Capture the Jade:
Teng Yuyi ordered the maidservants to retreat, leaving only Cheng Bo and Duan Fu at the door.
“My son, that ghost came uninvited tonight, I was wondering if there might be other reasons.”
Lin Chengyou: “What do you think?”
“I heard from Juesheng Xiaodao that time when the tree demon said that the tree demon is obsessed with the skin of beauties, and he is very picky before doing it. In addition to picking the woman’s appearance, he will also pay attention to whether the woman’s skin is damaged, but sister. Before entering the bamboo forest for the first time, the palm of the hand was cut by the embroidery scissors because of cutting the ribbon.
Du Tinglan spread out his palms: “This is my wound at that time, please take a look at it.”
Teng Yuyi added: “The wound is really not shallow. The bleeding hadn’t stopped completely when my sister entered the woods. The monster’s sense of smell is very sensitive, and it can smell blood from a long distance. Logically, it doesn’t match my sister. But it ambushed my cousin, and according to my cousin’s afterthoughts, the dryad should have been dormant in the forest long ago, and it didn’t covet her skin, but only to take her life. This is strange, no matter where my sister is Yangzhou is still Chang’an, and has never had any enmity with anyone, and the only one who has a feud is Lu Zhaoan.”
Lin Chengyou already knew these things, he would make people follow Lu Zhaoan, not only because this person might be harmful to others, but he was also curious about how Lu Zhaoan manipulated the tree demon.
It’s a pity that after staring at him for almost a month, Lu Zhaoan never showed his flaws. It wasn’t until Hu Jizhen suddenly lost his soul a while ago that things turned around.
“Your Majesty should have noticed it a long time ago. I have also sent people to follow Lu Zhaoan these days. The day before yesterday I heard that Mr. Hu suddenly suffered from a strange disease. I became even more suspicious of Lu Zhaoan.”
Teng Yuyi told the story of how Lu Zhaoan only cared about running for his life that night.
Lin Chengyou raised his eyebrows, so that’s the case, he had already guessed whether Hu Jizhen knew Lu Zhaoan’s secrets, and never thought that there was still this case.
“You already knew about this?”
Teng Yuyi nodded: “Mr. Hu almost lost his life on the spot. I thought he would spread the news everywhere, but he kept his mouth shut. If the person involved doesn’t expose Lu Zhaoan’s true face, I can’t do it for him. Then, after a while, I heard that Mr. Hu has a strange disease, my son, don’t you think the timing of Mr. Hu’s illness is too coincidental?”
“So you suspect that it was Lu Zhaoan who killed him?”
Teng Yuyi: “The imperial court will hold an imperial examination soon, and the marriage between Lu Zhaoan and Zheng’s family is still pending. It is not surprising that Lu Zhaoan will take risks because of these two points. Now that Hu Jizhen has fallen ill, there is another person who knows Lu Zhaoan’s The bottom line is that it is my elder sister, the female ghost somehow found the Teng mansion tonight, and it happens that my elder sister lives in the mansion, so I have reason to suspect that this female ghost was attracted by Lu Zhaoan.”
The last sentence is a bit far-fetched, but in this way, it makes sense why she ran into ghosts one after another.
Lin Chengyou laughed, Teng Yuyi seemed to be afraid of getting the reputation of “unlucky ghost”, but she must not forget, why the corpse evil suddenly stared at her is still a mystery.
However, what she said makes sense. By using the ghost to get rid of the person she wants to get rid of, the murderer can escape completely.
Teng Yuyi caught sight of the smile in Lin Chengyou’s black eyes, and knew that he still had some doubts in his heart, but even if he didn’t fully accept this statement, he couldn’t deny the possibility.
“Get rid of your people.” He looked at her for a while, and said, “Lu Zhaoan is very vigilant, if there are too many people staring at him, he will startle the snake.”
Teng Yuyi hurriedly said: “Okay, I will tell them not to follow tomorrow.”
Lin Chengyou paused, agreeing so happily, he was a little uncomfortable. Except for the time when they jointly dealt with the corpse evil, it was rare to see Teng Yuyi willing to cooperate with him obediently.
“In addition, please also ask Mrs. Du to hand over the letter that Lu Zhaoan wrote to you at that time. If Lu Zhaoan used things like cinnabar talismans, there will be traces on the letter. I have to make sure whether he will Mystery.”
Du Tinglan and Teng Yuyi looked at each other. Although Lin Chengyou never flaunted his own character, sometimes he was even a bit unscrupulous, but the last time my grandfather went to Qingyun Temple to tell the truth about Lin Chengyou, Chang’an did not spread any rumors that were not good for the Du family. It is a fact, so it can be seen that Lin Chengyou must do what he says, and he will never leak it if he says it will not be leaked.
“Okay, I will hand it over to the crown prince tomorrow.” Du Tinglan’s tone was full of gratitude.
Teng Yuyi took the opportunity to say: “I don’t worry about my sister going back to the house, but I don’t know Taoism. Even if I have Xiaoya sword to protect me, I still struggle to deal with the ghosts with high skills. Last time, the two little Taoists They gave me a lot of talismans, but they don’t seem to be of any use, I’m afraid someone will lure ghosts to Teng’s mansion in a few days—”
As she said, she pointed to the bell on her wrist logically: “The Xuanyin bell still can’t be taken off, I’m worried that it will alarm the prince again, with the formation to resist, it won’t disturb people’s dreams late at night.”
Lin Chengyou had already guessed that it was because of this that she took the trouble to entertain him, but what she said was exactly what he wanted, because he was also annoyed by the bell.
Besides, he also wondered if Teng Yuyi’s small courtyard would be weird. Looking out of the window: “It’s not difficult to set up the formation, but I still have one thing to figure out. Please trouble Madam Teng to call out all the servants in the house. I want to take a good look.”
Before Teng Yuyi had time to be happy, her mind buzzed. Lin Chengyou suspected that there were internal thieves in Teng’s residence.
Fortunately, after Lin Chengyou checked the servants in the mansion, he found nothing wrong. The next step was to arrange the formation, which took a lot of effort.
Teng Yuyi hurriedly asked Cheng Bo to carefully prepare the breakfast, and the people in Teng’s mansion moved at an astonishing speed, and a table of good things was presented in a blink of an eye.
Lin Chengyou was about to leave, but seeing this battle, Teng Yuyi frowned, and Teng Yuyi seemed eager to spend a hundred times his efforts to entertain him. There were both north and south noodles on the table.
Teng Yuyi and Du Tinglan couldn’t finish eating so many things, what a pity to waste them, he shook his head secretly, reluctantly staying for breakfast.
Breakfast is served in the flower hall, and there is a screen in the middle of the hall, Lin Chengyou sits outside the screen, Teng Yuyi and Du Tinglan sit inside the screen.
When Lin Chengyou lifted the chopsticks, he thought that he hadn’t had such a grand breakfast for a long time.
In the past six months, my parents and my second brother were not in Chang’an, and my younger sister was studying with me in the palace. He was often the only one in a huge palace, and sometimes he was busy cleaning or investigating cases, so he just bought it in the market. A piece of mustache to satisfy one’s hunger. Even if he had breakfast in Chengwang Mansion, he ate casually.
Teng Yuyi and Du Tinglan ate very well, and there was no sound of bowls and chopsticks in the screen. Suddenly, Du Tinglan whispered: “Eating this is good for your body, so don’t pick it out.”
Lin Chengyou thought to himself, Teng Yuyi is a bit childish sometimes, look, she is picky eater at such an age.
He ran out of it very quickly. Before leaving, he glanced at the screen and said, “This formation is only set up around Teng Mansion, and I can’t guarantee anything after the formation. Sister, you better not wander around.”
Teng Yuyi stood behind the screen and sent her benefactor respectfully: “Go slowly. Don’t worry, we will never run around at night.”
When Lin Chengyou walked to the door, he saw the rising sun in front of him. The light of the sky was bright orange, which was so cute.
When he went down the steps, he unconsciously walked a little lighter. Strange to say, he didn’t feel tired at all after working so hard all night. Because of the residual drug effect.
At the gate of Teng Mansion, Cheng Bo had already prepared the horse.
Lin Chengyou thanked him and drove his horse to Prince Cheng’s mansion.
Commander Chang and Kuan Nu were busy inquiring about the whereabouts of the young master, when they saw Lin Chengyou come back, they were overjoyed.
“Where did the son go last night?” Kuan Nu complained, “The villain went to Dongming Temple to find the five priests, and when he came back, the son disappeared.”
General Commander Chang also sighed: “When the prince leaves, he greets the little people.”
Lin Chengyou threw the reins to a group of servants waiting at the door, and said with a smile: “I’m sorry, there were other places haunted last night. I left in a hurry and forgot to tell you. By the way , how was Wudao last night?”
“There are three Taoist priests in the temple who are recovering from their wounds. They are villains received by Taoist priests Jianxi and Jiantian. They took the ingot of gold from the son and went to the nunnery with a smile on their faces.”
General Commander Chang looked at Lin Chengyou’s expression, Xiao Shizi’s eyebrows stretched, and he looked surprisingly good after catching the ghost for a long time.
“The prince can eat too early?”
Lin Chengyou said nonchalantly, “I’ve used it.”
So early?
Lin Chengyou glanced at Chang Rong and Kuan Nu, and stepped into the mansion: “The Hu Bing Shop just bought a piece of Hu Bing.”
Is there any bakery that opens so early? Commander Chang looked at the young master’s back and didn’t ask any more questions, but secretly planned to ask the chef to make some more houtou, when he suddenly remembered a serious matter: “By the way, just now a servant from the Dali Temple came to look for the prince and asked him to go to Dali as soon as possible. Temple.”
“What is it?”
“It is said that a strange female corpse was sent.”
Lin Chengyou was taken aback for a moment, and strode back to the backyard, ordered people to prepare bath soup, changed into official clothes after bathing, and drove to Dali Temple.
It was still early, and there were not many carriages in front of the gate of Dali Temple, so Lin Chengyou walked straight through the nave, and Yan Wanchun, who was on duty last night, came out to welcome him.
Yan Sizhi’s expression was much paler than usual, I don’t know if he was too tired or frightened.
“Lin Pingshi, quickly follow Yan to the morgue.”
Lin Chengyou had never seen Yan Sizhi lose his composure like this before, and he couldn’t help wondering: “What kind of corpse? Is there something wrong?”
Yan Si wiped off his cold sweat: “You can see it at a glance, the prince just inquired about it last night.”
When he arrived at the door of the morgue, Lin Chengyou smelled a strong evil spirit before entering the room. This is the unique breath of ghosts. When he opened the door and entered, he saw a dead body on the corpse bed, covered with a white cloth , Judging from the shape, it should be a female corpse.
Lin Chengyou walked to the corpse bed, raised his hand and lifted the white cloth. Although he was prepared in his heart, he was still taken aback. What came into view was a familiar face, who just broke into Teng’s mansion last night. female ghost.
He looked down quickly, and he saw the wound on the woman’s abdomen.
Yan Sizhi couldn’t hold it back, turned his head and vomited, knowing that he had lost his composure, and tried his best to restrain himself: “Yesterday, when the prince inquired about the case in Tongzhou, Yan didn’t take it seriously. Only after seeing the woman’s corpse with his own eyes did he know How cruel the murderer is. Such a small fetus can’t live if it is stolen, why on earth did the murderer do this?”
Lin Chengyou’s face was not very good-looking, but he knew that the more serious the case was, the more he had to examine the corpse carefully. After a closer look, he found that the woman’s wound was messy and disorderly, not as if it had been cut by a sharp knife , It seemed to be torn apart with bare hands.
“Is this the corpse sent from the same state?”
Yan Wanchun was stunned: “No, this woman is from Chang’an, her name is Shu Liniang, she is only twenty years old this year, and she lives in Chun’an Lane in Chonghuafang—”
Before I finished speaking, there was a commotion outside, and the yamen servants shouted outside: “Yan Sizhi, you were on duty last night, the Fa Cao from the same state capital personally sent the case, and the victim’s body is now on display. In the hall, there is a couple, ouch, come out and have a look, the death is too miserable.”
Lin Chengyou and Yan Wanchun looked at each other and walked quickly to the door.
The yamen servant suddenly saw Lin Chengyou, and asked in a daze, “Did the prince rest in the yamen last night, or did he come early in the morning?”
How could Lin Chengyou care about gossiping: “A couple was sent here? How did they die?”
The yamen servant shuddered: “The wife was killed by caesarean section.”
Lin Chengyou was stunned for a moment, and Yan Wanchun was also extremely shocked: “It turns out that the story of the son is true. This, is it the same person…”
Lin Chengyou went straight around the yamen servant and went out: “I didn’t see Tongzhou handing in the file two days ago, why did you just bring the corpse here?”
The yamen servant followed Lin Chengyou step by step: “I heard from Facao that the local state government was trying its best to track down the murderer, but a ghost suddenly appeared in the yamen. Anyone who has seen a ghost said that it was the ghost of the couple. Fearing that the case would not be simple, the state government had to order Facao to send the couple’s corpses to Chang’an.”