Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

After Xiao Wuniang finished speaking, she found that Li Mingda had been looking at her speechless, and called softly, "Your lord, but what did I say wrong?"

Li Mingda blinked his eyes, but his eyes still stayed on Xiao Wuniang with scrutiny.Xiao Wuniang also felt the unkindness in Li Mingda's gaze, she turned her head uncomfortably, and looked elsewhere, trying to avoid colliding with Li Mingda's gaze.

"You're a smart man, we don't have to go around the corner."

Xiao Wuniang suddenly looked at Li Mingda suspiciously, "Troubleshooting? The princess came up and told me that she suspected that my elder brother was the murderer. How could it be considered a trickery? The princess is a straightforward person, and Wuniang is not bad. The princess will answer truthfully whatever she asks." But I don't believe that my second brother would do anything to instigate murder."

Li Mingda sneered, and turned his eyes to look at Xiao Wuniang, wanting to see how long she was going to pretend, "You have always admired your second brother, and you have learned to praise him several times before. Now that she is wronged, you can do it too." Standing so firmly on his side and trusting him so firmly, I think your second brother would feel very relieved to hear what you said just now."

"It's natural. I've always been proud of my second brother. He's my best brother." Xiao Wuniang puffed up her chest slightly, showing a proud look, and then she kowtowed to Li Mingda, "So I'm still Please, princess, thoroughly investigate this case and prove my elder brother's innocence, he must have been wronged."

"Then you say he was wronged, do you have evidence?" Li Mingda asked.

Xiao Wuniang was stunned, and said falteringly: "I don't know, I just learned about this from the princess, so there is no evidence, but I believe in my second brother's character, he would not have done such a thing. kind of people."

"You know very well that it is useless to defend yourself on this ground."

"But what should I say? Do I want to say that my second brother is a murderer? I am his sister, so I naturally believe him." Xiao Wuniang said a little annoyed.

"I plead innocent as my own sister, of course I don't believe it. But if you tell the truth and admit that you did those things yourself, the second brother you admire may be rescued." Li Mingda narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at Xiao Wuniang.

Xiao Wuniang was startled when she heard the words, then moved her eyes, and looked at Li Mingda with a shocked expression: "Princess, I didn't hear wrong, did you just say that I... am the murderer?"

"That's right." Seeing that Xiao Wuniang was still pretending to be stupid, Li Mingda smiled at her.

"Princess, what time is it now? My second elder brother is being imprisoned wrongly, so stop joking with Wu Niang." Xiao Wu Niang lowered her eyelids, her eyelashes trembling slightly, pitifully.

"You know that I'm a measured person, would I casually joke with you at a time like this?" Li Mingda asked back.

Xiao Wuniang frowned, her expression froze for a moment, she raised her eyes suddenly, and looked at Li Mingda in shock: "Could the princess really think that I'm a murderer? This... this... this... how is this possible?" I, a weak woman, instigated these unknown people to kill for no reason!"

"That's what I was going to ask you today." Li Mingda said.

"It's too wronged, how would I know, the princess really believes that I am a murderer, right? Why do I still think you are joking with me?" Xiao Wuniang looked at Li Mingda incredulously.

"Are you kidding me? Just wait and see."

Li Mingda immediately ordered Xiao Wuniang to be taken to the Department of Mirrors, and her entourage was also taken away.Everything was done quietly, without making a fuss.

Xiao Wuniang was not calm all the way, talking about being wronged. After arriving at the Department of Mirrors, she struggled to run to Li Mingda, her attitude was not as respectful as before, and she wanted to argue with Li Mingda.

"The princess is the most beloved princess of Jinyang by the sage, but she can't do whatever she wants and wrong people casually! I want to see my father, I want to see the sage, and I want to cry for injustice!"

"You can't see anyone now, except me. First explain clearly to me, and the matter will be over." Li Mingda said

"Oh, my heart is cold. It's useless that I respect the princess very much, and treat the princess as my best friend with all my heart and soul. I really never imagined that there would be such a day that I would be wronged by my good sister as a murderer. Moreover, he is a murderer who instigated several murderers." Xiao Wuniang's eyes were full of disappointment, and her face was full of anger, it seemed that she had really been wronged and humiliated.

Tian Hanshan looked at Xiao Wuniang who was under trial coldly, with a scorpion head and crescent eyebrows, almond eyes watery, and a delicate melon-seeded face that surpassed the beauty of hibiscus.Looking at her demeanor, she is also the first class among the daughters of the aristocratic family.This is a serious look that no one can't help loving when they see it!

Indeed, as Xiao Wuniang herself said, could a delicate and weak woman like her be a murderer?Even if he saw it with his own eyes now, Tian Hanshan still couldn't imagine what it would be like for a woman like Xiao Wuniang to kill someone.

Tian Hanshi went to join his princess. He was a little nervous, worried that the princess made a wrong judgment this time and wronged Xiao Wuniang.This is a big deal, the princess moved the Xiao brothers and sisters all of a sudden, and Xiao Yu is not a good person, if Xiao Yu really started making trouble in the court, he would not care about anyone's face, even the face of the saint would not be good-looking .

"You still look like an ordinary Xiao Wuniang, who dares to love and hate, and loves to talk." Li Mingda concluded.

Xiao Wuniang blushed and looked at Li Mingda, "I don't understand, what does the princess mean?"

"Your real appearance should be calmer and smarter." Li Mingda said.

Xiao Wuniang lowered her eyes, "I don't understand what the princess is saying, I am me, and I am what I am now."

"Four years ago, you practiced in the lotus temple, and you disappeared for half a year. What's the reason?" Li Mingda asked.

Xiao Wuniang was stunned, and then recalled: "I am not like those delicate and noble girls in other people's homes. I just changed my place to live, and nothing changed in my daily life. I just changed to live in a Taoist temple. Days. I became a monk. I really practiced and lived a poor life. Later, my father had an accident. Because I lost my identity and naturally didn’t pay much attention to it, I went out with my master to travel and practice. I was traveling with her. For half a year, Master Qing He can testify for me, you can go to Lotus Temple to ask Aunt Qing He."

"On the way, I hope the result will be as you said, and I hope that my Taoist nun will not have any accidents." Li Mingda said.

Xiao Wuniang sneered, "Can there be any accidents? I am upright, and I am not afraid of investigation."

"That's right, the murderer had a premeditated and planned attack, so it's strange not to make some preparations in advance. But I believe that as long as the murderer commits a crime, even if there is a fake alibi, there must be many flaws in it. A fake is a fake. It’s not true, it can definitely be exposed.”

Xiao Wuniang stared at Li Mingda with wide eyes, "The princess thinks that I must be the murderer? Why do you look at me like this? Do I look bloodthirsty and cruel?"

Li Mingda ignored Xiao Wuniang, too lazy to waste time cooperating with Xiao Wuniang to continue acting, and immediately went to order his subordinates: "Go and call Xiao Kai."

Xiao Wuniang's expression changed slightly, and when she saw Xiao Kai who was being brought up, she hurriedly greeted him and asked how he was doing.

Xiao Kai was very surprised to see his sister here, and asked why.

Li Mingda patted the gavel, not allowing the two to talk.The two shut up immediately, and one looked at Li Mingda in doubt and the other angrily.

"I asked you, you just need to answer yes or no, can you hear clearly?" Li Mingda said to Xiao Kai.

Xiao Kai nodded.

"Keep your eyes straight ahead, look at Fang Shizi, and don't look anywhere else." Li Mingda added.

Xiao Kai agreed.

"The day before Ji Wang died, that is, the day we began to suspect that Ji Wang was the murderer of the corpse case, did you tell your sister about it?"

Xiao Kai was stunned, and turned to look at Xiao Wuniang.

Tian Hanshu immediately reminded him not to watch.Xiao Kai just remembered, and quickly turned his head back.

When Li Ming was holding it, he kept observing Xiao Wuniang's expression. She raised her chin slightly, and although her lips were tightly closed, the flesh around the corners of her mouth still couldn't restrain it from rising.

"No." Xiao Kai replied.

"It's important, you can't lie." Fang Yizhi warned Xiao Kai.

Xiao Kai sincerely stated that he did not lie.Xiao Kai knew that his fifth sister loved to gossip, so he didn't have any more thoughts about this question, and only thought that the princess was worried that the news would be passed from his mouth to his sister and then leaked out.

Thinking about Xiao Wuniang's well-informed news, Li Mingda suddenly understood something, and said with emotion: "I should have thought that the news might not have come from you."

Xiao Kai looked at Li Mingda puzzled, not quite understanding what she meant.

"Three or four years ago, your younger sister became a monk in Lotus Temple, and you later followed Master Wudao to practice in True Cloud Temple. The distance between the two is not too far, did you meet each other during the period?" Li Mingda asked again.

"Yes, I've seen it four or five times." Xiao Kai said.

"Tell me about the approximate time." Fang Yizhi said immediately.

Xiao Kai then said the approximate time.These four or five meetings were all after the murderer left Wutou Mountain, that is, after Xiao Wuniang's "Yunyou" returned.

"Do you know about your sister and Taoist Qinghe's outing?" Li Mingda asked again.

Xiao Kai was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at Xiao Wuniang again, and shook his head by the way.Xiao Kai couldn't help but ask Xiao Wuniang, "Have you been out wandering for half a year?"

Xiao Wuniang pursed her lips and nodded, "Because it's been a long time, and I was afraid that my parents and brothers would worry, so I didn't say anything."

"It's too dangerous for you to go out with only a Taoist nun as a girl." Xiao Kai sighed that Xiao Wuniang was too reckless back then.

Li Mingda patted the gavel.

Xiao Kai shivered in fright, and then remembered the princess' warning just now, not allowing him to talk to Xiao Wuniang casually.

"Princess, can I ask a question?" Xiao Kai asked tentatively. He really wanted to know why all the questions he just raised were related to his sister, and what did it have to do with the case.

"Not now, let's talk about it later." Li Mingda asked Xiao Kai again, "On the morning of April 28, which is the morning of Ji Wang's death, were you at home?"

"Yes, I'm at home. By the way, many people can do this. Many servants in my family have seen me. Does this prove that I am not a murderer?" Xiao Kai suddenly became happy.

"It's hard to prove, because the time of Ji Wang's death is presumed to be in the morning, including an hour before dawn. At that time, most people are sleeping alone, and so are you." Fang Yi said straight.

"Ah!" Xiao Kai looked disappointed.

"Then where is your fifth sister, is she there?" Li Mingda continued to ask.

"My fifth sister?" Xiao Kai was puzzled, and turned to look at Xiao Wuniang again. At this time, Tian Hanshan conjured a big fan out of nowhere, and spread it directly to block Xiao Kai's left side, just to avoid it. He went to see Xiao Wuniang.

Xiao Kai had no choice but to turn his head around, and said to Li Mingda: "I don't know about this. When I made my father's confession, I didn't see my fifth sister. Maybe she was sleeping in. To tell you the truth, my younger sister loves sleeping in."

After Xiao Kai finished speaking half-jokingly, he suddenly realized that this remark might not be very good for a girl's family's reputation, and even made up for it: "You are not allowed to spread it, in fact, when everyone is tired, I prefer to sleep in. "

"Don't worry, these people here are not talking nonsense." Although Li Mingda felt that Xiao Wuniang didn't care whether this sentence was spread or not, he still patiently comforted Xiao Kai.

Xiao Kai nodded, "Look at me, I don't use my brain, I naturally trust you."

"You can't protect yourself, and you still want to care about your sister's reputation." Li Mingda sighed, turned to look at Xiao Wuniang, and asked her if she felt guilty.

"Why do you say that?" Xiao Kai shuddered. Before he wondered why the princess kept asking questions around her sister, but now that he heard this sentence again, the vague premonition in his heart finally became clear, but he thought about it rationally. It seemed impossible, "Do you think my sister is the real murderer behind the scenes? This... this is too... how is this possible!"

"How can it be impossible, do you still remember Shi Hongyu's case?" Fang Yi asked directly.

Xiao Kai was stunned, "But... but..."

Xiao Kai wanted to say that her sister was different, but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly realized that he was her elder brother, and these words were a bit too convincing.So after babbling, I decided to keep my mouth shut.

"I think there must be some misunderstanding in this. Someone must deliberately target our Xiao family." Xiao Kai immediately raised his doubts.

"Since you said you believed us before, you just need to cooperate with the investigation and wait for the result. No matter what the result is, the explanation we give you must be based on complete evidence and beyond doubt." Li Mingda assured Xiao Kai.

Xiao Kai was stunned again, feeling even more uneasy, and even began to doubt whether the murderer was really his sister.He silently turned his head and looked at Xiao Wuniang.Xiao Wuniang had already shed tears, feeling extremely wronged.

Xiao Kai opened his mouth to coax her, but he heard the princess ordering him to back down.

"Don't be sad, we are not afraid of the princess' words. Anyway, we are innocent and we are not afraid of being investigated." Before leaving, Xiao Kai explained to Xiao Wuniang.

Xiao Wuniang looked at Xiao Kai, nodded obediently, and watched him off.

After Xiao Kai went down, Xiao Wuniang coaxed her eyes and glared at Li Mingda, "What else is there for trial? Even if you ask freely, I will know everything, but I also ask the princess to show ironclad evidence when the case is judged. Injustice to a good man."

"Princess Hui, Taoist Aunt Qinghe from Lotus Flower Temple has invited you here." Yachai replied.

Li Mingda: "Invite Xiao Wuniang to the inner room and let her in!"

Xiao Wuniang froze for a moment, then had no choice but to obey the arrangement, and went into the inner room under the escort of Zuo Qingmei.Zuo Qingmei wrapped a cloth around Xiao Wuniang's mouth, "How offensive, please forgive Xiao Wuniang, we are also afraid that you will disturb the court interrogation if you make any noise at a critical moment."

Xiao Wuniang frowned, wanting to resist.

Zuo Qingmei went down with two silver needles, and Xiao Wuniang's left and right arms were so numb that she couldn't lift them up, so she could only sit obediently.

After Taoist Qinghe entered the door, she greeted Li Mingda with a look of panic.

Li Mingda asked straight to the point, but Taoist Qinghe's answer was the same as Xiao Wuniang's, saying that she had gone out to travel.

"Where to go, where to eat and live, talk about it." Li Mingda said.

"Oh, it's too far away these days, so I can't remember clearly. At that time, I kept walking towards the east of the river, and I mostly slept in the open air. Occasionally, when passing by counties, I would find someone's house to stay, but I really remember which one. I don’t know.” After Taoist Qinghe finished speaking, she tapped her head, expressing that she was really old and her memory was poor, and she suddenly remembered something, and said to Li Mingda, “Princess, why don’t you ask Xiao Wuniang, she Maybe remember better."

"Xiao Wuniang is dead, there is nowhere to ask, so I ask you." Li Mingda said.

"What! Dead?" Daoist Qinghe stared in shock, her whole body trembled, and then she fell to the ground, Dou Cong was very close and in shock, unable to recover, "How could... This... when did this happen?"

"Just today, we suspected that she was the real murderer behind several murder cases, so we arrested her. She is a powerful person, and at first she denied it. Later, in the face of iron evidence, she failed to defend herself several times, so she took advantage of us not to recite it. Killed himself with the knife."

Li Mingda glanced at the ground, "Look at the dried blood stains in these cracks, it's hers."

Taoist nun Qinghe looked down, and found that in the cracks of the floor tiles, there was indeed some black blood, she was so frightened that she hurriedly crawled to another place, and she shrank, crying hard.A man over forty suddenly hugged himself into a ball like a child, crying bitterly in the middle of the lobby, trembling, looking really strange.

Fang Yi watched the nun's performance coldly, and nodded to Li Mingda.

At this time, another yamen sent a report to them about the results of their search of Aunt Qing He's room.There is nothing special about it, but there is a small copper basin dedicated to burning letters in Taoist Qing He's room.

"Then there are these two books." The yacha presented it.

Li Mingda flipped through it casually, raised his eyebrows, and asked Tian Hanshan to bring it to Fang Yizhi.

"The Tubo language, which writes about how to prepare medicines, seems to be some ancient secret recipes, and I have never heard of them before." After scanning a few pages, Fang Yizhi summed it up to Li Mingda.

Li Mingda asked Aunt Qinghe: "Do you know Tubo?"

Taoist Qing He was still crying.

Tian Hanxi scolded her for knowing the rules.Immediately, Taoist nun Qinghe was forcibly suppressed by the Yacha, and she raised her head.

Taoist Qinghe looked at Li Mingda with some hatred, her eyes turned red, "You killed Wu Niang?"

"She is guilty, she deserves to die, she will die sooner or later." Li Mingda finished speaking calmly, and looked at Daoist Qinghe, "Tell me about the real relationship between you and Xiao Wuniang."

Taoist Qinghe still looked at Li Mingda with hatred, but did not speak.Then she struggled suddenly, and the whole body rushed towards the knife on Yacha's waist, and the guards immediately tied Taoist Qinghe tightly with a rope, making her limbs unable to struggle at all.

Taoist Qinghe was like a bug, rubbing back and forth in the center of the ground.

"You want to die? Follow your master? Then you have to answer my question honestly, maybe you can die quickly, otherwise you will have to endure the grief of losing your master forever."

Judging from the previous murder cases, Xiao Wuniang is very good at training people.And this Taoist nun Qinghe can testify for Xiao Wuniang with open eyes and nonsense, and she is still alive, so she is obviously Xiao Wuniang's confidant, and it must be the kind of confidant who will not tell the secret even if she dies.Then Xiao Wuniang must be her backbone, the support of her belief in living.To deal with such people, direct questioning or torture to extract a confession will not be effective, and if it is not done well, people will commit suicide while they are not paying attention.So Li Mingda immediately thought of using Xiao Wuniang's death to stimulate Taoist Qing He.Without the backbone, she will definitely lose her composure, and if she loses her composure, she will show her flaws.

"I curse you to die badly, anyone who killed our Wu Niang will go to hell!" Taoist Qing He yelled madly, her eyes filled with deep hatred for Li Mingda, "Just dream, how could I give this to you?" I will not say a single word of my enemy's testimony!"

"Our fifth mother? It seems that you don't know anyone." Li Mingda immediately caught the loophole.

Daoist Qinghe was stunned for a moment, frowning, thinking that the matter has come to this point, it's nothing if everyone is dead, she laughed at Li Mingda and said: "Yes, we still have a lot of people, let's help each other know, We are a bigger gang than helping each other. Princess Jinyang, just wait and live every day in fear, because the people around you, who you see when you go out, are Wuniang's subordinates. I will Issue a killing order, so that everyone in the gang will not let you go!"

"Presumptuous!" Tian Hanshan was so angry that he wanted to kill Taoist Qing He directly.

Li Mingda raised his hand to stop Tian Hanshan.

"You are here with me now, why did you issue the killing order?" Li Mingda sounded as if he was still worried about Taoist Qing He.

Taoist nun Qinghe paused for a moment, and immediately laughed wildly, "Of course it's because there are people from us in this room."

"It's funny," Li Mingda sneered, "I almost believed that you were a big gang, but you let it go. If there are really people like you, if you want to issue a lore order, you will tell me about you Is anyone in the house? Then I have taken precautions, how do you send it out?"

"I—" Daoist Qing He choked, then struggled angrily, like a silkworm chrysalis, rubbing back and forth on the ground 'without hands or feet'.

"Whether you give testimony or not is not important to me. I just need to confirm your master-servant relationship. It is enough to know that Xiao Wuniang's alibi is false." Xiao Wuniang brought it up.

Daoist Qinghe was crying with tears in her eyes, and then saw Xiao Wuniang's figure in the blur of tears, and thought she was going to die.It wasn't until someone took the cloth from Xiao Wuniang's mouth and heard Xiao Wuniang's voice that Taoist Qinghe woke up and gradually realized that Xiao Wuniang was alive.

Taoist Qing He was stunned, her expression was indescribable.

Xiao Wuniang didn't go to Taoist Qinghe, but kept looking at Li Mingda, "Princess is talking nonsense to deceive a lunatic, so you want to prove Wuniang's crime?"

"Ahhh, I'll kill you all! I'm the real emperor!" Daoist Qinghe yelled angrily. The rope tied to her body seemed to be useless. Like a madman.

"Tsk tsk, what an obedient dog." Tian Hanshan couldn't help feeling emotional.

Taoist Qinghe was still screaming, but finally the yamen slapped her a few times and stopped her mouth, and the commotion in the room was considered to be over.

Li Mingda was still flipping through the two medical books written in Tubo, "I've always wondered why you did this kind of thing. Why do you want to train yourself to instigate murder at a young age? Today When I saw these two books, I suddenly understood. Now that I look carefully at your appearance, you really resemble that person."