Chapter 63 (1/2)
Good job, Asu, for guessing what YHT was trying to accomplish by parading on a horse with ZQ in the previous chapter!
This chapter was edited by Din2.
Astonishingly, a male and a female appeared, the male was dressed in black ink dress, a pale complexion matched with a silver hair, somewhat looked like a scary person. The female was dressed in red blood dress, there was a golden mask on her face, only a pair of cold eyes were exposed. Both of them appeared to be wordless and uncommunicative, abnormal monsters, just liked coming out of the underground, in addition to their odd clothing, Zhuo Qing and Gu Yun looked somewhat foolish.
Straightforwardly staring at their looks, actually when they came in, they had already arrived. Originally they planned to wait until they left afterwards to appear but did not think that the tiny woman discovered their whereabouts unexpectedly.
All four of them were looking at each other, Zhuo Qing and Gu Yun felt that these two people produced some vision attacks that they used as a measurement to show their strengths.
If they continued to look at each other like this, the sky would already be bright!! Qian Jing who was being excluded by them finally was unable to endure it, then started the introduction and said: “Ao Tian, Ye Mei, Qiong Yue’s number one and number two’s bounty hunters.”
Bounty hunters, Zhuo Qing had increased her knowledge, speaking that they were number one and number two, she absolutely believed that both of their auras were extremely strong.
Lightly nodded towards them, Zhuo Qing generously introduced and said: “Qing Ling.”
“You were that woman who cut open the corpse at the palace?” The voice of the man in black dress was very ordinary, not particularly deep, also not very magnetic, but definitely special enough, every word would let you listen to it clearly but absolutely did not have any emotional feeling.
“Yes.” Zhuo Qing nodded dazzlingly, he knew about this?? She thought that the information was hard to get in this ancient time, it seemed that she was wrong now……. The male looked towards Gu Yun, Gu Yun did not avoid either, smilingly said: “Qing Mo.”
His eyebrows knitted lightly for only a short one quarter second, it was already enough for Gu Yun to understand his suspicious mind, smiled candidly, Gu Yun said: “You do not need to think so hard, I do not have any glorious achievement that is sufficient for the both of you to take notice to.” She was always inside the General’s manor to battle and fight with the brave men, he would not know her.
Amazingly, his face stopped for half a second this time, it was serene soon after. Gu Yun was very interested towards him, after all, he could control his own face muscle without revealing his emotion, it was very rare that he was already this powerful.
Gu Yun studied carefully, Zhuo Qing was actually in cold sweat repeatedly, no one would wish to be interpreted by a stranger especially this kind of ‘very able person’!! Did she not see that the woman in the red dress was emitting a cold ray that was enough to freeze her to death?!! Sometimes she really did not know if Yun was the exquisite kind of woman or thick skinned!! Lightly coughing to attract their attentions, Zhuo Qing started to introduced to the main subject: “Well, I think it is necessary to clarify this first since everyone’s goal is to expose the truth about this case. There are two ways now, the first one is to investigate on our own and the other one is to join forces to do the investigation. We are really sincere to cooperate with you all, what do you all think about this idea?”
Both of them did not speak for a very long time, just when Zhuo Qing prepared to interpret that they would do the investigation on their own separately, the male said once again: “How do you all want to investigate?”
Zhuo Qing looked towards Gu Yun, this was her specialty, luckily Gu Yun already had a plan, spoke frankly with assurance: “First, we have to find the murder weapon. The deceased had 13 wounds but they only found twelve throwing knives, in other words, the murder weapon had already been taken away. Even if the murderer was some expert and could shoot the deceased to die from a long distance, that person would need to retrieve the murder weapon. There were four people who might be able to do this, the deceased’s friend, Li Zhi, the deceased’s madam, Yang Shi (see 1 below), also the people who rushed over afterwards, Huang Yi and Wang Wei. One of these four people, even if some were not the murderer, they would surely help the murderer. The top priority job is to find these four people.”
Zhuo Qing nodded her head, assuredly said: “As long as we can find the murder weapon, we can do another comparison to the corpse again and Qian Jing’s criminal charge will be purged by half.”
“Secondly, the matter of that gold. Yang Liu’s death was extremely unexpected, clearly that the murderer wanted to set Qian Jing up behind this matter. It should be related to that case of the stolen gold, one million taels of gold was absolutely impossible to disappear without a trace. They carelessly concluded the case during that time and we still did not know any trace of the gold up until now. Yang Liu was surely the inside information or perhaps just because he knew too much so they would kill him. If we can find the related benefactor of this case during that time, we may be able to find the murderer.”
Gu Yun looked towards both of them and said: “I have finished talking, you all want to say anything.”
Both of them looked one glance at each other, it seemed that they had a consensus: “You all go to investigate those several people, give us the case of the gold, three days later around zishi (between 11 pm – 1 am), we will exchange the information here.”
Was three days enough time to investigate this?? Gu Yun was still thinking, but both of them already left the prison cell, with strange skills quickly and suddenly jumped up, several ups and downs, leapt from the roof top and disappeared without a trace, while she was still speaking in her own mind…… Looking towards the calm and collected face of Qian Jing who was sitting on the side, Gu Yun asked: “Were they in a hurry?”
Grabbing a dry grass and holding it in his mouth once again, Qian Jing, with unhappy face answered: “Content with your situation, ok, the words that you and him said, could already be regarded as a lot, you did not see that he did not even pay attention to me……##, was there anybody who would ask his opinion?!!”
“Then it was indeed an honor.” It seemed to be correct, Gu Yun felt relief and said towards Zhuo Qing: “Let us go, it is already late.”
Walking to pass through the inside of the prison, Zhuo Qing speculatively said: “We will look for Li Zhi tomorrow?”
Gu Yun nodded her head: “En, summing it up to see, he has the biggest suspicion. But I still want to examine that several people’s confession transcripts first.”
“Now?” Zhuo Qing lowly shouted: “Miss, it is already in the wee hours.”
Gu Yun only smiled and answered: “You go back with Lou Xi Yan first, I will wait in front of the Prime Minister’s manor at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning.” Only three days, she must find the person who hid the murder weapon after all!
“Fine.” Zhuo Qing was helpless, Gu Yun was absolutely a workaholic, trying to persuade her was simply a waste of time.
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The moment that Zhuo Qing and Gu Yun came out, Lou Xi Yan already asked two chariots to come, Gu Yun was sticking to the side of Zhuo Qing’s ear, lowly said: “Qing, you really have a dog poop’s luck, you have met this very good man, hold on to him firmly.” After she finished speaking, she still blinked towards her, Zhuo Qing remained silent, what kind of nonsense was this analogy, the meaning of what she said was that Lou Xi Yan was a dog poop?! (See 2 below)
Not feeling like bothering with her, Zhuo Qing got into the chariot immediately, she only heard that Gu Yun and Lou Xi Yan were talking outside the chariot but had no idea what they were saying. A moment later, Lou Xi Yan’s smiling expression entered the chariot, and the chariot ran out slowly.
Somewhat curious, Zhuo Qing still asked: “What did she say to you just now?”
“She said……” Pausing for a while to tempt Zhuo Qing’s appetite, Lou Xi Yan with a smile on his face looked towards her, answered softly: “She said to make me love you dearly and nicely.”
Love you dearly and….. nicely……
@,*,$, What kind of words were these!! Zhuo Qing cursed at Gu Yun in her heart at once!
The chariot arrived at the Prime Minister’s manor very quickly, both of them walked in together, the night was very deep, besides the several lanterns for the lighting, everything was already fast asleep. Zhuo Qing looked one glance at the man who was accompanying her for the whole night, sincerely said: “Xi Yan, thank you for today.” If it was not because of him, it was possible that she could not see Qian Jing so smoothly.
Walking the trail alongside with her quietly, Lou Xi Yan’s footsteps were slow, faintly answered: “The matter of the Ministry of Justice is originally under my supervision, you do not need to thank me for this matter.”
Zhuo Qing did not say anything again, she seemed somewhat get used to it that he would not let people to have a burden to feel his warm like this. Both of them bypassed the front courtyard, just saw Jing Sa’s black face was waiting in that place.
“Master.” Jing Sa met up at the side of Lou Xi Yan’s ear, did not know what he said, but Lou Xi Yan nodded tranquilly. Even though from Jing Sa’s always cold face and Lou Xi Yan’s eternal tranquil eyes, she could not see anything exceptional but it was already this late. She felt faintly that some matter was certainly happened, Zhuo Qing asked anxiously: “Did anything happen?”
Lou Xi Yan shook his head lightly and answered: “It is nothing, it is late, you should go rest early.”
Fine, he was not willing to say it, that meant that he could solve the problem, Zhuo Qing did not ask anymore question, crossed over them, she walked over to Zhai Xing pavilion. Only walking away for several steps, she heard the sound of a peculiar woman’s call: “Yo~ you are finally willing to come back.”
Zhuo Qing narrowed her eyes, it was Xue Xian Xin. She was so tired, she did not have the mood to accompany her to play. Zhuo Qing ignored and wanted to bypass her, but she did not let her go passing her unexpectedly, Zhuo Qing was annoyed.
She had not started talking yet, Lou Xi Yan already walked to come over. Seeing Lou Xi Yan, Xue Xian Xin changed her countenance immediately, grudgingly said: “Xi Yan, you are surely exhausted, right, your dad has been waiting for you for the whole evening at Qian Ting pavilion.”
Dad? Was Lou Xi Yan’s father not the General who guarded the west border, how did he come back?! With regard to this, Zhuo Qing felt very strange all along, Lou Xi Yan was under one person but above ten of thousands of people’s Prime Minister, how did his father still want to guard the border area?! It was said that his father requested it on his own, really a strange person!
Lou Xi Yan coldly answered: “I know.”
Zhuo Qing, herself did not know what the matter was, just barely wanted to leave, Xue Xian Xin stopped her way with an optimistic expression on her face, she said: “Hold on, you can not go, Laoye (it’s very common that a wife calls her husband ‘Laoye’-姥爷 in the ancient time, it can be translated as old master) wants to meet with you.”