The corpse that was carried to everyone was Yujiao, who committed suicide in the Xiangxue Palace three days ago, and the reason why Xu Ke asked people to carry her body to this Taiye Palace was because he suspected that the murderer who instructed Yujiao was among the people in front of him, and who was it, then he needed to ask it carefully.

"Do any of you know this man?" Behind him, Xu Ke glanced around everyone's faces again, and then asked lightly.

Most of the people present shook their heads, and there were also a small number of people who knew Yujiao, who were palace maids who had worked together when she had not been transferred to Xiangxue Hall to serve before, but they were just acquaintances, and there was no in-depth interaction with Yujiao, and Xu Ke did not see anything abnormal from their demeanor.

Lilac also wanted to admit that she knew Yujiao, but Qu Wuwu saw her mind first, Qu Wuwu glared at her fiercely, and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to die?" ”

Realizing that she was on the verge of a catastrophe, Lilac quickly shook her head, hung her head and stopped talking.

In fact, Qu Wuwu was also beating a drum in her heart at this time, but she didn't show it on her face. From the moment Yujiao's body was carried in, she had already guessed what was going on, most likely because Yujiao was doing something in Qu Wurong's fetal pills and was noticed.

And the case that these people want to investigate is afraid that it is inseparable from this matter, no matter what, she can't let these people suspect her!

Thinking of this, she said to Lilac in a voice that only two people could hear: "Yujiao is dead, no matter whether she succeeded in that thing or not, now there is no proof of death, as long as we bite it tightly and have nothing to do with her, those people will not suspect us, you must not give me anything at this time, otherwise I will not let you go, do you hear?" ”

Lilac had already been scared so much that there were only seven souls left in the three souls at this time, and when she heard her say this, she first nodded subconsciously, and then said timidly: "Niangniang, I'm afraid!" ”

"What's there to be afraid of?" Qu Wuwu stretched out his hand and pinched her fiercely, "If you don't listen to me, you will end up with Yujiao, don't blame me for not reminding you when the time comes!" ”

Lilac was pinched by her, and almost screamed, but fortunately, she reacted relatively quickly, and suppressed the pain cry that almost blurted out in time, rubbing the pinched place and said aggrievedly: "The slave knows." ”

"That's pretty much it!" Qu Wuwu withdrew his hand with satisfaction.

The two of them stood relatively far back, and the attention of the others around them was on the corpse in the courtyard, so no one noticed the conversation between their master and servant, Xu Ke asked a few more questions, and then asked his subordinates to separate the people from each palace and began to ask questions one by one.

When asked about Qu Wuwu, Qu Wuwu only said that he didn't know Yujiao at all, and he had stayed in the Taiye Palace for the past few days and had never left the palace gate for half a step, and he had not seen any outsiders during the period, and all the people in her palace could testify for her.

With Qu Wuwu's previous threats and explanations, Lilac's answer did not reveal any flaws, and the other people were the same, seeing that they didn't ask any valuable clues, the man left stupidly.

After asking all the people, the Imperial Forest Army who was in charge of asking them relayed the information they asked to their commanders one by one, and after listening to everyone's reports, Xu Ke couldn't help frowning.

The emperor asked him to thoroughly investigate the matter of fetal pills, according to the clues he has found in the past few days, the culprits are all pointing to this Taiye Palace, why is it that when interrogated at this time, there is not even a single suspect?

What went wrong, or was he using the wrong method?

He originally thought that most of the people in this Taiye Palace were women, and their courage was naturally relatively small, so he asked someone to directly carry Yujiao's body in front of everyone, thinking that the murderer might mess up first after seeing her corpse, and then he asked people to interrogate one by one, so he couldn't believe that there were no clues!

But now it seems that his trick obviously did not work.

In fact, the method Xu Ke thought of was not completely useless, but he ignored a little, how could a woman who could survive in this cannibalistic palace be the same as an ordinary woman? Since the murderer dared to instruct others to drug and hurt the child in Qu Wurong's womb, it means that she has long regarded murder as a normal thing, how could she let herself be exposed because of a corpse that has long since lost signs of life?

After hearing that Xu Ke had achieved nothing on this trip, Shen Wuan did not blame him too harshly.

He also knew that this matter was not as simple as it seemed on the surface, since the murderer found Yujiao, who had been serving in the Xiangxue Palace for a long time, to do things in the fetal pills, instead of sending someone herself, it showed that she had planned to keep herself completely out of the matter from the beginning, so she did not leave any clues when doing things, and now Yujiao, the only one who can testify to the murderer, has also committed suicide in fear of crime, and trying to find the murderer who is directing behind the scenes is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

If he could, Shen Wu'an really wanted to arrest all the suspicious people and torture them severely, and then drive them all out of the palace regardless of whether they had problems or not, but unfortunately he couldn't do this, those people were Shen Duanlang's concubines, the nominal "concubine Niangniang", if he did this, he would be blamed by the courtiers, and the real murderer, he couldn't touch her without finding any evidence.

As soon as he thought of this, Shen Wu'an had a fire in his heart, and he angrily threw the fold in his hand on the imperial case in front of him, stood up and walked towards the outside of the imperial study.

"Why did you come back so early today?" Seeing the people coming in the door, Qu Wurong asked strangely.

Shen Wu'an didn't speak, he stepped forward and hugged her into his arms, buried his face in her hair, and said sullenly after a while: "I'm sorry." ”

"Huh?" Qu Wurong was slightly stunned when he heard this, and was about to ask him what happened, but before he spoke, he suddenly thought of something, "Did you fail to find the murderer?" ”

Shen Wu'an hugged her tightly and nodded lightly, "Now that Yujiao is dead, there is no proof of death, that murderer should have seen this, so he refused to admit it, plus their identities are relatively special, even I can't touch them without finding any evidence." ”

Qu Wurong was very clear about what he said, and she had expected such a result as early as after learning that Yujiao had committed suicide in fear of sin, so after listening to Shen Wuan's words, she didn't feel surprised at all, "It's okay, you've done your best." ”

"I didn't know until now, what about being the emperor? There are still many things that cannot be done according to one's own wishes. Shen Wu'an took his head off her shoulder and sighed weakly, "I really don't know why there are so many people who want to snatch this position regardless of their lives?" ”

"Alright, stop being angry with irrelevant people!" Listening to his slightly childish complaints, Qu Wurong pursed his lips and smiled, pulling him to sit down on the chair next to him, "I believe that bad people will always get retribution for doing bad things, even if we can't catch her evidence this time, it doesn't mean that she will always get away with it, if she does too many bad things, sooner or later she will show her feet." ”

Hearing her comfort herself in turn, the frustration in Shen Wu'an's heart increased, so he didn't say anything more, just lowered his head and looked at their clasped hands in a daze.

Knowing that he couldn't untie this knot for a while, Qu Wurong didn't continue to persuade him, just quietly stayed by his side.

After a while, Shen Wu'an suddenly raised his head and asked, "Xiao Rong'er, after this incident happened, you didn't show too much shock and anger from beginning to end, did you already guess who would do it?" ”

Unexpectedly, he would guess his thoughts, Qu Wurong sighed helplessly, "In this palace, she is the only one who wants me to die." ”

Although she didn't clearly point out who she was suspicious of, Shen Wu'an quickly understood what she was referring to, and he also knew very well that the fight between the two of them had not stopped since the beginning of the Bachelor's Mansion, but now that person's methods were becoming more and more vicious, and he refused to let go of the unborn child!

Thinking of this, Shen Wu'an's mood that had just calmed down fluctuated again, "It's a pity that we can't find evidence that can identify her now." "Otherwise, he will definitely settle the old and new accounts with her!

"It doesn't matter, it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, I believe he will find it one day." Qu Wurong stretched out her hand and patted him lightly on the back, she was not angry at what Qu Wurong did to her, on the contrary, when she learned that she wanted to harm the child in her womb, Qu Wurong couldn't wait to break her into pieces immediately!

But after calming down, Qu Wurong's mind slowly faded down, not that she forgave Qu Wuwu, but she knew Qu Wuwu's temperament very well, and knew that since she dared to be so unscrupulous, it meant that she had already thought of a way to get out, even if the matter was revealed and investigated, it would not be traced back to her head.

In fact, when Shen Wu'an said that she wanted to track down the murderer, she knew that there would be no result, and the reason why she didn't stop him from letting people investigate was because she felt that something like this had happened, and he should have a way to vent.

Shen Wu'an was silent for a moment when he heard this, and said with a calm face: "Although there is no evidence to cure her crime now, I will keep her away from you and the child, so as to save her from making any more trouble!" ”

How did he warn Qu Wurong later, Qu Wurong didn't ask, but put all his energy on protecting the child in his belly. And since this happened, nearly half of the palace maids and eunuchs of the Xiangxue Palace were driven away by her, and the rest of them also limited their activities to a certain range, except for the four girls of Jin Yu Liangyuan and Yangchun Baixue, no one was allowed not to get close to the main hall for half a step, otherwise they would be punished according to the crime of murdering the emperor's heir!

And outside the Xiangxue Palace, Shen Wu'an also let people strengthen the guards, and the patrolling Imperial Forest Army increased from the original two hours to half an hour, and the entire Xiangxue Palace entered a state of strict alert, and this situation continued until the child in Qu Wurong's belly was born.