The Brocaded Tale of The Girl Si

? Long before Zhen Shicheng arrived, King Xiang repeatedly recalled the events of that night.

In the autumn of the 19th year of Jingming, Cui Mingyue killed Zhu Ziyu on the wedding night and ran away, and fell into the hands of the subordinate he sent to follow. As a result, the stupid subordinate took him back to the Xiangwang mansion.

He had no choice but to choose to kill and hide the corpse. At that time, he deliberately took down all Cui Mingyue's clothes, shoes, socks, purse and jewelry, and threw it into the abandoned well, leaving only his underwear.

But after so long, it's hard to be sure whether there were any omissions at the beginning, and even if I think about it repeatedly, I still feel uneasy.

Well now, Zhen Shicheng's people really didn't find anything.

King Xiang thought so, his face gradually turned bloody.

What is a corpse found in the Wangfu's waste well, no one can prove that he killed it. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if it is really believed that it is related to him, it is not a big deal for the grand prince to accidentally kill a maid, even if the father knows that he will be angry at most.

King Xiang pursed his thin lips, becoming more and more calm.

"Didn't find it?" Zhen Shicheng took a step forward, squatted down and looked at the bones on the ground, and even fiddled with his hand covered with a veil.

This action made the faces of the princes who were watching turn pale, and they strongly suppressed the nausea.

King Lu thought about the madness that fell into the well just now, then looked at Zhen Shicheng's seriousness, and subconsciously looked at Yu Jin.

Lord Zhen is so terrifying, I don't know how Lao Qi got along with him before.

Then I saw a face that was eager to try.

King Lu was stunned, and silently looked away.

"Did Master Zhen find out?" King Xiang turned passive into active after calming down and asked.

If the surname Zhen didn't find out, then he could invite people away under the pretense of a prince.

Zhen Shicheng stood up straight and did not directly answer King Xiang's words, but asked, "Has there been any women missing from the palace in the past three years?"

He knew too well that if he said he didn't find out at this time, someone with a high status like King Xiang would have a reason to send him away immediately.

Ignore the questions that are hard to answer, and ask the questions you want to ask.

King Xiang really followed Zhen Shicheng's train of thought: "Xiao Wang doesn't know.

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"I don't know?" Zhen Shicheng stroked his beard.

He forgot to take care of his beard this morning, and it seemed to be knotted in one spot.

"Master Zhen should know that Xiao Wang hasn't married yet, and the management of the palace's personnel deployment is the responsibility of the steward..."

"If that's the case, please ask the steward of the palace to come here." Zhen Shicheng said calmly.

The King of Xiang cooperated very well, and immediately ordered the servants around him to call for the steward.

After the servants ran out, they pushed aside the audience and got in, followed by a man in his forties with a goat-beard, who was the steward of the Xiangwang Mansion.

Needless to say, the steward was standing in the crowd watching the excitement.

"Your Highness—" The steward saluted the King of Xiang.

Facing the people in the palace, King Xiang's attitude was much colder and arrogant, and he asked lightly, "Have you heard what Master Zhen said?"

"The little man heard it."

"Then answer what Master Zhen said." King Xiang reminded meaningfully.

The steward froze in his heart and hurriedly said, "Please rest assured, Your Highness."

King Xiang turned to Zhen Shicheng and nodded slightly: "Lord Zhen, please ask."

Zhen Shicheng looked at the manager and asked the previous question.

The steward hesitated for a moment, and said, "There are many people in the palace. If you say that the maidservant has disappeared in the past three years, you can't tell for a while. The villain needs to check the roster."

Zhen Shicheng stroked his beard and reminded, "It's not limited to maids."

"This—" The steward couldn't help but glance at King Xiang.

Xiang Wang said sternly: "Master Zhen, Xiao Wang only has four personal maids. Apart from that, the young women in the palace are all ordinary maids."

"So, there are no noble women in the palace?"

The King of Xiang nodded.

"In that case, the steward should just report the missing woman."

The steward gave a nod and hurriedly went to check the roster.

There was no result for a while, Zhen Shicheng instructed the yamen to continue to go down the well to find clues, and focused his attention on Er Niu.

"I heard that King Lu came here because of General Xiaotian's credit?"

King Lu rolled his eyes when he heard this.

He fell into the well with co-authoring, should I thank Er Niu?

Yu Jin replied on behalf of Erniu, "Not bad."

Zhen Shicheng walked in front of Er Niu, cupped his hands, and said very politely: "In this case, I will trouble General Xiaotian to help this officer find it again."

He was so solemn and took everyone by surprise.

Master Zhen really thinks that Er Niu has supernatural powers?

Zhen Shicheng didn't care about the confusion of the onlookers.

In his opinion, dogs have an advantage that others do not have in investigating cases, and with the help of Erniu, it may be possible to break the deadlock.

He already had doubts about the identity of the murderer, but he needed evidence to conclude the case.

"Er Niu, look for it." Yu Jin pointed to the corpse on the ground.

Er Niu stood up and shook his hair, leaned in and sniffed the bones on the ground, and began to sniff around.

King Xiang couldn't take his eyes off the big dog, and in his heart he wanted to skin the Er Niu and eat it with cramps and stew.

Without this dead dog, how could such a thing happen today! Sooner or later he will kill the dog.

When King Xiang was ruthless, there was a sudden commotion, and one of them shouted, "Look, Erniu has found something!"

Everyone's eyes fell on the big dog, and they saw Er Niu take an object out of a digging pit by the well and come to Zhen Shicheng. He opened his mouth and the object fell to the ground.

Under the sun, the things that fell on the ground flashed, and they couldn't see their true colors for a while.

Zhen Shicheng leaned over and picked it up with a handkerchief, and everyone saw that it was a pearl earring.

The King of Xiang stared at the pearl earrings the size of a grain of rice, and was at a loss for a moment.

He remembered pulling off Cui Mingyue's earrings during the aftermath, was it wrong?

It's been so long that such details are hard to pin down.

Cold sweat came out of my palms, sticky and uncomfortable.

King Xiang took a deep breath to get rid of the tension.

Don't panic, it's just a small ordinary pearl earring, and there is no name engraved on it, who can recognize it as Cui Mingyue's.

Zhen Shicheng looked at the earring seriously, and was silent for a long time.

At this time, the steward hurried over and said, "The villain has been found out. There is only one young woman who has disappeared from the palace in the past three years.

"Uh, does Xiu Niang have parents and family?"

"Reporting to your lord, A Cai's parents are working in the palace."

Not long after, a middle-aged man and woman stood in front of Zhen Shicheng.

The man's eyes were slightly red, while the woman was trembling all over. She glanced at the corpse on the ground and threw herself at it. She shouted, "A Cai, my son, you died so miserably—"

Zhen Shicheng was indifferent to this farce, and when the woman cried a little less, she asked calmly, "How does my sister-in-law recognize that this withered bone on the ground is a lady's love?"

The woman stopped crying, covered her mouth and said, "I've been missing for two years, young woman, who else could it be if it wasn't A Cai?"

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