Chapter 168
Lin Ming saw that the general trend had gone, and after weighing it in prison, he begged bitterly in the face of Lian Shurong and Yu Qingfeng Pei Wuyi.
Lin Ming sighed that the providence made people, he never thought that the tattoo master he was looking for was still secretly helping people other than him get tattoos, if it wasn't for the tattoo master who also helped Xu Yuan tattoo the ghost exorcism charm, if it wasn't for Yu Qingfeng's chance to encounter this murder and solve the mystery of the mechanism at the scene, his death would definitely be easily determined by accident.
Lin Ming confessed, he was not Lin Ming, his original name was Gongliangxu, he was the grandson of Gonglianghan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who participated in the rebellion and was beheaded by the whole family during the reign of the first emperor, and was rescued by his old slave when he was three years old.
At the age of sixteen, he returned to the capital, wanting to gain fame and fame, enter the court as an official, find out the truth about the unjust rebellion of his ancestors, rehabilitate his family, and clear his grievances.
But his identity is fake, and he can't pass the imperial examination at all, and once his true identity is discovered, it will be a dead end. In order to achieve his goal, he had to kill Lin Ming, a down-and-out scholar who looked quite similar to him and only had a demented grandmother left in his family, and impersonated him.
After gaining fame, he has been taking care of Lin Ming's old and confused grandmother with the psychology of atonement, honest and honest, and dedicated to being a good official.
In his work, he found that the victims in several cases submitted by the local government had similar characteristics, and the cases were strange, and he wanted to re-investigate them thoroughly.
At this time, the eunuch Gao Manpeng found him. Gao Manpeng's eyes are wide, and he has already noticed the secret of his impersonation, and uses this as a threat to ask him to give up pursuing these cases, and if there are such cases reported in the future, he will turn a blind eye.
But some cases involved ghosts and gods because of mistakes, and they made a lot of noise, and when the case was sent to Dali Temple for review, it was found strange by Lian Shurong.
He thought that everything was under control, and he only needed to assign his own people to go through the motions to review the case. It's just that he didn't expect that the emperor's imperial pen personally sealed an airborne Dali Temple Qing Pei Wuyi, which disrupted his plan.
Pei Wuxian is the new Dali Siqing, and he has a strong interest in cases involving ghosts and gods, and wants to go to investigate in person, but Lin Ming can't stop it at all.
And Gao Manpeng exerted pressure on his side, and the reason why he sent a dead man to disguise the murderer and kill people through the case was to cover up people's eyes. If these cases are exposed, Gao Manpeng will reveal Lin Ming's secret. As a last resort, he could only follow and act at the opportunity to avoid Pei Wuyi from finding out the truth and leading out the mastermind behind the scenes, Gao Manpeng.
Lin Ming admitted that it was he who had changed the pills in Yu Qingfeng's purse and poisoned the female dead soldier. He and Gao Manpeng have been secretly communicating with each other, and they are controlled by Gao Manpeng.
Now that he has been exposed, he has lost in the hands of his best friend, the woman he loves the most and the most powerful opponent, he is willing to gamble and lose, and he is also willing to enter the palace to testify against Gao Manpeng in front of the emperor, but he has only one request, asking Pei Wuxian to rehabilitate the Gongliang family, clear his grievances, and let him look away.
Yu Qingfeng and Pei Wuyi entered the palace and went to the Taishi Bureau together to find the annals that recorded the Gongliang clan's participation in the rebellion. Taishi Ling also told them that Lin Ming had also come to the Taishi Bureau several times to check the historical materials. According to the information, the Gongliang clan did participate in the rebellion. But Lin Ming's words are conclusive, and the Gongliang clan must have been framed.
Yu Qingfeng and Pei Wuyi faced saints, the emperor was already addicted to alchemy and immortality, and he had taken a lot of pills, and he was deeply poisoned. The emperor told them that when the Gongliang clan participated in the rebellion, he was still the crown prince, and the Gongliang clan was loyal to his three emperor brothers, and after the rebellion, except for the three emperor brothers Xuanwang, all the rebellious ministers and thieves were raided, but the emperor at that time was reluctant to give birth to his own son Xuanwang, and only sentenced him to guard the imperial tomb for life.
When the two learned that King Xuan was still alive, they planned to go to the imperial tomb to ask whether Gongliang had been wronged and whether there was any hidden secret. Pei Wuxian always felt that Lin Ming, as the male protagonist of a small web drama, even if he was blackened, his background should be burdened with national hatred and family hatred and huge grievances.
The two reported Gao Manpeng's crime to the emperor, but the emperor confessed directly because of physical reasons, he admitted that he had long known the truth about the death of the former empress, and in order to protect the prince's reputation, he ordered Gao Manpeng to kill people and kill people.
The emperor, like the previous emperor, learned that the eighth prince, King Xun, wanted to find those palace witnesses to expose the truth about the death of the former empress, so as to seize the throne of the prince. He could have stopped the Eighth Prince directly.
But he was also reluctant to give up his own son, the Eighth Emperor, and just wanted to use the lives of ordinary people to whitewash the royal peace of his father and son's filial piety and the beautiful records of the history books. As long as the witnesses are all dead, the Eighth Prince will naturally give up.
The emperor ordered that Pei Wuyi and Yu Qingfeng should keep this secret, so that he could marry the two and fulfill them, otherwise, the emperor would not tolerate anyone who damaged the royal reputation.
Yu Qingfeng and Pei Wuyi were extremely disappointed in the emperor, the real culprit they were looking for behind the scenes turned out to be this half-dead king of a country, how should they bring the real culprit to justice?
Pei Wuxian told Yu Qingfeng that according to the plot he originally designed, this mediocre emperor would die soon, and then the national teacher would help the prince to ascend the throne, win the hearts of the people, and take advantage of the unstable situation to rebel and seize the throne in the name of the Qing monarch. What they can do now is to follow the steps and let the national teacher help the real prince to ascend to the throne, and then fight back.
In order to fulfill the last wish of the fake Lin Ming and the true Gongliangxu, they took him to the imperial tomb and asked King Xuan to tell him the truth about the Gongliang clan's participation in the rebellion.
Fake Lin Ming learned that his ancestors were not wronged, he thought that he could find out the truth and clear the snow for the family, and his reputation would be remembered for thousands of years, but he didn't expect that he could only be left for 10,000 years, and the records of his family in the history books would add the numerous crimes he committed. Unable to accept the facts, he went mad and committed suicide, crashing into the tombstone of the former emperor.
Pei Wuyi sighed, could it be that this is the biggest anti-routine of small online dramas? The screenwriter can even use the title of the play and the first male protagonist to play anti-routines, which is really unexpected.
The relationship between Yu Qingfeng and Pei Wuyi has progressed to the stage of sprinkling dog food with crooked and sweet pets, and their love model shocked the jaws of the people around them, and others did not dare to say it to their faces, only Lian Shurong complained to their faces that both of them were prodigal and improper.
Queen Zhou put pressure, and Yu Qingfeng could only embark on a journey to find human and physical evidence with Pei Wuyi and Lian Shurong again. This time they were followed by the dead soldiers sent by Gao Manpeng, the dead soldiers were strong in martial arts, they couldn't see the true faces of each other, and only felt that they were being followed.
After arriving at their destination, they approached the target and also docked with the eyeliner planted by the Eighth Prince. The target is a little daughter-in-law with a Beijing accent, saying that her family died of the plague, and she was married home by her local husband five years ago, and she lived here with peace of mind and gave birth to a young son.
There are three other people who arrived here with Yu Qingfeng, an old traveling doctor, a down-and-out scholar looking for relatives, and a rich lady who escaped from marriage.
The old traveling doctor, the down-and-out scholar, and the eyeliner of the Eighth Prince were killed one after another, and the death was miserable, and it was rumored that he was sucked to death by the zombies in the ancient tomb in the back mountain. Yu Qingfeng suspected that the real culprit was the target's little daughter-in-law, who went on a killing spree in order to protect herself, using zombie legends as a cover.
But Yu Qingfeng, Pei Wuyi, Lian Shurong and Miss Fujia also really encountered a zombie attack and witnessed it with their own eyes. Needless to say, zombies are pretended to be humans.
Yu Qingfeng remembered a case she had seen before the fire in the Dali Temple: five years ago, in a village near the capital, a pair of male and female thieves committed a murder case and both escaped.
Yu Qingfeng speculated that if the male and female thieves escaped together, they would definitely attract the attention of local governments, and if they escaped separately, and the female fugitives were also their own children, they would be able to hide people's eyes and ears. Since it is a male and female thief, then there is a high probability that the tomb has also been robbed, the so-called zombie is likely to be a male thief, this little daughter-in-law is not a palace maid who served the queen at all, but a fugitive, the child she gave birth to, and her biological father is also very likely to be a "zombie" hidden in the tomb.
These people were all killed by the male and female thieves, and they must have thought that these people were sent by the government to hunt them down.
Yu Qingfeng asked Lian Shurong to go to the nearest government to dispatch officials to arrest male and female thieves. The night after Lian Shurong left, the rich lady who had escaped from marriage put on a night dress and went to the ancient tomb alone.
The so-called runaway rich lady is the killer of the dead man sent by Gao Manpeng, Yu Qingfeng They already knew this, and when they noticed that they were being followed, Yu Qingfeng's keen sense of smell smelled that the dead man this time was a woman.
But at this time, the dead man left the little daughter-in-law of the target person alone and ran to the ancient tomb, which was unexpected by Yu Qingfeng and Pei Wuyi, and they followed them all the way to the ancient tomb.
They come face-to-face with the dead man who has taken off the disguise of the rich lady in the ancient tomb. At this time, the female dead man had already put the dagger against the throat of the "zombie".
Yu Qingfeng said frankly that the so-called male and female thieves were just a scene they performed, and the vampire zombies and the three dead were their plays, in order to make Gao Manpeng's dead soldiers think that the little daughter-in-law was a wanted criminal of the imperial court and not the palace maid of the first queen, so as to give up the pursuit.
Her original plan was to let Lian Shurong take away her little daughter-in-law in the name of male and female thieves, and then find a way to reunite her with her husband and children in the future. In this way, they want to protect the people who are still alive on Empress Zhou's list, whether they are the witnesses that Empress Zhou is looking for, whether they have physical evidence or not, they must keep them safe, so that they do not have to become victims of those nobles fighting for power.
It's just that I didn't expect this female dead man to be so persistent, knowing that the other party was a male and female thief, not the person Gao Manpeng was looking for, and he still wanted to be a killer.
When the female deceased heard this, she was extremely disappointed when she learned that she had been deceived, and let go of the "zombie" in her hand, planning to go back to her life.
Yu Qingfeng stopped her and speculated that the reason why the female deceased wanted to get rid of the male thief and destroy the body before Lian Shurong brought the officials to arrest the male and female thieves was to overturn Yu Qingfeng's reasoning and let the male and female thieves escape first.
Since there is no male thief, it means that the little daughter-in-law is not a female thief, and then the female dead man completes the task assigned by Gao Manpeng and kills the female thief who is already innocent. In this way, she, the dead soldier, has completed the task, and she can go back to receive merit and regain her free body.
Yu Qingfeng asked the female dead soldier, obviously she was a killer with strong martial arts, and everyone present was not her opponent, she could kill a few of them according to the original plan, and she could also complete the task and go back to receive the merit, why was she willing to return in vain? The female dead man did not answer.
Yu Qingfeng boldly speculated according to the law of anti-routines, saying that the female dead man was the palace maid who served the former queen, and the best stealth was to hide under the nose of the enemy, and the female dead man knew that he would not be at peace if he left the palace, and knew Gao Manpeng's rules, as long as he completed a task and could retreat with his whole body, he could regain his freedom, and there was a bounty, so he relied on a superb martial arts to serve Gao Gonggong.
In the former queen's palace, she was just an inconspicuous little palace maid who didn't grow, and it was normal for Gonggong Gao not to recognize her.
And the reason why the female dead soldiers didn't kill a few of them was precisely because of what Yu Qingfeng said just now, wanting to protect all the palace people who were still alive and save them from becoming victims of power struggles.
The female deceased acquiesced, saying that the reward she was anxious to go back for was not money, but the son of the dead sister who worshipped her.
She persuaded Yu Qingfeng not to do anything for the Eighth Prince, as far as she knew, the Eighth Prince's eyeliner was called secretly observing and surveilling, confirming his identity, but in fact, some of them were secretly tortured, tortured and interrogated, and those who died in the torture room of the Eighth Prince were not on the list given to Yu Qingfeng by Queen Zhou.
The Eighth Prince, like Gao Manpeng, is a high-ranking devil, and in front of the majestic imperial power, these relatives and grass people are just the most despicable ants, and even living has become a luxury.
Yu Qingfeng made up her mind that she could no longer make a false deal with the queen and the eighth prince, and wanted to completely overthrow them. She and Pei Wuyi tacitly decided to use the national teacher to defeat the eighth prince first, and then defeat the national teacher.
Yu Qingfeng asked the female deceased for evidence, saying that the evidence of the former queen's guilt was a weapon that could save the country, and handing over this evidence to the eighth prince was tantamount to letting the eighth prince set himself on fire. In exchange, Yu Qingfeng will release the news of the death of her little daughter-in-law, so that the female deceased can go back to the errand, and take the son of the sworn sister to fly away, away from right and wrong.
The female deceased hesitated, leaving behind the dagger she had with her.
Yu Qingfeng dismantled the handle of the dagger, and sure enough, she found the blood book of the former queen inside, which was the evidence of her cursing Zhou Zhaoyi at that time, as well as the queen's seal.