"Eunuch Sun." The emperor's voice was deep, pressing on the chest of the listener, making him feel breathless: "Lift him up."
Eunuch Sun leaned down and walked out with a few royal guards. When he came in again, several people were carrying a wooden board. There seemed to be a person lying on the wooden board. The person's body and face were covered with white
It was covered with cloth, so nothing could be seen.
"Mrs. Su, let's go and take a look." The emperor rested his forehead on his hands, with a hint of tiredness on his face.
Mrs. Su couldn't describe what she felt. Her chest felt like a surge of water, and she felt a surge of chills. She walked slowly towards the wooden board, and lifted up the white cloth with trembling fingers...
She has crescent eyebrows, a straight bridge of nose, a pointed chin, and a face that is three-quarters like hers, exuding a youthful air.
That was clearly her little daughter—Nangong Hongyan!
Bang!
The Buddha chain spinning in Mrs. Su's hand fell to the ground. The beads made of white jade were beating one after another. The air seemed to be still. Apart from the sound of the beads falling to the ground, there was nothing else!
"Yan'er, my Yan'er!" Mrs. Su stared at the corpse in front of her with red eyes: "How could this happen? How could it..."
Nangong Rui'er also saw Nangong Hongyan's face. The position where she stood happened to meet Nangong Hongyan's eyes. For some reason, she always felt that those eyes... seemed to be moving strangely!
Nangong Rui'er's fingers froze in fear and she took a step back abruptly.
Nangong Baiye stood on one side of her, looking at her abnormal movements, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.
Strange, shouldn't she be sad when a relative dies?
Moreover, Nangong Ruier has only been close to Nangong Hongyan.
Why did she show this expression?
What is she afraid of?
Could it be...
Nangong Baiye's eyes flashed. She always thought that Nangong Rui'er used Nangong Hongyan's body to set up a trap for herself after her death.
Now it seems that there may be something else going on here...
"My Yan'er, she was still fine this morning!" Tears overflowed from Mrs. Su's eyes. She wanted to touch Nangong Hongyan's face with trembling fingers, but she suddenly stopped as if she thought of something.
action.
Hearing this, Nangong Baiye turned around suddenly.
This morning?
How can it be?
When she was in the yard, she had seen Nangong Hongyan's body. Although she couldn't take a closer look at that situation, she could clearly see the mold on her arms, which only appeared after the body had been dead for a long time.
Things that only grow when there is no sunlight...
Nangong Baiye narrowed his eyes, grabbed Beiming Liancheng's arm, took off the black gloves, put them directly on his hands, then walked over and lifted the white cloth!
Mrs. Su took a step back in shock. Before she could recover, she saw Nangong Baiye squatting down, pressing her fingers on Nangong Hongyan's arm, and looking back and forth: "When did she grow these things?"
of?"
Mrs. Su didn't expect that she would ask this question. Her eyes flickered and she looked towards Nangong Rui'er.
Nangong Baiye was still about to speak when he heard the sound of a cane coming from outside the house...
Bang...bang...bang.
The cane hit the ground neither fast nor slow.
"I didn't know that the emperor was coming, so I missed him from afar. I still hope that the emperor will atone for his sins."
It was Nangong Nie. He was holding a cane with one hand. When he looked at Nangong Hongyan's body, his old eyes were frosted, as if he was about to cry. He stretched out his hand to support his head.
Fortunately, there was someone behind him to support him, otherwise he would have fainted on the spot.
The emperor couldn't bear to see him like this, so he asked someone to add an extra seat, reached out and patted his shoulder: "Old Nirvana, things are impermanent."
Nangong Ni let out a long sigh, as if she had suddenly aged a lot: "Take Miss Seven to the ancestral hall and offer the best sandalwood. I am her grandfather and cannot save her, so you should be more careful.
Let her go well."
"Yes!" Several secret guards nodded, bent down and lifted the body up.
Nangong Baiye watched this scene quietly, his eyebrows furrowing tighter and tighter.
Beiming Liancheng smiled, his thin lips showing a bit of mockery, hehe, human beings...
Nangong Nie seemed to have finally stabilized her emotions, stretched out her hand to wipe the corners of her eyes, and looked at the emperor in the seat: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for sending Yan'er back."
The emperor patted his shoulder again, and after a while, he said: "Old Nie, I didn't want to say it today, but I have to give an explanation to your third granddaughter. Yan'er's body was found in a farmer's house.
, Bai Ye was also there at the time. The two of them had had misunderstandings before, so someone took advantage of this and bribed the prefect Li Zhi to frame your third granddaughter. They took her and Liancheng into prison and tortured her to extract a confession, hoping that they would be detained.
Confess..."
Hearing this, Nangong Rui'er's beautiful little face completely lost its color and turned as pale as a piece of paper.
Nangong Ni only had a sullen face and said nothing.
Mrs. Su also understood what was going on. She pinched the broken Buddha chain and forced herself to calm down.
"Old Nie." The emperor spoke again, his voice soft and soft, but with a certain dignity: "What I hate most in my life is that officials protect each other and bully the inferiors and conceal the superiors. Therefore, when I come to you this time, in addition to sending Hongyan back,
Besides, there is one more important thing to do."
Nangong Baiye stood aside and listened. She finally understood that each of these people had their own intelligence, and the emperor was undoubtedly the leader among these people. Even when he spoke, he was soft-spoken and polite before attacking.
A third granddaughter? Oh, when did Nangong Ni regard her as a granddaughter...
"white night."
Nangong Baiye took a step forward with a faint look in his eyes: "Here."
"Let's go to trial." The emperor flicked his long sleeves.
"Yes." Nangong Baiye curled his thin lips and raised his eyes to look at Nangong Rui'er: "Where are you tonight at midnight?"
Nangong Ruier smiled calmly: "Of course I am at home. Today is the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month. It is the day for burning incense. I have always been with my mother."
"Yes, Rui'er has always been with me." Mrs. Su said with a sneer on her thin lips: "Bai Ye, I think I treat you well, but nothing in the world is perfect. You resent us, and I will never do it.
Don't say anything, just think that you are still young and ignorant. I don't care about you, a little girl, and I am an elder after all. Now that Yan'er is dead, you still doubt my Rui'er. I would like to
I want to ask you, how could it be such a coincidence that you would appear at the place where Yan'er died!"
Nangong Baiye tilted his head and smiled: "Well, that's a good question, but Mrs. Su said it wrong. It must have been such a coincidence that Nangong Hongyan died where I appeared. She didn't mean to frame me, and it was
Why?"
"You!" Mrs. Su choked, and all the air in her body filled up her face.
Nangong Baiye said slowly: "I am investigating a case, and I had to go to that courtyard late at night. Both His Highness the Third Highness and Qu Luo can testify for me. The Emperor also verified it before he came." Her voice was very cold.
, the final sound of each word is broken very neatly: "Now, let me ask!"