Lu Zheng couldn't be sure whether Madam Peng Si was the mother of Mu'er mentioned by King Qu, but he wanted to tell Gu Shouxin about this suspicion.
They brought carrier pigeons, so they could send messages back to Kuncheng no matter where they were, but Kuncheng couldn't contact them.
Moreover, I only brought seven, and four of them died because of the weather, so now I only have three left, and I have to use them sparingly.
This winter is particularly cold, and I don't know if the carrier pigeons will be able to fly back.
Lu Zheng found a spot by the river, marked it, and then followed Bai Er and the others.
In the capital city of Lang, the guards had searched every household and captured several suspicious people from the Sand God Kingdom. King Lang ordered them to be interrogated.
King Lang felt that none of these people were the ones who had tried to assassinate him that morning, judging from their demeanor.
If they were caught so easily, they wouldn't have had the ability to break into his palace.
At this moment, someone else came to report that there was something unusual about an empty house in the west of the city. The people inside had moved to Huncheng outside Kuncheng before the New Year, and most of their belongings had been moved away. However, there was a fire burning in the main room, and it looked like it hadn't been out for long.
King Lang frowned: "Isn't there a river on the west side of the city that flows into the moat outside the city?"
The person who reported nodded repeatedly.
King Lang immediately ordered a team to follow the river and pursue the trail, leaving no stone unturned.
King Lang became suspicious; perhaps these were not people from the Sand God Kingdom, but rather people from the Great Zhou.
It seems they've figured out what's going on from the secret passage. It seems they haven't found that girl from the Gu family themselves, so they've come here looking for her!
Otherwise, how could he know everything so clearly? On the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, he ordered people to inspect all the city gates and to check the residents of each household. He also increased the number of patrols on the streets.
The fact that they were able to remain calm in such a short time shows that they are very familiar with the capital city. The fact that an assassin could reach them in the palace indicates that they are quite familiar with the layout of the palace.
Ah, they must be from the Great Zhou.
Was the assassin in the palace this morning or last night? If he was outside the palace last night, how much of his conversation did the assassin overhear?
King Qu frowned and summoned someone: "Inform the soldiers on the city wall that, from this moment forward, all birds flying towards the Great Zhou must be shot down!"
The person who came should immediately go down and inform them.
King Qu looked out at the sky with his hands behind his back. One of them actually escaped? Heh, the young emperor sent so many people, and he dealt with them all one by one. This one actually escaped?
Did the young emperor's Dragon Shadow Guards have new recruits, or were the people sent this time not from the Dragon Shadow Guards?
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After arriving at the fishing village, Lu Zheng immediately wrote a note and sent it back by carrier pigeon.
King Qu's message only reached the city gate when the carrier pigeon had flown beyond the territory of Langge.
The carrier pigeon flew and flew, until nightfall, when it finally landed in front of Gu Shouxin's window.
Gu Shouxin got up to untie the note and opened it.
King Qu is King Langge. Lady Peng Si might be problematic. The Langge Kingdom is colluding with forces west of the desert.
These three sentences made Gu Shouxin frown.
King Qu?
Wasn't this person dead?
Madam Peng Si?
Even the weakest pair in the Peng family, a mother and son, have problems?
Gu Shouxin didn't find anything unbelievable; sometimes, people are easily misled by appearances.
He burned the note, told Cai Xiaolian, and went to the Peng family. It just so happened that General Peng Si was in the city at the moment, so he went to talk to him about his son framing his daughter and also to get some information about Madam Peng Si.
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