Since that day, Gu Mianmian saw the tragic situation of her personal maid being tortured to death by the prince, she has been in extreme fear and fear, and her consciousness has begun to become a little unconscious, basically staying in her room every day, rarely going out, and the meals are sent into the room by the maid.

The crown princess found an excuse the next day and asked people to take Gu Mianmian to her house.

"Get on your knees!" As soon as Gu Mianmian entered the house, the crown princess immediately asked her to kneel.

Gu Mianmian didn't say a word, and knelt on the ground very obediently, which made the crown princess feel even more strange, this is not at all like her usual style? There must be ghosts in here!

"Let me ask you, you give me an honest answer, what have you said in the prince's ear these days?"

"Sister, sister didn't say anything to the prince."

She has been thinking about how to avoid the prince all day long, and how she would take the initiative to talk to the prince.

"Hmph, you don't pretend to be pitiful in front of me, in my opinion, the prince's behavior has been abnormal in the past few days, and it is all behind your back."

"Wronged, sister, I'm just a woman who serves the prince, how can I have the ability to control the prince's mind?"

Obviously, the crown princess didn't believe what she said at all, "Since you refuse to admit it, then don't blame me for being rude, come on, drag me down, beat me hard, and beat her until she is willing to tell the truth." ”

Then several maids around the crown princess tortured Gu Mianmian to the end, but nothing came out of her mouth, and in desperation, the princess had no choice but to give up and ordered someone to send her back to her house.

The prince has become more and more gloomy and terrible in the past few days, and as soon as he returned to the prince's mansion, he went directly into the study, and asked people to find Leng Yan.

"Prince, you look for me."

As soon as Leng Yan entered the study, he felt that the atmosphere in the room was not quite right, and the prince rarely saw a book in his hand and read it quietly.

When the prince saw Leng Yan coming, he pointed to the seat next to him and motioned for him to sit down.

Leng Yan hesitated and didn't dare to sit down, when did the prince be so kind to him? But in the end, he still obeyed the prince's words in a panic, so as not to be misunderstood by the prince and he didn't know how to lift.

"Prince, what are you looking for a slave today?"

"Today in the court, my father praised Xie Wen in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty."

After Leng Yan heard this, his back began to feel a little cold.

"In addition to praising Xie Wen, I also praised Xie Shiyun's stinky girl, today Prince Ben called you, just to send you to get rid of those two people." The prince's gloomy tone was full of murderous aura, and he had been thinking about this matter in his heart for a long time.

"Prince Ben will never allow these two people to climb on my head like this."

"But the prince...... The minions really don't dare to do this thing! Leng Yan was in a cold sweat all over his body at the moment, and his back was already sweaty.

"What do you mean you don't dare to do?" The prince walked directly to him, his tone was very flat on the surface, but underneath it was a turbulent undercurrent.

Although Leng Yan was afraid of the prince, he had to tell the truth: "Prince, the martial arts skills of the eleventh prince have always been mysterious, and there are special people around to protect him, and the minions can't approach him at all, besides, this princess Shiyun has always been protected by Shen Sijun, and the minions can't get it......"

"Useless waste!" The prince was furious, and his eyes burned with red fire: "Raising soldiers for a thousand days, using soldiers for a while, you are all so useless, what is the use of this prince raising you, get out!" ”

As soon as Leng Yan heard this, it was as if he had received an amnesty and immediately escaped from the study.

Xie Shiyun and Qin Lianyi stayed very comfortably in the barracks, and the two of them ran to a cool bamboo forest near the barracks to rest.

"I heard you're going to Lingzhou soon."

"Yes! It's finally time to get away from the right and wrong here. Xie Shiyun has long wanted to go to other states to live a few days of idle clouds and wild cranes.

Qin Lianyi saw her looking very expectant, and planned to pour cold water on her, "I think you are still careless, do you think that if you go to another state, Xie Yuan will not find a way to deal with you?"

"Even if Xie Yuan really finds a way to deal with me, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and he doesn't know who will deal with whom?"

Qin Lianyi saw that she was so confident, and knew that she didn't need to say much, she believed that Xie Shiyun could successfully take root and develop in Lingzhou.

As soon as Xie Wen returned to the Criminal Department, he received a report from his officials that several naked women's bodies had been found outside the city.

He immediately led people to the scene of the incident outside the city to check, and sure enough, he saw three naked female corpses.

Not only did the women have no clothing to cover them, but they also had obvious strangulation marks on their necks, and there were many beatings on their bodies, even with leather whips.

"Who did these women suffer from during their lifetimes, and why did they die so miserably?" Xie Wen has been in charge of the Criminal Department for many years and has more than ten years of experience in investigating cases, but this is the first time he has seen such a woman's corpse.

"My lord, not only do this women have these scars on their bodies, but we also found that these women seem to have been abused by someone before they died, and their private and private parts have also appeared to varying degrees of ulceration."

When Xie Wen heard this, he felt that this matter should be dealt with as soon as possible, otherwise the rumor would cause panic among the people in the capital.

"Can you now identify these women? Contact their families and relatives as soon as possible. ”

"My lord, I'm afraid we won't be able to contact their families in a short period of time."

"What do you mean by that?"

"The women didn't have any clothes on them, and there was nothing else around the bodies that would prove their identity, so it was very difficult to find their families."

Xie Wen briefly looked around, this belonged to a barren woodland outside the capital, and they didn't see anyone around them along the way.

And judging from the appearance of these women, they are extremely delicate and dexterous, and there are no calluses or other traces of rough work on their hands, they don't seem to be from a rural family, but like a girl from a high-ranking family in the capital.

"In my opinion, these women are probably not girls from the nearby villages, you see that they have not the slightest trace of farm work on their hands, and they also look like a sign of water spirit, I am afraid that they are women in the capital, you go to the capital to ask door to door to see which family has lost their daughter, or a big family has lost their maid, and then report the result to me immediately."

"Yes."

After receiving the order, the catchers immediately went to the capital to search, and after a few days of investigation, they found even more strange things, no family's daughter in the capital was missing, and no maid in a big family was missing!

Xie Wen felt more and more that this matter was not simple, and immediately sent someone to invite Xie Shiyun and Qin Lianyi.