Ming Chengzu nodded and walked back to his seat. Ji Gang brought a basin of ice water from outside the door. Some ice was floating on the water surface. He pointed it at Lu Yuanshan, who had long hair covering his face and splashed it.

Lu Yuanshan trembled all over, moaned in pain, slowly raised his head, and looked at them with no eyes.

Ming Chengzu sneered and continued, "After I received Ji Aiqing's report, I was still suspicious at first. I personally interrogated the maid Lian'er. As expected, when I arrested the bitch Lü, I tortured him, but she didn't admit it. After Ji Aiqing tortured her maid, they all admitted it. Only then did I learn that this bitch had already attempted to attack the Virtuous Concubine!"

Ming Chengzu was so angry that he spoke too quickly and gasped, and said to Ji Gang: "Stop telling Yang Aiqing about this case." He was very angry when he remembered the tragic death of his beloved concubine. He picked up a red soldering iron and kept scalding on Lu Yuanshan. After being awakened by the cold water, the pain recovered a lot. He was scalded and screamed in pain, which was extremely desolate. After a moment, he fainted again. Ming Chengzu still couldn't relieve his hatred and continued to burn it with the soldering iron.

Ji Gang laughed as if nothing had happened: "Brother Yang, the emperor personally interrogated Lu Yuanshan's maids and the eunuchs around him, and found out that Lu Yuanshan had been disrespectful and ridiculed Concubine Xian. After Empress Xu left, the emperor asked Empress Xian to take charge of the inner palace. Since Lu Yuanshan said a ruthless rebellious word, he ridiculed Empress Xu and Concubine Xian and said: "The empress with descendants is also dead. How many months will you keep in mind? It's so rude! Brother Yang. Do you want to see, is this Lu still human language?"

Of course, Yang Qiuchi could understand this kind of struggle between the palaces, but listening to Lu Yuanshan's words seemed too arrogant and unreliable.

Ji Gang seemed to see Yang Qiuchi's doubts and said, "This sentence has been heard by many maids and eunuchs under Lu Yuanshan, and the maids of Concubine Xian. The evidence is certain. However, just these few words, the emperor thought of her externalized people and traveled thousands of miles. He came to my holy dynasty from Korea to serve the emperor, so he did not intend to make any mistakes. Unexpectedly, further interrogation was made. It was found that Lu Yuanshan was as heartless as a snake and scorpion in order to compete for favor. He attacked Concubine Xian."

Ji Gang glanced at Lu Yuanshan, who was burned to death by Ming Chengzu on the wooden stand, and continued: "This Lu colluded with the eunuch Jin Liang, the eunuch in charge of the Sili, and Jin De, the eunuch in the hall, bought arsenic from a silversmith named Xu Si in Lincheng, crushed it into powder, and was placed in the bowl of noodles tea that the concubine Xian drank before going to bed. The emperor left the bedroom because of reading the urgent memorial. After drinking the poisonous noodle tea, the empress called, and the maid Lian'er closed the doors and windows and prevented the empress from calling, causing the empress to die tragically."

Yang Qiuchi felt cold in his heart. He had asked this maid Lian'er. If there was such a conspiracy, why didn't he notice it at all? Since it had been investigated like this, Lu Yuanshan might be doomed.

At this time, Ming Chengzu had thrown away the soldering iron and returned to the Dragon Case. Several Jinyiwei ran out to bring ice water and began to water the maid on Lu Yuanshan again. The maid on the other wooden stand had fainted. The two tortured Jinyiwei also woke her up with ice water and continued to whip her.

Ji Gang said: "If this kind of femme woman is rude, how can she be worthy of the tragic death of Concubine Xian? Therefore, the emperor was furious and punished Lu Yuanshan and wrote a letter to North Korea to kill Lu Yuanshan's family. The maid Lian'er, the eunuch Jin Liang, the eunuch Jin De, and the silver smith Xu Si were extremely guilty and had been executed by the emperor's orders. The maids and eunuchs of Lu Yuanshan knew that the information did not report, which led to the murder of Concubine Xian. The maids and eunuchs of Lu Yuanshan did not find out that the empress died of murder, and the imperial chefs in the army were all unforgivable and beheaded together."

Yang Qiuchi understood now that Ji Gang said so easily, but when he put it outside, he saw hundreds of palace maids and eunuchs who were implicated and executed. Even Lu Yuanshan's family in North Korea was not spared. This was just a piece of cake for Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty and Ji Gang.

Judging from what Ji Gang said, there are many loopholes in this case. Although the confession is consistent, the confession cannot be forced out with the torture and torture of the Jinyiwei. Moreover, even if Lu Yuanshan wants to kill the Xianfei Concubine, how can the maids and eunuchs know about this secret matter? Now they are in unison and confessing in this way. It is obvious that Ji Gang tempted confession on the basis of torture in order to seek credit. However, this can only be thought about in his mind. Ji Gang is now so popular in front of Ming Chengzu, and he can't afford to offend him.

At this time, an Jinyiwei stepped forward and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, it seems... that the Lü family is dead..."

Ming Chengzu and Ji Gang were not much surprised. Ming Chengzu said to Yang Qiuchi: "Yang Aiqing, go check it out, is this bitch really dead or fake death?"

Yang Qiuchi responded, walked to the wooden frame, lifted up Lu Yuanshan's long hair, and looked up. It turned out that it was not the beauty Lu on the Lantern Festival. She stretched out her fingers and pressed her neck vein on her neck. She couldn't feel the pulse. She lifted her eyelids and saw that her pupils had spread and fixed. She found that her pupils had been scattered and fixed. She found a piece of paper, lit it on the fire, and swayed in front of Lu Yuanshan's eyes. Her pupils had no reaction to the light.

Yang Qiuchi shook her head: "She is dead." It is obvious that Lu Yuanshan was caused by continuous severe pain, which led to reflex central nervous system dysfunction and primary shock death. Of course, more than ten days of burning can also cause her body's red blood cells to be destroyed and release a large amount of potassium, causing hyperkalemia and causing cardiac arrest. However, the cause of her death is no longer important.

Ming Chengzu snorted: "This bitch is cheap!"

Ji Gang also said: "That's right, this snake and scorpion woman died after being scalded for more than ten days. Her life is really great."

After Lu Yuanshan died, the torture of her maid was meaningless. Ming Chengzu ordered the tortured maid to be taken out and beheaded.

Yang Qiuchi was a little sad. The case was settled like this, which surprised him very much. He wrote the letter just to Ji Gang to monitor these people and investigate further after he came back. Unexpectedly, Ji Gang tortured these people and found out the so-called truth full of loopholes. When he rushed back to the capital, he would kill all the places he should kill. Then what else to investigate?

Ming Chengzu was very satisfied and felt that he had finally avenged his beloved concubine. He said to Yang Qiuchi: "Yang Aiqing, if you hadn't discovered that Concubine Xian died of arsenic poisoning, this case could not be solved. Concubine Xian's revenge would not be avenged. You are very good, very good. I want to reward you heavily. After that, what do you want?"

Yang Qiuchi hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, this is all the work of the minister. I dare not accept the reward..." He hesitated and decided to tell the things he was worried about so as not to have any problems at all. He did not say it in advance, but it was also a crime of deceiving the king. Then he continued, "Your Majesty, I think there are still some problems in this case that have not been investigated clearly."

Ming Chengzu was slightly stunned: "I didn't find out clearly? OK, tell me, what else hasn't found out?"

Since he had already spoken, he was about to finish his words. Yang Qiuchi gritted his teeth and continued: "I don't dare to be sure that Concubine Xian died of arsenic poisoning..."

Ming Chengzu said: "Didn't you use a silver hairpin to explore the throat and find that the silver hairpin has turned black?"

“It’s true…”

"That's right. If this is not arsenic poisoning, what's it?" Ming Chengzu said.

Yang Qiuchi didn't dare to give the emperor a forensic class, explaining that there were other possibilities for Yinchai to turn black, and he didn't dare to say that he wanted to perform a corpse dissection of the Xianfei Concubine. After thinking for a while, he said, "Emperor, this Yinchai only touched the Empress's throat and could not reach the stomach. Even if the Empress's body was poisoned, it can only be said that it was poisoned in the throat, but it cannot be inferred from this that the Empress's body was poisoned by arsenic. In other words, it can only be said that there may be arsenic in the Empress's throat, but it cannot be confirmed from this that the Empress was poisoned by arsenic."

This sentence is very rigorous from the perspective of forensic science, but when Ming Chengzu heard it, he was confused, as if he was in a tongue twister. He frowned and asked, "Yang Aiqing, you should say it simply."

"Just simple?" Yang Qiuchi felt that he had already said it very simply. He couldn't explain it clearly anymore. He turned his head and said, "What I mean is that the arsenic substance in the empress's throat may not necessarily be taken by poisonous noodles tea, causing residual vomit after vomiting. There are other possibilities, such as...for example..." Yang Qiuchi remembered the plot in Stephen Chow's "Nine-rank Sesame Official" and said, "For example, the Empress Xianfei was poured into it after her death."

What? Ming Chengzu and Ji Gang were both surprised. Ming Chengzu said, "Yang Aiqing, is your basis for what you said?"

Yang Qiuchi hurriedly bowed and said, "No, this is just Weichen's guess. Therefore, Weichen originally wanted to ask Lord Ji to monitor the maid Lian'er and the Imperial Chef of the Army first, and wait for Weichen to come back..."

Commander Ji Gang was standing aside and said in a cold and heartless manner: "So, Lord Yang thinks the emperor and I, Ji Gang, are you troubled?"

Yang Qiuchi was shocked and quickly lifted his robe and knelt in front of Ming Chengzu: "I will never dare to have such a ruthless idea. I just want to thoroughly investigate the case..."

Ming Chengzu's tone was also a little unhappy: "Forget it, the case has been revealed. Yang Aiqing has worked hard and made great contributions. Let's go back and rest first."

Yang Qiuchi didn't dare to say anything again, agreed, kowtowed, stood up, bowed and retreated to the door, then turned around and left the door.

Several basins of stoves in the room were burning vigorously, but Yang Qiuchi realized that his forehead was already sweating. He thought to himself, since the case was tried by the emperor, if he found fault, it would be a mistake to correct the emperor's wrong case. It would be better not to do such a thankless thing, and just stop there.

Yang Qiuchi left the Xianfei Palace with a frustrated look on his face. Song Yun'er came up and asked, "Brother, how are you?"

Yang Qiuchi shook his head and sighed: "Let's go, go home."
Chapter completed!