Concubine in power, prince, please respect yourself

Chapter 151 Doubt

Seeing Li Changshi, Qin Ziling suddenly remembered something.She remembered that some time ago, Li Changshi told her about the rats in the palace, and then Li Changshi said that he bought arsenic in previous years!
"My lord, I know where the arsenic that Chunhong eats comes from!"

Xuanyuan Yi didn't know about this matter, because Qin Zishuang was responsible for such matters in the past, but now she is handling them, so Xuanyuan Yi was completely unaware of this matter.

"It was bought by Li Changshi to poison rats! There should be many corners of the palace."

"Li Changshi!" Xuanyuan Yi immediately called out Li Changshi after hearing Qin Ziling's words.

"My lord, what's the matter?" Hearing Xuanyuan Yi call him, Li Changshi ran out quickly.

"Go and have a look, which part of the arsenic in this yard seems to have been touched."

Li Changshi was confused by Xuanyuan Yi's order.

Because he didn't know that Chunhong was poisoned by arsenic and poison, that's why he was confused when Xuanyuan Yi asked him to do this.

"Chunhong is arsenic!" Seeing Li Changshi's confused look, Qin Ziling explained.

Li Changshi's eyes widened after hearing Qin Ziling's words.

"Okay, slave... the slave will go right away!"

After Li Changshi found out what had happened, he quickly searched for the arsenic that had been placed in the yard.

After waiting for a while, Li Changshi hadn't come back, but Wu Zuo came out first.

"Prince Rui, Prince Rui's side concubine."

Wu Zuo simply bowed to Xuanyuan Yi and the others, and was about to say the next thing.

"Just now I checked below. The dead person was poisoned by arsenic, and the time of death was probably around the time of Chou. There was a serious wound on the forehead and shoulder, but it wasn't left last night, it should have been left yesterday afternoon. Yes, other than that, there is no other harm."

After listening to Wu Zuo's words, Xuanyuan Yi just asked the boy to send Wu Zuo out, and didn't ask any more questions.

After listening to Wu Zuo's words, Qin Ziling knew that Dexin had lied to them just now.

She didn't just beat Chunhong to her knees last night, she must have beat Chunhong too.

But this made Qin Ziling a little confused. Since Dexin had ruthlessly dealt with Chunhong, Chunhong probably couldn't stand Dexin like this, so she had the idea of ​​suicide.

Thinking about it this way, Qin Ziling felt a little reasonable.

"My lord, concubine, I found it."

Qin Ziling was still guessing here, when he saw Li Changshi running over in a hurry.

"There is indeed a trace of being moved."

Because if you take it, the appearance of the thing will definitely change, so Li Changshi just ran over by himself. If Xuanyuan Yi and Qin Ziling want to see it, they can follow him to have a look.

"You lead the way."

Qin Ziling also wanted to take a look, maybe he could find some clues from inside.

But when Qin Ziling got there, he was disappointed.

Except that half of the medicine was missing, there was no change in the rest. It was obvious that the man had covered up the traces in the end.

"My lord, nothing has changed. Have you noticed anything?"

Turning her head, Qin Ziling looked at Xuanyuan Yi and asked.

Xuanyuan Yi just looked at the arsenic on the ground and shook his head.

The arsenic was not just arsenic, but also mixed with some grain, and the man's grain did not move, but the arsenic seemed to be less.But can't find anything.

Things have progressed to this point, and Qin Ziling knows that either Chunhong couldn't bear to commit suicide, or Dexin did it.

Otherwise, no one would go to such great lengths to enter the palace to kill a maid.

But why did Dexin kill Chunhong?Now that she is in the palace, Chunhong is the only person she can trust. If Chunhong is killed, won't she be alone in the palace?

Although Qin Ziling felt that Dexin was probably responsible for this matter, Qin Ziling couldn't find her motive.

Thinking of this, Qin Ziling still walked into Chunhong's room.

Now is the critical moment to send Dexin away, and she will not allow any bad things to happen inside.

Seeing Qin Ziling's actions, Xuanyuan Yi also knew what Qin Ziling was thinking.Without asking anything, Xuanyuan Yi raised his foot and followed Qin Ziling and walked over.

Chunhong's body has been cleaned up, but there are still some filthy dirt on the bed.

After taking a look, Qin Ziling turned around and walked towards the place where the cup was placed.

Because Chunhong is a maid, there is only one cup on the small table.

Picking up the cup, Qin Ziling found that there were still some medicine residues at the bottom of the cup, so he wiped off the medicine that had stuck to the wall with his hands.

Qin Ziling walked to the window and looked carefully.

Sure enough, there was still a little bit of grain residue in the residue.

It seems that she guessed correctly, Chunhong's death probably has something to do with Dexin

Qin Ziling checked the things in Chunhong's room, and then checked the things in Dexin's room.

Walking to the side of the lamp, Qin Ziling only felt that the lampshade was a little black, but he didn't find anything.Because Dexin had carefully tidied up the place last night, except for the dirty lampshade, there was no change at all.

It's normal for the lampshade to turn black, so Qin Ziling didn't think about it.

Although Qin Ziling now guesses that Dexin has something to do with this incident, she has no evidence at all, so she has nothing to do with Dexin now.

Xuanyuan Yi was also patrolling the room, but there was no evidence.Because even if this thing was done by Dexin.But because Dexin and Chunhong are masters and servants, it is normal that there are traces of Dexin in this room.

This is the troublesome part of this matter now, because the two live together, so it is a lot more troublesome to find evidence.

There is another problem that Qin Ziling can't figure out. Chunhong died in the middle of the night, so the poison should also be drunk in the middle of the night. If Dexin is alone, there is no way to force the poison into Chunhong.Chunhong is a maid after all, Dexin's strength cannot be compared with her.And there was no trace of a fight at all.

All these signs are overturning Qin Ziling's idea that the murderer is Dexin.

"My lord, who do you think did this?"

Qin Ziling couldn't figure it out, so he could only look at Xuanyuan Yi.

Xuanyuan Yi glanced around, and he didn't understand many things.

"Go back and ask Haitang."

After all, Haitang has been in Dexin's yard for so long, many things they don't know are going, Haitang should know.

Let the servants be optimistic about Dexin, and they returned to Xiangmoju.

Because the time was almost up, Xuanyuan Yi had to take a carriage to the palace first, and he had to go to the morning court today.

After letting Tie Yi come back to help Qin Ziling, Xuanyuan Yi took one look at Qin Ziling and left.

After sending Xuanyuan Yi away, Qin Ziling asked Haitang to come up.

After a busy morning, Qin Ziling sat down and took a sip of tea.

"Concubine."

Begonia knelt down in front of Qin Ziling in an orderly manner, as if she had been beaten.

"Chunhong left in the middle of the night last night. She was poisoned by arsenic. The fourth lady punished Chunhong yesterday afternoon."

Qin Ziling told Haitang all the current clues, just to let her think about it and see if there were any clues.

After hearing Qin Ziling's words, Haitang's brain was still in chaos.

She wasn't on vigil last night, so she fell asleep as soon as she finished her errands.She was in a deep sleep and heard nothing at all.

But Chunhong died in the middle of the night!Haitang felt that this was very strange, how could she die in the middle of the night?The palace is so heavily guarded, who would sneak into the palace in the middle of the night just to kill a maid?

Haitang just felt a pain in the head, so many questions, how could she know the answer!
"Ah! Side concubine, this servant has remembered."

Suddenly, Qin Ziling, who was still drinking tea, heard Haitang calling out, quickly put down his teacup, and looked at Haitang nervously.

"Say it."

After sorting out her thoughts, Haitang calmed herself down a bit.

"My servant knows that Chunhong has a habit. She likes to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and then drink a glass of water!"

Haitang suddenly remembered that it was because Chunhong just woke up a few days ago, so she replaced Chunhong and kept watch for Dexin at night to find out.

"You mean Chunhong gets up in the middle of the night to drink water every night!"

Once you explain it like this, you will understand it immediately.She was still thinking, how could Chunhong be poisoned to death in the middle of the night!It turned out that she herself had the habit of getting up to drink water in the middle of the night.Then that creates a great opportunity for that person.

And others, such as her Qin Ziling, would not be able to find out that Chunhong has this habit. Only those who have lived with her for a long time will know that she has this habit!

Then all these things can make sense.

Haitang knelt on the ground, she still hadn't figured out what was going on.

"Side concubine, did you say that Chunhong couldn't stand the fourth lady, so she got up in the middle of the night and drank poison?"

Because Haitang felt that it was impossible for Dexin to kill Chunhong, she never thought that Dexin was responsible for Chunhong's death.

Shaking his head, Qin Ziling would not believe this seemingly reasonable surface.

"How could it be that she committed suicide by herself? Why did she commit suicide? She also chose to sleep in the middle of the night and wake up to commit suicide."

Who would be so stupid to sleep until midnight and then get up and commit suicide.So this matter can only be done by Dexin, but they can't find evidence now.

After thinking about it, Qin Ziling got up and walked towards Dexin's room.

She wanted to see why Dexin insisted on doing that.

When Qin Ziling got there, she found that Dexin was sitting in the yard by herself, sewing a piece of clothing in her hand, and that piece of clothing looked like a maid's clothing.

Feeling confused, Qin Zi stretched his head to look at the clothes in Dexin's hand.

After taking a closer look, Qin Ziling discovered that the clothes Dexin was holding were actually Chunhong's.

(End of this chapter)