It was not uncommon for the wife to send additional servants to her husband who was alone, and for a woman she did not know very well, to ask if she had done what she had entrusted her.

But at this moment, listening to Zhang Heng intentionally or unintentionally put the two things together to tell him, Yang Guang couldn't help but have an indescribable strange feeling in his heart, as if the secret buried deep in his heart had been discovered, a little flustered, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he was too ridiculous: Hongxuan was indeed his personal maid in his phase, even if Xiao E really had a self-evident meaning, there was nothing abnormal; And Chen Weiyang asked Zhang Heng to ask himself if he brought all the things she entrusted to him to Chen Changle and Xu Deyan, and there was nothing abnormal about the husband and wife.

Despite this, Yang Guang's heart was still stirred up by the two private things that Zhang Heng reported to him, so that he seemed a little absent-minded at the subsequent reception banquet held for Zhang Heng, until Pei Yun walked in with the confession transcripts of Gu Zier and Yan Shisan, he tried his best to collect his mind, cheer up his spirits, retire idle people, etc., and began to discuss the case with Zhang Heng and Pei Yun.

Zhang Heng repeatedly read the confession records of Gu Zier and Yan Shisan many times, pretending to be unaware of the changes in Yang Guang's expression, and asked, "But I don't know if the prince plans to close the case here, or continue to investigate?" ”

Pei Yun was in charge of investigating the case, and without waiting for Yang Guang to speak, he replied to Zhang Heng: "Xiao Rushui and Zhang Zhongjian, the two important criminals have not yet been brought to justice, and the case will naturally continue to be investigated, but the first offender Gu Zier has been arrested, and the prince intends to escort him back to Beijing first, and hand it over to the imperial court to ask and send it down, what's the matter, does Zhang Changshi have any objections to this?" ”

Zhang Heng saw that Yang Guang did not raise objections to Pei Yun's side, so he said openly and honestly: "Lord Wang, I don't hide it, the official only read this record, and there are still many incomprehensions in my heart, please ask Lord Wang to explain." ”

"Jianping said that it doesn't matter, Chong Zhi and I have also discussed these two records before, except for the section where Gao Qinglian who confessed by two of them designated Gu Zier as his successor, there are still doubts about it, and nothing else has been found." Yang Guang took the initiative to point out to Zhang Heng that both he and Pei Yun had doubts about Gao Qinglian's appointment of Gu Zi'er as his successor.

"Xiaguan has the same opinion as the prince and Pei Duji, and they all think that if Gu Zierguo is the successor of the 'wild goose's nest' leader, they can't just rely on the confessions of her and Yan Shisan, and exclude Chen Shubao, the queen of Nanchen, from the suspects. Zhang Heng immediately agreed with Yang Guang's suspicion that Gu Zi'er succeeded to the "Wild Goose's Nest" as the leader of the "Wild Goose's Nest" and gave Chen Shubao an order.

"Chen Shubao is now in Chang'an, and he visited him in his mansion when he was still in the court, and witnessed that the imperial court supervised him very closely. If it is said that what happened in Jiangnan in the past two years is related to him, it may not be, but Gu Zier herself admitted that two years ago, she accompanied Chen Shubao to return to the Gu family's ancestral house in Dongjiao City to live, which inevitably makes people suspect that it was Chen Shubao, not Gao Qinglian, who ordered Gu Zier to take over the 'Wild Goose's Nest', but two years have passed since the incident, and it is not easy to find out about this matter now. Considering the needs of Fusui Jiangnan, it seems inappropriate to make the Shangzhang Imperial Court public and investigate Chen Shubao clearly. In this way, this king will give a secret to his father, and suggest that he appoint a competent person to secretly investigate Chen Shubao, what do you think? ”

"The prince is very thoughtful, and the officials really admire it." Pei Yun immediately complimented Yang Guangdao.

Zhang Heng also nodded and agreed with Yang Guang's side, and then changed his words and reminded Yang Guangdao: "Before the prince suggested that the imperial court secretly investigate Chen Shubao and get the results, the lower officials first raised two or three questions about the confession of Gu Zi'er and Yan Shisan, Gao Qinglian designated him as the successor leader, and I would like to ask the prince and Pei Duji's office to give a lecture. First of all, I would like to ask, if according to Gu Zi'er's confession, the identity and status of her and Gu Pan'er's sisters in the Southern Chen Dynasty are above the first Guan Zizai-Gao Qinglian, why are they willing to accept Gao Qinglian's designation and become his successor? ”

"Don't worry too much about it." Yang Guang was the first to answer, "You must know that Gu Zi'er didn't know that she was already the second Guan Zizi, and according to her situation at that time, accepting Gao Qinglian's instructions, it was indeed possible to succeed the big leader." Jianping can't question what happened after the identity and status of Gu Zi'er and Gao Qinglian before Nan Chen's death. ”

"What the prince instructed. But what the lower officials are puzzled about is that although Gu Zi'er may have deigned to accept Gao Qinglian's instructions to succeed the big leader without knowing that his sister Gu Pan'er, the second Guan Zizai, why did Gao Qinglian still designate Gu Zi'er as his successor when he knew that his position as the big leader had been taken over by Xinyi when he surrendered to the imperial court? Could it be that he wants to provoke the mutual conflict within the 'Goose's Nest' and take revenge on Gu Pan'er? ”

What Zhang Changshi said is very true. A few years ago, Xinyi pretended to surrender to the imperial court, and the vast majority of the 5,000 'Goose's Nest' she betrayed were Gao Qinglian's subordinates, so it was very likely that Gao Qinglian, who was far away from Goguryeo at that time, had a grudge against Xinyi's approach, and came up with such a way to take revenge after returning to Jiangnan. According to this inference, Guan Zizai, who is actually in charge of the 'Wild Goose's Nest', is not specifically referring to Gao Qinglian alone, but a specific title, whoever becomes the big leader, he (she) calls himself Guan Zizai to the outside world, and once the successor process is started by the latter Guan Office, the previous Guan Zizai must give way...... "While explaining to Zhang Heng, Pei Yun also patted Yang Guang's sycophants by the way, complimenting him for discovering that Guan Zizai was not a single person, but a "wild goose's nest" The secret of the specific title of the Great Chief.

"That is, according to Pei Duji's room, Gao Qinglian is dissatisfied with the successor's intention to start the succession process by betraying his subordinates, so as to deliberately designate his sister Gu Zi'er as his successor, create trouble among the Gu sisters, and achieve his ulterior motives, if all this is true, then may I ask, a few years ago, the heart betrayed 5,000 people." In the eyes of the Pei Du Ji Office, was it her unauthorized act, or was it a deliberate act that had been approved in advance? Is the life of one mind worth the lives of five thousand? Zhang Heng asked coldly.