This is smelly news.

Gonggong Wei's expression was very solemn, and he smelled the crisis from the purple girl's movements.

The father-in-law carefully examined the jade pendant and confirmed that it was the one he gave to the concubine when he was in Xishan last year.

And there is no doubt about the identity of the purple girl, this is the mother's henchman.

At the beginning, in order to win over her father-in-law, the concubine also wanted to marry the purple girl to her father-in-law as a wife.

Originally, it was a good marriage, but because Father-in-law Wei thought that the world was not peaceful and the foreign wealth was not exhausted, he would never do it, so he reluctantly refused the kindness of his mother, otherwise I am afraid that this thirty-year-old Zheng Shanggong may really become his father-in-law Wei's legitimate wife.

"What's going on?" Grandpa Wei asked.

"Someone in Beijing broke into the East Palace and wanted to assassinate the master." Zheng Zi said calmly, not feeling shy at all because of what he had just done.

She thought that Wei Liangchen would be stunned by this news, but what she didn't expect was that the other party was just stunned, and asked, "Is the murderer named Zhang Cha?" ”

"How do you know?" This time it was Zheng Zi's turn.

Grandpa Wei didn't answer the question because he thought it was funny. Obviously, the murder case has already been staged by him once, why does Zhang Cha's rotten gambler still have to follow the path of his old man.

But I don't know that it is precisely because of the time he did it that some people associate it, which caused this sensational case in the government and the opposition.

There are many ways in this world, and it is because some people have walked safely that some people will follow.

"Where is the murderer now?" Grandpa Wei asked as he opened the note.

"Locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department."

Zheng Zi didn't think much about it, she just thought that someone had already passed the news before her.

She later told Wei Liangchen that the people of the Criminal Department had already interrogated that Zhang Cha had a relative who was on an errand by the side of the concubine, but she didn't know who it meant.

Gonggong Wei knew who else this person could have besides Pang Bao, but this time he didn't predict.

"You have to hurry up and find a way, otherwise Niangniang will be in danger, this time is not as good as last time, someone really assassinated the master in the East Palace, and the emperor thought that Niangniang asked someone to do it." Zheng Zi said nervously.

Father-in-law Wei let out a "hmm", lowered his head and looked at the note seriously, and after reading it, there was obvious doubt on his face.

"What is this?"

"It's the little prince's birthday."

"Huh?"

Father-in-law Wei's face finally changed, he lowered his head and stared at the little prince's birthday written on the note again, for a long time, he carefully rolled up the note and put it away, and raised his eyes to look at Zheng Zi: "You know?" ”

"I don't know anything." Zheng Zi shook his head.

Gonggong Wei didn't say anything more, he knew that Zheng Zi knew. But this woman is on the same side as him, because the concubine trusts her.

"When are you going back? There's a lot of pressure on my mother's side, so you have to come with me quickly. Zheng Zi urged.

Gonggong Wei said, "I can't go back." ”

Zheng Zi was stunned: "What if you don't go back to your mother?" ”

"Don't worry, no one can touch a single hair."

Grandpa Wei is very confident in this.

.......

After some court debate, Zhang Wenda, who was temporarily in charge of the affairs of the Criminal Department, finally eliminated the obstacles, and the 13th Division was able to jointly interrogate Zhang Cha.

But on the day of the trial, Li Yongzhen, one of the four major stalls in Dongchang, came to the Criminal Department, saying that he wanted to listen to it.

The waiter Yang Qiming refused Li Yongzhen's hearing because he had not received the holy decree, but Li Yongzhen said that it was the right of Dongchang to sit on the trial of the case, and if the criminal department insisted on not allowing it, Dongchang would inevitably suspect that there was something ulterior in it, and he should ask His Majesty to move the case to Dongchang for interrogation.

How can the Criminal Department transfer the prisoners to Dongchang again, Zhang Wenda came forward to agree with Li Yongzhen to listen to the record. After a little more delay, the thirteen officials began to interrogate.

However, there was no new result in the trial, and most of the officials adopted an attitude of calming things down, and only wanted to execute Zhang Cha and not even others.

Zhang Wenda had no choice but to let Wang Zhihuan be retried alone.

This time Wang Zhiyu made progress, and under his inducement, Zhang Cha finally confessed that his relative was Pang Bao next to the concubine.

Wang Zhihuan, who was overjoyed, hurriedly reported the situation to Zhang Wenda and Yang Qiming.

"That Zhang Cha's original name was Zhang Wu'er, originally from Henan, a few years ago to live in Jing'eryu, Jizhou, his father has passed away, and his close relatives include Uncle Ma, Grandfather Li and others, who make a living by chopping wood and hunting on weekdays..."

Wang Zhiyu said that about a month ago, Zhang Cha lost his gambling money after selling goods in Jeju, and the creditor forced him to repay the debt, so he was unable to repay the debt, so he went to Pang Bao, wanting Pang Bao to lend him some silver.

I don't want Pang Bao to do what he says, and give 30 acres of land after the fact. So Zhang Cha followed Pang Bao into Beijing, came to a big mansion and met another eunuch, and the eunuch gave Zhang Cha good food and drink.

A few days later, the eunuch took Zhang Cha into the imperial city, handed over a jujube stick to Zhang Cha, and pointed him to the East Palace.

He said, "Rush in, and when you see him in a red robe, beat him with a stick, and it is a traitor, and if you are killed, it doesn't matter, I will save you." ”

"Later, when Zhang was murdered in front of the East Palace Gate, Wei Zhongxian, the gang who asked the East Palace to burn the stove, was arrested."

Wang Zhihuan said in general.

"Who's the other eunuch?" Yang Qiming asked.

Zhang Wenda said: "Zhang Cha confessed to playing the red robe, not the yellow robe?" ”

Wang Zhihuan said that Zhang Cha didn't know who the other eunuch was, and he also asked the eunuch if he let him be a person in a yellow robe, but Zhang Cha bit it to death and said that he only wore a red robe.

"This is not an assassination of the prince."

Zhang Wenda frowned and said, if it is explained by Zhang Cha, I am afraid that the case is a matter of mutual revenge between eunuchs, and it has nothing to do with the prince, let alone Concubine Zheng.

"How do you report this?" Yang Qiming also has a headache.

"Don't report it yet."

Zhang Wenda took the idea and asked Wang Zhiyu to secretly investigate Pang Bao, and at the same time he went to discuss with Wang An, the eunuch in charge of the East Palace.

Why are you looking for Wang An, because Wang An is the only red-robed eunuch in the East Palace.

Yang Qiming and Wang Zhihuan had no objections.

Soon, Wang Zhiyu found out that Pang Bao was originally a helper under the Tianjin tax envoy Ma Tang, and a few years ago, it was almost the time when Zhang sent to Jizhou, and this Pang Bao walked on the road to the palace to serve at Zheng Guifei.

"Why is it involved in the horse hall again?"

Zhang Wenda's brows furrowed even more, Ma Tang is not easy to mess with, he is quite strong in the celebrant supervisor, and his status can also be called the internal minister.

Yang Qiming asked, "What did the prince say?" ”

Zhang Wenda Dao Wang An didn't know Pang Bao, and he had no grudge against Pang Bao, but he had some contradictions with Cui Wensheng, another favored chamberlain beside Concubine Zheng and in charge of the Imperial Flower Bureau.

"Did you say that the eunuch who brought Zhang Cha into the palace was Cui Wensheng?" Zhang Wenda asked.

Wang Zhihuan and Yang Qiming didn't dare to judge.

"Why don't you report like this first?" suggested Yang Qiming.

After hearing this, Zhang Wenda felt that it was feasible, so he wrote a song and reported it quickly.

But what is puzzling is that Zhang Wenda's note only said that it was Pang Bao who instructed Zhang Cha to commit the murder, and mentioned that another eunuch in the palace led Zhang Cha into the palace, but did not mention that Zhang Cha was going to kill the person in the red robe.

What is even more puzzling is that this piece of music was not presented to the emperor, but was intercepted by the cabinet minister Fang Congzhe, and the word "falsehood" was criticized on it, and the criminal department was asked to retry it.