Kuai Chuan starts from saving Daiyu

Since he was ordered by the emperor to be fully responsible for investigating the murder of Prince Jin, Zhou Chen naturally had to put aside his previous thoughts. After all, his previous guesses were all based on the information he knew. If there is an inside story, he investigates the case with prejudice, and he will only be led further and further.

"You go down first, I'll take a look at the information first, and if you have any questions, I'll call you later."

"Yes, my lord."

Zhou Chen was the only one left in the room. He picked up the documents on the table and began to look through them. Although the emperor did not give him a time limit, the person who was killed was noble and special. Even if the emperor did not order him to catch the real murderer within a time limit, he would There can be no slack.

The first thing to open is the information of the Jin royal family.

The surname of the royal family of Jin is Yan, and the current lord of the country is called Yankang. Although he can’t say that he is making great efforts to govern, he can also be called a lord of success. His queen is a great nobleman of the Jin state, and her surname is Nangong. She is extremely powerful in the Jin state. second only to the royal family.The favorite of the King of Jin is not the queen of Nangong with a great background, but a Han woman named Wei.

There are only three ranks in the harem of the Jin Kingdom. The first rank is the queen, the second rank is the wife, and the rest are called concubines.

The Wei family that Yankang favored was a wife, and the only wife in Yankang's harem.

There are only two princes in the state of Jin, one is the queen's son, Yanrong, who was named the crown prince very early on, and is the only heir of the state of Jin, but later the king accepted the Wei family, and the Wei family gave birth again. He gave birth to a son, the little prince who came to Beijing, Yan Mao.

According to the information, this Wei family's appearance is so beautiful that he fascinated the king of Jin, and he has no distinction between his son and his concubine. It is said that he intends to depose the crown prince and appoint the little prince from the Wei family as the new crown prince. , but the Nangong family is very powerful in the state of Jin. This plan obviously failed. What's more, the crown prince married the princess of this dynasty. Once the crown prince is deposed, it will definitely be difficult for the court to explain.

This time, the tribute was originally brought by the crown prince, but when the matter came to an end, the king changed it to the little prince Yan Mao who brought people to pay tribute.

Looking at the information written on the information, Zhou Chen frowned.

According to this information, it is very likely that Yan Mao was murdered by the crown prince of Jin. After all, they have the most direct dispute over the throne. If Yan Mao's existence does not threaten the crown prince, the crown prince will naturally not kill him. Xin, but the current situation is that it is obvious that the little prince Yan Mao has threatened the status of the crown prince.

Zhou Chen rubbed his forehead, such a large amount of information made him a little indigestion.

Dali Temple has such sufficient information, it can use this as a raft, saying that the prince of Jin murdered the little prince of Jin, and pushed his own responsibility completely, regardless of whether it was the prince of Jin. As long as it is beneficial to the court, it is completely possible to do so.

However, Dali Temple did not do this, and the emperor listened to King Shun's recommendation and asked him to investigate the case.

Zhou Chen frowned tightly. Even the grievances and grievances of the Jin royal family have been investigated clearly. What else does he need to investigate?

He seriously suspected that involving him was just to find a blamer.

But his father is the emperor's right-hand man, a confidant, and he is his father's beloved son, so the emperor has no reason to harm him.

While in the imperial study, Zhou Chen had some conversations with the emperor, and he could vaguely realize that the emperor didn't seem to want Prince Jin's death to be related to the royal family.

It's best not to have anything to do with the people in the capital, and let the state of Jin eat its own dog.

Zhou Chen looked at the document in his hand, thought for a while, put it aside, and picked up another copy to read.

Coincidentally, this information is about Jia Baoyu.

Jia Baoyu's life experience from childhood to adulthood has been recorded in the book, except for the time he spent eating and going to the toilet every day.

He seriously suspected that after the fact that Jia Baoyu was born with a jade title was confirmed, he has been living under the surveillance of the royal family.

Thinking about it is still a little creepy.

Jia Baoyu's information perfectly proved that he had nothing to do with this case.

After confirming that Jia Baoyu had nothing to do with this case, Zhou Chen threw aside his information. He had no intention of understanding Jia Baoyu's matter at all.

Zhou Chen sat in the room for a whole day before he finished reading all the documents that were piled up on the table, and his eyes were almost blurred.

After reading these materials, Jia Baoyu and the "friends" that the little prince Yanmao met in the capital can all be ruled out as suspects.

There were only two suspects, they were what he had guessed before, the maidservant next to the little prince of Jin and Princess Qingyang.

The maidservant next to Yanmao, the little prince of the Jin Kingdom, this maidservant is called Miaochun, she is the personal maidservant chosen by Madam Wei for Yanmao, she used to serve Madam Wei, it seems that there is nothing to doubt, but the problem is precisely here .

Mrs. Wei is indeed deeply favored by the Lord of the Jin Kingdom. Even though this maid named Miaochun has served Mrs. Wei before, it does not mean that this maid is trustworthy.

The queen of Nangong is very powerful in the state of Jin. Before Mrs. Wei appeared, she controlled an acre of land in the backyard of the state of Jin. Mrs. Wei was named a wife. It is impossible for the queen of Nangong not to fear her, let alone go to her side Putting eyeliner on, he doesn't know how much Mrs. Wei has the ability to know people, but Queen Nangong is a powerful character, which cannot be denied.

Mrs. Wei thought Miao Chun was trustworthy, so she arranged her to serve her son, but what if this maid is a traitor?Just well hidden?All this is hard to say.

Miao Chun is not from this dynasty, and her family members are all in the Jin Kingdom. For a while, I can only find some information about her, but I also know it from the accompanying envoys and subordinates. At most, I know Miaochun served Mrs. Wei in the past, and the deeper information is still unknown.

Put Miaochun aside for now, let's talk about Princess Qingyang.

Just like what he had guessed before, Princess Qingyang failed to go on a hunger strike, and was scolded by her father again, so she really felt resentful towards Yan Mao.

She is the daughter of King Shun, and among the princes who were entrusted, only the daughter of King Shun was named princess. It is not too much to say that she is the proud daughter of heaven. She has always been as dazzling as the sun.

Don't think she can't love Zhou Chen, like a lunatic who has lost her mind, but when Zhou Chen didn't show up, she still had the bearing of a noble lady, and there were not a few young talents who admired her.

The minister under her skirt is Zhu Shaoyuan, the grandson of Grand Tutor Zhujin.

Princess Qingyang is well aware of Zhu Shaoyuan's admiration. After knowing that the marriage was irreversible, she wrote a letter in private and asked her confidant maid to secretly send it to Zhu Shaoyuan. There was no instruction in the letter. I wish Shaoyuan the words to murder the little prince.

Princess Qingyang is not stupid. Although she seems to have been swallowed by a zombie when it comes to Daiyu, she is irrational only when it comes to Daiyu.

Most women who are blinded by jealousy are like this.

In the letter to Zhu Shaoyuan, she confided her grievances, implying that she was interested in Zhu Shaoyuan, but because of the gift of marriage, there was no relationship between them, which made Zhu Shaoyuan forget her and so on.

This letter did not have any evidence pointing to her murdering the little prince, but according to another document, Princess Qingyang once met Zhu Shaoyuan in private during the Shangyuan Festival, and no one knew what the two talked about.

Not long after they met, the little prince of Jin fell into the water and drowned. At that time, not only Princess Qingyang rushed to the river, but Zhu Shaoyuan was also there the whole time, hiding behind the crowd and not showing himself.

Combining the clues before and after in this way, Princess Qingyang's suspicion is not less than that of Na Miaochun.

But in the current situation, the emperor is obviously unwilling to let Qingyang Princess have anything to do with this case, otherwise he would not listen to him patiently after he said that he suspected the maidservant next to the little prince of Jin, In the end, he asked such a very directional question to him, which guided him to answer an answer that satisfied the emperor.

So, the case finally fell on him.

He let out a long sigh, feeling exhausted.

Looking at the sky outside, it was already dark, so Zhou Chen cleaned up the table and decided to go home first.

Except for breakfast in the morning, he hasn't eaten since then, and his stomach is already growling with hunger.

Back at the Hou's Mansion, Zhou Chen planned to go directly to Qingsongyuan, but the master invited him to come as soon as he returned to the mansion.

Zhou Chen endured his hunger and went to the master's study again.

At the master's place, Zhou Chen learned a piece of news that stunned him.

Princess Qingyang's gift of marriage was facilitated by his master.

Zhou Chen rubbed his forehead, frowned, and almost couldn't help asking the master why he did this.

At this time, the master sighed again, "I didn't expect King Shun's revenge to come so quickly. Last time you came to me and said that the princess's admiration for you is not good. It's better to settle the marriage earlier. But I am not good at interfering with the marriages of the royal descendants. It happened that there was such a little prince who was suspected of getting married in the Jin Kingdom, so I took advantage of the opportunity to mention it to the emperor. The marriage was very smooth, but King Shun's revenge was also very smooth. smoothly."

Zhou Chen: "..."

He remembered that after Lin Daiyu was humiliated in Shun Palace last time, Zhou Zichen took Lin Daiyu out to play and relax. After returning to the mansion for the first time, Zhou Zichen went directly to his father, because he didn't want to eavesdrop on what the father and son were saying, so he didn't approach .

Thinking about it now, when Zhou Zichen went to see the master, he presumably brought up this matter.

This is really a cycle of karma, and the retribution is not good.

The master of Qingyang County bullied Daiyu, Zhou Zichen couldn't bear it, and he promised Jia Min, so he came to the bottom of the pot, who would have thought that it would become like this?

But he thought, if Zhou Zichen asked his father to apply eye drops in front of the emperor, and asked the emperor to give the princess a marriage, Zhou Zichen would know that this matter would eventually be known by King Shun, let alone that King Shun would take revenge , but even if he knew that he would be retaliated by King Shun, Zhou Zichen probably wouldn't regret doing so.

"Don't worry, my lord. Since the emperor has given me full responsibility for this case, it is not impossible to solve this matter. After all, the emperor will give the princess of Qingyang and the prince of Jin a marriage. He originally had this idea, otherwise No matter how much eye drops you take, the emperor will not change his decision." Zhou Chen said calmly.

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