Lu Zheng happened to see this scene when he entered the Lu Mansion. His heart tightened and he rushed in in two steps at a time.

Tang Min approached Lu Yuan: "Second Young Master, what else do you have to say now?"

Lu Yuan's face was pale, and beads of sweat rolled down: "It's not me... I didn't..."

Tang Min was too lazy to tell him, and was about to let the constable take him back to the yamen, when he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Stop!"

Tang Min turned his head and saw Lu Zheng running in breathlessly: "Sir Tang, I have something to say."

"Oh, I wonder if Third Young Master Lu has any other advice?"

"I dare not give you any advice." Lu Zheng took a breath and said, "I have something unclear, and I want to ask Sir Tang."

"Please speak, Third Young Master Lu."

"For such a secret matter as poisoning, given Second Cousin's character, how could he let a servant buy it?" Lu Zheng said, "He is in charge of the family business, I often have to go out to check accounts. If I really want to poison someone, I can just buy the poison somewhere else. Why let a servant buy it, and buy it at the city's hospital? Isn't this telling others that I want to harm someone?"

Tang Min frowned.

Lu Yuan also recovered from his panic. He looked at Lu Zheng with gratitude, and bowed to Tang Min and said, "Sir Tang, this matter is related to my father's injustice. You asked me to cooperate, and I have no choice but to do it. I can also swear to heaven that I have never done such a thing worse than a pig or a dog. If I break this oath, I will be struck by lightning."

"Second Young Master, you'd better take your time before swearing." Zhao Xueqian's voice sounded from behind them. He glanced at Lu Yuan, and a mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. "Why don't you listen to what the second young lady said first?"

He stepped aside, revealing the thin woman behind him, the second young lady Qu. Except in the mourning hall, this was the first time that everyone saw Qu. She was only in her thirties, but she looked as old as an old woman, and her eyes were lifeless.

Lu Yuan frowned and took a step forward: "You are not feeling well, what are you doing out?"

"I am not feeling well... hehe..." Qu's eyes were filled with hatred, "If I don't come out, I'm afraid it's not that I am not feeling well, but that I will die!"

"What are you talking about!"

"Nonsense? Haha... You dare to do it but not to say it! Why did I marry a hypocritical villain like you who looks kind but has a vicious heart!" Qu stared at him, "You wanted to kill me and give the position to your cousin, but I just won't let you do as you wish."

Lu Yuan looked at her in fear and shock.

Mrs. Qu slowly pulled out a stack of papers from her sleeve and handed it to Tang Min: "Sir Tang, this is the account of Lu Yuan's transfer of public property in the past one or two years. You can take people to check. My father-in-law knew about this, so he blamed and scolded him, and wanted to take back the property in his hands, so he was desperate and killed my father-in-law."

Lu Yuan looked at the stack of papers with bloodshot eyes: "Bastard! You are lying!"

"What am I afraid of?" Mrs. Qu looked at him with a sneer, "You beast who killed your father and wife, you shall not die well."

Tang Min waved his hand, and immediately the constables surrounded him. Lu Yuan roared like a trapped beast: "I didn't! I didn't kill my father! I didn't! Bastard! Bastard...ah!"

Several detectives rushed up and tied him up.

Tang Min stuffed the paper into his sleeves and said to Lu Zheng: "Master Lu San, goodbye."

Lu Zheng frowned and looked at Zhao Xueqian who was standing far away. He looked at the chaos in front of him with a calm expression, and seemed to notice Lu Zheng's gaze. He slowly turned his head and showed Lu Zheng an extremely provocative smile.

Lu Zheng's heart skipped a beat. He took a step forward and returned to his usual upright and a little stiff appearance, as if the smile just now was just an illusion.

Lu Zheng watched Tang Min and others take Lu Yuan away. The servants in the yard were confused and wandered around like headless flies. The most ominous premonition in his heart finally became a reality.

The mess of the Lu family was soon placed on the table of Chu Wang Rong Zhen. Rong Zhen removed the gauze with his left hand. While moving, he asked Song Zhiyi: "What is this?"

Song Zhiyi opened his folding fan with a "swish" and came over in a mean manner: "Didn't you ask me to pay attention to the news about the young master of the Lu family?"

"Tell me."

"The eldest master of the Lu family died, and the murderer was someone from the Lu mansion. Unfortunately, this time, the young master was one step behind, and the fourth prince's people caught the murderer." Song Zhiyi shook his head, "After all, he is still young!"

Rong Zhen finished reading it, and then said: "The higher the position Tang Min has held in recent years, the more timid he has become."

"It's not easy to be the Jingzhao Yin!" Song Zhiyi sighed, "He's pretty good. This guy called Zhao Xueqian is said to be the illegitimate son of the Zhao family. He passed the imperial examination in the same year as Tang Min, but his future was blocked by his eldest brother. If he hadn't gotten close to the Fourth Prince, he would probably still be poor and destitute now."

"The Fourth Prince is really ambitious. It seems he didn't learn his lesson last time."

"You can't say that. I think Zhao Xueqian is quite talented. It's a pity that he is the Fourth Prince's man."

"That's enough." Rong Zhen interrupted him, "Last time I asked you to get the words written by Lu Zheng, did you get it?"

Song Zhiyi rolled his eyes and said, "Here, here, here. Really, when there's something wrong, you rush me at an emergency speed, and when there's nothing wrong, you kick me away. Isn't that right, big guy?"

Nie Zhishu, who had been wiping his bow and arrow in the corner, said bluntly, "There's a bird called the vulture in the northern border. As long as it sees a corpse on the grassland, it will rush down immediately, but if it is allowed to attack a living thing, it will be afraid to attack it. "They are timid, so hunters will raise gyrfals and eagles, but never a vulture."

Song Zhiyi was confused for a long time before he reacted: "Hey! Big guy, you are good. It hasn't been long since you learned to curse people in a roundabout way!"

Rong Zhen ignored their quarrel and just compared the two pieces of paper. One was the one he got from Zhutanju last time, and the other was the one Song Zhiyi brought back. Although the words on the two pieces of paper were ugly, the difference was still obvious.

Rong Zhen put the paper written by Lu Zheng back and put the one Song Zhiyi gave him into the incense burner to burn.

Song Zhiyi's eyes widened: "I spent so much effort to get it, and you burned it after just one look?!"

Rong Zhen said nonchalantly: "It's useless after you've read it."

Nie Zhishu added in time: "Just like you."

Song Zhiyi was so angry that he vomited blood: "Cousin, you don't even manage your subordinates, he's almost gone crazy!"

"If you can't win the argument, go to your parents. I thought you wouldn't do that after you were six years old." Rong Zhen said lightly. Seeing that Song Zhiyi was still unwilling to give in, his face turned cold, "I remember the last time I told you, I didn't just ask you to get a piece of paper."

Song Zhiyi suddenly sank down: "I checked, the young master seems to know the commander Jian, but how he knows him and how long he has known him, we still can't find out."

Rong Zhen lowered his eyes and thought.

Song Zhiyi clicked his tongue twice: "I see that you don't plan to ask him to investigate the case, so why do you care about him so much?" Seeing that Rong Zhen didn't answer, he tapped his palm with the fan again, "But speaking of it, this young master looks pretty cute, fair and clean, with beautiful eyes..." "

I asked you to investigate him, not to comment on him." Rong Zhen interrupted him unhappily.

"Yo, yo, yo, you're really concerned about this?" Song Zhiyi came over in surprise, "I thought you didn't marry a princess for so many years because you didn't have a great cause, how could you have a family, but it turns out it's because you haven't met the right person?"

Rong Zhen looked at him like a dead man, "With your ability to talk nonsense, if you don't become a spy chief, you won't starve to death if you become a matchmaker."

Song Zhiyi immediately wilted.

"Don't you use your brain when you check the news? One is the beloved youngest son of the Duke's Mansion, and the other is the notorious concubine's son. How do they know each other? There is no conspiracy here?"

Song Zhiyi lowered his head when he was asked a question, and couldn't help muttering, "There are so many things I need to check, how can I have time to check this?"

"You're not going?"

"Go, go, go..." Song Zhiyi was frightened when Rong Zhen saw him. After thinking for a while, he said, "No, even if there is a conspiracy, what does it have to do with you?"

Rong Zhen ignored him and turned to ask Nie Zhishu, "Is there any news from the northern border?"

Nie Zhishu stopped wiping his bow and arrow and replied, "General Su said that everything is peaceful in the northern border. According to the spies, the Great Chanyu's body is at the end of its strength and will be gone by next year at the latest. , the Jie imperial court will be in chaos. If we can take this opportunity to wipe out the Jie royal family, we can at least buy a few decades of peace in the northern border."

Rong Zhen said nothing. Ever since he took off his armor and returned to Beijing two years ago and handed the tiger talisman to Emperor Yongning, Emperor Yongning's attitude towards him has been somewhat ambiguous. If he said he didn't trust him, he was willing to hand over such a big matter in Jiangnan to him this time. If he said he trusted him, he would not return the military power or let him return to the northern border.

Song Zhiyi had also thought of this, and a fierce look flashed across his brows: "If His Majesty keeps withholding the tiger talisman and refuses to let you return to the Northern Frontier, tell Su Dai to let the Jie people enter the pass. When the city is broken, see if he still dares not to let you go back!" "Shut up

!" Rong Zhen's face sank, "For your own selfishness, you have harmed lives and made the people homeless. All the books of sages you have read for so many years have been in vain!"

Song Zhiyi was still indignant: "I just can't stand it. We are fighting hard in the Northern Frontier, while they are living a life of luxury in Yanjing, and they are still on guard against you becoming more powerful than them. They should be allowed to taste the feeling of having an army at the gate..."

"Song Zhiyi!"

Song Zhiyi turned his face away and said nothing.

Rong Zhen frowned and asked Nie Zhishu again: "Tell Su Dai not to relax his vigilance and pay close attention to the actions of the Jie people's imperial court. The Jie people have been too quiet in recent years, which makes me a little uneasy."

Nie Zhishu nodded: "Master, don't worry."

Rong Zhen glanced out the window. The sky was dark, the lead clouds were hanging low, and the whistling north wind blew across the roof, bringing a mournful shriek, full of the feeling that a storm is coming.