In the Chengde Palace, seven or eight high-ranking officials dressed in regular clothes stood at the bottom of the stairs with serious faces, and the two people standing at the front, one on the left and one on the right, were Su Zhi and Xiao Zhi.

"Xi Wanlai died in the palace, can't you come up with any ideas for such a big thing?!"

Su Jingyou's expression was gloomy, and his eyes swept sharply over the people standing in the hall one by one, and everyone lowered their heads and did not say a word.

Only Su Zhi seemed to be contemplating something.

"Regent, what do you think?"

Su Jingyou asked, but his voice was obviously gentle.

Su Zhi raised his head, met the emperor's gaze, and said unhurriedly: "The minister has not seen the scene, so he does not dare to make a rash assertion." ”

After Su Zhi finished speaking, a man of about forty behind him immediately spoke: "Lord Wang, the minister has already brought someone to see it after receiving the news. There were no signs of a fight at the scene, and the deceased was killed by a sharp weapon about five inches long through the blood veins in his neck.

"What is it?"

Su Zhi asked, at this moment he had already turned around and looked at Dali Siqing, who had just spoken.

Dali Temple Qing Fan Jing hurriedly said: "It's a hairpin..."

"Hairpins?" Su Zhi asked again.

Fan Jing nodded with great certainty.

Su Jingyou saw that Su Zhi's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't say a word, frowned, and what he said was said to Dali Siqing.

"Fan Qing can send someone to track down the assassin?"

"Back to Your Majesty, someone has already been sent."

Su Jingyou was about to praise Fan Jing for a few words, but Su Zhi opened his mouth first: "Master Fan is afraid that his efforts will be in vain." ”

"This..."

"If the assassin is an assassin lurking in the palace, he must have come prepared, and he will never use an inconvenient hairpin to carry out such a dangerous task."

"What does the regent mean?"

"Your Majesty, the murder of Xiwan's envoys will be handed over to the ministers. The assassin must have been improvised, and it was likely that he was still lurking in the palace, and it was naturally much more convenient for the minister to act in the palace than the Dali Temple. ”

Su Jingyou groaned slightly, as if he still had some scruples, and raised his eyes to see Su Zhi's expression.

Su Zhi was like a pool of deep and quiet stagnant water, his face was expressionless, and from his expression alone, he couldn't guess the calculation in his heart at all, but he had a feeling that he would see through it at any time.

Su Jingyou hurriedly avoided Su Zhi's gaze and agreed to Su Zhi's request.

Entering the palace before dawn, Su Zhi has been in the Chengde Palace.

Except for Dali Siqing, who went to the scene to deal with the body first, and was the last to go to the Chengde Palace, the rest of the people have been discussing with Su Jingyou in the Chengde Hall how to appease the Xiwan delegation who was still living in the Pingde Street Post Station in the Imperial City.

Yiying's rhetoric and appeasement have been arranged, and there is a candidate for who the case will be handed over, just when Su Jingyou breathed a sigh of relief, a hurried report came from outside the door.

"Your Majesty! Yale Yuanji has an urgent matter to see! ”

Yale Yuanji was the chief envoy of the Xiwan Mission, and now at this moment, he said that there was an urgent matter to see, and everyone in the palace without exception thought of the killing of the envoy.

Su Jingyou frowned, and he had a headache.

This has just been arranged smoothly, how did this Xiwan mission get the news so quickly? Before he could inform him, someone had already come over there to ask the teacher.

Obviously, Su Zhi also thought of this, and immediately opened his mouth and ordered: "Fan Jing, you immediately send someone to investigate, from last night to today, who has gone to Pingde Street to see the Xiwan Mission." ”

Fan Jing, the Qing of Dali Temple, did not speak for a while, and hurriedly turned his inquiring eyes to Su Jingyou in the hall.

Su Jingyou glanced at Su Zhi, who was giving orders with his back to him, and silently closed his lips a few times, but finally didn't say anything, only nodded towards Fan Jing.

Fan Jing got permission, so he answered, and hurriedly retired from the errand.

Sure enough, when the chamberlain walked into the Chengde Hall with Yale Yuanji, the face of the Xiwan envoy looked like he was asking for guilt, thinking that he had indeed received the news.

"Your Majesty!"

Yale's powerful voice exploded in the hall, and his face was very bad, but he still knelt down and saluted.

"Your Excellency, please."

As soon as Su Jingyou's voice fell, Yale Yuanji had already stood up, and immediately spoke: "Your Majesty, the minister got the news that Ayan was killed yesterday because he was drunk and stayed in the palace, and I ask Your Majesty to give the minister an explanation!" ”

Yale's voice was loud and firm.

In fact, at the beginning of today, he received a note that he was told that Ah Yan had been killed in the palace.

At first, he didn't believe it, and planned to enter the palace to find out, but when he arrived at the Xuanyi Gate, he saw several carriages parked outside the palace gate, and his heart was already a little shaken until he entered the Chengde Palace.

Looking at the expressions of everyone in the Chengde Palace, Yale Yuanji had almost confirmed the news that Ah Yan had been killed.

"Your envoy is at ease, after I got the news, I immediately sent people to blockade the imperial city, and the assassins will definitely not escape."

"Since Your Majesty has time to send someone to block the imperial city, doesn't he have time to send someone to inform the minister?"

Yale Yuanji's tone was very tough, but even so, Su Jingyou was at a loss, and he couldn't bother with him, busy and appeased.

"Don't be too careful, I want to find out the truth and give Xiwan an explanation as soon as possible, there are many things, so I forgot to pass on the envoy."

"Heh..."Yale Yuanji snorted lightly: "Is Your Majesty trying to find out the truth, or is it to help the murderer buy time?" ”

"Presumptuous."

Su Zhi suddenly scolded, his voice was not loud, but it was very cold, and two sharp rays of light suddenly burst out from his long and narrow eyes, and Yale Yuanji was stunned for a moment.

"Lord Wang..."

Yale Yuanji was about to speak, but was interrupted by Su Zhi: "Your envoy keeps asking Your Majesty, but this king also wants to ask, the news in the palace has not yet reached the post station, but the noble envoy has already come to Xingshi to ask about the crime, can this king also suspect that someone directed and acted by himself?" ”

"Lord Wang! There is no such means! ”

Yale Yuanji hurriedly argued, and as he spoke, he took out a note from his sleeve and unfolded it.

"Lord Wang, please see, the minister has indeed received the news."

Su Zhi raised his eyebrows casually, stretched out his hand and took the note handed over by Yale Yuanji, only glanced at it, and said, "Since there is a note from the whistleblower, isn't your envoy suspicious at all?" ”

"What do you mean, Lord Wang?"

Yale Yuanji had already guessed what Su Zhi meant, but looking at Su Zhi's frosty face, he didn't dare to speak for a while.

The regent was notoriously ruthless and arbitrary, and if he really annoyed him, he would not have come in vertically and gone out sideways today.

Yale Yuanji was thinking about it, and Su Zhi's indifferent voice sounded again.

"The news of the blockade in the palace is extremely strict, but someone can pass the news to the post station unknowingly, even if he is not the murderer, he can't get rid of the murderer."

Yale Yuanji was also extremely angry, thinking that Shang Yin must have a ghost hiding from them, but now that he thinks about it, it is indeed strange, not to mention that he will choose to hide it first and then make arrangements.

Thinking of this, Yale Yuanji had calmed down, and he set his eyes on Su Zhi, but Su Zhi was looking down at the note in his hand.

The words on the note are iron and silver hooks, wandering clouds and dragons, what kind of person is hidden behind this note?