Long before Zhen Shicheng arrived, King Xiang repeatedly recalled the events of that night.

In the autumn of the nineteenth year of Jingming, Cui Mingyue killed Zhu Ziyu on the night of his wedding and escaped, and fell into the hands of his subordinates who were sent to keep an eye on him, and as a result, that stupid subordinate brought people back to the Xiangwang Mansion.

He had no choice but to kill and hide the body, so he deliberately took off Cui Mingyue's clothes, shoes, socks, purse jewelry and other things, and only left a shirt before throwing it into the waste well.

But after so long, it is difficult to determine whether there was any omission at the beginning, even if I think about it repeatedly, I still can't help but feel apprehensive.

Now it's okay, Zhen Shicheng's people really didn't find anything.

King Xiang thought so, and his face gradually became bloody.

What is the discovery of a corpse in the abandoned well of the palace, and no one can prove that he killed it. Take 10,000 steps back, even if it is really determined that it has something to do with him, it is a big deal for a dignified son to kill a servant girl, even if his father knows that he will be angry at most.

King Xiang pursed his thin lips lightly, becoming more and more calm.

"Didn't find it?" Zhen Shicheng took a step forward, squatted down to look at the white bones on the ground, and even played with his handkerchief.

This action made several onlookers turn pale, and they felt disgusting under the pressure.

King Lu thought about the madness that fell into the well just now, and then looked at Zhen Shicheng's seriousness, and subconsciously looked at Yu Jin.

Lord Zhen is so terrible, I don't know how Lao Qi used to follow him to get around.

Then I saw a face that was eager to try.

King Lu was stunned and silently looked away.

"Did Lord Zhen find out?" After the king of Xiang calmed down, he simply turned his passivity into initiative and asked.

If the surnamed Zhen doesn't find out, then he can take the prince's shelf and invite people away.

Zhen Shicheng straightened up, and did not directly answer King Xiang's words, but asked: "Has there been a woman missing in the palace in the past three years?" ”

He knew too well that if he said that he hadn't found it at this time, a person of such a noble status as King Xiang would immediately have a reason to send him away.

Ignore the questions that are difficult to answer and ask the questions you want to ask.

King Xiang really followed Zhen Shicheng's train of thought: "Xiao Wang doesn't know. ”

"I don't know?" Zhen Shicheng touched his beard.

He had forgotten to take care of his beard this morning, and there seemed to be a knot in one place.

"Lord Zhen should know that Xiao Wang has not yet married a wife, and the steward is responsible for everything like the deployment of personnel in the palace......

"In that case, please ask the steward of the palace to come over." Zhen Shicheng said calmly.

King Xiang was very cooperative, and immediately ordered his subordinates to call the steward.

When the next person ran out, he pushed back the crowd and came in, followed by a man with a goat beard in his forties, who was the steward of the Xiangwang Mansion.

Needless to say, the steward was originally standing in the crowd watching the excitement.

"Lord Wang—" The steward saluted King Xiang.

Facing the people in the palace, King Xiang's attitude was much more cold and arrogant, and he asked lightly: "You heard what Lord Zhen said, right?" ”

"The villain hears it."

"Then you can answer Lord Zhen's words well." King Xiang reminded meaningfully.

The steward felt a pang in his heart, and said busily: "Please rest assured." ”

King Xiang turned to Zhen Shicheng and nodded slightly: "Lord Zhen asks." ”

Zhen Shicheng glanced at the steward a few times and asked the previous question.

The steward hesitated for a moment and said, "There are many people in the palace, if you say that the maidservants who have disappeared in the past three years are still unclear for a while, the villain needs to check the roster." ”

Zhen Shicheng stroked his beard and reminded: "It's not limited to servants. ”

"This-" The steward couldn't help but glance at King Xiang.

King Xiang Zhengse said: "Lord Zhen, Xiao Wang only has four personal girls, and in addition, the young women in the palace are all ordinary maidservants. ”

"So, there is no noble woman in the palace?"

King Xiang nodded.

"In that case, the steward can just report the missing woman."

The steward made a gesture and hurried to check the roster.

There was no result for a while, Zhen Shicheng instructed the officials to continue to go down the well to find clues, and focused on Erniu.

"I heard that King Lu came here because of General Xiaotian?"

King Lu rolled his eyes when he heard this.

He fell into the well together, and he has to thank Erniu?

Yu Jin replied on behalf of Erniu: "Not bad." ”

Zhen Shicheng walked up to Er Niu, arched his hand, and said very politely: "In this case, please ask General Xiaotian to help the official find it again." ”

He was so solemn that everyone was amazed.

Master Zhen really thinks that Erniu has supernatural powers?

Zhen Shicheng didn't care about the puzzlement of the onlookers.

In his opinion, dogs have an advantage in the investigation of cases, and with the help of Erniu, they may be able to break the deadlock.

He already has doubts about the identity of the murderer, but the case needs to be evidenced.

"Erniu, look for it." Yu Jin pointed to the bones on the ground.

Erniu stood up and shook his hair, leaned up and sniffed the white bones on the ground, and began to sniff east and west.

King Xiang couldn't leave the big dog, and he couldn't wait to eat the two cows with skins and cramps.

Without this dead dog, where would such a thing come about today! Sooner or later, he's going to kill the dog.

When the king of Xiang was ruthless in his heart, there was a commotion suddenly, and I don't know who shouted: "Look, Erniu has found something!" ”

Everyone's eyes fell on the big dog, and they saw Er Niu digging out an object from the pit by the well and coming to Zhen Shicheng, with a big mouth, and the object fell to the ground.

Under the sun, the light of the falling object flashed, and it was impossible to see its true face for a while.

Zhen Shicheng leaned over and picked up the thing with his handkerchief, and everyone saw that it was a pearl earring.

King Xiang stared at the pearl earrings the size of a grain of rice, and was dazed for a moment.

He remembered that he dragged Cui Mingyue's earrings off during the aftermath, could he have remembered it wrong?

Too much time has passed, and such details are difficult to determine.

Cold sweat broke out from the palms of his hands, sticky and uncomfortable.

King Xiang took a deep breath to get rid of the tension.

can't panic, it's just a small ordinary pearl earring, and it is not engraved with a name, who can recognize it as Cui Mingyue's.

Zhen Shicheng looked at the earrings seriously and was silent for a long time.

At this time, the steward hurriedly walked over and saluted: "The villain has been found out, there is only one young woman who has disappeared in the palace in the past three years, and it is an embroidery girl named Ah Cai in the needlework room......"

"Uh, does that embroidery lady have parents and family?"

"Back to my lord, Ah Cai's father and mother are on an errand in the palace."

After a while, a pair of middle-aged men and women stood in front of Zhen Shicheng.

The man's eyes were slightly red, and the woman trembled, and when she looked at the bones on the ground, she pounced on them, and cried out from her heart: "Ah Cai, my son, you died so miserably-"

Zhen Shicheng was indifferent to this farce, and when the woman's crying was quieter, she asked calmly: "How can my sister-in-law recognize this dry bone on the ground as Ling Ai?" ”

The woman cried for a while, covered her mouth and said, "I've been missing for two years, young woman, who else could it be if it's not Ah Cai?" ”

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