"Prince Cheng, please continue hearing the case!"

Xiao Lintian did not ask Concubine Shao to lie down, so Concubine Shao could only kneel down.

Prince Cheng also turned a blind eye and continued: "I have evidence that the Queen Mother was not poisoned. Wan Qishan, bring up the mouse!"

Wan Qishan picked up a few mice that were still alive.

Prince Cheng explained to the officials that these mice were fed the blood of the Queen Mother.

Seeing these mice still jumping around, even Pan Yushi couldn't find anything to say to refute.

Prince Kang was wary of Xiao Lintian's threat just now and did not dare to refute it casually.

Prince Cheng asked Wan Qishan to take out the silk that had been eaten by rats, and later fed poisoned rats that had been soaked in silk water.

"It turns out that the Empress Dowager died suddenly of heart failure. Her body was ruined because someone with ulterior motives replaced the silk soaked in poisonous rat incense, and then opened the coffin lid and put rats in!"

When Prince Cheng said this, his eyes fell on the kneeling Princess Shao.

"The king has already interrogated the deputy chief minister in charge of funeral matters. According to her, it was Teng Xiang from Princess Shao's palace who went to collect the funeral silk!"

When Princess Shao heard this, she said anxiously: "Prince Cheng, the Empress Dowager died in a hurry last night. The Queen Mother was not in the palace. I helped to preside over the burial of the Empress Dowager. Teng Xiang did go to receive it on my order."

Buried with silk!”

"But this is not enough to prove that Teng Xiang had tampered with the silk! The deputy constable in charge of funeral matters in the Ministry of Internal Affairs also changed the silk."

Prince Cheng said in a deep voice: "Pass on Teng Xiang!"

Two nuns brought Teng Xiang up.

Teng Xiang looked calm, knelt down and said: "Prince Cheng, I really don't know when the silk has been tampered with. Teng Xiang dares to risk his life, and the silk has never been changed!"

"Send a message to the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in charge of funeral matters!"

The deputy official was also brought up. He knelt down and swore, declaring that the silk was fine. He didn't know how it could be contaminated with the poisonous rat scent.

The deputy official Si and Teng Xiang each had different opinions. Both of them were suspected of having exchanged silk. The officials looked at Prince Cheng and Xiao Lintian, wondering how they were going to judge who of the two was lying.

Prince Cheng, however, was not in a hurry. He glanced at the two of them coldly and said, "One of you changed the silk soaked in poisonous rat incense and let the rat enter the coffin and destroy the body of the Empress Dowager. You

Do you two know that this is a capital crime?"

"I just swore in front of the coffin of the Queen Mother that if I catch the murderer of the Queen Mother, I will throw him into the snake cave and let him be eaten by thousands of snakes until he dies!"

Prince Cheng's words made Teng Xiang and the deputy official change their expressions, and the officials also felt the same when they heard it.

This snake cave was not made up by Prince Cheng to scare them. There was a cave in Wanshou Mountain in the imperial capital. There were many venomous snakes in it. Although it was not as exaggerated as ten thousand snakes, there were thousands of them.

This is a torture that existed in the previous dynasty, and was specially used to execute those criminals who committed heinous crimes...

"If you two think that I can't detect whether one of you is lying, you are wrong!"

Prince Cheng shouted sternly: "I am just giving you a chance. As long as you are summoned truthfully, I will allow him to have a whole corpse to save you from the pain of being eaten by thousands of snakes!"

The deputy official said loudly: "Prince Cheng, the silk sent by the official is absolutely fine. If the official is proven to be lying, the official is willing to be eaten by thousands of snakes until he dies!"

When the deputy official said this, Teng Xiang had no choice but to bite the bullet and swear the same oath.

She believed that as long as she refused to admit it, Prince Cheng would never find out that she had changed silk.

Upon seeing this, Prince Cheng said in a deep voice: "Bring in the nuns who accompanied Teng Xiang to get the silk!"


Chapter completed!