Hung Building.

Siniang led Qi Yuan to a first-class guest room, which was quiet and elegant, but it was a good place to talk about things.

This is also the room where Xue Tan often comes.

Pushing the door in, sure enough, Xue Tan had been waiting here for a long time.

"Why did you come?" Xue Tan frowned and glanced at him with disgust.

"It's nice if I could come." Qi Yuan didn't care about his attitude, but picked up a cup of tea and drank it by himself.

"How's it going?"

"Not good." As soon as he said this, Xue Tan was big for a while, although he knew the truth of the matter, but when this happened in the past, most of the people had been secretly killed, and now there is no proof of death, and it is difficult to find new clues.

"Many people died and fled, and those who remain in the north of the city now are all insiders, but most of them are only related to the bullying of Yin Qingqi at the beginning, and they have nothing directly related to the murder of the crown princess back then."

"How so?" Qi Yuan glanced at Xue Tan in distress.

I don't know how long it was, the two were able to coexist peacefully like ordinary friends.

"Xue Tan, do you have any other ideas?"

"What a line of thought."

"We have been investigating around the Yeting Palace, and we never thought that in addition to those maids and aunts, there were also those military officers and soldiers who were involved in this matter." Qi Yuan propped up his chin with both hands and thought carefully.

"Why don't we start with the officers and soldiers?"

"Nope." Xue Tan shook his head, he knows the most about the army, he sends troops to fight every year, and it has already made people panic, if there is such a trouble, the soldiers are depressed, and then there is a rebellion, it will be difficult to stop at that time.

Besides, I don't know how many people die every year, and looking for clues in the army is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack.

"You know, the change in the army is too fast, and it's hard to find the insider back then."

"So it's stuck here?" Qi Yuan slapped the table angrily and was furious.

"Have you found the person who killed Qing'er before?"

Xue Tan shook his head again.

"Ugh." Even Qi Yuan sighed. "How's that okay?"

"However, don't you think that the capital has been a little too quiet lately?" Xue Tan thought for a while, and then said, "In the past few days, I haven't found anyone entering or leaving in a few city gates, and I always feel that someone is doing it deliberately. ”

"Could it be ......" Qi Yuan suddenly realized, "Could it be that this person himself is hiding outside the city, not the capital?" ”

"Quite possibly." Xue Tan nodded.

"The reason why no one disturbed was because the people inside never appeared in the capital, but hid somewhere outside the city, unless we can find clues as soon as possible, otherwise ......."

"It seems that we still have to go to the deserted village in the north of the city once." Qi Yuan's eyes flashed a trace of scarlet killing intent.

When Xue Tan and Qi Yuan led the troops in again, the situation was already completely different.

This time, because I was not afraid of hurting the innocent, I went straight and had no worries.

The people Qi Yuan wanted were already dead, and the rest were just some deserving prisoners, Qi Yuan gradually lost his patience, and ordered Xue Tan to lead a team of men and horses to kill.

But when the two arrived in the north of the city, they were stunned by the scene in front of them.

The people in the village felt slaughtered, the blood had dried up, and there were black traces all over the place, Qi Yuan glared at everything, and his whole body trembled with anger.

"This ......"

Xue Tan also looked at it in surprise, although he had seen the harshness of the battlefield, he was also stunned by the tragic situation in front of him. "Who did this? Isn't the emperor still in a coma? ”

Xue Tan knew that most of the things back then were hidden by the emperor, so his first reaction was naturally that the emperor ordered the slaughter of the village.

"No, it won't." Qi Yuan shook his head, "There must be other clues." ”

Qi Yuan ordered to look everywhere to see if there were any lucky survivors.

Strangely, everyone in the village was killed, but the guards at the entrance of the village were long gone.

"What about the guards?" Xue Tan looked at him, his face full of horror and doubt, "Could it be that when we came that day, the guards had already been replaced?" ”

Qi Yuan frowned, full of remorse, how could he not have thought of this in the first place, when those guards looked at people, they were obviously observing their movements.

"Someone did it on purpose, originally, it may have been just to kill Qing'er alone." Qi Yuan calmed down and figured out the context of the whole thing. "But our sudden appearance broke their plan, and we had no choice but to kill the whole village, and looking at this bloodstain, it was about a few days ago."

"It's so dark." Xue Tan muttered silently. "Who the hell could do such a thing?"

Obviously, only powerful people can have the ability to raise such a group of masters, even after Qi Yuan arrives, they can continue to play quietly.

Qi Yuan's mind came up with the appearance of a person, Sixth Elder Brother.

But what is his purpose? Just to go against yourself? There is no reason to kill people with such fanfare, aren't you afraid of finding out something? The sixth elder brother is now competing with the crown prince for the throne, and he has long been the target of public criticism, once there is a little trouble, it will lead the sprouts to him, isn't he afraid?

Qi Yuan felt that the headache was unbearable again, and he almost fell.

"Hold on to the prince." As soon as Xue Tan raised his hand, one of his subordinates hurriedly approached and supported Qi Yuan.

"I don't know what's going on lately, I'm always feeling anxious, as if something is going to happen." Qi Yuan thanked Xue Tan with his eyes.

"You're just too tired." Xue Tan carefully looked at the doors, windows and locks of each house, and saw nothing abnormal.

"Look at this." Xue Tan narrowed his eyes and stared at the tiny hole in the window paper. "It's exactly the same as the one we met that night."

"Poison needle." Qi Yuan coldly spit out two words, "Where is the corpse?" Tell me to do an autopsy. ”

"What is this for?" Xue Tan is a little incredible, and it is not an ordinary homicide, not to mention, the deceased's neck is black, and he already knows that he has been poisoned, so what is the point of looking for a murderer at this time?

"You don't understand." Qi Yuan rarely had such a happy expression, "There is a poison in the palace, its process is extremely complicated, and the death of the deceased is very similar to the recurrence of death after being poisoned." ”

"What does this mean?" Xue Tan still didn't understand what Qi Yuan meant.

Qi Yuan didn't speak, and when his subordinates invited the servants in the palace, they would know at a glance.

"Isn't it?" Qi Yuan's eyes were full of anticipation.

"Back to the prince, it is indeed a unique poison in the harem, after this medicine is hit, there is no abnormality in the body, only the throat, there is a blockage, which is the result of the solidification of which poison."

"And in order to cover up, they also deliberately made a place of blood." Qi Yuan looked at Xue Tan with a smile on his face.

Xue Tan suddenly realized, "In other words, the initiator of this incident is a person from the harem?" ”

"Yes, I can tell you that I already know who it is."

The concubine who appeared in the palace of the sixth elder brother that day must have been her!

Concubine Liang......

Qi Yuan silently muttered twice in his heart, and his face became more and more gloomy.