After the rebirth, I was picked up by the prince

Tang Leyuan on the side also frowned when he heard the words: "Is that the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment? I heard from my father that he has been investigating the corruption of snow disaster officials in recent months."

Qi Zizhen pulled back his thoughts because of his opening, and after thinking quickly, he quickly asked Cui Liang: "Your Highness is in the palace now."

Cui Liang nodded: "His Highness is still summoning officials in the imperial study."

Hearing this, Qi Zizhen turned around and said to the two of them immediately, "Le Yuan, please help me find Qin Gong. Guard, follow me into the palace immediately."

"it is good."

"Yes."

Tang Leyuan and the guard nodded and clasped their hands together, and followed Qi Zizhen's orders.

Qi Zizhen didn't dare to delay for too long, and together with Cui Liang hurried back to the royal study of the palace as soon as possible.

When he arrived, Yu Feiang happened to come out from the imperial study.

In an emergency, he didn't bother to say hello, and walked straight into the imperial study room after hastily nodding his head.

In the imperial study room, Song Yaoxu was still standing in front of the desk, looking down at something, his brows were tightly furrowed, and he slowed down a little when he noticed Qi Zizhen came in: "You are here."

Qi Zizhen nodded and got straight to the point: "How is the situation now?"

"Not very good." Song Yaoxu sighed and shook his head, "The Shangshu Mansion is in chaos, his first wife brought his youngest son to the gate of the palace crying and complaining that it must have been done by the corrupt people in the snow disaster, which caused quite a commotion. It won't be long before it stops."

Qi Zizhen also frowned, and asked again: "What does Your Highness think about this matter?"

"Nine times out of ten, it is Song Ping's movement." Song Yaoxu spread a secret report in his hand on the desktop. The content of the secret report was Zhu Fengyu's report on the progress of the snow disaster incident the day before yesterday, saying that he had vaguely come into contact with that The network behind the three officials.

The day before yesterday, he reported the progress with vigor and vigor, and today he asked for leave in the morning court, and then died of a sudden illness at home.

If there is nothing strange about this, it is impossible.

And after Zhu Fengyu sent his wife to cry at the gate of the palace, it is presumed that this matter will soon spread in the capital, arousing the public's anger against the three officials.

The Ling Dynasty couldn't help discussing politics, and the people in the capital liked to chat about the current government politics after dinner, and the people were mixed, once this matter broke out, it was really uncertain what would happen in the end.

This Song Ping played a good game of chess.

Qi Zizhen's heart sank, but he continued to ask Song Yaoxu after not being silent for a long time: "Then what does Your Highness plan to do?"

Song Yaoxu glanced at him, then smiled lightly after a while, stroked the edge of the porcelain cup on the table with one hand, and said, "I have ordered people to temporarily guard the Shangshu Mansion, especially the bedroom where Zhu Fengyu was alive."

Having said that, he paused, lowered his voice and continued, "I suspect that Song Ping has tampered with the incense in Zhu Fengyu's bedroom."

The guards were still waiting at the door of the imperial study with Cui Liang for the time being. Qi Zizhen looked up at Song Yaoxu, took a step closer and asked, "Is it because of the first life? I remember that His Royal Highness was framed by Song Ping and died of a sudden illness."

Song Yaoxu did not deny it, and continued: "Actually, I sensed something was wrong from the smell of incense at that time, but I only thought that I was too sad, and finally let Song Ping succeed. As far as I know, Zhu Fengyu is also useful in the mansion. The habit of incense."

Qi Zizhen sorted out the reason, pondered for a while, and said, "It's not easy to avoid Song Ping's investigation on this matter. Otherwise, I'll ask the guards to help find someone to find clues immediately, and destroy it as soon as possible in Song Ping." before the evidence."

"Okay." Song Yaoxu nodded, "Then I'll go to Qin Gong and ask him if he has any impressions of such objects."

Hearing this, Qi Zizhen smiled more: "No need, I asked Le Yuan to help find Qin Gong to enter the palace before I came."

Song Yaoxu was about to turn around and go out, but he couldn't help showing a smile: "Sure enough, Zizhen is thoughtful."

Qi Zizhen accepted his compliment graciously, and without delay, called the guard at the door in to talk about his investigation.

The guard thought for a while and replied: "It happens that I have a friend who is good at concealment in the capital. I can ask him to help me to look. The point is the incense, right?"

"Yes." Qi Zizhen nodded, and picked up the patrol map that Song Yaoxu had just finished writing and handed it to him, "Because of the turmoil in the Shangshu Mansion today, His Highness has arranged for guards to be on duty near the Shangshu Mansion. This is their patrol map. You can Give it to your friend."

The guard accepted the patrol map, and Song Yaoxu went on to say: "If there is something wrong with the incense, I don't know how long the poison will last. Please tell me. Remember to put your own safety first."

Hearing this, the guard laughed: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, that guy learned to hide to protect himself, and he will definitely put his own safety first."

Neither Qi Zizhen nor Song Yaoxu wanted to involve innocent people outside the court, so they were relieved after hearing what he said. Song Yaoxu continued to remind some precautions, and only after going over everything in detail did he ask the guards to find someone.

In order to solve Zhu Fengyu's matter as soon as possible, Qi Zizhen courted the guards again. If he found something wrong, he could take a detour to the National Teacher Tower to explain it after leaving Shangshu Mansion.

After the guard took the order, he didn't stay long, confirming that all the information that should be connected has been connected.Then he resigned and left.

Just at this time Tang Leyuan and Qin Gong also came to the imperial study.

Tang Leyuan looked a little unnatural, coughed lightly before saying: "Well, I brought the person you asked me to bring."

Qi Zizhen noticed something was wrong, blinked suspiciously, and looked at Qin Gong again, but Qin Gong seemed to smile helplessly, and asked about what happened in the palace.

Considering that Zhu Fengyu's case was more urgent, Qi Zizhen ignored Tang Leyuan's state for the time being, and asked them to briefly explain the situation to them after entering the imperial study.

"So what does your Majesty mean, that King Guan may have poisoned Zhu Shangshu?" Qin Gong frowned after listening to the brief introduction, "I may not be able to give His Highness and Mr. Qi an answer for the time being."

Both Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu thought it was because he couldn't remember the existence of this kind of Gu poison, and when they were about to say that it was okay, they saw him continue to say with a distressed face: "Because there are at least a dozen kinds of this kind of Gu poison in our tribe. And this is the most common of all forbidden Gu poisons."

Qi Zizhen: "...Wow."

Apart from emotion, he didn't know how to react for a while.This is really the first time he has heard that the forbidden technique can be banned enough to become the most commonly used.

Song Yaoxu obviously choked for a while, and then said: "In your tribe... do people often die of sudden illness?"

Qin Gong humbly said: "Not really, there are only four or five people every year, and occasionally there may be more than ten people."

Qi Zizhen felt that he had a new definition of "only".

Even Tang Leyuan, who was still agitated before, couldn't help but say, "It's a miracle that your village came to Ling Dynasty alive."

Unavoidably, the topic went farther and farther in strange ways, Qi Zizhen coughed lightly and got back on the right track, and asked again: "If there are remaining incense ash, is it possible for you to roughly identify the kind of Gu poison? "

Mentioning this, Qin Gong became proud again, frowned and said with a smile: "No problem at all. As the daughter of the village chief, identifying Gu poison and understanding the history of forbidden arts are necessary skills."

Qin Gong stumbled for a moment in the middle of speaking, Qi Zizhen couldn't hear his slurred words clearly, but saw Tang Leyuan's expression suddenly became a little nervous, he took a step forward and then retreated embarrassingly.

Qi Zizhen glanced at him suspiciously, but still didn't say anything, and told Qin Gong that he asked the guard's friend to help Zhu Fengyu's bedroom to check the information, and asked him if he would like to stay at the National Master Tower tonight, so that he can confirm in time if there is a situation .

Qin Gong had no objection to this, but after he nodded in response, Tang Leyuan also eagerly said that he wanted to stay overnight in the National Teacher Tower, and that he didn't have a good time in the National Teacher Tower today.

Qi Zizhen didn't plan to rest tonight, so he didn't have to worry about whether there was a bed for them to rest. Seeing that he wanted to come, he naturally didn't refuse, so he nodded and agreed.

The affairs at the National Teacher Tower have been arranged, and Song Yaoxu will stay in the palace and continue to deal with today's affairs.Zhu Fengyu's sudden death had a great impact on the court from the official to the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

Although Song Yaoxu urgently summoned Yu Feiang and asked him to be promoted to the position of Minister to replace Zhu Fengyu, and at the same time let him accept the snow disaster investigation with his consent, but the snow disaster case was mainly handled by Zhu Fengyu before, and there were too many things to hand over.

In order not to delay the progress, and to prevent Song Ping from being too vigilant, he had to let Yu Feiang get started as stealthily and as quickly as possible.

He couldn't participate in the affairs of the National Teacher Tower. He only told them to remember to be careful on the way to the National Teacher Tower before they left.

In front of Song Yaoxu, Qi Zizhen, Tang Leyuan and Qin Gong were all just teenagers, and they responded neatly and well-behaved.

Then Qi Zizhen took the first step to leave and went back to the National Teacher Tower, Tang Leyuan and Qin Gong went back to their homes before making a detour to the National Teacher Tower.

The guards who had asked their friends for help had already returned to the National Teacher Tower first. When they saw them coming, they were relieved. After confirming that there were no guests, they ran to the top floor to find Tang Leyuan for a drink.

Qi Zizhen couldn't drink, he just told them not to disturb the children downstairs to sleep, and then he and Qin Gong, who didn't like to make trouble, sat on the edge of the bed by the window and chatted.

On the way, Qi Zizhen remembered the matter of the last voice in the first life, and asked Qin Gong casually, but Qin Gong said that he had never heard of such a thing.

Fate stealing is a forbidden technique among the forbidden arts, and the requirements are extremely strict. So far, only the first king and Southwest General are known to have used the fate stealing technique.

Qi Zizhen himself didn't hold much hope, so he didn't ask any more questions and turned back to some lighter topics.

While they were chatting, a little gray bird flew in through the half-open window, landed on Qi Zizhen's shoulder with a chirp, and kissed his cheek affectionately.

Qi Zizhen stretched out a finger and rubbed the little gray bird's head, his expression became softer: "It's so late, why haven't you rested yet?"

The little gray bird didn't know if it understood or not, so it chirped a few more times, found a comfortable position on his shoulder, and nestled still.

Seeing this, Qin Gong couldn't help showing a smile: "It seems that Mr. Qi likes it very much. It seems that it has always been the one who sent the letter before."

"Yeah, it's not too tired." Qi Zizhen's expression showed a little more helplessness, but more of it was his distress for the little gray bird. It could be seen that the relationship between him and the little gray bird was indeed very good.

Qin Gong couldn't help sighing with emotion: "It's a pity, a pity."

Qi Zizhen didn't understand what he meant, and made a nasal sound curiously: "Huh?"

Qin Gong smiled lightly, pushed his hands back, and looked up at the bright moonlight with a sad tone.

"In the past, the southwestern tribes were divided into countless villages, and each village had a skill they were good at. What our village is good at is controlling things with music. The most powerful people in the history of our village can control people's hearts with music. Harnessing ubiquitous objects. Now down to the birds we interact with the most.”

Having said that, he turned his head to look at Qi Zizhen again, and said with a smile: "Mr. Qi can play the music so well. If he is a member of our village, he will be the treasure of the whole village!"

Hearing Qin Gong's obviously exaggerated tone later, Qi Zizhen thought of "the hope of the whole village" for some reason, and quickly got rid of these strange thoughts, smiled helplessly, and joked with him: "Then It's really a pity, I cast the wrong baby and came to the capital."

Qin Gong could hear the meaning of his joke, he smiled and did not continue this topic, and chatted about other daily life, and occasionally teased the little gray bird with Qi Zizhen.

The four of them just waited in the room on the top floor, two drinking and two chatting, seemingly relaxed and at ease, but somewhat uneasy in their hearts.

It wasn't until midnight that the last guest finally ushered in outside the brightly lit National Teacher Tower.