The coroner and the concubine doctor pursue the murderer in the Dali Temple

The emperor was silent for a while, then said, "Now that you mention it, I remember something."

"What's the matter?" Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi asked together.

The Emperor looked at the two of them and said slowly, "I once mentioned to your father that I would make you the crown prince!"

It was like a bolt of thunder from the blue exploding in Xiao Mubei's ears, shocking him so much that he couldn't recover for a long time.

After a while, he trembled and said, "Grandfather, do you want my father to depose the crown prince?"

"In fact, I can't quite see through Zimo," the retired emperor sighed. "I always feel that he is not as gentle and honest as he appears to be. If he is really like that, then he is not suitable to be the emperor. He is too kind. But if not, then he is hiding too deeply and is good at disguising himself, which is not a good thing either. If the country falls into his hands, who knows what will happen. That's why I mentioned this idea to your father."

"But I'm not suitable for this either. I'm too lazy. What does Father say?"

"Your father said he would consider it." The emperor waved his hand. "In the end, it is his decision. I will not interfere. But you are more suitable to be the crown prince than Zimo. I am not wrong about this."

"So that's it." Chu Yunxi suddenly realized. She had never understood why the Queen wanted to kill the Emperor, but now she finally understood.

Xiao Mubei also thought that the emperor didn't know who assassinated him, and now he didn't know what Chu Yunxi meant. He heard Chu Yunxi ask: "When you said this that day, was there anyone else present?"

"Not at that time," the emperor thought for a while, "but after a while, the queen came to pay her respects."

"I'm afraid it won't be until later."

The emperor understood, and he snorted coldly, "Yuan Shi plotted for her son, I can understand her, she is a woman, she wants to be in power, she wants her son to be in power, this is understandable, but she is too cruel, killing anyone who stands in her way without any reason, this behavior is inappropriate."

The harem should not interfere in political affairs, and the queen should set an example herself. Yuanshi is not worthy of being the queen.

"What does your Royal Highness want to do?" Xiao Mubei poured a cup of tea for the retired emperor.

The emperor took a sip. Although he showed no expression, Chu Yunxi inexplicably saw in him the decisive and ruthless personality of a superior. "Since she is not worthy of being the mother of the country, let someone with more virtue take the position."

Chu Yunxi breathed a sigh of relief. The emperor was not the kind of person who could be manipulated. He had wanted to endure it before for the sake of the overall situation, but now that the Imperial Observatory was involved, even though Chu Yunxi did not say it explicitly, he already knew in his heart that he would not tolerate it.

That night, the imperial guards discovered a guard having a secret meeting with a palace maid. The guard put up a desperate resistance, and he killed three of the imperial guards and injured more than a dozen. Later, Prince Dingbei happened to pass by, and his guards Baiyu and Heimu teamed up to capture the man and put him and the palace maid into the Sky Prison.

When Emperor Sui Ming heard about this, he was furious. Someone dared to kill people openly in the imperial palace. This was intolerable. Because Prince Dingbei was recently investigating the female corpse case in the palace, and he was the one who caught the person, so the case was also handed over to him for trial, and he tried it directly in the Tianlao. Emperor Sui Ming issued an order to find out the mastermind behind the scenes.

After receiving the imperial edict, Xiao Mubei began to interrogate the guards and palace maids separately, and it was said that they used severe torture.

After the morning court session the next day, Xiao Mubei asked to see Emperor Sui Ming in the imperial study.

Emperor Sui Ming looked at Xiao Mubei who was kneeling on the ground and said, "Stand up and answer."

Xiao Mubei thanked him and stood up, saying, "Father, I interrogated the guard and the maid last night and found that the guard was not a palace guard at all. He must be a secret guard in the palace. He was very stubborn and didn't say a word even when I tortured him."

Emperor Sui Ming snorted coldly, "She is loyal, but where is that palace maid?"

"That palace maid... is someone I know well."

"An acquaintance?" Emperor Sui Ming was a little surprised.

Xiao Mubei took a deep breath and said, "That maid was a maid who used to clean the Fanghua Palace. But she couldn't stand the torture and confessed some things. She said that the female corpse found a few days ago was Lu'e, the maid who used to be my mother's personal maid, and that Lu'e was killed by that guard."

"What?" Emperor Sui Ming's face changed suddenly.

Xiao Mubei took a deep breath and said, "Keren confessed that she had been hooking up with that guard many years ago. After my mother left the palace, they were caught by Lu'e during their reconciliation. The guard didn't want to stop and killed Lu'e and buried her under the camellia to use as fertilizer. As for the guard's identity, she refused to say."

"That's unreasonable!"

Emperor Sui Ming slammed the table and said, "How can the harem be so promiscuous? How does the queen manage it? Baochan!"

Eunuch Baochan was startled and quickly responded, "The old servant is here."

"Tell the Queen to come with me to the Heavenly Prison to interrogate the two prisoners. I want to see how stubborn these two are."

"Old slave obeys the order."

Half an hour later, Xiao Mubei, Chu Yunxi, Emperor Sui Ming and the Queen saw two people covered in blood in the interrogation room of the Sky Prison.

The queen looked pale and seemed to be unwell. She stared at the guard without saying a word. Chu Yunxi was sitting below her and saw the queen's expression.

"Keren" trembled when she saw Emperor Sui Ming, and seemed so frightened that she couldn't speak. But the guard was covered in blood, but he still knelt straight stubbornly.

Xiao Mubei got a hint from Emperor Sui Ming, so he asked, "Keren, did you see with your own eyes that the man in front of you killed Lu'e?"

"Keren" nodded, her teeth chattering, unable to speak.

The guard suddenly opened his eyes wide and said sternly, "You are lying."

Xiao Mubei had tried the two people separately before, so the guard didn't know what Keren had confessed. When he suddenly heard Keren push a charge of murder on him, he immediately lost his composure.

This was exactly the effect Xiao Mubei wanted. Before this, this man had been gritting his teeth and not speaking. His purpose was to disturb his mind and make him speak.

"An Jing, I haven't asked you yet." Xiao Mubei said in a deep voice with all his aura on display.

The guard glanced at Emperor Sui Ming and didn't dare to say anything else. Xiao Mubei continued, "Keren, tell me what happened that night in detail."

"Keren" said tremblingly: "That day, he and I had a private meeting at the rockery as usual. At the beginning, we were too absorbed in it and didn't hear other sounds. After it was over, he asked me if I had planted a Gu in Dingbei Wang. Before I could answer, I heard a gasp from behind the rockery. He immediately went over and pulled the person out. In front of me, he beat the person to death with a stone."

Emperor Sui Ming stood up suddenly, his face changed drastically, "What did you say? Planting a Gu?"

The queen's body swayed and her face turned paler, as if she was about to faint at any time. Chu Yunxi was sure that she knew everything the prince had done.