When Qu Moran heard this, he looked at the eldest princess in disbelief.
"Why did you kill him!"
The eldest princess lowered her head, like a child who had done something wrong. She obviously had a reason not to kill Murong Tuo, but she only said three words after a long delay: "I'm sorry."
Sorry to lose you.
I'm sorry for causing you so much hardship.
I'm sorry you have such a pair of parents.
Sorry for letting you see this scene...
"I killed him, and I don't regret it." After the eldest princess finished speaking, she slowly raised her head and looked at Qu Moran, with a relieved smile on her face. "Killing requires a life, I agree."
"You want me to lose my mother again just after I have recognized my mother, before I have a chance to deepen my relationship with her?" Qu Moran frowned.
"Mo Ran..." The eldest princess was startled.
"He is not my father, so I only feel happy when he dies." Qu Moran took a deep breath, "But you can't pay for his life."
"I, I thought you would hate me." The eldest princess's eyes turned red.
Qu Moran stepped forward, leaned over and hugged the eldest princess, "You did the right thing, you are very brave."
Because of this sentence, the eldest princess tried hard to restrain the tears, but still fell.
"My good daughter, thank you."
The top priority was to dispose of the body so that the officials would not know that he was poisoned, and the soldiers he brought were outside, so they didn't have much time.
"Sister Qu, do you have a way to make Murong Tuo look like he was poisoned?" Liu Yunxiang looked at Qu Moran and asked. At this time, the corpse on the ground was bleeding from all its orifices and his face was purple. It looked like he was poisoned. Even if she relied on her identity to make Li Zhong turn a blind eye, this trait was too obvious. It would be difficult for Li Zhong to do so with so many pairs of eyes.
Qu Moran stepped forward to check it out, shook his head and said: "It's okay, but I need some herbs, and the most important thing is time."
As soon as Qu Moran finished speaking, a soldier shouted outside: "Commander, our people are waiting outside the bank, do you want to pick the lock?"
Hearing this sound, Liu Yunxiang and Qu Moran's hearts raised in their throats.
"Wait!"
This sound...
Liu Yunxiang looked at Li Zhu. He had been standing on one side since he came in, saying nothing. She had forgotten his existence. His voice was so similar to Murong Tuo's, he was obviously trained.
Qu Moran was also greatly surprised, obviously not knowing that Li Zhu had such ability.
The eldest princess also looked at Li Zhu at this moment, as if she had just discovered that there was such a person in the courtyard.
"Yes, I'm waiting outside the bank for news from the commander." Following these words, the sound of footsteps walking away came from outside.
Liu Yunxiang breathed a sigh of relief and said at the same time: "You should let them go back to the camp first."
Li Zhu shrugged, "I'm not very good at this. The shorter the words are, the more similar they will be. Once the words are long, it will be a flaw. Besides, we'd better hurry up, because I'm afraid the soldier will come back to his senses soon."
Liu Yunxiang's thoughts changed and he said in a voice that only two people could hear: "Do you have the same position as us on this matter?"
She had previously guessed that Li Zhu might be from Qin Feishi, but fortunately he was not from Lu Changan.
Li Zhu turned to look at Liu Yunxiang and said, "My position is to prevent my master from being harmed."
"very good."
Just disposing of the corpse is a problem right now.
When the fight was at a loss, Li Zhu picked up the body and headed to the main room.
"Li Zhu, what are you doing?" Qu Moran asked hurriedly.
Li Zhu asked her to stay outside, "I'll handle it."
Qu Moran was worried and wanted to follow, but Liu Yunxiang held her back.
"Trust him, he'll take care of it."
For a top killer, it shouldn't be difficult for him to deal with a corpse. But she didn't expect that Li Zhu's method was simple and crude. He actually put people into the house and set a fire.
On this day, the fire suddenly started burning.
Li Zhu came out of the house and quickly cleaned the blood on the ground. By this time, the fire had already burned out. The servants outside rushed in, as did the soldiers from the Beijing suburb camp brought by Murong Tuo.
"Oh, your commander may have knocked over the incense burner I placed on the desk when he went to look for the keys to the bank, ignited the paper on the desk, and caused a fire." The eldest princess pretended to be anxious.
The leading soldier was stunned for a moment, "Our commander is still inside?"
"It's not still in there!"
Upon hearing this, several soldiers panicked and hurriedly ran to the main house, but the fire was already very strong. It was not that they couldn't rush in, but they hesitated, and no one dared to take risks.
After all, Murong Tuo had just become the commander of the camp on the outskirts of Beijing not long ago, so the soldiers would not risk their lives for him.
After such a delay, the fire burned even more intensely, making it completely impossible to enter.
The eldest princess directed her servants to put out the fire, "Send someone to Jingzhao Mansion to report the incident quickly."
When Li Zhong came over, the fire was still burning. When he learned that Murong Tuo was inside, he couldn't help wiping a cold sweat and asked the officials to help put out the fire.
After learning the whole story from the eldest princess, Li Zhong was silent for a long time, "So it was Murong Tuo who knocked over the incense burner, set the fire on his own, and burned himself?"
"Otherwise?" the eldest princess asked, raising her eyebrows.
Li Chong's heart skipped a beat and he hurriedly said, "Xiaoguan just thinks that the fire is too... too strange."
Liu Yunxiang called Li Zhong aside and whispered: "It was just an ordinary fire. Murong Tuo was greedy and he just harmed himself."
Li Zhong looked at Liu Yunxiang and saw her nodding towards him, and he understood immediately.
"But this Murong Tuo is an official of the imperial court. He is in charge of the camp on the outskirts of Beijing. Behind him... there is also King Suping. I don't dare to end the case in a daze."
"The prince is here." Liu Yunxiang's voice paused, "What are you afraid of?"
While Li Chong was thinking about it, the fire was finally put out, and the officials went in and carried out a burnt corpse, which was Murong Tuo. Of course, if a coroner were to conduct an autopsy, the cause of death could still be determined based on the corpse.
Li Zhong glanced at Liu Yunxiang, then looked at the eldest princess, and said: "Eldest princess, Murong Tuo died unexpectedly. The government will not take away the body. Do you think?"
"The two of us are married. I'll bury him."
Murong Tuo's death was an accident, and there was no need to go through the government. After Li Chong left with the officials, the soldiers from the camp on the outskirts of Beijing put down the things they had collected and left in a hurry.
The eldest princess glanced at Murong Tuo's body with disgust, and planned to ask a servant to take it out and bury it somewhere on the mountain outside the city.
"The government won't pursue the case after Murong Tuo died, but that doesn't mean others won't," Li Zhu said.
Liu Yunxiang thought of Lu Changan. Murong Tuo was one of his people and he died at this critical moment. He must have guessed that Murong Tuo's death was not an accident. If he died in the eldest princess's mansion, the murderer must be the eldest princess.
If he refuses to accept this tone and pursues the truth behind Murong Tuo's death, the eldest princess will still be unable to escape her involvement.
"What should we do?" Liu Yunxiang asked.
Li Zhu glanced at the charred corpse and narrowed his eyes, "Destroy the corpse and eliminate all traces."
