Zhao Yunwan sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Lu Dacheng's corpse.
Yan Wei'an stood at the lower end, barely daring to breathe, as he seemed to have touched upon a secret between Physician Lu and the Empress.
If he had known this would happen, he would have informed the Empress first before coming here.
Now, if he doesn't do his job well, he'll lose his head.
Zhao Yunwan felt her mind was in a mess, and she wanted to sort things out but couldn't find a starting point.
On the surface, Lu Dacheng's death was caused by the wound on his abdomen.
However, she knew Lu Dacheng's abilities; only a top-tier expert could disembowel him.
This cut is the same as the cut made by the curse technique used by the Hu tribe of the Great Yue Kingdom.
The purpose is to curse people so that they will never be reincarnated, their souls will never dissipate, and they will remain forever in the underworld.
When Zhao Yunwan first learned about this technique, she pestered Lu Dacheng to teach her.
But Lu Dacheng said he didn't know how either, and besides, it was better not to learn such unorthodox and immoral practices.
Is this woman actually from the Hu tribe?
However, the Hu tribe was framed by their teacher, who then wiped out the entire clan.
Did the teacher only put on that show for this woman?
However, all the signs at hand indicate that the wound on Lu Dacheng's stomach was inflicted by this woman who looked almost exactly like him.
Medicine was also poured into the wound.
She couldn't tell what kind of medicine it was.
All that is known is that the drug's components also left residue in the woman's mouth.
Zhao Yunwan had always known that Lu Dacheng had a room in the underground city of the West Market used for alchemy.
That year, she and he set up a Five Elements and Eight Trigrams formation around this house, which was only as sturdy as the palace's and no less powerful.
Why was it still broken?
If the formation here can be broken, then the formation in the imperial palace is just for show, right?
With her teacher dead, she lost her greatest support. What to do next, how to do it—no one was there to teach her anymore.
Suddenly, there was a commotion outside.
A woman rushed in.
"Mother!" Zhao Yunwan exclaimed in surprise and delight upon seeing the person who had arrived.
"Mother, when did you come back?" Zhao Yunwan rushed into Huangfu Chuying's arms.
"Upon arriving in the capital, I heard people on the street talking about the death of the imperial physician Lu Dacheng, so I quickly asked where he was and came to check."
Huangfu Chuying looks very young and is well-maintained.
When Yan Wei'an saw that it was the Prime Minister's wife who had come, he quickly stepped forward to curry favor with her.
"Yan Wei'an, Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, greets Madam."
Huangfu Chuying simply hummed in response with her nose.
Then he walked to Lu Dacheng's body.
Taking a pair of gloves from her bosom, Zhao Yunwan was delighted to see her mother's action.
Huangfu Chuying's methods of using poison were more sophisticated than hers, and she was also more talented.
They also spent more time at Yuexing Gate.
This time, she left the capital for a year under the pretext of returning to her hometown to pay respects to her ancestors, which meant she went into seclusion at Yuexingmen.
Huangfu Chuying groped around Lu Dacheng's corpse.
The movement stopped when it touched Lu Dacheng's head.
He then pulled a dagger from his pocket.
Shave off the hair on the top of Lu Dacheng's head.
I could only see a red dot the size of a pinhole, and I couldn't feel anything unusual when I touched the scalp in that area.
Huangfu Chuying pulled a hairpin from her hair.
Inside this hairpin is a silver needle.
Then, Zhao Yunwan saw her mother use a silver needle to prick the small red dot.
Then use a magnifying glass to look for clues.
Still no useful findings.
Huangfu Chuying tried to probe the small red dot with a silver needle.
However, the silver needle was blocked by the skull after only piercing the scalp.
Huangfu Chuying was already certain that this place was Lu Dacheng's fatal blow.
Looking at Lu Dacheng's limbs again, there were signs that they had been bound, and then he contacted the woman lying next to him.
She knew her senior brother had some quirks, but she never expected him to die in such a way.
"Wan'er, the capital is buzzing with rumors that the imperial physician Lu Dacheng died in bed with a woman who looks eight-tenths like the Empress. You must hurry back to the palace and have the Imperial Guards help deal with these rumors."
"As for other things, don't be afraid with your mother here."
Zhao Yunwan breathed a sigh of relief.
They had no choice but to obey and return first.
After putting on the veil, he led Yinghong away from the West Market Underground City at top speed.
"Lord Yan, I will hand over the evidence I have found in a moment. Please use the evidence to apprehend the murderer."
"Thank you, Madam Zhao."
"However, Madam Zhao, there is still a thorny issue."
"What is it?"
"Fifteen beautiful young girls, all around fifteen years old, were found here, covered in wounds, including whip marks and knife marks."
"Some of the girls said they were lured here and were kept here by Physician Lu, who drained their blood every day to make pills."
"Did anyone hear them when they said those things?"
"Others?"
"Did anyone from Li Ting's side hear this?" Huangfu Chuying thought Yan Weian was exceptionally stupid. How could her daughter have helped such a person become the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review?
Yan Wei'an thought about it carefully.
How could he know which of them were on Li Ting's side?
I could only say, "It seems like there's no one else here."
However, among the crowd were servants of the Minister of Personnel and servants of the Censorate.
Both of them reported what they had heard and seen in the West Market to their parents.
Minister of Personnel Wang Jiyue immediately contacted Li Ting and sent people to protect the fifteen girls.
Li Ziqi of the Censorate was busy at home impeaching the head of the Imperial Medical Academy, saying that the Southern Chen Kingdom did not deserve to investigate the case for him.
He deserved to die.
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