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Surrounded by a group of personal guards, Jiang Shaohua hurried to the other side of the courtyard gate. Chen Changshi heard that the chief clerk was also awakened and rushed over one after another.

The Yi Cheng came out of the courtyard with an expressionless face and happened to meet the princess and her party.

In the middle of the night, someone suddenly died in the post house, and the princess was alarmed!

Yi Cheng was about to cry but had no tears. His knees softened and he knelt down and said tremblingly: "I have disturbed the princess' rest, I deserve to die!"

Jiang Shaohua frowned and his voice turned cold: "What nonsense are you talking about at this time? Tell me clearly what is going on."

The body of Yi Cheng, who was nearly fifty years old, trembled and he spoke much more smoothly: "Back to the princess, the person who stayed in the post house before was a wealthy businessman who came to Ye County to buy silk and hemp. He was from Luyang County. This wealthy businessman brought his wife and daughter. Accompanying. Tonight, the couple had a dispute, and the wealthy businessman attacked his wife. Unexpectedly, his daughter suddenly stabbed him in the chest with a knife. "

"The knife hit the back of the heart, and blood spurted out. When I arrived, the wealthy businessman had already died..."

Everyone gasped and looked at the princess subconsciously.

This is actually a murder case!

Somehow, everyone thought of Lu Junma in Nanyang Prince's Mansion, and their mood was unspeakably subtle for a moment.

Yin, Zhu and Tubai each held a lantern. The night wind blew, and the light from the lanterns was variable.

Jiang Shaohua's face was half-dark and his eyes were deep and unpredictable. After a moment of silence, he quickly opened his mouth and ordered: "Get out of the way. I want to go in and take a look in person."

Yi Cheng didn't dare to stop him and hurriedly got up and got out of the way.

The princess' heroic performance in suppressing bandits in Li County is still vivid in my mind. A mere murder scene would not scare the princess. Song Yuan thought calmly and did not stop him.

On the other hand, Chen Zhuo, who was holding a heavy hand, immediately opened his mouth and said: "The princess has a rich body, why should she let such things stain her eyes? It's better to go back and rest! It's enough to have ministers and Commander Song here."

Jiang Shaohua glanced at Chen Changshi and said calmly: "Since we have encountered it, how can I ignore it? Don't worry, Chen Changshi! This princess will not be biased against anyone and will judge impartially."

It's not a matter of bias or not. But the murder of his father was too appalling. Given the delicate and unspeakable relationship between the princess and her biological father, it was no longer appropriate to intervene in this murder case.

However, the princess insists on "seeing it with her own eyes", who can stop her?

Chen Zhuo sighed secretly, said nothing, and winked at his granddaughter.

Chen Jinyu recovered from the shock and quickly followed the princess into the courtyard.

More than a dozen soldiers were already guarding the inside and outside. The servants brought by the wealthy businessman knelt on the ground, and the door of the house was wide open.

A middle-aged man was lying on the ground, with all the daggers buried in his back chest, leaving only the dagger handle outside. There was a shocking pool of blood under his body. The face is facing outward, and the eyes are wide open.

Probably at the moment before his death, he was still shocked that his daughter was stabbed in the back.

Next to the man's body, kneeling was a middle-aged woman with a pale face, and an undersized girl. The girl's face was childish and pale, but she showed no regrets on her face. She knelt straight on the ground.

After Jiang Shaohua came in, the middle-aged woman immediately kowtowed heavily, breaking her forehead after just a few blows: "It was a civilian woman who accidentally killed her husband. A civilian woman is willing to pay for her life! This matter has nothing to do with Ying Niang, please ask the county Lord, be merciful and spare Ying Niang.”

While kowtowing, he cried and begged. The cry was sad and pitiful.

It was obviously her daughter who killed her biological father, but the mother tried to cover up the crime for her daughter and wanted to exchange her own life for her daughter's. The girl named Ying Niang bit her lip hard and suddenly said loudly: "I killed my father, it has nothing to do with my mother. If you want to kill or chop him, come at me."

The middle-aged woman's body trembled and she couldn't bear to cry any more. She said hurriedly: "Ms. Ying, don't talk nonsense. How can you, a little girl, find the strength to kill people? It's me who does it! Princess Mingjian, do it. It’s me!”

The last two sentences are full of pleading.

No matter how hard-hearted you are, you will soften when you see him.

However, Jiang Shaohua's expression remained unchanged and he said calmly: "You can tell who is the one who hurt people just by looking at the position where the dagger stabbed into the back."

When everyone took a look, the position of the dagger was indeed much lower than what a normal adult could reach.

Also, there was a lot of blood splattered on the girl's chest, but there was no blood on the middle-aged woman's body.

It is clear at a glance who is the perpetrator.

The middle-aged woman had a look of despair in her eyes, but she still refused to give up and continued to kowtow heavily. After just a few blows, my forehead was almost bruised.

Seeing her mother like this, the girl finally cried: "Mom, I killed this bastard and I don't regret it at all. He married into our Zhou family and transformed from a poor boy who couldn't afford a meal to a rich man. These things His grandparents did not treat him badly, and my mother was gentle and considerate to him."

"But how did he treat my mother? He was peaceful at first, but his grandfather and grandmother died of illness a few years ago, and he revealed his true colors and took over most of the Zhou family's property. He also raised an outhouse and an outhouse. The most hateful thing is Is she trying to get her into the Zhou family tree by admitting her daughter-in-law? Why?"

"Why should the Zhou family's family property be given to outsiders? Am I, Zhou Ying, not a bloodline of the Zhou family? If the family property accumulated by the ancestors of the Zhou family is not passed on to me, Zhou Ying, will it be given to an outsider who has nothing to do with the Zhou family? "

"My mother didn't agree, so he yelled and insulted me all day long, and often beat me. I protected my mother, and he beat me too. This kind of person is not worthy of being my biological father!"

"I have secretly hidden this dagger on my body for a long time. I secretly swore that if he dares to attack my mother again, I will kill this white-eyed wolf!"

Everyone: "..."

After hearing these words, everyone's expressions became more and more subtle.

Son-in-law, wife, family business, white-eyed wolf... the story of the Zhou family sounds a bit familiar!

The woman surnamed Zhou burst into tears: "Mother Ying, you are so confused! No matter how unbearable he is, he is still your biological father and you kill him. This is a crime that requires beheading!"

"As long as I bite my tongue and don't nod, he will never get what he wants. He just hits me to vent his anger, and it will be over after a while. How can you kill someone with a knife!"

"You have just celebrated your tenth birthday, you are still so young, and your good life has not yet begun... He is not worthy of your death at all! If you want to do something, it should be me and him who die together!"

Zhou Ying reached out and patted her mother who was about to faint from crying. She looked up at the princess and said, "Princess, my mother, Zhou Ying, killed this person. I will pay for his life! Please spare my mother and spare the Zhou family." .”

Jiang Shaohua stared at the young and decisive Zhou Yingniang.

Everyone's eyes turned back and forth between the princess and Zhou Yingniang.

If the princess did not have the Nanyang Palace and a group of loyal subordinates to protect her, would she end up in the same situation as Zhou Yingniang?