"Why?" Qiao Ran asked him.

Li Zhao didn't speak immediately, but looked at Lord Jiang and Lord Zhou, who were squatting on the ground looking for someone to question, and then pointed to his head: "Let's go up and have a look." ”

Lanyue Hall is three stories high, although this height of the building does not seem to be outstanding in the whole Chang'an City, even many restaurants in the city are three stories high. But this is the imperial city, every feng shui is quite exquisite, if it is higher than the residence of the Son of Heaven, won't it crush the Son of Heaven? Therefore, most of the palaces in the entire imperial city are built with a single or two floors, like such a three-story building, and there are only a few places in the entire imperial city, and this Lanyue Hall is one of them.

This point shows that when the emperor was there, Princess Baling was still more favored among the princesses.

As the name suggests, the name of the Moon Palace is built for the moon, of course, the moon is just a gimmick, but the moon is real.

Therefore, on the third floor of the Lanyue Palace, there are no windows on all sides, and it is a wide high platform, and you can enjoy the bright moon in the sky when you look up. Tonight is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is naturally very appropriate to enjoy the moon on the Moon Palace.

Although this may not be the best place to admire the moon in the entire capital, it is within the imperial city after all, and it is still rare to be able to enjoy the moon in one place.

Li Zhao walked around the high platform of the Lanyue Palace, and then leaned over the railing to look down. Looking at Princess Baling lying on the ground, he gestured, turned his head and asked Qiao Ran: "Miss Qiao, do you think that if Princess Baling jumps from here on a whim, will she fall to her death?" ”

Qiao Ran nodded and said, "Yes." ”

It's just that there will be no dagger stuck in the body when you fall to death, and a sentence of falling to death is not enough to convince the public.

Echoed by her, Li Zhao sighed and said, "It's a pity, no one who is good and decent will jump over the railing to the middle." ”

Qiao Ran lowered her eyes and spoke quietly: "Princess Baling's Hibiscus addiction is not yet cured. ”

It is not inexplicable for people who have committed addiction to suddenly jump down in a daze.

Hearing this, Li Zhao suddenly turned his head to look at her, his eyes lit up, he suddenly turned his head, and said to Qiao Ran in a low voice: "I picked up a tuft of blood-stained white hair outside, and Your Majesty's snow lion is white." ”

Can you guess from that alone? It's impossible. Qiao Ran looked at him and waited for him to continue.

"There is a fallen scabbard next to Bai Mao, which fits very well with the dagger on Princess Baling's chest, if I guess correctly, the owner of that dagger should be the one who killed Princess Baling."

Qiao Ran's eyes darkened: "Third Master Li, who is the owner of this dagger?" ”

"Your Majesty."

The dagger was so special, it had a dragon pattern on it.

Who in this imperial city would dare to use a dragon dagger? The answer is self-explanatory. Moreover, Her Majesty is the empress, and the dragon patterns on the things used are all beardless, which has the meaning of male and female insinuation.

This made Li Zhao even more sure that the dagger was His Majesty's.

After Li Zhao finished saying this, he looked at Master Jiang and Master Zhou, who were busy checking in the hall, and said, "Some people say that Miss Qiao, you must be a lucky star if you solve two cases in a row." I saw you today, and I was really blessed, which shows that Miss Qiao is indeed a lucky star. So, this important sign of evidence must be told to you. ”

Qiao Ran nodded at him and thanked him: "Thank you Third Master Li for telling me this, so, what is the trouble at the moment?" ”

Li Zhao gradually lowered the smile on his face and pointed to Princess Baling lying on the ground: "To say that such an obvious killing scene is an accident or suicide, in short, I want to give Your Majesty an explanation." ”

After he found the dagger, he understood, and at this time, he thought of Gonggong Xiao's strange words of His Majesty, and it was explained.

Generally speaking, when a dead person dies, it is mostly necessary to find out the murderer directly, but His Majesty's message this time is very strange.

"Princess Baling died in the Moon Palace, there must be an explanation."

His Majesty just asked for an explanation, and never mentioned the murderer, which shows that finding the murderer is not His Majesty's purpose.

As for killing Princess Baling, there are good reasons.

Today, His Majesty is still a benevolent and righteous monarch from all sides. After Princess Baling's matter was discovered, count it carefully, how many lives did she have on her body? Fang Duty Zhou is dead, what about Princess Baling who cooperated with Fang Duty Week?

What's more, according to the other princesses, they were originally just raising male pets for fun, which was a bad moral, but they did not kill anyone. Later, he was seduced by Princess Baling and infected with A Furong, and when he was addicted, he also died of maids and male pets.

However, the identity of the golden branches and jade leaves of the heavenly family gave them a protective umbrella and they were not punished, not because His Majesty pitied these sisters, but because of the mysterious death of several princes when he ascended the throne, His Majesty was already stained with the reputation of mutilating siblings, but there is no evidence to prove it, and this reputation can only be secretly spread, and it is impossible to stab it in the open.

But if you explicitly order a few princesses now, it is inevitable that people with intentions will not make a big fuss about it, so that the society will be unstable.

The Son of Heaven seems to be high and high, but in fact, he is also subject to a lot of shackles, but these shackles are not visible to ordinary people.

"If Princess Baling's sin had been changed to another person, she would have died a long time ago," Li Zhao said, "If we think so, what we have to do today can be considered better, after all, it is a wicked person who has died." ”

It is indeed a wicked man who died. Qiao Ran nodded.

She leaned down and looked down at Zhang Jie, who was looking up in the hall, and he smiled at her with a gentle gaze. Qiao Ran involuntarily curled the corners of her lips and said, "When Princess Baling was escorted to Dali Temple to commit a hibiscus addiction, she used to be disrespectful to His Majesty. ”

Princess Baling is indeed a wicked person, but even if she is a wicked person, His Majesty will not kill her personally.

The more important reason is that her words are disrespectful to His Majesty.

She still remembered the words of Princess Baling that day.

"Don't take Li Le to press the palace! How did she get to the throne back then? If it weren't for the fact that several imperial brothers died, this Zilun would have gotten her? Now I am just afraid that the world will say that she has killed her siblings......"

Those words frightened everyone, although Zhen Shiyuan strictly forbade everyone to spread it on the spot, everyone knew that this kind of thing was unspeakable. But is there really an impermeable wall in this world? With so many people present, who knows which one can hide things and which ones can't?

So it is not so much that His Majesty killed the evil with his own hands, but that Princess Baling violated His Majesty's taboo with her own words.

Of course, when His Majesty came to look for the Snow Lion, what did he say to Princess Baling, and what happened, now that Princess Baling is dead, only His Majesty knows.

Looking at the follow-up in such a hurry, and not even throwing away the scabbard, it can be seen that His Majesty was most likely not premeditated, but improvized. Therefore, Princess Baling must have said something to His Majesty, so that she who had already violated His Majesty's taboo attracted the disaster of killing.

I can't think about it anymore, Qiao Ran snorted, this matter is over.

What they have to do now is very simple, as Li Zhao said, that is, to confuse black and white, and on the premise of convincing the two experts in investigating the case, Lord Jiang and Lord Zhou, who were present, to say that this incident was an accident.

After all, if you can convince Lord Jiang and Lord Zhou, then the people of the world will naturally believe the reasons they give.