Tian Mu received instructions from Cheng Dong, the prince of Zhenguo, and was thinking about how to make some pressure in the imperial capital, so as to create trouble for Ouyang Lin and the Horse Mansion. Unexpectedly, a special case happened to be placed in front of him at this time.

Pei Yinglun, the supervisor of the palace, suddenly died unexpectedly.

The so-called palace supervisor is an important official position in the imperial court. He has a special status and a prominent rank, and is a high-level civil official from the third grade. It is subordinate to the Menxia Province and is responsible for administering the six bureaus related to the emperor's daily life, namely: Shang Shi Bureau, Shang Yao Bureau, Shang Yi Bureau, Shang She Bureau, Shang Tby Bureau and Shang Yuan Bureau.

The palace eunuch is a special representative of the imperial court, cooperating with the inner court to serve the emperor and belong to the close ministers.

And this Pei Yinglun, like the short-lived ghost Yin Chengyi, was also one of the earliest officials of the East Palace, and he followed and served before the crown prince Li Bing was involved in the imperial capital incident. In addition, he is also the husband of the lord of Leping, and he is on the side of the emperor's relatives, so after Li Bing succeeded to the throne, Pei Yinglun was also promoted and reused, and he rose all the way, and finally took over the post of the palace supervisor.

However, just when the forty-year-old and hard-bodied Lord Pei had a stroke in the court and had a prosperous official fortune, he suddenly died inexplicably.

What's even more bizarre is that he didn't die in his own home, but died in the bed of the concubine outside.

According to the rules of the Holy Tang, all those who have meritorious names or lords and nobles can take concubines, but the upper limit is six. Ordinary squires and wealthy households, as long as they pay taxes and donate more than 5,000 yuan, they can take up to four concubines. Once this standard is exceeded, Dona concubine, as long as the government investigates, it is considered a crime; Within this range, there are no taboos to choose freely according to personal preferences and needs.

However, this is usually only for officials and wealthy businessmen. Although there is no explicit rule that they are not allowed to take concubines, people like concubines and county horses who marry royal ladies are generally very restrained and do not dare to overstep their courtesies, so as not to offend the dignity of the royal family.

This is the case with Pei Yinglun.

Since becoming the husband of the county lord of Leping, he has completely given up the idea of messing with flowers and grass, and only serves the county lord honestly, but as a man, especially as a successful man who is in a high position at a young age, Pei Yinglun's lower body still has a strong appeal.

Therefore, this guy doesn't accept concubines on the surface, but secretly has a concubine outside.

The concubine's surname is Meng, a person from Jiangnan, and his family was originally a scholarly family, but later somehow the family fell into the middle of the road, and Meng came to the imperial capital with his parents to join his relatives, and has been living under his uncle. Once his uncle invited guests to a banquet, and Pei Yinglun happened to be among them, and he fell in love with Meng's who helped serve food and pour wine, so he cheekily asked Meng's uncle for a personal kiss in private.

Originally, the uncle was reluctant to let his niece be a nameless and pointless outer room, but first, he didn't dare to offend the palace eunuch, and secondly, there happened to be a big business in the pen palace at that time and wanted to ask Pei Yinglun to take care of it, so he had to persuade his younger brother and sister-in-law to nod and agree, and let Meng become Pei Yinglun's concubine.

Of course, Pei Yinglun was also really good to the Meng family, he not only handed over the business of palace procurement to his uncle, but also took out a large amount of money to buy a three-entry courtyard in the imperial capital city, and hired four servants to let the Meng family and his parents live and enjoy here. As for myself, I came to stay for a night or two when I had nothing to do, and I had the addiction of being the head of the family.

The day before yesterday, Pei Yinglun took leave with his wife Leping County Lord as usual, lying that he had official business to be busy and needed to live in the official office these days, and then hummed a little song and came to his nest proudly to fall in love with Meng.

Unexpectedly, something happened that night.

According to the old couple and servants of the Meng family later confessed to the government, that night, they did hear some strange movements from the main house, but because Pei Ying made a lot of noise every time he and the Meng family did something, and he also liked to do some strange and shameful tricks, so no one paid much attention to it, just pretended not to hear it.

However, when the maid entered the house to clean up and was about to wait for the old lady to get up and wash, she was surprised to find that Pei Yinglun and Meng Shi were naked and both died on the couch.

Jingzhao Yin's Mansion received a report from the Meng family and immediately became difficult.

Although the Holy Tang Dynasty has been evil in recent years, and the officials of the second and third grades say that they will die if they die, and they will die a lot, as if they don't want money, but Pei Yinglun has a noble status after all, and it involves the dignity of the royal family, so Jingzhao Yin Mansion neither dared to slack off nor publicize it, so he had to quietly say hello to Beiya first to see if the case was taken over by the Reverse Scale Division.

Originally, the palace eunuch and the northern ya, both served the emperor, and they could be regarded as the same system. It is more convenient to inquire about the reverse scale, whether it is reported or investigated.

When Tian Mu heard that Pei Yinglun had died inexplicably, he suddenly came to his senses: Isn't this a good excuse and opportunity to create a tense atmosphere in the imperial capital?

He immediately led his men to Pei Yinglun's private house, carefully investigated, and prepared to expand the situation and restrict the movements of Ouyang Lin and the Horse Mansion in the name of arresting the murderer.

However, it didn't matter if he didn't go to the scene of the incident, as soon as he got there, Tian Mu suddenly felt that he was wrong.

Originally, Tian Mu thought that Pei Yinglun's death was nothing more than two reasons: either he was indulgent, and he and his concubine Meng Shi took some kind of ghost medicine to help the fun, and the medicine was too strong when he had sex, resulting in a whimper; Either he was caught in a situation of love killing, or he was martyred with his concubine Meng, or he was killed by the lord of Leping.

No matter what the situation is, it does not prevent Tian Mu from taking advantage of the topic to play and use the death of the palace eunuch to impose martial law in the imperial capital.

However, when he reported the results of the autopsy, all the anti-scale agents present were immediately dumbfounded: Pei Yinglun and Meng Shi were neither indulgent to death, nor martyrdom, nor did Princess Leping buy murder.

These two poor people died at the hands of the Beiya Reverse Scale Division!

Of course, that's not too accurate. To be precise, they died from the Reverse Scale Division's unique killer weapon, the Golden Pupil.

This golden pupil was once a poison developed by the seventh generation of the Reverse Scale Division, which was colorless, tasteless, and extremely domineering, and was specially used to assassinate those important targets that threatened the emperor's safety.

Anyone who has been poisoned by this poison will have nothing abnormal on the corpse, but a faint layer of gold will appear under the eyes, which is very difficult to detect under the sunlight or light.

That is to say, the servants of the Reverse Scale Division have specially studied and studied this poison, and it is impossible for other people from the yamen to find it.

As soon as he heard that Pei Yinglun and Meng's eyes had symptoms of dilated golden pupils, Tian Mu immediately felt that something was wrong. It has been not a short time since he took over the Reverse Scale Division, and naturally he knows some internal doorways: the Golden Pupil Scatter formula is complex and extremely difficult to develop, and there are not many preserved in the Reverse Scale Division, and there are special personnel in charge of guarding it, so it will not be handed over to the secret agent for use.

Could it be that someone stole it?

Tian Mu frowned, and hurriedly asked Zhu Junjie to go back to verify the custody of Jin Tongsan. Not long after, Zhu Junjie hurriedly returned to the Meng family and reported a piece of news that made Tian Mu's back chill: The golden pupils preserved by the Reverse Scale Division were scattered, and there was no missing at all!

Damn, this is a ghost!

Tian Mu said in a deep voice: "That thing is very expensive, except for the Creation Department of the Beiya Reverse Scale Division, who else can make it?" ”

Zhu Junjie was slightly stunned, and subconsciously replied: "My lord, you are wrong, and the Fabrication Department can't figure it out." What is kept in the yamen now is still the old goods left by the previous generations of drug masters. ”

As soon as he heard this, Tian Mu suddenly raised his eyebrows: ", is it him?" ”

Zhu Junjie looked left and right, and nodded with a stern expression: "If it is really the golden pupils, it can only be him." ”

The "he" in the mouths of the two of them is not someone else, it is the former director of the Anti-Scale Division, Shen Lie.

This idea cannot be said to be right, but it cannot be said to be completely wrong. From the perspective of Tian Mu and Zhu Junjie, although Lao Jianhua may also be the one with the golden pupils, they have already listed Shen Lie as the number one enemy, so whenever there is something, they will naturally think of Shen Lie first.

After all, it was these two guys who almost tortured Shen Lie to death in the first place.

Tian Mu couldn't help but take a deep breath and pondered, "If it's him, then what about the reason and motive?" Pei Yinglun is at best a person in charge of property, and the fat difference is the fat difference, but he can't get into his eyes, right? ”

"Maybe it has something to do with the palace?" Zhu Junjie analyzed: "Master Pei is in charge of the six bureaus, all of which involve the emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation, will it be to open a breakthrough in the palace?" ”

Hearing this, Tian Mu couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly ordered the subordinates next to him: "Hurry up and check with this official, has Pei Yinglun lost anything important?" ”

The spies were a little confused, and no one moved. Tian Mu was furious when he saw this, and was about to open his mouth to reprimand, but Zhu Junjie reminded beside him: "My lord, only the people in the palace province know best, what is more, what is missing, we have to let them come over to check it, our brothers can't figure it out." ”

Tian Mu reacted, scolded himself for being confused, and ordered: "Go!" Bring the secret of the master book of the temple province here, let him check it, quick! ”

The subordinates agreed, and it didn't take long to find two young eunuchs and a master bookkeeper from the palace province.

When the three of them saw Pei Yinglun's corpse, they were so frightened that their bodies trembled slightly. Tian Mu stepped forward and shouted, "Waste thing, haven't you ever seen a dead person?" Don't delay the work of this official! Hurry up and look through it carefully, and see if Master Pei has lost anything! It's about the safety of the emperor and the palace, if you miss a big thing, beware of your head! ”

The young eunuch and the chief bookkeeper in the hall were so frightened by him that they nodded busily, suppressed the fear and disgust in their hearts, and carefully checked Pei Yinglun up and down. After about a stick of incense, a young eunuch suddenly exclaimed:

"It's broken! The silverfish charm is gone! ”