It turned out that Li Cong came to Yan Yan to let her distinguish between Zhou Lu's truth and falsehood.

Since he found out that Kong Minglan on the day of the Lantern Festival was to report to the Khitan prince, Li Cong quickly ordered someone to go to Bingzhou, arrested the head of the Zhou family, the successor of the next head of the family, and Zhou Lu, and secretly escorted them into Beijing.

The rest of the Zhou family is currently being detained on the spot, waiting for the interrogation here before making a decision.

In fact, Li Cong, the officials and the people from the Imperial City Division have all interrogated the three ancestors and grandchildren of the Zhou family, but they refused to admit their guilt, saying that Kong Mingdeng wanted to make some money, and that Zhou Lu was a decent descendant of the Zhou family, saying that the Zhou family had been doing business in a proper manner all these years, supporting the Great Zhou in a proper manner, and there was no external intention at all.

Subsequently, the head of the Zhou family also mentioned that Zhou Lu bought back a few seeds from Yan Yan, and the Zhou family also began to plant them in Bingzhou, to put it bluntly, they were also sharing worries for the emperor.

However, the people of the Imperial City Division did not find any useful evidence on the side of Bingzhou, so Li Cong was not good enough to convict the Zhou family of death with a few words from the two people who connected with Yeluda, he was afraid of falling into the trap of the Khitan.

Because if the Zhou family falls, what Da Zhou will lose is not just a secret vault, but it is very likely to be shaken to several other secret vaults, and then to the foundation of Da Zhou.

So, Li Cong invited Yan Yan into the palace.

Before Yan Yan, Li Cong had already let the eldest princess of Jinyang meet Zhou Lu, and the answer she gave was that Zhou Lu was the person who entered her mansion before.

The difference is that this Zhou Lu has a few more pits on his face than the previous Zhou Lu, saying that it is the sequelae of smallpox.

The emperor believed this, and when his people arrested this Zhou Lu, they said that he was still lying on the kang, and he was not very well.

But Rao is like this, and Li Cong didn't believe that these two people were the same person.

So, he thought of Yan Yan.

Yan Yan first glanced at the other party through the door curtain, judging from the facial features and body shape, it was indeed very similar to the Zhou Lu she had seen before, but unfortunately, because of smallpox, this person's facial features were much inferior to the previous Zhou Lu.

In addition, the voices of the two are not the same, Li Cong said, and the person in front of him also took the initiative to explain, saying that his voice was damaged by taking inappropriate medicine because of the treatment of smallpox.

This reason may also exist objectively, for this reason, Yan Yan is not easy to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and after a little entanglement, she came up with an idea, first, she wanted to see Zhou Lu's words; Secondly, call Lu You over and listen to Zhou Lu's "A Laugh in the Sea" played by Zhou Lu.

Li Cong nodded, thinking that these two ideas were good, no matter how similar a person's face is, his voice can be smoked, but the font and cultivation cannot be exactly the same.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhou Lu's words came in, but because Qing Glaze hadn't taken Zhou Lu's contract back at this time, she couldn't make it easy for her to recognize it for a while, but she felt a little similar.

Another quarter of an hour later, Lu You entered the palace, and Li Cong ordered someone to give Zhou Lu a yaoqin, saying that he wanted to hear the other party play "A Laugh in the Sea".

Zhou Lu first looked into the curtain of the door, and saw that there seemed to be only two female dependents, so he bowed down and said, "Back to the emperor, this song needs to drink a little wine to have a good effect." ”

"Presumptuous." Li Cong didn't have a good face for him.

Seeing this, Zhou Lu had to sit in front of Yaoqin, but he also played out "A Laugh in the Sea" in its entirety, but Yan Yan always felt that something was missing when she heard it, and there was no madness and freedom as she imagined, with her understanding of Zhou Lu, it was not like his level.

For this reason, she looked at Lu You on the side, Lu You also shook his head, and then he walked out.

"Brother Zhou, don't come to harm? What has happened in the past two years, why is your personality not as free and easy as before? ”

When the other party saw Lu You, he seemed to be a little surprised, but he quickly hugged his fists and saluted, and said with a wry smile: "It's not as good as Brother Lu, Brother Lu is getting more and more high-spirited, the younger brother has been memorizing words in the past two years, and more than half of the time is lying on the sickbed, and he didn't hide it from Brother Lu, this time the little brother came to the capital and was caught from the sickbed." ”

Lu You unexpectedly recognized him at once, but it was a little difficult to ask, and after a pause, Lu You asked about Zhou Lu's experience in the past two years, and also asked about what illness he had.

According to Zhou Lu himself, after returning that year, he contracted a case of typhoid fever, which dragged on for more than half a year.

Subsequently, the family persuaded him to get married, and he was used to being wild, especially when he learned that the other party's personality was also more rude and willful, so at first he was resistant to this family business, but this family business was already decided.

But who knew that in the process of preparing for the wedding, he unfortunately contracted smallpox, so he was also miserable these days, this smallpox not only ruined his appearance, but also ruined his throat, fortunately, he survived.

After going through so much, coupled with the fact that he was inexplicably escorted to Beijing this time, he did not have the freedom and indifference he had before.

Yan Yan listened to the other party's defense, and made an idea to Li Cong, simply find an imperial doctor to see if Zhou Lu had a mask or makeup on his face, and whether he really ate his throat because of taking medicine.

This idea was the most direct and effective, because she believed that Zhou Lu could not be twins.

What surprised Yan Yan was that there was nothing on this person's face, and the imperial doctor also said that this person was indeed seriously ill, and it was difficult to say when his throat was bad.

In other words, it is possible that the previous Zhou Lu was wearing a mask, and there is also a possibility that he found a completely similar person to replace him.

Fortunately, at this time, Qing Glaze brought the contract written by Zhou Lu himself, Yan Yan and Li Cong compared, rough look, the fonts of the two are indeed very similar, but if you look closely, it is still a little different, first of all, the pen power is not enough, and secondly, there is no such flowing beauty, like a deliberate imitation.

For this reason, Li Cong believed Yan Yan's judgment, but for the sake of safety, Yan Yan came up with another idea, she and Qing Glaze exchanged clothes, Yan Yan put on some makeup for her, she looked a little older, and she was fatter, and then used a small thin cotton jacket to make a fake belly for Qing Glaze, and asked her to take Qing Xiu to see Zhou Lu.

Originally, Yan Yan wanted to pretend to be a maid to listen, but her stomach didn't allow it, how could there be a reason for a pregnant maid to go out with her master?

For this reason, she and Li Cong hid in the next room, and on the other side, at Yan Yan's request, Li Cong brought out the head of the Zhou family and the heir of the next head of the family, gagged their mouths, and let them stand outside the window and eavesdrop.