The simple six words made Li Xinan feel as if the sky had collapsed, and his face turned extremely sallow in an instant.
He asked stiffly, "Mom Gu...what did you say? Can you...say it again?"
Gu Xilian burst into tears and said even more: "Si Jingting is dead."
Li Xin'an's body trembled violently and his eyes closed in pain. The next moment, he "wow" spewed out a large mouthful of blood, his face was like gold paper, and he fell back weakly.
"Brother Li!" Murong Bai hurriedly supported him. Seeing Li Xin calm down, he pressed his people.
Amid the anxious shouts of the people in the Blood Clothing Hall, Li Xin'an finally slowly opened his eyes.
He grew up his mouth, tears deep in the corners of his eyes, and cried silently and sadly.
Ye Qinglan lowered her head and did not go to see Li Xin'an. He helped Gu Xilian up and asked softly:
"How did he die?"
Gu Xilian was distraught and shook her head and said, "I don't know. When I woke up, I saw the window open. Si Jingting sat in my room, his chest...the chest...there's nothing."
Li Xin'an stared at the sky with his eyes blank and said:
"I know who it is."
"Who?" Ye Qinglan's low voice contained endless anger.
"Xuanyuan has a friend."
"Senior Si has been investigating him. Senior Si's death will only be done by Xuanyuan Youpeng."
Murong Bai nodded slowly and looked at Gu Xilian: "Mom Gu, is there a pool of pus under Senior Si's body?"
Gu Xilian pursed her lips tightly and nodded.
Murong Bai sighed: "If the murderer is not Si Chengfeng, then he can only be Xuanyuan Youpeng."
Li Xin'an suddenly burst into laughter:
"Okay! OK! OK!"
"Xuanyuan Youpeng, I haven't had any idea about you these days, but you hurt my teacher. My Blood Clothing Hall will definitely be with you until you die!"
Gu Xilian's crying gradually weakened: "Master Li, I beg you to capture the murderer who killed Si Jingting."
"Don't worry, Mom Gu, Li Xin'an, it must be!"
...
Dragging his heavy body, Li Xin'an and Ye Qinglan followed Gu Xilian to the Zangxiang Pavilion and cleaned up Si Jingting's body.
They and Murong Bai and Xiao Xuangan divided the troops into two groups, and Murong Bai and the others went to Ding Mansion to mourn.
As one of the three great masters in Chang'an, Ding Zhenfa is the only remaining strong man of the older generation. Now, his death has completely declared the glorious end of the three great masters.
The Huang family has been lukewarm after Huang Cheng'an's death, and it can even be said to have declined. The Liu family was also killed by a whole family not long ago, with only the Liu brothers and sisters outside. Now Ding Zhenfa has passed away again, and for a moment, the people in Chang'an were in panic.
Ding Zhenfa can be said to have saved Murong Bai's life, and it is also a benefactor to Murong Villa. This time, Murong Bai, both as an individual and as a representative of Murong Villa, had to wear mourning clothes and go to Ding Zhenfa to mourn for seven days.
In fact, according to Murong Bai's identity, even if Ding Zhenfa has great kindness to him, he doesn't have to do this. One of the reasons for this is to find out the real reason for Ding Zhenfa's bizarre death.
The wind is gone. Who is the so-called mysterious man rumored?
In one day, Ding Zhenfa, Si Jingting, and two seniors who had great favors to Li Xin'an passed away. For a moment, he really couldn't accept it.
When he arrived at the Zangxiang Pavilion, Gu Xilian stepped down his girls. Because of Si Jingting's death, the Zangxiang Pavilion did not open today. The lively gold-selling cave in the past seems to be very yin and desolate.
"I didn't move his body, nor did I let anyone come."
Outside Gu Xilian's door, the three of them stopped moving forward.
It seemed that no one dared to go, or wanted to go, and was the first to push open the weak door.
After a long silence, Li Xin'an put his hand on the door, lowered his head, and pushed it in.
A bloody smell came to my nose.
Gu Xilian turned his head and didn't dare to see the terrifying scene.
Li Xin'an stared at the front in a daze-
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Si Jingting sat on the pear blossom chair with his back facing them, his head slightly tilted to one side, looking so comfortable.
If he hadn't known that he was already a dead person, perhaps Li Xin'an would have thought it was Si Jingting taking a nap.
He stepped on the pus pool and walked to Si Jingting.
Si Jingting's chest was broken, or something melted, and the abdomen was empty, and the internal organs and blood vessels and even bones were gone.
But there was no pain on his face, and there was a warm smile on the corner of his mouth, which reminded Li Xin'an that Si Jingting, or Su Xiu, was a man who loved to laugh very much.
Si Jingting's eyes, because of death, could no longer see the spirit, and his eyes were staring at Gu Xilian's bed. It is not difficult to imagine that at the last moment of this man's life, what he cared about the most was this woman.
Before he died, what he was thinking in his mind was whether the past honor, strength, ambition, hatred, or the few short years he had been with Gu Xilian?
Ye Qinglan walked behind Li Xin'an and said softly: "Have you found any clues?"
Li Xin'an nodded: "Look at Senior Si's left-hand sleeve."
Ye Qinglan followed his guidance and looked over, and on Si Jingting's dry left hand, there was a large piece of black ink stain.
"Is this...Mo?"
Li Xin'an nodded: "It's Mo."
“Good ink.”
Ye Qinglan stretched out his finger, twisted the ink stain, and sent it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it gently, and his face changed drastically.
"This is Huizhou Mo sent by the Ye family!"
"The best Huizhou ink is a tribute dedicated to the saints. The second-class one is to be supplied to the Imperial College for the use of palace examinations. The second-class one is to be circulated as a commodity, but the price is still expensive and few people use it."
"From this ink stain, the one that Senior Si knocked over was at least a piece of Huizhou ink that was as big as a palm, and the price was at least 300 taels."
Li Xin'an whispered: "In Chang'an, there is only one place where there is such financial resources to buy Huizhou Mo on a large scale except for the government and the people."
"That's... Zhaowenguan!"
Ye Qinglan's eyes were cold: "It's Zhaowenguan again."
"It seems that the Magic Shadow Pavilion and the Three Towns have formed an alliance."
"A thief in the court and an evil demon heretic are really a perfect match!"
Gu Xilian walked over quietly, looked at Si Jingting's fleshless skin, and sighed:
"This man doesn't know what he is going to do, it makes people confused. You say he dies, how good is he going to die outside, why do you want to come back? It makes me feel disgusted."
Li Xin'an looked at her in surprise. It was obvious that Gu Xilian was still heartbroken before, but why did he say such words now?
Ye Qinglan glanced at him, Li Xin'an, and said: "
"Maybe, the only person Senior Si is uneasy, you Mom Gu."
"Is that?" Gu Xilian smiled sweetly, "Before a man died, he returned home and watched his beloved woman fall asleep quietly. Perhaps the woman would say a few words of sleep that no one could hear clearly, and smiled in a daze. The man fantasized about the future lives of the two of them in his mind, struggling to die in endless pain and warmth..."
"Ha, what you said is the same as the plays in the play, who believes it?"
Li Xin'an said silently, and she gradually understood what Gu Xilian meant.
This woman is going crazy!
"Mom Gu, choose a good cemetery and bury it for Senior Si." Ye Qinglan whispered.
"I know that the Fushi Mountain in the north of Chang'an City is good. There is a cemetery there, which is very large. It was originally prepared for me by myself, so it would be cheaper for him."
"Since that's the case, we will prepare staff in the afternoon and bury Senior Si in Fukushima Mountain."
Gu Xilian nodded: "I'll help you, please help me. I've heard what you said just now. Xuanyuan Youpeng is hiding in Zhaowenguan, right?"
Li Xin'an said: "Yes. Mom Gu, there is another thing about Zhaowenguan that is related to us. This time I happened to be caught in one go."
"It's all in one go? That won't work."
Gu Xilian shook his head and said, "I know a few people from Zhaowenguan, too."
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Yes, they are directly under the jurisdiction of the Imperial College. Although the Imperial College is just a group of poor and corrupt scholars, it is not long before it will take the scientific examination. Do you want to move Zhaowenguan? It is as difficult as climbing to the sky."
"You know, there are hundreds of civil and military officials in the court, and at least thirty officials below the fourth rank, all of whom came out of Zhaowenguan."
"If it were normal, you had the protection of His Royal Highness the Emperor, so it would be fine if you wanted to check the Zhaowenguan. But now, even if the Emperor's Royal Highness personally supervised it, he would not be able to interfere with the Zhaowenguan."
"The imperial examination is a major event for the court and no one can touch it."
Li Xin'an said: "I don't want to check Zhaowenguan through the power of Your Highness. Mother Gu should not forget that although Zhaowenguan is a college for the court to train students, it is also a sect in the martial arts world."
"The world is in the world."
"Lord Li is still too young. If you talk about the morality of the world to them, will they tell you obediently?"
"A charge of interfering in the Zhaowenguan scientific examination is worthy of scolding from thousands of students and the people, and it is worth cutting off your head."
When Li Xin'an heard this, he couldn't help but calm down.
Gu Xilian said it reasonably. As the scientific examination was about to be imminent, no one could say which student would pass the exam this year, and he was named the top scorer.
Maybe, where is the Zhaowen Pavilion?
"Brother Li, no matter how much you think, it will be useless. Instead, you will get trapped."
Ye Qinglan said: "Just burn the Zhaowenguan directly and force Xuanyuan Youpeng and An Qingxu out. Anyway, there are the top scholars in the Jinshi year after year, so it is not bad for them to have one Zhaowenguan."
"No!" Li Xin'an resolutely rejected, "We cannot implicate innocent people. Those students have studied hard for more than ten years, how can we burn their hopes by fire?"
"And, it is really undesirable to do that to bury talents for the country."
"Then what do you think?" Ye Qinglan's voice was filled with anger.
Gu Xilian said, "There is a way."
Li Xin'an Ye Qinglan looked at her in surprise: "I hope to hear it carefully."
"The Ministry of Rites is responsible for the scientific examination, and the Zhaowenguan relied on it. Zheng Yuanjiang, the member of the Ministry of Rites who is in charge of the host and guest department."
"In other words, as long as Zheng Yuanjiang is settled, it will cut off the way forward of Zhaowenguan. At that time, they will call Tiantianwang, and call Didiwuwu, and you will be slaughtered."
Li Xin'an frowned: "I have heard of Lord Zheng. I have always been upright. Although I prefer the prince, I have disobeyed His Highness and His Highness Li Chu a lot."
"It's hard to get him done."
"What you men can't do does not mean that we women cannot do it."
Gu Xilian said softly: "Zheng Yuanjiang is a regular visitor to my Canxiang Pavilion. He comes here to drink and have fun every few days. He...is interesting to me."
"No matter what kind of good official he is, I have never liked to pay attention to him. Zheng Yuanjiang has been persevering and has been in trouble for several years."
"Think about it carefully, hehe, I'm so old that I'm all yellow-faced, and someone wants it, which is a good thing. Zheng Yuanjiang is also a good person, and he can't treat me badly."
"No!" Ye Qinglan exclaimed, "Mom Gu, how can you use your body to--"
"Who do you think I am? A chivalrous woman? A fairy? I have always been a prostitute. "Gu Xilian smiled, "Using my own body to achieve my goal is originally my way of survival."
Li Xin'an's eyes were lowered: "Senior Si has a spirit in the sky, so he won't want you to do this."
"he?"
Gu Xilian glanced at Si Jingting's body and sneered:
"What qualifications does he have to take care of me? He owes me a lot while alive, and wants to restrain me when I die, I'm gonna do it!"
"A man died, and he was gone, and he is still in the Heavenly Spirit? Bullshit! Do you have the ability to let his Heavenly Spirit come down to talk to me? Can you do it?"
Gu Xilian's words were intense, but two hot tears flowed down her cheeks.
At the end, Gu Xilian whispered, "I don't want to do this, unless you have a better way."
Li Xinan clenched his fists tightly and said in a deep voice:
"some."
"There is no need to go in, I'll let them come out on their own initiative!"