Li Yu pushed open the door to the lobby and stepped in. Leng Yi followed. As soon as he entered the bedroom, he smelled a strong smell of blood! He couldn't help being surprised. Li Yu stood at the door of the bedroom, looking at Leng Yi, but did not go there.

He walked in, but signaled for Leng Yi to come in.

Leng Yi glanced at him, stepped in, and immediately stopped. He saw a naked woman lying on her back on a big bed in the back of the bedroom, with the quilt pulled aside. Between the woman's plump breasts,

There was a dagger stuck in it! Blood flowed from the wound, soaking a large area of ​​the mattress underneath...

Leng Yi turned to look at Li Yu: "What's going on?"

Li Yu sobbed and said: "She is my Baoyi Huang. Last night, I asked her to sleep with me. When it was almost dawn, I woke up and found that she was dead next to me, with this dagger stuck in her heart.

.I was frightened. I knew it must have been someone sent by the government. Seeing that I didn’t commit suicide, I killed my concubine as a show of caution!”

"How do you know it was the official who sent someone to kill him?"

"That dagger! The handle is made of wrapped cloth and ribbons, all golden! That color can only be used by the royal family! Who else has such a knife if not someone from the official family?"

Leng Yi looked at the knife carefully and found that it was indeed the case, and couldn't help but frown.

Li Yu cried: "The officials are forcing me to commit suicide! He still refuses to let me go! Master Leng, haven't you told the officials what you promised me?"

..

"What's the matter?" Leng Yi thought about it and asked casually.

"Just tell the officials that I really don't miss my homeland anymore. If possible, let the officials let me go to the frontier. You promised me that you would tell the officials for me..."

Leng Yi smiled bitterly: "That happened yesterday. I spent the whole day accompanying my wife yesterday and didn't have time to enter the palace. I was planning to go today, but you called me here first."

"Okay. Then please come into the palace and talk to the officials. Please! If you delay any longer, I'm afraid it will be too late..."

Leng Yi said: "The murder that happened here, as an official of Kaifeng Prefecture, I am responsible for investigating the case. How can I leave without understanding it?"

Li Yu hurriedly said: "I will send someone to Kaifeng Mansion to report to the official here. Master Leng only needs to explain my matter clearly to the official."

"No!" Leng Yi said flatly: "If the officials know that I, as a judge, left the scene of the murder privately, they will blame me. In that case, how can I tell the officials about you?"

"That's right," Li Yu nodded repeatedly. "Then please ask Mr. Leng to investigate the case first. After investigating the case, it won't be too late to go."

Leng Yi said: "Send someone to report to the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion and ask King Qi to come in person."

"Isn't this...isn't this bad? Didn't you say that if it was done by someone sent by the government, there should be no further investigation, lest the officials find out and get angry?"

Leng Yi said: "But now I don't know if it was someone sent by the government who did it..."

"Definitely! No problem!"

"Even if it is, we still have to investigate it in a pretentious manner. After all, it is a matter of life and death. How can we just let it go?"

Li Yu hurriedly claimed that it was true, called his servants, and ordered him to go to Qi Wang Zhao Tingmei's house to report that a murder had occurred here.

Leng Yi first squatted down and observed the condition of the ground in the house. No suspicious footprints were found, so he stood up and walked in. He looked up at the roof and found no signs of damage. Looking around, he found that a window in the back was ajar. Details

A closer look revealed that there was no sign of damage to the window paper, so he opened the window and looked outside. The snow outside the window had not been swept away, and the messy footprints from before were still there.

He closed the window, walked back to the bed, and carefully observed the condition of the body.

Li Yu's bed was very large, and the body was lying on the back. Except for the knife in the heart, there were no other wounds and no signs of struggle, indicating that the deceased was probably killed by a knife in his sleep.

Judging from the large amount of blood flowing out of the deceased's wound and the life reaction of the wound, it is obvious that the injury was an antemortem injury. That is, he was killed while he was still alive.

Leng Yi turned the body over and looked at the spots. The spots had appeared on the lower parts of the body such as the back and buttocks. Rigor mortis had also appeared. But it had not spread to the whole body. This means that the deceased should have died around three o'clock in the night.

Killed.

Leng Yi came out and asked Li Yu: "Did you hear any unusual noise last night?"

Li Yu shook his head with a sad face: "The killer sent by the government must be a master. It is impossible for me to hear anything."

"Then what were the conditions of the doors and windows when you got up?"

"They're all closed. And they're all bolted from the inside."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure!" Li Yu said with certainty.

Leng Yi said: "That's strange. How did the murderer close the doors and windows from the outside?"

Li Yu said: "They are all masters, they must have a way!"

Leng Yi carefully checked the doors and windows again, but found no trace of any mechanism. Leng Yi's eyes fell on the dagger on the corpse again.

He carefully pulled out the dagger. The dagger was beautifully decorated, and the handle was actually made of pure gold. It was wrapped with a golden cloth band and wrapped with gold wire. The blade was also extremely sharp, and it looked like it was no ordinary weapon.

blade.

At this moment, the porter came to report that Zhao Tingmei, King of Qi, the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, had arrived with his government servants. Li Yu and Leng Yi hurriedly welcomed him out. Seeing Zhao Tingmei, Li Yu stepped forward quickly, cupped his hands and said, "Chongguang, save me!"

Zhao Tingmei said in a deep voice: "What's going on?"

Li Yu cried: "The officials want to kill me!"

Zhao Tingmei was shocked: "How can you say this?!"

"Yesterday, my Baoyi Huang went to bed. When I woke up this morning, I found that she had been killed on my bed by a killer sent by the government. She was stabbed in the heart and killed on the spot!"

Zhao Tingmei said: "Don't talk nonsense!" She looked around and whispered: "Go inside and talk!"

The three of them entered the lobby. Zhao Tingmei took a brief look at the scene and was stunned with surprise. She closed the lobby door and then said to Li Yu: "How do you know that someone sent by the government killed him?"

Li Yu said: "A few days ago, when I got up early, there was a piece of white silk hanging on the main beam of the main hall. It was of fine texture and was only available to the royal family. Then, someone put the highly poisonous Hedinghong in my pastry and wanted to kill me."

Fortunately, I discovered it in time. And the red crane crown is something that only the royal family has! This time, what killed Baoyi next to me was a dagger with a golden cloth belt and gold wire wrapped around the handle. This only

Isn’t it more clear that the colors that can only be used by the official family explain the problem? All of this proves that the official family wants to use these methods to force me to commit suicide! Chongguang, you are the official’s younger brother, please speak to me and let me

Officials, please let me live! Wuwuwuwu.”

Li Yu started to cry.

Zhao Tingmei frowned and looked at Leng Yi: "What do you think?"

Leng Yi bowed and said: "There are currently no direct clues to solving the case. However, Longxi Gong's guess is not unreasonable, but it is difficult to verify this directly with the officials."

When Li Yu heard this, he cried even harder.

Zhao Tingmei nodded slowly and said: "Well, you will be responsible for this case. You are the official's official. When necessary, you can also try to find out the details from the official. If that is the case, we will make plans again."

Li Yu cried and cried: "I'm afraid that I won't be able to wait until that day, and I will be killed by the killer sent by the government!"

Leng Yi said: "Master, don't worry. If these three things were really done by killers sent by the government, then as you said, the government just forced you to commit suicide through this method. If they wanted to kill you, they would have killed you long ago.

I won’t wait until three warnings to kill him.”

"It's just three things! The officials have warned me three times. They won't warn me again and will take action directly!"

Leng Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Since the officials feel that it is not appropriate to kill you directly and adopt the method of forcing you to commit suicide, there must be a good reason why it is not appropriate to kill you directly, and the officials will not change their minds easily. Therefore, Mr.

Don't worry, I will go to the palace to find out the news. Until there is no definite news, please wait patiently."

"Okay..." Li Yu sadly handed over his hand and thanked him.

Leng Yi added: "Please don't move the scene of the murder for the time being. Of course, the body can be buried after the Yamen gang has done an autopsy and filled in the corpse form. In the past few days, please live elsewhere."

Li Yu nodded.

After that, Zhao Tingmei had been comforting Li Yu, while Leng Yi was responsible for arranging the on-site investigation and autopsy. After that, he and Zhao Tingmei said goodbye and left the Longxi Palace.

Li Yu's former imperial concubine, Jiang Shi, came over and asked if there would be a funeral. Li Yu shook his head and said: "No, don't move the body yet. If the officials decide to let me commit suicide, then... you can bury us both together."

…”

Jiang was so sad that he cried and left.

Waiting until evening, there was no news about Leng Yi, and Li Yu couldn't sit still. When the lanterns were first lit, he finally arrived at Leng Yi's mansion in a sedan chair.

When he saw Leng Yi coming out, he was wearing an official robe and a golden belt given by the official. He was dressed in formal attire, because in the past, Leng Yi always wore casual clothes when welcoming people. He couldn't help being surprised and said: "Master Leng, you

This is……?"

Leng Yi said: "I just came back from the inner court, and before I could change my clothes, I heard that the father-in-law was coming, so I came out to greet him."

Li Yu asked nervously: "How is the situation?"

Leng Yi shook his head and said: "The officials are busy with official duties today. It is said that the military situation in the north is urgent and they are discussing the military situation. So I have waited until now and have not seen the officials."

Li Yu was greatly disappointed and said worriedly: "Then...will the officials send someone to kill me tonight?"

"Master, you are worrying too much!" Leng Yi said: "Even if the officials had this idea, they would not be so anxious."

Li Yu shook his head in despair and said: "No one knows what the officials think..."

Leng Yi didn't know how to comfort him. Li Yu didn't visit his wife, didn't ask, didn't even sit down, so he said goodbye and went back.

Back home, Li Yu sat blankly in the wing room, with the imperial concubine Jiang and other concubines crying beside him. It was getting dark, and the concubine lit a lantern, not more, for fear that Li Yu would feel uncomfortable.

A lantern made the room very dark.

Li Yu didn't realize it and kept sitting like this. Late at night, Jiang asked in a low voice which concubine Li Yu wanted to sleep with tonight, but Li Yu just remained silent. Jiang sighed and asked Li Yu in a low voice.

I really liked Liuzhu, the most well-behaved concubine, who came to bed with her and whispered a few words to her. Liuzhu nodded shyly and agreed.

Jiang quietly retreated with the other concubines and closed the door, leaving only Li Yu and Liuzhu.
To be continued...