Ye Wanqing sat in the pavilion, feeling a numbness and pain in her throat. Since Chen Xu's father and brother were reluctant to let Madam Jiang insert a needle into her neck that would affect her voice, she had to take medicine to temporarily change her voice, making her throat temporarily sound hoarse like a boy.
Long-term use of this medicine will burn the throat and cause permanent voice loss. Fu Yi originally refused to take it.
If Ye Wanqing had not heard that Liu Zhang was looking for her to discuss the kidnapping case, she would not have insisted on letting Nanny Jiang give her this medicine.
The two met in a small building in the middle of the lake in the Marquis's mansion. Ye Wanqing sent the people around her away, saying that she wanted to talk to Liu Zhang alone.
The butler served them tea and snacks, and the two sat facing each other at the stone table. Ye Wanqing said, "Brother Zhang...Master Liu."
Liu Zhang was slightly stunned. She just wanted to call him Brother Zhang. She had called him Brother Zhang more than once.
Liu Zhang felt upset when he thought about how she was a weak woman and was stabbed by him and pushed into the water, almost drowning.
He coughed lightly and said, "Prince Shen, are you feeling better now?"
"Oh, thank you for your concern, Lord Liu." Ye Wanqing asked straight to the point, "I heard that the Dali Temple has arrested the person who plotted to murder the Crown Prince?"
"Yes, I was just about to confirm the details of the kidnapping case with Master Shen."
"Oh..." Ye Wanqing hesitated for a moment and replied, "Actually, they were all masked that night, so I didn't see clearly who it was."
Liu Zhang raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "How many people are there?"
"Several. I was so scared I can't remember."
"Is there anyone you know?"
"They were all wearing masks. I couldn't tell who they were, and I didn't dare to make random guesses for fear of wrongly accusing good people." Ye Wanqing answered according to the confession she and Murong Yan had agreed upon.
In order to protect her brother Ye Fan, she could only pretend to be ignorant and blur the details of the case to prevent people other than Murong Yan from investigating the case in detail.
Liu Zhang is a troublesome person.
In her opinion, Liu Zhang is the kind of person who can grasp the details and solve the case with just a word or an expression. He is very perceptive.
If she avoided him at this time, Liu Zhang would hold on to Ye Qingshan, who had been imprisoned in the Dali Temple, and would gradually uncover the truth of the case. Once he was linked to the murder of the prince, the general's mansion would be completely finished.
"Prince Shen, can you tell me what happened in the brothel that day?"
"Huh?" Ye Wanqing panicked and stammered, "Why are we talking about brothels?"
She did not coordinate her testimony with Murong Yan on these matters.
"Yeah." Liu Zhang nodded, his eyes fixed on her face. A closer look revealed that Master Shen was indeed a real beauty, apart from having a slightly heroic look.
Realizing his own gaffe, he quickly looked away and said, "Regarding the murder of the prostitute in the brothel, I actually already had the key evidence at the time. However, the case was later stopped and the brothel was compensated with a large sum of money. No further investigation was carried out and the case was hastily closed.
But there are some details that are not worth pondering.
For example, why did you and the prince appear at the crime scene?
What were you doing in the second half of the night when you were still here?
The masked gunman who intended to assassinate the prince injured Miss Jiang Rao and Young Master Ling. How did he know the prince's whereabouts?
These are all suspicious points.”
Ye Wanqing frowned slightly and changed the subject, "Then, what is the key evidence that Lord Liu holds? You have already told us about the murderer at the Dali Temple. Sister Xu... uh, why did Miss Xu kill people?"
"Let's first talk about why the prince went to the brothel?"
Ye Wanqing shifted her gaze to her fingers guiltily. She couldn't tell him that she and A Rao went to the general's mansion to act like eagles and sacks to beat Ye Xueruo to vent her anger.
Liu Zhang asked, "Are you following the Third Prince?"
Ye Wanqing blushed slightly and said, "We also accidentally discovered that the Third Prince was acting suspiciously, and we wanted to...just wanted to catch him. Yes, something!"
"He came from General Ye's mansion."
Ye Wanqing was shocked and evaded the question, "I don't know. I caught up with him halfway."
"Which way is it in the middle of the night?"
"It was so dark, I don't remember." Ye Wanqing felt a little unhappy. Why did Liu Zhang ask questions as if he was interrogating a criminal?
Liu Zhang reasoned out the details of the brothel case, including the details of their encounter with the masked gunman. Ye Wanqing didn't dare to say much and only vaguely said that she didn't remember it.
"Why are you wearing Beihai Kingdom dance costumes?"
"ah?"
"According to the people at the scene and the testimony of the Third Prince, you and Miss Jiang Rao were wearing the dance costumes of the Beihai Kingdom." Liu Zhang raised his lips and lowered his voice, "Prince Shen, you are not a girl, are you?"
Ye Wanqing was extremely nervous. Would Liu Zhang be able to deduce that Shen Xu was a girl just based on the brothel case?
She stood up and quickly denied it, "Of course not! Sir Liu, I have cooperated with your investigation. Can you ask some questions related to the case?"
But he was so excited that he moved the wound on his leg and bent over in pain.
Liu Zhang was startled and asked with concern: "How are you? Does your wound hurt?"
"It's okay." Ye Wanqing shook her hand and slowly sat down, her face a little pale because of the pain.
She continued, "I also want to cooperate with you to quickly solve the case of the masked killer who assassinated the prince, but I have a high fever and I really can't remember so many details.
Sir Liu, could you please share a little of what you have found? I would like to recall it briefly."
Liu Zhang said calmly, "I have captured Ye Qingshan, the commander of the Imperial Guards."
Ye Wanqing nodded in confusion, "He is Commander Ye, who teaches archery. He doesn't get along well with me and always teases me and makes me fail my archery test.
I don't know how I offended him, maybe he's just narrow-minded, but no matter what, he wouldn't try to assassinate the Crown Prince, right?"
"Oh." Liu Zhang said calmly, "Oh," and added, "The spearman who assassinated the crown prince wielded the Overlord Spear of the Dongyi Army. Commander Ye is proficient in this spear technique. And even more coincidental, General Ye from the General's Mansion served in the Dongyi Army and is also proficient in this spear technique."
Ye Wanqing was startled, and suddenly felt uneasy, "Being able to use this spear technique doesn't mean I can really assassinate the prince."
"So I want to ask Master Shen, before you were kidnapped and blocked in the alley, did you see clearly who the masked gunman was?"
"I didn't see clearly. He was masked. I didn't know who he was."
"In other words, from the moment you were in danger until you were rescued, you had no idea of the kidnappers' identities, and you had no idea who had kidnapped you?"
"Well, yes. I don't know any of those people."
Liu Zhang became confused. She had clearly had a loud argument with Ye Qingshan in that restaurant and had guessed the identities of most people. Why did she change her words now and say that she didn't know anyone?
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