Madam, protect me!

Ministry of official affairs.

Document library.

Several figures descended from the sky and landed gently in the courtyard.

It was late at night, and Li Nuo really didn't dare to come to the official department alone.

But with the company of a beautiful woman and peace, I feel full of security.

Li Nuo has already investigated in advance. There will be people on duty at the official department at night, but the security is not tight. It takes about half an hour to pass by the outside of the case library.

He arranged for the beautiful lady and the beautiful lady to be on guard in the courtyard, while he and An Ning went into the case file library to search.

There are two doors in the Office of Documents. The first door is the door of Zhanggu Yamen. There is another door inside the Yamen, which is the real entrance to the warehouse.

Although both doors are locked, to Li Nuo, any lock is useless.

He had only one thought, and the two big locks hanging on the warehouse opened in response.

Inside the warehouse, there were many endless rows of bookshelves. The two of them searched separately. Li Nuo was looking for He Dong's files, and An Ning was looking for Xu Zhi's files.

Li Nuo held a candle and searched on a row of bookshelves.

He had learned in advance that in order to facilitate searching, the files in the archives were classified according to names. As long as he found the files of officials named He, he would be able to find what he wanted.

The surname He is not a common surname, and the files of officials with this surname do not even occupy a bookshelf.

Li Nuo quickly found what he was looking for.

He opened the dossier, moved closer to the candle, and looked up.

Ho Tung was a Jinshi in the 22nd year of the Holy Saint's reign. The first official position he held was as the compendial medicine bureau of the Donggong Medicine Collection Bureau.

All the configurations of the East Palace are in line with the imperial court. The Yaozang Bureau is a medical institution under the East Palace dedicated to serving the prince, which is equivalent to the Imperial Hospital of the imperial court.

The Yaozang Bureau has Yaozanglang as its official officer and Yaozangcheng as its assistant. Whenever the prince is ill, the attendant doctor diagnoses and recommends a prescription, while the herbalist and medicine boy are responsible for the miscellaneous matters of preparing and brewing the medicine.

Although the official position of Dian Yao is not high and his power is not great, his position is sensitive and important.

After the East Palace was disbanded, Ho Tung entered the Imperial Hospital, and his official position reached the highest level, the seventh-grade Imperial Physician.

Ho Tung is dead. Four years ago, he accidentally fell into the water and drowned while visiting the lake.

The same East Palace official died unexpectedly again.

However, after learning about the cases of Wu Zongguang and Zheng Tianxing, Li Nuo would not believe that Ho Dong's death was really an accident.

At this time, An Ning's voice came from the bookshelf not far away: "Found it!"

Li Nuo put He Dong's file back to its original place, walked quickly to her side, and took the file from her hand.

Xu Zhi was a Jinshi in the 22nd year of the Supreme Saint's reign. The first official position he took up was the official uniform of the Direct Bureau of the East Palace. The official uniform was in charge of the prince's clothes. After he left the Eastern Palace, he also entered Taichang Temple and achieved Zhengqi. The main book of products.

Three years ago, he died of poisoning after eating unprocessed pufferfish.

An Ning looked at Li Nuo and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Li Nuo put the file back to its original place and said, "We'll talk about it when we get back."

With the beauty and beauty around, they returned to Li Mansion smoothly despite the curfew.

As soon as he walked into the room, An Ning couldn't help but ask: "What exactly did you find? Tell me quickly. I'm so anxious!"

Li Nuo was already sure at this moment and said: "Zhao He was silenced because he discovered a certain secret."

An Ning couldn't wait to ask: "What secret? Who silenced him?"

Li Nuo said: "What King You said today is not very credible. He was obviously hiding something. If nothing else, Zhao He was killed by King You. Moreover, Zhao He was brutally killed just after leaving King You's Mansion. This shows that What he discovered must be a huge secret, so big that King You would kill him immediately even if he risked being suspected..."

An Ning became more and more confused as she listened, and asked, "What is the secret?"

Regarding An Ning, Li Nuo had nothing to hide and said: "After the prince died of illness, many former officials of the East Palace died unexpectedly in recent years. I suspect..."

Before Li Nuo finished speaking, An Ning was shocked and said: "Do you suspect that the prince's brother did not die of illness, but was murdered, and the person who murdered him was King You?"

After all, she is a Dharma practitioner, and she knows almost everything.

Li Nuo nodded and said: "Zhao He, as the official in charge, has access to the files of all officials. I suspect that he was silenced by King You just because he discovered this matter."

Li Anning still had another doubt and asked: "But if this matter was really done by Emperor Youwang, how could Zhao He dare to go to Brother Youwang? This doesn't make sense..."

This is indeed somewhat unexplainable.

How dare he threaten King You with a small official position?

Even if you are looking for him, you should be looking for King Chun of Han or another prince.

Of course, the smartest thing to do is not to go to anyone, but to keep the matter in your stomach.

If this kind of thing is true, once it is traced, the entire Chang'an will flow into rivers of blood and the world will be turned upside down. There is no way that he, a small ninth-grade Zhanggu, can escape alone.

Now that the case has been investigated, it is no longer important why King You wanted to kill Zhao He.

This case will be the biggest case that Li Nuo has encountered since he started practicing law.

The former crown prince and the current prince are involved. If this case can be investigated, the rewards will be huge.

The third realm he has just broken through may directly advance to the fourth realm.

And tranquility...

The same case had completely different meanings for An Ning and him.

To Li Nuo, this was just a big case.

But for An Ning..., the one who died was her closest relative, and the murderer was also her closest relative. Revenge for her relatives and kill relatives for justice, the Legalist BUFF is directly stacked up...

In this case, her cultivation level is much higher than Li Nuo.

One case may allow her to directly advance to the fifth realm.

Li Nuo looked at An Ning and asked, "Do you still remember what disease the prince died of?"

At this moment, Li An Ning's expression was also a little dazed.

Could the brother You Wang be the murderer who killed the prince brother?

This incident had a huge impact on her.

After a long time, she came back to her senses and said, "I was still very young at that time, and I don't know the specific symptoms, but I remember that the prince brother had a lung disease. He would be out of breath after walking for a long time. He later died of lung disease..."

Although Li Nuo did not have the cultivation level of a doctor, he knew a lot about doctors.

The true qi of doctors has a miraculous effect on treating external injuries, and the effect is almost immediate.

But for non-external injuries, unless the doctor is at a high level, the role he can play is very limited.

The prince apparently died of lung disease, but judging from the deaths of these officials in the Eastern Palace, those who hide in the dark seem to be very good at creating some perfect accidental deaths...

It is related to the death of the prince. If this case is investigated, the gains will be unimaginable.

In order to thoroughly investigate this case, Li Nuo needs a complete list of officials in the Eastern Palace.

The next day, when Li Nuo went out in the morning, he made an appointment with his wife to have lunch at the Song Mansion at noon.

After lunch, when Song Zhe was about to return to the yamen, he suddenly heard Li Nuo's voice behind him: "Father-in-law, please stay."

Song Zhe turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"

After listening to Li Nuo's words, he was surprised and said, "What do you want the list of officials in the Eastern Palace for?"

Li Nuo said, "There is a case that requires this list."

Song Zhe shook his head and said, "It's really unfortunate. Two months ago, when the Ministry of Rites was sorting out the case files, they found that some files were eaten by insects. The list of officials in the Eastern Palace was among the damaged files..."

Li Nuo was stunned and asked, "Are there no backup files?"

Song Zhe said, "These are not important files. It is impossible to have backups. If they are damaged, they will no longer exist."

After instructing his father-in-law not to tell others about this, Li Nuo left the Song Mansion.

It is probably not an accident that these files were eaten by insects.

It is obvious that some people do not want people to find out the list of officials in the Eastern Palace that year.

It is not realistic to turn over the files in the case files one by one.

Li Nuo walked into the Honglu Temple and sighed. When he walked into the government office, a light suddenly flashed in his mind.

No, there is another department besides the Ministry of Personnel that keeps the list of officials.

It is the Honglu Temple!

The Honglu Temple is responsible for the etiquette of the court meeting, especially the grand court meeting at the beginning of each year, which is the top priority of the Honglu Temple.

During those days, all departments in the court had to take turns to report to the palace, and officials in the Eastern Palace were no exception.

The Honglu Temple had to plan everything in advance, including the order of the various departments in the court to report to the palace, the positions of officials, etc.

Therefore, the Honglu Temple must have their list.

Li Nuo was really confused by the authorities and actually ignored this matter.

This also made him feel a little emotional.

When he entered the Honglu Temple, he had a feeling that God had arranged it for him.

He was doing well as a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, but the court inexplicably arranged for him to enter the Honglu Temple.

But if he hadn't entered the Honglu Temple, he wouldn't have attended the funeral of Guanglu Temple Cheng, and he wouldn't have made that important discovery.

Without entering the Honglu Temple, it would have been difficult for him to access the list of officials in the Eastern Palace more than ten years ago.

Could it be that all this was really God's will?