The palace is quiet, and the empress of the cold palace is acting as a demon

Chapter 53

A day later, Yuan Ying came to Lenggong with the results of the investigation.

"Reporting to my lord, the goldsmith's body was taken away from Yizhuang by his family the next day and cremated overnight."

Qin Wan stood up directly from the stool: "What did you say? Why? His family stopped reporting to the police? Don't want to know how he died? Don't you want to seek compensation from the Zhou Family Gold Shop?"

"It is said that shopkeeper Zhou gave 50 taels of silver to the goldsmith's family... They are doing it privately, and Yingyang's governor has withdrawn the case." Yuan Ying said.

Hearing this, Qin Wan jumped up against the case: "This is all right, there is no king's law!"

Yuan Ying said: "Because the goldsmith's family withdrew the lawsuit, Yingyang Fu Yin only regarded it as a civil dispute and did not pursue it."

"No, this matter is related to me in the final analysis. I have to ask in person to find out what's going on! Liu Ying brings some money, and we will go out of the palace to the goldsmith's house!"

Yuan Ying drove all the way, and the three of them soon arrived at the goldsmith's home.

But what Qin Wan and the others didn't expect was that Jinjiang's family had moved out yesterday, and no one in the neighboring villagers knew where they were going.

"Strange..."

Qin Wan took Liu Ying and Yuan Ying to search back and forth at the goldsmith's house, and found that except for the valuables, the rest of the goldsmith's house had not been taken away, including summer clothes, etc., which showed that they left very hastily. .

Liuying said, "Why did they suddenly move?"

Yuan Ying guessed: "The common people have always relocated their land, and there must be some unavoidable reasons behind the rush to move away. And this reason must be related to the death of the old goldsmith."

Qin Wan squeezed her chin: "Come on, let's go to the cemetery and see what we can find."

Speaking of which, Qin Wan took Yuan Ying and Liu Ying to the graveyard in the village, wanting to see if they could find some clues, but met an unexpected person beside the goldsmith's grave.

"Master Lu?" Qin Wan looked at Lu Ling in disbelief. He was squatting next to the goldsmith's grave with an elegant demeanor, looking at the dirt on the ground, and he was studying something.

Qin Wan sighed, how could a man look so good squatting beside the grave.

Hearing Qin Wan's voice, Lu Ling turned around, with some surprise in his eyes, but he quickly recovered his usual indifference, stood up and saluted respectfully, "Your Highness the Princess."

Qin Wan smiled and said, "Young Master Lu, I told you not to call me Princess in the future, just call me by my first name. If you think it's inappropriate to call me by my first name, you can also call me Miss Qin."

Lu Ling smiled and agreed: "Miss Qin."

Qin Wan asked, "Why are you here?"

Lu Ling replied: "Recently, I heard some anecdotes and found them quite strange, so I came to investigate for a moment of curiosity. Seeing that Miss Qin is here, it means that the rumors are true, and this matter is indeed related to you. "

"Yeah, you already know." Qin Wan said.

Lu Ling said: "I probably understand something, but the specific situation is not very clear."

Qin Wan: "Oh, let me tell you what I know."

Then, Qin Wan told Lu Ling the whole ins and outs of Jin Yu sending the pot to her to sell the pot.

"So that's how it is..." Lu Ling dragged his chin with his slender fingers, lost in thought.

Qin Wan asked: "Did Mr. Lu find anything?"

Lu Ling said: "As far as I know from the goldsmith's fellow workers, this goldsmith has been working here since the opening of the Zhou family gold shop. He has been working as an apprentice and now he has become a senior master. .Many products of the Zhou Family Gold Shop are manufactured under strict control by him, so when smelting your gold pot, the possibility of program errors is not high."

Yuan Ying agreed from the side: "Indeed, as Mr. Lu said, all the workers in Zhou's workshop are the apprentices of this old craftsman. They operated according to the previous procedures, and the results were fine at first. At that time, the old goldsmith suddenly began to cough violently, followed by a red rash all over his body that itched unbearably, and finally died of cardiac arrest, so I made a preliminary judgment that poisoning caused the death of the old goldsmith.”

Qin Wan was taken aback: "Red rash all over the body, extremely itchy? What do you think, Mr. Lu?"

Lu Ling said: "Assuming that the goldsmith died of poisoning, the most important thing is to determine the poison first. But the person has been cremated and buried now..."

"See if there are any clues in the ashes?" Qin Wan asked.

"Mother?" Liuying knew Qin Wan's character and exclaimed, "You don't want to dig a grave, do you?"

"The ashes shouldn't be burnt clean, right? Maybe you can tell something by patting and patting Bala? What do you think, Mr. Lu?" Qin Wan looked at Lu Ling.

"That's exactly what I mean." Lu Ling and Qin Wan hit it off immediately.

Liuying stepped back ten steps at this time: "Mother, this is not good, everyone has already been buried in the ground, let's dig it out..."

At this time, Yuan Ying had already borrowed two shovels from some villager, handed one to Luling, and held the other for herself, and started digging the grave without saying a word.

Yuan Ying said while digging: "Mother, if someone stops you later, you just need to show your badge."

Qin Wan curled his lips.The name of Ning Yi is effective, even if others are not here, the prestige covers the whole of Ying Yang.

The excavation went smoother than expected. The old goldsmith was buried hastily, the soil was loose, and the coffin was not sealed.

Lu Ling picked up a bone joint from the ashes urn with his bare hands, and looked at it under the sunlight.

"How is it?" Qin Wan asked.

Lu Ling put the joints back into the jar: "I didn't see anything unusual."

Yuan Ying put the lid on the altar, feeling a little disappointed.

Qin Wan is not the same: "Does this mean that we can eliminate a large part of the poison?"

"Yes." Lu Ling nodded.

Just when Qin Wan and the others were deep in thought, a rough man carrying wine and meat suddenly appeared next to the cemetery. Seeing Qin Wan and the others, he immediately angrily reprimanded: "Who are you?! Why dig my master's grave!"

As he spoke, the man dropped the object of worship in his hand and rushed over like a cow.

But before he got close, Yuan Ying raised her leg and kicked the man as strong as a cow to the mound next to him.

The man wanted to stand up and charge again, but the long sword from Yuan Ying's waist had already been unsheathed and landed on his shoulder.

Seeing this, the man didn't dare to move his body, but his eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and he said angrily, "Who are you?! What are you digging my master's grave for?!"

Qin Wan stepped forward, took out the palace plaque on his waist, bowed his head and said to him, "We are from the yamen, and we are here to investigate the cause of your master's death. Don't worry, we will bury your master back soon after we have the results of the investigation."

The man didn't know how to read, but he also saw that the palace plaque in Qin Wan's hand was extremely valuable, so he believed it immediately: "You are really from the Yamen? Then you must avenge my master!"

(End of this chapter)