The Yang family has now fled to the north to join relatives, and three horrific murders occurred in a month, two of which were tragic murders, and the Yang family began to flee in all directions without time to grieve.

The unfortunate thing still happened, after escaping from the capital, they were all hunted down and killed, and they died and jumped off the cliff, too... The whole family was wiped out.

The capital was like a dead city overnight, with homes closed and not a single pedestrian on the streets.

In the morning, when the officials went to the court, they also sent a few strong men to protect them before and after, for fear that they would have some accidents.

It rained for five days in a row, and God seemed to be crying and telling bitter hatred.

Tai Chi Hall of the Imperial Palace

Emperor Sang Yuzhi took the case and loudly reprimanded the military attaches below: "What are you all doing to eat? This group of people is doing things right under my nose! ”

"What am I raising you for! I don't believe it, they can be heard without a trace! ”

All the people in the hall bowed their heads, not daring to make a sound.

Sang Yuzhi calmed down his anger, sat down on the dragon chair and stretched out his finger to Sang Huai'an: "You." ”

Sang Huai'an looked up, then hurriedly clenched his fists and saluted: "Brother is here." ”

"This matter, I, I have ten days for you to find out the truth."

Sang Huai'an was stunned for a moment, then bowed his head and replied, "Yes." ”

Sang Yuzhi didn't speak, slumped in the dragon chair with his eyes closed, as if thinking about something.

A group of civilian and military generals whispered.

"I haven't heard of it, I haven't heard of it, it's all a hairpin family."

"Lord Xu, who has a good character, was also killed, and I drank with him before I resigned last month... Now look...", the adult said, brushing tears from the corners of his eyes.

"I don't even dare to go out, what can I do?" An adult clapped his hands in a hurry.

"Lord Yang's family... It's also a living mouth, and now I think about it that day at the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and I'm afraid. ”

Sang Yuzhi in the hall frowned, listening to these discussions, he straightened up and said loudly, "Zhong Aiqing." ”

Everyone closed their mouths when they heard the voice, and returned to their positions.

"Don't worry, I have handed over this matter to King Jin, and Lord Jin will definitely protect Zhong Aiqing." After Sang Yuzhi finished speaking, he got up and waved his big sleeves and turned around to leave.

The father-in-law hurriedly stepped forward and shouted sharply, "Retreat." ”

The ministers hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

After the emperor left completely, the ministers threw concerned eyes at Sang Huai'an, and everyone could see that the emperor was embarrassing the prince.

In the past few days, Sang Huai'an has not slept well, and there have been three tragedies, and people everywhere in Da'an are panicking.

The emperor just ignored it, and with a wave of his hand, he pushed the matter to Sang Huai'an.

Mai Jiu was eating breakfast in the house, and a servant hurried in from outside.

The servant knelt down and saluted, "Princess, someone outside the palace asked to see him, saying yes... Beauty shop. ”

Mai Jiu's hand with the spoon looked up at Zhi Hua, and Zhi Hua also turned his head and the two looked at each other.

The beauty shop also closed a few days ago, what can happen.

Zhihua said, "Master, slave and maid, let's go and have a look." After saying that, he followed the minion just now out of the door.

It didn't take long for Zhihua to run back, and her tone was quick to say with hand movements, "Master, master, it's not good, the shop has been smashed." ”

Mai Jiu threw down his chopsticks and stood up: "What? ”

"The person who came just now was the shopkeeper, and said that he wanted to get the account book back when he remembered some problems with the accounts today, but... As soon as he arrived, he saw that the lock had been picked and everything inside had been smashed. ”

"Let's go, get out of the house." After speaking, Mai Jiu strode towards the door.

The inside of the shop was in a miserable situation, the cabinet shelves had long been smashed to pieces, and the floor was full of porcelain bottle fragments.

Mai Jiu kicked the things at his feet and walked in, wanting to check the specific loss, but the shopkeeper followed closely behind him and said, "There have been several incidents in recent days, and everyone has not come out in the shadow of the tragedy, and the initiator has not been caught." ”

Guo Qiyan also rushed over, these skin care are the tip of his heart, his baby, as soon as he walked in, he squatted on the ground to save it.

Shen Qianyue went to the northern desert to get some information about this tribe, and this trip was more than a month.

As soon as she arrived in the capital, she was frightened by the scene in front of her, and she was alone in the north, so she naturally didn't know what had happened in the past few days.

She waved the reins and wanted to hurry back to the palace and report everything she had investigated to the prince.

The shopkeeper cleaned up a chair for Mai Jiu and Guo Qiyan, and the three of them discussed what to do.

Guo Qiyan spoke first and said, "Fortunately, I didn't leave any silver in the shop, otherwise I would have lost more." ”

Mai Jiu thought for a while: "Everyone hasn't been going out recently, or the store will change a new lock like this first, and we'll clean it up in a few days." ”

The shopkeeper nodded in agreement between the two.

Guo Qiyan hurriedly refused, and the shopkeeper turned his head to look at Guo Qiyan on the left.

"I don't agree, it's better to clean up now, and when these things pass, we can open normally, and closing the door now is a loss for a day."

Hearing this, the shopkeeper nodded his head and agreed: "Okay, good." ”

"If it's renovated, what if the thieves come again? Look at the chaos in the house, the doors are a little broken. After speaking, Mai Jiu looked up at the door.

She looked out the door and saw a child crouching on the side of the road, and she stood up and walked towards the door.

The shopkeeper hurriedly asked, "Boss Gu.. You.."

Mai Jiu stretched out his palm to stop, walked out of the door, and walked towards the boy with light steps.

Shen Qianyue returned to the palace, and after looking around, she didn't find the figure of the prince, and there was no one in Yi'an Courtyard.

At this time, Sang Huai'an was walking on the road of the palace to the Third Academy, which was the place where all the books, materials and documents of Da'an were stored, and it was divided into three courtyards in total.

The official department had already received a notice that the prince would come, and he had already packed up and went to greet him, and when he saw the man entering the courtyard, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "Xiaguan, see the prince." ”

"The information of this king, Yang Rui, Wu Songping, and Xu Hongzhi, as long as it is about the three of them."

The official Shangshu turned around and looked at the back of the prince walking towards the house, and replied, "Subordinates obey orders." ”

Mai Jiu quietly walked behind the boy, the boy seemed to be squatting there digging something, and she shouted softly, "Stone..."

The boy was startled, and bounced up and leaned directly against the stall next to him, Mai Jiu straightened up, looked at the things in the boy's hand, and said, "It turns out that I'm stealing something here again." ”

Xiaohu hid the broken silver in his hand behind him, stammered and replied, "This... This... It's not stealing... Picked up. After speaking, he stepped forward and vigorously pushed away the person in front of him, and ran away.

Mai Jiu turned her head and looked at the boy's back with disdain, she picked up her skirt and checked her feet, and ran forward like a gust of wind.

Zhihua stood at the door and looked at the shadow of his master who had run away, and shouted, "Master, master, where are you going?" ”

Xiaohu saw that the people behind him were chasing after him, so he apologized while running: "Sister, just forgive me, please, I didn't mean to." ”

Mai Jiuyi reached out and grabbed Xiaohu's collar, and Xiaohu stopped and couldn't run forward, Xiaohu shook his body and saw that he couldn't break free, he knelt down directly and covered his head.

"Don't kill Xiaohu, Xiaohu still has a mother, Xiaohu can't die."

Mai Jiu looked at the man at the bottom of his feet, raised his foot and kicked his ass and said, "Okay, you kid, full of lies, didn't you say that your name is stone?" ”

Xiaohu trembled with fear, stammering and not knowing how to explain: "I... I... No... I. ”

"Don't say it, steal needles when you're young, steal gold when you're big, I'll send you to the yamen, and you'll be obedient after a few days." After speaking, Mai Jiu vigorously pulled Xiaohu's arm and tried to pull him up.

Xiaohu fell down hard and didn't want to get up, he kowtowed to the ground with great strength and said, "Sister, you can spare Xiaohu, you can spare Xiaohu." ”

"It's okay if you don't report to the official, then take me to your father, this matter is not so easy to end."

Xiaohu stopped kowtowing, and the whole person collapsed at Mai Jiu's feet.

Mai Jiu raised his foot: "Eh, what are you doing?" ”

Xiaohu complained in a complaining tone: "In that case, it's better to report to the official, my father will beat me to death." ”

Xiaohu's sleeve slipped down, Mai Jiu saw the bruise and purple scars on her arm, she let go of Xiaohu's hand, squatted down and asked softly, "You tell my sister that you have these on your hands, are these from your father?" ”

Xiaohu raised his little face, and his eyes were full of tears: "Sister, Xiaohu beg, my father beat me if he was unhappy, my mother was still sick in bed, and he didn't treat him." ”

"Last time... I wanted to buy medicine for my mother to treat my mother's money, but as soon as I got home, he snatched it and beat me. As he spoke, Xiaohu shed a tear, and the tears crossed his cheeks and left tear stains.

Shen Qianyue listened to the servants of the book and said that the prince had not returned from the court this morning, and when she heard this, Shen Qianyue hurriedly rushed towards the palace.

Sang Huai'an was sitting on a chair in the room, he refused the tea handed by the official Shangshu, at this time he had no intention of drinking water at all, he just wanted to find out the clues of the connection between the three of them quickly.

On weekdays, the three of them don't seem to have any contact, Lord Yang grew up in the capital, Lord Wu grew up in Wucheng, and Lord Xu grew up in a small town in the south.

Seeing that the prince didn't drink it, he put the tea on the table, and when he saw that the atmosphere was a little tense, he said, "Lord Wang, there are a lot of things in the third courtyard, but the lower officials have already sent more people to look for them, and it is estimated that it will take less than a stick of incense." ”

Sang Huai'an didn't reply, his eyes kept looking out of the door.

Shen Qianyue walked into the third courtyard of the book, she held a long sword in her hand, and walked vigorously.

She walked into the house and knelt down on one knee and saluted: "Lord Wang." ”

Sang Huai'an glanced at the official secretary next to him, and the official secretary quickly said, "Go down and see what they are looking for." After saying that, he walked out quickly.

Shen Qianyue stood up, and Sang Huai'an asked, "How is the investigation?" ”