Chapter 38: The old executioner Sun has gone crazy. Minister Lu Jingchuan, with the entire Lu family...
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble later, the body of the young Taoist priest was directly taken care of by Lu Jingchuan's people, and a trustworthy coroner was called in to examine it.
Qin Yuqing wanted to know what could have cut the corpse so neatly.
In the courtyard, Qin Yuqing looked at the old executioner, Sun, who had been tied up by Chuntao. She smiled, but her eyes revealed a coldness as she asked, "Is this a gift you gave me on behalf of your master?"
Qin Yuqing leaned forward, resting his chin on one hand, and said lazily, "I don't like this gift. Can you talk to your master and ask for something else?"
Old executioner Sun looked pale. He was stopped by a group of people on his way out of the city and was brought here without any explanation.
"What are you talking about? Let me go. The laws of the Great Yin are strict. You can't do anything to me!"
Qin Yuqing smiled. "The law is strict, you're absolutely right." He reached for the paper on the table and casually threw it in the face of the executioner, Sun. "Look! This is your wife's handwriting. I don't think you won't recognize it."
Old Mr. Sun's hands were trembling. He recognized his wife's handwriting. This was written by his wife.
"You married a good wife. After hearing about your deeds, she personally wrote this confession for you, which records everything you did this year." Qin Yuqing tapped the paper with her finger. At this moment, she was like a monster in the oracle.
"Old Executioner Sun from the East City, do you have anything else to say?"
Elder Sun looked at the paper. He suddenly raised his head and, right in front of Qin Yuqing, opened his mouth and swallowed the entire paper. He then said, "Even if my wife testifies, it doesn't matter. This indirectly proves that you, Sixth Princess, have no evidence. Now you have nothing."
"Don't be impatient. I know you're hungry, so I asked your wife to write a lot of copies." Qin Yuqing glanced at Lu Jingchuan. He took out a stack of papers from his arms. Qin Yuqing said with a fake smile, "Come on, eat slowly."
Old Executioner Sun's pupils trembled. He stared at the corpse not far away. Suddenly, a thought struck him, and he relaxed. "What's written on this piece of paper simply means I happened to be out when the accident happened. Legs are attached to people, and time is uncontrollable. If the Sixth Princess doesn't have concrete evidence to prove I was there, then I must sue her for defying the law and arbitrarily tying up civilians to force them to confess."
"Evidence? You reminded me of that. That's absolutely right. How can we arrest someone without evidence, right?" Qin Yuqing clapped his hands as an old woman was apprehended. "To be honest, there's no evidence, but there are other supporting witnesses."
Lu Jingchuan walked over, turned the head of the old executioner Sun, and looked directly at the old woman in tattered clothes who was being held down by the secret guards. Her face not only showed the traces of the vicissitudes of life, but also had alternating new and old wounds.
"Look at this person. Does she look familiar? When we found her, she was already lying unconscious in that filthy place, half-naked, surrounded by beggars. If our people hadn't arrived, she would have died."
"You! You are not human! You are a bunch of beasts!" The calmness of the old executioner Sun was broken. He roared and cursed at Qin Yuqing, "You will be punished by heaven for doing this! You are a bunch of beasts worse than pigs and dogs! How can you, who are so high and mighty, understand the suffering of ordinary people!"
Qin Yuqing listened to the insults from Old Executioner Sun, but instead of getting angry, she smiled even brighter. "But it was a bunch of bastards like these who saved her, and instead of being grateful to us, you scold us? You're such an interesting person."
Qin Yuqing shrugged nonchalantly and continued, "Besides, if you say so, then we'll just be the bad guys and send this guy back." He ignored Old Executioner Sun and said to Chuntao, "Xiao Taozi, you and the other secret guards, send this guy back exactly where he came from and how he got there. Got it?"
Old Executioner Sun looked at Qin Yuqing fearfully, then he crawled forward, grabbed Lu Jingchuan's trouser leg and cried, "Master Lu, the Sixth Princess has disregarded the law. You must stand up for me!"
Hearing this, Lu Jingchuan looked at Qin Yuqing again. The Sixth Princess laughed wantonly, with her fox-like eyes full of cunning. After hearing what the old executioner Sun said, she covered her heart in fear and said.
"General Xiao Lu is not really going to capture me, the princess, is he?"
Lu Jingchuan's heart skipped a beat again. Although he knew she was acting, he still couldn't help but fall in love with Qin Yuqing.
"What do you think?" Lu Jingchuan patted Qin Yuqing's head helplessly. It was a subconscious action. When he realized it, his hands had already finished patting.
Qin Yuqing was stunned for a moment, but didn't say anything. He turned his head and looked at the nearly desperate executioner Sun on the ground. He said seriously, "I won't waste any more time talking to you. You can see it. I don't care who this old woman is, but she is indeed protected by us. I don't care what conditions the people behind you promised you. The facts are in front of us. They have reneged on their promises."
Executioner Sun looked at the unconscious old woman. She seemed a little cold and kept mumbling, "I'm so cold, so cold."
She didn't speak like an elderly woman, and she didn't care at all about her clothes. As she moved, her already tattered clothes became even more tattered.
"I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything." Old executioner Sun took a deep breath. He was a man who could judge the situation. If the Sixth Princess Qin Yuqing and Lu Jingchuan could bring the old woman out, then only they could save himself.
Qin Yuqing waved her hand, and Chuntao wrapped the stall around the old woman.
"A month ago, a man wearing a black mask came to me and gave me an address and a note, asking me to kill this person last night and arrange the body to look like the handwriting on the note."
Executioner Sun's body was trembling. He continued truthfully, "They said that after the mission was completed, they would give me some money and let us leave the capital first. In a few days, they would send my wife and daughter with us."
"I didn't want to agree at first. I have retired from criminal activities over the years. I don't want to do these things that go against my conscience anymore, so I never accepted it for thirteen years..." The old executioner Sun's eyes were filled with horror, and he looked at what was in front of him in disbelief.
Qin Yuqing was holding a long arrow in her hand, blood oozing from her palm and dripping onto the ground. Then she threw the arrow back with her backhand, and it got nailed on a tree.
Lu Jingchuan frowned and took out medicine to treat Qin Yuqing's wound.
"Look, my martial arts training wasn't in vain." Qin Yuqing looked at Lu Jingchuan with a little pride and asked. Without waiting for Lu Jingchuan's reply, she looked at the executioner Sun and continued, "Go on."
But who knew that the old executioner Sun suddenly became insane. He covered his head and kept shaking his head, saying, "I didn't mean to do that. I didn't mean to do that. I didn't know it was you, Miss. I didn't know it was you."
"I didn't mean to do that, I really didn't mean to, please forgive me, please forgive me!"
Qin Yuqing was so surprised by this sudden change that she didn't react for a moment. Lu Jingchuan hit the back of the neck of the old executioner Sun with a palm and called the secret guards to take the old executioner Sun and the old woman away and locked them up.
"Did he suddenly go crazy?"
"I'm afraid there is something on the long arrow." After Lu Jingchuan stood up after being bandaged, he looked at the location of the branch, but there was no trace of the long arrow.
Qin Yuqing realized that he seemed to have over-pretended and the clues he had obtained were lost.
"It's okay, I've got it down." Lu Jingchuan noticed Qin Yuqing's regretful mood and immediately took out a pen and paper to draw the appearance of the long arrow. "It's roughly like this, I didn't see this part clearly."
It was a very ordinary long arrow, the only difference was that it was tied with a red rope at the end, and there seemed to be something on the red rope, but Lu Jingchuan didn't see it clearly.
"But that's enough." Qin Yuqing recalled what the old executioner Sun had said. There was one thing that concerned her, "Who is the young lady? This red rope is inseparable from this young lady."
Lu Jingchuan shook his head. He had never seen such a long arrow.
Once the old executioner Sun went crazy, all the clues were lost, including the investigation into the person behind the case and the truth behind Chen Cairen's death.
"Master, here are the autopsy results." Lu Jiu suddenly appeared and handed the autopsy results of the Imperial Master's body to Lu Jingchuan, saying, "I will take my leave first."
Lu Jingchuan nodded and handed it to Qin Yuqing.
"Death by poisoning?" Qin Yuqing thought of this result, but after watching the coroner examine everything in the meditation room, including the food brought by the young Taoist priest, he found no poisonous ingredients.
Why was the Imperial Master poisoned, how was he poisoned, and how did the poisoner do it so quietly?
Things are becoming more and more complicated. The hidden threads in the original book's plot gradually emerge, like a ball of tangled wool, a mess no matter from which side you look at it.
"It's impossible to find out who murdered the Imperial Master for the time being." Qin Yuqing sighed with a headache. She glanced at the dark cloud-covered sky and said, "Let's go and see Father. There are some things he needs to know."
Led by Eunuch Zhang, Qin Yuqing and Lu Jingchuan avoided the palace servants and quietly entered the imperial study.
"Father, I have discovered that the Imperial Master's death is closely related to the former dynasty's old subordinates."
Along the way, Qin Yuqing combined the plot of the original book with all the current clues, and finally came to the only conclusion after discussing with Lu Jingchuan.
There is someone within Dayin who is colluding with the former Dayan officials. This person is absolutely powerful and his evil intentions are obvious.
"Continue." His Majesty's face darkened slightly. The founding emperor of the Great Yin Dynasty was merciful and did not kill all the people of the previous dynasty. He only killed some members of the royal family. However, he never thought that the founding emperor's mercy would lead to the current predicament of the Great Yin.
"It's just the death of a minister in the court, or the death of the imperial tutor. On the surface, it's a plot against me, but if you think about it carefully, you can see it." Qin Yuqing stood still and said logically, "It was my father who recommended women to participate in the imperial examinations, and it was also my father who led me into the official career. Without your approval, I would not be able to participate in the imperial examinations no matter what I do."
"So, they want to use me, your son, to demonstrate to your father. I am loyal to your father, serving him and am not one of the officials in the court. So they want to sever your father's control over the government."
"Then what does A'ruan want to do?" The emperor listened to Qin Yuqing's words. He knew from the moment he started playing chess with Qin Yuqing that his sixth princess Qin Yuqing was no ordinary person. Perhaps in the future, the throne could be passed on to Qin Yuqing.
"Your Majesty, I still remember the first time you played chess with me. I suggested to you that, looking across the entire capital, only the Lu and Shen families can serve you. I suggest that you trust the Lu family and make them the lone ministers in the court, who can then hold other officials in check."
Lu Jingchuan listened to Qin Yuqing's words and knelt on the ground. "I, Lu Jingchuan, hereby give a military order with the lives of all the Lu family members. If Lu Jingchuan has any unlawful intentions, the entire Lu family will be executed."
A flash of thunder struck outside, breaking the long night full of dangers.
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