The kitchen of the post house is in the back, and there are usually only two cooks. Because the people who come and go here are not rich or expensive, they basically bring their own cooks and buy their own ingredients, and the princess's supper last night was made here by the maid.

The two honest-looking cooks stepped forward and said, "My lord, last night the maid beside the princess said that she was going to make supper for the princess, and we cleaned up the kitchen for her to use, and took out the best oil, so the maid called the fan also rewarded us with 500 yuan each?" ”

"What did she do?"

"It's a very simple egg custard, and a few meatloaf, the princess of this small country is quite easy to feed, what bird's nest and sea cucumber do the officials and families who passed by in the past, and the princess of the small country will send away this little thing."

"Egg custard, meatloaf, what kind of meat filling?"

"It's just ordinary pork and green onion pies, a few of them are not good-looking, we ate them separately, and they tasted good. Egg custard is also an ordinary egg, nothing rare, and there are not even dried scallops in it. ”

As he spoke, the fan was also brought. I first greeted the adults outside, and was welcomed in by Xu Yan and saw Liansheng interrogating the cook, and asked in a panic: "My lord, but do you suspect the slave?" ”

"No, we just want to know what happened to the princess in her last days. Fan girl, in addition to not being able to touch pollen, what other allergies do you have? Oh, allergies mean that she eats something that makes her breathless and can't breathe, and she wants to suffocate? ”

"Huh? Not really. Fan thought about it, and his eyes lit up: "Oh, I remembered." Once our country from Dashun introduced peanuts mature, the mother was very happy, said that this is a good thing, the palace kitchen made a variety of food with peanuts, our princess was curious, ate a piece of peanut candy, after eating a while, it was not breathable, scratching the throat is very scary, at that time the palace said that someone poisoned the princess in peanut candy, and the investigation did not find the murderer of the poison for a long time. This matter is over. According to what the adults say, our princess is allergic to peanuts? ”

"Very possibly! Her throat was swollen and she couldn't breathe, and her vocal cords were blocked and closed, and she couldn't make a sound. It is very likely that you have accidentally eaten a food containing peanuts. ”

Liansheng lit wax for Princess Zhenji in his heart: You are so unlucky.

"But I didn't have peanuts for the princess last night. I made egg custard and pies. When the princess finished eating, she told me that there would be no vigil at night. Let us rest well, and there is nothing unusual about it. If I go in for a while, it will be impossible for the princess to eat peanuts. The princess had never touched peanuts since that accident, and no one could force her to eat peanuts. ”

"What if the oil you use contains peanuts?"

Liansheng remembered what the cook said: We cleaned up the kitchen for her and took out the best oil. What if the best oil was peanut oil?

"Cook, is the best oil you ever come up with peanut oil?"

Liansheng looked at the cook and asked.

"My lord, we have a list of things in our kitchen, I'll look for them."

The cook turned around and went to look for the kitchen's purchase history.

The fan's face was pale, if he had inadvertently harmed the princess, it would have been a catastrophe. Everyone outside the kitchen also heard Liansheng's voice, and the prince suddenly asked, "That means the princess may have been on the verge of death before she was strangled to death?" ”

"Yes, that's why she scratched her face like that, but she never screamed, because she couldn't scream at that time, her throat was swollen so badly, she couldn't make a sound. If the murderer found out about this problem at this time, he could save her life, of course, this is impossible, the murderer is there to kill her, how can he save her? Maybe they won't be in a hurry to strangle her, but just sit there and watch her die of suffocation, maybe with appreciation. ”

Everyone listened to Liansheng's analysis as if they were frozen by ice and snow, and they only felt cold and panicked, thinking about the scene where the princess's face was blurred with flesh and blood, and the murderer silently watched her suffocate to death a little bit, and her eyes were full of light, it was really terrifying.

"Found it, found it, my lord, this oil is really squeezed from peanuts." A cook took out a ledger and said.

This cook is very smart, she is not very literate, and she has a bucket drawn on the oil record, and peanuts are drawn next to it, which means peanut oil.

"You're smart and doing a great job."

The cook was complimented and smiled: "Peanuts are a rare thing, and this oil is the most expensive in this oil mill, and we only found it last night for the fan girl." ”

Yes, at this time, peanuts have not been popularized in a large area of the country, and the yield is still not large enough, and the average person can rarely afford to eat peanut oil. The cook was originally kind-hearted, who would have thought that she would hurt the princess because of her kindness?

When the fan heard this, he knew that the supper he made had harmed the princess, so he knelt on the ground with a frightened puff, didn't care about the dirty ground, and walked all the way to the prince: "Your Highness, the slave didn't mean it, the slave really didn't know that the oil was peanut oil, and if she knew that it was to kill the slave and the maid, she wouldn't give it to the princess." Ask Your Highness to spare your life, the slave and maid will serve Your Highness well in the future, the slave and the maid know that His Royal Highness likes the Gayageum, and the slave and the maid are also good at playing, whether there are strings or not, they play very well, and the slave and maid are willing to serve by His Highness's side, stroke the piano for His Highness, and be a cow and a horse. ”

The prince held back the anger in his heart, stretched out his hand and pulled her, "You get up first, you are also unintentional, the real murderer is General Park, and it has nothing to do with you." ”

"Not necessarily."

Yu Shizhao said with a smile: "If it was really General Park, Gu Tixing would not have taken us around in such a big circle." How's that, what are the results of the examination of the out-of-the-world high-ranking woman? ”

Liansheng hugged his fists at Yu Shizhao and said, "Your Highness is right, the real murderer is not General Park. ”

"Why isn't it General Park again? Aren't the facts clear? ”

The prince pointed to the fan and said: "The supper made by the fan for the princess contains peanut oil, after the princess finished eating the supper, Yueru sent a beautiful face cream with pollen, and after the princess finished applying it, Yueru left, after a while, the beauty cream attacked, she began to scratch her face, at this time the peanut also attacked, her throat was swollen and she couldn't speak, this lasted for a long time, General Park came in with a bowstring and strangled the princess, and stabbed her, and said the past. ”

When he said this, General Park hung his head and remained silent.

"Just now, the maid checked the princess's body, and found that the exact time of the princess's death was eight hours ago, that is, at the turn of Xuhai, according to the Westerners' appearance, it was about ten o'clock last night, during which everyone was drinking in the front hall, General Park was alone after the son, and the murderer could not be him."

"Well, one more hour and one hour earlier, can you really see so accurately?"

The Korean prince did not believe it.

"Xia Guan absolutely believes in this person, because this person's disciple is the Jin Zhenyu who found out that the princess changed her identity yesterday, and I believe that the prince also recognizes that person's ability."

"Is it really Jin Zhenyu's master? Then I believe in him. Yu Shizhao looked at the prince: "I am a great meritorious, and there are many such strange people." ”

The prince snorted, noncommittal.

"General Park, I don't know why you have to admit that you killed someone, is it just to help Miss Yueru? But now there is no evidence to prove that the murderer is Yueru, why should you bear the charge of murder in vain? ”

General Park looked up at Liansheng, his eyes were complicated, and he sighed and said, "Yes, I really like Yueru, seeing the princess insulting her like that, I thought she really wouldn't want to kill someone." ”

Liansheng looked annoyed when he saw the Korean prince, so he turned around and asked the cook, "Is there pork with skin in the kitchen?" ”

"Yes, my lord." The cook hurriedly took out a piece of pork with the skin on.

Liansheng looked at General Park: "Use your bowstring to strangle this piece of pork and see." ”

The Koreans are good at bows and arrows, and General Park carries a bow with him, as well as a lot of bowstrings to prevent them from breaking.

He took out a bowstring from his arms, made a looper and tightened the piece of pork, and after a while, Liansheng said it was okay.

Liansheng picked up the piece of pork and walked in front of everyone to show it: "Look, General Park's bowstring is made of animal tendons and the like, and this imprint has very small threads, right?" ”

Yu Shizhao looked at it, nodded and said, "That's true, prince, look." ”

After everyone verified it, Liansheng said: "The strangulation marks on the princess's neck are very smooth and without threads, which fully proves that General Park is not a murderer." ”

When General Park heard this, he knelt down and kowtowed to Liansheng and said, "Even my mother can't tell me to kowtow, Park is really kowtowing to adults." ”

"General Park, although you are not the murderer, you misled everyone's judgment in order to help Yueru, and this is also your fault."

Lian Sheng motioned for Fang Sheng to help him up, and then said, "Did any of you leave the venue during the banquet?" ”

Fang Sheng shook his head and said: "No, the prince, General Park and Cui Hanlin, the four of us have been together until the end of the day, and when I helped General Park back to the room, I clearly heard the sound of knocking on the bang to tell the time, there will be no mistake." (To be continued......)

PS: It wasn't the bowstring that strangled the princess, so what the hell is it? Solve the mystery of this thing, and it will be obvious who killed the person.