Everyone was shocked, especially Zhu Zhiling, who seemed to be frightened to the point that her face turned pale and even more pitiful.

Zhu Zhitong said lazily on the side: "Fake! ”

Emperor Ming said to himself: "Twenty years ago, there was indeed a demon beast in the Nanhua gold sales case, and more than 100 miners present at that time saw it in person, how could this matter be fake?" ”

"That's right! How could it be a fake! You kid has only been in Bihai for half a year, how do you know what happened to my Bihai Kingdom twenty years ago? It is clearly confusing black and white. Lu Wenchi saw Emperor Ming speak, and hurriedly retorted.

"If it's a real demon beast, can we still stand here?"

Zhu Zhitong glared at Lu Wenchi angrily, and as she spoke, she took out a deerskin bag from behind her, took out a small black bucket and said, "Mother, you see, this is called gold erosion water, which is made by refining the pyrite in that cave, as long as you pour some of this on the brown sugar, you can create a demon beast." ”

Emperor Ming heard the clouds and mountains and fog, and looked unbelieving. Zhu Zhitong turned her head to Zhu Zhiling and said, "Sister, do you have brown sugar there?" Take some. ”

As soon as Zhu Zhiling beckoned, the palace maid immediately brought a large plate of brown sugar.

Lu Xingyuan snorted coldly and said, "When it comes to brown sugar being taken so quickly, Her Royal Highness the Princess seems to have prepared it in advance. There is a lot of meaning in the words.

Zhu Zhiling was stunned again, as if she couldn't hear the sound outside the strings, and replied: "What Guogong said is good, I prepared it in advance." The imperial doctor instructed me to drink more brown sugar water on weekdays, so I put a lot of it in the side hall. ”

Su Xiaochen laughed secretly in his belly, thinking that this Zhu Zhiling was really powerful, and he was so sophisticated even pretending to be confused. Zhu Zhitong took the brown sugar and piled it on the ground, and everyone was wondering what she was going to do, when they saw her pull out the small black leather plug on the bucket and pour some on it.

I saw that branches suddenly sprung up in the pile of brown sugar, and each branch grew very fast, because the growth was so fast that the branches began to twist wantonly, like a swimming snake, vivid.

Everyone couldn't help but exclaim, except for Lu Wenchi who forgot to exclaim.

Then a pungent rancid smell came to him, and Emperor Ming raised his sleeves in front of his nose, almost being smoked into tears. Zhu Zhiling covered her stomach when she smelled it, as if she was about to gause, and she had already been supported by a palace maid and hid in the side hall.

"This ...... What is this? Zhu Yuxiao was shocked and angry.

"This is the so-called demon beast!" Su Xiaochen was very calm, "What we saw in the cave is much bigger than these. Probably because of the more gold water and brown sugar used. ”

Lu Wenchi was furious on the side, and said loudly: "Nonsense! This kind of trick of bluffing people in the market, dare to make a trick in front of His Majesty, the demon beast appeared in the world that day was seen by everyone's own eyes, and His Majesty the Emperor personally ordered it to be sealed, you are so bold to trespass into the mine, are you impatient? ”

Zhu Zhitong saw that he yelled at Su Xiaochen, and couldn't swallow this breath for Su Xiaochen in his heart, so he interjected horizontally and said, "If you don't enter the mine, can you find out so many secrets hidden inside?" Besides, I'm in the mine. How? Do you mean I'm impatient?

Emperor Ming frowned and said in a low voice: "Okay, Tong'er, don't be rude." ”

This dead girl, how can she protect this stinky boy so tightly? Lu Wenchi couldn't help cursing in his heart, but it was not easy to attack. After all, it was in front of the emperor, and Zhu Zhitong was also the favorite princess of the Ming Emperor, and she was not good at this loss, so she reluctantly shut up immediately.

Su Xiaochen still said calmly: "Lord Lu, don't be impatient, I just told what we saw and heard on Nanhua Island, and I didn't mean anything else." ”

Lu Wenchi was still angry, pointed at Su Xiaochen and said sharply: "Since you said that this demon beast is fake and was deliberately created by someone, then who is this person?" Why did you come up with these tricks when you went into the mines? ”

Su Xiaochen nodded calmly and said with a smile: "Actually, it is the same as what Lord Lu thinks. Deliberately created a fake demon beast after we entered the cave, so why? ”

yes, why? The crowd listened with their ears pricked up.

"At first, I suspected that someone in the cave was trying to scare away His Highness and me with demon beasts, and I hoped that we would not pursue it further. But later it turned out that the demon beast had its own appearance and was vulnerable. I just felt that it was not so much that the other party wanted to scare us away, but that he wanted to show us the truth about the monster. Today, when I heard Governor Liu's words, I realized that the person who demonstrated the demon beast in the cave must have gone to report to Lord Shen and tell her that there was another strange person in the Nanhua gold sale case back then. ”

"Nonsense! Nothing short of nonsense! His Majesty the Emperor has personally tried this case for more than 20 years, how can anyone suddenly jump out and say that this is something else? Who would do that? The more Lu Wenchi spoke, the more angry he became, and the white foam on his mouth flew up, almost splashing on Lu Qiusheng beside him.

"Because you killed people and provoked a civil uprising, people are resentful, so they naturally want to settle your old accounts." Zhu Zhitong just rightly added a sentence next to her, which sounded reasonable.

Lu Wenchi was coldly robbed by Zhu Zhitong like this, and he couldn't turn around in his mind for a while. I didn't expect that it was the reappearance of demon beasts first, and then the miners went on strike, and then killed people and provoked civil revolt. It was not because the people had resentment that some people came to turn over Lu Wenchi's old accounts because of resentment.

In fact, it is not difficult to figure out the key to this, but if it were his father, Lu Xingyuan, was afraid that he would have already seen the problem and refuted it. But Lu Wenchi kept this matter a secret from his father from beginning to end, even if Lu Xingyuan was scheming and didn't know the ins and outs of this matter, he couldn't hear that Zhu Zhitong was messing around at this moment. And Lu Wenchi has been a thief since Liu Mingyan entered the palace, seeing that the old case from twenty years ago was peeled out little by little, it was already a mess, and then Zhu Zhitong and Su Xiaochen were stirred together, and his brain was like a bucket of paste, where could he still react.

Lu Xingyuan hurriedly gave his son a look, signaling him not to speak again for the time being, so as not to make too many mistakes.

Emperor Ming nodded, put down his sleeves, and ordered: "What happened later?" And how did you get involved with Nawen and Gui? Go on. ”

"Although we were frightened by the monsters, we still couldn't understand the mystery. It wasn't until we returned to Wen's house from the mine that Lord Shen, the prefect of Cheongju, came over with a few white-clothed warriors, so we hid on the roof and eavesdropped. It was Lord Shen who told the truth of the matter and the demon beast, and we suddenly realized. He pointed to the guards of the Baisha camp on the side and said, "He also said the general situation just now, so I won't repeat it here." ”

Su Xiaochen didn't want to lie, but he was hesitant about today's statement. When he met Wen Hegui that day, although it is not clear whether he is an enemy or a friend, at least he can feel that there is no ill will towards him. The most important thing is that Wen Hegui did help them all the way until he cracked the truth of the Nanhua gold case, if he didn't have him, the secret of the Nanhua gold case might still be hidden deep in the hole.

According to the agreement between Wen Hegui and him that day, he only needed to assist Zhu Zhitong in publishing the truth of the Nanhua gold sale case to the public, and this move did not violate his conscience. What's more, Lu Wenchi's actions are extremely vicious, which also makes him feel resentful in his heart, if today's incident is that everyone is pushing the wall down, he will not be stingy to take another hand.

Lu Wenchi was just about to refute against, but suddenly Lu Xingyuan waved his hand at him, so he had to shut up first. I saw Lu Xingyuan stand up, walk up to Su Xiaochen, and ask unhurriedly:

"Master Su, according to what you said, you and Her Royal Highness the Princess were lying on the roof at that time, yes or no?"

Su Xiaochen didn't know what he wanted to say, and replied, "Yes." ”

"Then Shen Xianyun and the warriors of the Baisha Battalion have come to Wenfu, where are they?"

"Pei Guogong doesn't know, when you didn't enter the palace, this warrior from the Baisha Camp had already said that in addition to him, Shen Xianyun and the other three warriors were all killed by Wen Hegui."

Lu Xingyuan didn't expect Shen Xianyun to be dead, his mind spun quickly, still the color did not change, and turned to the white-clothed guard and said, "The name of your Baisha Camp is also well-known throughout the country, and they are all first-class warriors, yes or no?" ”

The white-clothed guard obviously hadn't prepared for this question, and didn't know how to answer it for a while, so he looked at Liu Mingyan cautiously, but found that Liu Mingyan had his back to him.

His Majesty the Emperor Ming is in front of him, how can he make a mistake? Liu Mingyan's heart was bright, and she would rather talk about it if something went wrong, rather than exchange her head or secretly look at her in front of this suspicious Majesty.

The guard had no choice but to whisper, "Yes." ”

"Then Shen Xianyun is okay, he can kill the three warriors of the Baisha Battalion, presumably this Wen Hegui is very skilled, yes or no?"

"Yes! Be! Very remarkable! He is so fast that he is simply a master of the masters. The guard felt very ashamed because he was said to have been hit by the tea cap, and now when he saw Lu Xingyuan asking him like this, he was busy touting Wen Hegui so that he could save some of the face of the Baisha camp. But in fact, what he said is not a lie.

"Then the old man is puzzled, Yiwen Hegui is so skilled, when he saw that the matter was revealed, he killed Shen Xianyun, how could he let go of His Highness and Master Su on the roof? Just kill you and His Highness and Master Su on the roof, won't this matter be quiet? To tell the truth, the old man's eyes are cloudy, and he should be a well-educated person, not... Instead—" he smiled and said no more.

Everyone present could guess that he was trying to say, I think you are a scholar, Wen and Gui can even deal with the warriors of the Baisha Battalion, if they want to kill you, can you escape?

Lu Wenchi was overjoyed in his heart, worthy of being his father, and he was like watching the fire. Just like my father said, no one in Baisha Camp is an opponent, and if such a weak scholar can stand here unharmed, he must have some kind of compromise with Wen Hegui. If there is a compromise, then his testimony is inadmissible. The father wanted to tear out the hole from the testimony like a steel plate.

Emperor Ming actually had the same doubts in his heart, but he was a little more frightened than Lu Xingyuan. She pulled Zhu Zhitong and said: "You ran to the roof recklessly and recklessly, fortunately, nothing happened, if that Wen Hegui had bad intentions, he really wanted to kill you, how can I save you thousands of miles away?!" I couldn't help but have a little red circles in my eyes.