Today, the city guards are patrolling the imperial capital, although it is not panicked, but it has already caused some riots, and it is obviously not suitable to go to Su Sheng's mansion now.

Ling Xuan had been cultivating in the Heavenly Star Hall all day, his current strength was too weak, only a stronger strength could allow him to live well in this world.

But what Ling Xuan was most worried about still happened.

In the evening, rumors spread throughout the imperial capital that the mansion caught fire last night because the courtiers were assassinated, and the assassins set the fire in order to destroy the evidence of the crime, and now the city guards patrol to prevent the assassins from committing crimes again.

At first, it was a big man, and when he was drunk, no one believed it at first, but the drunkard said that his brother was on an errand in the city guards, which his brother told him personally, and told him to keep it a secret.

The others saw that what he said was reasonable, and after combining the martial law of the whole city after last night's fire, and the frequent patrols of the city guards today, everyone believed it.

You must know that the predecessor of the imperial capital was the divine capital of the Shenghua Divine Dynasty, in which there are countless powerful formations, and it is even said that on the eve of the ancestor sacrifice to the Dao, he used his divine blood and divine bones to arrange a powerful killing array, which was enough to destroy the powerhouses of the Tianxing Realm.

Therefore, even if someone rebelled a few decades ago, there was no martial law in the imperial capital, but last night it was under martial law, which is very thought-provoking.

When Ling Xuan heard the news, he was playing chess with Ling Yun, and when he heard Cao Huachun's report, he directly crushed the chess pieces in his hand.

"Where's that drunk? Found it, who leaked the news?"

Ling Xuan asked three questions one by one, and his voice became colder and colder.

"The drunkard found it, only to hear that he had accidentally fallen into the river and drowned because he was drunk. ”

Cao Huachun bit the words [heard] and [accidentally] very hard, he did listen to Jinyiwei's report that the man drowned, as for carelessness, now there are city guards everywhere in the imperial capital, if someone falls into the river, they won't be able to find it?

"It seems that the five great families want to make the imperial capital chaotic, but what do they want to do?"

Ling Xuan threw the crushed chess pieces in his hand onto the chessboard and muttered, not knowing what the intention of the five great families was in doing this.

"Third brother, do you mean that the drunkard was arranged by the five great families?"

Ling Yun asked on the other side.

"It may or may not be, but his death is inseparable from the five great families. ”

Ling Xuan shook his head and said, there are many people in the city guards, maybe it was really someone who leaked this matter.

But that drunkard fell into the river and drowned inexplicably when everyone was looking for him, how could there be such a coincidence in this world, if this had nothing to do with the five great families, Ling Xuan would not believe it.

"It's useless to talk too much now, only by solving the case as soon as possible can we calm the people's hearts, otherwise the people's hearts will be in turmoil, and the lonely souls and wild ghosts hidden in the imperial capital should make waves. ”

Ling Xuan frowned slightly, looking outside the Shengyang Palace, his gaze seemed to see the undercurrent surging under the seemingly calm through the palace walls.

It is a well-known thing that the Nine Nations planted spies among each other, but everyone knew it, but as long as there was an opportunity, those spies would make waves.

"Okay, fourth, you go back first. ”

Ling Xuan said suddenly, after Ling Yun walked out of the Shengyang Palace, Ling Xuan asked Cao Huachun and the two of them to put away the chessboard.

"Huachun, Yuhan, you all go out! I want to be alone for a while. ”

Ling Xuan closed his eyes and said tiredly, this is not physical exhaustion, but psychological, today he first won the right to investigate the case in the Lizheng Palace, but he knew that the royal family had been ashamed of the assassin's family, which put him in a dilemma.

"Yes, Your Highness"

Hearing this, the two of them bowed down and retreated, without making a sound, for fear of disturbing Ling Xuan.

"What should I do?"

Ling Xuan sighed deeply from the Holy Yang Palace.

"Father-in-law Cao, why did you say that His Highness had to take the matter of hunting down the assassins on himself, as he did before, he devoted himself to cultivation and read books in his spare time, isn't it good?"

Yu Han heard Ling Xuan's sigh, a little unbearable, she entered the palace when she was ten years old, and was first arranged to Fengyi Palace, at that time Ling Xuan was born less than a year, it can be said that she watched Ling Xuan grow up, and in her heart she had already regarded Ling Xuan as her younger brother.

"Because His Royal Highness is the only person among the princes today who His Majesty can trust the throne with confidence, this is His Royal Highness's responsibility as a prince. ”

Cao Huachun said solemnly, he has followed Cao Zheng since he was a child, and under the influence of his ears and eyes, he also has some understanding of the situation in the court, unlike Yuhan, who is an orphan and was adopted by the royal family in the palace, no one will tell her about these things in the court.

Da-da-da-

The sound of the forbidden army patrolling was heard in the distance, and the patrolling forbidden army gradually approached the Shengyang Palace, and a forbidden soldier quietly stuffed a letter into his hand when he passed by Cao Huachun,

Cao Huachun remained silent, hid the letter in his sleeve, and no one found it, even if it was close at hand, even if it was close at hand, after the forbidden army passed, he opened the letter and looked at it, and his face changed suddenly.

"Are the five great families trying to force His Highness to death?"

Cao Zhengchun gritted his teeth and said.

......

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, three fast horses galloped out of the palace.

Ling Xuan took Cao Huachun and the two out of the palace, this time he wanted to find the wealth accumulated by Su Sheng first, and asked the Heavenly Dao Divine Master to carve the magic circle on the weapon, and first improve the strength of the Jinyi Guard.

There are still city guards patrolling the imperial capital, and compared to yesterday, the streets are not as lively as yesterday.

Wrong!

There was still a very lively place, it seemed that someone was commenting on the story, Ling Xuan drove his horse forward, but after only hearing the first sentence, his face gradually became gloomy.

"Yesterday, I only heard from His Highness that if he could not solve this case and arrest the assassin within a month, he would like to cut off the prince and never set foot in the court again in this life. ”

......

Next, the storyteller told the story of yesterday's court in a vivid voice, as if he was watching from the side when the court meeting was held.

"Your Highness, I asked the city guards to arrest him. ”

Cao Huachun said on the side, his face was not very good at the moment, the letter he received yesterday meant that someone had spread the matter of Ling Xuan's military order among the people.

After learning about this, he immediately asked people to stop it, but he didn't expect that today, it would become even worse, and it was also compiled into a commentary, wantonly commenting, and making something out of nothing, saying that His Royal Highness will never set foot in the court again, which is simply ignoring the dignity of the royal family.

"No need, if there is no shadow of the five great families behind this matter, these people would not have known about the events of yesterday's court meeting, and it would not have spread so quickly. ”

Although the imperial court will not deliberately keep the matters discussed by the court meeting secret, it will not reach the point where everyone knows about it in just one day.

"Let's go, let's go to Su Sheng's Mansion first. ”

Ling Xuan was the first to leave, Cao Huachun and the two followed, and the three of them arrived at a mansion that was exquisite, but it was hung with a conjuring spirit, and there were a few big characters on the plaque - Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Industry, which explained who its owner was.

This is exactly the purpose of Ling Xuan's trip, this area within a radius of dozens of miles is a mansion built by the Su family, for the children of the Su family who serve in the imperial capital to live.

Ling Xuan walked all the way, all the mansions were full of guards, staring at Ling Xuan and the three of them, and Ling Xuan and his party drew their swords at the slightest movement, which showed the impact of Su Sheng's death on others.

Ling Xuan and the three of them stopped in front of these big characters in the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Industry, and before they could get off the horse, they heard the scolding of the guards in front of the door.

"Who are you? Do you know that this is the mansion of Lord Su of the Ministry of Industry?"

Ministry of Justice?

Ling Xuan laughed secretly in his heart, Su Sheng is dead, this Ministry of Industry Secretary should also be replaced, even if it doesn't fall into the hands of the royal family, Su Sheng's heir doesn't seem to be able to serve as the Ministry of Industry.

However, Ling Xuan didn't say anything, after dismounting, he showed the prince's token and easily entered the Su Mansion, Su Sheng's bones had already been transported back to Linhuai County, where the ancestral land of the Su family was located, and Su Sheng would also be buried there.

Therefore, there are only some guards and maids left in the Su Mansion today, but it saves Ling Xuan the trouble, under the leadership of the housekeeper of the Su Mansion, Ling Xuan easily arrived at Su Sheng's study, and then the housekeeper retreated.

"You two stay outside and don't let anyone come close. ”

Ling Xuan commanded, then pushed the door in, and was greeted by a faint smell of blood.

After Ling Xuan closed the door, he walked straight to the desk, there was a dazzling blood stain on the desk, and behind the desk was the Bogu shelf where Su Sheng placed the antique jade, all of which were fine.

However, Ling Xuan didn't care about these antiques, and it was impossible for him to take away these things on the surface, so he walked to the Bogu shelf and gently moved away from a bronze tripod on it.

After the bronze tripod was moved, a complex pattern carving below was revealed, this was the switch to open the underground dark room, Ling Xuan clicked hundreds of times on the four raised parts above, which was dazzling, and after he stopped moving, the floor under his feet suddenly sank.

Ling Xuan felt that this floor had sunk by about a hundred zhang, which meant that this dark room was built a hundred zhang underground, coupled with the concealment formation of the Heavenly Dao Divine Master, no wonder no one found out.

The air here was quite fresh, but Ling Xuan was obviously more interested in the silver and gold here, he took out the Qiankun bag around his waist and filled it with all the gold and silver.

This Qiankun bag was specially taken by Ling Xuan from the imperial treasury, because he was worried that his Qiankun bag would not fit, and the Qiankun bag taken out from the imperial treasury was to supply the army with food and grass in wartime, and the space in it naturally went without saying.

Ling Xuan preliminarily estimated that there were about 50 million taels of gold here, which was enough for Jinyiwei's consumption in the next two years, and he was in a very good mood.

However, after putting the gold and silver together, Ling Xuan found that there was another room in it, but after he saw the scene in the room, he finally understood why Su Sheng said that he was the only one who knew the entrance to the dark room.

There were three corpses neatly placed here, it should be the Heavenly Dao Divine Master who had cultivated the dark room at the beginning, Ling Xuan waved his hand, and received the three corpses into the Qiankun bag, ready to go out, and then bury them.

Ling Xuan appeared in the study again, Cao Huachun and the two were guarding outside, and after Ling Xuan closed the entrance, a familiar figure appeared at the door of the study.

"Your Highness, we couldn't stop it, please forgive your sins. Cao Huachun and Yuhan bowed their heads and said.

Ling Xuan looked at the familiar figure that suddenly appeared and laughed.

"It's not your fault, go down. ”