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Chapter 78(1/2)

The two imperial physicians there quickly recovered their pulse. They looked at each other and repeatedly took the pulse, fearing that they had made a mistake. After all, Emperor Yong was in a bad mood today, and now this incident happened again. Who knows whether the emperor would take his anger on them?

Soon, Fu Yan came over, his eyebrows were introverted, and he knelt down and said, "Your Majesty Li has been in the water for too long and has suffocated for too long. Weichen and others are powerless. As for whether Li Guiren can wake up, it is all right to fate!"

Even though Emperor Yong hated Li Guiren in his heart, he still frowned when he heard this answer. Although he had always favored and loved the women in the harem, he was never a ruthless person.

Emperor Yong stood up and walked to Li Guiren. He looked at her with a faint look, looking at her almost weak breathing. Although he couldn't feel sad, he still felt a little uncomfortable. After all, Li Guiren was not other unpopular concubines. When she first entered the palace, it can be said that she was also the one who favored the harem. At that time, before Bao Zhaoyi came back, no one envied her favor.

Emperor Yong sighed. He still remembered the scene when he first met Li Guiren. The bright and charming woman had a hint of arrogance. This arrogance was very similar to Mu Lianyi back then, and it also made him love her. It was only a year later, and things changed, and the only person in the harem that had not changed...

Emperor Yong turned around and looked at Chu Yanzi who looked at him with a worried look on his face. A soft light flashed in his eyes, only A Yan was there.

No matter how favored Li Guiren was once, everything is over now.

Emperor Yong turned around and stopped looking at her. He walked to Chu Yanzi, took her hand, looked at Fu Yan, who was kneeling on the ground, and whispered, "No matter what, save her with all his might."

Fu Yan looked up slightly and saw their intersecting hands. He paused slightly. A dark color flashed through his eyes and responded in a deep voice, "I obey the order."

Fu Yan was a little surprised. He thought the emperor had rejected Concubine Li, but he didn't expect that the emperor was not as ruthless as he imagined. So... is this good or bad for her?

Fu Yan looked up at Chu Yanzi in a faint way, but could only see her looking at the emperor with a worried look. Fu Yan felt a little sad. He knew everything, but looking at her like this, he was still a little unwilling to accept it... She could see how good it would be if it were him...

Fu Yan's eyes gradually became darker, and he could no longer see the shy boy's appearance.

Chu Yanzi followed Emperor Yong out, but at the moment he turned around, Chu Yanzi seemed to feel something, and looked at Fu Yan with a slightly profound look in his eyes. It happened that Fu Yan's eyes collided with her, but it was the first time Fu Yan did not take the initiative to move away.

Chu Yanzi narrowed his eyes, his expression disappeared, he bit his lower lip and pulled Emperor Yong who was about to leave. Qian frowned and said hesitantly, "Emperor, does it need to be investigated for the incident of Concubine Li falling into the water?"

Emperor Yong stopped, turned his head, looked at the hesitant look on Chu Yanzi's face, and sighed in his heart. It's not that he didn't know there was something strange about it, but he didn't want to investigate. The result is much lighter than the punishment Li Guiren would receive after returning to the palace.

Seeing Emperor Yong's expression, Chu Yanzi knew what Emperor Yong was thinking, but did the person who harmed Concubine Li let go? Although it was not her business, but... Chu Yanzi followed the hint given by Fu Yan just now and looked at the concubine standing by. If the murderer happened to be someone she disliked, she wouldn't mind helping Concubine Li.

Chu Yanzi had a hint of pity at the corner of his eyes. He glanced at Guiren Li, but did not let go of his hand holding Emperor Yong's sleeve, and let go of his teeth biting his lower lip. "Your Majesty, I know that Guiren Li deserves to die for his crimes for Bao Zhaoyi, but..."

Chu Yanzi looked at Emperor Yong's unchanged expression and frowned, "But, it would be no surprise that Li Guiren fell into the water, and if the person who pushed her into the water was not found out and let her hide in the palace, it would be really creepy."

Emperor Yong frowned. He didn't want to care about this matter. After all, the harem has always been hidden. However, Emperor Yong looked at the fear on Chu Yanzi's face and thought about what she encountered after entering the palace. Emperor Yong felt soft. He could ignore Concubine Li, but he didn't want Chu Yanzi to be afraid of the harem. Since she wanted to find this person, then check it.

Emperor Yong turned around and patted Chu Yanzi's hand. He saw that her face was a little tired again. Thinking that it was almost dawn and she had not had a good sleep all night, so naturally she would not be in good spirits. He pulled her down and ordered Zhang Jin on the side, "Check!"

Just leave this kind of thing to Zhang Jin. If it weren't for Chu Yanzi, he wouldn't even wait for the result here.

Seeing Emperor Yong ask for an investigation, Chu Yanzi sat aside honestly, looking at Li Guiren lying on the bed, with an unclear expression in his eyes. He was not favored, and he was harmed by others. Sometimes he couldn't even get the truth because someone didn't even want to investigate. If he didn't want to fall to this point, he had to fight!

But Fu Yan, who was standing beside him, had already returned to Li Guiren and was thinking of a way to treat Li Guiren. Fu Yan took the pulse carefully for Li Guiren because of the doctor's responsibility. After a while, Fu Yan frowned. The pulse seemed to be more than drowning.

Fu Yan whispered a few words to another imperial physician. The man looked at him in surprise and suspicion, then reached out to take the pulse of Li Guiren again. Because of Fu Yan's words just now, he paid attention to it this time and found that it was indeed as Fu Yan said.

He let go of his hand and nodded at Fu Yan, indicating that his diagnosis was correct. As he thought, Guiren Li was not just a sign of drowning.

Emperor Yong and Chu Yanzi, who were sitting there, frowned when they saw the two of them whispering, and knew that Li Guiren's condition had made new progress. Chu Yanzi also noticed Emperor Yong and did not speak anymore. After all, she had asked the emperor to investigate this matter and intervene again, which would have a bad impact on him on the emperor.

Fu Yan said to the maid beside him, "See if your little master has other wounds on his body, especially his head."

After hearing Fu Yan's words, the maid quickly went to look at Li Guiren's head. Soon, a wound was found on the back of Li Guiren's head. When the maid reached out to touch and took his hand back, she had blood in one hand. The maid was afraid and distressed, and tears fell down, but she did not dare to cry loudly.

When Fu Yan saw the blood on the maid's hand, he knew that Li Guiren's wound was on the back of his head. He frowned and looked at another imperial physician. He asked the maid to help Li Guiren up and tried the wound himself.

Another imperial physician was good at this, so Fu Yan handed over the treatment of the wound to him and came over to report to Emperor Yong himself, "Emperor, Weichen found a wound on the back of Guiren Li's head, and it was suspected that someone had hit him with a blunt object like metal from behind and pushed him into the water."

Emperor Yong's face turned cold when he listened to Fu Yan's words. It turned out that Chu Yanzi was thinking about investigating this matter, but he didn't expect that someone was so bold and hurt someone with a weapon. If he didn't find out who it was, wouldn't she become more and more bold in the future?

Emperor Yong's face was cold and asked Zhang Jin to send someone to search along the lake and be sure to find the weapon.

Zhang Jin took the order. At this moment, Eunuch Li, who was left in Bao Zhaoyi's tent by Emperor Yong, walked in and said, "Your Majesty, Bao Zhaoyi's fever has subsided."

Hearing this good news, Emperor Yong's eagerness to go back to visit Bao Zhaoyi disappeared, and he became more and more attentive to investigate the matter. His eyes moved to the concubines standing beside him, and when he looked at the frightened expression on their faces, Emperor Yong's expression did not change, but directly turned his eyes to Li Guiren's maid.

"Where were you when Concubine Li fell into the water?"

The maid heard the emperor ask him and hurriedly walked over and knelt down and replied, "Reply to the emperor's words, the little master was in a low mood after he came back last night. Later, after everyone fell asleep, the little master was not sleepy and asked me to accompany her for a while. I sat by the lake with the little master for a while, and then I heard someone say that Empress Bao Zhaoyi was fever."

Speaking of this, the maid wiped her tears, looked up at Emperor Yong, and saw Emperor Yong looking at her, then lowered her head and continued, "Others rushed to Bao Zhaoyi's place. The little master said, "I'm afraid the emperor doesn't want to see her. So the little master did not go there. Later, the weather suddenly became cold, and I came back to get the cloak for the little master. But when I went back, I didn't see the little master."

"Until before I left, the little master saw his little master's hairpin where he sat, and then saw movement under the water, he suspected that his little master had fallen into the water and hurried to ask someone to help him. The emperor knew everything that followed."

Listening to the maid's words, Emperor Yong and Chu Yanzi on the side frowned. The meaning of this was that she didn't see it, she didn't know the truth, and she didn't know the truth, and there was no clue.

However, Chu Yanzi looked at the expression of Emperor Fan Yong from the corner of his eyes. If Emperor Yong had the intention to investigate, there would naturally be no matter in the palace that could be hidden from him, so he was afraid that Emperor Yong would not be interested in investigating it.

At this time, Zhang Jin hurried back. They did not find a blunt weapon similar to metal, but found a bloody stone. It was obvious that this stone hit Li Guiren's weapon.

Chu Yanzi looked at the stone that was almost two fists and frowned and thought deeply. If Shi Shi Tou had thought, it would have been a temporary idea. It might be that the murderer quietly took a stone from behind and smashed it on it, then pushed her into the water. Then he threw the stone and went to Bao Zhaoyi's tent.

She might have thought she had not left any evidence, but she did not expect that everything she had done was seen by others.

Chu Yanzi glanced at Fu Yan, then lowered his head and waited for Emperor Yong to speak.

Emperor Yong saw the stones brought back by Zhang Jin, especially with blood on them, and his face changed.

When Li Guiren's maid was stunned when she saw the stone, she seemed to think of something and said to Emperor Yong, "Emperor, I remembered that I have seen it when I went back to find the little master."

Speaking of this, the maid paused for a moment, turned to look at the concubine standing beside her, and then hesitated, "I saw that Concubine Yan's palace maid Hongyu came back from the lake."

Emperor Yong's face was not good after hearing this, and he looked at Yanpin, but Yanpin's face changed and he stepped forward and knelt down on the ground, "Emperor, I don't have any concubines. Although I have some grudges with Guiren Li, I will not be able to kill her."

Emperor Yong saw that her expression was not like a fake, so he narrowed his eyes and looked at the panic-looking Hongyu behind her, his eyebrows were sunken, and he spoke, "What are you doing by the lake?"

Hongyu looked at the emperor and then at his little master. His face was shocked and frightened, and he spoke tremblingly, "The emperor clearly understands that I did not push Guiren Li down the river. I passed by the lake because the little master asked me to go back to get a piece of clothes for the little master. I was afraid that the little master would wait for a long time, so I took a shortcut and walked over the lake."

After hearing Hongyu's words, Yanpin naturally believed her, but she didn't know whether the emperor believed it or not. She raised her head to look at the emperor's face, trying to see clearly what the emperor was thinking.

Emperor Yong did not say whether he believed in her or not. In the past two days, Yanpin was involved in the previous incident because he felt that Yanpin, as the niece of the empress dowager, would I let this matter go and not investigate, so that the people behind him would be free and free?

His face became darker. Seeing the maid's face still had panic and his eyes dodged, Emperor Yong frowned. He thought that the time she passed by the lake was exactly the time when Li Guiren was killed, "Why did you see when you passed by the lake?"

"I...I..." Hongyu seemed to be afraid of something and hesitated and did not dare to say it.

Seeing this, Yanpin next to her was angry, raised her hand to slap her, and said anxiously, "What have you seen, tell me quickly!"

Hongyu looked up at the concubine standing beside her, with tears in her eyes. She was worried and did not dare to show the real murderer, but... Thinking of the secret of her discovery, Hongyu felt cruel. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, she didn't think about it either.

"I saw that it was... Li Guiren's maid pushed Li Guiren down!"

After hearing what she said, Chu Yanzi's face changed. She squinted her eyes and looked at Hongyu. Seeing her dodging eyes, she lowered her head and did not dare to look at people. She frowned slightly. Why did Hongyu hide it for her? Could she have any handle on that person?

Chu Yanzi naturally didn't want the murderer to escape. She looked up at Emperor Yong's face. Seeing Emperor Yong looking at Hongyu with unknown meaning, she knew that Emperor Yong did not believe this. Chu Yanzi breathed a sigh of relief, but she did not completely relieve herself. Although Emperor Yong didn't believe it, who knew if he would feel it was troublesome in the end and would not investigate it.

Chu Yanzi was suspicious of Emperor Yong's character and the degree of scumbag in his heart, and Chu Yanzi didn't dare to let go at all.

"I don't have any, I don't have any!"

At this time, Li Guiren's maid finally realized that she refused to admit Hongyu's slander, and kowtowed repeatedly, "Your Majesty, I don't have any, that's my master, how could I harm her?"

"Your Majesty, she slanders me, she must know the truth! Your Majesty, you want to make the decision for the little master!"

Listening to the maid's failure to admit it, Chu Yanzi lowered her eyelids and glanced at Fu Yan in a place where others could not see it. Seeing that Fu Yan nodded almost uncheckedly, he felt a little relieved.

Even Yanpin felt that the words of her slave were a bit unreliable. If Li Guiren died, what benefits could this maid have? Yanpin's eyes flashed. If Hongyu's words were fake, then... why did she tell lies? Was she bribed?

Yanpin's hands tightened under her sleeves, and why didn't Hongyu tell her when she saw this? Yanpin's face turned pale. Hongyu was her personal palace maid. If she was bribed, wouldn't everything about her be exposed to others' eyes?

Hongyu felt the gloomy gaze that the young master saw on the side, his face turned pale and his body trembled, but he still insisted, "Your Majesty, I really saw that Baochai pushed Guiren Li to the lake! I have no grudges and grudges with her, so why bother her?"

Li Guiren's maid, Baochai, turned his head quickly and looked at Hongyu, "That's right, I have no grudges with you, why do you want to harm me!" As he said, Baochai's tears kept falling. Her little master's life and death are unknown now, and no one protects her. She failed to find the murderer who killed her. Instead, she was slandered and was likely to lose her life. If a few things were pressed together, how could she not be afraid or afraid?

Emperor Yong looked at the quarrel between the two and did not speak, especially when he looked at Hongyu. He really didn't take him seriously when he said such an obvious lie in front of him! Emperor Yong's eyes became cold and he spoke coldly, "Shut up!"

The two of them, who were quarreling behind, quickly shut their mouths and did not dare to make a sound.

Emperor Yong looked at Hongyu, twisted his hand, and asked, "Are you sure you saw this maid pushing Guiren Li down?" Seeing that the maid was about to speak immediately, Emperor Yong interrupted her and said in a sinister voice, "You can think it through before answering!"

After hearing Emperor Yong's last words, Hongyu looked up at Emperor Yong, but could not see Emperor Yong's thoughts. She turned pale and was sure that there was no one else except herself and... and the murderer. As long as she didn't admit it, there would be no other evidence to prove that it was not done by Baochai.

After a calm mind, Hongyu replied with affirmative answer, "Go back to the emperor, I am sure that it is Li Guiren Baoshatui."

Chu Yanzi looked at Hongyu's unrepentant look. Just now, Emperor Yong clearly didn't believe her words. She didn't understand and still bit Li Guiren's maid. Chu Yanzi frowned and looked at Yanpin again. Looking at her looking at Hongyu's surprised and angry eyes, she couldn't figure out what handle could make Hongyu ignore her master and bit Baochai to death. Even if this matter ended with Baochai as the murderer, she would face her master after she went back.

What is the handle? Chu Yanzi calmed down his expression. If he didn't think of this, he would be stuck here.

At this moment, a palace servant who had been looking for clues by the lake came back, hurried in, took a look at the situation in the tent, and knelt down to salute, "Your Majesty, the slave found a jade pendant near the murder of Guiren Li."

As he said that, he presented the jade pendant. Zhang Jin approached Emperor Yong with a jade pendant. Chu Yanzi could see clearly. It was not a very good quality, but it was a jade pendant used by men. Chu Yanzi paused, it would not be...

Chu Yanzi turned around and looked at Hongyu. Sure enough, when she saw this jade pendant, her face suddenly turned pale, and she had panic in her eyes. She wanted to calm down, but she couldn't do it.

So that's it, she said, what kind of handle can make Hongyu ignore her master, and it is equivalent to betrayal.

Emperor Yong also discovered that the jade pendant was obviously a male. He looked at the two maids kneeling below and handed the jade pendant to Zhang Jin, "Send someone to find out who this jade pendant belongs to."

Zhang Jin took the jade pendant and came back within a while. He walked in with a few people. Two of them had confusion and suspicion on their faces, but they were still calm, but the remaining one lowered his head and looked guilty.

Emperor Yong saw Zhang Jin bringing three people in, frowned, "Whose jade pendant belongs to this?"

Zhang Jin walked forward and said, "When I went back to the emperor, I found that this jade pendant belonged to one of the three, but who it was? The slave was afraid that the emperor would wait too quickly and had not yet asked."

"Since I haven't asked clearly, then ask now." Emperor Yong waved his hand and signaled him to continue to investigate.

Zhang Jin took out the jade pendant in his hand, looked tight and asked, "Whose jade pendant belongs to this one? Come on the truth!"

Hongyu looked at the man in the middle, with a hint of worry in her eyes, her face turned pale, but she didn't expect that she would still involve him in the end.

Chu Yanzi followed Hongyu's gaze, raised his eyebrows, and looked at the man's clothes. It turned out to be the Imperial Guard.

As expected, at that time, it was probably not just Hongyu who discovered the murderer who killed Guiren Li. Similarly, the murderer also discovered the scene of her meeting a lover in private.
To be continued...
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