He worked hard to overcome the opinions of the uncles and elders of the royal family, and he did not hesitate to chill the thirteenth son's heart, but he was unwilling to punish the eighth son severely!

It's not that he loves his eighth son very much, but his favorite son is naturally the eldest prince whom he made the crown prince, Zhou Mingqian.

It is said that the common people dote on young children, and the emperor dotes on his eldest son.

That's it.

But the reason why he wanted to protect his eighth son was because he didn’t want to kill each other.

Tiger poison doesn't even eat its seeds, let alone humans.

Moreover, I don't know if it is because of his old age, but he no longer has the ambitions he had when he was young for imperial power and hegemony. Instead, he prefers to enjoy family happiness more and more.

Even if it were not Lao Ba, but any other prince, he would not be willing to impose the death penalty as a warning to others.

Although, this is indeed a bit sorry for the thirteenth son, but there is no way, someone has to be wronged in everything.

But I never expected that the more I didn’t want something to happen, it happened!

The eighth son he tried so hard to protect died after entering the clan's mansion!

For a moment, the old emperor's mood was extremely frightened and angry. He looked at the steward of the clan in front of the desk with a fierce look, and asked sternly: "Tell me! What's going on!"

The steward of the Zongren Mansion was already kneeling on the ground and replied tremblingly: "Eight, the eighth prince... he was poisoned to death!"

Then, he told the details of what happened.

After Zhou Mingcheng died, he immediately sealed off the clan mansion and no one was allowed in or out.

Afterwards, the imperial doctor arrived and conducted an autopsy on Zhou Mingcheng, and found that Zhou Mingcheng died of poisoning.

After checking everything in the room, I finally found out that the water I drank had been poisoned!

After tracing the source, we finally found the source of the poison in the water tank in the courtyard of the Jingsi House.

A money bag wrapped with a silver coin.

Silver is not poisonous, but the purse containing it contains the highly toxic "ganqing poison".

"Ganqing poison! Ganqing poison again!!"

The old emperor asked angrily: "Where is the murderer?!"

After hearing this, the steward of the Zongren Mansion could not help but be silent for a moment, and then replied in a trembling voice: "No, the murderer has not been found..."

They found the money bag, but not the owner of the money bag.

After the eighth prince was poisoned by Ganqing poison, his heart-rending screams resounded throughout the clan house, and everyone heard it.

Therefore, when they found the money bag in the water tank and asked who it belonged to, no one admitted it stupidly.

In the end, he could only classify everyone present as suspects and imprison them all.

"Trash! You bunch of trash!"

When he heard that the murderer had not been found, the old emperor was completely furious. He picked up a memorial for later generations on the table, slammed it on the steward of the clan house with a "snap", and cursed loudly.

He cursed so hard that the eunuchs and supervisors around him did not dare to move or raise their heads.

The steward of that sect's mansion was even more like this. He could only kneel on the ground, trembling, and allowed himself to be scolded and beaten.

That night, it was said that the old emperor's angry curses could be heard throughout the palace.

Of course, this is actually an exaggeration.

But it is true that with the imperial study as the center and the nearby palaces with a radius of a thousand meters, the angry curses can be heard.

In the middle of the night, Song Renfeng was summoned into the palace overnight and was once again fully responsible for investigating the death of the eighth prince Zhou Mingcheng.

And the first detective of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the first person to be investigated, was none other than Su Ling!

…

"I have disturbed His Highness Thirteenth Highness's dream late at night. I hope His Highness Thirteenth Highness will forgive me. It's just because the situation is urgent and I have no choice but to do so."

When Song Renfeng and a group of guards knocked on the door of the Prince's Pavilion, the sky was not bright yet and was still hazy.

What surprised Song Renfeng was that Su Leng didn't sleep!

"Why is Your Highness so sleepless late at night?"

After Xiaodie opened the door and led Song Renfeng and the others into Su Ling's room in the courtyard, Song Renfeng looked at Su Ling sitting on the bed and asked in surprise.

Su Leng smiled bitterly and asked, "If it were you in my place, would you be able to sleep?"

Song Renfeng was speechless.

The main reason why he came to Su Leng first was that, according to the logic of the investigation, the thirteenth prince was the most suspect in the death of the eighth prince!

The eighth prince was poisoned just a few days ago. Now the eighth prince was caught in the palace and imprisoned in the clan mansion. He was poisoned to death in less than a day. Anyone would be the first to suspect the thirteenth prince who has the biggest gap with him these days.

It's the murderer.

If Song Renfeng were the thirteenth prince, he really wouldn't be able to sleep at this time.

However, you cannot judge that the other party is not the murderer based on this, you still have to investigate first.

"Your Highness Thirteenth, it seems that you already know about the Eighth Prince, so please answer me a few questions!"

After Song Renfeng was speechless for a moment, he looked directly into Su Ling's eyes and spoke.

Su Ling also met his gaze, nodded and said, "Ask."

Afterwards, Song Renfeng asked Su Leng a series of questions at a very fast speed, such as when and where he was, what he did, whether he knew anyone, what he ate today, what he has been doing recently, etc.

Some are related to the case, some are unrelated to the case, and some are inexplicable. His thinking is extremely off-topic and he speaks very fast.

Su Ling answered honestly one by one.

His whereabouts during these days were testified by Xiaodie and a group of guards from the Prince's Pavilion, as well as maids and eunuchs from the Taiyuan Hospital and some other palaces. The alibi was perfect.

As for the other party's extremely fast speaking speed and out-of-the-box thinking, for Su Ling, it was still too conservative, and could not reach the point where Su Ling could not change his mind and blurt out something subconsciously.

After a round of questioning and finding that there was nothing unusual, Song Renfeng suddenly took out the burlap purse containing silver ingots and asked, "Has His Highness the Thirteenth Prince ever seen such a purse?"

After Su Ling glanced at it, he shook his head and said, "No."

Song Renfeng did not look at him at this time, but glanced at Xiaodie in the corner.

But he only saw a confused look on Xiaodie's face.

This made Song Renfeng frown slightly.

"Okay, I've finished asking. Thank you, His Highness Thirteenth, for your cooperation. I'm sorry for bothering you until now."

After seeing that no questions were asked and there was no clue on the expression on the thirteenth prince's face, Song Renfeng stopped staying any longer, apologized, and left the prince's pavilion with a group of guards.

After that, he left the palace without stopping and headed towards the palaces of various princes in the capital.

Although the eighth prince was not the prince, but now that he was poisoned, it cannot be said that other princes could not be the murderers.

After all, the royal family's overt and covert struggles and intrigues have been known to everyone since ancient times.

Sometimes when two parties fight, the person who dies may not be one of the two parties, but someone else.

And investigating a case means following every possibility.

Therefore, Song Renfeng began to investigate and interrogate various princes.

Then, he was confused...

What the hell are these princes?!

How come some people speak more clearly than him?!

There are also some whose poor acting skills are so embarrassing that they can't help but pick the soles of their feet!

He even discovered that one of the princes behaved like a woman!

This gave him a chill.

He has long heard that the people in the royal family are very chaotic, and some are as good as Long Yang. Today is an eye-opener for him!

After a thorough investigation, Song Renfeng felt that all of those "weird" princes were suspected!

This gave him a headache.

And through the feedback of [Self-omniscient], Su Leng, who had been paying attention to Song Renfeng's investigation, saw him interacting with the princes who had been surrendered by the "players" and being tortured to the point of not being human, and he almost didn't laugh out loud.

Especially the prince who was devoted to a female player. The "interaction" between the two made him laugh every time he watched it.

"Fourth Prince, may I ask what you have been doing these days? Do you have any evidence..."

"I'm thinking of you~"

"...Fourth Prince, please answer your question directly."

"It turns out that Mr. Song likes the front. What a coincidence, I like it too, but the back is also fine, hehe."

"...Fourth Prince, please don't tell me that these are irrelevant..."

"Then let's just do it without saying anything!"

"...Every word and deed of my official and the fourth prince today will be reported to the emperor. I also ask the fourth prince to pay attention to his words and deeds!"
To be continued...