The whole family was brutally murdered? The ruthless heiress's eldest daughter went berserk aft

With Xiao Wan Ning's arrival, Wen Ruoxin and Xiao Si Ning seemed to have found their anchor and instantly calmed down.

When everyone saw Xiao Wanning arrive, they all bowed to her.

"Greetings, Your Highness."

Xiao Wan Ning slightly raised her wrist, signaling everyone to dispense with formalities. She moved gracefully to Zhao Qing Qing's body, pausing as she passed Murong Xue Wei. She then looked Murong Xue Wei up and down.

"Is it possible that the poison entered the body through other means, bypassing food, and directly through other channels?" Xiao Wan Ning asked the doctor.

The doctor pondered for a moment and nodded. “What Your Highness said is not impossible. If the skin is pierced with a needle or sharp object containing the poison of the Purple Cloud Flower, the venom can enter the body directly, which will accelerate the poisoning. It may not even take half an incense stick to burn; death could occur in just a moment.”

"Does she have any marks from being stabbed?" Xiao Wan Ning asked indifferently.

The doctor returned to Zhao Qing's body and examined it again. "Your Highness, it is indeed there."

"Since they exist, then arrest them!" Xiao Wan Ning didn't even lift her eyelids, waving her hand to order her servants to arrest them.

"Who dares?" Su Xiaonuan stood protectively in front of Murong Xuewei. "Your Highness, isn't it inappropriate to arrest someone based solely on the claim of death by poisoning?"

Xiao Wan Ning stared intently at Su Xiao Nuan, her eyes unblinking.

Murong Xuewei knew that this was a sign that Xiao Wanning wanted to kill someone, so she subconsciously pulled Su Xiaonuan back and stood in front of her.

“Your Highness, even if you want to convict me of submission, shouldn’t you at least provide a witness and physical evidence? If you think I had a falling out with Zhao Qingqing and are trying to pin this crime on me, please forgive me for not being able to plead guilty.”

Xiao Sining stepped forward, her tone carrying a hint of authority, "Then Murong Xuewei, I ask you, how do you explain where you were when Zhao Qingqing died?"

Murong Xuewei simply smiled and said, "Didn't the princess know I was there? My clothes were wet from the maid's splash, and I was changing."

"Where did you go after you changed your clothes?"

"After changing my clothes, I went back to the banquet hall. Then I heard that Zhao Qingqing had died, so I came here with everyone else."

"During this period, can anyone prove that you did not have contact with Zhao Qingqing?" Xiao Sining pressed on.

Murong Xuewei smiled calmly, "No."

"If that's the case, why don't you confess?"

Murong Xuewei chuckled, "If Your Highness wants me to confess just because of this, please forgive me, I really cannot do it."

Murong Xuewei looked at the others present and said, "If you're going to talk like that, there are so many people in the Wen family. Not everyone can prove that they haven't had any contact with Zhao Qingqing, right? Then may I ask the princess, aren't they also suspects in killing Zhao Qingqing?"

"What nonsense are you spouting? They had no prior conflict with Zhao Qingqing, so why would they kill her?"

"Oh, so you can kill someone just because there's a gap in the relationship? If that's the case, I just had a disagreement with a maid in the Wen family. Should I have killed her too?" Murong Xuewei silenced Xiao Sining with a few questions.

"You're just being unreasonable!" Xiao Sining clearly couldn't win the argument with Murong Xuewei.

Just then, Gu Ye suddenly appeared. He had a powerful aura and sharp eyes. He scanned everyone present and finally stood next to Murong Xuewei. "Your Highness, we should focus on finding the real culprit, not making baseless accusations."

Xiao Sining tried to explain, but Xiao Wanning stopped her. In the end, she could only stomp her foot and stand behind Xiao Wanning.

Gu Ye's appearance warmed Murong Xuewei's heart, and her heartbeat quickened involuntarily.

"Why are you here?" Murong Xuewei asked softly.

"Oh my, someone is afraid that I, the young lady of the Wu Prime Minister's family, can't stand up for myself, so he specially came to support me."

Su Xiaonuan's words made Murong Xuewei blush even more, and she lowered her head, refusing to look at Gu Ye.

Gu Ye reached out and pulled Murong Xuewei behind him, which made Xiao Sining even angrier.

"General Gu, you cannot show favoritism just because Madam Murong is your wife."

“If my wife is truly the murderer, there’s no need to trouble anyone here; I, Gu, will personally escort her to the authorities. But if my wife is not the murderer, I hope Miss Wen and Ms. [Name] can give her an explanation.”

“That’s natural,” Xiao Wanning said calmly.

Gu Ye looked around, memorizing the positions of everyone present and their reactions when he first appeared, and finally fixed his gaze on Si Lingshan.

"Who discovered Zhao Qingqing's body?"

A maid stepped forward and said, “According to General, it was me. I was in charge of watering the garden. When I was watering the flowers, I saw Miss Zhao lying here. I thought she was asleep, so I called her a few times, but she didn’t respond. When I got closer, I found that she was dead.”

"When you discovered Zhao Qingqing's body, were there any other people nearby?"

The maidservant thought for a moment, then shook her head. "No, that's all."

Gu Ye stepped forward and examined Zhao Qingqing's body closely, noticing that her posture was very strange.

If someone dies from poisoning without knowing it, given the toxicity of the Purple Haze Flower poison, they should have fainted and died directly from the poison.

But if you look closely at Zhao Qingqing's posture, it seems that she still wants to walk forward, or even crawl.

This doesn't fit the characteristics of poisoning, unless Zhao Qingqing knew she was poisoned and wanted to ask someone for help.

Suddenly, Gu Ye noticed that Zhao Qingqing seemed to be holding a piece of cloth in her other hand.

Gu Ye slowly pried open Zhao Qingqing's hand and took out the piece of cloth.

When Gu Ye took out the piece of fabric, Si Lingshan's face suddenly turned panicked, and she hurriedly hid her skirt.

"This large piece of cloth was found in Zhao Qingqing's possession, which should be the last person Zhao Qingqing saw."

Gu Ye held up the fabric in his hand. "Can everyone compare these fabrics to see who was the last person to see Zhao Qingqing, and who is also the most likely person to kill Zhao Qingqing?"

Wen Ruoxin stepped forward and took the fabric. From an angle where Gu Ye couldn't see, she secretly gave Si Lingshan a look, signaling her to go change her clothes.

“This fabric is of superior quality, something that my maids and servants cannot afford. Moreover, judging from the style and color, it should be made by a woman.”

The young men present breathed a sigh of relief. Ever since Gu Ye intervened in the case, they had all been on tenterhooks, fearing that Gu Ye would notice them.

After all, Gu Ye's title of "Cold-Faced Yama" wasn't given lightly. In addition, Gu Ye was always selfless and impartial. No matter whose son you were, as long as you made a mistake, you would be locked up in jail.

I remember last year there was a son of a high-ranking official who was caught by Gu Ye for forcibly taking a woman. Gu Ye threw him into jail, and when he came out, he was completely tortured.