All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 92

Early in the morning of the second day, the sky was not yet fully lit.

As soon as the city gate was opened, more than twenty strong servants in green clothes rode tall horses, surrounded by a black carriage majestically, and rushed into the city.

There were no pedestrians on the street, the carriage galloped all the way, and in less than half an hour, it stopped at the gate of Princess Pingyang's Mansion.

A burly man stepped out of the carriage, about 38 or [-] years old, wearing a duck-blue brocade round-neck gown and a gauze cap, with regular features, a pair of piercing eyes, and a shrewd and resolute look.

As soon as the concierge saw him, he hurried up to meet him and smiled obsequiously, "Your son-in-law, you are back. Is everything in the family all right? Yesterday the eldest princess received a letter from you to return to the capital and rewarded the villain with a tael of silver." , I thought you wouldn't be back until late in the ten-day period, but I didn't expect to arrive today."

Cui Jin moved his lips, but did not make a sound, only smiled kindly at him, and walked into the mansion.

Seeing this, the porter smiled even deeper, and bowed to watch him leave.

However, after his figure disappeared, he made a "tsk" sound and spat a little "little stammer".

Because it was early in the morning, there was a lively scene in the mansion, and the sweeping servants came and went in the mansion, busy in an orderly manner.

Only the small courtyard where the eldest princess rested was extremely quiet.

Eunuch Chang, the servant next to the eldest princess, guarded outside the courtyard with a group of servants.

Whenever there are servants who don't have long eyes approaching the yard, they are all driven away by him with the whisk.

The eldest princess has been sleeping more and more lightly in recent months, and she cannot hear any noise in the courtyard at night.

Therefore, the main courtyard has never been on duty at night.

The eldest princess also likes to sleep in. As long as she doesn't get up during the day, Eunuch Chang will lead people to guard outside the courtyard.

Seeing Cui Jin approaching from afar, Eunuch Chang couldn't hide his astonishment, and hurried up to meet him, "My son-in-law, why are you back?"

"Take the water route." Cui Jin replied concisely.

Eunuch Chang understands.

Cui Jin straightened his waist, and asked with a serious look, "Princess, are you up?"

"The princess slept late last night and hasn't gotten up yet." Eunuch Chang replied with a smile, "However, if she knows you're back, she will be very happy."

Cui Jin smiled, showing his neat white teeth, looking a little more rustic.

"I also feel, feel." He said with some difficulty: "Go and open...the door."

Contrary to his shrewd appearance, Cui Jin has a stutter when he urinates, and he can only speak three words, three words jumping out, and some opening sounds are even more difficult to speak.

But this doesn't affect the eldest princess's liking for him.

The servants and maidservants of the princess mansion have long been used to it, and there is no strange expression on their faces.

Eunuch Chang bowed in response, flicked his whisk, "squeaked" pushed open the courtyard door, and walked ahead to open the way.

Cui Jin followed behind him, Xu Shi smiled at the thought of meeting his wife soon.

Walking to the corridor of the main house, Eunuch Chang knocked on the door lightly, "Your Majesty? Your Majesty? My son-in-law is back."

The room was silent and there was no response.

Eunuch Chang called again, but it was still the same.

He turned back to look at Cui Jin, with a hesitant look on his face, "Usually, my mother wakes up when she calls out, maybe it's because she's tired these days and slept soundly, my son-in-law, look..."

"I'll call, call the princess, get up... get up."

Cui Jin straightened his robe carefully, straightened his clothes again, and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with his body, then pushed open the door and walked in.

Eunuch Chang bowed and followed behind him, looking around the room, seeing that the furnishings in the room were as usual, he lowered his eyes a little.

Except for the sandalwood in the room, which seemed to be a little heavier than usual, and the blue curtain on Babu's bed was taken out at some point, there was nothing unusual about it.

He raised his eyes and looked towards the bed, and saw that the eldest princess was wearing a plain cloud brocade nightgown, the thin quilt was half open, she was facing inward sideways, as if she was in a deep sleep.

Cui Jin stepped forward to salute, and whispered in his mouth, "Princess, I'm back, here I come..."

His voice has a kind of simplicity and honesty. If the eldest princess heard it in normal times, she would definitely not be able to help but laugh out loud.

However, this time, what responded to him was silence.

"Ying, Yingzi?"

"...princess, princess?"

"...Qing, Qingqing?"

"... Beloved wife..."

"……I'm back……"

Cui Jin called out several times, finally realized something was wrong, took two steps closer, and gently pulled the princess's shoulder...

"Ying, Yingzi..."

When he saw the face of the eldest princess clearly, he exclaimed "Ah!", and took a half step back suddenly and unbelievably.

"Qing, Qingqing, what are you doing...don't scare me..."

Eunuch Chang looked suspiciously at the head of the bed——
The eldest princess has loose hair, blood all over her face, and a blood hole running through her throat on her neck!
Impressively died!

"Kill, kill!"

Eunuch Chang was so frightened that his legs were trembling, he staggered to the door, and shouted outside: "Hurry up, report to the police! The eldest princess was, was killed!"

Behind him, Cui Jin, the son-in-law, wailed loudly, "Yingzi, you died, what a tragedy! My love, my beloved wife!"

*
Shen Lingxi brought Xue Tuan and An Wang to the eldest princess's yard.

The inside and outside of the courtyard have been surrounded by people from Dali Temple and the government office.

Half an hour ago, Cui Jin, the son-in-law who returned to the capital to worship the ancestor, returned to the mansion and found that the eldest princess had been killed on the bed. He was so distraught that he was out of breath and passed out from crying.

In the end, it was Eunuch Chang, who was next to the eldest princess, who sent someone to report to the official, and also delivered news to the palace.

The emperor and queen mother were sad and furious.

But because of the eldest princess's mansion, the emperor's grandson Chu Yan lived last night.

In order to prevent things from being taken advantage of by people with intentions before they are investigated.The emperor personally issued an order to send the Habayashi guards to surround the Princess Chang's mansion, ordered the capital government office and Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate the case, and temporarily blocked the news.

As a guest living in this mansion, Shen Lingxi was better at burying corpses than Wu Zuo. After Wu Zuo's autopsy, Shen Lingxi was taken to the scene of the murder by Mu Huai'an himself to bury the body for the eldest princess.

Cui Jin sat in front of the eldest princess's bed, held the corpse's hand, and wept uncontrollably.

"Yingzi, you come back, you just leave here, without you, how, how should I live..."

"Qingqing, why are you willing to throw me away, take me, let's go..."

"Dear wife, we haven't seen each other for the last time... I'll let you go, come back and find me, come back tonight..."

He was talking to the corpse incoherently, his eyes were red from crying, and he looked devastated.

The gauze hat was thrown on the ground randomly, the hair was messy, the robe was full of folds, and there were bloodstains on the face accidentally rubbed from the corpse...

This appearance, anyone who sees it, can't help but want to step forward to say "sorry", and then lament "what a loving man".

Shen Lingxiyuan thought so too.

Until she saw Xue Tuan coming in and seeing Cui Jin, she gave a "meow" in fright and hid behind her, shivering...

(End of this chapter)