ancient criminal minds

Rong Zhen followed the leading eunuch all the way to the imperial study room. The eunuch wanted to make friends with this hot prince, but no matter what he said, the other party looked indifferent. Then he looked at the foreign guard next to him. He was still indifferent, so he immediately stopped thinking about it.

As soon as Rong Zhen stepped into the imperial study, a memorial flew towards him.

"Hello, you! How dare you come back after causing such a big mess! How dare you come to see me!" Yong Ning slapped the table vigorously, looking at Rong Zhen angrily.

Immediately, all the eunuchs and maids in the room knelt down and shouted "Your Majesty calm down" in unison.

Rong Zhen glanced at the opened memorial, on which were written "rebellion" and "his heart can be punished". He didn't explain, but just knelt down on one knee: "My brother is at fault, please punish me."

"I sent Liang Jue to Yangzhou, but you put him under house arrest. You are hitting me in the face!" Emperor Yongning seemed to be still angry, and swept all the memorials on the table to the ground, "Look Look, see for yourself, these memorials to impeach you are almost directly saying that you are going to usurp the throne!"

"My brother dare not."

"What else are you afraid of?!" Emperor Yongning stared at him, "I asked you to go to Jiangnan to investigate the salt administration. Who told you to disturb the officialdom in Jiangnan? If you are not careful, the entire Great Xia Dynasty will be overturned. Do you understand the seriousness of this?"

"Your brother is reckless."

Emperor Yongning looked at him for a while, and saw that he just knelt there quietly after saying this, frowned, and then softened his tone: "Is your injury better?"

"Brother Lao Huang remembers, it's already much better."

"That's good, you, the son of a thousand gold can't sit still, don't be so reckless next time." Emperor Yongning said, got off the throne, helped Rong Zhen up, and just covered up his previous anger lightly. passed.

Rong Zhen's attitude remained the same as before, he had dinner with Emperor Yongning, and had a secret chat in the imperial study for a while before leaving the palace.

The one who sent them off was still the little eunuch from before, but he had lost his previous enthusiasm, presumably because he saw Emperor Yongning get angry at him.

Rong Zhen didn't take it seriously, but after leaving Shenwumen, Nie Zhishu frowned and said, "Didn't the emperor ask you to do what happened in Jiangnan? Why did he scold you like this?"

"It's just acting." Rong Zhen said indifferently, but he didn't know how much of this acting was true or false.

Nie Zhishu still didn't understand, he had never understood the twists and turns of people from the Central Plains.At this time, he saw the prison car blocked in front of him, and couldn't help but proudly said to Rong Zhen: "This move will probably make the murderer behind the scenes vomit blood!"

Rong Zhen couldn't help showing a little smile.He was ambushed again on the way back, and it is precisely because of this that his arm injury has not healed until now, so when Nie Zhishu righteously wanted to avenge him, he did not refuse, but let him go. Go, so far, it seems to be working just fine.

The two walked near the prison car, only to find that Song Zhiyi was talking to someone.

"Isn't this the newly appointed commander of the Chijiawei?" Nie Zhishu said.

"Jian Yu?" Rong Zhen raised his eyebrows, "This battle for the leadership of the Red Armored Guards ended up taking advantage of him?"

"Master recognizes him?" Nie Zhishu was delighted to see Lie Xin, "I heard that he is very strong, I really want to compete with him!"

Rong Zhen happened to hear Jian Yu answering Song Zhiyi's words, and couldn't help but praise: "He is a rare sober person."

From the very beginning, his goal was not just the fourth prince. Both the boss and the fourth child are innocent in this matter. No matter which side starts, both parties will be involved in the end. Now that his goal has been achieved, he doesn't intend to really With those two nephews tearing their faces apart, they followed suit and sent the prisoner to the Ministry of Punishment.

After Rong Zhen left, Luo Xian frowned and looked at Jian Yu: "What does His Highness King Chu mean?"

"It's just leading the snake out of the hole, so don't worry about it." Jian Yu frowned slightly, "It's the fourth prince..."

He didn't go any further. The king of Chu's move seemed to slap the fourth prince in the face, but it actually gave the fourth prince a chance to fight back. If the first prince loses vigilance because of this, he might be caught off guard.

Jian Yu buried these analyzes in his heart, and said to Luo Xian: "Go back to practice soldiers and horses. After the year, the three divisions will have a joint trial. I'm afraid it will be a tough battle."

"Joint trial by the three divisions?" Luo Xian didn't understand, "Isn't this a matter of the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate? How did it get involved with our Chijiawei?"

"This case is not only in the Yongning period, but also since the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty. Jiangnan has been shocked by the actions of the King of Chu, but people in the capital are still floating. Who will be the chief judge and who will be the deputy? The trial, the weight of the case, will become a bargaining chip for all parties to compete."

"This..." Luo Xian said worriedly, "We are mere red armored guards, I'm afraid we are not even as good as an ant in the eyes of these big shots."

"Ants can also shake elephants." Jian Yu patted him on the shoulder, "Don't worry, this is both a crisis and an opportunity. The days of the three guards in the capital and the Chi Jiawei at the bottom are long enough."

When he said this, Luo Xian was also inspired to fight.At the beginning of the establishment of the three guards of the capital, they were neck and neck, but the Xuanjiawei gradually disappeared behind the scenes, and the Jinjiawei was also very stable because it was always in the hands of the Duke of Cheng. Wei, these years have been regressing, and many noble children even disdain to enter the Chijiawei, especially after he became the leader of the Chijiawei, the Chijiawei was once called the "bastard camp", and it can be said that the entire Yanjing City They are the laughing stock of Jin Jiawei, which is why they care so much about being ridiculed by Jin Jiawei.

Jian Yu has always advocated talking less and doing more. Luo Xian saw his ambition for the first time, and his heart was full of pride: "Don't worry, Commander, I will train those boys when I get back. I must give you a brand-new red armor before the third division's interrogation." guard."

"Okay, you go."

Luo Xian flickered away, and Jian Yu walked slowly in the inner city alone. When he found out, he had already arrived at the gate of the British government. He thought of Lu Zheng who he saw today and couldn't help smiling knowingly. He had been there for a long time. I haven't seen the other party so stupidly, but I really miss it.

Since the meeting in the restaurant, Jian Yu has been busy with the affairs of the Chijiawei. He thought he could use his busyness to numb his heart, but he never thought that seeing Lu Zheng again would make his longing run out of control.

But now is not the time, in order to be able to truly protect Lu Zheng, he still needs... to be stronger...

Lu Zheng sneezed, seeing everyone around him looking over, he quickly waved his hands: "It's okay, it's just that the nose is a little itchy."

The place where they are now is the mourning hall, but the rest of the Lu family have been kicked out, leaving only the people from the yamen.

Wearing a mask, Dendrobium opened Lu Zhi's mouth with two fingers, carefully inspected the tongue and teeth, and fiddled with the eyelids and earlobes, before saying: "The deceased died of poisoning. According to the signs, it is undoubtedly a hook kiss. .”

The scribe on the side quickly wrote down his words.

Dendrobium turned Lu Zhi's body again: "There are scratches on the body, the deceased should have struggled violently before death, but the bleeding from several wounds was not serious, and the blood was pitch black, indicating that the poison attacked very quickly. See blood seal throat."

Tang Min couldn't help asking: "Then how did he get poisoned?"

Dendrobium pointed to Lu Zhi's feet: "Here."

There is a small black dot on the sole of Lu Zhi's foot, if you don't look carefully, you won't notice it at all. Dendrobium said: "The murderer should have put arsenic on the needle-shaped thing, and then pierced the sole of his foot."

"This...impossible." Tang Min said, "If you are stabbed, you should find out immediately, right? How could you die from the poison?"

"It's cold." Zhao Xueqian and Lu Zheng said in unison.

The two looked at each other, Lu Zheng snorted and turned his head away, Zhao Xueqian was not affected at all, and said lightly: "It's already the twelfth lunar month, if you walk outside wearing soft-soled shoes, your feet will soon feel cold, this If you stepped on an arsenic-coated needle, you might feel dull due to the cold, so you couldn’t find it right away.”

Tang Min gasped: "This scheme is really vicious, where is the poisonous needle placed?"

Zhao Xueqian looked at Lu Zheng: "Now I have to ask Third Young Master Lu, where did the deceased and Lord Lu go that day?"

Lu Zheng was a little depressed: "It should be the ancestral hall."

As soon as the group opened the mourning hall, they heard loud cries. Mrs. Lu, Mrs. Wu, was supported by two maidservants, crying heartbreakingly. Several young mistresses also knelt down and cried. Only the eldest mistress Lin Shi just stood aside and looked at them with a sneer.

Seeing this, Lu Zheng couldn't help sighing secretly. After reporting to the official, everyone was very cooperative, even the Wu family was honest, but when Dendrobium arrived and had to do an autopsy, everyone opposed it. Not only the Wu family, but also the few concubine sons who cooperated with him earlier strongly opposed it.

Their reasons are also tenable. The bigger the family, the more they care about the cleanliness of their remains after death. Especially when Master Lu is still the head of the Lu family, even if the elders of the clan heard about it, they would not agree with it.

They thought the case was deadlocked here, but Zhao Xueqian went directly to the British public Lu Qing. Finally, under Lu Qing's strong suppression, both sides took a step back and asked Dendrobium for an autopsy, but the body could not be damaged.

That's why there were members of the Lu family waiting outside the mourning hall, and when they came out, they hurried in, and then there was a lot of crying in the mourning hall.

Tang Min frowned, but didn't say much, and was taken to the ancestral hall.

Lu Zheng deliberately lagged behind them by half a step, looked up at Zhao Xueqian's back, for some reason, he always felt that Zhao Xueqian was looking for Lu Qing on purpose, although it seemed understandable for him to do so, but Lu Zheng always felt that his intention was not simple, Just can't see it yet.

Forget it, let's take a step at a time.