Criminal investigation in ancient times

My name is Zhan Qing, and I am a bodyguard.

My job is to take care of the prince's daily life and protect the prince's safety.

In fact, Zhanqing is just a name given to me by the prince. It's been too long, so I don't remember it.I only remember when Master led me down the mountain and pointed at that person and said to me: "From now on, you will follow the prince, think twice before acting, don't be reckless, remember that you are a slave, and you are always ready to use your life to protect the prince. .”

At that time, I didn't understand. I just nodded and turned around to see a teenager standing quietly behind me, looking at me sharply.That day I wore a blue robe, and the prince gave me the name Zhanqing.

It was only later that I realized that people like us have been groomed for the princes since childhood, and our lives are also tied to the master. If something happens to the master, we cannot live alone.Fortunately, I got a master with a good personality.

Although the prince is young, he is very embarrassing to the emperor. I often go to the palace with him to meet the emperor.The old emperor was very old but shrewd. When he saw me for the first time, he said: "You have to protect Yin'er well. If something goes wrong, you can't even raise your head to see me." I was startled Jumping, plopping kneeling on the ground and kowtow, his legs are so soft that it doesn't look like his own.

The prince seemed to see my embarrassment, he stretched out his hand and said, "Of course Zhanqing can do it, right." I nodded hastily, not daring to look at the emperor's face, my heart was beating wildly.

Out of the palace, the prince patted me on the shoulder and said: "Since you follow, I will take you as my confidant. You must not do anything to betray me, otherwise I will not be able to protect you."

I nodded hurriedly. When the master came down the mountain, he told me face to face that a good slave should not serve the second master. If you have a different heart, no one will believe you, and you will be eliminated sooner or later.I cherish my little life very much, so I absolutely dare not do things that will kill me.

Staying with the prince is much more pleasant than being on the mountain. Except for serving the prince to wash and eat, he will not bother me. Sometimes he will give me something when he is in a good mood. Although I don’t need money. But in my heart I am happy.

Gradually, the court began to be turbulent. The fourth prince and the fifth prince were rejected by the emperor one after another, and they focused on cultivating the prince. The prince was very surprised but never thought that he might be made a prince, but he was already on the cusp. There are more than a dozen hidden guards and I personally protect the prince, but there are still constant thrills.

Once someone poisoned the tea and no one noticed it. The prince was about to drink the tea but was interrupted by another group of assassins. The teacup fell to the ground and everyone ignored it.Only after the gang of assassins were settled did they realize that the cat in the house licked the tea on the ground and died of medicine.

The prince turned pale with fright, and we were also terrified. We searched the mansion thoroughly and found the young man who poisoned him. Before we could ask the young man, he took poison and committed suicide.

Since that time, whenever the lord ate something, I tasted it first, and only let him eat it if I have nothing to do.The prince felt a little sorry for me, but the situation at that time was critical and helpless.Just like this, he still didn't escape.

That day was the birthday of Concubine Yang, and Concubine Yang was the prince's own mother.The relationship between mother and son has always been good. The prince changed into new clothes early in the morning and hurried to the palace to pay his mother's birthday. During the dinner, Princess Yang said that seeing the prince's face was not good, she made soup for him to drink.Naturally, I couldn't test the poison myself in the palace. I watched the prince drink the soup and asked for a bowl from Princess Yang with a smile.

After returning to the mansion that day, the prince suddenly became seriously ill, and his health became worse and worse. Sometimes he would bleed when he coughed and coughed!Called the imperial doctor to see, they all shook their heads and sighed, saying that the prince might have contracted tuberculosis.I was terrified in my heart, if the prince died of illness...then my life would be lost!

The prince's body is getting weaker and weaker, and sometimes he lies on the bed all day long, but I can't do anything about it. I remember the master once said that we are the master's subordinates. If the prince dies, I have no value and can only follow. die.

I didn't want to die, and I didn't want the prince to die, so I went out secretly to find out if there was a cure for tuberculosis.The hard work paid off, and finally I learned from an old doctor that there is a doctor who treats tuberculosis in Cangzhou, and he has cured many people.

When I told the prince, the prince was very happy and sent someone to find the doctor.

It's just that the old doctor checked the prince's pulse for a long time, stroked his beard and said, "This old man is not good at medicine, so it's hard to tell that the prince is suffering from tuberculosis."

The prince was shocked and tugged at his skirt and said: "All the imperial physicians in the palace said that I have tuberculosis, why do you say no, then you tell me what disease I have!"

The old doctor was startled and said tremblingly: "I think the prince has been poisoned, but this poison is quite similar to tuberculosis, presumably the imperial doctors didn't notice..."

After sending the old doctor away, the prince was silent for two days, then stopped the prescriptions prescribed in the palace, and ate some nourishing and nourishing things, but his body was much stronger than before.But suddenly bad news came from the palace, the emperor collapsed!The fourth prince was hailed as the emperor.

The palace was in chaos that night, and many ministers and eunuchs died.I don't know what happened, but the fourth prince ascended the throne on the second day, and all the officials came to congratulate him.The prince also had to pack up and go to meet the new emperor.

Fourth prince, no, the new emperor has a very strange expression when he sees the prince's face, with complacency mixed with happiness and a hint of guilt...

The prince's health is getting worse and worse, he is only awake for three or four hours a day, and he is asleep most of the rest of the time.Reluctantly, I only went back to the mountain once to ask my master for help. The old master said: "Since the prince is not a disease, then don't treat it according to the method of curing the disease. The Liuzhou He family's detoxification medical skills are unparalleled in the world. You may as well go there and try it. "

After returning to the palace and telling the prince, the prince said: "You go in person, don't let the news out."

It took nearly a month to come and go, and bring Master He to Kyoto.The old doctor He's expression sank as soon as he checked the pulse of the prince.He didn't say that the prince would understand that he was probably poisoned rather than sick.

But He Xiangru was quite old and had a lot of thoughts in his heart, so he didn't say whether he could be diagnosed and treated, but just asked the imperial doctor in the palace.

Two days later, he suddenly bid farewell to the prince in a flustered expression, saying that the disease could not be cured.The prince didn't force him to stay with him, he rewarded him with some money and asked him to go back someday.

On the day He Xiangru returned to Liuzhou, the lord coughed and told me to protect him along the way, lest anything happen.

Sure enough, before the carriage left the capital, it was stopped by a group of bandits, and several guards driving the carriage were severely injured by them.He Xiangru was also knocked unconscious and thrown into the water, fearing that he would drown.

I hid in the dark, and when I saw them leaving, I hurriedly jumped down from the pool to rescue He Xiangru, then took off his clothes and put them on a bodyguard who was similar in stature, pushed him into the pool, and carried He Xiangru back to the pool. palace.

He Xiangru was shocked when he woke up, and the prince told him what had happened. He Xiangru also knew that if he left the palace, he might continue to be hunted down, so he had to stay in the palace to detoxify the prince.

To say that the He family in Liuzhou is really well-deserved of its reputation, since he and the prince were diagnosed and treated, the prince's body has gradually recovered, and he can gradually get out of bed and walk, and he doesn't often cough up blood, but the poison is suppressed, and the poison will still occur every month once.

The first time I saw the prince's poisonous hair really frightened me. I saw him lying on the ground twitching all over, his face blue.

Dr. He hurriedly asked me to carry the prince to the bed and perform acupuncture.Dr. He took out a pack of silver needles and pierced the prince full, black blood flowed all over the needle holes, and the silver needles could only be pulled out after the blood was exhausted.After that, the prince was weak for four or five days before recovering.I thought to myself: Isn't this the same as when a woman comes to sunflower water, she has to come once a month? !

Speaking of Mr. Zhang, I didn't have a deep impression of him at first, but the prince and Wen Taifu's son went out to participate in some poetry meeting and came back and said: "This son is better than me, and I don't know where to find him." The poems I got are just a waste of time, but this poem is not bad."

Later, one of the children in the poetry club was killed suddenly, and the prince was also involved, but because of his identity, he did not call him to Dali Temple. Later, the case was broken by Dali Temple and the prince was also cleared of suspicion.

That day when I went to the street with the prince, I suddenly met a frightened horse. The horse galloped wildly on the road, frightening people to run away, but one child was probably so frightened that he stood there dumbfounded and didn't know how to dodge, but another child rushed over push him away.The prince looked at the child in a daze and hurriedly told me to kill the horse.

I took out the hidden weapon and hit the horse on the neck. The horse fell to the ground and saved the child's life.

But he didn't expect the child to recognize the prince and came forward to thank him. The prince smiled and said a few words to him.I silently looked at the light in Wang Ye's eyes and sighed in my heart: This is the first time I have seen Wang Ye look like this since he was poisoned.From the mouth of the prince, I learned that the child's surname is Zhang, and he is a relative of an adult family.I thought this incident was over, but I didn't expect that a homicide case occurred in the school, and this child surnamed Zhang was involved, and the prince was also sent by the emperor to supervise the case.

The prince sent me to check the room of the deceased, but I was surprised that this kid surnamed Zhang was doing nothing in the room.

Later, because this child was the first to discover the deceased, he was also called by Dali Temple to help investigate the case. Unexpectedly, this kid was so clever that he analyzed the matter logically.The prince praised him many times in private.

Gradually, the prince became more and more interested in the child, and the relationship between the two became better and better.I was a little worried that the prince would be emotional with that child, but the worrying thing finally came.The prince may not have noticed that when he mentioned the child, he unconsciously put on a smile on his face, and sent me to investigate many things about the child in private.After hearing that the child lost his father and mother, his family property was encroached on by the clansman, so angry that he almost sent someone to Xuzhou to find those people to settle the score.After thinking about it for a while, I felt that I was too reckless, but afterwards I got closer to Zhang Rui.

Maybe Zhang Rui's child may have been hit by a murder case. Wherever he went, there was a murder case. Immediately after the prince invited him out for dinner, he bumped into Sima Yun's son jumping off the stairs...

The topics mentioned by the prince gradually revolved around Zhang Rui, but I began to worry about the prince's health. Dr. He once said that if the prince doesn't rest in peace, he may die soon.But how can the prince rest so much?

Zhang Rui left the capital and was recommended to go to Tongzhou as the magistrate. I secretly rejoiced that this time the prince can finally rest in peace.Unexpectedly, the prince seemed to suddenly return to the days when he was just poisoned, and he was depressed all day long.The emperor had asked him to enter the palace several times, to inquire about the prince's body overtly and secretly, and he was relieved when he learned that the poison on Zhou Yin's body had been removed.

One day, news suddenly came out from the palace that Concubine Yang might be in trouble, and she hoped to see Zhou Yin.After the prince knew that the poison on his body was poisoned by Concubine Yang, he never went to see her again. Concubine Yang still sat on the position she was looking forward to as a concubine.

I saw the prince's face was pale, so I wanted to dismiss the matter, but I didn't want the prince to nod his head and say: "Then let's go and have a look, it's been so many years."

When we arrived in the harem, I accompanied the prince to meet the concubine. In just a few years, that beautiful woman had become so thin that she was lying on the bed without the strength to even sit up.

Zhou Yin and her looked at each other for a while and sat on the chair beside them without speaking.

Concubine Yang stretched out her withered hand and said, "A Yin... it's my concubine who is sorry for you."

Zhou Yin sneered and said, "That's right, I'm sorry, didn't I survive this too, I really disappointed my mother and concubine."

Concubine Yang closed her eyes and trembled at the corners of her mouth for a long while before she said: "I didn't intend to poison you at the beginning, but just wanted to give you a medicine that would make you weak, so that the emperor would not make you the crown prince, but I didn't expect that medicine to be taken by someone. Lost your bag...well, I did it to you and I did it to you."

Zhou Yin was silent for a while and got up to leave. Since then, she has never mentioned Concubine Yang again.Not long after, news came out from the palace that the concubine had died.

The prince misses Mr. Zhang more and more, and I unknowingly have an unusual feeling for the prince...

I know this feeling is bad, I am a slave, I can only serve the prince, and I can't have any plans for the prince... But how can emotions be controlled.Seeing the prince read the letter Zhang Rui wrote to him over and over again, I was so jealous that I went crazy, but I couldn't do anything, I was just a guard.

The emperor finally agreed to let the prince and the governor go with him to Tongzhou to suppress the bandits. The prince was so happy that he stayed up all night, and dragged me to talk to me about Zhang Rui for half the night.

I had a smile on my face, but I was a little sad in my heart. This relationship was over before it even started...

***

In the past few days, the prince and Mr. Zhang are going to travel again. Mr. Zhang calls this travel, and he only brought two secret guards with him.Thinking of the past, many years have passed.

The prince's health has been getting better and better since he was detoxified, and the love between the two is enviable to others.I watched Mr. Zhang rubbed his waist and climbed into the carriage. The prince came over and patted me with a smirk on his face, and said, "You can take care of me at home. Don't let Uncle Han get tired when he is old."

I nodded and waved to the two of them. The prince sat in front of the carriage and drove the carriage in a dignified manner.

When I looked back, I suddenly saw a somewhat familiar figure. After thinking about it, I felt that I had seen this person somewhere before.I went up to ask about it, but the man looked back at me, and I opened my mouth and said nothing.

"Zhanqing, long time no see."

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