Chapter 678 Where is the truth
For the confession submitted in the palace, Yuwenhao asked Gu Si to ask the palace servants who were in the Imperial Garden to ask again for the confession submitted in the palace before. See if there are any new discoveries.
Gu Si was not at ease with Fusu's people to do things, so he personally took the imperial guards to ask. He went to the imperial concubine palace and asked A Cai and Ru's concubines.
Concubine Ru's words were completely leaky. Although it seemed that it was not in line with her way of doing things, she could not find any mistakes. In order to help the prince, she invited Princess An, who was watching Concubine Hu fall in Suxin Hall at that time, to go out. Then Princess An, who was suffering from abdominal pain and could not walk. She was placed in the nearby Shangxinyue Pavilion, and there was no problem with the curtain falling due to the strong wind.
As for A Cai's previous confession, she was not very good. Even the only point was that she ran to the Shangxinyue Pavilion, but someone had already discovered that Princess An was attacked. The curtain had been lifted, that is, she was taken away by Princess An and attacked by his side concubine. She was not around, let alone the first discovery.
She was originally Princess An's personal maid. But in this matter, she could not provide any useful information at all. The only useful thing was that she said that the skirt Princess An was wearing was not red at the time.
In other words, the red skirt when Zhenbei Hou saw the Hou. It was not necessarily the skirt, but the blood.
But this is just a one-sided statement from Zhenbeihou. Perhaps it is not enough to accept it when it is handed over to the Ministry of Justice or Dali Temple. He may even say that he deliberately guided the direction of the investigation of the presiding trial, making the presiding judge think that Princess An was injured when he approached the Xinyue Pavilion, and used it to clear his suspicion.
After asking the two, King An came out with his hands behind his back. Gu Si was shocked when he saw King An. It was only a day before, but King An was much haggard, his eyes were red and his eye sockets were deep in. His eyes were like sharp blades, which made people look at him at first glance, very cold and creepy.
"Gu Si!" King An raised his sinister eyes and stared at Gu Si, "Go and tell Yuwen Hao, don't even want to exonerate the old man. I have also asked that at that time, most of the brothers and ladies in the royal garden were from the aristocratic families, or slaves and eunuchs in the palace. No one in the people present at that time knew martial arts except for him, Zhenbeihou. In this regard, he could not get rid of the charges of being punished. I will stare at him to death. If he does not die, I will commit the serious crime of murder and will not forgive him."
Gu Si found that he was a little considerate of King An. Perhaps because he became a relative, he had a wife who loved deeply. Everyone knew that Prince An was a lover of his wife. Now Prince An’s life and death are uncertain. His only obsession was to kill the murderer. Therefore, Gu Si did not say too much, but said: "Don't worry, Prince, this case is of great importance, and the murderer must not be spared."
King An sternly said: "The murderer is the old man from Zhenbeihou."
Gu Si didn't want to argue, but after hearing this, he felt a little harsh and said, "I understand the prince's mood very well, but now the truth has not been found out. It's okay for the prince to be so arbitrary, Zhenbei Hou is the murderer. If not, wouldn't it be called the murderer at large?"
A Ru interjected a sentence next to him, a slightly sad and angry tone, "Mr. Gu's words are biased. Just now, the prince said that in the imperial garden, the only one of Zhenbeihou knows martial arts. The princess was injured by the palm force. This shows that the murderer would not be the second person besides him. I know that the prince and Zhenbeihou have a good relationship now, so we can't be favored for personal gain. Lord. Gu, the princess is still lying in there and has no idea of life and death, and even the child in his belly cannot be saved. You should be conscientious when handling the case."
A Cai also cried, "Yes, it's important to impose the murderer. It's so hateful. The princess has no power to tie a chicken, and she is even more gentle and kind in her heart. How fierce is he able to do such evil deeds? If the murderer is not imposed, wouldn't the prince in the princess's mansion be sacrificed in vain?"
After seeing King An hear A Ru and A Cai's words, his eyes suddenly became furious, and he forced him to take a step forward, his forehead was pounding, staring at Gu Si, and said coldly: "Listen, within three days, if Jingzhao Mansion still delays the case, I will go to settle the murderer in person."
Gu Si was unwilling to challenge King An's bottom line, so he had to say goodbye.
He sighed. King An stubbornly believed that Zhenbeihou was the murderer. If the investigation could not be found in three days, I am afraid that he would really kill Zhenbeihou.
What can't be done by an angry person?
Gu Si immediately asked the palace servants who were in the Imperial Garden that day, and also asked the person who found something happened to Prince An's mansion.
When he found out that Princess An was the prince's concubine of the He County Prince's Mansion, Gu Si sent someone to inform Yu Wenhao and asked Yu Wenhao to go to the He County Prince's Mansion to get the offerings, but he continued to stay in the palace to ask.
Yuwenhao went to Hexian Prince's Mansion. The princess was scared and sick when he came back last night. He heard that the prince came to ask about yesterday and the prince helped him out.
After the ceremony, the prince helped the prince's concubine sit down. Yu Wenhao saw that the prince's concubine's face was pale, her lips were black and purple, and her eyes were dark. She was full of panic, which showed that she was really scared.
The princess said, "I took my maid to walk around the imperial garden yesterday. I wanted to enjoy the plum blossoms, but I didn't know that the plum blossoms were not blooming much. I met several ladies on the way. After a while of greeting, I felt tired. I wanted to find a place to rest for a while and drink a little hot tea to warm my body. Because it was close to the Shangxinyue Pavilion, and when I saw the curtains, I thought that there should be someone inside, I just talked and went back to the dinner, but I didn't know..."
When she said this, she suddenly slaps the hot tea and calmed down before continuing, "I didn't know that as soon as I climbed the stone steps, my maid said how she smelled a bloody smell. When she said that, I immediately asked which lady was inside. After asking twice, I couldn't hear the answer. The maid opened the curtain and looked at it. Then she saw a man sitting forward leaning forward on the stone table, with a pool of blood flowing underneath. I was so scared that I hurriedly asked the maid to go in and take a look. The maid called twice, reached out to push and gently, and saw that the man fell to the ground and lay in a pool of blood. I hadn't seen clearly that it was Princess An, but I was so scared that I screamed. Then someone ran over and said that it was Princess An, and Princess An had miscarriage. After that, I was helped away and didn't know what happened later."
After hearing this, Yuwenhao called the maid out and asked, and what the maid said was nothing different from the princess's concubine, and that's basically it.
The princess stroked her chest and said sadly: "At that time, everyone thought that Princess An had just miscarriage and fainted. She didn't know that she had suffered a murder. It was so cruel. Princess An was such a good person and was pregnant, she was going to suffer such a disaster. It was so cruel."
The prince comforted her and turned to ask Yuwenhao, "Brother of the prince, I heard that the murderer is Concubine Hu's father Zhenbeihou, right?"
Yuwenhao looked at him and said, "The case is still under investigation. It is unknown who is the murderer. You cannot make a conclusion in a hasty way. You cannot speculate randomly on the outside world, do you know?"
The prince nodded, "I know, I don't dare to say a word outside, but I went out for a while today, and everyone was talking about it, saying that Zhenbei Hou was the murderer."
Yu Wenhao felt powerless, and then public opinion came out to cause trouble again.
Chapter completed!