Chapter 160 Jade Trace 5

The body of Qinger was examined by Dr. Liu, a medical doctor sent by the queen. Qing'er's body has been transferred to a mourning hall in a remote part of the palace. The next day, I hurried to the mourning hall to find Dr. Liu, and wanted to know what evidence he had found as far as possible.

Dr. Liu lifted Qinger's dry hair and pointed to a few bruises on her neck and said, "After careful examination, I found that in addition to the cracks in the rope, there were ten relatively clear fingerprints on Qing'er's body, which can conclude that the death was not Qing'er's own, but someone was murdered."

I was slightly stunned. I looked at the bruises on Qinger's neck for a long time, and the anger in my chest began to roll. I asked again, "Is there any other clue, such as finding the clues of the murderer?"

Doctor Liu shook his head: "Only this is a fingerprint, but it can also find out who the murderer is."

With his words, I secretly relaxed, and then he explained the relationship between fingerprints and the murderer for me. After listening to it, I was well-in-reated and turned to prison.

The atmosphere in prison has not changed because of anything. For the people here, it is common for one more case and one dead person. In such an environment for a long time, they have been numb to life and death. I found the prisoner who found Qing'er and asked bluntly, "How did you find Qing'er?" Who else is there?"

The prison service did not hesitate. While saying, he recalled, "At that time, Ming'er of Zhuge came to ask Qinger for jade pendants. Ordinary palace people came to the prison by the regulations that they could not open the prison door and could only speak through the door. Since I couldn't use the key, I didn't follow up. Soon after Ming'er went in, there was a scream. When the slaves hurried to go, Qing'er had been hanged.

I asked again, "The prison door has not been opened?"

The prisoner nodded: "It is tightly closed, and there is no trace of the door lock."

The prisoner did not open the door, and there was no trace of the door lock being pried. If Qing'er was killed, how did that person strangle Qing'er? Turning my mind, I suddenly remembered something I experienced in prison a few years ago. At that time, Ye Ying was still alive and was locked in the secret room in the prison. Li Jiancheng asked the maid to secretly send the food sent outside to the secret room every day in the potential prison, and unconsciously hid Ye Ying's whereabouts. And it is not impossible to use this plan here.

I looked around. This cell was relatively remote, and it took four or five rooms before someone was locked inside. Those who made mistakes sat on the grass ball, and some stretched out their dirty and swollen arms straight out of the prison door. I observed for a long time and still didn't tell who might be the author of this. If they hadn't used this plan, and if the prison service did not lie, they would have entered Qinger's cell in an unknown way and let the prisoners around them not say a word.

Hearing that the stinging of Zhuge is already the suspect, and this last question can be learned from the maid of Zhuge. Naturally, the object of my deepest suspicion is picking qian. As long as I listen to a confession from the maid of Zhuge, I can recover from the past grievances and the current pain! So, I came out of the prison and turned to listen to the bamboo pavilion.

I ordered the palace people around me to go back to Deqing Palace to bring the guards. A team pressed into the yard of the bamboo pavilion and stood in the hall and looked at the many guards behind me. They fixed their eyes on me and said coldly, "What are you doing here!"

I stepped into the hall, glanced at her with disdain, and said loudly, "The Empress has handed this matter to our palace for investigation. I hope to cooperate, otherwise don't blame me for not reminding you!" Without waiting for the response, I wink at the bodyguard and scolded coldly, "Come on, take away all the palace people who listen to the bamboo pavilion. I want to interrogate them one by one!"

The bodyguard got the order and went forward to hold the palace man in the hall. I brushed my sleeves and stepped out of the door and left after holding them all. Seeing this, Cai Ner shouted, "You have taken away the people of the palace. Isn't my bamboo pavilion empty!"

I turned around and said coldly, "You are already guilty and don't need to serve!"

She stood there in shock, because I was ordered to investigate, so she had to watch me take away all the palace people who listened to the bamboo pavilion. First, I arranged the palace people who listened to the bamboo pavilion to stand in the yard and walked back and forth for two rounds. I stopped and asked the palace people who bowed their heads and were silent: "I want to know who grabbed Qinger and said that she stole jade?"

The palace people looked at each other a few times and focused on a maid in the back row. I stared at her quietly. She raised her eyes slightly and immediately withdrew to me. Soon she consciously took a step and said, "It's a maidservant."

I had no expression and ordered: "Tell me everything after you saw Qinger."

The maid of the palace paused and replied, "After making tea, I came out of the hall. When I saw someone hiding in the bamboo forest, I immediately reported the collection. After listening to the female eunuchs on the bamboo pavilion gather and gamble together, they found that this person was the Qinger in Deqing Palace. At the moment before, he sent people to look for the jade pendant given by the queen in the palace, so as to doubt Qing'er's head. I don't want to... It's just a misunderstanding."

I sneered and looked cold: "Misunderstanding? It's not unusual for Qinger to appear in the bamboo pavilion. She is either for business or private affairs. Moreover, Qinger does not admit that the jade pendant was lost by her. I narrowed my eyes, stared at her step by step, and smiled sarcastically at the corners of my mouth. "This kind of season, there is morning dew. Bamboo leaves are stained with mud, which is very clingy, and Qing'er's shoes have never heard of the black mud and bamboo leaves in the bamboo pavilion bamboo forest. You said that Qing'er hid in the bamboo forest. Why is it in Deqing Palace, whether it is still Qing'er? You didn't leave any mud in the hall. Don't tell me that each of you changed shoes before these things happened!"

The maid's eyelids trembled and opened her weakly. She couldn't even grasp herself: "Maybe she stepped on the road when she came."

I smiled, but I was very angry: "May? Are you a fool? Listen, Zhuge is not far from Deqing Palace Road, and the black mud is not weak. Do you think you can easily step on it in such a little time!" I waved my big sleeve, turned around and shouted angrily, "Come on, pull out the stick and scold 40!"

The maid of honor screamed and hugged my leg and begged for mercy. I kicked her away, and the eunuch next to her immediately dragged her out. 40 sticks can be blamed is not a small number. Forty sticks can make the flesh and blood of the strong palace people's back and buttocks blurred, and their flesh and blood splash. It can be imagined that the strength and number of the staff should not be underestimated, which is a cruel palace punishment. After a while, there was the sound of sticks and the painful howls of the maids here. The maids here shivered repeatedly, pressed her head in fear, and clutched her sleeves tightly. After about a moment, the sound of the staff was still very orderly and ruthless, and the cry outside was gradually desolate and powerless. In this silence, the sound spread, against a little sad sadness. I walked slowly among the palace people, swept their nervous and sweaty faces, and finally stopped in front of a maid who was dressed slightly more exquisite than others. I raised my eyebrows, clenched my palms slightly, gritted my teeth and asked knowingly, "That day, you shouted in Deqing Palace that it was Qinger who stole the jade pendant?"

She was slightly stunned, her face was slightly uneasy, and she nodded stiffly. I answered and asked her to speak in the hall. She was Minger, the personal maid of honor who picked qian. On that day, she shouted in my Deqing Palace and did not respect her respect. I looked at her coldly and said, "You were the first to find out that Qing'er was dead, right? Is she hanged with a belt?

Ming'er nodded and said with great certainty, "Yes, at that time, the maidservant saw Qinger die, and her clothes were untidy, which was exactly the lack of her belt, so the maidservant concluded that she committed suicide with her belt."

I smiled stiffly: "I have studied carefully. The belt of the prison uniform is not that long at all. The belt of the prison uniform is as rough as the clothes, but that one is much finer."

Ming'er's eyebrows frowned unexpectedly. After a moment of hesitation, she said, "I don't know this. Maybe Qinger had already had the idea of committing suicide, so she secretly changed her belt.

I stood up and walked down slowly, never looking away from her slightly changed face. I came to her and said slowly, "You are sure that Qing'er must commit suicide, right? I found several fingerprints on Qinger's neck in addition to the cracks in the rope. The medical doctor has identified that this is not a green handprint, but that there are others. Everyone's direction and weight of each finger is different. According to the rules, no one can escape the suspicion. This is also the time for you to prove your innocence, and you will go to the mourning hall first.