"I don't know very well either." Ximen Jingyu was vague. Until now, he still didn't know what Lin Xiner was going to do.
"Take this corpse and follow me to Xiaoyao Hou Mansion."
After hearing the news about the fire in Xiaoyao Hou Mansion, Ximen Jingxuan looked at the man's body placed in front of him and said.
This body was discovered by his people at the foot of Sunset Cliff yesterday evening. Since one of the forked roads leads to Sunset Cliff, his people also found it there.
The sky was getting dark, and the tread marks on the surrounding grass were blown away by the strong wind. No other suspicious traces could be discerned, so his people secretly took the body back to Prince Xuan's Mansion.
After a secret investigation, Ximen Jingxuan determined that the corpse came from Xiaoyaohou Mansion. It was very suspicious that Ximen Jingyu committed suicide in a remote place like the Sunset Cliff, and the sudden fire in Xiaoyaohou Mansion made it even more suspicious.
Add doubt.
Ximen Jingxuan immediately decided to take the body to see Ximen Jingyu.
When Ximen Jingxuan passed by, Ximen Jingyu was living in a tavern with the people who had escaped from Xiaoyaohou Mansion. People coming and going at the door kept stopping, looking inside to look at the embarrassed royal family, and saw Ximen Jingxuan coming.
, then they quickly moved out of the way.
Ximen Jingxuan first stood at the scene of the fire that had been put out and burned to ashes to observe for a while, then silently walked into a nearby tavern and came to Ximen Jingyu.
"Brother Four Emperors, what do you think of this fire?" Ximen Jingxuan asked.
Ximen Jingyu stood up from his chair and walked to the door of the tavern. He looked at the ruins of Xiaoyao Hou Mansion not far away, which were still burning with scattered sparks. He shook his head and sighed, "I don't know which slave accidentally caused the fire. Hou
The mansion has been destroyed, what's the use of finding out? I think the fire was not intentional, so let him live."
"Brother Four Emperors is really compassionate." Ximen Jingxuan signaled his subordinates to carry the man's body in front of Ximen Jingyu, "This man committed suicide in a strange way. I wonder if Brother Emperor thinks his death is related to the fire?"
"Isn't this Erbao?" Ximenhai walked over and took the lead in saying the man's name. He squatted down and examined the man's fatal injuries. "Did he commit suicide by cutting his neck?"
"Yes, my king's people found his body near Sunset Cliff. The situation at that time was that he committed suicide with a knife." Ximen Jingxuan said.
"Looking at the cut mark on the knife edge, it does look like it was left by suicide, but how could Erbao commit suicide when he was fine?" Ximenhai stood up and asked doubtfully.
"This is exactly what I came to discuss with my brother," Ximen Jingxuan said.
"Who wants to harm our Hou Mansion?" Mrs. Hou Ye said from the side, "This Erbao is usually very honest. He is a handyman in the Hou Mansion. If Hai'er hadn't said his name, I would have killed him.
I don’t even know what it’s called yet.”
"Hai'er only asked him to feed the horses once before I knew his name." Ximen Hai said.
In other words, that person is an inconspicuous character in the Hou family?
"It must be a secret work hidden somewhere in the Hou Mansion." Ximen Jingyu judged. Among all the people, he was the only one who knew how much this inconspicuous handyman had been reused by him again and again, but this time he died.
In the hands of that fake Lin Xiner!
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" The person responsible for surveying the scene ran over and said to Ximen Jingxuan and Ximen Jingyu.
"What was found?" Ximen Jingxuan asked.
"From the intensity of the fire, the difficulty in extinguishing it, and the small amount of inclusions in the ashes, I concluded that the fire was caused by something unique to the Yuehua Kingdom that is used for continuous burning of firewood." The subordinate reported.
Report.
"Scorching sun oil?" Ximen Jingxuan, who lives in southern Xinjiang, quickly thought of such a thing.
In the Yuehua Palace, there is a magic weapon specially used for memorial ceremonies, called scorching sun oil. As long as a small amount is added to the firewood, the memorial fire can burn more vigorously and longer.
This kind of thing was used to burn the Xiaoyao Hou Mansion. It was obvious that the person who set the fire was determined to completely destroy the Hou Mansion.
"Exactly." The subordinate nodded affirmatively.
"Did people from the Yuehua Kingdom sneak into the capital and burn down the Marquis Mansion?" Ximen Jingxuan cast a questioning look at Ximen Jingyu.
Lin Xiner only told him in advance that she would burn down the Hou Mansion in the name of Yuehua Kingdom, but she did not expect that being recognized by Ximen Jingxuan would bring him heartfelt worry. Under the gaze of Ximen Jingxuan's indifferent and bright eyes
Next, I saw the entire Hou Mansion reduced to a pile of rubble, and I felt as guilty as a thief.
Planning strategies is what Ximen Jingyu has always hoped to master, but in the face of this sudden fire, the chips he built in his heart seemed to collapse.
"Yuehua Kingdom?" On the contrary, Mrs. Houye retorted calmly, "We in the Hou family have never cared about worldly affairs. Why do the people of Yuehua Kingdom want to do anything to us? When have we ever offended them?"
"Your Majesty, my subordinates found these things in the Hou Mansion." Another subordinate came over and showed a bunch of things to Ximen Jingxuan.
"Where was this found?" Ximen Jingxuan picked up one of them, a burnt piece of cloth. Occasionally there were one or two unburned areas, which looked like a light green layer of dust.
"It's in the dry well in the garden of the Marquis Mansion," the subordinate replied.
Because the terrain in the well is relatively low, it avoids the intense fire above, and the contents inside are not directly burned to ashes.
"Green ribbon?" Mrs. Marquis couldn't help blurting out after looking at the strip-shaped thing in her subordinate's hand.
Ximen Jingyu was also stunned. How could there be such a thing in the dry well in his garden?
The green ribbon was a keepsake when his second and third emperor brothers rebelled and seized the throne eight years ago. In order to distinguish themselves from those who were loyal to the emperor, those wearing green ribbons became a symbol of the rebels. At that time, his palace also prepared
There was a pile of green ribbons, but seeing that the situation was not good, they were all destroyed in advance. How could the residue be found in the dry well now?
"Brother Imperial, you need to explain something to me." Ximen Jingxuan put the scrap of cloth back into his subordinate's hand and said to Ximen Jingyu with deep meaning, "I am the newlywed princess who was kidnapped and was ordered to track the carriage.
But they returned in vain, but another handyman died near Sunset Cliff, there was a fire in Xiaoyao Hou Mansion, and these things that shouldn't be there were accidentally discovered, the emperor brother must have a unique opinion in his heart."
"It's been eight years, it's been eight years since that incident, how could it be mentioned again?" A flash of panic flashed across Mrs. Hou's face. People who have secrets in their hearts always live in fear, especially when they are in peace and stability.
After a few years, they were suddenly raised again, as if God still refused to let them go, as if they were once again facing the danger of doomsday, and they could no longer hide the panic in their hearts.