Yu's father-in-law lives in an alley in the south of the city.

Although the house is small, it has all the organs, and I bought a mother-in-law to take care of food and clothing, and a boy to help run errands, and clean up inside and out.

There were six or seven bird cages hanging in the yard, and starlings and parrots were raised.

The door of the house was open, and when the younger father-in-law entered, a few birds chirped.

When the mother-in-law heard the noise, she poked her head out of the kitchen, saw someone coming, and hurriedly greeted with a smile: "You are here, the old man is reading in the house."

"No need to say hello, I'll bring someone over to talk to my godfather for a while," the bus was finished, and then turned around to lead Lin Yunyan, "You watch your step."

Lin Yunyan entered the courtyard.

Father-in-law Yu was sitting under the window, and when he saw his father-in-law, he didn't get up.

When he saw a young woman coming in behind his father-in-law, he couldn't help but look at it.

Dressed in luxurious clothes, his gestures are all in the palace, and his facial features still look like an old man at first glance.

Father-in-law Yu immediately guessed the identity of the person who came.

He hurriedly got up and came out of the house, "Why are you here? It's been more than ten years, and you've grown up."

Lin Yunyan bowed her head to him: "I suddenly came to disturb him."

"Where," said Father-in-law Yu, inviting them in, "that you can come here shows that Niangniang still remembers the little one, and the little one is really happy."

A few people went inside and sat down.

The father-in-law didn't let the mother-in-law pour water to make tea, and he was familiar with the tea cans and tea sets.

Mama Ma gossiped with the mother-in-law, Lin Yunyan didn't have to worry about being listened to by outsiders, so she got straight to the point: "I came here today to ask Father-in-law Yu about a few people."

can be accompanied by his godson, it can be seen that he has the approval of the queen mother.

Father-in-law Yu will not shirk: "You ask."

"Next to the first emperor's Ruan Guiren, there is a father-in-law surnamed Tong, I don't know if I remember it?" Lin Yunyan asked.

"Father-in-law?" Father-in-law Yu recalled carefully, "He's been gone for almost thirty years, right?

He was a very good person, but he didn't find a good way out, and he suffered a lot of sins in the first ten years of entering the palace, and it wasn't until he was transferred to Ruan Guiren that he took root.

It's a pity that when I was young, my muscles and bones were injured and I didn't take care of it, and I couldn't bear it when I was a little older, and I was only fifty when I left***?

It's not short-lived, but he's still gone early compared to the little one who can live."

"It sounds like Father-in-law Yu still has some friendship with him?" Lin Yunyan asked.

"I can't talk about friendship, the little ones are doing things around the mother, and everyone everywhere knows them more or less, and they can say a few words," Yu Gong said, "You also know that the master is the face of the small, and they all give the little face, but it is difficult to say how much sincerity and how much falsehood is behind the scenes.

The little one said that the boy was good, but he didn't like to praise the high and the low, and he was very sincere.

If he weren't a sincere person, he wouldn't have endured more than ten years of hardship before he could be regarded as having a master."

"Ruan Guiren lived in Bihua Palace for a while, and at that time, there was still Zhang Xuan, the biological mother of His Royal Highness King Jin, in Bihua Palace, do you have any impression of this?" Lin Yunyan continued to ask, "There is a chamberlain in Zhang Xuan's servant, who seems to be called a little mouse, does Father-in-law Yu know his details?"

"The little one knows him." In fairness.

Lin Yunyan was surprised and delighted.

I thought that after many years, he was a little-known little servant, and even if he knew, his father-in-law would have to recall more memories, but he didn't expect to blurt it out.

The father-in-law was also quite surprised: "Godfather still remembers him?"

"Remember," Father-in-law Yu sighed, "The rules in the palace are all death-definite.

Tong Gonggong died of illness, and the internal affairs department collected the funeral for him and sent him out of the palace for burial.

It's almost half a year later, catching up with Qingming, who in the palace doesn't have a few relatives who are not alive? I want to burn some paper secretly.

But according to the rules, you can't burn paper indiscriminately in the palace, and you can check it tightly before and after a few days.

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went to find housekeeping when they had something, and they caught several of them, and they took demerits and punishments one by one, so they looked at them twice.

Everyone else burned it for his father's mother, but there was a little waiter, who nodded when he was ten years old, and he said that he burned it to his cousin.

The younger one asked him, "Who is your cousin?"

He said that his cousin was Tong's father-in-law.

The internal affairs also remembered it, saying that this kid was also there when he was buried before, and he cried so much that his eyes were like walnuts, and he was pitiful.

The little one asked him a few more words, since his cousin was a chamberlain, why did he let him enter the palace too?

No matter how bad Father-in-law Tong was before, it was not bad after following Ruan Guiren, and it was always no problem to make do with money to support a nephew.

I don't have a son in my life, and I raise my nephew as a son, and someone will send him to the end, why are both uncles and nephews dead?

The kid said that he only recognized this cousin after entering the palace, he was young and couldn't do things, and he relied on his uncle's guidance to gain a foothold in the palace, but unfortunately the uncle left.

He cried as he spoke, and the crying was so small that several people in the housekeeping felt uncomfortable, and in the end they didn't punish him much.

After all, people like the little ones, no one at home cares about us, and someone burns paper after entering the soil, how rare it is.

Yes, Little Mouse is his nickname, his real surname is Lao, and they all call him Little Laozi, and when he screams, he becomes a Little Mouse."

Lin Yunyan asked again: "After Zhang Xuanzhi passed away, did the little mouse transfer to work elsewhere, or did he continue to stay in Bihua Palace and follow Tong Gonggong to learn his skills?"

"Transferred," Yu Gong said fairly, "Concubine Dong Niangniang transferred people to her palace, saying that after all, she had served His Highness's biological mother, so she should not be sent anywhere, just stay with His Highness."

Lin Yunyan couldn't help but clench the handkerchief in her hand.

The line is becoming clearer.

Before, Father-in-law Cao couldn't find a father-in-law Tong who could match the number.

Let's not talk about the one that Feng Wei explained, the father-in-law Tong that Su Chang saw in Chenmi Hutong was not the same age as all the father-in-law Tong.

However, the age of the little mouse is just right.

The little mouse recognized Tong's father-in-law as his cousin, and he seemed to have a deep feeling, so it was reasonable for him to walk outside decades later and call himself Tong's surname.

Having said that, if it weren't for the father-in-law Tong in Chen Mi Hutong, Lin Yunyan would have to figure out more about the role of the little mouse in it at this moment.

The little mouse was ordered by Concubine Dong to kill Zhang Xuan, Li Du's enemy, or he was just a little chamberlain who didn't know anything back then, and he was trusted by Li Du because he served his biological mother, and he came in handy when Li Du found out about the death of his biological mother, both possibilities.

However, when Chen Mi Hutong came out, it was probably the latter.

Of course, Lin Yunyan very much agrees with the Queen Mother's words, since she has found clues, she must be cautious and cautious, try to have as much circumstantial evidence as possible, don't make mistakes, and don't let the lights go dark.

"What does that little mouse look like?" Lin Yunyan asked again.

Father-in-law Yu frowned.

It's been too long, and I can remember one or two related things, and I really can't remember the appearance of my facial features.

"There wasn't a definite character," he said, "and he was young then, and now that he's older, I don't know how much has changed."

This answer does not make Lin Yunyan discouraged.

Su Chang said that the ordinary appearance of "Father-in-law Tong" has no characteristics to describe.

If the little mouse in his father-in-law's memory has distinctive characteristics, then the clue will be broken again.

The part about the little mouse and the child's father-in-law was over for the time being, and Lin Yunyan asked about the others: "In my father-in-law's impression, is there any chamberlain with a monkey face? Age, at the time of the accident at Dingguo Temple, the monkey-faced chamberlain looked like he was forty or fifty years old."

Father-in-law Yu couldn't help but gasp.

He said that the queen mother would ask the county lord to ask, and it must be something important.

The boy father-in-law and the little mouse, he couldn't see what was important, but Dingguo Temple, he understood it too well.

There must have been a new clue that night.

Father-in-law Yu was extra cautious and closed his eyes

Jing Zai thought about it carefully, and said dejectedly for a while: "County Lord, the little one can't remember, either he hasn't seen it, or he is not impressed if he has seen it."

Lin Yunyan had no choice but to ask again: "The chamberlains who served the prince of Jin in the past, how many people does my father-in-law remember?"

That's a lot easier to answer.

Father-in-law Yu thought about it and answered them one by one.

At first, it was the people selected by Concubine Dong, and when King Jin grew up, he ordered a few more......

He only replied that he remembered, and Lin Yunyan was not worried about omissions, since he had contacted the King of Jin, and then Gonggong Cao had to check the roster, so the people in the palace around King Jin had combed through it for so many years.

The sun is turning westward.

Lin Yunyan got up and said goodbye.

Father-in-law Yu sent it out and said, "If there is anything you want to ask after that, the county lord will send someone to say hello, and the small one will go to the Guogong Mansion."

"Don't bother your father-in-law running back and forth," Lin Yunyan said with a smile, "Speaking of which, how are father-in-law's legs and feet lately? The doctor who treated Grandpa Guo's leg injury is still living in the house, I will let him come tomorrow, and Grandpa Yu will also take a look at his leg."

"Where is this?" Father-in-law Yu hurriedly waved his hand, "The young one is this age, anyway, it doesn't hinder daily life, and he won't toss anymore."

"Why can't you do it?" Lin Yunyan said, "It's just a doctor."

Yu Gonggong couldn't push it, so he responded with a smile.

The carriage came out of the alley.

The father-in-law wanted to go back to the palace to resume his life, and his heart was very unsteady: "Just relying on the father-in-law Tong shouted out by Feng Wei, it is not enough to be sure that it is the King of Jin who is hiding behind it."

Lin Yunyan understood.

Su Chang's confession was obtained by Xu Jian by extraordinary means, only they knew about it, and they never reported it.

I can't report it now, firstly, it seems deliberate, and secondly, I can't explain that I can't hide it at that time.

The two of them made a lot of small moves in private, and they rashly spread out to the saint, and it would be difficult to get dark in the future.

"The Empress Dowager said that the geese left traces," Lin Yunyan said, "Don't worry, catch him little by little."

It's not easy to say, but it's not that difficult to say.

At night, Lin Yunyan and Xu Jian talked about the harvest of the day.

The two combed through the information they had so far from beginning to end, and decided what they would do next.

That's just five days.

Everything is as usual in the court, and no one is making a fuss about the death of a chamberlain in Yongji Palace, but under the water, the dark tide is surging.

Gonggong Cao checked the little mouse.

is in line with what Father-in-law Yu said, after this person was transferred to Li Du's side, he only stayed for four years and left the palace due to illness, and his whereabouts and palace after that were naturally unclear.

And the attendants around Li Du were transferred very frequently in those years.

Some are out of the palace, and some are transferred out of the palace by mistake.

Gonggong Cao investigated carefully, and these eunuchs who made mistakes were basically replaced by Concubine Dong.

Concubine Dong is very attentive to Li Du, and the people around her have been adjusted several times, and those who are not clever and overly clever are not good.

"It's not so much Li Du's henchmen," Xu Jian and Lin Yunyan said, "It's better to say that they are all Concubine Dong's henchmen." Concubine Dong put the treasure on Li Du, and she looked tighter than her eyes."

Lin Yunyan understood: "No wonder that little mouse is out of the palace. If you stay in the palace, you won't be able to follow Li Du sooner or later."

"Since the little mouse is Li Du's own person, he can't win Concubine Dong's trust," Xu Jian agreed, "Besides, after all, he has served Zhang Xuan's servant, it is unexpected, it is not unusual for Concubine Dong to make people deal with him without knowing it.

At the beginning, Li Du was still young, and keeping a little mouse just made him feel at ease.

When Li Du grows up, Concubine Dong will naturally not stay anymore.

Li Du doesn't want to contradict his adoptive mother for this, and letting the little mouse get out of the palace under the pretext of illness is the best of both worlds."

Lin Yunyan nodded: "He may have realized that Zhang Xuanzhi died strangely, then he was not awakened by King Ding's death, but discovered the clue early, but his arm couldn't twist his thigh, he could only pretend to be filial to his son at Concubine Dong."

Maybe he didn't know, little rat

I don't know, but I just understand that Concubine Dong raised him in a small and honest way, and there are all people around Concubine Dong, so he simply sent the little mouse away to avoid conflict."

Speaking of which, no matter whether Concubine Dong kills Zhang Xuanzhi and raises her son, she is serious about leaving.

Raising a prince is not an easy task.

It's hard to feed, it's hard to raise big, and it's even harder to raise well.

Concubine Dong has a strong desire to control, so that Li Du is surrounded by her people, not to mention the adoptive mother and son, the biological mother and son are easy to get out of the gap.

"What kind of one it is, only Li Du and the little mouse know." Xu Jiandao.

Following.

In Shuntian Mansion, Shan Shen stayed up for a few days and nights, and finally handed in an answer sheet to Xu Jian.

The proprietor of that house told him to dig his head.

"Going around and around, layer upon layer," Shan Shen's teeth itched, "The real owner's surname is Lao, as for who this surname is Lao and what his origin is, I don't know. I found out that the person who did the work for him back then had already gone to the ground. Where do I go to find him? Now the apparent owner's surname is Yao, a native of Shudi, even if I want to ask him, it will take several months to call people to Shudi."

Xu Jian smiled: "Just surnamed Lao, I happen to have a person surnamed Lao who can make errands."

This time, Shan Shen smiled and didn't ask more.

After going down in the evening, Li Shao returned to the palace, and Xu Jian also entered the palace together, and then went to the imperial study.

Wang Gouzi looked at Xu Jian's back and asked Li Shao, "Your Highness, it seems that the Duke of Fuguo has often faced saints recently."

"What's so strange," Li Shao said, "He was originally recuperating from his injuries and did not enter the palace, and when he first followed me to observe the government in the Ministry of Rites, he was also called by his father for questioning."

Wang Gouzi responded with his mouth, but his heart was not very steady.

He followed Li Shao's footsteps, his eyes staring at Li Shao's back.

He had a feeling that he was missing something important, what the hell was it......