"I'm just the least favored and least welcomed person in the mansion. How could I know the inside story?"
Ni Yingying didn't want to interfere and just walked away.
Ni Yueshan frowned. It seemed that she could only rely on herself to find clues at the moment.
Ni Yueshan walked to the ancestral hall and saw Ni Gaofei just leaving.
"Miss, how do you want to investigate? Can this servant help?"
Ni Yueshan shook his head: "I'm afraid the clues have been burned out long ago."
"What should we do then?" Ren Mei looked anxious.
The next day, people from Yu Shuge and Zhu Zhige gathered together and got on the carriage outside the door.
Ni Yueshan thoroughly investigates the fire in the ancestral hall, but the two suspects are about to leave.
Ni Yueshan walked to the door and looked at the two of them. "Auntie Tian is taking my second sister away at this time. Can I think that she is absconding from the crime?"
"Stop slandering me here. I'm leaving to prevent you from framing me!" Ni Yueshuang looked at Ni Yueshan with disdain, then looked at Tian You: "Little girl, let's go. This ugly woman is the best at causing trouble."
Ni Yueshan did not stop them and let the two of them leave in the carriage.
Ren Mei walked over happily: "Miss, I found a lot of burnt rat corpses in the ancestral hall!"
Ni Yueshan said yesterday that someone let a rat into the ancestral hall, and the rat might be the cause of the fire. Now that the rat has been found inside, can it be proved that Ni Yueshan was not lying?
Ni Yueshan glanced at Ren Mei and said, "Let's go and take a look."
There were seven or eight charred rat corpses lying next to the ruins. A wealthy family like the Prime Minister's Mansion would have arsenic for killing rats in many places, so how could they allow so many rats to survive in the ancestral hall?
"Miss, when the master leaves court, tell him about this discovery. He will surely believe that you were framed."
Ni Yueshan's expression remained serious. "I'm afraid others will say I just happened to burn a rat hole."
So the large number of dead rats doesn’t mean anything.
Ni Yueshan looked at the servant who was collecting the rat corpses and asked: "Where in the ancestral hall was the rat found?"
"They were all not far from the spirit tablet. They might have been stealing the offerings in the ancestral hall, knocking over the spirit tablet and causing the fire."
Ni Yueshan stared at the rats. It was unlikely that these rats would knock over the candles and incense and cause a big fire.
Ni Yueshan reached out and grabbed the mouse by the tail, placed it in front of her eyes, took a deep breath and sniffed it. Ren Mei glared at her, "Miss, you can't eat mice, even if they're cooked!"
Ni Yueshan chuckled: "You smell it too."
Ren Mei waved her hands vigorously. She would not be attracted by the smell of the mouse and think about eating the mouse.
Ni Yueshan then explained, "This rat has a peculiar smell, very much like... sulfur?"
"Sulfur is flammable. If they stole the offerings out of hunger and were too close to the incense and candles, their bodies would have caught fire. The pain would have caused the rats to flee in all directions, causing multiple flames. It's normal for this to cause a large fire."
Ni Yueshan dropped the mouse in her hand. Ren Mei's eyes lit up, "Miss, your analysis is amazing!"
"Interrogate the maid who lost her earrings yesterday, and we'll be one step closer to the truth."
"I understand. I'll go get someone over right away."
Ni Yueshan was still waiting for Ren Mei to bring someone over when the housekeeper came hurriedly and said, "Miss, please go to the living room quickly. Someone from the palace is here to ask you to come in."
Ni Yueshan frowned slightly. In the palace?
In the living room, Ni Yueshan saw a man in royal blue eunuch's palace attire, swinging a whisk and walking hurriedly. Ni Yueshan walked over and said, "Greetings, eunuch."
"Miss Ni, please hurry up and follow us into the palace. The Emperor is waiting for you."
Ni Yueshan was stunned: "Your Majesty?"
She thought it was either the queen or her aunt, and it couldn't be the emperor.
Perhaps it was related to what Jing Yuchen was seeking? Should she be blamed for her alluring charm?
In the southern study, it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Ni Yueshan knelt obediently below, and Jing Yuchen also knelt beside him.
I heard that Jing Yuchen was punished to kneel and is still in the palace. He couldn’t have been kneeling until now, right?
Is his leg still available?
He knelt straight on the ground, his face somewhat pale, his thin lips slightly pursed, his eyes fixed straight ahead, his sword-like eyebrows slanting into his temples, slightly furrowed, his expression cold and aloof.
Ni Yueshan just took a look, looked away, lowered his head, and made no sound.
The emperor spoke at this time: "Ni Yueshan."
The emperor called her name, and although he was not asking her to punish him, he felt inexplicably heavy.
"Yes, your servant is here!"
"It's been some time since you and the general separated, but have you calmed down?"
Ni Yueshan was stunned. Calm down?
"Your Majesty, the general and I are not just angry, we also have an inexplicable debt! What he did to me back then cannot be summed up by the word 'getting rid of anger'!"
And why does the emperor care about her and Zou Yangyao for no reason?
"Why, have you turned your love for the general into hatred?"
The emperor was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe. Because he was sitting far away, his facial expression was not clear, but his innate aura was intimidating.
"Your Majesty, I was blind before, but I won't be again. My hatred now isn't born out of love, but because he indirectly killed my maid and even planned to send someone to insult me. I only have pure hostility towards him, not love!"
Ni Yueshan didn't understand what was going on with this emperor, and why was he asking her about love and hate?
Could it be related to the person next to me?
Ni Yueshan turned her head to look at Jing Yuchen. Jing Yuchen looked straight ahead with a cold expression. How could he be the kind of person who would offend Long Wei in order to marry her?
"So, you don't have any feelings for General Zou anymore?"
The emperor's voice became increasingly low, and Ni Yueshan felt a sense of oppression.
“No more.”
A concise answer, without any hesitation.
"But now, my two princes have a conflict because of you."
The voice was very soft, but Ni Yueshan could hear a hint of majestic warning.
He wants?
"I think you are a smart person. After such a long time, the anger between husband and wife should have subsided. Go back to the general's mansion."
Ni Yueshan looked at the emperor in surprise. This meant that she and Zou Yangyao should reconcile and continue to be husband and wife.
Only in this way will Jing Yuchen and Jing Chengzhi stop arguing because of her.
"Your Majesty, the whole city knows about the divorce letter. Everything he did to me has been recorded by the Dali Temple. How can I return to the General's Mansion?"
Ni Yueshan felt indignant. How could such a random match be made?
The emperor slammed his palm on the table. Ni Yueshan was originally very excited, but now he had to keep quiet.
"Ni Yueshan, I think you are a sensible person!"
So don’t be ungrateful and try to disobey the emperor’s order here!
Ni Yueshan clenched her fists. Before her stood the emperor, who held the power of killing. What would happen if she continued to refute him?
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