C299 Tracing

Yu Ying paused, hesitating as if she was considering something.

Xiao Yi Xiu also noticed that something was off. He looked at her coldly. "Princess Wangfei asked you a question, why didn't you say so?"

Yu Ying could only briefly narrate her suspicions towards Rui Zhu, before saying, "She said that she only left the mansion for a while, and would return soon. Who would have thought …"

Xiao Yi Xiu clenched his fists tightly as he glared at her, making her lower her head in guilt.

"Jinshu, how long has it been since you disappeared? If you don't ask my wife, are you still planning on hiding it from me?"

Yu Ying pursed her lips and did not say a word.

Xiao Yi Xiu waved his hand and told her to call Suifeng to come in. He ordered his spies to search everywhere for Jin Shu's whereabouts. He felt that there was something fishy about this matter. Just as he was about to order someone to summon Rui Zhu, he was stopped by Gu Qing Li. "Don't do it yet. If there's really something wrong with Rui Zhu, I don't think you'll be able to find out anything by summoning her."

Rui Zhu and Xing'er had originally been sent to monitor Wu Yu and Zhou Zhen. Of the two, one was crazy, the other had always been a regular person, he had been a little careless, he never thought that these two surveillance personnel would have problems first, he naturally had to consider what to do next.

After Yu Ying left, she thought about Wu Yu's words and thought about it for a long time. She decided not to say it out loud.

As she was thinking, she saw the wind pull her into the yard. She looked over in astonishment, and by the light of the lamp, she could vaguely make out that it was Lu Linghui.

Entering the estate twice a day was a rare occurrence.

Lu Linghui was quite surprised whenhe heard that Jin Shu had gone missing. After pondering for a moment, she said, "I'll immediately bring people to patrol the city. We have to find her as soon as possible, in case something changes."

"That's fine too, of course you can mobilize more people." In reality, Xiao Yi Xiu had also sent people to search for Jin Shu. Although she was only a servant girl, what she found was definitely not ordinary.

"Also, you must check out that makeup shop."

"Understood." After Lu Linghui had answered the order, he told him about what he had found out in the outer city today.

He passed through a shop in the middle, and was then assigned by the people of the imperial camp. Among them, the most vulnerable were the ones who delivered the medicine, and the ones who were responsible for washing the dishes. These people were actually not the soldiers of the imperial camp, but rather some servants recruited from the surroundings, and there were even some villagers who were not sick.

"Villagers?" Gu Qingli hadn't thought that things would get complicated. Most of the patients were relatives of the villagers, and it was impossible for them to mess with them. It was hard for other servants to do the same under their noses.

Lu Linghui gave a wry smile, "Actually, it's not hard to investigate. I've already found him because he's dead."

Gu Qingli's eyes widened.

"Three servants were killed, all of them were recruited from the surroundings. No one including the townspeople, they were killed by two seriously ill patients who were bitten to death during medicine delivery. The corpses were all bloody and their throats gushed out like geysers …"

Gu Qing Li couldn't hold it in and started retching. She didn't eat much in the evening. She only spat out some sour water, but her expression was extremely unsightly.

Xiao Yixiu stroked her back as he rubbed the corners of her mouth and said, "Don't be so detailed."

"Oh." Lu Linghui was startled. He had always thought that this wangfei was strong enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with men. He had never expected her to vomit like this after hearing just a few words.

When she left, she had entrusted everything to Liu Yanyu. Those patients who had experienced violent attacks were all locked up by themselves, and after taking medicine for a few days, they improved a little. The people outside were all normal patients who had never been inclined to attack.

"Those two patients should also have been bribed. They … Killed while the soldiers were stopping the violence. "

To be able to bribe a patient, he really did not hold anything back. Gu Qingli took a deep breath and asked, "Are the people who killed them suspicious?"

"They're all from the Fire Hou Battalion."

"What a coincidence." Xiao Yi Xiu sneered. He didn't think that Xiao Yi Jin had interfered, but rather that these people might have already been bribed by someone else.

"Go and check the background of all those who were on duty that night, especially the people you've been interacting with recently."

"Already begun." Lu Linghui's reaction speed was quite fast, so he did not need to give any instructions.

After leaving the Residence of Mo, he thought for a moment. With the excuse of finding the plague as his reason, he set up spies to patrol all over the capital to find Jin Shu.

In the darkness of the night, the rain had already turned into flakes of snow. A few soldiers of the imperial army opened the tightly shut powder shop and went in to search. There were no signs of people inside, and they even knocked on the walls everywhere, but they didn't find anything out of the ordinary.

Afterwards, they all came out to report their findings, but to no avail.

Lu Linghui, who was mounted on the horse, was dressed in black and did not wear any armor. It seemed like he had already merged with the darkness of the night.

Similar to him, there were also a few people from the Dark Pavilion who were looking around the surroundings, inspecting the surroundings bit by bit.

"Lord Lu, come over and take a look." A person from the Dark Pavilion called out.

Lu Linghui got off the horse and went closer to check. He saw an arrow and a few incomprehensible marks, it seemed that someone had hastily drawn it with black charcoal.

"It was painted by Mei Di." The man touched it with his finger and said with certainty, "It is the eyebrow and pen sold in this shop. This is a secret set down by the prince. It should be that Lady Jin Shu predicted that there might be an accident and directed us to follow it up."

Lu Ling raised his eyebrows. He never thought that Jin Shu would have such a scheming mind. It was no wonder that Xiao Yi Xiu's servant girl was so extraordinary.

They followed the signs found by the people in the Dark Pavilion all the way to the bottom of an alley.

There were several families living in the alley next to the road. Lu Linghui felt troubled when he found out about this.

The people of the Dark Pavilion looked around to see if there were any other imprints, while Lu Linghui's family slowly walked past them. Finally, they stopped in front of a stone lion at the entrance of a house and lowered their heads to check.

Someone picked up a lantern and held up an umbrella to help him clean up the snow in front of the stone lion and the drumstick. Finally, he saw a small trace of rouge on the side of the drumstick, staining the surrounding snow with rouge.

"Deputy, how did you know there was a mark here?"

"I can smell the fragrance of the makeup. It's the kind that came from the shop just now."

"Tsk tsk, you really know a lot about women. None of us can smell it." A few soldiers by his side mocked him.

However, Lu Linghui was not interested in joking. He frowned and said, "Go in and search the patient."

Those few people immediately restrained their smiles and started knocking on the door.

Following that, someone repeatedly cursed as he opened the door. Seeing Lu Linghui and the others approaching menacingly, he could not help but stop his cursing. Looking up and down, he knew that they were no ordinary people.

Lu Linghui only took a glance at the incoming person. It was an ordinary middle-aged man wearing underwear and a robe. It seemed that this was indeed a residential area.