It turned out to be someone from the side of the prince of the East Palace, Hongli, and it was the marriage family of the Zhengcheng Wang family, so it was not surprising......

Zhao Hongrun nodded suddenly in understanding, and finally understood why the newly appointed general's mansion Zhengchao Lidong was hostile to him—the camps were opposed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

You must know that although Zhao Hongrun himself has never participated in the open and secret struggle for the throne, and has not clearly expressed his support for his second brother Yongwang Hongyu so far, it is undeniable that Zhao Hongrun has indeed done a lot of things that are opposed to the prince of the East Palace.

Of course, Zhao Hongrun didn't admit that he was helping Yongwang Hongyu, he just felt that the prince of the East Palace sometimes didn't clean up, so he had to slap him a few times from time to time, otherwise he would kick his nose in the face.

But in the eyes of the outside world, Zhao Hongrun may not have been labeled as King Yong's reputation, who let him target the prince of the East Palace many times.

In this way, how could the people of the East Palace Prince Hongli and his family give Zhao Hongrun a good look?

What's more, this Chao Lidong's family is still the marriage family of the Zhengcheng Wang family.

Last year, the little son of the Zhengcheng Wang's family, the younger brother of the queen of the dynasty and the little uncle of the prince Hongli of the East Palace, Wang Jin, was killed by riding Kou Huanhu, although this matter cannot be completely blamed on Zhao Hongrun's head, it can only be said that Huan Hu is really a bold and self-righteous giant, but most people who believe in Zhengcheng Wang's family will not think so.

They will only feel that Zhao Hongrun deliberately did not want to rescue Wang Jin, or simply gave up rescuing Wang Jin.

Because of this incident, Zhao Hongrun's relationship with Zhengcheng Wang's family was very stiff for a while, but later there was a secret fight between the two factions of Donggong Prince Hongli and Yongwang Hongyu, and then the war broke out in Northern Xinjiang, so that Zhengcheng Wang's family didn't have time to take care of a certain His Royal Highness King Su, which does not mean that this grievance is over.

No, from the attitude of the newly appointed General's Mansion Zhengchao Lidong, Zhao Hongrun clearly felt the hostility of the Zhengcheng Wang clan and their alliance forces towards him.

"Thank you, Lord Tang, for telling me." Zhao Hongrun thanked Tang Zheng, the left attendant of the Criminal Department.

Tang Zheng shook his head slightly and said that he didn't need to thank him, and then, he apologized in a low voice and walked away.

Obviously, Tang Zheng didn't want to offend Chao Lidong and the huge forces behind him, but Zhao Hongrun didn't care about this, after all, Tang Zheng had released enough kindness to him.

I'm also dizzy, the General's Mansion is a strategy proposed by Zhou Yu to the East Palace, how can the East Palace hand over this important position to others......

Zhao Hongrun smiled self-deprecatingly, and then focused his attention on the autopsy process made by those Dali Temple servants.

As for Chao Lidong's watchful eyes, Zhao Hongrun didn't see it at all.

According to Zhao Hongrun's visual inspection and the results of the autopsy of the servants, Zhou Yan, the secretary of the criminal department, should have been thrown into the nearby canal after his death, because when a servant squeezed the stomach of the corpse hard, there was not much water in the abdomen of the corpse, which basically eliminated the possibility of drowning.

Moreover, judging from the official uniform on Zhou Yan's body, this Shangshu Lord did not have a fierce fight before he was killed, and it is very likely that he was attacked to death.

Of course, this is only the most preliminary judgment, and the specific result has to wait for the tolerance of Dali Temple to move the body to Dali Temple, and the Dali Temple servants will conduct a more in-depth autopsy.

It wasn't long before the guards who had been sent around to look for witnesses returned, along with several women and men.

The women were said to be the founders of the bodies.

According to the women, they were washing clothes in this canal when they found the body of Zhou Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Frightened, they hurriedly called their men without caring about the laundry.

When those men saw that Zhou Yan was wearing official uniforms, they were also frightened, and hurriedly reported to the official, and the court learned the bad news.

"Wait, do you go to this canal every day to wash your clothes?" Xu Rong, who looked like an old Dali temple secretary, asked the women kindly.

What he asked was exactly what Zhao Hongrun also wanted to know.

"Back to this lord, the women and others go to this canal every day to wash their clothes......"

It may be that Xu Rong of Dali Temple has a kind attitude, and the women are not very panicked, although the stuttering is a little unclear, but they can finally talk to each other, and they will not answer the bull's head and the horse's mouth.

"Oh. …… Two days before, had you found any foreign objects in the canal? Xu Rong deliberately accentuated the word foreign body, which means self-evident.

"No...... Never. One of the women said, and then the others shook their heads.

"Are you sure? Don't rush, think about it. Xu Rong asked kindly.

The women thought about it carefully, but finally shook their heads.

"Oh, the old man knows......" A glimmer of light flashed in Xu Rong's seemingly cloudy eyes.

And Zhao Hongrun, who could hear it clearly, also grabbed something from the stories of those women.

"Not quite right...... Chu Shuli, the head of the Great Liang Mansion, walked to Xu Rong's side and whispered: "According to Mrs. Zhou, Zhou Shangshu did not return home two days ago, if Zhou Shangshu had been killed at that time, wouldn't this mean ......"

Xu Rong shook his head, signaled Chu Shuli not to say any more, and then instructed the nearby guards: "Search the surroundings carefully, and if you find someone with suspicious deeds, you can take it down!" ”

Zhao Hongrun can understand what this old man meant: Zhou Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, disappeared two days ago, or may have been killed at that time, but the murderer is still hesitating and hesitating about what to do with Zhou Yan's body.

After all, Zhou Yan is the secretary of the criminal department, if he loses his whereabouts, whether it is the imperial court or the vertical arch hall, he will not give up the investigation, he will see people in life and see corpses in death, otherwise he will search the whole city until he finds it.

And this means that the murderer of Zhou Yan is very familiar with the operation of the imperial court, so there is no trace of destroying the body.

Otherwise, if he killed an important minister like Zhou Yan, how could the murderer dare to throw the corpse? According to the usual ideal, it is better to find a random place to bury it than to throw it in such a place, right?

In other words, the murderer threw the body of Zhou Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, in this canal, and it is very likely that he was frightened by Wei Tianzi's posture of martial law in the whole city.

There wasn't much dirt on Zhou Shangshu's body, it didn't look like it had been dug up after it was buried...... This means that either Zhou Shangshu was killed not long ago, or the murderer left Zhou Shangshu's body somewhere for two days...... This doesn't make sense. Isn't it normal to dispose of the body quickly after killing someone? What is the murderer hesitating?

Zhao Hongrun shook his head slightly, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that the murderer behind the scenes killed Zhou Yan too hastily, as if even the murderer didn't know what to do with the body of this Zhou Shangshu, so he placed it somewhere for two days, wanting to see the movements of the imperial court.

And today, seeing that Wei Tianzi was furious, blocked the entrances and exits of the royal city, and sent troops to search the whole city, he quickly abandoned the body of this Zhou Shangshu in this canal.

This will not be a long-planned assassination...... It's more like a hasty murder.

Zhao Hongrun frowned and pondered.

At this time, the servants of Dali Temple were checking Zhou Yan's hands, because the latter's hands were clenched into fists for some reason, as if they were subconsciously pinched before they were stimulated by something.

Not?

A hint of surprise flashed in Zhao Hongrun's eyes, because he found that Zhou Yan's body was clenched into fists with both hands, but there was a difference in the way the two hands clenched their fists.

The left hand is a very common fist pinch, with the thumb on the outside; On the other hand, the thumb is pinched by the other four fingers.

However, there was nothing in Zhou Yan's hands - not only his hands, but so far the servants had not found anything suspicious from Zhou Yan's body.

Why...... Zhou Shangshu's right hand is going to use that weird posture to pinch his fist? It's like ...... Protect your thumb......

In the surprised gazes of several servants, Zhao Hongrun pushed away the others and stepped forward, grabbed Zhou Yan's right hand, and carefully examined his thumb.

Only then did he discover that there was a very thin and thin piece of wood wire hidden in the crack of Zhou Yan's thumb nail, which was roughly complete, and from where it was, it seemed that Zhou Yan had deliberately cut it off and embedded it inside.

This...... What do you mean?

Even if it is Zhao Hongrun, it is a little inexplicable.

From the side, a servant also found the trace of wood in the thumb of Zhou Yan's right hand, and hurriedly told several adults present.

His Royal Highness the King of Su......

Chu Shuli, the Daliang Mansion, Xu Rong, the Qing of the Dali Temple, and Tang Zheng, the left waiter of the Criminal Department, and Shan Ming, the right waiter, all showed a little surprise on their faces when they saw this scene.

Because even they didn't expect that those experienced servants had checked once before, but they didn't find anything usable, and these His Royal Highnesses had actually found a clue - although they didn't know what that thread of wood meant.

At this time, after looking at it a few times, Chao Lidong pursed his lips disdainfully: "I thought I found something, but it turned out to be just a trace of sawdust...... What's the use of this? Maybe it was glued to Zhou Shangshu when his body was abandoned in the canal. ”

Clenching your fists in that way, you dip it for me?

Zhao Hongrun glanced at Chao Lidong unhappily, he knew very well that the other party didn't understand, but deliberately targeted him.

I ignore you, and you're still kicking your nose in the face?

Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun deliberately said: "What are the sawdust in this canal, you can scoop it up and let this king take a look." ”

Hearing this, several adults present were a little puzzled, after all, the canal in front of them was not very clean, and of course there would be some broken wood floating on it.

And that Chao Lidong seemed to have caught Zhao Hongrun's handle, and after a few sneering words, he walked to the canal, leaned over and was about to pick up the broken wood residues in the water.

At this time, I saw Zhao Hongrun quietly start running, and then flew up and kicked Chao Lidong's buttocks, kicking him down the drain.

There was a pop and a splash.

On the side, Xu Rong, Chu Shuli, Tang Zheng, Shan Ming and other ministers of the DPRK and China, as well as many guards, gasped and looked at each other, dumbfounded.

"Someone, carry Zhou Shangshu's body to Dali Temple for further examination."

Under the stunned gaze of everyone, Zhao Hongrun straightened his clothes and walked back to his place as if nothing had happened.

Ignoring the canal, the mansion of the Great General's Mansion was still shouting for help. (To be continued.) )