After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

This maid was not tall and could only be considered delicate in appearance. She stood behind Murong Lingyi like an ordinary maid, so ordinary that no one noticed her.

Even Xue Changfeng was surprised when there was a maid beside Murong Lingyi, and this maid was very good in martial arts.

Murong Lingyi glanced back at the maid behind him, his expression changed, and then he turned to look at Yan Mu and sneered: "Your Highness, you must be joking. This maid of mine has always been peaceful, how could I possibly poison my mother-in-law!"

Although Xue Changfeng hated Murong Lingyi, he also felt that what she said was reasonable. Just because she knew Chen Xuan, from this point of view, she could not be identified as the murderer.

"How can she, a maid, be so intolerable?" Xue Changfeng looked at Yan Mu at a loss for words, twitching the corners of his mouth and said: "Your Highness, if you can't understand the trial clearly, then don't try it. If the case cannot be solved, find someone who is capable. Someone is here to investigate."

There was a lot of discussion in the court, but no one believed that the maid could be the murderer.

Yan Mu ignored Xue Changfeng, but stared at the maid and shouted: "Don't come forward yet!"

The maid looked at Murong Lingyi timidly, and when her master nodded, she walked forward in small steps and knelt down in the lobby.

Yan Mu's eyes were sharp, "What's your name?"

"He...He'er."

"How big?"

"sixteen."

"Nation?"

"Wei...weizhou."

"On the tenth day of last month, that is, on the afternoon of the day when Mrs. Wuchang Hou was murdered, where were you?"

The maid paused for a moment and said, "I will follow the princess into the palace to pay my respects to the queen."

"Stay in the palace until dinner."

"What time exactly?"

The maid lowered her head and thought for a while, "It's two or three o'clock in the morning."

Yan Mu looked at Murong Lingyi, "Princess Zhaohua, please think carefully about when you left the palace?"

Murong Lingyi frowned and opened her mouth to reply when the eldest princess grabbed her wrist and said, "Listen to your seventh brother and think carefully."

"How could He'er..."

Murong Lingyi didn't finish her words because she felt the eldest princess grabbing her wrist so hard that it even hurt her.

"Whatever your seventh brother asks you, just answer whatever you want, so that you can be innocent." The eldest princess looked at Princess Zhaohua, her eyes deepening.

Murong Lingyi nodded, then pondered for a while, and said with a sigh: "It seems to be Haishi. I was confused and heard the nanny beside the queen say something."

"semi-consciously?"

"The queen stayed with me for dinner. I drank a few glasses of wine with her. I felt a little dizzy, as if I was drunk, so I lay in the palace for a while, that's why I stayed so late."

Yan Mu narrowed his eyes and turned to look at Xue Changfeng, "Mr. Xue, when we had a drink before, you told me that the princess has a good drinking capacity and is as good as you, right?"

Xue Changfeng nodded, "The princess has a good drinking capacity. We both drank."

"So it was just a few glasses of wine, how could the princess get drunk?"

Murong Lingyi was stunned for a moment, "I'm not drunk, I'm just dizzy..."

At this point, Murong Lingyi also noticed something was wrong. How could she feel dizzy when she was fine?

Yan Mu looked at the maid again: "From the time the princess entered the palace to the time she left the palace, you have been by her side and never left her?"

"Slave..."

"You'd better tell the truth, because I can also find someone from Feifeng Palace to verify what you said."

The maid rested her head, and after a moment of silence she said, "No, I felt stuffy in the house, so I wandered outside for a while in the garden."

"The palace is heavily guarded. You said you just took a stroll?"

"..."

Yan Mu snorted coldly and continued: "At around [-]:[-] a.m., Dr. Zhou left the palace in a hurry with his medicine box on his back. Chen Xuan deliberately rushed out and knocked his medicine box over, taking the opportunity to replace the ginseng pills with poison. "

"What's the connection between this?" Xue Changfeng asked puzzledly.

Liu Yunxiang lowered his eyes, already understanding what Yan Mu meant. Murong Lingyi was present at every moment when Mrs. Wuchang Hou was murdered and Chen Xuan committed suicide, so they reasonably suspected her, but in fact, this maid was also present. .

"Princess Zhaohua, why did you suddenly think of taking Aunt Zhou to Ziyun Temple to offer incense?" Yan Mu asked Murong Lingyi.

Murong Lingyi's face changed immediately, "I, I..."

"If you want to harm her, you have many ways to do it. Why do you choose to go to Ziyun Temple?"

This was said so bluntly that Murong Lingyi couldn't bear it for a moment, but now that she admitted it, she wasn't afraid to mention it. On the contrary, Xue Changfeng was unhappy. This was his family matter, even a scandal, and he naturally didn't want to mention it in front of so many people.

"Your Highness, you are rambling here and there. What exactly do you want to ask?"

Yan Mu smiled and said: "When we were drinking, you told me that your wife was jealous and could not tolerate your aunt, so I guessed that your aunt's disappearance might have something to do with Princess Zhaohua."

Xue Changfeng gritted his teeth, "So when you drank with me and talked about reminiscing about old times, it turned out that you were trying to trick me."

Yan Mu coughed dryly and said, "By the way."

"It's a shame that I still have some true feelings for you."

"I will invite you later."

"No need, I don't dare to drink any more of His Highness's wine."

Yan Mu smiled and continued: "So I checked Princess Zhaohua and found that she often went to Ziyun Nunnery, probably to find Aunt Zhou, and later we learned that Dr. Zhou's ginseng pills were replaced with poison The maid of honor is Chen Xuan, and she is in Ziyun Temple. Is this really a coincidence?"

Saying that, Yan Mu looked at Murong Lingyi.

When Murong Lingyi heard that it was related to him again, he had to quickly recall what happened at that time. He couldn't help but widen his eyes as he thought of something, "He'er... He'er said there was no use in getting rid of the child in Aunt Zhou's belly. I want to If the backyard is clean, Aunt Zhou should be killed. She gave me the idea to take Aunt Zhou to Ziyun Temple and kill her on the way."

"The king first suspected that it was the princess, but various signs indicate that this maidservant is more suspicious." Yan Mu said.

Xue Changfeng was still a little confused, "But why didn't she replace Dr. Zhou's ginseng pills herself, but bribed Chen Xuan? This is very risky."

Yan Mu missed Mrs. Chen and asked in a deep voice: "Chen Xuan has only been in the palace for two years, but she built a new house for her family and helped her brother pay off his gambling debts. Am I right?"

Mrs. Chen trembled, "Yes."

"And she only earns two taels a month. You keep forcing her to get money, but you never think about where her money comes from?"

Mrs. Chen lowered her head, "I won't ask."

"You must know!"

"I……"

"You still don't tell the truth in court!"

Mrs. Chen was so frightened that she burped, "She...she stole things from the palace and sold them."

Yan Mu nodded and looked at He'er again, "I guess you happened to bump into Chen Xuan carrying things from the palace that night, so you coerced and induced her to do it for you. Originally, you really planned to do it yourself. If you have someone to do this for you, the risk of your exposure will be much smaller."

"If you still don't tell me honestly, why did you murder Madam Hou?"