After the fiancé was cut off by the county owner

Chapter 43
Hearing this, Ji Sanniang was furious, and she was about to go out, "Damn you bastards. I'm going to kill them and let them be buried with Ah Ling."

Seeing this, Princess Qingyang quickly grabbed her, "Sanniang calm down, even if they kill them, Ah Ling will not be able to come back to life, what we need to do now is to find out why Ah Ling fell into the water."

Everyone in the Minshan palace was distracted by the death of Princess Ling, especially Brother Jiao Hua, who only wanted to bring back his sister's body quickly, and did not investigate why Princess Ling fell into the water.

Jiao Hua held back his grief, and after calming down, he began to arrange various matters. After he finished the arrangements, King Minshan rushed back.

After seeing his daughter's dead body, King Minshan was heartbroken and grief-stricken, and immediately wanted to kill those servants who served his daughter, Jiao Hua persuaded him with the words of Princess Qingyang.

He personally arraigned Princess Ling's personal maid and servants who served in the other courtyard. According to Ping'er, Princess Ling's personal maid, Princess Ling was awakened by a nightmare in the middle of the night, and then made a fuss to go to the lotus pond to see lotus flowers.

At first she and another maid, Lu'er, accompanied her, but Princess Ling refused to let them accompany them, and drove them away by threatening to sell them.Originally, they were waiting not far from the lotus pond, but after waiting for a long time, Princess Ling did not see him leave the lotus pond.

Later, they fell asleep for some reason, and when they woke up, it was already bright daylight, and Princess Ling was not by the lotus pond.They thought Princess Ling had gone back to her room to rest, so they searched her room and found that she hadn't come back at all.

The two maids panicked, and hurriedly led people to search for the master's whereabouts in the other courtyard, but they almost turned the other courtyard upside down, and did not find the figure of Ling County Master.

Later, Ping'er thought that the last time they saw Master Ling was by the lotus pond, and wondered whether Master Ling had fallen into the lotus pond.Thinking of this, the two were so frightened that they lost their minds and hurriedly asked people to go to the lotus pond to find someone.

Unexpectedly, she actually found Princess Ling in the lotus pond, but she was no longer angry at that time.

The servant who was the first to find the body of Lord Ling recalled: "The water in the lotus pond only reached the waist of the villain. When the villain found the princess, the hands and feet of the princess were tightly entwined by the aquatic plants in the lotus pond."

If it wasn't for being entangled in water plants, maybe the princess wouldn't die.

King Minshan was silent for a long time after hearing what the servant said, and then went into the palace.I don't know what he said to Emperor Yuanhe, but after hearing this, Emperor Yuanhe immediately called the Minister of Dali Temple and asked Dali Temple to investigate the case of the drowning of Princess Ling.

This clearly tells the world that Princess Ling's death was murdered by others.

Master Fang of Dali Temple is really in a headache. The head of Yong'an county was killed on the Dragon Boat Festival. It has only been four months since another noble daughter of the clan died.

A county head, a county head, are all fifteen or sixteen years old, what a pity!
Emperor Yuanhe ordered that until the real culprit is found out, it is strictly forbidden to spread the murder of Lord Ling.

Dali Temple, Minshan Prince's Mansion, Changxing Prince's Mansion and Ji's family who knew the inside story all kept silent.

Zuo Chengyan of Dali Temple was ordered to investigate the case. He found a unicorn jade pendant by the lotus pond where Lord Ling was killed.

The kylin jade pendant is translucent and lustrous, and the carving is not vulgar, and the owner who wears it is either rich or noble.He showed the jade pendant to Ping'er and Lu'er for identification, and the two servant girls said they had never seen it before, so it should not belong to Princess Ling.

He asked the rest of the Minshan Palace to identify it, but no one came out to claim it.

Yan Li had no choice but to temporarily store the jade pendant in Dali Temple as a witness, and after obtaining the consent of King Minshan, he ordered Wuzuo to examine the body of Princess Ling.

After inspection, Wu Zuo found that the body of Princess Ling was swollen, but there were no traces of mud and sand in the crevices of the mouth, nose, and nails, and there were no signs of drowning.

From this point of view, it is very likely that Princess Ling was thrown in the lotus pond after his death.

Yan Li thought of the corpse of the red-clothed woman found in the river after the Dragon Boat Festival. The death symptoms were almost the same as those of Princess Ling. Hold your hands and feet.

These two cases are so similar that it is difficult not to doubt whether the same person did it.The corpse of the woman in red has not been claimed so far, and it is not known whose daughter she is.

Yan Li felt that finding the real culprit who killed Princess Ling might solve the case of the female corpse in red, and then she would be able to know her identity.

However, after strictly interrogating the servants who served the master of Ling County, there were no useful clues except for the unicorn jade pendant.There was no progress in the case for several days, and people from the Minshan Palace came to urge him several times, and Yan Li couldn't help but feel a little headache.

Just when he was at a loss, a new clue appeared in front of him.

The new clue points directly to Wei's grocery store in Qingshui Town.

The shopkeepers of Wei's grocery store are Wei Tiezhu and Wei Changgui's father and son.They used to be the dredgers of the Weishui River, and they were also the first to discover the corpse of the woman in red.

When Yan Li brought people to the door, Wei Changgui was entertaining guests in his grocery store.After Yan Li revealed his identity, Wei Changgui quickly welcomed him in.

"I don't know why the adults are looking for the younger ones?"

Yan Li glanced at him, and asked directly: "Do you know the shopkeeper Song of Fuxiang Gold Shop?"

Wei Changgui's smile froze, and he subconsciously said that he didn't know him, but Yan Li saw his strangeness at a glance.

"Presumably you also know that shopkeeper Song was hacked to death by two foreigners. According to their account, the reason why shopkeeper Song was killed was because he bought a gold bracelet with rubies embedded in it from you."

Hearing this, Wei Changgui's face turned pale, and his legs felt limp.Yan Li ordered people to bring Wei Changgui and Wei Tiezhu back to Dali Temple, and they did not have to go to Xing to question them, and the father and son explained everything in detail.

The torrential rain after the Dragon Boat Festival blocked the lower reaches of the Weishui River. Wei Changgui and Wei Tiezhu were dredging the river to salvage dead branches and leaves, and accidentally salvaged a gold earring.

After this kind of encounter, Wei Changgui didn't want to clear the silt anymore, and focused on salvaging jewelry.But where are there so many good things?Wei Changgui thought that the gold earring was salvaged from the bottom of the river, and there might be some windfalls down there.

So he got into the Weishui River with good water quality, and found a female corpse underneath.The moment Wei Changgui found the female corpse, he was almost scared out of his wits, but when he saw the shining golden bracelet on the female corpse's wrist, he became greedy.

He swam to the female corpse and took off the bracelet inlaid with rubies. Just as he was about to leave, he saw a gold earring on the right ear of the female corpse, which was exactly the same as the one he had salvaged, so he took it away up.

In the past few years, the father and son have dredged the silt on the Weishui River and salvaged a lot of jewelry and gold wares. The most important and valuable gold bracelets and gold earrings were obtained from a woman's corpse.

After getting these things, he hid them at home for two months. Seeing that the corpse of the woman in red was still unclaimed, he secretly sold the things and made a small windfall.

With this money, the Wei family father and son stopped working as dredgers. They set up a grocery store in the town and started trading to make a living.

(End of this chapter)