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Li Shuangwan clenched her grip. It sounded as if Ling Heng was really trying to prove her innocence. In fact, with a wisdom like Emperor Jingzhang, how could he not hear that?

Just these four words "personal maid" would make the mistress of the harem disgusted, so it would be natural for her to want to kill her.

Emperor Jingzhang pointed at the hairpin that Zheng Xinjiang handed over and said, "This hairpin is yours."

"Yes." Emperor Jingzhang had met her in Qiyun Palace, and she did not refute.

He pointed to the traces by the pond and said, "There is dead grass all over the ground there, and you are in such a state. If you want me to believe you, you need to prove your innocence."

In front of everyone, Ling Heng kowtowed three times: "Father, Qinglian is just a maid, Ah Wan..."

"Shut up!" Emperor Jingzhang could no longer bear it. "A maid's life is also a life. If Li Shuangwan is innocent, I will clear her name. But if she is the murderer, my royal family will not tolerate it."

Emperor Jingzhang looked at the dirt on Li Shuangwan's body and knew in his heart that she was not the murderer, but her father Li Huaiying always praised his daughter in front of him. He wanted to see if she was really as smart as he said.

Ling Heng lowered his head and shut up.

Li Shuangwan responded, stood up, and looked at the palace maid Xiaoju who pointed the finger at her: "You said I killed Qinglian?"

"Yes." Xiaoju's face turned pale and her whole body trembled uncontrollably because of fear.

"Okay, then let me ask you, how did I kill her?"

"Of course, you held Qinglian's head down and pushed her into the water, drowning her. Didn't we just perform an autopsy? Qinglian was drowned by someone holding her down in the water."

"So, the dead grass here is flattened because of the blue lotus?"

Xiaoju nodded timidly.

"In that case, how come I'm in this state?"

"Qinglian struggled desperately, that's why this happened."

"Very good." Li Shuangwan smiled faintly and turned to Emperor Jingzhang, "Father, this palace maid is framing my daughter-in-law. It is obvious. Please restore my daughter-in-law's innocence and severely punish this palace maid."

The eunuchs and palace maids around her really didn't understand. How could Princess Heng prove her innocence with just two or three questions?

If it was true as Princess Heng said, a little maid wouldn't dare to wrongly accuse a princess, why didn't she ask the emperor to find out the real culprit behind the scene? Instead, she just said to severely punish a maid and let it go?

Concubine Wan Shu was also confused: "Your Majesty? What do you mean?"

Emperor Jingzhang did not say anything, but continued to look at Li Shuangwan calmly, waiting for her to explain to everyone herself. After all, not everyone could see through everything at a glance like he did.

Li Shuangwan said, "If Qinglian is really like what this palace maid said, and I pressed her head to drown her, and she struggled desperately, then my body must be full of water, how could it be just mud?"

Everyone seems to understand but not understand.

Xiaoju whispered, "They say it's been dead for half an hour. The sun is good today, maybe it's dried up in the sun?"

Li Shuangwan smiled and said, "That's right, but you overlooked one fact."

"What?" Xiaoju asked subconsciously.

"Commander Zheng, please measure the length of the traces here and Qinglian's height."

Zheng Xinjiang hurriedly asked someone to get a ruler, and after measurement, he found that Qinglian's height was half a foot shorter than the mark.

Li Shuangwan is tall and has always had an excellent figure among women. It is no exaggeration to say that she stands out among a crowd of chickens.

On the northwest battlefield, she often dressed as a man and rode horses with her father and brother to kill the enemy. The people of Northern Qi, apart from thinking that this soldier with extremely high martial arts skills and fierce fighting skills was too pretty, never realized that she was actually a woman.

Xiaoju's face had turned pale.

"Also, I left Qiyun Palace at around 9:00 pm to look for Qinglian, and found Qinglian's body at 2:30 pm. It must have taken at least 15 minutes to walk from Qiyun Palace to here. Could it be that I grew wings and flew here?"

Xiaoju was speechless.

"There is more." Li Shuangwan glanced at the place where the body was dumped. "Everyone knows that I was attacked by villains half a year ago. My martial arts skills were destroyed and my body is weak. I don't have the ability to drown someone and dump the body on the reeds."

She walked to the body and opened Qinglian's mouth: "Besides, this place has been abandoned for many years, the water is shallow and there is a lot of mud, but Qinglian's mouth is clean. This means that she was drowned somewhere else and then dumped here."

After saying this, Li Shuangwan stepped aside and stopped talking.

Emperor Jingzhang showed admiration on his face. The old man Li Huaiying always boasted in front of him how smart his daughter was, and raised his head proudly to talk about how great she was in the past on the grassland.

Seeing him today, although Li Huaiying often exaggerates, he is worthy of the description of "a little clever".

Concubine Wan Shu chuckled and said, "Your Majesty, I have seen that Concubine Heng is very good at solving cases. She cleared herself from suspicion of being the murderer with just a few words. Qinglian is her maid after all, so why not let her find out the real culprit behind the scenes?"

Emperor Jingzhang glanced at Concubine Wan Shu, then at Li Shuangwan, as if he would have no objection as long as Li Shuangwan agreed.

Li Shuangwan knelt and saluted to Emperor Jingzhang: "Father, I can prove my innocence because I didn't do it. I'm not good at solving cases. Since Qinglian died in the palace, it's natural for the Imperial Guards or the Ministry of Justice or the Dali Temple to take over. There's no reason for me to investigate."

It is not appropriate to do something that is not within your jurisdiction. She is a woman, and being accused of being a hen crowing at dawn is what the civil servants of the Northern Jin Dynasty like to gossip about the most.

And she also needed Ling Heng to stop interfering in this matter.

She has not yet left Prince Heng's Mansion. If Ling Heng intervenes, it is actually the same as if she did it.

Why did Qinglian's body end up here? Well, we'll have to ask Concubine Wan Shu.

She looked at the palace maid Xiaoju, whose face turned pale with fear, and said, "Father, she slandered your daughter-in-law for murder. Please make the decision and punish her severely."

Xiao Ju was so scared that she fell to her knees: "Your Majesty, please spare me, Your Majesty, please spare me. I may have been dazzled by what I saw. Please spare me."

Emperor Jingzhang glanced at Concubine Wan Shu's face and said, "Take her away and beat her to death."

There are too many dirty things in this palace. Once they are revealed, there will be layers of stench and decay. Li Shuangwan knew that based on the look Emperor Jingzhang gave Concubine Wan Shu, he must have known who the mastermind behind this matter was.

But the time had not yet come to move the Wan family, so the palace maid named Xiaoju had no way to survive.

"Brother Emperor, I heard that a murder has occurred here." Prince Gong seemed to have just discovered that something had happened here and had just come over, looking as if it had nothing to do with him.

Li Shuangwan looked towards Prince Gong.

He was tall and handsome, but his shoes were covered with yellow mud.

People who don’t know him may think that Prince Gong must be a gentle and elegant gentleman, but little do they know how many women were tortured to death by him in the backyard of Prince Gong’s mansion.

It is said that in the later years of the late emperor, many sons competed for the throne, and Prince Gong had half of his descendants cut off by a sword in order to protect Emperor Jingzhang.