"What?"

Huanan He's explanation surprised the envoy of Boni.

With doubt and unwillingness, he bowed his head to look into the gold box.

"Why? If this treasure is fake, why was only her hand stained with blood after so many people here have tested it?"

"It's not human blood, but ordinary pigment."

Huanan He was calm and explained with assurance.

"In fact, as early as when Minister Wang found the strange vine leaf in the hand of the dead in the first murder case, Court of Judicial Review has informed the identity of the murderer, but there is not enough evidence for them to interrogate her."

"So I came up with an idea. After transforming the box for watching western images, I deliberately told everyone that there were divine eyes at the bottom of the box to distinguish the real murderer and asked everyone to make sure that their palms touched the bottom of the box when testing."

"In fact, those who have never poisoned General Yuancang are sincere. In order to get rid of suspicion, they will naturally do as I say."

"Only the real murderer is afraid of the so-called 'divine eyes' at the bottom of the box. When her hand enters the box, she will not dare to touch the bottom directly, but she will reach somewhere in the box at will to confuse me."

"However, I painted other places except the bottom of the box with red pigment. Once the murderer touches it, her fingers will be dyed red."

"Wonderful!" The female envoy of Luocha applauded and praised.

"This plan should be what you call 'Nothing is too deceitful in war'?"

Huanan He smiled and turned his eyes to Mrs. Yuancang.

"Exactly." Huanan He said.

When the interpreter of Ying State heard this, he yelled, "B*st*rd! You people in the Central Plains are too cunning!"

The servant of the Ninth Prince's Mansion punched the interpreter with an iron fist and made his eyes and nose bleed.

Huanan He ignored the noise and then said.

"Just after the second poisoning case appeared soon, our people found that the two cases seemed complicated, but there was some connection between them."

"In particular, Mrs. Yuancang, your responses to the two dead people in the cases are very different, which is unimaginable."

"When Sakata Aki of Dachui Kitchen was killed, several pairs of eyes saw that you were extremely sorrowful at the scene of the crime. You jumped at the suspect Concubine Yun several times and completely lost your mind."

"And what was your reaction when your husband, General Yuancang, died of poison?"

After finishing the translation, Wang Can disdained the decadent woman on the ground and added with a sneer.

"I can testify that at that time. Madam looked calm and only cried silently and asked His Majesty to find out the real murderer as soon as possible."

"I want to ask you something, Madam. Sakata Aki is just a minister of the Emperor of Ying State and isn’t your relative. Why were you so sad when you learned that he was killed? You were even more sadder and reacted more intensely than when you learned that your husband who slept with you all day died. Why?"

After that, Wang Can lowered his head and whispered the questions word for word to Huanan He.

After hearing this, Huanan He nodded with satisfaction, reached out, took a vine leaf from a servant's hand, and clamped it in front of the woman with his two fingers.

"Even if others don't know this leaf, Madam, you should know it. The two cases that happened in the Book Hall and the Chengtai Hall seem strange and complex, but when I learned the origin of this vine leaf and combined with the words of several witnesses, I knew that the motive of the second case was just the occurrence of the first case."

Mrs. Yuancang curled up on the ground and silently heard the whole paragraph translated by Wang Can following Huanan He's speaking. Her pale face showed helplessness and despair.

Her sad laughter was like the aging sound made by the gears of old machines, which was slow, moving, and sad.

"Yes, I poisoned the General..." The woman said.

As soon as she said this, the interpreter of Ying State suddenly fell to the ground, crawled to the woman, and cried.

"Don't listen to her. She's crazy. She's full of nonsense! I killed the General. I killed him!"

Huanan He frowned and gave a sign to the servants on both sides. Immediately, they rushed forward to hold him down.

Wang Can sighed dully and said in Ying language.

"Madam, up to now, you have to explain everything."

Mrs. Yuancang knelt on her knees. Her dim eyes stared at a point on the ground, and the bitter smile lines on her lips were clear and cold.

"I don't love the General. My marriage is just to continue the honor of my family, so it is a tragic combination from the beginning."

"In the eyes of everyone, I am a respected Regent Princess. But in fact, the General loves his concubines much more than me."

"The only man I really love is Sakata Aki, His Majesty's favorite minister. Even if I spend time with him secretly, I will feel extremely happy."

"Only when I face him can I feel that I am still a real woman."

The woman's tears poured out.

But she stubbornly refrained from crying. For a moment, her eyebrows turned sharply and her voice was low, showing boundless resentment.

"But... That selfish and greedy man sent ninjas to assassinate Sakata because he lost the second cooking competition. I can't forgive him!"

At the end of Wang Can's translation, there was a roar of boiling around.

Those envoys who could understand Central Plains Mandarin were shocked and looked at each other silently.

No one could have imagined that the real murderer of the General of Ying State was his wife.

Huanan He smiled coldly, opened the folding fan, and shook it, deliberately raising his voice.

"I guess you all understand. The two murder cases have nothing to do with Her Grace, Concubine Yun. The murderer of Sakata was General Yuancang, and the person who poisoned the General was his wife."

The purpose of his doing so was to wash away Gu Yunxi's grievances.

The two murder cases had a great impact on the diplomatic relations between Da Yi and other countries. This group of envoys who usually did nothing were bound to return home and treated the cases as a tidbit of news to ask for a reward. By the way, they exaggerated to discredit Gu Yunxi.

He must not allow his woman to be wronged and criticized arbitrarily by people who did not know the truth.

The envoys nodded one after another, and those who could speak Central Plains Mandarin readily agreed.

"Your Highness, we all heard that it was the woman from Ying State who poisoned and killed the General."

"This is an internal struggle between the envoys of Ying State. The husband killed his wife's lover, and the wife poisoned her husband in order to avenge her lover."

"Nice!"

Huanan He coldly raised his lips and looked at the woman on the ground with his sharp eyes.

"So, you deliberately framed Concubine Yun in the murder case in the Book Hall, and you also robbed the ‘The Exquisite Collection of Delicacies’ she was going to let Sakata have a look, right? Now the truth is revealed. You hand in the book immediately!"

After a conversation with Mrs. Yuancang, Wang Can's face turned pale.

He approached Huanan He, lowered his head, and whispered to him.

"Your Highness, the woman said that their ninjas had failed halfway, and the book had long been taken away by a mysterious man."

"What?"

Huanan He was shocked at the scene when he heard this, and his five fingers firmly clenched the folding fan.

"Come and search the rooms prepared for the envoys of Ying State one by one. Be sure to find a book called The Exquisite Collection of Delicacies."

The servants were ordered to act separately at once.

After a while, they came back one by one and said they had never found the book.

It seemed this woman was not lying.

Huanan He slowly closed his eyes and felt tired.

That book was of great significance to Gu Yunxi and him. How could it be lost?

But who robbed the book?

What was his purpose of doing this?

Compared with these doubts, there was something more puzzling to Huanan He. Why did the first murder case take place in the Book Hall where he had a tryst with Gu Yunxi?

At present, Huanan He couldn't see Gu Yunxi with his own eyes. He didn't know what had happened between her and Sakata Aki.

But he knew that the problems he questioned would certainly be questioned by Huanan Xin.

The Emperor's doubt would bring more trouble to Gu Yunxi.

D*mn it! He just solved a puzzle, but the situation fell into another unfathomable puzzle.

Huanan He was so upset that he had to dismiss the envoys of all countries. He sat back in the chair, distressed.

Wang Can was puzzled by the sudden changeable emotion of the Ninth Prince.

How could a person who had just been in high spirits seem to be hit by a sudden blow and become depressed again?

Wang Can intuitively believed that the reason why the Ninth Prince became like this might not be because the book missed. There seemed to be another unspeakable reason for his sudden gaffe.

As for this another reason, he, the fourth-ranked Minister, had no right to ask.

After a little meditation, he came forward and asked.

"Your Highness, what should we do with these people of Ying State now?"

Huanan He frowned and pinched the center of his eyebrows with his two fingers.

"Leave them to the Court of Judicial Review. His Majesty will decide the follow-up. At present, the suspicion of Concubine Yun has been cleared, and we have made great achievements."

…

In the evening, Noble Concubine Hui went to the Qinming Hall to deliver a hand-made tonic soup to Huanan Xin. Seeing that the Emperor didn't want her to stay, she left with a sad smile.

When passing by a living pool, Noble Concubine Hui shouted to stop.

With the support of Hongjing, she strolled to the pool, sat on the bluestone, and looked up at the graceful reflection of the bright moon in the sky into the water waves.

She really didn't want to go back to the Miaoyin Hall without the company of the Emperor.

The Emperor was upset because Concubine Yun couldn't get rid of the suspicion of the murder case. He always tightened his face to anyone, and even Ruiji didn't get his favor.

Unexpectedly, a coquettish woman could compete with Gu Yunxi for the Emperor's favor. But once something happened, it was Concubine Yun of Jingyang Palace who could control the Emperor's mood!

She was so upset.

With her soft waist bent down, Noble Concubine Hui played with the cold pool water with her slender hands, and she was still making stupid assumptions.

If she, Shi Yuanqing, had been suspected to have committed the murder case this time, would the Emperor have been in a trance all day for her?

Feeling something falling from her wrist, Noble Concubine Hui shouted in a panic.

"No! My jade bracelet has fallen into the water! Call someone to come and get the bracelet up for me."

Hongjing looked at the water and said, embarrassed.

"Your Grace, the water in this pool is so deep that we can't see anything at present. When it's dawn tomorrow, let's ask the eunuch to take the hook and come here again, and we'll certainly get the bracelet for you."

Noble Concubine Hui refused angrily.

"No, that bracelet was given to me by His Majesty. Ask the eunuchs to light the lanterns immediately and find it for me overnight."

Noble Concubine Hui gave an order, which was not an imperial edict, but also an irresistible order.

Hongjing had no choice but to send someone back to the palace to prepare lanterns and tools and waited by the pool with Noble Concubine Hui.

A dozen eunuchs soon arrived. Some carried lanterns and torches while others held bamboo hooks. All of them were busy around the pool.

Suddenly, someone shouted.

"Hey, I caught something. It's very heavy. It doesn't look like Her Grace's bracelet."

Noble Concubine Hui was surprised and raised her handkerchief.

"What can it be? You go into the water and bring it up for me to see."

Four or five people plopped into the pool and searched over and over for a moment. Suddenly, several screams rushed into the night sky.

"Ah, a man! There is a dead man in the pool!"