Eight-year-old Princess: Phoenix Reborn

After getting off the carriage, Yun Shang could smell a faint smell of tung oil in the air. The smell of tung oil should dissipate very quickly, but it has been more than two hours, but there is still such a smell, I am afraid that this tung oil has been used a lot.

The Minister of Dali Temple knelt in front of the carriage to greet him. After Emperor Ning told him to stand up, Yun Shang said, "The smell of tung oil has not dissipated for so long. There must be a lot of arsonists. Did anyone find out?"

The minister of Dali Temple raised his eyes to look at Yunshang, and was taken aback for a moment, as if he hadn't expected that Yunshang would come with Emperor Ning. After a moment of silence, he said quickly, "The arsonist is very skilled in martial arts. Quietly knocked everyone in the dungeon unconscious, so no one noticed."

Strong martial arts? Yun Chang frowned. This prison was originally built by well-known craftsmen. Because all the prisoners were imprisoned, there are many institutions in the prison. If you are skilled in martial arts, you can easily break in. I'm afraid it's useless to use the sky prison. Qianyin sent secret guards today but couldn't find out the news. It can be seen that even if it was burned down, the prison is not so easy to advance. Who can be fooled by this sentence of martial arts?

"How is Princess Huajing?" Yunshang asked, looking at the minister of Dali Temple.

Dali Siqing lowered his head and couldn't see his expression clearly, but when Yunshang saw his hand in front of him, his little finger trembled slightly, "Reporting to the princess, when the guards in the prison were cleaning up, they found that Hua Jing was imprisoned. In the princess' cell, there was a charred corpse of a woman whose face was beyond recognition. I couldn't tell who it was. I had just come from the palace and hadn't visited it yet. I just heard from the guards that the corpse's stature was comparable to that of a beautiful mirror. The princess is almost the same, and the jade pendant of Princess Huajing is in her hand."

Yun Chang frowned, and it was burnt beyond recognition, so it was difficult to confirm whether it was a Huajing or not. Relying on stature and jade pendants alone, I am afraid that it would be impossible to count. Dali Siqing probably knew this truth well, so he didn't draw a conclusion.

Only then did Emperor Ning open his mouth lightly, "How many people were killed or injured in total?"

"Reporting to the emperor, the guards have just finished counting. Thirty-two people died, eighteen prisoners, and fourteen jailers."

There were eighteen prisoners, and Yunshang's fingers were slightly bent. The prisoners in the prison of Dali Temple were all felons, at least all of whom had official positions, and some were members of the royal family. Eighteen people This number does not sound like a lot, but the involvement is very important.

"Go and draw up a list of the eighteen prisoners." Emperor Ning said calmly.

The Minister of Dali Temple quickly responded, and ordered the guards beside him to tell the Shaoqing of Dali Temple that he stood by himself and waited for Emperor Ning's order.

"Let's go and have a look in the prison." Emperor Ning said in a low voice, and walked inside.

King Jing and Yunshang followed closely behind. The smell of tung oil in the sky prison became stronger. Yunshang frowned, a little disliked the smell. The sky prison is different from other ordinary prison cells, it is made of hard marble. , much stronger.

Because the iron pillars were used to separate Dali Temple, even though there was a big fire, there was still not much damage in the sky prison, but it was black everywhere due to the fire. Dali Temple Minister knew who Emperor Ning cared about, so he led Emperor Ning to the door of a cell. Inside the cell was a bedding that had been burned almost to ashes, and on top of the bedding was a charred female corpse.

Yun Chang frowned and looked at it for a long time, her stature was indeed about the same as that of Hua Jing.

Yun Chang paused at the door, then walked in directly, walked around the female corpse, and found nothing wrong, so she squatted down and inspected it carefully.

"Let Wu Zuo do it." Emperor Ning frowned and said softly to Yun Shang.

Yun Chang shook her head. She didn't believe anyone else, and carefully checked the face and body of the female corpse, but found nothing. Whether it was dead before the fire or burned to death after the fire, I'm afraid only Wu Zuo came to test it. Yun Chang was about to stand up, but was suddenly attracted by the hand of the female corpse.

Emperor Ning saw Yun Chang's complexion changed, and followed Yun Chang's gaze, but saw nothing, "What's wrong?"

Yun Chang laughed coldly, "This corpse does not belong to Miss Huang."

"Huh?" Emperor Ning was a little surprised, "Why do you say that?"

Yun Chang raised the female corpse's hand. There was nothing wrong with that hand, but it was scorched black by the fire, and even the nails were blackened.

"When I was in the palace yesterday, Chang'er saw that Huangjie's fingernails were painted with bright red Koudan. At that time, because she knew that Huangjie was pregnant, she was still thinking that Tu Kodan was not good for the child in her belly, and Huangjie also I was a little confused, so I paid attention to it, but this hand, although the nails were blackened, it just didn't have Kodan painted on it."

Emperor Ning pondered for a moment, recalling Hua Jing's appearance last night, but finally couldn't remember, frowned and didn't respond.

Dali Temple Minister was a little surprised, "The locks of this cell are intact, no one should be able to take Princess Huajing away from the cell like this..."

Yun Shang also fell silent when she heard the words, "We have to investigate this matter, but this person is definitely not Hua Jing."

Just as he was talking, he saw someone rushing over, it was Emperor Ning's servant, Emperor Ning frowned and looked at the servant, "What's wrong?"

The servant hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, Xia Huanyu, the emperor of Xia Kingdom, is asking to see you."

This announcement made everyone present change their faces. They even forgot a more important thing, that is, Xia Houjing, the crown prince of the Xia Kingdom, was also imprisoned in the prison for stabbing Prince Jing. middle. The Emperor Xia had never mentioned this matter before, and everyone subconsciously forgot about it, but now that they suddenly remembered it, they were very shocked.

"Where's Xia Houjing?" Emperor Ning asked hastily.

Dali Siqing's body trembled suddenly, and he said hastily, "Report to the emperor, Prince Xia is being imprisoned in the cell over there. None of the prisoners in the prison survived today."

Emperor Ning frowned tightly when he heard the words, his face was a little displeased, "You didn't report such an important matter until now, what should you do!"

The minister of Dali Temple suddenly fell to his knees and begged for forgiveness repeatedly, "The emperor spares his life, the emperor spares his life, it is my negligence."

"Negligence, can a single negligence solve this matter?" Emperor Ning took a deep breath. He didn't care about Ning Huajing's death, but Xia Houjing's death was very difficult. No matter what, it was Xia Guo's death. The prince, the prince of Xia died in Ningguo's prison, I'm afraid it will be a bit troublesome to solve it.

"Bring His Majesty Xia over here." Emperor Ning suppressed the anger in his heart and said.

The servant hurriedly retreated, and Emperor Ning looked at Dali Siqing with resentment, "Hurry up and lead the way to the prison where Prince Xia is detained."\u003c