Chapter Twenty-Three: The Culprit

When things are urgent, there is not much time left for casual thinking.

As soon as the day dawned, the streets were full of wails and weeping.

The night that has just passed, as if it was a big looting, although it only affected the two streets outside the Five Princes' Mansions, the Five Princes' Mansions were close to the official road.

Therefore, all the injuries this time were the mansions of Jin Sheng's big men with heads and faces, and more than half of the family servants of many senior officials in the court were killed or injured, and the emperor attached great importance to it and ordered a thorough investigation.

But at this time, the national teacher said that he was ill, and the emperor had to hand over the right to investigate the matter thoroughly to the demigod body.

Before going to the mansion of the five princes, he had already arranged for a large number of forbidden troops to be stationed in all corners of Jinsheng, and ordered anyone who encountered suspicious people to report immediately.

Sure enough, as soon as the sky turned white, a bearded military general came to report that a suspicious figure had been found in General Chu's house.

casually put down Chu drunk, did not laugh as usual, and followed the military general to the general's mansion.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Chu Zui saw an imperceptible gloom in his casual eyes for the first time.

Seeing Sui Yu go away, she also followed, after all, she was going back to her own home, no different from not following Yu, but she was like a child who made a mistake and was waiting to be punished, following Sui Yu half a step behind him, all the way to the general's mansion.

When she arrived at the mansion, Chu Zhiyuan knelt at the door with all the old and young people in the mansion, and she could even see the big beads of sweat on Chu Zhiyuan's forehead, as well as his paler face than usual.

Sui Yu ignored the kneeling protector general Chu Zhiyuan, but directly skipped a group of people and followed the bearded general into the inner house.

Chu Zui stopped at the door, as if he felt the pause in her footsteps, and his body paused slightly, but he didn't stop long, and still strode forward.

When the group of forbidden soldiers he brought with him walked away, Chu Zui lowered his head and picked up his old father, who seemed to be ten years old, and asked quietly: "What's going on at home?

The reason why Chu Zui asked like this was because he glanced around and found that the second aunt Liu, who had always held the shelf of the master mother in the house, was absent on such an important occasion.

Behind Chu Zhiyuan is the third aunt Shang, and behind Shang is the third lady Chu Li, the fourth miss Chu Yun and the second son Chu Zhiyao, and these people's faces are not very good-looking.

Chu Zhiyuan saw Chu Zui's worried expression at the beginning, and after making sure that she was fine, he coughed angrily twice, and finally suppressed all his emotions and said in a deep voice:

"Where did you go last night? Do you know my father was worried...... That's it, just come back safely, let's go!"

Chu was drunk and didn't know why, so he had to help Chu Zhiyuan follow up with the inner house.

As soon as I entered, I found that the General's Mansion, which was across the street from the Fifth Prince's Mansion, had also been damaged by last night's "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk".

Further on, it is Yinyue Garden, the residence of the second lady Chu Yue.

This place is close to the back door of the General's Mansion, and I heard that the back door was wide open last night, which attracted many ghosts to enter the General's Mansion and wreak havoc.

Therefore, the damage to Yinyue Garden is the most serious, and it has been several layers of forbidden troops inside and out, and there is only a gap enough for one person to pass.

In the boudoir that was half of the roof lifted, Liu was hugging Chu Yue and burst into tears: "Daughter, my daughter, why are you so miserable!"

And Chu Yue was disheveled at the moment, his hair was unkempt, and he was holding a broken white hosta in his hand, he was in a trance, his eyes were dull, and he repeated over and over again:

"No...... Not me...... Not me...... Mother, it's not me, save me...... Save me...... I didn't have ......"

Chu Zui looked at the hairpin in her hand, which was Yao Ji's body. Immediately anger surged, could it be that she had hurt Yaoji? But where did she have such great ability?

Sui Yu's eyes were bright, and he said, "Are you sure it's her?"

"Yes!" the bearded military general said, "We searched for a night according to what His Highness said, and found that this woman was holding the broken white hosta of the previous dynasty, and the ghosts that were driven last night and the huge black bear, when they saw this person, did not attack. ”

The more the bearded man spoke, the more angry he became: "The subordinates thought that she was a weak woman last night, and led the soldiers to rescue her desperately, but I never thought that more than a dozen elite soldiers were killed and injured because of this, but this woman was unharmed!"

"Blood spews people!" Liu hugged Chu Yue, and then begged Chu Zhiyuan with his pitiful appearance before: "Master, master, you save Yue'er, no matter what, she will not be able to manipulate a hundred ghosts to attack the official road, master!"

Chu Zhiyuan frowned, and his old face turned red and turned white: "Your Highness, the little girl has been raised in the boudoir since she was a child, I'm afraid she won't be able to ......."

"Won't it?" Before Chu Zhiyuan could finish speaking, he replied coldly: "What's the matter with the broken hosta of the former dynasty in front of the young lady?"

"This ......" Chu Zhiyuan's lips trembled, and he couldn't argue.

"And," said unceremoniously at the expense: "This king also heard that some soldiers found that on the official road last night, the second lady was disheveled, and she pulled and pulled with a man, and she didn't return to the house until midnight, but is there such a thing?"

As soon as these words came out, Chu Yue's body shook like a frightened bird, and he looked at Sui Yu with frightened eyes, and was frightened away by the light of his eyes, and lowered his head again.

Seeing her react like this, Chu Zui probably understood why this hairpin was in her hand.

Last night, Yao Ji launched the "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk" for Suiqing, and the eldest prince obviously sensed the crisis, so he gave the hairpin to the third prince Suijing.

Suijing came to Chu Yue for a private meeting at night, and when he noticed that the forbidden army was alarmed, he threw the hairpin to Chu Yue and fled by himself in order to get rid of the relationship.

Such an act is stupid and unforgivable!

Liu felt sorry for his daughter, and immediately said angrily: "Your Royal Highness the Regent, you have to speak ......"

"Shut up!" Chu Zhiyuan suddenly interrupted Liu's almost crazy questioning with a loud voice, and then ordered several family members who followed behind him, "Second aunt is crazy, quickly pull her away!"

The family hurriedly responded and pulled the Liu family away from Chu Yue, but the Liu family scolded and scolded in his mouth, but he was finally dragged to his own garden and locked up.

Chu Zhiyuan lowered his eyes, struggled in pain and prepared to speak for Chu Yue for the last time, after all, it was his own daughter, even if it was really different, he always had to save him desperately:

"Your Highness, I don't know if this matter can be tried by the old man himself, and if there is really such a matter, the old man will not tolerate it!"

"Oh?" casually looked back at Chu Zui with a long voice, and said, "This king wants to hear the opinion of Miss Chu who helped catch ghosts last night!"

Chu Zui raised his eyes to meet the gaze of the casual encounter, at this time, his eyes were as cold as the ice of the Tianshan Mountains, as deep as an abyss, and he couldn't distinguish any emotions at all.

She had no choice but to speak according to her own wishes, she knew that maybe her father would hate her if she said this, but this stupid and arrogant second lady could not stay.

She said: "Manipulating ghosts to harm the official road is to bring disaster to the country and the people; secretly hiding prohibited items of the previous dynasty is to seek rebellion; and the man who has not left the boudoir to have a private meeting is to disobey the woman's way, no matter which crime is responsible, he should be beheaded to set an example!"