Jinyiwei: Starting by Killing a Traitorous Superior – Chapter 18

Ch 18: Wang Guifei

Everyone also nodded in agreement. Although those in the Heaven-Human Realm could achieve flight,

in a confined space like a room, not leaving footprints still required light body skill.

Tie Junzhuo looked at Jiang Chen triumphantly, seemingly wanting to see what he had to say.

After all, the assassin wasn’t a fool; how could they stay in the Imperial Palace waiting to die?

Jiang Chen didn’t speak. He looked at the quilt on the ground, then walked to the window and looked again and again.

In front of the window was a table, and on the table was a candlestick facing the window. The candle on it had been completely burned out.

Jiang Chen touched the corner of the table, then looked out the window. Outside the window was a small Imperial Garden, planted with various rare and exotic flowers.

He jumped directly from the window and landed in the garden.

After arriving in the garden, he began to search through the grass.

Soon, two stones, one large and one small, appeared in his hand.

“Found them!”

Jiang Chen smiled with satisfaction, then carefully looked around the two stones.

There was a faint black line around them, extremely subtle. If one didn’t look carefully, it would be impossible to notice.

Tie Junzhuo and the others also came to his side and asked with confusion, “What are you doing with these stones?”

Jiang Chen didn’t explain anything to him, but turned to look at the eunuch: “Eunuch, where is the last maid who entered the Princess’s room? Can you call her over?”

The eunuch shook his head: “All the maids in Changle Palace have been taken into custody, but the maid who entered the Princess’s room is the only one who hasn’t been seen since last night.”

“As expected.”

Jiang Chen nodded, as if he had already anticipated this.

“Then where is the Princess’s personal guard? Could you please ask the eunuch to call her for questioning?”

“Yes!”

After a while, a series of heavy footsteps broke the silence in Changle Palace.

Immediately afterward, a woman covered in wounds and wearing heavy shackles was dragged roughly into the center of the room by two burly eunuchs.

Her clothes were disheveled, and her hair was scattered over her shoulders. Her face was full of scars, and her eyes were filled with despair.

She collapsed to the ground, her body unusually weak from prolonged torture, as if she had lost all strength to stand.

Her once bright eyes were now hollow, with only deep fear lingering within them.

Obviously, she had experienced unimaginable cruel torture, and her body and mind had suffered great devastation.

“This person is the Princess’s personal guard. We have been interrogating her all night, but unfortunately, we haven’t been able to get anything out of her.”

One of the eunuchs pointed at the woman on the ground and said to Jiang Chen and the Four Garrison Commanders.

There was a hint of exhaustion in his voice, obviously feeling very dissatisfied with the result of the interrogation.

Jiang Chen slowly squatted down, bringing his gaze level with the trembling woman.

He noticed that the fingernails on all ten of her fingers were gone, and her b*oody fingers trembled slightly, as if silently telling of the torture she had endured.

The woman’s body was unusually weak due to the prolonged torture, but she was still trying to maintain her consciousness, not letting it fall into a coma.

Her eyes were filled with deep fear, a kind of pain after being completely defeated.

Jiang Chen was secretly amazed. This woman must have been an expert before; otherwise, an ordinary person would probably have been unable to withstand such cruel punishment.

But she, with her tenacious will and extraordinary physical fitness, had stubbornly endured until now.

“I don’t know, I don’t know anything…”

The woman repeated this sentence over and over again in a trembling voice.

Her voice was full of helplessness, obviously having been severely tortured by these eunuchs.

Jiang Chen asked, “Were you with the Princess all day yesterday?”

“I don’t know, I don’t know…”

She seemed to have lost her mind, only knowing how to repeat these two sentences.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Chen said calmly, “I know you are innocent. I have a way to save you and can also help you find the Princess, but you must answer my questions truthfully. You only have one chance. If you don’t answer, then let them continue to interrogate you. There’s nothing I can do.”

These few words brought a glimmer of light to the woman’s eyes.

“I, when I came over, the Princess was already gone. I don’t know where the Princess went.”

“Then, before the Princess disappeared, what places did she go to? Can you tell me in detail?”

“Wang Guifei’s palace, Li Guifei’s palace, Murong Guifei’s palace, the Imperial Garden, the Scripture Pavilion…”

The woman said more than a dozen places in a row, causing people to frown.

But a hint of surprise flashed in Jiang Chen’s eyes.

“Does she go to so many places to play every day? Or was it just yesterday?”

“Just yesterday. Before, the Princess would go to two or three places at most,”

the woman replied.

“Then what was the first place she was going to go?”

“Wang Guifei’s place.”

“Then where did she go after leaving Wang Guifei’s palace?”

“She went to Yang Guifei’s place.”

“How long did she stay at Yang Guifei’s place?”

“The time it takes to drink a cup of tea.”

“Then how long did she stay at Wang Guifei’s place?”

“Two hours.”

“During these two hours, did your gaze ever leave the Princess?”

The woman’s face suddenly became frightened: “No, no, I was always watching her.”

Jiang Chen grabbed her chin and said sternly, “Tell me the truth, or no one can save you.”

The woman suddenly burst into tears: “I didn’t see the Princess for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, but, but I followed the Princess every step of the way after that.”

“The Princess is at Wang Guifei’s place!”

Jiang Chen said sharply, “Go search quickly! They may have a way to destroy the evidence.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the eunuch was stunned for a moment, and a look of embarrassment appeared on his face.

But then, a secret message entered his ears.

He immediately called out to the two eunuchs who had brought the woman over: “Move! Arrest Wang Guifei.”

Hearing this, Meng Wangjin’s face turned even paler.

If Jiang Chen’s judgment was wrong, he would probably be implicated as well.

After all, that was an Imperial Consort. Once the search yielded nothing, the anger would be more than an ordinary person could bear.

What’s more, Wang Guifei’s family was the founding Duke Wang family.

How could they let it go if their daughter was humiliated?

But now the arrow was on the string, and it had to be fired.

Yu Chaoen’s figure was like a ghost, his speed astonishing.

He was as light as a swallow, his toes lightly touching the ground, as if he had stepped onto invisible stairs. In an instant, he leaped to the top of the palace where Wang Guifei lived, his clothes fluttering, like an immortal descending to earth.