Chapter 50 (2/2)

“Your Ladyship, you are underestimating His Majesty’s wisdom,” Chu Ling Xiao says again.

Mo Qi Qi glares at him indignantly, “What?  Are you unwilling to help bengong?  Aiya, why is the weather so hot today?” she fans her collar over.

Chu Ling Xiao immediately panics, “I will!  How can this official not help?” Despite that, he still gives Mo Qi Qi’s neck an interested glance.

Mo Qi Qi immediately tightens her collar, “What are you looking at?”

Chu Ling Xiao laughs rottenly, “Everyone says that Yang Guifei is prettier and more beautiful than you, but from how this official sees it, Your Ladyship is prettier than her.”

Mo Qi Qi arrogantly raises her nose, “Be gone with these honeyed woods, bengong is fool-proof to them.  Remember your promise.  If you dare to sell bengong out, bengong will let you see!” Then, she points at his man part.

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Chu Ling Xiao covers it while panicking.

Mo Qi Qi laughs conceitedly, “Alright, bengong knows the Prime Minister is busy.  Bengong will not keep you for long, you can see yourself out!” Now that the thing that has been worrying her has been settled, she sits in her phoenix seat in relief, drinking a fine tea.

When Chu Ling Xiao goes to Jun Qian Che’s imperial study to report the result of the autopsy, he purposely leaves out the miscarriage part.

“So that is how it goes, Your Majesty.  Although the empress did meet Dong Fei before her death and ordered her to be hit 20 times, the hits were not enough to cause her death.  There is another reason to Dong Fei’s death.”

Jun Qian Che calmly asks while criticizing a memorial, “Is there anything else you need to add, Prime Minister?”

Chu Ling Xiao thinks for a while: There is something that he purposely omitted when talking with Mo Qi Qi earlier on; there are three fingerprints on Dong Fei’s back.  Based on his investigation on Mo Qi Qi, she knows the Three-Fingertips Arts.  If she pressed three fingers on another person’s body, it will potentially kill the other person.  Dong Fei’s death seems to be caused by that.  He did not question her about it back in Feng Yang Palace because he planned on directly reporting it to the emperor, later.  But now, he suddenly hesitates.  It is not because he fears Mo Qi Qi’s threat; he simply has the sudden desire to hide that matter.

After a moment of hesitation, he respectfully replies, “That is all that this official manage to investigates.”

The brush on Jun Qian Che’s hand suddenly stops.  He slowly raise his eyes as his dark pupils gives Chu Ling Xiao a look that resembles a piercing arrow.  He slowly speaks, “Prime Minister, what did the Mo Clan or the empress promised you that you dared to commit the crime of deceiving the emperor?”

Chu Ling Xiao is taken aback before he quickly kneels down, “Your Majesty, this official is dull.”

“Dull?  Why does the result that zhen gets is different from the Prime Minister’s?  Zhen heard Dong Fei was two months pregnant before her death.  There are three fingerprints on her back; those are the cause of her death.  The empress practices the Art of the Three Fingerprints.  You did not manage to dig out all that?” His voice is really calm, but it actually gives Chu Ling Xiao goose-b.u.mps.  Even though his relationship with the emperor is normally good, the emperor is still a ruler who is earnest when it comes to duty.  It is very hard to deceive him; if one crosses him, the emperor will definitely disown them even if they are his relatives.  He told her the emperor is hard to deceive; the empress is going to harm him to death this time!