Minglang has always been the most considerate. Liang Chongyue listened to Yunling's description of Minglang's studious and ambitious spirit while eating without interrupting her. This was a way for her to relax after the fatigue of the past two days.

After dinner, Liang Chongyue continued to review memorials without stopping for a moment. It gets dark early in winter, and dusk fell by the window early.

"Your Majesty, you've been exhausted all day. Would you like to rest for a while?"

When Yun Ling appeared with tea, Liang Chongyue raised his hand to refuse. The person on the beam disappeared for a while and then reappeared, still with a cold air.

"Forget it, let's all go down first and prepare to serve the meal."

All the palace maids serving in the Yangxin Palace withdrew. Liang Chongyue wrote the last stroke on the memorial at hand and then put the brush aside.

"It's cold today. Aren't you afraid of getting cold going in and out of the Yangxin Palace?"

The words were directed to Fei He, but Liang Chongyue didn't even raise her head. There was no one in the hall. Fei He responded by coming down from the beam and standing in front of her.

"Your Majesty, I am tolerant of cold weather, so this little bit of chill is nothing. The Dali Temple is already preparing to send the body back home. I believe they will report the results of their investigation to Your Majesty after tomorrow's morning court session."

Liang Chongyue didn't say anything after hearing this. This matter was difficult to investigate and involved too many people. The Dali Temple was able to close the case so quickly, so there must be someone behind the scenes directing it.

Liang Chongyue's scrutinizing gaze swept over Fei He. Fei He met His Majesty's gaze. Although he had already understood His Majesty's thoughts on this matter, he still subconsciously lowered his head and did not dare to stand and look at His Majesty directly.

"I know you have good intentions. The Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice have been busy lately. Please pay more attention to the post station. They won't just sit there and wait for the results."

What's more, Liang Chongyue had no intention of giving them any results. The bodies had already been salvaged. If they couldn't wait for the scene they wanted to see, these people would definitely get restless. Now that they were in the territory where she had lived for more than 20 years, no matter how many "foolproof plans" they came up with, they would not be able to win.

"Your Majesty, rest assured. I have already sent people to replace all the people in the post station. With the shifts of guarding day and night, we will definitely not give this group of people any chance to take advantage of us."

Liang Chongyue recalled the little animals he saw on the panel. It seemed that the little mice and snakes had not been caught by the people from Sifangtai, otherwise Fei He would definitely tell people about it.

"Tomorrow I will give you a man, and you will disguise him and bring him to the post station."

Fei He has been following His Majesty, almost never leaving his side. He didn't know who His Majesty was talking about, and why he had to disguise himself. He was puzzled, but since His Majesty didn't want to say more, he didn't ask any more questions.

"Yes, I obey."

Liang Chongyue waved his hand to signal Fei He to leave. A night later, at the morning court, he learned that the dead boy had been taken back to Guizhou overnight by his parents, who had no time to grieve, and was preparing to be buried in Guizhou.

The application for leave was submitted last night.

"Your Majesty, the envoy has requested sick leave for more than ten days. The note was delivered last night at midnight."

Ping An presented the leave note. After Liang Chongyue read it, he placed it on a wooden tray held by a eunuch.

"With the New Year approaching, it's understandable that we suddenly hear such tragic news. So, let's hand over the mission of the envoy to someone else."

Before returning to Beijing to report on his work, the envoy served as a general in the Guizhou garrison for many years and was deeply loved by the people of Guizhou. The envoy was only a third-rank military general, and it was not an easy job. Perhaps it would be better for him to live a peaceful life in Guizhou.

As soon as His Majesty said this, the civil and military officials standing below had many guesses in their minds. They all saw the sudden ice cracking at the North Sea Ice Skating Ceremony a few days ago.

No one expected that there were corpses under the ice that day, and no one knew where the people died, but the ice skating ceremony was definitely ruined. Your Majesty did not pursue the matter, which was already a sign of His Majesty's mercy.

Prime Minister Jiang reacted immediately and bowed to His Majesty, saying:

"Your Majesty's compassion is a blessing to all the people in the world."

With Prime Minister Jiang taking the lead, the civil and military officials behind him immediately followed suit and said in unison:

"Your Majesty is wise and compassionate, and is a blessing to all the people of the world."

Liang Chongyue knew the truth behind the death. Xuanweishi's family were all victims in this incident, and no one could punish them.

Liang Chongyue gave Ping An a look, and Ping An immediately understood. He turned around and said to the people below:

"When there is something to do, we will start to act, but when there is nothing to do, we will retreat."

Before the end of the year, there were countless matters to deal with in the court. The morning court ended later and later every day. When it ended, Liang Chongyue had just returned to the Yangxin Palace and had not yet had time to change out of his court clothes when someone asked to see him.

"Your Majesty, the Dali Temple Minister is outside requesting an audience."

"Announce him to come in."

The Dali Temple Minister did not say much about the corpse in the court. He would definitely come to ask for a meeting after the morning court session. Liang Chongyue was already prepared.

Fortunately, Liang Chongyue had breakfast before going to court, otherwise she would have been so busy with so many things and she wouldn't know when she would be able to eat.

"I see your Majesty."

Fan Jiang never imagined that there were so many memorials piled up in His Majesty's Hall of Mental Cultivation. He wanted to hand the prepared case files to His Majesty, but he didn't know where to go.

"Get up, are you here about the body under the ice of the North Sea?"

Yun Ling was grinding ink. Liang Chongyue had nothing to do, so he sat on the dragon chair and played with the ink in his hands, enjoying this short period of leisure.

"That's right. I've found some information in Beihai Garden these past few days. The coroner at the Dali Temple, based on the traces left on the body, has concluded that the case can be closed. So I sent the body back to the Xuanwei Envoy's residence last night."

Fan Jiang handed over the case file, which Ping An took and then handed to His Majesty.

Liang Chongyue opened it and read it, thinking that Fei He had given a hint and the Dali Temple had hastily closed the case. Unexpectedly, what was written on the case file was quite plausible.

After Liang Chongyue finished reading the case file, he looked up at Fan Jiang:

"I saw the corpse that day. The blood vessels on the corpse were not the dark red bulges described here, but dark blue."

Liang Chongyue questioned this. The system has been keeping an eye on this case these days. If there are any changes in the corpse, it will be reported to her immediately. If it doesn't say anything, then it doesn't exist.

"Your Majesty, it was precisely because the color of the blood vessels on the corpse had changed that I was terrified. Later, I suddenly remembered that the northern border is extremely cold all year round. There is a famous medicine that is used to preserve corpses. If taken before death and then placed in ice water after death, it can ensure that the body will not decay for a hundred years. However, if it is taken after death, the blood vessels will slowly change color from dark blue to normal, and then to dark red shortly after the body is fished out of the ice water.

The coroner from the Dali Temple has found residual powder in the throat of the corpse."

When Fan Jiang said this, Liang Chongyue's eyes stayed on him until she saw the dense beads of sweat on his forehead and then shifted her gaze.

"I understand, please go down."

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