Lu Xiaoyao came to the Southern Dynasty at the age of nine. Before that, there were no records of her in the Southern Dynasty.
The amazing thing is that she was escorted by the prime minister all the way from outside the Southern Dynasty to the Southern Dynasty.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Gu Mu learned that the one who actually poisoned him was Shen Ling, who used this to frame the Minister of War, who already harbored murderous intentions towards Gu Mu.
This led the Minister of War to commit suicide in his residence that very night.
Lu Xiaoyao accepted this assassination mission because he was tasked by the city lord of Hidden City to get close to that big fish.
Therefore, Lu Xiaoyao may not actually harbor murderous intent towards herself.
"But this Lu Xiaoyao, who is clearly a drifter, only depends on her master for survival, why is she involved with the prime minister?" After reading through all the information about Lu Xiaoyao's second father, Gu Mu threw it into the fire pit and watched it turn to ashes.
Then they summoned Eunuch Cheng and headed towards the dungeon.
He wanted to interrogate Lu Xiaoyao himself.
In the dimly lit dungeon, Lu Xiaoyao's hair was a little messy. As a person from the martial arts world, she was not particular about her appearance, unlike Ma Shishi, who could make herself look charming even when locked in a dungeon.
Even though Lu Xiaoyao's face was dirty, only her eyes still held a sparkle.
Nevertheless, she still looks very beautiful. She's the kind of beautiful woman who can sit on the street with a bowl, and the bowl will instantly be full. People will take pictures and upload them to the internet, and she can become an internet celebrity and then be signed by a talent agency to become a big star.
She lay on the bed with her legs crossed. When she heard the noise outside the door, she only glanced at it sideways, without even trying to sit up.
Until a jailer opened the cell door,
Lu Xiaoyao lazily propped herself up with her hands, half-lifted herself, turned around, and leaned against the wall.
"You don't even bow to His Majesty?" the jailer shouted.
Lu Xiaoyao wasn't scared at all. She rolled her eyes and said, "He's already a death row inmate. Everyone is equal in the face of life and death. Why bother with so many rules?"
Gu Mu waved his hand, signaling the jailer to leave.
In the entire cell, only he and Lu Xiaoyao remained.
"Are you so sure you're a death row inmate?"
Gu Mu looked down at Lu Xiaoyao with a half-smile and asked.
He only said that he would put her in jail, but he didn't say that she was a death row inmate.
Lu Xiaoyao raised her eyes slightly, her face still showing a nonchalant expression even when facing life and death: "That depends on who poisoned me. If it was someone else, His Majesty might find out the real culprit, realize I'm innocent, and release me."
"But if it was one of His Majesty's own people who poisoned him, wouldn't I be the one to take the blame and go to meet the King of Hell?"
"So, you know who poisoned her?" Gu Mu was somewhat surprised by what she said. He hadn't expected that Lu Xiaoyao, at such a young age, was so insightful.
He looked at Lu Xiaoyao.
She said lazily and expressionlessly, "I saw it. Although the Empress is very cautious, I was close enough to see it clearly."
"Just as I approached His Majesty, the Princess raised her hand to take the fruit. After she removed her hand, there was that green liquid on the fruit."
"Since it was the Empress who did it, and her purpose wasn't to poison His Majesty, then they must be looking for someone to take the blame. In that case, wouldn't I be a death row inmate?"
At this point, Lu Xiaoyao smiled.
A hint of mockery flashed in his eyes, as if he had just remembered something.
"Let me tell you a joke: the thing I spent my whole life running away from turned out to be my final destination." As Lu Xiaoyao said this, she suddenly burst into laughter for no apparent reason, laughing until tears streamed down her face.
Then she raised her head. For the first time, she looked at Gu Mu with a serious expression and said, "Your Majesty, to be honest, I don't want to die here at all. You came to my cell, definitely not to chat with me. Tell me, what is it for? As long as you keep me alive, I might tell you everything I know."
Gu Mu's expression twisted slightly, so there was some truth to the saying that this guy deserved a beating.
She was the one who begged him to spare her life.
When the results came out, it was indeed in that tone of reluctantly agreeing to discuss the deal with you.
Gu Mu sighed, deciding not to argue with her, and asked, "What is your relationship with the Prime Minister?"
Lu Xiaoyao's expression froze for a moment, then she said, "It's a clean break."
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“I know someone who was kind to him in the past. To repay the favor, he saved my life and took me to the Southern Dynasty. After that, we were even. Now, I doubt he would recognize me.”
"Why would you impersonate the Minister of War's cousin?"
"It's a deal. He's giving me a way out, allowing me the honor of meeting the Emperor. If I rise to prominence afterward, the Minister of War will naturally benefit as well," Lu Xiaoyao said earnestly.
......
From this one sentence, Gu Mu knew that Lu Xiaoyao was making things up.
It was a mix of truth and falsehood, yet it sounded very plausible.
However, besides asking Lu Xiaoyao, he could also ask the Prime Minister.
The incident happened so suddenly that the Prime Minister certainly didn't have time to reconcile his and Lu Xiaoyao's statements. Comparing the two accounts, what overlaps might be the answer Gu Mu wanted.
After leaving the dungeon,
He immediately set off for the Prime Minister's residence.
At this moment,
The prime minister was sighing in his residence, and asked with a worried expression, "Have the person been found?"
"Reporting to Your Excellency, we have searched everywhere in the mansion and the capital, but we still cannot find it."
"Where do you think Chao'er could have gone? With martial law in place, there's no way he could have left the city. He must still be in the capital!"
“Master, the bolt on the second young master’s door is broken. Could someone be…?” one of the prime minister’s concubines asked.
"Sigh~" The Prime Minister sighed heavily again: "If only I had known, if only I had made Chao'er learn some martial arts from a young age, just like his sister and Ci'er. With such vicious words, Chao'er would still have the ability to protect himself!"
"However, all the mansions are being watched by His Majesty's men. Who would be so bold as to make a move against Chao'er at this time?"
As the prime minister spoke, his eyes reddened.
Gu Mu, standing outside the door, took in everything.
When he entered, a servant in the mansion wanted to report, but Gu Mu stopped him.
Gu Mu happened to see all of this.
When he first transmigrated, it was easy to distinguish between a loyal minister and a treacherous minister, since he was transmigrating into a light novel.
But now, after experiencing all the scheming and Oscar-worthy acting in female-oriented novels...
Gu Mu had some doubts. Was the prime minister's behavior genuine, or was he deliberately trying to detect him because he already knew Gu Mu was watching from outside the door?
Gu Mu stepped into the room.
When the prime minister saw Gu Mu, he quickly got up to greet him.
His old eyes were still glistening with tears.
Only after the two sat down to talk did the prime minister wipe away the tears in his eyes and force himself to say, "Your Majesty, I heard that you have placed my daughter under house arrest. If my daughter has done anything wrong, I apologize to Your Majesty. It is all my fault for failing to properly educate her."
Gu Mu felt a mix of emotions upon hearing the Prime Minister's words.
After all, the prime minister was his father-in-law. If this were modern times, and he locked his wife up and wouldn't let her go out, his father-in-law would probably slap him twice.
But now, he's humbled and blaming himself for not teaching well.
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