The naughty and cowardly little crybaby sold himself out

When Jing Muyang and Chu Jian returned to the camp, Eunuch Liu was standing not far away waiting for them, and the atmosphere in the camp was a bit tense.

"What happened?" Chu Jian asked him.

"Princess, the Emperor has summoned you. Just go over and you'll know. Everyone is here." Eunuch Liu narrowed his eyes.

Jing Muyang roughly knew that it must be the Liu family who found the powder in the forest.

When they arrived, the other princes had already arrived.

"Ninth brother, you seemed to be having a lot of fun, but you didn't even report your whereabouts when you went out. We couldn't even find you." The fifth prince said sarcastically.

"Father, I was teaching the princess how to ride a horse, and I ran away for a moment."

"Father, I have learned how to ride a horse!" Chu Jian said excitedly.

"Have you learned to ride a horse? Princess Zhan, don't joke. Even a man can't learn it in one day." The Fifth Prince didn't believe it. In fact, no one believed it. He was too impressed by the clumsy look of the man when he first saw him mounting a horse yesterday.

"What a joke I was about to tell, Eunuch Liu just saw it!" Chu Jian was so angry that she wondered why the Fifth Prince Jing Muhao always targeted her.

"Your Majesty, I did see Princess Zhan riding a horse with Prince Zhan back. Although it was a little slow, it looked quite professional." Eunuch Liu took over the conversation with a smile.

"Oh? It's the first time I meet you, girl. You are quite brave!" The emperor's dissatisfaction was relieved a little. He had indeed been waiting for Jing Muyang for a long time.

"Xiaojiu, take a look." The emperor motioned to Eunuch Liu to lift the white cloth beside him. There were several corpses underneath, and their outer clothes had been stripped off. "Several soldiers did not return to the team yesterday. These were found in a hidden place outside the city."

Jing Muyang went forward to check, "The wound looks like it was caused by a scimitar, the method used by the Nanbang people."

"Yes, Lord Liu sent people to find this in the woods near the body today." The Eighth Prince had someone hand the powder to him to see. "This is the secret medicine of the Nanbang people. It can make people or animals go crazy. Xiaojiu, were all the prey you shot yesterday in a state of madness?"

"It seems a bit. It happened so suddenly. They were chasing after Ruyi, and I had the princess to protect. After I shot them, they immediately went to find Miss Liu, and then came back directly. I didn't observe them carefully, and I thought you deliberately drove away the frightened animals."

Jing Muyang carefully examined the powder handed over by the Eighth Prince.

"Father, I have come across this powder before in Nanbang. Although it can drive animals crazy, it won't last long. Since Lord Liu and the Ministry of Justice are investigating, I suggest Lord Liu check the direction the beasts came from. The people nearby should know more."

"We were just talking about this. Yesterday, the Fifth Prince and the Sixth Prince were nearby, then the Fourth Prince, and finally you. The rest of us stayed far away." Lord Li from the Ministry of Justice took over the conversation.

"I was preparing to go back yesterday, when suddenly a group of beasts jumped out. I knew I was powerless to fight them, so I heard someone calling for help while I was hiding, and then I went to check." The Fourth Prince had an injured leg and could only sit.

"Yes, my daughter and Ruyi couldn't keep up with the team, so we got separated from them. I took them for a walk on the outskirts, but unexpectedly we ran into them suddenly and couldn't avoid them. If the Fourth Prince hadn't come to help, I'm afraid my daughter and I would have died." Lord Liu is still scared.

"Your Majesty, my horse was frightened at the time, and took me running wildly. We ran for a long distance before we met the King of War." Li Ruyi added.

"In this case, fifth brother and sixth brother should know more than us. Don't you notice anything up there?" Jing Muyang looked at the two men.

“How should I know? I was indeed close, but I thought it was Sixth Brother’s men driving the beasts over there. I couldn’t go over and fight him for it. Not only did I not go over, I even walked far away.” The Fifth Prince looked like a dead pig.

“Your Majesty, I had the same idea as my fifth brother. Although I heard the noise, I did not go over.” The Sixth Prince was much more disciplined.

"Alright." The emperor knew that Xiaowu was indifferent to things, and Xiaoliu was afraid of being in charge. They were both the same. "Xiaojiu, where are your men? Why did they return to the camp so late yesterday?"

"Reporting to the Emperor, Qingshan and his companions found some unusual animal tracks when they were walking back, so they checked along the way, but it was getting dark quickly and they didn't find anything. After he came back and reported to me last night, I felt that this matter should be handled by the Ministry of Justice, so I asked him to report to Lord Li of the Ministry of Justice."

Jing Muyang's arrangements were good. It was not appropriate for him to take the initiative to intervene in this matter. After all, he knew it was related to the prince, so he had to avoid suspicion to avoid being accused of deliberately framing him.

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"Mu Yang, this man's fatal injury was not caused by the scimitar." Chu Jian suddenly said this, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

They were all analyzing the situation and no one noticed that Chu Jian was circling around several corpses.

The emperor held his forehead with his hand. After all, she was a princess, how could she have such a hobby? Ruyi was brave enough. She was scared to the point of vomiting after just one look. But this Chujian girl not only came closer to look, but also picked at it! She didn't look like a princess at all!

"Wow, Princess Zhan, you said it's not a scimitar, so it's not a scimitar? Are you more familiar with knife wounds than us?" The Fifth Prince looked at her with contempt.

“He did have many machete marks on his body, and compared to the other people, he had the most wounds, so he must have resisted the most fiercely, but the fatal wound was not caused by the machete.

You can come and take a closer look. The wound from the machete is deep in the middle and shallow at the ends, so the wound is not very long. The fatal wound on the neck is thin and long, neither deep nor shallow, just enough to cut the trachea. It should be a very thin and sharp weapon. For a machete to cause such a long wound, the middle part should be deeper. By this calculation, not only the trachea and throat will be cut, but also one-third of the neck will be broken!"

Jing Muyang frowned and walked forward to check. It was just as he had said at first sight. Moreover, this was the only one among the corpses that had this difference.

"Sir Li, where was this body found?" Jing Muyang asked.

Lord Li and the Eighth Prince also stepped forward and saw what Chu Jian had said.

"These bodies are almost in the same place, but those few are almost together, while this one is alone about 10 to 20 meters away from them. Our theory is that he may have wanted to run, but was caught up." This Lord Li is Li Ruyi's uncle. He is the Taifu's three sons. Two of them are teachers, and the third one is a vice minister in the Ministry of Justice.

"He may have been running, but he was not caught up. Instead, he was killed by another person waiting there!" Chu Jian said bluntly.

"How do you know? You're talking nonsense!" The Fifth Prince retorted to her again.

"Are you stupid? Those murderers were obviously holding machetes! Could it be that they changed knives halfway after catching up with us?" Chu Jian retorted mercilessly.

"I'm not talking about that, but how do you know someone is waiting there!"

"I said you were stupid. You must have been waiting there. It was only 10 to 20 meters away. How could you not hear the sound of fighting? You heard the noise, and found that your people were killed. Did you have the ability not to fight back? You didn't have the ability to run away and didn't report it?

So there is only one possibility, that is, the murderer was watching not far away! He was probably a person of high status and status from Lingyin Country. The guard trusted him very much and ran over here for help, but he never thought that they were in the same group until his death!"

The first meeting left the Fifth Prince speechless.

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