He raised his eyebrows playfully, put down his wiped hands naturally, and slowly walked towards Chu Yunjing's side seriously.
Chu Yunjing had a serious face and didn't think much about it. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yang suddenly stretched out his hands in front of her, deliberately roared and made faces at her.
She was instantly frightened, and when she reacted, she rolled her eyes at Zhou Yang, and then punched him viciously several times.
However, these little fists were harmless to Zhou Yang, and the farce ended with Zhou Yang laughing and running away...
After packing up the arrows, the two went to Concubine Du Shu's palace and blocked their noses the same way they did yesterday.
She took off the shawl tied around her waist, wrapped it around her face several times, covered her mouth and nose tightly, and was able to breathe vaguely.
Chu Yunjing didn't want to smell the stench any more. She followed Zhou Yang's steps and walked towards the palace where she stayed last night.
Pushing open the vicissitudes of the door, what comes into view is the former glory of Jianzhang Palace. Walking inside is the inner hall where Du Shufei died tragically.
The same as last night, the giant corpse was still arranged in a large character, with its head hanging by the bed and its whole face hanging upside down, looking extremely ferocious.
Because of the daytime, she could see the corpse's expression in more detail than last night, and it was even more horrifying.
It looks like shock! Maybe the five senses have been eaten by maggots, because there is no flesh and the shape is round, so it looks like surprise!
Zhou Yang was not afraid as always and looked at the body as if nothing was happening. She stared at Concubine Du Shu's face for a long time and smacked her lips secretly.
A person who used to show off his power is now lifeless and will no longer be proud and complacent.
She subconsciously checked the chest cavity of the corpse, because the giant female corpse outside was killed by a hidden arrow, and she wanted to see if Concubine Du Shu was also killed by a hidden arrow.
The result was unexpected. After she and Zhou Yang examined the surface of the corpse, they did not see any arrow wounds or external injuries.
At this time, Zhou Yang seemed to know something, so he picked up the candlestick beside the bed and fiddled with the corpse's mouth.
As Zhou Yang fiddled with it more frequently, countless wriggling maggots fell out of the corpse's mouth. The corpse had no tongue and all its teeth.
Only the flesh and skin seemed to be connected and disconnected. He fiddled with it a few more times. After all the maggots and gnawed flesh on the surface fell off, he could vaguely see the still intact flesh and blood.
Zhou Yang used the sharp edge of a candlestick to cut off the intact flesh and blood in the corpse's mouth. When he cut it out, he found that the flesh and blood were all black!
The black flesh was poisoned to death!
"What can provoke so many poisonous insects after death and emit such corpse odor must be poison!" Zhou Yang was squatting on the ground at this moment, using a candlestick to touch a small amount of black meat on the ground, squinting coldly and hanging on the ground.
The corpse beside the bed said in a deep voice.
"What is it?" she asked quickly.
Zhou Yang turned his head to meet her sincere and curious gaze, and said rigorously: "It's the same as what the killer said that day - Jiuxiwan!"
This kind of poison is commonly used by secret guards in Jianghu. It can be used as a poison to harm people, or as a medicine to commit suicide if the mission fails. The cost is not high, but the effect is really full. People will die without feeling much pain after taking it.
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"Since they have been imprisoned for life, why bother to kill them all?" she said regretfully.
Zhou Yang used the sharp part of the candlestick to pick up the piece of black flesh on the ground and threw it under the bed, thereby destroying the evidence of today's infiltration.
After getting the desired result, there was no need to destroy the giant corpse. Concubine Du Shu only had to wait for the body collector to arrive.
"Concubine Du Shu has been arrogant for half her life, always giving the queen a hard time. How could the queen let her have a good outcome?" At this time, Zhou Yang stood up, put the candlestick back properly, and said leisurely while looking at the tragically dead body of Concubine Du Shu.
She nodded in agreement, the Queen was not a generous person, she just refused to report that the time had not come yet!
This poison is so effective that even if you die, your body will be eaten by millions of poisonous insects and emit a foul and unpleasant odor.
This makes the deceased uneasy after death.
Fortunately, the corpse of the giant maid on the palace wall was not poisoned, otherwise Zhou Yang would have been infected with the poisonous gas of the poisonous insect just when he took the arrow.
Maybe Zhou Yang knew that there was no poison on the arrow. After all, he was a highly skilled martial artist and knew everything.
Chu Yunjing also stood up at this time and looked at the man in front of him thoughtfully: "Why don't we set fire to Jianzhang Palace!"
She raised her eyebrows and said a bad idea playfully. This method was not impossible.
After all, if anyone will approach Jianzhang Palace for a while, we can only light up the fire to attract the palace people to put out the fire. As long as there is water in the palace, it will inevitably be opened to put out the fire and check the damage of the palace.
So she didn't stop doing anything, picked up the fire stick that fell here last night, blew it randomly, and miraculously ignited it.
She walked to the outer room and lit the hanging curtains on fire. The fire was accompanied by flammable brocade cloth. After a while, raging flames appeared and climbed up to the carved wooden beams.
Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, she was worried that Du Shufei's body would be burned before anyone came, so she could only close the door of the inner room in a panic.
Closing the door won't do anything but delay the fire from reaching the inner room.
She dragged Zhou Yang out of the main hall of Jianzhang Palace, and Zhou Yang walked towards the dining room with his whole mind on it. He wanted to get the arrow.
The fire behind him was so strong that black smoke could be seen from outside. Maybe the guards patrolling at the moment had seen it and were rushing here.
Zhou Yang quickly ran to the dining room. When she arrived at the dining room, she only saw Zhou Yang wrapping the slightly shiny silver arrow in a handkerchief and then putting it into his arms.
She hurriedly pulled Zhou Yang to run out, but her steps stopped suddenly when she was halfway through. There were shouts on the palace road outside: "Someone is coming! Jianzhang Palace is in trouble! Someone is coming!"
These shouts came and went, and it was obvious that people outside had noticed and were trying to break through the gate of Jianzhang Palace.
Zhou Yang, with quick eyes and quick hands, pulled Chu Yunjing back and found a quiet corner. He climbed up the palace wall and saw that there was no one outside, then he carried Chu Yunjing out.
This place is close to the side gate of Jianzhang Palace. The palace road is narrow and it is obviously a path connecting to the adjacent palace. This place is more hidden and no one can find it.
The palace people here all went to the main entrance to put out the fire, and no one paid attention to these corners.
She restored her shawl to its original shape, rearranged her clothes, and walked towards the palace road in tandem as if nothing had happened.
The fire in Jianzhang Palace was not that big, but the main hall was burned a little, and thick black smoke arose, which made the formation look bigger.
In just one cup of tea, the palace staff who rushed to put out the fire put it out, and everyone was shouting that Concubine Du Shu was missing.
Concubine Du Shu's body will eventually be found by them. At that time, they will only need to report it to His Majesty. As for how to deal with the funeral, it is entirely up to Your Majesty.
"How will Your Majesty handle this matter?" Zhou Yang's usual calm tone came from behind.
She walked dignifiedly without looking back, and thought for a moment: "The Sacred Heart is unpredictable!"
After thinking for a long time, she really couldn't guess these four words, but she was inclined to think that His Majesty would order a strict investigation, and then he was summarily found to have some serious illness.
Sure enough, after the palace guards who put out the fire discovered Du Shufei's body, they reported it. The body had indeed been dead for many days and had been corroded.
The Holy Emperor ordered the imperial army to investigate the death of Concubine Du Shu and punish the eunuch who usually delivered meals to Jianzhang Palace.
In the end, the person who investigated the case was accused of not eating for more than a day and starved to death!
So sloppy!
One is to explain the truth to the people of the world, and the other is to explain to the Du family that the entire family of the eunuch who delivered the meal was killed.
After all, it was Concubine Du Shu who committed the crime herself and was imprisoned. She had no one else to blame except the eunuch.
As for the real cause of Concubine Du Shu's death, no one cares, except Chu Yunjing and Zhou Yang.
After he returned, he carefully cleaned the arrow several times, revealing its original appearance. It was a short, thin silver arrow that was often equipped on arm crossbows and was used to hurt people in the dark.
Apart from that, nothing else can be seen. The arrow has no origin. It can be determined that it was equipped by soldiers, so it has something to do with the secret guards raised by King Huai.
Chu Yunjing took out a pill of poison that Qiu Kang had pulled out of the dead man's mouth that day, the same as the one given to the queen, put it in a glass bottle, and sent it out of the palace.
She wanted Sun De to find out what the origin of Jiuxiwan was.
There was news in the past few days that surprised her. Wen Zhao, the fifth son of the Wen family, made an exception and became the deputy lieutenant of the seventh rank of the Forbidden Army.
Hearing that Wen Shao had applied for the official position himself, His Majesty asked Wen Shao what reward he wanted. Wen Shao only said that he wanted to give his younger brother some work to do.
The reputation of Wen Zhao and Shan Wu had long been spread in Kyoto, and now that he had a family, Wen Shao begged for mercy in person, because of his previous affairs with the Ma family.
His Majesty only gave him a seventh-grade lieutenant. This was naturally nothing to the Wen family, but it was a good thing to Wen Zhao, a silly boy who was eager to make meritorious deeds.
He always thought that after performing meritorious service, he would be able to promote his family Ma Baozhang as his wife. With this official position, he would have the capital to perform meritorious service.
After he took office, everyone respected him. Who didn't know that he was the son of the Wen family, and that he would have many opportunities to be promoted and promoted in the future, and everyone was very fond of him.
It seems that the Wen family has become hardened again after Wen Shao returned to Beijing, clearing away the bad things that happened between the Wen and Ma families.
A general's strength is when he has achieved military success!
What surprised her even more was that Wen Zhao found an opportunity to visit Jiuhua Palace after taking office.
She said she was grateful for rescuing Ma Baozhang that day. Without her help, the two would have been lovers long ago and wanted to say goodbye.
She thought that Wen Zhao was a grateful person, but he was too straightforward and not good at using his brain to plan things.
She was not a bad person, so there was no reason for her not to accept such a big deal. She even said that it was a simple effort and that if she was wronged in the palace in the future, she could just come to her.
You won't suffer any loss if you go with the Wen family.
A few days later, Sun De wrote that there was really nothing special about the Jiuxi Pill. It had no special characteristics except that it could attract poisonous insects to the corpse and emit a foul smell. It was just that this kind of thing was common in the world.
It is rare in Kyoto, an important place in the imperial court. Sun De also went to the black market to check the direction of this poison in Kyoto.
The buyer's traces are very secretive. He has been prepared for it long ago and cannot be traced out at all.
Even so, she knew who it was, and then ordered Sun De not to investigate anymore, lest he be discovered by King Huai's people.