First Lady of the Crown Prince

  Chapter 734 The real murderer behind the scenes (one more)

  Wang Xu stared at Gu Jiao dumbfounded: "What are you doing for him?"

   "Exercising a confession." Gu Jiao said.

  "Can you force a confession with one needle?" Wang Xu expressed his disbelief.

  Gu Jiao didn't tell him that it was a hallucinogen, so as to prevent him from over-compensating his brain, thinking that Gu Jiao was manipulating the murderer's confession.

  Gu Jiao watched the murderer lie on the ground, her tight body gradually relaxed, and she realized that he had hallucinated.

  Don’t let him go too deep, otherwise he will completely lose contact with the outside world and will not hear outside sounds.

  Gu Jiao tapped his shoulder with a rolling pin, and said solemnly: “If you don’t want to suffer more, just say quickly, who is the murderer?”

  Gu Jiao stunned her a long time ago, and she didn't hear the news until Wang Xu came over to let Wang Xu hear the murderer's name.

  The murderer did not struggle too much and honestly confessed.

  However, the name he confessed was not the person Gu Jiao and Gu Changqing thought.

  "Who is Li Ping?" Gu Jiao asked Wang Xu.

  Wang Xu thought for a while: "He shouldn't be talking about Li Ping, but Li 嫔, the empress in the palace."

  In order to confirm his guess, Wang Xu asked him some details of Li's instructions.

  He is in a state of chaos right now, but he will speak out whatever he remembers in his head.

   Judging from the testimony confessed, it was indeed the harem's Li that instructed him to assassinate Shangguan Yan.

  Why did you want to kill Shangguanyan? Li Yan didn't tell him that Li Yan had nothing to do with him, but accidentally broke his affair with a court lady.

  In the Dayan Palace, it is forbidden to eat the eunuchs and maids, and being found is a capital crime.

  Li Yan used this as a threat and asked him to help himself get rid of Shangguanyan.

  "Did Li Bian and Shangguanyan have a holiday?" Gu Jiao asked.

  Wang Xu was silent.

  Li Yan has only been in the palace for a few years. Shangguanyan was imprisoned in the imperial tomb more than ten years ago, and there was no intersection between the two.

  It is impossible to talk about the festival.

  But Wang Xu’s silence was not because of this, but...Li Yan was very close to a concubine in the harem.

  Gu Jiao looked at Wang Xu: "Who?"

  Wang Xu said solemnly: "Wan Fei."

  Wanfei, whose family name is Mu, is the mother and daughter of Mu Qingchen, and is sister of Mu Qingchen's mother.

  Li 嫔 was helpless in the harem. At the beginning, his life was very difficult. It was after the big tree, Wanfei, that he changed from a small dress to the current Li 嫔.

  Gu Jiao was puzzled: "Concubine Wan and Shangguanyan have a holiday?"

"There are festivals." Wang Xu sighed. "That was because Shangguan Yangang brought the one-year-old emperor grandson back to Shengdu. Concubine Wan whispered to her servants in private, saying who knows if the child was picked up outside. Shangguanyan, who was still a princess at the time, heard of the wild species. Shangguanyan was still unwilling to slap Wanfei, so she punished Wanfei on her knees in the imperial garden to try to emulate you. At that time, Wanfei was not a concubine. It's Wanbi, but it's shameful."

  Gu Jiao touched her chin: "The prince has such great power."

  Wang Xu said: “With the support of the Xuanyuan Queen and the Xuanyuan family, her power is of course great, and besides, she is the only daughter, and under the emperor, she is the most noble one.”

   is like the style of Xuanyuan family.

  From this point of view, Shangguanyan is very protective of Xiao Qing.

  Gu Jiao said: "It's useless for us to guess here. Whether Li Yu was instigated by the concubine, I have to ask Li Yu."

  Wang Xu deeply agrees: "I will enter the palace now."

   "Wait." Gu Jiao stopped him.

   "Huh?" Wang Xu was taken aback.

  Gu Jiao pointed to his arm: "Your injury."

   "Ah, this." Wang Xu even forgot that he was still injured. He suddenly felt uncomfortable, and coughed slightly, "It's not a serious injury."

  That being said, when Gu Jiao walked towards him with the first aid kit, he half-pushed and half-placed and handed her arm over.

  Gu Jiao took out the cotton swab with iodophor from the first aid kit, handled it for him, and sewed three stitches.

  It doesn’t hurt at all because of the anaesthetic.

  Wang Xu glanced at Gu Jiao with a complicated expression, and his heart was moved: "Much, thank you."

  Gu Jiao stretched out her hand: "One or two silver."

  Wang Xu: "……"

  ……

   After Wang Xu gave the silver, he took the murderer back to the captain's mansion with a black face.

   Looking at the back of the two of them going away, Gu Changqing asked: "He is the murderer, right?"

  He was referring to the eunuch.

  Gu Jiao said, “It’s him. I have seen the back of his right hand. There is a crescent-shaped scar that Shang Guanyan said.”

  Shangguanyan woke up for a while. Gu Jiao took the opportunity to ask her about the murderer. Shangguanyan didn't see the murderer clearly, but she grabbed the murderer's hand and touched the scar on the back of his hand.

  Gu Changqing’s eyes were deep: "It's not Han Guifei."

  Yes, they all thought that this time the main ambassador must be the prince and concubine.

  ……

  Wang Xu took the murderer back to the captain's mansion, imprisoned the murderer, and hurriedly reported to the monarch.

  The monarch asked Zhang Dequan to bring Li Bing over, but Zhang Dequan only brought back Li Bing’s news: "Your Majesty, Li Bing committed suicide."

  After getting permission from the monarch, Wang Xu borrowed a very experienced work from the Ministry of Criminal Justice, carefully inspected Li's body, and determined that Li's suicide was not strangled or killed and then hanged up.

  The clues that were finally obtained were broken all at once.

  Without people, we can only start with Li Yan’s belongings and the people around her.

  After a whole night of severe torture to extract a confession, a little **** finally couldn't stand it, confessing that Li Yan had asked him to go to the bank to deposit a bank note, totaling three thousand taels.

Li's salary for a year is only three hundred taels. Ten years of not eating or drinking can be enough to save this money. The problem is that she hasn't been here for ten years. less.

  I'm struggling, where can I still have money?

  Wan Fei, who was close to Li Yan, became the first object of suspicion.

  Wan Fei shouted injustice, saying that she had never given Li Yan the silver, but after the monarch severely tortured the court lady **** next to Wan Fei, a little court lady confessed the truth.

  The silver was indeed given by Princess Wan, no more, no less, just three thousand taels.

   "Your Majesty--" Wan Fei knelt on the cold and hard floor, and the white marble that could be seen for others reflected her desire to weep.

  The monarch sits on a chair, and Wang Xu and Zhang Dequan stand on both sides.

  The monarch sternly said: "Are you admitting it yourself, or I will ask you to thoroughly check the account book between you and Mu's family!"

Concubine Wan's salary is not low, but she has a lot of money to make, without the filial piety of the Mu family, where can she come up with three thousand taels of silver in one go?

Concubine Wan admitted honestly: "...The concubine... indeed gave Li concubine three thousand taels of silver... It was because she told the concubine that her father was sick... and urgently needed a sum of silver to treat the illness. ..."

  The king said coldly: "What disease costs three thousand taels?"

  Wan Fei looked aggrieved: "A bowl of bird's nest is a hundred taels, is there a lot of three thousand taels?"

  Wan Fei is the daughter of the Mu family. She has lived a life of fine clothes and food since she was a child. All she eats is golden bird's nest, and she can buy a pot of silver for a couple of dollars outside.

  She doesn’t understand the suffering of the people. Not to mention three thousand taels in treating a disease in a small Jiangyang county, more than enough in Shengdu!

  The monarch asked suspiciously: "Then why did you deny it?"

  Wan Fei choked and said, "Isn't it Li Yan's accident? The concubine walked close to her on weekdays and worried that she would be implicated, so I quickly separated from her."

  The monarch looked at her deeply, and a fierce light flashed in his eyes: "Wan Fei, I don't believe it."

  ……

   The next day, the harem knew that the concubine Wan had instigated Li Yan to murder Shangguan Yan.

Concubine Wan was beaten into the cold palace. The monarch originally wanted to seize her concubine and demote her to a nobleman. It was Concubine Wang Xian who came forward to intercede and temporarily kept her position.

  Shangguanyan is no longer a maiden, but just a common person, and an attempted murder. Such punishment is already extremely heavy for an imperial concubine.

  Wan Fei cried and screamed.

  Wang Xianfei asked her to be wronged in Lenggong for a period of time, and later, when the monarch calmed down, she would find a way to rescue her.

   "Even the queen didn't come out, can I still come out?" At the entrance of the bedroom, Princess Wan was out of breath.

  Wang Xianfei patted her shoulder comfortingly: "Your Majesty is angry, please give me some time."

  Concubine Wan firmly grasped Concubine Wang's hand: "It wasn't me who did it...it really wasn't me... Sister Concubine Xian, you believe me..."

  Wang Xianfei sighed helplessly: "I believe you are useless, your majesty must believe it."

  Zhang Dequan urged: "Wan Fei, please."

  Wan Fei gave Zhang Dequan a fierce look: "Dog stuff!"

  On weekdays, all the empresses are Wan concubine, she is going to the cold palace, even the empress is not called!

  A luxurious carriage carried by four people slowly walked past the door of Wan Fei's palace. On the step, the graceful concubine Han Gui faintly raised her hand to the accompanying eunuch.

  Stepping stopped.

  Han Gui Concubine and Wang Xian Concubine were among the first people to serve the monarch. There are grandchildren, but due to proper maintenance, they seem to be in their early forties.

  She glanced at Wan Fei with a faint smile: "Oh, Wan Fei is leaving now?"

  When Concubine Wang Xian was fascinated and relaxed, she took the daughter of the Mu family into the palace to become her own help. Without the concubine Wan, the concubine Wang Xian had a broken arm.

Concubine Wan glared at her angrily, stepped forward, and pointed to Concubine Han: "You must have done it! You framed me! You killed Li Yan! It's you! It's all you!"

Concubine Han raised her chin and smiled as if mockingly: "It's better for Concubine Wan to go to your Majesty and say this. If your Majesty thinks it was done by the palace, the palace does not need to be ordered by your majesty, and you will bring your luggage and move there. Leng Gong is with you."

"you!"

Concubine Wang Xian shook her head against Concubine Wan, motioning her to calm down.

  Han Guifei dusted the veil in her hand, looked forward, and said, "Bring a few more quilts. I heard that it's cold in the cold palace."

  Concubine Wan is almost mad, but now it’s useless to be angry. She was put into the cold palace by this Han slut!

  Zhang Dequan urged again.

   "Excuse me, Grandpa Zhang, wait a minute." Wang Xianfei said politely, and asked the maid to give Zhang Dequan a bag of gold.

   Zhang Dequan accepted, and whispered: "A quarter of an hour, it can't be too late, the servant has to go back to your Majesty."

Concubine Wang Xian nodded and comforted Concubine Wan again for a while.

  Wan Fei wiped her tears with her veil, and said with red eyes: "Sister Xian Fei, you help me take care of the sixth prince, that **** is cruel, she dares to harm me like this, I am worried that she will be disadvantaged to the sixth prince."

   Six princes, the only underage prince in the harem, the youngest son of the monarch.

  Wang Xianfei held her hand and said earnestly: "I know, I will take him to Xianfu Palace, so that no one has a chance to hurt him. Listen to me, don’t make your temper when you go to Leng Palace."

Concubine Wan was taken away by Zhang Dequan.

  Wang Xianfei sent the **** beside her to the Yuxuetang to pick up the six princes from school.

  When she returned to her bedroom, she ran into Concubine Han, who was admiring flowers in the imperial garden.

Concubine Wang Xian looked at Concubine Han Gui coldly and said, "You are really too much this time."

  Han Guifei gave her a deep look and sneered: "Heh."

  ……

   When the sky was getting bright, the Palace of the National Teacher also got the news that Concubine Wan had been dealt with.

  Shangguanyan hasn't woken up yet.

  In the room, three people sitting opposite each other, Xiao Heng, Gu Jiao, and Gu Changqing.

   "I didn't expect Wan Fei to carry the pot." Gu Jiao said, "It's really the style of the Han family."

   all like to make people take the blame.

   "The opponent is very powerful." Gu Changqing said, it is not the power of force, but the city government and scheming.

  It is not terrible to have such a person in a family. If everyone’s brains are so bright, it is no wonder that they can compete for the position of the first family.

  This is a very tricky family.

  But Xiao Heng didn't have the slightest fear in his heart. On the contrary, a strange struggle and desire for power loomed in his blood.

  This is probably what Gu Jiao felt when she met the master.

  It’s just that Gu Jiao is simply contesting. He is darker. He wants to eat black without vomiting his bones.

  The Han family and the Wang family are the two biggest fish. If the Han family wants to eat all the fish, let them eat well.

  None of the top ten aristocratic families is innocent. Back then, the Xuanyuan family was destroyed and the princely daughter was persecuted. Every family stabbed a knife.

  He has no sympathy for Wanfei.

  As before, no one sympathized with Xuanyuan Hanyan who was beaten into the cold palace.

   "The Han family is a good knife." Xiao Heng looked down and rubbed the blade in his hand. "Next, let's make this knife sharper."

  (End of this chapter)