Chang Huanxi

Seeing that there was no one around, Xie Ling sneaked up to them and said in a low voice: "Qi Daochang, my grandpa won't let me talk nonsense, but I still want to talk! Is there a way to poison people without leaving traces?" of!"

"Doctor! Grab the secondary medicine!" Someone shouted from the cabinet.

Xie Ling replied: "Come on, come on!" When she turned around, she seemed to have accidentally rubbed against Qi Yuan's sleeve.

When they walked out of Jishi Hall, Qi Yuan spread out his palm, and inside was a stick of incense.

If the poisonous gas infiltrates the human body through incense, it is true that nothing will be found in the mouth, but Qi Yuan has not thought about this before because this method is too similar to the methods of the Jianghu people, but the murderer treats Yunyang County very much. Familiar, he knows what the target most desires.

And also know when only the person to be killed is left alone at home.Only one death per family speaks for itself.

If incense is used, where does the poison come from?What does it have to do with Hong Ling and Hong Xiao?

Qi Yuan didn't bring his special bamboo pole with him when he went out today, and he didn't think about making the above calculations for himself, but he ran into a drunken person without taking a few steps.

Shen Yanhuan sniffled, the sword in her hand was out of the sheath, a cold light was aimed at the man's forehead, if he wanted to take a step forward, it would immediately pierce his skull.

It smells bad...he sniffed again.

Unexpectedly, that person was about to step forward, seeing that his brows were flushed, Shen Yanhuan hurriedly took two steps back.After all, he never thought about actually killing him.

But the man clapped his palms and laughed loudly: "Good sword! Good sword! Hahaha!" After finishing speaking, he took a big gulp of wine on his back, swayed his body and walked away.

Shen Yanhuan: ...Crazy?

People in Yunyang County were used to fetching water from this river, but after this incident, no one dared to come, preferring to fetch water from another river farther away.

The water in the river is very clear, because it is formed by the melting snow from Wangfeng in the north, so it is still a bit cool, the water is not deep, and there are a few weeping willows growing on the bank. Lu Yi, if this kind of thing hadn't happened, there should be many people coming to enjoy the scenery now.

There should be people admiring the scenery, Qi Yuan turned his head with a feeling in his heart, and met Shen Yanhuan's dark eyes.

The young man stood on the tree at some point, the willow leaves brushed his hair and he was unwilling to come out, the fine sunlight brushed over his face and made it a little itchy, he didn't seem to expect that Qi Yuan would suddenly turn around, and wanted to The hand that wiped his face stopped in mid-air.He paused for a while, then suddenly stretched out two arms towards Qi Yuan.

He walked under the tree and was taking in the early summer sunlight.

"What's wrong?" A voice came from above his head, and Shen Yanhuan lay motionless in his arms.

"Sleepy……"

Qi Yuan: You seem to have just woken up not long ago...

But he didn't say anything, but was attracted by something on the trunk.

Those were some tiny nicks, small and messy, with different shades, if he hadn't been so close at this moment, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.He embraced the person in his arms with one hand, freeing one hand to stroke the rough bark.

Such traces look like thin lines drawn out.

Feeling that the breathing of the person in his arms became more stable, Qi Yuan laughed and said, "Yanyan, can you sleep like this in Qingwu?"

Shen Yanhuan moved her body in dissatisfaction, and said vaguely, "It's not... the old man won't let you sleep... Someone will call..."

Qi Yuan patted his head on the shoulder, "Understood, you can sleep peacefully, no one will call you."

He put Shen Yanhuan down against the tree, and put his coat under his head so that he could sleep more comfortably.Then he rolled up his sleeves, tied up his trouser legs and walked into the river to look for something carefully.

The mud and grass on the river bank and shallows looked the same as those under the corpse's feet, but there were no footprints here, maybe the river washed away, maybe...they never came here.

Ok?

Qi Yuan bent down to push away the thin layer of mud washed up by the water, and held the things underneath in his hands.

Is this... sawdust?This thing is too light, if it hadn't been suppressed by this layer of mud, it would have been washed away long ago.But this is an important clue, the sawdust must have been brought over by someone.

Shen Yanhuan slept very comfortably this time, and I have to say that this place Qi Yuan chose is very good, the sun's light will not hurt his eyes, and his body will be warmed by the sun.

He was jolted awake.

In fact, according to Qi Yuan's original intention, he wanted to go to the county government first to inform Xu Mao of his discovery, but then he thought it would be useless to tell him, and Shen Yanhuan was fast asleep, so he turned around and changed his way. Lin Huazhai left.

The consequence of doing this is that after Shen Yanhuan woke up, she tilted her head and asked him: "Are you going to tell me now that it's three years later?"

They were walking in a huge courtyard, where mountains, rivers, flowers and birds competed with each other, and there was even a gurgling stream passing through the courtyard. Rare bonsai were placed in the corridor under the eaves, and the flowers and plants in the courtyard were trimmed neatly and beautifully.

A ray of red clouds in the sky flew out from the auspicious animal mouth carved at the corner of the eaves. Looking through the eaves, there are faint pavilions and pavilions separated by a stone wall, which is another world.

This was certainly not the farmhouse he had lived in.

Qi Yuan smiled and said: "Of course not, when Qi Mo comes back, we have to return the house to him, Yan Yan, this is our home."

Family?

Shen Yanhuan still remembered the old house of the Shen family in Hengzhou. When he was a child, he often saw a mansion surrounded by high walls. At that time, the Shen family was also a well-known wealthy family in Hengzhou.

But the yard was still much smaller than this, and after his father died, he and his mother were locked in an even smaller yard.

As if remembering something bad, Shen Yanhuan closed her eyes.

Hearing their voices, the old butler quickly put on his coat and came out to meet them.

"Your Highness..."

While the old housekeeper was saluting, Shen Yanhuan got off Qi Yuan's back and looked around curiously.

There are not so many beautiful flowers on Qingwu Mountain.

"Yanyan, there are only a few servants here on weekdays, you can do whatever you want, but there is one thing..." He said seriously, "Don't just leave without saying a word."

"Your Highness..."

"Uncle Zhao, come this way." Qi Yuan came out of the room, the old housekeeper was waiting in the corridor, he closed the door and signaled the old housekeeper to follow him.

In the garden of the Prince's Mansion, there is the sound of clear springs hitting rocks, and it is a good place for whispering.

"Your Highness, there are already some clues about what you asked me to investigate before you left." The old housekeeper said, "Three years ago, there was indeed a person from Di Jing who had contacted the Second Highness before that incident."

Qi Yuan's eyes flickered, and he said, "Who?"

The old housekeeper looked a bit embarrassed, but he answered him truthfully, "This person is the royal painter of the court today, the master of the Third Highness, Su Lan."

The old housekeeper was appointed by the Queen Mother from the palace to take care of Qi Yuan when he left the palace. It can be said that he watched Qi Yuan and Qi Mo grow up since he was a child. It was not easy for Qi Mo to have someone he really likes. But this kind of incident happened again, the old butler was really sad for him.

Qi Yuan heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this name.From this point of view, maybe the third brother's guess is right, maybe what happened to the second brother was really just an accident?

He patted the old butler on the shoulder, "It's okay, Uncle Zhao, don't worry."

Just as they spoke, the night had driven away the last ray of sunlight, Qi Yuan looked at the sky, and said to Uncle Zhao: "I'll go to the palace, if the people in the room ask..."

He thought for a while, then suddenly smiled, "It's the truth."

Most of the time, Shen Yanhuan was just too lazy to think about it, but it didn't mean he didn't know, such concealment was meaningless.After Qi Yuan finished speaking, he refused the horse that Uncle Zhao prepared for him, and just walked towards the majestic palace wall alone.

The footsteps gradually faded away, Shen Yanhuan blew out the candles on the table, and walked out without putting on his coat.Qi Yuan only said not to leave this mansion, but he can do whatever he wants inside.

He climbed up to the roof with Linyan in his arms, and quietly watched the bustling Wangcheng with his chin in his hands.

In the past, every time he encountered something he couldn't figure out, the old man would drive him to the roof to look up at the starry sky.

Qingwu Mountain was too high, and there was nothing else to see except the few stars in the sky, so he could only raise his head, because it was always dark below the mountain.

The old man always liked to pull him to talk about the reincarnation of fate. He drove the other fellow disciples down the mountain to practice, but he was the only one left behind, so he only went up when he heard the old man said that he wanted to find someone to assassinate the king of Liang. hurry to come.

At that time, the old man looked at him very strangely.

What did the old man say at that time... By the way, he said, "This is how life should be." I don't know what it means, but the old man is always talking about it, he looks more like a Taoist priest than Qi Yuan.

The day the old man sent him down the mountain was even scarier than marrying his daughter, let alone sending him all the way to the foot of the mountain, the look in his eyes that was "splashed by a married apprentice" is still creepy.

The old man seems to be hiding a lot of things from him, but he has his reasons, since he thinks he should hide it, there is no need to ask.Just like Qi Yuan...

Qi Yuan...

It was true that Qi Yuan ran into the palace in the middle of the night because he suddenly remembered something.

He first went to Moge, where the court painter worked, and found miraculously that his imperial brother, who usually grew up here, was miraculously not here.

The painters in the Mo Pavilion seldom went out, and Qi Yuan did not often appear in the palace, so his appearance did not attract any special attention. When Su Lan saw him, he put down the brush in his hand and told him to go to the palace. In the palace of the Empress Empress, she has not come back yet.

The Caiyue Hall of Daliang Palace is a secluded and leisurely place. Every summer, Empress Fu Yueying, who is extremely afraid of the heat, would move here from the Empress' bedroom to cool off.Qi Yuan found Qi Mo here.

One of my two sons squatted in the Mo Pavilion every day but couldn’t shout, and the other went to Kunlun early to look for it but couldn’t find it. Fortunately, both of them were caught!

"Fourth brother!!" Qi Mo stretched out his ink-stained hand to him as if looking at a savior, with tears in his eyes.

Qi Yuan took a cautious step back.