Wu Zuo came back to his senses and said quickly: "This is impossible. The villain used a silver needle to test it for the first time, and there was no sign of poisoning either on the outside or in the body."
Hong Zhou said sternly: "If this is the case, why is there bleeding from the seven orifices at this moment?"
Facing his question, Wu Zuo couldn't answer. After a while, he suppressed his blush and said: "If it is really poisonous, it must be a poison that this villain has never seen before."
While everyone was in shock and doubt, Hongli slowly said: "This is not poison."
Hong Zhou said doubtfully: "It's not poison? Then why are the seven orifices bleeding?"
Hongli looked at Ji Changming's eyes and mouth. The stench made him nauseous at the first sight. The guards didn't understand how the pampered emperor could be calmer than them when facing the dead body. They were just watching.
It was unbearable. Among the people present, apart from Hong Zhou and the others, Shuntian Fuyin knew better. Hong Li himself had crawled out of the dead, so naturally he would not have much fear about these things.
Hongli's eyes finally stopped at the ear where the liquid was first found. Hongzhou came over and said, "Your Majesty, have you discovered anything?"
Hong Li pointed at the corpse and said: "Hong Zhou, you see, the corpse itself has no obvious decay. Even if the temperature rises at this moment, it will not decay all at once. However, there is liquid in his seven orifices, especially in his ears.
It's really strange. So I suspect that the cause of his death was in his head."
"Your Majesty is saying that his head was injured? But he did an examination and there were no injuries." As soon as Hong Zhou finished speaking, Hongli said, "What he examined was only the outside of the skull, but what about the inside?"
Wu Zuo said cautiously: "Your Majesty, if there are any scars inside, there will definitely be traces on the skull, but this corpse does not have any."
Hongli said meaningfully: "I just saw his eyes and mouth. There are no scars. Now only the nose and ears are left."
Hong Zhou was startled and said: "The emperor suspects that the cause of Ji Changming's death is in Qiqiao?"
"That's right." Hongli nodded slightly and said to Shuntian Fuyin: "Immediately go find a slender iron needle and explore these two places."
Although the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture found it incredible, he did not dare to neglect Hongli's instructions. He immediately ordered someone to find an iron needle, and then probed along the nose and ears.
He soon encountered resistance at the nose. The officer asked Shuntian Fuyin if he wanted to continue probing. How could Shuntian Fuyin know? He looked at Hongli helplessly. The latter hesitated for a moment and said: "No need, test his ears."
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The officer followed the instructions and probed the iron needle along Ji Changming's ear. He also encountered resistance, but Hong Zhou found that this time the length they probed in was much longer than normal. After hearing what he said, Hong Li
The officer was ordered to continue probing until it penetrated both ears.
When the iron needle finally penetrated both ears, something fell out of Ji Changming's ears and fell to the ground with a crisp "ding" sound.
"What is this?" Hong Zhou said as he picked up the finger-long light red thing with ice on its tentacles. After taking a closer look, he said in surprise: "This is ice."
Wu Zuo took it and took a look and said: "It is indeed ice, but how can there be ice in the ears of a corpse?"
Hongli took a look and said, "Lao Wu, have you figured out how Ji Changming died?"
"Brother Chen..." Hong Zhou was about to say that he didn't understand, but suddenly his heart moved and he said in horror: "Your Majesty, are you saying that this piece of ice is the murder weapon that killed Ji Changming?"
"Yes, Ji Changming did not die suddenly at all, but was deliberately murdered. However, the cause of his death was too hidden, so it has never been found out."
"My brother understands that someone used sharp ice to pierce his brain from his ear. Because the ice will melt, and no one usually thinks that ice can kill people, there is no need to extract it, which naturally inhibits the flow of his blood, so that
No wound can be found. And just now, the emperor ordered a fire to melt the ice in his body and turn it into blood and flow out."
"I didn't think so clearly at the time. I just saw the liquid in the corpse's ears and felt something was suspicious, so I ordered the person to set fire to see if more liquid flowed out."
Hong Zhou frowned and said, "But the weather is so cold, how could the ice in his ears melt?"
The guard of the righteous village thought about it carefully and suddenly said: "I remember, yesterday someone passed by. Because he couldn't find a place to stay, he stayed here temporarily. He once made a fire outside the door, and
The body was close to the door, perhaps because of this, it melted."
Hong Zhou said coldly: "The sky is really magnificent, sparse and not missing."
Shuntian Prefecture Yin whispered: "So, Ji Changming did not die due to a disaster star?"
"Disaster star?" Hongli glanced at him and sneered: "There is no disaster star at all. All of this is just a lie, but... the person who set up this situation is really thoughtful." After that, Hongli
He fluttered his sleeves and left, followed closely by everyone.
"I want to know anyone who Ji Changming came into contact with before his death. In addition..." Hongli paused, stared at Shuntian Prefecture Yin with a cold look and said: "I'm also keeping an eye on Ergitu."
"Ergitu..." Shuntian Prefecture Yin murmured and repeated, and exclaimed: "Isn't that the concubine Yu's Ama?"
Hongli stared at him coldly and said, "I asked you to check, but I didn't ask you to ask these unnecessary questions."
Shuntian Prefecture Yin said with cold sweat on his head: "Wei Chen deserves to die, Wei Chen will send someone to investigate right now."
On the way back to the palace, Hong Zhou said: "Your Majesty, do you also doubt Concubine Yu?"
Hongli raised the curtain of the carriage, looked at the falling snowflakes outside, and said coldly: "I don't know. You once told me that Ji Changming was engaged to Concubine Yu, and that he went to Ergitu that night.
Zhaizi, I will test it later
Concubine Yu, she didn’t hide anything about it, she told everything truthfully, and it really didn’t look like she was conspiring with Ji Changming. But Ji Changming was murdered and died. As far as we know, there is only one clue about Concubine Yu, so we have to investigate no matter what.
Check it out.”
Hong Zhou nodded and said: "If we find out the cause of Ji Changming's death, we can at least buy us some time."
Hongli nodded slightly and said: "You and Shuntian Prefecture Yin will work together to investigate the rumors. As for the palace... I will let Sixi keep an eye on it. I hope we can find out who is there soon."
Doing all this in secret.”
Hong Zhou hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, what if it is really Concubine Yu?"
Hongli glanced at him and squeezed out a cold word from between his teeth, "Then she is seeking her own death!"
Returning to the Yangxin Hall, the ministers were kneeling outside just like yesterday, and there seemed to be a few more people than yesterday. When they saw Hongli coming, they kowtowed one after another and asked Hongli to get rid of the disaster star and protect the Qing Dynasty.