Chapter 28: The True Cause of Death
As soon as Leng Xiangning died, the dragons of Huayue Palace were leaderless, and Leng Aoshuang, as the aunt of Huayue Palace, took on the responsibility of leading. She dragged her injured body, temporarily settled the people in Huayue Palace, and ordered all the scholars who were locked in the secret stone prison to be released and handed over to Lu Ziqing to take back to Yunzhou City.
For those scholars, she had done her best to save their lives, and there was nothing she could do about what impact this experience in the Flower Moon Palace would have on them.
She then went to the ice room in the palace, where the body of Leng Xiangning was placed. In the ice room, Shen Qianmo and Situ Gong were examining Leng Xiangning's body.
Shen Qianmo suspected that Leng Xiangning died unnaturally, according to her performance before her death, she should have suffered from mania and paranoia, simply put, she was a little insane, and this situation could not be ruled out to be caused by some kind of drug, so she specially called Situ Gong in to check it together.
Seeing Leng Aoshuang come in, Shen Qianmo nodded at her and asked, "Miss Leng, has the cold palace master always been as grumpy as he was just now, and even often recognized the wrong person?" ”
Leng Aoshuang shook her head and denied: "No, sister, she wasn't like this at the beginning, originally my sister was a gentle and elegant person who understood righteousness, even if Tao Zhirui's shameless man deceived her and abandoned her at that time, she didn't have any excesses, but she was often sad alone." ”
Tao Zhirui, could it be the "Rui Lang" in Leng Xiangning's mouth?
As if knowing the doubts in Shen Qianmo's heart, Leng Aoshuang then explained: "Tao Zhirui once had a relationship with my sister, when he was just a poor scholar, he was bitten by a poisonous snake one day when he was collecting medicine in the mountains, and it was my sister who rescued him back to the palace and helped him heal. The two fell in love for a long time, and they made a private decision for life.
That year, Tao Zhirui was about to go to Beijing to take the exam, and promised to marry my sister after he reached high school. My sister waited for him here, but who knew that he would never return, and there was no news. A year ago, he returned to his hometown in fine clothes and became the prefect of Yunzhou, my sister learned the news, and went to him with joy, who thought that he already had a wife, and was newly married with his county lord's wife Yan'er, the plaice was deeply in love, and he didn't recognize my sister at all. ”
Leng Aoshuang paused, she was deeply unworthy of her sister. She had long seen that Tao Zhirui was not a good person, but her sister was fascinated by him at that time, and she couldn't listen to her advice.
It's all her fault, if she had persuaded her sister a few more times at that time, maybe her sister's fate would not have been miserable.
"Chen Shimei!" Shen Qianmo blurted out, seeing Leng Aoshuang and Situ Gong's puzzled eyes, thinking that they should not know about Chen Shimei's character, she laughed dryly and said: "That, I just heard that there was a person named Chen Shimei before, who married the princess after winning the top prize, abandoned his wife and two children, in order to prevent his wife from going to the government to complain and expose him, he also sent someone to assassinate his wife and children, which is much worse than Tao Zhirui." ”
"Is there such an abominable person in this world?" Leng Aoshuang lived in Huayue Palace all the year round, and was simple-minded, and was surprised when she heard Chen Shimei's evil deeds. Compared with Chen Shimei's wife, her sister doesn't seem to be the worst.
"The most unpredictable thing in this world is the human heart, so Miss Leng doesn't have to blame herself too much for what happened to Sister Ling." Shen Qianmo is not very good at comforting people, so she can only do her best to do this.
Although Shen Qianmo's tone was light, Leng Aoshuang also heard the relief in her words, and was a little moved for a while. The woman in front of her was dressed plainly, without fat powder, although her facial features were exquisite, but unfortunately there was a scar on her face, but her gentle and calm temperament and calm and indifferent look made her involuntarily feel good.
Leng Aoshuang glanced at Shen Qianmo gratefully, and continued to recall: "If you want to say when my sister started to change, it should be after the fire in Baoning Temple.
On that day, for some reason, a fire broke out in Boryeong Temple, and Tao Zhirui and his wife were also burned to death in the fire. I originally thought that this fire was set by my sister, but when I saw my sister holding Tao Zhirui's charred corpse and crying sadly, I knew that it had nothing to do with her. Maybe it's retribution, who made him betray his sister.
But after that, my sister's temperament slowly changed, at first she became more and more short-tempered, very easy to get angry, and then became more and more cruel and bloodthirsty, hating all scholars, and those scholars who were locked in the stone prison were secretly captured by her. The captured scholars were a little disobedient, so she did not hesitate to kill them, and threw the corpse into the Sanskrit Forest, allowing the beasts to eat it, no matter how much I tried to persuade her, it made her even more angry and made those scholars more guilty. ”
There must be a reason for a sudden change in a person's personality, either external or internal. Shen Qianmo felt that Tao Zhirui's death may be an external cause of Leng Xiangning's drastic change in temperament, but this does not explain Leng Xiangning's sudden vomiting of blood and death.
Is there another internal cause? But according to her examination of Leng Xiangning's body just now, she did not find any signs of poisoning, so what was the cause of her death?
She asked Situ Gong, "Has Mr. Situ made any discoveries?" ”
Situ Gong shook his head, "The subordinates are incompetent. ”
It's not that Situ Gong is incompetent, just from the surface of the corpse, there is really nothing unusual, and the cause of death cannot be found. So what is the cause of Leng Xiangning's death?
Shen Qianmo looked at Leng Aoshuang's pale little face, would it frighten her to propose an autopsy to her now? But there is only one step away from the truth, and if you give up like this, it is a stain on your professional ethics and irresponsibility to the deceased.
With the mentality of trying it out, she asked Leng Aoshuang to dissect.
When Leng Aoshuang heard this, her eyes widened, and she was surprised. As far as she knew, those autopsies were the work of the government, and the clear and graceful woman in front of her was surprised enough to inspect her sister's corpse without changing her face, would she still dissect the corpse?
"Doesn't Miss Leng want to find out the real cause of Sister Ling's death? The Lord Lu outside is a waiter of the Criminal Department, and the official government will definitely investigate the kidnapping of scholars and indiscriminate killing of innocents in Huayue Palace, and if it can be found out that the sudden change in the temperament of the cold palace master is something else, maybe he can clear the charge of Huayue Palace. ”
Shen Qianmo is telling the truth, Lu Ziqing, as the servant of the criminal department of the imperial court, is not a vegetarian, although there is a difference between the imperial court and the rivers and lakes, but the state has national law, and Huayue Palace has committed such a crime, as a law enforcer, he must give justice to those innocent scholars who died in vain.
"Is it possible to find the real cause of death by dissecting my sister's body?" Leng Aoshuang asked. In her concept, the dead are the greatest, and it still takes determination and courage for her to watch her sister's body being disemboweled.
"I can't guarantee that I'll find it after dissecting, but now it seems that this is the only way." Shen Qianmo didn't want to make it difficult for her, after all, she couldn't force herself with different concepts.
"Okay, I trust you." Leng Aoshuang is not a hypocritical person, seeing that Shen Qianmo is so calm and calm, she believes her for no reason. This woman is special, otherwise she is as rebellious as a king, how can she only obey her alone.
With Leng Aoshuang's approval, Shen Qianmo immediately put into work. Although he didn't bring a gown, fortunately, masks, gloves, and scalpels were ready-made, and the records were left to Situ Gong. As for Leng Aoshuang, she was invited out, and in the face of her relatives being disemboweled, Shen Qianmo felt that she should not be able to accept it.
In this way, only she and Situ Gong were left in the ice room, and after a little thought, she decided to invite Lu Ziqing to witness. Of these people, he is the most suitable person.
Lu Ziqing entered the ice room and saw Shen Qianmo, who was wearing a mask and holding a scalpel, and his cold face was stunned. Looking at the micro like him, after a little thought, he knew that the eldest lady of the Guogong Mansion in front of him was the Mo Xin with half of the mask.
"Miss Shen is really not simple." Lu Ziqing's face was ugly, and his tone was cold. He thinks very highly of himself, but he was not lightly played by Shen Qianmo, so naturally he will not have a good face.
Shen Qianmo knew that Lu Ziqing was not a good deception, and he would definitely find out that he was Mo Xin. But now she didn't have time to explain to him, she just briefly explained the situation to him, and regardless of his reaction, she lowered her head and began to dissect.
As a squire in the criminal department, this is his duty, isn't it?
Lu Ziqing watched Shen Qianmo holding a sharp blade, skillfully slashing, and his movements were crisp and neat, although it was not the first time he had seen her dissect a corpse, but after knowing that she was his daughter, the shock he felt was different.
That's a great job! He sighed from the bottom of his heart.
Also shocked was Situ Gong. As a doctor who has practiced medicine for many years, he thinks he is also well-informed, but now that he sees this future princess Xuan, he has to be impressed by her bearing and courage. No wonder the prince has a soft spot for her, she is really different from ordinary women.
Shen Qianmo was also shocked, because after she cut open Leng Xiangning's chest, she found that Leng Xiangning actually died because of a burst heart!