Chapter 67 Prison Murder
When Chu Yangyang stepped into the embroidered shoes barefoot, Luo Xifeng was already standing in the corridor with a medicine box.
"Lord Luo, I'm afraid we have to go to the Dali Temple prison."
Chu Yangyang said anxiously as she put on her clothes.
The morning mist soaked Luo Xifeng's crow-blue robe, making his brows and eyes look even colder. "Well, I'm ready."
The carriage rolled over the cobblestone road, and the smell of blood mixed with the musty smell of prison hit us in the face.
Jiang Ning had been waiting in the prison for a long time, his face full of guilt. "Doctor Luo, Princess, this is all my fault. Who could have known something like this would happen?"
Luo Xifeng, carrying the medicine box on his back, said first, "Go in and take a look first."
As soon as they entered, they smelled a stench of corpse.
Chu Yangyang looked up and saw Juxiang's body hanging under the beam, swaying in the breeze.
She unconsciously took two steps behind Luo Xifeng.
Luo Xifeng walked forward and looked up to take a closer look. "Hanging is supposed to lift the lower jaw, but she clenched her teeth. The strangulation marks clearly indicate she was hanged after death."
Chu Yangyang replied, "The murderer couldn't wait to kill and silence the witness."
She thought for a moment, then turned to Jiang Ning and asked, "Did anyone come to the prison yesterday?"
Jiang Ning shouted, "Come here, call the jailer who was on duty yesterday."
Soon, the head jailer was brought in.
"Your servant greets Lord Jiang." The head jailer was a middle-aged uncle who was used to reading people's expressions. He immediately bowed to Luo Xifeng and Chu Yangyang again, "Your servant greets the two nobles."
Jiang Ning asked directly, "Tell me, who came here yesterday?"
The head jailer stammered, "Yesterday...didn't Lord Jiang send someone here yesterday?"
Jiang Ning frowned, "When did I send someone here?"
The head jailer glanced at Luo Xifeng and Chu Yangyang secretly, not daring to say anything more. His eyes drifted towards Jiang Ning again, as if to say, "Master Jiang, I dare not speak of your affairs."
Jiang Ning immediately caught the hint from his eyes and suddenly said angrily, "How dare you! If you have something to say, just say it directly! Why are you trying to hide it?"
The head jailer was so frightened that he kowtowed repeatedly and was a little confused for a moment.
After a while, he slowly spoke, "Yesterday, a guard dressed in the uniform of Lord Jiang's personal guard said he wanted to visit the prison. I thought it was the middle of the night, how could anyone come to visit the prison, so I sternly refused."
"But unexpectedly, he took out a token from the palace and said that the palace master had ordered Lord Jiang to send him to check on the prisoners. I had seen the token before and knew it was real, so I agreed to let him in."
"I never thought that something like this would happen when I was patrolling the prison early in the morning."
The jailer's face was filled with worry. "And... one more thing."
Seeing him hesitating, Jiang Ning said, "Hurry up and tell me."
"Yesterday... Xiao Renyu, who was sent to prison together with Miss Juxiang yesterday, was also attacked by the murderer last night. Now... now he is unconscious." The jailer's voice became lower and lower.
"What?!" Chu Yangyang suddenly raised her voice.
She is the heroine of this book. Even if she deviates from the main plot, she should not die.
Chu Yangyang remembered that in the original book, Xiao Renyu had also been imprisoned, but with the memory of Xiao Renyu after her rebirth, she used the powerful to rescue her.
I don't remember any information about Xiao Renyu being attacked.
"Where is Xiao Renyu now?" Chu Yangyang asked anxiously.
The jailer replied, "He's still...still in prison."
"Lord Luo, let's go see Sister Renyu first." Chu Yangyang pulled Luo Xifeng and left.
Although Luo Xifeng followed Chu Yangyang obediently, he was staring at the back of her head in a daze. This was too abnormal.
If it were the Chu Yangyang of the past, if she knew that the person who harmed her was in trouble, she would definitely seek revenge and would be polite if she didn't step on the face of her fallen enemy a few times.
Now he actually asked him to help Xiao Renyu with treatment.
Can human nature really change?
In the cell next door, Xiao Renyu was seen unconscious.
Luo Xifeng leaned over to the side of Xiao Renyu's neck, and when his fingertips touched a faint pulse, he immediately lifted up her messy hair.
There was a noticeable depression where the blood clot had formed on the back of the head. He took out a pair of silver scissors and cut the cloth apart. The edge of the wound was a jagged contusion. "The blunt force caused the skull to crack, and silver needles were needed to dissolve the blood clot."
Chu Yangyang clenched the iron bars, "Can she be saved?"
"I won't die." Luo Xifeng opened the medicine box and took out the golden wound medicine, then paused. "When did the princess care about the life or death of her enemies?"
Chu Yangyang blurted out, "When she died, the book collapsed."
"What book?" Luo Xifeng frowned. Why did she always talk nonsense that he couldn't understand?
Realizing she had spoken out of turn, Chu Yangyang quickly explained, "I was wrong. I just thought Sister Renyu might have misunderstood me, which is why she framed me. But I'm fine, right? This isn't a capital crime, and I can't bear to see people being arbitrarily deprived of their lives."
Suddenly, a profound truth came to his mind, which made Luo Xifeng fall into deep thought.
"Don't stop, continue the treatment quickly." Chu Yangyang urged.
The medicine powder sprinkled on the wound, and the unconscious Xiao Renyu suddenly twitched.
Luo Xifeng pressed the acupoint behind her ear with two fingers, and inserted the silver needle into the Baihui acupoint with his other hand accurately.
As black blood oozed from her nasal cavity, the purple color of the woman's lips gradually faded.
"The blood clot in the brain has been drained. He will wake up within two hours." As he wiped the silver needle, he saw Chu Yangyang breathe a sigh of relief. The crisp sound of the porcelain bottle resting on the straw mat was particularly clear.
Chu Yangyang looked at the unconscious Xiao Renyu and was extremely worried. She had originally wanted Xiao Renyu to be imprisoned to suffer and learn a lesson.
There was no intention of killing her.
Chu Yangyang is only worried about one thing now, if Xiao Renyu dies, will she die with him.
She has been working hard until now just to survive.
In order to please Luo Xifeng, she even endured being bitten by a pig yesterday.
If she fails, she will be more wronged than Dou E.
Thinking of this, Chu Yangyang asked, "Lord Luo, given Sister Renyu's current condition, it's probably difficult to heal her wounds in such a cold and damp environment, right?"
Luo Xifeng said calmly, "Well, Miss Xiao needs to rest."
Chu Yangyang then turned to Jiang Ning and said, "Master Jiang, how about this? Let's take Sister Renyu back to the Prime Minister's Mansion first. Once she recovers from her injuries, we'll bring her back for your trial and sentencing."
Jiang Ning hesitated for a moment and replied, "After all, what Xiao Renyu did was also a matter within the Prime Minister's residence. If the princess, as the victim, does not pursue the matter, the Dali Temple will not investigate further. So, we will listen to what the princess says."
Chu Yangyang nodded to express her gratitude.
At this moment, there was a rustling sound outside the prison door.
The young jailer led the way holding a lantern, followed by a man in gray wearing a conical hat.
As soon as the man took off his straw raincoat, Chu Yangyang recognized the Pisces jade pendant around his waist.
"I'm here on the orders of the Ministry of Justice to investigate the wanted criminal." The secret guard spoke in a deliberately hoarse voice.
Jiang Ning raised his eyebrows and said unhappily, "When will my Dali Temple's cases be brought to the Ministry of Justice?"
The secret guard did not answer Jiang Ning, but continued to look for his target.
The secret guard's expression froze when he caught a glimpse of the empty straw mat.
Xiao Renyu, wrapped in a wet cloth, had been helped onto a bamboo stretcher by Luo Xifeng, with fresh medicine powder still on his hair.
Chu Yangyang saw the clue at a glance. This person's purpose was the same as theirs.
Chu Yangyang looked at the secret guard and said coldly, "You've arrived just in time. Would you like to go with me to the Prime Minister's Residence to wait for Sister Renyu to wake up?"
The secret guard's eyes flickered. "Since the Prime Minister's Office has already taken over, the Ministry of Justice should not interfere."
"What's going on?" She suddenly took a half step closer and lowered her voice. "If you don't go and see what's going on, how are you going to explain this to your master?"
The bamboo hat trembled violently, and the secret guard Canghou retreated. "I am only following orders to inspect. I will take my leave now."
The straw raincoat swept across the cobwebs in the corner of the wall and disappeared into the dark corridor in an instant.
Luo Xifeng watched the secret guard disappear and said, "The Pisces Jade Pendant belongs to the Anti-Theft Division of the Ministry of Justice."
Chu Yangyang glanced at Luo Xifeng and asked, "Whose man is this?"
He pursed his lips and remained silent, as if lost in thought. A question rang in his mind, "How could Miss Xiao convince the Third Prince to help her..."
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