"Wen Xu, he may be dead." Zhao Gong stood in the courtyard, on the side of a dead tree, looking at Zhao Qi, Zhao Huan and a few children of the Ouyang family who were frolicking in the courtyard, and suddenly spoke.

Li Xuan walked up from the back, nodded solemnly, and said, "My nephew guessed." ”

"Someone in the internal guard suspected that it was you." Zhao Gong's words sounded in the courtyard like thunder, but neither Li Xuan nor Zhao Gong had any change in expression: "But no one has found any evidence of your involvement, after all, you were just assassinated in Luoyang at that time, and Qian Niu Wei and Jin Wuwei were staring at you inside and out, and you don't have the slightest chance of contact with the outside world." ”

"It's none of what I do." Li Xuan shook his head slightly, but still said calmly: "If the nephew guesses well, the nephew, the heir of the British Prince, Pei Shangshu, I'm afraid they are all on the suspicion list of the internal guards, right?" ”

"Yes, but it's not just a few of you, your suspicion is ranked third, and the fourth is Zhou Guogong." Zhao Gong's face was full of wry smiles, how can the matter be investigated here.

Pei Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, the heir of the British Duke Li Jingye, the king of Nanchang Li Xuan, and the heir of the Duke of Zhou Guowu Chenghe.

It's okay to say that there is no evidence, but if the slightest evidence is found, then something will immediately shock the entire government and the opposition.

"That's why there was a confrontation between the British Duke and Pei Shangshu that day." Li Xuan now finally understood why the emperor arranged the seats so much that day.

"Not bad." Zhao Gong nodded and said, "You were sitting opposite the two of them at the time, but you didn't notice that behind them, it was the secretary and supervisor, Zhou Guogong Wu Chenghei, who was sitting on their left side. ”

Li Xuan nodded a little abruptly, the arrangement at that time was indeed like this.

It's just that the incident only involved him, not Wu Chengsi, so no one paid attention to where Wu Chengsi was.

Immediately, Li Xuan frowned and said, "Why is this happening, the Criminal Department and the internal guards, are they really not found any clues?" ”

Zhao Gong shook his head and sighed softly. "The people of the Criminal Department searched carefully on both sides of the Wei River, but there were no traces left by anyone walking in the mountains and forests on both sides, so it is very likely that Wen Xu was killed by someone else."

"Impossible." Li Xuan shook his head very decisively, and said: "There is no one on the shore, but there is not necessarily no one in the water, if he is a master of water, then sneak hundreds of meters underwater, and then land on the shore, and even find a small waterway, it is easy to escape, if there are still people to answer, it will be easier to escape." ”

"It's not possible." Zhao Gong raised his head, looked straight at Li Xuan, and said: "The entire Wei River, since you were stabbed in Luoyang that day, has been fully monitored, and even a fish in the entire Wei River can not escape the monitoring of the internal guards, so it is impossible for him to escape." ”

"I don't believe it." Li Xuan still shook his head and said affirmatively: "The internal guard may be able to monitor the water, but it is impossible to monitor it underwater and in the sky." ”

"What Da Lang means is that Wen Xu escaped from the air and escaped from the air avoiding the eyes of the internal guards?" Zhao Gong looked at Li Xuan with some amusement.

Li Xuan sighed and said: "If it were in the past, Da Lang would not want to believe this kind of speculation, but since the attack on Luoyang, especially the more he understands the other party's assassination methods, Da Lang has become more and more amazed by the methods of the East China Sea King. ”

Raising his head, Li Xuan looked at Zhao Gong and said, "Just as Wen Xu is dead, then how did he die, and what about his body?" If his corpse can escape the sight of the guards, then why can't his people? ”

Zhao Gong followed closely and said: "Da Lang still remembers the self-immolation case of the mage when he was in Luoyang that day? ”

"Uncle means that Wen Xu was poisoned by that kind of fire poison and then burned to ashes, so he couldn't find the body?" Li Xuan lowered his head slightly, thought about it and said: "If after he kills someone, he is poisoned and escapes into the water, but at the moment he comes out of the water, he is burned again......

No, it doesn't work.

Not to mention the kind of fire poison, it is impossible to burn all the corpses after burning, let alone in the water, unless, after he went ashore, he started to burn, and then the body burned out, but even so, there should be corpse remains left behind by the body burned out. ”

"That's where the explanation doesn't come into being." Zhao Gong sighed softly and said, "Unless there is a more violent poison that can make him burn in an instant, and quickly burn into ashes in the water, then it is possible to leave no trace." ”

When he said this, Zhao Gong's eyes fell on Li Xuan from time to time, which made Li Xuan feel surprised.

"Uncle doesn't suspect that his nephew made that poison, right?" Li Xuan felt a little funny for a while.

Zhao Gong nodded directly and said: "That poison is a means of the Tianyin Sect after all, and the court has not forgotten that the Tianyin Sect was destroyed at the hands of Da Lang." ”

"What is Uncle talking nonsense?" Li Xuan felt a little helpless, and said: "In the battle of the Tianyin Sect's main altar, my nephew is surrounded by people from Qianniuwei, uncle, don't tell my nephew, there is no eyeliner of the internal guard in those Qianniuwei, not to mention, that day, my nephew did not search the underground palace of the Tianyin Sect at all, and has always been by the side of the body of the queen, as for the aftermath, the Tianyin underground palace was completely flooded by water. ”

Zhao Gong nodded and said, "This is also my explanation to Neiwei, and no one can refute this explanation." ”

Li Xuan shook his head and said, "There must still be people who suspect that it was Da Lang's subordinates who searched for it?" ”

"You don't know what you can find in the Tianyin Sect, unless it is a large-scale dispatch of soldiers to search, but these are all matters of the Huijifu soldiers, Da Lang can forget, Duan Gong, the governor of Yuezhou, is now serving as the secretary of Dali Temple in the court." Zhao Gong smiled.

The suspicion of Li Xuan has been investigated here, and it can no longer be investigated.

Among the internal guards, there is also Zhao Gong, no matter who has any intention to dig deep into Li Xuan, Zhao Gong will stop it.

"So, in the past few days, there will be so many people staring at my nephew outside Kaihuafang, and Your Majesty will ask my nephew not to act rashly?" Li Xuan finally looked stunned.

Then, he was slightly stunned and said, "When the Leng family was in power, who was behind it?" ”

"Don't ask about that." Zhao Gong waved his hand and stopped talking.

Li Xuan nodded, Zhao Gong's attitude had already told him everything.

Wen Xu's death, the suspicion is nothing more than four people, Li Xuan, Pei Yan, Li Jingye and Wu Chenghe.

Now that Li Xuan's suspicion is ruled out, then the whole person must be between Pei Yan, Li Jingye and Wu Chenghe.

Thinking that when Wen Xu and the others' boats were still on the Wei River, the internal guards had already monitored the entire Wei River, Li Xuan suddenly realized that the emperor had actually been suspicious of someone all along, and Wen Xu's matter was an accident, but the matter of the Leng family made the other party exposed, and even the suspicion of Wen Xu's death was afraid that the other party would have to bear it directly.

As for who this unlucky guy is, Li Xuan doesn't want to ask anymore, things have finally been pushed to this point, and he doesn't want to make any more extraneous branches.

"Wen Xu's death, maybe there is another possibility." Li Xuan raised his head and looked at Zhao Gong, who listened carefully.

"Wen Xu has been under the close supervision of the Criminal Department, under normal circumstances, he can't even get rid of the shackles of the Criminal Department, unless someone saves him, and then kills him, destroys the body, and then escapes, it is much easier.

For example, the officials of Huayin County who were mixed in to investigate were arrested, and even among the officers of the Criminal Department...... It would be easier if he was a criminal officer or a servant in Huayin County. ”

As soon as Li Xuan finished speaking, Zhao Gong smiled bitterly: "How much Da Lang hates Pei Shangshu, he has repeatedly linked the charges to him." ”

The servants of the Criminal Department and the arresters of Fa Cao's subordinates in Huayin County are all people on Pei Yan's line.

Li Xuan's several speculations finally pointed to Pei Yan.

"No, it's not necessarily Shangshu, he's just a possibility, this thing is really done, the most suspicious thing is the king of the East China Sea, he is killing people."

Li Xuan said, took out a paper roll from his sleeve and handed it to Zhao Gong.

As soon as Zhao Gong was about to open it, Li Xuan suppressed him and said in a low voice: "Go into the house and take a look, and burn it immediately after reading it." ”

"Good!" Zhao Gong said hello to his family from afar, and then took Li Xuan into the inner room.

……

Looking at the picture scroll burned to ashes in the brazier, Zhao Gong's brows furrowed tightly.

Li Xuan sat on one side, holding a cup of hot tea in her hand, her face relaxed.

After a long time, Zhao Gong slowly spoke: "This person's appearance always feels a little familiar. ”

"Of course I am familiar, in the clan, there are many people who have similar appearances." Li Xuan's words broke the key to this.

Zhao Gong's face immediately tightened, and he lowered his voice and asked, "Which family is this?" ”

"I don't know." Li Xuan shook his head with a wry smile and said: "So far, only my uncle and nephew have seen this portrait of the Immortal Dao Master, and the nephew only knows that he is very similar to the clan, but there is no way to check which family it is, unless you ask King Han or Zong Zhengqing." ”

"Da Lang is worried that a certain clan is really implicated?" Zhao Gong frowned and looked at Li Xuan, he didn't believe that Li Xuan had that clan affection.

"No, Da Lang is worried, by King Han's side, or in Zongzheng Temple, that person also buried eyeliner, after all, behind that person, standing is the King of the East China Sea." Li Xuan's eyes instantly turned cold.

Immediately, he looked at Zhao Gong with some concern: "Uncle, you have to be careful, it's okay to investigate this matter, but you must pay attention to your own safety, and you don't even need to look at what you do, but if you guess that you are involved, it may bring you death, this matter must be investigated, but you must be extremely cautious." ”

"I know what to do." Zhao Gong nodded seriously.

Li Xuan sighed lightly and said: "The matter of the hidden princess, just this month, the king of the East China Sea has been calculating this matter since a few months ago, so if he wants to catch the tail of the king of the East China Sea with this matter, then the best way is to start from here, but check his possible means, and then stare at death, and finally follow the vine and capture it in one fell swoop." ”

Zhao Gong's expression suddenly became solemn, now if he wants to gain more trust from His Majesty and the Queen of Heaven, it is the best way for them to capture the King of the East China Sea.

Li Xuan will soon be the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, and Zhao Gong wants to go further, and now is also the best opportunity.

It's just that I don't know, in what capacity the King of the East China Sea is hidden in the court, no one knows, and the last one to catch must be the King of the East China Sea himself.

Especially in this matter, the emperor has been staring at it and has been laying it out......

(End of chapter)