auspicious time has come

Chapter 210

He said: "I know you are here, you are the backbone, Yin Hai and the others must be convinced, everything in secret has been arranged well before entering Beijing. Under such circumstances, it is impossible for you to let me have an accident."

Heng Yu almost rolled his eyes: "You are planning a strategy to win thousands of miles away, thanks to my hard work for you, I can't sleep or eat well."

But he felt a little irony in his heart - he trusted her so much, and entrusted his safety to her so 'naturally'.

Xiao Mu smiled and rubbed the top of her head: "Yes, thank you for your hard work. During the day, my mother also said that you saved my life again."

"Based on the current calculation, it can't be regarded as my salvation..."

"Forget it, why don't you count it?"

"Then I have to think about how to repay the favor?"

"Think slowly, don't rush."

"..."

The gentle night wind passed through the long pavilion, blowing away the low chatter and laughter of the two.

……

The next day, Hengyu got up as usual, ready to go to the East Palace to teach.

One of the carriages at home broke down, and Ji Nanxian, who was also about to enter the palace, rubbed against his sister's carriage. Seeing her yawning in the carriage, he couldn't help but ask, "Why, did you become a thief last night?"

Cui Huai felt inexplicably guilty when she heard the words, and lowered her head.

It's not enough to be a thief, but to see a "thief" go...

"There were many dreams in the night, and I couldn't sleep well." Heng Yu lied without changing his face.

"Brother knows that you are worried about Xiao Hou. Now that he is out of danger, you should be able to sleep well." Regarding the fact that his sister is worried about his allies, Ji Nanxian understands very well. It is human nature, and he is no exception.

When he talked about this matter at this time, his tone was much more relaxed than these days: "His Royal Highness also said yesterday that since Jieshi Xiao has returned to the Dingbei Hou's Mansion, the matter is almost settled."

Hearing this, Heng Yu asked, "How did the sage react yesterday?"

"Naturally, Long Yan was furious..." Ji Nanxian lowered his voice, and said, "According to the palace servants in the bedroom, this is the first time I have seen a sage get so angry at Mr. Jiang... But Jiang Zhengfu has some skills after all. Yes, I don’t know how to appease the Sacred Heart, but in the end, I didn’t receive any punishment worth mentioning.”

"On the surface, he didn't do anything wrong, he just dealt with it fairly. Even if the saint wanted to punish him, he couldn't think of a suitable crime." Heng Yu said.

Ji Nanxian nodded, and sighed: "So this is a rush... From daytime to dusk, the medical officers never left the dormitory, and that 'immortal teacher' also Inseparable."

Heng Yu frowned slightly: "The sage seems to trust that Immortal Master Puzhen very much now?"

"Yes, I have to take pills every day recently... My mind seems to be getting more and more chaotic."

Naturally, this is not a good sign.

But at such a juncture, the situation of the sage is here, and no one dares to talk about it.

When the carriage passed the long street, it slowed down.

There was a lot of voices outside the car window, Heng Yu looked out through the car window, and saw many officials from Dali Temple searching inside and outside the four street shops.

Looking not far away, there are also official officials in the narrow alleys leading to the houses.

"This formation is big enough..." Ji Nanxian said: "If you search this morning, you may not be able to find any clues."

"It's not too late now." Heng Yu seemed to be pointing.

The bigger the formation, the harder it is for the people behind the scenes to sit still, and some flaws may be revealed if they are not sure.

But what Heng Yu never imagined was that this "flaw" would come so quickly and so thoroughly——

In the afternoon of that day, when she was leaving the palace, when she was passing by a small path, she accidentally heard some palace people whispering: "Have you heard that the real culprit who murdered King Hedong has been caught!"

"Based on this, he really isn't the Marquis of Dingbei?"

"The Marquis of Dingbei was originally framed...the real murderer is someone else..."

"Shh... someone is coming."

The little eunuch tugged on his companion's sleeve, and the two immediately bowed their heads to avoid it.

Heng Yu's heart was already shaken, and she wanted to ask the little eunuch "Who is the other person", but seeing that the two of them were silent and worried, she didn't say anything.

It is a big taboo to talk about court affairs in the palace. If you are not careful, you will harm others and yourself. If she wants to inquire about the news, she can inquire anywhere outside the palace gate——

Seeing the girl and the envoy, who was obviously a first-class maid, walked a little farther away, the two young eunuchs who were already sweating were relieved, and they didn't dare to say more, and left the place quickly.

Seeing that Hengyu didn't say a word, her expression was as usual, and Yue Jianxin appreciated it, so she didn't say much.

After getting out of the palace gate and getting into the carriage, Hengyu ordered through the curtain of the carriage, "Uncle Ping, find a teahouse nearby, the busier the better."

It would take more than half an hour to go home, so she wanted to get a general idea first.

Sure enough, the matter has been widely circulated.

But it sounded quite messy at first, making it hard to figure out the clues, until a hoarse voice asked: "The murderer who killed King Hedong has really been caught?"

Heng Yu heard the sound and looked over——

At some point, Cheng Ping squeezed into the table where people were talking the most, and was distributing the melon seeds in his hand to the people around him.

Seeing this, Hengyu was silent, and Uncle Ping was more and more surprised.

"Brother, you are asking the right person. I saw the officer arrest him!" The man who took Cheng Ping's melon seeds said, "It's on Zhuque Street!"

"Caught him in the street?" Cheng Ping asked with a frown.

Why doesn't this murderer sound very high-level?
"The officials searched very carefully. Anyone who passed by, as long as they were men, would be stopped and searched. When the man was about to be searched, he wanted to sneak away secretly, which alerted the officials!"

"Why did he run?" Cheng Ping asked again.

The ones who talk about are curious people the most, and the man said more and more vigorously: "Because he has a knife wound on his body, which was left when he fought with the men of Hedong that night! With a guilty conscience, I dare not Get someone to search you! And this person is really very skilled. At that time, I watched more than a dozen officials surround him, but I couldn't stop him for a while... Later, I alerted the nearby military guards, and they managed to take him down with their combined efforts! "

"After arresting this person, the officials went to his house to search. After this search, they really found the knife blade and the traces of burning the bloody clothes when committing the crime that night! According to the clues, they all matched!"

"After this person was escorted to Dali Temple, now that the evidence is overwhelming, he readily admits it!"

"According to this, this person also personally participated in the assassination of King Hedong that night. He is really the chief envoy?" Cheng Ping thought sharply, "Isn't it really working for others?"

"It's the chief envoy. He hates King Hedong so much, so naturally he wants to..." The man raised his hand to wipe his neck, and said in a low voice, "Naturally, the hatred will be resolved by killing the enemy himself."

Cheng Ping narrowed his eyes: "An enemy?"

"That's right, this person is not an ordinary person, but General Mingwei who lives in Anshanfang!"

General Mingwei?

Hengyu frowned subconsciously—Which General Mingwei?
Although General Mingwei is of the fourth rank, he is a military official and has no real position. Most of them are awarded according to his own military merit or the military merit of his father and son, and there is more than one person.

Hengyu put down the teacup, got up and left.

Cheng Ping immediately followed.

"Hey! Brother, I haven't finished yet!"

He deliberately put the most exciting ins and outs in the finale, why did this old man leave when he heard the most important thing!
I just don't want to know what is the deep hatred between General Mingwei and King Hedong?
The people who listened to the excitement left, and those who left behind the excitement were itchy.

As far as Yu Hengyu is concerned, since the matter has already spread, the inside story of the so-called "enemy" is not so important - the important thing now is, is this person really the real mastermind behind the scenes?

Or, is it just a scapegoat who was pushed out? !
And the scapegoat, after pleading guilty, will often face the same fate——

But she is destined not to enter Dali Temple.

Hengyu got into the carriage, and asked Cuihuai to take out a pen and paper, hurriedly wrote a few words on the letter paper, folded it up, and handed it out of the carriage: "Uncle Lao Ping will make another trip to the Hou Mansion."

Cheng Ping didn't even turn his head, he drove the car with one hand and took it with the other.

When the carriage reached the long street close to Dingbei Hou's Mansion, Heng Yu took Cui Huai out of the carriage and went to visit the study and powder shop.

Cheng Ping dodged into a long alley, avoiding the sight of pedestrians, and arrived at the back wall of Dingbeihou Mansion with ease.

Heng Yu reckoned that it was almost time, so he walked back with Cui Huai who was carrying a lot of boxes in his hand.

"Xiao Hou is not in the mansion." When she got into the car, Cheng Ping, who had turned back, said in a low voice: "Two quarters of an hour ago, I went to Dali Temple."

Heng Yu nodded slightly.

Since he went to Dali Temple, it can be seen that he has already thought about it, so it makes no difference whether her letter is delivered or not.

When Hengyu returned home, her elder sister and sister-in-law were also discussing this matter.

"This General Mingwei is over [-] years old, but he has not yet married... He only adopted an orphan as a foster son on the road to victory more than ten years ago, but this child was given up by the King of Hedong seven years ago. The person was beaten to death, and then the body was thrown into the river, and it took a long time before it was found..."

"This general also tried to seek justice, but after a stalemate for a long time, Dali Temple finally just pushed a servant of the palace to take the blame. Not long after, King Hedong followed his father to Hedong Road... After seven years, this Back to the capital again."

"Probably the old grievances are hard to get rid of..." Ning Yu couldn't help sighing as she said.

Yu Shi gritted his teeth and said, "The King of Hedong really deserved what he deserved!"

Heng Yu was thoughtful: "It seems that this motive is very convincing..."

"Xiao Yu'er, you don't believe this?" Ning Yu asked softly.

Heng Yu shook her head: "I believe it."

The people in Dali Temple are not fools. As the highest judicial office in the dynasty, as long as they have the heart, they cannot be easily deceived by others——

There is motivation.

Traces of burnt blades and bloody clothes were also found.

Moreover, since this person is a fourth-rank general, he must have capable old troops under him. These people can live in Beijing openly and aboveboard on weekdays, and they don't have to hide when something happens—thus, the means and conditions are also available.

All of the above cannot be forged temporarily.

So, she believed, had to believe.

but--

"Perhaps he did kill the person, but that doesn't mean that there must be no other envoys behind him..." Heng Yu pondered, "Besides, the timing of his exposure was too coincidental, as if he was eager to end the matter. In order not to let this fire burn even bigger, and then burn to people who shouldn't be burned."

"That's right." Gu Tingnan thought for a while, and said: "Before this case, even blind people could see that it was clearly aimed at Xiao Hou! But it is said that this person's testimony was 'just to be credible. It’s just a substitute for a dead ghost’, it seems that the dirty water was poured on Xiao Hou’s body on a whim..."

Heng Yu nodded: "Yes, this is very important, so I decided that there must be another mastermind behind this person."

She said with concentration: "One wants to kill the King of Hedong, and the other wants to use the death of the King of Hedong to frame Xiao Mu and use Jiang Zhengfu to drive a wedge between Lu Longjun and the imperial court...and if the plan fails, there is also the former. Come to bear all the charges, the latter's whole plan can be said to be advanced, offensive and defensive, it is really 'extremely brilliant'."

The initial framing methods in this case seemed "superficial and clumsy", and they almost wrote the word slander on their face, but at this point, when they are peeled off layer by layer, it can be seen that the other party is doing everything they can.

Ning Yu broke into a layer of cold sweat behind her back: "Such scheming, and hidden so deep... Who is this person?"

She also had a secret conversation with her younger sister. At first, she suspected that it was Jiang Zhengfu's design, but after the three joint trials yesterday, this guess was no longer valid.

It's not Jiang Zhengfu, and it's impossible to be a saint today... Who would it be?
"This General Mingwei must have the answer in his heart." Yu Shi said: "If you can pry his mouth open, let him hide any monsters behind his back, and there will be nowhere to hide!"

Hengyu nodded.

Yes, you only need to pry open this person's mouth, and the black hand behind the scenes who has been messing with the situation in the dark can be revealed——

But the other party acted so carefully, I am afraid that this matter will not go smoothly...

But since Xiao Mu has rushed over, let's wait for the news now.

Hengyu looked at the Golden Crow slowly sliding down the sky outside the window.

In the sky prison of Dali Temple, where the sun is never seen, there is no distinction between day and night, and time seems to be frozen here for a long time.

Wearing a prison uniform, the man with a messy beard lowered his head, closed his eyes, and said slowly, "Tell your master for me, so that he must cherish it... I hope that his wish will be fulfilled as soon as possible."

An ordinary jailer standing in front of him nodded slightly, and then retreated from the cell.

……

"I've seen Jieshi Xiao!"

In the front hall of Dali Temple, the jailer was saluting with Xiao Mu, his eyes were full of panic.

Ordinarily, as a little prison guard, he should have no chance to recognize Xiao Jieshi, but who made Xiao Jieshi an acquaintance...

In the past, everyone privately said that the envoy Xiao Jie was about to end, but now the situation has changed drastically in the blink of an eye!

Now everyone privately felt that he was going to end, and he was also secretly reflecting on himself just now—was it true that his voice to Xiao Jieshi was a little louder before?

"You troubled to send a message to Du Shaoqing, and said that the Marquis would like to see Gu Changwu who was arrested today." Xiao Mu explained his purpose.

Gu Changwu is that General Mingwei.

The jailer didn't dare to answer: "Yes, the villain is going to find Du Shaoqing now! Envoy Xiao Jie, please sit in the front hall for a while!"

"No need."

At this moment, a voice came from behind Xiao Mu.

　Goodnight everybody!Thank you for your monthly tickets~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)