Chapter 20 Introducing the Bureau
A moonlight skirt wrapped her lightly. After Su Qiyu got dressed, she left the camp accompanied by Lan Zhu.
The cool breeze in the mountains and forests hit, and Su Qiyu felt chilly. When she stepped on the grass by the roadside, dewdrops splashed on her skirt, and the skin on her legs became even colder.
"Princess, it's heavy at night. The emperor's camp has to go through a small forest from here. The road is not easy to walk. Let's go back!" Lan Zhu said worriedly. It didn't matter to her, but the princess had always been weak and was afraid that she would freeze.
It’s on.
"I'm fine, I'm almost there!" Su Qiyu had already made up her mind to see Ye Jinmo.
Suddenly a black shadow passed over her head, and Lanzhu quickly noticed something strange.
"Princess, be careful!" Lan Zhu stood in front of Su Qiyu.
Su Qiyu also heard a sound. The black figure was very fast. She expected it to be an expert. However, the paddock was heavily guarded. How could someone be sneaking around here in the middle of the night?
"Lanzhu, chase!"
"Yes, princess!" After Lanzhu received the order, he chased in the direction where the black shadow disappeared. Su Qiyu also ran behind. Lanzhu would leave signals along the way. She ran for about ten minutes before she was in the grove.
Discover Orchid Bamboo.
Lanzhu stood by the stream. Under the moonlight, Su Qiyu slowly walked on the path and pushed aside the weeds. She found that Lanzhu was standing still, staring at her feet, not knowing what she was looking at.
"Lanzhu, what happened?" Su Qiyu quickly stepped forward and asked.
Seeing Su Qiyu coming over, Lan Zhu quickly and carefully put her index finger to her lips and whispered: "Princess, come and see."
Su Qiyu saw that Lanzhu was so cautious, so she stepped a little more cautiously. When she entered through the weeds, she found a person lying at Lanzhu's feet.
"This is……"
"He's dead!" Lan Zhu said firmly.
Su Qiyu took a breath. Hearing the news on such a cold night was simply terrifying. She couldn't help but move closer to see what was going on.
"Princess, we have nothing to do. Let's go." Lan Zhu was extremely careful.
"It turned out to be him?" Su Qiyu glanced at the corpse in shock, and realized that this was not Lu Yuan who was teasing her by the stream in the afternoon?
Lanzhu asked strangely: "Princess, do you know her?"
Su Qiyu nodded, but this man was still fine when she left in the afternoon, so why did he suddenly die? She went forward and squatted down in front of him, and reached out to pull Lu Yuan's wrist.
"Princess!" Lan Zhu stopped in shock, thinking, is the princess possessed by evil spirits? That's a corpse.
Su Qiyu is not afraid of corpses. She often came into contact with them when investigating cases in the past. Moreover, this person was Lu Yuan, so she had to wonder why he died here.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." She smiled reassuringly, lifted Lu Yuan's wrist, and made a preliminary inspection of Lu Yuan's body.
Lanzhu was completely dumbfounded. Is this a princess? Princesses are usually the most afraid of monsters and ghosts.
"Princess, let's go. We need to inform the emperor about this matter as soon as possible." Lan Zhu felt that something was suspicious, but couldn't tell what was wrong.
Su Qiyu was still checking carefully when she suddenly heard a voice, and then a large number of footsteps rushed towards here, illuminating the entire streamside with the light of clusters of torches.
"My son... this is not true... Yuan'er..." A middle-aged man in official uniform, with tears in his eyes, knelt down in front of Lu Yuan and cried out Lu Yuan's name.
Concubine Xiang was dressed neatly and stood in front of a large number of guards. She looked shocked and disbelieving, and said with an imposing manner: "Su Qiyu, you actually killed Mr. Lu?"
Su Qiyu stood up, and Lan Zhu was forced back by a large group of people. She quickly opened her hands to block Su Qiyu.
Su Qiyu looked at Xiang Fei's raised chin and sneered, and immediately understood what had happened.
"This matter has nothing to do with me. Sister, please don't slander anyone." Su Qiyu frowned. Lu Yuan was lying on the ground silently in front of her. The man in official uniform should be Lu Shangshu. Seeing how sad he looked, he seemed to be unhappy.
Like a high-ranking minister, a sense of justice made her want to find out about this matter.
"I and everyone have seen it. Why are you here in the wilderness if you don't have a good rest in your tent at such a late hour? And why did cousin Lu suddenly die in front of you?" Xiang Fei was aggressive, and now everyone used
He looked at her questioningly.
Concubine Xiang deliberately squeezed out a few tears, went up to pull Lu Shangshu's arm, and said plaintively: "Uncle, please give me my condolences. I will definitely ask the emperor for justice in this matter. Please punish my sister, Concubine Yu."
Lu Shangshu was in grief. When he heard this, he couldn't help but look up at Su Qiyu with resentment and said hatefully: "Jade Concubine, Quanzi has no enmity against you, why did you kill him!"
Su Qiyu sneered, stood up and said: "I just passed by by chance and did not kill your son."
"Su Qiyu, everyone has seen it, do you still want to quibble?" Xiang Fei said not to be outdone.
Su Qiyu looked calm and said: "Excuse me, is there anyone here who saw with your own eyes that I killed Lu Yuan?"
The guards looked at each other and did not dare to say more.
Su Qiyu continued: "Sister, why did you bring so many people to the grove in the middle of the night? Could it be that your sister arranged the situation and deliberately led your sister into it?"
"You..." Xiang Fei was furious. The calmer Su Qiyu became, the angrier she became. I didn't expect that she would still be so quibbling at this juncture.
"Sister's silence, does that mean it's acquiescence?" Su Qiyu was sure that the dark figure just now was attracted by Xiang Fei under the instigation of Xiang Fei. I'm afraid that the real cause of Lu Yuan's death was closely related to Xiang Fei.
There was a stalemate for a while, only Lu Shangshu kept crying, and the sound made the listeners shed tears. Everyone knew that Lu Shangshu had a son for a long time, but now he suddenly disappeared, and the Lu family would have no heirs in the future.
"The Emperor has arrived."
When the prince gave the order, the guards split into two groups. Everyone looked outside the grove and saw Ye Jinmo walking over accompanied by the prince, wearing light casual clothes. It seemed that he came here by chance.
"I saw the fire in the forest along the way. What happened?"
After Ming Qingyang passed the order to Ye Jinmo, he wanted to go to Su Qiyu's camp to tell her the good news. He never thought that the fire in the grove suddenly appeared. He didn't know what happened and wanted to come over and have a look. He didn't expect to see it again.
to her.
Wearing a moon-white dress, she looked so thin, and looked even thinner and colder under the moonlight. Only a hint of pride made her appear so arrogant and independent. The stubbornness in her bones was her natural protection.
Chapter completed!