The Crown Prince is Actually a Princess!

"You are worried that the two deceased's abilities will surpass you, and you will get the respect of the emissary and climb on your head, so you kill them and cut off their heads cruelly, don't you?"

Shen Zhiyan asked sharply.

The body of the musician named Huang Baozhu was shocked. He glanced at them in panic, then bowed his head in fear, his eyebrows were filled with horror, "It's not... the slaves didn't kill... the slaves just scolded them... "

Murong sneered in disbelief, "Just scolded? Zhiyan, she didn't see the coffin without tears, so she was taken to the Dali Temple jail first. After all kinds of torture, she would recruit if she wanted to."

"The slave maid recruited... the slave maid recruited..." Huang Baozhu looked pale, shaking and saying, "The slave maid saw that Lord Mo admired them very much, and worried that they would surpass the slave maid in the near future... One day and night, when they came to eat It's late, the servant girl deliberately hid the remaining steamed buns..."

"and then?"

"They see that the slaves and other musicians are doing the tricks, so they have to hand over the steamed buns... The slaves said that as long as they kneel on the ground and slap each other five times, the slaves will give them the steamed buns..." Huang Baozhu's voice became smaller and lowered, and her head was about to fall to the ground. "They were very angry, especially Lan Ruoxuan. She rushed to beat the slave and maid... But Lan Ruowei stopped her, and the slave and maid were also very angry at the time, so they joined forces. The other musicians beat them a few times and threw the buns on the ground and smashed them..."

"That's it?" Shen Zhiyan asked.

"It's just that, after all, Lord Mo valued them, and the servants didn't dare to do too much." Huang Baozhu whispered.

Murong Ci's eyes were cold, "After that, you will have nothing to do with them? You'd better recruit truthfully, otherwise the palace will find out, but it will not be so easy to talk..."

Huang Baozhu said with horror: "Also... the night before they died, the slaves and maids got up to go to the hut. When they came back, they saw two people go out... It was dark at the time, and the slaves and maids couldn't see clearly. I didn't know it was them. A road followed...The slaves and maids felt that their bodies were more and more like the Lans sisters. At that time, the slaves concluded that they must have shameful secrets when they went out in the middle of the night. As long as they caught their handles, the slaves could hold them. Their fate, so secretly followed..."

Murongci looked at Shen Zhiyan in surprise, and then asked, "They went to that little forest? Did you see the third person?"

Huang Baozhu shook his head, "I didn't see the third person, but the servants heard them talking as if there was a third person."

"What did they say?"

"Lan Ruowei is afraid and doesn't want to go to that small forest. Lan Ruoxuan said she must go, as if it was because..." Huang Baozhu tilted her head and thought, "Their identity...Yes, Lan Ruoxuan said that if they don't go, That person will expose their identities, and they will be kicked out of the palace and can no longer stay in the Jiaofang Division..."

"Someone asked them to go to the small forest and threatened them with their identities. That's why they went to the small forest. Is that true?" Murong Ci understood. Although Yangzhou Thin Horse is not a prostitute, but in the palace To recruit palace mates, one must have an innocent background, and Yangzhou Shouma’s background is also unacceptable.

"Yes, that's it." Huang Baozhu continued, "At that time the slaves wanted to know their identities, so they secretly followed, but the slaves accidentally stepped on the branches and they found them. They returned to find the slaves, and the slaves had to escape back to bed quickly. Room. The slave and maid will not know what happened after that."

Shen Zhiyan asked her to go out first, frowning and thinking: "His Royal Highness, Huang Baozhu should not have given perjury."

Murong nodded, "Sisters Lan went to the small forest around when they were children, because someone threatened them with their identities, they had to go. Then, those who knew their identities were the murderers and led them to the small forest. Kill them cruelly."

He touched his chin and said: "The murderer knows them quite well, maybe the murderer is old acquaintance with them, but since they are old acquaintances, why did the murderer kill them?"

She thinks her brain hurts. This is the most critical part of the case. As long as the puzzle is solved, everything will be solved.

Then came Qian Zi and Bai Xiaorou, the musicians of the Lan sisters who entered the palace at the same time, eating and living with them.

Murongci asked: "Did you remember anything in the past two days?"

Bai Xiaorou shook her head, biting her lip, her heart still palpitations, and there was still fear between her brow.

Qian Zi calmed down and said softly: "Returning to your Royal Highness, the servant maid thought about it carefully, Ruoxuan and Ruowei were found dead on the eve of Xiaolinzi, the servant maid and Xiao Rou lay down to rest, and the two of them also slept with them. Every night before going to bed, Ruoxuan would open the wooden box to see if her treasured treasure is there. Her wooden box is locked with a small lock so that no one can look at it. Only Ruowei knows what's hidden inside. That night, Ruoxuan opened the wooden box as usual, and she gave a'Huh', and then she whispered. The servant girl quickly asked what was wrong, and Ruowei asked what was wrong. Ruoxuan said there was nothing wrong, and her tone was a bit flustered. Then she immediately locked the wooden box and lay down thereafter."

Shen Zhiyan and His Royal Highness looked at each other and asked, "What's next?"

"The servant girl was a little tired that day, and soon fell asleep, but I heard Ruoxuan running over and huddling with Ruowei in a daze, whispering for a long time." She said methodically.

"Did you hear what they said?"

"What they said while hiding under the covers, and deliberately lowered their voices. The servants only heard the rustling."

"What else do you think of?" Murong asked calmly.

"Other than that, there is nothing wrong." Qian Zi said.

"Qian Zi talked about this, and the slave maid also remembered it." Bai Xiaorou continued, "Ruoxuan and Ruowei muttered under the covers for a long time. The slave maid listened carefully, as if they were talking about a note suddenly appeared in the wooden box. , There are still words on the note."

"What else did you hear?" Murong Ci asked.

"They talked too quietly, the servants only heard this." Bai Xiaorou panicked.

Murongci let them go out, closed his eyes for a while, and said: "My palace thinks it should be like this. Lan Ruoxuan's wooden box has always been locked. The murderer didn't know what method he used and put a note in the wooden box. The note should be the murderer who asked them to go to Xiaolinzi. Because the wooden box was locked, Ruoxuan was shocked when she saw the note, but the words on the note made her calm down quickly and could not let the same The people in the house know."

Shen Zhiyan agreed with her speculation, "When we searched the Lan sisters' bunks and relics that day, there was indeed a wooden box. There were a few gold and jade ornaments in the wooden box, but no note was found."

She nodded, "The note was either taken by Ruoxuan and taken away by the murderer in the small forest, or the murderer sneaked into the shop and took the note afterwards."

Although they speculated the reason why the Lan sisters went to Xiaolinzi at Zishishi, they still did not find the slightest clue about the murderer.

Then they asked a lot of palace people, there was no clue.

It was late, and they returned to the East Palace discouragedly and sorted out the case.

The murderer is not limited to men and women, has martial arts, has good internal strength, and can cut a person's head with one sword. The murderer and the two deceased should be old acquaintances. Knowing that the deceased was a Yangzhou thin horse, there may be enmity between the murderer and the deceased... It is more likely that the murderer is a person in the palace, but it is not ruled out that it is someone outside the palace entering the palace Commit a crime...

So far they have only these speculations about the murderer. This murderer was clever and well-minded, leaving no clues, and there was no way to investigate it, and the case broke the clue again.

Murongci and Shen Zhiyan sighed together, and Ruyi and the imperial man Bushan later reported, "His Royal Highness, it's time to eat."

Qin Ruo smiled and said: "His Royal Highness, Lord Shen, the homicide case should be investigated slowly, and you can't treat the five internal organs miserably."

They smiled at each other and went to dinner.

...

There are too many people in the palace, and there are tens of thousands of guards and palace people alone, and there is no way to find out.

After two consecutive days of investigation, nothing was found. Murongci was helpless about this murder case, and became more anxious.

On this day, she looked at Lan Ruoxuan and Lan Ruowei's relics in a daze, Qin Ruoxuan and Ruyi looked at His Royal Highness in a daze for half an hour, but did not dare to disturb.

Suddenly, Murongci picked up Lan Ruowei's Sipa and looked at it carefully.

Shen Zhiyan took a person to visit in a hurry. She hurriedly left the study and saw Lan Meng look haggard a lot, her apricot eyes were red and swollen and lost her aura.

"What's wrong with her?" Murong asked inexplicably, because Lan Mengse's tears kept falling since she entered.

"Mrs. Cao is missing." He looked heavy. "This morning, she hurried to Dali Temple to report the case, saying that Ms. Cao didn't go back overnight."

"Two adults, I beg you, I must find Mother Cao..." Lan Mengsi cried and begged in a mute voice, her face pale as a patient. She knelt down and pulled Murongci's robe, sadly. Pray, "My lord, please find Madam Cao..."

"You get up first." Murongci motioned to Qin Ruo, "This official will do his best, don't worry."

Qin Ruo and Ruyi came over to pull up Lan Meng salad, let her sit on a chair, and let her have a sip of tea first.

Shen Zhiyan told the matter again. After they went to bed at the inn last night, at about midnight, she saw Mother Cao get up in a daze. She should have settled in the room. Then somehow, she immediately fell asleep and didn't wake up until three poles in the sun. . Mother Cao, who lived in the same room with her, was nowhere to be seen.

She asked the staff and shopkeeper at the inn, and they all said that they hadn't seen Madam Cao appear this morning.

She felt that what happened in the middle of the night was strange and hurried to Dali Temple to report the case.

Murongci knew what had happened, "Will Mother Cao go out to do errands? Or did she go to Concubine Lan?"

"I sent someone to the house of the director of Jiang to ask. Mother Cao has never been, and I also asked the treasurer of the inn. No one has seen Mother Cao." Shen Zhiyan said in a low voice, "I think Mother Cao is fierce. Good luck."

"Did anyone get up at the inn in the middle of the night? Did anyone see something unusual?"

"I have asked, no one has seen something wrong happen."

Her feelings were getting worse and worse, as he said, Madam Cao's disappearance was strange, and there was no good luck.