Leng Yu knew that the emperor wanted to ask about Xiao Zhi, so he clasped his fists and replied:
"In reply to Father, Xiaozhi's life is saved for now. As for when he will wake up, it is still unknown, but Lan'er will do her best to treat him and strive to wake him up earlier."
Hearing this, the Emperor breathed a sigh of relief and nodded in satisfaction, "That's good. If Xiao Zhi is cured this time, I will definitely reward Princess Yu handsomely."
Luo Lan naturally doesn't care about the reward. Now everyone hopes that Xiao Zhi can wake up as soon as possible.
The ancestral worship ceremony on the first day of the new year ended in this abrupt manner, and Leng Yu quickly began to investigate the incident of Xiao Zhi being strangled to death.
He investigated all the eunuchs and palace maids who were on duty and off duty that day. After several days of investigation, he finally found several eunuchs and palace maids who had no witnesses around them and could not explain what they were doing when Xiaozhi got into trouble.
Outside the toilet where the accident happened, these people lowered their heads in fear and dared not speak.
Leng Yu sat in front of several people, neither asking any questions nor letting them speak, just letting them stand there.
Suddenly, Xiao Lingzi came to report hurriedly, "Your Majesty, something happened."
Leng Yu's brows tightened, and he asked solemnly:
"What's up?"
Xiao Lingzi leaned forward, raised his hand to cover his mouth, and whispered a few words in his ear. Leng Yu's face suddenly turned ashen.
He said to Xiao Ningzi beside him:
"Just watch them. I'll be back soon."
After he finished speaking, he led the way in front, and Xiao Lingzi and his group followed closely behind and left here in a hurry.
Several guards were standing by the pond in the back garden of the palace, and next to them lay a corpse dressed in eunuch's clothes.
Leng Yu came closer with a sullen face and asked loudly,
"What's going on?"
Seeing this, a man who looked like a eunuch knelt down and replied:
"Prince Yu, we saw this body when we were cleaning the lotus pond."
"who is he?"
"He is A Yuan, the eunuch in the imperial kitchen. I don't know why he suddenly drowned."
A cold look suddenly appeared in Leng Yu's eyes. For some reason, he vaguely felt that this person must be related to Xiao Zhi's affairs.
So, with a cold face and a hoarse voice, he waved his hands to the guards around him and said:
"Go and bring those palace servants here."
Seeing this, Xiao Lingzi hurriedly ran away with several guards.
After a while, the palace maids came to Leng Yu trembling, knelt on the ground, and waited for him to start lecturing.
Leng Yu looked at these people, raised his hand and pointed at the corpse lying on the ground, and suddenly asked in a stern voice:
"Do you recognize that person?"
These people all looked up, but only two of them replied without even looking up:
"No, I don't recognize him."
Hearing this, Leng Yu's face suddenly turned cold. He winked at Xiao Lingzi. Xiao Lingzi and Xiao Ningzi stepped forward together, grabbed the collars of the two men, brought them to the corpse, held their heads, and asked coldly,
"Take a good look at this person. Do you recognize him? Think carefully before you speak. If you dare to lie, I'll make you lose your head."
As soon as Xiao Lingzi finished speaking, one of the young eunuchs suddenly rolled his eyes, fell directly on the corpse and fainted.
Seeing this, Little Gemini reached out to feel his breath, then frowned, looked up at Little Lingzi and shook his head, "What a coward! He's dead."
Xiao Lingzi was stunned for a moment, then he reluctantly pulled the man up and threw him aside, then turned back to Leng Yu and said:
"My Lord, I am so scared that I am dead."
Hearing this, Leng Yu's face suddenly turned pale, and his handsome eyes were as cold as a pond, making people dare not look directly at them.
He pointed at the other man violently and demanded, "Since you've scared one to death, just throw this one into the river."
Hearing this, the man was so frightened that he wet his pants and kept begging for mercy, "Your Majesty, please spare my life, Your Majesty, please spare my life."
Xiao Ningzi ignored his pleas for mercy and simply grabbed his collar and prepared to throw him into the pool.
The young eunuch suddenly blurted out,
"I'll tell you, I'll tell you."
Hearing this, Xiao Ningzi glanced at Leng Yu, and at his instruction, threw the man in front of Leng Yu.
Looking down at the trembling eunuch on the ground, Leng Yu raised his voice and asked loudly,
"Tell me! What do you know?"
The young eunuch trembled, pointed at the two dead men with a shaking finger, and replied timidly:
"We... the three of us were all working as errand boys in the imperial kitchen. On the night before New Year's Eve, when I went to the toilet, I overheard... overheard their... their conversation."
"What did they say?"
Leng Yu swung her clothes and sat on the chair that Xiao Gemini had just moved over, looking at him with anger in her eyes.
The young eunuch didn't dare to raise his head, and replied with all his strength:
"They said... they said someone asked them... asked them to go... to the outhouse near the Baohedian Hall to do something. After they succeeded... after they succeeded, they would receive a large sum of money and someone would send... send them out of the palace."
Leng Yu's brows tightened as he stared, and his voice became unusually sharp.
"Who are you talking about? Those two people?"
The young eunuch lowered his head and replied in a trembling voice:
"No, it's the man who died in the lotus pond and the other man."
"Where is that person?"
The young eunuch shook his head in horror, "I don't... I don't know. Since the first day of the new year, I... I haven't seen him."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone came over and reported:
"Your Highness, another male corpse was found over there. Like this corpse, it has been soaked in water and has lost its human form."
Hearing this, Leng Yu's face suddenly darkened like an inexorable cloud. He bit his lip, clenched his fists, and replied word by word:
"Carry it here."
As soon as he finished speaking, the body that had just been discovered was brought before everyone. Leng Yu pointed at the body and asked the eunuch in front of him:
"Is he the other one?"
The young eunuch shivered and looked up, then nodded heavily, "Yes...it's him. We entered the palace together, even if he turned into ashes, I would recognize him."
Hearing his answer, Leng Yu's brows were immediately twisted together. He looked sad, with a deep and unfathomable look in his eyes.
He knew that the two men's deaths were definitely not accidental, but someone was afraid that they would tell lies, so they killed them to silence them.
The two people who died suddenly were both handymen in the imperial kitchen. The imperial kitchen was not innocent of this matter, and the Imperial Household Department, which was in charge of the imperial kitchen, was also not innocent of this matter. He must investigate this matter thoroughly.
However, the little eunuch who was frightened to death was somewhat wronged.
"Come! Take the body away and bring the head of the Imperial Kitchen to the Ministry of Punishment. I will personally interrogate him."
After leaving these words, he strode away with a serious expression.
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