"What's more, that bead is related to an old case I want to investigate." Yu Qiansi said sincerely: "So, it's not you who brought me into danger."
There was a warm current in Boyi's heart, and wild flowers flourished everywhere he went.
"But, I have two conditions."
Yu Qiansi looked slightly solemn: "First, you must not disrupt the court situation. Second, all matters related to this case must not be concealed."
Boyi breathed a long sigh of relief and answered her question: "Even if the whole family is dead, the queen mother is in a high position, and most of the people in the court support the Cheng family. If she bites the bullet, it is not without her strength.
What's more, history is written by the victors, and it will be easy for her to thoroughly investigate the death of the imperial concubine after she wins. Why would she be so determined to self-immolate? I think she is also worried that someone will use her and my identities to make a fuss and provoke civil strife.
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Having said this, he closed his eyes and suppressed the heat in his eyes: "I am not her biological child, so she can use me to fight hard. But she just wants to let me go and let me live in peace.
....."
Yu Qiansi was noncommittal. She still had doubts about the true purpose of Queen Mingde in this matter, but it would not affect other people's thoughts.
If someone really set up a trap back then, this person must not be simple, so it must be very dangerous. But Boyi is willing to believe her, so she will naturally try her best to give it a try. However, it must not affect the stability of the world.
"Okay, I promise you that the murderer will be brought to justice, but you can't take personal risks and challenge the law."
Boyi understood in his heart that this was what Yu Qiansi really wanted to tell him.
He was silent for a long time and asked: "But what if the murderer cannot be brought to justice?"
"For the cases that Yuli Pavilion takes over, even if we go to the ends of the earth and the end of the world, we will definitely find the truth."
He took the wine jar from Yu Qiansi and drank it all in one gulp.
"Okay, it's settled."
He put down the wine jar and thought of the half of the bamboo sign with the word in blood hidden in his arms. However, he was worried that it would affect her work tomorrow and distract her, so he kept it privately and handed it to her after tomorrow.
It's not too late either.
Now, the most important thing is tomorrow's court meeting.
On the second day, at the great court meeting, Yu Qiansi, dressed in falcon red clothes, walked into the hall confidently.
At that time, the ministers in the court were arguing with the envoys of the Northern Qi Dynasty. His Majesty summoned her to tell the truth.
The most urgent task is to explain the fire at the Ministry of War.
But Yu Qiansi bowed casually, and his clear and bright voice echoed leisurely in the hall.
"Your Majesty, all of this starts with the matter of the Star Reaching Tower."
After saying this, there was an uproar in the palace.
After all, the princess' fall from the building was a "family scandal", how could it be publicized in front of the envoys?
But Wang Song stood tall beside His Majesty, his stern eyes swept over the people in the palace, and the opposition immediately weakened. The people from the Criminal Division escorted the depressed Ma Jian into the palace.
People who come and go in the palace are more or less familiar with Ma Jian, not to mention what happened that day has already been widely spread in the capital. It can be seen that the punishment department acted like this. Could it be that Ma Jian is the murderer?
"How is this possible?" The whispers became louder.
Someone who witnessed it that day expressed confusion: "Master Yu, how could this Ma Jian be the murderer?"
"Yes, he was on the eighth floor at the time. There are other people on the seventh floor who can testify. Didn't you also go up and check it yourself?"
They have already heard about the strange situation in the Star-Zhaing Tower. What's more, they feel hairy on their backs every day when they pass by the Star-Zhaing Tower when entering and exiting the palace.
The key to the ninth floor is where it is, and no one has touched it. Two people on the seventh floor testified that there was no abnormal movement on the eighth floor. The Criminal Division even saw with his own eyes that no one had set foot on the ninth floor for a long time, and there was only dust everywhere. What was left behind were Princess Lin'an's own footprints and the princess's torn sleeves outside the window on the ninth floor.
How did Ma Jian do it?
Shang Fu's heart suddenly skipped a beat and he timidly said, "Did he lock the princess in the ninth floor early and let her jump down to deal with the aftermath?"
This would explain the key.
But... Boyi personally checked the window on the ninth floor and found that it was fastened from the inside. Who did this?
Yu Qiansi rarely expressed his affirmation of Shang Fu: "Master Shaoqing is half right."
"Actually, the truth is very simple. Your Majesty, please go downstairs to Zhaixing with all the adults, and I can reveal the modus operandi one by one."
"How dare you! How can the Great Court allow you to be so casual?" Someone was dissatisfied, "There are still envoys here!"
But the envoy of the Northern Qi Dynasty was very happy: "It doesn't matter, the Princess Lin'an case can be regarded as a state matter. I am also very curious about the truth about the princess case that is making a fuss in the capital."
Seeing what the envoy said, Jiang Jiqing would naturally agree. He looked tentatively at Wang Song, who was standing aside without saying a word.
Wang Song nodded, and then he raised his hand excitedly: "Show me!"
Yu Qiansi saw that the envoys of the Northern Qi Dynasty were all looking very satisfied, so he was not in a hurry, and followed the holy driver as he headed towards the Zhaixing Tower with a crowd of civil and military officials.
After leaving the Tai Chi Palace, they headed north towards the Inner Palace. When most people walked around the main road and saw the Zhaixing Tower, some people started exclaiming.
The exclamation started from the middle of the team and gradually spread to everyone.
Even the Holy Driver at the front was disturbed. He saw a black object falling from the Star-Zhaing Tower, right in front of everyone.
The holy driver at the front of the team was blocked by the canopy and did not see the falling process. The imperial guards on both sides shouted "protect the driver" and immediately drew their swords to protect Jiang Jiqing and Wang Song.
Before those people at the end of the queue could see clearly, they heard exclamations one after another around them, asking curiously and frightenedly what was going on.
Jiang Jiqing kept walking and walked to the black object. Only then did everyone see clearly that it was just a black dummy.
But underneath its body, fresh blood was slowly flowing out.
Yu Qiansi turned around and looked at the courtiers who were still in shock: "Did anyone see where this fake corpse fell from just now?"
Someone said tremblingly: "I...I just saw that the window on the ninth floor of Zhaixing Building is open."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The speaker was one of the officials who witnessed the massacre at Zhaixing Tower that day. When he saw something falling, he subconsciously looked towards the ninth floor.
The windows were opened, revealing the dark interior of the building.
Everyone looked up when they heard this, but the window was obviously closed.
"Master Li, you must have seen it wrong, right?"
"Impossible! The official just saw it. The window on the ninth floor is indeed open..."
At this time, all the Qianniu Guards who were on duty in the Zhaixing Building were ordered to go downstairs and wait for orders. It was Ma Jian who led the team on the day of the incident.
This time, as usual, they were on duty from the second floor to the seventh floor. The only difference was that Boyi followed them downstairs. He stayed on the eighth floor of Zhaixing Building this time, following Yu Qiansi's order.
Layout person.
Everyone was at a loss when they saw the fake corpse and Ma Jian in custody.
"Everyone, did you hear anything unusual on the eighth floor just now?"
Those people looked confused and shook their heads without saying a word.
Jiang Jiqing saw this and asked curiously: "Master Yu, what on earth is going on?"
"What you have just seen is what the murderer did that day."
She pointed to the sky and said: "This is actually a very simple deception. Because that day, the body did not fall from the ninth floor at all."
"But... we clearly saw the window on the ninth floor..."
Yu Qiansi turned on a fireworks signal and threw it high into the sky. Everyone's eyes followed the red fireworks and soared into the sky. Through the bright red fireworks, everyone saw the windows on the ninth floor.
"Oh my God! The window is open again... I'm right! Look!"
This time, everyone saw the dark open window and pointed excitedly.
But as time passed, someone realized something was wrong.
The ninth floor of Zhaixing Tower is very high. Looking over it against the skylight, the windows are not much bigger than a small black dot.
"That's wrong...Why is this window moving?"
Someone squinted and looked carefully, and the dark window indeed seemed to be moving slightly in the wind.
Yu Qiansi looked at Ma Jian who was hanging his head and said nothing, and threw another red firework into the air.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the black window in the sky suddenly dropped and was taken in from the open window on the eighth floor.
"This is the truth about the so-called window opening on the ninth floor."
Boyi also took out a piece of folded black cloth from his arms and demonstrated it in public.
The thin bamboo strips were cut into several sections. The ends of the bamboo strips were staggered, and thin ropes were wound in the middle to form a ring. He opened the bamboo strips and used those rings to cover them, and then stretched the entire black cloth like a paper kite.
Come on.
"The reason why the murderer chose dusk is because the sky is not bright at that time, so it is not easy to reveal flaws. When something heavy falls from the sky, everyone will naturally look up subconsciously, and they will naturally see the piece on the ninth floor.
There is a black hole in front of the window, so you will think that the window on the ninth floor has been opened."
But in fact, it was just an illusion created by the murderer holding up the black cloth with a bamboo pole. After confirming that someone had seen it, he only needed to take back the black cloth and destroy it while everyone's attention turned back to the body on the ground.
There are giant oil lamps on each floor of the Star Building, and they can be destroyed at will, whether it is a thin piece of bamboo or a small piece of black cloth.
"So, this can explain why the adults who witnessed the first scene and Princess Changsi saw something strange in the window, but when we arrived, the window was closed tightly."
"But...but how does this explain the traces you saw on the ninth floor?"
There are Qianniu Guards who are unwilling to give up and risk their lives to ask questions.
Deming scolded angrily with a cold face: "How outrageous! How can you have the right to speak at this great meeting?"
"No problem," Jiang Jiqingwen said to stop him.
Wang Song, who had been muttering to the side and seemed to be invisible today, continued: "The Great Court Meeting is meant to open up the road to public speaking, and it is even more so today."
He turned around and looked at Yu Qiansi: "Master Yu, please continue."
"The key to the ninth floor has indeed never been touched in your guardhouse. But that can only prove that no one has touched it that day."
"If the murderer gets the key in advance, sneaks into the ninth floor in advance, and uses the shoes on the corpse to leave a trail that looks like it leads to the window. On that day, your defense changes are connected end to end, leaving no opportunity for outsiders to take advantage of it, but you can guarantee
, are the guards like this every day?"
What's more, the murderer is Qian Niuwei, and he can use the gaps in the defense to create opportunities for himself. What's more, maybe he specifically chose that day to use the flawless defense to clear himself of suspicion.