Chapter 151 Awaiting results

[Deceased: Heng Hui]

[Cause of death: Stabbing through the heart with a sharp blade (old wound).]

[Autopsy results: flesh and blood, internal organs were black and purple, there are corpse compulsion line between the flesh and blood, to protect its flesh from decay. Walking corpses are also dead for more than a year.]

[Deceased: unidentified remains]

[5 feet 4 inches tall, female, well-built bones, no broken bones, no signs of intoxication, well-built phalanges, not good at labor ….]

Inside the courthouse, Xu Qi’an finished reading the autopsy reports, exchanged them to the coroner, and turned to enter the antechamber next door to the autopsy room.

The ten golden gongs were gathered together, Wei Yuan sat at the top position, drinking tea with a stoic expression.

Xu Qi’an walked behind Wei Yuan in silence, listening to the golden gongs argue about the true body of the female corpse, the connection between the Pingyang county princess and the Sang Po case.

The case of Pingyang County, as of now, is considered to be a preliminary conclusion. The subsequent investigation is estimated that I can’t get involved …. This involves the murder of a princess, not my kind of gong can be involved.

But the Sangpo case is still unresolved …. I don’t know if the merit I made in the case of the Pingyang County Princess can offset my waist decapitation …. If it doesn’t, I’ll f*ck Emperor Yuan Jing’s grandpa.

As he was slandering in his heart, a mandarin stood at the door and said, “Lord Wei, all of you, the Honorable King is here.”

The honorable king is here …. The golden gongs exchanged glances with each other and looked at Wei Yuan again in unison.

The green-robed eunuch with graying temples, finished the last sip of tea, looked at the mandarin, and said gently, “Please ask King of Goodwill to go to the autopsy room.”

After saying that, he put down his cup and sighed, going to the autopsy room first, followed by the people in the side hall.

When they reached the outside of the autopsy room, the golden gongs did not go in, but split up on both sides of the doorway, and only Wei Yuan entered.

King Yu came, this sickly man walked with an expressionless face, his face was clearly expressionless, but it was as if he had gathered all the expressions.

His footsteps were unhurried, but it was as if an evil spirit was chasing behind him ….

As he walked to the door of the autopsy room, he paused for a few seconds before lifting his leg over the threshold.

The coroner’s room was extremely well lit, with bright sunlight streaming through the latticework windows, leaving even patches of light on the floor.

At a glance, King Yu saw the bones of the corpses laid out on the plank bed, and at this moment, he actually had the urge to flee from this place.

But the obsession of being a father led him to take his time.

Wei Yuan was the only one in the autopsy room, he took out the gold hairpin from his sleeve and said softly, “This was found from her body, and it’s also the one she used to kill herself, look and see, if it’s recognizable.”

King Yu’s gaze froze, and so did his expression, like a sculpture that was gradually weathering.

“It’s hers.” Honorable King said in a shy voice.

The empty room fell into dead silence, and the two middle-aged men did not speak again.

After a long, long time, King Yu, who looked down at the golden hairpin, asked in a hoarse voice, “Who did this.”

“Only three people have been traced, Ping Yuan Bo, Zhang Feng, the Minister of War, and the Minister of the Household.” Wei Yuan gazed at him, his deep eyes harboring the vicissitudes washed out by the years:

“The trio’s initial intention should have been to trick her out of the capital, only that their eunuchs saw the color and didn’t even think of letting the county princess, who was out of the view of the Goodwill King’s House, go back alive again.”

“She was insulted?” King Honor’s voice was frighteningly calm.

“She swallowed the hairpin and killed herself.” Wei Yuan shook his head and said, looking deeply at King of Honor, “But we still can’t be sure that she’s a county princess, and a golden hairpin represents nothing.

“I think you know what to do.”

Honorable King left, and except for that glance when he stepped into the autopsy room, he never looked at the bones again, not once. It seemed like it was something horrible.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, looking at his departing back, Xu Qi’an felt that King Yu had aged a lot in an instant, and his back actually had a kind of bleakness of a dying man.

On this day, King Yu entered the palace with a bloody letter in his hand.

…..

After King Yuhang left, Xu Qi’an, who was originally prepared to silently wait for the end of the case of the Pingyang County Lord as a means of harvesting significant clues regarding the Sangpo case, received an invitation from Princess Huaiqing.

The one who delivered the message was a clear-eyed pawnbroker, also known as a young eunuch.

“What does the Eldest Princess want with me?” Xu Qi’an asked.

“I don’t know.” The little eunuch was silent, well versed in the ways of survival in the palace, his mouth shut tighter than a chrysanthemum.

….. Eighty percent of the time, it was for the matter of County Lord Pingyang, Xu Qi’an had a guess.

All the way to the imperial city quickly, into the palace, was a small eunuch led straight to Huaiqing Princess Ya Yuan.

In the pavilion within the garden, Xu Qi’an met Princess Huaiqing, as well as the second princess framed, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Princess Huaiqing’s sibling, the Fourth Prince.

“Your humble servant has met several of your highnesses.” Xu Qi’an stood outside the gazebo and cupped his fists.

Princess Lin’an beckoned and shouted joyfully, “Dog slave, come in and sit.”

When did dog lackey become my term of endearment? Xu Qi’an was a bit bewildered and glanced at the Crown Prince and Princess Huaiqing, the latter’s voice was clear and cold: “There is no need for strangers, give Lord Xu a seat.”

The palace maid brought a chair and set it across from several of the highnesses.

Eldest Princess Huaiqing looked at him and said, “Today, King Yu entered the palace with a letter of blood, and after Father summoned him, he never came out. This palace remembers that you’re investigating the case of County Princess Pingyang, is there any progress.”

His Highness the Crown Prince, the Fourth Prince, and Princess Lin’an, were all staring at him, waiting for his answer.

Princess Pingyang was their cousin cousin, growing up together since childhood, with a strong bond.

“County Lord Pingyang ….” Xu Qi’an took a deep breath and began to narrate.

This is a simple and plain love story, but it is not destined to be ordinary, because the heroine in the story is a noble princess, she should never, never, never fall in love with a monk.

But the taste of love is so wonderful that she is willing to abandon everything, abandon glory and wealth, abandon the identity of the clan, leave the capital with him, hand in hand for the rest of her life.

However, not all love has an ending. The talented and beautiful people in the storybook always have lovers, because it is a storybook. Reality has too many unpredictable changes.

They end up as casualties of political struggle, and perhaps before their doom, the young lovers were still thinking about a future of double life.

Xu Qi’an calmly told the story, remembering a song he had heard many years ago:

“Mandarin ducks and butterflies fly together, and the garden is full of spring colors to make people drunk.”

“Quietly ask the holy monk if the daughter is beautiful, if the daughter is beautiful.”

“Speak of kingship and riches, and fear the precepts and rules.”

“I wish only that the sky would last forever, and that I would stay close to the one I love.”

He had never seen County Lord Pingyang, but before his eyes, he seemed to see a bright girl with smiling eyes, standing playfully beside the Jun Monk.

Stick a wildflower in your hair at the temples and ask him if the flower looks good, or if I look good.

Xu Qi’an exhaled a mouthful of turbid air and rose to clasp his fists, “That’s how it happened, I still have important matters to attend to, so I’ll leave first.”

Princess Huaiqing nodded wordlessly.

Xu Qi’an left quickly, vaguely hearing Princess Lin’an’s cries from behind her.

It wasn’t until he was out of the Imperial City that he was able to break free from that low mood.

……

A carriage sped up and stopped at the bottom of the Stargazer Building, and Eunuch Liu, whose face was white and beardless but already had some crow’s feet, didn’t wait for his attendant to fetch a small ladder and jumped off the carriage in a hurry.

Eunuch Liu rushed into the Stargazer Building, holding up the imperial decree in his hand, “His Majesty has decreed that the Supervisor is to be summoned to the palace immediately.”

He shouted three times in a row.

In order to prevent collusion between the magicians and officials of the Divine Constabulary, the order of the present dynasty stipulates that the qi-watching technique is not effective for officials of the fourth rank and above.

But there is one exception, the Supervisor!

“Stop yelling, the teacher has gone to the palace.”

A voice suddenly came from his side, and Eunuch Liu turned his head violently to see Yang Qianyi in white standing with his arms folded, his back to him.

“Yang Qianyi, when did you return to the capital.” Eunuch Liu was startled.

“I came back when the capital city needed me.” Yang Qianyi’s calm tone.

“Chattering all day long, can’t talk nicely?” Eunuch Liu sprayed him unhappily and turned his head away.

“….” Young Chien Phantom.

….

The night watchman’s office.

In the quiet room, Xu Qi’an, who was sitting in meditation, suddenly felt palpitations, like the kind of palpitations you feel when you hear QQ ticking after staying up all night.

This is the unique “message alert” of the fragment of the earth book, he interrupted his visualization and took out the jade mirror.

[No. 9: No. 6 has been found, and is currently at the night watchman’s court, so all of you can rest easy.]

Seeing this, Xu Qi’an frowned. Thinking to himself, Dao Chang, aren’t your words a naked statement: there are Tien-Di Association second fiddle in the night watchman’s yamen.

[5: Have you found number six? But number six is more dangerous at the night watchman’s office. I’ve heard that the night watchmen at Da Bong are all evil and ruthless.]

[No. 1: You can’t believe all the rumors. Taoist priest, did you find No. 6?]

[No. 9: Unsurprisingly, No. 6 was indeed sealed, and the person who sealed him was a strong man in black robes who revealed an aura of danger, so that the poor Taoist didn’t dare to act rashly, and revealed the matter to the night watchman’s court.]

Taoist Master this statement can be ah, so that my source of information can be explained, if No. 1 is in a high position in the court, he must have already known about the case of Pingyang County Princess.

Reverse reasoning, I, the gong who found the trace of Heng Hui, will become suspicious …. And these words from the Taoist Master are equivalent to patching me up.

If anyone asks, I can say that it was reported by an enthusiastic sunrise crowd.

Thus setting aside my relationship with number three.

[No. 1: I’ve gotten a message that the Sangpo case implicates the disappearance of the Pingyang County Princess a year ago, and soon, the capital will be in for a big storm.]

[IV: What’s going on?]

Number four jumped out to eat the melon.

Number One told the members of the Tiandi Association briefly about the case of the Pingyang County Lord, and in a few sentences, he sketched out in the hearts of the people a party politics without seeing any bloodshed.

Gave the crowd plenty of room for association.

[V: This, this …. Are your Daewong hearts black? How dare you be so despicable and insidious.]

[Four: Who found out about this case?]

Seeing this question, Xu Qi’an raised his eyebrows and typed in the message, [I’ve heard that it’s one of the gongs from the night watchman’s court called Xu Qi’an].

[4: Xu Qi’an? Why does something sound familiar.]

[3: When No. 1 investigated the Cloud Deer Academy’s Clear Air Rush, he had mentioned this person. I also paid attention to him, observed him, and came to a frightening conclusion.]

[Terrible Conclusion? Several members of the Tiandi Association successively issued similar rhetorical questions.

[3: This son is extremely intelligent and gifted, and is by no means a pool animal.]

To be able to receive such praise from number three, this gong called Xu Qi’an is an extremely powerful character ….. The crowd silently memorized this name.

Daoist Master Golden Lotus was a bit embarrassed and didn’t say anything.

At that moment, number two bubbled up and spoke, [Number three, I’ve found Zhou Chixiong’s trail].

Number One, who did not respond when Xu Qi’an sold himself, immediately jumped out at this moment: [Where is he?

[2: A brother under my hand has seen him in a certain mountain fortress, that mountain fortress, happens to be the fortress that I’m going to eliminate in the near future, you and wait, when I pull out the fortress, then I will send the person back to the capital for you.]

No. 2 really found Zhou Chixiong? Yunzhou is so big and plagued by bandits, even if she has a lot of energy in Yunzhou, she can’t find Zhou Chixiong so quickly …. Either it’s a coincidence, or I underestimated Number Two’s ability …. Xu Qi’an gave an exhilarating high five.

If we catch Zhou Chixiong, we’ll know who’s really behind the collusion with the demon race.

[III: Thanks a lot.]

[2: A small matter, friends from all over the world are willing to sell me a favor. Finding people is nothing to me.]

That’s an unusual face for you…the crowd thought to themselves.

Ending the internal exchanges within the Tiandi Association, Xu Qi’an’s heart was much more solid. Zhou Chixiong was another layer of insurance for him. If he caught this person, even if the case of the Pingyang County Princess could not exonerate him, he would still not panic.

Now, it’s just a matter of waiting for the case to come to fruition.

PS: One more chapter in the evening.