Meng Hui wanted to say that this whole thing was full of doubts, not to mention the strangeness of the eldest princess. Seeing that Fang Qing showed strong suspicion and hostility towards the eldest princess, Meng Hui did not answer, but chose to continue to listen to her.

The waiter who was guarding outside waited for the afternoon, and when it was time for supper, the lady-in-waiting, who was beside the princess, tried to go to the inner sanctuary for instructions, but found the door tied from the outside. She opened the deadbolt, but she still couldn't push it open, only to realize that it was also locked inside. ”

The maid shouted for a long time, but there was not a sound in the inner hall, so she hurriedly ran out and asked the concubine to come over. When Concubine Liang led someone to open the door, she saw Sun Yi'an's bloody corpse.

Meng Hui shook off the bloody picture in his mind, and then asked, "No one has ever entered the inner hall since the eldest princess left?" ”

If you want to lock the door of the inner hall from the outside, you have to pass through the outer hall, but all the attendants are guarding the outer hall, and every gate of the palace, so it stands to reason that even if a fly enters, you should pay attention to it.

Fang Qing shook her head and said, "The sixteen maids and two chamberlains on duty were all interrogated separately. On that day, only the eldest princess had ever entered alone, and there was no one else. ”

"What's the matter with the suspicion of the jade concubine?"

"When I went in and found the princess lying on her back in a pool of blood, I was so frightened that I immediately commanded them not to wander around, and took her out of the inner sanctuary. When the officials of Dali Temple and the Criminal Department arrived, they found a hairpin with a butterfly love flower at the back of the princess. After a comparison, I found that this was exactly what the jade concubine had. ”

After hearing this, Meng Hui was frightened and calmly ordered to keep the scene, it seems that this Fang Qing is not a simple person. She shook her head and put aside her doubts, and first made a straight line in her mind according to time, and every event is a point.

The first point is that the eldest princess went to Changning Palace in the morning to find Sun Yi'an.

The second point is that the eldest princess left when it was close to noon, and said that Sun Yi'an was in a bad mood and ordered the maids to retreat.

The third point is that at dinner time, a personal maid tried to enter the temple and found that the door was bolted from the inside.

The fourth point is that when it was dark, Concubine Liang brought people from Ningxi Palace and found that Sun Yi'an was dead.

At the fifth point, people from Dali Temple and the Criminal Department arrived at the scene, determined that the inner hall was the first scene, and found the jewelry of the jade concubine under Sun Yi'an's waist.

"By the way, didn't the eldest princess and the jade concubine say anything, what were they doing from lunch to dinner?"

Hearing Meng Hui's inquiry, Fang Qing showed a look of disbelief, and responded in a skeptical tone: "The eldest princess said that she was unwell after eating, and she took a nap, but she was woken up by the maid at night and informed the princess of her death. ”

Concubine Yu said that she found that the hairpin was missing, thinking that it had fallen in the small garden a few days ago, and took a group of maids to look for it in the small garden for an afternoon. Later, someone rushed to report that the princess was gone. ”

After Fang Qing finished speaking, she once again showed a look of disbelief. "Hmph, apart from the people around them, there is no other witness, who knows if these words are true or false?"

Meng Hui found that Fang Qing completely regarded the two suspects as murderers, and tried to persuade her to believe that Sun Yi'an was killed by one of these two people.

But Meng Hui really couldn't think of any motives for these two people, so no matter what Fang Qing said, she didn't take it lightly.

The two gradually fell silent, and walked towards the inner hall together, and when they were about to reach the door, Meng Hui suddenly remembered the problem of the murder weapon.

"Auntie, was the fatal wound on the princess's body caused by the butterfly love flower hairpin?"

An unnatural smile appeared on Fang Qing's face, and she shook her head and said, "It's not. The hairpin of the jade concubine is too thin to match the wound. The wound on the princess's heart was round, not much smaller than the mouth of the bowl. The entire harem was almost rummaged through, and there was no matching murder weapon at all. ”

The back of the heart was poked out of a hole that was nearly the size of the bowl, and Meng felt amazing when he thought about it. One was shocked that Sun Yi'an's death was miserable, and the other was surprised that someone in the palace used such a big murder weapon to commit murder, and he was able to hide it from the harem that was closely investigated.

To be able to cause such a big wound, it must be a large instrument, right? Meng Hui recalled all the cold weapons he knew, but he still couldn't think of anything that matched.

"Didn't find anything? This is too strange, it stands to reason that this murder weapon should not be small, even if it is buried now, the soil turned over should be eye-catching, right? How could it have disappeared completely? ”

"Yes, the officials investigating the case can't figure it out, and those adults don't seem to be planning to start with the murder weapon." Fang Qing responded briefly, pointed to the door of the inner hall and said, "Don't say anything about the county lord, you won't have to be heard by the mother, and you should be sick again." ”

Meng Hui had no choice but to stop talking about the topic.

The moment she stepped into the palace gate, she saw Fang Qing immediately put on a regretful look, and said to Concubine Liang: "Qi Yu Niangniang, the princess is in a bad mood right now, and she said that she would come to see the county lord later." ”

"Oh, that's fine." Concubine Liang answered, and when she saw Fang Qing holding the medicine in her hand, she trembled involuntarily. "Pills again?"

Meng Hui looked at Fang Qing suspiciously, only to see her persuade with a smile: "Niangniang, your head won't hurt if you drink it." The imperial doctor said that as long as he finished taking these medicines, he would be able to return to normal. ”

Concubine Liang pursed her mouth tightly and hesitated for a while, but finally took the medicine bowl and swallowed it one by one.

There seemed to be something to sleep in the medicine, and it didn't take long for Concubine Liang to start yawning, and her consciousness did not become clear, but the words were obviously much less.

Meng Hui saw that she was so sleepy that her eyes couldn't open, so she hurriedly left the inner hall with agarwood and red sandalwood and went to the side hall to rest.

All the way, she was thinking about the bowl of medicine, as well as Fang Qing's every expression, every word, and the more she thought about it, the more suspicious she felt. But she had so little information in her hands that she couldn't figure out what was wrong.

Fang Qing is a person brought by Concubine Liang from her mother's family, and she has served loyally for many years, so it stands to reason that it is unlikely to harm Concubine Liang. But Meng Hui just felt that she was hiding some very important things.

Meng came back to the side hall with a lot of worries, Amber and Coral took a group of maids to settle down the luggage, and Agarwood and Rosewood were always by their side. I was even more uncomfortable than when I was in Cui's house.

The Cui family's rules are not big, and it can even be said that there are no rules, but here it is completely different, and everything you do and speak is restricted.

It is impossible for Meng Hui to go to the inner hall of Changning Palace at night to check, even if he finds an excuse to bring agarwood and red sandalwood with him.

After Sun Yi'an's death, it became a forbidden place, and no one was allowed to approach it except for the case-handling personnel and the master of the practice. Taking advantage of the dark night and high wind to secretly investigate the scene, it works in Cui's mansion, where no one is on duty at night, but it is absolutely impossible in the palace with many guards.

But if you want to find out the truth of this secret room case, where else can you start without going to the scene to investigate?