Xie Siheng pursed his lips and explained, "Those two needles are not ordinary embroidery needles. They are made of black iron. The cause of Yongle Earl's death was due to this. We removed this thing from his head."

Ji Changying's heart tightened. She didn't expect that these two thin needles were actually involved in the murder of the Yongle Earl.

"What black iron? Is there such a thing? But this is just an ordinary embroidery needle. If you don't believe me, I'll show you."

Ji Changying's face was full of confusion, and she spread out her hands to show Xie Siheng.

I saw that she was holding two ordinary silver embroidery needles in her hands.

Xie Siheng's eyes narrowed.

At his age, his eyesight was not so blurry that he couldn't even distinguish colors. Just now, he clearly saw two black iron needles on his sleeves in the moonlight!

Ji Changying saw the doubt on his face and spread out her left hand as well: "Look, there are only these two needles, are you seeing things?"

She spread out her hands, and to prove that Xie Siheng was wrong, she even pulled open her sleeves to show him.

Xie Siheng stopped her from rolling up her sleeves.

"Maybe I saw it wrong."

Ji Changying smiled brightly: "It's normal to see things wrongly at night."

Xie Siheng didn't say anything else, turned around and walked ahead: "Let's go, I'll take you back to rest."

Seeing this, Ji Changying hurriedly followed.

The two of them were strolling on the back mountain. Xie Siheng silently fell behind by a step. He turned his head and gave a wink to Chuan Qiong behind him, but he saw that Chuan Qiong was hesitant and unwilling to move forward.

This caused Xie Siheng to glare at him fiercely, and Chuan Qiong suddenly realized that his master was angry.

Xie Siheng made a gesture to him, indicating that he should take people to search the place thoroughly. Chuan Qiong's expression froze and he nodded heavily.

Although Xie Siheng didn't know how she managed to replace the needle in her hand, he was sure that he was not mistaken.

Considering the previous situation, he was basically certain that she knew the suspicious person, or even knew the murderer.

Normally, he should have just taken the man to the Criminal Investigation Department for questioning, tortured him severely, and then pried him open, but...

As Xie Siheng followed his thoughts, he began to walk slower and slower, looking at Ji Changying's back with some hesitation in his eyes.

"Okay! Now that we're there, I can just go in by myself."

Ji Changying felt that the journey was particularly long. As soon as she saw the roof of the dormitory, she almost couldn't wait to turn around and speak to Xie Siheng.

"Go to bed early."

After Xie Siheng finished speaking, he left almost in a hurry.

Ji Changying was not in the mood to care about his strangeness. She put away the smile on her face and walked towards her room with heavy steps.

Sitting on the chair in the room, she spread her hands and looked at the two black iron needles in her hands.

This thing is made of the same material as the pair of anklets on her feet.

Although she had managed to get away with it by taking advantage of the space, she actually had many loopholes.

Running up to the back mountain to see the scenery in the middle of the night? Xie Siheng probably wouldn't believe this.

The other party probably didn't directly "invite" her to the Criminal Investigation Department for tea because they had always had a good relationship.

What she wanted to know more right now was what had happened to her master?

Why did he suddenly come to the capital and say he had something to do? He acted so mysterious and didn't want her to know, as if he was doing it for her own good.

Ji Changying didn't like this feeling.

If there is anything, why don't we sit down and discuss it together so that it can be resolved sooner?

Under the pretext of not wanting to make people worry, they actually do things that make people worry everywhere.

Closing her eyes, her supernatural powers returned to the broken peak.

As expected, she saw Xie Siheng and Chuan Qiong, who had turned back, leading people to conduct a carpet search there.

"My lord, nothing was found."

Chuan Qiong and his men have searched here several times, but haven't seen even a footprint.

Xie Siheng looked around and his eyes stopped at the broken peak: "Where is it?"

Chuan Qiong nodded. "I've checked. There's nothing to climb on the broken wall. Also, there's no water source beneath this broken peak in the back mountain. It's a deep valley dozens of meters high. If someone jumps from here, there's no chance of survival."

Xie Siheng squatted on the edge of the broken peak and looked down. It was as dark as ink and there was no bottom to be seen.

As he stood up and prepared to leave, he caught a glimpse of gold from the corner of his eye.

He turned his head and saw only a clump of weeds.

He adjusted the angle and saw the golden color again in the moonlight. He no longer hesitated.

He bent down, pushed aside the weeds, and picked up a bead.

This bead is black and gold in color. The golden pattern on it is a quadrilateral with a small eye in the middle. The pattern is clear and oval in shape. When illuminated by the moonlight, it looks as smooth as jade.

"What is this? It looks like something used by Buddhists."

Chuan Qiong came over to take a look and spoke based on his feeling.

Xie Siheng held the object in his palm, his eyes deep: "This is a sacred object of Buddhism, a Dzi bead."

Chuan Qiong's eyes widened. "How could a sacred Buddhist object be here? And in the weeds?"

"Then, I'll have to ask the master here."

Xie Siheng put away his things, glanced at the broken peak, and left with his men.

Ji Changying breathed a sigh of relief after watching him walk away. As long as she didn't notice her master, she was glad.

However, she searched the area with her spiritual power but still couldn't find where his master was.

“Running pretty fast…”

Ji Changying muttered something and gave up when he couldn't find it.

Master should be fine in the short term, but... it's better to find him as soon as possible to find out what's going on.

It was still dark the next day.

The morning court was in full swing. Many ministers of Emperor Mingde had not been seen yesterday. As soon as the morning court began, someone brought up the matter of Huangjue Temple again and demanded that Emperor Mingde must severely punish the Criminal Investigation Department for its arbitrary behavior.

At this time, Emperor Mingde received a message that the princess he had just adopted was going to Huangjue Temple with her guards to pick someone up, and they looked like they were going to break in if the princess was not released.

Emperor Mingde felt a headache after hearing this. He reprimanded Xie Siheng lightly and ordered him to release the man and hand over the body of Prince Yongle to the Ministry of Justice to assist in the investigation.

Then he left the court on the pretext of feeling unwell.

The group of censors who were ready to fight and had prepared their lines and suggestions were all silenced and could only stare at the back of Emperor Mingde.

Inside Huangjue Temple.

As soon as the sun rose, many people gathered in front of the mountain gate, clamoring to go out.

In the dormitory in the bamboo forest, Zheng Xiangyi sat in the room very calmly: "We don't need to rush. With so many people being locked up here for one night is already the limit. I'm afraid it won't take long before we can go back."

Ji Changying was not in a hurry at all. If it didn't attract too much attention, she would be fine with staying for two more days.

Wang Kunyao and Ji Minghao walked over with smiles on their faces: "The mountain gate is open, we can go back!"