Quick Travel: Three Thousand Worlds Are Just Playthings

That day, Zhuque Street in the imperial capital was crowded with people, all of whom came to welcome Su Zhoubai.

Shi Miao also came. In order to prevent others from recognizing her, Shi Miao changed into a girl's clothes and sat on the top floor of Yunlai Tea House.

When the army passed by, Shi Miao stood by the window and looked down. At the same time, Su Zhoubai happened to look up. The two looked at each other. Shi Miao smiled at him and then looked away.

The people who were paying attention to Su Zhoubai saw that his eyes stayed on the teahouse for too long, so they followed suit.

Many people exclaimed when they saw Shi Miao's outstanding appearance.

The next moment everyone looked at him, Shi Miao frowned and closed the window. After all, the feeling of being watched was really unpleasant.

Su Zhoubai looked away from Shi Miao before she closed the window, but he was still paying attention to Shi Miao's movements from the corner of his eye.

Noticing that Shi Miao had closed the window, Su Zhoubai had no expression on his face, but felt a little uneasy in his heart:

"Is she mad at herself for getting too much attention?"

The army continued to move forward, and Su Zhoubai suppressed the anxiety in his heart and did not look back.

After Shi Miao closed the window, he sat down at the table and continued drinking tea. How could there be any displeasure on his face?

Shi Miao has long been used to the numerous looks from people that are either startling, envious, or jealous, and has learned to ignore them.

How could he be unhappy now because of these looks?

After sitting in the teahouse for a while, Shi Miao changed back into men's clothes and left through the back door.

Su Zhoubai led his people directly to the entrance of the palace, where Emperor Shang was leading his ministers to greet him.

After some greetings, Su Zhoubai followed Emperor Shang into the palace.

An hour later, Su Zhoubai, who had been named the War King, stepped out of the palace gate.

Also accompanying him was Han Gu, who was named a third-grade Yunhui general.

After Su Zhoubai said goodbye to Han Gu, he planned to go to Prime Minister Tao's house to pay homage to Mr. Tao.

Han Gu went back to his new house to rest because the emperor had just given him a house.

陶府

"Zhou Bai, I've met my uncle."

Suzhou Bai took one step ahead of Tao Rui to greet him, and Tao Rui quickly helped him up:

"My lord, you must not do this. Please get up quickly."

"Uncle, there is no need for us to see each other. I came here this time to pay homage to my grandfather."

"Okay, Zhou Bai, come with me to the ancestral hall to worship!"

After confirming that Su Zhoubai's attitude towards him was as usual, Tao Rui called Su Zhoubai's name directly as before to show his closeness.

On the way to the ancestral hall, Su Zhoubai asked Tao Rui with a sad face:

"Uncle, why did my grandfather pass away? The person who sent me the letter only said that my grandfather died of poisoning. How could my grandfather be poisoned? Who poisoned him?"

Su Zhoubai asked three questions in a row, which shows that he attaches great importance to Mr. Tao.

Mr. Tao always loved Su Zhoubai during his lifetime, especially after the death of Su's father and mother.

Su Zhoubai originally wanted to go to the front line to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service, and find out the cause of his father's death along the way, but he was strongly opposed by Mr. Tao.

Su Zhoubai was the only one left in the Su family. Mr. Tao did not want him to take risks, but Su Zhoubai refused, so the two argued many times.

In the end, Mr. Tao still couldn't defeat Su Zhoubai and had to agree.

Su Zhoubai was able to advance so quickly on the battlefield, in addition to the help of Su's father's remaining connections, it was also inseparable from Mr. Tao's multi-faceted management.

Now that Mr. Tao has passed away suddenly, and the cause of death is unknown, this has become a big knot in Su Zhoubai's mind.

Therefore, he must find out the truth.

"Your grandfather was indeed poisoned and died. As for how he was poisoned and who poisoned him, we can't find out no matter how we investigate."

Tao Rui is also full of doubts and worries. The Tao family has indeed made countless enemies to reach its current position.

However, officialdom battles naturally have official solutions, and there has never been any case of secret poisoning.

This method of secretly administering the drug without leaving any trace seemed to come from the Jianghu.

In the past, it is true that some officials bribed people in the Jianghu to assassinate their opponents, but this was also graded. Generally, the killer organizations in the Jianghu would not take orders from third-grade officials or above.

Because once the assassination failed, it would easily arouse the anger of the imperial court, which would further lead to the imperial court sending troops to encircle and suppress the assassination.

Such an encirclement and suppression would bring a devastating blow to the killer organization.

But if he hadn't hired someone to kill someone, and there had never been any grudges between the Tao family and Jiang Hu, Tao Rui really couldn't figure out who did it?

After hearing this, Su Zhoubai also frowned: "Uncle, don't worry, now that I'm back, I will definitely find out who committed the murder."

"it is good."

Tao Rui, who had already arrived at the door of the ancestral hall, opened the door of the ancestral hall and took Su Zhoubai in. "Zhou Bai, please burn incense to your grandfather first!"

"Ah."

Su Zhoubai took the lit incense handed over by Tao Rui, bowed three times to Mr. Tao's memorial tablet, and then inserted it into the incense burner.

When Tao Rui saw that Su Zhoubai had finished worshiping, he took the people out. After the two walked in silence for a while, Tao Rui spoke first:

"Zhou Bai, the poisonous jaw in your grandfather's collection is a collection that your grandfather has collected for a long time.

If it hadn't been for your grandfather's accident this time and I found unused poison jaws when I was packing up his belongings, I wouldn't have known there was poison in his collection. "

Su Zhoubai stopped and asked in disbelief:

"Uncle, you mean that my grandfather died in his own collection?"

Tao Rui nodded heavily: "Yes, the doctor has done the test and can confirm that the poison in my father's body was the bottle he collected.

But I can be sure that your grandfather would never take poison on his own. "

"According to my grandfather's temperament, he would never commit suicide. As for the poisonous jaw, does uncle know its origin?"

Su Zhoubai's brows knitted together. It seemed that there were still many secrets surrounding his grandfather's death.

Tao Rui informed Su Zhoubai of all the things he had found out recently:

"Poisonous jaws come from Jiangnan. The reason why your grandfather collected poisonous jaws is probably related to a case when he was an official in Jiangnan.

That was considered the biggest corruption case in Jiangnan in those years. There were many people involved in the case, and their status was not low.

They colluded with officials and businessmen, acted recklessly, and harmed the people, and this poisonous jaw was the sharp blade used by criminals to deal with betrayers.

Your grandfather was the chief judge of this corruption case. It was precisely because he found out this case and dealt with all the criminals that your grandfather was transferred back to Beijing.

So if nothing else, the poisonous jaw should have fallen into the hands of your grandfather at that time, and it has been kept as a collection by him until now. "

After listening to Tao Rui's words, Su Zhoubai had some speculation in his mind: "Did that case slip through the cracks? Was it something they did to take revenge on their grandfather?"

"They probably didn't do it."