Fu Zhen's mind paused for a moment.

After the bloody case in Baiyu Hutong was investigated on the head of Rongwangfu, they basically stopped, because their main purpose in investigating this case was to determine how deeply Rongwangfu was implicated in this case, and whether the combination of Xu Yin and Yongping had anything to do with this case.

So far, this is very clear, and it is indeed a mystery who the deceased is, but in the absence of clues, it is undoubtedly a waste of effort to cling to this.

So later, Fu Zhen's main targets were Xu Yin and Rong Wangfu.

Because of Liang Ning's death, one of them was the main culprit, and the other was an accomplice who indirectly promoted the result.

The identity of the deceased can only be found through them after the gang of murderers is defeated.

So in the past few days, Fu Zhen has never dothered about this matter at all, and now that she suddenly heard Mrs. Ning mention this matter again at this juncture, she felt a little broken in her thinking.

"Didn't my grandfather pass away before the bloody incident in Baiyu Hutong? How do these two things relate? ”

Although the father and son who died did not know their exact identities, they were the ones who Old Man Ning told Mrs. Ning in advance that night that he was going to wait.

So Fu Zhen didn't expect that Old Man Ning's death would have something to do with this matter, but he knew that these two people had something to do with the Ning family.

Mrs. Ning said: "When your grandfather wrote to me, he told me that these two people had a phoenix mark on their bodies, and coincidentally, when your grandfather fell into the water before he was sick, the man in black who was fighting on the dock at that time mentioned a phoenix pendant. ”

"Phoenix?!"

Fu Zhen's mind immediately flashed the fan that Xu Yin mentioned that night under the eaves of the Xu family.

"How could it be so coincidental, it's a phoenix again?"

"Where have you seen it?" Mrs. Ning raised her head when she heard this.

Fu Zhen took a deep breath and told her the truth. "I didn't come back much a while ago, I was just busy with things on the Yu family's side. But to this day, I don't know what the secret of that fan is. can only wait for Yu Yu to return to King Rong's Mansion after his injury to see if he can find out the results. ”

Mrs. Ning immediately straightened up: "What kind of phoenix is it?" Did Xu Yin ever say? ”

"Nope." Fu Zhen shook his head and pointed to the letter in her hand again, "This letter in my mother's hand is the letter that my grandfather asked my mother to receive those two at that time?" ”

A long time ago, Fu Zhen actually asked Mrs. Ning about the whereabouts of this letter, but Mrs. Ning said that she had long since lost it.

Mrs. Ning took a deep breath, handed her the unfolded letterhead, and said, "That's right, this letter was sent by your grandfather before he died. ”

Fu Zhen hurriedly took it in his hand.

The content of the letter is consistent with what Mrs. Ning said, and it is true that there is no mention of the origin of the two, but the latter paragraph roughly describes their age and appearance, and also mentions that the man has a red crested mark the size of a copper coin behind his ear, and draws a general figure.

"When I received this letter, I didn't think much about it, because after all, I had never met this person, and since there was a birthmark that could be used as a sign of confirmation, it was very reasonable for your grandfather to inform me in the letter.

"But who knew that something like that happened right under my nose that night, because of the black lights at the time, and the distance between the upstairs and downstairs, I couldn't confirm that they were the people I was waiting for, of course, the murderer's methods, I had no way to go to the rescue."

"Then what caused my mother to keep silent about it?"

"It's the old man Feng I mentioned to you during the day." Mrs. Ning looked at her deeply, "Old Man Feng and your grandfather are close friends, he helped take care of the Ning family's property during your grandfather's illness, and after your grandfather passed away, he helped to count the relics.

"About three or four months after the incident, he went to Beijing and handed over the accounts to me, and we met at the White Crane Temple.

"After the accounts were sorted out, he mentioned the dock where your grandfather had an accident."

"What did he say?"

He said that on the night of the accident, someone was looking for a phoenix pendant. He suspects that your grandfather was overboard, and he told me to look into it. ”

Mrs. Ning breathed a sigh of relief when she said this, and continued: "It is a matter of life and death for my father, of course I can't take it lightly. Although I was in the Fu family at that time, it was really inconvenient to bother the Feng family anymore.

So I asked him, what kind of phoenix pendant is it? He drew it to me with pen and paper, and when I saw it, the shape of the phoenix pendant was exactly the same as the phoenix mark that your grandfather had depicted on me in his letter. ”

Fu Zhen clenched his fists: "Such a coincidence? ”

"Who's to say it isn't?" Mrs. Ning's words were profound, "Your grandfather is such a wise and intelligent person, he has connections in the north and south of the river, in the government and the opposition, but he never revealed anything about this matter to me, until the end he insisted that it was just an accident, which shows that he is afraid." ”

"Then how did Old Man Feng know about that phoenix pendant?"

"Because someone is asking about it in private. The Feng family's power is not weak, and everyone below knows that he is good friends with your grandfather, and there will always be people who will spread this matter to his ears. ”

Fu Zhen held his breath for a moment, frowned and said, "After that mother saw the appearance of that Feng Pei, did she go to check?" ”

"Of course I didn't look it up again. Even your grandfather didn't dare to act rashly, how could I, who had no time to take care of myself at that time, dare to touch this matter?

"I'm sure your grandfather didn't tell me, and he didn't want me to get caught up in this maelstrom."

Fu Zhen looked at the scribbled handwriting on the yellowed letterhead, and couldn't help but tighten his throat.

When she woke up a few months ago, Mrs. Ning was still struggling in the Fu family, and of course she didn't have the strength to take risks.

She picked up the letterhead, and the old man emphasized in the letter that this person who came to Beijing would definitely help Mrs. Ning and Fu Zhen's sister and brother, and might even bring Fu Yun with him, now that he thinks about it, this benefit is probably the reason why he made up his mind to let Mrs. Ning contact the father and son.

But the old man didn't expect that his plans for his daughter and granddaughter would end up like that.

"That's why I've been hiding it from you." Mrs. Ning said, "The great achievements of the Pei family and the Liang family were exchanged for their flesh and blood, I don't know what the identities of those two people are, and I don't know what the phoenix represents, but I know that my Ning family is rich and rivals the country, although it is not an official household, and it is also a little decent in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but your grandfather would rather keep this secret than say it, it must be a big deal."

"If the Pei Liang family gets involved in this right and wrong and suffers losses, it really shouldn't be."

Fu Zhen's temperament, which was not afraid of the ground that day, was tightly restrained under such words.

When mentioning this bloody case, Mrs. Ning had already said the first half of the letter that Fu Zhen already had a certain understanding of the importance of the identities of these two people.

Now with the addition of this phoenix-shaped mark and phoenix pendant, things are even more complicated!

Although one is a birthmark and the other is a jade pendant, but at the same time they both have an intersection with the old man, so these two things must also be concentrated in the same person, the man who died in Baiyu Hutong is not even more unusual?

It turned out that before he entered Beijing, someone was already secretly looking for him, so it was understandable that Old Man Ning's strict arrangement would be understandable.

If he hadn't been so cautious, the other party's name would not have even been told to his daughter, and he might have been killed on the way to Beijing!

And Xu Yin wanted to get the fan from King Rong's Mansion, which turned out to be related to the deceased!

So who is this person who died? Why would Ning Bochi be tight-lipped about this? Who is secretly tracking down that phoenix?

She looked at Mrs. Ning: "Has Mother ever guessed who he is?" ”

Mrs. Ning said slowly: "After all, I can't escape the scope of the court." ”

……

Fu Zhen didn't stay in the Ning family after all.

When he returned to the mansion, Pei Zhan had already washed fragrantly and crooked on his couch.

Before Fu Zhen could speak first, he squinted his eyes and looked over: "Isn't it a quarrel?" Don't you want to go back to your parents' house? Why did you come back overnight? ”

Fu Zhen picked up the cup and just handed it to his lips, and when he heard this, he looked left and right: "Brother Jia has been here?" ”

Pei Zhan snorted lightly: "It's really yours." When I went back to my own house to be a thief, I even had to detain a pot on my head. ”

Fu Zhen walked to the door with a cup: "What about others?" What did he tell you? ”

"He came to me sweating profusely and asked me what I was doing to you. I wondered, usually when I talk to him, he is as tense as Zhang Xian, you just lie like this, go back to your mother's house, he can immediately come to me to settle accounts, is he bold or cowardly? ”

Fu Zhen tilted his head and thought about it, then walked back and asked him, "Then how did you respond to him?" ”

Pei Zhan snorted again: "What can I do?" Of course, tell him that it's too late now, so I won't disturb your rest, and I'll go over and apologize to you in person tomorrow. ”

At this point he sat up again: "How? What's in it for you? ”

Fu Zhen dragged a chair and sat in front of him. "How do you know what I'm doing?"

Pei Zhan stared at her with an expression that he couldn't understand her better.

Fu Zhen took out the letter from his arms and slapped it on the kang table next to him.

"You look at this first."

Pei Zhan stretched out two fingers, pinched the letter and glanced at it twice, and then he immediately straightened up: "When did this happen?" ”

"My grandfather's letter to my mother six years ago."

Fu Zhen looked at him, and then told him the ins and outs of this trip. "I think the same as my mother, the person who was killed must have a lot to do with the court. He could never be a nobody. ”

There are so many clues here, and the importance of the dead is self-evident. And Old Man Ning would rather bring this secret to Huangquan than reveal half of it, which shows that this person still has a pivotal position above the court.

"Now if you want to know the identity of this person, you can only start from King Rong's side, but King Rong is not an ordinary person, and we can't put him in a sack like pinching long hemp!"

Fu Zhen clenched his fists.

"It doesn't have to be King Rong, since Xu Yin has put so much effort into finding that fan, he must also know." Pei Zhan looked at the phoenix pattern on the letterhead, "We can only start with this fan now and dig out the truth." ”

"But you have to wait for Yu Yu to return to Princess Rong to have a chance, don't you? I just heard Lu Chongyang say this morning that Yu Yu is now just able to stand on the ground. It will be a few days before he can return to King Rong's Mansion. ”

Pei Zhan groaned: "If he can't go back, then you might as well let the people from King Rong's Mansion get close to him." ”

"People from King Rong's Mansion?" Fu Zhen looked at him, "Do you think it's possible?" Yu Yu is nothing to King Rong's Mansion at all, Princess Rong, the only one who likes him, has abandoned him now, who will approach him now? ”

It's nothing short of whimsical.

"Have you forgotten that Xu Yin promised Yu Yu to help him win the opportunity to return to the Rong Palace?"

"I haven't forgotten, but Xu Yin doesn't see rabbits and doesn't scatter eagles, his purpose is to catch me, and if Yu Yu doesn't tell me to go out, how can Xu Yin help him?"

After Fu Zhen finished saying this, he paused. Then she straightened her waist and let go of her wrapped arms: "In this way, as long as Yu Yu confesses to me, Xu Yin will be able to facilitate the contact between Yu Yu and Rong Wangfu, and then we will have the opportunity to contact this fan!" ”

"Since Xu Yin wants it, as long as the fan is in his hands, he will always find someone who recognizes it."

Pei Zhan pushed the letter back to Fu Zhen: "The dagger is in our hands, we have found the murderer through him, now, we should seize this clue and crack the identity of the deceased." ”

"Exactly."

Fu Zhen stood up unconsciously, and her surging mood prompted her to take a few steps forward quickly. "After cracking the identity of the deceased, maybe Xu Yin's secret can also be exposed."

If Xu Yin is really just a declining family from a small town in Tanzhou, then he should be as he said when he killed Liang Ning, instead of meddling in so many dangerous things.

"I'm going to find Yu Yu!" She turned back.

If you have to, then let it go.

Exposed in front of Xu Yin, he will go straight in the future.

Pei Zhan then went to the ground: "No need!" If you are exposed, then will we not suffer? ”

"What else can be done?"

"Find someone to replace you!"

"In my place?" Fu Zhen paused, "Who are you looking for?" ”

"Me."

Fu Zhen said: "How can this be? And you are on or I on, what's the difference? ”

"I had already spoken hard to Xu Yin earlier, and I didn't have any friendship with him at all. He had already stared at me, and had also suspected me and Miss Liang, these were already facts. There is no need to maintain a superficial friendship with him.

"I was at the scene when he assassinated Yu Yu that day, so I can deceive him in this regard, and everything you arranged in the Yu family is not inappropriate to put on me.

"The point is, Yu Yu confessed to me, even if Xu Yin regarded me as a thorn in the eye because of this, he couldn't do anything about me for a while.

"As long as we can get that fan before he does, it's not worth worrying about."