The others still didn't dare to, and Su Luo couldn't easily carry the body out by herself. She was afraid that if she did it alone, she would damage the original traces left on the body.
"Alright! Here is a thousand taels of silver. Whoever carries out Princess Qianning's body will keep the silver. I need two people."
The guards looked at each other. They were only ordered by their superiors to protect the princess. These matters were not within their purview, and even if they didn't do them, their superiors wouldn't say anything.
But as the saying goes, "Man dies for wealth, birds die for food," and two burly men walked up to Su Luo, took the silver notes from her hand, put on gloves, and finally carried out the body.
"Coroner Liu, it's your turn now."
Ye Shaorong sat on the chair next to the corpse. She watched Liu the coroner's examination of Ye Qianning intently, afraid that something might go wrong.
An hour later, the coroner, Liu, finally finished his examination. Before he could even take off his gloves, he reported to Ye Shaorong.
"Your Highness, Princess Qianning was appointed as a princess and sent to marry a foreign ruler. There is a great injustice involved."
This was what Ye Shaorong was worried about. She personally came to dig up her daughter's grave, praying for her daughter in her heart.
When Liu, the coroner, exclaimed the words "injustice," the Buddhist prayer beads in her hand broke, scattering bodhi seeds all over the ground.
"Have you discovered something?"
Su Luo and the others' previous statements were just speculations, but the truth was revealed after the coroner examined the body.
Coroner Liu dared not conceal anything. This autopsy was conducted using all his experience, and he dared not hide anything at all.
"Princess Qian Ning, she committed suicide."
"What did you say? How could my Qian Ning commit suicide? She's such a strong-willed person, she would never do that. You must have made a mistake."
With red eyes, Ye Shaorong grabbed Liu the coroner's collar. No one knew her daughter better than she did.
Although Qian Ning likes Ye Beihan, she would never die for him; there must be a conspiracy.
"I wouldn't dare to deceive the Princess; everything I said is true."
Su Luo can perform autopsies, but having Liu the coroner would earn Ye Shaorong's greater trust.
"Princess, please release Coroner Liu and hear what he has to say."
Coroner Liu quickly echoed Su Luo's words.
"Your Highness, I dare not speak nonsense. Please take a look."
Liu, the coroner, explained the results of his examination and the underlying theories one by one.
"There is a scratch on Princess Qianning's ribs. My preliminary assessment is that it was caused by a dagger piercing her chest."
However, the wound did not damage the heart, and with proper treatment, it is not fatal.
What truly caused Princess Qianning's death were the toxins remaining in her body and the wound shown below.
However, the two wounds were entered in different ways.
The first possibility is that someone stabbed Princess Qianning with a dagger.
The other type of wound would only result from self-inflicted injury.
Ye Shaorong couldn't understand what kind of suffering Qian Ning had endured in Nanning.
Even if she was injured and in great pain, she would never commit suicide.
"Coroner Liu, most coroners can draw the approximate shape of the murder weapon based on the scratches. Can you draw it?"
Becoming a good coroner is not easy. They deal with corpses frequently and know almost everything about what kind of wounds can be caused by what kind of weapons.
Upon hearing Su Luo's words, the coroner, Liu, quickly took off his gloves.
"Yes, I'll draw a rough sketch of the weapon right away."
Ye Shaorong's mind was in turmoil. She already felt that there were many mysteries surrounding her daughter's death, but now she was even more at a loss.
Soon, Liu the coroner drew the appearance of the daggers; he drew two daggers.
The two weapons were different in shape and size, but when Su Luo looked at the one that had killed Ye Qianning, she couldn't help but marvel at how well Liu Wu had drawn it, just like the one she had seen in the dossier in Nanning.
"That's right, the Nanning case file records that Princess Qianning died from this dagger."
At the time, everyone thought that Princess Qian Ning was killed by Nangong Jingyao.
Before she could even have an autopsy performed, Ye Beihan took her back to Beiliang.
After thorough examination, the final conclusion was that Ye Qianning committed suicide.
But Ye Shaorong absolutely refused to believe this conclusion and picked up the two daggers that Liu Wu had drawn to look at them.
His hands trembled, his eyes were bloodshot, and his whole body exuded a sinister murderous aura.
"It's him...it's him...I, the princess, will kill him."
Hearing Ye Shaorong's words, she seemed to know who had hurt Ye Qianning.
"Has the Princess discovered something?" Su Luo asked.
Ye Shaorong stood beside Ye Qianning's corpse, clutching her chest in heartache.
"It was Ye Beihan, it was Ye Beihan who hurt Qian Ning. This dagger is unique in the world, only Ye Beihan has it. But Qian Ning wouldn't commit suicide, someone must have controlled her!"
Ye Shaorong cried her heart out, her expression and actions bordering on madness.
"By the way, venomous snakes...could those venomous snakes be a type of snake that can manipulate corpses...?"
Before Ye Shaorong could finish speaking, something unexpected happened behind them.
It was the coroner whose body had been slithered into by the black snake who moved; he seemed to come back to life.
However, he did not stand up. Instead, he moved his body, belly down, and crawled like a snake.
"That coroner, didn't he just die?"
Su Luo was initially puzzled, as she had considered that Ye Qianning could not possibly have committed suicide.
Now that I see what this coroner looks like, I probably understand the principle behind it.
“Princess, it’s the black snake from before. The black snake is inside his body and has taken control of his corpse.”
Both of them were sensible people, and they instantly understood everything.
It seems that things are indeed as Su Luo said; she was being controlled by someone.
In Beiliang, there is only one person who can control poisonous insects, and that person is Shuang Shuo.
"Oh no! Protect the Princess!"
The coroner, who was being controlled, saw someone and pounced on them.
The toxins were activated in his body, causing him to bleed from all seven orifices, just like when Ye Qianning died.
He's like a creature without a master now, attacking anything that comes his way.
Several guards subdued him, and Su Luo used her longsword to cut off his head, finally freeing the black snake that had been inside his body.
Seeing an opportunity, he used a dagger to cut at their vital spot, and only then were the two black snakes truly killed.
The night sky seemed to suddenly fall silent, leaving only Ye Shaorong's deep sobs and sighs.
"Your Highness, the truth has clearly come to light. Please accept my condolences."
Ye Qianning's corpse was corroded by the black snake's venom, and her clothes and hair all turned into a clump of black slime.
Seeing her daughter like this, Ye Shaorong felt heartbroken and asked the coroner to change her into a new set of clothes that she had brought.
The body was cleaned up before being placed in a new coffin and reburied.
By the time everything was finished, it was already late at night, and there was still no movement from the Regent's Palace. Su Luo guessed that Ye Beihan probably hadn't returned yet.
If he returns and finds her not at home, he will definitely make a big fuss and send people to look for her.
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