Although Ye Hao is a suspect, Queen Jingde seems to treat her well, and does not treat her as a prisoner at all, the emperor means that he will know who the murderer is tomorrow morning, otherwise Ye Hao's fate will be death.

At night, Ye Hao couldn't sleep, so she put on her coat and leaned against the window, secretly distracted, Queen Jingde arranged for her to live in a cold palace. In fact, Ye Hao was not worried about this situation at all, no matter how brilliant the dormitory of Nuoda in her previous life was, she was only living alone, she sent the palace maid out, and waited quietly for the person to arrive.

In the dim candlelight, her side face was quiet, there was a figure flashing in the window, the candlelight flashed, someone climbed through the window and entered the room, Ye Hao raised her eyes, Jun Ninglan's charming face came into view, Jun Ninglan took the lead and said, "Say, what do you have in mind?"

Ye Hao was very smart, pretending to look at him inadvertently when he left, when his fingers quietly gestured out, he circled his chest and stared at her thoughtfully, Ye Hao couldn't stand this gaze, moved his steps slightly, and was a little away from him, so he said lightly: "Your Highness, I deliberately released the news during the day, indicating that I could find out the truth a long time ago, and someone will definitely go to the morgue today, I want you to take me to the morgue."

Jun Ninglan couldn't help but nod when she saw what she said, "That's good, continue." Seeing that he was ridiculing Ye Hao, Ye Hao endured it and continued: "What I said during the day, it is impossible for the prince not to be moved, so he will definitely send someone to the morgue to check and destroy the evidence, I hope His Royal Highness will take me there."

After she finished speaking, she subconsciously looked at his expression, but Jun Ninglan's eyes were extremely complicated, and his face was rarely serious, not the previous frivolous or condescending look, he propped up his chin, and suddenly said: "Ye Hao, why does Your Highness think that you have hidden a lot of secrets," he stretched his waist, coaxed in a general tone, and said, "How about a secret in exchange for me to help you?"

Ye Hao subconsciously wanted to refuse As Jun Ninglan said, she does have many secrets, the biggest one is that she is a reborn person, but she will never tell her this secret.

Ye Hao didn't speak, Jun Ninglan was not in a hurry, just looked at her with burning eyes, for a long time, he sighed, quite regretful: "It seems that you don't say it today, Your Highness will remember this time, and one day Your Highness will find out."

Ye Hao was silent.

The palace in Northern Chu was as cold as water at night, and the silence was terrible, Jun Ninglan took her to avoid the guards, turned left and right, and finally arrived outside the door of the morgue, the corpse room can be compared to the heavenly prison, handed over to the guards to guard, and it still looks very rigorous.

Jun Ninglan motioned for her to hide behind a big tree on the side, and both of them looked in the direction of the corpse. The winter night wind was biting, Ye Hao walked in a hurry, she had never worn a cloak, her body was a little cold after being blown by the cold wind, and she even felt that her hands and feet were numb from the cold, she shook her head, biting her lip and not thinking about the warm room, but her shoulders were warm, and Jun Ninglan draped his big coat on her shoulders.

Meeting her incomprehensible gaze, he said charity: "No thanks, His Highness is just not cold." He was only wearing a red brocade robe, and the red in the cold night burned Ye Hao's eyes, she frowned, stared at the corpse closely, and tried to suppress the suspicion in her heart.

As expected, after a while, a palace maid carrying a basket came over and said a few words to the guards who guarded it, and probably gave silver to dredge, but she didn't want the guards to agree, so she obediently stepped aside, and the palace maid went in.

Jun Ninglan said: "Let's go, the fish are all hooked."

The palace maid patted her chest to comfort herself that she was not afraid, if it wasn't for Concubine Gu Niangniang who sent her, she would definitely rather die than obey, she carefully looked around the corpse, and found that there was nothing abnormal, she was relieved and turned around to leave, but she heard a smiling female voice behind her and said lightly: "What?" Take a look and leave? ”

The palace maid thought that she was cheating the corpse, and when she wanted to scream, she found that the person who came turned out to be the sixth prince and a girl, she rolled her eyes, and then knelt on the ground, crying and explaining: "The sixth prince, the slave and Xiang'er were the best sisters in their lifetimes, and now that Xiang'er is dead, the slave and maid want to come and see her, forget the rules, that's all." Ask the six princes to spare the mistakes of the slaves and maids. ”

If you don't know that you really think that this palace maid and the dead Xiang'er have a deep sisterhood, the corners of Ye Hao's mouth unconsciously rose, smiled gently, and asked, "You have a deep sisterly relationship with the dead palace maid?" The palace maid nodded busily, with a sad face, who knew that Ye Hao said quietly: "I don't think, maybe I should say, what are you looking for?" Looking for some clues that may have been left behind? Do you think I'm right? ”

The palace maid looked at her in horror, the woman in front of her looked like she was in her teens, why did she guess her intentions, and it seemed to be setting up a trap to wait for her to enter the game, it was terrible. Even so, the palace maid gritted her teeth and denied it, "The slave doesn't know what the girl said!" The slave maid just misses her good sister and wants to see her one last time! ”

"Really? Since you miss her so much, is it okay to die with her? Jun Ninglan on the side said leisurely, his voice was elegant and mellow, if a pot of good wine was charming, but what he said was to kill, this is probably the first time Jun Ninglan has revealed his true character in front of strangers.

Even Ye Hao was stunned, in the end, she had seen him who was squirrel, who was evil, and who was lazy, but it was the first time she saw him who was ruthless.

There was a trace of gloom in the palace maid's eyes, as if she had known that there would be death, in fact, she could have bitten her tongue and kill herself, but Ye Hao sneered and said, "Is it worth it for you to die like this?" After all, your master will not feel distressed. "Indeed, in the face of life and death, people will always choose to survive out of instinct, but the palace maid hesitated for a moment, Jun Ninglan had already clicked her acupoint, and now she could only stare at Ye Hao resentfully, unable to speak.

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The next day, Ye Hao got up early and washed herself, the queen summoned her to go, and the emperor took the time to listen to the results of her investigation in order to understand the whole story.

Ye Hao greeted the emperor and the queen, and in the face of the emperor's excited expression, she said calmly and slowly, "Your Majesty, please allow the courtiers to bring the body of the palace maid." ”

The guards brought the corpse up, lifted the white cloth, and the body of the palace maid was well preserved, thanks to the cold winter weather, her expression was so lifelike, and the horror and fear on her face could be seen at a glance.

Some of the timid concubines present had already turned their eyes away and didn't dare to look at it, Ye Hao said: "Your Majesty, the courtiers hope that Lord Guan will repeat yesterday's words again."

The emperor also agreed, with a bit of interest on his face, watching Ye Hao solve the case, Guan Xiaosheng stood next to the corpse, squatted down, and pointed to the pinch marks on the neck of the female corpse, "Your Majesty, such a pinch mark still has the scratches of a woman's nails, and it took a lot of effort to strangle the palace maid, so the minister guessed that it was a woman." ”

Ye Hao nodded, this Guan Daren's observation was extremely subtle, and Guan Xiaosheng said again: "Your Majesty, the minister also noticed that there were slight scratches on the neck of the female corpse, as if it had been cut by a sharp object, but I don't know what kind of item this shape is."

Ye Hao stretched out her hand, her fingertips were like onions, tender and slender, she didn't wear extra rings, her eyes were calm, and she said lightly: "Lord Guan, I don't wear any jewelry."

A concubine said, "I don't know if you took off the ring or something."

Ye Hao smiled, continued to raise her fingers, looked at the concubine, and said mockingly: "If I wear ornaments all year round, I will inevitably leave dents, and there is absolutely no reason for any traces." In fact, the concubines all know that after wearing the ring for a long time, there will be a white circle on the knuckles of the ring when the ring is removed, but Ye Hao does not.

"In this way, what can it prove?" The emperor was dissatisfied with the rhetorical question, Ye Hao only said that he could not prove his innocence with this evidence.

"Of course there is, yesterday the courtiers released the news that they would be able to solve the case tomorrow, and the courtiers guessed that someone must have been impatient to check the female corpse last night, and sure enough."

The guard pressed the palace maid to come up, untied the palace maid's acupoint, and Gu Xue Gemeng, who was standing in the group of concubines on the side, was already very worried about what would happen when the palace maid didn't come back last night, and now this palace maid should not have completely confessed her guilt.

The emperor said, "Who is she?"

The palace maid knelt on the ground and cried, crying and begging for mercy, and said intermittently: "The emperor spares his life, the slave and the dead palace maid are good sisters, and I know that she is about to be thrown to the mass grave to see her for the last time, how do you know that this Miss Ye Zhen said that the slave and the maid were murderers, and the slave and maid were wronged!"

She didn't dare to say Jun Ninglan, after all, she was the prince, if she could survive today, just because she didn't say Jun Ninglan, he should also let her go, the palace maid thought very well, but she didn't know that she didn't have this opportunity at all, Ye Hao pointed to the neck of the female corpse, and said in a deep voice: "I don't think she was strangled to death by a woman, Master Guan, I think she is more like being strangled to death by two people, look at the scar on her neck."

Guan Daren stepped forward suspiciously, took a closer look at the sun, it was really good, the original pinch mark actually covered up another trace, Ye Zhen opened his mouth violently, and pointed the finger at the person who was a thief among the concubines, "Gu Concubine Niangniang is the murderer!" ”

Gu Xue Ge hurriedly scolded: "Presumptuous, is this palace something you can slander?"

"Slander?" As if hearing a joke, Ye Hao approached her, pulled her out of the crowd, and pointed to the mark on the corpse's neck, "That mark is a ring, and because the owner likes that ring very much, he often rubs it, causing the edges and corners of the ring to be smoothed," Everyone looked at Gu Xuege's right hand, and Gu Xuege reflexively withdrew his hand, but they didn't know that this behavior deepened everyone's speculation.

Ye Hao continued: "Moreover, everyone should not have noticed that the palace maid also left us evidence."

"What? It's just a dead man, where is the evidence? Could it be that she still knows who killed her? A concubine said disdainfully.

"Really, let's look at the gap between the nails of the corpse's left hand."

Ye Hao said unhurriedly, not interrupting her thoughts at all because of the concubine's words.