Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

Chapter 523 The real murderer
This maid is not tall, she can only be considered handsome, standing behind Murong Lingyi, she is like an ordinary maid, so ordinary that no one has paid attention to her.

Even Xue Changfeng was surprised when Murong Lingyi had an extra maid by his side, and this maid was very good at martial arts.

Murong Lingyi glanced back at the maidservant behind him, his face changed, then turned to look at Yan Mu, and sneered: "Your Highness, are you kidding me, my maidservant has always been safe, how could I poison my mother-in-law!"

Although Xue Changfeng hated Murong Lingyi, he also felt that what she said was reasonable. Just because she knew Chen Xuan, from this point of view, she could not be identified as the murderer.

"Is she so impatient as a maid?" Xue Changfeng looked at Yan Mu without a word, and twitched the corner of his mouth: "Your Highness, if you don't know the trial, then don't try it. If you can't solve the case, replace it with someone who is capable." people to investigate."

There was a lot of discussion in the courtroom, but no one believed that the maid could be the murderer.

Yan Mu ignored Xue Changfeng, but stared at the maid, and shouted: "Come forward!"

The servant girl looked at Murong Lingyi timidly, and seeing the master nodded, she stepped forward with small steps and knelt down in the hall.

Yan Mu's eyes were sharp, "What's your name?"

"He...he'er."

"How big?"

"sixteen."

"Nation?"

"Wei...Weizhou."

"On the tenth day of last month, that is, the afternoon of the day Mrs. Wuchang Hou was killed, where were you?"

The servant girl paused, and said: "The servant girl will follow the princess into the palace to greet the empress."

"Stay in the palace until supper."

"When exactly?"

The maid bowed her head and thought for a while, "The second or third quarter of the fifth hour."

Yan Mu looked at Murong Lingyi, "Master Zhaohua, please think about it carefully, when did you leave the palace?"

Murong Lingyi frowned, and was about to answer when the eldest princess grabbed her wrist, "Listen to your seventh brother, think carefully."

"How is it possible for He'er..."

Murong Lingyi didn't finish her sentence, because she felt that the eldest princess was holding her wrist so hard that she even felt pain.

"Whatever your seventh brother asked you, you can answer whatever you want, so that your innocence can be repaid." The eldest princess looked at Princess Zhaohua, her eyes deepened.

Murong Lingyi nodded, then pondered for a while, and said with a sigh: "It seems to be the time of Haishi, and I was in a daze when I heard the nurse next to the queen say something."

"semi-consciously?"

"The empress asked me to have dinner, and I drank a few glasses of wine with her. I felt a little dizzy, as if I was drunk, so I lay down in the palace for a while, that's why I stayed so late."

Yan Mu narrowed his eyes, turned his head to look at Xue Changfeng, "Young Master Xue, before we drank, you told me that the princess is very good at drinking, comparable to you, right?"

Xue Changfeng nodded, "The princess is quite good at drinking, we both drank."

"So it's just a few glasses of wine, how could the princess get drunk?"

Murong Lingyi was taken aback for a moment, "It's not that I'm drunk, it's just that I'm dizzy..."

Speaking of this, Murong Lingyi also sensed something was wrong, why did she get dizzy when she was fine?
Yan Mu looked at the maid again: "From the time the princess entered the palace to the time she left the palace, you have always been by her side, never leaving her?"

"Slave..."

"You'd better tell the truth, because this king can also ask the servants of Feifeng Palace to verify what you said."

The maid rested her head and said in silence for a moment: "No, the maid felt that the room was stuffy, so I wandered outside in the garden for a while."

"The imperial palace is strictly guarded, you said you just wandered around?"

"..."

Yan Mu snorted coldly, and continued: "At around [-]:[-] PM, Imperial Physician Zhou hurriedly left the palace with a medicine box on his back, Chen Xuan deliberately rushed out and knocked his medicine box upside down, taking the opportunity to replace ginseng pills with poison. "

"What's the connection?" Xue Changfeng asked puzzled.

Liu Yunxiang lowered his eyes, and he already understood Yan Mu's meaning in his heart. Murong Lingyi was present at every time point when Mrs. Marquis Wuchang was murdered and Chen Xuan committed suicide, so they reasonably suspected her, but in fact, there was also this maidservant. .

"Princess Zhaohua, why did you suddenly think of taking Aunt Zhou to Ziyun Nunnery to offer incense?" Yan Mu asked Murong Lingyi.

Murong Lingyi's expression changed immediately, "I, I..."

"You actually have many ways to harm her, why did you go to Ziyun Nunnery?"

This was too straightforward, and Murong Lingyi couldn't hold back his face for a while, but since she admitted it, she wasn't afraid to mention it.On the contrary, Xue Changfeng was upset. This was his family matter, even a scandal, and he naturally didn't want to mention it in front of so many people.

"Your Highness, you are rambling on and on, what exactly do you want to ask?"

Yan Mu smiled and said: "When we were drinking, you told me that your wife was jealous and couldn't tolerate your aunt, so I guessed that your aunt's disappearance might be related to Princess Zhaohua."

Xue Changfeng gritted his teeth, "So you drank with me and talked about reminiscing about the old days, so you were trying to trick me."

Yan Mu coughed dryly, "By the way."

"It's in vain that I still have a little truth for you."

"Turn back, my king invites you."

"No need, I don't dare to drink any more of His Highness's wine."

Yan Mu smiled, and continued: "So I checked Princess Zhaohua and found that she often went to Ziyun Nunnery, presumably to find Aunt Zhou, and later we learned that the ginseng pills used by Imperial Physician Zhou were replaced with poison The court lady, that is, Chen Xuan, she is in Ziyun Temple, so, is it really a coincidence?"

Saying that, Yan Mu looked at Murong Lingyi.

When Murong Lingyi heard that she was involved again, she had to quickly think back to what happened at that time, and couldn't help but widen her eyes when she thought of something, "He'er... He'er said what's the use of getting rid of the child in Aunt Zhou's stomach. The backyard is clean, so Aunt Zhou should be killed, she gave me the idea to take Aunt Zhou to Ziyun Nunnery, and kill her on the way."

"This king first started to suspect that it was the Princess, but there are indications that this maidservant is even more suspicious." Yan Mu said.

Xue Changfeng was still a little confused, "But why didn't she replace Taiyi Zhou's ginseng pills herself, but instead bought Chen Xuan, it would be very risky to do so."

Yan Mu thought about Mrs. Chen, and asked in a deep voice: "Chen Xuan has only been in the palace for two years, but she built a new house for her family and helped her brother pay off his gambling debts. Am I right?"

Mrs. Chen shivered, "Yes."

"And her monthly period is only two or two. You have repeatedly forced her to take money, but you have never thought about where her money comes from?"

Mrs. Chen lowered her head, "I won't ask."

"You must know!"

"I……"

"Above the court, don't tell the truth!"

Mrs. Chen hiccupped in fright, "She...she stole things from the palace and sold them."

Yan Mu nodded, and then looked at He'er, "I guess that you just happened to see Chen Xuan going out with the things in the palace that night, so you threatened and lured her to do this for you. Originally, you really planned to do it yourself." This matter, but if someone does it for you, the risk of your exposure is much smaller."

"Why did you murder Mrs. Hou?"

(End of this chapter)