Chapter 124 Wounds
"Your name is Ding Dadi, right?" Zhao Lin continued, "Did you go to Miss Yin's residence last night? Tell the truth!"
"Your Highness, absolutely not! I returned to my bedroom yesterday and fell asleep immediately. I slept until early morning and did not get up the whole night. During that time, I did not even step out of the bedroom!" said Ding Dadi.
"Has he really been with you all the time?" Zhao Lin asked the officers and soldiers.
"Ok!"
"Yup!"
"It's true."
"That's right!"
“We’ve really been together.”
“He never left.”
All the officers and soldiers with Ding Dadi said this, without even a single unusual voice.
"Your Highness, I can testify that Ding Dadi and I slept in the same dormitory. I received a letter from my hometown yesterday, and I was thinking about things after turning off the lights. I couldn't fall asleep, so I wanted to chat with Ding Dadi, but I found that he was snoring and sleeping soundly, so I didn't disturb him. I tossed and turned in bed and didn't fall asleep all night. Ding Dadi was sleeping near me all the time. I knew clearly that he turned over. If he got up, I couldn't have been unaware." An officer who was in the same room with Ding Dadi and slept near him replied. This officer seemed very honest when he spoke, and there was no sign of lying at all. "When he and I were fighting last night, I accidentally stabbed his right shoulder with a sword. Now he should still have a deep wound on his right shoulder!" Yin Ruchen said.
"It's unfair! There is no wound on my right shoulder at all!" Ding Dadi defended anxiously.
"Would you like to show your right shoulder to everyone here right now?" Zhao Lin said.
"Of course!" Ding Dadi said, revealing his right shoulder.
Yin Ruchen was extremely surprised when he saw it. Ding Dadi's right shoulder was intact, without even a sign of injury!
"How could this happen?" Yin Ruchen asked in confusion, "I clearly stabbed him in that spot last night! Is there some miraculous medicine that can remove even the trace of the wound in a short period of time?"
"He was really in the dormitory last night, girl. We besieged you just now because we were carrying out our mission. Even if you want to retaliate, you don't have to use this method on a soldier!" said another soldier who shared the dormitory with Ding Dadi.
"It's not revenge! This matter is really too weird!" Yin Ruchen said.
Liu Qimei had originally trusted Yin Ruchen, but now she began to doubt her. She even wondered: Could it be that Yin Ruchen herself had created the illusion of being assassinated, and in fact, both the flying needles on Yin Ruchen's wall and the arsenic in her pot were placed by her and deliberately displayed to others?
Liu Qimei looked at the expressions of Ding Dadi and other officers and soldiers and felt that they did not seem to be lying. Moreover, when Ding Dadi showed his right shoulder, everything she saw also confirmed their words. She also paid close attention to Yin Ruchen's expression, but that expression always told her clearly that Yin Ruchen was not lying. She was thinking again: Could it be that this person is extremely skilled and good at lying, and can make a lie sound like the truth without changing his expression?
Zhao Lin still believed that Yin Ruchen would not deceive everyone about this matter, so he said to King Jingyin: "Your Majesty, based on my understanding of Miss Yin, she should not lie. There must be something fishy about this matter. I suggest that we investigate whether there is any problem with Ding Dadi."
(End of this chapter)
