It was five o'clock in the middle of the night.

In the slightly cold hall of the Yamen of Taiqu Pavilion, there was silence, only the burned candle lamp seemed to be still on, occasionally fluttering a few times, which was particularly weird.

"Ahh

Xia Yuancheng suddenly screamed, and Lu Zhaoyi, who was walking in front, was made more impatient by his call.

"Your own yamen, you can still be afraid of being like this......" she looked a little disdainful.

In her hand, she was holding an oil lamp, and as soon as she finished reprimanding Xia Yuancheng, her mind immediately fell into deep thought.

Soon, she slapped the oil lamp in her hand on the desk in front of her, and scared Xia Yuancheng again.

"Ouch, what the hell is going on? You're just trying to scare me, aren't you?"

"I just figured out what those two screams were all about."

"Then you can tell me? What's going on? Don't scare me......" Xia Yuancheng grabbed Lu Zhaoyi's arm tightly, and her eyes were full of horror, as if she was afraid that she would suddenly make something else.

Lu Zhaoyi did not answer in a hurry, but called the official to come in, and asked him to invite King Liang to come here after dawn.

"Let King Liang's cousin come, what's the matter?"

She rolled her eyes, "Tomorrow Japan will have a preliminary trial, and the case of King Liang and the Xie family's Chaoge ...... Have you forgotten?"

Xia Yuancheng was still holding her arm, trembling, "Why don't you uncover the case tonight?" Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight......

Lu Zhaoyi sighed helplessly.

"I also want to uncover the case, but we don't have any evidence and we can't do it."

"We have no evidence, it doesn't mean that Li Qian has no evidence."

"......" Lu Zhaoyi was stunned, and simply said his thoughts.

"There are two obvious characteristics of the deceased tonight, one is that he was drugged and unconscious before he died, and the other is that he died of excessive blood loss from a knife in the abdomen, and he was given an order to slow down the blood loss. This shows that the shadow that the guards saw by the window was not the deceased, but artificial, deliberately creating the illusion that the deceased appeared in front of people, and the murderer also created an alibi for himself......

After a pause, she added: "Both characteristics include the situation of drugging, but there are no outsiders in the Xuanwu Temple, and it can only be done by the people inside the Taoist Temple."

Xia Yuancheng nodded, "Why did the murderer kill him? Also, you said you cracked the screaming thing twice, how did you do that?"

"In the Xuanwu Temple, they are all Taoist priests, but don't forget, they are also ...... Officer!"

On the surface, it is a Taoist temple, but the three Taoist priests, who are the emperor's book, palm seal and palm book, are also serious people with official titles.

Since he is an official, he must be a fellow party in the court, and the reason why this assassination was arranged was to silence the envoy and continue to intensify the contradiction between Dayuan and Xianbei, so that the war could continue.

But they didn't expect that Xia Pei had arranged all this in advance, secretly sent the real envoy out of the city, and at the same time found someone to pretend to be the envoy, so that the calculations of those people were completely ruined.

Hearing this, Xia Yuancheng suddenly understood, and his nervous expression gradually relaxed, not as terrifying as at the beginning, but there was one thing he still couldn't figure out.

"What's that crying about? You, Li Qian, and the guards only heard one thing, why can I hear it twice with Ying Chong?"

Lu Zhaoyi raised his eyebrows and smiled faintly, "Think about it, how far is Xuanwu Guan from Buguangli?"

"More than two miles, less than three." Xia Yuancheng replied.

"And what do you think you can hear when you're so far away?" Lu Zhaoyi said solemnly.

"Actually, in Fengmanlou, it is impossible to hear the sound, and even the first time we heard the cry, it was not from the Xuanwu Temple...... Instead, we just happened to hear the sound of the nearest sound, and then looked at the chaotic scene of the Xuanwu Temple, and thought that what we heard came from there, but this distance was too far to reach ...... at all."

"And what do we hear? Also, in Xuanwu Temple, why did Ying Chong hear it twice, and the others only heard it once?"

Lu Zhaoyi nodded, "You."

The one who just entered the yamen and shouted, was it one, or two?"

"Ahh

"No, it's two." She said firmly, "Because the second sound is an echo that comes out, you only hear one for yourself, and others can hear the echo."

This made Xia Yuancheng incomprehensible.

However, Lu Zhaoyi continued to explain, "At that time, the scene in the Xuanwu Temple was chaotic, and the Praetorian Guards thought that the envoy probably had encountered an accident, and they were afraid of being blamed by His Majesty, so everyone's thoughts were on the room where the deceased was sleeping, and ignored the echo. Shadow Guard, on the other hand, is outside the wall, late at night, and doesn't know the plot inside the wall, and outside the situation, Shadow Chong can naturally hear the echo after the first scream......

At this point, all doubts have been solved, and she does not think that there is anything suspicious about this case.

Next, it is necessary to get the instructions from the mouth of the master, and this kind of thing is one of the skills that Li Qian is best at.

She has an intuition that tonight's murder has a great connection with the Chaoge case in which King Liang was involved.

At this time, she wanted to call King Liang to plan before the trial, so that she could make a countercalculation before those people made a move.

The night didn't seem to be very peaceful.

It wasn't until about three o'clock in the morning that the spy network spies came with news, which was still transmitted through arrows, and its content was that Li Qian had found out the truth and escorted the murderer into the palace to meet His Majesty.

There was still more than half an hour, and it was about to dawn, Lu Zhaoyi sat in the yamen of Taiqu Pavilion, looked at the bright sky outside, and immediately found the officials outside and sent someone to wait outside King Liang's mansion. As soon as the time came, he invited King Liang to come here.

The slightest noise in the yamen suddenly woke up Xia Yuancheng, who was lying under the hanging mirror hall, and hurriedly got up and stood up straight.

Lu Zhaoyi turned his head, and when he saw his panicked expression, he couldn't help laughing, "Pavilion Order, go to the backyard to rest first, right?" King Liang and Xie Dongfeng will have to at least arrive around the clock."

"Hmm. There is a sister-in-law of Lao Tang......" Xia Yuancheng nodded, and walked to the back hall.

Lu Zhaoyi looked at his back in a hurry, with a little complexity in his eyes.

The Xia man, the dragon among the top people, is outstanding in all his martial arts. And most of the people of the Xia family she came into contact with were all with unique skills or amazing talents.

On the contrary, Xia Yuancheng doesn't seem to have a particularly outstanding talent, after all, among the outstanding families of the Xia family, he has become a special case.

The fire candles in the candlestick, as the candles bottomed out, gradually extinguished one by one, and the entire Taiqu Pavilion fell into a deathly silence.

Lu Zhaoyi gathered his mind, re-lit a candlestick, walked to the bookshelf, took out a bamboo slip and returned to his seat, spread out the book, and put all his thoughts into the file of the Chaoge case.

The night has passed, the morning sun has risen, the bright sun shines in the neighborhood of Luojing, and in the originally empty alleys, the people have been traveling one after another, and they are lively again.

The Yamen of Taiqu Pavilion ushered in an uninvited guest at this time, and when Lu Zhaoyi was engrossed in the case file, he stood in the lobby without saying a word.

But she didn't completely know that someone came in, she was flipping through the bamboo slips and making a creaking sound, and she never looked up at the person who came, and said in an indifferent tone: "Zuo Xiang is here, I'm afraid there is something important, right?"

The person who came was Yuan Qi.

"Hehehe, I just came out of the palace, so I'm going to come to you to have a look......

Yuan Qi didn't hesitate, he sat opposite her and said in a low voice, "I listened to Your Majesty all night, Li Qian's revelation of last night's case, above the main hall, the Lord of Xuanwu Guan actually committed suicide in fear of crime, implicating some important ministers above the court!"

"What about Your Majesty? What are you doing at this point?" Lu Zhaoyi still didn't look up and asked.

"Oh, your majesty may have slept." Yuan Qi said, "Before leaving, I ordered Jin Wuwei to raid the Yan Mansion, the Chen family, and the Song family."

Saying this, Lu Zhaoyi slowly put down his pen, raised his head and looked at him, "The Chen family and the Song family are the Yin Chuan clan, although they are not as prestigious as your Yuan family in Yin Chuan, it is clear that Yin Chuan's control over the court is to be weakened......

"I, Yuan Qi, rank above the three princes

Under one person, I am already satisfied with such an honor. I never thought of controlling the imperial court......" Yuan Qi frowned and sighed again and again.

"I know......" Lu Zhaoyi comforted, "You are also the closest person to Your Majesty, and you should also know that Your Majesty is not targeting your Yuan family, but to eliminate hidden dangers to the court and society."

"So, sir, what do you want to do after that?" Yuan Qi asked. Z.br>

"Me?" Lu Zhaoyi was stunned.

She naturally wanted to eliminate the influence of the family on the court, and even did not hesitate to completely overturn the interests of the scholars.

Among them, there are also scholars and Hanmen who are secretly supporting.

For example, the Qiu family, as a family of Sili Hanoi County, Qiu Quzi joined her plan, but the reason was that the Qiu family was on the verge of the family's door valve, if it weren't for Xia Pei's shared weal and hardship, the Qiu family would be just an inconspicuous little door valve.

Therefore, overthrowing the Shi clan had little impact on his family. But for the Yuan family, it's different.

The Yuan family has been supporting the Wugong family since the beginning of the incident, and until now, it has become a great scholar clan that shook Henan and Yinchuan, and it is even more prosperous and lost with other scholars.

Maybe people like Yuan Qi, Yuan Xun and others are all loyal to the community, but the rest of the Yuan family is not as selfless as them.

What he did behind the scenes couldn't be told to outsiders.

Lu Zhaoyi sighed in her heart, not knowing whether to tell him whether she should tell him the plan she had to do.

However, what she can be sure of is that no matter what way it is used, no matter how much it costs, it is necessary for the Yuan family to maintain its current position above the court.

As long as the Yuan family can maintain the existing power, how the court will change in the future, and the Yuan family will sit firmly in the court, there will be no major crisis in the world.

This is equivalent to a towering tree, no matter what wind and rain it experiences, the big tree does not move, and no matter how bloody and bloody the rain beneath, it is just the branches covered by the root system of the big tree.

And once the Yuan family moves, then this vine will definitely not be able to withstand the huge blow and break, and when the time comes, the government and the opposition will be shaken, and the government and the opposition will be in chaos.

She believes that Yuan Qi can understand her hardship.

"Sir?" Yuan Qi saw that she was silent for a long time, and called softly.

In a violent moment, Lu Zhaoyi came back to his senses, and was about to speak, when the report of the official came from outside.

"Looking back at the long history, King Liang and Princess Liang are already waiting outside the hall!"