The servant frowned and said, "Your Majesty, I don't have the key here, so you can't ask me."

"Think of a way."

Under the coercion and inducement of Rong Zhen and Gu Yunru, the servant boy had no choice but to take the shovel and chisel open the iron door. As soon as the door was opened, the servant boy wanted to slip away, but he didn't expect that there were two guards blocking the door and detained the servant boy.

"Please spare me, my lord and princess. This was all done by the eldest prince alone. It has nothing to do with me." Seeing the servant trying to clear himself of the blame in a panic, Gu Yunru strode in. A stench of decayed corpses filled her nose. She walked in and saw many women lying on the stone pit. Some of them were starving, and some had been corroded by worms...

"Help, help..." Many women kept saying this. Rong Zhen held a torch and looked at everyone who was so hungry that they looked like skin and bones. He had them carried out quickly and came to the backyard. Gu Yunru counted the number of people.

A total of more than 30 women were locked up in the basement, and it turned out that they were being melted down to be used as sex slaves.

"What else do you know? Where did these women come from?" Rong Zhen walked up to the servant boy, who kowtowed several times in fear and said, "Your Majesty, please spare me, Your Majesty, please spare me. This matter has nothing to do with me. It was the eldest prince who forced us to do this.

It is said that they searched for beautiful women all over the country, abducted them and locked them in the basement. "

"Damn it." Gu Yunru clenched her fists in anger. She had been busy with the affairs of the eldest prince for the past two days, but she didn't expect that Rong Yinzhi was actually an unforgivable pervert. It would be a waste to catch the real murderer for such a person! "What else do you know? Tell us quickly, maybe we won't report this to the queen, and you guys can be spared!" Gu Yunru tempted them, and the book boy explained everything in detail. "There is another thing that others don't know, but I know it, but this time it concerns the reputation of the eighth princess and I don't know whether I should say it or not..."

"Just say it when I tell you to!" Gu Yunru scolded impatiently. After scaring the servant boy, he made him blurt out the fact that the Eighth Princess was under house arrest.

Rong Zhen and Gu Yunru looked at each other, neither of them could believe that he was the one who did this.

"We understand. You can leave first." Gu Yunru felt mixed emotions. She looked at Rong Zhen, who also had a complicated expression, and held his hand. "What are you going to do about this matter? The matter of the Eighth Princess... I didn't expect that it was actually related to Yin Zhi, and this book boy must not be kept any longer."

"That's right. This person can't just pretend he doesn't know about this."

"But...what about those women?" Gu Yunru calculated that there were only ten women who survived. That means half of them were tortured to death by him, and some were tortured to the point of disability. They were very pitiful.

"Give them some money and send them out of the capital. This is the best way to settle them. We cannot let them come back to the capital."

"But isn't this a bit too cruel?" Gu Yunru felt mixed emotions, thinking that it was inappropriate to do so. After all, those girls were so pitiful...

"This is the best way to deal with it." Rong Zhen stood up, not knowing whether he should continue investigating, or if there would be more things...

Tomorrow is the day when the third prince Yin Bai will ascend the throne. These days, Yin Li is either lingering in brothels or drunk in the arms of women. Du Juan watches Yin Li going in and out of the brothel with mixed feelings, and decides to help him seize the throne.

On the day when Yin Bai ascended the throne, when the imperial edict was handed to him, he suddenly died of poison, and all the ministers under him were in a panic.

When Gu Yunru and Rong Zhen arrived at the palace, Yin Bai was already dead...

"My Bai'er, my Bai'er!" The queen knelt down in front of the bed, crying bitterly. Many palace maids and eunuchs knelt down at the door, crying so hard that they couldn't make a sound. The queen mother was so sad that she fell seriously ill after hearing the news...

Gu Yunru comforted the queen with mixed feelings. The queen was exhausted and in pain at this time. She could not listen to anything and her tears fell like beads from a broken string.

"Empress, the deceased is gone, please accept your condolences." Gu Yunru supported the queen's arm, and the queen shook her head, "How could he die suddenly? Someone must have wanted to harm my Bai'er!" The queen kept repeating this sentence, while Rong Zhen sent people to investigate the cause of this incident without stopping. Several imperial doctors found that someone had sprinkled a special potion on the emperor's robe. This potion was covered with the smell of musk, but when this potion got on the skin, the toxins would enter the pulse, and the disease would occur in just two hours.

"Call all the female officials from the Imperial Clothing Bureau." Rong Zhen sat at the table majestically, looking at the female officials who lined up in the yard. They were all flustered. After learning about the emperor's situation, they came to him with trepidation.

"Who prepared these silver threads?" Rong Zhen put his hands behind his back and walked in front of the palace maids, looking at each other.

"In reply to your Highness, it was prepared by a female official named Du Juan. The imperial robe was made by these sisters in a rush for days, and the last step was supervised by Du Juan. However, we have not seen Du Juan's whereabouts today..."

Everyone looked at each other. There was indeed one Dujuan missing, so Dujuan had the biggest doubts.

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"Someone, come here, dig three feet deep to bring this cuckoo back!"

"yes."

The guards began to investigate the whereabouts of Du Juan in the palace, and even a portrait of her was posted on the notice board outside the door.

In Yancui Tower, Yin Li woke up in the warm arms of a woman. When he saw the woman's face, he was stunned at first, and her white arms were wrapped around his neck.

"Why is it you, Dujuan? How did you end up here?" Yin Li looked at Dujuan in front of him in confusion. Wasn't the girl accompanying him, Ling'er, the top girl in Yancui Tower?

"Second Prince, you have so many complaints in your heart, why didn't you tell me that you wanted to come to this place to have fun? You know I would be very worried about you."