Ji Xingzhi looked in the direction of the sound and her eyes fell on the cell on the left. A group of adults surrounded the cell and the girl was completely invisible.
Ji Xingzhi stopped and looked at the person in the cell and said, "Princess...Yuzhou?"
When the people near the cell heard this, they immediately stepped back as if they were afraid of being implicated, and all their eyes were fixed on the girl standing alone in the middle of the cell.
The girl was thinly dressed, had bright eyes, a dirty face, and messy hair. She didn't look like a princess at all, but she was quite calm and didn't look like the daughter of an ordinary family.
After Ji Xingzhi sized up the little girl, she asked gently, "What's your name? Why are you pretending to be Princess Yuzhou?"
It's a bit outrageous that a little princess from Yuzhou is imprisoned in the Shaosi Mansion of the Lizhou Imperial Palace...
The girl was slightly stunned, then came to her senses and glared at Ji Xingzhi, saying, "Nonsense! I am Yuxu, the fifth daughter of the Emperor of Yuzhou and the daughter of Consort Chen!"
Seeing Ji Xingzhi actually chatting with a little girl in the prison, Chen Bai couldn't help but frown and said, "Emperor..."
Before he could even utter the word "emperor", Chen Bai felt Ji Xingzhi's warning gaze and immediately changed his tone, saying, "Sir, let's go see the prisoner first."
Ji Xingzhi glanced at Chen Bai calmly and said two words slowly: "No rush."
Chen Bai paused slightly and nodded, "Yes."
After listening to the conversation between Chen Bai and Ji Xingzhi, the little girl's eyes lit up. She excitedly clung to the iron bars of the prison door and said, "He's afraid of you? You're a higher official than him? Can you let me out? If you do, I'll make sure my father rewards you handsomely when I return to Yuzhou."
Hearing this, Ji Xingzhi smiled with interest and said, "Oh? I have no shortage of gold, silver, treasures, beauties, and status. What can your father reward me with?"
When the little girl heard this, she frowned in confusion, as if she was wondering what reward to give.
"I don't know, then what do you need?" After a moment, the little girl looked up and said.
Ji Xingzhi no longer paid attention to the little girl. After thinking for a moment, he touched his chin with his hand and turned to Chen Bai and asked, "What did she do wrong?"
Chen Bai answered without hesitation, "She broke into the palace, claiming to be the Princess of Yuzhou and wanting to see the Emperor and have him send someone to escort her back to her country. Commander Ling happened to see her and sent her to the Shaosi Mansion."
At that time, he also interrogated her. The little girl insisted that she was the Princess of Yuzhou and insisted on seeing the emperor. However, the emperor would not allow her to see him just because he said so, so he kept her in prison. Because the prisoner sent by the emperor had something wrong, he forgot about the little girl.
After hearing this, Ji Xingzhi raised an eyebrow and asked, "Just brought in?"
Chen Bai nodded and said, "Yes."
Ji Xingzhi nodded slightly, looked at the little girl again, turned around, and asked as he walked, "How did the person die?"
Chen Bai was slightly stunned, feeling that Ji Xingzhi's thoughts were jumping too fast, and he was a little confused. After a long silence, he finally reacted and followed Ji Xingzhi to reply, "It has not been investigated yet. He was still alive when he was brought in the day before yesterday, but he refused to eat or drink the next day. I received the news today and came to check on him, only to find that he was no longer breathing. His whole body was cold, stiff, and pale. It was obvious that he died yesterday."
As he spoke, he had already arrived at the cell where the fake was imprisoned alone.
Ji Xingzhi walked into the cell, squatted down, and personally checked. As Chen Bai had said, the person was already dead. Furthermore, it was indeed the fake, and the cause of death appeared to be cardiac arrest due to excessive shock.
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