The golden autumn wind swept through the streets of the newly renovated Luoyang City with a bit of coolness.

The pedestrians on the streets, their clothes were thicker than in previous days, and a few hawkers, standing behind the stalls on the side of the street, with their hands in their sleeves and their necks shrunk, looked at the crowds coming and going on the street, and from time to time let out one or two shouts of selling.

In a private room on the third floor of Lingyun Building, Guo Yuan sat with his back against the wall.

His head hung limply to the side, and a pair of hollow and godless eyes stared at the ground, and the whole person didn't even make a sound.

In the main hall on the third floor, a maid in a royal blue dark robe held a tray in both hands, and two steaming teas were placed on the tray, and walked to the private room where Guoyuan was.

"Master, the tea is here!" Standing outside the door, the maidservant called softly into the house.

There was no sound in the room, no response. Standing at the door, the maidservant waited for a while, and then raised her voice and called, "Master, the tea is here." ”

There was still no response, except for the voice of the chess-solving woman in the hall from time to time, the huge three-story hall was surprisingly quiet, and even the crowd of onlookers in front of the big chessboard did not make a sound.

Puzzled, the maidservant with the tea bent down, put the tray on the ground beside her, and reached out to gently open the door.

The door opened, and she saw Guo Yuan sitting with his back against the wall, so she breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the tray and walked into the room again.

First, he bowed slightly to Guoyuan, and then the maidservant knelt down at the low table and placed the two tea cups on the tray on the low table.

After setting up the tea cup, the maid stood up, held the tray in both hands, blocked the tray in front of her lower abdomen, and bowed slightly to Guoyuan, blessing.

Guo Yuan, who was sitting against the wall, did not respond to the servant, he still maintained the posture of staring at the ground with his eyes open, as if he did not feel the servant girl at all.

Raised his feet and took two steps towards the door, but Guo Yuan behind him was still leaning against the wall and didn't move. Thinking that the guest who had just entered the private room with Guo Yuan disappeared at this time, the maid had a trace of doubt in her heart, she turned her head and glanced at Guo Yuan again, and called softly again: "Master......"

Guo Yuan still ignored her, which made the ominous feeling in her heart even stronger.

Holding the tray in both hands, the maid returned to Guoyuan's side, knelt on the ground, looked at Guoyuan with a pair of beautiful big eyes with a little panic, and called again: "Master......"

In the hall, two chess players are playing against each other. Every time they make a move, the chess solver will hang a big chess piece in the corresponding position on the big chessboard and explain it.

The chess game was at a critical point, and the onlookers held their breath one by one and did not dare to speak. At this moment, in the private room where Guo Yuan was, a woman's scream full of horror suddenly came out.

The scream was extremely harsh, not only piercing the silence inside Lingyun Pavilion, but even the pedestrians in the nearby street market heard the scream and stopped one after another.

The pedestrians on the street looked up at the third floor of Lingyun Pavilion one by one, not knowing what was going on there.

And in the Lingyun Pavilion, the people who heard this scream jumped up towards the third floor one after another, and those who were already on the third floor rushed to the door of the private room where the woman screamed.

In the private room, the maidservant sat on the ground, trembling uncontrollably, raised a hand, and pointed at Guo Yuan, who was sitting against the wall, with trembling fingers, a pair of eyes full of horror, staring at Guo Yuan's pale face without any blood.

Crowded at the door, the few people standing at the front looked at Guoyuan who was sitting against the wall with stunned faces. The people in the back were all on tiptoe, trying to see what was going on inside the house.

There was not a single trace of blood in the room, and Guo Yuan's body was leaning against the wall, although he maintained a kneeling posture, his back was bent back in an uncoordinated curve, giving people a feeling of weakness.

Silence! Lingyun Pavilion, which had just been temporarily disturbed by the screams of the maidservants, fell into a deathly silence, and people could almost hear the "click" sound of the maidservants in the room when their upper and lower teeth bumped.

After about half a pillar of incense, the back garden of Luoyang Palace.

Liu Wei and Yuan Xi were sitting in the pavilion in the back garden, chatting about some things about Jizhou, a Yu Linwei quickly ran outside the pavilion, half-knelt on the ground, and said to Liu Wei with his fists: "Your Highness Qiyu, the master of Lingyun Pavilion was killed in the private room!" ”

"Lingyun Pavilion master?" After listening to Yu Linwei's report, Liu Wei turned his head to look at Yuan Xi and asked him, "The little general once played against the master of that Lingyun Pavilion, I don't know if I heard the clue that he would be killed from his words?" ”

Kneeling opposite Liu Bian, Yuan Xi thought for a while, first nodded, then shook his head, frowned slightly, and said to Liu Bian with a little uncertainty in his tone: "In the game that day, the master of Lingyun Pavilion was invited to go out of the house once, and when he returned to the house, the last general only felt that his face was a little wrong. When I asked him, but he was not well, he did not say. It was only because of the shallow friendship that the last general did not ask deeply. Now that I think about it, will he be blackmailed that day? ”

"Tell Deng Zhan to lead a team of dragoons!" Turning his head to look at Yu Linwei, who was still half-kneeling outside the pavilion, Liu Wei instructed him: "In addition, inform the Luoyang government that don't move the body, this king will personally go to investigate." No idle person is allowed to enter the private room where the deceased is located. ”

"No!" After getting Liu Wei's order, that Yu Lin Wei answered, got up and ran quickly towards the outer courtyard.

"The little general went to Lingyun Pavilion with this king, how about it?" When that Yu Lin Wei ran away, Liu Wei stood up, looked down at Yuan Xi, who was kneeling opposite, and asked him.

"His Royal Highness has an order, how dare the last general disobey it!" Yuan Xi hurriedly stood up, clenched his fists and bowed in response.

When he came to Luoyang, Yuan Xi also brought a team responsible for protecting him. But because they had to accompany Liu Wei to Lingyun Pavilion, Han Heng and the others were not allowed to accompany them, so they could only stay in the front yard of the palace and wait.

A team of more than 100 dragoon guards surrounded Liu Wei and slowly walked towards the east city of Luoyang.

On the left side of Liu Bian, riding with him was Yuan Xi wearing a crimson dress, and on the right side of Liu Bian, who was wearing general armor and had already taken off his ranger temperament, like a mighty general.

Riding on horseback, Deng Zhan held the reins in one hand and the hilt of the sword with the other, and his body swayed slightly as the war horse walked.

Yuan Xi, who was riding a horse and following behind Liu Wei's right hand, frowned slightly as he walked slowly, trying to recall the strange behavior of the master of Lingyun Pavilion when he played against him.

The more than 100 dragoon guards who walked behind the servants had exactly the same style of armor as Yu Linwei. The only difference between them and Yu Linwei is the golden feather on the helmet.

Hundreds of cavalry people walked on the streets, and the people in the market hurriedly stood sideways on the side of the road, watching Liu Wei lead the cavalry in the direction of Lingyun Pavilion.

Under the Lingyun attic, it was already full of people watching the excitement.

The people surrounded the Lingyun attic, and surrounded the three-story wooden building three times inside and outside, and everyone stretched their necks and looked up at the window of the private room where the death case occurred on the top floor, as if they could see the situation in the private room.

Outside the main gate of Lingyun Pavilion, a group of soldiers from the partial battalion who were responsible for the defense of the city were forming a circle, guarding the gate to the death.

The guests in the building have been cleared, and many of the guests who saw the scene are chattering to the people who are also watching around them about what they have seen. Of course, there are some people who are good at exaggeration, and even make up the scene where they imagined that Guo Yuan fought with people before his death, as if they had seen the process of Guo Yuan's murder with their own eyes.

The hall on the first floor of Lingyun Pavilion, which was usually full of guests, was empty at this time, and only a partial battalion officer with a few soldiers was waiting in the room.

Behind a low table beside the officer sat the maidservant who had first discovered Kuniyuan's body.

Frightened, sitting behind the low table, the maid was still trembling, her upper and lower teeth were fighting, and she kept making a slight "click" sound.

"Your Highness is here!" As soon as the servant girl asked about the details of the discovery of the deceased, the officer was rubbing his hands and walking back and forth in the hall, thinking of clues, when suddenly there was a noise outside the door.

Hearing this noise, the officers and several soldiers in the house hurriedly ran towards the door. Before they could reach the door, Liu Wei had already taken Deng Zhan and Yuan Xi into the hall on the first floor.

"See Your Highness!" Almost colliding with Liu Bian, the officer hurriedly took two steps back, bowed with his fists, and saluted Liu Bian with a panicked face.

The more than 100 dragoon guards who followed Liu Wei to Lingyun Pavilion immediately dispersed after dismounting, taking over the officers and soldiers of the partial battalion guarding the door, and guarding Lingyun Pavilion to the ground.

When Liu Wei came to Lingyun Pavilion, the onlookers whispered, all guessing that the identity of the dead owner of Lingyun Pavilion was not ordinary. It is no wonder that the people have speculated that a mere murder can be dealt with by the Luoyang government, but now it has alarmed the king of Luoyang in person, no matter who will guess that this murder is not trivial.

"How's it going?" As soon as he entered the main hall on the first floor of Lingyun Pavilion, Liu Wei asked the officers of the partial battalion who had been guarding here earlier.

Hearing Liu Wei's question, the officer turned his head and glanced at the servant girl who was sitting behind the low table, trembling all over, and hurriedly clasped his fists and responded: "Back to His Highness, the servant girl who found the body is here, and all the guests in the building have been driven out of the building, and the cousin, waitress and others ......."

"Needless to say!" Without waiting for the officer to finish speaking, Liu Wei glanced at the servant girl who was trembling and had forgotten to visit him in fright, waved his hand at the officer, and led Deng Zhan, Yuan Xi and several dragoons who followed the building, and walked towards the stairs with his feet raised.

On the second floor, another officer of the partial battalion guarding the second floor hurriedly greeted him and saluted Liu Wei and the others.

Before the officer could speak, Liu Wei had already waved his hand to him to signal him not to say anything, and went straight to the third floor.

Looking at Liu Bian's back, the officer on the second floor was stunned for a while, and it was not until Liu Bian went up to the third floor that he turned his head and looked at the private room where the cousins and others in the building were detained.

led Deng Zhan, Yuan Xi and several dragoon guards up to the third floor, and as soon as they stepped out of the staircase, several officers and soldiers of the partial battalion guarding the third floor bowed in unison and bowed to Liu Wei.

"Where's the person?" Standing at the top of the stairs, looking around the empty main hall, Liu Wei asked the officers of the partial battalion guarding the third floor.

"Back to Your Highness!" Hearing Liu Bian's question, the officer bowed to him with his fists, then pointed to the door of a private room and said to Liu Bian: "The body is in that private room." ”

Following the direction of the officer's finger, Liu Wei looked towards the sensitive room.

The door of that room was closed, and from the outside, it was impossible to see that there was a corpse lying inside, and it was evident that the officers and soldiers of the partial battalion had driven away the onlookers after the arrival of the officers and soldiers of the partial battalion, and the door was closed.