Chapter 6: Escape
As soon as these words came out, the fake eunuch who was exerting his inner strength paused. He pricked up his ears and vigorously explored the surrounding movements.

The palace maid smiled and said, "Aze, she is lying and captured them alive."

"Sister, remember, there are peony flowers on her back." Jiang Sushang deliberately looked at the void, as if there really was a sister hiding in the dark.

She was betting that the person on the other side would stop.

A trace of panic flashed in the palace maid's eyes, but she quickly concealed it.

Suddenly, there was movement on the peach tree not far away.

The fake eunuch struck it with his palm and flew away. He grabbed a cat from the peach tree, and he broke the cat's neck. His eyes showed anger. After being teased, he became murderous and turned to attack Jiang Sushang. .

When the fake eunuch attacked another place, Beilu seized the opportunity, hooked Jiang Sushang's waist, and flew away.

The fake eunuch knelt down on one knee and said unwillingly: "Awan, I underestimated my enemy."

The palace maid named Awan slowly walked forward and walked to the peach tree where Jiang Sushang and Beilu had stayed. Under the moonlight, she raised her hand and picked off the jade pendant left on the branch.

"I'm going to kill her now."

"No rush." ​​Awan rubbed the jade pendant in her hand and put it aside with a smile. Then she raised her hand and pulled open the fake eunuch's belt, and said in a teasing tone: "Feed me before you go."

Beilu placed Jiang Sushang in the corridor and sneaked into the darkness.

Just as Jiang Sushang was about to push the door open, he saw Xie Qingshu opening the door, her face turned gray and terrified.

"Yue Ge...Yue Ge..." Xie Qingshu called out in disbelief with tears in her eyes.

Jiang Sushang hurriedly walked in without stopping.

Before she left, Yang Yuege was still reading, and now she is reading too.It’s just that her wrists were full of blood, and there were no daggers or other sharp instruments beside her, only a few pieces of brand-new cardboard. This kind of cardboard is not as soft and easy to fold as rice paper, but is used to pad rice paper, and the brand-new cardboard is not as soft and easy to fold as rice paper. Hard paper is as sharp as a knife, and many students have been accidentally injured by it.

There were many blood marks on Yang Yuege's wrist. The blood dripped on the ground and seeped into the cracks of the floor.

Her eyes were open, with a smile on her lips, but the "Guannan Travel Notes" was clean.

Jiang Sushang found it very strange. Yang Yuege was reading a book. Why would she commit suicide?

A girl who has expectations for life and cares about Mr. Guannan, she won't be able to think about it!
Jiang Sushang stepped forward. Yang Yuege was already dead. She took "Guannan Travel Notes" from Yang Yuege's hands. She turned to the last page of the travel notes, which showed that Yang Yuege had finished reading. This was the last bit of comfort!

Others came in quickly, and Xie Qingshu pulled Jiang Sushang back, "Don't touch Yue Ge's body..."

Jiang Sushang reacted quickly. Xie Qingshu saw blood on her body, but the blood was not Yang Yuege's. It was the blood that dripped on her body when Beilu was seriously injured by the fake eunuch.

Jiang Sushang quickly finished answering the yamen servant's questions, and then turned back to her room. There was Yang Yuege's body there, and she wanted to check it out.

When she rushed over, Uncle Qian was already there. When he saw that it was Jiang Sushang, he didn't say much. He was already used to it.

Jiang Suchhang saw an amulet among the exhibits on the side.

This is very common. Jiang Sushang has also seen Yang Yuege take it out, but this small amulet caught Jiang Sushang's attention. Generally, amulets contain rice, soybeans, red beans, etc., and the meaning is also Each one is different.

The amulet Lanshi's sister gave her contained palm leaves, which meant "high school".

The amulets are all bulging and carry the heart.

Yang Yuege's amulet was shriveled, as if it contained nothing. Jiang Sushang took off the threads, and as she thought, there was nothing inside.

She put the red cloth of the amulet on the tip of her nose and smelled it. All she could smell was the scent of Yang Yuege's powder and nothing else.

"Uncle Qian, do you have any medicine to treat internal injuries?" Jiang Sushang asked casually. Beilu's injuries needed medicine.It would be great if Sister Lanshi was here. There are a lot of medicines in her orchid bag.

"I am a doctor, not a doctor." Uncle Qian inspected the body methodically and came to the conclusion: "It is confirmed that the death was caused by excessive blood loss."

Jiang Sushang thought that Xie Qingshu was the first to see the body, and she wanted to ask Xie Qingshu.

Because Yang Yuege died in the room, the aunt in the palace changed rooms for Jiang Sushang and Xie Qingshu.

Xie Qingshu was so scared that she hid in Jiang Sushang's bed and cried bitterly while hugging him. "If I hadn't gone to get Yue Ge food, Yue Ge wouldn't have committed suicide. She also said with a smile that when the 16th volume of "Guannan Travels" comes out, we will come to ask you for it together."

"It's all my fault. Yue Ge must be in a lot of pain! It hurts so much. I don't believe she will commit suicide!"

"Sister Jiang, I'm afraid, don't turn off the lights."

Jiang Sushang patted Xie Qingshu's back gently, just like her aunt coaxing her.It seems that Xie Qingshu did not witness Yang Yuege's suicide.

Xie Qingshu sobbed and fell asleep in Jiang Sushang's arms. Jiang Sushang looked through the "Guannan Travel Notes" that Yang Yuege last touched.

She noticed that there was a nail mark on the clean page where her fingernails had pressed it.

"Outside the pavilion." Jiang Sushang said softly.

Did Yang Yuege want to convey a message before he died?

Or maybe she pressed it inadvertently because it hurt too much.

Jiang Sushang couldn't figure it out, and she coaxed Xie Qingshu who was talking in her sleep, and was worried about Beilu's injury. She stayed awake all night, and she didn't fall asleep until it was almost dawn.

Jiang Sushang's dreams were full of dead people, including Sun Ming, Bai Qingtian, and Yang Yuege. They said they did not commit suicide, they did not want to die!

Sun Ming covered his eyes that were pierced by the brush and shouted at the top of his lungs: "I will try to be the first. My future is bright. I don't want to die! I didn't commit suicide. Someone killed me! Who killed me? He Why do you want to kill me with a brush?"

Bai Qingtian was speechless. His throat was blocked by ink, and blood was pouring out. The blood flowed to Jiang Sushang's feet.

"What about you?" Jiang Sushang asked Yang Yuege in the dream.

Yang Yuege raised her wrist, feeling extremely aggrieved: "I don't want to die, but I'm out of control and want to hurt myself?"

Pen! No.1 Sun Ming!

ink! No. 3 Bai Qingtian!
Paper! No.9’s Yang Yuege!
Jiang Sushang seemed to understand what clue she had grasped. She suddenly understood. The dead person in the dream disappeared and was replaced by a forest. She was lying on the grass in the forest, and some animal was licking her. She wanted to open her eyes to see, but I was woken up by someone from Dali Temple banging on the door.

Jiang Sushang put on his clothes. As soon as he went out, he saw Jiang Wenkang at the door with dark circles under his eyes and fatigue in his eyes. Three people had died in a row, and they were all new scholars. Her Majesty the Empress must have put a lot of pressure on him. .

"Another person died, come with me." Jiang Wenkang was helpless.

Jiang Sushang was horrified. Four people had died in three days. No matter how reasonable suicide was, it was unreasonable!
Furthermore, she has already mastered the murderer's killing patterns, all she needs is the method of killing.

"When was the last time you saw Xie Qingshu?"

"The person who died was Xie Qingshu? How could it be?" Jiang Sushang didn't want to believe it. She thought she had mastered the murderer's rules of killing. Logically speaking, the next one should be one of the top ten.

It definitely won't be Xie Qingshu who ranks lower.

"Is there an inkstone at the crime scene?" Jiang Sushang asked hurriedly.

When Sun Ming died, he died by poking his eye with a brush; Bai Qingtian failed once and died by swallowing ink the second time; when Yang Yuege died, the murder weapon was cardboard.

Pen, ink, and paper all appeared. According to the murderer's murder pattern, it should be an inkstone.

"The murder weapon was a blunt instrument and was not at the scene." Jiang Wenkang responded with a very unnatural look on her face. She didn't even see the body, so she concluded what was at the scene?Most people would think that only the murderer would know so clearly.

After inspecting the body, the police confirmed that Xie Qingshu had been killed with a blunt instrument, but there was no murder weapon at the scene.

He knew clearly that his niece's intelligence would be damaged by extreme wisdom.Likewise, he knew her best and believed that she would never harm anyone.

But others may not think so. Since Yang Yuege and Xie Qingshu lived with her, she was the most suspicious, but she didn't know that she was in a dangerous situation at this moment.

"My lord, my lord." A man ran over and said anxiously: "I saw it, I saw the face of the real murderer."

"Who are you?" Jiang Wenkang asked.

"The junior student is Lin Shengyuan, No. 7 Jinshi of the First Class." Lin Shengyuan bowed his hands and said in a neither humble nor arrogant tone: "I witnessed with my own eyes that Fang Changliu smashed Miss Xie to death with an inkstone."

(End of this chapter)

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