Zhou Gu and the others returned to the capital, protected by the guards of the East Palace, and they did not encounter any trouble, and the road for the last fifty miles was very smooth.

He Zheng had a stomach full of words and wanted to ask Zhou Gu, full of doubts, but when he saw that he said a word, he stopped talking, his face was pale, the corners of his mouth were pursed, and he also closed his mouth with interest.

After returning to the capital, Zhou Gu said to He Zheng: "Let's go, you and I will bear with my injuries first, and go directly to the palace." , and said to Yun Ze, "You also follow."

Naturally, their injuries should be shown to His Majesty first.

Anyway, His Majesty also knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had four major guards around him, and it was still the Prince Qin who suggested when he was young, and His Majesty asked the Prince to choose the candidate himself. At that time, the crown prince was young, and His Majesty had just taken power, and he was not afraid of the young prince and gave the prince all the due treatment.

Yun Ze nodded.

So, Zhou Gu Ling took the two monks back to the Protector's Mansion to take care of them in the middle of the night, and he and He Zheng and his party entered the palace.

The emperor was listening to King Rui'an's report on the progress of the case in the imperial study, and he heard that Zhou Gu, He Zheng and the crown prince of the East Palace, Wei Yunxue, asked to see him. The Emperor waved his hand, "Announce them in."

King Ryan had finished talking about the important matter, and was about to retire, but the emperor stopped him, "This case of yours and the case that Zhou Gu is investigating now, although they are two cases, they are also a little related, you can listen to them together."

King Ryan was at ease, thinking that it was Su Rong who had something to do with it, and these two cases were all aimed at her. He should be, standing aside.

Not long after, Zhou Gu and the others entered the imperial study, and the clothes on their bodies were stabbed with countless sword marks, their robes were stained with blood, and their faces were pale with excessive blood loss.

He Zheng knelt down on one knee, "Your Majesty!"

Zhou Gu bowed, "Your Majesty!"

The Emperor was shocked when he saw the two of them, "What's the matter with you?"

Zhou Gu said weakly with a white face: "Back to Your Majesty, we got the news yesterday that Ding Man's body was found a hundred miles outside Beijing. So that day and night, all the monks of the Big Buddha Temple were checked for days, and early this morning, the results were obtained, the first big disciple of the abbot of the Big Buddha Temple forgot the vulgar and the deacon of the Great Buddha Temple's precept hall Guangzhen was suspicious, so the two were escorted back to Beijing, but on the way back to Beijing, fifty miles away from the Big Buddha Temple, they were intercepted and killed by hundreds of dead killers. When I left the capital with Commander He, I didn't have many men, he brought twelve Praetorian Guards, and I brought ten guards from the Protector's Mansion, and the number of killers and dead soldiers was five times as many as ours......

He Zheng took over the words, "Let the fourth prince go first, but the fourth prince is benevolent and righteous and didn't go first, otherwise with the martial arts of the fourth prince, he will not be almost ...... There are too many killers and too powerful, and at the critical moment, the humble position can no longer control the two monks, so that the son of Thursday will break his tail to survive, but he didn't expect that those killers and dead soldiers are not only going to the two monks, but also going to the prince of Thursday, vowing to kill the prince of Thursday, fortunately ......."

Hearing this, the emperor looked at Yun Xue and asked, "It was the East Palace guards who went to save you?"

Zhou Gu took over the words and shook his head truthfully, "No, it was Feng Ling beside Miss Su Qi who brought a group of people and saved us. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince originally sent Yun Xue out of the city to respond, but someone expected it in advance, and a group of people stopped Yun Ze......

Yun Xue gave up his hand at this time, "Your Majesty, there are twenty killers and dead soldiers who intercepted the people below, and under the orders of His Royal Highness the Prince, he brought a hundred East Palace guards out of Beijing, and the purpose of the twenty killers is to stop the delay."

The emperor understood, his face was very ugly, the prince was not in front of him, he couldn't ask him how he got the news, but then he thought about it, such a big thing happened, if he didn't get the news as a prince, it would be too wasteful. He is afraid of his son, which is also his ability and insight, in a radius of a hundred miles in the capital, he can't get the news, the prince has always been able to get the news as soon as possible.

He asked angrily, "So, there are two groups of killers? A group of twenty people, a group of hundreds of killers?"

"It's a dead man." Zhou Gu corrected, "I don't know when I was hated like this and made people want my life so generously. I threw those two monks out, and the dead did not kill them, but surrounded me."

The emperor was angry when he heard this, and he was afraid of suspicion and protection of the country

On the one hand of the public government, but if Zhou Gu is killed, it is a different matter. Wouldn't the Lord Protector and the eldest princess of Sheng An blow up? Then can he still have a pure life?

"What about the dead? Is there any room to live?" The emperor didn't ask how many people Su Rong sent Feng Ling to bring to save Zhou Gu, since the people had come back alive, they could only be more than the killers, and it could not be less. If he didn't know the identity of her princess of Nanchu, he would naturally have to pass on someone to ask about it, a small concubine in Jiangning County, with so many people in her hands, is a big problem, but now it is naturally unnecessary.

Zhou Gu shook his head, "If you don't leave a living mouth, even if you are a dead soldier, it is useless to keep a living mouth."

He reached into his arms, took out the comb, and handed it to the Emperor, "This was found from one of the dead soldiers, Your Majesty, take a look, do you know this comb?"

The emperor stretched out his hand to take it, took it in his hand and looked at it again, frowned, and asked Father-in-law Yu on the side, "Yu An, look at it, do you know me?"

Father-in-law Yu had already seen it, but he still took it at this time, and looked up and down carefully for a while before shaking the corners of his mouth and saying, "Your Majesty, this, this comb...... The old slave seems to know."

"Huh?" The Emperor stared at him, "Is it a royal thing in the palace?"

"Yes."

The emperor sank his face and asked, "Who's?"

Father-in-law Yu was speechless.

The Emperor shouted angrily, "Say!"

Father-in-law Yu knelt on the ground with a "poof", and said with a white face: "Back to Your Majesty, if the old slave remembers correctly, this comb was eight years ago, you picked it out from the imperial offering and rewarded it to Li Concubine, because Li Concubine likes peach blossoms, you saw this comb, and together with other rewards, you rewarded Li Concubine."

Concubine Li is the mother of the four princes.

The Emperor's face was already very ugly, "Are you sure?"

Yu Gong said fairly: "There is a book, but the old slave just looks like it, or the old slave will check the book?"

"Hurry up and find out!" The emperor waved his hand with a calm face.

Father-in-law Yu stood up and went immediately.

Zhou Gu didn't expect that this was a concubine's thing, he just felt that this thing was extraordinary, the pattern carved on the seal was not an ordinary comb, and the peach blossoms were lifelike, which was very rare.

The imperial study was very quiet for a while, except for the emperor's heavy panting.

King Ryan looked at his nose and nose, when he didn't exist, but he thought about it in his heart, Concubine Li has always been in the harem, but he didn't expect that now he was involved in a big case.

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