The fire burned out, leaving behind a dark ruin.
Chen Yutian entered the ruins alone and carefully observed the clues around him.
But, it is a pity that the fire was so severe that the huge cold palace that originally stood here is now only a piece of charred wood.
"Is it burned so thoroughly..." Chen Yutian walked among the ruins and pondered slightly.
Suddenly, his footsteps stopped in one place.
In front of him was a burned room with only ashes left. Judging from the degree of burning here, Chen Yutian was almost certain that this was the point of the fire.
He narrowed his eyes slightly.
Although it has been determined that this is the starting point of the fire, the scene was almost completely burned by the flames, and no traces could be found at all.
Not to mention determining the identity of the person who set the fire.
Chen Yutian squinted his eyes slightly and scanned the room inch by inch.
Then, he saw Gongsun, Xuan Xi, Ling Miaoyin, and Tang Fengling walking in. Seeing the remaining ashes, the four of them were slightly surprised.
"It's very clean..." Gongsun frowned slightly.
Chen Yutian nodded slightly, then looked around, and after confirming that there were no clues of note around him, he slowly walked towards the inner room ahead.
The space in the inner room is not large, with only a slightly crude bed. It was burned by the fire and has long lost its former appearance. Only a hint of the original shape can be seen.
Chen Yutian's footsteps suddenly stopped the moment he stepped into the inner room.
The next moment, the corners of his mouth turned up in a subtle arc.
"Now...it's actually interesting..." Looking at a corner of the inner room, Chen Yutian sighed slightly.
I saw a corpse lying next to a leg of the bed in the inner room.
A charred corpse that had been burned by the fire and whose face was unrecognizable! !
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Looking at the charred corpse on the ground whose face could not be seen clearly, Jie Li and the other ministers of the Man Kingdom were suddenly shocked.
Their minds were filled with turbulent waves and shock, which instantly swallowed up everyone's minds.
A trace of doubt appeared on Jie Li's face.
"This is……"
"Your Majesty, we have to ask the guards guarding Leng Palace about this matter. I believe they will know the identity of the deceased." Chen Yutian smiled slightly and looked at the injured guards not far away.
Jie Li nodded, and Cha Yuanlin called the captain of the guards to come and ask questions.
At this time, Gongsun stood up and said, "No need to bother, the deceased should be the chamberlain of Leng Palace."
Hearing this, Jieli subconsciously wanted to ask, "How did you know that?" But the moment the words came out, he suddenly figured it out, so he didn't speak.
Chen Yutian looked at Gongsun quietly.
He believed that now that the preliminary autopsy had been completed, Gongsun would reveal more information about the corpse.
As expected, Gongsun continued: "According to the results of the preliminary autopsy, there are obvious cracks from right to left on the charred neck of the corpse. It is preliminarily inferred that this should be the cause of his death. The time of death should be before the cold palace fire." , it was obvious that the deceased was killed first and then burned, leaving him in such an unrecognizable appearance."
Chen Yutian nodded slightly.
"Can you tell what kind of sharp weapon the wound was caused by?"
Gongsun shook his head slightly, "There is no way. The body was burned by the fire for a short time, and the skin has been damaged. It is impossible to make more detailed inferences from the wounds."
Chen Yutian sighed helplessly, "So, we have no way of investigating..."
Gongsun was about to nod when he suddenly heard a sneer coming from the side.
"Hmph... Do we still need to investigate this kind of thing?"
Chen Yutian and everyone in Jiulong Mansion subconsciously followed the source of the sound and saw that the person speaking was the black-robed Imperial Master.
Chen Yutian frowned slightly, then looked at the black-robed Imperial Master and asked, "I wonder what the Imperial Master has to say?"
The black-robed Imperial Master smiled coldly and said, "High opinion, let's not talk about it for the moment, isn't the truth of this matter already obvious to everyone? Since this cold palace is the sinful concubine who fled and burned it in fear of crime, then naturally the corpse inside It was the sinful concubine who did it. Since she wanted to abscond, the first thing she had to go through was the internal servant. After killing the internal servant, she would burn the corpse and destroy the evidence of the crime. This is not surprising at all..."
"You're talking nonsense..." Before the black-robed master could finish his words, he was interrupted by a slightly sharp voice.
The black-robed Imperial Master and everyone in Chen Yutian turned around at the same time, and then they saw a pretty angry face, appearing in front of the crowd, staring at the black-robed Imperial Master. She was none other than the Ninth Princess, the daughter of Ling Fei. Bright moon.
"You're talking nonsense..." The Ninth Princess glared at the black-robed Imperial Master angrily.
The ministers and others of the Man Kingdom on the side frowned slightly when they saw the Ninth Princess appearing. They seemed not to be very pleased to see the Ninth Princess in front of them.
The black-robed Imperial Master smiled and said: "Everything I said is just a reasonable inference and analysis based on the situation at the scene. I don't know, princess, why do you say that I am talking nonsense?"
"You are simply framing the blame, you are talking nonsense!!" Lang Yue said angrily, "My mother-in-law would not do such a thing..."
The black-robed Imperial Master smiled and said, "How can the princess be sure that the sinful concubine will not do such a thing?"
Lang Yue became even more angry, "That's my mother-in-law..."
The black-robed Imperial Master laughed even harder, "Do you believe it because you are a relative? Such rhetoric will not be convincing in any kind of court, right? Do you think I am right, Master of Jiulong Mansion? grown ups?"
As he said that, he looked at Chen Yutian.
Chen Yutian pondered slightly.
have to say. The words of the black-robed Imperial Master are very reasonable. During the investigation process, the statements of the suspect's relatives are never accepted. After all, they come from the same source. When these relatives testify or provide confessions, they are likely to Subconsciously shielding the suspect, or speaking for the suspect from the suspect's perspective, are all taboos in investigating crimes.
But these all have a premise, that is: the suspect can basically be determined to be the murderer.
At present, it remains to be considered whether Concubine Ling is the culprit in the case. Under this premise, even the testimony of immediate family members is still possible to be trusted. After all, the other party may not be the real culprit.
Therefore, when hearing the last words of the national master, Lang Yue became angry.
She subconsciously activated the internal force in her body, raised her fist, and said, "You——"
"Don't be so presumptuous!!" At this moment, Jie Li finally spoke. With one sentence, the internal force in Long Yue's fist was immediately shaken away, causing her to take a step or two back involuntarily.
"Come here!!" Following the order, several uninjured guards came over immediately, "Take the Ninth Princess back to the palace and let her rest early."
So Lang Yue was taken away by the guards.
Jie Li slightly apologized to Jiulong Mansion, "I've let your envoy see the joke."
Chen Yutian smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty's words are serious. If there is nothing else, we will leave first."
"In this case, I won't force you to stay. Your Majesty, please do as you please." After Jieli said that, he left with the civil and military ministers. Before leaving, he also ordered the guards guarding the palace to carry the charred corpse to Kowloon. The palace where the palace resides.
A night of silence.
The next day, when Chen Yutian just woke up from his dream, a shocking news had spread throughout the palace.
The eighth princess is missing.
And he mysteriously disappeared in his own palace.
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The eighth princess's palace is not far from the cold palace where a fire broke out last night.
When Chen Yutian, Xue Tianhan, Ling Miaoyin, Xuan Xi, and Tang Fengling arrived here, some people were already panicking because of the disappearance of the eighth princess.
Among them, the most restless ones were the maids serving the eighth princess.
The Eighth Princess mysteriously disappeared under their care. If Jie Li pursues the case, they will definitely be the first targets to be liquidated. After all, they are all the Eighth Princess's personal maids. When the Princess disappears, the responsibility is naturally heavy.
The second target to be liquidated should be the palace guards.
Their existence was originally to protect the safety of the eighth princess, but now, the eighth princess has disappeared under their protection. No matter how you say it, it cannot be separated from them.
Therefore, when everyone in the Jiulong Mansion came to the door of the eighth princess's palace, they saw a scene like this: both the palace maids and the guards were all hurriedly walking back and forth in front of the door, looking restless.
It wasn't until Xuan Xi made it clear to them the purpose of his visit and conveyed the message that Jie Li would not care about these things with them that they calmed down a little.
Then, led by a personal maid, they walked into the palace where the eighth princess disappeared. Started their own investigations.
