A perfectly fine a.s.sa.s.sin suddenly disappeared, without a trace of either a corpse or bones, after entering the Supreme Court prisons?

　　Qizhen Emperor was a little puzzled over what these words meant. If he's dead he's dead! What do you mean 'without a trace of either a corpse or bones'?

　　He took another look at the doc.u.ment in front of him. It was crammed full of words describing the incident in full detail; it noted that the culprit was brought into the Supreme Court while unconscious, and even recorded the date the a.s.sa.s.sin was imprisoned as well as who else was in the prison.

　　After all, this doc.u.ment was painstakingly written by Yu Shaoqing!

　　"In reply to Your Majesty, I have questioned the jailer who was guarding that a.s.sa.s.sin. According to him, it looked like the a.s.sa.s.sin was incinerated completely by a large fire that left behind neither skin nor bones. However, I understand that the a.s.sa.s.sin was definitely not poisoned; instead, his body was splashed with a sinister substance from the Jianghu, called corpse vanis.h.i.+ng powder. Once this substance touches a body, the whole body would disintegrate into nothing as if it had been burned. However, that a.s.sa.s.sin did not have anything like that with him before he was locked into the prison. Therefore, this should not be suicide but a deliberate execution."

　　Oh!

　　Qizhen Emperor narrowed his eyes. "Yu Shaoqing, do you mean that someone silenced him to cover up the evidence of the a.s.sa.s.sination?"

　　"That's exactly my conjecture. However, since this concerns the safety of Prince Rong, the implications would be far-reaching. The fact that the a.s.sa.s.sin died less than a day after being locked into prison is an important clue; if the aim really was to silence him, then I'm afraid that there are very few people who are able to infiltrate the Supreme Court to kill someone. In other words, the number of people able to sneak into the Supreme Court without alerting anyone is minuscule, I dare not investigate my suspicions further in fear of going overboard and inciting unnecessary trouble. Thus, I quickly compiled this doc.u.ment and entered the palace to report it and ask Your Majesty for advice."

　　Yu Shaoqing was very smart. He didn't speak plainly or directly tell Qizhen Emperor his own suspicions and conjectures about the culprit, but instead tossed him a smoking bomb and let the Emperor slowly draw his own conclusions.

　　After listening to his speech, Qizhen Emperor started to understand what was going on.

　　Someone tried to a.s.sa.s.sinate Jing Rong! Then someone murdered the a.s.sa.s.sin after he entered the Supreme Court prisons with the Bone Vanis.h.i.+ng Powder, ensuring that not even a corpse or bones could be left behind.

　　Coincidentally, every pet.i.tion the Ministry of Personnel has submitted lately were all indicting Jing Rong, and none of them was filtered out by the Office of Transmission.