When Xu Chu returned to the palace, he heard the guards who followed Wei Guang every day come to spread the word, saying that Wei Gang had returned from Jinling.

In fact, Xu Chu had never seen Wei Gang, but had only heard of his name. In addition, he has not been walking in the Three Dharma Division for a long time, so he has not seen him yet.

However, Wei Gang knew Xu Chu quite well, and at first, he was very surprised when he heard that a woman suddenly appeared next to the prince. Later, after learning that the prince secretly ordered the secret guards to protect her, she became cautious, so she secretly investigated Xu Chu without telling the prince.

However, he was in Jinling at the time, and the manpower he could use was limited, so he didn't find any problems.

In addition, Wei Guang and Wei Yan praised this prospective hostess, so he slowly paid attention to what she did on the way to Beijing with the prince.

In itself, Wei Gang is a prisoner, so he will naturally have a good impression of Xu Chu, who is upright and capable, because of that series of difficult cases. What's more, since entering Beijing, she has not only solved strange cases, but also selflessly compiled her autopsy skills into a book and sent it to the yamen in various places for reference.

That kind of strength, there is really a sense that the prince used to teach them to take the world as the public.

After a long time, Wei Gang's suspicion about the mentality of this prospective housewife turned into admiration. Until some time ago, the prince sent him a secret letter, asking him to track down the matter between the Sun family and King Su. At that time, the prince did not explain what happened in detail, but Wei Gang was different from Wei Guang after all, although he was born as a guard, he was also an official of the Three Law Divisions. Therefore, as long as he had the heart to investigate, the corpse found in the secret room of the Danding Sect's Taoist Temple at that time, as well as the corpse portrait and Xu Chu's news, could not be hidden from him at all.

Therefore, he had to find out in detail the daughter of the Sun family who was expelled from the family tree, and at the same time found that the daughter not only had a marriage contract with the second son of King Su, but also had an affair with the commander of Jin Lingwei. Later, the woman was sent away from Jinling by King Wei of Jinling, and her whereabouts were unknown after that, and she was never heard from again.

Unexpectedly, she went to the capital in the end, and it was very likely that she would give birth to Xu Chu......

After Wei Gang found out about this, he carefully calculated the time. According to Xu Chu's age, Sun Rou was already pregnant when she left Jinling. It's just that if you look at the month, it should be after someone spread rumors that she had an affair with Wang Yun......

Just when Wei Gang was holding the tea and buffalo drinking, Xu Chu arrived in the flower hall with a serious expression.

At this time, she didn't have the heart to deal with Wei Gang's scrutiny, nor was she in the mood to be polite or perfunctory with him. Therefore, after she entered, she asked directly: "Lord Wei's trip, can you bring back all the evidence that the prince asked you to check?" ”

Wei Gang was still secretly muttering in his heart that the woman in front of him looked ordinary, when he heard her suddenly ask. He was stunned for a moment, frowned, and said, "Can Lord Xu trespass?" I don't know where the prince is now, the official needs to report this matter to the prince in person. ”

Xu Chu looked at him quietly, his eyes were slightly cold and did not back down in the slightest. After a while, she directly threw out a token and whispered, "Is this enough!" ”

Obviously, at this time, Xu Chu had more or less lost some of his former calmness, and even angered Wei Gang a little. After all, Wei Gang had just returned to Beijing at this time, and he didn't know anything about what was happening in the capital and the palace. Not to mention him, even Wei Guang was a little dazed when he saw her emotions so out of control at this time.

Wei Gang subconsciously raised his hand, caught the token that was thrown over, and took a closer look at it, and was shocked for a moment, it turned out to be the token that the prince never left his body to mobilize the royal army. The person holding this token is, to another extent, enough to represent the royal house.

Seeing this, Wei Guang asked in a low voice, "Lord Xu, what happened?" ”

Xu Chu glanced at him, saw that his eyes were full of worry, and seemed to be a little surprised, so he couldn't help but let out a long sigh. Her face was ugly, and she turned around and ordered the guards outside the door in a deep voice: "Let people guard the flower hall, and no one is allowed to approach." ”

After the guard answered, she dragged her tired body to find a seat and sit down.

"Something happened to the prince!"

In one sentence, Wei Gang and Wei Guang's hearts sank. Especially Wei Guang, he has worked with Xu Chu a lot, so he naturally knows her temperament, if it weren't for the important matter that would involve the safety of the prince, she would never be so out of shape.

"Please forgive me Lord Wei, I just had a bad attitude." As she spoke, she couldn't help but rub her forehead, barely suppressing the pain that was about to burst.

It is a matter of the prince's safety, even if Wei Gang is dissatisfied, he can't attack at this time. He waved his hand and said, "The prince trusts you and hands over the palace to you, and I will naturally be respectful to you as subordinates." ”

After a pause, he bowed slowly and said, "Just now I thought very highly of myself and lost my dignity. ”

At this time, whether it was Wei Guang, Wei Gang, or Xu Chu, there was a strong sense of unease and caution. As for the previous quarrel, it really doesn't seem to be a big deal.

Xu Chu glanced at Wei Gang, no longer entangled in what had just happened, after all, whether it was right or wrong, the most important thing at this time was to gather all the evidence and find a way to find the murderer who set up the situation to destroy Xiao Qinglang.

Thinking of this, she looked at Wei Gang and said, "Now, I have already speculated about the matter of Jinling and the inside story of the whole case. However, there is still a lack of some crucial evidence. ”

"First, it is a token that the prince asked Lord Wei to bring back, and second, it is about the identity of the so-called Xuanyang Daoist."

Wei Gang and Wei Guang, like Wei Yan, are all Xiao Qinglang's confidants, so she has nothing to hide at this time.

"Before, Lord Tang and I instructed Lord Tang to track down the Xuanyang Daoist. But so far, there has been no news, but I am sure that the Xuanyang Daoist is not dead. As she spoke, she took out the codex, but instead recorded the page of the Xuanyang Daoist herself, and said, "I inferred from the Xuanyang Daoist according to my age that this person should be the remnant of the Tantric case, and he should have been quite trusted by King Su at that time." In addition, he is proficient in the theory of ghosts and gods, and also knows the art of alchemy...... At this point, I suspect that he should be from the Jinling royal family, that is, it is very likely to be the same clan as Wang Yun. ”

Wei Gang has been in Jinling for many years, and he was originally tracing the things before and after the Tantric case, so at this time, Xu Chu mentioned Jinling Wei Wang Yun, and he was no stranger.

"Before the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Wang family was famous for witchcraft in Jinling. Later, the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Wang family gradually declined, but in the eyes of the people of Jinling, he still represents the divine envoy who can communicate with the gods, and still in the mouths of some old people in Jinling, there is still a legend that the Wang family supports the true gods. It was not until the Holy Ancestor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Chengzong and the previous emperors advocated the cultivation of Buddhism and Taoism that the influence of the Wang family on the people of Jinling gradually disappeared. By the time of the first emperor, only Wang Yun, who was in charge of Jinlingwei, was still prominent. At that time, in order to seek an heir, King Su did go to the king's house many times to worship the so-called true god, but it was just a joke at that time. ”

"Who is the so-called divine envoy who guides King Su?" Xu Chu frowned and looked at Wei Gang.

Wei Gang was silent for a moment and said, "I haven't found out what is going on inside. However, at that time, except for Wang Yun, the heir of the lineage, there was no man of the same age who could be a divine messenger. At that time, Wang Yun's parents were no longer there, and his grandfather's frail body should not be enough to support him to complete the entire sacrifice......"

As he spoke, he took out a bloody burden from under the seat he had just sat on, and said, "In addition, I checked the records made by Wang Yun when he went to the government forty years ago, and found that when King Dansu went to the Wang family or the Sun family, Wang Yun did not have any records of going to the government, or took leave or went out on business......

When these words fell, Xu Chu saw that he had already pulled out a few tattered and crispy booklets in his hand. And on the cover of the booklet, you can clearly see the five big characters of "Jinling Wei Shangya".

After Xu Chu took the booklet, he took a newly transcribed page and handed it over, "This is the record of the former emperor spying on the whereabouts of King Su from the inner court through some means after I returned to Beijing during the day. ”

Xu Chu took the booklet and flipped through it slightly, and found that there were several marks on it, which were indeed very consistent with the time when Wei Gang had transcribed it.

She was not surprised that Wei Gang had obtained this from the inner court, after all, Wei Gang had followed Xiao Qinglang for many years, and it was not unusual for him to know some secret methods. Before, she had ignored this, but even if she remembered that there was no record of Jinlingwei to compare, she couldn't be sure that Wang Yun might be the so-called divine envoy.

"From this point of view, it is very likely that Wang Yun was involved with the Sun family at that time."

"No, in fact, Wang Yun and the Sun family have known each other for a long time. At the beginning, Mr. Wang Yun's enlightenment was the old man of the Sun family. It can be said that he is actually in a relationship with the two young ladies of the Sun family, which is a childhood sweetheart. It's just that in the end, Master Sun promised his eldest daughter to the second son of King Su, and his second daughter entered the Beijing draft......"

"In fact, after King Su and others were demoted, their son-in-law and grandson were assassinated, so that the two sides did not get married. I heard Steward Sun say that when King Su first arrived in Jinling, after the grief in his heart eased a little, he went to Sun's house once. He was very impressed by this incident, although the details were a little vague, but he was very sure. ”

"Why?" Xu Chuyu's eyebrows were furrowed, obviously thinking about the truth and falsehood.

Wei Gang saw her ask here, and he didn't sell it, and then said: "At that time, Old Lady Sun was just selecting a descendant student, and among the people who were selected, there happened to be a young child who was particularly clever, which made King Su happy to see it. So King Su sold his face and directly instructed Mrs. Sun to teach the child. ”

"That was the time, after the Sun family's hospitality, King Su had a dewy marriage with a servant girl, and then there was the current King Su."

"It seems to say that before the current King Su was brought back to the Sun family, he had been living in Zhuangzi. And after he was comprehended by the Sun family, he was taught by the proud disciple of the old lady Sun, that is, the child Rong Yu that King Su pointed out to the old lady......"

"Rong Yu ......" Xu Chu muttered, in the case of impostor officials in Jinzhou City, there was a person called "Rong Gong" many times. And that person, who is also the person behind the scenes they have determined, is likely to be the person behind the current fake Su King.

Xu Chu thought of this, and his long eyebrows tightened more and more.

At that time, Xiao Qinglang speculated based on the portraits depicted by Zhang Xiucai and others that the person should have been in the capital all the year round, so he was wearing the most popular clothes and costumes in the capital. But later, Xiao Qinglang sent someone to secretly investigate, and almost all the people in the officialdom in the capital were checked, and there was no one who met the characteristics of Rong Gong.

They also speculated that Na Rong Gong was most likely the son of the family who did not often walk in front of people. Superior wisdom, great courage and scheming.

But now it seems that it is really not like that. No wonder, they couldn't find out......

However, she always felt that there was something strange in this.

It's like, she and Xiao Qinglang have both questioned how could the old King Su be demoted out of the capital back then, how could he have no means to keep the heir? The two sons-in-law who made him proud, as well as the only grandson of the emperor at that time, were easily eliminated.

And today's King Su, although he behaves without flaws, acts and speaks quite childishly, which is indeed in line with his background as a servant girl of the Sun family.

can generally come from a humble background, and once he turns over and becomes a high-ranking person, most of his psychology will change to a greater or lesser extent. But at the moment, this king of Su does not, saying that he is humble, but it is not counting, and it is not right to say that he has the mentality of an upstart. It's as if he is a submissive character, and he has not been treated well by the Sun family at all.

In addition, the words he talked to Xiao Qinglang about the two young ladies of the Sun family before were too detailed, so that everything he said was completely exposed and written down by him after it was compiled by others.

If he is not the right Lord, who should the Righteous Lord be?

She was silent for a moment, then suddenly looked at Wei Gang and asked, "I wonder if Lord Wei has a portrait of Wang Yun?" ”

Wei Gang was stunned for a moment, rummaged through his baggage for a while, and then pulled out a crumpled verdict announcement that had been crumpled.

"This should be the image used by the yamen to announce the world before Wang Yun was beheaded."

Xu Chu took the image and looked at it for a while, and suddenly a light suddenly opened in his mind. It turned out to be like this, and it turned out to be like this......

"Back then, who was the one who verified Wang Yun's identity? Is it suspicious? ”

Wei Gang shook his head, "I tracked down that servant, and there is nothing suspicious about that servant. It's just strange that Wang Yun obviously committed a big crime, but he didn't connect the nine clans. It seems that after the Jinling Wei rebellion at that time, only the 100-member guards who directly participated in the rebellion were sentenced to beheading, and their families were not implicated in the slightest. Later, when Wang Yun was beheaded, he was not buried in the ancestral grave. The old lady of the Wang family, that is, the head of the Wang family who has been dependent on Wang Yun for 20 years, said that Wang Yun had committed the crime of rebellion, and the crime was unforgivable, and he was not allowed to enter the ancestral grave. Even, after Wang Yun was beheaded at that time, no one in the Wang family came forward to collect his body, so his body was thrown into a mass grave. This incident once became a topic of conversation among the people of Jinling after dinner, and many people accused Mrs. Wang of being ruthless and vicious, and selling her grandson for glory. However, it is precisely because of his performance that the first emperor once praised him as a loyal and good person. ”

"Later, when I investigated the affairs of the Sun family, I found that the housekeeper of the Sun family often went to the ancestral tomb of the Wang family to worship, and the people he worshipped did not erect a monument. I dug up the grave and found that there was only one body in it, the Jinling Weiguan Mansion and a Yanling knife. ”

"Later, on the grounds that I was only the grandson of Steward Sun to help, I let Steward Sun relent. According to what he said, it was actually Wang Yun's clothed mound, and the old lady of the Wang family did not approve of it, and even hired someone to dig it up several times. In the end, after the old lady passed away, the side branch of the Wang family remembered the blood friendship and set up a mound of clothes, but because the old lady did not let go in the end, he did not dare to erect a monument. ”

Xu Chu slowly tapped his fingers on the table a few times, and said coldly: "There is no successor to the Wang family, even if you win the award, what can you do?" Moreover, the act of throwing the body of the grandson into the mass grave and destroying it was too abrupt. ”

She carefully read what Wei had just said in her heart, and after a while, she suddenly got up, her eyes lit up and said: "So that's the case, the Jinling Tantric case and the Jinling Wei case, the real purpose is actually ......"

Maybe she suddenly thought about a lot of things clearly, and the details that had been chaotic in her mind at this time were also connected.

The Jinling Tantric case occurred in the thirties of the first emperor. After the Tantric case ended, it suddenly involved the matter of Jinling's close relationship with Tantra, and then the Jinlingwei collective rebellion broke out.

At that time, the first emperor wiped out Jinlingwei. But it has always been rumored that Wang Yun, who has been a miracle messenger from his family for generations, has not been dealt with immediately, but has been detained for secret investigation.

At the beginning, Xu Chu only thought that Wang Yun was imprisoned, because the first emperor noticed the strangeness of the rebellion case, and then wanted to find the person who really controlled Jinlingwei from Wang Yun.

However, now it seems that she still thinks simply.

Since King Lao Su can ask the head of the Wang family for the matter of his heirs, will the former emperor, who is bent on restoring his majesty, also have this idea?

Who said that the first emperor was deaf? According to Xu Chu, if the first emperor hadn't been fundamentally injured, and then someone took advantage of it, I am afraid that he would also be a generation of Ming Jun. After all, in the final analysis, Jin Lingwei can be regarded as a major disaster for the imperial court, let alone a thorn in the eyes of the emperor, after all, its existence is not for the Great Zhou Dynasty......

And the first emperor was able to completely eradicate the Jinling Wei through the Tantric case, and finally replaced all the guards of the Jinling Mansion with the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. In this regard, it can also be called wise.

But afterwards, he happened to be seriously injured, and in a desperate situation at that time, he could only secretly look for all kinds of crooked ways to restore his body. Since the first emperor can finally choose Li Dai Taozhuang and let the British prince pretend to be himself, it is very likely that Chen Cang secretly killed Wang Yun, and secretly gave Wang Yun another identity and opportunity......

If this is the case, then it will explain why the real king Yun can still retreat after greening the person behind the curtain who has narrow hands and eyes and a narrow heart, and can live happily in the capital.

In the final analysis, it was just because of the needs of the first emperor that the people behind the scenes had to admit Wang Yun's value. Then, take a breath and ......

However, although he endured it, he must also punish Wang Yun's heart, otherwise how could he let Wang Yun preside over the so-called living sacrifice of ghosts, the corpse spell of resurrection?

The people behind this conspiracy have spent so many lives spanning decades, and tracing its roots is like a farce. If that's what she thinks, it's a bit appalling.

For a while, Xu Chu didn't know whether the first emperor was really confused at the beginning, or if he was just going to plan.

After a while, Xu Chu, who took a deep breath, slowly calmed down the turbulent waves that were constantly surging in his heart.

"Did Wang Yun have a good relationship with a woman before the accident, or was there anything unusual about men and women?"

Wei Gang shook his head, "I didn't hear about it, but I heard that after Wang Yun's death, Old Lady Wang sent many young children out of the mansion." At that time, there were many storytellers who spread the word that the reason why the Wang family was able to communicate with the gods was because they secretly sacrificed boys and girls. ”

He hesitated for a moment before he said again: "I also asked a few famous storytellers, and I heard that the old gentleman, who was known as a know-it-all at that time, said that in fact, the Wang family dismissed only virgins, not boys. Moreover, most of those girls have already been abused, and they have even been fed some pickled medicine, so that those children cannot live at all. There were even a few older girls who were sent directly to the local Qinglou......"

"When the prince asked me to investigate the Sun family, because Wang Yun was involved, I deliberately paid attention to it." Talking about this, Wei Gang's face was really not good, and he even said with a little indignation and disgust, "I went to the Qinglou to inquire, and those people are not yet in their prime, but they are already ......."

He didn't say it very clearly, but it was enough for others to understand.

"Because I was young at that time, the old mothers who did hard labor in the Qinglou were very impressed. It seems like...... It seems that the girls are no longer complete, so the bustard is not worried that they will die at a young age......"

Xu Chu, who was still cold-faced, couldn't help but show a look of hatred when he heard this. She gritted her teeth and scolded, "Before, he was only treated as a brute!" But now it seems that it is really not as good as a beast! ”

Obviously, Xu Chu remembered the bones found in the dark room of the Dong family's courtyard. The girls were all broken melons and fed five stones.

At that time, she speculated that in addition to alchemizing for Dong Ruiyang, the biggest idea of Xuanyang Daoist should be to cover up the truth that he killed Jingxu Shitai when he committed such a crime. But now it seems that it was his nature.

At the beginning, all kinds of things he did to Jingxu Shitai must have been just because Jingxu Shitai was petite, and he grew like a child because of dwarfism. In addition, Jingxu Shitai and the Danding faction were originally an excellent hiding place for him to choose, which could become both a pedal and a retreat. Therefore, he has a skin-to-skin relationship with Master Jingxu.

Later, Master Jingxu was too pregnant and killed. Perhaps, he didn't want that child, and he was afraid that Master Jingxu would expose him as a reason, but it was more likely that Master Jingxu had discovered something wrong with him, and he was unwilling to restrain the criminal act of bullying the girl through alchemy......

If so, then it is unlikely that he will have an affair with Sun Rou. Even, he can do things for Sun Rou to offend the existence he can't provoke.