Huo Wei cast a cold and fierce glance: "I'll be out soon. You all wait outside."
Those personal soldiers didn't dare to disobey and had to retreat again.
Huo Wei turned around, took out a page of the coroner's report and an in - depth investigation of the poisoning case from his sleeve, and threw them at Shen Guilan's head:
"Take a look for yourself, Military Advisor Shen. Aren't you quite familiar with this poison?"
The two poisonings used the same means, the same way of onset, and the crime scene was sealed off even faster than last time, which allowed Huo Wei to find some clues.
Shen Guilan's face turned deathly pale. He picked up the things on the ground and read them several times. Stunned, he said:
"You don't think I poisoned A Jue, do you?
Huo Wei, among all the people I could poison in my life, there are two people I would never harm. One is you, and the other is A Jue."
Huo Wei curled his thin lips slightly, and there was a hidden killing intent in his smile:
"Look, you didn't even ask what the poison is, which proves that you already knew the name of this poison.
This thing is not some exotic secret medicine at all. It's the poison you made and hid in the prince's mansion before.
Moreover, neither A Jue nor Murong Hua was poisoned at the palace banquet. They were already poisoned before that. It just so happened that the poison took effect at the palace banquet, exactly three days later.
I also found out that A Jue visited the Prince of Yuzhang's mansion three days before his death from the poison.
The people in the Third Prince's mansion told me that it was someone around me who asked him to go there. But during those days, I never sent anyone to look for him.
Shen Guilan, in the entire prince's mansion, the only person who can be called someone around me and can summon a prince is you.
And Murong Hua's whereabouts are even more interesting. For no reason, he went to a dilapidated temple outside the city on a snowy day. Then he accused me at the palace banquet. Who told him all these things?"
Huo Wei threw the dagger in his sleeve on the ground and lowered his bottomless black eyes:
"Forget it. I'm too lazy to know so much. Just kill all the suspects, right? Do you want to end your own life, or should I do it?"
Shen Guilan looked down at the dagger and slowly reached out his hand. The blade glowed cold and white: "Huo Wei, I'll say it one more time. It wasn't me. Do you believe me?"
Huo Wei looked down at him coldly: "Then who was it? He Zhizhou, right?"
Shen Guilan avoided Huo Wei's knife - like gaze: "I don't know."
Huo Wei smiled faintly: "Murong Hua is a fool. I guess he didn't follow the plan of the person behind him.
Choosing to make a scene at my enfeoffment banquet was stupid and the least convincing way.
But I can guess that the person behind this first wanted to force me into rebellion. Then, after I was rescued and became the crown prince, they wanted to drag me into trouble.
After much thought, the only person I can think of is He Zhizhou." Although his tone was calm, there was a coldness as if he had fallen into a snow - covered mountain.
Shen Guilan stood up from the ground. His figure looked a bit thin:
"He is your master who raised you. He won't harm you.
Huo Wei, he just wants you to take revenge. He is extremely paranoid and fanatical. He never wanted to harm you. Everything was just to clear the name of the Xie family."
Huo Wei kicked the stool beside his feet. It flew and hit the corner of the wall with a loud noise. He gritted his teeth and growled:
"Shen Guilan, just keep covering up for someone! I'm going to the Zichen Palace now. I hope to see your body when I come back."
After saying that, he walked out of the Eastern Palace. When he was about to reach the Zichen Palace, he instructed Meng Tan:
"Go and tell Shen Guilan that I already have the intention to kill him. You are in charge of guarding the Eastern Palace. You can help him escape.
After Shen Guilan escapes from the palace gate, send someone to follow him and pretend to be a killer to chase him from time to time."
Meng Tan bowed his head and clasped his fists: "Yes, Crown Prince."
Huo Wei was very clear that there were great problems with He Zhizhou, the man he had called master for more than ten years.
He always urged him to take revenge, making him do all these things in a way that didn't care about his life.
Even during the time when he was imprisoned, He Zhizhou still wanted to force him into rebellion. Then, through Murong Hua's hand, he wanted to kill him.
Was he his master or his enemy?
His long legs stepped over the threshold of the Zichen Palace. The hem of his bright - yellow crown prince's court robe swept in front of the palace door.
The wind and snow behind him immediately covered a thin layer in front of the palace door, but it was not as cold and gloomy as inside the Zichen Palace at this moment.
Huo Wei's cold and deep face stood under the lamp shadow of the Zichen Palace. He took a shallow look at Dugu Luanyue kneeling on the ground, and his black eyes darkened.
Murong Min raised his arm, and Eunuch Yingxi presented a red - wood tray in front of Huo Wei. There was a cup of wine on the tray:
"Crown Prince, the Empress has committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. The maid Yuzan reported that the Empress had seduced you several times before.
Your Majesty naturally believes you more. After all, you are blood - related to His Majesty and share family affection. Crown Prince, please send the Empress on her way for His Majesty. Consider it as sharing the worries of the monarch."
Murong Min stared at Huo Wei: "Crown Prince, let me have peace of mind once. In the future, I won't focus on state affairs anymore. I'll hand over Beiyan to you. How about ordering you to supervise the country?"
Supervising the country was a great temptation for anyone who wanted to fight for power and the throne.
Huo Wei was very clear that Murong Min was suspicious of the connection between him and Dugu Luanyue.
But whether there was a connection or not, Murong Min definitely had the intention to kill Dugu Luanyue.
Huo Wei took the cup of wine, glanced at Murong Min leaning on the dragon throne, and then at Zhao Chuyan whose mouth couldn't stop curling up. He played with the wine cup in his hand:
"Father, the Empress is from Nanchu. She has no foundation in Beiyan. It's just a small thing to bestow a cup of poisoned wine to kill her."
He slowly squatted down, pinched Dugu Luanyue's chin, and put the wine cup to her lips.
Dugu Luanyue was holding back her tears at the moment and didn't look at Huo Wei at all.
Huo Wei smiled again: "Your son thinks that since the Princess of Nanchu came to Beiyan to poison Father, there must be more secrets that haven't been discovered. Wouldn't it be too easy on her to just bestow death like this?"
Murong Min's eyes were full of ambiguity: "Then what does the Crown Prince suggest we do?"
Huo Wei: "Use torture. Beat her to death and see if we can extract more information.
Father may not know that the Empress Dugu is the Crown Princess and the future female emperor of Nanchu. She knows a lot of Nanchu's secrets.
If Father plans to attack Nanchu in the future, it would be quite cost - effective to torture her severely this time and ask for some important information.
After extracting the information, we can use her useless life to blackmail the Emperor and Empress of Nanchu. Wouldn't that be better?"
Dugu Luanyue looked up at Huo Wei with frightened and tearful eyes. At this moment, seeing him cold and aloof, Huo Wei, who stood at the top of Beiyan, seemed to have completely changed.
She shouted excitedly: "Huo Wei, you crazy man, you..."
Huo Wei suddenly leaned over and grabbed her neck: "Shut up!"
Dugu Luanyue's slender neck was firmly grasped by his hand with amazing strength, and the words behind were abruptly stopped.