Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, the day has come to the day when I will go back.

Xue Junwu didn't learn anything in the academy these days, but instead learned the art of war and formation with the imperial lieutenant, the crown prince and the prince, and of course, the fatal eating task.

If he had a choice in the future, he would never have led himself or even the whole army to the miserable point of needing to gnaw snake meat and eat rat meat.

In addition, he also weighed the matter of talking with the crown prince that night, out of a sense of righteousness, Xue Junwu wanted to get out the brothers who thought they were good in the prison of the Criminal Department, but if he got them out, it would be equivalent to choosing to look forward to the crown prince from now on.

But what the crown prince said that day was not wrong, since he was valued by the crown prince, then no matter what, everyone would naturally regard him as the crown prince.

When the crown prince's position is very stable, it is not much harm to be regarded as the crown prince, but Xue Jun is afraid of what His Majesty the Emperor thinks.

His Majesty the Emperor is very ruthless today, if he feels that Xue Junwu is threatened, it will be the disaster of the Yi clan.

Fortunately, there is still a lot of time to think about this matter, and it is completely possible to consider it carefully before making the most suitable choice.

Xue Junwei did not go home directly today, but a small courtyard of the academy.

This small courtyard seems to be full of flowers and plants, but it is currently winter, and it is no longer possible to see the appearance of the previous bloom.

Shi Quan's small courtyard, which teaches riding and archery here, Xue Junwei inquired about this from Uncle Sikong Shi. An Yang had been nice to him from the beginning, so he was now eager to know what was hidden in the scarlet secret.

It's not about asking for a reward for merit, it's about being genuine.

This small courtyard is very tidy, at a glance, you can tell that it is a courtyard for a man who lives alone, Xue Junwu walked into the courtyard, raised his hand and knocked on the door.

Soon, a bearded, tired face appeared behind the door that had just been opened.

"Do you know that I did the matter of the guards of the Gongsun Emperor and the Imperial Concubine?"

Shi Quan's face didn't seem too surprised, after all, he was the imperial concubine's guard and could be known by just asking, after he opened the door, he turned around and went directly into the house and said, "Come in, I guessed that you would come to me." ”

Xue Jun was stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart, I only found out a few days ago that you were the guard of Emperor Gongsun, when did you expect to find you?

didn't think much about it, Xue Junwei followed into the house, as soon as he entered the house, he smelled the strong fragrance of the pillar, and as soon as he entered the inner hall, he saw a row on it, which said that the lord's grandson Ruofei was written.

"Let's stick incense."

Shi Quan took three sticks of incense and handed them to Xue Junwei, looked at him and said, "You marry the daughter of the main family, no matter where the etiquette is, you must also offer incense on three pillars." ”

Xue Jun took it with a wry smile, to be honest, this was the first time he had met his mother-in-law, but he never expected it to be in this kind of scene.

Xue Junwu held the incense offering in both hands, knelt on the mat, bowed and bowed to the tablet again and again, then inserted the incense into the incense burner, got up and bowed down three times.

This place is not suitable for talking, Shi Quan seemed to be afraid of disturbing the tablet, so he led Xue Junwu to another small hall to talk.

"You are investigating the affairs of the main family for the sake of Princess Anyang?"

After Shi Quan made a cup of tea for Xue Jun, he sat down and said with emotion: "The main family really has a good son-in-law, and he can still think of her." ”

Xue Junwu was a little embarrassed to laugh with him, and secretly said in his heart, not really, mainly because of some coincidences, but at present, he did come here for the matter of Emperor Gongsun and the concubine.

Thinking in his heart, Xue Jun asked Shi Quan suspiciously, "Isn't Mr. the imperial concubine's guard?" Why do you call her the Lord's house? ”

"It's a long story."

Shi Quan looked at Xue Jun and said worriedly: "I was originally a martial artist in the rivers and lakes, because I was chased and killed by the enemy and almost died, but fortunately I was rescued by the master's family, since then, I have become a domestic slave of the Gongsun family, and since then I have been with the master's family." ”

Xue Jun nodded after hearing this, it does make sense to say this, the imperial concubine lives in the inner courtyard of the palace, and where can she choose a personal guard at will.

"So your body injury should not have been left on the battlefield, and you are not a soldier, right?" Xue Jun asked again.

"It's not, in order to be qualified to be a guard of the palace, I did become a military pawn, and I have also made some meritorious deeds, so I can be qualified to be allowed by His Majesty to be the guard of the master's family."

"I see." Xue Jun nodded worriedly, as if he remembered what Shi Quan had just said to him, so he wanted to ask suspiciously, but he happened to be blocked by his words.

"I knew you were coming, so I got my things in order."

As Shi Quan spoke, he took out a wooden box out of nowhere, he stood up and handed it to Xue Jun and said, "These are all I found from Ma Jiu's mansion, before the fourth princess's people broke in." ”

"Ma Jiu?!"

Xue Jun was shocked in his heart, never thought that this matter had anything to do with Ma Jiu? He lowered his head and opened the wooden box, which was full of deeds.

There are title deeds and house deeds, but most of them are deeds of identity and slavery.

In the laws of the entropy state, the deed is mostly the poor family in order to earn a living, and sell their children to the rich and noble families to be servants and maids, etc., and the slave contract is mostly someone in the family who has committed a felony, and then is deprived of their place of origin and become a slave, this kind of person is worse than the former, most of them are men who are exiled to the army, and women are reduced to prostitutes.

But on the other hand, buying and selling slave deeds privately is also against the law, but I didn't expect this Ma Jiu to do such an unsightly and shady business. Killing him with one punch really made him happy.

Although it was all some deed paper, Xue Junwu still didn't understand it much, so he asked Shi Quandao: "Sir, what are you doing showing me this?" Is it related to the imperial concubine? ”

"Yes."

Shi Quan nodded, but when he heard Xue Junwu ask, he frowned and asked, "The reason why you killed Ma Jiu was because of that incident?" ”

"Huh?" Xue Jun was puzzled, when did he kill two birds with one stone, obviously he was just going to seek revenge, but since everything was said and done, not to mention that this gentleman trusted himself so much, he was really embarrassed not to pretend to be like this.

He then smiled and nodded in response: "That's right, I did find out some clues, but after Ma Jiu died, there were no clues, and he didn't say anything, which made me regret killing him a little." ”

"You really shouldn't have killed him."

Shi Quan sighed lightly and said, "The Nine Infant Protector Mansion is investigating him, but if you do this, their clues will also be broken." ”

"What? Your Majesty is also in Chamajiu? He, he's not going to blame me for this, is he? Xue Jun was shocked, he never expected that he would intercept the emperor's Hu.

Just when he didn't know what to do, Shi Quanxiang said confidently: "Don't worry, I have already helped cover up this matter, and the Nine Infant Capital Protector Mansion should go to check the Fourth Princess's Mansion at present." ”

"You?"

This sounded, Xue Junwu didn't believe it, "Just rely on you, a retired soldier?" is also a teacher of this Junde College. ”

As expected, Shi Quan took out a sign from his arms and threw it over.

Xue Junwu took it, and it was engraved with five big characters of "Nine Infant Imperial History".

Seeing these five words, Xue Jun's eyes straightened, and this thing can be owned by one person.

Seeing that he was shocked, Shi Quan raised his head and said with emotion: "In order to avenge the master's family over the years, I have secretly checked a lot of things, in order to investigate more deeply, and even became the imperial history of the Nine Infants. ”

"These contracts?"

Xue Junwu still didn't understand why Shi Quan wanted to take these contracts, he looked at Shi Quan suspiciously, but Shi Quan looked at him without saying a word.

seemed to understand that he had to find out the key points by himself, so Xue Junwei took a closer look again, although he still didn't see anything in those deeds and slave deeds, but he found the similarities between the land deeds and the house deeds.

"Dongzhou Tanglin County?"

"That's right, exactly, Ma Jiu has always had an inexplicable relationship with the Marquis of Tanglin, and the girls he harmed were also sent to the county town where the Marquis of Tanglin is located."

"So what does that mean?"

When the two of them said this, Shi Quan slowly leaned over to this side, and said in a low voice: "In the past few days in the Nine Infant Capital Protector Mansion, I found out that Ma Jiu made his fortune nine years ago. ”

"Nine years ago..."

Xue Jun frowned, Anyang was sixteen this year, nine years ago was when she was seven years old, that is, the year when Gongsun Emperor and Concubine died, this time period is too coincidental.

But then again, Xue Junwei heard about the assassination of Gongsun Huang's concubine from Uncle Shi, and he had already learned Ma Jiu's strength, that is, he was a bully, and he would definitely not be able to play the role at this moment.

At this point in his thoughts, Xue Junwu asked, "Sir, do you suspect that Ma Jiu was one of the assassins who assassinated Emperor Gongsun and Concubine back then?" ”

Shi Quan shook his head: "There were more than a dozen people who assassinated the main family back then, the most powerful one was counter-killed by the main family, and the rest were almost killed by us, and I remember the only one who only ran away." He was holding a silver weapon in his hand that looked like a lance but not a lance, like a gun but not a gun, I fought with him, it shouldn't be Ma Jiu, it's just..."

"Just what?"

"It's just that there were a lot of guests that day, and everyone's attention was on those assassins, so it was easy to miss something important."

"That's going to be hard."

Xue Junwu sighed softly, "Ma Jiu was killed by me, these things can only prove that Ma Jiu and the Marquis of Tanglin are doing shady business, and they can't explain at all that he has anything to do with the death of Emperor Gongsun and the concubine." ”

"So after I learned that you killed Ma Jiu, I have been trying to find a way to contact you, but seeing that you came to the academy, I thought that you must also be waiting for you for the affairs of the main family."

"Waiting for me?" Xue Jun asked suspiciously, "What are you waiting for me to do, is it possible that I need to continue to investigate." ”

Shi Quan nodded, "Recently, I remembered the bits and pieces that happened that day, but it happened in the palace at that time, and you also know that even if I have the identity of the imperial history of the Nine Infant Capital, I can't enter the palace harem, that kind of place, if there is no consent from His Majesty and the Queen, even the Nine Infant Doctor can't enter." ”

Xue Junwu suddenly seemed to understand something, so he frowned tightly, as if he had locked it, and confirmed again: "You don't want me to take you into the palace, do you?" ”