Uncertain Chang'an

After receiving the order from Emperor Taiping, Qi Haotian immediately went back to the Ministry of Criminal Justice and led the servants to the Lu Mansion. He motioned for someone to knock on the gate of the Lu Mansion. The gatekeeper was a little flustered when he saw the man wearing an official uniform and accompanied by troops. Man, quickly calmed down and went in to inform Madam.Lu Junde is still working in the palace at the moment, although Lu Bingwen has not been detained in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Emperor Taiping told him to stay at home and was not allowed to go anywhere, and even sent people to watch him. He has been in his room for many days, Getting more irritable.

"Ma'am! It's not good! Qi Haotian from the Ministry of Punishment brought people to the mansion, saying that he followed His Majesty's orders to search Lu's mansion!"

"What?!" Mrs. Lu was unsteady, and the teacup in her hand fell on the desk, but she couldn't control it, she got up and paced back and forth: "Why did you come to investigate suddenly?! What if the master is not at the house? good......"

It took a while for her to calm down, and ordered: "Come on, quickly enter the palace and call the master back!" She gritted her teeth and went to the hall: "Well, don't let the young master know, I will block that Qi Haotian first." .”

Qi Haotian led people in the hall. He wanted to save Prime Minister Lu's face and say hello to Mrs. Lu first, but now Mrs. Lu hasn't come out for a long time, afraid of doing something wrong again, and was about to order someone to search, but Mrs. Lu was in It's out now.

"What is Master Qi talking about here? But the case has progressed?"

As the prime minister's wife, Mrs. Lu has a high rank. Qi Haotian respectfully bowed to her and said, "Mrs. Lu, I'm ordering by Your Majesty to search the Lu residence. I would like to ask Mrs. Lu to make it easier for me."

Mrs. Lu's complexion sank, and she said coldly, "But what evidence is there? Otherwise, my Lu manor is the prime minister's mansion anyway, and it is so easy to be searched. How will the prime minister gain a foothold in front of all officials in the future?!"

Although she was pretending, her eyes were erratic. Qi Haotian knew that she was guilty at the first sight, and he became more determined in his heart, and he was no longer polite, and said in a serious manner: "Your Majesty ordered that Madam Lu can enter the palace if she is dissatisfied. The ministers have a copy, but today's search is inevitable." After saying that, he winked at the people behind him, and they immediately dispersed to search around.

"Qi Haotian, you!" Seeing this scene, Mrs. Lu panicked and was at a loss for what to do. Qi Hao just ignored her and took people down to search by himself.

"Qi Haotian, you are an official in the same dynasty as my master, are you so disregarding feelings?!"

"As officials in the same dynasty, since they are all servants of His Majesty, how dare you disobey His Majesty's orders?" Qi Haotian ignored her difficulty and followed behind, striding forward.Mrs. Lu had no choice but to follow behind him and stare, hoping that the servants would call the master back sooner.

A group of people searched inch by inch, looking like they would turn the prime minister's mansion upside down. When they arrived at a small courtyard, like the courtyard where the young lady lived, Qi Haotian raised his hand to stop him, and asked Mrs. Lu beside him: "Mrs. Lu, what's the matter?" But Miss Lu's courtyard?"

Mrs. Lu has always disliked Lu Weizhen. Hearing his question, she snorted coldly and said, "Yes, Mr. Qi, please be more careful, don't let go of the clues!"

The corners of Qi Haotian's mouth slightly raised, letting the servants wait, he entered the courtyard by himself.Lu Weizhen had also heard the commotion outside, and saw Qi Haotian when he went out, so he saluted him with a smile, and said, "Master Qi."

Qi Haotian quickly walked up to her, and said: "Miss Lu is very polite, please hurry up." It's a joke, even His Highness won't allow Miss Lu to salute, so why should he accept her salute.

"I came to search the Lu residence on the orders of His Majesty, and let people have a look in the courtyard later, just in case, please forgive me, Miss Lu."

Lu Weizhen replied gently: "Master Qi is polite, that's how it should be, Master Qi can do as he pleases."

Mrs. Lu saw this appearance when she came in, and she was stunned immediately, she didn't want to be like this, why did Qi Haotian take a fancy to Lu Weizhen?So polite?

Qi Haotian glanced at Mrs. Lu from the corner of his eye, pretending he didn't see it, let Xiaoping help Lu Weizhen into the room, and led the people around the courtyard carefully, seeing that there were no traces of newly dug in the soil, he went Went to Lu Weizhen to say hello, led people out of the courtyard, and told people: "Be quiet around here, don't disturb Miss Lu."

A group of people hurriedly nodded and said yes, which made Mrs. Lu stunned. Why did Qi Haotian really fall in love with Lu Weizhen?What's wrong with this cripple?Hey that's all, it's good to be able to use it.Mrs. Lu didn't delve too deeply into it, she just leaned in front of Qi Haotian, coughed twice and put on the airs of the prime minister's wife again, and said indifferently: "Master Qi, if you like our Weizhen, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to have such an attitude today! The folk customs of Dajin are open, but the marriage is supposed to be the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker, Master Qi is like this today, I am afraid that the master will not be happy!"

Qi Haotian looked like he had seen a ghost, and he couldn't help being polite. He looked Mrs. Lu up and down, and said in surprise: "His Royal Highness Yongning doesn't allow Miss Lu to salute, how can I accept Miss Lu's salute? Mrs. Lu, although I The people of Jin are open, but you are the first one to put your daughter as an object on the surface like this? The wife of the Prime Minister of Jin is like this? If your Majesty knows how to be angry, you should pay attention!"

Mrs. Lu blushed at what he said, and couldn't hold back her face anymore, so she could only throw up her sleeves angrily, and went to her courtyard without following her.

Qi Haotian looked at the back of Mrs. Lu leaving, and sighed in his heart. He had heard about the think tanks around Her Royal Highness, and he had also heard that the Lu family didn't pay much attention to Miss Lu, but he didn't expect it to be like this. In their eyes, Lu Weizhen was A woman who is dispensable, just to maintain a good reputation.At this moment, he finally understood why His Highness had favored Ms. Lu so much all these years and let the whole capital know, otherwise, Ms. Lu's situation today would be so miserable.It's a pity that such a smart woman was born in such a family. She can condone her son-in-law to rape and kill the maidservant, but she doesn't care for the concubine's daughter. If she hadn't met His Highness, this pearl would have been mixed into the sand and worn away by reality. Then let the fragrance disappear and the jade die.Qi Haotian sighed slightly, and led his men to continue the search.

Lu Junde was discussing government affairs with a group of ministers in the palace, when suddenly someone from the palace came to him and whispered: "My lord, someone from your house has sent a message to tell you to return home quickly." The office of a group of ministers is far away from the harem, and they can't get in, so they can only let the palace people pass the word.When Lu Junde heard the words, he knew it was not good, so he stood up calmly, and said to the ministers present: "I have something to do with the truth, so I will go first, and I will trouble you to discuss it first." All the people present stood up and saluted: "Prime Minister, go slowly."

Lu Junde nodded slightly, then walked out of the palace quickly, his brows were also furrowed, a group of ministers looked at each other behind him and smiled, full of disdain, tacit understanding, continued the discussion just now.The prime minister has been rampant in the court for so many years, and finally there is a time for him to have a headache.

After leaving the palace and getting into his own carriage, Lu Junde frowned and asked seriously: "What's going on?!"

The servant hurriedly replied: "Master, Qi Haotian from the Ministry of Punishment led people to search the mansion according to His Majesty's orders! Madam told me to report to you immediately, she will delay for a while."

Hearing this, Lu Junde suddenly clenched his hands into fists, clenched his teeth and said a few words: "Go home!"

His Majesty!How much credit have I made for the establishment of the state? !Without me, how could you take over the capital without bloodshed? !How can the situation be stabilized? !Do you want to treat me like this now because of a maid whose life is like an ant? !

Lu Junde's eyes were red and he was full of anger. He felt that Emperor Taiping would make such a big fuss without even suppressing these trivial matters. He was so angry that he punched the wall of the car, scaring the outside The coachman jumped, and quickly whipped his horsewhip again to speed up.

As soon as the carriage stopped, Lu Junde immediately got out of the car and went to the mansion, looking around, the mansion was quite messy, he suppressed the overwhelming anger in his heart, and followed the guidance of the servant to Qi Haotian's location.When Qi Haotian saw him coming, he saluted as usual, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "My lord, your Majesty ordered the search, and I hope you will forgive me if I offend you."

"Hmph, forgive me?!" Lu Junde snorted coldly with his hands behind his back, and said: "Master Qi is a good means, if you find out any evidence, you can coax His Majesty to search the Lu residence?! If you find anything, let it be, if you can't find it , wouldn’t it make the world ridicule?! What’s the face of the truth?! What’s the face of Dajin officials?!”

Qi Haotian was unmoved, he did not enter into the oil and salt, and said flatly: "My lord's words are wrong. His Highness Yongning said that since the case has not progressed for a long time, it is better to search. If found, it will be dealt with according to law. If found, it will be proved." Mr. Lu is innocent, and the case will be closed as soon as possible, why are you not happy?"

"You!" Lu Junde was choked suddenly, unable to refute for a while.Oh, what a eloquent Princess Yongning!Lu Junde tossed his sleeves angrily, suppressed his anger and said coldly: "Then Master Qi will search carefully, otherwise don't blame the truth for being ungrateful!" After that, he turned around and went to the study, ignoring Qi Haotian.

Qi Haotian was not afraid of his threats, he watched him walk away with contempt in his eyes, turned around and ordered: "Continue to search."

Lu Junde entered the study room, but he didn't feel the anger just now, instead he sat calmly on the chair, curled his lips in disdain, why did Emperor Taiping think he would just sit and wait for death?If he didn't have this kind of thought, how could he be so prosperous in the previous dynasty and the Dajin court?

Qi Haotian led people to continue the search, looked at the entire Lu mansion, and finally found a soil that had been moved in a side courtyard. He breathed a sigh of relief and ordered people to dig it up. However, the elders were sweating all over in this icy and snowy place, and they didn't find anything wrong after digging three feet into the ground.

"My lord...you will find stones if you dig any more..."

Qi Haotian frowned, Tong'er's body must still be in the mansion, but where else could he go... He lingered by the pit for a long time, his eyes touched the dug-out pile of soil, and he was keenly aware that there was something mixed with it. White powder, how can there be white powder in this soil?

"Fill it in." After finishing speaking, Qi Haotian turned around and left the courtyard, pacing and thinking, but still couldn't find a clue.

Lu Weizhen on the side was in the courtyard, listening to Xiaoping's report, she also felt incredible, how could she not find it...She quietly held the tea cup and looked at the calm water in the cup, thinking carefully.

Since there are traces of breaking ground, then Tong'er must have been buried there, but now there is no such thing. Chengfeng Building keeps an eye on Lu's house every day, and secretly looks at the things brought out one by one. If nothing is found, Tong'er must be It's still in Lu's mansion, but it's just that I can't find it now... Destroy the corpse and wipe out the traces... It's not impossible to do it with Lu Junde's temperament...

"If the corpses are destroyed in the mansion and no one finds out, how can it be better?"

Every time Lu Weizhen has a question and cannot figure it out, he is used to asking out loud. At first it sounds like he is asking Xiaoping, but in fact he is just talking to himself. Xiaoping was at a loss to answer the question at first, but after a few times, he understood , but this time when Lu Weizhen said this, she suddenly remembered something and exclaimed: "Miss! When I went to the kitchen to get lunch just now, I found that the kitchen Song'er was in a daze. I patted her shoulder from behind, and she almost didn't jump." Go to the stove! No..." After that, Xiaoping couldn't continue, she paused, and her eyes turned red immediately.After all, she is her good friend, even though she knew that something bad happened to Tong'er, but now there is no body left, how can she not make people sad.

"Kitchen..." Lu Weizhen thought about it, only felt frantic, patted Xiaoping, and told her: "Pass in front of Mr. Qi, take a look at him, he calls you to go over and ask you, just look at him and say go to the kitchen Bring me a pastry."

"Hey, I'll go right away." Xiaoping rubbed her eyes to hold back her tears, and turned to go outside.

She went to the courtyard, saw Qi Haotian wandering in the courtyard looking thoughtful, deliberately picked a way to pass, Qi Haotian really looked over, she followed her lady's order to look directly at Qi Haotian, and sure enough saw Qi Haotian paused, shouted Said: "Come here."

How dare ordinary slaves look directly at their master?Xiaoping is the maid next to Lu Weizhen, so she wouldn't be so rude, presumably Lu Weizhen had something to tell him... Qi Haotian thought about it, and called her over, and asked, "Miss Lu, do you have orders?"

Xiaoping saluted him, looked up at him without blinking her eyes, and said: "Miss said she was a little hungry, so I asked my servant to go to the kitchen to get some pastries."

"Hungry?" Qi Haotian raised his head and knocked on the sky. It was not long after lunch time, and Xiaoping was looking at him like this again. His intuition was wrong. Is this Lu Weizhen hinting that he would check the kitchen again?Her Royal Highness the Princess has great trust in Miss Lu, and when she was in Linyi, Miss Lu's plan was also unexpected, Qi Haotian ordered without hesitation: "Take me with you."

"Here." Xiaoping saluted, turned around and led the way, and sighed in her heart again: Miss is smart!

It was not long before lunch time, before it was time to prepare dinner, there were only two people left to clean up in the kitchen, one of them was Song Er.Qi Haotian looked at one of the two girls, although his back was turned to this side, he could see from the back that he was a little flustered, he felt something was wrong, he waved his hand to make people stay not far away, and followed Xiaoping himself.Xiaoping turned her head to look at Qi Haotian, then stepped up to Song'er behind her without a sound, and patted her on the shoulder lightly.

"what!"

Song'er screamed, and almost leaped onto the stove, and hid aside quickly, trembling, with her hands still covering her head, and turned her head timidly, seeing that it was Xiaoping, she was relieved immediately, her eyes were filled with tears. Full of tears, she blamed with a crying voice: "Xiao Ping! You scared me to death! I thought..." At this point, she suddenly realized something, and immediately covered her mouth with her hand, no Speak again.

With her appearance, even the most stupid person can see something is wrong, Qi Haotian walked in immediately and asked: "What do you know? Or did you see something?"

Seeing him, Song'er was terrified, shook her head like a rattle, and hurriedly said: "Your maidservant didn't see anything! I don't know anything! I don't know..."

Seeing this, Qi Haotian said sternly: "Tong'er is dying now, if you know something and don't speak up to avenge her, aren't you afraid that she will come to you at night?!"

"Ah! This servant has never harmed Tong'er! Don't look for me, don't look for me..." As she spoke, she huddled into a ball, extremely terrified. The servant of the Lu family disappeared, and he said solemnly: "The servant of the Lu family who was staring at me just now disappeared. He must have gone to report to the prime minister. If you don't explain it quickly, the official will send someone to protect your family, otherwise you Do you think you can live long?!"

Song'er recalled what he had seen before, and knew that Qi Haotian didn't intend to threaten her, so he hurriedly crawled up to him and hugged his leg, begging: "My lord, this servant said, please save my family!"

Qi Haotian asked her address in detail, and sent a few yamen servants to rush there, before saying to her: "Can we tell now?"

"Yes, yes, the servant girl said." Song'er suppressed the panic in her heart, tried her best to calm herself down, knelt on the ground and said: "A few days ago, the servant girl was useless for dinner, and I was a little hungry at night, so I came here The kitchen wanted to find something to eat, it was the first few days when the young master was at home... The servants saw that there were people in the kitchen, but they didn't dare to go in, so they just quietly stood by the window to see who it was, when they saw the butler sitting in front of the stove, Staring at the fire, there was nothing boiling on the pot, only water was burning. The servant did not know why the butler would boil water in the kitchen late at night, and there was a smell of burnt meat. She was curious and kept watching... After a long while, I saw him pulling the fire, picked out a bunch of things from it, wrapped them in cloth, poured out the water, and hurried away with the bag of things. The kitchen door was left open, and the servants sneaked in. The smell hit my face, and I went to the stove to have a look, and there was a white thing, and the servant picked it up and looked, it seemed to be a bone..."

Song'er recalled what happened that night, and it is still as unreal as a dream, but the bone hidden in the room does exist, reminding her that everything was not a dream.Song'er was frightened for a long time, and there was no one to tell her. These days, she almost drove herself crazy, so she was frightened like that by Xiaoping's slap. Now it's a relief for her to confess, the more she speaks, the more she speaks. Shun, there were still some stumbles at the beginning, but it was very detailed later: "The servant was so frightened that he quietly hid the bone and followed the direction the steward left. The steward did not return to his room or the master. In the study, instead, I went to an abandoned side courtyard. The servants touched it quietly, and saw the butler by the moonlight next to a big pit, smashing a pile of things that had just been collected, and there was a piece of it, which seemed to be a head... The steward ground up the pile of things finely, mixed it with the soil dug out from the side, and added it back. The servant was so frightened that he hurried back to the room, but he was afraid of hurting his family, so he never dared to say..."

When Qi Haotian heard this, he was furious, he was really insane, to do such a thing of destroying corpses and destroying traces!The white powder he saw before was probably the end of Tong'er's bone... He suppressed his anger and asked Song'er: "Is that bone still there?"

"Yes, yes, the servant is afraid of being blamed by Tong Er, so she hides in the room and worships every day..."

"Take me with you."

Lu Junde was in the study room, he suddenly heard the servants coming and going back and forth and knew something was wrong, he never thought that he would be seen by others, he picked up the inkstone and threw it at the butler, roaring angrily: "You bastard! How are you going to do it?!"

"Master, forgive me!" The steward immediately knelt down, ignoring the painful part of his body, looked up at Lu Junde, and said, "Master, you saved my life. If I didn't have you, I would have died 20 years ago, don't worry, I will take care of it alone at this time, and I will definitely not cause any loss to the young master and the Xiangfu!" After finishing speaking, he bowed heavily to Lu Junde, got up and went out.Seeing this, Lu Junde fell on the chair and lost all his strength.He was willing to take on the matter, and he didn't want to see if His Majesty would agree.He, Lu Junde, has worked hard for decades, and now he is going to lose here?

Qi Haotian had someone lift Song'er, whose legs were already weak and unable to walk, to her room. After getting the bone, he also had someone dig up a part of the soil that had just been filled, and immediately sent someone to seal the Lu residence. They brought Song'er, Lu Bingwen, the housekeeper and all the servants back to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and reported it to Emperor Taiping. The interrogation by the servants of the Lu family finally got the servants who knew the matter to speak. The evidence is solid, and Lu Bingwen will not escape even if he has wings.

The author has something to say: emmm originally wanted to give a big fat chapter to finish the plot without the princess and general senior sister...I still underestimated myself...but it is indeed a big fat chapter!I don't care if you want to praise me!They will be out soon!

BTW, a little interesting thing: I took an elective class today, photography, and the teacher told us what beauty is. For example, he saw a boy taking pictures of magnolia flowers and thought it was very good, so he took pictures of people and flowers together. It was posted in the group, but a classmate said it looked like her classmate, the teacher asked her to forward it to the male classmate, the male classmate denied it at first, and then said: "Okay, that's me", hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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