Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 409

Emperor Ning nodded and sat down. The coroner came in, and slowly walked in front of emperor Ning. Emperor Ning asked, "how's the test going?"

The coroner said, "Princess Hua Jing died miserably. There are many scars on her body, including the marks of whips and the holes in the path cut by a thin blade, and her fingers were clamped. Moreover, the belly of Princess Hua Jing seemed to have been hit heavily, leading to the miscarriage in her belly. What really increased her death was the scars on her neck, which should be caused by a sword. And she took a fatal blow from it.

Emperor Ning put his hand on the armrest of his chair, and he knocked his fingers carefully. He had not loosened his brows since he left the Imperial Palace, and now his brows knitted more tightly.

"Have you found anything else?" Emperor Ning's voice was quite calm.

The coroner said hastily, "I found this in Princess Hua Jing." The coroner took out a few things from his sleeve and handed them to Emperor Ning. The eunuchs standing by the side immediately took them over, and opened one by one for emperor Ning.

"I found that there are letters and tokens from the Third Prince of the state of Yelang as well as letters of her and Li Jingyan." The coroner said softly.

Emperor Ning nodded and looked at the letters in the eunuch's hands. He read them one by one carefully, without saying a word for a long time, and said faintly, "put them away."

Emperor Ning's eyes fell on the woman lying on the couch. She was dressed in a servant girl. Emperor Ning felt that the maid looked familiar, so he did not speak for a long time.

The head of court of justice replied, "the doctor has checked on her just now. She seemed to have been insulted. There is a serious injury on her lower body, but she passed out because she was too tired and hadn't eaten anything for a long time. She should wake up soon. How about I ask the doctor to prescribe some irritant medicine for this girl to wake up early? "

Emperor Ning nodded and pondered.

The head of the court of justice immediately arranged everything. Soon he came back with a medicine bag and put it on the tip of the woman's nose. A little while later, the woman suddenly opened her eyes and screamed, "Your Highness! Your highness! You will be fine! I will take you back to the Palace and find his majesty..."

"Why are you here for me?" Emperor Ning said slowly in a low voice, which made the lady tremble. Then she was quiet. The woman turned to look at emperor Ning. After a long time, she suddenly became excited. "Your Majesty, your majesty, please save Princess Hua Jing. The third prince wants to kill her. He wants to kill her to prevent her from exposing his secrets..."

Emperor Ning frowned again and asked coldly, "why did he kill Princess Hua Jing to keep his secrets?"

The maid fell into silence. She bit her lips and stayed silent for a long time, with tears in her eyes. After a long time, she opened her mouth, "I'm Qing Mei, Princess Hua Jing's maid in her palace. I had followed her into the palace and His Majesty must have seen me. A few days ago, Princess Hua Jing returned to the imperial city and told me that the servants of the state of Yelang had failed to serve her well. That was why they asked me to come with her. Princess Hua Jing had arrived at the imperial city very early and lived in the Qian Shui Pavilion. The prince of the state of Yelang doted on her very much, but she looked unhappy. I found that sometimes at midnight someone would come to her and talk to her, and I would serve her in the side room. She thought I was asleep, but I actually heard it."

Qing Mei bit her lower lip and continued, "someone told her to take action as soon as possible. He said the third prince couldn't wait. I didn't know why, so I pretended I didn't know anything."

"Later, two days later, she and I went to the Ningguo Temple together. In fact, we didn't do anything in Ningguo temple. When we returned to the Imperial City, there were two monks." Qing Mei paused and then continued, "later, during the imperial feast, her highness was locked in the heavenly prison. But I was kidnapped. After that, I found that the person who kidnapped me was grand councilor Li. I didn't expect that I would meet princess Hua Jing at Grand councilor Li's place. Grand councilor Li only ordered me to take good care of Princess Hua Jing, so I stayed with her all the time. Later, the yard where we stayed was on fire. We ran out together and saw that a young man with Grand councilor Li was surrounded by a group of men in black. I was so scared that I grabbed Princess Hua Jing's hand and ran away. In the halfway, I met a group of people who were holding swords but didn't look like people from the state of Ning. Princess Hua Jing said we were saved, so they took me and Princess Hua Jing with them."

As these words were uttered by Qing Mei, her body began to tremble. After a long while, she continued, "her highness and I thought we could be saved, but what we didn't expect is that after we were taken to a yard, those people caught her and questioned her brutally, as if they were asking her where the contract was. Since her highness can't endure the punishment, she told them where the contract is. But they didn't want to let her highness go. They took the stick and aborted the child in her womb. They scolded and scolded her as they thought of giving birth to a child for the third prince. They said that her highness didn't deserve it."

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