Qing Chen's eyes sparkled: "Then what do you think?"
"Check." Mingxuan just said one word.
"How did you find out?" Qing Chen asked.
"I also ask Lord Phoenix to show me." Mingxuan replied.
The sword guards of the Seven Palaces looked at Qing Chen without exception. If it is God's will to take over the position of the landlord, then it is man-made whether he can convince the public.
Qing Chen knew that Mingxuan had completely entrusted the matter to her because of this, and he still had the idea of stewing him when he heard the words. I believe that if he took off the mask now, he would definitely have a smile on his face that deserved to be beaten. Her starry eyes brightened, "Then, I want to go and see Yan Qie's body first." Fu turned around and asked, "Fourth brother, would you like to go together?"
Ye Tianling nodded, and said to Eleven: "Brother Eleven, purge the three armies and return to Beijing later."
Eleven said: "Okay, I'll wait for you outside the valley." Then he smiled and said to Mingxuan: "I will be responsible for killing the dead people in the nearby Jade Blood Pavilion, and you will bury them yourself. Everyone will cooperate fairly."
Mingxuan cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Highness Eleven." Eleven shrugged, turned and left first.
Ye Tianling went with Qing Chen, and his subordinates had already led the way.
In the back hall of Tianyao Palace, Yan Qie's corpse lay quietly on the ground, covered with a layer of white cloth.
Although Mingyan's injury was not healed, he insisted on coming together. At this time, he stepped forward and gently lifted the white cloth covering the corpse, and there was a cold killing intent in his originally emotionless eyes.
He was killed with a single knife, and cut across the neck from the neck to cut off the carotid artery. At that time, a large amount of blood was sprayed all over his body.
It is common for Ye Tianling to fight on the battlefield, which is several times more miserable than this, and he is indifferent. Mingxuan and others were born in Jianghu, and they don't take life and death seriously. Seeing that Qing Chen also bent down calmly and carefully inspected the cut wound, Ye Tianling was somewhat surprised.
"It's a knife wound." Mingyan said in a low voice.
"En." Qing Chen nodded, stretched out his hand and said, "Lend me your knife."
Mingyan moved his wrist lightly, and the delicate thin knife fell into his palm. The blade was like a cicada's wing, with a slightly bewitching blood color, and it was a good weapon for killing people.
Qing Chen let Xue Zhan go to the ground, Xue Zhan sniffed at the corpse and let out a low growl. Qing Chen took the knife and said to the people behind him: "You guys are waiting for me outside, don't tell me not to go in, and the sword guard will stay here."
Except for Xie Jing and Su Niang, Ming Yan and the others looked cold, but Ming Xuan said: "Follow Lord Feng's order." He took the lead to exit Tianyao Palace, while Ming stood on the spot with a serious face.
Naturally, Ye Tianling did not leave with them, but stayed aside to watch Qing Chen with interest.
Qing Chen raised Mingyan's knife at him: "I'm going to do an autopsy. You don't feel sick, do you?"
Swept by Ye Tianling's dissatisfied eyes, she innocently raised her pretty eyebrows: "What's the matter, can you help?"
Ye Tianling's face was stern, but he seemed to feel a little helpless against her just like Eleven. He knelt down beside her and saw her carefully inserting the thin knife into the wound on her neck. The wound seemed to match the knife. While looking at the wound, she said to Ming Ze: "I'm here to investigate the murderer, you can watch from the side, so you can have a witness then."
Ming watched every move in her hand and nodded.
Qing Chen moved the knife from side to side, frowned, and carefully studied the wound, then put away the knife, and then carefully searched for clues around Yukiri, and suddenly found that Yukiri's right hand was clenched tightly. Although the person had been dead for a long time, but the body was not completely stiff, she thought about it and finally raised her hand to move.
At this time, a hand beside her was blocking Ye Tianling, she retracted her hand in confusion, but saw Ye Tianling slowly push away the fingers held by Yanqie for her.
Immediately, something fell into the eyes of the two of them, Ye Tianling picked it up and weighed it in his palm, the thing shook slightly with his slender fingers, heavy. When Ming saw this, the pupils in his lifeless eyes suddenly closed, but he didn't make a sound.
"Gold?" Qing Chen asked.
"Yeah." Ye Tianling said lightly, tore off a corner of his skirt, wrapped the things up, and handed them to Qing Chen.
After Qing Chen took it, Ye Tianling raised Yan Qie's right hand, and Qing Chen and Ming saw a few bruises on the twisted fingers, which should be left by something that was hit hard before death.
Ming Ze stretched out his hand to gently close Yan Qie's wide-open eyes, Ye Tianling stood up, and covered the white cloth casually: "It's nothing."
"Hmm." Qing Chen said thoughtfully to the two of them, "Let's go to the place where the body was found."
"Okay." Ye Tianling didn't object.
Before going out, Qing Chen signaled Xue Zhan to sniff Yan Qie's body, and together with Ye Tianling and Ming Ze, they came to the first scene of the incident, in the not too dense jungle in the south of the valley. Along the way, I saw Mingyilou's subordinates dealing with the aftermath. According to a rough estimate, there were many casualties.
Unexpectedly, the scene where Yan Qie's body was found had also been cleaned up, Qing Chen frowned: "I can only see if there are any windfalls."
The three of them looked around carefully, and Xue Zhan followed them to sniff around the grass and trees. After a while, Qing Chen and Ye Tianling looked at each other and shook their heads in vain.
At this time, he heard Xue Zhan screaming, Ming Ze looked back, and suddenly sighed, his eyes fell on a golden object under the shadow of a few leaves, which was exactly the same as the one he found in Yan Qie's hand just now.
Ming Ze stepped forward to pick up the thing: "I don't want him to really do such a thing." The meaning is full of regret.
Qing Chen took the object, and said to Ming Ze: "Go back, I will have a sword protector later."
Ming bowed his head and said, "Phoenix Lord, don't worry."
Qing Chen said: "If you can't bear to do it, why not see if His Royal Highness is willing to help to the end."
Ming took a look at Ye Tianling: "It is the responsibility of the Tianquan Palace to eliminate traitors. The Fourth Highness has already taken care of me today, so I dare not work any more."
Qing Chen nodded and said, "That's good."
Back in the branch hall, Ming Yan and the others had already waited anxiously, and there was no clue from Qing Chen's expression, let alone Ye Tianling and Ming Ze's unchanging faces.
When Xie Jing saw Qing Chen, he asked, "Did you find anything?"
Qing Chen glanced at everyone for a week: "I probably know the murderer, but I still want to verify it." She smiled faintly at the Sword Guardian of the Seven Palaces, pointed to a table next to her and said: "Can you put your weapons on this table? above?"
Under Mingxuan, everyone had different expressions on their faces. Leaving weapons away from the body is a big taboo for those who lick blood with knives. Several people and Qing Chen looked at each other for a moment, Xie Jing raised his hand and flicked his waist, a soft sword appeared in his hand, and put it on the table, then Ming Ze also put down his broad-edged sword and his sword side by side.
The rest of them, except Mingxuan who never used weapons, Su Niang is a delicate silver whip, Mingshe is a golden abacus, Mingzhi is a soul hook, Mingyan is a pair of close-fitting thin knives, a In his hand, one was still in Qing Chen's place, Qing Chen took it out of his sleeve and put it on the table together.
Qing Chen looked at all kinds of weapons and said: "Sorry, I locked the murderer in a few sword guards, just because I can help the Jade Blood Pavilion enter the main altar without being noticed, it is not an easy task, only the leaders of the Seven Palaces Only characters can do it easily. So everyone, offended." She paused, seeing that everyone had no objection, and continued to analyze: "I just inspected Yan Qi's body and found that the fatal knife wound was in his neck. The wound left Light to the right and deep to the right, if the murderer is not left-handed, he must have attacked him from behind Yakiri, which would have caused this situation. And judging from the trend of the wound and scratches, I further concluded that this person attacked him from behind Yaakiri. Just now On the way, you have said that Yan Qie is considered to be an outstanding player in the Mingyi Building, so if he can quietly put him to death behind him, if it is not for his martial arts several times higher than him, he is very familiar with him. May I ask the guardian of Mingxuan , among you, who can make Yan Qi most unsuspecting?"
Mingxuan was silent for a while, and didn't answer immediately, but he glanced at Mingyan, and Mingyan's expression changed.
Qing Chen followed Mingxuan's gaze to Mingyan, and continued: "And judging from the degree of cracking of the wound, the murder weapon is an extremely thin and sharp short knife."
Having said that, Su Niang couldn't help but let out a soft cry: "Ming Yan, you..."
Mingyan suddenly burst into anger, and blurted out: "What is the meaning of Fengzhu? Yanqie is my subordinate, and I am the only one who uses a knife among the seven people. Does Fengzhu mean that I killed Yanqie?" Due to excitement, she There was a layer of blush on the pale face due to the injury, and the willow eyebrows were upside down and the silver teeth were biting, which seemed to have a different kind of beauty.
Qing Chen smiled slightly: "Don't be restless, there must be evidence for everything, I haven't finished my words yet. Calculate the time when Yan Qie was killed, you and I, Mingxuan, Brother Xie, and Su Niang were all together, it seems that there is no evidence. A chance to kill someone." She walked to the table with Xue Zhan in her arms, and said, "Everyone knows that Xue Zhan is a rare spirit beast, I just let it smell around Yanqie, why don't we see who it is for? How does the weapon respond?" Xue Zhan jumped from Qing Chen's hand to the table, first sniffed Ming Yan's double knives, and immediately let out a cry. Qing Chen picked up Mingyan's knife and said, "I just used this knife to cut the wound that was cut by Nightmare."
Xue Zhan continued to identify the weapons on the table one by one, and when he came to Ming Ze's sword, he raised his head to signal, Qing Chen said: "Ming Ze and I inspected the corpse, and naturally it also left a smell."
Xie Jing's soft sword, Su Niang's silver whip, Ming Ze's soul hook, Xie Jing's long sword, Xue Zhan walked by one by one, and finally stopped at Ming She's golden abacus, and let out a low growl again.
Qing Chen stepped forward and fiddled with the golden abacus: "Huh? This abacus seems to be inaccurate. How can we settle accounts without two beads? Where are the two abacus?"
The two mustaches on Ming She's lips moved, but his expression remained unchanged: "Return to Phoenix Lord, I accidentally lost it a few days ago."
Qing Chen nodded: "So that's the case." Turning back to Ye Tianling, he said with a smile: "Your Highness Fourth is a prince, and there must be no shortage of gold and silver in the house. How about asking Your Highness to reward you with two gold beads?"
Ye Tianling moved his sword eyebrows, opened his left hand, and two orange beads moved up and down with his fingers, and said lightly: "Mingyilou is rich and powerful, and every dead master holds this thing in his hand. But picking up gold, why bother my Ling Palace?"
All the sword guards changed their faces when they heard the words, and Mingyan shouted sharply: "Ming pardon!"
Ming She was not in a hurry, with an expression of kindness and wealth, he said respectfully to Qing Chen: "Phoenix Lord, this subordinate is loyal to Ming Yilou, and has the same brotherhood as Yan Qie, how could he do such a thing? One of the beads has been lost for a long time..." After finishing speaking, the conversation changed: "What's more...someone followed Lord Feng to do the autopsy, so it must not be difficult to throw two beads on the scene when people are not prepared." Refers to the rules.
Ming Ze's face turned dark, and his already dull expression became even more frightening. Fang was about to explode, and Qing Chen raised his hand to him: "Oh, so I love brothers. It sounds like what you said is not unreasonable, but I still have If you don’t know, you have to work. Just now, Kuang Zichu put several types of poison on Mingzhi’s body. Su Niang and Mingze couldn’t survive the slightest contact. Why didn’t you show any signs of poisoning when you rescued Mingzhi all the way back? Do you know that Feng Pingxian and Su Jinhuang are not feeling well? The wound on your arm is a little shallow and it’s nothing, but why did you cut it from the outside to the inside? Could it be that you scratched yourself? I just checked the cut wound , and why do you feel that the wound on your arm seems to be caused by the same sharp weapon
Ming She's expression finally changed, Qing Chen didn't give him a chance to breathe, his phoenix eyes sank, and he looked straight into Ming She's eyes: "Ming She, where do you put your knife? On the sole of your boot? On the side of your leg? On your waist? Or in your sleeve? Are there any number of ways to hide a skinny knife without being seen?"
Xie Jing and the others had already taken back their weapons in their hands and sealed the four sides of Ziweiyuan, Mingxuan said in a deep voice: "Ming pardon, it's in vain that I trust you, you did such a senseless thing."
Ming She's eyes were flickering, and a look of horror gradually appeared on his face, and he suddenly knelt down to Qing Chen: "Phoenix Lord, this subordinate knows my mistake, this subordinate..." Following the words, he suddenly became troubled, and his two handles were hardened. Lan Guang's Hidden Knife caught Qing Chen by surprise and shot at Qing Chen with a sharp whistling sound.
Although the saber came quickly, there were two yellow glows beside Qing Chen that were faster than the saber, and with a "ding" they knocked into the sleeve saber that Ming She was attacking.
The two golden beads that Ye Tianling had been playing with in his hands were still ready to strike down the sleeve knife, and he broke through the air to attack Ming She's face.
Ming She backed away in shock, and rushed towards the door, Su Niang drew his silver whip across the air, sealing his way out, Ming Zhi Ming approached with both hooks and swords, forcing him to come forward. Xie Jing and Ming Yan did not step forward to attack, but they guarded the important positions of the doors and windows respectively.
Qing Chen smiled brightly at Ye Tianling: "Fourth brother is so generous, I thought these two beads could be exchanged for a lot of silver taels."
Ye Tianling frowned slightly, and glanced at her: "If you want money, you don't want your life."
"Hehe!" Qing Chen said happily, "You're right." After saying that, he said to Mingxuan, "I'll leave the rest to you, thoroughly investigate the accomplices, and leave no one behind."
Mingxuan bowed and replied: "This subordinate obeys orders."
Seeing Qing Chen turning around, Xue Zhan immediately followed and jumped on her shoulder. Qing Chen was startled by it, raised his hand and patted it on the head with a smile, Xue Zhan turned around lightly on her shoulder, stepped on the most comfortable position and stood firmly. squat down.
Mingshe in Ziweiyuan was forced to be completely at a disadvantage by several people, Mingxuan said with emotion: "Mingyilou treats him well, I don't know why he did such a thing."
Qing Chen chuckled: "A man is only for three things: power, sex, and wealth. I might ask him for a while, what is it for."
Ming Xuan chuckled, and Qing Chen said: "I'll see off the Fourth Highness..." Unexpectedly, Ming Xuan answered immediately: "Phoenix Master rest assured to follow the Fourth Highness back to Yige, and the subordinates will report the details immediately after handling the matter." As he waved, someone even led Yun Cheng over.
Qing Chen looked at Mingxuan's shrewd old eyes exposed outside the scarf, with slender eyebrows raised slightly. When did she say that she would return to Yige with Ye Tianling? However, it was inconvenient to say much in front of everyone, so he had to lead Yun Cheng first, and followed Ye Tianling to the outside of the valley.
Outside the valley, Ye Tianling's mount, Feng Chi, was strolling around, when he suddenly saw Yun Cheng, he hissed to welcome him. Qing Chen let go of the rein, and Yun Cheng trotted away, rubbing hands with Feng Chi, very affectionate.
Qing Chen couldn't help but smiled at Ye Tianling: "Fengchi even ignored you, the master, when he saw Yuncheng."
Ye Tianling threw the longbow to a guard beside him, and snapped his fingers at Feng Chi, Feng Chi heard the greeting and turned around. Yun Cheng followed behind and rubbed against Qing Chen.
Ye Tianling waved his hands, each leader rectified his troops and set off for Beijing. He got on his horse and said, "Let's go."
Qing Chen stretched out his hand to caress the long temples of Feng Chi Ruxue, and also got on the back of Yun Cheng's horse, but said: "I don't want to go back to Tiandu, so I will send you here."
Ye Tianling turned around unexpectedly: "What?" Eleven came to join them, and was taken aback when he heard the words: "Qing Chen, you won't go back with us to see Father?"
Qing Chen smiled at him: "Seeing the Emperor of Heaven? Then naturally I don't want to."
"Why?" Eleven asked.
Qing Chen hesitated for a moment, and said: "Not only the Emperor of Heaven, but Zuo Xiang, Prince Zhan... it's better not to see him."
Ye Tianling frowned slightly, her eyes fell on Qing Chen's hand holding the rein, her sleeve slipped down, and on her wrist was the string of ice blue crystals that Ye Tianzhan gave her.
For a moment, Ye Tianling looked away at the main altar of Mingyilou, and said calmly: "Then don't force it, brother eleven, let's go." He turned his horse's head and left.
"Hey! Fourth brother!" Eleven didn't expect Ye Tianling to find Qing Chen after all the troubles, but now he just leaves. Support, the feeling of suddenly falling into the depths made her stunned for a moment.
"Qing Chen!" Eleven's voice called her back, and she unexpectedly found that Eleven did not wear his usual lazy smile, but said seriously: "I don't know what's going on with you and Feng Xiang or Brother Seven, but four Brother this time asked you to use the Xuanjia Army under his command, but it also alarmed the father. I didn't want Xiang Feng to smooth things over for us in front of the father, saying that the daughter who had just returned home was kidnapped by the gangsters, so I invited the fourth brother Help. Fourth brother must give his father an explanation when he goes back, otherwise..." Eleven did not go on, but both of them were clear-eyed. A prince like Ye Tianling who led troops in Tiandu would have to mobilize troops. Taboo, once the Emperor of Heaven has other suspicions in his heart, he is afraid that it will cause some unnecessary troubles.
Qing Chen frowned: "Prime Minister Feng?"
Eleven nodded: "Prime Minister Feng said that the second lady's boudoir name is Feng Qingchen. Are you... exactly..."
Qing Chen sighed, what did Feng Yan mean by this? The Heavenly Emperor was alarmed, and nothing happened, so how could she stay out of it now? She turned her head to see Ye Tianling walking farther and farther along the long and narrow valley, the black dark clothes brushed by the breeze, and gradually faded in the quiet and warm sunshine of late autumn, the tall and straight made people feel so lonely.
The proud solitary peak in the depths of the icy lake has been silent for thousands of years, and in the reflection there is only a heart-wrenching coldness, silently alone in the world. He will not have any requests to anyone, everything is hidden in his heart, silently and silently.
She stared blankly at the front, suddenly a complicated light flashed in her eyes, she turned her horse's head and chased after Ye Tianling's back.
The sound of hooves is clear, with the pleasant autumn wind and the gentle sunshine, driving away the early coolness in the mountains and crushing the long-lasting cold. Ye Tianling's horse speed seemed to slow down a little, and the back instantly became clear in her eyes. The silent deep black was faintly dyed with a touch of gold, gradually blending into the warmth of the autumn sun.
"You two are my nemesis, I'll go back with you!" Qing Chen said helplessly to Eleven who came together.
Eleven raised his eyebrows, and that irritating smile returned to his face: "You are the nemesis of both of us, right? Since I saw you, I haven't had a good night's sleep."
Qing Chen gave him an angry look: "We are incompatible with each other, we are incompatible with each other, are you satisfied now?"
Eleven raised his voice and laughed loudly: "Why don't you talk to Fourth Brother about this?" He knew that Qing Chen didn't dare to provoke President Ye Tianling to argue with him, and deliberately teased her.
Qing Chen did not show any weakness, and replied: "If you have the ability, go and tell him, how dare you?"
Eleven spread his hands: "Elder brother is like a father, I dare not."
To be honest enough, Qing Chen glared at him angrily, and stretched out his finger in front of his eyes: "In exchange, I'm going to eat crispy pigeon with honey sauce from Shanglefang, and snacks from Qianyuefang, and..."
"Bandits!" They had already caught up with Ye Tianling at this time, Eleven smiled and said, "Fourth Brother, you are going to lose your money."
Ye Tianling had obviously heard what they said just now, and seeing Qing Chen puffing his mouth and Eleven coming to his side, he said indifferently: "I will explain it to my father, you don't have to go back."
Qing Chen said with a helpless smile: "Fourth brother won't be reluctant to part with a few dim sums, he just lost two of my golden abacus beads before changing them..."
Ye Tianling glanced at her, and she waved her hands hastily: "Don't frown, I will be frank and lenient." So she told how she was robbed in the mountains, how she arrived in Tiandu, how she was rescued by Ye Tianzhan and how she met her. How the Emperor of Heaven is regarded as the daughter of the Feng family who has been lost for many years, how he manages the Simianlou, and how he is related to the Mingyilou, I will tell them in detail, but I skip what Ye Tianzhan asked Concubine Jin to tell her .
After Ye Tianling listened quietly, he suddenly asked, "Why do you want to be the master of Mingyi?"
The corners of Qing Chen's lips twitched slightly: "Because in this way, you can order Mingyilou."
Ye Tianling seemed to be staring into her eyes all the time, and said, "What do you want to order Mingyilou to do?"
Qing Chen showed a clear smile in his eyes, she looked at him sideways, and said, "Nothing."
A faint smile escaped Ye Tianling's eyes, and without saying a word, he said after a while: "It's the emperor's grandmother's birthday recently, father should be in a good mood, nothing will happen."
The birds return to the forest in the setting sun, the afterglow of the twilight falls on the heart, and there is a warm feeling in the heart. Qing Chen takes the reins of the horse, and rides away with the wind and clouds.