Empress Dowager: Husband, please lie down

Chapter 358
Xia Houyin ordered Xia Houxin's body to be taken down from the beam. Ruan Eryue reached out to take the gloves and mask from the imperial physician, and approached Xia Houxin's body under Xia Houyin's disapproving gaze.

Although she is pregnant now, it's okay to have a big belly and it's inconvenient, but it's a very unlucky thing to touch the corpse at this moment.

However, for the sake of Xia Houqing's innocence, for the reason that Mengnan and Beijun will not start a war because of this incident and cause the common people to suffer, and for Xia Houqing to be forced to replace Xia Houxin to go to Mengnan to get married...

She had to check it out by herself.

It stands to reason that if Xia Houxin really hanged himself, no matter what... the hanged person would definitely have his tongue protruding a little bit from his mouth, his eyes would be staring and white, and the eyeballs would move up a little.

However, Xia Houxin's eyes were indeed widened, but her two pupils were dilated, and her eyes were full of horror and unwillingness, not at all like the relaxed look of being freed by hanging herself.

Not to mention, the mouth is slightly wide open, and the tongue is slightly rolled up, as if calling for help.

Ruan Eryue's eyes were a little subtle, and she reached out to close Xia Houxin's eyes.

Only then did he fiddle with Xiahou Yin's neck with his hands. If he hanged himself, there should be marks of the deep rope on his neck.

But as I reported earlier, Xia Houxin only had a faint mark of the rope on his neck.What is more clear and obvious are the few finger prints clearly visible under the chin, which were completely strangled to death.

Other than that, there were no other scars or marks on Xia Houxin's body.

Seeing only here, Ruan Eryue felt that there was no need to investigate any further, so she directly sent someone to invite Xiahou Zhu and the Queen Mother over, saying that she already knew what was going on.

Before entering the palace, the queen mother asked anxiously, "What's the matter? But who is the murderer?"

With Tuobaye and the others following behind her, she wanted to get rid of the charges for her precious daughter as soon as possible.

Ruan Eryue shook her head lightly, but replied with a positive face, "Although I am not sure who the murderer must be, I am sure that the murderer must not be Qing'er."

Concubine Shu, who was impatient, also followed. Hearing what Ruan Eryue said, she couldn't help but frowned and asked, "It's so funny! Since you don't know who the murderer is, how can you be sure? A princess? Concubine Jing, are you kidding us?!"

"Concubine Shu is so abnormal today, could it be that she is trying to cover up something?"

Seeing Concubine Shu's harsh tone towards Ruan Eryue, Xiahou Yin squinted his eyes in displeasure, and asked Concubine Shu coldly.

Ruan Eryue smiled instead of being angry, she curled her lips and said, "That's right, could it be that Concubine Shu has a guilty conscience? So it won't work if you keep pushing everything on Qinger's head?"

"Guilty?! A joke! Of course I didn't! This matter wasn't done by me. Why did I say I have a guilty conscience? Where did I blame Eleven Princess?"

Concubine Shu's complexion changed, and she shouted more seriously, "Prince Jing, Concubine Jing, you husband and wife, don't swear!"

The Empress Dowager and Xiahou Zhu also looked a little subtle, looking at Concubine Shu with a hint of inquiry and suspicion, but the Empress Dowager still dissuaded, "Okay! What time is it? What are you talking about?!"

"February, tell me, what did you find?"

"The concubine and the imperial physician Wu Zuo checked together. The seventh princess did not hang herself. She was strangled to death. On her neck, there is the murderer's handprint."

Saying that, Ruan Eryue put away the smile on her face, and said solemnly, "Before the seventh princess died, her eyes were full of horror, and there was a hint of resignation. Therefore, I boldly speculated, pinched The person who killed the Seventh Princess must be someone who knew the Seventh Princess well. Either he said something that frightened the Seventh Princess, or he did something that frightened her...Because she was betrayed and killed by the people around her, so the Seventh Princess Not reconciled when dying."

Before Ruan Eryue finished speaking, Concubine Shu interrupted with a sneer, "The seventh princess never gets close to anyone in the palace, isn't it only the eleventh princess who has some relationship with her?"

The implication is that the murderer must be Xia Houqing.

"Shut up for me!"

Having been troubled by this matter all night, Xiahou Zhu lost his tone towards Concubine Shu at the moment, and after angrily berating Concubine Shu to shut up, he quickly said to Ruan Eryue, "Er Yue, continue talking."

Right now, he just wanted to catch the murderer quickly and end the matter as soon as possible.

Concubine Shu reluctantly shut her mouth and sat aside, staring at Ruan Eryue with displeasure on her face.

Ruan Eryue didn't even look at her, she stretched out her hand to untie the rope around Xia Houxin's neck, "Empress Dowager, Your Majesty, you can come and see for yourself. Even, ask Qing'er to stretch out her hands for comparison and see her hands Can it match this handprint!"

If they couldn't be matched, then naturally it wasn't her who strangled Xia Houxin to death.

Although the Empress Dowager and Xiahou Zhu disliked bad luck, for the sake of Xia Houqing and the safety of Beijun, they obediently came forward and looked carefully at what Ruan Eryue said, the handprint on Xia Houxin's neck.

Before Xia Houqing came to compare, the Queen Mother shook her head and said with certainty, "This handprint is so thick, it is definitely not Qinger's handprint. Besides, how can Qinger have such strength to strangle a living person? "

Concubine Shu was about to speak again, saying that Xia Houqing played with guns and clubs all day long, so why didn't she have the strength to strangle a living person to death.But in a blink of an eye, seeing Xiahou Zhu's face was very gloomy, so he shut his mouth wisely.

Ruan Eryue shook her head and continued, "That's not all. Look, Queen Mother, the murderer's handprint clearly shows a slight defect in the little finger. It looks like a section of the little finger is broken, so the place of the little finger is very blurry. But I can see the little finger print, and the little finger doesn't come in handy when I don't use force."

This sentence meant that Chi Guoguo cleared Xia Houqing of suspicion, and her little fingers on both hands were intact.

With a single word to wake up the dreamer, Xiahou Zhu finally came to his senses at this time, and ordered a large-scale search of the palace servant who had a broken little finger in the palace.

The number one suspect is the maids and eunuchs who served in Changle Palace and knew Xia Houxin well.

Xia Houqing was about to cry with joy, she threw herself into Ruan Eryue's arms and cried so much that it was a grievance.

Knowing that Xia Houqing cried all night, and seeing that her eyes were red and swollen, and now her suspicion has been cleared, the Queen Mother hurriedly sent someone to escort Xia Houqing back to Weiyang Palace to have a good rest.

Ruan Eryue entered the palace mainly for Xia Houqing, and now that her mission has been completed, she and Xiahou Yin are going to leave the palace together.

Unexpectedly, Xiahou Yin was stopped by Xiahou Zhu, who insisted on assisting him to deal with the following matters, and asked Ruan Eryue to go out of the palace and return to the palace first.

　Originally, I wanted to make this case more suspenseful and difficult to investigate, but I was too tired to write it, and I wanted to finish it at the end of the month, so I didn’t want to be verbose, let’s solve the case simply.Thank you girls for your care and support. I feel much better and I haven't given up. It's just that I'm really tired.Still today, writing.

　　
　
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