When Li Yu'an was summoned, he was holding the book that Minglang was studying.

"Your Majesty, your son, pays homage to the Empress Dowager."

"Get up. You should have had a rest today. I'm sorry to have worked so hard for you."

Li Yu'an followed His Majesty's gaze and glanced at the book in his hand, smiling softly.

"Minglang loves to read. I am her father, so there is no need to worry about her."

Hearing him say this, Liang Chongyue said no more. She waved her hand and asked him to go and teach her daughter to read.

A moment later, hearing the sound of reading coming from the side hall, Liang Chongyue looked at his mother with relief and continued to drink tea leisurely.

After indulging in pleasure that night, Liang Chongyue watched Li Yu'an's back as he left. New incense was added to the incense burner, which soon covered the smell in the air.

"Your Majesty, the person has been found."

Fei He came out from the dark, holding a stack of information and handed it to Liang Chongyue.

Liang Chongyue took it and looked through it. The dead man was indeed a nobleman from the capital, but he was an uneducated wanderer who did not like reading and was obsessed with traveling around. That's why he had been dead for so long and there was no one in his family to look for him.

"Your Majesty, this man's father was originally a general in the Guizhou garrison, a member of an unpopular royal family. Only after Your Majesty ascended the throne did he have the honor of returning to the capital to report on his work."

There were many unpopular members of the royal family in the history of Daxia for hundreds of years. Before Liang Chongyue ascended the throne, he had killed all those who could be killed. Only then did he select some royal relatives from various states and counties to come to Beijing to report on their work.

Liang Chongyue looked through all the information about this person. Sifangtai's news was quite fast, and they even found out who this person had any grudges against in his life.

"I know. Who do you think killed him?"

There is no result from the system yet. I guess they are still investigating the murderer's identity bit by bit.

"The Ice Skating Ceremony in Beihai was established by our ancestor emperor. If someone killed someone for selfish reasons, they wouldn't dare dump the body in Beihai. If discovered, it would be a capital crime. Soon, all nations will come to pay tribute to Your Majesty and celebrate the New Year. The death is so coincidental. I feel there's something fishy going on. Someone must have done it on purpose."

Sifangtai has not yet found out who the murderer is, but that does not prevent Feihe from having his own judgment on the matter.

"The only people staying in the post station right now are the envoys from the Northern Territory, Dai Viet, and Langwa. Which of them do you think it could be?"

His Majesty suddenly asked this, and Fei He's thoughts turned. Looking into His Majesty's calm eyes, he didn't know who His Majesty was thinking about, so he could only give a vague answer.

"I am a fool. Your Majesty, do you think the murderer is from one of the three delegations?"

If Daxia had close personal relations with these three places, they would have had a place in today's ice skating ceremony.

The area outside Beihai Garden was filled with people who wanted to see what was happening. This matter must have reached the post station very early on.

However, Liang Chongyue was not at ease with these people. Beihai Garden was filled with civil and military officials of Daxia as well as their families and wives. If something went wrong, it would affect her first New Year after ascending the throne.

"Just looking at the swollen state of the corpse, it's been underwater for at least a month. These three delegations have only been in the capital for less than two weeks. Unless the body was already soaked long ago and only lowered into the water before the surface of the North Sea completely froze over, how could the servants of the North Sea miss such a large body when they were trying to salvage it?"

Fei He stood beside Liang Chongyue and analyzed the situation, but Liang Chongyue was not in a hurry. She had the system in her hand. No matter who did it, no matter how clean the means were, they could not escape the eyes of the system.

"Host, the results are out."

While Fei He was analyzing, the system's voice suddenly rang in Liang Chongyue's mind. At this moment, Liang Chongyue's composure began to loosen a little. She also had some guesses in her mind, but she was waiting for the system to give her a clear result.

"It's pretty much the same as you guessed, except the murderers weren't from the Northern Territory royal family, but from the Dai Viet delegation. They encountered the man on their way here, figured out his identity, and killed him. Dai Viet also had spies left behind in the Northern Territory. They hadn't been in contact for a year, but with the arrival of all nations, these people started to get restless again, wanting to plot something during that time. On their way to the capital, the two groups got in touch, but their method of communication is a bit strange, and I haven't fully figured it out yet."

The system's voice carried the fatigue of looking up information and the urgency of wanting to know the truth.

"Thank you for your hard work. Keep investigating. The deceased emperor in the northern border liked to use poison. He was able to hide from the Great Xia soldiers accompanying him, and his contact information is so difficult to trace. He might have used poisonous insects and snakes. No one is more familiar with this than them."

It’s not that Liang Chongyue looks down on the royal families of the Northern Territory and Dai Viet. These two groups of people are only more vicious than the others.

Previously, the northern border went all the way south to support Dai Viet, but in the end Liang Chongyue had not yet taken action, and the group almost broke up just because of food problems.

She fully believed that if these people were not afraid of missing out on this opportunity and having no hope anymore, they would not have joined forces so easily.

The alliance they had secretly planned for a long time was easily broken, so how solid could this impromptu decision be now?

There was no sound from the system, I guess he went to check again.

It was getting late now, and Liang Chongyue pinched the area between his eyebrows tiredly.

"Let the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court continue their investigation. Regardless of whether they find the truth or not, the body must be returned for burial before the celebrations of all nations."

The dead are the greatest, but as for those who do evil, she will take care of them.

"Yes, I failed to do my job well and failed to help Your Majesty."

Fei He suddenly knelt down. Liang Chongyue continued to rub his brows without calling him to get up. After a while, he spoke:

"Send people to keep a close eye on the post station and strictly control the food and drink expenses of these people. Replace all the people in the post station and raise more chickens and cats around the post station."

The post station outside the capital was not small, and it housed several delegations. The delegations from the northern border and Dai Viet were deliberately separated. Even the envoys who came to pay their respects were watched on weekdays, and they were not given any chance to communicate. These people were able to accomplish such a big thing quietly in the capital, which could only be because the contact between them had never been broken.

As Liang Chongyue was thinking, he thought of someone.

"Go and bring me the lotus pond."

Liang Chongyue had some guesses in his mind, and naturally would not allow these people to continue to act so recklessly. A member of the royal family died today, and if nothing was done, who knows who would die next time.

"Yes, my subordinate will go right away."

Fei He got up and left. Liang Chongyue couldn't sleep for a while, so he opened the panel and checked to see if there was anything that shouldn't have appeared at the inn after dark.

The two delegations had been in Beijing for half a month, but Liang Chongyue had not summoned them. He just let them stay in the post station and didn't even let them in on weekdays. But at night.

Liang Chongyue watched the little beast appear on the night vision screen. It crawled out from a corner of the Northern Border delegation's room and headed straight for the residence of the Dai Viet delegation as if guided by something. It knew to avoid patrolling soldiers on the way. It was truly a spirit.

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