Sure enough, Su Yanxing discovered in the records of that year that a total of 103 members of the royal guards had withdrawn from the ranks of royal staff.
Among them, fifty members of the royal guards were indeed given to the eldest princess by the emperor!
Looking at the time, it was just after the Ying family massacre!
Among them is a person named "Teng Pinghai"!
Su Yanxing immediately asked, "Was your previous name Teng Pinghai?"
Teng Hai nodded woodenly. "Yes, after leaving the Princess's service, I changed my name to Teng Hai and came to Guiyuan Star, hiding my identity and working as a bounty hunter to support myself."
Su Yanxing frowned and said, "But you were only sent to the Princess afterwards. Before that case, you were still members of the Royal Guard. The Princess asked you to do something like this, so you couldn't refuse?"
Teng Hai's face remained expressionless, his gaze fixed on the black smoke in the crystal ball. Without hesitation, he said, "No. When His Majesty lent us to the Princess, he instructed us to obey her orders completely. Meeting her was like meeting His Majesty, and we must not disobey."
"The princess also said that if we didn't take action, she would kill us immediately."
"He also said that His Majesty the Emperor would not punish his eldest sister for the lives of a few inner guards..."
It is conceivable that between the lives of strangers and their own lives, they chose the latter.
Ying Wuxin asked a question at this time. She didn't ask Teng Hai, but asked Xia Chujian and Huo Yushen, the two disguised bounty hunters.
She said, "Qisha, how did you find this person?"
This is a very pointed question.
Su Yanxing and Ying Chenbi had thought about this problem before.
But for them, it doesn’t matter how they found him. What matters is whether the person they found is really related to the case!
After some questioning and verification, they all confirmed the true identity of Teng Hai and his important direct relationship with the Ying family massacre.
As long as they believed what he said, the eldest princess would definitely be the real culprit behind the scenes.
They didn't even want to ask how the two bounty hunters found Teng Hai.
They all know that those who can become bounty hunters are not ordinary people and must have their own ways.
Cats have their own way, and mice have their own way.
As long as the real murderer can be found, it doesn't matter which path we take.
But Ying Wuxin is still young after all. She doesn't just focus on the results, she also pays attention to the process.
Moreover, she also had some doubts that had to be answered.
So she asked the female "Seven Kills" who had a better impression on her among the two bounty hunters.
Xia Chujian was also prepared, anticipating that they would ask this question.
She said calmly, "Someone once gave me an antique phoenix hairpin."
"He told me that he bought the hairpin at a black market on Shaofu Star."
"I found that hairpin is almost identical to the hairpin picture in your mission."
"So I tried to look for it on the black market to see if I could find the person who sold the hairpin."
"In the end, I was really lucky. I found Tenghai after just a few tries."
"He also confessed and said that he was the one who sold the hairpin."
Ying Wuxin suddenly became excited, stood up and said, "Impossible!"
"How could that hairpin be in your hand?!"
“It’s clearly…!”
She didn't say the last few words, but Xia Chujian guessed that she wanted to talk about the queen...
Xia Chujian understood very well that if she didn't really have the antique phoenix hairpin, she would have believed that the hairpin was with the Queen!
But because she had a real hairpin in her hand, she first ruled out the possibility of the queen.
The whole case seemed to point to the Queen as the real murderer due to a series of coincidences.
So when Su Yanxing and Ying Chenbi heard that it was the eldest princess, they both showed expressions of disbelief.
But they are old after all, so no matter how surprised they are, they can keep calm.
But Ying Wuxin is different.
From the moment she heard that the real culprit behind the scenes was most likely the eldest princess, her heart was in turmoil.
After so many years of forbearance and preparation, it turns out that I chose the wrong person?!
Then why did she commit herself to the emperor?!
If she had known earlier that she was just the eldest princess, would she have needed to feign favor with the emperor?!
Teng Hai said: "This hairpin belongs to Ying Chenyu. When she rushed to the villa, she happened to meet me."
"She begged me to give her a chance to live."
"He also gave me an antique phoenix hairpin that is said to be priceless as payment."
"I was greedy for a moment and wanted that hairpin. Besides, I have seen Ying Chenyu and I know she is His Majesty's favorite woman."
"We all guessed that she would most likely enter the palace and replace the queen."
"So I took advantage of the situation, put away the hairpin, and showed her a way."
"There are no people on that road. It was left as a way for us to survive."
"This case is too big, and we don't want to take the blame."
"As long as one person escapes, those who want us to take the blame will have to think carefully..."
Ying Wuxin said excitedly, "You're lying! My aunt never escaped! She was still killed on that road!"
Teng Hai said with a blank expression: "I don't know what's going on."
"There were indeed no one of our people guarding that road at the time."
"In order to avoid suspicion, the Princess intentionally did not send any of her men. All of them were ours that day."
"That way, even if we leave any clues, they won't point to her in the end."
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