Crossing the grassland, the rough general, please set me free

Inside the tent.

Yan Lie had just covered Lin Shu with the quilt when Dunzhu walked in quickly.

"Khan, something bad has happened to Helian Zhen."

Hearing this person's name again, Yan Lie became a little impatient, "What's wrong with her?"

"Great Khan. The guards just reported that her tent is on fire."

"on fire?"

Two voices sounded at the same time.

"Shu'er, have a good rest. I'll go see what's going on."

"Wait, I'll go with you." Lin Shu sat up and took the clothes next to him and put them on.

Yan Lie hesitated for a moment and nodded, then took out a thin shawl from the closet and put it on her.

When they arrived, the guards had just put out the fire. Only the ruins burned by the fire were still emitting wisps of blue smoke, and the air was filled with a mixture of burnt and damp smells.

Lin Shu covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, but the unpleasant smell at the scene still penetrated into her nasal cavity.

Two guards carried a corpse out of the rubble and placed it in front of Yan Lie.

The original human figure could only be vaguely discerned, the entire body was charred black, as if it had been stained with ink, emitting a pungent burnt smell.

Some people around were already starting to feel physically unwell and vomit.

Yan Lie turned and looked at Lin Shu, "Shu'er, how are you? If you feel uncomfortable, why don't you go back first?"

Lin Shu shook his head. "I can still hold on. This fire is really strange."

"Well, I'll ask someone first."

After a while, the people guarding Helian Zhen were found.

"Khan, the fire started on the felt inside the tent. By the time we found out and broke in, it was too late. All the felt on the tent walls was on fire."

Lin Shu grasped the key points of their words.

"Did you hear anyone calling for help before?"

"I didn't hear you, Queen Dowager."

"Shu'er, do you mean that there is something wrong with Helian Zhen's body?" Yan Lie asked, pointing at the charred corpse on the ground.

"If there is any problem, we can know it by testing it."

"Autopsy? But the body is already burnt, how can we do it?"

When everyone heard her words, they were shocked but also curious. How could they examine a charred corpse?

Lin Shu asked Yan Lie to hold the torch while he used a handkerchief to open the charred corpse's mouth bit by bit.

Although the lips were burned and stuck together, it took a while before I could finally see the inside of the mouth.

Lin Shu took the torch from Yan Lie and pointed it at the mouth of the charred corpse.

His brows gradually furrowed,

"Yan Lie, this person was already dead before the fire. Look at her mouth, there's no ash at all. She must have been cremated after death. If there were ash in these areas, it would mean she inhaled it before she died."

The people around her gasped when they heard her words.

Yan Lie followed her example and carefully examined the mouth of the charred corpse. It was indeed as Lin Shu said.

Turning to look at the guard,

"Has anyone been here today?"

"Reporting to the Khan, Concubine Yun Xihe came to deliver the meal, but she left very quickly."

"How long after she left did the fire break out?" Lin Shu asked.

"About a cup of tea."

"Shu'er, do you doubt her?"

"Until the truth is revealed, everyone is a suspect. Do you think this is Helian Zhen's body?"

Based on Lin Shu's previous experience in watching TV series, he usually does this to cover up the truth.

"Are you sure Helian Zhen has never left the tent?"

The two guards shook their heads, "Grand Concubine, she really hasn't gone out."

Lin Shu's doubts grew even greater.

Looking at her in the tent that night, she really did not want to live.

Could it be that Helian Zhen set a fire and then committed suicide?

This doesn’t make sense?

"Jane, my Jane."

Yun Xihe ran over crying, and when she saw the charred corpse on the ground, she suddenly fell to the ground.

"Zhen...Zhen'er...why is this happening all of a sudden?"

Yan Lie and Lin Shu looked at each other and did not move forward.

Geshu, who had been standing next to him, kept echoing in his mind what Yun Xihe said in the afternoon.

People died inexplicably at night. Isn't this too much of a coincidence?

But the guard just said that he didn't see Helian Zhen go out.

Could it be that he really committed suicide?

"Khan, Zhen'er did something wrong. Now that she is dead, it is an explanation to everyone. Can you let me bury her properly?" Yun Xihe looked at Yan Lie pleadingly.

"How do you know for sure she's Helian Zhen's?" Yan Lie agreed with Lin Shu's analysis.

"Ah? I just heard from the tribesmen that Helian Zhen's tent was on fire, and there's a body lying here. Could it be her?"

"We haven't confirmed the identity yet, so the body can't be given to you for now."

"What do you mean? You said this is not Zhen'er? She is dead, but you still refuse to let her go. Since you said she is not Zhen'er, then where did she go?" Yun Xihe's tone suddenly became higher.

"Princess Yun Xihe, I heard that you brought her food tonight?" Lin Shu stepped forward, staring at her face and asked.

"Yes. I've begged everything I could, but there's nothing I can do. I want her to have a better life before she leaves. Isn't that too much to ask?"

"That's understandable. After you met her, did you notice anything wrong with her? Did she say anything like she wanted to commit suicide?"

Lin Shu noticed that her expression was extremely calm when she spoke, without any of the tension from before.

"I gave her her favorite food, and she ate it all. She didn't say a word to me during the whole process. Maybe she didn't want to see me."

"Oh, aren't you two like mother and daughter? Why doesn't she want to see you?"

"What does our business have to do with you?" Yun Xihe said impatiently.

"Well, I'm not interested in what happened between you two. I'm just asking as a routine question. Now look at the body on the ground. Do you have any evidence to prove that she is Helian Zhen?"

"A basis? The body is here, what basis do you need? I think you're just taking this opportunity to humiliate Zhen'er. She was already defeated by you, and now she's dead, she poses no threat to you at all. I just want to bury her properly, why do you always pick on us?"

Seeing this, people around started talking.

Lin Shu knew without even listening that this was another wonderful story about the three of them.

"Everything has to have a basis. We just noticed there was no ash in her mouth, so she must have been cremated. How could someone set a fire after she died? And what a coincidence! You came to see us just this day, and then she disappeared that night. And what a coincidence! When there are too many coincidences, they're no longer necessarily coincidences."

"I don't understand a word you're saying."

"Your Majesty, Concubine Yun Xihe came to see me this afternoon." The speaker was Geshu.

Yan Lie was a little surprised, "Why didn't you say it just now?"

"At first I was just suspicious, but the Queen Mother just said that if there are too many coincidences, it may not be a coincidence."