The whole world thinks that I am trying to usurp the throne

"The husband of the slave family is named Liu Yuan."

Liu Yuan is said to have never married a wife, so where is his wife? Who is this woman?

Zhou Co asked in a deep voice: "Who are you, and why did Liu Yuan feel wronged, please tell me in detail."

The woman took out the Zhang embroidered handkerchief and wiped the corners of her eyes, took a breath, suppressed her crying, and then replied: "My slave's name is Ling Niang, she is the flower girl from Xiehualou. My husband and my slave are very affectionate. The slave family agreed to redeem themselves for the slave family next month, and welcome the slave family through the door..."

Speaking of this, Ling Niang couldn't help but shed tears again: "Five days ago, my family said goodbye to my husband, and I never saw you again. My family thought that my husband was busy with everything and didn't have time to come to see my family, so I warned myself every day not to see her." Be anxious and wait patiently, after the husband has been busy for a while, he will definitely think of the slave family, unexpectedly...unexpectedly, the husband has died innocently!"

Since Ling Niang is the flower girl in Xiehualou, she can't get out of Xiehualou easily, and Liu Yuan's death was not made public because of the involvement of Prince Yan Yu. Liu Yuan's body was only seen by Liu and his wife.

Zhou Co was full of doubts and said: "Liu Yuan's death is extremely secretive, how could the girl know?"

"My family didn't know." Ling Niang wept softly, "I haven't seen my husband for a long time, and lovesickness is unbearable, so Madam Yang let my family out of Xiehualou and went to Liu's house secretly. My family was afraid that my husband would think that my family was pestering me. So I planned to take a sneak peek at my husband and go back. Yesterday morning, when I arrived at Liu's house, I caught a glimpse of two men walking towards Liu's house carrying a huge wooden box. The slave's intuition was weird, and I hurriedly hid in the other side Inside the pile of straw. Later, the slave family heard one of them say that my husband has died for His Royal Highness, and that my husband’s loyalty can be learned from heaven and earth. The 1 taels of silver is one to reward my husband’s loyalty, and the other is to comfort my husband’s parents for the loss of their son.”

Ling Niang wanted to raise her voice, but because she was too excited, she suddenly lost her breath. She coughed for a long time until her cheeks were flushed and her back curled up into a ball. The news of my husband's death must have been painful, but unexpectedly after the two left, my husband's parents happily carried the 1 taels of silver into the house, and the old woman kept saying, "1 taels, 1 taels, we There are 1 taels, that bastard Liu Yuan died well!'”

The words of Ling Niang in front of me are also consistent with what Wei Song said, but since Liu and his wife regard Liu Yuan as a wicked son, they got another 1 taels. To pay for Liu Yuan's life?

Zhou Co asked: "Did those two men never mention who killed Liu Yuan?"

Ling Niang shook her head and said: "One of them deliberately lowered his voice and said a few words before leaving, but I couldn't hear clearly, after that, he pointed to something on his waist and said, 'Look carefully'."

The thing on the waist is presumably the token of the attendant in the Fuyu Palace, but as for what he said, it cannot be judged arbitrarily.

"Is there anything else to say?" Seeing Lingniang shaking her head again, Zhou Xin was full of doubts. If Lingniang's words were true, then those two people must not be servants in the Fuyu Palace, but came to frame Yan Xun , if this is the case, who exactly are those two people using?Assuming they were used by Prince Yan Yu, then this case was a play arranged by Prince Yan Yu to get rid of the Second Highness Yan Xun.The only omission is a bit big. In order to buy the Lius and his wife, Yan Yu spent 1 taels of silver. Although this 1 taels is not a large amount for the current prince, why did Yan Yu not do a good job in the Fuyu Palace? Arrangement, among the servants in Fuyu Palace, there is no one who showed up that day?Even if Yan Yu can't buy off the servants in the Fuyu Palace, so that the Lius and his wife can casually frame the two of them, and then kill the two of them, it's enough to prove that there is no evidence of death. The Lius and his wife returned home without success yesterday. It is too unworthy.Or maybe the real culprit in this case is not the prince, but someone else?

Zhou Cozy looked down at Ling Niang from a high position, looked at Ling Niang carefully, and said after a long while: "You just said that you and Liu Yuan have a very strong relationship, and I was very sad to see you, so why didn't you come to avenge this officer immediately yesterday? Is it too late today?"

Ling Niang's face paled when she heard this, and her lips that lost blood trembled, and she worked hard for a long time before she could speak out: "The slave family originally left the Liu family, so they wanted to avenge the lord's grievances. On the way, Biansheng ran into a benefactor of the Nu family, and he forcibly took the Nu family back to his home to go... Doing such careless things, tortured the Nu family so much that he couldn't get up. Late last night, he was tired of playing, so he sent the Nu family Going back to the building, as soon as the slave family returned to the building, they struggled to go out, but before they reached the door of the building, they passed out. As soon as they woke up, the slave family rushed to see the adults, so the slave family blocked the door. Mommy, one tael of silver, if you don't believe me, you can go and check it out."

Hearing Lingniang's words, Zhou Co said to a yamen servant who was waiting beside him in doubt, "You go to Xiehualou for a while."

The yamen servant was ordered to leave, and Zhou Co asked again, "Who is your benefactor?"

Ling Niang's lingering fear still persisted, she trembled all over, and said in a trembling voice: "He is the second son who supervises the Censor's family."

The supervisory censor is affiliated to Yushitai, and he is only an official of the eighth rank. Although he has real power, the second son of an official of the eighth rank has already lost his reputation when he visits brothels. How dare he rob the flower girl in the street?Aren't you afraid of tiring your father?

Zhou Co said to a yamen servant again: "Go and find out whether Mr. Wan captured a Hua Niang yesterday."

This yamen servant should be, before he got out of the lobby, he almost collided with a middle-aged man dressed as a servant.

"Is the general manager looking for something important for me?" Zhou Co raised his voice and asked.

The head servant stabilized his body, nodded and said: "Our family has something important to do, can Mr. Zhou take a moment to speak?"

Zhou Coke ordered a yamen servant to send Ling Niang to rest in an unused room in Dali Temple, screen back to the left and right, and walked to the head of the internal servant, Fang said: "Master, please tell me."

The head servant took out two rosters from his pocket and stuffed them into Zhou Co's hands, Zhou Co opened them to have a look, these two rosters were both the rosters of servants in Fuyu Palace, one of them had two more people than the other.

Zhou Yan pointed to the book with the two names on it: "Could this be the real book?"

The chief servant said: "There were ten servants in the Fuyu Palace before. Half a month ago, two of them were kicked out of the palace because of a serious illness, so our family removed the names of those two from the top. Order our family to burn this list, but as usual this list must be kept, so our family hid it. Mr. Zhou, you brought someone to identify the servants in the Fuyu Palace yesterday. Our family should not be behind you, think twice. , so I found this old register, I don't know if my lord can use it."

The chief servant looked a little weird yesterday, was it because he became suspicious of the servant in the old roster?

Zhou Xi thanked the chief servant, and sent someone to send him back to the palace.

The Lius and his wife couldn't be trusted, so Zhou Yan called someone to bring in the manager and assistant of the pharmacy first.

In just a quarter of an hour, the pharmacy shopkeeper and the assistant came.

The shopkeeper of the pharmacy said tremblingly: "Master Zhou called the little ones, do you have any orders?"

Zhou Co pointed to the portraits of the two people suffering from serious diseases, and said, "Do you know these two people?"

When the pharmacy clerk saw the portrait, he pointed to one of them and said, "He is the one who bought 'Nine Kills'."

But the shopkeeper of the pharmacy stared at the portrait for a long time before saying cautiously: "It is indeed him."

On that side, Xiao Yuebai woke up leisurely, and when he opened his eyes, the back of Yan Xun's hairy head jumped into his eyes. Yan Xun was snoring softly in his arms, with his head buried in his heart, his hands Hugging his waist, his legs tightly wrapped around his legs.

Xiao Yuebai couldn't bear to wake Yan Xun up, about half an hour later, he patted Yan Xun's back, and said softly: "Your Highness, wake up, the sun is almost high."

Yan Xun rubbed Xiao Yuebai's heart flatteringly, and said inarticulately: "Sir, let me sleep for a while."