or tears in the clothes, and there was no trauma on his body. Obviously, the deceased had no disputes with anyone, and he did not push or resist. From his previous experience, he was just being with someone After drinking, the atmosphere is not tense, at least not to the point of conflict.

The deceased's fingernails were slightly cyanotic, and there were bleeding spots in the small intestine. There was no problem in determining the cause of death. It was caused by fake alcohol.

"This is……"

Ye Baiting used tweezers to pick out a small hard, browned reddish-yellow object.

The time of death of the deceased was not long after the dinner, half an hour at most, probably because of receiving 'foreign guests', and more importantly, talking, he didn't eat much food. I didn't eat, because there wasn't much food in my stomach, and I didn't have time to digest and decompose it in the future. The edge of this hard object was blurred, but it still looked very clear, like some kind of... nuts?Or roasted seeds and nuts?

Ye Baiting carefully recalled the four dishes at the scene of the crime, including cold salad, stir-fried, and even a few fresh lotus seed rice, but no fried roasted seeds and nuts. Where did this thing come from?

After careful observation, I found something familiar, as if there were similar things in the previous two autopsies?

Ye Baiting quickly found out the past autopsy items, and checked carefully...

Really!

The deceased Lu Ming and Yu Linglong also found this thing in their stomachs, only slightly different in shape and size, but they were at the same banquet, so it was normal for them to eat the same thing, so he didn't pay too much attention to it, but now There was a third dead man with the same thing in his stomach... that was unusual.

He had to find out this thing, he had to know what it was, maybe the choice of this food pointed to the murderer's preference!

But the current problem is still a headache. He doesn't have the equipment he is used to, so he can't analyze the ingredients of the food. He can't even see the food that has been digested until the edges are blurred. How can he tell what kind of food it is?

Ye Baiting thought for a while, he had to ask his sister for help... Also, he had to ask someone to look up the menu of the banquet night to see what the dishes were. , so convenient for comparison!

Jin Yiwei was called in with a dazed expression: "Master, do you really want to find out the dishes of the banquet? It was a big banquet, and there were a lot of hot and cold soups and snacks..."

Ye Baiting paused, and his voice was a little low: "Am I... not enough money to do this?"

Jin Yiwei's soldier was even more confused: "Our Beizhen Fusi still needs to post money to do things by ourselves? Isn't it as long as the commander approves according to the procedure, we can move?"

Sometimes the money in the treasury is not enough, and the commander can pay out of his own pocket to settle the matter first, and then report it, and the subsidy is recovered, not to mention the matter of the young master.

Since it wasn't that there wasn't enough money, Ye Baiting cleared his throat, and his expression became serious again: "I don't think I'm going to bother you about investigating the case, just do it."

Jin Yiwei's soldier responded crisply: "Yes! This subordinate will go through the process and report for approval, and immediately find out what ingredients are used on the other end!"

……

Bi's outer courtyard.

Shen Jiang stomped the entire Bi family, including the nearby streets and alleys, especially the street outside the study, all the conspicuous and hidden places, and after knowing everything, he found the enemy. Doubtful report.

"In the northwest corner of the wall, near the inner alley, there is a low soil slope with a few large stones on it. The subordinates have checked it. As long as they use it a little, they can easily enter the courtyard. Difficult to operate."

Therefore, it is not certain that a foreigner needs to have martial arts.

"But where are the jug and chopsticks, my subordinates haven't found them yet."

Shen Jiang wondered, could the murderer have other ways to deal with it?Burned?Buried?But chopsticks can be burned, how can porcelain be burned?The scene was already disguised like that, except for Jin Yiwei, anyone else might not be able to find anything unusual, so it is necessary to be on guard so much?

"it's here."

The commander casually pointed to the stone table next to it. There was a piece of green cloth on it, on which was the newly found evidence, a wine cup exactly like the one in the study, and a pair of mahogany chopsticks, which were obviously different from the one in the study. right.

It's just that the corner of the wine cup was knocked, and the decorative head of the chopsticks was broken, looking a little embarrassed.

"I found it..."

Shen Jiang paused: "Where is it?"

He has obviously searched the outside, and he hasn't missed anything!

Qiu Xunqing: "In the garbage waiting to be disposed of in the back kitchen."

back kitchen...

Shen Jiang immediately turned his head and looked back. According to the analysis of the location, the deceased's study was located in a remote location, close to the outer street on the west, and the back kitchen was on the east, close to the inner courtyard. Isn't it more convenient to jump over the wall and walk out of the street, throwing things anywhere?Walk through the courtyard and put it in the back kitchen, so you're not afraid of being seen by others?

Qiu Xunqing reminded: "The Bi family had a small banquet yesterday."

"What's wrong with the small banquet..."

Before he finished a sentence, Shen Jiang understood, the key is these three words, there is a small banquet.

Ordinary rich and noble families always have a banquet. When hosting a banquet, it is inevitable that there will be bumps. Porcelain such as bowls, plates and wine cups will be worn out, and chopsticks are the same. Therefore, under normal circumstances, after a small banquet, the servants clean up the table. , A batch of damaged and unusable consumables will be cleared out, and they will be disposed of uniformly and thrown away. If the wine cup and chopsticks are placed here, won't they be disposed of in a fair manner, silently, and no one will know?

Shen Jiang looked at the things on the stone table again. Although the chopsticks are mahogany chopsticks, they are not very delicate and special. The porcelain wine cup is beautiful, and people like this are common. Anomaly, that is, the commander can recognize it instantly. In the entire Bi family, only the servants who serve Bi Zhenghe can recognize this thing, but they generally don't do garbage sorting, so they probably won't see it.

The murderer is not unintelligent, but very clever!It is true that it took a long detour, and it may be a little risky in the middle of this journey, but won't it be easy to be found if it is thrown on the street outside the wall?

"You have to tell the young master about this."

"Ah."

Shen Jiang hurried to the side, confessed to the subordinates, and then received a letter from the young master from below, and he was stunned.

Qiu Xunqing: "What's wrong?"

"Master asked someone to cook all the dishes at the mission's banquet that day, because there were not enough people, so I came here to ask for help." Shen Jiang was a little at a loss, "Master, is this a dish for the people who are greedy for Wala? There doesn't seem to be anything delicious over there. Yes..."

But Qiu Yiqing said: "Not necessarily. It may be that there is a new harvest in the autopsy."

Shen Jiang frowned: "The autopsy...could it be something in the stomach?"

Qiu Xunqing: "We need to be fast today, go back earlier."

"Yes!"

……

Although speeding up, the investigation always takes time, the two of them were so busy, and they were so busy until late at night, that they came back to Beizhen Fusi one after the other.

Shen Jiang held a pile of the latest confession records from the interview, and asked Ye Baiting as soon as he entered the door: "Is the dish ready?"

Ye Baiting shook his head: "The mission banquet was prepared long in advance. The dishes are rich, and many ingredients seem to be particular about it. It takes time just to buy it. It can't be done today. It may take a day or two to finish it all."

With a "snap", Shen Jiang put the thing on the table without stopping: "If you want this dish, do you need to compare things? The contents of the deceased's stomach?"

Ye Baiting walked along his shoulder, saw Qiu Yiqing walking over, and knew that the other party had already guessed it, so he told the autopsy results: "... Lu Ming and Yu Linglong had the same thing in their stomachs, I didn't pay attention to it at the time, because They are all people of the banquet, and they eat similar food, but this time the deceased Bi Zhenghe found the same food, I think it can be compared, and the result will help us screen the murderer."

"This relationship is good! Isn't the case about to be solved soon!"

Shen Jiang was in good spirits, and he was not tired even after a busy day: "Why don't we just use this murder case and let's analyze it again, what's the difference?"

Ye Baiting poured tea for the two of them and pushed them to the table respectively: "Yes."

Qiu Yiqing also sat down: "Come."

"Then let me tell you first," Shen Jiang said his findings first, "I have checked all the Bi family members, and all the outlets are for comparison. There is nothing special. Although there was a small banquet yesterday, all the guests left around the end of the day. As soon as I stopped, I have confirmed, no problem, the cause of Bi Zhenghe's death is not at his house..."

After listening to Ye Baiting, he found that the murderer handled the wine cup and chopsticks very skillfully, but this only shows that this person has a subtle mind, and it is impossible to rule out whether there is martial arts. He still feels that this case is a bit messy, someone is deliberately sabotaging, or guiding something For example, the stones on the slope outside the wall, Shen Jiang said, looked like they had been moved here temporarily, so there was a possibility of being a cover-up or planting...

Someone must have lied in this case, but it is not yet clear what those lies are.

Chou Xunqing: "We can discard all the testimony and look at the facts of the case."

Ye Baiting thought for a while, and said: "I thought about it before, and I felt that I had entered into a logical misunderstanding. From the beginning of the case, we analyzed it in depth and found the subtle relationship between Yu Linglong and Su Jiujiu. The more it unfolded, the more we discovered that those present Among the men, someone is coveting Su Jiujiu, and has already carried out certain methods. We guess that after Yu Linglong's death, she gritted her teeth and did not call for help. She was protecting someone. This person is probably Su Jiujiu. ...but is this direction really correct?"

Shen Jiang thought about it: "That's right, the clue we had at that time, only the analysis in this direction is logical..."

"But I don't feel right now."

"where?"

"Jin Yiwei doesn't have any suitable female soldiers, so it's inconvenient to check whether Su Jiujiu's body is injured, to make sure that she was unwell during the interrogation that day, and whether she was bullied," Ye Baiting pointed to the stack of documents on the table that he had carefully sorted out, " Su Jiujiu himself has no hobbies other than making wine, and he hasn't gone out these few days, so it's even more inconvenient to check, but——look at this."

He took out a piece of news paper again: "Here is the medicinal material residue that the Su family found in the past few days."

Shen Jiang leaned over to take a look: "I didn't ask anyone to investigate this matter, someone sent by the young master?"

Ye Baiting nodded: "You and the commander are both busy. I asked the Jinyiwei soldier who changed the duty to take a look for me, and brought some back secretly. I asked someone to help identify it. It's like this."

Shen Jiang looked at the names of the medicinal materials, but didn't see that there was... a problem with these?

But Qiu Yiqing immediately understood: "This is a good drink for women."

Ye Baiting nodded: "Women need more to warm the palace and drive away the cold."

Shen Jiang understood: "Gui, Guishui?"

"That's right," Ye Baiting's eyes were clear, "Su Jiujiu's brow was sweating that day, his lips were pale, and he looked very uncomfortable. Maybe it wasn't because he was bullied or hurt, but because he was menstruating. "

Women's dysmenorrhea, the symptoms can be mild to severe, some people may just feel a little stuffy and uncomfortable, which does not affect daily activities, while others are so difficult that they may not be able to stand up calmly and can only rest in bed.

Ye Baiting felt a little regretful, that day he and Qiu Yiqing had driven by Suji Winery, and saw Du Kang bring soup to Su Jiujiu with his own eyes, but the distance was too far away, and the smell of wine in the winery was all that lingered in his nostrils. He couldn't smell the medicine, otherwise he might have discovered this earlier.

Qiu Yiqing: "If she is unwell because of this, Yu Linglong doesn't need to protect her."

Ye Baiting: "Yes."

People are not in danger, and they don't need protection, so what is Yu Linglong doing?

He checked carefully, and the atrocities experienced by Yu Linglong were forced acts. She was being raped, and she didn't want to, but her vocal cords were fine, and there was no disease. There is no problem with her voice, and the skin on both sides of her mouth and face has not been damaged by the abrasions from the forceful pressure. She does not call for help or call for help. It is a voluntary behavior and not forced. Why?

Who is she protecting?or what?

Ye Baiting suddenly thought of a question: "Dhaha seems to have mentioned General An more than once when he came into contact with the Oirat Mission..."

Shen Jiang didn't find it strange: "General An beat the shit out of them, of course they are afraid."

"Hasn't General Ke'an been at the border all the time?" Ye Baiting tapped the table with his fingertips, "Isn't it the only way for the Oirat Mission to come to Beijing? Didn't they see it?"

Shen Jiang rubbed his chin and thought for a while: "Maybe it's because it's been a long time since we've fought? General An is too lazy to care about them... a group of wara dogs, why did General An give them such a face, and come out to have a look and greet them?" ? Beautiful them!"

Ye Baiting paused for a moment, then asked again: "Border... How long has it been since there was no war?"

"It's been a while, let me figure it out," Shen Jiang said, pointing his fingers, "It must be more than a year? The battle against Wala in the Dibao last time seems to be around this time, before or after the Dragon Boat Festival ? I remember my daughter-in-law was always reading it while eating rice dumplings."

"There was no movement after that?"

"No," Shen Jiang smiled a little arrogantly, "The Wala dog has been beaten by General An a long time ago, so how dare you provoke him again!"

"Where is General An's whereabouts since then, does anyone know?"

"Where else can I go? Let's defend the border. General An is the god of the sea. I can't do without him."

Not always……

What everyone says is not necessarily the same thing as what other people actually do.

Last year around the Dragon Boat Festival, and this year...

Ye Baiting slowly looked up from the table.

"Look what I do?"

Qiu Yiqing stretched out his hand to hold the pot, and refilled Ye Baiting's tea. His eyebrows hid his sword, and his eyes shone.