There was another round of earth-shaking speculation in the hearts of the courtiers. This General Ling had never directly refuted any of the current Holy Emperor's intentions. But now he has spoken out... This is quite intriguing.
Not only them, but even Emperor Jing himself did not expect Ling Sheng to speak, his eyes darkened slightly, "What the general said is true. Come, please bring the men in the palace today who have left the Qionglin Banquet before, no matter what.
Anyone with any identity will be brought before me! Also, any guards who are alone during this period will also be brought here!"
After all, the first person who can commit a crime must be a man. And in the palace, apart from the palace guards, only Emperor Jing is a man! Today at the Qionglin Banquet, the courtiers and ministers were all men. But Princess Ningyang had previously been with Concubine Shu
Together, as long as we find the men who have been alone in the short period of time apart, and investigate one by one, the real murderer will definitely not escape!
Almost none of the courtiers left, many of them had left, and almost none of the guards were left alone.
Once the emperor gave an order, it was of course executed very quickly.
Less than half a stick of incense was filled, and more than twenty men were kneeling in front of them, all of whom had left during the Qionglin Banquet.
Emperor Jing was shameless enough to conduct a search in front of everyone in the hall, so naturally he didn't care about searching these people at this moment.
"Check one by one!"
How to check this?
Of course you have to take off your clothes to check!
After all, Princess Ningyang had the flesh and blood of the murderer in her fingernails! Then the murderer must have relevant scars on his body! Moreover, if he had just raped and killed a woman, and the time was tight and there was no time to deal with it, there would always be something different.
Fortunately, Emperor Jing finally knew that there were so many daughters of courtiers present, so he had a circle of black cloth pulled around, and the twenty or so people were brought in directly, and the people from the Ministry of Punishment and the gangsters were asked to investigate.
Wherever the daughters of the courtiers dared to look, they would have been shivering for a long time and did not dare to raise their heads.
Soon, I found a man with scratches on his chest!
The man was thrown out like a dead dog. Concubine Shu, who had been stunned for a long time, saw the man and tried to tear the man apart. Emperor Jing ordered someone to restrain Concubine Shu.
There is thunderous fury in his own eyes!
The man who looked like a dead dog was lying on the ground, shaking badly.
The left minister of the Ministry of Punishment discussed the matter and reported back, "Your Majesty, according to the evidence of the deceased, this person's body... is very likely to be a suspect."
"Raise your head!" Regardless of whether the man on the ground dared or not, willingly or not, Emperor Jing gave the order, and the guards who captured the man on the ground directly forced him to lift his head.
"Say! Is it you?! Why did you do that!"
The man's face was ashen, "No...no..."
The left minister of the Ministry of Punishment frowned slightly when he heard that he was still trying to quibble, "You'd better tell the truth." Otherwise, the whole family will be executed, and if you tell the truth, your family may be sentenced to exile or exile.
When the man saw this posture, he knew he couldn't run away. He kowtowed repeatedly, "It's the student who was deceived by lard...it was the student who was temporarily obsessed..."
"student……"
He only had the word "student" when someone started to curse, "How can a beast like you deserve to be called a scholar? How can you call yourself a 'student'!"
The man changed his mind. Although he had won the election, he now called himself Cao Min. "The Cao Min all confessed their sins and said! I just begged to spare the Cao Min's family. These are all the sins of the Cao Min alone..."
No one could sympathize with such a person. The Minister of Punishment said coldly, "Go ahead. The emperor has his own decree."
"Yes, yes. The grassroots are feeling bored sitting there..."
The left minister of the Ministry of Justice directly exposed his lie, "According to what the Juren who sat next to you said before, you left shortly after you sat down. Are you bored as soon as you sit down? Are you still not telling the truth at this time?"
The man shook his head and said, "It was a commoner who saw... saw..."
"What did you see?"
"No, I didn't see anything. I just want to go to other parts of the Imperial Garden, Cao Min..." Although he said this, his eyes were looking towards Baili Feiyue and the others.
I thought I didn't show any trace, but there was no three hundred taels of silver in this place.
People like Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Punishment have sharp eyes and are observant of every detail. But the direction this person was looking at were all important officials of the imperial court. Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Punishment was not a stick. At this moment, a certain possibility occurred to his mind.
I took the handkerchief from before.
"Can you recognize this thing?"
The man's eyes were even more evasive.
"explain!"
The man seemed to be struggling some more, but suddenly lost his temper and stopped resisting. He said in despair, "It belongs to the common people."
"This embroidered handkerchief seems to belong to a woman. Since you have a woman's embroidered handkerchief on you, you must have someone you like. If you have someone you like, why would you do something worse than a beast?"
"It's the grass people who want to eat the swan meat, they are all the grass people..." He suddenly shed two lines of tears, but this time he looked at Baili Feiyue decisively, definitely, directly, at Baili Feiyue.
"The grass-roots people know that they will not survive, but before they die, the grass-roots people want to express their feelings."
"I...I...Miss Ling San, I...envy you..."
These words, this divine turn of events caused everyone to tremble in silence, and at the same time, there was a thunderous uproar.
The man added, "Everyone else likes weak women, the beauty of Puliu. But I like...like...that day at the Medical Association Competition, when others saw you poisoning and killing people, they all backed away. I don't know what happened, but I just felt like that.
You are particularly eye-catching and attract me...I...I...so, I collected it, collected her embroidered handkerchief..." It's you again, and it's her again. I don't know who I'm talking to.
However, when it comes to a young man confessing his love to a woman, it was originally a romantic affair. At this moment, the people present just felt that it was disgusting. They even looked at Baili Feiyue with strange and disgusting eyes.
"Today, the grassroots saw General Ling and others coming, and thought that Miss Ling San would also be here. But they didn't see her... so they excused themselves to go for a walk, wondering if they could meet her, and it would be good to even catch a glimpse of her.
"
The left minister of the Ministry of Justice still gave some face to the general Ling Sheng. Although it was not a shameful thing to be admired by others, firstly, Miss Ling San was engaged, and secondly, and most importantly,
How could a boudoir's daughter's embroidered handkerchief, something so personal, be collected by a strange man?
No matter how you got this embroidered handkerchief, it will not do any good to Miss Ling San’s name!
So she interrupted him and said, "Okay, no need to mention your admiration."
However, the Minister of Justice Zuo wanted to save some face for Ling Sheng, but some people were unwilling to do so.
It was a sarcastic girl's voice, "Sir, it is related to the life and innocence of Her Highness the Princess. This embroidered handkerchief was found in the hands of Her Highness the Princess. Such an important evidence belongs to Miss Ling San of the General's Mansion. How could this be possible?
Go around?"
The speaker was none other than Yang Jiaoer, who had previously competed with Baili Feiyue for a hairpin in Yinlou.
When she suddenly spoke out, not talking about anyone else but her father, Mr. Yang was stunned.
After reacting, he trembled and said, "Nie Zhan, what are you talking nonsense! Who allowed you to interrupt in such a situation!"
Yang Jiaoer raised her chin and said, "Dad, I'm right. I gave you the handkerchief. It's possible that Miss Ling San and this man had been in love with each other for a long time. They were caught by the princess when they were hooking up, and they killed each other together."