Chapter 90: Night Talk Between Husband and Wife

Night Talk Between Husband and Wife

Empress Duan was thinking of countermeasures, and at the same time, after Noble Consort Zhang returned, she called Yin Fengzhan, Nie Jinxuan, and others to her room. After entering the room, Noble Consort Zhang didn't beat around the bush and said directly to Nie Jinxuan,

"Jinxuan, you examined Lady Tong's corpse today, based on your judgment, what do you think is going on?"

Noble Consort Zhang asked directly, but upon hearing this, Nie Jinxuan felt a bit embarrassed and said,

"Noble Consort, it's not that I don't want to say, but I have already said everything that should be said..."

Nie Jinxuan was a forensic doctor, examining corpses and finding clues on them, not solving cases. However, although Nie Jinxuan said so, she still pursed her lips and said,

"However, since you asked, Noble Consort, I will share my thoughts, but this is only a speculation... Actually, Lady Tong's corpse was discovered in the Bi Pool, and the Bi Pool is in Zi Feng Lin, where ordinary outsiders cannot enter. Moreover, Lady Tong is a concubine of the harem, so she naturally wouldn't have any grudges with outsiders, so judging from these two points, the murderer who killed Lady Tong must be in this villa!"

"In this way, the murderer has a scope, and the next step is the motive. You know Lady Tong's temperament, Noble Consort, and who she provoked, and who she had grudges with, then naturally the motive would be a bit bigger..."

In front of Noble Consort Zhang, Nie Jinxuan actually couldn't say too much. After all, the affairs in the harem were complicated and not something Nie Jinxuan could explain in a few words. So she had to stop at the right point. At this moment, hearing Nie Jinxuan say this, Noble Consort Zhang couldn't help but frown,

"En, Jinxuan's words make sense, sigh, actually this is not a secret, Lady Tong had the best relationship with me, and the worst with the Empress, but today's matter, if you say it was done by the Empress, I don't quite believe it..."

Noble Consort Zhang didn't suspect Empress Duan, which surprised Nie Jinxuan, but it seemed that Noble Consort Zhang didn't want to elaborate, so Nie Jinxuan naturally couldn't ask more. Afterward, Noble Consort Zhang talked to Nie Jinxuan and Yin Fengzhan for a long while before Nie Jinxuan and the others left...

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Nie Jinxuan and Yin Fengzhan returned to their room. Once they entered, Nie Jinxuan sent Xiao Xiu away, and while closing the door, she asked Yin Fengzhan, who was sitting on a chair behind her, in a low voice,

"Yin Fengzhan, what do you think of today's matter? Do you also think Noble Consort Zhang is right, that the murderer is not the Empress?"

Nie Jinxuan's voice was very low, but upon hearing this, Yin Fengzhan looked at her,

"Hard to say, everyone is a suspect now!"

"Everyone is a suspect? So, you also suspect Noble Consort Zhang?"

Grabbing the implied meaning of Yin Fengzhan, Nie Jinxuan couldn't help but point it out. While speaking, Nie Jinxuan closed the door and walked over to sit beside Yin Fengzhan.

"Or do you think this time it was Noble Consort Zhang taking the opportunity to retaliate against Empress Duan's methods last time?! But didn't I just hear that Lady Tong and Noble Consort Zhang were very close? Since that's the case, could Noble Consort Zhang also take action?"

Nie Jinxuan raised a question, but this time, Yin Fengzhan didn't make a sound. Seeing this, Nie Jinxuan rolled her eyes at him, and then she pondered on her own.

For a time, the room became quiet again. After a long while, Nie Jinxuan looked up and said to herself,

"Actually, today's matter, I feel it is very strange. The murderer first killed Lady Tong with one blow, then used strangulation, heavy object beating, and then disfigured her, and finally threw her into the Bi Pool... So, Yin Fengzhan, don't you think this murderer is very cruel?"

"... So? Do you think the murderer and Lady Tong had a private grudge?"

Feeling that there was more to Nie Jinxuan's words, Yin Fengzhan turned his head to ask. At this time, Nie Jinxuan narrowed her eyes,

"En, a private grudge... I don't think it looks like a private grudge either... it's more like..."

"What?"

Nie Jinxuan's words aroused Yin Fengzhan's curiosity. After a long while, Nie Jinxuan's eyes flashed, and she said in a low voice,

"An experiment!"

"An experiment?! What do you mean?"

"En... I can't say exactly, but I always feel that this murderer doesn't really hate Lady Tong, it's more like doing an experiment, just like a child..."

Speaking to this point, Nie Jinxuan looked at Yin Fengzhan and continued seriously,

"Just like when we were children, after finding a very interesting toy, we always wanted to take it apart and see, I feel this murderer has a bit of that meaning... So, in this way, the murderer's first blow to Lady Tong's head wasn't actually wanting to kill Lady Tong with one blow, but just wanting to make her quiet, and then after Lady Tong fell, the murderer began to try various ways to torture Lady Tong, and then the murderer discovered Lady Tong was dead, so the murderer disfigured Lady Tong, and then threw her into the Bi Pool..."

Nie Jinxuan spoke seriously, but the words made people feel creepy. At this moment, Yin Fengzhan couldn't help but frown,

"So, the murderer kills just to seek pleasure, not to kill for the sake of killing?"

"En, that's what I think."

"But since that's the case, why didn't the murderer find other palace servants, but specifically found Lady Tong?!"

Yin Fengzhan hit the nail on the head, stating the key point!

Yes, if the murderer was just seeking pleasure, why target Lady Tong?! After all, although Lady Tong didn't have the noble status of Noble Consort Zhang or Empress Duan, with Emperor Shuncheng's favor and her status as a fourth-rank Lady, she was still a figure in the harem. In this way, if something happened to Lady Tong, Emperor Shuncheng naturally couldn't turn a blind eye like he did with Lady Lan before, and the result of investigating to the end naturally wouldn't be what the murderer wanted!

Therefore, in this way, rather than targeting Lady Tong, the murderer might as well have targeted any servant in the villa. In that case, even if something happened, others wouldn't care. Plus, it was currently the spring festival, and Emperor Shuncheng wouldn't specifically ask people to investigate the death of a servant!

The matter couldn't find a reasonable explanation, and afterward, Nie Jinxuan and Yin Fengzhan fell silent at the same time. But after a moment, Nie Jinxuan seemed to remember something and looked up suddenly,

"By the way, you said Lady Tong was punished by Empress Duan to close her door and reflect, then how did she get out?! Could it be that the murderer entered the room to commit the crime?! And Lady Tong's room was the first scene of the crime? But if that were the case, why didn't anyone discover it? There should have been a sound at that time, right!"

Frowning at Yin Fengzhan, after staring at each other for a long while, Yin Fengzhan's eyes shifted,

"It's not that no one heard, it's that there was no sound at all."

"No sound?... Are you saying, Lady Tong went out herself?"

Yes, there was only this explanation. The servants didn't hear any unusual sounds in the room because nothing happened in the room, which meant that when Lady Tong was harmed, she was not in the room. And excluding the risk of the murderer entering the room to abduct Lady Tong, there was only one possibility, and that was that Lady Tong secretly walked out of the room...

And then, perhaps she was discovered by the murderer by chance, or perhaps Lady Tong went out of the room just to meet the murderer!

But in that case, another question arose... Why did Lady Tong go out?

Thinking of this, Nie Jinxuan was stunned, and then she instantly understood Yin Fengzhan's meaning.

"So, you suspect that Lady Tong was also asked out by a note, just like my Second Sister's situation that night?!"

Nie Jinxuan finally figured out the key to the matter. At this moment, Yin Fengzhan just looked at her quietly, and after a moment, pursed his lips and said,

"Nie Jinhui ran into Yin Fenghan that night, which saved her life!"

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Lady Tong's death had an inexplicable connection with the incident where Nie Jinhui was asked out by a mysterious person that night. Afterward, Nie Jinxuan discussed some clues about this with Yin Fengzhan, but there was no breakthrough.

Therefore, after Nie Jinxuan sighed, she suddenly remembered something,

"By the way, how is your leg?"

The sudden incident of Lady Tong made Nie Jinxuan forget about Yin Fengzhan's leg injury. Now that she remembered, Nie Jinxuan couldn't help but ask. At this moment, hearing this, Yin Fengzhan didn't say anything, but stood up and sat on the long bench opposite, and then rolled up his pants.

Seeing this, Nie Jinxuan glared at him, but then walked over. But after opening the wound that was bandaged last night, Nie Jinxuan widened her eyes,

"I told you not to move, look, it's split again, isn't it?! I say, are you... stupid!"

She had never scolded anyone, but at this moment, Nie Jinxuan really couldn't help it, and even wanted to slap the man in front of her twice. But Yin Fengzhan had a calm expression, and his lowered eyes made it impossible to see any joy or anger.

Yin Fengzhan was better off not speaking; not speaking made Nie Jinxuan's anger rise, but she couldn't vent it. So finally, Nie Jinxuan had to suppress her anger, re-clean and disinfect the wound, apply medicine, and then bandage it! Just, Nie Jinxuan, who had been lowering her head, didn't notice that while she was busy bandaging the wound, Yin Fengzhan had been staring at her face without blinking.

The room was quiet, but just at this moment, just as Nie Jinxuan had finished bandaging Yin Fengzhan's wound, she heard a voice from outside,

"Prince Chen, Consort of Prince Chen, are you asleep?" ===== CHAPTER 91 =====