Chapter 2134: Process

Gu Xin came to the palace and went directly to the emperor.

"Xinxin is here, come and sit down!" The emperor was reading the memorial, and there was another person in the room, whom Gu Xinmei had met.

"This is Bai Feng, the guard beside Baozhu. You know Baozhu, the only daughter of the King of Donglin. In terms of seniority, you should call her sister." The emperor pointed at the man and said.

"I, Bai Feng, greet Princess Xinxin!" Bai Feng saluted Gu Xin.

Gu Xin nodded, telling him not to be polite.

The emperor told the story without Gu Xin asking.

He received a memorial from the prefect of Taizhou this morning, and he knew about this. Now Bai Feng came in person again, because Bai Baozhu, the princess of the King of Donglin's mansion, was worried.

The King of Donglin had a disease before the New Year, and everyone thought he would not survive. As a result, he survived and recovered in the first month of the year. He spent the New Year happily and played for a few months. On the second day of May, the King of Donglin was found dead in a secret room.

So far, the coroner of Taizhou Prefecture has not checked the exact time of death of King Donglin, because no one in the palace would allow it.

King Donglin's surname is Bai. The Bai family has four sons and one daughter. The daughter Bai Baozhu is the youngest one, and she is already thirty years old. She married into a noble family. Bai Baozhu's husband is the headmaster of Jiangnan Academy. He won the third place in the imperial examination ten years ago, but he did not work in the court. Instead, he returned to Jiangnan Academy to be a teacher.

The couple has a good relationship and has a son and a daughter.

Because of King Donglin's illness a few years ago, Bai Baozhu was very worried, so she set out from Jiangnan at the end of April and brought her husband and children to Taizhou, intending to accompany her parents to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival before returning.

They arrived on the first day of May. Bai Baozhu did not see King Donglin when they arrived. Princess Donglin and her brothers said that King Donglin liked to go out to play recently, sometimes for a few days. As a result, King Donglin was found dead in a secret room the next day.

Princess Donglin and the four brothers of the Bai family were determined not to let the government investigate, saying that it was a natural death, but Bai Baozhu didn't want to.

However, she was already a married girl, and the Princess Donglin was still the one who made the decision in the palace, so the situation was deadlocked.

Bai Baozhu went to the Taizhou prefect in person, but the Taizhou prefect couldn't even enter the palace. The funeral of the King of Donglin couldn't be held at Bai Baozhu's insistence. The body was in the coffin. As long as someone came to pay their respects, Bai Baozhu would say that her father died a violent death. Princess Donglin and her sons couldn't afford to lose this person, so they asked the Taizhou prefect to investigate, but they didn't let the coroner move the body of the King of Donglin.

The Taizhou prefect had no choice but to report to the court.

Bai Baozhu was worried that the Taizhou prefect was bribed by her mother and brothers. When the emperor issued an imperial edict, she might never find out the truth of the matter. Therefore, she sent Bai Feng to follow the people of the Taizhou government to Beijing to meet the emperor directly.

Because Bai Baozhu is the only daughter of King Donglin, she has been raised in the palm of her hand since she was a child. Her parents and brothers love her very much and give her the best. Even when she gets married, they choose the best man in the world for her.

She can't understand why her mother and brothers don't allow her to investigate when there is something fishy about her father's death?

The more they don't allow her to investigate, the more she thinks there is something wrong.

"That's probably what happened." The emperor frowned and told the story again.

"Your Majesty, where is my family..." Gu Xin decided to go to Taizhou, but she was afraid that her family would not allow it.