found a noisy restaurant in the downtown and sat down, and the two of them seriously ordered a bunch of food.

Looking around, there are no suspicious people watching. Su Xiaozhou moved to Li Yu's side, leaned into his ear, lowered his voice and said, "I feel that Wu Fenglin went to deliver the goods that day, and the consignee ...... Looks like it's ...... me."

"Ahem-ahem——, what did you say?!"

Li Yu was drinking water, choked on a big mouthful, and coughed for a long time before he recovered.

What is this?!

After checking for so long, she now sees that the situation is not good, and wants to take the initiative to admit the crime?

"No, I said, what do you mean by 'like'?"

His eyes widened in surprise.

"It's not me, it's me!"

Su Xiaozhou pointed to his nose, the same unbelievable. "I don't know how to explain it. The ink portrait is so good, it's not bad at all with his father himself. I did see it, I recognize it very clearly, and I can't be wrong. I was the one who received the goods that day! He gave me the stuff and left, and he was so dignified that nothing happened at all. ”

"How is this possible? How did you get on the line with the tomb robbers?! ”

Li Yu was dumbfounded, the more he wanted to clear up the East Palace and this matter, but now it was getting deeper and deeper.

Su Xiaozhou wanted to cry without tears, "That day was the Duanyang Festival, and I took leave and went home." When he went out of the palace, he happened to meet Lord Xu Yanbo, who was in the East Palace, he seemed to be a little unwell, but he was in a hurry to go out of the palace to see an old friend. After struggling for a while, he decided to ask me to take a detour to Suzaku Street, meet his old friends for him, and bring a piece of his hometown back to the palace by the way. ”

"The people of the East Palace?!"

Li Yu was shocked, this official position is not only not low-grade, but also a close confidant of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Another person from the East Palace, this time he really can't get out of it!

"Oops——, awful!"

Su Xiaozhou twisted his skirt with both hands, and said hatefully: "I only think about it now, Xu She was born and grew up in Chang'an, how can he have any hometown friends?" Not to mention the local products! This line must have been built by him, and the goods were also what he wanted. Whether he has it intentionally or not, I am his 'helper' anyway. ”

"Why are you so stupid to help someone else take the stolen goods-"

Li Yu hates iron but not steel, this girl looks smart, but she is actually too easy to deceive.

Su Xiaozhou was not happy, "Right Nei led the Wei Mansion to do chores." What's wrong with helping the officials do some small things? They didn't introduce themselves as tomb robbers at the time! When we met, I said that Xu Sheren asked me to come, and he gave me the wooden box wrapped in silk cloth. Alas——, what is the goods handed over by Wu Fenglin? ”

She sighed and tilted her head, only to see Li Yu staring at her.

"This is for you, isn't it the goods you picked up yourself?"

"I ...... I'll just take it back to the palace and hand it over to Xu Sheren! ”

She was so remorseful that she desperately remembered the details of the meeting that day.

After less than three words of greeting, he accepted the package of "hometown products", and watched Wu Fenglin leave from the street, and there was no abnormality around. If it weren't for Mrs. Wu's mention of the silk cloth wrapped in a wooden box, and then seeing the portrait painted in ink and ink, she might have forgotten this "little thing" long ago.

"Let's go——, find that Xu Sheren!"

Li Yu stood up suddenly, grabbed the back placket and lifted her up.

"I can't find it—"

Su Xiaozhou waved his hand and said helplessly: "He made a mistake and was demoted to Lingnan more than a month ago. ”

The person who delivered the goods disappeared, and the consignee left the country. Looking at it this way, things are more complicated.

Xu Yanbo's grandfather Xu Jingzong was the confidant of the Empress Wu, and the whole family was also in cahoots with the ambitious Wu family. Now, the East Palace and the West Palace are like the two ends of the scale, and he is the person in the middle, and it depends on his position which side the crime of stealing and digging up the imperial tomb falls on.

"Wait, don't worry."

Li Yu sat down again, his fingertips tapping on the table urgently, "The top priority is to find out what the 'sample' is." Xu Yanbo contacted Wu Fenglin to rob the emperor's mausoleum, and what he did must not be simple. ”

"Yes——, can't be rushed."

Su Xiaozhou finally calmed down, "The sister-in-law was sent out to Lingnan, and it is impossible for the Xu family to do nothing." Xu Yanbo must be on the list of Mid-Autumn Festival amnesty, and may already be on his way back. I know his concubine, so I went to his private house first to look for clues about the 'goods'. ”

"I'll go with you." Li Yu said immediately.

A person from the East Palace should not be able to dominate this matter, there must be someone behind Xu Yanbo. Things are not necessarily as optimistic as Xiaozhou said, and he may have been more auspicious when he was released to Lingnan.

"Do you want to tell His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

"No——, Your Highness is safer if you don't know about it. Even if the offender is a member of the East Palace, he does not need to be responsible for the affairs of his subordinates. ”

Su Xiaozhou nodded, "Okay, let's go back to Mrs. Wu and Momo first." ”

was about to leave, but was pulled by Li Yu again.

"Wait—"

"Huh?"

"The meal came up in a moment. It's all here, let's go back when you're full. ”

*******

When he rushed back to Wu's house, he saw the Jingzhao Yin Mansion Yacha sent to keep an eye on Momo from a distance.

Li Yu said secretly, "It's not good-"

When he pulled Su Xiaozhou and rushed into the room, he saw Mo Mo lying on the edge of the couch crying, standing on the side with an anxious face.

"What's wrong?" He asked anxiously.

When Fusheng saw them, he hurriedly said, "This child reported to the official, and his mother committed suicide." ”

……

Trembling and lifting the curtain, seeing Mrs. Wu lying flat on the couch and already out of breath, Su Xiaozhou was a little broken.

"How is that possible? An hour ago, we were still talking. How could she have committed suicide?! Momo, when did you come back, and what happened to your mother? ”

Mo Mo raised his head and burst into tears, "Something happened on the dock today, so I came back early." When I came in, my mother was ...... Hmmmm...... One step away, one step away from me being able to stop her. She kept saying that she didn't want to bother me, which I should have thought of a long time ago...... should be guarding her every step of the way! Mother——, mother-"

Su Xiaozhou originally thought that Mrs. Wu might die at the hands of others. But listening to Momo's meaning, he watched his mother commit suicide with his own eyes.

They were gone less than an hour. During this period, what prompted Mrs. Wu to give up her life?

"If I ask you something, you must tell me honestly!"

Li Yu pulled Mo Mo in front of him and said with a serious expression: "Where did you get the painting you got from in the Xishi Pharmacy?" Your father's life is at stake, so don't lie. ”

Mo Mo was a little frightened, "That painting...... My father brought it back from Youzhou. ”

"Why do you sell it in pharmacies?" Li Yu asked again.

"Yes...... It was a white-bearded old man who told me. He said that the painting was a treasure, and that if he went to sell it in a calligraphy and painting shop, he would be arrested by the government. But he was a liar, and the owner of the pharmacy said that it was a fake painting and that it was not worth anything at all. ”

Momo's little face was pale, and it didn't look like he was lying.