Chapter 216: The Mystery
Everyone present was shocked and discolored.
Li Qingyi's tone was not hurried, and said: "The weather is cold, the walnut cheese placed in the small kitchen has not broken for a day and night, if the one you take is prepared in advance, no one will find out, who will pay attention to whether the walnut cheese is fresh, it will be broken anyway, right?"
Yucomb kept shaking his head: "This is just your speculation, why did Miss Li target me, can Linglong's suspicion be ruled out?"
The emperor immediately said angrily: "You two little palace maids, you still don't tell the truth!" He pointed his hand back and forth at the two of them and said, "Is it you? Or are you? Or maybe it's just the two of you!"
The jade comb immediately kowtowed like pounding garlic: "The slave didn't kill the master...... Please Emperor Mingjian! The slave maid wants to ask Miss Li, you said that I hid walnut cheese, I can't defend it. But if I kill someone, I will inevitably be splattered with blood, and in such a short period of time, where will there be time to change clothes, and besides, there will be no bloody clothes or anything like that nearby."
Li Qingyi looked directly at her and said, "When we examined the corpse, we found that the wound on the abdomen of the good nobleman was very strange, judging from the traces of the skin being broken, the dagger should have been pierced from the bottom up, so the murderer was neither on the side nor on the back, but after the good nobleman fell, he squatted on her head and held the dagger with his backhand to pierce it. And the murderer only needs to roll up his sleeves high to prevent blood from spurting on his sleeves."
Cui Chun finally understood what she meant, and said in surprise: "In this way, the murderer can not only cover the mouth and nose of the good nobleman, so as to prevent her from being awakened by the stinging pain and screaming to attract others, but also save herself the trouble of changing clothes!"
Due to the secret affairs of the palace, the door of the hall was tightly closed, and in the light poured into the doors and windows, the dust flew rapidly, making the already tense atmosphere in the room add countless feelings of impatience.
And Cui Chun's words made everyone stunned.
The emperor was furious and threw the teacup next to his hand in front of the jade comb.
Tan cried, and was about to step forward to pull and beat the jade comb, but fortunately, the father of the good nobleman, Pan Jingfu, the royal historian, quickly grabbed her and stopped her in a low voice: "The emperor is here, don't be rude!"
Tan gritted his teeth, trembling his lips and angrily reprimanded the jade comb: "Our Pan Mansion treats you well, and you actually take revenge!" How can you be so vicious! She's still pregnant with a dragon heir......
Yucomb stood stunned on the spot, and after a while, she came back to her senses, but she did not admit the crime, and said to Li Qingyi: "Even if this is the case, it may be someone else, why does Miss Li say it is me? I have no grievances with my master......
"Are you really innocent and innocent of good people? You suspect that a good person poisoned your sweetheart, don't you?"
The hall was quiet, and even the Tan family, who had just been crying, unconsciously restrained themselves and stared at Li Qingyi tightly, for fear that she would say something unfavorable to the good nobles.
The jade comb showed a mocking smile on his face: "The slave has been with the master since she was a child, where will there be any sweetheart."
Li Qingyi took out a piece of paper from his arms and put it in front of the jade comb, the paper was already yellowed, and the neat but not delicate handwriting on it read, "This medicine can cure the illness of Ling Gongzi."
Li Qingyi said, "I have already made people compare, and this is your handwriting. If you don't like Childe, why do you have to go to great lengths to seek medical advice and medicine in every possible way to cure Childe's illness?"
The jade comb grabbed the piece of paper in her hand violently, and trembled uncontrollably.
Mrs. Yu, who had been standing in the corner, changed her expression and was stunned for a long time, but finally did not speak.
Jade Comb smiled lightly, and her voice was sarcastic: "Even if I want to cure Yu Gongzi's illness, what can it mean? Even if I like him, can I prove that I killed the nobleman? Is it because of her desire to make meritorious service that Miss Li has put the charge of murder on my head?"
Li Qingyi was not angry in the face of Yucomb's questioning, but just nodded to the people in Dali Temple.
Immediately someone offered a pair of shoes in the style of a palace maid.
The blood-stained indigo soft-soled shoe was first put on Linglong's foot, but it was the width of a little finger. Yucomb's face turned pale, and he looked at the shoe that was just on his foot, and said nothing
It's out.
"The shoes that fell next to the good nobles are not exquisite, but yours." Li Qingyi pointed to the shoes and said, "I think you still remember that the eldest princess asked you what happened to your feet that day."
The blood on the face of the jade comb faded, like a small fish that had been abused by the surging waves, adrift and embarrassed, losing everything that could be relied on.
Everyone's eyes were firmly on her, but Pan Jingfu and the Tan couple were afraid of causing any bad remarks, so they didn't dare to reprimand them loudly like Fang Cai's side.
Seeing that the jade comb's face was like ashes, the emperor was irrefutable, and asked in a cold voice, "Did you really kill the good noble?"
The jade comb remained motionless, as if it were dead, but after a moment it showed a happy and triumphant smile: "It's me...... What if I killed her! She's vicious, she deserves to die! I didn't do anything wrong......
Everyone didn't expect her to be so risking her life, and they all looked at each other immediately.
The emperor was also stunned by the ruthlessness in her words: "What do you mean by this? When is a good nobleman ruthless? She can't even bear to be trampled to death by insects and ants!"
"Hmph...... Is it? The emperor really doesn't know anything about the person next to him......
Jade Comb snorted, his tone cold.
She has no family, no body to worry about, and at this time she is already doomed to death, and she doesn't care about the fear of the superiors.
The emperor is still not doing anything, but Mu Guifei on the side has a changed complexion, as if the words of the jade comb are not about a good nobleman, but about her, "Bold and cheap, you dare to be disrespectful to the emperor!"
The emperor stretched out his hand to stop Mu Guifei, "Let's let her first explain in detail the process of killing the good nobles."
Mu Guifei looked at the jade comb viciously, as if she was holding back some anger in her heart, and wanted to vent it on the jade comb.
Yu Comb glanced at everyone, and finally his eyes fell on the place where Li Qingyi was, and said, "I have carefully planned for a few months, but I didn't expect to be completely exposed by you in just three days......
She laughed at herself, "I deliberately picked the day of the snow feast, because everyone's attention was there, and my plan would go more smoothly...... Since the good lady was pregnant, I told her intentionally or unintentionally that walnut cheese is commonly used, and the child in the womb will become smarter, so that she can develop the habit of using walnut cheese. That's why the kitchen keeps several servings of walnut cheese every day so that she can eat it whenever she wants."
Mu Guifei said coldly, "Hmph, you are really well-intentioned."
Jade Comb lowered his eyes and slowly said, "That day, when the good nobles came back from the palace banquet, they said that they wanted to rest, and I deliberately rubbed for a while, wanting to wait for everyone to go down to rest, and remind the good nobles to use a bowl of walnut cheese before sleeping. I didn't expect her to take the initiative to mention it herself, and I said in my heart, God will help me, so I turned around and walked out of the temple gate, making a move, and leading Linglong out to check......
Linglong's face turned pale, as if she still didn't believe that Jade Comb was the murderer, and she asked, "The cat...... You deliberately used it to scare me?"
"Yes, the cat just gave birth to a cub, and it's time to forage for food. I fed the dried fish for a while, and every day under that tree, at the same hour, so the cat came every day. On the day of the accident, I added insect repellent medicine to the dried fish and poisoned the kittens."
"I thought, if you find a cat corpse, you're going to call someone to deal with it. Add to that the distance you have to go back and forth, and I'll have plenty of time to do it. And I was able to complete the project with just a cup of tea."
Linglong shook her head: "If there is only the corpse of the kitten, I will definitely call someone to deal with it first, and then go back to call the master." But I was first frightened by the big cat, and perhaps she came looking for her child, and I was afraid that she would pounce on me, so I withdrew, thinking that I would reply to my master first, and then call someone to drive the cat away......
Jade Comb sneered, "Even though you came back a little early, I still killed her unusually well. You stepped out of the door, and I dodge into the house. The good lady was walking around the house because of anxiety, and I took advantage of her unpreparedness to knock her unconscious. Originally, I was going to kill her with one sword, but looking at her high bulging abdomen, the hatred in my heart came rushing in!"
"Why should innocent people suffer because of her, and she should live here in glory? So I was so frightened that I crouched on top of her head and held her high
sleeve, one hand covering her mouth and nose, the other hand raised a knife and stabbed her in the abdomen frantically."
"You're ...... How dare you do this to the dragon heir!" Mu Guifei pointed to the jade comb, as if she really felt sorry for the good nobles and her children.
The jade comb was full of sarcasm, as if the child conceived by a good nobleman, even if it was a dragon heir, was just a curse.
She said, "I had just put my blood-stained dagger in a pool of blood when I heard footsteps outside. I knew that Linglong had returned, so I had to retreat immediately. However, the wound was so great that the blood flowed all over the floor and got on my shoes. This was really unexpected to me. In a daze, the jade comb had already walked in, and in a panic, I took off my shoes and hid behind the curtain in my hand."
"Who knows, I'm so lucky. As soon as Linglong saw the corpse of the good nobleman, she was so frightened that the three souls and seven spirits were about to fly away, where would she notice that I was hiding in the dark. She ran out of the house without even knowing that her shoes had fallen off."
A smug smile appeared on the corner of Yucomb's lips, and she said, "I saw the opportunity, and immediately took off my shoes and was still in the temple, and instead jumped out of the back window wearing delicate shoes. And he washed his arms in the spring, and went around to the gate of the temple with a box of food that he had hidden in the bush beforehand."
"I threw down the food box and attracted everyone, and then rushed into the temple to see the corpse of the good nobleman, firstly to make a show, and secondly to see if there was anything wrong. Sure enough, everything was seamless. Apart from...... Those shoes ......."