Chapter 114 The Emblem of Prince Chen's Mansion
Wen Ling walked into the tent and saw a maid lying on her back beside the bed with a knife stuck in her chest.
The maid had already stopped breathing, her eyes were wide open, blood was flowing from her chest, all over the floor, and hadn't even coagulated yet.
Her face was full of disbelief, a horrific scene of someone dying with their eyes open.
Such a bloody and brutal murder occurred during the hunting in the imperial city. People from the Dali Temple arrived at the scene first and cordoned off the scene.
A result must be found out today, otherwise they, the Dali Temple, will not be able to report such a serious case and will definitely be reprimanded by the emperor.
Next to the dead maid, there was another shivering maid standing.
Her whole body was shaking violently. She kept leaning behind the officers and soldiers and didn't dare to look up at anyone. It was obvious that she was terrified.
After Wen Ling came in and took a look around, he did not find the soul of the deceased.
This is another case of no ghosts being present at the scene after death.
Generally, this kind of situation means that the soul of the deceased has been taken away by something, and basically the soul is in great danger. If it dissipates completely, it will not even have the chance to be reincarnated.
The Dali Temple Minister bowed to Wen Ling and said, "Greetings to Princess Chen. I called you here today because I have something important to ask you."
Wen Ling nodded: "I know, just ask."
The Dali Temple Minister looked at Wen Ling and narrowed his eyes: "Did Princess Chen know something in advance? Why are you so calm?"
Wen Ling pointed at the eunuch who was delivering the message and said, "He came to call me and told us everything that happened here in advance. If you don't believe me, you can ask the princess and the others. Everyone heard it.
There's no need to test me with these trivial details. Just tell me why you suspect I did it. ”
The Dali Temple Minister smiled awkwardly and said, "This humble official is just doing his routine work. I hope Princess Chen will forgive me."
Then he didn't beat around the bush and asked his men next to him to hand over a wooden box with a bloody sachet on it.
The Dali Temple official opened the wooden box and said, "I will not beat around the bush. This sachet was taken from the deceased's hand. The deceased held it tightly until his death. It must have been torn from the murderer.
According to the testimony, the emblem of your Prince Chen's Palace was embroidered on the sachet, so the murderer was most likely someone from your Prince Chen's Palace, so the Princess of Chen was called in for questioning. ”
Wen Ling took a look at the sachet in the wooden box, and indeed the emblem of Prince Chen's Palace was embroidered on the corner of the sachet.
Every wealthy family in the capital has a badge of their own, usually to show their status and for convenience when going out.
The Prince Chen’s Palace also has it, which is an “artistic form” of the Chinese character Chen. It is divided into three colors: the master is gold, the steward and the maid are black, and ordinary servants are gray.
The division of badge color levels throughout the capital is roughly the same.
This badge is black and should be worn by a manager.
Wen Ling asked: "So you suspect that it was done by our people because of the emblem of Prince Chen's Mansion?"
"There is such a suspicion, and we must investigate it thoroughly." The Dali Temple Minister bowed, as if doing his job impartially.
Wen Ling smiled. She took off the token from the waist of a eunuch next to her and put it into the hand of the maid on the ground. She asked, "If you saw this token in her hand when you came, did he kill this person?"
The little eunuch whose token was taken away happened to be the one who delivered the message.
He knelt on the ground with a plop, and shouted: "This matter has nothing to do with me! Princess Chen, spare my life!"
Wen Ling just looked at the Dali Temple Minister without saying anything.
The Dali Temple Minister frowned slowly. He knew that Wen Ling's implication was that this kind of evidence could be forged and could be used to frame someone, so it couldn't be regarded as ironclad evidence.
"But," the Dali Temple official said slowly, "many people saw with their own eyes that the deceased bumped into Princess Chen yesterday and had a conflict with you."
Only then did Wen Ling realize that the dead little maid was the one who bumped into her yesterday and wanted to dump garbage on her.
"Ah, it was her." Wen Ling said softly after recognizing her, with a look of understanding in her eyes: "No wonder I saw a deathly look on her face yesterday, as if she would die within a day. So this is what will happen."
The Dali Temple Minister had also heard of Wen Ling's reputation outside, but he did not believe it.
His face became more serious: "Princess Chen, a gentleman should not talk about strange and supernatural things. We are handling the case seriously now. Please don't mention these strange and supernatural things."
"This deceased offended you yesterday and was stabbed to death today. He was holding a sachet with the emblem of your Prince Chen's Palace in his hand. Don't you think this is too much of a coincidence?"
The tent curtain was not drawn, and the ladies outside began to talk about it after hearing what was happening.
"We have both the motive and evidence. Maybe Princess Chen really sent someone to do it. But she didn't expect her subordinates to be so dishonest that the sachet would be taken away, right?"
"No way, that was too clumsy. It was just a servant who bumped into someone. As Princess Chen, if you want to teach her a lesson, there are plenty of ways. Why use this? Are you afraid of getting yourself into trouble?"
There are mainly two opinions on this matter.
At this time, a rather sharp voice sounded, neither loud nor soft: "I'm afraid everyone has forgotten that Wen Ling was originally a fool. Even if he recovers, how smart can he be?
Besides, she has always been a narrow-minded and vindictive person, but you just don’t know what she has done. ”
The person who said this was none other than Wen Yao, who was slapped by Princess Mingzhu yesterday.
At this time, she was wearing a fox fur cloak and holding an exquisite hand warmer in her hands. The snow-white fox fur made her little face look even whiter, and the whole person looked pure and elegant.
This is the second time she has appeared in public since she was slapped and ran away yesterday.
There was still a slight redness and swelling on her left cheek, and she looked a bit pitiful standing there alone.
When she said this, someone quickly remembered: "Oh, that's right, if that's the case, wasn't the second young lady of the Gu family slapped by Princess Mingzhu, who is on good terms with Princess Chen, yesterday because she said a few more words?"
"Who knows if Princess Mingzhu is being used as a pawn by the petty-minded Princess Chen? If so, is Princess Chen really a petty and calculating person?"
"You can't judge a person by his appearance. This kind of person is too scary. How can she be the Princess of Chen? If she really did this, she really needs an explanation this time. No matter what, you can't take human life lightly."
Public opinion was stirred up by Wen Yao's simple suggestion, and everyone began to attack Wen Ling.
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