Zhang Mao thought about it for a moment, and suddenly his heart started beating wildly. He stammered, "Or, or maybe, it's just a coincidence?"

"coincide?"

Zhou Yu sneered and asked, "Do you think it's a coincidence?"

Although there were more people who died here than the ones Zhou Yu mentioned, their deaths were all related to one person.

That is Qin Jingyuan’s daughter, Qin Shu.

Zhou Yu looked at the transcript and said as he thought: "The transcript says that Lu Fei's eyes were blinded by lime powder and the fatal wound was in the abdomen. He was killed with one blow."

"Sheng Li has two wounds. One on the abdomen and one on the back."

"According to the coroner's examination, both wounds were caused by the same sword. The wound on the abdomen was not fatal and was not fatal."

Zhou Yu pointed at the paper and said, "So this is where Lu Fei was hastily stabbed when he was covered in lime powder and was seriously injured and dying."

"And Sheng Li's fatal injury was the sword in the back."

Zhou Yu looked at Zhang Mao with a smile and asked, "Do you think Sheng Li will let Lu Fei catch up and pierce his heart from behind?"

When a person is about to die, his breathing becomes rapid and his steps become heavy.

If Lu Fei caught up from behind, Sheng Li would not have been able to fail to hear it.

Zhou Yu shook the notes in his hand and added: "Lu Fei chased Sheng Li from the backyard to the front yard. Sheng Li would not let down his guard and turn his back to Lu Fei unless he was absolutely sure."

"So, Sheng Li should have confirmed Lu Fei's death before he turned around and left without any worries. The sword stabbed from behind and pierced through the chest, which only a strong man in his prime could do."

Of course, it is not unreasonable for the people who inspected the scene to determine that the fatal wound was the result of Lu Fei's full-strength attack when he was dying.

But Zhou Yu was more inclined to believe it was someone else.

Throughout the entire scene, except for the suspicious point of Sheng Li's fatal injury, everything, including Lu Fei and Sheng Li's motives for murder, seemed extremely reasonable.

Even he himself, when he first heard about the case, believed that it was just an ordinary murder caused by personal grudges.

Zhou Yu twitched his lips slightly and said, "Based on this point alone, I am sure that there must be a third person at the murder scene. It was this person who stabbed Sheng Li from behind."

What is this called?

This is called "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind."

This third person is waiting for the two people to fight to the point where both are injured and then come out to clean up the mess.

So this was not a simple adultery, but a planned murder!

Even if Lu Fei and Sheng Li had made peace at the beginning, this person would have staged a murder scene and gotten rid of both of them.

Because these two people were the most important planners of Qin Jingyuan's murder.

Zhou Yu looked at Zhang Mao with a smile, and was not surprised to see Zhang Mao's gloomy face.

Zhang Mao bowed respectfully and lowered his voice, "Your Highness, since you are sure that it was Qin who did it, and she is now in the capital, why not..."

As he said this, he put his hand across his neck.

Zhou Yu shook his head gently, "Qin has been in the capital for so long, but has never revealed anything."

"It was not until the third brother presented new grain on the emperor's birthday and pushed Qin in front of the emperor that she found an opportunity to get rid of Lu Fei and Sheng Li."

"Now the emperor has learned of Qin's existence, and he greatly admires Qin's ability to see the times."

"A deceased merchant was granted a title of nobility just because he found a few new kinds of grain. This has never happened before since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

"If Qin suddenly died at this moment, do you think the Third Brother would let go of this opportunity and not go before the Emperor to bite me hard?"

Zhang Mao thought for a moment and said, "Then wait until she leaves Beijing, or until the popularity of the new grain has passed..."

Zhou Yu shook his head. "When Qin first came to the capital, my aunt brought her into the Princess's residence, but she also sent her out of the residence in one piece, didn't she?"

"Haven't you noticed that the people in the Sang family and the Princess's Mansion have been unusually well-behaved these days?"

Zhou Yu sneered, "That's because my aunt smelled danger. She was wavering because the person who went to the princess's mansion to pick up Qin that day was the new head of the Fu family, Fu Rong."

Qin tried to grow new grain and gave it to Prince Jin to present at the grand court on the emperor's birthday. It became the most pleasing gift the emperor received on the emperor's birthday.

In the eyes of others, the Qin family is the King of Jin's people.

To touch the Qin family would be to challenge and protest against King Jin. How could King Jin sit idly by?

Especially Fu'er.

Fu Rong has always lived in the yard behind Qin's shop instead of Prince Jin's mansion, which shows that Fu Rong was willing to serve Prince Jin for the sake of Qin's face.

Qin, it’s not that we can’t move, nor that we can’t move.

Instead, we should think carefully about how to act so that the Prince of Jin would not dare to speak out and Fu Rong would turn against the Prince of Jin.

Zhang Mao suppressed the fear and hatred in his heart and said carefully: "I am afraid that Qin will harm Your Highness."

Zhou Yu sneered and said, "I hope she will attack me. But she is such a scheming person, how could she not know what the consequences would be if she tried to murder the prince?"

"If she can personally take action against me, what is there for King Jin to do?"

No matter how great Qin's contributions are, he is still an ordinary citizen.

She can't afford the charge of murdering the prince!

So Qin stood on the side of Prince Jin without hesitation and supported Prince Jin in his fight for that position.

This is where Qin's cleverness lies: he can endure, know how to show weakness, wait for the right opportunity, and strike with one strike!

If he had known earlier that Qin Jingyuan had such a cunning, fox-like and cruel daughter, he should have stopped Zhang Cheng when he proposed to kill Qin Jingyuan and thereby cut off the arm of King Jin.

Silver is important, but having an opponent who is fearless and chases his men, biting them madly is not worth it.

Thinking of Qin Jingyuan, Zhou Yu thought of Qin Jingyuan's nephew who surrendered to him.

Zhou Yu asked: "Hasn't the boy surnamed Qin been found yet?"

Zhang Cheng's new lover, Qin's cousin, was kicked off a cliff by the Qin's guards who came to rescue him when he was taking Zhang Cheng to capture Qin Shu.

To this day, no one has found the person alive or the body.

Below that cliff is the Lichun River.

If that kid is lucky enough not to die...

As long as he goes before the emperor and testifies that it was the Prince of Jin's men who killed the general who was appointed by the emperor to guard the gates.

By then, Prince Ning would definitely accuse Prince Jin of plotting to murder court officials and intending to rebel!

By then, trying every means to solve the food shortage in the mountainous areas and trying to find and plant new crops would become irrefutable evidence of having ulterior motives, taking the opportunity to secretly store food and fodder, and intending to rebel!

No matter how the Prince of Jin explains, no matter whether my father believes it or not, as long as the seed of doubt is planted in my father's heart, it will burst through the ground sooner or later!

Without the Prince of Jin, what would Qin mean?

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