Empress is His Majesty's White Moonlight

Chapter 182 Foxes don't eat human flesh at all
"It's all just fingers?"

"Correct."

"Have they met before?"

"Absolutely not, I can be sure of this."

"That's very interesting." Fu Ling put the materials on the table, looked at Jun Beicheng, and asked, "If you eat something and you are still alive, will you keep your fingers and eat your toes completely?" ?”

The corner of Jun Beicheng's mouth twitched slightly, and said, "No."

Shen Mingjie suddenly became enlightened, as if he had found a sailing boat in the vast sea: "Your Majesty's words are reasonable, there is indeed a problem with this point."

"Logic doesn't work at all," Fu Ling pointed out with a smile, "If it is really eaten by a vixen, it can eat seventeen children in a row. Why does it keep its fingers? Could it be an ideal vixen? Don't eat other people's fingers? Or someone in Ying'an stabbed the fox's nest and forced them to come to our place to eat?"

Shen Mingjie couldn't help laughing: "Yes, the murderer is obviously using his biting fingers to guide others."

"That's right," Fu Ling nodded, with a firm tone, "I can make it clear to Mr. Shen that foxes don't eat human flesh at all."

"??" Shen Mingjie didn't know why she would say such a sentence.

After reacting, Shen Mingjie nodded, presumably the empress didn't believe that there was such a vixen in Ying'an anymore.

Jun Beicheng was convinced of this, he glanced at Fu Ling, and there was a spring-like smile on his lips.

Shen Mingjie murmured in a low voice: "Then who is behind the scenes to fuel the flames, and left fingers that have been gnawed all over the ground to lead the finger to the vixen?"

Fu Ling tapped the table rhythmically with her fingers, as if she was thinking about something, before asking slowly, "Did you find someone to follow or inquire about old man Sun before?"

"Yes," Shen Mingjie nodded, "Since my mother reminded Weichen, Weichen sent two police officers to secretly observe the storyteller. Unexpectedly, the people behind the scenes picked up the clues first."

"It's okay, what can the adults investigate?"

Shen Mingjie thought for a while, thought about the replies from the policemen, and said: "Old man Sun, originally named Sun Piao, was a beggar in Shu. When there was a flood in Shu, he wandered into Ying'an with a large number of refugees. At first, he was begging. For a living, he later lived in an unpopular alley in the south of the city and started his career as a storyteller."

"Does he have any friends? Or family?"

"No, old man Sun is a drunkard. He bought wine after earning some money. As a result, he never married a wife in his life. The place where he lives is almost uninhabited, and it is impossible to make any friends."

"That shouldn't be the case," Fu Ling's finger tapping on the table suddenly stopped, a little confused, "Old man Sun is a highly respected person in the world of storytelling, and to be able to gain a foothold in the world of storytelling means that he must have poetry in his stomach and a eloquent tongue. He is a person who has seen the world, and this alone does not match the person you are investigating, my lord."

Shen Mingjie immediately sat down at the table, wrote down all these points on the rice paper, and continued: "Wei Chen has also been to old man Sun's house, it is dilapidated and old, it is not a room of a literati."

"Does he have books at home, or tools for storytelling such as Xingmu and fans?"

"This." The tip of Shen Mingjie's pen stopped, and he looked at the queen in shame, and said without confidence, "I didn't pay attention."

Jun Beicheng stared at Shen Mingjie, his calm eyes were like the cold pool of an ancient well, and his voice was indifferent and cold: "How did you get to be the Minister of the Ministry of Justice?"

Hearing this, Shen Mingjie was a little flustered, the corners of his lips trembling: "My humble minister is dull."

"Okay, let's stop here today," Fu Ling looked at the sky outside, it was already evening, she held the materials in her hand, and smiled at Shen Mingjie, "Master Shen still needs to send someone to visit old man Sun again." You don’t need to look for anything in your home, you just need to sprinkle a layer of white phosphorus on the ground.”

(White phosphorus, a component of gunpowder, is so strong that it will ignite when exposed to strong sunlight.)
"White phosphorus?" Shen Mingjie was puzzled.

"Yes, White Phosphorus." Fu Ling looked serious and spoke clearly, "Go and reprimand your subordinates. The more people you have, the better. Just say that Old Man Sun's belongings have not been sorted out, so there is no way to handle the case."

"Okay!" Although Shen Mingjie didn't know the reason why the queen did this, he believed her completely in his heart.

"I'll take these materials away first." Fu Ling stood up, looked at Jun Beicheng, and smiled sweetly, "Shall we go back?"

Jun Beicheng looked at Shen Mingjie with deep black eyes, and there was an almost imperceptible smile in his eyes: "Master Shen, eat more fish brains to nourish your brain."

Looking at each other, Shen Mingjie hurriedly looked away.

This time, he was really afraid of Jun Beicheng.

Shen Mingjie smiled with difficulty, nodded, and bowed to send the two of them off respectfully: "Thank you, the emperor, for reminding me, I have no teeth to forget."

(End of this chapter)