Unforgettable Emperor’s Favor

"King Yingchuan, I have checked everything according to your instructions, and there is no suspicious man."

"Have you all looked at it carefully? He has injuries on his body. No matter what, it can't be concealed."

The guard still shook his head, his expression was apprehensive, he seemed very afraid of Murong Xu's anger, it really didn't look like he had the guts to hide it. Murong Xu frowned, and couldn't help feeling irritable: "Why not? Could it be that I was thinking wrong?"

Murong Xu was woken up from the gentleness last night, and he didn't close his eyes all night after that, all of them were chasing down this daring assassin. If Murong Xu was sure that it was Murong Yan last night, but after a sleepless night, now he can't help hesitating.

Was he too much looking forward to capturing Murong Yan with his own hands, and the hints in his heart were too strong, which affected his reason and judgment? Murong Xu stood on the spot and reflected deeply. After a while, he asked, "Where is Liao Shangshu?"

"Still in the guest room, the prince didn't give orders, and the subordinates dare not make any claims."

"Okay." Murong Xu was quite satisfied with the result, he pinched his eyebrows wearily, and walked towards the guest room. Since Liao Zheng's death, all his attention was attracted by Murong Yan, and he hasn't had a good look at Liao Zheng's situation. Perhaps, he should calm down and look for information from Liao Zheng's body.

Sure enough, as the guard said, Liao Zheng's guest room was still in the same condition as last night, the door was open from the outside, and could be opened with a light push. However, although the door was open, no one dared to come over to find out. There is a deadly silence all around, which makes people feel faintly ominous.

Murong Xu only heard the guards mention vaguely yesterday that Liao Shangshu's death was not very good. Murong Xu recalled the gossip about Liao Zheng in the officialdom, and had a rough guess in his heart, but even though he was prepared in his heart, when he actually saw it, he was still disgusted.

The state of Liao Zheng's death was more than unsightly.

Liao Zheng leaned back against the bedpost, his eyes widened so wide that it was almost suspected that his eyeballs would fall out in an instant. There were signs of struggle on the bed, the brocade quilt was tossed and crumpled, and there were many unbearable stains on it. Apart from the bed, the rest of the house was also horrible, even a seasoned veteran like Murong Xu still felt his eyes dirty after seeing it.

Who would have known that Liao Zheng, who is the crown prince's young master, who has read the books of sages and never deviates from the words of sages, actually has some unspeakable hobbies when it comes to sex.

Murong Xu didn't want to read any more, frowned and walked out the window, asking, "Where are the two singers?"

"One of them was dying and unconscious for a long time. The other one is awake. She was the first to discover Liao Shangshu's death last night."

Murong Xu changed women like clothes, Liao Zheng also knew when he was going to leave the two singers last night, but he still felt absurd when he heard that one of the women was abused to the point of unconsciousness. Murong Xu endured the nausea in his heart, and asked, "What did the singer say?"

"She said that she really couldn't make it through last night, and she really couldn't meet Liao Shangshu's request. She was thrown by Liao Shangshu and passed out. When she woke up, she saw Liao Shangshu sitting on the bed for a long time. They didn’t move. The singer didn’t dare to disturb Shang Shu, and she knelt and waited on the side after waking up. After a while, she found that Liao Shangshu’s posture was not quite right, so she bravely crawled over to take a look and found that Shang Shu had already died."

Murong Xu also knew what happened next, Liao Zheng was an important minister of the court, a celebrity in front of the emperor, his death immediately alarmed the whole government. Murong Xu was shocked when he heard the news of Liao Zheng's death, and his drunkenness disappeared. At this time, someone came to report that the body of a bodyguard was found in the grass. Murong Xu had a sudden inspiration and guessed a possibility, and he didn't care about the banquet and beauties. , Immediately lead people out to pursue.

Later, they followed the blood trail to Jian'an Lane, spent the first half of the night in the Yu family mansion, and the second half of the night in other places, all of them were exhausted, but found nothing.

Murong Xu glanced into the window out of the corner of his eyes, thinking that he ran around all night for such a thing. When Murong Xu was in Yecheng, he had heard that some women in Liao Zheng's family often committed suicide due to unbearable suffering. Unexpectedly, when he came to other places, Liao Zheng was still unrestrained, and his bad nature was hard to change. There are whips for special purposes in the room. Although the two singers are for the rich and powerful to have fun, they have not been trained, so how can they understand this. They didn't serve well and couldn't make Liao Zheng comfortable. Liao Zheng grabbed the whip and knocked one of the girls unconscious. The other singer was terrified to death when she saw her companion's miserable state. She took the whip tremblingly, but she still couldn't do anything. She was thrown by Liao Zheng and hit the wall, and she passed out immediately.

One of the two women was seriously injured and the other was in a coma. No one knew what Liao Zheng had done during that time. Murong Xu didn't want to go in and dirty his eyes, so he sent his men to search inside. After a while, the guards came out to report: "Your Majesty, Shang Shu has various wounds on his body, including new wounds and old wounds. His subordinates are incompetent, and no fatal points have been found."

Murong Xu understood what the guard meant. Liao Zheng had special hobbies, and there were criss-crossed welts on his body. New marks were added last night. The opponent's fatal blow was mixed with Liao Zheng's old and new wounds. Murong Xu didn't want to hear this, so he ordered instead: "Go and check the things in his house, don't miss a single place."

When the guard came back again, he had a strange expression on his face: "My lord, because Liao Shangshu last night...so the things in the study were also knocked upside down, and the map given by the Holy Majesty was stained with stains."

Murong Xu immediately became vigilant: "Is the map dirty?"

"yes."

Murong Xu looked solemnly: "Bring it here." The guard went and turned back, Murong Xu took what was in the guard's hand, opened it and carefully identified it, then rubbed lightly at the edge of the paper, and finally said firmly: "This is a fake! The real map It was replaced!"

Murong Xu threw the fake map on the ground with a gloomy face. They had a good trick, they even used the name of Liao Zheng's special hobbies to mess up the study, and also made the map of the evidence of this trip unrecognizable, trying to embellish others. They took a fake map, deliberately destroyed it and threw it in the study, pretending to be smashed by Liao Zheng, but they had already replaced the real map.

Murong Yan was walking around under the eaves with his hands behind his back, his face was gloomy and cold, after a while, he pulled his face with a smile on his face: "So that's it, this is their real purpose."

Liao Zheng's death was just incidental, the assassin's real target was the map that Liao Zheng brought from the capital!

Murong Xu was very angry, okay, really bold and supercilious. The map marked the mountains, rivers, terrain, and city armaments in detail, which were always important items of the Ministry of War. If this time it was not for modifying the details of the boundaries of the three states of Ji, Qing, and Xu, the emperor would not have allowed the map to leave the capital. Even though this is only a part of the map, the importance of terrain to military strategists is self-evident. Even if the relevant military deployment on the map is secretly changed later, the map of the three states has finally been leaked.

It is self-evident what the assassin wants to do by stealing this map.

Murong Xu sneered angrily, well, they have big hearts, could they still expect to support Murong Yan to rebel and ascend the throne? An ant may shake a tree, overreaching itself.

The chaos in Murong Xu's mind gradually disappeared, and he gradually found the direction of investigation. To be able to know the news about the map and where the map is stored is obviously a traitor among his own people. Murong Xu's eyes were gloomy and cold, but there was a trace of pride in his heart. The magic height is one foot high and one foot high, and Murong Yan's carefully arranged cover-ups have been seen through by him. The name of King Langya, which was once widely praised by everyone, seems to be nothing more than that now.

Now as long as one by one checks the people around Liao Zheng, and even more so the people around Murong Xu, one can always find the person who leaked the secret. Thinking of this, Murong Xu suddenly realized that he blamed him for the dark lights, he basically searched the city, but he didn't doubt his mansion. The most dangerous place is the safest place, this traitor has a good trick.

Murong Xu sneered coldly, called his subordinates to come over, and gave some instructions in a low voice. Soon, the mansion where Murong Xu stayed was noisy. The guards searched the rooms of the people in the mansion one by one, digging three feet to find the map.

The guards took the order to leave, and one of the guards hesitated for a moment and asked, "My lord, what about Liao Shangshu..."

Murong Xu glanced into the room with disgust, and said, "Let's have someone prepare a coffin and collect the corpse for funeral. I don't need to say more about the specific cause of death, just that Liao Shangshu was not acclimatized and died of a sudden illness."

"yes."

Although Murong Xu used the title of "Sudden Illness", many people knew about Liao Zheng's details, and everyone saw exactly how the two singers came out that day. Liao Zheng's funeral still showed the three ranks of the imperial court, but in private, Liao Zheng's reputation for having bad morals and reading sage books indiscriminately spread throughout the world. Many people even speculated that Liao Zheng's sudden death was because he played too much and suffocated because he couldn't calm down for a while. As for King Yingchuan's statement, it was obviously to save some face for the Liao family.

Liao Zheng died in a hurry, and Murong Xu focused all his attention on tracking down the lost map, so he naturally missed the only opportunity to find out why Liao Zheng died. After several days of careful investigation like this, Murong Xu found the real map in the black mud of the garden, and a servant escaped from the mansion. The real murderer was about to be revealed, Murong Xu immediately sent someone to chase after him, and even said that he must survive. If he is caught and tortured, he may be able to dig out Murong Yan's hiding place from the mouth of this traitor.

Murong Xu felt a little regretful. When he heard the news, his first instinct was Murong Yan. He was delighted that Murong Yan finally leaked his tracks after hiding for several years. He didn't expect to track down and found that the person who did it was just a traitor who had been hiding for many years. This traitor was instigated by Murong Yan to steal the map, but he didn't expect to be spotted by Murong Xu before he found a chance to send the map out. Murong Xu was not without regrets, but he thought about it again, although it was not Murong Yan himself who was discovered this time, it was worthwhile to catch his subordinates, and Murong Xu quickly became satisfied again.

Murong Xu found the "true murderer" here, and he was complacent. At this time, how could he remember what Liao Zheng wanted to do the day before his death.

Seeing that the master was in a good mood, the eunuchs beside Murong Xu also came over and kept flattering him. One of the eunuchs speculatively asked, "My lord, are you still going to the Yu family?"

"The Yu family?" Murong Xu was stunned for a moment, and then slowly remembered that he seemed to have promised Meiren Yu that night, and personally came to make amends the next day. Unexpectedly, in the past few days, he was so busy looking for maps and investigating traitors that he completely forgot about Yu Qingjia.

It's good that the **** didn't mention it, but Murong Xu really couldn't wait to go to Yu's house as soon as this matter was mentioned. He was originally a dissolute, night-and-night temperament, but now that he has good news coming in one after another about the things he has to do, he is just in a good mood. At this time, of course he wants to show off in front of the beauties.

In the past, Murong Xu was regarded as a frivolous person who only understood love and romance. The government affairs were monopolized by his eldest brother, and he never had a part to speak. Feeling in control. He saw through the truth of Liao Zheng's death, retrieved the lost map, and uncovered the traitors. I'm afraid his ability is not much better than that of his elder brother, right? It's just a pity that the eldest brother Murong Zhen has the backing of Empress Jiang, and he is extremely suspicious of monopolizing the government. Otherwise, why would he just be an idle prince?

Murong Xu was pensive while riding on the horse. He was wearing a white brocade robe. Pedestrians heard that King Yingchuan was going out and avoided them, but even with Murong's reputation for indiscriminate killing, there were still many young women hiding in the street to peek at Murongxu's demeanor.

Murong Xu felt complacent seeing this, and the vague longing in his heart became more and more clear.

In the Yu family's mansion, Yu Qingjia was sitting by the window, seeing the maids' eyebrows and eyes drifting, it was obvious that her mind was not here. Yu Qingjia rolled her eyes, but she didn't realize it. After a while, Yin Ping ran in from the outside and brought Yu Qingjia a basket of ribbons with extra graciousness: "Miss, it's windy and cold outside today, and the slaves went out for a while, and their hands were cold. It just so happens that there are some Caitao, servant girl will weave the knot with the young lady."

Yu Qingjia didn't speak, but just glanced at Yin Ping lightly. Yin Ping's spine shivered when she was looked at by such eyes, the smile on her face froze, she stared carefully at Yu Qingjia's expression, after only two sentences, Yin Ping did not give up, and tried again: "Miss, servant girl Yesterday I learned a new pattern from outside. I heard that this kind of pattern is new. The girls in the city are looking for it, but they can't get it right. It took a lot of effort for the servant to find out how to make this pattern. , if the young lady has learned it, she will be sure to keep a steady head over the girls at banquets in the future. Miss, this servant will teach you how to tie a net now!"

Yin Ping and Yin Zhu are the maids who stay in the second room, Yin Zhu is thin and frail, and she stays in a daze when doing things, but Yin Ping runs out all day long, her eyes are very restless. That time, Yin Ping accompanied Yu Qingjia to Wuliang Temple, but Yin Ping slipped out to play by himself on the way, and was severely scolded by Yu Qingjia when he came back. Yin Ping was still unwilling to be scolded, and from then on she was even more reluctant to serve Yu Qingjia, and whenever she was free, she ran outside to talk to the maids in other rooms. Now Yin Ping suddenly brought back a basket of silk thread, and said that he would teach Yu Qingjia to weave new tricks...

Yu Qingjia shook her head inwardly, is this coaxing her like a child? Bring back some fresh things and coax her to play with these silk threads in the house, so as to stop her from going out. Yu Qingjia thought it was ridiculous, if she was seven or eight years old, it might be useful to use this trick, but now she is fourteen, Yu Qingya still uses these tricks, she is really very mentally handicapped.

Yu Qingya holds the system in her hand, and she can redeem various new head flowers and embroidery samples with points, which has always been leading the trend in Gaoping City. The net weaving method that other famous girls couldn't figure out, was found out by a maid in Yin Ping. Apart from Yu Qingya's instruction, who else could it be?

Yin Ping didn't know that she had sold herself and the gold master behind her with just a few words. She was still smiling flatteringly, trying to coax Yu Qingjia to stay in the house and not go out. Yu Qingjia didn't want to waste words with the maids, so she nodded casually and sent them off. Yin Ping dawdled to get up, and after a while came in with a damp cloth, and wiped the wooden vase everywhere, but his eyes always drifted towards Yu Qingjia. Yu Qingjia was really annoyed now, it's true that a good bird chooses a tree to live in, but eating like a silver bottle is too ugly. Yu Qingjia closed the book, and glanced lightly at Yin Ping, which made Yin Ping tremble.

Why does Miss Six look at her with such eyes? Could it be that Miss Six found out? But it's impossible, she clearly followed what the Fourth Miss said, and her words and deeds were guided just right.

Yin Ping was worried, rolled his eyes, and looked at Yu Qingjia with a tired smile: "Miss Six, don't you want to play?"

The silver bottle must not be able to stay, Yu Qingjia was about to speak, when she suddenly thought about it, she felt that there are advantages to being stupid. At least what Yin Ping wants to do, I can see clearly at a glance. If Yin Ping is driven away, and Old Master Yu or Yu Qingya take the opportunity to stuff another eyeliner in, that would be bad. Yu Qingjia turned around in her heart, but in the end she didn't have an attack, but closed the scroll, and really flipped through the silk ribbons in the bamboo basket: "It happens that I have nothing to do, so I move my things to the back, and I will pass the time with Mrs. Jing. "

Yin Ping was overjoyed and couldn't wait to respond. It is very common for the female relatives to go to each other to do needlework and sit for an entire afternoon. Yu Qingjia came to Murong Yan with a silk thread basket in her arms.

Murong Yan watched as Yu Qingjia came uninvited, and brought a bunch of colorful playthings, and piled them on his case on his own initiative. Murong Yan's eyebrows twitched, and he bent his eyes at Yu Qingjia with a fake smile: "What do you want to do?"

Yu Qingjia felt a little guilty, but it was better to be upset alone than to be upset by two people together, so Yu Qingjia sat down opposite Murong Yan firmly with Murong Yan's murderous eyes on her face: "I'm afraid you'll be bored, so I came to see you...well, let's talk."