Li Baiyu wandered back and forth in the hall with a gloomy expression, looking at the imperial doctor behind the screen who was checking Nangong Meng's pulse from time to time!
The third princess's tender palms were also clasped together, and she kept hammering her own palms. The worried look on her pretty face never disappeared for a moment.
After a long time, the imperial doctor took back the silk cloth that was placed on Nangong Meng's wrist: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is just suffering from a sudden anger, it is not serious. I will prescribe two pieces of medicine and you will be fine."
"It's just that the Queen Mother's illness stems from... from the Queen Mother's assassination. I am fully confident that her body has recovered."
"But there is nothing this sick old minister can do!"
The imperial doctor hesitated for a moment, then directly told the root of the matter.
Li Baiyu breathed a sigh of relief: "I understand, please step back first!"
"Yes, I am resigning!"
"Your Majesty!"
Li Baiyu heard Nangong Meng's voice and walked directly towards the bed: "Mother, how are you? Do you feel better?"
Nangong Meng looked at Li Baiyu melancholy: "Your Majesty, Xiaoxi has really..."
Li Baiyu nodded helplessly: "Two feather arrows passed through his body, and there is no way to save him!"
Nangong Meng's face was extremely sad, but she had to accept the reality.
"Has the assassin been caught? Who is so bold as to dare to assassinate the Queen of the East Palace?"
"My son-in-law has sent his brother-in-law to hunt down the traitors! Yun Xiaoxi has also sent people from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment to assist. The identities of these assassins are still unclear!"
"But don't worry, Queen Mother, I will definitely get to the bottom of it and give you an explanation, Queen Mother, and also give an explanation to the Yun family!"
Nangong Meng hurriedly raised his hand: "No, we can't investigate, and we can't publicize this matter!"
Li Baiyu looked at Nangong Meng with confusion on his face: "Mother, why can't you check?"
"Not long after I ascended the throne, someone dared to assassinate the empress of my dynasty. Will they not dare to assassinate my current emperor in the future?"
"If we don't get to the bottom of this matter and bring these thieves to justice, how can I rest assured!"
"The queen has been assassinated, and these thieves are allowed to go unpunished. How can I serve the people and govern the tens of millions of people in the world!"
"Your Majesty, it is precisely because of this that we cannot continue to investigate in detail. Yun Xiaoxi cannot die!"
"Not only for the sake of the royal family and the Yun family's face, but also for the stability of your imperial power!"
"Once word spreads about this child Xiaoxi, your rights and prestige will be shaken, do you understand?"
Li Baiyu was stunned for a moment, his pupils shrank, and he looked at Nangong Meng in confusion: "The Queen Mother means that what happened to Yun Xiaoxi may cause my son and minister to separate from the Yun family!"
"Yes, Xiaoxi is the only child of the Yun family. Yunyang has always loved him. Once this matter is spread, people's support is one thing, and the in-laws of the Yun family are even more important!"
"So Yun Xiaoxi cannot die no matter what. General Huben Yunchong must be the father-in-law of the country."
"But Yun Xiaoxi has already... Where can I find Yun Xiaoxi?"
"Go and send Duke Jingguo. If I have anything to say to him, please tell me!"
"Queen mother, do you want to..."
"Your Majesty, you should be confused when you should be confused. Nothing in this world is always crystal clear!"
"This wedding is just a show you staged with Duke Jing to exterminate the traitors. The real Yun Xiaoxi is still waiting to be married. The auspicious day for the canonization of the queen will be chosen elsewhere!"
"Before you secure your position, the Sixth Guards of Northern Xinjiang, except for your uncle and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry from the Wan Family, may be lured over by Prince Qing and the others!"
"Do you understand what the queen means?"
Li Baiyu hesitated for a moment and nodded silently: "I understand, I will summon Duke Jingguo to the palace right now!"
Liu Ying is right. It can be said that every step was clearly planned by Liu Ying.
For the sake of the Yun family, Li family's face and the new king's throne, they themselves would choose to keep this matter quiet.
Xingbu Yamen Autopsy Room.
Ding Jian, the chief minister of Dali Temple, looked at Ye Kaiming, the Minister of Punishment, and his wife who came out of the autopsy room and greeted him.
"How about Ye Shangshu? Can you find any clues from the empress's body?"
Ye Kaiming took the manuscript from the author's hand and nodded silently.
"Your Majesty's phoenix body does not allow us foreign ministers to desecrate it. I can only conduct a simple inspection. It is full of doubts!"
Ding Jian looked at Ye Kaiming quietly: "Hurry up and tell me, if we have any progress here, we can help Ding Guogong and others to speed up the capture of the traitors."
Ye Kaiming lowered his head and looked at the manuscript: "I will talk about this first point first!"
"The empress died after being penetrated by two arrows. However, I took a rough look at the wound and found that the blood stains on the red wedding dress were less than a normal person's blood volume!"
"According to common sense, if an arrow passes through your body, the blood from the wound will definitely spurt out!"
"The wound on the empress' phoenix body has too little blood. This is one of the reasons!"
"The second doubt is that someone was assassinated, and ordinary people would be panicked. That's why I had the courage to take a look at the remains of the empress. She was extremely calm!"
"It shows that the empress did not panic at all before she was shot. This is extremely contrary to the reaction of ordinary people!"
"Third, I carefully asked all the eunuchs and maids. There was no abnormal sound in the queen's sedan chair. Mr. Ding, tell me about a living person who was penetrated by two arrows. How could there be no sound?
The slightest movement was heard!”
"Fourth, it has been less than an hour since the assassination of the empress. Just now, when the palace maid was carrying the phoenix body of the empress, I looked at it for a moment. The body of a person who has been dead for less than an hour cannot be so stiff!"
"If you want to get to this point, it will take you at least two hours!"
"Fifth, according to the confessions of these palace maids and eunuchs, these assassins who assassinated the empress are all first-class martial arts masters. Otherwise, they would not have hit the empress's body with two arrows!"
"Since these assassins are absolutely sure that the arrows will hit the queen's body and achieve the purpose of assassination, why bother setting fire to the sedan chair with rockets?"
"Are these assassins trying to hide something?"
"Sixth, think about the reaction of a living person being penetrated by an arrow."
Ding Jian thought for a moment and realized: "Spasm! Because of the pain, a normal person's reaction is to spasm!"
"You are right, but are you looking at my queen's body, does it look like she has been in pain?"
Ding Jian took the manuscript from Ye Kaiming's hand and began to read it. After a long time, Ding Jian put down the manuscript and began to think.
"Shang Shu Ye, do you think the arrowhead was quenched with a poison that will kill you if it touches blood, so the death of the empress was a bit strange!"
"This possibility cannot be ruled out!"
"These are my preliminary conclusions. Your Majesty's phoenix body is not that of an ordinary person. Without His Majesty's will, we cannot conduct a careful autopsy."
"Only through further inspection can we draw specific conclusions."
"These doubts will not help Duke Dingguo."
"Let's first summon officials from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment to discuss how to present this preliminary conclusion to His Majesty!"
"That's all it has to be now. I hope Duke Dingguo can gain something."
"My cousin was brutally assassinated just after she left the palace and before she even passed the door. I hope Duke Ding won't be blinded by anger after catching the culprit, and leave some alive so that you and I can get to the bottom of it!"
"My dog Ye Jinghui is now working for Duke Ding. He is well aware of my methods. I hope he can advise Duke Ding and leave a clue for me!"
Ding Jian sighed quietly and led Ye Kaiming towards the front office.
"It's hard to say. To put it bluntly, if this happened to Xiaguan, he wouldn't be able to bear it. If he catches the thief, he will definitely cut him into pieces to vent his hatred!"
"Ding Guogong has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he is already strong-blooded. It is difficult for him to keep his anger from venting when he is lowered to the official position!"
"Take a step at a time and draw up a memorial first!"
If Young Master Liu knew that Ye Kaiming found so many clues just by casually checking Yun Xiaoxi's body, I wonder what he would think.
After all, the Minister of Punishment was the leader of criminal investigation in ancient times. Without three-point means, how could he sit in that position?