Chapter 180: Judgment (II)
"What the hell is going on?" Li Jianguo cast his puzzled gaze on the look of the curtain.
"Emperor Qiqi, when the courtier-in-law and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince went to visit Brother Wei in the palace of Qi that day, he said that he hadn't eaten anything delicious for a long time, so he begged the prince to let him get some delicious food in the palace, so he ......" Mu Rong Ruoxi lowered his head in embarrassment.
"I see!" After smiling, he took Yuan Xinye to the palace of King Qi.
As soon as Li Zhanwei heard that the saint had arrived, he suddenly trembled with fright and gasped for bitterness. The moment Li Jianguo stepped into the threshold, Li Zhanwei immediately knelt on his knees and kowtowed to beg for mercy: "Father, the sons don't dare, the sons really don't dare!"
Li Jianguo closed his eyes for a moment, then helped him up, and said in a harmonious voice: "Wei'er, come, get up quickly!"
"Father!" Li Zhanwei's head slowly rose in fright, and looking at the past, Li Jianguo's expression had become extremely serious.
"Wei'er, my father asks you something, as long as you answer truthfully, by the way, let them stop imprisoning you."
"Don't worry, no matter what questions my father asks, my son, my son will answer truthfully!" Li Zhanwei gasped, his eager eyes filled with incomparable excitement and excitement.
"Good!" Li Jianguo nodded with a smile and asked, "Wei'er, why did you let your imperial brother go to the imperial dining room in the palace to steal food?"
"That's because Erchen is so hungry, Erchen has no choice, so he invited the prince brother to ......" Li Zhanwei swallowed bitterly, and his face was full of timidity.
"Do you know what you've eaten?"
"Tomatoes, cabbage and goose!" Li Zhanwei replied very quickly, and he couldn't see the slightest mistake.
"Is that really all there is?" Li Jianguo, who was already extremely confused, had doubts in his eyes rising again.
Li Zhanwei saw that his father didn't believe what he said, and was directly frightened back by ten steps, and his body trembled: "Father, what the son said is true, every word is true!"
Li Jianguo took a breath and said softly: "Wei'er doesn't have to be so afraid, my father didn't mean to blame you."
"Thank you, Father!" After saying that, Li Zhanwei covered his chest and took a long breath. Then he saw that his father suddenly ordered: "Come on, from now on, His Royal Highness the King of Qi will not have to be locked in a prison cell."
When Li Zhanwei heard this, his expression was immediately full of excitement and joy, and after looking at each other affectionately, he immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed in gratitude.
"Wei'er!" Li Jianguo gently lifted his body, clasped his hands, and looked at her face seriously, "Wei'er, what my father said, naturally I will not lose my words." But if you let your father see that you are so unenterprising, then don't blame your father for being ruthless! ”
"Understood, understood!"
Stepping out of the Qi Palace, Li Jianguo felt that his whole body was going crazy, and the doubts in his heart burst out all at once: "What the hell is going on!" What the hell is going on? ”
Yuan Xin looked at Shengshang's sad face, and his heart was also very uncomfortable: "Emperor Chao, don't be angry with your dragon body, Weichen promised you that this case will definitely be investigated!"
Li Jianguo's bitter face and heavy cough: "But, the case has reached this point, and there is still no progress, how can you make Shun feel embarrassed?" After speaking, Li Jianguo patted his chest and expressed the layers of bitterness in his heart.
"Although there is no clue in this case, at least let us know that it was not done by one person, so the emperor does not have to be so lost, let's go to the Tongwang Palace and the only way to go to the toilet of King De to take a closer look, maybe there will be any clues!"
"Okay!"
Go to the Qianyi Palace.
"Luohua Bengong just asked you to go out and inquire, now you tell the Holy Lord how he is now!" Gao Yang Yanxin, who was already heartbroken, was still stupidly worried about her husband in her heart.
Luo Hua looked at her master so sadly, huh. couldn't help but pour out all the facts he knew: "It's nothing else, it's just that His Royal Highness King De's case doesn't seem to have any clues at all now, and the saint is probably crazy in his heart."
After Gao Yang heard this, he just sneered at Xu Sheng and didn't say anything.
However, her expression had already exposed the sadness in her heart, Luo Hua really couldn't bear to see her master like this, and hurriedly comforted her: "Queen Niangniang, don't be sad, the heart of the saint is here with you anyway!"
Gao Yang Yanxin smiled in frustration, "Okay, you go out for a while, this palace wants to rest now, you can retreat first." ”
"Hmm!" Luo Hua nodded with a smile, "Then you must take care of yourself!" With that, she slowly withdrew from the temple with reluctance.
Returning to the scene of the case, after some careful investigation, Yuan Xinye finally took the saint to find a trace of clues in the corridor leading to the latrine.
"Look at the emperor, these are the footprints of His Royal Highness King De before his death."
Li Jianguo stepped forward and took a closer look, "Yes, the size of this footprint is indeed exactly the same as that of Xian'er."
Yuan Xinye carefully cleaned up the surrounding debris, and pointed to this clue, carefully analyzed: "I don't know if you have noticed it in the emperor, although the traces left by this fake seal are completely consistent, but their direction is just the opposite."
"Go on!" Li Jianguo's eyes lit up. There is an immense eagerness for expectations.
"This shows that His Royal Highness King De has just come out of the latrine, and his internal urgency has come again, so he has returned to the latrine, and the death of His Royal Highness King De is the second time to go back to the latrine!"
As soon as Yuan Xinye said this, Li Jianguo suddenly realized: "In this way, Xian'er's death is something that went wrong in this place!"
"It can be understood like this!" After speaking, he picked up a small silk thread from the dead corner of the corridor, "This is left by the palace maid who serves His Royal Highness King De, it stands to reason that such a small thing accidentally fell to the ground, but hers is obviously not!" ”
Saying this, Yuan Xinye shook his head resolutely, then squatted down, and pointed to the long trace very seriously: "Look at the emperor, there is a very scattered trace next to this silk thread, which means that someone deliberately kicked this silk thread in the corner when he was in a hurry!"
"But how to tell whether this was accidentally left by the perpetrator, or someone deliberately fabricated it, if it was really left by the perpetrator, how could it be possible to leave such an obvious clue, this is too incredible." The scene in front of him made Li Jianguo fall into deep thought again.
Yuan Xinye on the side didn't have the slightest doubt, "Actually, the emperor doesn't need to be so suspicious, because time has already told us everything!" ”
Yuan Xinye was full of confidence, which made Li Jianguo, who was deep in hard thinking, see hope again: "How do you say this?"
"His Royal Highness the First King De had an accident in the dead of night, and the whole time from his murder to His Royal Highness King Zhou's notification to you and then to the blockade of the surroundings is only an hour, and it is difficult for the person framed during this time period to start."
Li Jianguo looked at Yuan Xinye intently, and the expectation in his heart became more and more urgent with his words.
"Second, only if the fabricator has nothing to do with the back, can he be called a fabricator, so the question is, how did the fabricator take the silk thread of this palace maid, and how did he put the silk thread in this position without leaving any mark?"
Yuan Xinye's rhetorical question made Li Jianguo unconsciously have a trace of doubt: "But can't the fabricator be the same as her footprints, so as to achieve the goal of perfect framing?"
Yuan Xinye shook his head resolutely and replied in a stiff voice: "Then it is even more impossible, because if the fabricator wants to fabricate, he must only do it when the person concerned is away, so it is impossible to leave exactly the same footprints on the route." Moreover, His Royal Highness drowned when he entered the toilet for the second time, and the palace maid had been waiting outside the toilet during this time, so how did the fabricator find time to frame King De after giving him a laxative? ”
Yuan Xinye also looked at it coldly, making Li Jianguo's sad face look new at this moment, "What Yuan Aiqing said is that this case is about to be solved!" ”
After speaking. Li Jianguo immediately took Yuan Xinye to find the palace maid who served Xian'er at night.
"By the way, you left this behind." Li Jianguo directly picked up the silk thread and erected it in front of the palace maid.
"She's a slave, how did you pick it up!" The palace maid still looked puzzled.
"I picked it up in the hallway outside the latrine."
The palace maid saw that Renjun on weekdays suddenly put on a straight face at this time, and immediately frightened herself, "The slave maid was negligent for a while, which annoyed the emperor, and asked the emperor to forgive her sin!" ”
"A moment of negligence?" Li Jianguo sneered at Xu Sheng, and in this great eagerness, he said bluntly: "Shun doesn't care about your trivial matters on weekdays, and often tolerates your mistakes, because you are all subjects of this Great Xia, and it involves a child's life, and the stakes are very high!" Shun can't be tolerated no matter what! Li Jianguo shook his head resolutely, exuding his determination with his eyes.
After saying that, Li Jianguo choked up, and then looked at the palace maid intently with the irritability on his face: "Therefore, no matter what questions you ask you next, you must answer truthfully, do you understand?"
"Hmm!" The palace maid sighed and heard it: "By the way, when His Royal Highness King De went to the toilet for the second time, did you give him anything to eat?"
When the palace maid heard this, she reacted in time, pounced, and knelt on her knees, "The slave is guilty of killing His Royal Highness King De!" By this time, tears were already rolling out of the corners of her eyes. It was with this shame and fear that she kowtowed heavily.
But the palace maid's sincere repentance, Li Jianguo didn't have the slightest intention of believing it, "You little palace maid will never have such courage to poison Shun's righteous son!" Say, who is behind you? ”