"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the matter is big and the impact is bad, and he should send someone to investigate, in addition, he must also do a good job in comforting the orphans in Nanping Village and the surrounding people affected by the disaster, and stop the spread of rumors before the matter is investigated, otherwise, people will be panicked." Xie Chengli stood up and said.

This is also in line with Yan Feifei's intentions, "Okay, everything will be done according to what Master Taifu said, since this matter was discovered by Cao Li, then it is up to you to investigate, Shuntian Mansion Yin is on the side to assist, Zhang Hao, I will give you one last chance, if something goes wrong, you will come to see me!" ”

Zhang Hao immediately kowtowed and thanked him.

After Li Yanxin left the court, he immediately drove to the house of his brother-in-law, Luo Peng.

"Master Li, why are you here?" As soon as the housekeeper of Luofu saw Li Yanxin, he kept wiping his sweat and said flatteringly.

"Humph! What about Luo Peng's kid? Tell him to come out for me! ”

The housekeeper was even more weak-hearted, as Luo Peng's henchman, he naturally knew why Li Yanxin came over so angrily, "That Lord Li, my family is not at home now, why don't you go back first, and when my family comes back, I will let him go to you?" ”

Where is Li Yanxin waiting for Luo Peng to come back now? said directly: "You tell me where Luo Peng is, I'll go find him myself!" ”

"This ......"

"What? Luo Peng is your master, can you not listen to me? I can tell you, if you offend me, even Luo Peng can't protect you! Li Yanxin threatened.

How could the housekeeper withstand such a threat, and immediately informed Luo Peng's location, "My lord, our family went to Tingfang Pavilion last night, and he hasn't come back yet." ”

This Tingfang Pavilion is a famous place of smoke and willows in Kyoto, and cannot be entered by non-dignitaries.

After Li Yanxin heard the news, he couldn't wait to run in and arrest Luo Peng right now, and give him eight pieces, this thing is not enough to succeed and more than to lose!

"He'll enjoy it."

Li Yanxin turned around and went to Tingfang Pavilion.

It's still daytime, Tingfang Pavilion hasn't started to open yet, the girls have worked hard all night, and they haven't gotten up yet, and a few little guys are cleaning up the tables and cleaning the floor in the hall, and they can't open their eyelids.

Seeing someone coming in, he said without raising his head: "This lord, our Tingfang Pavilion hasn't opened yet." ”

"Which room is Luo Peng in? Take me to him. ”

That kid is also a shrewd person, listening to the voice, he feels a little familiar, and when he looked up at the person in front of him, it turned out to be Li Yanxin, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and his expression was immediately different.

"Why did Master Li come so early? Lord Luo shouldn't have gotten up yet, why don't you call him? ”

"No, I'll go find him myself."

Choshin Hall.

After leaving the court, Xie Chengli, Lu Yunfei and Zhang Zuo all gathered in the imperial study to discuss what happened in the court today.

Yan Feifei was happy but unhappy.

Happily, she intuitively felt that the black water left on Yao Mountain was likely to be related to iron mines, and unhappily, so many innocent people had died in Nanling Village.

Zhang Zuo and Lu Yunfei were full of excitement, especially Zhang Zuo, who originally thought that he had been included in a book for no reason, which was unlucky, but now it seems that the person who opened the iron mine indiscriminately was the most unlucky.

Zhang Zuo said: "Your Majesty, if you investigate this matter carefully, you will definitely be able to find those people in Kyoto who have bad stomachs. ”

"These are all secondary, the most important thing is to give a reasonable explanation to the people of Nanping Village, Cao Li went to investigate the case of iron mining, as for this matter of comforting the people, it will be handed over to Scholar Zhang."

"Your Majesty, rest assured, Weichen will not fail in his mission!"

Yan Feifei said to Lu Yunfei again: "Lord Lu has heard of this before? ”

Lu Yunfei shook his head, but turned his gaze to Xie Chengli, "It was Lord Taifu who asked Cao Li to go to Lijiazhuang to investigate the case of Master Zhang, if anyone would know in advance, it should also be Master Taifu." ”

Lu Yunfei didn't mean anything bad when he said this, it was just pure curiosity, how could this matter be so coincidental?

Xie Chengli just smiled faintly, "Lord Lu doesn't have to doubt me, I didn't know about this in advance, this is really just a coincidence, I was afraid that Cao Li would ruin His Majesty's affairs because of his personal grudges, so I deliberately transferred him away, and it happened to be the matter of Scholar Zhang at that time, but I did know it earlier than all of you." ”

"Oh? Why is that? ”

"Your Majesty, do you remember the letters that Li Zhi handed me before he died?"

Yan Feifei nodded, "I remember, but that letter is just a confirmation of the crime of Li Zhi and Sun Tong's private dealings, what does it have to do with this?" ”

Xie Chengli shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, those letters are definitely more than that, otherwise Li Yanxin will not risk that Li Zhi may spit out his relationship with Sun Tong, and he must also leave him a breath and let him tell the whereabouts of those letters, although Sun Tong is cunning, because Li Zhi's correspondence does not mention other people, but it mentions the Yaoshan iron mine, digging iron ore not only needs money, but also people, and Li Zhi, transformed into a responsible person for Sun Tong to find a group of coolies and send them to Yaoshan, but later because of some things, Sun Tong didn't let him continue to be in charge of this aspect of the matter. ”

"Since you already know that, why don't you say it?" Lu Yunfei asked on the side.

"The reason why I didn't say it was actually to test Cao Li."

Zhang Zuo didn't understand, but Yan Feifei and Lu Yunfei did understand what he meant.

At the beginning, Lu Yunfei pretended that Sun Tong was communicating with Li Zhi, and that night he originally led his troops to arrest Li Zhi, but he never thought that he was preempted by Cao Li, who came out of nowhere, how did Cao Li know about Lu Yunfei's plan, and what role did he play in this?

If this Cao Li is not Sun Tong's person, and he has no rebellious heart towards Lu Yunfei, can he be co-opted, after all, he is also a usable talent.

For this reason, Xie Chengli did not tell others as soon as he learned about the incident on Yaoshan.

"Lord Lu, I remember that you once told me that except for a few of your cronies, no one else knew about the events of that day, this Cao Li either has the power to reach the sky, or there is a traitor by your side." Zhang Zuo said to Lu Yunfei.

Lu Yunfei, who has always been steady, was also anxious when Zhang Zuo said this, "Lord Zhang, don't talk nonsense, Lu only told my relatives and a few friends about this matter, and their people Lu knows best, and it is impossible to do such a thing." ”

Zhang Zuo didn't expect Lu Yunfei to be so excited, but he had just suspected his best friend for no reason, and he should be angry.

But Zhang Zuo, as a cabinet scholar, is higher than Lu Yunfei in terms of official position and age, and as an elder, he can't pull down his face to apologize to a junior, so he can only brush his beard and look away and stop talking.