Chapter 80 Why Dig?

Ji Yanqing's investigations were all conducted in secret, with swift and decisive methods. He would not give any chances to the suspected persons, so it was naturally much faster than that of the princes.

Soon, Ji Yanqing learned that the person originally arranged by Ye Jinshu to go out of the palace to dig the soil was suddenly unwell, so he replaced him with another person.

The person who was replaced was the adopted son of the original man, and it was he who dug the soil with medicinal residue.

As for Ye Ruoyan, there are also problems.

The deceased patient had some connection with her.

Ye Ruoyan has a little palace maid whom she loves very much. No matter how difficult Ye Ruoyan has been in the palace over the years, that little palace maid has always followed her and never left her side.

The little palace maid lost both her parents when she was young. She became an orphan and was taken to be raised by her relatives. She was sold into the palace when she was 11 years old.

Later, when he was being bullied, he was rescued by Ye Ruoyan, and the two have depended on each other since then.

When the young palace maid was on duty in the palace, her relatives would often take away all her salary, under the pretext of giving it to her brother to marry.

Ye Ruoyan couldn't stand this, so after helping the prince do something, she asked the prince to change the identity of her maid, and only then did she get rid of that blood-sucking family.

Coincidentally, the patient who died because of the replacement of medicine was the man who had been sucking blood from the little palace maid for several years. Before the little palace maid entered the palace, this relative often did some intimate things to her, almost everything except the last step.

The closer Ye Ruoyan was to the little palace maid beside her, the angrier she became about this matter. When she found out that this person was ill, Ye Ruoyan specifically told the apprentices in the clinic about the prescription after finishing the consultation. She also mentioned that there was one thing that needed attention in this prescription. As long as one of the medicines was replaced, it would become a deadly poison.

Ye Ruoyan was teaching the apprentices in the clinic from the perspective of a lecture, but how could she know whether the speaker and the listener also had the intention?

"Continue to investigate the apprentices in Ye Ruoyan's clinic."

"Yes, my lord."

While Ji Yanqing was dealing with Ye Jinshu's matter, he was counting the time until he would return home. He didn't know if he could wait until Ye Jinshu was released from house arrest and came out to see him before he went back.

He felt that Ye Jinshu would come to see him.

If Ye Jinshu hadn't come, he wouldn't blame Ye Jinshu, he would just feel a little regretful and sad.

Another day passed, and Ji Yanqing discovered that although an apprentice in Ye Ruoyan's clinic was the prince's man, he was also related to an old aristocrat in the court.

The prince does not belong to the old aristocracy in the court. He even believes that the old aristocrats in the court are all accustomed to extravagance and debauchery, and they are dragging down the development of the country. He also dislikes some of the second-generation rich among the aristocrats.

It just so happened that such a prince was involved with the old aristocracy. Was the prince's apparent disdain for the old aristocracy all pretended, or was this a trap set by the prince? Ji Yanqing was more inclined to the latter.

If this is the case, then the whole thing was actually a premeditated plan by the prince to punish the old aristocracy party. Ye Ruoyan discovered the prince's plan at some point, and used the prince's hand to get involved and eliminate the person who bullied her personal maid.

Then who pushed Ye Jinshu into the game?
Ji Yanqing was accustomed to roughly deducing the cause and effect, and then conducting investigations based on his own guesses.

This is also the reason why the prince and his companions are clearly not stupid but their progress in investigating the case lags far behind Ji Yanqing.

One reason is that the prince wanted to show the so-called truth to the people while covering up his own role in the matter. Another reason is that when they were looking for the truth, they found clues and then made inferences based on the clues.

As for Ji Yanqing, due to his special physique, he prefers to chat with fixed people first, judge the person's position through the truth or falsehood of their words, guess the possible truth of the matter, and finally verify whether the guess is correct. So far, the truth guessed by Ji Yanqing has not been wrong, and verification is just further confirmation.

Now all Ji Yanqing has to do is to verify the relationship between the prince and the old aristocracy, and whether Ye Ruoyan knows that the prince has placed someone around her.

Another day, Ji Yanqing confirmed his guess. After ascertaining the whole story, he gave the news to Jiang Sisi, and asked her to push the princes to investigate the case according to this idea.

But what Ji Yanqing didn't expect was that he couldn't find the person who forced Ye Jinshu to join the game.

The illness of the person originally commissioned by Ye Jinshu seemed like a complete accident. It also seemed reasonable for the client to transfer the matter to his adopted son after he fell ill, but Ji Yanqing just felt it was very strange.

He never thought that there were complete coincidences in the world, especially when a specific harm was caused to a certain person, such coincidence was worth pondering.

According to Ji Yanqing's understanding of Ye Jinshu, although the person who collected the soil was selected by her herself, the selection was ultimately carried out in the palace, and the transfer of all people in the palace was controlled by the emperor.

Before Ye Jinshu selected people according to her own wishes, the people who appeared before her were actually people in the palace.

In other words, the emperor could first decide who Ye Jinshu could contact, and then Ye Jinshu would choose this person who seemed to be a complete coincidence from the choices that seemed to be based on his own intentions but were actually already within a limited range.

Could it be that the emperor had a hand in this matter?

Ji Yanqing couldn't help but have such a guess.

Although when they were together in the palace, no matter how you looked at it, the emperor and empress seemed to be very good to Ye Jinshu, but that was only on the surface after all.

Being able to teach Ye Jinshu to have a character like that of the prince, Ji Yanqing does not think that Ye Jinshu can still get priority in some national affairs.

If he could talk to the emperor of this country, Ji Yanqing would be able to judge whether the emperor of this country was on Ye Jinshu's side.

Ye Jinshu liked the emperor and empress of this country very much. If possible, he didn't want to see Ye Jinshu sad because of this matter.

It seems that I have to arrange a visit as soon as possible after I return. I might as well write a letter back and let the boy prepare.

Ji Yanqing had been secretly thinking about things that would happen a long time in the future, and at this time, Ye Jinshu was worrying about what to eat today and why Ji Yanqing hadn't finished writing the storybook yet.

The day before the house arrest was lifted, Ye Jinshu finally waited for the person in this life to come and interrogate her.

The visitors were Crown Prince Chu Yi and Fourth Prince Chu Si.

It’s a little different from the previous people, but it’s not a big problem, as we end up in the same destination by different means.

Ye Jinshu originally thought that this time, just like in every previous life, she would be convicted without any explanation and taken away, but what was unexpected was that this time, she was asked.

Although the questions asked left Ye Jinshu very confused.

"Jinshu, why did you send people to dig outside the palace?"

(End of this chapter)