Chapter 37: Drowning
"Have you seen this thing before?"
Su Dawei raised the bamboo clip in his hand, and he didn't know if it was a green leaf or something, with a fine green color.
Cheng Dao was dumbfounded.
He swallowed his saliva and looked at it carefully: "It seems to be ...... It seems to be some kind of plant green leaf, but I can't be sure. ”
Su Dawei took advantage of the sunlight that penetrated into the hall and looked at the bamboo clip for a moment.
He reached into his sleeve, took out a clean silk handkerchief, and carefully wiped the green color of the chuck on it.
This green thing, like duckweed, has very small leaves, and it is impossible to tell what kind of plant it is, or whether it is poisonous or not.
Cheng Daozhi couldn't help but say: "Why is there such a thing in Princess Gaoyang's nose?" ”
"I think it's weird too."
Su Dawei folded the silk handkerchief, retracted it in his sleeve, and raised the bamboo clip to look at it.
There are also faint wet marks on it.
"What time did Princess Gao Yang die?"
"Last night."
He thought for a moment and said, "After dinner." ”
"For so long, there is still water in her nose that has not volatilized, and there are still green leaves."
Su Dawei said, picked up some cloth covering the corpse with a bamboo clip, and squatted down to take a closer look at Princess Gaoyang's hand.
"Su Shaoqing, the princess's hands, fingers, and fingers, we have all seen it, and there is nothing special about it." He said on the sidelines.
Su Dawei was silent.
There was a moment of silence in the room.
Cheng Daozhi and Qi Zuo didn't know what he was doing, so they didn't dare to disturb him for a while, and even the Secret Pavilion Xingjun, who was sitting on the beam of the room, also cast a curious gaze.
After about a cup of tea, Su Dawei picked up Princess Gaoyang's fingers with a clip and flipped it slightly.
The deceased's joints were already stiff and a little pale in color.
Flipping his fingers, he lifted his entire arm stiffly.
"Su Shaoqing?"
"It's okay."
Su Dawei loosened the clamp and re-covered the cloth.
"Why don't you put the princess's body on the bed?"
"Oh, it was Siqing who said not to move yet, to protect the scene, and wait for His Majesty's will to be issued."
Cheng Daozhi was on the side, and asked a little worriedly: "Su Shaoqing, is this ...... Is there something wrong? ”
Su Dawei's face sank like water, and from his face, he couldn't tell what was going on in his heart.
This made Cheng Daozhi and Qi Zuo a little uncertain, what did they find, or didn't they find it?
His silence is really a little unpredictable.
Cheng Daozhi waited on the side for a while, and saw Su Dawei standing up, neither speaking, but not leaving, as if thinking about something there.
He couldn't help but speak: "Su Shaoqing, this side is under the rule of Wannian County, the bad marshal of Wannian County is dealing with the follow-up matters, and the Junjun of Wannian County is also very concerned about this case, do you want to go to them to verify the case?" ”
"Not necessarily."
Su Dawei shook his head and refused.
"And now are we?"
"It's okay to keep the scene as it is, I want to enter the palace to ask to see Your Majesty, you can go and work on your own if you have something to do, and if you need to go back, I will summon you again."
"Yes."
Cheng Daozhi hurriedly took two steps back and saluted Su Dawei.
……
"Su Dawei entered the palace to see His Majesty?"
"Why didn't he follow the rules? Shouldn't you go to Dali Temple first, and then summon the bad handsome people in Wannian County to ask about the case? ”
"I heard that it seems to have been discovered in the princess's mansion."
"What did you find?"
"I don't know yet."
"If you can give him some trouble......"
"Don't do too much unnecessary things, lest you get involved."
"That's too cheap for him."
"Even if we don't do anything in this case, forgive Su Dawei, we can't easily find the murderer, if we can't solve the case within the time limit, then we will speak again, and we can get twice the result with half the effort."
……
The bell struck several times.
Tang Emperor Li Zhi sat on a fully cushioned Hu chair, and his eyes fell on Su Dawei's face through the fog rising in the hall.
There is complexity in this gaze.
There is surprise, anger, suspicion and scrutiny.
"What did you just say?"
He suspected that he had misheard, this Su Dawei, did he really dare to make such a rebellious request in front of himself?
Li Zhi felt that it was not because of the medicine he had taken recently, which was too medicinal and somewhat affected his hearing.
Guo Xingzhen's elixir, although he felt a lot more relaxed after taking the pill, after taking the medicine, he always felt a little hazy for a while.
"The minister said that if you want to solve the case of Princess Gaoyang, I implore Your Majesty to allow the minister to perform an autopsy."
"You ......"
Li Zhi only felt a surge of qi and blood in his chest, and his eyes were dark.
There seemed to be countless bronze bells and gongs and drums ringing in my ears, and I was dizzy for a while.
"Your Majesty!"
Wu Meiniang, who was sitting on the side, noticed that Li Zhi's expression was different for the first time.
Hurriedly stood up, called the palace people and eunuchs, and summoned the medical officer and Guo Xingzhen to the palace.
It took a while to stabilize Li Zhi's situation.
"Don't...... Leak half a word, if someone violates the ...... Yi three tribes. ”
"Whoa!"
The medical officer and the maid who knelt on the ground, as well as Guo Xingzhen and others, only felt that the murderous intent was awesome, and they were horrified in their hearts, and they did not dare to say more.
After Wu Meiniang spoke, they all retreated out of the hall.
Looking at Li Zhi, who was concentrating with her eyes closed, Wu Meiniang turned to Su Dawei, who was standing under His Royal Highness, and her voice was cold: "Ami, do you know what you are doing?" You're on the verge of disaster. ”
"May Your Majesty take care of the dragon's body."
Su Dawei lowered his head, and still said with an almost persistent attitude: "But what I said just now is a necessary condition for solving the case, if there is no such article, this case, I am afraid that half a month will not be able to solve it, and I implore Your Majesty and the Queen to deal with the crimes of the ministers now." ”
"Ami, you'......"
Wu Meiniang's face was cold, and she was secretly annoyed that Su Dawei was so unsure of how to advance or retreat.
Seeing that Li Zhi was not in good health, he was still in season at this time.
If Your Majesty has three long and two short, and the prince is still young, who can clean up the situation?
In the past, Wu Meiniang only felt that Su Dawei was smart and had friends with her in trouble.
But this time, she suddenly discovered that Su Dawei was a double-edged sword.
He doesn't necessarily, he can take his own thoughts.
Is it not enough to bond him?
Wu Meiniang's eyebrows frowned slightly, and she just wanted to retreat Su Dawei.
At this moment, Li Zhi, who had not spoken, spoke.
"Why did you dissect Princess Gaoyang's body? I want to hear your reasoning. ”
Wu Meiniang stopped the words she was about to say in time, glanced at Li Zhi, took a few steps back, stood behind Li Zhi, stretched out her soft hands, and gently massaged her temples for Li Zhi.
The golden toad furnace in the corner of the temple spitted smoke into the sky.
In the afternoon, the slanting sun shines through the window, shining on the smoke, like a fairyland.
Su Dawei secretly calmed down, looked up and said to Li Zhi: "Not long ago, the minister took the people of Dali Temple to the scene of the murder and found some suspicious places. ”
"If there is any omission in the work, you can cut it off."
Li Zhi raised his volume slightly, took a few breaths, and felt the cold fingers pressed on his temples, adding some force slightly.
He grabbed Wu Meiniang's hand with some annoyance, held her down, and continued: "I can send another doctor, a female servant, and re-examine." ”
"Your Majesty, if you don't dissect the corpse, I'm afraid that it will be the same how many times you check it again, it's not that you did a bad job before, but only check the body surface, and you will miss very important clues."
"What do you mean by that?"
Su Dawei reached into his sleeve, took out the previous silk handkerchief and spread it out, and raised his hands above his head.
"This is what I found from Princess Gaoyang's nose after I went to check the scene before."
Li Zhi's eyes widened slightly, looking at the white silk handkerchief that Su Dawei was holding in his hand, he was stunned for a while.
Wu Meiniang said, "What is this?" ”
"It's like the green leaves of a plant."
"This ...... This thing is from Gao Yang's nose ......"
"Yes."
It's a bit hilarious.
I actually found the leaves of the green plant from Princess Gaoyang's nose, but after thinking about it carefully, not only did I not think it was funny, but I had a creepy feeling.
"Didn't you say before that Gao Yang was broken by someone and died of trauma?"
"The neck bone is indeed broken, but there is also this green plant in the nose."
Su Dawei carefully used his words and said: "The minister suspects the death of the princess, and there is another strange thing, without an autopsy, I am afraid that the real cause of death will not be able to be determined, which will lead the case astray, so the minister has the courage to ask Your Majesty to allow it." ”
After saying this, the entire hall fell silent.
A suffocating silence.
Wu Meiniang didn't know how to speak for a while.
She'd never heard of anything like that.
Obviously, it was pretended that it was a traumatic death, but suddenly someone said that plant leaves were found in the nose of the deceased, and there may be other causes of death.
This made her feel a trace of indescribable weirdness.
Li Zhi's mood at this time was quite complicated.
His fingers tapped lightly and heavily on the armrest.
"Gao Yang, it's my sister, if she dies, she won't be at peace, and her body will be alarmed, after a hundred years, how can I face Taizong and my sister......"
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that only by naming the murderer and reporting it directly can we truly comfort the princess's soul in the sky, and only then can the soul of the dead in vain be at peace."
Su Dawei paused: "Your Majesty asks for your Majesty's convenience to find out the truth and give Princess Gaoyang justice." If Your Majesty does not allow it, the minister will not dare to speak out, and please ask Your Majesty to punish the minister's crime. ”
"You ......"
Li Zhi's hand clenched the handrail violently, looking down at Su Dawei at the bottom of the stairs, the muscles on his cheeks tensed.
"You're giving me a problem? Is it coercing? You're so daring......"
"The minister only has to solve the case in his heart and find out the murderer of Princess Gaoyang, there is no other thought, if His Majesty feels that the minister is guilty, the minister is willing to accept the guilt."
"Okay, you're a Su Dawei......"
Wu Meiniang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty has his own opinions, don't step back quickly!" ”
Generally speaking, he stood behind Li Zhi and glanced at Su Dawei.
Li Zhi is soft on the outside and rigid on the inside.
If he doesn't want to do something, no one can force him.
Su Dawei's move today is to step on the blade and dance, and to stand on the edge of the cliff and try it wildly.
Why bother?
Even if the princess's body is not examined, even if the case cannot be solved within a time limit, it will be punished at most.
Will Your Majesty still cut off your head?
But you are on the verge of death, and you are madly tempted.
Then it's really not far from death.