Chapter 41 The princess who died in the secret room (6)
Meng Hui wanted to say that the whole thing was full of doubts, not just the strangeness of the eldest prince's concubine. Seeing Fangqing showing strong suspicion and hostility towards the eldest prince's concubine, Meng Hui did not answer, but chose to continue listening to her continue.
"The waiter who was waiting outside waited for an afternoon. When it was time to have dinner, the personal maid next to the princess wanted to go to the inner hall to ask for instructions, but found that the door was tied from the outside. She opened the door bolt, but still couldn't push it open, and then she found that it was also locked inside."
The maid shouted for a long time, but there was no sound in the inner hall. She quickly ran out and asked Concubine Liang to come over. When Concubine Liang led her people to open the door, she saw Sun Yian's bloody body.
Meng Hui shook the bloody scene in his mind and then asked: "No one has entered the inner hall again after the eldest prince's concubine left?"
If you want to lock the door of the inner hall from outside, you must pass through the outer hall, but a group of attendants guard the outer hall and the entrance of each palace. In theory, even if a fly enters, you should pay attention.
Fangqing shook her head and said, "The sixteen maids and two eunuchs on duty have all been interrogated separately. On that day, only the eldest prince's concubine had entered, and there was no one else."
"What's going on with the suspicion of Yupin?"
"After entering, I found the princess lying in a pool of blood. I was so scared that I immediately told them not to walk around randomly, and took the queen out of the inner hall. When the officials from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice arrived, they found a hairpin head of Butterfly Love Flower in the princess's back. After comparing, they found that this was exactly what Yupin did."
After hearing this, Meng Hui felt so scared that she could calmly order to keep the scene. It seemed that Fangqing was not a simple person. She shook her head and put aside her doubts, and first drew a straight line in her heart according to time. Every event was a point.
The first point is that the eldest prince’s concubine went to Changning Palace in the morning to make it feel uncomfortable for Sun Yian.
The second point is that the eldest prince's concubine left when she was about to have lunch, and said that Sun Yian was in a bad mood and ordered the maids to retreat.
The third point is that at dinner, a personal maid tried to enter the hall and found that the door was tied up from the inside.
The fourth point is that when it was getting dark, Liang Fei brought people from Ningxi Palace and found that Sun Yian was dead.
At the fifth point, people from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice arrived, determined that the inner hall was the first scene, and found Yupin's jewelry under Sun Yi'an's waist.
"By the way, the eldest prince's concubine and Yupin said nothing. What are they doing between lunch and dinner?"
Hearing Meng Hui's inquiry, Fangqing showed a look of disbelief and responded in a suspicious tone: "The eldest prince's concubine said she was uncomfortable after dinner and took a nap. She was awakened by the maid at night and told the princess about her death."
"Yu Pin said that she found that the hairpin was missing. She thought she had fallen in the small garden a few days ago. She took a group of maids to search in the small garden for an afternoon. Later, someone came to report the news and found out that the princess was gone."
After Fangqing finished speaking, she showed a look of disbelief again. "Hmph, there are no other evidence except those around them. Who knows whether these words are true or false?"
Meng Hui discovered that Fangqing completely treated the two suspects as murderers, and tried to persuade her to believe that Sun Yian was killed by one of these two people.
But Meng Hui couldn't think of any motives for these two people, so she didn't express her opinion easily no matter what Fangqing said.
The two gradually fell silent and walked towards the inner hall together. When they were about to reach the door, Meng Hui suddenly remembered the problem of the murder weapon.
"Aunt, is the fatal injury on the princess's body caused by Butterfly Love Flower Chai?"
An unnatural smile appeared on Fangqing's face, and shook his head and said, "Not this. Yupin's hairpin is too thin and cannot match the wound. The princess's heart's wound is round and not much smaller than the mouth of the bowl. The entire harem was almost searched, and there was no match for the weapon."
Meng Hui thought about it and felt amazing. One was shocked by the miserable death of Sun Yian, and the other was surprised that someone in the palace used such a big weapon to commit crimes, and even able to conceal the harem that was strictly investigated.
If you can cause such a big wound, it must be a large instrument, right? Meng Hui recalled all the cold weapons he knew, but still couldn't think of something that suited him.
"I didn't find anything? This is so strange. Logically, this weapon should be quite large. Even if it is buried now, the soil you flipped open should be eye-catching, right? How could it disappear completely?"
"Yes, the officials who investigated the case couldn't understand it. The adults didn't seem to plan to start with the murder weapon." Fangqing responded briefly, pointed to the door of the inner hall and said, "Princess, stop talking, so as not to be heard by the empress, and should be sick again."
Meng Hui had no choice but to stop talking and no longer continue this topic.
The moment she stepped into the hall gate, she immediately changed into a regretful look when she saw Fangqing, and said to Liang Fei: "Empress, the princess is in a bad mood at the moment, and she said she will come over to see the princess later."
"Oh, that's fine." Liang Fei responded, and saw Fang Qing holding the medicine in her hand, she couldn't help but tremble. "Do you want to take medicine again?"
Meng Hui looked at Fangqing in confusion, and saw her smilingly advised: "Empress, your head will not hurt after drinking it. The imperial doctor said that as long as you finish these medicines, you will be able to recover as usual."
Concubine Liang pursed her lips tightly, hesitated for a while, and finally took the medicine bowl and swallowed it one by one.
There seemed to be something sleeping in the medicine. Not long after, Liang Fei began to yawn, and her mind did not become sober, but she spoke significantly less.
Meng Hui saw that she was so sleepy that she could not even open her eyes. She quickly took agarwood and Zitan to leave the inner hall and went to the side hall to rest.
Along the way, she was thinking about the bowl of medicine, every expression and every sentence of Fangqing. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that there were many doubts. However, there was too little information in her hand and she couldn't figure out what was wrong.
Fangqing was brought by Liang Fei from her parents' home. She has served her loyally for many years. It is unlikely that she will harm Liang Fei. But Meng Hui just felt that she had concealed some very important things.
Meng, who was worried, came to the side hall. Amber and Shanhu took a group of maids to settle their luggage, and Chenxiang and Zitan were always by their side. They were even more uncomfortable than when they were in Cui's mansion.
The Cui family has little rules, and it can even be said that there are no rules, but it is completely different here, and their actions and words are restricted.
Meng Hui couldn't run to the inner hall of Changning Palace at night to check it out, even if he made an excuse to bring agarwood and red sandalwood, he wouldn't be able to go with him.
After Sun Yian's death, it became a forbidden place. No one was allowed to get close except the case handlers and the masters of rituals. It was secretly investigated the scene while the night was dark and windy. It worked in the Cui Mansion where no one was on the night. It was absolutely impossible to be in the palace with many guards.
Chapter completed!