Sheng Chong and God Investigate the Princess

Chapter 43
That night, when Yayoi returned to the county office, she habitually glanced at the direction of the official building, but found that Duan Sinan's room was pitch black without a single candlelight.

She casually walked into the lobby and asked, "Where is Master Duan?"

A small yamen servant knew the inside story, and hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Master Duan has prepared a fast horse, and hastened to the capital."

"Kingcheng?" Yayoi frowned, a little surprised.

The little yamen servant scratched his head, "I seem to have heard that... the cousin of the county magistrate's mansion who was arrested this afternoon also committed crimes in the capital. After Master Duan found out, he immediately took her to the capital to send her to the Dali Temple."

Yayoi let out an "oh", but still felt strange in her heart.If the case was serious enough to send the criminal to Dali Temple for trial, how could Duan Sinan bring him to Beijing so hastily without even saying hello?
Could it be related to the "mother" mentioned last time?
For a moment, she felt extremely disturbed in her heart.

Ah Qi yelled later, which brought her back to her senses: "Miss, everything is done!"

"On the day of the Cold Clothes Festival, we must let them see what's being sold. It won't make a difference, right?" Yayoi turned to look at Aqi.

Aqi shook her head: "Miss, I've taken care of it carefully, there's no problem!"

Yayoi let out a "hmm", and looked away from Ah Qi's face.In the distance, Fuliang Mountain is shrouded in smog, and under the twilight of the dark night, it looks remote and terrifying.

The first day of October, Cold Clothes Festival.

The Cold Clothes Festival is the day when the severe winter comes. On this day, people who died first are sacrificed, which is called sending cold to resist the severe cold.Early in the morning, some common people went out of the city together to worship their ancestors at Fuliang Mountain outside the city.

The Tang family can be regarded as an official family. After everything was ready, the three carriages drove out of the city.In the first carriage sat the two wives of the Tang family, and in the next two carriages sat two young ladies respectively.After more than half a month, the ladies seemed to have finally come out of the shadow of Tang Ruoying's murder. Although they looked haggard, they had finally recovered.

Tang Ruoheng, who is usually lively, didn't say a word at this time.She was sitting diagonally opposite Tang Ruoyun, far away, without even looking at her concubine sister.

Tang Ruoyun only thought that she hadn't completely forgotten Tang Ruoying because of her tragic death, so she didn't take it to heart.He only leaned against the slightly bumpy wall of the carriage, closed his eyes and rested his mind.

After a while, Tang Ruoheng suddenly praised: "It's so beautiful!"

Hearing this, Tang Ruoyun opened her eyes.

Tang Ruoheng raised the curtain and looked out of the carriage.It should have passed the morning market in Fuliang County, because the carriage was very slow due to the crowd.Bustling outside the window, and the yelling of hawkers came.

"What is so beautiful?" Tang Ruoyun asked with a smile.

"It's a dagger!" Tang Ruoheng's voice was a bit stiff, "It's decorated with red agate and blue gemstones, it's really unique!"

When Tang Ruoyun heard this, she became interested, moved to the curtain, and took a look outside.

It was this look that left her in shock——

On the shop that sells small knives, there is my mother's machete!

The knife is inlaid with unique serrations, the tip is sharp, the sharpness is exposed, and the color is good, it looks like a good utensil at first glance.

But this knife...

This knife was obviously thrown into the stream on Fuliang Mountain together with other knives after he killed Tang Ruoying!How could it appear here!

Tang Ruoyun's heart was full of alarm bells, but she tried her best to hold back, not wanting Tang Ruoheng to notice anything strange.

Tang Ruoheng didn't seem to notice anything, and he was very interested: "Stop! Stop! I want to see this!"

Hearing this, the coachman stopped the car immediately.

The stall was very close to the carriage window.Tang Ruoheng didn't get out of the car, and asked through the window, "How much is that dagger?"

The peddler was a lean man. Seeing that an official lady was interested, he quickly replied, "Miss Hui, only one tael of silver."

When Tang Ruoheng heard this, he frowned slightly and pouted, "It's so expensive..."

Seeing that the customer in front of the door was about to leave, the man hurriedly said, "If miss buys another one, the smaller one can be cheaper for you."

At this moment, the Tang family's wives in the carriage in front saw them staying here, and sent someone to get off the carriage to ask.

Tang Ruoheng turned her head quickly, and said coquettishly, "Fourth sister...do you want to buy one too? Look at how beautiful these are!"

Tang Ruoyun nodded stiffly.She was really confused, but she didn't dare to ask too directly.

The man was clever, seeing her gaze lingering on the exquisite serrated knife, he hurriedly said: "If Miss likes this one, I can give you the small one."

Tang Ruoheng muttered to the side: "This is not bad... Fourth sister, what do you think?"

Tang Ruoyun opened her mouth, feeling her head was buzzing, her voice seemed to come from far away: "This knife...why is it so worthless?"

"Oh! This one." The man looked down. "I picked it up from Fuliang Mountain. I don't know who threw such a good thing. It's a pity."

Tang Ruoyun's expression was hidden in the carriage, and she couldn't see it clearly: "I want it."

"Okay!" The peddler quickly wrapped up the knife and handed it over.

At this time, the maids sent by Mrs. Tang's family also came up and asked, "What are you ladies doing? Don't waste the time."

Tang Ruoheng became even more anxious when he heard this, tangled up for a while, and finally shook his head and said, "Forget it, let's go."

Only then did the carriage move forward again.

She retracted her head from the window, watching Tang Ruoyun's right hand caressing the knife slightly, her expression was dark, deep and treacherous, her eyes narrowed, and then she smiled and said, "Fourth sister loves this knife so much?"

Tang Ruoyun let out a "hmm" and said nothing.

Tang Ruoheng saw that she was not in the mood to chat, so he didn't bother himself, and sat far away from her, taking a nap with his head down.

Tang Ruoyun stroked the knife, a gleam flashed in her eyes.She raised the curtain of the carriage behind her, called her maid, and whispered some instructions.

At the alley not far from the morning market, Yayoi and Aqi watched all this with cold eyes.Soon, Tang Ruoyun's maid went back and asked a few words with the vendor.

Ah Qi poked her head and asked, "Miss, why did the servant girl come back?"

Yayoi narrowed her eyes: "Just now I was leading the snake out of the hole, now I am inviting you into the urn."

Ah Qi nodded with a half-understood understanding.

The small vendor nodded and bowed in response, and after the maid left, he hurriedly cleaned up his stall and came to the alley where Yayoi was standing.

He is Hong Ba, a servant in Fuliang's yamen.

When he saw Yayoi, his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Catch the head, the fish is hooked."

"Well done." Yayoi nodded approvingly, turned her head to look at Aqi, her eyes were shining brightly, "Aqi, tonight, we'll catch them all!"

She turned her head and watched the Tang family's carriage gradually go away, and murmured: "The Tang Ruoying case, it's time to end it."

　When was Tang Ruoyun arrested?I'm going to die...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)