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He is not Mr. Xue.

If it weren’t for Chu Chu to find something odd,

I would still be kept in the dark by Xue Rucheng.

From Chang’an to Qianzhou,

Qianzhou I even chased to the military base.

I’ve suspected countless people

to be the leader of those rebels.

But I didn’t suspect him.

How can there be such a stupid judge in Tang?

Minister Han.

There are deep strangulation marks on the deceased’s neck

from his neck to his ears.

It’s for sure that he hanged himself.

All right, you are done here.

Go to the Ministry of Justice and give your statement.

-Yes. -Yes.

One child

The Imperial Coroner

Episode 33

Guards.

Take down the survivor of the rebellious party.

I was wondering

where Commandery Prince An

got another female coroner.

It’s still you.

Commandery Prince An

has always been fair and upright.

But now he deceived the Emperor.

I’ll take you to the Emperor today.

I’d like to see how Commandery Prince An explains it.

Take her down.

Minister Han.

When did I deceive the Emperor?

Commandery Prince An, you came just in time.

Do you dare to say

that this woman is not the survivor

of the rebellious party, Chu Chu?

She is Chu Chu.

But she is also a coroner working for me.

Since she is a coroner of the Three Judicial Offices,

is there any problem

that she works for me?

Commandery Prince An, don’t forget

it’s not up to you to decide if she can be a coroner or not.

It requires the certificate jointly issued by

the Ministry of Personnel and the Three Judicial Offices.

Minister Han, are you

talking about this?

Certificate of Coroner

Appointment with immediate effect Minister of Rites Judicial Offices

Minister Han.

It’s true.

Well...

Han Ji.

When I’m still in charge of the Three Judicial Offices,

I’ll still be your superior.

If you dare to offend me again,

don’t blame me for

not showing you mercy.

You...!

Watch out your steps.

Your Highness.

When did you get the certificate issued by the Ministry of Personnel

and the Three Judicial Offices?

That was before the exam.

I asked the Emperor for a blank

identity certificate signed by the Ministry of Personnel

and the Three Judicial Offices.

It will take effect immediately after I fill in

the applicant’s information.

Why didn’t you tell me before?

I filled it in last night.

Last night?

I didn’t decide to hire you last night.

I know it.

Chu Chu.

I haven’t filled it in

because I want to give you a chance to regret.

You need to know this is

a certificate of the government.

Once filled in, it cannot be changed.

I told you

I never regretted.

You still don’t believe me?

I believe you.

I believe this is how you really think at this moment.

But I don’t know if you will still

think in this way in the future.

After all, no one ever said

it’s a pleasure to work for me.

I don’t want to trap you with a certificate.

I want you to be free.

I want you to want to

stay with me every minute.

You do have a point.

But no one said that I have to

be your coroner forever.

The married couple can still divorce.

If I don’t want to work for you one day,

I can resign and go home.

Fine.

But if there is such a day,

I’m not sure

if I can bear to let you go.

You are just a coroner.

But I’m a first-rank Commandery Prince.

If I play dirty and won’t let you go,

there is nothing you can do.

You...

How can you

make fun of me at this point?

Imperial Medical Service Princess Xiping has arrived!

Greetings to Your Majesty.

Xiping, do you plead guilty?

Your Majesty, you summoned me.

I don’t know what you mean.

Your Grace, Doctor Zhang Shu was found dead

last night in the Imperial Medical Service.

After on-site investigation and evidence collection,

it has been verified that he committed suicide.

But he was forced.

He gave up his life

in a desperate situation

to protect the family.

Your Grace, don’t you plead guilty?

That’s nonsense.

Doctor Zhang and I have no grudges.

Why would I harm him?

Why?

Can you recognize what His Majesty is holding?

Take a look by yourself.

Bear one child

It’s my medical record.

Since the time of the Emperor Wenzong,

Doctor Zhang has been my doctor.

Is there any problem

that he has my medical record?

Your Grace, can I have it?

Everyone, please take a look.

This medical record is about

Princess Xiping’s pregnancy.

I’ve asked the doctors in the Imperial Medical Service to read it.

The signs are

that Princess Xiping only bore one child at that time.

One child?

Something is going to happen.

Minister Han.

During pregnancy, even the pulse can be inaccurate sometimes.

Everyone in Chang’an knows

that I gave birth to twins.

Now my children have grown up.

You don’t believe the facts.

But you want to believe the old medical record.

The fact is

you only gave birth to one child.

The other child was adopted from somewhere else.

You are talking nonsense.

As the princess of Tang,

if I want to adopt a child,

I can just get one and raise the child up.

Why would I cover it up?

That’s because the child

you adopted is not from an ordinary family,

but the son of Chen Ying, the Military Commissioner of Jiannan

who led the rebellion during the time of the Emperor Wenzong.

That’s nonsense! Nonsense!

If you insist that I’m talking nonsense,

then please hear out the evidence I collected.

You are a distinguished princess.

You grew up in the Palace.

After you got married with Xiao Heng,

you left the Palace and built your own mansion.

The person who could let you make all the efforts to adopt her son

must have a deep friendship with you.

In Chang’an at that time,

only the wife of Chen Ying

is your good friend

who was also pregnant.

According to the dossier,

Madam Chen had been pregnant for nearly eight months.

She got too emotional after hearing the news about Chen Ying

and died of losing too much blood before giving birth.

Logically,

the bones of the child

should be still curled up in Chen’s pelvis.

But I sent someone to check the coffin last night.

The child’s bones are still there.

But it’s straight

and lying between Chen’s legs.

Thus it can be seen

that someone put the bones of a dead child later

to mislead the people.

Am I right?

If you still don’t believe what I said,

I can bring up the witnesses.

Bring up the witnesses.

Your Grace, do you still remember these two people?

Raise your head.

The elder

of these two people

was a wet nurse in your mansion back then.

The other was your former maid.

In order to conceal

that she adopted a child,

Princess Xiping sent the maids

and servants who knew the fact

out of mansion

and settled them down in Yangzhou.

But you also leave yourself a way out.

You detained their family in your mansion

as hostages.

These two people’s sister and son

were detained in your mansion.

After so many years, they missed their family too much.

They saw your two sons

have grown up,

so they want to take their family back.

They didn’t expect

that they would be rejected

and nearly assassinated.

I didn’t do it.

They voluntarily left the kids

in my mansion.

Those two kids were young

but clever.

They left them in my mansion

for a better future.

Right now,

those two children are still in my mansion.

Your Majesty, you can summon them and ask them about it.

They are your servants.

There is no doubt that they are on your side.

Their statements can’t be trusted.

After Princess Xiping saw these two people in Chang’an,

she worried what she did will be exposed.

So he threatened Doctor Zhang

in the Imperial Medical Service who knows the fact.

Your Grace, you harbor the survivor of the rebellious party first,

then you deceived the Emperor.

To conceal the truth,

you cruelly forced Doctor Zhang to commit suicide.

I have the evidence and the witnesses.

Your Grace, don’t you plead guilty?

Xiping, what else do you want to say?

Your Majesty, I didn’t kill Zhang Shu.

Besides, Jinyu and Jinli are both my flesh and blood.

I have nothing else to say.

Commandery Prince An has arrived.

I have something to say.

Xiao Jinyu pays respects to Your Majesty.

You may rise.

You said you have something to say.

What do you want to say?

Your Majesty

I heard Minister Han’s inference

when I was outside.

I think Minister Han’s inference

is full of loopholes.

Commandery Prince An.

You are suspected of being a son of a rebel.

You don’t have the right to talk nonsense here.

Xiao Jinyu, then explain

his loopholes to me.

The medical record presented by Minister Han

must be deliberately forged by someone else.

Well, well, Commandery Prince An.

That’s really a desperate move.

You are really

lying through your teeth.

You haven’t seen the record.

How can you be so sure?

Minister Han, have you ever thought about

that if Doctor Zhang was really in a desperate situation,

and he wanted to keep his family safe,

why would he put the medical record on the table

to let you discover it?

After he died,

someone would search the room.

If anyone sees the medical record and suspects Princess Xiping,

then Princess Xiping kills his family

after she learns it,

doesn’t it mean that he died for nothing?

Maybe Doctor Zhang

wanted to use his death to reveal the truth.

What a joke.

Zhang Shu is not a common person.

As the head of the Imperial Medical Service,

he has more chances to meet His Majesty than us.

Even if he really wants to report anything,

does he need to give up his life?

Your Majesty, I want to

check the pulse record Minister Han talked about.

Han Ji, show it to him.

Your Majesty, the paper

of the pulse record is old.

But the ink is new.

Those who ever read account books

or registers would know

that even the same person

uses the same pen and ink to write,

the handwriting would vary a little bit every day.

But this volume

which recorded Princess’ pulse for nearly one year

is consistent in terms of its handwriting.

What’s even stranger is

that the inked used in this record

is the fragrance-free ink

developed three years ago in Shezhou.

The fragrance-free ink

greatly reduces the burnt odor of the ink itself

with its extremely delicate ink-making process.

Unlike the previous method of making ink,

spices should be added to the ink to cover the burnt odor.

That’s why it’s called fragrance-free ink.

This ink is only used in the Palace.

Even if he got this ink from somewhere else,

how would he use it to transcribe a volume of pulse records?

I never granted the fragrance-free ink

to anyone in the Imperial Medical Service.

Han Ji, what’s it about?

What happened to Doctor Zhang?

Your Highness, he was hanged.

Really?

There is a black-purple strangulation mark on the front of his neck

and below his Adam’s apple.

That’s why his mouth is slightly open and his tongue sticks out.

This strangulation mark spreads from

the front of his neck to his ear.

And there is bruising on his legs.

He was hanged.

But

I don’t think he hanged himself.

Why?

Because

some bruises on his body

should be caused by fighting with someone else before he died.

But it doesn’t look like

a face-to-face fighting.

What do you mean?

He has bruises on wrists

that were clearly being grabbed hard.

But other bruises on his body

are mostly on the sides and back of his limbs.

Bruises on arms, legs and back I don’t know how they fought.

Where are these bruises?

He has striped bruises

on the outside of his left leg.

Striped bruises on left legs Collision It was caused by hitting something hard.

Striped bruises on left legs Collision

Your Highness, let’s try it?

Okay.

Striped bruise on arms

Scratches on legs

If he struggled in this way,

would he have bruises

on the back or side of his limbs?

Yes, it must be like this.

But why did this person

fight with Doctor Zhang like this?

Doctor Zhang is over 60.

He doesn’t practice martial arts.

It’s not difficult to take him down with a heavy blow.

Why would that person go through all these troubles?

I know it.

He wanted to smother Doctor Zhang on the bed

and make him faint.

Then he hanged him on the beam.

In this way,

it would look like he hanged himself.

I found some white floc

in the deceased’s nose.

I was wondering what it is.

Now I know it’s the cotton in the quilt.

When the killer smothered him,

he must suck it in when he was struggling.

But

those who discovered the deceased

saw him kick away the stool

in front of them.

I heard

that when they saw the deceased,

he was still dangling on the beam.

If he was really killed in this way,

does it mean the two doctors

who discovered the deceased lied?

Your Majesty, I found out

Doctor Zhang Shu didn’t commit suicide.

He was smothered with a quilt until he fainted

and then was hanged on the beam.

That’s nonsense.

The two doctors saw it with their own eyes

that Doctor Zhang kicked down the stool by himself.

But he was old and weak

and he didn’t make it.

Who discovered Zhang Shu’s death on that day?

Let me ask you.

Did you see it with your own eyes

that Zhang Shu kicked the stool down by himself?

Yes.

Your Majesty.

I believe they are not lying.

Commandery Prince An.

You said that Doctor Zhang was murdered.

Then you said the two doctors are not lying.

What do you mean?

Zhang Shu was murdered.

And the two doctors are not lying.

It’s just the murderer tricked them

into believing that they saw

Doctor Zhang kick down the stool

and commit suicide.

Wise Your Majesty.

Wise Commandery Prince An.

Your Majesty.

The room next door

is exactly the same as where the crime happened.

I’ve recreated the crime scene.

Please go there

and see

how the murderer deceived them.

Okay.

Your Majesty.

The room has been arranged

just as the crime scene.

We only need to relive the night

when the two doctors found the deceased,

then the truth will come to light.

Your Majesty, let me do it.

Doctors.

Was the door like this

before you pushed the door at that time?

-Yes. -Yes.

Minister Han, please.

How did it happen?

Well...

Doctors.

Is this what you heard and saw at that time?

Yes, exactly.

Exactly the same.

How is it possible?

The wooden dummy can’t kick over the stool by itself.

This is just a little trick

the murderer used.

Your Majesty, after the murderer smothered Doctor Zhang,

he used this rope

to make Doctor Zhang look like that he committed suicide.

Then he put the stool diagonally

at the feet of the deceased.

The deceased’s feet were against the stool.

Then he put a brush

against the stool to support it.

He left the door half open

and placed the rod between the door and the stool.

When someone pushes the door,

the rod would hit the brush

and the stool would fall to the ground.

The brush would roll away

and the corpse would dangle from the beam.

Save him!

This is what the two doctors saw at the time.

Your Majesty.

This is the brush I just put under the stool.

And this brush

was found in Doctor Zhang’s room.

If you compare them carefully,

you can find out that the ends of these two brushes

have almost the same abrasion marks.

The shape of the brush tips is almost the same.

Really.

The herbs and medicine packages

that scattered on the ground

were also arranged by the murderer

to conceal this mechanism,

making the brush and the rod on the ground

not too obvious.

Ministers, do you have any objections

to Commandery Prince An’s inference?

I have no objection.

I have no objection, either.

Xiao Jinyu.

If you knew how the murderer killed him,

you must also know who the murderer is.

The murderer took all these efforts to set this trap.

But he made a fatal mistake.

After the murderer set up the mechanism,

he had to leave the room through the window.

When the murderer jumped out of the window at that night,

a silk thread was hooked down

by a splinter on the window.

It seems to be...

Wise Your Majesty.

This silk thread

is from the inside lining of the eunuch’s clothes.

Eunuch Sun.

There is your name on the access records

of the Imperial Medical Service at that night.

It also matches the time

when Doctor Zhang was murdered.

After investigation,

Eunuch Sun hasn’t applied for a new official uniform.

Can you show your

inside lining to us?

Your... Your Highness.

What do you mean?

Your Majesty, he is the murderer!

Your majesty, I know nothing about it.

I really know nothing.

Your...

Master!

Master!

Master, save me!

Master, Master!

Save me, Master! Master!

Save me!

You...!

How dare you

commit a crime in front of His Majesty!

Your Majesty, this villain committed such a felony.

It’s my fault that I failed to discipline him.

Today Commandery Prince An has found out the truth.

The evidence is irrefutable to convict him.

I’m in charge of the Palace Domestic Service.

It’s my duty to punish the eunuchs.

Even this villain

called me his teacher,

I can’t tolerate him.

I have to punish him severely.

Your Majesty, I was a little hasty.

But if this villain hurts Your Majesty

out of desperation,

it will be too late to regret it.

Your Majesty, I’m loyal to you.

Please understand me.

Eunuch Qin.

I don’t think you only want to punish Sun Mingde.

You are afraid that if you don’t kill him now,

he would confess how you

want to use Zhang Shu’s death

to falsely accuse my mother of harboring the son of a rebel

and deceiving His Majesty,

as to prevent me from returning to Chang’an

with the irrefutable evidence

to reveal how you called white black

and wrongfully killed the Military Commissioner of Jiannan.

Commandery Prince An.

You just convicted Sun Mingde

in front of His Majesty

and these ministers.

Right?

I believed your inference

and executed this villain on the spot!

Now you are saying something like this.

Look,

I really can’t understand you now.

Your Majesty.

I beg for justice.

Xiao Jinyu, how is this about

the Military Commissioner of Jiannan now?

What’s going on?

Make it clear.

Your Majesty.

I went to the Southwest this time

and found my father, the Investigating Censor of the Emperor Wenzong,

who had been missing for years.

My father passed away in Qianzhou five years ago.

I’ve brought his body back to Chang’an.

My father left some evidence before he died.

He also encrypted

what happened to him at that time

and wrote it down in his last words.

Please allow me to present you his last words and other evidence.

Okay.

Your Highness.

Your Highness.

Something goes wrong.

Everyone in Xue’s Mansion disappeared.

What?

I can’t get any news from the Ministry of War.

What’s more,

Commandery Prince An has returned to Chang’an.

He is back alive,

which means they failed to seize the base.

Don’t tell anyone about this failure.

Your Highness, it’s dangerous in Chang’an now.

You’d better make a plan now.

Make a plan now?

I’ve been planning and preparing for more than ten years with all my efforts.

It had nothing to do with him.

But he has to go against me.

He can’t blame me then.

Have you arranged the people

and the places as I asked you?

Your Highness, don’t worry.

I’ve arranged it properly.

Xiao Jinyu.

I’m your teacher.

Do you think you can get out of my hand?

Your Majesty.

I’ve written down how I found my father’s letter

and the deciphered content of the letter

in the memorial.

Please take a look.

My father was ordered to go to the Southwest in secret

and summon the Military Commissioner, Chen Ying to suppress the bandits.

Summon the Military Commissioner, Chen Ying to suppress the bandits.

Chen Ying led more than 20,000 men to Chang’an by order.

But they were falsely accused by the eunuchs of being rebels

and were brutally slaughtered.

My father tried to prove their innocence

and broke out of the siege with the secret edict.

Qin Luan’s party is afraid of

my father’s returning to Chang’an to reveal the truth,

so they have been

setting an ambush and planting informers in Chang’an

and sending people to the Southwest to hunt him down and kill him.

My father couldn’t return to Chang’an to redress their grievances before he died.

I went to the Southwest this time

and followed the clues left by my father,

then I found out my father’s letter

and the evidence he left before he died.

That’s when I learned

the grievances of tens of thousands of loyal men buried in the Southwest.

Your Majesty, I beg you to re-investigate the case

and clear the name of Chen Ying

and other loyal generals and solders.

Qin Luan.

Your Majesty.

I took the order of Emperor Wenzong

and led troops to the Southwest

to suppress the rebels.

Everybody knew it in the court.

Commandery Prince An was not born

at the time of the incident in the Southwest.

After so many years,

he just went to the Southwest,

brought back an old corpse

and some so-called evidence that are easy to forge

to mislead people

and call white black.

I think Commandery Prince An

is distorting the fact with his glib tongue

to exonerate Princess Xiping and himself.

Your Majesty, this matter is of great importance.

Wise Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

I have another piece of evidence

that can prove that Qin Luan is not innocent.

What else do you have?

Take it out.

Chu Chu from the Three Judicial Offices

greets Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, look.

She is the daughter of Yun Yi the rebel.

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