The time taken to return to the city only accounted for seventy percent of the time when leaving the city, and it was the emperor who recently arranged Liang Chen, Du Mingqian, Cheng Zhili, etc., to guard the city gates on all sides, and it was not smoother to pass.

The carriage arrived at the small courtyard of the Pei family, where Lu Chongyang was placed, and Guo Song, who had come to the front station in advance, had already led Lu Chongyang out.

Pei Zhan got out of the car first and handed over the people he brought back from the box to them: "He reacted very much just now, I have already knocked him unconscious, he has injuries on his body, and his tendons seem to have been broken, you guys put him down first, see if he is in any other danger, it is best to wake him up within an hour!" ”

Guo Song and the others immediately took people down, and Lu Chongyang had already rolled up his sleeves and sent people to prepare hot water and medical equipment.

As soon as the people arranged it, Du Mingqian rushed over: "Old five! What's wrong? ”

When they came back, it happened to be the north gate guarded by Du Mingqian, and the couple at night were in such a hurry to enter and exit the city gate in a wet state, how could Du Mingqian not pay attention? Therefore, after they entered the city, they paid attention to the movement outside the city gate for a while, and immediately explained their errands and hurried over.

In the past few months, Pei Zhan and their families have frequently had frictions with King Rong's Mansion and the Xu family, and even Pei Yu, who used to be a brother and brother to King Rong, went to the palace with a gun to tear down the door wall of King Rong's Mansion, which is unimaginable, Du Mingqian and they also expressed doubts before, but Pei Zhan was sloppy, so they never asked. After all, brothers, when you can say it, you will naturally say it, can you still believe it?

But Princess Rong died suddenly, and there are still so many doubts in herself, which people can't figure out, and the strange behavior of the two of them happened to hit him tonight, can he not come to ask?

If you don't ask about it, you won't be a brother!

Pei Zhan looked at Fu Zhen, and Fu Zhen nodded.

Pei Zhan said, "You go and wash, change your clothes and come out again." ”

Then he motioned to Du Mingqian: "You come with me." ”

Du Mingqian's gaze avoided Fu Zhen, who was drenched, and quickly followed.

Fu Zhen also glanced at himself, and at this time, Ziyan Tourmaline quickly came out of the back room: "Young lady! ”

They came to the front with a small gasp, and they didn't know how anxious they were, but there was no surprise or stunned expression on their faces, and they knew what was going on a long time ago, and they were waiting for her here early.

"Young lady, the hot water is ready, the clothes have been brought, let's wash them in the first house!"

Fu Zhen has exercised diligently in the past few months, coupled with the Liang family's ancestral health prescription and Mrs. Ning's basket of nourishing things that have been sent over from time to time, and his body has grown a lot, and he has also gained weight, so it is not a problem to cope with these actions.

But he didn't dare to be reckless, he was wet for so long, and he really needed to clean up urgently.

followed Zi Yan and the others into the side courtyard room vacated at the back.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw that everything was ready, and even the hot supper was served, so I tasted it and said, "The general arranged for you to come?" ”

Zi Yan nodded and came up to change her clothes: "Before going out, the general told the slaves and maids to wait until the young lady came back before sleeping, two quarters of an hour ago, the guards returned to the house and suddenly asked us to take the young lady's clothes to the other courtyard, and we hurried here." Later, Guo Song came back again, beckoned us to hurry up and prepare hot water, and said that the young lady will use it when you come back. ”

Speaking of this, Zi Yan tilted her head and glanced at Fu Zhen, pursed her lips and smiled: "In the past, the slave maid thought that the general was a rough person, and he only had things outside in his eyes, but I didn't expect the slave and maid to be wrong, and the general was the most attentive to the young lady." It's just that the general has too few opportunities to behave, otherwise, the general doesn't know what it will become. ”

"Yes." Tourmaline also came up with her clothes at this time, "The frost in the main room and the frost gossip every day about how the general spoils his wife, and when they see the slave and maid, they stuff melon seeds into the slave and maid's hands, and ask us how the general and the young lady are like?" When will their generals and wives be able to hug their little eldest grandson?

"What an eldest grandson! Isn't this a pot that doesn't open and which pot to mention? God knows that our general and young lady didn't even put a pillow together, so that the slave and maid didn't dare to take the melon seeds every time they were so weak that they didn't dare to take ......."

Fu Zhen just asked casually, looking at the battles one by one, he didn't care about why Fu Zhen was so wet, but he didn't care about it commonplace.

After Pei Zhan led Du Mingqian into the house, he also spent two sips of tea to change into dry clothes first.

When he came out, Du Mingqian stood up: "Where have you been?" Who did you bring back? In addition, do you know that two hours ago, Xu Yin also went out of the city in a carriage? ”

To go to Tongzhou Wharf, you must pass through the city gate he guarded, of course he knew when Xu Yin went out of the city. It's just that there are not no officials who occasionally go out of the city at night, and if it weren't for the two people who came back like this, Du Mingqian wouldn't care.

Pei Zhan made him a cup of tea: "Before I answer your question, do you want to hear how Princess Rong died?" ”

“…… You know? ”

Du Mingqian was stunned.

Pei Zhan pushed the tea to him, and said with a stunned look on his stop breathing: "Not only do I know, but I also see it with my own eyes." The person who killed Princess Rong was Xu Yin. ”

……

Tongzhou Pier has never experienced such a hectic situation.

All the ships that had been docked in an orderly manner for loading and unloading were forcibly suspended after the ships of the Great General's Mansion needed to salvage an extremely important thing immediately. But for some reason, the sunken things should be looked for in the sinking place, but that General He's guards stopped all the vehicles entering and leaving the dock, and are investigating them one by one?

All the ships were lit up and watched from afar, and in the dark of night, the dock could still see only the shadowy figures moving, but their faces could not be seen.

He Qunying accompanied Xu Yin to stand on the stairs, seeing that the guards on both sides of the other side took turns to go into the water without gain, and looked at the streets that were getting more and more congested because of the investigation of carriages, and couldn't help but say: "What kind of important person is this person, worthy of your nervousness?" After sinking in the water for so long, even if you catch it, you will die! ”

"Even if he is dead, I will find him, I will live to see people and die to see corpses!" Xu Yin said in a deep voice, and he turned around and said, "Didn't you ask you to act carefully?" Why is it that there is such a big basket anyway? This loss, then the hard work done in the past two months will be in vain! ”

He Qunying frowned: "If I hadn't been careful, I wouldn't have come out of the basket until I arrived in Tongzhou." As you can see, Fang is still one step away from going ashore, but this is what happened at this juncture. Are you really sure that it wasn't your side that leaked the news? ”

"No one knows except Lian Hong, do you mean that Lian Hongxuan can't be trusted?" Xu Yin said and glanced at Lian Yu on the side.

Lian Hong's expression was stunned: "The little one doesn't dare to die!" ”

He Qunying took a deep breath: "Then there is no one else." Except for the person on the ship, outsiders did not know that this person was hidden on the ship. If something goes wrong, it's already out there! ”

Xu Yin took two steps down, looked at the sparkling river under the shadow of the lamp, and said categorically: "There has never been an omission, then it can only be targeted." ”

He Qunying followed: "Who will it be?" ”

Xu Yin's eyes were deep: "Pei Zhan has never been an easy person to deal with. ”

He Qunying's eyes flashed: "It's him?!" ”

Then he immediately added: "But that day, I took the cause of Ningbochi's death as smoke according to your words, and he didn't doubt it. And even if you and I have a relationship, how can he guess that you must be involved in this boat? You're not the only one with me, and I don't know you alone. Why do you see that I want a boat to cover for you? ”

Next to him, he looked at Xu Yin, who pursed his lips: "It's really unreasonable." At this time, we did a hidden job, except for tonight's trip, there was no trace of involvement with these two ships, Pei Zhan and General He had nothing else to do with it, why would he devote so much energy to these two ships? ”

Xu Yin faced the river and was silent. After a long time, he instructed word by word: "If you can't find the place where you fell into the water, then look for it along the riverbank." Expand the scope of the investigation a little more, if there is no underwater, then someone must have robbed it! And if it was robbed, it must have been done by Pei Zhan! ”

Even bent down and said yes, and immediately went down the steps to speak.

Xu Yin turned around and walked towards the embankment.

He Qunying followed him into the carriage and asked, "What is the identity of this lost person?" If you hide it any more, you will be fooling me for someone! ”

After saying that, He Qunying's face also sank.

Xu Yin looked at him: "There is a tattoo on the back of his neck, did you see it before?" ”

He Qunying frowned: "What kind of tattoo is that?" ”

Xu Yin took out a piece of paper from his arms, unfolded it and laid it in front of him: "It's this." Your Great General's Mansion also participated in the battle for Dayue, you should recognize this? ”

He Qunying looked at the pattern on the paper, and his expression changed suddenly: "Da Yue?!" ”

They straightened their backs: "The person you hid in the boat is the Great Moon Man?" ”

"That's right." Xu Yin's eyes were gloomy, "He is from the big moon." Moreover, he is also a member of the Otsuki royal family. ”

He Qunying's expression changed drastically, if he wasn't in the carriage, he would have jumped up at this moment!

"As an important minister of the Great Zhou, why would you have contact with the Great Moon Imperial Family in private? And didn't the Dayue royal family all kill themselves when Pei Zhan entered the palace, and they killed them? How can they still be there? ”

"I'm also surprised by that." Xu Yin folded the paper and put it back in his arms, "When I received a letter from my ancestral hometown in Tanzhou, I realized that I could only find the answer by bringing him to the capital for face-to-face interrogation. ”

"But why did he go to Tanzhou again?" He Qunying looked at him, "Why did he go to your ancestral home?" ”

Xu Yin looked ahead, pursed his lips and sipped lightly, and said slowly: "This, of course, I don't know either." ”

"Sir!"

Outside the carriage, the voice of the Xu family's guards came. Xu Yin was like a charcoal furnace that was suddenly hit, and a cluster of fireworks burst out of his dark eyes, and disappeared into the darkness in an instant. He responded, "What?! ”

The brothers searched the river for a mile, but there was no sign of the box! However, not far from the place where the water fell, a large water stain was found, and a wooden box that had been opened and hidden behind a tree! ”

As soon as they heard this, Xu Yin and He Qunying stood up at the same time, got out of the car one after another, and followed the guards towards the place where the wooden box was found!

There were already a lot of guards under the tree, Xu Yin stepped forward to take a look, and sure enough, it was a wooden box marked with the Ning family's business, but at this time, the box was empty!

Xu Yin's facial muscles twitched, and his eyes looked in the direction of the capital: "Apart from Pei Zhan, who else has the ability to handle this matter so neatly?!" ”

He Qunying bent down to look at the damage to the wooden box, and then looked at the range of water stains on the ground, but he was not as nervous as Xu Yin, he only said unlucky, and then said: "But since this person is just a foreigner of unknown origin, even if it falls into the hands of Pei Zhan, he is just doing a job for him, at most, he is asked to invite credit, which is not a particularly big loss for us." ”

borrowed these two boats from the Ning family, first, he did embezzle the He family's property to do some private work, and second, Xu Yin wanted to avoid extraneous branches on the way and secretly escorted this person into Beijing.

He Qunying, as a military general of the Great Zhou Dynasty, did not want to be involved with the defeated foreign gangsters from the bottom of his heart.

But after Xu Yin heard what he said, his expression became even more meaningless, and he stood up silently and left under the tree.

"Someone, go and inquire about Pei Zhan's whereabouts tonight!"

……

Du Mingqian held the tea and looked at Pei Zhan on the other side of the lamp, and his trance was no longer in his body.

"Are you saying that King Rong's father and son tried their best, or did they let Xu Yin be lawless because they wanted to hide the bloody case that I had heard of for the first time? And he hid his homicide evidence so that no one would know about it? ”

Pei Zhan put down the tea he had drunk in one go, nodded and said, "That's right." ”

omitted the section where Liang Ning became Fu Zhen, and he explained all the turmoil that kept happening along the way.

Since the investigation of the Baiyu Hutong bloody case began, even if it was deliberately concealed, many clues have been revealed.

Not to mention anything else, just the Pei family and the Rongwangfu and Yongping are constantly bumping, this matter is unusual.

Du Cheng's two families are different from the He family, except for the He family, the remaining four families in the five generals' mansions are still closely related, and they treat each other with all sincerity, although the truth of the bloody case has not been confirmed, but the huge secret hidden behind the murder of King Rong's father and son is already a certainty, they don't even dare to say a word about their wives and their mothers being killed by Xu Yin because of this, Pei Zhan They have no reason not to pay attention to everyone.

Although only Cheng Zhili knew about the Cheng family, Cheng Zhili was watching from the side, which was enough.

The Du family is still in the dark, Pei Zhan at least can't let the Du family let Xu Yin take advantage of the loophole like the He family.

"No wonder," Du Mingqian muttered, "No wonder you are often mysterious, it turns out that this is because of this!" ”

After sighing, he raised his head again: "Mrs. Naning is the only eyewitness, this is the reason why the fifth brother and sister will become your wife?" ”

Pei Zhan knew that he couldn't get around here, and the brains of these children were not in vain. But now is not the time to dwell on this, he said, "That's a long story." But that's pretty much it. ”

"General!"

Speaking of which, Guo Song happened to come in: "That person is awake!" ”

Pei Zhan's pupils shrank, and Fang Zhan's expression, which was still relieved, suddenly became cold: "Excellent!" ”

He stood up and looked at Du Mingqian: "Didn't you just ask me who I brought back?" Come with me, it should surprise you. (End of chapter)