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Chapter 1715 The Country Girl Looked Down Upon 36
The King of England investigated and found that this person had indeed been punished by Consort Liu, so what he said on the surface did not seem like a lie.

But the King of England naturally did not believe his claim. After all, he did not believe that anyone would dare to harm a prince's concubine. This was a matter of life and death. Without someone's orders, who would risk their life for such a trivial matter? So he ordered the concubine to be tortured in an attempt to force her to confess.

That person was quite stubborn; he simply wouldn't confess.

The King of England then sent men to try and bring his family over to frighten him. However, the men who went to fetch them returned and said that the family had approached the Queen a few days earlier, asking her to release them. The Queen was kind and released them, and then the family disappeared without a trace.

The person can't be found? That's even more suspicious. After all, it looks like it was planned and premeditated. Otherwise, if this person saw Consort Liu boating on the lake and decided to kill her on a whim, they wouldn't have sent their family away so early. It's more likely that this person had been planning this all along, wanted to kill Consort Liu for a long time, and was just waiting for an opportunity. Now that the opportunity has come, they killed Consort Liu.

Thinking of this, the King of England wanted even more to torture the man, hoping to force him to reveal who was behind it all.

Before he could even begin to torture the man, he died bleeding from all seven orifices. Clearly, someone had approached him, given him poison, and killed him to prevent him from revealing the secrets behind the incident.

If this person hadn't died bleeding from all seven orifices, the King of Ying might still believe that there was no one behind him. But once this person died bleeding from all seven orifices, wasn't it obvious that this person was instructed by someone to kill Consort Liu?
The thought that someone had secretly murdered his favorite concubine enraged the Prince of Ying. He immediately prepared to report the matter to the Imperial Clan Court, so that the three departments—the Imperial Clan Court, the Court of Judicial Review, and the capital city government—could solve the case.

Indeed, although the King of England had basically confirmed that someone behind the scenes had instructed that servant to kill his favorite concubine, he knew that this was a family scandal and did not want outsiders to know, so he did not tell anyone or notify the authorities. He only privately interrogated the relevant personnel in order to find the real culprit and then deal with it privately.

But now, he sees the person behind the murder of his beloved concubine blatantly treating him like a fool, even poisoning the servant right in front of him. This arrogance is outrageous; it's a blatant slap in his face.

Feeling enraged at being slapped across the face by the mastermind behind the scenes, the King of England was determined to find the culprit. Realizing that he couldn't catch the culprit on his own, he decided to seek help from the authorities.

He believed that with the intervention of the imperial court, the murderer would not be able to escape.

Putting everything else aside, if the imperial court finds the family whose servant ran away, they might be able to find the mastermind behind it all.

The King then summoned all the masters and stewards of the palace and explained his plan.

The King of England said, "If you come forward and admit it now, I can give you some face and secretly give you a cup of poisoned wine. I will pretend to have died of illness and not tell anyone what you did. If you don't come forward and admit it, once I go to the Imperial Clan Court and the Court of Judicial Review and tell them about it, the Court of Judicial Review will definitely find out the truth. Then you will lose face."

The King of England felt he had given the mastermind enough face, after all, he had made the matter quite clear. Any intelligent person would have stepped forward and confessed, lest the matter be brought to the authorities. He would certainly lose face, ridiculed by the people of the capital for not even being able to keep his favorite concubine, and the mastermind would also suffer a terrible end. Unlike the conditions he was now offering, which at least preserved a certain degree of dignity.

Even if others discover that the murderer died of illness, at least on the surface it is said that he really died of illness, and no one will dare to speak ill of him. The treatment he gave him was already quite good. If he didn't really not want outsiders to know about his family's dirty laundry, he wouldn't have been so generous.

Even after the King's earnest persuasion, the Princess still did not stand up.

Linlang understood her thoughts. She was clinging to a gamble, thinking that the Prince of Ying wouldn't be able to find out that she was the one who did it. So she hurriedly confessed that she was the one who did it. If the Prince of Ying was furious, he would definitely make her die of illness. Wouldn't it be stupid to lose her life for nothing? So unless it was absolutely necessary, the Princess of Ying would never take the initiative to come forward and admit that she killed Consort Liu.

But... Linlang had to admit that the King's speculation was correct. Once he reported it to the authorities, it was only a matter of time before the Queen Consort was found out.

Just the fact that the family wanted to leave the manor a few days ago, and Princess Ying immediately and mercifully agreed, would have aroused suspicion from the authorities. Linlang had investigated before and found that when servants wanted to redeem themselves, Princess Ying would not have agreed so quickly. Usually, those people would ask for a long time and then give Princess Ying a lot of money before they could leave. After all, Princess Ying was used to making money and would not let go of such an opportunity. This time, however, Princess Ying unexpectedly agreed immediately to this family's request to redeem themselves, and did not accept much redemption money, which was obviously not right.

Furthermore, the authorities will definitely be able to find out that the Princess Consort was wary of Consort Liu becoming the principal wife and taking away her son's position. Therefore, she had a conflict of interest with Consort Liu. With Consort Liu's death, the Princess Consort was the biggest beneficiary, which means that the Princess Consort had a motive to kill Consort Liu.

Once the authorities believe that the Princess of Wales had a motive to kill Consort Liu, they will eventually uncover the truth by following this lead.

If the Princess Consort is found out, her son could lose his position as heir apparent, if the King is willing, since the King is already furious and might do anything.

Princess Ying believes that by dying together with Consort Liu, she will no longer have to worry about Consort Liu taking her son's position as heir apparent. However, given the King's current anger, it is highly possible that if he learns that Princess Ying killed his favorite concubine, he will take his anger out on the heir apparent and strip him of his position. This is because people lose their rationality when they are angry. Princess Ying lost her rationality when she learned that Consort Liu indeed harbored ambitions to seize her son's position as heir apparent, which is one reason why she wanted to kill Consort Liu. It is also possible that the King, having lost his rationality after the last clue was killed right under his nose, will strip Princess Ying of her son's position as heir apparent as punishment after learning that Princess Ying is the murderer.

Of course, he didn't know that the Princess Consort killed Consort Liu in order to protect her son's position as heir apparent. If he had known, the King might have been even more determined to take away the position of heir apparent from the Princess Consort's son, because only by making the Princess Consort lose what she cared about most could he truly punish her.

In this struggle, there were no winners. The Queen Consort might lose her life and her son's position as heir apparent, Consort Liu might lose her life, and the King might lose his favorite concubine.

However, the reason for this tragic situation was that a prince in the capital had promoted his favorite concubine to a higher position and seized the position of heir apparent from the son of the former principal wife. Therefore, Linlang also disliked the instigator. After all, if such a thing had not happened before, Princess Ying would not have been so wary of Consort Liu and other favored concubines with children, and would not have done these outrageous things.