The Crown Prince is Actually a Princess!

Shen Zhiyan went to the inn where Lan Mengse and Madam Cao lived, and did not get any useful clues. It can be said that Madam Cao disappeared out of thin air in the inn in the middle of the night.

Murongci pondered for a moment, then took out the Fang Sipa and asked Lan Mengsely: "Look, is this Lan Ruowei's Sipa?"

Lan Mengse whispered, and when she saw her question, she took Sipa and looked at it, and said dumbly: "It's sister Ruowei's Sipa."

"Why are you so sure?" Murong Ci asked.

"Look at it, my lord, the four corners of this silk pajama are embroidered with a character, "Concubine, Meng, Xuan, Wei."

"I understand, the concubine represents the color of the Lan Fei, the dream represents you, Xuan represents Lan Ruoxuan, and Wei represents Lan Ruoxuan herself." Shen Zhiyan took a look at the inside story, "but Lan Ruoxuan's relic does not have this Sipa."

Lan Mengse explained: "Sister Ruowei values ​​love and is best with me, concubine and Ruoxuan, so she bought a silk scarf and asked the three of us to embroider one of the words in the name on the scarf. Since then, she has been Treasure this Sipa."

It suddenly dawned on him, "That's how it is."

She added: "In fact, Sister Ruowei did this to imitate the three sisters, Concubine and I. There are many rumors in the market that the concubine and I are praised as the three beautiful women in the Jinfang. Our three sisters are the best. I bought three identical silk kerchiefs, embroidered our names on the triangle, each one silk kerchief, as a souvenir. Even if we are separated and old, we still remember our friendship."

Murongci said the question that had been circling in his heart for many days: "I only heard you talk about Lan Fei, and what is Yi Yan? What is it called? In Yangzhou Zhujinfang?"

"The other person is Lan Bi-se. But she left Zhujinfang five years ago."

"A few years ago? You were only twelve or thirteen years old then."

"The three of us were in the same year. We were eighteen or five years ago. We were 13 years old. However, we have already been attracted to us..." Lan Meng looked slightly embarrassed. "Many people bought us at a high price, but mother Since we were young, we turned down those people. In fact, I also know that my mother wanted to wait a few years before we were worth more."

"Lan Bi-se left Zhuijinfang five years ago? Where did he go? Was it bought by a wealthy merchant?" Murong Ci asked.

"I don't know exactly what my mother said. Bi Se should have been bought by the dignitaries in the capital." Lan Mengse suddenly remembered something and blinked her long eyelashes. "By the way, before going to bed last night, Madam Cao Tell me about Bise."

"What did Grandma Cao say?" Shen Zhiyan also thought it was a bit interesting.

"Mother Cao also suddenly thought of Bi Se, saying that she was also in the capital, so it's better to ask her for help." Lan Meng said, "Bi Se has been away from Zhuijinfang for five years, and she went to her for help. I don't think so. Okay. Besides, we don’t even know where Bi Se will marry. Sister Cao went on to say that she can find Bi Se, and this is on her.”

"So, will Mother Cao go to Bi Se, but she hasn't come back yet." He speculated.

"It's also possible." She apologized, "Two adults, it's my fault. I'm too impatient. Maybe Grandma Cao will be back at night. It's troublesome for the two adults."

"It's okay." Shen Zhiyan said warmly, "It's better to go back to the inn and so on. If Mother Cao doesn't come back tomorrow, you will come to Dali Temple again."

"Okay." Thinking that Mother Cao might be fine, she just went to Lan Bi Se, Lan Meng Se was in a much better mood.

"In that case, Mother Cao knows where Lan Bi-se is married." Murongci's premonition is not so good, perhaps Mother Cao will not come back.

Qin Ruo took a blue dream to the side hall to rest. Shen Zhiyan saw that His Highness was thinking, and asked: "What is your Highness thinking?"

Murongci raised his eyes to look at him, and said, "My palace always feels that Madam Cao is more auspicious."

"Mother Cao should be looking for Lan Bi-se, so there won't be an accident."

"My palace can't tell why, so let's wait until tomorrow."

"Then I will take Lan Mengse out of the palace first. If there is any definite news about Madam Cao, I will send someone to pass a message to His Royal Highness."

She nodded and sent him out.

...

However, at dusk that day, Murongci received the news that a female corpse was found in the suburbs, suspected to be Mother Cao.

She ignored her dinner and rushed to Dali Temple.

Shen Zhiyan was handling the corpse with his apprentice in the morgue. When he saw his highness, he put aside the thing in his hand and explained a few words to the apprentice. He walked to the bottom of the palace and said in a deep voice, "Lan Mengse hasn't come to recognize the corpse yet. Mother Cao.

She saw that the corpse had no head, and her thoughts moved, "It's also a headless female corpse?"

He nodded, "This headless female corpse was found in the woods in the southern suburbs. The government officials in Jingzhao Mansion and Dali Temple are looking for the heads of the dead. I went to the scene to see that the woods in the southern suburbs should be the scene of the first crime. At that time, the female corpse was exposed in the woods, only covered with some fallen leaves. The deceased had no coat on his body, only a middle coat."

"Is the modus operandi the same as the murder of Lan's sisters?"

"Similarly, the incision in the neck is very flat, and the killer cut his head very fast. The killer should be the same person."

"Why did the murderer kill Madam Cao?" Murong Ci was puzzled. "The murderer and the Lan sisters are old acquaintances, so they should also have old acquaintances with Madam Cao and Lan Mengse. Does the murderer have any handles or secrets? These few people in Jinjinfang know that the murderer must kill him?"

"Lan Meng color is dangerous!" Shen Zhiyan's eyes suddenly widened, "Is Lan Fei color dangerous?"

"Let Lan Mengse live in Dali Temple first, the murderer should not dare to sneak into Dali Temple to kill people. Furthermore, Lan Mengse can be with Girl Huang." She looked at the cloudy sky, it was about to rain, and her bright eyes were cold. , "You order several government officials to protect Lan Mengse secretly and strengthen inspections at night."

"I'll arrange it." A vague idea loomed in his mind, as if something was about to come out.

"The murderer kills and kills his mouth... It is very likely that the killer is also from Zhuijinfang. He wants to keep his secrets from leaking, so he kills his mouth. Orchid!"

"Lan Bi Se!"

They said the name in unison and smiled at each other.

Murongci went on to analyze; "Lan Bi-se married into the family of the powerful, and may already be the mistress of the house, and has a good reputation. She didn't want to spread the secret that she was Yangzhou Shouma. She knew that her former sisters were in the capital, so she planned ahead and killed her. ."

Shen Zhiyan added: "Lan Ruoxuan and Lan Ruowei sing songs in Deyuelou, they are famous as the emperor, and they are in the limelight. When Lan Bi-se heard about this, she came to Deyuelou in person to see, but she should be dressed up, Lan The sister did not see her, or did not recognize her. Lan Bi-Se was worried that her secret would leak out sooner or later, and she would kill her. I was worried that Lan Fei-Se was also in danger, so I sent someone to tell the Lord Jiang and let him pay more attention to the house. in."

She felt that with the master Jiang’s ability, no matter how many nursing homes were hired, she couldn't stop the murderer.

However, they have tried their best.

At this moment, Lan Mengse, who rushed in, was standing outside the corpse room, looking inside but not daring to come in, her brows filled with panic and sorrow.

Murongci signaled Qin Ruo to pull her in to recognize the corpse, Lan Mengse approached step by step, her arms trembled, and her legs trembling so much that she could hardly stand. If Qin Ruo held her, she would have collapsed long ago.

"Miss Lan, do you know if the deceased is Mother Cao." Shen Zhiyan said sadly.

"No head..." She muttered in grief, the tears flowing in her apricot eyes rustled down, her pale little face pear blossoms with rain, full of sorrow and sorrow, "Madam Cao has a dark red birthmark on her left arm, and The size of a quail egg..."

The apprentice struck up the sleeves of the deceased, and sure enough, there was an oval, dark red birthmark on his left arm.

Lan Mengshen cried bitterly, her smooth face was flooded with tears, "Mrs. Cao..."

She was sobbed and so grief that she couldn't lift it up in one breath, and she fainted.

Qin Ruo took her to the guest room to rest for a while, Murong Ci understood her feelings, and the successive blows overwhelmed her. It was no longer easy for her to support her.

Unexpectedly, the hunch came true.

Shen Zhiyan began a detailed post-mortem examination, Shen Shen said: "The deceased, Grandma Cao, about forty years old... There were no other wounds or bruises on the deceased's body, and his fingernails were clean and intact, and there were no breaks. It can be seen that there was no entanglement or fight with the murderer... The deceased The head was quickly cut off by a sharp blade, and the incision in the neck was very flat. The sharp weapon should be a long sword. It should be the same person who killed Lan Ruoxuan and Lan Ruowei."

"When was it killed?" Murong Ci asked sadly.

"It should be around four hours today." He took off his slim gloves. "His Royal Highness still remember what happened in the night that Miss Lan said? Madam Cao went to the toilet at night in the room. Miss Lan was a little conscious, but very conscious. Isn’t it weird that she was falling asleep soon? I guess the murderer was outside at that time, stunned Madam Cao with smoke and other things, so that Miss Lan fell asleep to death, so that Miss Lan only woke up three poles a day. "

"Then the murderer took away Mother Cao and came to the southern suburbs. Mother Cao might have woken up. The murderer cut off her head with a sword, then took off her coat, and threw her head to a secret place. In this way, Cao Cao. The identity of the mother is not easy to be known." She went on to speculate.

"Before we speculated that the murderer might be someone from the palace, so it seems that the murderer went into and out of the palace like a flat ground, and he did well."

"If the murderer is not someone from the palace... Lan Bise should have no martial arts, and the murderer should be a guard in Lan Bise's mansion, or a killer she hired with silver."

They frowned at the same place, and it was only the owner of Zhuijinfang in Yangzhou, who was thousands of miles away, who knew where Lan Bi-se was married.

Do you want to send someone to Yangzhou to ask?

After that, Murong resigned to visit Lan Mengse and said to her: "Miss Lan, it is not safe for you to live in an inn by yourself. You are staying at Dali Temple temporarily."

Lan Mengsei cried into tears, the six gods have no masters, sorrowful, and have no objection.

The temple of the five internal organs grumbled, Murong Ci saw that it was late, and He Qin Ruo hurried back to the East Palace.

However, God is not beautiful, they just walked to the door, Qiu Yu leaped to the ground.

There was a paper umbrella in the carriage, and Qin Ruo ran to take the paper umbrella to protect His Highness from the rain. Murongci saw a carriage approaching, and then Murongyu came over with an ink-sprayed paper umbrella.