Queen Flower

The cooks were chatting and chatting when a man walked in at the door, "Hurry up, what nonsense."

Jiang Lan clenched her hand tightly when she heard the familiar voice. She didn't turn around, but just opened the medicine jar and looked into the water.

The person who came was Caihuan. She swept her eyes and stayed on Jiang Lan for a moment. When she saw her delicate face, she looked away, "Is your wife's medicinal meal ready? Don't think that my wife can't embarrass you now. ." She spoke in the same sharp, slightly mean voice.

Over there, the food that had been prepared earlier was put into the basket, and Caihuan left with the basket.

Jiang Lan remembered how she and Caihuan got along, and it couldn't be said that they were good friends, but is there really no such thing as friendship? She wanted to run up to catch her and ask, why did you frame her like this in the first place? Why is this? Even if she could figure out who the murderer was, she couldn't figure out what Caihuan's purpose was in this matter. If she was forced, why is she still alive now? what's going on.

Jiang Lan pondered, there are a lot of things to do now, go to the scene of the crime, go to see Jin Zhi secretly, and go to Shen Qun's outer study to scout, but now the most important thing is to immediately talk to Chu Shi. She was eager to know what happened to Chu Qingcheng.

Thinking about it like this, she didn't even bother to decoct the medicine, and it was finally done. Regardless of the quality, she immediately returned to the hospital with the basket.

She handed the hot medicine bowl to Xia Henqiu, and when he finished drinking, she was ready to discuss things.

Xia Henqiu took the medicine bowl and glanced at it, shook his head, and put it on the table without drinking it. He sat up, his face was still sallow, but his movements were very relaxed, not like the state of being tortured by illness at all.

"How are you?" Jiang Lan asked softly.

"Yeah." Xia Henqiu nodded, with a smile in his long and narrow eyes, "If I'm not good, I won't be able to drink your fried medicine, and the heat is not right."

Jiang Lan smiled awkwardly, and immediately returned to the topic, "I want to go out to Chu Shi, what's your idea?"

"Who do you want to see?" Xia Henqiu asked.

"I want to see the shopkeeper Luo of Liu Xianju." Jiang Lan replied, this person is the most familiar, and Lan Sheng should be there.

Xia Hen smiled lightly, "It's easy, just say I have a bad appetite and want to eat Liu Xianju's signature dish, you and Xia Zi go together."

This is a good idea, and I can stay in Liuxianju for a long time.

Jiang Lan and Xia Zi left the Shen residence, and the carriage arrived at the Chu-style Liuxianju.

She went upstairs to the private room and asked the shopkeeper to see her. Shopkeeper Luo entered the room, and Xia Zi stood at the door.

"My son wants to pack the signature dishes here." Jiang Lan began to order and said secretly, "Manager Luo, don't be nervous, I'm Jiang Feng."

"Okay, do you want any signature dishes? There are many good dishes in Liuxianju." The shopkeeper Luo was very excited, and said in a low voice, "Madam, you are finally back, the son has been here for a long time, I am really worried..."

He wiped his eyes, "The government has never allowed visits to prisons, but we can be sure that he is still alive."

He was still alive because Zuo Xianye had already changed hands, and they didn't know it, Jiang Lan gritted his teeth, "Where's Lan Sheng?"

"He sneaked into the cell and became a prison guard, but he couldn't see the son," said the shopkeeper Luo.

"I want to go into the cell, you ask Lan Sheng to pick it up, I will come tomorrow." Jiang Lan thought about it and said, she wanted to see his condition, in fact, she really wanted to go to prison, but for Chu Qingcheng, Chu Shi and the Chu family are more important than himself, so it's not feasible.

Jiang Lan returned to the Shen residence with a heavy food box, Xia Henqiu was still lying on the bed, and Shen Qun had just come to visit him.

"How?" Xia Henqiu said.

"I'm going to go to jail tomorrow." Jiang Lan opened the food box, took a few dishes and put them on the table, and then took the rest of the dishes outside and gave them to the servants.

The sky darkened quickly, the three of them finished their meals, Xia Zi waited on Xia Henqiu to rest, Jiang Lan went back to the house, found the black clothes that had been prepared long ago, and saw that it was almost dead of night and was ready to leave.

She opened the door and found a person standing at the door, actually Xia Henqiu in black. He didn't speak, just looked at her.

Jiang Lan did not refuse, and it would be good to have a helper. She flew through the courtyard gate and arrived at the hut in the inner courtyard garden, where Shen Lian died.

The doors and windows are closed, and it looks like this place is deserted. Since the murder here, it is estimated that no one dares to come here again.

Jiang Lan pushed the door and went in. There was a smell of dust in the room, but the overall decoration was the same as last time, a round table, a few chairs, and nothing else.

The two looked around carefully in the dark. The windows were all closed, and there was no damage. The walls and ground were solid, and there were no secret passages. Xia Hen jumped up the beam in the autumn, and did not see any traces of the tiles moving. Even if it was made up later, it would still be a big hole to go out alone, and it would be difficult to make it seamless.

Jiang Lan stood in front of the door, looking at the door, carefully recalling the scene of that day.

There was no murder in the secret room at all, it was just an illusion. They broke into the door that day, and the loud noise awakened the misty her. She was unconscious at the time, so she couldn't describe the scene at that time accurately. But in fact, as soon as they came in, they expected that no one was the murderer except her. Who insisted that? It's Master Chang. Whoever came in first was Shen Qun.

What if the door was not fastened at all, and if the latch had been broken long ago? As long as she leaned against the door and opened it vigorously, it could completely disperse. The key was that she couldn't tell the difference at the time. She thought the latch was broken and fell to the ground naturally. The reason why she didn't doubt him was because she didn't believe he would kill her own sister. Even now, she is still skeptical, because she has always felt that Shen Qun's brother-sister relationship to Shen Lian is real. But if this is the only way to cover up and frame the blame, then only Shen Qun can do it, unless there is another way.

Xia Henqiu stood beside her and shook her head at her, looking at the half-closed door, although they had already guessed this way, they still felt incomprehensible.

When the two returned to the room, Jiang Lan thought about it and said, "At first, Hong Ling said that Jin Zhi was here to spread the word, but she came instead of Jin Zhi. I didn't want to go, so Caihuan came to force me to go. She was killed and silenced, so she should have told the truth, then Jin Zhi told a lie, perhaps because of coercion, or maybe she was just timid, so later she felt guilty and could not afford to be ill.” After all, she and Jin Zhi Still friends, the only contradiction lies in Shen Qun.

Xia Henqiu took over the topic, "If Jin Zhi told the truth and Shen Lian asked you to go, what difference would it make? You are still the murderer, but it has changed from premeditated to sudden."

"If Jinzhi came and told me to go, I would definitely go, and then Jinzhi was silenced, then there would be no flaws, and there would be no color rings." Jiang Lan said.

"So Caihuan obeyed Shen Qun's orders, but she is Chu Huaiyu's marrying girl, and she is the child of the Chu family, so she will blame Chu Qingcheng like this?" Xia Henqiu knocked on the table.

"This is where it doesn't make sense. Could it be that there are two groups of people who are plotting against me?" Jiang Lan laughed at himself.

But after she said this, both of them were startled, and suddenly they felt very reasonable. Maybe that was the case. In the darkness, is there still someone watching and guiding the whole incident?