"Princess, have you discovered something?" Headmaster Feng asked hurriedly.
"I've found something." Gu Xin nodded, then looked at Que'er and asked, "Que'er, can you identify this? Is it Miss Feng's clothes?"
Que'er looked at the blood-stained clothes, walked over, and then squatted down.
A constable approached with a torch to illuminate her path.
After examining the clothes for a while, Que'er said, "Your Highness, I'm not sure. These clothes are stained with so much blood, it seems like it is, but it also seems like it isn't."
Gu Xin raised an eyebrow and then asked the other maids to identify them.
"It's the Third Miss's clothes. The hem of her skirt got caught on a stone before, and it's all frayed."
"It seems so. The Third Miss tripped while walking yesterday, and we even went to help her up, but we didn't have a chance to tell her."
Two maids were whispering to each other, but Gu Xin overheard them.
Gu Xin recognized the two people as the maids of Miss Feng and Miss Feng Er.
She looked at Que'er again and asked, "Que'er, can't you really tell?"
Que'er's hand trembled slightly as she said, "Your Highness, I remember now. Yesterday, when you were walking, you tripped over a pebble and your skirt got caught. You were in a bad mood at the time, so I didn't mention it. I thought you changed your clothes every day, so I forgot about it. But now I remember."
Gu Xin curled the corners of her lips. Que'er probably wasn't sure she could hear the two maids' whispers!
Ah, how interesting! This sparrow is quite suspicious!
He may not be the murderer, but he is highly suspected of being an accomplice.
"Princess, how come Jinshu's clothes are here? Wasn't it said that Jinshu's injuries weren't enough to cause this much bleeding? Why are her clothes stained with blood?" Headmaster Feng asked in confusion.
“Third Miss Feng didn’t bleed much, but Headmaster Feng, you saw Fourth Miss Feng’s body with your own eyes. Tell me, if they were both murdered in the same place, wouldn’t Third Miss Feng’s body be stained with blood?” Gu Xin countered.
"This, how is this possible?" Headmaster Feng exclaimed in surprise, then said, "Jinshu died next to Qiyun Temple. If she was murdered at the same time and place, there simply wouldn't have been enough time to send her back to the Feng residence."
“We’ll make it. As long as we don’t take the path down from Qiyun Temple!” Gu Xin shook her head and said, “Headmaster Feng can wait a while. We’ll know whether we’ll make it or not in a while.”
"Princess, we've made a discovery! There's a cave here!" Suddenly, Chen Pengyuan, the head constable of the government office, shouted from afar.
"Let's go take a look!" Gu Xin called to Zheng Qiu, took a torch from a constable, and headed in the direction of Chen Pengyuan.
The cave was quite far from the flat land, and it took us a while to get there. By the time we arrived, it was completely dark.
The cave was very well hidden, surrounded by messy bushes and vines that Chen Pengyuan and his constables had cut down. Even the entrance to the cave was covered with vines, which Chen Pengyuan had cut out.
The constables who followed Chen Pengyuan had already entered the cave, where everything was clearly visible.
As Gu Xin and Zheng Qiu walked in, the first thing they saw was a male corpse lying next to a extinguished fire.
The male corpse was disheveled, with multiple scratches on his face and messy hair, making it difficult to discern his face.
Chen Pengyuan was smoothing the male corpse's hair to both sides, trying to get a clear look at the corpse's face.
"Qi Jiayulang!" Chen Pengyuan suddenly exclaimed.
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