But when they returned to the Shuntian Mansion Prison, Xiao Yang and his wife could not be woken up no matter how they screamed. By the time the patrolman came over and tested their breathing, they were already dead.
Shuntian Prefecture could not afford to offend Prime Minister Li, so they threw the bodies of Xiao Yang and his wife into your mass grave, saying that they died of illness in prison.
But the people had a bad impression of Shuntian Mansion and Li Mansion, so word spread that Shuntian Mansion beat people to death.
After reading it, Di Xue found the portraits of the two of them in the appendix, and saw that they were almost the same as those drawn by Xiao Yang and Di Xue.
But the woman was completely unrecognizable, her face below the eyes was covered in sores and pus, and the skin above the eyes had just been scalded by boiling water.
Various signs indicate that the female corpse had an ugly face to begin with, and her face was deliberately burned on the day she was brought into Shuntian Mansion.
Di Xue and Chu Ran looked at each other and had suspicions about each other.
Di Xue closed the file, and after registering it at Shuntian Mansion, took the file away.
On the way back to Dali Temple, Chu Ran asked:
"Do you have a solution to this case?"
Di Xue nodded but then shook his head:
"It's just speculation at the moment. This case has been going on for a long time, and the identification of Mr. and Mrs. Yang alone is not enough to convict!"
Chu Ran looked at Di Xue and said:
"It doesn't matter, we just need to tell His Majesty the results and conjectures of the investigation, and he will make his own judgment!"
After Chu Ran finished speaking, Di Xue nodded, and the two of them walked towards the palace before the sun set.
After entering the palace, Chu Ran pulled Qian Zhangyin and said a few words, and Qian Zhangyin immediately trotted into the inner palace with a serious look on his face.
After coming over for a while to burn incense, Qian Zhangyin came over to invite Di Xue and Chu Ran.
The two entered Wuying Hall again.
Emperor Chu Yun was sitting on the dragon chair, wearing a brocade robe with dragon patterns and looking at Di Xue with a serious face:
"Di Aiqing, what Xiao Qian just said is true!"
Di Xue nodded: "It is true that Your Majesty, Concubine Li, is not Prime Minister Li's biological daughter, but the twists and turns are all just speculation!"
Chu Yun nodded: "I believe what Di Aiqing said. I have sent people to let the Li family enter the palace!"
"Your Majesty, you still want to be my concubine, and you still care about me!"
Before Di Xue could speak, she heard Concubine Li's voice coming from outside the store.
Then I saw Concubine Li wearing a simple dress with tears in her eyes, but her face was like a peach blossom. It was obvious that she had put a lot of effort into her styling.
But when Concubine Li entered the palace and saw Di Xue and the others, her tears immediately stopped, but her face showed displeasure:
"Your Majesty, why did you ask them to come!"
Chu Yun smiled slightly, dodged Concubine Li's outstretched hand, and then said: "Don't worry, there are still people who haven't arrived yet!"
About half the time it took to burn the incense passed, and Li Yong rushed to the palace in a dusty state!
When Di Xue saw that everyone in the hall had arrived, she spoke at Chu Yun's signal:
"Your Majesty, I just came back from Chuzhou today and I want to tell you a story!"
After hearing this, Chu Yun raised a smile on his lips: "Oh? I'm very interested. Aiqing, please tell me about it in front of everyone!"
Di Xue cupped her hands and then stepped forward and said:
"I met two people with a little girl in Yuanjing a few days ago. Those three people claimed that they came to Yuanjing to seek justice for their son and daughter-in-law!"
Di Xue paused and glanced at Concubine Li, only to see that her already pale face was even more colorless.
"These three people slept in the open air, especially the little girl who was five or six years old but very thin. After eating garbage on the street, the three of them were poisoned. I told them to take them back to the mansion. After they recovered, we went to Chuzhou together to check on them. The bodies of my son and daughter-in-law were recovered from the mass graves!"
Di Xue looked into Concubine Li's eyes and said word by word: "But what a coincidence, the dead Yang couple had some connection with Concubine Li!"
"Oh? Is there anything else about this? Come and hear it, Aiqing!"
After Chu Yun finished speaking, Di Xue received:
"This Xiao Yang couple was originally from a circus troupe. They made a living by performing arts. When they came to Yuanjing, they were invited to the mansion by Concubine Li. But after leaving the mansion, they died in the Shuntian Mansion Prison."
"Is this possible?" Chu Yun asked Concubine Li.
Concubine Li was running low on energy and blood. Li Yong stepped forward to support her, and then she returned:
"When I was young, I loved watching sideshows, but those two stole my jade pendant, so I sent them to Shuntian Mansion!"
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid those two people were poisoned in the Li Mansion. The prince and I went to Chuzhou to dig up the bodies of the Yang family, but the bodies showed that they were poisoned by fish tail poison, and I restored the bodies of the Yang family and their wives. His appearance, but Zhao Huihui’s portrait is wrong!”
After Di Xue finished speaking, Concubine Li retorted: "Maybe you drew it wrong!"
"This is impossible, but I handed the portrait of Concubine Li to Lao Yang and his wife, and they immediately recognized that Concubine Li was Zhao Huihui back then! And Zhao Huihui performed juggling all year round, and her hands were often strangled by fishing lines. Over time, traces will be formed!”
After speaking, Di Xue picked up Concubine Li's hand and saw two deep marks on her fingers.
Seeing this, Li Yong and Concubine Li all felt weak and almost fell down.
Di Xue ignored it and told the truth of his guess.
Li Yong was powerful at that time, but he still wanted to go further, but his eldest daughter was ugly and could not be favored even if she was sent to the palace.
However, Li Xiuzhu had very low self-esteem because of her appearance since she was a child. She covered her face with a veil all day long, so her face was rarely seen by anyone.
She also has a very eccentric personality because of her long-term low self-esteem, and she wants to destroy anyone who looks good.
She almost broke Li Heng's face as proof.
Li Xiuzhu loved juggling, so he invited Xiao Yang and his wife to perform in the house. Among them, Zhao Huihui's beautiful face made Li Xiuzhu jealous.
However, Zhao Huihui is not someone who takes things for granted. After she overheard that the Li Mansion was going to send Li Xiuzhu to the palace, she came up with the idea of replacing her. After all, not many people had seen Li Xiuzhu's true appearance!
So she used fish tail poison to poison Li Xiuzhu and her husband to death, and switched her clothes with Li Xiuzhu's.
She sent the two unconscious people to Shuntian Mansion Prison because she knew they would die in half an hour.
In order for someone to see the clues, she deliberately burned Li Xiuzhu's eyes and other places with hot water.
In this way, the two people changed their identities, and Zhao Huihui suddenly became the daughter of the Li family.
But how could Prime Minister Li not recognize his daughter? When he found out about Zhao Huihui, he did not choose to hand her over to the government.
Instead, he saw Zhao Huihui's beautiful face and hit it off immediately, so Zhao Huihui entered the palace as Li Xiuzhu!
In the past five years, she has lived a life that was not her own, and Prime Minister Li's status has also increased because of his favored daughter.
After Di Xue said that Concubine Li knelt down, she first accused Di Xue of talking nonsense, but when she saw that Chu Yun was unmoved, she changed her tone and said that everything had nothing to do with Prime Minister Li and that he was also kept in the dark.
At that time, I lied and claimed that I had obtained the magic medicine, which cured my face!
"Li Guifei, maybe I should call you Zhao Huihui. You should be punished immediately for deceiving the emperor, but for the sake of the royal family and because you have served me for many years, I will remove you from the position of imperial concubine and go to the cold palace to do some hard work! "
After Chu Yun finished speaking, he looked at Prime Minister Li: "You have been assisting me for many years, it's time to take a rest!"
After Concubine Li's matter came to an end, Di Xue and Chu Ran left the palace.
"I've been running around for days recently, and I haven't had a good rest or relaxation!" After Chu Ran finished speaking, he looked at Di Xue with bright eyes.
Di Xue looked at his expectant look and asked cooperatively: "What plans do you have?"
"Tomorrow Zhou Huai and I will go hunting if possible. You can come too!" Chu Ran looked at Di Xue nervously after saying this.
Seeing her nod, I felt relieved and walked back home briskly to prepare the equipment for tomorrow's hunting!
