Chapter 878: So What if They Are Royal Relatives?

While Fan Xian was wiping the inscription, Chen Pingping came to the entrance of the inspection institute in a wheelchair.

"What? Are you confused?"

Fan Xian paused with his hands, but did not look at Chen Pingping. He continued to wipe the dust on the inscription.

"You are angry." Chen Pingping gave Shadow a wink, and the latter walked away knowingly, taking Wang Qinian aside with him.

"How can I be angry? He is the second prince who is above us. Even if the evidence is conclusive, His Majesty cannot kill him."

"Why? Lao Jin's death was in vain? Shijia Town turned into scorched earth overnight, and the death of so many innocent people couldn't shake a prince, just because he is a prince?"

Chen Pingping's expression changed, and then she said in a calm tone: "This is an outrageous remark."

"Yes, the prince broke the law and the common people committed the same crime. After all, it was just a sentence on this inscription, and no one took it seriously. Otherwise, it wouldn't be full of dust." Fan Xian smiled mockingly to himself.

Chen Pingping was about to say something when Fan Xian suddenly laughed again.

"Maybe he is right. What the law cannot solve, violence can solve."

After saying that, Fan Xian dropped the linen, clapped his hands and waved Wang Qinian to leave.

Although Chen Pingping was confused, she still stopped him: "After Zhuge's death, the position of director of the inspection institute has been vacant. Although your majesty has lost your title, he has not said that he will remove you from your post. From now on, you will be responsible for hosting the office."

Fan Xian waved his hand without interest: "What is this? Give me a sweet date with a slap in the face?"

"If you want the words on this inscription to come true, you're going to need help."

"Sometimes I really don't know whether you want to use me or..."

"then what?"

"Forget it, it's not important."

Chen Pingping looked at Fan Xian's leaving figure, frowned and told the shadow: "Check who Fan Xian has met recently."

"Yes." The shadow disappeared in a flash.

Chen Pingping was secretly stunned and murmured to herself: This kid won't do anything extreme, right?

Fan Xian returned home and wanted to comfort his sister, but the maid who served his sister hesitated and refused to let him in. Fan Xian knew something was wrong at the first sight, so he barged in directly, and then he found that he had been robbed. .

"Old Qin? Why are you here?"

Qin Hao spread his hands and said nothing, but his meaning was obvious.

Fan Ruoruo's pretty face was slightly red and she lowered her head, not daring to look at Fan Xian.

Fan Xian angrily pulled Qin Hao aside: "A man and a woman are alone in the same room in the middle of the night. If word spreads about it, it will damage my sister's reputation. You are not allowed to climb over the wall at night and come to our house in the future."

As a result, Qin Hao made Fan Xian speechless with just one sentence.

"Then when you go to the Royal Courtyard, do you always enter through the main entrance in a fair and open manner?"

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Fan Ruoruo quickly interrupted: "Brother, do you want some tea?"

"Well, I happen to be thirsty."

Fan Xian felt somewhat guilty because he only allowed the state officials to set fires but not the people to light lamps, so he had to borrow the donkey from the slope.

"Brother, are you really planning to kill Prince Jing?"

Fan Ruoruo's sudden words shocked Fan Xian to the point where he almost lost his grip on the teacup and looked at Qin Hao in surprise.

"You also told Ruoruo about this? What else do you call us? I will not participate in this matter."

Qin Hao spread his hands: "If I hadn't stopped her, Ruoruo would have been packing her things to escape from the marriage. Rather than letting her be frightened, it would be better to tell her directly."

This statement seemed to make sense. Fan Xian twitched the corner of his mouth and looked at his calm sister, asking in confusion.

"This is killing a member of the royal family, aren't you afraid?"

Fan Ruoruo asked, "Are you afraid it will be useful?"

"Anyway, I will never marry Prince Jing even if I die. Either he dies or I die."

Fan Xian was speechless for a moment and turned to look at Qin Hao with a serious face: "How do you plan to kill Prince Jing?"

"You don't have to worry about this, I have my own way."

Three days later, in the middle of the night, by the Liujing River, birds were singing and dancing, and drums were playing.

"Hey, His Royal Highness, you haven't been here for a while. Please come in and invite me."

Facing the charming smile of the old lady, Li Hongcheng naturally put his arms around her plump waist: "What? Mother Cui misses me?"

"I think I want to kill you, but His Highness the Crown Prince is really cruel. He hasn't come for so long. I pity my infatuated Lian'er. I look forward to your coming every day." Cui's mother smiled sweetly. With a hint of resentment.

Li Hongcheng unfolded the folding fan in his hand and said helplessly: "There is nothing we can do about it. After all, His Majesty just got married, and I can't come to your place often."

"Where's Lian'er? You're not picking up the guests, are you?"

"His Royal Highness, look at what you said. Who in the whole capital doesn't know that Lian'er is yours? How can I let her accept other guests?"

"Then lead the way."

Soon, under the guidance of the old bustard, Li Hongcheng arrived at the Huachuan Pier.

"You guys stay on the shore and don't let anyone disturb my prince's interest."

"this"

Li Hongcheng tossed a banknote casually: "Take it and ask someone to prepare some good wine and food. You won't suffer any loss if you follow me."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

At midnight, several screams suddenly came from the flower boat.

"Come quickly, His Royal Highness is dying."

In an instant, the Flowing Crystal River seemed to explode.

In less than a quarter of an hour, people from Jingzhao Mansion blocked off the entire Liujing River, closed all brothels, and detained people.

Li Hongcheng's guards were all arrested. As for the famous prostitute Lian'er and her maids on the flower boat, they were also arrested one by one.

The governor of Jingzhao came to the scene in person. After seeing Li Hongcheng's body, he was so frightened that he almost fainted on the spot.

These are serious relatives of the emperor.

However, what comforted Jingzhao Prefecture was that the murderer was quickly caught. After all-night investigation and evidence collection, the identity of the murderer and the motive for killing Li Hongcheng were also confirmed.

The murderer and Lian'er were childhood sweethearts, a pair of hard-luck lovers. Lian'er was originally a concubine from a wealthy family, and the murderer was a poor scholar. The two had an engagement, but Lian'er's parents canceled it privately because they disliked the husband's poverty. Got engaged.

Later, Lian'er's family fell into decline, and his mistress sold him to a brothel. A poor scholar went to Beijing to take the exam, only to find that Lian'er had fallen into prostitution. At first, the poor scholar originally planned to wait until he could take the high school exam, and then find a way to rescue Lian'er. , who would have thought that after taking the exam again and again, he was still on the list.

The next story is very logical. The murderer was so moved that he killed Li Hongcheng.

Emperor Qing looked at the memorial in his hand, slammed the table and shouted: "Killing the royal family for a prostitute, Lou Aiqing, is this the truth you found out after your investigation?"

Mr. Yinlou of Jingzhao Mansion was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Your Majesty clearly knows that this person confessed to the crime. Jingzhao Mansion also interrogated all relevant personnel. There are no traces of design."

"Hmph, I understand, you go down first." Emperor Qing took a deep breath and then suppressed his anger.

"Go and ask Chen Pingping whether this inspection institute is just a decoration and whether I can still trust him."

Eunuch Hou felt a chill on the back of his neck and hurriedly crawled out of the hall.

When Eunuch Hou arrived at the inspection hall, he found that the inspection hall was already brightly lit.

After conveying Emperor Qing's will, Mr. Hou was about to leave, but was stopped by Chen Pingping.

"Please Eunuch Hou report back to Your Majesty. The Inspection Institute will definitely investigate this matter and get to the bottom of it."

"Well, I will definitely bring the message to you."

After Eunuch Hou left, Chen Pingping went around and asked Yan Ruohai to say: "Go and call Fan Xian. This matter should be taken care of in one place, and he just happened to take over one place, which can be used to practice his skills."

Yan Ruohai rolled his eyes when he heard this. Those who died were relatives of the emperor. If he were not careful, it would be a serious crime to confiscate his family and exterminate his clan. Is there anyone who would practice this?

However, Yan Ruohai always obeyed Chen Pingping's orders and asked his son Yan Bingyun to go to Fan Mansion in person.

When Fan Xian heard about Li Hongcheng's death, he almost lost control of his expression control, but Yan Bingyun just thought that he was surprised that someone dared to kill a relative of the emperor and did not think about anything else.

"Ahem, you go first, I'll be there soon."

"Then hurry up, the dean is waiting there."

After sending Yan Bingyun away, Fan Xian came to Fan Ruoruo's room and warned him word for word: "From today on, don't leave the room at all, let alone have any contact with Lao Qin, do you understand?"

"I understand, brother, did something happen?" Fan Ruoruo asked curiously.

"Li Hongcheng is dead."

"Dead? When?"

"Just last night."

Fan Ruoruo opened her mouth wide: "Really?"

"Remember, you don't know anything, let alone mention to anyone that you resisted this marriage, do you understand?"

"Well, brother, don't worry, I understand."

Fan Xian patted Fan Ruoruo's shoulder silently and turned around to go to the inspection institute.

With such a big case, there was a lot of turmoil within the forensic institute. Many people secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that the dean had left this hot potato to Fan Xian.

Although Fan Xian didn't know what method Qin Hao used, he was very sure that Qin Hao was the mastermind behind Li Hongcheng's murder.

"There seems to be nothing wrong with this file." Fan Xian tentatively said to Chen Pingping after receiving the file transferred from Jingzhao Mansion.

Chen Pingping shook her head gently: "Don't you think this is all too logical?"

"Dean, what do you mean, is there someone behind this who ordered this poor scholar to kill someone?"

"Have you ever seen a scholar?" Chen Pingping did not answer, but asked.

Fan Xian frowned: "I haven't seen much."

"The scholars seem to be full of passion and point out the country. If you actually ask them to kill a chicken, they may not dare. Even if they are trapped by love, they should kill with passion. It is impossible to do it so seamlessly. The less problems can be seen on the surface, the more... It means there is something behind it.”

After listening to Chen Pingping's analysis, Fan Xian felt like his head was going to explode.

For him, this case is now like an open-book exam. He knows the answers in advance, but the key is that he can't write out the correct answers.

"Where is that poor scholar?"

"Locked in the dungeon of the Inspection Institute."

Fan Xian walked straight to the dungeon of the Inspection Institute. There was no obstruction along the way. It was obvious that Chen Pingping had given instructions before.

Soon, Fan Xian saw the poor scholar deep in the dungeon. He had been beaten black and blue, and there was barely a piece of good flesh on his body. He was huddled in the corner of the dungeon, trembling uncontrollably.

"Xia Keming."

When he heard someone calling his name, Xia Keming raised his head with difficulty. At first, his expression was extremely numb, but after he saw Fan Xian's face clearly, he immediately sat up excitedly. This also involved the wound, which made him feel pain for a while. grimace in pain.

"Master Fan, am I dreaming? Is it really you?"

Fan Xian asked curiously, "Do you know me?"

"Of course, Master Fan, I have carefully studied every poem of yours. They are really amazing."

When talking about poetry, Xia Keming's eyes flickered.

After a few simple greetings, Fan Xian returned to the main topic: "Did you really kill Li Hongcheng?"

"It was indeed done by me."

"Why did you kill him?"

"For Lian'er."

Fan Xian took a deep breath: "Do you know who he is?"

"Prince Jing, a royal relative." Xia Keming clenched his fist unconsciously.

Fan Xian asked again: "Do you know that killing a royal family member is a serious crime of exterminating the family."

"My parents died of illness when I was ten years old. I am alone and have no worries. It's just a death. What's there to be afraid of?" Xia Keming said with a wry smile.

"What about Lian'er? Aren't you worried that the government will be angry with her?"

"She has been living in the dust and has no choice. For her, death is also a kind of relief?"

"Since you love her so much, why don't you buy her freedom?"

Hearing this, Xia Keming walked to Fan Xian excitedly, shook the prison door, and shouted: "Have I ever thought about buying her freedom? Originally, I had raised a sum of money, plus Lian'er's savings over the years, enough to buy her freedom, but Mother Cui said that Lian'er was the one favored by Prince Jing, and she dared not let her go."

"Just because I am poor, they can not abide by the marriage contract, just because I have no money, they can sell Lian'er to a brothel, just because Li Hongcheng is a royal relative, they can let Lian'er commit herself to him with just one sentence, Master Fan, do you think this is fair?"

Fan Xian murmured to himself: fair.

"I just want to take Lian'er away from this hellhole and spend a few days with us. Why can't you help us?"

After Xia Keming finished speaking, a mouthful of blood spurted out. Fan Xian suddenly realized something, quickly opened the prison door, and reached out to hold the other's wrist.

"Are you poisoned?"

Xia Keming grabbed Fan Xian's collar with both hands: "Master Fan, I beg you to do one thing. If possible, let Lian'er survive. She has never participated in this matter from beginning to end."

"What kind of poison did you get? Who poisoned you?"

"It's useless. This poison will definitely kill you within three days. Master Fan, I'm sorry I can't tell you who it is. At least he gave me a hope to take Lian'er away."

After speaking, Xia Keming spit out another mouthful of old blood, and the light in his eyes gradually became weaker until it disappeared.

"Sir, he's dead? This clue is broken, what should we do now?"

"No, the clue is not broken, this is a special poison made by the Northern Qi spy."

Fan Xian looked at Xia Keming's body with an inexplicable tone. At this moment, he understood why Qin Hao set up such a loophole-filled game.