"Your Highness, do you mean the killers sent by the Liu family?"

Li Yunxing nodded, this was the only answer.

However, it was not necessarily Liu Ruxu’s choice to kill Ginkgo, it was more likely Liu Zhongqing’s.

As a maid who grew up next to Liu Ruxu, she was destined to be bound to Liu Ruxu for the rest of her life, suffering both prosperity and loss.

If you leave the palace midway like this, it can only be because of an accident.

"And His Royal Highness, what I told you is indeed true, Ginkgo is missing an arm!"

"Was it chopped off when he died, or before leaving the palace?"

"Reporting to His Majesty the Crown Prince, there are traces of bandaging on the wound. It should have happened before leaving the palace."

"Hmm." Li Yunxing pondered for a moment, "Is there any movement from the Queen's side?"

"It is said...that someone has already passed the news to the Queen. There seems to be nothing unusual about it."

Li Yunxing's expression calmed down. It seemed that Liu Ruxu had known such a result for a long time.

"Have you found any clues about the severed hand?"

"What I heard from the guard on duty was that something happened to Ginkgo the night after King Zhaoyang died. She kept complaining that her arms were itchy. The maid in the courtyard gave her a bath and used cooling ointment.

I wiped my arms, but it didn’t work at all.”

"The fingernails are scratching the skin, and they haven't stopped yet."

"Because there was so much noise, Ginkgo went crazy and even alarmed Queen Liu."

"But even so, the disease Ginkgo cannot be cured."

"So at that time, there were rumors in the palace that there might be something unclean on the ginkgo."

Jin Xi talked about the rumors in the palace vividly, that's what people in the palace were like.

It seems that every master in the palace is fighting openly and secretly among themselves, but in fact, most of the time in the palace is peaceful.

The concubines who are favored by the emperor are eager to come more often, because such a huge palace can bring a little popularity.

A concubine or prince who is not favored must be careful every step he takes in the palace.

So these anecdotes are the only entertainment for such a boring palace life.

"Dirty stuff?"

"Yeah!" Jin nodded with joy.

"The first person who discovered that King Zhaoyang was poisoned was Ginkgo. Later, because the queen was ill, Ginkgo personally took care of many matters related to King Zhaoyang."

"Many people say that because King Zhaoyang died in an unknown manner, and Ginkgo was the first person to come into contact with him, the dirty things got stuck on her and wanted to use Ginkgo's body to resurrect her soul."

What he said just now was somewhat reliable, but the last sentence made Li Yunxing burst into laughter.

"Borrowing a corpse to bring back a soul? You can imagine it."

Although this is a widely circulated ghost story among the people, I have never heard of anyone actually resurrecting a corpse.

Seeing Li Yunxing's dissatisfaction, Jin Xi also immediately changed his tone, "This... I don't think this is credible, but it is indeed spreading in the palace."

Resurrecting a dead body definitely does not exist.

But the itchy ginkgo arm must be true.

And that day in Yongle Palace, when Li Yunxing and Liu Ruxu met in front of his father's bedside, he noticed that Liu Ruxu's personal maid Ginkgo did not follow them.

It seems that Ginkgo was already sick at that time.

"Stop spreading these false rumors and send someone to investigate. Where did Ginkgo go and who did he meet that day?"

Li Yunxing can be considered a person of the new era. These legendary religions of gods and ghosts are mostly misunderstandings caused by incomplete mastery of many scientific knowledge in ancient times.

For example, the widely rumored will-o'-the-wisp fire is actually a phosphorus fire.

This is just because burials were often practiced in ancient times, and the calcium phosphate in human bones was converted into phosphine.

Phosphine is a gaseous substance with a very low ignition point, only 40 degrees Celsius. It will burn when it comes into contact with air at room temperature. After it is produced, it emerges along cracks or holes in the ground and burns into the air, emitting blue light.

This is phosphorus fire.

Some people use things like gods and ghosts just to cover up their own crimes.

If Li Yunxing couldn't even see through this little trick, how could he hold on to his position?

But this time, he had wronged Liu Zhongqing and Liu Ruxu. There was no way they could do such a thing.

"Your Highness, Queen Liu was ill that day and refused to see guests. Even Your Highness's greetings that day were refused."

Li Yunxing raised his lips and smiled, "She rejected me because she was afraid."

"But Queen Liu is the master of the harem after all, and there are countless people in the harem who want to curry favor with her."

"Ginkgo is her maid, and she happened to have a sudden itchy attack that day. Just in case, you'd better go and inquire about it."

While Li Yunxing was giving instructions, Jiang He had already investigated the inn where Gingxing was staying and immediately rushed back to the East Palace.

"Your Highness, I have something important to report to you."

Li Yunxing nodded, indicating that he would speak frankly.

"Because there were no signs of fighting in the room, I handed Ginkgo's body to Zuzuo and found that the knife marks on her broken right arm were very strange..."

Li Yunxing frowned, "What does this mean?"

Jiang He swallowed, "I suspect that Gingko cut off her right arm."

Cut off your right arm?

What a vicious potion this is.

"Moreover, only one person came in and out of Jiaofang Hall that day."

Li Yunxing's eyes instantly narrowed into a slit, and he stared directly at the river with cold eyes.

"When did I teach you to speak so hesitantly?"

Jiang He was immediately frightened and fell to his knees, "I dare not deceive His Highness the Crown Prince, but only His Highness the Second Prince had been to Jiaofang Palace that day."

"Many people in the palace saw that His Highness the Second Prince gave a jade couch made of ice jade to the Queen. But the official felt that the Second Prince had no enmity with Ginkgo, and the Second Prince clearly wanted to curry favor with the Queen.

My dear, why do you still want to kill her?"

"That's why I was hesitant because I was afraid that these things were not the case."

Second Prince Li Yuntian?

Li Yunxing has always ignored his existence.

Before Li Yunxing came to this world, the second prince was the most favored prince in front of Emperor Wu.

If Li Yunxing hadn't won the civil war with the Chu State and won Wen Kui, the second prince would have been crowned prince long ago.

Combined with what happened before, it seems that all confusions and problems have an outlet.

The second prince relied on the Qin family. Qin Zhongyi had been dealing with the Huns in the Northeast Camp for a long time. It would be normal if he could get some poison from the Huns.

What's more, Li Yunxing had previously killed Qin Zhongyi's son Qin Sheng and removed the secret son he had cultivated for many years in the northwest.

In this way, the second prince indeed took advantage of the right time, place and people.

After killing Su Zhaoyang and then naturally forming an alliance with Liu Ruxu, his plan was clear.
Chapter completed!