The whole world thinks that I am trying to usurp the throne

As soon as the chief servant fell to the ground, the rosters of the palace servants in his arms also fell down with a "crackling".

Zhou Cozy leaned down to help the head servant up, and said with concern: "Why does the head manager suddenly have abdominal pain?"

"Our family... our family doesn't know... I don't know why..." the chief housekeeper managed to squeeze out some words, "If it's not like tomorrow... let our family rest for a day, and then go tomorrow... How about the East Palace?"

Looking at the gate of the East Palace, Zhou Cozy was full of doubts. The chief servant just now was in good health, why did he suddenly collapse on the ground due to abdominal pain when he was only fifty steps away from the East Palace?

Is this a coincidence, or is the chief servant acting deliberately to delay the time to go to the East Palace to check the list of servants?Could it be that the corpse was from the East Palace?

The guards at the entrance of the East Palace had already noticed the strange situation here, and one of them hurried up to Zhou Yan and the head of the housekeeper, and asked, "What is the matter with the Lord Chief and this lord coming to the East Palace? His Royal Highness is still sick in bed, and there are no outsiders. .”

The head servant hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's nothing."

The head servant was really suspicious, he spoke very hard before, but now he was so quick, and the way he looked at the corpse was also unusual.

Zhou Cozy let go of his hand suddenly, but the head servant did not fall to the ground immediately, but stood steadily, even forgetting to protect his abdomen with his hands.

Zhou Yan sneered and said, "Isn't the chief manager suffering from unbearable abdominal pain? Has he recovered so quickly?"

The head waiter let out a low cry, tilted his body, and was about to fall to the ground again, but Zhou Yan held his shoulders.

Zhou Cozy said disdainfully: "My lord, you have already exposed your flaws, so stop acting."

After finishing speaking, Zhou Co said to the guard, "I am Zhou Co, Minister of Dali Temple. I have been ordered by Your Majesty to thoroughly investigate the case of the poisoning of His Highness the Crown Prince. Please gather all the servants in the East Palace together for my inspection."

The guard was startled, and replied: "The slave can't be the master, wait for the slave to go and ask His Royal Highness for instructions."

Zhou Cozy called the guards: "Since His Royal Highness is sick in bed, please don't bother me."

The guard hesitated for a moment, and finally went to ask His Highness the Prince for instructions.

Zhou Yan was helpless, in order to avoid accidents, he picked up the roster from one place, and quickly followed the guards, but before entering the East Palace, he was stopped by the rest of the guards.

After a while, the guard walked up to Zhou Cozy and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has allowed Mr. Zhou to inspect the servants in the Eastern Palace."

Zhou Co was startled, and thought to himself: Could it be that I am suspicious?That corpse has nothing to do with Donggong?

Zhou Co looked back at the Chief Internal Attendant who was still clutching his stomach, the Chief Internal Attendant reluctantly walked to Zhou Co's side, and said to the guard, "Hurry up and call all the internal servants in the East Palace."

The guards took orders, and not long after, the fifteen servants of the Eastern Palace stood in front of Zhou Cozy.

Zhou Yi opened the roster and counted the people one by one, and there was no doubt about it.

The chief servant next to him said: "Our family... our family can't stand it anymore... well... we have to go and rest soon, Mr. Zhou, please do it yourself."

Zhou Cozy called the two yamen servants, handed over the roster to the two yamen servants, and went to the third prince Yan Qi and the fourth prince Yan Huan Palace to check one by one, and then went to the Bingzhan Bureau, Yinzuo Bureau, Huanyi Bureau, etc. In the eight rounds, not even the Leng Gong was missed.

Until night fell, the stars and the moon competed for glory, Zhou Co could not find a single suspicious point. There were a total of 320 and 11 servants registered in the palace. Recently, 12 of them were executed with a stick for committing a fault, and one died of illness. Before the [-] people were removed from the list, the person who was killed by the stick must have marks on his body, and the one who died of illness was obese, and he was not the same as the body.

Who is that corpse?

As a foreign minister, it was inconvenient for Zhou Co to stay in the palace. Seeing that it was getting late, he hurried to the gate of the palace.

The other party was about to leave the palace gate, when suddenly he heard a voice calling urgently: "Lord Zhou, wait a minute."

Zhou Co looked back, but it was Wu Zuo, panting, Wu Zuo invited Zhou Co to the side, wiped off his sweat, and said in a low voice, "I checked carefully, and the body was castrated after death."

At that time, Zhou Cozy saw that the body was wearing the gray-blue clothes worn by the servants, and saw that the lower body was incomplete, so he concluded that it was the servants in the palace. Unexpectedly, he made a mistake at the beginning. Today it took a lot of trouble to check the servants in the palace, but it was a waste of time.

The body was castrated after death, and its appearance was disfigured...

Zhou Co had originally had two guesses about the corpse. One: the roster of servants in the Fuyu Palace was fake, Yan Xun and the chief servant had colluded, and at least two servants had been killed, and this corpse was one of them. There is one doubtful point - Yan Xun and Xiao Yuebai are not stupid, since they wanted to kill people to silence them, why didn't they take the token of Fuyu Temple from the corpses?Second: The corpse was deliberately discarded in the carp pond to blame Yan Xun, so the token would make sense.

If the second is the truth, destroying the appearance of the corpse will increase Yan Xun's suspicion even more. After all, it would be more reasonable if Yan Xun wanted to kill people and destroy his appearance.

That gesture interrupted Zhou Co's thinking: "This corpse has been soaked in the water for more than two days, and its appearance is quite different from that of when it was alive. Therefore, I have never seen the strangeness of its lower body at a glance."

Zhou Co frowned, and asked, "What is the cause of death?"

The man replied: "The cause of death was severe trauma to the back of the head."

Zhou Xi said goodbye to the painting and rushed back to Dali Temple. After getting out of the carriage, he hurried to the secret room where the blue-glazed plum vase with white bamboo pattern and the white porcelain vase were hidden.

In front of the secret room, two of his confidantes were guarding, and upon seeing him, one of them respectfully said: "My lord, there is nothing unusual today."

Zhou Yan nodded, indicating that he knew, then opened the door and entered the secret room, poured out the two powders with a handkerchief, and compared them carefully, the two powders were indeed consistent with what he saw this morning.

On the other side, after Xiao Yuebai and Yan Xun had dinner, Yan Xun pestered Xiao Yuebai to play the piano and listen to him.

Xiao Yuebai couldn't bear to refuse Yan Xun, so she stroked the piano.

Xiao Yuebai is good at chess, calligraphy, and painting, and his chess skills are unrivaled, but his piano skills are invincible.

Xiao Yuebai was born beautiful, sitting under the moonlight, surrounded by the moonlight, the color is more abundant, his temperament is ethereal, like a banished fairy, he is going to go with the wind, but when his fingertips flick Strings, the misty air all over his body dissipated in an instant.

Yan Xun was originally drinking the Dahongpao, when suddenly a series of ear-piercing zither sounds invaded his cochlea, forcing him to swallow the Dahongpao in his mouth, neither to spit it out, he endured it again and again, fearing that Xiao Yuebai would be swept away. For the sake of saving face, he didn't spit out the big red robe.

Yan Xun couldn't stop laughing as he swallowed the big red robe, and laughed hard, tears welled up in his eyes: "Sir, your piano sound really doesn't match your person."

Xiao Yuebai held down the flexible strings, seeing Yan Xun smiling happily, she didn't feel embarrassed at all, instead she pursed her lips and said with a smile: "You're making a fool of yourself."