"It's you!"
"It's you!"
The two groups of men and horses exclaimed at the same time.
Mo You glared at the person in front of him and asked again: "Qu Yuexuan, why are you here?"
Qu Yuexuan, apart from being surprised at the beginning, returned to his usual nonchalant attitude and asked back with a playful smile: "Is it my turn to ask Lord Mo why he appears here
As the leader of the internal guard, Mr. Mo breaks into the palace of a court minister in the middle of the night. Aren't you afraid of attracting criticism
Especially at a time like this! "
The meaningful words made Mo You blush, but he had no way to refute.
It is true that the internal guards can do many things, and can even make the ministers of the DPRK and China change their minds after hearing about them, but they have also become the target of public criticism.
No matter what the internal guards do or whose orders they obey, the emperor Mo Junyu will be blamed in the end.
So Mo Youzai kept a close watch and didn't dare to act rashly.
But now Luo Zixuan's situation is unclear. If he doesn't take action, he is afraid that someone will get there first.
Mo You couldn't care so much, and he didn't have time to deal with Qu Yuexuan, so he simply ignored him and gave orders directly to his subordinates.
"Go in and take a look!"
However, the inner guards were blocked by Qu Yuexuan's men before they could take action.
Qu Yuexuan also came to monitor Luo Zixuan and look for the unknown decree, but he was not in a hurry at all.
He continued leisurely: "Master Mo led his men to break into Master Luo's residence late at night. Without explaining the reason, I cannot let you disturb Master Luo's rest."
Mo You slapped Qu Yuexuan's hand away angrily and said angrily: "Qu Yuexuan, you ask questions knowingly. Don't think that I don't know that you are also looking for that imperial edict. I won't let you succeed!"
Qu Yuexuan said calmly: "Master Luo and I are good friends, and I am only here to protect Master Luo's safety to prevent him from being attacked by traitors."
Anyway, Luo Zixuan is not here, he can just make up whether it is black or white.
After finishing speaking, Qu Yuexuan did not forget to slap him down, "It's unreasonable for Mr. Mo to come here uninvited!"
Mo You: "You!"
Just when the two sides were in a stalemate, a loud bang suddenly came from the room. Both parties were stunned and couldn't care less about the argument.
Mo You and Qu Yuexuan looked at each other, then they opened the door and rushed in.
I saw that the room was in a mess, tables and chairs fell to the ground, and letters and other things were scattered around.
At this time, Luo Zixuan, the central figure in their conversation, was lying on his back on the ground, bleeding from his mouth and nose, and was unconscious.
One of Qu Yuexuan's subordinates took the lead in checking Luo Zixuan's pulse, and shook his head with a heavy face, "He's dead."
Mo You didn't believe it and asked the inner guard to explore again.
The result is of course the same.
Qu Yuexuan sneered: "You are here, how could we still lie to you?"
Mo You ignored him and gestured to the inner guards, who immediately dispersed and searched everywhere on the bookshelves, desks, and beds.
The people on Qu Yuexuan's side saw this and approached Qu Yuexuan and asked in a low voice: "Brother Qu, do we want to..."
Qu Yuexuan shook his head slightly, signaling his people not to act rashly.
He himself was leaning on the door railing, looking at the show, watching Mo You and the others' intense movements.
However, after Mo You and the others searched the entire room, they almost lifted up the floor tiles and searched again.
The late emperor's decree they expected was nowhere to be seen.
There weren't even any signs.
Either Luo Zixuan hadn't hidden it elsewhere early, or there was no such edict at all!
"Master Mo, what should we do now?" The inner guard found nothing and could only report back to Mo You with empty hands.
But what can Mo You do!
The reason why he still stood here and didn't retreat was largely because Qu Yuexuan didn't leave - he didn't want to be underestimated by the other party.
But the sky outside was getting brighter, and he knew that staying here would not help, and might even cause trouble.
Mo You thought again and again, and had no choice but to give the order to the inner guards: "Retreat!"
After Qu Yuexuan and others left, he walked slowly to Luo Zixuan's body, looked at it carefully, and then asked the subordinate who had just inspected the body, "Can you tell how long he was dead?"
The man hesitated for a while and said: "It's hard to say the specific time, but the body is almost cold. I'm afraid it must have been four or five hours."
Qu Yue He was strangled to death. Judging from his movements, this person was incompetent in martial arts."
"Brother Qu, this man has been dead for so long, but the sound came out just now. This..." Someone on the side immediately noticed the clue.
Qu Yuexuan nodded, "The movement just now was either caused by the murderer, or it was caused by this thing."
"My subordinates just looked around. The doors and windows are locked. The only exit is the door. There is no dark room in the room. If the murderer was in this room before, there is absolutely no way he could escape our sight."
As for the second possibility—since Luo Zixuan was completely dead, it was even more unlikely that he had done it himself.
This is simply—an impossible crime!
Qu Yuexuan looked at his subordinates who were all confused and couldn't help but sigh: They are still too young and lack exercise!
He pointed at the corpse, "I said it was the sound made by the corpse, but I didn't say it was made by Luo Zixuan. I just looked carefully at this man's body and found that there was a thin mark on his neck. , as if a thin coil was wrapped around the neck and hung up.
But the other person has already been strangled to death, so there is no need to hang him with a thin string. Thinking about it, we all saw someone standing in the room tonight. It seems that someone hung his body upright on the beam to make outsiders think he was still alive. "
"Who did it?" asked his subordinate Li Quan.
Qu Yuexuan glanced at Li Quan and asked, "Who do you think has the opportunity to enter this room today and still has time to arrange all this?"
Li Quan suddenly realized, "It's the boy who delivers the food!"
Li Quan cupped his hands and said, "I will take people to arrest that young man."
Qu Yuexuan nodded and let Li Quan lead a group of people to leave first.
Zhao Zhen, who was left, pointed to the corpse on the ground and asked, "Brother Qu, how should I deal with this corpse?"
Qu Yuexuan spread his hands and said coolly: "You are not one of ours, do you need us to deal with it? You have eaten too much salt, are you too busy?"
Zhao Zhen smiled, scratched his head and said, "I'm not thinking that what we are looking for has not been found yet. Maybe this body is still useful."
Qu Yuexuan shook his head solemnly and sighed: "It's useless. I'm afraid there is a third party involved in this matter. I'm afraid that the will has already been obtained by someone with ulterior motives!"
Zhao Zhen asked reluctantly: "What should we do?"
Qu Yuexuan rolled his eyes, "Nothing! Don't forget, the task Jun Yang gave us is actually to protect Luo Zixuan's safety. As for the will, it's not that important."
Zhao Zhen: "But hasn't the person been killed now?"
Qu Yuexuan: "..."
Why is this kid so good at poking people's wounds!
"Forget it, let's close the team!"
Qu Yuexuan just waved his hands and left.
——
Qu Yuexuan led his men back to Mu Xueyuan and reported the news to Mo Junyang.
Then, Li Quan's men also came back, but the boy who delivered the food was not caught.
After such a long time, if the boy was really the murderer, he would have escaped long ago, so how could he be waiting for them to catch him!
Qu Yuexuan was expecting this, but still couldn't help but feel a little irritated, "Jun Yang, I was too careless this time."
I thought that as long as I stayed in Luo Mansion and prevented outsiders from coming in, everything would be fine. I didn't expect that even all the precautions could not prevent the mole in Luo Mansion.
The murderer struck so swiftly and neatly, it was absolutely impossible for him to be just a boy. He must have been lurking around Luo Zixuan for a long time, but he didn't know why he delayed taking action until now.
Mo Junyang had been listening to Qu Yuexuan's report quietly, until then he asked: "You said you noticed something was wrong, and when you wanted to go in and take a look, you happened to confront the inner guard?"
Qu Yuexuan: "Well, I had a little conflict with Mo You at the door, which delayed us for a while."
Otherwise, he might be able to catch the murderer by the fox's tail.
Since the thin string used to hang the body was not found at the scene, Qu Yuexuan could almost conclude that before they entered the house, the murderer might have been hiding on the eaves, using the gaps in the bricks and tiles to recover the thin string.
The body lost its support and fell to the ground.
Mo Junyang nodded and said nothing more, just asking Qu Yuexuan to go down and rest.
Only then did Shi Qingxue step forward and whispered: "Jun Yang, it seems that the murderer did this deliberately to pit Ah Xuan and the others against the inner guards."
Otherwise, he had clearly concealed himself very well before, and the murderer could have allowed 'Luo Zixuan' to stay in the room for ten days and a half without being discovered.
Now that something is suddenly so obvious, firstly, it may be that Luo Zixuan is completely worthless, and secondly, he wants to cause them to conflict with Mo Junyu.
Judging from the actual effect, the murderer's goal was achieved.
Shi Qingxue could almost predict what Mo You would say to Mo Junyu after returning to the palace.
The already tense relationship between Mo Junyang and Mo Junyu may be even more precarious.
There was just one thing Qingxue couldn't guess, "Did you say the murderer found the so-called will?"
To this day, not to mention the speculation among outsiders, even Shi Qingxue, who is well aware of the inside story, is skeptical about the authenticity of the so-called will.
It is true that Mo Xiangbin already knew Mo Junyang's true identity and had great trust in Mo Junyang.
But Mo Xiangbin, who cares so much about his reputation, even almost killed Mo Junyang in order to cover up the scandal in his previous life, how could he take the initiative to make the scandal of his affair with his sister-in-law public in this life
There were too many doubts in this, and Shi Qingxue couldn't guess whether the enemy was spreading suspicion behind his back, or whether it was really true.
Mo Junyang looked at Shi Qingxue with a rare expression of thoughtfulness. He hesitated for a while and then said, "He did say that he would pass on the throne to me."