Madam, protect me!

"Brother You?"

Li Anning's face also showed astonishment.

She had never thought that this case would be related to King You.

Jingzhao Yin is the biggest supporter of King Han.

King You is the biggest opponent of King Han.

A small official in the Ministry of Personnel can be related to them at the same time...I thought it was an ordinary burglary case, why does it feel more and more complicated the more I investigate?

Li Anning immediately said: "I'll go ask Brother You!"

This time, Li Nuo did not go with her, and he was not suitable to go with her.

In addition to being the head of the Ministry of Justice, Anning is also the sister of King You. Li Nuo, a minister of the Honglu Temple, is not qualified to investigate the prince.

Besides, he should belong to the line of King Chun, and it is not appropriate for him to investigate King You.

When Anning went to King You's mansion, he returned to the Ministry of Personnel and came to the case library.

Zhao He has been the official in the Ministry of Personnel for more than four years. If this is not an ordinary murder case, then maybe some clues can be found in his office.

A ninth-rank official naturally cannot have his own office like his father-in-law.

A table in the case library is his office in the Ministry of Personnel.

This office is shared by him and another official.

There is a drawer under the table, which was originally locked, but it has been violently smashed open.

The lock was smashed by the Ministry of Justice. What Li Nuo can think of, they can also think of. There is nothing in the drawer, only some broken silver, a few pens, an inkstone, and a pornographic picture album...

Li Nuo flipped through the pornographic picture album from beginning to end, but still found nothing.

This person's painting skills can only be said to be average. If he were to paint...

After a moment of distraction, he turned his eyes to the table.

Everything on the table was visible at a glance, pens, inkstones, and several books. Li Nuo also flipped through these books. These books are all classics, which should be the books that Zhao He reads on weekdays. He has made annotations in many places in the books.

But these are also useless information.

Li Nuo opened the last book. To be precise, it was not a book, but a list of successful candidates in the imperial examinations over the years.

Li Nuo had read this book many times. He just flipped through it casually. When he was about to put it down, his hand paused slightly.

On the page he opened, someone drew several obvious circles with a pen.

Gu Wenhan, Wu Zongguang, Zheng Tianxing.

There were many names on this page, but he only circled these three.

These three names made Li Nuo's pupils shrink slightly.

The three people he circled were exactly the three former officials of the Eastern Palace that attracted Li Nuo's attention.

He carefully flipped through the book page by page and found that there were two more officials who were specially circled by him.

One was named Ho Tung and the other was named Xu Zhi. They were both successful candidates in the 22nd year of the Zhisheng era, which was the next imperial examination after Gu Wenhan and the other two passed the exam.

Although Li Nuo did not know these two people.

But he had a small guess in his heart.

Could Ho Tung and Xu Zhi be former officials of the Eastern Palace again?

At the same time, he could almost conclude that based on the names Zhao He circled, his death was definitely not as simple as burglary and murder.

Li Nuo was very curious about what he said to King You last night.

Could it be that Zhao He discovered some secret of King You and wanted to use it to threaten him, but was silenced by King You?

After the death of the prince, the former officials of the Eastern Palace also died one after another. The official who discovered this matter was also quickly silenced. Li Nuo had reason to suspect that there was another hidden story behind the death of the prince, and these officials of the Eastern Palace were also silenced...

Let's make a bold guess.

Is the death of the prince related to King You?

As soon as this thought came to Li Nuo's mind, footsteps were heard outside.

He put the booklet in his sleeve without leaving any trace.

Fang Zhanggu led an official in. Seeing Li Nuo, he was slightly stunned and asked, "Sir Li, are you still investigating the case?"

Li Nuo nodded and said, "Zhao Zhanggu's death is strange. I'll take a look at the case library to see if I can find some new clues."

Fang Zhanggu asked, "Have you found anything?"

Li Nuo shook his head and said, "Nothing."

Fang Zhanggu sighed and said, "I didn't expect this to happen. Sir Zhao is so young. It's a pity..."

Li Nuo said, "There's nothing to investigate here. I'm leaving first."

After that, he turned and left.

After Li Nuo left, Fang Zhanggu said to another official: "Sir Yang, this is where you will work in the future. Our duties are very simple, that is, to look after the case library, take out the files from the case library and dry them frequently to prevent them from getting moldy, and also to help the adults find the files..."

The new Zhanggu nodded, sat in Zhao He's original position, opened the drawer and looked at it, and then picked up a few books on the table and flipped through them casually. Fang Zhanggu said: "These are all the relics of Sir Zhao. I will clean them up later..."

The official stood up and took the initiative to clean up the table, saying: "No, no, I can do it. I am also reading these books recently. I see some annotations on them. I wonder if I can take them back to read?"

Fang Zhanggu said: "Sir Zhao has left, and these things have become ownerless. If Sir Yang likes them, take them back..."

...

After leaving the Ministry of Personnel, Li Nuo came to the Ministry of Justice.

An Ning had not returned yet, and only Gu Yanran was busy in the yamen.

Li Nuo sat in a peaceful position and asked Gu Yanran: "Little Gu, your sentence should be over soon, right?"

Gu Yanran nodded and said: "My Lord, it will be over in one month."

Originally, her sentence was nearly a year, but during this period, she worked in the Ministry of Justice and was exempted from a lot of sentence. In another month, she will be released from prison.

Li Nuo hesitated for a moment and said: "I want to ask about your father."

"My father?"

Gu Yanran was stunned, then lowered her head silently. The matter about her father was a pain that she was unwilling to mention until now.

The father who was tall and majestic in her heart since she was a child turned out to be a demon with countless blood on his hands. It took her a long time to gradually accept this matter.

After a moment of silence, she said: "Young Master, ask whatever you want to ask. As long as I know something, I will definitely tell you."

Li Nuo asked: "Your father was an official in the East Palace at the beginning, right?"

Gu Yanran nodded.

Although she was just born when her father passed the imperial examination, she certainly knew about this important experience of her father.

Li Nuo heard a lot about Gu Wenhan from Gu Yanran.

She was only five years old when Gu Wenhan left the East Palace, and she didn't remember many things.

It was impossible to know the details of that time, but that was what Li Nuo wanted to know the most...

At this time, a figure walked in from outside. Li Nuo looked at An Ning and asked, "How is it?"

Li An Ning shrugged and said, "Royal brother You said that Zhao He did look for him that day. He said he didn't want to be the head of the Ministry of Personnel anymore and wanted to join the royal brother You. The royal brother You rejected him..."

Li Nuo didn't ask more.

Zhao He's case is no longer the focus.

More importantly, what did he find out that he was silenced, and who was the person who silenced him?

Li Nuo has realized that the water is unfathomable, and even if he wants to investigate, he can't investigate openly.

An Ning stayed in the Ministry of Justice for a while, and then went to Jingzhao Prefecture to summon those officials.

Li Nuo stayed in the yamen of the Ministry of Justice, and wrote the verdicts about those officials with the idea of ​​giving it a try.

But the law code did not move at all.

As expected, Zhao He's death had nothing to do with the officials of Jingzhao Prefecture.

Li Nuo tried Jingzhao Yin Lin Fuzhi, You Wang and even Han Wang, but the law code still did not give him clear instructions.

But this does not mean that the case really has nothing to do with them.

Because whether it is Jingzhao Yin or the two princes, the Ministry of Justice is not qualified to judge them, and the seals of the assistant minister and the minister of the Ministry of Justice are theoretically invalid for them.

Not only the Ministry of Justice, but also the Dali Temple and the Zongzheng Temple are not qualified.

The third-rank officials, the first-rank princes, and the entire Daxia, the only one who can judge them is His Majesty.

Compared with who killed Zhao He, Li Nuo is more curious about who He Dong and Xu Zhi are.

As long as we can find out what Zhao He found, it will be clear who killed him, and the two officials he circled out are undoubtedly an important clue.

Li Nuo does not plan to directly access the files of these two people through his father-in-law.

This target is too obvious and may alert the enemy.

Night.

Li Mansion.

An Ning was slightly stunned, looked at Li Nuo, and asked: "What, go to the Ministry of Personnel now? It's almost curfew, and the Ministry of Personnel has been closed for a long time."

Li Nuo nodded and said: "We are going because the office is closed. I have some clues about Zhao He's case. We are going to the Ministry of Personnel to verify something."

After another pause, Li An Ning's face showed an eager expression, and he said excitedly: "Are we going to sneak into the Ministry of Personnel?"

Li Nuo said: "We are going to sneak into the Ministry of Personnel's case library and cannot be discovered by anyone."

The Ministry of Personnel has no secrets, and it is not the residence of the rich and powerful. The guard force at night is actually not strong.

But if only Li Nuo and An Ning go, he still feels a little unsure.

So he planned to call Jiaren, so that it would be a double insurance.

The two came to Jiaren's room. Song Jiaren was ready to rest. Seeing Li Nuo and An Ning coming in, she was a little surprised. At this time, An Ning walked over quickly and said, "Sister Jiaren, don't sleep yet. The three of us will go together tonight..."

Song Jiaren was stunned when she heard it, and then her face turned red quickly, and said, "No, no, I'm not ready yet!"

An Ning was stunned for a moment and said, "The three of us will go to the Ministry of Personnel to investigate the case together. What should we prepare?"

After a while, the three people who had changed their clothes walked out of the yard together.

Bumping into a figure head-on, Song Yiren looked at them in black clothes in surprise and asked, "It's so late, what are you doing?"

Li Nuo thought about it, looked at Yiren, and asked, "I'm going to do something important, do you want to come with me?"