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 the 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 candle, there was a maid dressed in servant clothes, who looked to be about thirty or forty years old. She hugged Lingling and comforted her, "Good baby, 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 over and saluted repeatedly: "Princess, I saw that the woman looked crazy, but she had no intention of hurting the young master, so I didn't dare to act rashly to take the young master back."
Qi Yuning nodded slightly, and seeing the maid holding Ling Ling's form and going crazy in front of her, she walked up to her and asked, "Are you Xia Xi?"
When Xia Xi saw Qi Yuning coming over, he hugged Lingling tightly and said, "Don't even think about taking my child away from me, don't even think about it!"
When Lingling saw Qi Yuning, Lu Ze shouted, "Mom, Dad!"
Lu Ze stepped forward and snatched Lingling from Xia Xi. Although Xia Xi was crazy, she was a weak woman after all, so she was naturally no match for Lu Ze and the secret guards.
Lu Ze hugged Lingling back and said, "Are you okay?"
Lingling hugged Lu Ze tightly and said, "Scared!"
Qi Yuning took Lingling from Lu Ze 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 killed someone? I left the house with Chun Xi yesterday, and I was here the whole night. How can you say that I killed my wife?"
Lu Ze said: "You have exposed yourself by saying this. Didn't you ask how to kill someone? I will tell you right now."
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 to see Xia Xi brought by Lu Ze and said, "Do you really want to slander Xia Xi? How could she kill someone when she is so loyal to her master?"
Chunxi on the side also said: "Yes, Xia Xi and I went out together last night. When I came back this morning, Xia Xi was not back. How could it be that Xia Xi 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 someone Qi Yuning killed. 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 strange. Chunxi just said that her wife is afraid of the cold and needs a hot water bottle, but there is no hot water bottle here, but there are many water marks... And if someone kills someone, there must be a murder weapon, but there is no murder weapon here."
Zheng Fuyin said: "There was no murder weapon in the secret room. Could it be that the eldest lady 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 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? How come it's in front of me again?"
Qi Yuning carried Lingling outside and saw the icicles hanging from the tiles at the door. He asked Lingling to pick one.
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 here 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 smart. Chunxi said that yesterday her aunt asked Xia Xi to put a hot water bottle, but there was no hot water bottle here. The blood color was very light and the bed was wet. It was because Xia Xi did not put the hot water bottle in the quilt, but put a piece of ice in the quilt.
The ice cube and the ice cone were hidden in the quilt. When my great cousin's mother covered herself with the quilt, she moved the ice cube up to her heart like a hot water bottle. The heavy ice cube pressed on the ice cone, and the ice cone was strong enough to penetrate into 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 and pierced the bottom quilt with an ice pick so that it melted into 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 couldn't believe it and shook his head, saying, "Impossible!"
Zhao Chong said: "Ze'er, it is indeed impossible. My cousin's wife would not see a heavy object in 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 was powerful enough to kill someone, and that her ice spike must have been specially sharpened...
I think Xia Xi didn't just use this trick to kill people. She originally wanted to use charcoal fire to poison her aunt to death. I thought the number of charcoal fire basins here was to make the ice melt faster, but with so many charcoal fire basins and no windows for ventilation, it was enough to kill a person."
Lu Ze looked at Xia Xi and asked, "You, do you have anything else to say?"
Xia Xi laughed wildly, "I didn't expect that you, Master Lu, would be able to discover my plan. No wonder Yu Li likes you so much!"
Lu Ze frowned upon hearing this, "Why did you kill your master? A servant killing his master is a crime punishable by lingchi!"
Xia Xi broke free from the restraints and pointed at the lying Yu and said, "She deserves to die! She deserves to die! I was only seeking revenge for my son!"
Xia Xi cried and complained: "When I accompanied her to marry into the Qin family, I was just fifteen years old, and was forced by the old man to follow him. Not long after, I became pregnant."
Xia Xi recalled the past painfully and said, "If Yu Jiani didn't want me to give birth to a bastard son, she could have told me earlier. I also know the rules, and I also want to have an abortion.
But she appeared to be generous and let me give birth to the child, but in fact she snatched my son away the day after I gave birth!
I watched helplessly as my son was killed by her and fed to wild dogs. My son was only three days old at that time, only three days after he was born..."
Xia Xi said: "My son, I saw with my own eyes those wild dogs bite my baby to pieces when he was just a few days old!"
"Isn't this what Yu deserves? I've been waiting for twenty-three years! After twenty-three whole years, I finally got my revenge, hahahaha!"
"I finally got my revenge! Hahaha!"
Zhao Chong frowned as he saw the crazy maid in front of him and said, "What a crazy woman."
Qi Yuning listened to Xia Xi's words and felt that something was wrong.
Why did Yu let her maid give birth to a child and then feed it to dogs? Did she not want her eldest son to have an abortion drug? Why did she have to do such a thing that would damage her moral character?
If Yu really did this, he deserved it and deserved to be put to death.
There was a hint of discomfort in the eyes of Qin's uncle-in-law and Qin Han. Qin Han, who had just said that he must avenge the Yu family, fell silent when he saw the real murderer.
Zhao Chong frowned and said, "This crazy woman committed treason. As a slave, she dared to kill her master. She should be executed on the spot. Whatever happened in the temple today must not be known to outsiders."
It is ultimately dishonorable for a slave to kill his master.
Fighting between wives and concubines is even more disgraceful.
Xia Xi looked at Zhao Chong in front of him, knelt down and said: "Your Highness, I have no regrets in death. I have finally avenged myself!"
“Boom!”
There was a sudden burst of thunder outside. The strange winter thunder scared everyone.
Lingling was so scared that she hid in Lu Ze's arms.
Xia Xi listened to the thunder and said, "It's thundering in winter. It seems that even the heavens are beating the drums for me to celebrate my revenge!"
Zhao Chong raised his hand and signaled the eunuch beside him to come forward and end Xia Xi's life.
When Xia Xi saw the bright red mole on Zhao Chong's wrist bone when he raised his hand, his eyes widened...
Xia Xi turned to look at Qin Han and Qin's uncle-in-law standing beside him, and then looked at Yu who was lying there.
So, that’s how it is!
For a moment, Xia Xi's eyes were filled with tears... (End of this chapter)
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