Chapter 627: Life and Death Torture (Part 1)
Emperor Mu Wu sat up, his brows furrowed, "What did you say?"
The palace maid lowered her head, her body trembling slightly with fear.
"This morning, I went to deliver food to Princess Yuhe, but no one answered the door no matter how hard I knocked. I felt something was wrong. Princess Yuhe always woke up early in the past, and this had never happened before. Later, I dared to push the door, but I found that it was locked from the inside!"
He wiped the sweat from his forehead, his face still showing fear.
"I didn't dare to delay and kicked the door open. As a result, I saw Princess Yuhe lying on the bed, already dead!"
Emperor Mu Wu's face was grim.
"Someone, come! Set up the Yaohua Palace!"
Eunuch Li knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please think twice! You are still ill, how can you, how can you..."
He was sincerely trying to dissuade him because Emperor Mu Wu's heart just couldn't take the pain any more.
Just now, Xiao Chengxuan was exiled, Jiang Qingmei ended her life with a glass of poisoned wine, and even Xiao Jiayi was deprived of her title of princess. The storm had just subsided, but who knew that Xiao Lanxi had another accident!
Even if Emperor Mu Wu disliked her, she was still his biological daughter.
If he saw that scene with his own eyes... I'm afraid it would greatly aggravate his condition!
As soon as Emperor Mu Wu took a step forward, he covered his chest in pain and fell backwards suddenly!
"His Majesty!"
Eunuch Li cried out in surprise and rushed over. The palace servants serving behind him also rushed over and finally managed to support Emperor Mu Wu.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! You must take good care of your health!"
Eunuch Li begged endlessly, wiped away his tears quickly, and turned back to ask for help.
"Miss Ye Er! Please come and have a look!"
Ye Chutang put down the pen in his hand, sighed inwardly, crumpled up the prescription that he was about to finish and threw it away.
Once this happened, we have to change the recipe again.
"Help His Majesty lie down." Ye Chutang walked over and motioned for everyone to disperse. He then took out a small white jade bottle from his purse and poured a few brown pills the size of soybeans into it for Emperor Mu Wu to take.
Emperor Mu Wu was breathing rapidly, one hand pressed tightly against his chest, his face flushed.
After a long while, his breathing gradually became steady.
But his lips were extremely pale, his forehead was covered with sweat, and he looked much more haggard.
All the palace servants, including Eunuch Li, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Miss Ye Er, luckily you happen to be here!"
Eunuch Li was terrified.
The palace servant from Yaohua Palace who was kneeling on the ground was so frightened by this scene that his face turned pale and his whole body went limp.
——If anything happens to His Majesty, he will surely be sentenced to death!
"Your Majesty must have a good rest and stop working so hard." Ye Chutang advised.
Emperor Mu Wu raised his fingers with difficulty and shook his head.
"You...you go and look...for me..."
At this moment, there is really no one more suitable than Ye Chutang.
Ye Chutang nodded gently, "Yes."
She came up to the palace servant and said, "Please lead the way, eunuch."
"Ah? Oh, oh!"
The palace maid then realized that she had escaped a disaster. If it wasn't for the fact that she was in front of Emperor Mu Wu, she would have wanted to kneel down to express her gratitude to Ye Chutang.
"Miss Ye Er, please follow me—"
Ye Chutang walked to the door, paused, and looked back.
In the solemn and luxurious hall, Emperor Mu Wu lay there quietly, which seemed particularly empty and lonely.
His health was indeed not good, and now even walking out of the palace had become an extremely troublesome thing.
A ray of sunlight shone in from the window and fell on his face.
He lowered his eyes, his gray hair reflected a faint silver light in the sunlight.
There was an invisible smell of decay and decline all over his body.
As if frozen.
Ye Chutang withdrew his gaze and walked out the door.
…
Yaohua Palace.
As soon as Ye Chutang arrived here, he saw heavy guards outside the door.
The palace servant explained in a low voice, "Since Princess Yuhe was imprisoned here, she has been under personal guard by the Imperial Guards, and no one is allowed to enter or leave at will."
Ye Chutang nodded in understanding.
Everything Xiao Lanxi did was punishable by death, but because of the arrival of the Wazhen delegation, she was temporarily imprisoned here.
Although she was powerless, the matter was of great importance, so she had to keep a close watch on him.
"Not even a bird can fly in here."
The palace servant nodded, "Yes. Three meals a day are delivered on time. Apart from that, the servants dare not say a word."
This is a hot potato.
Those who were sent here to do errands also felt unlucky.
I thought that now that the Wazhen delegation had left and Xiao Chengxuan's case had been settled, it would finally be Xiao Lanxi's turn.
Who could have thought that she would suddenly die at this time!
Aren’t these palace servants afraid of being implicated?
Arriving at the door, the palace maid carefully pushed it open.
"Miss Ye Er, you——"
"No problem." Ye Chutang saw his hesitation and shook his head gently, "Since you're here, you should take a good look at what you've seen."
"yes."
The palace servant then remembered that the person in front of him had performed an autopsy in public not long ago, so she would definitely not be afraid. Looking at her calm and composed expression, he couldn't help but feel more confident.
"Miss Ye Er, please."
Ye Chutang stepped inside.
A faint smell of blood wafted towards me.
Ye Chutang narrowed his eyes slightly and looked around quickly.
This was originally Jiang Qingmei's residence, which was extremely luxurious. After her accident, most of the things here were cleared out, and now it has become empty.
At first glance, it looked like it had been robbed.
Perhaps seeing her thoughts, the palace servant explained in a low voice, "This place has been searched thoroughly before, so it is like this."
Ye Chutang nodded, walked around the screen, and saw Xiao Lanxi lying on the bed with one hand hanging limply, her face was pale, her eyebrows were dark blue, and blood was flowing from the corner of her mouth, but the blood had already dried.
It has long been dead.
Ye Chutang restrained his expression slightly and stepped forward.
When he got closer, he saw that the quilt covering Xiao Lanxi was torn. There were several scratches on the edge of the bed, faintly bloody, as if someone had scratched it madly.
Ye Chutang touched the side of her neck.
Xiao Lanxi's body was still warm, but she had no pulse.
Ye Chutang looked at her hanging hands again, and sure enough, he saw that her nails were broken and there were bloodstains between her fingers.
There was also blood in her ears and nose.
It looked like he died with blood coming out of all seven orifices, and... he had suffered great torture before his death.
"Did you notice anything unusual at night? Or hear any noise?" Ye Chutang asked.
The palace maid shook her head hurriedly, "No!"
Ye Chutang wiped his hands with a handkerchief, then turned his head to look at the palace maid, his eyes slightly narrowed.
"Not at all?"
The palace servants were also a little panicked.
"Miss Ye Er, really not! If you don't believe me, you can ask the guards outside! They didn't hear anything either!"
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