The mind-reading coroner drove the court crazy

Pan Di met the gazes of the two men, shook his head frantically in denial, his face filled with horror, staring straight at Chi Feiwan, pleading pitifully.

However, Chi Feiwan glanced at her with disgust. She had said what she needed to say. Now she only cared about two things: when would Qin Miaoxi forgive her, and whether the guards sent out could capture Xiao Yan.

Liang Hongkai looked at Qin Miaoxi, who lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Princess, we need to ask her some more questions, do you think...?"

Chi Feiwan nodded nonchalantly, "You are responsible for the case, feel free to ask."

Shao Kun stepped forward and removed the gag from Pan Di's mouth. Once she was able to speak, Pan Di immediately burst into tears and said, "Mother, I really am your daughter! I have Ruan Yunsha as my witness. I am not a spy from the enemy country."

Seeing that Chi Feiwan didn't want to pay attention to her, Liang Hongkai stood in front of her to block her view and asked in a cold voice, "Why did you poison the princess?"

Pan Di cried out in injustice, "No, they wronged me. Those servants looked down on me because I was a peasant girl and kept mocking me behind my back. They were the ones who put the poison in my room."

But facing two professionals who had solved several cases, they easily saw the panic and guilt in her eyes, and immediately called the maid who discovered the poison powder.

The maid righteously replied, "We were ordered to secretly investigate Pan Di's room after the princess faked her death. We found the remaining poison powder in the corner under her bed. When she discovered us, she tried to snatch it away, but because she couldn't, she accused us of leaving it in her room. The innkeeper can testify to this."

After getting the nod of approval from the inn manager, the old nanny beside Chi Feiwan also explained that on the day Chi Feiwan was poisoned, she only ate the food brought by Pan Di.

"Besides this, I have another witness."

Liang Hongkai was shocked and asked hurriedly, "What witness?"

The old lady looked at Pan Di with her sharp eyes. Pan Di shuddered and didn't dare to look at her.

"It's her accomplice, Zhang Da."

As soon as the old lady finished speaking, Pan Di immediately turned pale and shouted back, "Impossible!"

"What's impossible?"

Liang Hongkai snorted coldly and asked, and immediately saw Pan Di's panicked explanation: "No, I... I mean that Zhang Da is the murderer of my adoptive parents and brother. What he said cannot be trusted."

How could she change the verdict of a case that had already been concluded? Furthermore, she had already personally admitted to ordering the murder, and now she was showing off her death, which was disgusting.

"Pass it on to Zhang Da."

Liang Hongkai and the other man ignored her and directly called Zhang Da, who was imprisoned in the prison, to confront her face to face.

They didn't have to wait too long. As early as when Qin Miaoxi was on her way to the inn, she notified them to bring Zhang Da secretly. Because the case involved the Regent Princess, the two of them must be tried in front of the Princess.

Zhang Da's face was covered with a black cloth, and two yamen runners escorted him in.

"Your Majesty!"

With a shout, Zhang Da knelt on the ground, and the black cloth on his head was taken off.

He looked up and saw the solemn faces of Liang Hongkai and the other man. He kowtowed to them and said in a hoarse voice, "Greetings, my Lords."

Liang Hongkai asked directly, "Do you know who poisoned the princess?"

Zhang Da lowered his head and said word by word, "I hope to see it."

His words immediately drew a fierce retort from Pan Di, "Bullshit! You're such a wimp! How dare you slander me? Killing my entire family wasn't enough, and now you're going to kill me too?"

Zhang Da turned his head in shock and looked at Pan Di behind him, and a hint of hatred instantly appeared in his eyes.

"It's obvious that you want to harm the princess. You even said that as long as the princess dies, your worries will be gone and you can live peacefully as a noble lady."

Pan Di's back teeth creaked as she turned to look at Liang Hongkai and the others. "My Lords, please understand. When my mother was poisoned, Zhang Da had already been imprisoned. I never visited him, so how could he have said those things? It's clear he deliberately framed me and wanted to kill me."

She looked furious on the surface, but her heart suddenly calmed down. With Zhang Da's words, her suspicion should be cleared.

Liang Hongkai nodded in agreement with her statement, then looked at Zhang Da and asked, "She's right."

Zhang Da immediately argued, "Sir, she told me these words before, because she knew that she was going to pretend to be the princess's daughter."

Shao Kun's heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help but ask, "How did she know?"

"Things have come to this, and I dare not hide anything." Zhang Da spoke of those secret things with deep sorrow.

Pan Di was originally an unfavored adopted daughter in the family. Later, Zhang Dasui, an envoy, came to visit and reunited with her. Not long after, someone gave Pan Di a piece of cloth and told her that if anyone asked, she should say that it was her childhood swaddling clothes, and she would enjoy endless wealth and glory in the future.

After that, Pan Di waited for a long time but her benefactor did not appear. Instead, she made herself known to the Second Prince and was eventually taken into his room. In order to prevent the Second Prince from knowing her past and to prevent her adoptive parents from asking her for money, she used beauty traps and threats to force him to kill, which led to the tragic annihilation of a family of three.

She had already been planning to murder that family, and even before she reunited with him, she had already taken her brother to gamble and borrow money. Even without her, Pan Di would have personally killed those who insulted her.

Liang Hongkai frowned, "You still haven't mentioned when she told you those words?"

Zhang Da continued, "When you were investigating the case, you asked her about the swaddling clothes. She guessed it might be related to the Regent Princess, so she told me: If she is really the Regent Princess's daughter, after recognizing her as her relative, she will first find a way to gain the Princess's approval, and then find a way to kill the Princess. That way, no one can expose her identity. As long as she finds a wealthy man to marry, she will be able to live a life of ease in the future. Her goal is to become the Second Prince's Princess."

"Nonsense! When did I ever say I just wanted a position?" Pan Di glared at him and cursed, "What evidence do you have for your empty promises?"

Unexpectedly, Zhang Da really produced evidence. It was a letter of commitment, which stated that after the matter was accomplished, Pan Di would pay him an additional three thousand taels of silver. There was Pan Di's fingerprint on it.

"Sir, this is the evidence."

Liang Hongkai quickly glanced through it and then scolded: "Pan Di, what else do you have to say now?"

Pan Di wanted to burn the paper, "No, that was just the reward for killing those three people. It has nothing to do with mother!"

Shao Kun immediately seized on her confession and asked, "So you admit that you ordered him to kill a family of three?"

Pan Di accidentally bit his tongue, and a sweet, fishy smell spread in the air. He immediately determined the severity of the situation and nodded, saying, "So what if I ordered it? This matter is over, and the emperor has forgiven my sins. You can't do anything to me."

She didn't die when she was executed before, so how could she be killed now?

But at this moment, Zhang Da took out another thing, which was thirty silver notes.

"Please look at this, sir."

Liang Hongkai's pupils shrank after seeing this, and his eyes subconsciously looked at Chi Feiwan.

"Princess, this is...?"