Chapter 22 Chapter 21: Pickled Plum

The night gradually quieted down, and the sound of bells and drums in the distance could hardly be heard. In the cold wind in the early morning, people had already returned home one after another. Luoyang, the entire eastern capital, slowly fell asleep after the bustle and noise in the middle of the night. However, tonight, someone is destined to be unable to sleep. The inner hall of Di's mansion was still brightly lit, Di Renjie leaned on the chair and flipped through books at will.Di Chun didn't want to go back to his room to sleep, so he just lay down on the bed and dozed off, snoring softly for a while, Di Renjie sighed secretly when he saw this, and took a jacket to put on him.

After reading the book for a while, I couldn't help worrying about Ayu, but felt irritable, and the words on the page seemed to be blurred one by one. Di Renjie rubbed his eyes and smiled bitterly to himself: Is it really old?Now I can't hold back anymore. Just as she was thinking, footsteps sounded in the courtyard, and the door opened. Ayu ran in quickly with a small box in her hand, followed by Li Yuanfang silently.I saw Ayu's face was calm, not showing emotions of joy and anger as usual, his eyes were clear, and he didn't look like he had shed tears, only a little puzzled, Di Renjie felt a little surprised, overnight, This little girl seems to have grown up a lot.

Seeing that Di Renjie hadn't slept all night, and that Di Chun had just woken up wiping his sleepy eyes, Ayu knew that everyone was worried about him, so he hastily talked about the face saint. The trip went smoothly. Ayu waited for the opportunity to meet with the Queen of Heaven, and explained the whole story of the Donggong ghost murder case, and presented the mask, demonstrating the truth of the so-called mobilization of Yin soldiers. It was Tuan'er who had evil intentions and blamed others, but An Jinzang, the musician, just wanted to disdain Tuan'er and others for framing the emperor's heir. He committed murder in anger, and begged the Queen of Heaven to take pity on her and give him a lighter punishment. .

Ayu spoke calmly, without any excitement, but Di Renjie knew that it was not easy to explain the case clearly one by one. Ordinary people were too scared to speak when they saw the emperor. The second concubine was killed first, so when analyzing the case, one had to be careful with one's wording, so as not to offend Tianhou, which made it even more difficult.For Ayu, there is another layer of dangerous emotion that cannot be explained clearly. Li Yuanfang stood guard outside the palace gate in the middle of the night. She was worried that she had just learned of her life experience a day ago. How did she cope with the situation at that time?After seeing Ayu came back safely, he let go of his heart a little bit, but was speechless all the way. Now that Ayu finished talking, it seemed that he was talking about other people's things, which had nothing to do with her. Worrying.Ayu looked at Li Yuanfang, smiled brightly, took out the little jade tiger from the sachet in her arms, and said softly: "Brother Li, I just want to keep in mind that my mother is still the one who hugged me and sang to me in my dream. Er is still the same Yuer as before."

Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang looked at each other and smiled when they heard the words, both were happy for Ayu.Di Chun rubbed his head in bewilderment, thinking he was talking about the case, why did he suddenly talk about mother again?Can't help but said: "Miss Ayu, what happened afterwards? After hearing this, what did your majesty say?" Ayu shook her head, put the small box in her hand on the case, looked at Di Renjie and said, "Your Majesty has seen the mystery of the mask. After listening to me for a long time, I peeked out and saw her frowning a few times. , but did not say how to settle the case. Finally, he ordered the maid to reward me with a box of pickled plums, and whispered a few words to the maid, and said, "It's hard for this child to speak completely. If he is so clever, give me some plums." You eat.' Just tell me to open it again when I get home, I don't know what it means." As he spoke, he sat down beside him, resting his chin on his hand, thinking to himself.

Di Renjie opened the box and saw a box of plums soaked in honey. He smelled the fragrance of honey, and after thinking for a while, he laughed loudly: "The East Palace is safe!" Everyone was puzzled, Di Chun went up to look, and saw a black thing floating in the honey juice, he stretched out his fingers and picked it out, it turned out to be a piece of rat droppings, he couldn't help being shocked: What is there, master? So happy? Di Renjie smiled and said, "Have you all heard the story of Sun Liang eating plums?" Li Yuanfang's eyes lit up, and Ah Yu quickly said: "I know this. During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Liang, the lord of Eastern Wu, wanted to eat pickled plums, so he sent Huangmen to the warehouse in the palace to get them. The honey he brought had rat feces in it. Ask the treasury official: "Has the Huangmen asked you for secret food?" The answer is: "Yes, but I really dare not give it." Sun Liang said, then the matter is clear, the rat feces must have been put in by the Huangmen The Huangmen refused to accept it, and the people on the left and right requested it to be judged by the Secretary. Sun Liang said that it was easy to find out. He ordered people to cut open the rat feces, saying that if the outside was wet and the inside was dry, it was put in later; if the inside and outside were wet, It was there when it was in the collection. After cutting it open, it was indeed wet on the outside and dry on the inside, so Huangmen pleaded guilty. ——But what does this have to do with the case?"

Di Renjie said with a smile: "Your Majesty gave you Zimei to explain: For this case, she is like Sun Liang in the story. She has seen the reason, and she is clear about what is wrong. On another level, I will reward you." , is a compliment to you, not punishment, so we can see that the Donggong case is no longer in danger." Ayu let out a long breath, and said: "So that's the case. Then will she punish Lai Junchen and others like Sun Liang?" Di Renjie sighed: "I'm afraid it won't happen now. Lai Junchen and other cruel officials, relying on His Majesty's favor, did all sorts of evil and killed many loyal and good people. That's because they are still useful to His Majesty, but this kind of favor It will definitely not last long, and they will come to a disastrous end."

Everyone was speechless for a while. Li Yuanfang said suddenly: "The Queen of Heaven ordered Ah Yu to go home and open the box again, and there was such a riddle again. Could it be that she has expected that the adults are secretly investigating the case?" "I said earlier, with His Majesty's ability, don't think about being able to fool the past. It's just that the fate of the people involved in the case will not be known until dawn at the earliest. I hope they can all survive this test." Li Yuanfang and Di Chun couldn't help sighing, they turned to look at Ayu, only to find that she had fallen asleep leaning against the back of the chair.