Episode 7 recap: Song Ci was attacked on the street and was saved by a woman.
General Li's younger brother also revealed what he witnessed at the time. Shortly after Ah Lan left, he heard the news of the Mongolian envoy being killed. Zhao Xiao Liu made some random analysis, while Song Ci suddenly thought of the two women who were upstairs with the Mongolian envoy. Song Ci continued to analyze and felt that some parts didn't make sense. It was very strange to commit murder in a sealed room. Zhao Xiao Liu even suggested that the two women could be the culprits, but they didn't have the strength to do so, and this argument was refuted.
Initially, they only wanted to protect all the envoys at the post station, but unexpectedly, an accident occurred at the station. Three envoys had already died, so they needed to be even more cautious. General Li's younger brother specially prepared lunch for them. Song Ci took the opportunity to ask the chef if he had left while cooking. The chef said he had indeed left for some time to get some good wine for marinating the meat, so he didn't know if someone had entered the kitchen again.
Song Ci asked the chef to prepare the same dish that General Li had that night, and the chef readily agreed. However, General Li's younger brother seemed a bit uneasy. After dinner, they were preparing to leave. Zhao Xiao Liu pretended to be very clever and claimed that he only ate radishes in the kitchen, while Song Ci said that the fact that she dared to eat the chef's food proved that there was nothing wrong with it.
As twilight fell, they were originally planning to investigate the Mongolian people thoroughly, but suddenly they saw a group of guards leaving the city gate. At this time, Lord Wei also arrived. Song Ci told him that they intended to find Hassan, a subordinate of the Mongolian country, to learn about the situation. However, when they returned, they saw the Jin envoy hurriedly leaving.
Lord Wei couldn't do anything about it because the Jin envoy had the right to leave, and they couldn't stop them. The post station seemed unusually calm. Song Ci decided to go and find Hassan first. Song Ci also asked about what happened that night from Hassan. Initially, the envoys wanted to have some fun with the girls, but Hassan didn't want to hear their laughter upstairs, so he went downstairs. At that time, he even saw General Li's younger brother going upstairs. Then they heard the news of the envoy being killed, so they hurriedly went upstairs together. Currently, their testimonies were still consistent.
The bodies of the Mongolian envoys were discovered by two women, along with others. Song Ci remembered the vomit on General Li's body and suspected that he may have ingested something strange before being killed. Zhao Xiao Liu analyzed the case without any evidence. While they were engaged in a heated discussion, a group of people in black suddenly appeared. These people intended to kill them, but since none of them had any martial arts skills, they were unexpectedly saved by a girl disguised as a boy. Seeing Lord Wei approaching with soldiers, the people in black quickly fled.
The girl told Song Ci that she had come to collect a debt from him. Lord Wei had initially intended to capture the girl, but Song Ci quickly explained that she had saved them. Upon returning, Bai Xue Yan treated their injuries with medicinal herbs. Bai Xue Yan deduced that the injuries were caused by a Martin palm strike, a skill possessed only by the Jin people, which Zhao Xiao Liu was aware of. Zhao Xiao Liu remained convinced that the culprit must be from the Jin dynasty, but Song Ci held an opposing view, feeling that the situation was not as simple as it seemed.
The girl disguised as a boy stayed at the inn, her purpose being to protect Song Ci and repay her debt of five hundred taels. The next day, another murder occurred. Jin envoy Zhuo Lu Tu was also killed. He had insisted on leaving the previous night, and Lord Han had no authority to stop him. In the morning, they saw a horse carrying Zhuo Lu Tu's body, which was only half intact, entering the city. Song Ci thought of the third type of death mentioned in the curse of Yu Yan Mu, which seemed to be a perfect fit.
Soon, the Jin delegation also arrived, and Ah Lan recognized the armor on Zhuo Lu Tu's body. Song Ci asked Ah Lan why she had left the post station on the night when General Li died, but Ah Lan claimed that she had gone out for errands. Everyone had always believed that the incident was related to the Jin people, but now that the Jin envoy had also been killed, the situation became inexplicable.
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