Chapter 734: The murderer behind the scenes (one more) (1/2)
Chapter 734 The real murderer behind the scenes (one more)
Wang Xu stared at Gu Jiao dumbfounded: ”What are you doing for him?”
”Exercising a confession.” Gu Jiao said.
”Can you force a confession with one needle?” Wang Xu expressed his disbelief.
Gu Jiao didn't tell him that it was a hallucinogen, so as to prevent him from over-compensating his brain, thinking that Gu Jiao was manipulating the murderer's confession.
Gu Jiao watched the murderer lie on the ground, her tight body gradually relaxed, and she realized that he had hallucinated.
Don’t let him go too deep, otherwise he will completely lose contact with the outside world and will not hear outside sounds.
Gu Jiao tapped his shoulder with a rolling pin, and said solemnly: “If you don’t want to suffer more, just say quickly, who is the murderer?”
Gu Jiao stunned her a long time ago, and she didn't hear the news until Wang Xu came over to let Wang Xu hear the murderer's name.
The murderer did not struggle too much and honestly confessed.
However, the name he confessed was not the person Gu Jiao and Gu Changqing thought.
”Who is Li Ping?” Gu Jiao asked Wang Xu.
Wang Xu thought for a while: ”He shouldn't be talking about Li Ping, but Li 嫔, the empress in the palace.”
In order to confirm his guess, Wang Xu asked him some details of Li's instructions.
He is in a state of chaos right now, but he will speak out whatever he remembers in his head.
Judging from the testimony confessed, it was indeed the harem's Li that instructed him to assassinate Shangguan Yan.
Why did you want to kill Shangguanyan? Li Yan didn't tell him that Li Yan had nothing to do with him, but accidentally broke his affair with a court lady.
In the Dayan Palace, it is forbidden to eat the eunuchs and maids, and being found is a capital crime.
Li Yan used this as a threat and asked him to help himself get rid of Shangguanyan.
”Did Li Bian and Shangguanyan have a holiday?” Gu Jiao asked.
Wang Xu was silent.
Li Yan has only been in the palace for a few years. Shangguanyan was imprisoned in the imperial tomb more than ten years ago, and there was no intersection between the two.
It is impossible to talk about the festival.
But Wang Xu’s silence was not because of this, but...Li Yan was very close to a concubine in the harem.
Gu Jiao looked at Wang Xu: ”Who?”
Wang Xu said solemnly: ”Wan Fei.”
Wanfei, whose family name is Mu, is the mother and daughter of Mu Qingchen, and is sister of Mu Qingchen's mother.
Li 嫔 was helpless in the harem. At the beginning, his life was very difficult. It was after the big tree, Wanfei, that he changed from a small dress to the current Li 嫔.
Gu Jiao was puzzled: ”Concubine Wan and Shangguanyan have a holiday?”
”There are festivals.” Wang Xu sighed. ”That was because Shangguan Yangang brought the one-year-old emperor grandson back to Shengdu. Concubine Wan whispered to her servants in private, saying who knows if the child was picked up outside. Shangguanyan, who was still a princess at the time, heard of the wild species. Shangguanyan was still unwilling to slap Wanfei, so she punished Wanfei on her knees in the imperial garden to try to emulate you. At that time, Wanfei was not a concubine. It's Wanbi, but it's shameful.”
Gu Jiao touched her chin: ”The prince has such great power.”
Wang Xu said: “With the support of the Xuanyuan Queen and the Xuanyuan family, her power is of course great, and besides, she is the only daughter, and under the emperor, she is the most noble one.”
is like the style of Xuanyuan family.
From this point of view, Shangguanyan is very protective of Xiao Qing.
Gu Jiao said: ”It's useless for us to guess here. Whether Li Yu was instigated by the concubine, I have to ask Li Yu.”
Wang Xu deeply agrees: ”I will enter the palace now.”
”Wait.” Gu Jiao stopped him.
”Huh?” Wang Xu was taken aback.
Gu Jiao pointed to his arm: ”Your injury.”
”Ah, this.” Wang Xu even forgot that he was still injured. He suddenly felt uncomfortable, and coughed slightly, ”It's not a serious injury.”
That being said, when Gu Jiao walked towards him with the first aid kit, he half-pushed and half-placed and handed her arm over.
Gu Jiao took out the cotton swab with iodophor from the first aid kit, handled it for him, and sewed three stitches.
It doesn’t hurt at all because of the anaesthetic.
Wang Xu glanced at Gu Jiao with a complicated expression, and his heart was moved: ”Much, thank you.”
Gu Jiao stretched out her hand: ”One or two silver.”
Wang Xu: ”……”
……
After Wang Xu gave the silver, he took the murderer back to the captain's mansion with a black face.
Looking at the back of the two of them going away, Gu Changqing asked: ”He is the murderer, right?”
He was referring to the eunuch.
Gu Jiao said, “It’s him. I have seen the back of his right hand. There is a crescent-shaped scar that Shang Guanyan said.”
Shangguanyan woke up for a while. Gu Jiao took the opportunity to ask her about the murderer. Shangguanyan didn't see the murderer clearly, but she grabbed the murderer's hand and touched the scar on the back of his hand.
Gu Changqing’s eyes were deep: ”It's not Han Guifei.”
Yes, they all thought that this time the main ambassador must be the prince and concubine.
……
Wang Xu took the murderer back to the captain's mansion, imprisoned the murderer, and hurriedly reported to the monarch.
The monarch asked Zhang Dequan to bring Li Bing over, but Zhang Dequan only brought back Li Bing’s news: ”Your Majesty, Li Bing committed suicide.”
After getting permission from the monarch, Wang Xu borrowed a very experienced work from the Ministry of Criminal Justice, carefully inspected Li's body, and determined that Li's suicide was not strangled or killed and then hanged up.
The clues that were finally obtained were broken all at once.
Without people, we can only start with Li Yan’s belongings and the people around her.
After a whole night of severe torture to extract a confession, a little **** finally couldn't stand it, confessing that Li Yan had asked him to go to the bank to deposit a bank note, totaling three thousand taels.
Li's salary for a year is only three hundred taels. Ten years of not eating or drinking can be enough to save this money. The problem is that she hasn't been here for ten years. less.
I'm struggling, where can I still have money?
Wan Fei, who was close to Li Yan, became the first object of suspicion.
Wan Fei shouted injustice, saying that she had never given Li Yan the silver, but after the monarch severely tortured the court lady **** next to Wan Fei, a little court lady confessed the truth.
The silver was indeed given by Princess Wan, no more, no less, just three thousand taels.