"Ah——" Everyone screamed when they saw Zhen Shangshu's body.
"what happened!"
Uncle Zhongyi hurriedly walked, followed by many guests, almost everyone who attended the banquet came over.
They smelled strongly of alcohol, but their expressions were particularly clear at this moment.
Zhen Shangshu was an important minister of the imperial court. Not to mention the impact of his murder in Zhongyi Bofu, as far as the court was concerned, it would affect the changes of many forces.
"Dad, Shangshu Zhen was killed by the princess."
Uncle Zhongyi frowned. He was not as naive as Qi Xiaoyu. No matter whether Zhen Shangshu died at the hands of Jiang Yuhuan or not, Uncle Zhongyi could not escape responsibility.
He pushed Qi Xiaoyu away and walked in to see Zhen Shangshu lying on the ground, but Jiang Yuhuan was not in the room.
"Master!" Mrs. Zhen rushed over in a hurry, her hair in a mess. When she saw Shangshu Zhen lying on the ground silently, she broke down and cried.
"Who is it! Who killed my master!"
Mrs. Zhen was holding Shangshu Zhen in grief, and everyone turned away and couldn't bear to look.
Uncle Zhongyi is the master after all, and he must handle this matter properly.
He walked over to see if Shangshu Zhen could be saved, but Mrs. Zhen stopped him.
"Go away! Don't touch my master! Uncle Zhongyi, you must give me an explanation for this matter, otherwise I will risk my life not to let you be buried with Uncle Zhongyi!"
Mrs. Zhen comes from a family of military generals, and she does have this ability.
Uncle Zhongyi's face was extremely ugly, but he had nowhere to vent, so he could handle the matter properly first.
"Where is the princess?"
Only then did Qi Xiaoyu realize that Jiang Yuhuan was not there, and gloated: "Could it be that he absconded out of fear of crime?"
People who were close friends with Qi Xiaoyu followed suit.
"Her maid is not here either. Did she hide after killing someone?"
"You want me to say that the madness is still not cured, otherwise you can kill people at will?"
"I've never heard that there's something good about being crazy."
Uncle Zhongyi listened to their discussion with a sullen face and shouted: "Come, look for the princess."
"I heard that someone is looking for me?"
Jiang Yuhuan's voice came from behind the crowd, and everyone turned their heads.
Hearing Jiang Yuhuan's voice, Qi Xiaoyu was extremely excited, and she had already thought of the scene in her mind when she was arrested and imprisoned.
"Jiang...Princess Princess, where have you been?"
"Of course I will accompany my county prince."
"Everyone knows that the prince is not here, so the princess must have someone to lie..."
The crowd gradually dispersed, and everyone made way for a passage, revealing the figures of Jiang Yuhuan and Fu Shilu behind the crowd.
Qi Xiaoyu's words were stuck in her throat and she couldn't speak for a long time.
"No one told me when the prince came," Uncle Zhongyi asked.
"I've been here for a while, but I told you not to tell her. I'm here to take Ah Huan home, and I don't want to spoil everyone's happiness."
"What are you talking about, the prince?" Uncle Zhongyi said with a sullen face, not buying what Fu Shiju said.
"Just now I seemed to hear someone saying that Ah Huan killed someone?"
Uncle Zhongyi had just looked like he wanted to question Jiang Yuhuan, but now he pretended to be angry, "Who said the princess killed someone? Is there any evidence?"
"Dad!" Qi Xiaoyu shouted in dissatisfaction. What kind of evidence should we talk about now? Just put the murder charge on Jiang Yuhuan!
Jiang Yuhuan killed someone to pay for it with his own life, so the princess was in her pocket.
Uncle Zhongyi glanced at her, and she curled her lips and reluctantly told her about the maid.
The maid stood up tremblingly, "Yes, the slave said it."
"Do you have any evidence?"
The maidservant's legs went weak, and she knelt on the ground, trembling her lips and recounting the incident.
"I saw it with my own eyes. I was passing by the guest house and suddenly heard a scream coming from the house. Out of curiosity, I quietly opened the crack of the door to take a look. Who knows, I saw the minister..."
Mrs. Zhongyibo had the same idea as Qi Xiaoyu. She just wanted to convict Jiang Yuhuan quickly. She urged: "If you see anything, say it quickly!"
"I saw the Minister... The Minister..." The maid did not dare to look at the crowd, shaking her shoulders and hesitantly said, "The Minister is holding the princess in his arms..."
Hearing this, everyone was in disbelief.
Mrs. Zhen shouted angrily with red eyes, "Nonsense! My master is the most upright man, how could he do such a shameless act!"
Mrs. Prince Ningguo spoke, "Don't be upset, Mrs. Zhen, and just listen to what she has to say. Officials from the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple are all here, and they will definitely be able to give justice to Shangshu Zhen."
After saying that, she said warmly to the maid: "You continue."
The maid shrank and muttered, "Master Shangshu was holding the princess... He wanted to do something wrong. The princess shouted and tried to break away, but the minister... Later, the slave saw the princess taking out a dagger and stabbing... …Stab Lord Shangshu in the chest.”
Jiang Yuhuan listened to the whole process and then slowly said, "You said you saw it with your own eyes?"
"yes."
She wondered: "But I left right after I woke up, and I didn't even see Zhen Shangshu's face."
The maid was not afraid at the moment and said firmly, "I am sure that what I saw is the princess of the county."
Jiang Yuhuan acted like a normal person, pretending to be distressed and said, "You and I each have different opinions, so it's hard to tell the difference."
At this time, Qi Xiaoyu said, "My drunkenness is very strong, how could you sober up so quickly!"
"Xiaoyu!" Qi Yi stepped forward to pull Qi Xiaoyu behind him, warning her not to speak with his eyes.
Qi Xiaoyu shook it off hard and ran behind Mrs. Zhongyi Bo.
Jiang Yuhuan said: "Really? Then why are the others still awake now?"
Qi Xiaoyu rolled her eyes, suddenly remembering that Fu Shilu was there, and quickly lowered her eyes, "You must be a bad drinker."
"Then what if I say, I didn't drink at all?"
"Everyone is watching you drink. How could you be drunk if you didn't drink?"
"Yeah, we all saw it."
"Cooperate with my good sister in acting." Jiang Yuhuan spread out the sleeve of his left hand, "I was afraid that Jiang Li would drug me and pour it all on my sleeve. Jiang Li saw that I was drunk, so she sent me here to rest. I I heard her talking about a promiscuous county princess, how could I argue with her? Knowing that she wanted to harm me, I left immediately after she left."
Qi Xiaoyu looked around, wanting Jiang Li to come out to refute, but found that Jiang Li was not there, so she had to do it herself.
"These are all your words."
Mrs. Zhongyibo also explained, "Princess, the wine in this house is prepared by our own people. It is impossible for Jiang Li to drugge her."
Mrs. Yang also helped, "Yes, at that time we all saw that Lili took a bottle of wine casually and drank it herself."
"Of course I have evidence. Everyone has seen that I specifically observed the wine flask that Jiang Li brought over. That wine flask is different from the others."
Uncle Zhongyi asked: "What's the difference?"
"Uncle, just send someone to get it. To prevent anyone from doing tricks, I suggest asking a few adults and ladies to go get it with you."
Uncle Zhongyi waved his hand, "Okay, come and get it."
"Sanqi, you know what that jug of wine looks like, you go with it."
"yes."
It didn't take long for Sanqi and others to fetch the wine flask.
Some people wonder, "Why are there so many?"
"It was to show the difference between the wine bottles. As you can see, there is a small difference between this wine bottle and other wine bottles."
"What's the difference?"
Before Jiang Yuhuan could speak, someone noticed the difference with sharp eyes and shouted: "Direction! Although the patterns on the bottles are the same, the direction of this pattern is different from the others."
"Looking at it this way, it seems so."
"What does this mean?" Qi Xiaoyu didn't care. She just thought it was Jiang Yuhuan's excuse to clear away suspicion.
"This wine bottle is marked, which shows that Jiang Li did not choose it randomly."
“Indeed, if the wine is fine, why bother marking it?”
"But Jiang Li drank it herself." Jiang Li and Jiang Yuhuan drank from the same bottle of wine. There was no reason why Jiang Li was fine.
"Wait, there's a different pot here too."
Qi Xiaoyu's eyes lit up, thinking she had caught the flaw, "Princess, not only Jiang Li's pot is different, maybe it's just a coincidence that the craftsman made it wrong. Isn't your explanation a bit far-fetched?"
Jiang Yuhuan said calmly, "I would like to ask everyone who went to get the wine pot, where did you get this other pot?"
"It's from Lord Shangshu's table."
As soon as the scholar said this, everyone reacted, "So, there is something wrong with Master Shangshu's wine?"
Mrs. Zhen also grasped this point, "My lords, now it seems that my master's death was premeditated. I hope that your lords will seek justice for me!"
"Don't worry, Mrs. Zhen, we will never let the murderer go unpunished."
"Uncle, how do you explain?"
"Just because there are two different wine bottles, do you think there is something wrong with the wine? Jiang Li drank it herself."
Qi Xiaoyu always insisted on Jiang Lizhe's point, and Jiang Yuhuan happily answered her.
She said: "Bring two wine glasses and you will know after trying them. Doctor Du, please take a look."
Doctor Du bowed his hands and said, "It is my duty to serve as an official."
Soon the maid brought two wine glasses, and Jiang Yuhuan took the wine flask and filled them with wine respectively.
Doctor Du took it to his nose and smelled it. He seemed unsure, so he put a little more into his mouth.
Then he nodded, "There is sweat medicine in this cup, but not in this cup."
Qi Xiaoyu screamed in shock, her voice sharp and harsh, "How could it be! How could one of the wines poured from a flask be drugged and the other not?"
Jiang Yuhuan was not in a hurry to answer, and handed over his sleeve, "Mr. Du, please smell my sleeve."
Doctor Du said "offense" and then leaned over to smell it.
This time he did not hesitate and said categorically: "It's the Mongolian sweat medicine. The smell of the medicine on the princess's sleeves is more obvious because the smell of wine has dissipated."
Jiang Yuhuan nodded, then picked up the jug and showed it to everyone, "Look, there is a mechanism under the handle of this jug. There are actually two kinds of wine in it, and the mechanism can control whether the one poured out has medicine or no medicine. , which also explains why Jiang Li was okay after drinking it."
"Even if you didn't drink, how do you explain that the maid saw you killing Zhen Shangshu!"
"Isn't this obvious? She lied." Jiang Yu looked at the maid with a full smile, "Did you really see me kill someone?"
"It's... my slave... my slave has seen it with my own eyes."
"Did you see me kill Shangshu?"
"yes."
"when?"
"When the slave found out, he went to call for help."
Jiang Yuhuan understood, "That was not long ago? But the prince and I stayed together for a full two-quarters of an hour. And according to what you said, there should be blood stains on my body."
Two-quarters of an hour was far longer than the time it took for the maid to watch the murder process and call someone. Jiang Yuhuan's clothes were also very clean.
Qi Xiaoyu still refused to give up, "Who knows if the county king is protecting you? We have been walking around the house for a long time, but why haven't we seen you?"
"I……"
"I saw it!" Seeing that Qi Yi was about to come out to testify, Sun Jiaojiao hurriedly spoke out in front of him.
Qi Xiaoyu's eyes shot towards Sun Jiaojiao like knives, and her tone was threatening, "Jiaojiao, did you really see it?"
