The palace maid thought for a while and said: "It should be a light blue underskirt with threaded threads. The outside is a small peony silk jacket. The inside is a scarlet breast wrap."

Leng Yi nodded. The disappearance time of Cui Yan mentioned by this palace maid coincided with the death time of the corpse in Hushan. At the same time, the clothes were the same. It can be confirmed that the corpse was the palace maid named Cui Yan. However,

To be cautious, Leng Yi decided to organize an identification.

He asked the palace maids who followed him to investigate the case to bring nine sets of dresses of various colors and put them on the ground. One of them was extracted from the body of the palace maid who died tragically in Hushan. He asked the palace maid to identify it, and the palace maid identified Cui Yan's dress.

, it was the one extracted from the deceased in Hushan. It further proved that the deceased was Cuiyan!

Leng Yi then asked: "Have your wife been to Hushan three days ago?"

"I've been there. The empress has always liked tigers. She was very jealous of Princess Huarui and envied her for raising so many obedient tigers. She said it would be great if she had such luck. Not too many, just two or three. Look.

Tigers eating people are more enjoyable than watching dogs. So, she often goes to Hushan to watch tigers. The most recent time was three days ago."

"Then when you went to Hushan, was Cuiyan still there?"

"Yes!" the palace maid said with certainty, "Cuiyan and I were together at that time, but we separated after we arrived at Hushan."

"Why?"

"When the empress was looking at the tiger, Xue'e drove the others away, so we couldn't move forward, so we just waited under the wall from a distance."

"What about Cuiyan?"

"As soon as we entered the Hushan courtyard, Cuiyan was called away by Xue'e. I really don't know where she went. I didn't dare to ask more. But, after that, I never saw her again. We were

I had a premonition that something happened. However, none of us said anything or dared to say anything."

Leng Yi asked again one by one, and the results were similar to those of the first palace maid. Those who were familiar with Cui Yan all identified Cui Yan's clothes. There were also quite a few palace maids who finally saw Cui Yan covered with blood in Hushan three days ago.

E screamed, but none of the palace maids knew what happened after that, and they didn't hear any screams.

The other missing palace maids all disappeared after the empress went to Hushan to see tigers. Moreover, they all disappeared after being called away by the empress. However, no one knew the specific details of how they disappeared.

After the imperial doctor examined the injuries of these palace maids, Leng Yi had almost finished questioning them. The results were almost the same.

It seems that the only way to find out what happened is to directly ask the people around Empress Daji or even herself.

Leng Yi asked the palace maid to inform him that it was related to a case and that he needed to ask his empress some questions.
Chapter completed!