Ask Qin Zeng, the admiral of the East Factory, to handle this matter?
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then felt that there was nothing strange about the eldest princess's decision.
Qin Zeng is a person whom the emperor trusts very much, he is very capable, and he is also a eunuch. It is most appropriate for him to come to handle this matter, and it is also easy to convince people, and the situation of trouble will be greatly reduced.
Only Li Qingyi rolled his eyes in his heart, why should anyone who has trouble go to his man to solve it...
While everyone was waiting, the eldest princess of Deqing summoned all the palace attendants of Furong Palace to come for questioning.
Yushu and Linglong were Liangguiren's personal maids, so naturally they were the first to be brought up for questioning.
Linglong was the palace maid who didn't even know she had dropped her shoes before. She was so panicked that her body was still shaking violently.
After hearing the question from Princess Deqing, her lips moved for a long time but no words came out, as if she couldn't find her voice.
The eldest princess was a little impatient and scolded: "If you continue to delay and explain clearly, I will regard you as a suspect and send you to the Criminal Department for interrogation!"
Linglong was already frightened out of her mind by the death of Liang Guiren. When she heard the eldest princess's scolding, she collapsed even more like a ball of mud and couldn't even kneel down.
The jade comb on the side gave her a hand and said, "Back to the eldest princess, Linglong is the first person to see something happen to Mr. Liang, so he must be frightened."
No matter how kind-hearted the eldest princess is, she will inevitably lose control when encountering such a thing. How can she have the mood to understand whether a maid is frightened? She snorted coldly and said, "In that case, you have to say it first!"
"yes……"
Yushu's expression was also very bad, but he was calmer than Linglong.
She said: "When the noble nobleman came back from the banquet, he said he was tired and sent everyone out of the inner hall, leaving only Linglong and I to guard inside. But since the noble nobleman became pregnant, he became more trivial in eating. I lay down and in the blink of an eye I got up again and said I wanted to eat walnut cheese.”
When Yushu said this, he paused, raised his head slightly and looked at everyone, then said: "Because nobles often eat this, the small kitchen usually has it ready, and it doesn't take long to go and get it, so the servants also I didn’t ask the little girls to get it, I went directly to the kitchen myself.”
"But... in just a short time, less than a cup of tea..."
Yushu's narration suddenly stopped, the blood on her face instantly faded, and her lips trembled like dead leaves in the wind.
Everyone could feel that she was suppressing the fear in her heart, so they did not rush her.
After a long pause, Yushu spoke again, "The sky was already getting dark, but the lanterns on the corridor had not yet been lit. I was carrying walnut cheese and approaching from a distance, when I saw something coming from the door of the inner hall. I crawled out. I was so startled that I broke out in a cold sweat, and my steps froze in place. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the black shadow turned out to be Linglong!"
"In my panic, I dropped the walnut cheese box in my hand to the ground, making a loud crackling noise. The sound was especially loud in the empty palace. Linglong, who was crawling on the ground, seemed to be frightened by the sound, and leaned against the door leaf. She covered her ears and screamed. Then the maids and chamberlains in Furong Palace came out to ask what happened."
"But Linglong was speechless at all. I thought to myself that something had happened to the master, so I rushed into the house to see the master. Who would have thought... Your Excellency, she... is like this now, lying in the house... ...Blood was all over the floor, but she seemed to still be breathing at that time..."
Yushu didn't say any more, but everyone knew that even if he still had breath, such an injury could not be saved.
Even if he went to see the imperial doctor immediately, he would have already run out of energy by the time he came back.
So the eldest princess of Deqing did not ask her why she didn't announce her as an imperial doctor immediately, but asked: "Then you went to the banquet to report it?"
"Yes, after that I ran to Yuntai Palace to report."
The eldest princess' eyes fell on the jade comb for a long time, and then asked: "In other words, Liang Guiren was killed during the time when you went to get the walnut cheese? And Linglong was the only one who accompanied Liang Guiren in the palace. ?」
Yushu nodded silently, looked at Linglong aside, and
The other party still looked too frightened and could not recover, and did not realize that she was the biggest suspect in this case.
The eldest princess frowned and glanced at Linglong, then looked at the other maids in the Furong Hall with deep thought, and asked, "Where were you at that time? Didn't you hear any strange noises in the inner hall?"
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but no one dared to speak first. The eldest princess pointed at one of the older maids and asked, "Say."
The palace maid trembled for a moment, kowtowed and said, "Hey, back to the eldest princess, because it's already late and the servants are not on duty tonight, so I plan to rest as soon as it gets dark, and I didn't hear any unusual noises. ...I went out to ask after hearing Linglong’s scream.”
After hearing what she said, the eldest princess pointed to a chamberlain and said, "You tell me."
The servant was tapped on the head and could only bite the bullet and said: "My servant is on duty today and patrolling the palace, but I haven't seen anyone suspicious. It's just that... before the incident, I seemed to hear something falling." Luo made a muffled "bang" sound, but the sound was very small, like an illusion, so the slave didn't pay attention. Then, after a while, what Yushu said was the sound of the food box falling, followed by Linglong’s cry rang out…”..
Immediately afterwards, the rest of the people also said a few words, but most of them were similar to what the previous few people said.
The eldest princess frowned and looked at Linglong again, but the palace maid Ling Qiu came to reply and interrupted the eldest princess's interrogation.
"To report to the eldest princess, I have led people to search the Furong Palace inside and outside, and no suspicious person was found."
A murder case in the Fanghua Palace is naturally not a trivial matter. If it is an assassin, he can kill the good nobleman quietly today, and he can kill the eldest princess without anyone noticing tomorrow.
Therefore, the eldest princess stood up from her seat, walked back and forth a few steps, and said, "This matter must not be tolerated. You should immediately lead people to search the entire Fanghua Palace! Don't ignore any corner!"
"Yes, I will send someone to search immediately."
Li Qingyi listened to the eldest princess's question while paying attention to everyone.
Among the group of palace maids and chamberlains who were kneeling and being interrogated, Yushu was the only one who spoke clearly and told the whole story from beginning to end, while the others kept saying one thing to another.
The eldest princess of Deqing looked at the jade comb and asked, "Are you the maidservant who has been serving Lianggui since childhood?"
In the cold winter weather, Yushu knelt on the bluestone floor in the courtyard, shrank and stroked his arm, and replied: "Yes, I am a slave born in Pan Yushi's house. I have been serving my master since I was a child. Linglong Also, the two of us accompanied the master into the palace together."
Mrs. Tan, the censor's wife who had just woken up, burst out into grief-stricken cries when Yu Shu talked about her daughter's past. Even if she covered her face, everyone could feel the tragic and uncontrollable emotion.
"Then you must be very familiar with the people around Mr. Liang?"
The eldest princess of Deqing glanced at Linglong, whose expression was almost broken, and asked Yushu: "What kind of person is Linglong? Has she ever had a conflict with a noble person?"
Yushu glanced at Linglong next to him worriedly and said, "I don't think Linglong is a murderer. She is usually very timid and honest. She has nothing to conflict with the master. The master also treats us very well." Well, after all, it’s the friendship that we have grown up with since childhood.”
The eldest princess of Deqing looked at the other palace maids and chamberlains, and they all nodded again and again. A younger palace maid who seemed to have a good relationship with Linglong said, "Yes, Sister Linglong has a good temper and is very down-to-earth in her work. She has never had any quarrels with anyone in the noble palace."
Mrs. Tan was listening on the sidelines without any doubts, indicating that what Yushu said was indeed true.
Everyone fell silent. What would be the benefit of a maid killing her master without any grievance or enmity?
Maybe after the emperor knew about it, it would not be impossible for them to be buried with them in anger. It would be a hundred harms without any benefit.
