Learning the hardcore harem life of a princess

Chapter 290 Are You Really Looking for a Murderer?

Ji Yuan didn't want Tantai Ziyu to take care of this matter at first, but seeing her serious and logical manner, he became interested instantly. Could it be that Tantai Ziyu can still solve the case?

In the past two days, some people wanted to find out the details of the butterfly through Rusi, but there was no need for those people to kill Rusi, after all, killing someone at this time required a motive.

But Ji Yuan also overlooked one thing, that is, dying alone at this time is the most silent.

"The corpse is not completely stiff, and there are no corpse spots as you mentioned." Qin Luo looked carefully this time.

"He died within two hours, what time is it?" Tantai Ziyu looked at Xia Meng at the side.

"It's half past Hai hour." Xia Meng looked at the hourglass.

Tantai Ziyu had a toothache, and the clock had to be made immediately: "That means, she died after eight o'clock."

"What time is eight o'clock?" Ji Yuan knew that Tantai Ziyu often said it, but he didn't know how to convert it.

"It's half past Xu time." Tantai Ziyu explained helplessly.

"How do you know you died at that time?" Ji Yuan looked at her suspiciously.

Tantai Ziyu thought about it. Although there were autopsy methods in ancient times, they were not very uniform. It was not until Song Ci in the Song Dynasty that he wrote "Washing Injustice Records" that there were truly unified standards.

"After a person dies, rigor mortis will appear in one to three hours, and corpse spots will appear in two to four hours. It is winter now, and rigor mortis should appear earlier. There are no corpse spots yet, so it should be two to four hours. Within hours." Tantai Ziyu said seriously.

Ji Yuan didn't know how Tantai Ziyu knew this: "Are you sure?"

"Sure." Tantai Ziyu raised his brows: "If it was just dead, the body would sink, and it would not come up until it was rotten and flatulent, but it was discovered in such a short time after death, it may be because it was directly washed away. On the other hand, the river behind the Beauty Garden is very gentle and not very deep, so the place where she fell into the water should not be far from where the body was found."

Tantai Ziyu pointed to the map of the imperial palace: "There is a stone bridge and four trestles behind the entire Beauty Garden. The nearest trestle to the body is next to the stone bridge, because the stone bridge is built there, and the water under the trestle is very deep. deep."

"You mean where Rusi fell into the water?" Ji Yuan frowned.

"Rusi didn't fall into the water." Tantai Ziyu said with certainty.

"But she was obviously drowned." Qin Luo was puzzled.

"It's true that he was drowned, but we don't know if he fell into the water by mistake." Tantai Ziyu frowned.

"That's right, although the Beauty Garden is relatively remote, but now the palace is busy everywhere, it is impossible for her to fall into the water without calling for help, and no one noticed at all." Xiao Chan'er was also interested.

At this time, it was rumored that Eunuch Yan had arrived, and that there was Ji Yuan here. Tantai Ziyu didn't care about that Eunuch Yan, but now he heard that Eunuch Yan was inexplicably uncomfortable, and I really don't know how the Queen Mother is playing with him. .

When Eunuch Yan saw the emperor here, he hurriedly saluted: "The Empress Dowager asked the slaves to spread the word, saying that it is unlucky to have unclean things in the palace at this time."

Tantai Ziyu asked Qin Luo and Xiao Chan'er to look at the corpse. The corpse hadn't come out of the palace until now, but the queen mother even took care of this matter. It seems that Jiang Meiren coaxed the queen mother well.

"Unclean things?" Tantai Ziyu looked confused: "Eunuch Yan is talking about wronged souls, right? If this person really complains to death, what's the use of leaving the body?"

Eunuch Yan's face twitched. It's normal for servants to die in this palace. It can't be said that there are so many people every month, at least there are so many people every year. It's possible that the empress has really avenged her.

"If you go back to the empress, whoever can't see you knows what's going on, but it's very unlucky for the corpse to stay in the palace."

"Okay, let's send it out of the palace at dawn, and bask in the sun to drive away bad luck." Tantai Ziyu said directly.

Although Eunuch Yan wanted the queen to send the body out immediately, she didn't dare to make a fuss when the emperor was here: "The servant will go back and answer, and the servant will leave." He saluted the emperor and queen.

Ji Yuan's expression became very ugly watching Eunuch Yan leave.

"What's wrong?" Tantai Ziyu looked at him.

"Eunuch Yan is the Empress Dowager's most capable subordinate. Now that Eunuch Yan is back, it seems that the Empress Dowager attaches great importance to you." Ji Yuan said worriedly.

"Then should I feel honored?" Tantai Ziyu joked.

"I'm serious, be careful." Ji Yuan pinched her nose.

"Can you stop flirting now? What should we do now?" Qin Luo looked at the two of them.

Tantai Ziyu knew that there was not much time left for them, and she couldn't really let the corpse stay in the palace: "Qin Luo went to that trestle bridge to see what he found, and also went to check who saw such a corpse last. Si, roughly when did she disappear, and what Jiang Meiren did today."

"Then you doubt Jiang Meiren?" Qin Luo said directly.

"Rusi will check with everyone she has met in the past two days, especially at eight o'clock tonight... What are they doing around half past Xu?" Tantai Ziyu ordered.

"Okay." Qin Luo nodded and went on.

"I'll go too." Xiao Chan'er didn't want to stay here and be abused.

"You stay, I have other arrangements." Tantai Ziyu called Xiao Chan'er.

Little Cicada stayed reluctantly.

"You really want to find the murderer?" Ji Yuan became more and more interested.

"It's precisely because everyone doesn't care how the servants in the palace died, and knowingly find an excuse to let it go, that's why those people will become more and more rampant." Tantai Ziyu said seriously.

Jiang Meiren was not in a good condition and went back to her room early. If the queen mother didn't stop her, she would go to see Rusi to give her a gift.

Xiao Nan came in from the outside and checked the charcoal fire: "Don't be too sad Jiang Meiren, a master like Si Youmei is also blessed, and she will go where she wants."

"Hey." Jiang Meiren sighed: "Rusi has been with me for so long, and I can't see her off even if she leaves."

Xiao Nan rolled her eyes, the queen mother asked her to serve Jiang Meiren, now that Jiang Meiren's personal maid has fallen into the water again, Jiang Meiren may be her master in the future.

"I heard that the empress didn't send Sister Rusi out of the palace, she didn't send her out until dawn." Xiao Nan reminded.

"Why? Could it be that the empress doesn't even let her die in peace?" Jiang Meiren was a little excited again.

Xiao Nan thought Jiang Meiren was too sad: "Beauty be careful, who in the palace disobeyed the empress, maybe the empress wanted to know how sister Rusi died."

"Is it possible that Fu Yin and Wu Zuo entered the palace?"

(End of this chapter)