"How do you say that?" Song Qingshu asked doubtfully.
Zhao Min stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the faint outline of the imperial palace in the distance: "If he had pretended to be an ordinary court official, I'm afraid we would have found him long ago. Now we have checked a few more suspicious people, but we still can't find him." He, then there are two possibilities, either he is not in Shangjing at all, or... his status is higher than the few people we looked for before, only in this way can we have enough resources and ability to hide his trace. "
Song Qingshu's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but think that in the criminal investigation dramas in his previous life, ordinary people would leave a lot of clues and traces when committing crimes, but some masters would not leave any traces and clues for the police at all, but this would expose them to a certain extent Given his identity, such a brilliant anti-reconnaissance awareness is probably someone inside the legal system.
Thinking about it now, Murong Jingyue's matter is similar, the more perfect the hiding, the more the fox's tail is indeed exposed to a certain extent.
"Who do you think killed Yelv Yixin's son?" Song Qingshu suddenly thought of this, to see if he could get any unknown information from Zhao Min.
Zhao Min also frowned slightly: "Of course it wasn't Yeluqi and Xiao Banhe. I thought it was you who did it. Now that you say no, it's worth playing. Although there are political enemies in Yelv Yixin in Shangjing, But I really can't think of anyone who dares to kill his only son and do such a thing that never ends."
"That's right, the water on the trip to the capital is getting muddy." Looking into the distance, Song Qingshu's expression was also a little dignified.
Zhao Min pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "I haven't been able to find any news about Murong Jingyue. I suspect that he may be hiding in the palace. You and I will go to the palace to check at night."
"Ah?" Song Qingshu was dumbfounded, thinking that Xia Qingqing had made an appointment with Xia Qingqing to go to the palace to find Yuan Chengzhi at night, and in case a few women met at that time, although it would not be possible to fight, but that kind of Shura didn't think so after thinking about it on the spot. feel good.
"Why, you don't want to?" Zhao Min frowned slightly.
"That's not true," Song Qingshu reacted quickly, and quickly found an excuse, "The main reason is that the palace is heavily guarded after all, and it's fine for me to go in and out alone. If I bring a person, the probability of being discovered will increase greatly. It’s not good to scare the snake away.”
Zhao Min just looked at him indifferently like this, and nodded after a long time: "What you said is not unreasonable, so let's go and investigate alone, the palace is so big, you can go faster by yourself, At that time, we will search carefully to see if there are any clues."
Song Qingshu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately Zhao Min didn't insist, otherwise he really didn't know how it would end.
"I'll check with the Western Xia Mission first to see if they are related to this murder case. I always feel that the murderer this time has something to do with Murong Jingyue." Song Qingshu said.
"That's fine. Anyway, there are no clues about Murong Jingyue for the time being. We need more information to analyze." Zhao Min deeply agreed. Although she is smart enough, she can't figure out where Murong Jingyue is hiding without enough information. place.
When Song Qingshu was about to walk out of the pavilion, Zhao Min suddenly said, "If you don't come back at night, remember to notify in advance. I waited all night yesterday."
Song Qingshu looked back in surprise, Zhao Min had already picked up a cup of tea and drank it, as if he hadn't said a word, Song Qingshu suddenly felt extremely soft in his heart, the words just now were like a wife said to her husband who didn't come home at night.
"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and check it out." Zhao Min didn't know why she said that by accident, so she had to drink tea to hide the blush on her face, but when she found that he was staring at her, she couldn't help feeling a little annoyed up.
"Okay, I'll go check it out now," Song Qingshu gradually revealed a smile, walked a few steps and then turned around and said, "By the way, there are so many places to check in the palace today, most probably won't come back."
Zhao Min snorted coldly: "It's none of my business whether you come back or not."
Song Qingshu was suffocated, but he liked her arrogant appearance very much.
Let's say that after Song Qingshu came out of the small courtyard, he came all the way to the Xuanhui courtyard, where the people from the Xixia Mission were placed.
"It was neither Yeluqi nor me who killed Yelv Suiya. Maybe some people in Xixia didn't want to see this marriage succeed." Song Qingshu's eyes became sharper as he thought of the possibility Xia Qingqing mentioned before.
The whole person sneaked in silently with a little tiptoe, and found that the number of soldiers in Xuanhuiyuan was almost double that of normal. It must be that too many major events happened in the capital recently. First, the Southern Song Dynasty mission was robbed and killed, and then Yelusui was also killed. He was worried about problems with the Xixia mission, so he sent more people to protect them.
Sneaking in all the way, I found that people from the Xixia Mission were gathering in a study room, and there were soldiers from Xixia on guard outside, but Song Qingshu couldn't be bothered, so he quickly found a guard and cut in, and then hung upside down outside the window Under the beams of the house, he began to listen intently and quietly.
With his current skill, even if there is a wall, the conversation inside cannot be hidden from his ears at all.
"There are more and more Khitan soldiers outside." Duan Yanqing's voice was very distinctive, and he could hear it immediately.
"Hmph, they keep saying that they are here to protect us. We have so many experts here, do we need them to protect us? I think they are here to monitor us!" The thin and soft voice of the crane in the cloud is also very obvious.
"Okay, whether it's protection or surveillance, it has nothing to do with us. There's no need to shout loudly." Princess Yinchuan's crisp voice sounded.
"Yes." Although Yun Zhonghe was greedy and lustful, he didn't dare to have any disrespectful thoughts towards this incomparably beautiful Yinchuan princess, and he dared not say a word when he heard her words.
"What I'm curious about is who killed Yelu Suiya this time, did he go for Yelu Yixin, or did he want to destroy my marriage between Xixia and Liao?" Li Qinglu stood up and opened the window, and said with a frown.
Fortunately, Song Qingshu sensed her walking towards the window, rolled her belly in advance and pressed her whole body tightly to the roof of the beam. Today, Li Qinglu was wearing a traditional Western Xia costume, a red dress, and her hair was combed into countless delicate braids. She really looked like a Spirits in flames.
However, Song Qingshu had no time to appreciate her beauty at this time, but was worried that she would raise her head suddenly, so that he would have nowhere to hide.
Hearing her words, Song Qingshu understood that Yelu Suiya's death was not the work of the Western Xia Mission.
"Could it be that King Liang is acting as a hindrance?" Ye Erniang asked hesitantly.
Li Qinglu glanced at her, and said calmly: "Prince Liang is the pillar of my Great Xia Kingdom, how could he do such a thing that harms the interests of the country, don't mention similar things in the future."
"Yes!" After being swept away by her eyes, Erniang Ye, who had a fierce reputation outside, felt a chill in her heart, and hurriedly bent over to say yes.
Song Qingshu outside the window was thinking secretly, the Prince of Liang whom Ye Erniang was talking about was the younger brother of the Xixia Emperor, and he seemed to have some interest in inheriting the throne, so naturally he didn't want to see the prince get strong support through marriage. And Li Qinglu immediately stopped her from talking, this kind of practice is also very common, most likely because she is afraid that there will be King Liang's eyeliner in the room, and deliberately said such words to paralyze him.
"Could it really be a power struggle within Xixia?" Song Qingshu frowned, feeling that it was not that simple.
Suddenly Li Qinglu said: "Comparatively speaking, I doubt it was done by Jin people. After all, Jin and Liao are feuds. It is in Jin's best interest to destroy the marriage between the two countries."
Song Qingshu outside the window shook his head secretly, this time the Kingdom of Jin really wanted to destroy the marriage between the two countries, but the person who sent it was myself, and the branch of Huanyiyuan in Shangjing City was controlled by me, it was not their hand at all.
Li Qinglu went on to say another sentence: "There is also the Southern Song Dynasty. I seem to have seen traces of the Huangcheng Division in Shangjing not long ago. You must know that the Xue family is everywhere in the Huangcheng Division, and the Xue family and Jia Sidao It is an ally, if this marriage is successful, we may really be doomed when we unite the Jin Kingdom, and Han Tuozhou, who presided over the Southern Song and Northern Expeditions, will rise, and Jia Sidao will never want to see this situation... "
Song Qingshu's heart moved, yes, Xue Yi had killed the Southern Song Dynasty mission before, and heard from Qin Keqing that they came for the mandarin duck knife again, so it is likely that he killed Yelusui and took the knife this time!
With a plan in mind, when Li Qinglu turned around, Song Qingshu took the opportunity to leave Xuanhuiyuan, and then went to the place where Xue Yiren and others were staying.
But when he found that place, he was surprised to find that Qin Keqing and others had already left the building, and what surprised him even more was that they didn't take the initiative to change places!
Everywhere in the room looked messy, many tables, chairs, doors and windows were broken, obviously after a fierce fight, there were still a lot of dark red blood stains on the ground, it was unknown whether it was Qin Keqing and others or the attackers.
"I don't know if Qin Keqing has anything to do." Song Qingshu didn't care about the others, but Qin Keqing had a relationship with him after all.
But he thought about it, Xue Yiren's martial arts are so high, and Jia Zhen's martial arts is considered good in the Jianghu, it should not be difficult to protect his companions, so he was a little relieved.
"Who attacked them?" Song Qingshu felt more and more clearly that there was a mysterious force in the capital city that seemed to be a giant beast that chose to devour people, but unfortunately he still didn't know anything about it.
After searching around again, but still couldn't find any valuable clues, Song Qingshu had no choice but to go back to the stronghold of Huanyiyuan, and go to the palace with Xia Qingqing to solve Yuan Chengzhi's matter first.
Seeing him come back, both the lively Xia Qingqing and the cold-tempered Bingxueer showed a hint of joy: "Did you find anything?"
Song Qingshu roughly explained the news he got from the Xixia Mission and what he saw at the Huangcheng Division stronghold. Of course, he felt a little guilty and didn't mention Zhao Min's affairs.
"Now it seems that the clue is broken again." Bingxue'er sighed lightly, thinking that she had lost her husband's precious sword, she blamed herself endlessly.
Song Qingshu hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, I will get back the Lengyue sword."
"Thank you, Qingshu." Bingxueer said softly.
Song Qingshu chuckled: "How do you plan to thank sister-in-law?"
Noticing Xia Qingqing's playful eyes, Bingxue'er blushed: "You are always so dishonest."
Song Qingshu laughed: "Sister-in-law think about it slowly, I will look for sister-in-law after Qingqing and I come back from the palace." After speaking, he took Xia Qingqing and went out.
"This person~" Seeing the disappearing figures of the two, Bingxue'er stomped her feet and blushed, but no matter how cold her temper was, she was still an upright and youthful woman. Thinking of what happened at night, her heart beat faster for a moment.