Leng Yu knew that the emperor wanted to ask about Xiaozhi, so he directly replied with clasped fists:

"If I return to my father, Xiaozhi's life has been saved for the time being. As for when he will wake up, it is still unknown, but Lan'er will do his best to treat him and strive for treatment so that Xiaozhi can wake up early."

Hearing this, the emperor breathed a sigh of relief and nodded happily, "That's good. If Xiaozhi is cured this time, I will definitely reward Princess Yu well."

Naturally, Luo Lan wouldn't care about the reward. Now everyone is placing their hope on Xiaozhi waking up as soon as possible.

The ancestor worship ceremony on the first day of the new year ended hastily, and Leng Yu quickly began to investigate the matter of Xiaozhi being strangled and suffocated.

He investigated all the eunuchs and maids who were on duty and not on duty that day. After several days of investigation, he finally found a few eunuchs among them who had no witnesses around them at the time and could not explain what they were doing when Xiaozhi's accident happened.

and the maid.

Outside the hut where the accident occurred, these people lowered their heads in fear and did not dare to speak.

Leng Yu sat in front of several people, neither asking questions nor letting them speak, just letting them stand.

Suddenly, Xiao Lingzi came to report hurriedly, "Your Majesty, something happened."

Leng Yu's brows tightened and he asked solemnly:

"What's up?"

Xiao Lingzi came forward, raised his hand to cover his mouth, and whispered a few words into his ear. Leng Yu's face suddenly turned livid.

He said to Xiao Ningzi beside him:

"Watch them and come as soon as I go."

After saying that, he led the way, followed closely by Xiao Lingzi and his party, and hurriedly left here.

Several guards were standing by the pond in the back garden of the palace, and beside them lay a corpse dressed in eunuch clothes.

Leng Yutie came closer with a livid face and asked loudly,

"what happened?"

Seeing this, a man who looked like a eunuch knelt down and replied:

"Prince Yu, when we were cleaning the lotus pond, we saw this body."

"who is he?"

"He is A Yuan, the eunuch of the imperial kitchen. He suddenly drowned for some reason."

A cold look suddenly appeared in Leng Yu's eyes. For some reason, he had a vague feeling that this person must be related to Xiaozhi's matter.

So, with a cold face and a loud voice, he waved to the guards around him and said:

"Go and bring those palace servants here."

Upon seeing this, Xiao Lingzi hurriedly ran away with several guards.

After a while, the palace servants came to Leng Yu tremblingly and knelt down, waiting for him to speak.

Leng Yu looked at these people, raised his hand and pointed at the body lying on the ground, and suddenly asked sharply:

"Do you recognize that person?"

These people looked up one after another, but only two of them replied directly without raising their heads:

"I don't recognize it, I don't recognize it."

Hearing this, Leng Yu's face suddenly turned cold. He winked at Xiao Lingzi. Xiao Lingzi and Xiao Ningzi stepped forward together, holding the two people by their collars, and brought them to the corpse.

, held their heads and asked coldly,

"Take a good look. Do you recognize this person? Think about it carefully. If you dare to tell lies, your heads will be moved."

As soon as Xiao Lingzi finished speaking, one of the young eunuchs suddenly rolled his eyes, fell directly on the corpse, and passed out.

Seeing this, Little Shuangzi reached out to detect his breathing, frowned, raised his head and shook his head at Little Lingzi, "You're so cowardly, I'm going to die."

Xiao Lingzi was stunned for a moment, then helplessly pulled the man up and threw him aside, turned around and said to Leng Yu:

"My lord, I couldn't help but be scared to death."

Hearing this, Leng Yu's face suddenly turned livid, and his handsome eyes were as cold as a pool of cold water that made people afraid to look directly at him.

He pointed at another person violently and asked, "Since one of them died of fright, just throw this one into the river."

Hearing this, the man was so frightened that he wet his pants and kept begging for mercy, "My lord, please forgive me, my lord, please forgive me."

Xiao Ningzi ignored his pleas for mercy and directly picked up his collar and prepared to throw him into the pool.

The little eunuch suddenly blurted out,

"I said, I said."

Hearing this, Xiao Ningzi glanced at Leng Yu and, under his instruction, threw the man in front of Leng Yu.

Looking down at the trembling little eunuch on the ground, Leng Yu raised his voice and asked loudly,

"Tell me! What do you know?"

The little eunuch trembled, pointed at the two dead people with trembling hands, and timidly replied:

"We... the three of us were all busboys in the imperial kitchen. On the night before New Year's Eve, when I went to the toilet, I overheard... heard their... their conversation."

"What did they say?"

Leng Yu swung his clothes and sat on the chair that Xiao Shuangzi had just brought over, looking at him with anger in his eyes.

The little eunuch didn't dare to raise his head and replied with all his strength:

"Say... they said that someone asked them... asked them to... go to the hut near Baohe Hall to do something. After the thing is completed... after the thing is completed, they will receive a large sum of money, and someone will give it...

…Send them out of the palace.”

Leng Yu's brows tightened and his voice became extremely sharp at this time.

"Who are they you are talking about? Those two people?"

The little eunuch lowered his head and replied with a trembling voice:

"No, the man who died in the lotus pond and the other man."

"Where is that person?"

The little eunuch shook his head in horror, "I don't... I don't know. I... I haven't seen him since the first grade of junior high school."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone suddenly came over and reported back:

"Your Majesty, another male corpse was found over there. Like this corpse, it had been soaked in water and lost its human shape."

Hearing these words, Leng Yu's face suddenly darkened like a cloud that could not be driven away. He bit his lip, clenched his fists, and replied word for word:

"Bring it over here."

As soon as he finished speaking, the corpse that had just been discovered was carried in front of everyone. Leng Yu pointed at the corpse and asked the eunuch in front of him:

"Is the other person him?"

The little eunuch shivered and looked up, then nodded heavily, "Yes...it's him. We entered the palace together. He turned into ashes, and I recognized him."

Hearing his answer, Leng Yu's brows suddenly knitted together, his expression was sad, and his eyes had a profound and unfathomable look.

He knew that these two people must not have died accidentally. Someone was afraid that their mouths would be dishonest and killed them directly.

The two people who died suddenly were both handymen in the imperial kitchen. The imperial kitchen had something to do with this matter, and neither did the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was in charge of the imperial kitchen. He must investigate this matter thoroughly.

However, the little eunuch who was frightened to death was somewhat unjust.

"Here comes someone! Take the body away and send the person in charge of the imperial kitchen to the Department of Punishment. I want to interrogate him personally."
Chapter completed!