After becoming a princess, she fell in love with the emperor of the enemy country

After the Duke of Anguo and his party had gone far away, Qi Wuyou spoke up, "How do you plan to find Zhang Ruoning?"

The Duke of Anguo would suspect her of hiring someone to kill someone, but Qi Wuyou knew that Xuan Yelan would not suspect her.

She is a poor little girl far away in a foreign country, and she is surrounded by Xuan Yelan's people.

Even if she was bullied, she had to rely on Xuan Yelan to avenge her.

Xuan Yelan sighed, "She is a young lady in the boudoir. The most outrageous thing she has done is to curse people. How could she offend anyone and bring about a disaster that would kill her?"

Qi Wuyou frowned, "You don't suspect that Zhang Ji hired someone to kill your daughter, do you?"

Xuan Yelan did not comment, "Otherwise I really can't imagine that there would be someone so cruel and crazy as this."

Qi Wuyou thought of Xiaotao's miserable condition, her whole face was almost scratched, her clothes were in disarray, and she was raped and then killed.

Qi Wuyou couldn't help but shudder, and thinking of Ma's helpless cry, he asked, "Do you think Zhang Ruoning's incident is related to the Ge family's incident?"

This coincided with Xuan Yelan's thoughts. Qi Wuyou then asked, "Is it possible that Zhang Ruoning's mother also knew what she knew?"

Xuan Yelan paused, "Liu He, hurry up and invite Madam Ma back."

"Yes," Liu He saw that Xuan Yelan was so anxious and did not dare to delay. He finally stopped the An family before they left the palace.

When Duke Anguo heard the purpose of Liu He's visit, he couldn't help but ask, "Eunuch Liu? Does this have anything to do with finding Ning'er?"

Even if Liu He knew this, he would not dare to say anything. He could only smile and evade the question, "My Lord, it's not that I won't tell you, it's just that I don't know."

Hearing this, Duke Anguo stopped asking questions and said, "Ma Yu, you can go with me. You don't have to go in. Let His Majesty talk to Yuanzhu alone."

After that, he looked at Madam Ma and said, "When His Majesty asks you a question later, you must tell him everything you know. Only in this way can you help His Majesty."

Madam Ma nodded, "Granddaughter understands."

Duke Anguo nodded, "Well, we can't just sit there idle, Bi'er."

Princess Rui'an on the side quickly responded, "Dad."

Duke Anguo continued, "Go back and ask your guards to go out and look for it as well."

"Yes." Princess Rui'an nodded.

Duke Anguo looked around and said to Ma Yu, "You and Yuanzhu should go to the Duke's Mansion after you leave the palace."

"Yes, Dad." Ma Yu cupped his hands.

"Okay, go quickly and don't keep His Majesty waiting for too long."

"Your Majesty." After separating from Duke Anguo and Princess Rui'an, Ma Yu and his daughter hurried to the imperial study.

"Stand up." Xuan Yelan spread his hands, motioning Mrs. Ma to stand up while talking.

Xuan Yelan got straight to the point, "Do you know about the extermination of the Ge family five years ago?"

Madam Ma was confused and for a moment she couldn't remember, "Your Majesty, are you talking about the Ge family, the richest family in the imperial capital?"

Mrs. Ma couldn't help but doubt Xuan Yelan's intentions. Could it be that Ningning's matter was related to the Ge family?

Xuan Yelan nodded, "That's right."

Madam Ma said, "I heard that the Ge family was robbed by mountain bandits, so..."

Xuan Yelan raised his hand, motioning for Madam Ma to stop, and then showed her the scroll in his hand.

This was the Ge family's case file that had been found before, but Xuan Yelan was too busy to read it. Just now when he was waiting for Ma, he had time to open it and take a look, and he actually found some information.

Liu He took the scroll and handed it to Mrs. Ma.

Mrs. Ma was skeptical and read ten lines at a glance after opening the scroll. As Xuan Yelan wished, Mrs. Ma froze when she saw the sentence marked in red in the scroll.

"Ge's daughter-in-law Jiang was horribly injured and unrecognizable. Her face was covered with knife wounds, her clothes were disheveled, her body was bruised, and her limbs were broken. She died of rape and murder."

"This..." Ma's eyes widened. Even without a careful examination, Ma could tell what Xiaotao had encountered.

Liu He interrupted, "Madam, when the body was delivered, Miss Xiaotao's limbs were also broken."

Ma's eyes widened when she heard this. The way Jiang in the case file died was almost exactly the same as Xiaotao's.

Xuan Yelan gave Ma some time to calm down, "Something happened recently, so I started investigating the Ge family's case."

"Your Majesty," Ma's voice trembled, "I remember that the Ge family was attacked by bandits."

"But..." Ma raised the scroll, her lips trembling, her eyes red, and her words incoherent, "This...this I...a common woman..."

Ma had also heard about the tragedy of the Ge family. There were dozens of people, but not a single one survived.

She didn't dare to think about what would happen to her daughter if she fell into the hands of these vicious people.

Xuan Yelan signaled Liu He to take the scroll back.

Qi Wuyou couldn't help but comfort her, "Don't worry, Madam. His Majesty will definitely find a way to find the young lady."

Mrs. Ma sobbed and said nothing, but nodded.

Xuan Yelan added, "Madam, I don't believe there would be such a coincidence."

Madam Ma wiped her tears and said, "I don't believe it either."

After saying this, Ge knelt down and bowed deeply, "Your Majesty, this matter may be related to Zhang Ji, the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. I beg Your Majesty to investigate."

Xuan Yelan and Qi Wuyou looked at each other, and Xuan Yelan said in a deep voice, "Start from the beginning."

Ma told Qi Wuyou and Xuan Yelan everything about Zhang Ji's illegal salt trafficking in the past few years.

Xuan Yelan frowned when he heard this, "Is this related to the Ge family?"

Ma shook her head. "I don't know. It was Ningning who told me about Zhang Ji's illegal salt sales."

Ma Yuanzhu added, "Ningning also said that she saw Zhang Ji sneak into the back door of the mansion and give money to a masked man."

"As I recall, it was right after the Ge family was wiped out."

Ge thought about it carefully again, "Yes, it was after that place."

Xuan Yelan and Qi Wuyou looked at each other and it seemed that this was the problem.

The person Zhang Ruoning saw was most likely the murderer of the Ge family, and he might also be the real culprit in this case.

Zhang Ruoning accidentally discovered that Zhang Ji was reselling private salt, and it was very likely that Zhang Ji had discovered this.

That's why he hired someone to kill Zhang Ruoning after she left the imperial capital.

As for the Ge family, it is very likely that they discovered the truth, which led to the murder.

Qi Wuyou asked, "Madam, why are you so sure that what Miss said happened after the Ge family incident?"

Ma didn't hesitate, "Your Majesty, I remember it very clearly. Ningning came to me in a panic that day."

"Ningning was very surprised at the time and just asked me to tell Zhang Ji later that she had been with me."

"I felt it was strange at the time. Normally, Zhang Ji would not go to my room unless there were special circumstances."

"But that day, not long after Ningning arrived, Zhang Ji came and asked where Ningning had been."

"I just thought Ningning was naughty and made a mistake, so I helped Ningning hide it. I did what Ningning said and said that she had been in my room the whole time."

"Now that I think about it, Zhang Ji clearly wanted to kill Ning Ning at that time, but I was blinded by greed and couldn't see it so obviously."