In the palace, Xiao Zheng obtained the emperor's permission and began to investigate the case.

He investigated the death of Princess Fengping and the case of passing the note to Concubine Yu separately.

Since Concubine Yu was attracted by someone with a heart, why wasn't Princess Fengping attracted by someone?

Maybe it's using Princess Fengping to break Concubine Yu's private meeting. ’

Maybe Princess Toyopei was a victim who broke in by mistake and was killed and killed.

In short, the two cases appear to be connected and seem to be independent.

Xiao Zheng arched his hand to His Majesty and said,

"There are several suspicious points in this case, and the minister will interrogate several people."

The emperor called Cui Hai and told him to obey Xiao Zheng's command.

Xiao Zheng arched his hand towards Cui Hai, "Trouble my father-in-law to find out the palace person who passed the note to Niangniang first, and Niangniang came to Luhua Palace, who revealed the news, the third ......"

The one who passed the note was the little chamberlain who knocked over the whole pot of wine on Concubine Yu, and Cui Hai immediately called the female official in charge of the palace banquet today, as well as the eunuch in charge.

Every detail of such a feast must be taken into account, and who is in charge of which table is arranged in advance.

There is no queen in the palace, although Concubine Yu is in charge of the harem, but in fact, she does not interrogate too much, but is in charge, and all the specific things are done by female officials and stewards and eunuchs.

The female official is a steady and old-fashioned person, and after a little thought, she immediately said that the inner servant next to the emperor and the noble concubine came, and the little inner servant did not appear.

The female officer immediately asked people to go to the place where the little chamberlain lived to find someone.

As for the person who reported the news to Cui Hai, it was a palace maid.

The little palace maid had collapsed when she was brought up, crying and admitting,

"What the slave said is true, the slave and maid just saw the concubine coming to Luhua Palace alone, so she told Grandpa Cui."

She knew that a catastrophe was coming, and she collapsed to the ground after speaking.

"Why do you want to hurt the concubine...... Niangniang obviously came with Xu Xiaowangye, but you said that you were alone, you didn't see it with your own eyes, you lied. ”

"Who asked you to go to Grandpa Cui to deliver the news?"

Even if this palace maid is really the one who went to report in front of Gonggong Cui, she is definitely not the person who witnessed it directly, which is very clear to those present, let alone Xiao Zheng.

Xiao Zheng arched his hand towards the emperor,

"Your Majesty, the palace personnel are complicated, we still have to start with this palace maid, first determine whether she was instructed by someone to deliberately frame the concubine or what, as for the little chamberlain who passed the note, the minister estimated, and was killed."

Xiao Zheng saw that the person sent by the female official to find someone had not come back for so long, and he must have not found anyone, so this palace maid was very important.

Sure enough, the person sent out by the female official came back in a hurry with a not very good face,

"Your Majesty...... The little chamberlain was found hanged in his quarters...... It looks like a suicide ......"

The emperor pursed his lips, his face was not very good.

Everyone was also furious, and the person behind the curtain had such an ability to let the little chamberlain directly commit suicide to cut off the clues, which was really beyond people's expectations.

This is a royal family banquet, and the most honorable people in the world are here, who is so bold.

The people of Xinyang Hall haven't been released yet, who is the person behind the scenes?

The emperor glanced at Cui Hai and said lightly,

"Cui Hai, you have to do your best to pry open the mouth of this palace person for me."

Cui Hai immediately bowed down to receive the order, and glanced at the two chamberlains behind him, who immediately dragged the palace people down.

said that it was Cui Hai's manpower, but in fact, it was also the emperor's hand, and it was also the emperor's hole card.

After the palace maid was taken down, she shouldn't be interrogated for a while, Xiao Zheng walked around Princess Fengping's covered corpse with his hands and asked,

"I don't know if the eldest princess can recall who the second princess saw when she left her seat, how she told you, whether she had a strange look when she left, and so on."

"Also, did she leave alone, or with someone she served?"

Princess Leping has gone from crying when she first saw Princess Fengping's corpse to now leaning on the horse's arms and sobbing quietly, which makes people feel that her relationship with Princess Fengping is really good.

After all, it's my own sister.

I saw her wipe her tears, adjust her breathing, and say slowly,

"She has been sullen lately, and in the afternoon, because of a little friction with Ah Zheng and the little prince, she was even more unhappy."

Xu Han felt that she really carried a big pot.

"At the banquet, the second sister didn't have any contact with anyone else except talking to me, as for leaving, ......"

Princess Leping thought for a while and said, "She said that she had to change her clothes after eating too much wine, and I was going to accompany her, but I was stopped by the second sister, and I only brought a maid ......."

Only then did everyone realize that since they were going out with the maid, what about the maid? Where did it go?

I have just inspected it, and there is no trace of other palace people in Luhua Palace, let alone other corpses.

What about the maid?

The emperor looked at the Praetorian Guards patrolling near the Luhua Palace, who were about to be killed, but were saved by Concubine Yu.

"You go and check around the neighborhood again to see if there are any unknown corpses, or unconscious people."

The leader of the Praetorian Guard squad immediately took people to search as if he had been pardoned.

Coincidentally, Yong'an Hou, who was resting at home, was also summoned, came over, and was dumbfounded when he saw the body of Princess Fengping.

Immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty.

He was dug out of the bed, and he thought that the emperor had a government affairs to ask, but he didn't expect such a life-threatening event to happen.

The emperor waved his hand, "You don't have to rush to ask for guilt first, there is indeed a problem with the patrol system in the palace, and now it has been exploited. ”

and asked him, like Cui Hai, to obey Xiao Zheng's dispatch.

Yong'an Hou got up and respectfully responded.

Over there, Cui Hai interrogated the palace maid and also came back, and his face was very ugly.

Everyone's hearts were inexplicably tight, and they didn't know what the result was.

I saw Cui Hai kneeling on the ground and pleading guilty to the emperor,

"Your Majesty, that palace maid died violently."

"Sudden death?" The emperor's face was gloomy, not angry and arrogant, "Did you torture too much?" ”

Prying open someone's mouth, of course, is not a gentle and drizzly question, and some extraordinary means will definitely be used.

Cui Hai knelt there, didn't dare to move, hung his head and said softly,

"What criminal law should be used to treat whom, and to what extent, the interrogators are measured, but just after interrogating the palace man, he died violently, and I ask Your Majesty to let the imperial doctors go to check ......"

The emperor's chest was blocked, and he was a little upset, so he asked the imperial doctor who had just been sent to see what was going on with the palace people.

The atmosphere in the Palace of Revis became stagnant again.

This palace person is actually very important, if you know who asked her to pass the news, then it is possible to draw out who asked the chamberlain to pass the news, and it is also possible to know the cause of Princess Fengping's death.

After all, Princess Fengping didn't leave any clues on her side. Princess Leping couldn't ask anything there.

It can be said that this palace man is a breakthrough, if you can dig out some news, maybe you can find out this series of hidden secrets.

However, this palace man died.

Xu Han was a little strange when he heard Cui Hai's words, and he only felt that the death of the people in that palace was very strange.

It's like a cat playing with a mouse, after all, the little chamberlain who delivered the news to Concubine Yu committed suicide in his residence, but why didn't the palace person who delivered the news commit suicide or was killed?

After all, as soon as the incident happens, the palace maid will be found out, isn't the other party afraid of which palace maid will leak out?

But as a result, the palace maid didn't commit suicide, calmly waited for someone to find her out, and died at the moment when she was about to be interrogated.

No matter how you look at it, this is a bit provocative.

The emperor didn't blame Cui Hai for killing people, but rubbed his temples and asked Xiao Zheng softly,

"Ah Zheng, how else do you want to check?"

Concubine Hui comforted her understandingly on the side,

"Your Majesty, in the end, the prince of Chengen is young, why don't you let the third division investigate this matter?"

She wiped her tears with a handkerchief,

"Fengping and Leping both grew up in the palace of the concubines, except that they were not born in October when the concubines were pregnant, and the others are no different from Anping."

"The concubine can't let Fengping die in vain, she must find out the murderer and bring her to justice, and if she is not executed, she can't solve the hatred in the concubine's heart."

The emperor did not agree to Concubine Hui's proposal, nor did he refute it, but just looked at Xiao Zheng in a slow tone,

"Ah Zheng, what else do you think?"

Xiao Zheng smiled,

"Your Majesty, the palace maid is dead, if there is a commander behind her, then it can be traced from two places."

"Which two?"

Princess Leping asked impatiently.

Originally, everyone thought that the palace people were the only clue, and when they heard Cui Hai say that he was dead, they all felt that the case was difficult to handle, especially Princess Leping, who was afraid that Princess Fengping's death would become a mystery.

It's just that Reva Palace is too remote.

The point is, the Palace of Louva is now vacant and empty.

Xiao Zheng pondered for a moment, sorted out his thoughts, and said calmly,

"First, it is the situation of this palace person, from the time she entered the palace, to who she has befriended now, who she has befriended, what special things she has said, and what special things she has done."

"Even, what difficulties she has encountered, and who has helped her, the more detailed these information is better, and perhaps some clues can be found from her experience."

"Second, even today, who she has seen, everyone can corroborate it."

"The person who has seen this palace person, come out and make it clear by himself, is he seeing what this palace person is doing, what he says, if he hesitates, he will be dragged out immediately."

"Don't think you can hide it, once someone doesn't come out to corroborate, but it appears in the testimony of others, then this person must also be dragged out......"

Yong'an Hou stood beside the emperor with his hands down, and when he heard the words, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed,

"Shizi, the first one is to investigate the situation of the palace people, this is easy to do, but the second one is not too complicated."

"There are many people in the palace and they are scattered, so it will be difficult to screen out for a while, and it will cost people and manpower...... Don't forget, the guests of Xinyang Hall haven't been released yet, so they can't be watched three times, and they won't be allowed to go back, which will cause panic. ”

The emperor kept his face calm and didn't speak, just looked at Xiao Zheng silently.

Xiao Zheng touched his chin and nodded in agreement with Yong'an Hou's words, "What Hou Ye said is right, it is true that the people of Xinyang Hall cannot be allowed to return home, so in this way, Your Majesty, there are a few things that the minister does not know to ask Niangniang." ”

The emperor glanced at Concubine Yu, who had been sitting silently on the side, and nodded,

"Let's go to the side hall."

Everyone's expressions were a little subtle, Xiao Zheng was the news of the illegitimate child of the emperor and the concubine, and the emperor did not suppress it.

This will make Xiao Zheng want to inquire about Concubine Yu, it seems that he resents the emperor and the concubine, otherwise, where would he say that he wants to ask so directly.

Didn't the emperor and the concubine feel embarrassed?

Xiao Zheng followed the emperor and Concubine Yu to the side hall of Luhua Palace, Xiao Zheng bowed to the emperor and asked Concubine Yu,

"Mother, is there a mystery to this note? Do you expect you to go to the appointment? ”

Concubine Yu lowered her eyes, and only after a while did she say abruptly,

"Yes, it's similar to an old man."

Xiao Zheng's hand hanging down his sleeve was pinched, and the old man ...... He knew who it was.

Since he saw the concubine and knew the real life experience, he has secretly read a lot of things about Prince Fengxian at the beginning.

He took the note, and he could see that he was tired, but he could only act as if he didn't know what to do.

Actually, he hated himself very much, although the concubine said that he was very good in the palace, but he knew that it was not good.

And he can't do anything.

Today's emperor handles court affairs very well, in the eyes of the people, he is a Ming Jun, the prince is benevolent, and he will ascend the throne in the future, and he will inevitably be a Ming Jun.

Let him do the rebellion, he won't do it, let him ask the emperor in person, "Hey, did you do something about my father's death back then?" ”

He can ask like this, but he is not alone, he used to have grandmothers, concubines, and now there are more Hanhan.

He couldn't let them get into trouble.

During this time, if it weren't for the wedding with Xu Han to divert Xiao Zheng's attention, Xu would have become very depressed.

He pinched his palm, retracted his thoughts, and didn't ask Concubine Yu about the situation, but said,

"In this way, the other party deliberately imitated this person's handwriting and deliberately led the mother over."

He looked at the note again, and said,

"Your Majesty, since the little chamberlain who passed the note to Niangniang has been cleaned up, we still have the most critical evidence in our hands."

He pointed to the note, and did not take a step, but said directly,

"Your Majesty, you see, this note, the paper used is a tribute from Huizhou, except for the palace, only a few families have it."

He put the note to the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and said,

"And this ink, with a dark fragrance, is unique to the Imperial Prison, because there is ambergris in it, which is extremely rare, as long as you track it down, you will know where it goes."

The emperor took the note, looked at it carefully, and it was true, he knocked on the table, and said,

"I'll leave this to Jinyiwei to investigate."

He called Cui Hai in and asked him to pass the Jinyi Guard commander into the palace.

Xiao Zheng quietly listened to the emperor's instructions to Cui Hai, waited until the people went out, and continued,

"Your Majesty, the person behind the scenes has set such a trap for Niangniang, and the other party must not be untargeted."

"First of all, he knows that this old man can impress the mother to take risks, and in addition, he can find the handwriting of this old man."

The emperor let out a faint 'um' sound, "This case will be concluded after the things you want are verified first, and there is also Fengping's death, what do you think?" ”

Xiao Zheng thought for a while and said,

"I haven't seen the princess's corpse just now, so let's take a look."

The emperor nodded, motioned for Xiao Zheng to go out, and said to Concubine Yu,

"Concubine Ai has just been frightened, so she will rest here for a while."

Concubine Yu looked up at the emperor and said softly,

"Your Majesty, concubine ......" she let out a long sigh and said,

"You don't understand how the concubine felt when she saw this note, she said that she wanted the husband and wife to have a white head, but in the blink of an eye, he died to protect me, but I ......"

There were tears in the corners of her eyes, revealing a look that didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"These days, it's like stealing, the happier you are, the more guilty you feel......"

Her voice was long, and in this empty and desolate temple, it sounded extremely desolate and guilty.

The emperor couldn't help but hug the concubine, the young husband and wife, where can they easily forget, just as he always has the second prince in his heart, Leping their mother in a position.

The concubine has never hidden anything in front of him, and has always been so open.

He patted the concubine's hand, "I know, it's not that you don't keep your oath, it's that God has given you an extra life, if the eldest brother has knowledge, he will hope you are happy." ”

The concubine hugged the emperor and cried bitterly, "Your Majesty, when the concubine saw the handwriting, she was really a little out of shape, so she couldn't help but want to go to see what was going on, who would have thought that she had fallen for the tricks of thieves." ”

"If it weren't for the little prince, maybe the concubines you would see here would be the same as Princess Fengping."

"Your Majesty, it's okay if the concubine loses her temper, but when the time comes, it will affect Your Majesty...... It's all the concubines who are careless. ”

"But the princess's death, I really don't know what's going on."

The emperor didn't believe that it was the concubine who did it, but when he saw her like this, he comforted her softly,

"I know, I know, you don't even bother to take care of palace affairs, you have always known to wander around the palace, even Concubine Hui has a rare trip, it won't be you who do it."

"It's just that you think that when you encounter such a thing, you must tell me, if there is no Xu Aiqing today, what will you do?"

He let the concubine rest in the palace and went outside the palace again.

Xu Han and Xiao Zheng were checking the corpse of Princess Fengping, and when they saw Xu Han's fiery red clothes, their expressions were solemn, not to mention that no one really knew that she was a woman.

The corners of the Emperor's lips twitched, and he sighed inwardly.

Hearing the footsteps inside, Xiao Zheng and Xu Han couldn't help but raise their heads, Xu Han glanced at Xiao Zheng, Xiao Zheng nodded, and reported to the emperor what he had just found from the investigation of Princess Fengping's corpse.

Princess Fengping was killed by someone who broke her neck, and the death image was not good-looking, her nails were broken, and her eyes were round, as if she was unwilling on the Huangquan Road.

There were blood stains in her nails, her two hands were circled, and the thumb of one hand was broken and she couldn't let go, and it was conceivable that Princess Fengping should have struggled violently before she died.

The man had no choice but to break her neck.

When she began to cover it, Princess Leping's crying stopped, and she would look at it again, when she thought of Fengping's death, she suddenly cried again, and kept calling Fengping's nickname, and kept begging the emperor to administer justice for Princess Fengping.

"Princess Fengping's nails are broken, and the roots are bloody, I'm afraid that the murderer doesn't look good either."

With this, as long as you check them one by one, then you can find out the murderer's body.

Even if the murderer first attacked Princess Fengping and escaped out of the palace, as long as he went to the guard at the palace gate, looked through the people who left the palace at that hour, and then investigated, as long as the person with injuries on his body, he could know who the murderer was.

Princess Leping said with a crying voice,

"Then don't hurry up and look it up."

The first one to check was the little eunuch who ran out of Luhua Palace in a panic just now and bumped into Xu Han and them.

The so-called dark light, the person who reported the crime may also be the murderer.

However, the little eunuch did not have any scars on his body, and when asked why he appeared in the Luhua Palace, the little eunuch's face turned pale and said,

"Small, small...... It's the sprinkler eunuch of Luhua Palace, because there is no other person here, the little ones don't dare to live here at night, they all go to the front to live with people, and they just came back, and they came back to get the bedding after helping in the front......"

As soon as I checked this matter, I knew that Luhua Palace was located in a remote area, and it existed as a cold palace, and I don't know how many people died in it.

The little eunuch didn't dare to live here, but it was normal.

Living with the little eunuch was his fellow villager, and everyone in the same room could testify that the little eunuch did go to sleep every day, and came back today to get the bedding.

Then there are Yu Guifei and Xu Han, Yu Guifei, the emperor waved his hand, no need to check, that is to say, Yu Guifei is indeed no problem.

As for Xu Han here, the emperor didn't know what to think, and asked,

"Xu Aiqing, today is a good day for you, but as soon as you entered the palace, Fengping said nothing, humiliated and even beat you, don't you hate her?"

At the end, the emperor's voice had already revealed a majestic momentum, and everyone present was so frightened that they knelt on the ground, and the prince, who had been silent, glanced at Xu Han and saw that Xu Han just straightened his back, not dodging or dodging,

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister does not hate Princess Fengping, the minister's mother once said that women don't need to embarrass women, and those who embarrass men are good women."

"Although Princess Fengping's words and deeds are inappropriate, Princess Leping once pulled her to a full time to teach her earnestly, and she was stern, and the minister's husband was also quick to cut through the mess, and when Princess Fengping left, although her face was a little sad, her heart should have been transparent."

"As long as Princess Leping is kind and enlightened, this matter will pass."

The prince also nodded and said, "Father, what the little prince said is indeed good, Leping's words, Fengping is still willing to listen." ”

Xu Han smiled at the prince, pondered it again, and continued,

"What's more, Princess Fengping rarely entered the palace because she was scolded by Your Majesty some time ago, and Her Majesty didn't say that she wanted to hold a banquet, so who let Princess Fengping, who had not entered the palace for a long time, enter the palace, and happened to meet the minister and his wife at that time."

"The minister knows this, no wonder Princess Fengping, how can he hate her?"

This translates to why Princess Fengping, who obviously did not enter the palace, suddenly entered the palace to block people and find her own bad luck, then, someone must have notified Princess Fengping, otherwise, where would it be so coincidental.

Who is this notifying? No matter what, it's uneasy and kind.

The emperor looked at Xu Han with a solemn face, and suddenly said, "Who did you see before you went to check Fengping before entering the palace?" ”

Without waiting for him to give him an order, he saw Concubine Hui on the side suddenly kneeling on the ground with a pop,

"Your Majesty, the concubine is guilty, the concubine sent someone to reprimand Fengping yesterday, she has never entered the palace to see the concubine these days, and the concubine misses it very much."

Thinking about how she is, she is the daughter of His Majesty, and if she is reprimanded once or twice, she will not enter the palace in anger, which is too disrespectful. ”

"The concubine didn't expect her to come to the palace today, and ...... so coincidentally"

The emperor frowned and looked at Xu Han, "Then why does Aiqing think Fengping should embarrass you?" What's the meaning behind this? ”

Xu Han, "......"

Doesn't the emperor understand his daughter? There were not a dozen of them, but only a few children.

But what the emperor wanted her to say, not what she wanted to say,

"Your Majesty, what do you mean? What else does it mean? Isn't it just that the goddess wants to marry, and King Xiang has no intention? ”

Indeed, Uncle Seven never said what princess he wanted to marry.

According to his current momentum, it is likely that when Mi'er grows up, he will be stationed in the frontier.

What he wanted to go to most was the gravel gate, where his fathers and brothers were buried.

The emperor's heart was gloomy for a while, at that time Feng Ping refused to marry the current concubine, and talked to him for a long time, but at that time he just wanted to win over Yong'an Hou, if it wasn't for Yong'an Hou himself who didn't have suitable children, where would he find someone in the other houses of the family to let Feng Ping marry.

For a while, the emperor was very unhappy, and ordered Yong'an Hou,

"Close the palace gate, no one is allowed to enter or exit, start to check from the people of Xinyang Palace, find out, who has injuries on their bodies, and all of them are brought to me."

"I want to see, who is it? How dare you do it to me. ”

Is it unbearable that the emperor can't bear it, is it possible that he still has to keep his eyes open when he sleeps?

It's just a pity that whether it is the royal family of Xinyang Palace, or the people serving in the palace, as well as the palace people in the palace near Luhua Palace, the chamberlain, and even the guards on patrol, they all check each other.

No one was wounded!

For a moment, the investigation seemed to be at an impasse.

Princess Leping cried, wanting the emperor to let the third division intervene, even Yong'an Hou also suggested that the emperor leave the matter to Jinyiwei.

Xu Han stepped forward at this time and arched his hand,

"Your Majesty, I just checked the people of Xinyang Palace, and what are the guards on duty, but there are still some people who have not been found."

And some people?

Everyone looked at each other, there were not many people in Xinyang Palace, and the people waiting for them had also been checked, even which guards had been checked, and who else had not been checked?

Moreover, what Xu Xiaowang is talking about is a part of the people, which part of the people?

Someone couldn't help but say, "Impossible, it's possible to miss a few, why haven't some people been found?" Could it be that someone can't cover it up? ”

The emperor also looked at Xu Han, hoping that she could give an explanation.

Xu Han just walked around and said,

"And the concubines of the harem, as well as the palace people around them, have not been checked."

Her words suddenly made some people chuckle, how could it be possible, Princess Fengping was torn her neck and died, how could the concubine and the palace maid beside her do it?

No kidding.

Most people's first reaction is disbelief.

Xu Han didn't refute either, but said lightly,

"Now that things have come to this point, and everyone has spent so much energy, don't they just want to find out the murderer of the princess?"

"Well, why not cooperate?"

"Start your search in the dormitory of the main palace!" Concubine Yu came out of the main hall, her eyes slowly swept over the faces of everyone present, and she gained all kinds of eyes.

These two mothers and sons are really funny, just now the son asked his mother, and now the mother took the initiative to let him search in order to cooperate with her son.

Soon, the people in Concubine Yu's bedroom were gathered together, and the emperor sent Lao Cheng's grandmother to search one by one, but no one brought them with them.

Then the eldest princess of Shuyang also asked people to search the palace people she brought, and even she herself let people see it, after all, she is also a person who knows martial arts.

Finally, it was the turn of the people in Concubine Hui's palace.