Chapter 229 Is this the talent you are talking about?
Chapter 229: Is this the talent you are talking about?
Immediately afterwards, the Crown Princess dismissed the remaining maids, and only the Crown Princess, Hang Baiqiu and Chai Yan were left in the palace.
Hang Baiqiu then turned to Chai Yan and said, "Chai Yan, do you know Yuping Mountain?"
Chai Yan shook his head. He had not been in the capital for long, and he still didn't know where Yuping Mountain was.
Hang Baiqiu explained: "Yuping Mountain is one day's journey from the capital. There is a nunnery on the mountain called Yangxin nunnery!"
"Yangxin Nunnery..." Chai Yan repeated in a low voice. At the same time, he guessed that something happened in this nunnery, so he asked: "What happened there?"
Hang Baiqiu looked back at the Crown Princess, then turned back and continued to say to Chai Yan: "Three nights ago, a rape and murder occurred in Yangxin Temple!"
"Rape and murder case?" Chai Yan frowned upon hearing this, and thought to himself: I knew it wasn't an ordinary thing!
"Who is the victim?" Chai Yan thought to himself, it couldn't be that the nun in the nunnery was raped and killed...
Hang Baiqiu's expression was already very serious when she said the word "rape and murder". She replied with a stern face: "He is a nun from Yangxin Temple, his Buddhist name is Hui Nian..."
Chai Yan secretly remembered the name "Hui Nian", then looked at the Crown Princess and asked: "Crown Princess, is this case involving important people?"
The Crown Princess calmly looked at Chai Yan and nodded: "Yes!"
"Who is he? Crown Princess, can you tell me?"
The Crown Princess said: "Mr. Chai, why don't you first listen to Bai Qiujiang's brief explanation of the case? If you are sure to find out the murderer, I will tell you later!"
Chai Yan nodded slowly and returned his gaze to Hang Baiqiu.
Hang Baiqiu said seriously: "The day before yesterday, the master of Yangxin Temple did not see any trace of Hui Nian in the morning class, so he ordered everyone to look around. Later, Hui Nian was found in the attic of the side hall. At that time, Hui Nian had hanged himself and died!
However, after inspection, it was finally determined that Hui Nian did not hang himself, but was raped, strangled with a rope, and then hung from a beam. Someone deliberately made it look like he had hanged himself!"
"Are you sure it was homicide or not suicide?" Chai Yan asked.
Hang Baiqiu nodded and affirmed: "It is definitely a homicide! Because there were strangulation marks on the back of Hui Nian's neck at that time, which means that Hui Nian did not hang himself, but was strangled to death with a rope. It was a deliberate murder!"
Chai Yan immediately nodded in agreement. He also understood this truth. If he was hanged, the force would be perpendicular to the ground, and the marks on the neck of the deceased would appear diagonally upward, and because the ropes behind the neck would not intersect, it would be
There will be no strangulation marks; and if someone is strangled to death, the rope must be wrapped around the deceased's neck one or more times, then there will definitely be strangulation marks on the back of the neck!
"It seems that someone very important to the Crown Princess was framed as the murderer of Hui Nian." Chai Yan expressed his guess.
Hang Baiqiu nodded slowly: "Yes!"
Wait, someone very important to the Crown Princess...
Chai Yan had a sudden thought and couldn't help but murmured to himself: "Could it be the prince..."
"........nonsense!"
Suddenly, a man's angry voice came from the door of the palace.
When the Crown Princess saw the person coming, she hurriedly stood up and came out to greet him. She said politely: "Your Highness!"
Hang Baiqiu also stood up to greet him: "Your Highness the Crown Prince!"
"I have met His Highness the Crown Prince..." Chai Yan hurriedly greeted him, but his heart felt cold. He secretly thought that this was terrible, and His Highness the Crown Prince actually listened to his unguarded words.
The prince's name is Liu Lang. He is twenty-eight this year and has been the crown prince of Dasheng for six years.
Liu Lang walked into the side hall with vigorous steps, followed by a person, it was Eunuch Xu who had left before.
Liu Lang had been listening outside the hall for a while, and when he came in, he stopped in front of Hang Baiqiu. After taking a look at Chai Yan, he said unhappily: "Sir Hang, is this the talent you are talking about?"
Hang Baiqiu immediately shouted: "Chai Yan, why don't you apologize to His Highness the Crown Prince!"
Chai Yan looked calm and said to the prince: "Your Highness, you misunderstood. I haven't finished what I just said..."
"Not finished yet?" Liu Lang frowned even more tightly.
Chai Yan said loudly: "His Royal Highness, what I just wanted to say was... Could it be that he was a close relative and friend of the Crown Prince... His concubine? I didn't mean you, His Royal Highness!"
"You still dare to quibble?" Liu Lang didn't believe Chai Yan's explanation.
Chai Yan immediately said: "Your Highness, I have no excuses. I already knew that you were in the mansion when you came in. How could you be the person involved in the case at Yangxin'an?"
Liu Lang then asked: "Do you know that Gu is in the mansion? Secretary Hang, did you tell her that?"
Chai Yan thought that Hang Baiqiu would answer "yes", and in this case, the matter might get over.
But I didn't expect that Hang Baiqiu would be so stubborn that he said truthfully: "Go back to Your Highness, I never said that!"
Poof! Chai Yan is already bleeding from his heart...
Hang Baiqiu, Hang Baiqiu, you are trying to trick me to death!
Liu Lang turned around and stared at Chai Yan, anger already igniting in his eyes.
Chai Yan knew that the prince was going to get angry, so he hurriedly said: "Your Highness, even if Secretary Hang didn't say anything, I already know that you are in the mansion!"
"Oh?" Liu Lang wanted to hear what he had to say.
Chai Yan said with good reason: "Your Highness, when you came in just now, Eunuch Xu had ordered someone to conduct a strict body search on me. I was not even allowed to bring in an empty gourd. Later, I finally entered the mansion with great difficulty, and I saw everywhere."
They are all patrolling Imperial Guards. With such strict security, if His Highness the Crown Prince is not in the palace, where could he be?"
Liu Lang immediately asked: "If the princess goes out to worship the Buddha alone, and the princess stays in the house, doesn't she need protection?"
Chai Yan immediately replied: "His Royal Highness, with your extremely noble status, why would you choose Yangxin Temple in Yuping Mountain when you want to worship Buddha? Only temples with the specifications of Tianlong Temple are suitable for your status...
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Liu Lang thought for a moment that it was indeed true, and then his expression softened a little.
Chai Yan added: "That's why I dare to make a bold guess that the person who was wrongly accused at Yangxin Temple in Yuping Mountain should be a close relative or close friend of the Crown Princess..."
Chai Yan looked at the Crown Princess and asked: "Princess, is your guess correct?"
The Crown Princess nodded: "The one who was wronged...is none other than the eldest brother of my own mother!"
Chai Yan secretly thought: Isn’t the eldest brother of the Crown Princess the future uncle of the country?
Having explained the identity of the person who had been wrongly accused, the Crown Princess asked seriously: "Chai Yan, are you sure that you can clear my brother's name and find the real culprit?"