After Su Fengnuan bandaged Lin Zhixiao, he was still unconscious.
Ye Chang said to Xu Yunchu, "Send someone to report a letter to the emperor, saying that the second prince has suffered a serious injury to his leg and is now being treated at the Guozhang's mansion."
Xu Yunchu nodded, called someone, and gave orders.
After the man left, Su Fengnuan said to Ye Chang, "The place you went to is the Tianmen Gate, but there is actually another Earth Gate. The Heaven Gate is the gate of death, and the Earth Gate is the gate of life. The three senior brothers and I walked along the gate of the Earth. The door is through a passage five meters below that tunnel."
Ye Chang said, "You must have reached the exit? Where is the exit of that passage?"
Su Feng said warmly, "In a dilapidated courtyard in the market that has been sealed for many years, the courtyard is full of weeds and no one lives in it."
Ye Chang frowned.
Su Feng said warmly, "I've written down the location of that courtyard, let's go and have a look later."
Ye Chang nodded.
At this moment, Xu Yunchu spoke to Su Fengnuan, "When I sent someone to call after you left, Aunt Yun Ni was already dead. Because I was always worried about you, I haven't gone to check on her for an autopsy."
Su Fengnuan heard the words, "Come on, let's go and see your Aunt Yunni first, what is the cause of death."
Xu Yunchu nodded, and shouted to the outside, "Fuying!"
"My lord!" Floating Shadow appeared in response.
Xu Yunchu told him, "Move Uncle Xiaoguo to my yard, and you will guard it. Until the emperor arrives, you will not leave him an inch."
"Yes." Fu Ying lowered her head, came in and carefully carried Lin Zhixiao on her shoulders, and left Xu Lingyi's courtyard.
Su Fengnuan knew that Xu Yunchu was being extremely careful, after all, Xu Lingyi's courtyard was really not safe.
When the group walked out of Xu Lingyi's room, Su Fengnuan told Ye Chang that the plum blossoms in the courtyard were mixed with psychedelic fragrance. After speaking, he asked him, "Then go to Pingjun Wangfu , have you ever noticed where Qi Shu is, is there such a plum blossom?"
Ye Chang frowned and thought for a while, then said, "It seems there is!"
Su Fengnuan said, "That's it. I suspect that the psychedelic medicine that Qi Shu took that day was this kind of psychedelic incense, but Imperial Physician Meng probably didn't understand psychedelic incense, so he just said it was a psychedelic medicine. I thought it was an ordinary hallucinogen, so I didn't pay attention to it."
Ye Chang said, "Princess Pingjun also likes plum blossoms, and she planted two in her courtyard."
Su Fengnuan said, "If there was this kind of plum blossom with psychedelic fragrance in Pingjun Prince's mansion that day, and Qi Shu fell into the psychedelic fragrance and hurt you, then, is it conceivable that King Pingjun's involvement in the ink corruption case is also related to this place? The person behind the secret passage can't get away with it?"
Ye Chang said, "In this case, this matter needs to be discussed with the second prince."
"Discuss with him?" Su Fengnuan raised his eyebrows.
Ye Chang said, "That day, he hijacked you, and something happened to Pingjun Wangfu, and he restrained me. The secret way has nothing to do with him, so what about the psychedelic fragrance? Could it be related to him? Or if it has nothing to do, you must know something .”
Su Fengnuan nodded, "In that case, when he wakes up, ask him."
The two were talking and left Xu Lingyi's courtyard.
Xu Yunchu ordered, "All the guards, guard this courtyard. No one is allowed to enter again, and those who violate it will be punished severely."
"Yes!" The guards all responded in unison.
Yun Ni's status in the inner courtyard of the Guozhang's Mansion is higher than that of ordinary maidservants, and she has an independent small courtyard.
After a group of people arrived at Yun Ni's courtyard, the housekeeper of the Guozhang's Mansion was waiting at the door with a few servants. Seeing Xu Yunchu bringing Su Fengnuan, Ye Chang and others arrived, he hurriedly greeted them.
Xu Yunchu asked the housekeeper, "When did you find out that Aunt Yun Ni had an accident?"
The housekeeper immediately said, "Since the young master passed away, Yun Ni's temperament has become a little withdrawn. Apart from serving in your study room, you are not used to interacting with the maids in the mansion. You also know, my lord, that in her yard, people are not allowed In and out, if you hadn't sent someone to ask her today, young master, I would not know that she is dead. I don't know when, but I saw her last night."
Xu Yunchu pursed his lips, nodded, and led Su Fengnuan, Ye Chang and others into Yunni's yard.
Yun Ni's yard is not big, with a few sycamore trees planted in it, and nothing else. Su Fengnuan looked around, but found nothing special, followed Xu Yunchu into Yunni's room.
Yun Ni was lying on the bed, her dress was very neat and clean, holding a piece of poetry in her hand, her face was calm, as if she was asleep.
Xu Yunchu came to her bed, took a look, stretched out his hand and gently pulled the poem in her hand, and took it out. He glanced at it, pursed the corners of his mouth, and said nothing.
Su Fengnuan stepped forward to take the paper of poems, and saw that it said: "The spring is sunny, beside the fallen plum blossoms. The flowing water is gurgling, and the wind blows the fragrance of my daughter. Look at me, surrounded by blue clouds, phoenix trees perched on the phoenix trees, lightly folded, Timeless."
There is no doubt that this is a love poem.
The paper has turned yellow and old, and it looks like it has been around for a few years. Judging from the handwriting, the strokes are flamboyant, as if it was written by a man.
Seeing Xu Yunchu pursed her lips, she asked him speculatively, "This poem is from... your father?"
Xu Yunchu nodded.
Su Fengnuan wanted to say that your father used to be so romantic and used to write love poems to please his daughter's family, but now there is a dead person lying on the bed, and this paper of poems was taken out of her hands, so she didn't want to make a joke Thoughts.
So, she handed the poem to Ye Chang who was beside her, stepped forward to check it for Yun Ni, and said to Xu Yunchu, "Let me see the cause of her death."
Xu Yunchu nodded and took a step back.
Su Fengnuan checked Yun Nitong's body up and down, and pulled out a golden needle from her hair. The golden needle was as thin as a cow's hair. She held it in her hand, and the weight was extremely light. If she didn't look carefully, she might think it was hair. He was decisive towards Xu Yunchu Honestly, "He killed him."
Xu Yunchu's expression darkened, and he asked in a low voice, "How do you know it was homicide?"
Su Fengnuan said, "There are two suspicious points. This poem should be written to her by your father. Such romantic handwriting must have been written by your father when he was young, and when your father was young, Yun Ni should be the same." Cardamom Nianhua, if any woman gets this poem, other men must not notice her, so she must have a deep affection for your father."
Xu Yunchu nodded, "This poem was indeed written by my father when he was young, but for some reason, it was kept by his father until his death, and he gave it to Aunt Yunni. .”
Su Fengnuan said again, "Although she has deep affection for your father, she is still alive after your father has been dead for many years, which means that she has no intention of dying with him. Since she hasn't died for many years, Now I won’t commit suicide with his poems.”
Xu Yunchu nodded again, and said to her, "The reason why Aunt Yunni didn't accompany her father to die is because she didn't believe in the road to hell and the afterlife, and only wanted to remember him in this life."
Su Fengnuan said again, "Besides, the timing of her death was too coincidental. When you found out that there was something wrong with the plum tree in Xu Lingyi's yard and the plum blossoms in your study, you wanted to ask her, but she happened to die. " After saying that, she raised the golden needle in her hand as thin as a cow's hair, and said to him, "Such a thin golden needle can be inserted into the dead point at once, and the technique is accurate. How can I do it by myself? Besides, if you want to die with all your heart, There are tens of thousands of ways to die, there is no need to look for this kind of thin golden needle that deliberately conceals the cause of death, most of the women in the back house either throw themselves into the lake or hang themselves, such a special way of death is also the problem."
Xu Yunchu nodded.
Su Fengnuan handed the golden needle to him, and said, "She died not long ago, but within an hour or two, it should be when we found out that there is something wrong with the plum blossom, it seems that you really should check your Guozhang's mansion carefully, Why do I think your mansion is more dangerous than the imperial palace?"
Xu Yunchu pursed his lips and drank, "Come here!"
"Young master!" Someone responded.
Xu Yunchu gritted his teeth and said, "Check it out for me, before I went to Lingyi's courtyard, who entered this courtyard?"
"Yes!" The guard responded.
At this time, a loud shout came from outside, "The emperor is here!"
Everyone was shocked.
When Xu Yunchu heard that the emperor had come to the Guozhang's mansion in person, he was also taken aback for a moment, thinking how long had it been since the emperor came to the Guozhang's mansion? He looked at Su Fengnuan and Ye Chang, "The emperor heard that the second prince was injured, so he must have come here for him, and I will pick him up."
Ye Chang said, "Let's go together!"
Xu Yunchu nodded.
Su Fengnuan said to the two, "Go first, I will stay here for a while, and then I will meet you."
Xu Yunchu and Ye Chang nodded and walked out of this courtyard. Although Ye Xi wanted to stay here to see what problems Su Fengnuan could find out, he thought that if he didn't pick him up, he would be disrespectful to the emperor. After all, he was different from Su Fengnuan, so he followed the two of them.
Su Fengnuan walked around Yun Ni's room and found nothing, so he found a chair and sat down.
Xiao Han and Xie Xuan, as her guards, naturally stayed with her in the room.
The housekeeper didn't leave with Xu Yunchu to greet him, but seeing Su Fengnuan sitting down, he asked her, "Miss Su, may I have someone pour you a cup of tea?"
Su Fengnuan nodded to him, "Thank you very much." After the words fell, he heard the shouts outside one after another, and said to him, "The emperor is here, and everyone in the mansion is going to meet him? Why didn't the housekeeper go?"
The housekeeper said respectfully, "There was a murder case here. As the housekeeper of the head of the country, I have already failed my duty. Naturally, I have to stay here." After finishing speaking, he said, "Besides, to the young master, you are the one, Miss Su. Most honored guest, how can you be left alone here? The emperor is here because of the injury of the second prince, and he must be very anxious. If I don't go pick him up, the emperor will not blame me, a little housekeeper of the inner palace, no problem of."
Su Fengnuan nodded.
The housekeeper ordered someone to bring tea, and then chatted with her about Yun Ni.