At this moment in the capital, Lu Zheng had gone out to run errands in the morning, heading to the outskirts of the capital, and was only just returning.
He was about to go to the Gu family to tell Gu Xin that he was back and say goodnight when he ran into the white-clad man as soon as he entered the city gate.
"Something happened at Old Wang's house. Third Miss went there first, and I've asked Bai Er to take some men to follow." Without much small talk, Bai Yi got straight to the point.
"What happened?" Lu Zheng asked, frowning.
He sent someone to Tongzhou last night. Could it be that the Wang family's matter has been brought forward?
"The entire Wang family, except for him, died at Hongyuan Temple on the route from Tongzhou towards the capital, including the servants they brought with them. We don't know where Old Wang is right now. The Third Miss and the others only received the news at noon; they set off after noon. The messenger was a constable from the Tongzhou government office. He only knew that the Wang family went to the temple to pray and eat vegetarian food yesterday, and this morning they were found dead in their courtyard. Magistrate Xu of Tongzhou has taken control of the temple and sent people to the capital for help," the man in white said.
Lu Zheng frowned even more deeply.
Hongyuan Temple?
He remembered that the Wang family's misfortune in his previous life was due to an incident from Lord Wang's early years, and the murderer was a woman.
The woman changed her name and entered the Wang family as their cook. Then one day, she poisoned all twenty-odd people in the Wang family, including the master and servants. Fatty Wang was out playing at the time and escaped the disaster.
However, the woman in his previous life only entered the Wang family six months before she took action, and the case occurred at the beginning of the following year, before she had even entered the Wang residence. Lu Zheng didn't bring it up, mainly because he didn't know how to bring it up.
He was just trying to find a good excuse to make Lord Wang remember the past and be on guard.
How could it be at Hongyuan Temple?
Since they're going to eat vegetarian food, they certainly won't be bringing the cook with them.
Why is that?
At times like this, Lu Zheng felt it was all very surreal. Many people who had nothing to do with him and Gu Xin would follow the trajectory of their previous lives, but as long as they got involved with the two of them, many things would become completely different.
Therefore, he hasn't used his past life's experiences to analyze this life's events for a long time, because he knows that if he does, he's just using the ending to deduce the process. And for anything related to him and Gu Xin, many of the processes will change, while the endings will remain somewhat unchanged.
Therefore, he felt that this time it might not be the cook who poisoned him, but rather that Fatty Wang had encountered the two of them. His ending had not changed, but the process of achieving that ending had changed.
"General Lu, what's wrong? Is something the problem?" Seeing Lu Zheng lost in thought, the man in white asked silently.
Ever since he met Lu Zheng, he would see Lu Zheng like this from time to time every year, as if he were confused.
However, he also discovered that Lu Zheng was not like this in front of many other people. When they first met, he thought Lu Zheng was easy to bully because of this and wanted to bully him, but it turned out that he was not.
Later, he reflected on it and concluded that Lu Zheng had absolute trust in him.
As for where this absolute trust came from, he didn't know.
If it were someone else, he would narcissistically think it was his personal charm, but with Lu Zheng, he didn't think that way. This kid seemed to have him figured out, understood his thoughts, knew him as a person, and knew how to say something so that he would do what he wanted.
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