"If you're not Lu Xiaocao, then who are you?"

Ye Zhen asked the arrested woman.

This person is quite skilled. If the real Lu Xiaocao had such skills, why would she need to beg for a living with her sister at the City God Temple?

The woman sneered, "I knew you officials were protecting each other. So many of you ganging up on a little girl like me, aren't you ashamed!"

Ye Zhen lifted her chin and examined her closely. There were no signs of disguise. He then opened her mouth to take a look.

He understood immediately. "I've heard that there are people in the martial arts world who are skilled at shrinking bones. With the help of pills, they can shrink their size by compressing bones, muscles, and even internal organs, making an adult temporarily look like a child."

But no matter how much an adult tries to disguise themselves as a child, their teeth can't be faked. It seems you're using bone shrinking to deceive the world.

This person's teeth don't look like those of a little girl.

Ye Zhen guessed correctly, and the woman's eyes hardened. She simply admitted, "It seems you are indeed a restless woman, even knowing about things in the martial arts world."

Even now, she still hasn't forgotten to kick Ye Zhen while she's down.

As Ye Zhen said, even with medication, her bone-shrinking technique could only be maintained for eight hours at a time.

She has already fallen into Ye Zhen's hands, and there's no point in denying it anymore.

It's even harder to escape when surrounded by so many people.

During her time at the charity hall, she would return to her original state every night to allow her body to rest, and then take medicine again to shrink her bones and return to her child form before everyone woke up.

Over the years, she has used children's bodies to do many things, but this is the first time someone has seen through her.

He harbored deep hatred for Ye Zhen.

Where is the real Lu Xiaocao?

Ye Zhen asked again, "Why did you harm Lu Xiaohua and the others?"

She guessed that today's events were orchestrated by Li Heng, and that his purpose was naturally to target her, but the real Lu Xiaocao and the others were innocent.

The woman was still smiling. "Oh, that little fool, he's dead. He died the day after the charity hall opened."

She couldn't believe you were so kind as to take in someone so pitiful, so she didn't dare bring her sister to seek refuge and wanted to see how things went before making a decision.

I happened to be curious whether you were truly doing good, so I killed her and impersonated her to come here.

As for that little flower, you don't need to pity her at all. She's even more stupid than her sister. I just said a few words to fool her, and she cooperated with me to pretend to be her sister.

"Keeping such a stupid, pig-like creature is a waste of food; I'm doing you a good deed."

The onlookers were outraged by her casual talk about human life.

"So you're the one with the worst heart. The charity is doing good deeds just fine, why did you have to sabotage it?"

"That's right. If it weren't for the princess's skill in seeing through your tricks, this charity hall would have been forced to close down, which would have caused those homeless people to become displaced again."

"cut!"

The woman scoffed, "Why are you all pretending to be good people now? You were just cursing each other quite loudly a moment ago."

"Life's so boring, we need to find some fun, right? This is a good opportunity to test the authenticity of this charity hall for you."

"So you admit that you were the one who contacted the traveling merchant and the bearded man?"

Wanxing was filled with resentment.

The woman blew a breath at her, which was very frivolous.

"Don't be so angry, little girl. It's nothing, just the death of three beggars."

Getting angry ages you faster. Look at me, I don't take anything to heart, I live life on my own terms, and even at almost forty, I still look like I'm eighteen! Isn't that great!

"Smack!"

Wanxing slapped her across the face, "You little brat, those were three lives."

It almost caused her young lady to be drowned in the spittle of the world.

The woman puffed out her cheeks, her smile vanished, and her expression turned sinister. "This face is the most precious thing to me. I was caught because I wasn't capable enough. I'm tired of living anyway. You can hit me or kill me as you please, just don't touch this face of mine again."

Wanxing was almost molested as a child, but was saved by Ye Zhen. Therefore, she deeply hates those who harm children. The more a woman forbids her from touching her face, the more she wants to touch it.

He slashed the woman's face with a dagger, and blood flowed down her face to the corner of her mouth. The woman licked the blood from her lips, showing no anger as expected, but rather a sense of triumph.

Ye Zhen realized something was wrong and tried to strangle the woman, but it was too late.

The woman said smugly, "Fool, you think you can torment me? Dream on!"

The makeup on her face was laced with deadly poison. She had deliberately said those provocative things to provoke Wanxing, and seeing her intense reaction, she took the opportunity to further enrage Wanxing, hoping she would hurt her so that Wanxing would have a chance to take the poison.

Otherwise, if she cannot confess truthfully, she will certainly be subjected to torture.

She wasn't willing to suffer for nothing.

"She's out of breath!"

Xing Ze checked her breathing.

Wanxing hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, Miss, I've caused trouble."

Before the young lady could even find out who the real culprit was behind the woman, she had already killed her.

No one could have imagined that the woman would die so quickly. Ye Zhen couldn't blame Wanxing. "It's not your fault. She was too cunning."

But the fact that he died so suddenly makes one suspicious.

Ye Zhen couldn't help but look at Li Heng.

Li Heng's expression remained calm.

Ye Zhen seemed to be deep in thought.

Bone-shrinking kung fu is difficult to master. My master said that very few people can truly master it. Such a person is considered a talent. Li Heng lost such a person, yet he showed no regret whatsoever.

Is it because he has been navigating the court for many years and has reached a level of masterful emotional control, or is there another reason?

Ye Zhen might not be so sure on a normal day, but today, Prime Minister Li was furious and the child case had failed, so he couldn't possibly be so calm.

Could there be something fishy about this woman's death?

Ye Zhen looked at the corpse on the ground and saw that Xie Tingzhou had stopped beside the body, dipped a handkerchief in the woman's blood and smelled it.

He said calmly, "It's a fake death drug; this woman isn't truly dead."

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