Chapter 210 Inside and Outside the Palace
Wu Quan hid a lot of things. Firstly, he wanted to solve it alone; secondly, considering that His Highness the Crown Prince was currently in a troubled time, he could not be distracted at all, and he did not want to cause His Highness the Crown Prince to worry.
"I didn't ask you to burn the list." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was also angry. Wu Quan, who always seemed to be honest and talkative, was so arrogant in many important matters, and even acted clever in front of Lu Qingfan!
"The people on the list were either convicted early in life, or died unexpectedly later, and basically none of them died well. I thought it would be better to do less than to do more... Who would have thought that Mr. Lu and Yun Wuzuo would come."
Wu Quan na na said: "Master Lu and Yun Wuzuo have guessed the villain's intentions one after another. I'm afraid that the bitter orange has also been interrogated by the master, and now all the people who wanted to hide it and didn't want to hide it have been uncovered."
Wu Quan clasped his fists respectfully and said: "I will not give up even if I die. I hope Your Highness will sentence me to death."
The prince didn't know how to deal with it for a while.
Everything Wu Quan did was out of loyalty. If the prince dealt with him, wouldn't it be a waste of friendship?
But Lu Qingfan was here, so he had to give an explanation.
"Sir, according to the Ming Dynasty's criminal law, what is the crime of deliberately poisoning someone for someone else's advantage?" Yun Xi asked Lu Qingfan, tilting her head deliberately.
Lu Qingfan answered in a serious manner: "As the commander of the Prince's Mansion, according to the law, I should be punished for fifty years and exiled for hundreds of miles."
As soon as these words came out, both the prince and Wu Quan were startled.
"No, my subordinate..." He killed someone! How could he be sentenced to only a stick and exile?
"As I said before, Mr. Tai has been poisoned for five years. The poison he was poisoned is the strange poison 'White Bone Incense' in southern Xinjiang." Yun Xi stretched out a finger: "Commander Wu is not from southern Xinjiang. He wants to get this
I’m afraid it’s extremely difficult to use the extremely powerful poison.”
The person with the poison in his hand and the person who is also connected to the palace is the real murderer.
Wu Quan admitted a little embarrassedly: "Actually, my subordinate is actually half of Southern Xinjiang blood."
As soon as these words came out, not to mention Yun Xi and Lu Qingfan, even the prince was stunned.
"Are you of southern Xinjiang and Han descent?" Lu Qingfan was the first to react.
"Yes." Wu Quan said sadly: "This subordinate has not known his father since he was born. After following his mother for a few years, he lived in the Prince's Mansion."
Wu Quan was young at the time and stayed with his mother in the Prince's Mansion for only a few days when his mother suddenly died of illness.
Since then, Wu Quan has been concentrating on practicing martial arts, working hard to get the best, gradually becoming a personal guard of His Royal Highness, and finally becoming the commander of the guard.
While listening, Yun Xi compared the files of Wu Quan and Tai Yuan brought by Lu Qingfan, and found that the two had the same origin. Even the year when Commander Wu brought his mother to the capital was very similar to the time when Tai Yuan entered and left the capital.
Several bold guesses arose in her mind: Perhaps Wu Quan's mother was the woman who was crossed out from the list.
With this inference in mind, we can see more and more traces when we look at the overlapping files.
She handed the family tree to Lu Qingfan.
Lu Qingfan glanced at the mark that Yun Xi pointed at, and then looked at Wu Quan with an increasingly complicated expression.
"What's wrong?" Facing His Highness the Crown Prince's eyes that also changed, Wu Quan still didn't know what was happening.
"According to the seniority in the clan, you should call Mr. Tai 'uncle'."
After Lu Qingfan finished speaking, Wu Quan couldn't help but retort loudly: "You, you are stupid!"
Yun Xi handed the genealogy to Wu Quan to read, and explained softly: "This is the genealogy in the hands of Mr. Tai. According to what is written in it, Gong Xiyuan, that is, Mr. Tai Yuan, is your mother's cousin. You should call me uncle.
'.The name that was crossed out on the genealogy is probably your mother, and you were still young when you left home and didn't have a name..."
Therefore, the name Wu Quan was not left under his mother's name.
Wu Quan's face trembled after hearing this. Indeed, he had no name before he came to the prince's residence.
In my vague memory, my mother always called him "Ah Quan".
Judging from Tai Yuan's genealogy, up to Wu Quan's generation, the middle character is really "Quan".
Too many coincidences are no coincidence.
"Mr. Tai came to the Crown Prince's residence, became the Crown Prince's staff, and even fell in love with you. It is not a coincidence or fate."
Lu Qingfan said calmly: "It's because of blood and family ties."
And Wu Quan, because of his "loyalty" to the prince, killed the last relative he knew in disguise.
"Since then, are you still unwilling to tell who gave you this poison?" Yun Xi said softly.
If the imperial concubine had not been in the palace, Yun Xi might have thought that the poison might have come from Wu Quan.
But there is a blood relationship between the two uncles and nephews, and judging from Tai Yuan's attitude towards Wu Quan, he may not know anything about this relative... Yun Xi has reason to suspect that the person who uses Wu Quan in the dark must also know about them.
special relationship, and then used Wu Quan's loyalty to kill people with a knife, and eradicated the other arm of His Royal Highness.
"The possibility of Tai Yuan poisoning himself is extremely small, and the possibility of using Wu Quan to borrow a knife to kill people is even greater." Lu Qingfan and Yun Xi thought of something, and said in a deep voice: "And this person not only knows Tai Yuan's habits, he even knows
Where and how to use poison."
If screened on this basis, Zirou or the people around her would be more suspicious.
Wu Quan still couldn't accept the truth that he was being taken advantage of, and he knelt on the ground dejectedly, his face pale.
When Zirou was mentioned, His Highness the Crown Prince's expression became more and more stern: "It's my fault that I was too talkative back then."
At that time, he thought that Tai Yuan was alone in the capital and had no companion, so he decided to arrange a marriage for his staff.
The prince accidentally mentioned this matter to the imperial concubine, and the imperial concubine took the initiative and gave the palace girl Zirou to Tai Yuan as his daughter-in-law.
It was supposed to be a good thing that everyone was happy with, but in the end, the two became a face-saving couple.
"For several years, the couple met outside in the hotel room. They didn't have a family, and they didn't even have a son and a half." After finishing speaking, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sighed.
He is arrogant by nature, and has been quite careless in his behavior for many years. Who would have thought that he would be in so much trouble.
Seeing this, Lu Qingfan said very eloquently: "Your Highness, don't mess around with the mandarin ducks in the future."
Wu Quan then said naa naa: "The poison was not given to me by Zirou, but she introduced me to an 'expert'."
The master was good at poisoning, and Zirou said that the ladies in the palace had quite a lot of connections. If Wu Quan needed it, he could inquire about it himself, and he would not interfere with any subsequent matters.
"This is in line with our inference just now. Now that I think about it, Miss Zirou probably expected that you would use poison on Mr. Tai, and the middleman happened to give you the 'white bone incense', right?"
Everything Yun Xi said was true.
"Yes, it's just that my subordinates didn't know that the poison was 'white bone incense' at the time." Wu Quan only found out after hearing what Yun Xi said today.
The prince rubbed his temples, "That person in the dark has managed your temper very well."
Wu Quan didn't delve into any of the things he should ask, but he did everything he shouldn't do.
During this period, if Wu Quan asked a few questions carefully, he might find something wrong.
Yun Xi sighed: "The people in the dark are experts at plotting people's hearts."
Lu Qingfan, who was silent for a long time, said calmly: "There is still one person left."
Zirou is not the source, there must be some mistake in the process.
Qingguo clapped his hands: "Commander Wu, haven't you seen that medicine seller? Let's ask Master Ren to draw it and catch the small fish first, then the big fish!"
Lu Qingfan's dark eyes flashed with a smile, "That makes sense."
Yun Xi patted the little maid's neck lovingly: "My Qingguo is smart."
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince glanced at Wu Quan with hatred.
Wu Quan, who knew that he was plotting to kill his uncle, looked gloomy and did not even raise his head for a long time.
It was just dawn when Ren Danqing was sneaked out of the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment by people from the Prince's Mansion.
When he yawned and sat on the sedan chair carried by the soldiers of the Prince's Palace, he was still thinking that adults are a little slower today! He slept for two hours before taking his turn to come out to work.
When he arrived at the prince's residence, Ren Danqing didn't ask many questions and only focused on the portrait.
Over here, Lu Qingfan said to Yun Xi: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should also know about the imperial concubine."
Without involving the staff matters and the poison of "white bone incense", it is up to the imperial concubine to speak up about this matter, and the mother and son discuss it and ask for orders from the Holy One.
Now that we have been involved in a case, it has a wide range of connections, and it is difficult to hide the truth.
Hearing this, the prince suddenly felt a bit ominous in his heart, "What's the matter with my mother and concubine?"
[Author's digression]: Yun Xi: Go ahead, if you want to be a wealthy woman, go.
Lu Qingfan: The lives of my staff are not worth it, and I don’t know if the life of your mother and concubine is worth it.
Prince: Dad, is it worth it?
Chapter completed!