The eunuch took the case file of Queen Su sixteen years ago and sent it to King Tho, who said to the eunuch beside him, "Take it to the prince and take a look." The eunuch walked down the hall to Gongzi Qi and took up the case file. Gongzi Qi took the case file, opened it and read it carefully, and said: "This case is full of doubts, and I also ask the king to retry this case to comfort the dead." ”

"If you say a retrial, you will be retried, you say that there are many doubts, why are there many doubts?" Concubine Xi's heart began to feel uneasy, and she stood in front of Gongzi Qi.

"The vagueness of the cause of the fire in the case file, the investigation of the scene of the fire, and the hasty verdict on whether it was a natural fire or murder due to insufficient evidence, the ghost who died unjustly is not at peace."

"After you said that this case is full of suspicions, Childe, you said that it will take a few days to find out the case," King Tho, who was sitting on the top of the main hall, looked at Childe Qidao.

"In three days, it only takes three days for Contemptible Qi to make this case come to light."

"Okay, I'll give you three days."

"King Xie," Gongzi Qi exited the hall and turned to leave, returning to the hotel, the court case sixteen years ago is already an old case, and it is undoubtedly more difficult to review the case after sixteen years, so many years have passed and the people who know about this matter know very little, where should they start from? Gongzi Qi sat at the desk and carefully looked at the case file from sixteen years ago to find its breakthrough, and continued to think about it, closing his eyes and sorting out his troubled thoughts. At this time, the second stunned man stood in front of the door and shouted, "Childe, Princess Ling is here." ”

Gongzi Qi got up and stepped forward to open the door, invited Miss Ling into his room, and sat down opposite her. Miss Ling looked at Gongzi Qi's sad appearance, and said a little angrily: "Pig head, have you ever thought about what you said in the main hall today, what if you can't find out this case in three days?" How can I be relieved that you will be punished or worse because of this? Miss Ling's face showed an anxious look. Gongzi Qi stepped forward and sat next to Miss Ling and looked at her, Miss Ling sat there with tears in her eyes. Gongzi Qi took out a handkerchief to wipe away the tears on her face, stretched out his hand and put it around her shoulder, and looked at Miss Ling, whose head rested on Gongzi Qi's shoulder. Gongzi Qi said very gently to Miss Ling: "Don't worry, I'll be fine." ”

Miss Ling sat up and looked into Gongziqi's eyes and said, "Are you worried about this matter?" ”

Gongzi Qi just looked at Miss Ling and nodded, Miss Ling looked at Gongzi Qi's helpless eyes and said, "I came here to tell you that I am going to my sister today, do you want to go with me, maybe you can find clues there." ”

"Thank you," Gongzi Qi got up and walked out with Miss Ling, walking towards the Pony Mansion. On the carriage, Miss Ling held Gongziqi's hands on her legs and looked at Gongziqi's face with a smile. Childe Kai turned his head to the side and looked out the window. Miss Ling's head rested on Gongzi Qi's shoulder, intimate like a small couple. Gongzi Qi looked at Miss Ling who was leaning on his shoulder, smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and gently stroked her head, Gongzi Qi was so gentle at this time.

The carriage came to a slow stop in front of the gate of the Horse Mansion, the eldest princess and her concubine Su Chengfa walked out of their mansion and were already waiting in front of the door, driving the carriage here, the eldest princess happily stepped forward, looked at the carriage and said, "Lingling." ”

Miss Ling stepped out of the carriage and looked at the eldest princess and her concubine Su Chengfa standing in front of her, and said with a smile: "Sister, brother-in-law." Gongzi Qi then walked out of the carriage and stood behind Miss Ling, the eldest princess looked at Gongzi Qi behind Miss Ling and said, "I don't know who this is...?" ”

"Under Childe Qi," Childe Qi stepped forward and smiled.

Miss Ling stood in the middle of them and introduced to Gongzi Qi, "This is my sister and brother-in-law. ”

Gongzi Qi stood in front of them and walked with Confucian etiquette, and after standing still, he said, "Sister, brother-in-law." ”

Su Chengfa stepped forward, looked at Gongzi Qi and said with a smile: "Are you the Gongzi Qi of Baguo?" ”

"It's down there," Gongzi Qi said very humbly when he stood in front of Su Chengfa.

"Your reform in Pakistan has made Ba's national strength thriving, and the other vassal states dare not compete with the powerful Qin State, only you dare to compete with it and have defeated the powerful Qin State twice in the Sword Pavilion, it is the Qin State that is afraid of you for three points, so I admire you very much."

"There is no need to mention the past, the current Gongzi Qi is just a fugitive, and he is already grateful for your country's acceptance and not abandoning the contemptible."

"Okay, don't say this, please enter the mansion to talk," Su Chengfa invited Gongzi Qi to the lobby, and the eldest princess and Miss Ling then entered and went to the back hall. Gongzi Qi stood in the lobby and looked left and right, and was about to turn around to face Su Chengfa, the concubine behind him. Su Chengfa stepped forward and stood in front of the desk and looked at Gongzi Qi and said, "Childe, please take a seat." After thanking the child, he sat down at the desk, and Su Chengfa, the concubine, walked up and sat down and instructed the maid to make tea. After Gongzi Qi sat down, he looked at Su Chengfa and said, "I don't know if my brother-in-law still remembers the fire sixteen years ago, the fire in Su's harem." ”

"I heard my father often talk about this matter, sixteen years ago on April 14, when Lingling had just been born, when my father was the chief secretary of the imperial court, and I was only a teenager at that time. The palace fire in the middle of the night could be so popular that it burned all the maids and their eunuchs to death, and none of them survived. I often hear the eldest princess mention this in my ear, so I remember it vividly, fortunately the eldest princess was not in the palace of Queen Su at that time, and the eldest princess was taken away by the nurse at that time, otherwise she would have been burned alive. ”

"Who is hearing this case?"

"Dr. Wang Shu was the presiding judge, and my father was a juror, and everyone knew that it was murder at that time, but no one dared to say it and could not produce evidence, and finally it was sentenced to a natural fire."

"What is the relationship between Doctor Du Wei and Concubine Xi?"

"Concubine Xi entered the palace through the election of the doctor Wang Shu and became the concubine of the king. I heard that Concubine Xi is a maid in the Doctor's Mansion, and after the careful writing of the king, she can sing and dance, and she is proficient in poetry and songs. Once at night, the king went to the house of the doctor to drink, and it was this concubine Xi who accompanied the wine at that time. ”

"Can you take me to the scene of the crime?"

"Of course," Gongzi Qi immediately got up and left the desk, and walked out with Su Chengfa. The eldest princess and Miss Ling walked out, and the eldest princess looked at the departing concubine Su Chengfa and said, "Husband, where are you going?" ”

"Accompany the son to the scene of the crime, Madame can't see the wind, please go back," Su Chengfa turned around and said.

"It seems that my future brother-in-law is really resolute," the eldest princess turned to smile and said to Miss Ling next to her.

"Alas! I have said it to him several times, such an impulse is to suffer, tell him to calm down, and he has never been able to change his quick temper in this way. ”

Gongzi Qi smiled when he walked out: "It seems that my sister is pregnant," Su Cheng laughed: "Yes." The two of them walked to the abandoned palace, which was now gone, except for a single staircase, surrounded by weeds. Gongzi Qi climbed the high steps and stood on the platform and said, "Where is Empress Su's bedroom?" Su Chengfa, the concubine next to him, pointed out the dormitory of Queen Su. Gongzi Qi walked down and stood on the steps and looked at the palace next to Queen Su and said, "Whose palace is this?" ”

"That's Cixin Palace, that is, Concubine Xi's palace."

Gongzi Qi walked down the stairs and walked around the steps, wandering around like this, and accidentally found a lot of residual dry firewood in the weeds, apparently burned by fire. Gongzi Qi picked up the remaining dry firewood and put it in his arms. Su Chengfa stepped forward and said, "What suspicious points can you find?" ”

"Suspicious."

"How?"

"This Concubine Xi is the maid of the Doctor Wang, and her status is low, what does a maid with such a humble status care about most after entering the palace? That's power, so the struggle for power in the harem is inevitable. Queen Su is kind and sincere, but not good at words, which is obviously not her opponent for a profit-hungry concubine. Concubine Xi used her beauty to confuse the king, said bad things about Queen Su on the pillow, and there was a doctor's demagogy in the court, Queen Su was gradually snubbed, and she was favored by Concubine Xi. At this point, their plans began. The queen of Su was pregnant at that time, it was not suitable to go out and walk around, let alone sleep, the king most often went to the palace of Concubine Xi, in this deep sleep to the extreme, that is, when the queen Su was about to give birth, a fire together with the maids in the palace and their eunuchs hundreds of people burned alive in the palace, no one escaped, it can be said that this matter has been planned for a long time. You come to see if the Cixin Palace next to the Su Harem is intact, and there are dry firewood branches here with me," Gongzi Qi took out the dried firewood and looked at the other hand and pointed at the Cixin Palace.

"Childe's words are reasonable, I am afraid that only Childe can hear the old unjust case sixteen years ago in three days, so fast that no one can match," At this time, Childe Qi walked to the side of the dry well and was stunned, as if he had been here before, but he remembered it not so clearly. Su Chengfa looked at Gongzi Qi's face with surprise and said, "What did Gongzi think of again?" ”

"I can't say it, I can't say it, maybe it's a dream, it's a dream," Gongzi Qi said with a smile, and Su Chengfa was even more puzzled at this time.

On top of the court, the upper doctor Wang Shu stepped forward and said very arrogantly: "The three-day deadline has arrived, I don't know what the outcome of the case is?" ”

"Would you like to hear it? I'll tell you right now, it's a murder that's been deliberate for a long time. ”

"Murder, what evidence do you have to prove that he has been deliberately murdering for a long time, show us the evidence," Doctor Wang Shu sneered and said to the courtier.

"Wang Shu, Wang Shu, you really don't go into the coffin and don't shed tears! Does this fire have eyes? Cixin Palace is on the side of Su's harem, this fire only burns Su's harem and does not burn Cixin Palace, you come to see, this is the remnants of dry firewood found at the scene of the crime, isn't this a long-term deliberate murder? ”

"This may be a misjudgment sixteen years ago, the ancient sages, who can be innocent?"

"You still have the face to mention the sage, you are the mastermind of this case, bold Wang Shu, when will Wang Fa not admit guilt at this time?"

"Why do you say that the mastermind is me?" Doctor Wang Shu was shocked and hurriedly took a few steps back, looking at Gongzi Qidao.

"You're afraid that I won't be able to produce evidence, right, my lord, please summon witnesses to court, and the truth will be revealed to the world."