Brother Lian heard Guan Shudu's question, and spread his palms to him: "Bet for breakfast, if you admit defeat, give me the bet, and I will tell you." ”

Guan Shu's family opened the largest gold and jade jewelry chain store in the capital, no one has as many gold and silver jewelry, and he was just a wealthy merchant, but he didn't expect that suddenly there was green smoke on the ancestral tomb Guan Tongsheng such a champion, and he also directly added a five-grade official robe, and the family identity was instantly promoted from a merchant to an official family.

A month ago, the flowing water banquet alone was set up for seven days, and the silver melon seeds scattered were enough to have 1,000 taels.

Brother Lian and Man San beat him a lot of Qiu Feng, and the inexplicable bet came as soon as he said it, and Guan Shudud basically never won.

Guan Tongsheng took out a tael of silver and put it in her hand, she glared at him, "Double!" Guan Tongsheng put another tael, she nodded with satisfaction.

Guan Tongsheng also took out two taels of silver and put them in front of Ye Chengshan, Ye Chengshan saw that Lian Di accepted the silver with peace of mind, so he also took out his purse and put the silver in.

Brother Lian said: "All the things of Zhang Mao and Shu Mao have been cleaned up, and I want to know what he did?

Ye Yanshan said: "It's too late for him to cover up, how can he tell us." ”

Brother Lian nodded and said: "Yes, he is under one person, and his noble status above 10,000 people will not accept our inquiries at all, not to mention, he is still in charge of the Criminal Department, and he is the top boss of our top boss." Judging from what he is doing now, he is indeed covering up some of Zhang Mao's things, he must just hope that we can find the murderer and give Zhang Mao's death an explanation. ”

Ye Yanshan said: "But after this murderer committed the murder in a grand manner, he left with a swagger, and we don't know who this person is." ”

Guan Tongsheng said: "Yes, what should we do?"

"Try to go back in time," Brother Lian pointed his finger to the sky, "How did the murderer know that Zhang Mao would meet people in the Hongxing Mansion the night before? Did Zhang Mao meet the two on a regular basis, or was it random? Before the murder, did he go to Zhuyun Lane to step on it?"

As soon as this question was raised, Ye Yanshan and Guan Tongsheng also immediately understood the direction of searching, and their faces were suddenly full of excitement.

"In the afternoon, we will go to Hongxing Building again to see if we can find something. ”

*

In the main house of the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion, Quan Xiang and a staff member were having lunch, but unfortunately the dishes on the table had cooled, but no one moved the chopsticks, and the housekeeper Quan Fu knelt on the ground and trembled.

"How did they find out about Muzhi Lane?" Quan Boxiong forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and his voice was cold to the bone. From the moment Zhang Mao was suddenly killed, he felt that everything was not going well.

Zhang Mao has helped him too much in the past 30 years, helping him plan, take care of, arrange, step by step, interlocking, and everything is missing. The most valuable thing is that Zhang Mao is low-key, and he is extremely restrained in his life and work, only a few old servants of the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion know his status in the mansion, and many other servants only say that he is just a favored retainer.

Twenty years ago, Quan Boxiong was able to stand out from many advisers and become the humeral minister of the first emperor, all thanks to Zhang Mao's advice, the first emperor adopted his proposal to develop agriculture and commerce, suppress the scholars, and then the treasury quickly filled, and since then he has risen all the way to the high position of the left minister.

When the prince rebelled, it was Zhang Maoli who persuaded him to soberly choose to stand by the side of the first emperor, and he was able to escape from the bloody case that was widely implicated, and won the absolute trust of the first emperor, so that there would be a later deathbed to help him and make him one of the three major regents. Although the three ministers are headed by King Xian, he and Lei Guogong are second, but they are also powerful enough in the court.

The three regents, in charge of the affairs of the six ministries, jointly gave advice to the little emperor, and all the holy decrees issued by the little emperor must be seen by him and Lei Guogong, and stamped with the seal of King Xian, the original intention of the first emperor was to maintain the stability of the Ming family.

The last words of the first emperor: Ming Xi is twenty years old, please return the government to him.

Ten years of regency, this year Ming Xi is twenty.

Zhang Mao had already told him that no matter how tempting the power was, he had no military power, so he could only be his courtier with peace of mind. However, just because he doesn't think about the supreme right doesn't mean that others don't want it either.

How to hand over the rights and to whom, he needs Zhang Mao to give him advice and guide him. But at this moment, he was brutally killed, how could he not be angry!

Quan Fu said tremblingly: "It was the slave who accidentally said that he pouted and said to them Spicy Xuan, such a restaurant where people come and go, Mr. Zhang is inconspicuous, I really don't know how they found Muzhi Lane." ”

Quan Xiang said: "That Guan Tongsheng is a fool, who helped him check it?"

The staff on the side said: "The person we sent to monitor said that although Guan Tongsheng was not shrewd enough, he was good at drawing. He drew a portrait of Mr. Zhang's body, and Guan Tongsheng had two people around him to investigate the case together, one was the criminal department's arrest of Kuailian's younger brother, and the other was Chengye Lingshan in Daxing County. ”

"Who are these two?"

"Brother Lian is the grandson of Lian Hu, and Ye Yanshan is a descendant of the criminal officer of the previous dynasty, and he is good at autopsy. ”

"Lianhu's grandson, the kid who almost drowned in his lotus pond ten years ago?"

"Yes, Lian Hu only has this one grandson. ”

"What can they find in Woodbranch Lane?"

"I didn't find anything, Mr. Zhang made an explanation before his death, if he unfortunately died, his family would leave Beijing immediately, and he would not stay for a moment, as for his whereabouts, we don't know. With Mr. Zhang's mind of doing things without omission, the retreat of his family members is only afraid that it has already been arranged, and the possibility of being found is very small. ”

Minister Quan sighed, "I have always been relieved that he is doing things, but what he was doing before, who should he hand over to now?"

The staff said: "My lord, whether Mr. Zhang's death was caused by the copper coin hero or not, it should be temporarily restrained now, and what Mr. Zhang is doing is best to stop and wait and see what happens." ”

"You're right, the appearance of this copper coin hero is really strange. Guan Tongsheng was there, and continued to monitor. Zhang Mao has been with me for many years, and if I can avenge him, my appearance will never be soft, and those who dare to move my appearance will never be spared!"

"However, if Guan Tongsheng's investigation is to that matter, how should he deal with it?"

"You go and tell a few other people, hide it first, if Guan Tongsheng finds out about that matter, find a way to let him close the case as soon as possible. ”

"Yes. ”