The Chengguo Mansion had already suffered a heavy blow because of the Defei incident, and it had not even been able to meet Prince Yi.
Now in public, Xie Siheng actually wanted to throw dirty water on him!
The back of Prince Chengguo was covered in cold sweat.
Xie Siheng crossed his arms: "If it's not, why are you in such a hurry?"
The Crown Prince's wife forced an unpleasant smile and stepped forward to explain, "I hope Master Xie will not blame me. My parents-in-law have been ill recently and have been bedridden. My husband and I heard that Master Huiji was in the temple today, so we hurried here to burn some incense and pray for their speedy recovery. We didn't expect something like this to happen, and we were in a hurry to go back to take care of our parents, so we were a little worried."
What the Crown Prince's wife said was quite reasonable. Xie Siheng put down his arm, looked at her, and stopped making things difficult for her.
He scanned the crowd with an intimidating look in his eyes. Many people either blinked and dared not look directly at him, or lowered their heads and did not look at him.
Xie Siheng said indifferently: "Today is the day the sky falls! No one can leave. However, I will report what happened here truthfully. I am sure your families will also get the news. Once there is progress, I will let you go. Anyone who dares to cause trouble again will have to go to the Criminal Investigation Department."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone else's expressions changed, and many people were angry but dared not say anything.
Seeing that no one said anything else, Master Huiji sighed and said, "Since that's the case, I hope everyone will hurry up. The small temple doesn't have enough rooms and I'm afraid it can't accommodate so many people."
After saying this, he said no more and took many monks with him to settle down.
Seeing this, Yanyun and Yingtao said something and quickly followed.
Xie Siheng ordered his men to watch the mountain gate and walked towards them. Chuan Qiong followed him with a playful smile.
Wang Kunyao's heart tightened when he saw them coming. He calmly stopped the three of them and said, "Thank you, sir."
Xie Siheng glanced at him, nodded slightly, and walked straight past him.
Wang Kunyao's face froze and he turned around quickly, only to see Xie Siheng standing in front of Ji Changying: "When did you come here?"
Ji Changying was somewhat helpless: "Half an hour ago."
Ji Minghao bowed to Xie Siheng and said, "Thank you, sir. Long time no see."
Xie Siheng returned the greeting: "Mr. Ji, you're too polite." Then he looked at Ji Changying: "Would you like to chat for a few minutes?"
Ji Changying was a little surprised, but it was just a few words and it wasn't a big deal, so she nodded in agreement.
Zheng Xiangyi and Wang Kunyao looked at Ji Minghao in surprise: "Brother Ji, do you know him?"
Ji Minghao smiled and said, "Have you forgotten? It was Lord Xie who escorted us all the way to the capital, so we know each other."
The two of them suddenly realized what was going on. Wang Kunyao looked at Ji Minghao hesitantly, wanting to remind him that the people from the Criminal Investigation Department were not easy to deal with, but when he thought that they were not that familiar with each other yet, he shut up again.
Xie Siheng took Ji Changying away from the crowd and walked towards a slightly secluded place, until they entered a secluded bamboo forest and stopped.
Ji Changying pinched the flowers in her hand boredly: "What do you want to say?"
Xie Siheng looked down at the girl's leisurely appearance and asked seriously, "You said before that you accidentally learned that adding acetic acid to the blood would cause blood incompatibility. Is this true?"
"What else?"
Could she possibly explain to others what chemical phenomena are?
Xie Siheng saw that she was not sincere. "But that's not what I want to ask you. Do you know if there is anything that can cause blood to mix?"
"You don't need anything. It will fuse. In fact, even if you and the person behind you were placed in a bowl of water, your blood would fuse sooner or later."
Ji Changying's words made Chuan Qiong stagger and he almost fell to his knees.
He waved his hands hurriedly: "My lord, I have absolutely nothing to do with you. No, I have absolutely nothing to do with the Marquis of Xuanping... Of course, I have nothing to do with Her Royal Highness the Princess..."
Chuan Qiong always felt that everything he said sounded weird. For a moment, he looked at Ji Changying with some despair: "Princess! How can you talk nonsense!"
Seeing Chuan Qiong panicking and looking at her with a resentful expression, Ji Changying had to explain again:
"... What I mean is, even if two people are not related by blood, their blood will eventually mix. There's no need to add anything!"
Xie Siheng clenched his hands involuntarily: "Is that really the case?"
Ji Changying spread his hands: "If you don't believe me, you can always ask someone else to give it a try."
For things like this, you can tell whether it's true or not by trying it out. There's no need to deceive people.
Chuan Qiong opened his mouth in disbelief.
If this were true, all his knowledge over the years would be overturned!
Could it be that all the methods passed down over the years are fake?
Xie Siheng knew what was going on and changed the subject, "It was Concubine De who added acetic acid to the water and released the strange beast from Piaomiao Garden."
Ji Changying raised her eyebrows: "Do you have both evidence and witnesses?"
"Although the evidence and witnesses all point to Concubine De, there are still some things that I can't justify. The strange beasts that were released were all poisoned with a drug that humans can't smell, but makes animals very irritable when they smell it."
Ji Changying's face, which had been seemingly indifferent to hearing, suddenly became extremely serious: "This method sounds familiar to me. I encountered this kind of thing in Liangzhou."
Xie Siheng nodded: "Yes, it's the method used by those people in the previous dynasty. I heard it from Mr. Huang."
After keeping an eye on Concubine De and Duke Cheng's Mansion for so long, if these people had any connection with the previous dynasty, it would be impossible that there would be no trace at all.
Xie Siheng was more inclined to believe that someone was deliberately muddying the waters.
Ji Changying frowned with some disgust: "Why are they here again? They are so disgusting!"
As long as it's something related to her mother, these people are like a thorn in her side, popping up from time to time to disgust her.
When her mother didn't know her own life story, these people went to the Ji family to look for the jade pendant and ended up killing people when they failed. People like Liu Ma and Liu Shugen were all related to the previous dynasty.
"You will stay in these two dormitories tonight. Tomorrow, I will let you go home after I have investigated the cause of Yongle Earl's death."
"There's no peace in the temple. It's best not to come out unless necessary."
"Also, don't come here if you don't have anything to do."
Ji Changying wanted to ask a few more questions, but saw that he had already left with Chuan Qiong.
She originally wanted to ask in detail about the situation in the palace, but when she saw that the person had left, she gave up.
The moment she turned around, she saw a figure flash by out of the corner of her eye. She turned her head in shock and was about to take a closer look when Zheng Xiangyi and the others ran over.
Yanyun's face was filled with joy. "Originally, Yingtao and I arrived a little late and didn't get to the dormitory. I didn't expect that, thanks to Mr. Xie's care, a room had already been reserved for the princess!"
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