What Fu Ming's words meant, Gu Zhan and Gu Chong'an, who lived in Jingzhao, knew very well.

The dead are mostly raised by noble families, which is a unique practice of the great families of the previous dynasty. Although when Dading was founded, an edict was issued prohibiting the noble clan from raising dead soldiers, but how could this be forbidden? As far as Gu Zhan knows, the mansions of several major countries in Jingzhao, as well as the surnames of Qinghe Cui, Fan Yanglu, Taiyuan Wang and other prominent families outside Jingzhao, the dead are still in zài.

Several major families outside Jingzhao regard themselves as Qing and have never been involved in the affairs of the court. What Fu Ming means is that it was Jingzhao's noble family who attacked the Gu family?

For more than 80 years since the founding of Dading, he has been cutting off his lordship and deprivation, and now there are not many Jing Zhaoxun nobles left, in addition to the six major princes who hold real power, there are also five marquis and three uncles who have prosperous children, which adds up to more than a dozen families, which one has had a feud with the Gu family?

None of them! - Gu Zhan knew this very well in his heart.

The Gu family, as an emerging family of powerful ministers, has never been on the same road as the noble family with a long history. Although everyone in the world is called noble, the powerful and the noble, after all, are still different.

Dading's national fortune situation is like this, the ministers are increasingly valued by the emperor, and the nobles are gradually staying away from the government. The Gu family is a powerful minister with real power, and he has always avoided the noble family.

Until the first emperor in order to settle the dispute between the powerful and the nobles, the two intermarried, and Gu Chongting married a girl from the Zhongyong Mansion, and the Gu family maintained a friendly relationship with the noble family of Jingzhao.

How could such a Gu family have an enmity with the noble family?

However, this ambush is clearly preserved!

With Gu Zhan's understanding of Fu Ming, what he said was nine times out of ten right, the one who ambushed and killed the Gu family in Kongcui Mountain was the dead soldier of Xungui's family!

It was only when he understood the connection that Gu Zhan's face became more and more ugly. The power clan is so leaning, and the back door is ruined, this sentence suddenly appeared in Gu Zhan's heart.

Gu Zhan and Gu Chong'an, father and son, didn't say anything, Fu Ming and Shen Du didn't know what to say for a while, and the room instantly fell silent.

Only the breathing of the four people could be heard, and the "crackling" sound of the lights falling.

Seeing this, Shen Du stood up and bowed his hand to Gu Zhan: "Lord Gu, the lower official remembered that there was still something to do, so he retired first." The matter of the man in black, if there is any progress, the lower officials will inform Lord Gu. ”

Shen Du didn't know and didn't want to know why the man in black ambushed the Gu family, this was the Gu family's family matter, since the Gu family didn't know the origin of the leader of the man in black, there was no need for him to stay in the Gu family. Although he had all kinds of doubts in his heart, it seemed that these doubts could not be solved by the Gu family.

Gu Zhan and Gu Chongan both stood up, repeatedly thanked Shen Du, and said that if the Gu family had information about the leader of the men in black, they would inform Shen Du as soon as possible.

Shen Du has a great grace to the Gu family to save his life, and the exchange of news is a little bit, of course Gu Zhan will not feel that there is any problem.

"In this way, the lower officials will wait for the good news from Lord Gu." Shen Du smiled and said goodbye to Gu Zhan, Fu Ming and the others.

Before leaving, Shen Du glanced at Fu Ming meaningfully. He always felt that Fu Ming was hiding something, and the reason for patrolling Kongcui Mountain seemed too far-fetched.

However, if he doesn't speak, he can't pry his mouth open, just wait for time, and if he is really in a hurry, he can also summon the spies of Gyeonggi Wei to talk back and forth.

Shen Du thought like this, left the Gu family, and was once again surprised by the Gu family's many stone rockeries.

After Shen Du left, Fu Ming and Gu Chongan told Gu Zhan in detail about the attack, and Gu Zhan listened carefully, but still didn't say a word.

It didn't take long for Fu Ming to leave, and he still had to deal with the affairs of Gyeonggi Wei and the man in black. When leaving, Fu Ming frowned and said puzzledly:

"My nephew is a little curious, the matter of my uncle and others going to Fuyuan Temple to make incense is not a matter of urgency, how can outsiders know about it? Can the man in black still go to ambush? ”

His words are tantamount to clearly saying that there is a traitor in the Gu family, and the itinerary of Gu Chongan and others was leaked out. Gu family, it needs to be rectified!

"I know about it, so go ahead. The affairs of Gyeonggi Wei must be dealt with well, the identities of those people in black must be verified, dig three feet into the ground, and dig out the people behind them! ”

Gu Zhan said this, his brows furrowed tightly.

On this night, the candlelight in the Pine Ling Courtyard was not extinguished until midnight. No one knew what the two fathers and sons, Gu Zhan and Gu Chongting, were talking about, and all the stewards who were serving with them withdrew from the second gate.

This night, Gu Chongting happened not to be at Gu's house, he was drunk in the Wenxiang Pavilion because of a banquet by his colleagues, and spent the night.

At this time, no one felt that the light of day had changed, and it was gradually different.

On the morning of the second day, the Xuanzheng Palace, which is usually very strict and quiet, was quite noisy because of a person's recital.

Lu Qingya, the secretary of the Criminal Department, looked at Shen Du with a serious face, and wanted to take off his boots and throw them at him on the spot!

This little rabbit cub threw such a big honeycomb on the Xuanzheng Hall without informing me in advance, causing me to be asked hoarse by the emperor!

"Your Majesty, yesterday's matter of Kongcui Mountain, Weichen has stepped up his investigation. The bodies of those black-clothed people, after being reviewed by the lawsuit, found that they were all felons wanted by the Criminal Department, and the black-clothed man who escaped, Weichen has sent officials to search for them in Kongcui Mountain with the soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion. The details of this case will be submitted to Weichen after being summarized. ”

Lu Qing hunched his waist and said in a respectful tone, without letting people notice that he was gritting his teeth.

It turned out that what made the ministers of the Xuanzheng Palace noisy was yesterday's empty Cui Mountain. Originally, there were court officials who killed more than 20 bandits, which was not worth the fuss of the ministers.

But the problem is that after verification by the Criminal Department, more than half of the 20 people who died were felons who committed bloody crimes, and three of them were sentenced to death by Qingzhou Prison a long time ago and were brought to justice last fall.

Of course, this is not the resurrection of the dead, I am afraid that there is something wrong with Qingzhou Prison, in this case, the water under the bottom is very deep, this is the consensus of the court officials.

This case involves more than a dozen felons, Qingzhou Prison, and the involvement of the Tiger Army and Gyeonggi Guard, which is not a trivial matter. Especially when the court officials learned that the person who was attacked yesterday was the eldest son of Gu Zhan, the secretary of the ministry, their faces were even more exciting.

Well, it is also involved in the official department of the court, and the bends in this case are worth thinking again, even in the Xuanzheng Palace, the court officials can't help but talk about this case, and the noise of the Xuanzheng Palace is for this.

Gu Zhan stood straight on the court, with a tired look on his face, which made the court officials guess who the Gu family had provoked, or what bad luck the Gu family had, why did they encounter so many repeat offenders?

After Shen Du finished playing this, he lowered his head and looked at the left side of the hall without a trace—this was where the Great Ding Honorable Noble stood.

The nobles are not in power, but they have the privilege of listening to the government in the Xuanzheng Palace. In particular, Emperor Chongde was kind and treated the nobles much more favorably than the previous emperors.

Shen Du was disappointed, these people all looked calm, and the biggest action was only a little stunned, just like hearing any ordinary case, there was nothing special.

He only focused on the left side, but he didn't find the right side of the head, where several princes were standing, the seventh prince Zhu Xuanxin's legs couldn't help shaking, and he didn't notice that the look of Gu Chongting, the provincial official in the palace, was extremely ugly.

Yes, Gu Chongting's expression was extremely ugly. In order to avoid the Gu family's affairs, he specially got drunk in the Wenxiang Pavilion, and he didn't want to return to the Gu family this morning to know that it didn't happen!

What made him even more frightened was that this matter was actually raised in the Xuanzheng Palace, and it was Shen Du, a Zhongshu scholar who the emperor had recently trusted very much.

Why things developed like this, Gu Chongting didn't know at all. Fu Ming and Shen Du, why did they appear on Kongcui Mountain so coincidentally? Damn it, he also saved Gu Chong'an's family!

Moreover, as soon as this matter was raised, the eyes of the court officials must be firmly fixed on Kong Cuishan and the Gu family, he was afraid that he would find out something, and he was even more afraid that he would expose himself.

All things, no matter how big or small, once they are poked out in the Xuanzheng Palace, it will be difficult to be good!