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Xiaoqing looked and felt that it was a bit strange, so she asked Chief Steward Zhao Bao.

”Why is Miss's room missing half a door?”

With a glance, Zhao Bao knew that even though this woman was a servant, she was still esteemed wangfei's personal maidservant. Moreover, it looked like she had a very close relationship with esteemed wangfei. Thus, he respectfully replied, ”Reporting to this mistress, this is the case.”

Zhao Bao told them that the Zhao Family's Miss's door was originally intact. However, the day before the accident, the door must have fallen down due to the passage of time, so someone came to repair it. However, when he woke up the next day, he found the young miss of the Zhao Family lying on the ground. The door was also gone.

Xiaoqing thought, there must be something fishy about this. But as matters stood, the young miss of the Zhao Family was dead, and Chang Yu, the only person who knew of the matter, was also dead. Thus, this matter had become an unsolved case.

Xiaoqing thought for a while and realized that she couldn't make sense of the situation, so she stopped thinking about it. She turned to look at other places, just as she was thinking. ”Huh?” Little White was surprised.

Everyone turned to look at Little White. Little White felt a little shy, so he lowered his head and no longer said anything.

”Xiaobai, what's wrong?” Luo Lingwei asked.

Little White cupped his hands together. ”To reply Empress, this servant only felt that the water in the pond was a little bit red, and felt that it was a little strange.”

Luo Lingwei and the others stepped forward to take a look. The water in the pond was indeed a little bit red and smelly.

Perception told Luo Lingwei that there was something fishy going on here.

”Someone, dig the bottom of this pond.” Luo Lingwei instructed.

The servants who were standing aside immediately went to find hoes and buckets to scoop up water to dig the pond. They dug the pond out in a matter of seconds.

At this moment, the small pond had turned into a small depression that was filled with mud.

After digging for a while, they found a hand that was already beginning to rot. The hand had been in the water for days, so the flesh was white and swollen. When Luo Lingwei saw this, she couldn't help but think of her favorite pickled pepper, the phoenix claw. She felt her stomach churn as she quickly walked out of the small courtyard. She couldn't hold it in any longer, spitting out all of the breakfast in her stomach in an instant.

In this side chamber, other than Little White, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and the others, everyone else felt their throats tighten. They couldn't help but run out of the residence and start vomiting.

This place was a garden outside the back garden. Originally, the fragrance of the flowers should have assaulted his nostrils, but now they all had a fishy smell.

Luo Lingwei no longer had the courage to go to the courtyard and observe. After instructing Xiaoqing and the others to be more careful, she sat down in a pavilion in the back garden, attended by a few maids from outsider Zhao.

At this moment, Little Qing and the others were still carefully inspecting the corpse. As the corpse was in the depression, it was not easy to examine it, so Xiaoqing ordered a few servants to move it to a bluestone path.

At this moment, Xiaoqing was deep in thought as she looked at the pond. As for Little White, it squatted down and wrapped its delicate hands with a silk handkerchief to examine the corpse.