"Auntie, shall we play again in the afternoon?" Her eyes sparkled.

Li Yixun wiped his hands with a handkerchief and said with a smile: "After the Weizheng is over, Ayu and the others are coming over." Aren't you going to play treading songs? ”

"Yes, yes." Xiao Yan nodded and smiled, "Then play the song first, and invite them to come over to play chess next time." Haha, let Junyu's cousin and their maids also go on the chessboard to see who has any stunts, they must be very happy. ”

"Okay." Li Yixun smiled and touched her head.

It was already past time for the mother and daughter to finish their lunch, and not long after taking a walk to eat, Li Qunyu and the three of them came together.

The women had tea in the reading room, and Li Yixun led them to the music gallery to sing.

Of course, it is not on the sound gallery to sing, but on the broken porcelain shop outside the sound gallery.

This music tour map is the winding path of the word "Hui" on both sides of the sound gallery, and the middle of the word back is the exquisite rockery of the flying music and dance skillfully stacked with white stones. The five of them sang around the rockery, and the maids made peace in the outer circle. Xiao Yan and the others play a continuous stamping, which is an unfixed dance partner, taking turns to stagger the pedaling, and the family often uses this kind of singing, joy, and exchange feelings.

After this song, the relationship between Xiao Yan and the three cousins has been enhanced again. Li Qunyu clapped his hands when he stepped against her, and when he turned in a circle, he held his arms and even grabbed his waist. At first, Li Zilan glanced at it several times, but after thinking about it, she felt that it was nothing, mainly because Xiao Yan's temperament was too clean and clear, which made people feel that stepping on a song was a song, and she couldn't think of anything else - unless she was like His Highness last night, her affection was direct and domineering. Even Li Zilan herself, clapping her hands when she and Xiao Yan stepped on each other, sometimes holding her arms, she would not feel any reluctance. Li Yingzhen's temperament is even more refreshing, and she already regards Xiao Yan as a close friend in her heart, so there is no distinction between men and women, and when they step on the head, the two of them hook up and put their backs together.

It wasn't until near dusk that the women rested.

Xiao Yan was initially worried that Li Yuzhen would come over after Shen Shen, but until the end of the song, Li Yuzhen did not appear, so she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, secretly wondering if Li Yuzhen had already listened to what she said last night?

Who knew that Li Yuzhen came over when she was having dinner, she was still the kind of casual look, and her eyes were still thin and cool with spring water, and after saluting her mother, she smiled and asked her, "Yuezhi misses me", Xiao Yan was suddenly silent: So, what she said last night was all in vain, right?

She replied angrily: "I didn't think about it." ”

Li Yuzhen ignored the three cousins who were staring at each other, and said with a smile: "I miss you." ”

Xiao Yan saw the gazes of the three cousins, and his face immediately turned red, and he wanted to slap the dishes on the dining table on Li Yuzhen's face.

Li Yuzhen directly instructed the maid not to add a case, took the purple silk robe and sat down next to Xiao Yan, and asked the waiter to add another pair of bowls.

Xiao Yan glared at her with a cross eyebrow.

Li Yuzhen flew a flirtatious glance at her, stretched out his hand and hugged her waist, half of his body leaned against her, his chin rested on her shoulder, and he smiled like a blue, "Do you miss me?" ”

Xiao Yan was so angry that his head jumped, and he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Li Zhaohua! ”

The three county lords' eyebrows and lips twitched fiercely.

Is this really their lobby sister who always looks at people with thin and cool eyes, with two points of distancing, a little carelessness, and a point of contempt, and her aura is absolutely superior to others? Your Highness??

What a blind eye!

Li Yihun laughed, and said to the three nieces calmly: "This whuffling should be used while it is hot, and it will not be crispy when it is cold." The two of her don't care, it's natural to stop when the trouble is enough. After speaking, he ate slowly and elegantly.

But where can the three county lords still take care of the food?

The two of them had already made a move, their fists and palms intersected, as fast as lightning, but the strength did not move the dishes on the table.

Li Yingzhen's eyebrows were flying, her eyes were bright, and her straight was wonderful.

Li Zilan looked at Her Highness who was still seductive with her flirtatious eyes in her hands, and silently supported her forehead in her heart: Is this really her Highness?

Li Qunyu's eyebrows were slightly raised, her light cherry lips were slightly pursed, and the expression at that moment was meaningful.

The future prince of the Tang Empire is really in love with a woman, hehe!

Is she, the lobby sister, going to learn from Emperor Zhaozong?

However, Xiao Yue's surname is Xiao ......

Li Qunyu raised one eyebrow, and suddenly felt that his future life was interesting.

If there's a good show to watch, isn't it fun?

The lord of Ruyang County is definitely not afraid of the high stage.

The two of them made more than a dozen moves back and forth, and finally stopped. Li Yuzhen stepped back and sat upright, and Xiao Yan endured that she was too close to her in the same case. I can't get rid of her if I want to care, so let's take a break and don't disturb my mother and three cousins. Xiao Yan sighed silently, and really felt that the suppression of strength was too depressing. But once she concentrates on eating, these depressed feelings fly away.

Li Yuzhen likes her attentive demeanor very much, she has no distractions, she is single-minded, and she can't interfere with her even if the wind and thunderclouds move - for example, this will touch her waist, Xiao Yuezhi will give her a glance at most, and she will not make a big move. Li Yuzhen's eyebrows flew obliquely, and he only spent two points on his meal, and the other eight points were spent on teasing Xiao Yan, and the three county lords were speechless.

Li Qunyu silently sympathized with Cui Qingjue, glanced at Li Zilan with her eyes, and saw that her eating demeanor was impeccable, but she seemed to be distracted, and she also thought of Cui Qi?

Li Qunyu thought to herself that if Cui Qingjue was rejected by His Royal Highness, how likely was it to like Ah Lan in frustration? She shook her head secretly, whether Cui Qi was empathetic or not, she felt that Sun San was more suitable for her cousin.

This dinner was used up when most people were absent-minded, and after rinsing their hands and mouths, Li Qunyu and the three of them said goodbye to their aunt - didn't you see the cold eyes of His Royal Highness? They don't want to be annoyed here.

Xiao Yan sent the three cousins to the gate of Yuzhao Courtyard, and when he returned to the reading room outside his mother's bedroom, he heard Li Yuzhen say about the incident that shocked Zichen Hall today:

"Today, in the last dynasty, the imperial historian and the imperial historian Zhongcheng jointly reported an assassination case, and Lu Hui, the assassin of Laizhou, who went to Beijing to report on his work, was stabbed. When the waiter woke up in the early morning, he found him dead on the couch. The sage immediately sent the three divisions of Yushitai, Dali Temple and the Criminal Department to conduct a joint autopsy and judged that he died of poisoning. ”

Li Yixun raised his eyebrows lightly, "If it is murder, it should be reported to Jingzhao Mansion, how can it be the prophet of imperial history?" Hey, it's Lu Harmonic who died? - Wu Jun Lu, Lu Harmonic Lu Yixiao? ”

Li Yuzhen replied: "My aunt remembers well, it is Lu Yixiao. ”

Li Yixun frowned, "Lu Yixiao was stabbed?" - The mansion of the Lu clan of Wu County is in Chongrenfang, right? No wonder, both the Xie family and the Wang family's mansions are in Chongrenfang, did the waiter who went to Jingzhao Mansion to report the case bump into Xie Xiantai or Wang Zhongcheng? ”

Xie Xiantai is the head of the Xie family of Chen County, Jiang Guogong Xie Zhen, and is currently the imperial historian; Wang Zhongcheng is the head of the Langya Wang family, the Duke of Wen, and the current Yushi Zhongcheng, these two are the chief officials of the Yushitai.

But how could Yu Shitai talk about this case before Jing Zhaoyin?

This reason should fall on the "assassination" that Zhaohua said.

Lu Hui is a well-known Qingzheng assassin and the backbone of the Lu clan in Wu County - who will kill him? Vendetta, or assassination by political enemies?

As soon as Lu Huo dies, who will profit?

Li Yixun instantly thought a lot in his heart.

Xiao Yan was still thinking about who Lu Harmony and Lu Yixiao were, she felt that she had an impression, should she have heard the fourth brother or sister mention it when she was in the bachelor's genealogy?

Li Yuzhen said: "It's Xie Xiantai, but it wasn't the servant who went to Jingzhao to report the case from the Lu Mansion, he was about to pass through the Fangfu Gate of the Lu Mansion on the way to the court, and he saw a striking white 'ghost' word printed on the Fangfu door, which was as big as a bucket." The people of Lu Mansion were scrubbing, but they couldn't wash it off. Xie Xiantai recognized that it was the soul mark of the night ghost thorn, immediately stopped the horse, questioned sharply, and learned that Lu Yixiao was killed, so he ordered Wutaiwei to seal the doors of the Lu Mansion, and no one was allowed to enter or leave for the time being, and ordered the servants to stop Wang Zhongcheng and Jing Zhaoyin of the previous dynasty on the street, and invited them to come to the Lu Mansion, and the three of them met with the Lu Mansion, Jing Zhaoyin filed a case, and the three of them forced Lu Zheng, the fourth room master of the Lu Mansion, to hand over the soul hook post left on him after the night ghost assassinated Lu Huan. ”

When a night ghost assassinates someone, he must leave a soul hook post to explain the sin of the person who was killed. This is something that the Lu government is trying to cover up. After Lu Zheng found out that his second brother Lu Hui was dead, and the soul hook on his body was shocking, the first thing he thought of was to cover up. But under the joint questioning of the three family heads Xie Zhen, Wang Xiu and Jingzhao Yin Dugu Mu, even Lu Zhi, the head of the Lu family, couldn't stand it in Beijing, not to mention that it was just the Lu evidence of the fourth room master? Of course, the soul hook post was handed over.

Xiao Yan had a surprised expression on his face, "Night Ghost Thorn? The night ghost thorn who 'doesn't do bad things in his life, and is not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night'? ”

The two most feared assassin organizations of the Tang family are the East China Sea Thorn and the Night Ghost Thorn, these two major assassin organizations are older than the history of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and the family's fear of the Night Ghost Thorn is even higher than the East China Sea Thorn.

It's not because the Night Ghost Thorn is more powerful than the East China Sea Thorn.

Although the East China Sea Thorn is an assassin, its assassination can be called "above board", and it is always an assassination by force, never using poison or other means. But the night ghost assassination is a mysterious and unpredictable method, which is exactly the same as its "ghost" character.

But what makes the family most afraid is the condition for the night ghost assassin to take orders to kill, not to kill people if they can afford to pay, but "life is the price, Yama is sentenced, and ghosts are hooked", and the hired assassin is at the cost of his own net worth and life, and the person who wants to kill must meet the "traitorous one, Yin Si hooks the soul" - according to the ghost hooking posts that appeared in the past, the people killed by the night ghost assassin are all recognized in the world as guilty of the evil crime that deserves to be punished.

The head of the soul hook post is two lines of red pen piercing italics: "I don't do bad things in my life, and I am not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night." ”

The family is afraid of the night ghost stab, that is, the assassination target of the night ghost thorn in the family, once the soul is posted, the scandal is exposed to the world, and the reputation of a family may be ruined.

One of the heroic families of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Hongnong Yang was assassinated by the second son of the head of the family, Yang Kuang, who was assassinated by the night ghost assassination, and the soul hook post revealed that he made a wishful car □□ killed nearly 100 virgins, and the world was in an uproar, this Yang Erlang was known as the head of the family, amazing, amazing, and capable, and at the age of thirty-four, he was able to do the Ministry of Works, and was expected to become the youngest prime minister of the Tang Dynasty - who knew that there was such a perverted crime in private? Gaozu angrily belittled the head of the Yang family and the descendants of the Yang family as the sons of officials, which made the Hongnong Yang family, who was the second of the family surnamed A at that time, suffer a big blow, and was lowered to the family surnamed B on the genealogy of the scholars, until the late Ming Dynasty, because of the accumulation of prestige to return to the family surnamed A, but compared with other families surnamed A, the power has fallen a lot, so Gaozong was forced to tie the marriage contract with Murong Qiu, the eldest daughter of the Murong family in Liaodong who was still a family surnamed B at that time, and set the beginning of the marriage contract of the Tang Dynasty.

There is also the Zhu family of the Taizong Dynasty, the third family of the Taizong Dynasty, who was killed by the night ghost assassination, and the soul hook post revealed that he killed forty-two pregnant women, disembowelan section and steamed fetuses to eat meat, the three divisions verified, the government and the opposition were shocked, and Taizong said angrily: "This is a person? "Depreciating the children of the Zhu family, the Zhu family of Qianjun was removed from the family surnamed B, and since then it has declined, and now it is completely lost in the family tree of the scholars.

The Yang family of the Hongjia family is still in the middle and lower reaches of the family surnamed A, and the glory of the second family at the beginning of the founding of the country is no longer as prosperous, except that the younger generations are not as prosperous as the families with the surname A such as Xiao Cui Pei, and the Yang Kuo was assassinated by the night ghost at the beginning, which caused the Yang family's reputation to plummet.

Therefore, this is the biggest reason why the family is afraid of the night ghost thorn. If you are assassinated by the East China Sea Thorn, you will lose an important child, but if you are assassinated by the Night Ghost, it will be a scandal, and it is likely to bring a scandal to the entire family.

So Xiao Yan followed up and asked after the shock: "What evil did that Lu Thorn Shi do and was assassinated by the Night Ghost Thorn?" ”

Li Yuzhen's eyes were as cold as ice blades, "According to the book of the Soul Hook Post, Lu Hui was addicted to sexual abuse after being drunk, and from the time he was twenty-one years old to half a year ago, sixty-five boys and girls died under his sexual abuse. ”

Xiao Yan suddenly frowned like a knife, "Sure enough!" He wrinkled his eyebrows again, "If it's true, didn't their parents report the death of the boys and girls?" ”

Li Yi snorted softly, like ice jade shattering the ground, "There are cases of missing children in local states and counties every year, especially on festival nights, especially on festival nights, there are many abducted children. Most of these missing children were sold into prostitutes, or wealthy families as child prostitutes. ——Lu Hui was the top student in high school at the age of 20, and was praised as a clean style and has an excellent reputation. If he really had this inclination, and bought boys and girls incognito and anonymously from the kidnappers for him to sexually torture to death, who would have thought of it? ”

Li Yuzhen said in a cold voice: "What my aunt said is true. Lu Hui served as the third term of the Laizhou Assassin for nine years, and the government was harmonious, and the performance of the officials was excellent every year. Three years ago, the new production method of sea salt was written, and as soon as the salt drying method came out, the output of sea salt increased several times. Now that the price of salt has dropped to the point where the price of smuggled salt has dropped significantly, it can be said that Lu Harmonic is the work. The saint summoned him to Beijing this time to report on his work, which was to promote him to the post of Shandong Provincial Observation Envoy, heh, who knew that there would be such a thing! ——The sage has ordered Zuo Wei to seal the Chongrenfang Lu Mansion, prohibit people from entering and leaving, and send the deputy chiefs of the three divisions of Yu Shi Zhongcheng, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and Youqing of the Criminal Department to investigate the case in the three places. I believe that it will be known soon. ”

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