Li Xiao hated the fact that she had met the wrong person.
She did not expect Lord Chen to suddenly push her to the front of the stage and let everyone look at her.
She clutched the three copper coins in her sleeve pocket. She was so nervous that her legs were about to spin when she was exposed in front of so many important people.
She cursed Lord Chen in her heart, but in this small pavilion, she was cautious and did not dare to glare at Lord Chen.
Hate!
Hate in her heart!
"Li Xiao, come here." Chen Jue tapped the table, making two clanging sounds.
'Are you calling me a dog?'
Li Xiao thought bitterly, but she still moved her two short legs and rubbed against Lord Chen.
"Is this young friend a master of divination?
You really can't judge a book by its cover. "Li Ru greeted her with a smile. Every word of his was sincere, and there was no hint of sarcasm.
"Hello, sir. It's … it's Lord Chen's fault for praising me. Li Xiao is just a beginner in this technique." Li Xiao said softly.
Her mother used to be a lady from a noble family. For some reason, she lived in a northern village and had never told her and her brother the whole story.
She had been learning to read and write from her mother since she was young, so she knew that she had to be polite when she saw these people.
"Sit, sit, don't just stand there." Li Ru smiled and pointed at the small stone stool behind Chen Jue, inviting Li Xiao to sit.
Then, he turned to Xu Ting and the others and said, "This is a private school. Everyone in the world is a student of the Saint. There is no distinction between nobility here. Sit down."
Li Xiao blinked and looked at Chen Jue's expression.
Chen Jue looked up and saw that she was like a child asking for instructions from an adult. A trace of joy silently rose in his heart. He nodded at Li Xiao.
Li Xiao leaned against the edge of the small stone stool and sat down quietly.
She kept her head down and wore a scarf around her neck. At this moment, everyone was staring at her. Upon closer inspection, they realized that she was actually a little girl.
"Chen Jue, since you are here to handle the case, it is not appropriate for me and Prince Six to be here." Jing Beihou finished speaking and said to Li Ru, "Sir, why don't we come back another day?"
"It's alright."
Chen Jue hurriedly revealed a smile. His gaze fell on Prince Six, who had not spoken since the beginning. He said softly, "It is my fortune that Marquis and Prince are here to help. If you have time, why don't we sit for a while?"
His mouth was chatting idly, but his eyes were respectively looking at the things that Jing Bei Hou and Prince Six were playing with in their hands —
Jing Beihou held a folding fan in his hand. Previously, he had placed it beside the paperweight. After their group came in, he put down the brush, picked up the folding fan, and began to play with it.
It was an old folding fan, and the handle had been touched until it was bright.
Prince Six was holding a piece of jade in his hand. It was a Jade Fortune Melon. From the jade body and the pendant, it could be seen that it was almost brand new.
At this moment, Zhang Tang's gaze also fell on the Jade Fortune Melon in Prince Six's hand. He sat behind Chen Jue and leaned against the pavilion pillar. His palms were a little cold.
When he sorted out the information that Wang Yi handed over this morning, he focused on remembering: The piece of jade that fell beside the corpse of the Assistant Minister of Rites's youngest daughter-in-law … Among the six nobles bought from Guiyu Lane, one of them was Prince Six.
Prince Six was already over forty-five years old, and wrinkles began to climb up his face.
In the Emperor's generation, the only one who survived was Prince Six. And in these decades, the Emperor never allowed Prince Six to leave the capital. Every week, Prince Six had to enter the Imperial Palace to report his safety to the Emperor, explaining what he had done in the past few days — what bird he had bought, what painting he had drawn, what opera he had listened to, and what hobby he had fallen in love with.
The Emperor said that he was reluctant to let his younger brother leave his side, but everyone knew that the Emperor had confined Prince Six in the flashy Wangfu of the Prince Six in the capital — he was not allowed to make friends with officials, he was not allowed to study official business, he was not allowed to meddle in government affairs. Just like this, in the midst of playing, he was a rich and idle person for the rest of his life.
Zhang Tang couldn't help but think: Prince Six does nothing but eat, drink, and play every day, but he's still thin and slender. It's obvious that he's not a person who's greedy for fun and indulges in drunken stupor.
Several people who came with Lord Chen, including Xu Ting and Wang Hua, also noticed the new jade ornament in Prince Six's hands. They thought: The murderer is most likely the person who owns the jade ornament, and Prince Six is one of the six nobles who bought the jade ornament. Now … Prince Six is using a brand new jade ornament. Does this mean that Prince Six …?
Except for Li Xiao, who was still in a daze, the others all fell into deep thought after entering the small pavilion.
Could it be that Lord Chen already knew that Prince Six was here?
Then, was the purpose of his trip Prince Six, or was it really Mr. Li, Li Ru, who wrote the "Chronicle of People with Supernatural Abilities"?
Zhang Tang finally stopped complaining about how embarrassing Lord Chen was in his heart.
He suddenly began to feel that perhaps Lord Chen had always had a card up his sleeve.
Before this, he was just pretending to be a fool in order to achieve his goal.
"Lord Chen, what can I do for you? Please tell me." Li Ru ordered his page boy to remove the unfinished paintings of the three people on the table and replace them with tea, cups, and fruits.
"Li Xiao learned from divination that in recent months, the murderer who killed pregnant women and took their babies is a mutant who can come and go invisible.
But I've never seen any mutants. So, I'd like to ask you, sir. In the information you've collected, is there such a strange person who can come and go without a trace, and who likes to kill pregnant women and eat unborn babies? "
Chen Jue leaned against the bench. He did not feel restrained because he was in someone else's courtyard, nor did he feel uncomfortable because there was a marquis and a prince beside him. He poured tea and drank freely, as comfortable as if he was in his own backyard.
Li Xiao looked at him and was very envious.
She tilted her butt and half sat on the stone bench, making her butt hurt.
"Invisible?" Li Ru frowned slightly and looked at Li Xiao.
Li Xiao glanced at Chen Jue and then nodded.
Lord Chen was talking nonsense, but what could Li Xiao do?
She could only lie with Lord Chen.
"It was recorded in the" Chronicle of Langhuan ": 'My lord was dressed in Hu clothes, and Ye Heng observed the celestial phenomena alone.
One night, he saw a deity descending from the sky, and he taught my lord to use the mysterious woman's invisibility technique to refine the Bone Changing Pill nine times. '
There was also a record in the "Five Miscellaneous Mansions": 'In the Han Dynasty, Xie Nugu and Zhang Diao could be invisibility, and they were the ancestors of invisibility.
Jie Xiang, Zuo Ci, Yu Ji, Meng Qin, Luo Gongyuan, Zhang Guo, as well as the witches from the "Book of Jin", Zhang Dan, Chen Lin, etc., all originated from this.
There were five types of techniques, namely the Metal Escape, the Wood Escape, the Water Escape, and the Earth Escape.
Earth escape is the fastest, covering no place without earth. 'But I have never heard of a story about an invisible strange person who kills pregnant women and eats their babies. "Li Ru said and shook her head.
"I think this little girl is talking nonsense."
Jing Beihou was a martial artist, and he rarely paid attention to the scholarly ways. He sat on the side and listened to their nonsense, and he had endured for a long time.
Jing Beihou had a son and a daughter. The youngest son was Mr. Li's student, and the daughter was four months pregnant.
He had been uneasy for the past few months because of the pregnant women's serial murder case, hoping that Chen Jue would solve the case as soon as possible.
Now that he saw that Chen Jue actually relied on a little liar who claimed to be a diviner to solve the case, he was so angry that his scalp exploded.
If he hadn't heard that Chen Jue was a thorn who didn't recognize anyone, he would have slammed the table and scolded them for making trouble.
Li Xiao was angry at Jing Beihou and bit her lower lip.
When she went back, she would move out of the House of Chen!
By Lord Chen's side, if she couldn't carry the black pot, if she jumped into the deep pit, she couldn't climb out ah!
Relying on the "divination" ability to eat and drink with Lord Chen, it didn't seem to be an easy thing.
If by any chance these Marquis and Wangye saw that she was a liar, not to mention looking for her brother and father in the future, she was afraid that she would lose her life right now.
She was silently unhappy in her heart with grievances, when she heard Lord Chen's deep and pleasant male bass voice say a sentence that made Li Xiao want to disappear on the spot:
"Marquis doesn't believe that this little girl is a very accurate diviner, but don't you believe that I, Chen Jue?"
Chen Jue's voice was full of provocation and arrogance. He looked at Jing Beihou with a smile that wasn't a smile and lightly said: