Qi Yuning and Lu Ze didn't bother to look for the murderer of Madam Qin, and went out of the room to look for Lingling.
The two of them walked in the direction of the back mountain as the secret guard had mentioned. There was only an Anle Hall at the back mountain, which was a place where the tablets of the deceased pilgrims were enshrined.
As soon as he entered Anle Hall, Qi Yuning saw rows of candles burning in front of rows of tablets.
Under the candlelight, there was a maid dressed in servant's clothes, who looked to be about thirty or forty years old. She hugged Lingling and comforted her, "Baby, dear, mother has avenged you."
Lingling pouted and said, "You are not my mother! My mother is prettier than you!"
"I am your mother."
The female secret guard at the side saw Qi Yuning coming and saluted repeatedly: "Princess, I saw that woman looked crazy, but she had no intention of hurting Xiao Zhuzi, so I didn't dare to act rashly to take the young master back."
Qi Yuning nodded slightly, and seeing the maid holding Lingling's form and acting crazy, she walked up to her and asked, "Are you Xia Xi?"
When Xia Xi saw Qi Yuning coming over, she hugged Lingling tightly and said, "Don't even think about taking my child away from me! Never!"
When Lingling saw Qi Yuning, Lu Ze shouted, "Mom, dear, Dad!"
Lu Ze stepped forward and snatched Lingling from Xia Xi's hands. Although Xia Xi was crazy, she was still a weak woman and was naturally no match for Lu Ze and the secret guards.
Lu Ze carried Lingling back and said, "Are you okay?"
Lingling hugged Lu Ze tightly and said, "I'm scared!"
Qi Yuning took Lingling from Lu Ze's arms and said, "Don't be afraid, mother is here."
Qi Yuning looked at Xia Xi in front of him and asked, "Why did you kill your master and steal my daughter?"
"I didn't kill my master!" Xia Xi said, "What evidence do you have to prove that I did? I left the house with Chunxi yesterday. I was here all night. How can you say that I killed my wife?"
Lu Ze said, "You've already exposed yourself with this. Don't you want to kill someone? I'll tell you!"
Lu Ze ordered the palace guards to tie up Xia Xi and take her to the side room, where there was already crying.
Qin Han was very sad when he saw Xia Xi, who was brought by Lu Ze, and asked, "Do you really want to slander Xia Xi? She is so loyal to her master, how could she kill someone?"
Chunxi, who was standing by, also said, "Yes, Xia Xi and I went out together last night. When I came back this morning, Xia Xi hadn't come back yet. How could Xia Xi have killed someone? The doors and windows were locked. Could Xia Xi have walked through the wall?"
Lu Ze said: "She won't."
Chunxi said, "Since she can't walk through walls, it's impossible that she was killed by Xiaxi. Could it be a ghost? This is a temple, how can there be ghosts?"
Qin Han still pointed at Qi Yuning and said, "It's not a ghost! It could only be Qi Yuning who killed someone. She killed someone and locked the door."
Qi Yuning was speechless. She said helplessly, "If I locked the door from the inside, how would I get out?"
Zhao Chong looked at Lu Ze and said, "This is indeed strange."
Lu Ze said, "It's not surprising. Chunxi just said that her wife is afraid of the cold and needs a hot water bottle, but there's no hot water bottle here, but there are a lot of water stains... And if someone kills someone, there must be a murder weapon, but there's no murder weapon here."
Prefect Zheng asked, "There was no murder weapon in the secret room. Could it be that the Madam committed suicide?"
Qi Yuning said: "Qin Yuli is still in prison. It is impossible for her, as a mother, to commit suicide."
Lu Ze nodded lightly and said, "The princess is right. In fact, the murder weapon is right in front of us!"
Zhao Chong frowned and said, "Didn't you say there was no murder weapon? Why is it here again?"
Qi Yuning carried Lingling outside and saw icicles hanging from the tiles at the door. He asked Lingling to pick one of them.
Qi Yuning put Lingling down, took the cone-like ice spike in his hand, walked to Yu's corpse, and placed the ice spike on the eldest lady's wound.
Lu Ze nodded and said, "The bedding is wet because the murder weapon, the ice cone, has turned into water."
Zhao Chong saw the ice spike and said, "Although this ice spike is a murder weapon, my cousin can't kill herself with it."
Lu Ze said, "Well, the murderer is very clever. Chunxi said that her aunt asked Xia Xi to put a hot water bottle here yesterday, but there is no hot water bottle here. The blood color is very pale and the bed is wet. It is because Xia Xi did not put the hot water bottle in the bed, but a piece of ice...
The ice cube and the ice pick were hidden in the quilt. When my great cousin's mother covered herself with the quilt, she used the ice cube as a hot water bottle and moved it up to her heart. The heavy ice cube pressed on the ice pick, and the pick was strong enough to penetrate her heart!
Lu Ze asked Deqing to catch a wild rabbit and took out a large piece of ice to demonstrate.
Lu Ze placed the ice cube between two quilts, pierced the bottom quilt with an ice pick, and melted it with the ice cube.
After tying the hare to the bed, the hare was covered with a quilt. The heavy ice blocks pressed down on the ice spikes, piercing the quilt and then piercing the hare's flesh.
Qin Han was filled with disbelief when he saw this. He shook his head and said, "Impossible!"
Zhao Chong said: "Ze'er, it is indeed impossible. My cousin's wife would not see a heavy object under the quilt and put it on her chest."
Lu Ze asked Lichun to fetch the hot water bottle and said, "A freshly filled hot water bottle is a little hot. In winter, most people put the hot water bottle between two layers of quilts. This cousin's mother-in-law has the habit of putting the hot water bottle on her chest, so she thought the ice cube was the hot water bottle... and put the ice cube on her chest.
Little did she know that underneath the ice was an ice spike that could kill someone, and that it must have been specially sharpened...
I think Xia Xi didn't just use this plot to kill people. She had originally planned to poison her aunt with charcoal fire. I thought the number of charcoal braziers here was to melt the ice faster, but with so many charcoal braziers and no windows for ventilation, it's enough to kill a person."
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