Chapter 403: It was Her Royal Highness the Princess who strangled him to death!
Before Magistrate Xue could get angry and arrest anyone, the subordinate official who was sent to check the corpse stepped forward and reminded him.
"Sir, what should we do with this corpse?"
Prefect Xue frowned impatiently and asked coldly, "What are the results of the coroner's examination?"
The official said, "Your Excellency, the coroner's examination showed that the deceased had been violated before his death. There were many bruises on his body. In addition, the material of his clothes was good. I think he was a young man from a certain family who encountered thieves when he went out. He could not bear the humiliation and finally jumped into the lake to commit suicide."
After hearing this, Prefect Xue nodded: "Yes."
Immediately, he waved his hand and casually ordered: "In that case, verify his identity, contact his family and have him brought back."
"Yes, my lord!"
Ji Huashang, who was standing by, couldn't help but frown and said unhappily after hearing this.
"Is the prefect going to close the case so hastily?"
Prefect Xue was stunned. Seeing the slightly gloomy expression on Prince Rui's face, his heart skipped a beat and he smiled awkwardly.
"Your Highness Prince Rui, you may not know that when a man like this destroys the innocence of a family and brings shame to the family, most noble families are reluctant to let outsiders know about it. They will privately find the murderer and deal with him themselves. After all, it concerns the family's reputation and it will have a bad impact if it gets out."
Hearing this, Ji Huashang frowned.
Although it is normal for such things to happen in a noble family, it is still a human life after all.
There is always a difference between a family's private handling and a public trial to seek justice, which is indeed somewhat unfair to the deceased.
Ji Xuan's face darkened slightly, and her eyes flashed with sinister intent: "Third sister, please stop interfering in other people's business. Why would you bother a prince like you with such trivial matters?"
He raised his eyes and gave Magistrate Xue a look: "Don't you agree, Master Xue?"
Prefect Xue understood and smiled flatteringly: "Your Highness is right. It is just a trivial matter. I dare not trouble Your Highness Prince Rui."
As he was about to call for help, a loud shout suddenly came from the crowd.
"Your Highness doesn't want others to interfere. Are you feeling guilty?"
"Who?"
The faces of the princess, Magistrate Xue and others darkened: "Where did this unruly person come from! What nonsense are you talking about?"
They suddenly turned their heads to look at the crowd, but there were too many people watching and they didn't know who said those words.
Moreover, the man lowered his voice, as if using his internal energy to spread it, making it impossible to tell where it came from.
At this time, the man in blue next to Di Ran suddenly said, "That man didn't commit suicide." Di Ran and Ji Yunxie beside him were slightly stunned. Not suicide?
Ji Huashang also heard this and her eyes narrowed slightly.
Just as a few people were thinking about what Qingyi meant, someone in the crowd shouted.
"That man didn't commit suicide. Her Highness the Princess strangled him to death!"
"Her Highness used her power to seize a good man, and the young master didn't want to, so she strangled him to death!"
"If you don't believe me, take a look at the pinch marks on the corpse's neck!"
The onlookers subconsciously stepped forward to take a closer look, and someone quickly pulled aside the corpse's hair to reveal his neck.
Sure enough, there was a conspicuous and horrifying red mark on the neck of the corpse. Because the corpse had turned a little white due to being soaked in water, the red mark on the neck was even more clearly visible.
Everyone was stunned, and then there was an uproar.
"My God!"
“There are real pinch marks!”
"So the deceased didn't commit suicide by jumping into the lake, but was strangled to death?"
Moreover, the deceased was taken away by Her Royal Highness the Princess before he died. So...
Everyone looked at the princess with strange eyes.
Ji Xuan's face was gloomy, her violent eyes flashed, and she glared at the people with an angry expression on her face.
"Who do you think you are? How dare you question this princess?"
"Even if I killed that man, so what? Do you want me to pay for his life?"
She didn't know why the male slave's body appeared in front of people.
To be honest, she was a little frightened when she first saw the man's body appear here.
He was clearly dragged away and lost in a desolate mountain, so how did he appear here again?
She didn't want to kill him either. It was just that the bitch was too ungrateful and resisted too fiercely, so she just accidentally killed him.
She was just a lowly male slave. If he died, he died. What could anyone do to her?
(End of this chapter)
