Chapter 317 The murderer is the prince!
"Miss Xuan?"
Xie Yao stopped and called for help first.
Xuan Yue obviously didn't expect to meet Xie Yao here. He paused, lowered his eyes and saluted, "Xuan Yue greets the Crown Princess."
"Miss Xuan, what's this?" Xie Yao asked.
"In reply to the Crown Princess, Xuan Yue is here to deliver something to the Fifth Prince on the orders of the Eldest Princess." Xuan Yue answered respectfully.
Xie Yao glanced at Xuan Yue's empty hands and did not choose to expose her. Instead, she said, "In that case, go ahead."
Xuan Yue felt relieved and let out an almost undetectable sigh, "Yes, Crown Princess."
Under the gaze of Xie Yao, Xuan Yue stepped into the Yanx Palace.
After the two of them crossed paths, Xie Yao stopped and looked back——
"Crown Princess, Miss Xuan..." Zhu Qing obviously felt that something was wrong with Xuan Yue today, but just as she opened her mouth, she was interrupted by Xie Yao, "Let's go."
"Go ask about the interrogation."
Yanxi Palace.
When Concubine Shu learned that Xuan Yue had arrived, she was confused but more happy.
After all, Xuan Yue is her and Xiao Wu's benefactor.
"Why is Miss Xuan here?" Concubine Shu immediately smiled and welcomed her in, "Please take a seat."
"Thank you, Empress Shufei." Xuan Yue thanked her first, then sat down. Meeting Empress Shufei's smiling eyes, Xuan Yue looked around.
Concubine Shu immediately understood what she meant and sent the palace maids away.
Xuan Yue then took out a token from his sleeve and presented it to Concubine Shu with both hands.
Concubine Shu's expression changed slightly, "What is this?"
"This is the token I took from the Fifth Prince's wrist when I rescued him. It looks like the one that the Fifth Prince grabbed when that man attacked him." Xuan Yue said in a low voice.
Concubine Shu's face changed drastically. She took the token and looked at it carefully, then clenched the token in her hand and asked, "Why didn't you say it just now?"
The prince had just asked about this matter in person.
Xuan Yue paused for a moment and said, "To reply to Madam Shufei, I have seen this token before."
Concubine Shu's eyes narrowed slightly, and she stared at Xuan Yue with a burning gaze, and said in a cold voice, "Who?!"
The person who could make Xuan Yue so secretive must be someone with a very high profile.
But as a mother, no matter who wants to harm her child...
She will never let go!
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Hall of Mental Cultivation.
When Xie Yao arrived at the Yangxin Palace, Si Nan had already arrived, but both Si Nan and Xiao Ji had very ugly expressions on their faces.
"Your Highness." Xie Yao's heart tightened, and she immediately stepped forward, "But what are the results of the investigation?"
Otherwise Sinan wouldn't be here.
But the expressions of the two people are afraid of this result...
When Xiao Ji saw Xie Yao coming, his frown relaxed a little and he nodded to Si Nan.
Si Nan said: "In reply to the Crown Princess, those palace servants cooperated with the investigation very well, but..."
"These people said that the reason they attacked His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince was because they were instructed by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Xie Yao: “…Nonsense!”
What did she hear?
This... is slander to one's face.
Xiao Ji felt a little relieved, fortunately the Crown Princess still believed in him.
Si Nan immediately nodded in agreement, "What the Crown Princess said is right, these people are slandering! Moreover, they spread rumors and slandered Your Highness in front of the subordinates."
Si Nan got angry just thinking about it.
"But those people swore so confidently that even a token from my subordinate was lost. As for Concubine Shu..."
Si Nan was a little hesitant. They could explain this matter, but would Concubine Shu believe it?
He did use torture, but those people refused to confess and insisted that it was His Highness's order.
Si Nan didn't retreat.
You can't really kill him, right? Then the stigma on His Highness will be impossible to clear.
These people can be re-examined and re-investigated, but now that they have spoken, the news certainly cannot be concealed.
At this moment, the voice of Li Dajian came from outside, "Your Highness the Crown Prince, Crown Princess, and Empress Shufei are here."
Xie Yao and Xiao Ji looked at each other with serious expressions. Concubine Shu came at this time...
"please."
Xiao Ji did not hesitate at all. No matter what Concubine Shu had heard or not, he could not avoid her at this time.
The best thing to do is to meet and explain.
Concubine Shu walked in gracefully, dismissed the servants, looked at Xiao Ji and Xie Yao and said, "I'm here for Xiao Wu's matter."
"Aunt, this matter..." Xie Yao had just opened her mouth when Concubine Shu raised her hand to stop her.
Concubine Shu took out a token from her sleeve and threw it on the desk.
"Someone brought this to me, saying it was something that fell into the water with Xiao Wu." Concubine Shu's eyes fell on Xiao Ji, "Does the Crown Prince have anything to say?"
Xiao Ji did not avoid Concubine Shu's gaze.
He picked up the token and looked at it, then said, "Aunt, this token should belong to Si Nan. But after what happened today, Si Nan discovered that the token was lost."
"Sinan interrogated the palace servants around Xiaowu, and some of them have confessed that they were the mastermind behind this incident, but... please understand, aunt, this was definitely not done by me."
Xiao Ji still remembered very clearly Shufei's attitude towards him.
But in his memory, he and Shufei seemed to have become much closer all of a sudden, and he thought that the part he didn't understand must be that it involved the Crown Princess.
Xiao Ji spoke frankly.
Concubine Shu looked at Xiao Ji deeply and said, "Of course I believe you."
"This token, the confessions of those people... they all appeared too deliberately." Concubine Shu answered calmly, "It seems that the person behind the scenes thinks that I have no brains at all and will be led by these obvious clues..."
When mentioning the person behind the scenes, Concubine Shu was very angry.
This is simply looking down on her!
Xie Yao immediately picked up the teacup that she had not yet drunk and placed it in front of Concubine Shu with both hands, "Aunt, please calm down. Getting angry is harmful to your health."
Concubine Shu took the teacup and took a sip before continuing to ask, "Do you have any good ideas about this matter?"
We must not be led by the people behind the scenes.
Before Xie Yao and Xiao Ji could say anything, Concubine Shu said, "Why not, use their own trick against them?"
"I want to see who is plotting against me behind my back!" After all, a large part of the trust between them is due to their close relationship with the late queen.
Shufei is Xiao Ji's aunt.
But outsiders don't know about this, otherwise they probably wouldn't have formulated such a crude strategy.
Xie Yao and Xiao Ji looked at each other and nodded to Concubine Shu, "Just as my aunt said..."
Bang!
Before Xie Yao could finish her words, she was interrupted by a crisp sound of shattering.
However, Concubine Shu threw the teacup in her hand to the ground. Her originally gentle expression suddenly changed her voice, "You say it's not true, then it's not true? There are witnesses and evidence! You must give me an explanation for this matter!"
I got into the role so quickly!
Xie Yao was stunned for a moment, but then she heard Xiao Ji's voice, "Shu Fei, the innocent person will be clear about this matter."
"Someone is trying to sow discord between me and Xiao Wu. I will investigate this matter thoroughly and give an explanation to Concubine Shu and Xiao Wu."
"Humph!" Concubine Shu snorted coldly, "It's better this way!"
Immediately afterwards, there was another commotion in the Yangxin Palace, and the eunuchs serving outside the Palace could hear it clearly.
The Concubine Shu seems to be very dissatisfied with the Crown Prince.
This news was not kept secret, nor could it be kept secret, and it quickly spread secretly in the palace.
After causing an unpleasant incident in the Yangxin Palace, Concubine Shu left angrily.
Xiao Ji ordered his servants to go into the hall and clean up the mess on the floor. The young eunuch immediately entered the hall and cleaned it up honestly.
Xie Yao comforted Xiao Ji, "Your Highness, please calm down."
Xiao Ji's face was cold, "She is really going too far!"
Xie Yao immediately agreed, "Your Highness is right. Although Concubine Shu has encountered such a thing, she is indeed too much to speak to Your Highness in this way."
“…”
Xie Yao and Xiao Ji did not hide their dissatisfaction with Concubine Shu at all and said many bad things about her.
After returning to the Yanxi Palace, Concubine Shu did not hold back and said loudly, "They must give me an explanation for this matter!"
Even the Princess Chang heard about the incident. After Xie Yao and Xiao Ji parted ways, she specially asked someone to invite Xie Yao to Fengming Palace.
"Aunt." Xie Yao called out, and the princess waved at her and asked her to sit down. "I heard about what happened in the Yangxin Palace today."
The eldest princess was never one to beat around the bush, so she asked Xie Yao directly.
Xie Yao's expression didn't change much when she heard that, but there was obviously more annoyance in her eyes.
Xie Yao hesitated for a moment before saying, "Aunt, since you asked, I won't hide it from you."
"Xiaowu was harmed today. It is true that Xiaowu and Shufei were wronged. No one wants this to happen."
"As a mother, I can understand that Concubine Shu is angry, but even if she is angry, she can't just believe everything she hears. I don't know who instructed those servants to say that it was Your Highness who did it."
When Xie Yao said this, she was really a little angry.
The person behind the scenes... deserves to die.
"Of course this is impossible. As you know, His Highness has been so busy lately that he has no time to spend with me and the child. Besides, why would His Highness attack Xiao Wu?"
"But Concubine Shu listened to someone's slander and insisted that Your Highness knew the situation and wanted Your Highness to give an explanation, otherwise Your Highness would not be able to have an easy life..."
Xie Yao said, looking at the eldest princess with pitiful eyes, "Aunt, you believe in His Highness, right?"
The princess thought of Xiao Ji's character and nodded, "Of course I believe in the prince."
Just as Xie Yao said, Xiao Ji had no reason to attack the fifth prince.
The fifth prince is still young and poses no threat to the crown prince.
Moreover, under the prince's interrogation, these people said that the prince was the one who ordered the incident... their method was a bit too crude.
But the princess also understood that even if Concubine Shu could think of these things, she probably wouldn't be able to be very rational.
It was the Fifth Prince who got into trouble.
"Aunt, you are the best." Xie Yao was immediately moved when she saw the eldest princess's statement and said, "It's a pity that not everyone is as discerning as you."
The eldest princess paused slightly, her eyes fell on Xie Yao with a bit of inquiry.
There's something wrong with Xie Yao today.
Xie Yao is not the kind of person who would say such things.
"Aunt." Xie Yao blinked and continued the previous topic, "Can you talk to Concubine Shu? This matter must have nothing to do with His Highness."
The princess nodded and said, "I will mention this matter to her."
"Aunt is so nice." Xie Yao spoke again in a coquettish tone.
At this moment, hurried footsteps were heard outside. Zhu Qing walked in quickly, knelt down and saluted the eldest princess, then walked to Xie Yao's ear and whispered a few words.
"What?!" Xie Yao's expression changed slightly and she was speechless in shock.
The eldest princess also looked over, but did not speak rashly. Instead, Xie Yao took the initiative to say, "Aunt, I just received news."
"All the palace servants who served Xiaowu... committed suicide."
"All?" The eldest princess keenly grasped the most crucial word, and her expression changed instantly.
Xie Yao nodded, "There are not many palace servants serving Xiao Wu, and five of them have identified His Highness, and they all committed suicide."
The eldest princess's face was grim, and she sneered, "What a calculation!"
This is going to confirm the prince's guilt!
These people had just identified the prince, and something bad happened to them at his hands. Who wouldn't say they were guilty or silence them after knowing this?
Even if the prince cannot be convicted, what about Concubine Shu?
If Concubine Shu learns of this news, I'm afraid she'll explode again!
Someone wants to cause discord within the royal family, and to set the Crown Prince against Concubine Shu and Xiaowu.
The eldest princess said, "I want to go and see it myself."
Because these people were suspected in the palace, they were locked up in the palace, and the incident also happened in the palace.
When Xie Yao helped the princess arrive, Xiao Ji was already there.
"Aunt, Crown Princess." Xiao Ji's face darkened.
The princess nodded and asked, "What's going on?"
Si Nan immediately replied, "In reply to the Princess, these people have been detained separately since they were captured, and no one except my subordinates has ever approached them."
"But just one stick of incense ago, these people died almost at the same time."
What a coincidence.
They were imprisoned separately, but died suddenly almost at the same time...
Xie Yao asked: "Has the autopsy been performed?"
"I have already asked someone to find a coroner. I think he will be here soon." Sinan answered again.
The arrangement was quite appropriate. The eldest princess nodded and said, "This matter must be investigated quickly. As for Concubine Shu... I will go and tell her."
Xie Yao and Xiao Ji looked at each other with a look of relief, and said at the same time: "Thank you, aunt."
The princess shook her head and asked again, "Have you sent someone to inform Concubine Shu about these people?"
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