The woman's sharp shout came through the door, Qi Zhen walked to the window, opened the door and looked in the direction of the shout.

At the same time, the secret guard knocked on the door and entered.

"What's going on outside?" Qi Zhen asked while looking at the room opposite the end of the corridor.

The madam on the side also looked flustered. As soon as the secret guard opened the door, she hurried out of the guest room and ran towards the room where the shouting came from.

The secret guard glanced at the old bustard, lowered his head and reported: "Tonight, a dark shadow came into the room. After my subordinate noticed it, I kept staring at the room. It was a bit far away, so I couldn't really hear what was going on inside. "

We couldn't know exactly what was going on inside, so we checked the guest in that room and found out that the guest was the young master of Song Yicheng."

Hearing this, Qi Zhen raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced sideways at the secret guard, and asked: "The guest in that room is the young master of Song Yicheng? Let's go and see who the dead person is."

If the guest in that room is Song Yicheng's young master, there is a high probability that he or the servants around him will be the ones who get into trouble.

However, Song Yicheng has been a local emperor in Luoyang for so long, and it is impossible for his son to die so easily in his own territory. What's more, Song Yicheng only got this one seedling.

Qi Zhen and the secret guard left the room and walked towards the room where the incident occurred.

As soon as we reached the corridor and before entering the room, we heard a cry.

The madam's cries echoed through the corridor, and Qi Zhen walked to the door and stopped.

The madam was holding a prostitute who was only wearing a coat, and was crying and wiping her tears. On the bed opposite the two of them, a naked and fat man was lying in a pool of blood.

Is Song Yicheng's son really dead?

Qi Zhen frowned slightly, a little surprised that someone could take the life of Song Yicheng's son so easily in Luoyang.

There was curiosity in his eyes, and he took a step forward to cross the threshold.

At this time, the panicked elite soldier finally regained his composure and tried to stop him with his long sword drawn.

Now that the young master of the Song family is dead, these elite soldiers have not caught the murderer. When they saw Qi Zhen and others treating dead horses as living horses, they thought of framing them so that they could get rid of some responsibility and have the reputation of committing crimes and meritorious services.

Wash away the guilt of being a bad guard.

"Who are you? If you enter my young master's room at this time, he must be the assassin who killed my young master. If you don't let me capture him," the leader shouted loudly.

Hearing this, the other elite soldiers also reacted.

Take action immediately.

Those few elite soldiers moved closer to Qi Zhen. Qi Zhen raised his eyebrows coldly. The secret guards who followed him guarded Qi Zhen with horizontal swords. They took off their belt badges and ordered: "Who dares to act arrogantly when the shadow guards in the palace are doing things?"

No matter how arrogant the local soldiers were, they would never dare to offend the palace shadow guards. When they saw the badge, their expressions changed drastically and they did not dare to stop him.

Qi Zhendan glanced at them and stepped across the threshold.

As soon as I stepped across the threshold, I felt something was wrong in this room.

The rooms in this flower building have the best sound insulation. Normally you can't hear any sound in the corridor. But once you step into this room, you can't hide any sound. People with excellent hearing can even hear it.

Heard movement on the roof beams.

Qi Zhen looked around the inner room with cold eyes, but couldn't see any place where anyone could hide, so he secretly thought something was wrong.

The moment he stepped across the threshold, there was definitely movement in the room.

The secret guard also vaguely sensed something was wrong and followed Qi Zhen's gaze.

"Master, something is wrong here." The secret guard whispered beside Qi Zhen.

As soon as the secret guard finished speaking, Qi Zhen moved suddenly, and in an instant he kicked open the window and flew onto the roof.

Seeing this, the secret guard behind also flew out of the inner room.

As soon as Qi Zhen came out of the roof, he saw a piece of black clothes.

He immediately raised his hand and grabbed the hem of the clothes.

The man was pulled down, and the figure that was flying away suddenly froze. He barely managed to stabilize his body and then immediately swung his sword to cut off the hem of his clothes.

The action of the two fighting each other happened in just a split second.

The moment the secret guard and others flew out of the window, the black shadow quickly fled from the eaves.

"Chase!" Qi Zhen shouted while holding the hem of the clothes and frowning.

The secret guards chased him out. Qi Zhen stood on the roof, looking at the black shadow in the distance, shaking off the piece of clothing in his hand, his brows furrowed.

Why does the black shadow have the same pear blossom fragrance as Linglong's body?

Qi Zhen noticed something was wrong as soon as he entered the inner room, but what he and the secret guards noticed were not exactly the same.

The secret guards had excellent ears and heard the sound of someone hiding.

In addition to hearing some noise, Qi Zhen also vaguely smelled the fragrance of pear flowers.

At first he thought he smelled the wrong smell, thinking maybe someone in the brothel was scenting pear blossoms.

But after taking a few steps into the door, I felt something was wrong.

The fragrance of pear blossoms in this inner room is very light. It cannot be from the prostitute, let alone the incense in the inner room.

Qi Zhen carefully discerned the fragrance, and noticed that it was a faint smell coming from outside the window. He immediately flew out of the window, and then pulled off the piece of clothing from the black figure.

Just now he only saw the hem of the man's clothes and the man's extremely fast figure. He didn't really see the man's face. But just by seeing the figure, Qi Zhen could tell that it was a man. It couldn't be...

exquisite.

Qi Zhen shook off the hem of his clothes, and the faint fragrance of pear blossoms in the air gradually dissipated. He shook his head and smiled bitterly, laughing at himself for being so crazy.

I don’t know how many pear trees there are in the world, and I don’t know how many pear blossoms each pear tree can bloom.

There are so many people in this world, and Shen Linglong is not the only one who likes the fragrance of pear blossoms. Why does he think that person is Shen Linglong when he smells the fragrance of pear blossoms?

It's crazy.

Qi Zhen laughed self-deprecatingly, threw down the piece of clothing, turned around, got off the eaves, and entered the room again.

The madam and the prostitute were still in the inner room, and the elite soldiers outside were still guarding the door, their faces still pale.

Qi Zhen avoided the madam and the prostitute, frowned and suppressed his nausea, and came to the bedside of the dead man.

The chamberlain who was still staying with Qi Zhen hurried up and pulled the quilt to cover the lower body of the dead body, fearing that his master's eyes would be stained.

This dead body must have been dead for some time, and it was definitely not just killed.

If that black shadow was the one who killed him, he must have stayed here for some time.

"When was the dead body found? How was it found?" He asked in a deep voice, referring to the prostitute, but his eyes were still on the dead body.

The prostitute's voice was hoarse from crying, and she replied with sobs: "The slave family was serving Young Master Song. For some reason, the back of his neck hurt and he fainted. When he woke up again, he saw Young Master Song full of smiles.

He fell on the bed with blood all over his body. The slave family was panicked and frightened, and hurriedly called for someone. The slave family really didn’t know anything. How could the slave family dare to kill people? The death of Master Song really had nothing to do with the slave family. Please, Master, please do it.

Observe everything clearly and save the slave's life."

The prostitute was crying and about to pounce on Qi Zhen. When the chamberlain saw this, he quickly stopped her.

The chamberlain stopped the man and advised him: "Calm down, girl. If it has nothing to do with the girl, I will not hold you responsible for the crime. Don't worry, my master will never unjustly accuse the innocent."

When the chamberlain said this, the girl was still crying and said: "But, this is the son of the Song family who died. General Song will definitely not let me go."

Qi Zhen, who was checking the corpse, was upset by the crying. He pinched his forehead and ordered: "Take all the witnesses to the governor's office, take my belt, and tell the Yangzhou governor that if the witnesses in this case are young,

If I get one, I'll ask him to come with a black gauze hat. As for Song Yicheng, if he has any dissatisfaction, just come to see me in person."

After Qi Zhen finished speaking, the chamberlain quickly called a few secret guards who were waiting in the dark, and took the old bustard, the prostitute, and the elite soldiers from Song Yicheng outside to the Governor's Mansion.

The room finally returned to silence, Qi Zhen lowered his eyes and then looked at Song Yicheng's body.

There was too much blood on his body, covering his entire body. Qi Zhen couldn't see where the fatal wound was for a moment.

He looked carefully for a while and finally figured out where it was.

"Wipe the blood off his neck." Qi Zhen ordered the chamberlain in a deep voice.

When the chamberlain heard this, he quickly took a cloth and wiped the blood from the neck of the dead body.

After wiping it off, the cross-cut wound on the corpse's neck was revealed.

Cross blade? Qi Zhen's eyes were slightly dull, and he felt a little familiar, but for a moment he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

He pursed his lips and recalled carefully, and was sure that he must have seen this cross knife edge, but for a moment he couldn't remember where he had seen this knife edge.

After recalling it for a while but unable to remember it, Qi Zhen rubbed his aching eyebrows and had no choice but to give up.

This can be regarded as a sequelae after gathering souls. Although he remembered all the memories of the two lives, whenever he tried to recall something, his eyebrows always hurt.

It's probably that this memory has not been completely integrated, and it will take some time to adapt.

Qi Zhen thought like this and was not in a hurry to figure out where he had seen the knife edge. He frowned and ordered: "Take this body to the Governor's Mansion as well."

After giving these instructions, Qi Zhen prepared to leave the inner room that was filled with the smell of blood.

Strange to say, Qi Zhen should have been used to the smell of blood for a long time, but now he seems to be even more resistant to the smell of blood than before.

He walked out, and the eunuch behind him called a secret guard to move the body.

As soon as the two of them lifted it, the body, which they had just looked at in good condition, was suddenly separated from the head.

The head rolled down the bed.
To be continued...