All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 246 Restoring the corpse and rebuilding trust

Xiao Yuanfeng heard Shen Lingxi's words, looked at her appearance again, and suddenly remembered that this princess was none other than the attendant who was holding the stump of Yunhong Mountain in front of the palace that night, and screamed in fright.

Xiao Yuanfeng faintly had a bad premonition.

Not only her, but even Yun Chao beside him recognized Shen Lingxi, "Mother Concubine, this person..."

Xiao Yuanfeng gave Yun Chao a calm look.

She looked at Shen Lingxi: "Why can't I understand what the princess is saying? What kind of dream, what help? The prince and the princess have never met, so even if you want to dream, you should give it to me and the prince. The princess Now in front of everyone, saying this intentionally, is it because you intend to imitate the real culprit of that night and pretend to be a ghost in front of everyone here?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone on the field looked at her strangely.

I'm afraid he's not a fool, is he?Didn't even know the name of Heavenly Master Miao Ling?
Celestial Master Miaoling can only "recruit ghosts", so how can he pretend to be a ghost?
Xiao Yuanfeng frowned, for a moment he didn't understand the meaning of these sudden gazes cast on him.

Shen Lingxi smiled, and was too lazy to talk to Xiao Yuanfeng any more.

She walked up to a stretcher and stretched out her hand to lift off the white cloth covering the stretcher.

Under the white cloth are Yun Hong's stumps full of "tentacles".

If it was at night before, and the light was too dim, many people had never seen Yun Hongshan's body clearly.

Right now, in broad daylight.

Everyone could clearly see the true appearance of Yunhongshan's stumped limbs.

Everyone on the field gasped in unison.

The stumps were placed on a stretcher in a human shape, and the lower limbs and right arm had been sewn up.

The head and left arm are still the same as that night.

Joints, both stitched and unstitched, have copious amounts of silvery thread stacked together.

Those silk threads made Yun Hongshan's body look like a monster covered with tentacles.

Many of the onlookers had seen this corpse in Manyi Square that night, the dismemberment of the corpse, and seeing it again now, they were all terrified.

"This corpse, it won't cheat again, right? The thread on it is so long, if it runs into the crowd..."

"Stop it, stop it! I regret coming here!"

"Shh, don't be afraid, you didn't see, are the top monks, Taoist priests and Kun Dao, one of the best monks in our capital, here? We won't let the ghost show up."

"Where is my talisman? Where is my talisman? Why is my talisman missing?"

There was commotion from the crowd, and some people started to leave when they saw Yun Hongshan's body.

Shen Lingxi had a panoramic view of everyone's reactions, and said loudly: "Don't be afraid, everyone. The reason why this corpse is like this is because the craftsmen of the Yunjiang Puppet Sect made the corpse into a puppet. Every joint of the King of Yunjiang , are all made into special mechanisms, and then threaded with silk threads, which are specially controlled by the puppeteer."

She picked up the arm on the left that hadn't been stitched together, and used tools to remove the braces at the joints, and showed them to everyone one by one.

Last time in the Yunjiang Palace, Shen Lingxi let Yun Hongshan's body be self-dissolved in full view, in order to expose the manipulation of the corpse by the people of the Palace.

But at this moment, she showed the machine in public to eliminate the fear in the hearts of the people.

Let them know that the reason why Yun Hongshan's body is like this is man-made, not the power of ghosts and gods.

Stitching the corpse is the first step in rebuilding the trust of the people.

At the same time, Shen Lingxi did not forget to look at Xiao Yuanfeng, and asked bluntly, "Princess Xiao said that the prince was killed on the night of fraudulent corpse seven days ago. But if you want to make the corpse into a puppet, it will take three to five days." , how can a living person be turned into such a precise puppet in just a few hours?"

"Besides, according to the inspection of the prince's body, the body has undergone special embalming treatment, and the time of death should be more than [-] days. After so many days, the princess went to Beijing with this corpse and spent time together, why didn't she find anything unusual about this corpse? Woolen cloth?"

The people who had retreated to the periphery stopped when they heard Shen Lingxi's words, and stretched their necks to look in Shen Lingxi's direction.

Because Yun Hongshan's body had been embalmed, his stumps were cut neatly and did not look hideous.

Shen Lingxi used scissors to remove the silk threads one by one, fixed the joints on the corpse, and then sewed the arms to the corpse.

She was wearing a snow-colored Taoist robe, with an extremely focused expression, and her pale fingers were quickly threading needles at the joints.

There was a hint of pity in her eyes, as if what was stitched up by her hands was not a terrible corpse, but a poor man whose corpse was brutally mutilated after death.

Those who came to watch the excitement were all ordinary people.

In their eyes, a noble person will always look aloof and aloof in brocade clothes.Has anyone ever seen that the dignified concubine of a country, doing it herself in front of people, still does this kind of work.

To say without hesitation, burying corpses, even among ordinary people, is a shameful job that makes people feel extremely unlucky.

But Shen Lingxi not only did it in public, but also was so focused and calm that people couldn't help but stop and admire him.

Because of this, when everyone looked at Concubine Xiao again, they all cast doubting eyes.

Xiao Yuanfeng obviously didn't expect that the princess concubine had such abilities, and she became more vigilant in her heart.

However, for Shen Lingxi's questioning, she had already thought of a countermeasure in her heart, and she was not afraid at all.

"What? You said the prince died more than 20 days ago?"

Xiao Yuanfeng knew the facts were in front of him, but he couldn't deny it, so he deliberately acted shocked.

Suddenly, she seemed to think of something, and a dazed look appeared on her face.

"The prince favored a servant named Pei Jiu during his lifetime. When he came to Beijing this time, he ordered Pei Jiu to take care of his daily affairs. During the journey, even I was not allowed to come close. If it is true as you said , the murderer who killed the prince must be Pei Jiu!"

When Yun Chao heard the words, he hurriedly agreed: "My concubine is right, Pei Nineteen is a disciple of the Yunjiang Puppet Sect, he must have done this!"

He spoke with certainty, as if he was not the one who cried and repented in front of Yun Hongshan's corpse that night.

Shen Lingxi sewed up the gap between the corpses, raised her eyes, and glanced at them with a half-smile, "What the princess and the son said is not unreasonable. Pei Jiujiu is indeed a disciple of the puppet sect. It's just that he was killed by someone that night. Killed in the palace, there will be no proof of death."

She pointed to the white stretcher next to her, "Here, it's right there."

For the past few days, Xiao Yuanfeng and Yun Chao have been locked in the courtyard by the embroidered clothes envoy, and never stepped out of the courtyard gate.

As for the news from outside, they only know what the embroiderer deliberately let them know.

Xiao Yuanfeng supported Yun Chao's hand, walked to the stretcher, and asked Yun Chao to lift a small piece of the white cloth.

When she clearly saw that the body on the stretcher was indeed Kui Jiu, her expression became more relaxed.

Sure enough, there is no proof of death.

Good to die.

Urda is really reliable.

"Yes...it's him." Xiao Yuanfeng covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, looked up at the magistrate above, acting like a princess, "Prefect Wang, it seems that the prince was indeed killed by Kui Nineteen, since the chief culprit has already been murdered." Fu Zhu, then the case can be closed."

"No, no, no."

This time Shen Lingxi did not look up, and carefully sewed Yun Hongshan's head onto the corpse.

"Since the princess just wanted the plaintiff to show up, no matter what, the plaintiff has to show up today. Besides, the princess personally identified the murderer. Since there are three joint trials, what is needed is solid evidence. If the murderer does not plead guilty in court, how can he Can you close the case easily?"

Xiao Yuanfeng couldn't guess at all what kind of medicine Shen Lingxi was selling in the gourd.

She said in a deep voice, "What does the Crown Princess mean by this?"

Shen Lingxi carefully cut off the last thread from Yun Hongshan's body.

Make sure that the corpse does not show any traces of machinery and silk manipulation.

She smiled and said to Su Xian who had been waiting for a long time: "Master Daoist, the body of King Yunjiang has been restored, and we can set up an altar to summon his soul..."

(End of this chapter)