The queen is spoiling the king and madly criticizing him for spoiling her

Tang Rui thought for a moment and said, "My wife's body was found this morning."

"That is to say, your wife fell into the pond and disappeared at night, and you found her in the pond in the morning. During this period of time, you knew that your wife had not returned, and you did not go out to look for her, right?" Gu Jianchu's voice had gradually become cold.

Tang Rui nodded weakly. "My wife had to take care of my mother, so she always came home late. I went to bed early, and when I woke up in the morning, I found that my wife hadn't come back. I went out to look for her and found her dead in the pond."

[Haha, does the old lady need someone to take care of her? It's just disgusting. She takes pleasure in bullying her daughter-in-law. It means that the old lady has always been dissatisfied with her daughter-in-law's inability to have children. She monopolizes her daughter-in-law all day long and doesn't let her sleep with her son. Is the daughter-in-law able to reproduce asexually?]

Those who didn't know would think the old lady had some improper thoughts about her daughter-in-law. She kept dominating her, wanting her to serve her in the morning and at night.

[Sleep early, bullshit! How can these two lie with their eyes open while I was dealing with the corpse?]

[While the two men were dealing with Li, her hairpin fell onto the lawn. They hurriedly cleaned up the scene and didn't pay any attention to the hairpin.]

Gu Jianchu took a few steps back, lowered his head to look, and finally found Li's dropped hairpin in a small corner of the lawn.

Yun He immediately bent down to pick up the hairpin and handed it to Gu Jianchu, "Could this hairpin be something Li dropped?"

Tang Rui and Old Madam Tang looked over instantly. Old Madam Tang's heart skipped a beat. "Maybe it fell off at some point, and Mrs. Li didn't notice it."

"If the hairpin that Madam Tang wears every day falls off, she won't notice it." Gu Jianchu asked back in a cold voice.

Mrs. Tang fell silent for a moment.

When Li married, her stepmother gave her some worthless jewelry as a dowry, nothing else. It's no wonder Li was looked down upon by her in-laws. They didn't usually give her money, and she alternated between two sets of jewelry, which wore out significantly.

The servant climbed out of the pond at this time and said, "There are no sharp stones or anything else nearby."

There are no rocks near the pond, so how could they have found them? These two idiots never considered that the cause of Li's death would be exposed, and they didn't carefully plan the crime scene. This definitely led to loopholes in the interrogation.

The only clever thing about these two idiots was that they wanted to quickly dispose of Li's body. They didn't expect a member of the Li family to show up and delay things, and they certainly didn't expect the Emperor to intervene.

[The first scene was in the old lady's bedroom.]

Gu Jianchu guided, "Could it be that the pond was just where the body was dumped? The place where Li really died was not here."

"The Queen is right. According to what Lord Tang said, Li was taking care of Old Madam Tang that night. Why don't we go to Old Madam Tang's room and take a look?" Dou Wen echoed the Queen.

Dou Wen had handled many homicide cases after all, so he was not unfamiliar with this type of homicide. Li's interpersonal relationships were relatively simple, and he died at home with no other servants in the house. The murderer could only be Lord Tang or Old Madam Tang.

Dou Wen had already guessed this, and coming to check the pond was just to make him more certain that Li was murdered.

Old Madam Tang almost fainted on the ground, but Tang Rui quickly helped her up.

The emperor and empress wanted to investigate, and Tang Rui did not dare to disobey. He immediately took the emperor and empress to the old lady's bedroom.

Old Madam Tang lived in the largest courtyard in the mansion. As soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw a winding corridor and rockery. Dou Wen took the initiative to push open the door of the old lady's room. Everything in the room was of the best quality, including yellow pear wood tables and chairs, fired white porcelain vases, and paintings by everyone.

There is a small study on the side.

There weren't many things in the study, just a table and chairs, with pen, ink, and paper on the table. Apart from that, there wasn't even a book.

[This courtyard was obviously meant for Lord Tang and Mrs. Li, but it was snatched away by this old woman.]

Gu Jianchu walked to the study and took a quick look, then said in surprise, "This desk is a bit strange. Why is there no inkstone?"

Madam Tang smiled guiltily, "My son happened to be in urgent need of these things a few days ago, so I asked him to take them. Otherwise, I wouldn't have used these things."

I underestimated the old lady's shamelessness. She just lies without hesitation, and she doesn't even blush or feel nervous.

[The inkstone that damaged Li was still hidden in the room by Old Madam Tang and was not thrown away.]

Madam Tang urged, "The Emperor and the Empress have already checked this room. It's definitely not the crime scene. Why don't we check other rooms?"

Gu Jianchu smiled and said, "Don't worry. We haven't searched it thoroughly yet. How can we be sure that it's not the crime scene? Yun and Wen Zhu, search it carefully and don't miss any details."

"Madam, I'm doing this for your own good. As long as you're found to be innocent, the Li family won't be pestering you all day. If they keep harassing you like this, it won't be good for Master Tang's future if word gets out, don't you think?"

Old Madam Tang had an expression of being unable to express her bitterness.

He could only watch Yunhe, Wenzhu and Chongfeng rummaging through the room.

What these people are best at is rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find things, leaving no corner untouched.

Mrs. Tang dropped her cane and followed Yunhe. When she saw Yunhe opening the makeup box, she immediately rushed over and said, "My lord, please be careful. There are valuable things in here. Don't drop them. Besides, these things can't hurt anyone."

Only after making sure that there were no sharp weapons hidden inside did Yun He hand the things over to Old Madam Tang.

Old Madam Tang had just snatched the jewelry back when she saw Zhongfeng opening a box of clothes beside her. She was so frightened that her eyebrows jumped and she rushed over without thinking. "There's nothing to check in here. They are all my clothes, and there's nothing good about old madam's clothes."

"It seems that it is not up to you to decide whether it looks good or not." Chongfeng held the sword in front of Old Lady Tang.

Old Madam Tang instantly shrank back in fear.

Zhongfeng casually threw the clothes out and onto the ground. Old Madam Tang was too anxious to pick them up. When she was halfway through throwing them away, Zhongfeng took out an inkstone and handed it to Old Madam Tang. A sneer appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Didn't you say the inkstone was for your son? How did it get stuck in the clothes?"

Mrs. Tang felt very guilty when asked, and she hesitantly explained, "I think I accidentally put it in the box when I was packing clothes."

"Keep making it up."

"There is a smell of blood on the inkstone, which should be consistent with the external injury on Li's head." Chongfeng threw the inkstone to Doctor Lin.