There are only three days left before the agreed seven-day period to find out the real culprit of Sun Guiren, and the investigation of the concubines above the concubine in Dali Temple cannot be blatant, and it was not until this afternoon that a conclusion was reached.

In the harem, only Concubine Luo was not in her palace on the day of the crime.

She said that she went to the imperial garden to enjoy the flowers, but the people of Dali Temple asked the palace people who sprinkled and swept the imperial garden, and no one had seen Luo Concubine.

Therefore, her claims are not credible.

However, just knowing that she was not in her palace could not be used as evidence to convict her, and the gilt armor could not prove that it was hers.

After dinner in the evening, Shen Ci asked Pei'er to make some red date cakes.

She liked to eat this pastry the most when she was alive, and Shen Ciwu was ready to take it to worship her.

The bamboo forest is still sealed, and it is easier to get lost in it at night, so she chose to pay respects at the entrance of the forest road.

After putting the offerings and putting incense, on the way back to the palace, Shen Ciwei faintly smelled a puff of smoke, as if someone was burning something.

Looking around, he saw wisps of black smoke rising not far away, so he searched for it.

At a remote corner, I saw a man dressed as a guard who was secretly burning paper money.

Pei'er muttered in a low voice, "He is too bold, there are taboos in the palace, and the little lord worships Sun Guiren only with incense, how dare he burn paper money here?" ”

Shen Ciwu also felt strange, "He is a guard and not a servant in the palace, it is said that he can leave the palace three or five days a month." If he wanted to worship his family, he could go out of the palace to worship, why should he commit this capital crime of killing his head in the palace? ”

She calmly analyzed for a moment, saw that the guard looked a little frightened when he burned the paper, looked back at the road she had walked, and whispered to Pei'er: "Unless the person he wants to pay tribute to is dead in the palace." ”

Pei'er also glanced back, the place where he burned the paper was very close to the bamboo forest, so she wondered: "Is he worshipping Sun Guiren?" It's strange, what connection can Sun Guiren have with one of his guards? ”

Shen Ci smiled sadly and said nothing.

Sun Guiren has nothing to do with this guard, the person who really has something to do with him should be Concubine Luo.

In an instant, Shen Ci's worried thoughts were straightened out.

That day, Concubine Luo disappeared for two hours, and no one in her palace knew where she went, not even her personal maidservant, but it was conceivable that she must have done something shady when she went to repair the bamboo forest.

The terrain of Xiuzhu Forest is complex and hidden, and it is even more rarely populated on weekdays, if the concubines and guards want to steal joy, then there is no better place in the palace than this.

Imagine if Sun Guiren bumped into the scene of the two of them blending with fish and water that day, then after she was discovered, she naturally had no possibility of survival.

This would explain why the killer hit her on the forehead more than a dozen times, and he had to watch her die.

Shen Ci told Pei'er and said, "You follow him from afar, be careful not to let him find out." Remember where he was on an errand and where his house was. ”

Later that night, Pei'er returned to Shen Ciwei in the moon and reported in detail.

Shen Ci sneered, "Do you want to see how Concubine Luo throws herself into the net?" ”

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The next day, when Concubine Luo returned from the Queen's Palace, she found that there was an extra note on her bed.

When I opened it, it was a line of scribbled handwriting, which read, 'See you in the old place tonight, there is an urgent matter to discuss.' ’

Concubine Luo nervously threw the note into the charcoal basin and burned it.

After nightfall, she secretly left the palace and went to a secluded pavilion on the east side of the Imperial Garden.

After waiting for a while, a guard came to meet her.

As soon as Concubine Luo saw him, she became angry, lowered her voice and reproached: "Didn't I tell you, it's better for us not to meet during this time, do you have anything urgent to tell me?" ”

The guard looked puzzled, "Didn't you write a note to tell me to come out?" ”

Only then did Concubine Luo realize that she had been tricked, but it was too late.

More than a dozen guards suddenly jumped out of the bushes to surround the two, and Sanfu also appeared from behind the stone pillars on the side.

He waved the whip in his hand and sneered: "Concubine Luo, let's go, the emperor wants to see you." ”

Concubine Luo didn't shed tears when she didn't see the coffin and tried to refute in vain, "The palace just lost something here, and asked this guard to help the palace find it." ”

"Mother, but this?" Sanfu took out the gilded armor and shook it in front of Concubine Luo, who was so frightened that her face was bloodless and her legs and feet were weak.

When she and the guards were escorted into Chaoyang Palace, Li Mobai and Shen Ciwei had been waiting for them in the main hall for a long time.

Concubine Luo had a hard mouth, thinking that she hadn't been caught by Sanfu anyway, and she and the guard had done anything out of bounds, so she bit her innocence to death, and cried profusely.

The guard naturally refused to recruit him, and only kowtowed like pounding garlic to show that he had been wronged.

Li Mobai was cuckolded, where does she still have a good face?

He ordered the guard to be tied to a Taishi chair and sat down, and then handed Concubine Luo a dagger, and ordered: "I didn't say anything about you, and you don't have to cry here without three hundred taels of silver." It's just that I don't like this guard, and I want you to do something for me. ”

Concubine Luo's hand holding the dagger trembled slightly, "Do it...... Do what? ”

Li Mobai smiled, "Take this dagger and go and cut off the flesh on this guard's body piece by piece." Cut until I'm satisfied, tell you to stop, you stop, you stop. ”

"Your Majesty...... The concubines didn't dare to ......"

"Don't you dare?" Li Mobai cut off her words sharply, "This is my order, not to discuss with you, but to ask you to do it." If you don't do it, you're resisting the will. ”

After a short struggle, Concubine Luo finally decided to do things according to the emperor's orders.

With as little force as she could, she stabbed the guard into his exposed flesh, crying and scraping against his flesh.

Seeing himself being 'Ling Chi' with his own eyes, such a painful pain is unbearable for any normal person.

Sure enough, after three knives, the guards had already begun to shout for mercy.

Li Mobai said: "I can forgive you, but I have to listen to the truth." ”

The guard gritted his teeth, sweat droplets the size of beans appeared on his forehead, and the complicated expression on his face could see his entanglement.

It was his expression that shocked Luo Concubine who was trembling with a knife on the side.

She didn't know what the guard would say, and whether she would confess to her in order to save her life, so she simply turned her heart sideways, put up a dagger, and prepared to pierce the guard's heart.

Her actions caught everyone's eyes, and Sanfu quickly snatched the dagger and pushed Luo Concubine to the ground.

Shen Ciwu took advantage of the situation and said sharply to the guards: "Since she ruthlessly wants your life, do you still want to hide it for her?" What you have committed is a capital crime, do you want to confess now and ask for a happy end, or do you want to blindly harden your mouth and end up with no body? ”

The guard glanced at Concubine Luo with a disgraced expression, then lowered his eyes and sighed, "I said ......"