Chapter 149: Rumors

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I also thought about this matter, Wu Xiaoyi's various performances at Ji Liusu's house on the night of the case were all unbelievable and unreasonable, and I thought about it for a long time, ruled out many possibilities, and found the only reasonable explanation.

As a famous quote from "Sherlock" in the previous life: "When you have eliminated all the impossibilities, then the only one that remains, no matter how difficult to accept, can only be the truth." โ€

"What if, Wu Xiaoyi died before he arrived at Ji Liusu's house?"

"What?" Li Lei immediately stared at a pair of copper bell eyes, but after all, a head catcher is a head catcher, and after digesting it for a while, he understood my logic, "Indeed, no one saw Wu Xiaoyi when he arrived at Ji Liusu's house, and Ji Liusu did nothing during the whole process of poisoning, and he didn't even resist being bitten to the point of blurred flesh and blood, and it is indeed the best explanation that he has already died." โ€

"Therefore, the matter between Wu Xiaoyi and Ji Tassel is a trap." I tapped the table with my fingertips, "With Wu Xiaoyi's extreme fear of being inside, it is impossible to hook up with a secret prostitute like Ji Liusu, let alone have the courage to go to the secret door, and Wu Xiaoyi can't find a girl from the Teaching Workshop Division around him, so Wu Xiaoyi and Ji Liusu were forcibly put together by the mastermind behind the scenes, the purpose is to give Wu Xiaoyi's death a plausible 'truth'." โ€

At this point, the mystery of the death of the female ghost and the high-ranking official has been solved, but, "I still don't understand: the mastermind behind the scenes first painstakingly assassinated two high-ranking officials, and then created rumors in the market to expose the black history of the two, what is the purpose of this move?" โ€

"I didn't understand it before." Li Lei teased a little, "Until this morning, I seem to understand. โ€

I see that Li Lei looks like he wants to speak and stops, which really doesn't look like his style," ...... What do you understand? โ€

"Since the last time I was mentioned by you, girl, I have sent my brother to keep an eye out for rumors in the market and find the people who spread them. Until today, the newspaper said that two mysterious and terrifying words suddenly appeared in Jinling City......"

At the key point, Li Lei, an upright man, actually stopped talking again, and looked at me with complicated eyes.

"What's the matter, Li Zhutou but it doesn't hurt to say it." I was almost killed by him.

"The prince is not virtuous, the employment is unknown, the sky is angry and resentful, and the ghosts are rampant!"

I gasped.

"What's even more terrifying is that some people say that these words are shouted by ghosts floating through the streets of Jinling City at night." Li Lei looked down at his injured arm with palpitations, "Miss Leng doesn't remember, when we visited the Immortal Temple at night......

I naturally remember the ghosts I encountered at that time, and the intermittent words and phrases such as "unvirtuous", "unknown" and "ghostly" that screamed in my mouth, but now that I think about it, it is probably these four sentences.

"The prince is not virtuous...... What does this have to do with the crown prince? I suddenly understood why Li Lei wanted to stop talking, in his opinion, I was the fat man's confidante among the people.

"I didn't understand it before, but I finally figured it out after I got some inspiration from the ghost's words." Li Lei sighed and said: "Miss Leng should know that since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince returned from a private visit to Yangzhou Weifu before the month, he turned the household department upside down from top to bottom, and there were as many as twelve household officials who were dismissed and dismissed from office in the Yancao corruption case.

There are so many vacancies in the household department at once, and naturally someone has to fill them. I heard that not long ago, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince drew up a list and recommended to His Majesty five officials above the fourth grade of the household department, and now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince trusts him and appoints them. Luo Dongyang, the newly promoted governor of Caoyun, and Wu Xiaoyi, the envoy of the salt department, should be two of them. โ€

I secretly sighed to myself: I recommended such two inhuman guys, and the fat man really didn't know people and neglected to use people this time.

Thinking of this, I was suddenly shocked in my heart: Therefore, the real purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes to kill Luo Dongyang and Wu Xiaoyi is to bring disaster to the east, so that the court and the outside world realize that "the prince is not virtuous, and he does not know people", so that "the sky is angry and people are resentful, and ghosts are born"?!

I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

can be so painstakingly calculated and fat, there is only one person in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Li Lei obviously didn't know what I was thinking at the moment, and was still babbling on his reasoning: "After getting our Ya Nei drunk that day, I got sporadic clues from his mouth, and I also investigated who was on the flower boat on the night of August 15, who almost died......

"Hubu Shangshu, King of Kanghe." I subconsciously interfaced.

I was fortunate to play Bai Lan, the fourth son of the Bai family, for more than a month, and I still have some understanding of the king of Kanghe County, who married the daughter of the Bai family, so I had the answer in my heart on the spot.

Li Lei glanced at me in surprise and admiration: "It is the King of Kanghe." Because of the legend that he was friendly with His Royal Highness the Prince, the mastermind behind the scenes originally planned to start with him, but he didn't calculate it, one of the female ghosts, the red basket girl, escaped from the battle, and only a green Qi could not achieve the desired effect, plus the king of Kanghe County was the royal prince, and the guards were naturally not vegetarians, and the killer behind the scenes finally did not find a suitable opportunity to make a move, so he had to give up. โ€

King Kanghe has found out that it has nothing to do with the Yancao corruption case, so why did the people behind the scenes attack him? This question circled around my mind, and then there was an answer:

Yes, with the in-law relationship between King Kanghe and the Jinling Emperor Shang Bai family, it is quite logical to want to force him to be charged with "using power for personal gain, collusion between officials and businessmen".

The head of the household department, Shangshu Kang, the king of the county, the new governor of Caoyun, Luo Dongyang, and the envoy of the salt department, Wu Xiaoyi...... A flash of inspiration occurred in my mind, and I asked Li Lei: "Does Li Zhutou know who are the other three people on the list of His Royal Highness the Prince?" โ€

"This ......" Li Lei looked ashamed, "Miss Leng, my official position is low, you might as well ...... such important matters in the DPRK and China"

"The list, I know."

Pan Gongzi saw that I was sweating profusely, personally poured a cup of tea for me, and took out a plain white handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to me, "It's just a matter of confidentiality, why did Miss Leng suddenly ask?" โ€

"I'm afraid that the recommended list that decided to promote important members has become the assassination list of Jinling ghosts!" I sighed a little heavily, "Having said that, people like Luo Dongyang and Wu Xiaoyi, who are ruthless and unrighteous and abandon relatives and friends, have also been appreciated and recommended by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and it is true that he does not know people. โ€

Before I finished speaking, I was tapped on my forehead by Pan Gongzi with a familiar handle, "I have no mouth again." His Royal Highness knows people, and he sees whether he can take on this responsibility with ability and ability, and how can he pick up so many old things? Besides, after all, the matter of Luo Dongyang and Wu Xiaoyi is a rumor in the market, how true and how false it is, or whether there is another hidden secret in it is unknown, how can the responsibility be hastily deducted on His Royal Highness's head? โ€

I was speechless by him, and secretly thought that my family was really going to my own family, "Whether it's true or not, but I finally found the murderous logic of the mastermind behind the scenes, and I'm afraid that the other three court officials on the recommended list are also in danger." โ€

Pan Gongzi thought for a while, and also knew that the matter was big, "The other three are the new left waiter of the household department, Hongyuan, the right waiter, Ke Linan, and ......" Pan Gongzi looked at me with a strange expression, "The one you know, Langzhong, the treasurer of the household department, Zhang Wei." โ€

Zhang Wei? The eldest son of the Shangshu family of the Ministry of Rites, the brother-in-law of the fat man, and Zhang Wei who almost made the girl innocent on the flower boat on August 15 last year?

I immediately widened my eyes, and I reacted for a long time before I said hatefully: "Recommend a rotten person like Zhang Wei to serve as a senior official in the household department, and you are embarrassed to say that you don't know anyone and don't know anyone, and you don't know anyone?" โ€

In short, this incident has greatly reduced the image of the fat man in my mind.

For my festival with Zhang Wei, Pan Gongzi was very clear, and he didn't know how to persuade me at the moment, so he had to pat me on the shoulder comfortingly, "Born in the family of the emperor, in the center of the whirlpool of power, there are always many last resorts. โ€

I let out a sullen "um", but I also knew that now was not the time to be angry with the fat man, and the top priority was to figure out who would be the next assassination target behind the scenes.

Zhang Weimo...... There are so many bad deeds that there are too many to mention, even if it is just to take out the festival between him and my Leng family, it is enough to make this Zhang Dagongzi drown by the spittle of the old and young in Jinling City. It is no exaggeration to say that if he dies, it is estimated that half of the people in Jinling City will applaud.

As for the other two...... "About Hong Yuan and Ke Lin'an, can Pan Gongzi know?" โ€

"These two people have been in the DPRK for many years, and they are not strangers." Pan Gongzi shook his fan and thought for a while, "Hong Yuan, there was an old incident in the past that was famous for a while, and it even caused him to be unable to be promoted for ten years. โ€

"What's the matter?"

This matter is a little funny: when Hong Yuan was sentenced in Hangzhou, he once sentenced a prisoner to exile for 3,000 miles, but he repented not long after the sentence, and felt that this crime was not so much, and the sentence was afraid that it would be heavier, so he changed the sentence to exile for 1,000 miles.

However, at this time, the head of the cell had engraved the gold seal of the exile of 3,000 li on the prisoner's face, and it was difficult to see Lord Hong change the sentence: with a stroke of your boss's pen, the gold seal on the prisoner's face could not be erased. In desperation, he had to make a cross on the prisoner's gold seal and re-engrave the gold seal on the other side of his face.

This matter spread, and Hong Yuan became the laughing stock of the entire Ming officialdom for a while. Later, Hong Yuan's promotion was presented to the Ministry of Officials, and he was instructed by the Ministry of Officials to 'make a draft on the face of the prisoner, how can he be reused!' So Hong Yuan didn't get an inch for ten years. โ€

I laughed at this story: Fatty, who do you see you have promoted?

"What about Collinth?"

"As for this Master Ke...... Pan Gongzi frowned and thought for a moment, "he can be regarded as an upright official with clean sleeves and a fair and strict manner. โ€

"Sort of?" I keenly sensed the clue from Pan Gongzi's slightly hesitant tone, "Pan Gongzi, it is a matter of life and death for these officials, what are you afraid of?" โ€