Chapter 144 The Qingqing Prince Pei (11)

Author: Han Xuefei

Chapter 144 The Qingqing Prince Pei (11)

The servants were jumping up and down to catch the assassin, and all the servants were driven into the yard. Even Sun Xiaokong, who was squatting on the roof to watch the fun, was kicked out. The Shangshu Mansion was in a state of chaos.

After struggling for more than an hour, I finally calmed down, and I finally let go of my worries.

She knew that Ling An must have escaped unscathed.

She felt more and more that the Shangshu Mansion was not simple, because the servants did not catch the assassin, and Ling An did not take advantage. In the end, he returned without success. He did not even see her face, let alone sneak into the manor to search for evidence.

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It seems that it is not easy to search for physical evidence without alerting the servants. My previous ideas were too simple.

The Shangshu Mansion was so turned upside down that Wang Shangshu summoned all the servants overnight to lecture and strictly ordered them to be alert. If any assassin dared to break into the Shangshu Mansion, he would never come back.

Taking advantage of Lord Shangshu's lecture, Gu Buquan flashed into the Lord's study.

The furnishings here are extremely simple, with only a table and a chair, plus shelves full of books. It seems that Wang Shangshu is really a diligent and studious person.

There is a dim light on the table, a book, an inkstone, and nothing else.

"Shui Jing Zhu." Gu Buquan flipped through the books on the table and saw a few ticks on them. He put them down because he didn't understand them clearly, and went to the bookshelf to search again.

Unfortunately, there were too many books, and she couldn't find anything like letters after flipping through them for a long time.

She saw another Shui Jing Zhu on the bookshelf, then a third and a fourth.

She was a little confused, why so many identical books?

One of the Shui Jing annotations contained an old piece of paper with a jade pendant pattern carefully drawn on it.

She recognized at a glance that the pattern on the jade pendant was the same as hers, and she could tell that her jade pendant was the middle part of the whole.

"who?"

Suddenly there was a shout outside the door, and at the same time footsteps were getting closer and closer.

Gu Buquan was startled and hurriedly put the jade pendant in her arms and hid behind the door. Once someone pushed the door open, she would wait for the opportunity to rush out.

"What kind of behavior would it be for someone to scream in the middle of the night?" Then the old lady's voice came, "I came here to find a book to make you lose interest in shouting."

"It turns out it's the old lady, so don't bother me guys."

The servants left, and the old lady didn't come in either. She just said, "Let's go."

The footsteps gradually faded away.

Gu Buquan listened for a while and made sure there was no one outside, then he slipped out of the study.

I tossed and turned all night, looking at the jade painting again and again. I couldn't figure out what it had to do with me, and I couldn't figure out why the old lady suddenly came out to help her out of trouble. Could it be that she had been watching from behind? Didn't she never leave the Buddhist hall?

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No wonder every time she stood in the yard, she always felt a pair of eyes staring at her from behind.

It wasn't until dawn that I couldn't care less and fell asleep, only to be awakened again by a piercing howl.

She hurriedly threw on her clothes and rushed out of the house, only to see Mrs. Wang crying so hard that her heart broke.

"Why not you, why not you!"

As soon as Mrs. Wang saw Gu Buquan, she rushed forward, grabbed her collar and howled, and several servants came up to pull her away.

It wasn't until this moment that Gu Buquan understood the situation.

Miss Fengque is dead.

Miss Fengque was lying quietly on the bed. Her face was gray, her lips were black and blue, her orifices were bleeding, and foam was coming from the corners of her mouth. She was obviously poisoned, and she had been dead for at least three hours. In total, it should be

Around midnight, that was when there was a big fuss about assassins in the house last night.

When Gu Buquan checked Miss Fengque's body, Mother Wang fell to the ground crying again, and kept cussing.

"Miss, why are you so obsessed with thinking? How do you want this old slave to live...Miss, be good and wake up quickly. We don't want to be Princess Ji..."

While scolding, she was ready to pounce on Gu Buquan, but luckily her servant stood in the middle, and she cursed at Gu Buquan.

"It's all because of you, like a broom star. The young lady was originally living well, but as soon as you came, you ruined her luck. You robbed her, father, you robbed Prince Ji, you also robbed the scholar. What else are you not robbing? Why?

You won’t die? Why?”

If you don't take care of it, you will feel sad.

Miss Fengque has been feeling depressed since she met Prince Ji yesterday, but Gu Buquan understands that she is not competing for Prince Ji's position, but her hopes for Chen Chuzhi have been shattered, which is why she is so upset.

Wang Shangshu sat beside Miss Fengque in a daze, as if he had aged a lot overnight.

"Father." Gu Buquan called out softly, unable to express his condolences.

In front of her eyes was an old man with white hair and black hair, who had lost his beloved daughter.

"Miss, you can't think too hard. Yesterday, you told me that when the weather gets warmer, I will go for an outing with the eldest lady, and that I will let the eldest lady take her to appreciate the scenery of Peach Mountain. After sleeping there, she changed her mind and committed suicide.

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The little maid Shu Mo was holding a kite on the table and crying.

"The kite is ready. The lady painted it by herself. I told you that I will fly the kite with the eldest lady in a few days."

I couldn't help but look at the pink petals painted on the kite, which looked like blooming peach blossoms. If the kite floated in the wind, it would be the same as the peach blossoms in Peach Mountain.

Shu Mo's words are not unreasonable. He was so carefully prepared to go on an outing and fly a kite. How could he suddenly think of committing suicide by taking poison?

There are also Chen Chuzhi's calligraphy and paintings on the case. After tearing them into pieces yesterday, they were carefully framed with paper. He also drew a monkey head and a small turtle on the side, which is very interesting.

It seems that Miss Fengque is relieved.

The seventeen-year-old girl longed for spring to bloom. Chen Chuzhi only met once, and it never blossomed and had no fruit. It didn't make her forget about it, but she had a great time.

There are various signs that Miss Fengque died strangely.

Gu Buquan's expression suddenly became solemn.

"She did not commit suicide by taking poison, but was poisoned."

"Poison?" Mother Wang, who was sitting on the ground, trembled, stopped crying, and asked repeatedly, "Who wants to harm my young lady? Who?"

A pair of dead fish-like eyes stared intently at Gu Buquan's face, as if they wanted to eat her alive.

Gu Buquan ignored Mother Wang and turned to Shumo to ask questions.

"Shu Mo, did Miss Fengque say anything strange or behave in any unusual way last night? I was talking about after making the kite."

Shumo shook his head.

"Last night, the lady painted the kite and didn't stop until the end of the day. The slave waited on the lady and rested in the outer room after she fell asleep. At that time, there was an assassination in the house. The lady was woken up and went out to look at it for a while. She said she didn't have much interest and came back to rest.

He said he was a little hungry, so he asked me to go to the kitchen and get something hot to eat."

"That's it." Gu Buquan said.

A person who still thinks about eating snacks in the middle of the night will take poison and commit suicide in the next time? She would not believe it even to death.

She thought for a while and then asked Shumo: "What do you want for snacks?"

Shumo's eyes flickered, avoiding Gu Buquan's eyes, and replied in a low voice: "Just a little bit of chicken."

Lord Shangshu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly frowned.

Since little Eunuch Gao repeatedly told Gu Buquan to use chicken juice yesterday, the cook followed the instructions.

This chicken sauce is not simple. It needs to be simmered slowly over low heat to steam the sweat juice of a small hen, which is also called chicken juice.

It takes more than ten hours to steam out half a bowl of chicken soup, which is enough to give Gu Buquan a medicinal soup.

The little maid went to the kitchen to find snacks for the young lady at night, and she immediately caught sight of the steaming hen in the pot. She thought that the young lady would only use the chicken juice and not eat the chicken, so she broke off a chicken leg and brought it back to the young lady as a snack.

Already.

The lady took a few bites and found it tasteless, so she put it aside and went to sleep.

Who would have imagined that he would never wake up from this sleep.

The leftover chicken drumsticks that the young lady ate were still on the table. A test revealed that they were indeed poisonous.

"You dare to write boldly and poison the young lady."

Mother Wang cried and rushed towards Shu Mo. Her sharp fingernails immediately scratched Shu Mo's face with several scars. The little maid knelt on the ground and cried out of breath.

"It has nothing to do with Shumo." Gu Buquan said, "The little maid harmed her own lady so blatantly, doesn't she want to live?"

She knew very well that this was not an issue about chicken legs at all, but was directed at her.

Fortunately, I haven't had time to drink the medicine today, otherwise I would have left my life in the hands of the minister. That would mean that I would die before my ambition was fulfilled. What would I do if I was left with a fool?

The more I think about it, the more I feel afraid.

Wang Shangshu's face became more and more gloomy. If Gu Buquan died in his house, could King Ji easily spare him? Then he should not continue to hang out in the court in the future.

"Come here, please report to the Jingzhaoshen arrest department and ask them to send people to investigate the case thoroughly." Wang Shangshu said.
To be continued...