Crossing the Extreme Rampage

Chapter 359

Royal Palace.

In the dark night, the moon shines pale.

On the ground, there was a raging fire, and the flames soaring into the sky reflected the entire palace like daylight.

"Fire, put out the fire..."

The palace is in chaos now, the maids and eunuchs are scrambling to pour water to put out the fire, and the water trucks are also pushed over, but the fire is too big, in the end they cannot be rescued, and the palace is burnt to a black ruin.

Wei Yaoqi, Lan Mingyu, Wei Zongxuan, the queen, and the current masters of the palace all rushed over.

Eunuch Zhang saw Wei Yaoqi and hurried over, "Your Majesty."

"Is anyone hurt?"

Eunuch Zhang lowered his head slightly, and whispered, "The noble concubine and princess are gone."

Wei Yaoqi clenched his fists slightly, his eyes were deep and bottomless, the imperial concubine didn't have much emotion, but the princess was his own daughter, "Check, go to Xuanjin Junyi, and thoroughly investigate the fire for me, then go to Xuanguoshi for an autopsy."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

A good palace burned like this, there is nothing tricky, even a fool would not believe it.

Jin Junyi and Tang Yuanming rushed to the palace as quickly as possible.

Tang Yuanming didn't let Xu Zhengfeng follow, the palace is in a mess now, he entered the palace so late, worried about getting into trouble.

"I've seen the emperor, the empress, the lord, and the third prince."

Wei Yaoqi flicked his sleeves and sat down on the stone bench in the yard, and ordered in a deep voice, "I order you to find out the truth about this fire."

"Yes."

Jin Junyi and others immediately began to survey the scene.

And Tang Yuanming inspected the two charred corpses lifted out of the fire.

One hundred and eight silver needles were brought into the palace by him, as long as the body is not completely charred, they can be detected, and the premise is that the death is really an accident.

Tang Yuanming didn't start the test right away, but called all the eunuchs and maids in the imperial concubine's palace to him.

"Now I want to ask you some questions, answer them honestly, and you'll be fine after answering."

"Yes, national teacher."

"The first question, during the fire, did you hear the imperial concubine and princess calling for help?"

The unanimous answer, "No."

"Second question, it's so late, what is the princess doing in the imperial concubine's room?"

The princess's maid said, "This morning, the princess had a quarrel with the third prince and almost started a fight. Later, the princess went to the queen's palace. The servant saw that the princess hadn't come out of the palace for a long time. It happened that there was something wrong in the princess' palace. I went back to the princess palace, and then I don’t know how the princess went to the imperial concubine’s palace.”

In the queen's palace?

It seems that this fire has something to do with the queen.

Tang Yuanming waved to Wei Zongxuan and asked him to come over, "Third Prince, is what the maid said true?"

Wei Zongxuan said frankly, "Sister Huang spoke rudely this morning. I scolded her. She wanted to hit me. I avoided it. Later, I went to study in the study. As for where she went, I don't know."

Tang Yuanming didn't ask any more questions. He spread out the cloth bag of silver needles, moved his fingertips backwards from the first needle, and finally stopped on No.12.

Pull it out, insert it into the middle of the charred corpse, take it out after a while...

The tip of the silver needle turned purple at an extremely fast speed.

Tang Yuanming wiped it off with a handkerchief, then checked the second one, and got the same result.

"Report to the emperor that the two were not burned to death, but were poisoned to death. Before they were burned, they were already dead."

Tang Yuanming glanced quickly and secretly at the queen, who was looking at him with a provocative smile hidden in his eyes, a very strange reaction.

He continued, "There are two reasons. First, I didn't hear the cry for help. In such a big fire, according to people's survival instinct, as long as they have a little consciousness, they will try their best to call for help. The second is the change of color of the silver needle. Turning into purple is a highly toxic reaction, and there is nothing wrong with it."

"Can you find out what kind of poison they have?"

"Hook kiss."

After hearing this, Wei Yaoqi was silent for a while, and then ordered to Eunuch Zhang, "Use the fastest speed to find out how the two were poisoned and the source of the poison."

Eunuch Zhang immediately took the order to retreat, "Yes, Your Majesty."

Tang Yuanming reached out to stop Eunuch Zhang, and then whispered something in his ear.

Eunuch Zhang nodded and left quickly.

Gook kiss is a kind of poison similar to Crane's Dinghong, but its toxicity is much stronger than Crane's Dinghong, and it almost kills instantly.

But those who have been in contact with Gook Kiss, their hands will be more or less stained with the same purple color as before. If anyone in the palace has such a color on their hands, it must be him.

After a while, Jin Junyi came over with someone, holding something in his hand, "Your Majesty, I found this at the scene."

Wei Yaoqi took the thing in his hand and looked at it carefully. It was a white jade engraved double fish sachet, which looked familiar.

Lan Mingyu stood by Wei Yaoqi's side, and suddenly took something over, "Your Majesty, this sachet was lost by a subject."

Wei Yaoqi looked at him, frowned slightly, "Your?"

Lan Mingyu calmly said, "Well, I lost it before, and I looked for it everywhere, but I didn't expect it to appear here."

appearing here...

No, what Jin Junyi said just now was found at the scene.

Someone set him up!

Immediately knelt down on one knee, "I don't know anything about this matter, please Your Majesty look into it."

Wei Yaoqi helped Lan Mingyu up, "I'll find out and return your innocence."

At this time, the queen said, "The emperor handles it so lightly, it seems to be covering up. Before the matter is clear, please handle it according to the law, so as not to make others feel cold."

Wei Yaoqi's eyes were cold, and his tone was deliberately soft, with a hint of sarcasm, "Then please tell me, the queen, what should I do?"

Under the strong coercion, the Queen tried her best to maintain her composure. She must win this round, "Since it is discovered that your lord is inseparable from this matter, you should be temporarily detained. After the truth is found out, you can kill or release yourself. Let's see."

Wei Yaoqi said in a deep voice, "The harem suddenly caught fire. I don't see you pursuing the responsibility, but because of a sachet that has been lost for a long time, the queen's behavior is really chilling, isn't it?"

The queen's heart sank, and then she argued, "The emperor said that the fire broke out suddenly. Whether it was intentional or unintentional, it is impossible to guard against it. It may be far-fetched to pursue responsibility."

Jin Junyi suddenly interjected, "Report to the emperor, the empress, just now when I checked, I found the smell of kerosene. The fire... must be man-made."

Wei Yaoqi looked at the queen coldly, "Can you bring oil into and out of the palace at will? Queen, do you think I should punish you for negligence of duty first?"

The queen knew something was wrong, and immediately knelt down, "I beg the emperor to forgive me, my concubine didn't know that someone set the fire on purpose."

"You better not know." Wei Yaoqi's voice was so oppressive that it made people's backs tense unconsciously.

Even though she was almost on fire, the queen did not intend to let Lan Mingyu go just like this, "Your Majesty, let's talk about the matter, the concubine is willing to be punished for dereliction of duty, but your lord is suspected of murder, so you must not let it go."

Jin Junyi bowed to the emperor, and then asked, "The empress firmly insists that your lord is suspected of murder, so I would like to ask the queen, what is your motive for killing?"

The queen stood up automatically, stared at Jin Junyi, and clenched her fists secretly, "Your Majesty loves his son like fate, and the whole palace knows that the princess is going to beat the third prince this morning. Your Majesty is not angry, so naturally he wants to take revenge back."

Lan Mingyu couldn't help but want to say something for herself, "Let's not talk about whether the princess hit Zongxuan or not. Even if I did, I feel upset. I'll punish her at worst. Why should she die? If you really want her Fate, she offended me countless times, she died long ago."

The queen snorted coldly, "Speaking is better than singing. Now your crime is clearly exposed. In order to cover it up, you must say this. Who killed someone and made it known to the world?"

Jin Junyi is a decent person, and his words are full of righteousness, "The empress is right, if it is true that your lord killed the noble concubine and princess, let alone whether your lord will go there in person, even if you go in person, how can you kill your own concubine? Throw the sachet on the spot and tell everyone that I made it? And the emperor is with you all night, does your lord have the technique of splitting body?"

The Queen was left speechless. If she refuted these words, she would be slapping herself in the face.

Jin Junyi continued, "Your Majesty, the current situation is that your lord cannot have time to commit crimes, and the possibility of your lord's murder is ruled out, but this matter is indeed related to your lord, but it is impossible for your lord to send someone to do it. Let people go to kill people, and let their subordinates leave their sachets where they are."

At this time, the princess's personal maid said, "Master Detective, the princess picked up this sachet in the imperial garden, and because she liked it so much, she didn't return it to your lord."

"It turns out that there is such a thing."

Wei Yaoqi nodded, "The queen's negligence caused a fire in the palace, her feet were grounded, and she couldn't leave the palace without summons. Mingyu will actively cooperate with the investigation until the case is cleared, and there must be no mistakes."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After Lan Mingyu finished speaking, there was a sound of fighting in the direction of the middle palace, causing a commotion.

Wei Yaoqi walked quickly with everyone.

A group of guards in the palace are besieging a guard. This guard is highly skilled in martial arts, and retreats while fighting, trying to escape outside the palace.

Eunuch Zhang came over and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, he is the only one in the palace with purple-red hands. The national teacher said that the person with purple-red hands is the murderer who poisoned."

"Catch me with all my strength." Then Wei Yaoqi made a special gesture in the air, and almost at the same time, there were more people besieging the guards, all of them came out of the dark.

These people were dressed in special black clothes, they were cold, powerful, chilling, and fierce in their moves.

The guard was also strong in martial arts, but his fists were no match for four hands, and he was injured very quickly.

Everyone else watched the fighting scene silently, only the queen, unconsciously clenched her hands hidden in her sleeves, her back was soaked, her eyes were tense, her heart flustered and anxious, silently praying that the guards would not be caught.

Wei Yaoqi suddenly turned his head to talk to the queen, "The guard looked at Miansheng, when did the queen change the guard?"

The queen came back to her senses as if frightened, "If you go back to the emperor, the emperor hasn't come to the central palace for a long time. This guard is one of the last batch of guards who were replaced."

Wei Yaoqi nodded, looked away, and said nothing.

At this time, the guard was severely kicked to the ground by the two men, and then two knives were cut on the left and right sides of his neck, so he did not dare to act rashly.

Wei Yaoqi ordered, "Bring it here."

Before being brought over, the guard was tapped a few times by the people beside him, and then the guard's whole body went limp, with nothing to move except his eyes.

Tang Yuanming saw some tricks. Just now, the man sealed several big holes on the guard's body. Apart from being unable to perform martial arts, he couldn't even use his strength. It turns out that the emperor is the one who hides the most. , really amazing.