Princess, he is rich enough to rival the country

"The queen is right."

Facing Mei Yanxi's incredulous gaze, Zhi Ge nodded slightly, affirming Gu Yanshu's statement:

"According to the investigation of his subordinates, Li Mingpeng has already found a matchmaker, and he is ready to hire him these days."

"vomit……"

Now let alone Gu Yanshu, even Mei Yanxi was disgusted by Li Mingpeng's operation.

Dang even couldn't hold back his retching.

But neither Gu Yanshu nor Qin Lu bothered about Mei Yanxi's gaffe at the moment.

In the end, Gu Yanshu directly set his sights on the document in his hand:

"Your investigation this time is more detailed than I imagined, but isn't it a bit off track?"

Gu Yanshu asked Zhi Ge to investigate, the most important thing is to investigate the connection between Li Mingpeng and Qin Lu who was infected with smallpox.

But the information given by Zhige now covers the details of when Li Mingpeng and Li Ergou were together, and traces the history of the two together.

It's short of digging out all eighteen generations of Li Mingpeng's ancestors to have a look.

But there was no mention of why Li Mingpeng attacked Qin Lu, what was his motive, whether there was someone instigating behind him, and so on.

Married to Qin Lu for so long, this is the first time Gu Yanshu has seen Zhi Ge go astray.

"The detailed information is actually not all the credit of the subordinates. It is also because of this reason that there are deviations in it."

Zhi Ge heard what Gu Yanshu wanted to say with one ear, and he didn't hide it, and directly told Gu Yanshu the truth.

This Li Mingpeng is so meticulous in his work, even if it is Zhi Ge, it is not easy to investigate.

Not to mention the rush of time.

Regarding the questions that Gu Yanshu wanted to know, Zhige didn't investigate, but he didn't find out.

Even if it wasn't for a coincidence, Zhi Ge wouldn't even be able to get out the information that was handed over to Gu Yanshu now.

Gu Yanshu just listened to it roughly, and immediately figured out the key point:

"You met Li Guihua?"

As soon as Gu Yanshu said these words, Zhi Ge received an unexpected and affirmative look:

"Your Highness is wise."

Originally on this matter, Zhi Ge wanted to make a small pass, but now that Gu Yanshu has already guessed it, there is naturally no need to hide it.

That's right, Zhige did meet Li Guihua.

It is also a coincidence.

Li Guihua Xiao's father, if it wasn't like this, Li Ergou would not have restricted Li Guihua from going out.

In the process of investigating Li Mingpeng, Zhige saw Li Guihua who was so similar to Li Mingpeng, and thought of the information that Li Mingpeng had no wife and no children in the data, so he directly had a problem.

He sent someone over directly, originally he just wanted to ask Li Guihua side-by-side, to see if he could know some unknown inside information.

Unexpectedly, Li Guihua could see the identities and purposes of the people in Prince Li's mansion at a glance, and said all these things without any hesitation.

At first, Zhige thought there should be fraud, but after investigating the information given by Li Guihua, he found that Li Guihua hadn't lied at all.

"How does she know these things?"

Mei Yanxi felt a little unbelievable, how old is Li Guihua now?

Less than eight years old?

How does an eight-year-old child know about adults, how does he write it all down, and tell others to listen to it?

Zhi Ge sighed slightly:

"Because Li Ergou's mother had a premonition in her heart."

Li Ergou's mother turned a blind eye to the matter between Li Ergou and Li Mingpeng before Li Mingpeng joined the army.

At that time, she felt that it was good for the child to like it.

But after Li Mingpeng had a dispute with Li Ergou over a series of issues such as offspring, and finally patted his ass and left, Li Ergou's mother knew that Li Mingpeng was not a good match.

After Li Mingpeng came back three years ago, Li Ergou's mother always disapproved of Li Ergou being with him, thinking that Li Mingpeng was not sincere, and Li Ergou could not be planted in the same pit twice.

But how can parents beat their children?

Li Ergou, who fell in love, was full of eyes only for the lover he hadn't seen in a few years, and he directly forgot all kinds of advice from his mother.

Not to mention that a few years have passed, Li Mingpeng, who has been tempered in the military camp, is more superficial than before he left, but within a few months, he once again tricked Li Ergou into being completely devoted to him.

At that time, Li Ergou's mother saw that Li Ergou was dazzled by love, and knew that her son might not be able to bring her back, so she directly pinned her hopes on her granddaughter Li Guihua.

Even though Li Guihua was not Li Ergou's own flesh and blood, Li Mingpeng had done so many things that made Li Ergou's mother dissatisfied.

But the crime is not as good as the child. In the past few years, Li Ergou's mother has devoted herself to Li Guihua, not to mention loving her very much, but she has also raised Li Guihua well.

So during the three years since Li Mingpeng came back, Li Ergou's mother directly told Li Guihua these old calendars as bedtime stories.

At that time, Li Guihua was already six years old, and although her mind was not as quick as that of an adult, she was educated by Li Ergou's mother to understand what is right and wrong.

From the description of Li Ergou's mother, Li Guihua knew that among her two fathers, it was Li Mingpeng who was sorry for Li Ergou.

In addition, in the past five years, although Li Ergou did not love Li Guihua very much, he was responsive to every request and never treated Li Guihua badly.

Li Guihua is more inclined to Li Ergou in terms of time spent together and emotionally.

Not to mention that children are the most sensitive to the minds of others.

As for Li Mingpeng's misogynistic character, even if he tried his best to cover it up, he still couldn't fool Li Guihua's intuition that belongs to children alone.

For Li Mingpeng, Li Guihua naturally doesn't like to be close to Li Ergou as much as she does for Li Ergou.

Eight-year-old children actually have the ability to think independently.

Almost at the same time when smallpox was raging in Yanglin County, after seeing the symptoms of smallpox patients infected, Li Guihua thought of the little girl who was sent to Li Ergou's home and was so-called infected with "chickenpox".

At that moment, Li Guihua understood that what grandma said that Li Mingpeng couldn't tolerate Ergou's father was true.

Thinking of Ergou Daddy, and then looking at Li Mingpeng, the eight-year-old girl knew what hatred is for the first time.

So when she found out that the big shot from the capital was investigating Li Mingpeng, Li Guihua said everything she knew without any hesitation.

Li Guihua is a child, it is not easy to know so much inside information.

All her descriptions of these events are based on what Li Ergou's mother told her and her own observations.

As for Li Mingpeng's more secretive secrets, Li Guihua has no way of knowing, so naturally she can't help Zhi Ge's investigation.

But even these contents are enough for the people in Prince Li's Mansion to understand that the smallpox in Yanglin County originated from Li Mingpeng.

As for what Gu Yanshu wanted to know about Li Mingpeng's motives and whether there was someone instigating him behind the scenes, etc., Zhi Ge also sent his subordinates to investigate, and he expected to have an answer in the near future.

Hearing this, Gu Yanshu nodded slightly, and asked another question:

"Where is Li Guihua now?"

"Still at Li Mingpeng's residence."

Zhi Ge quickly replied, as Gu Yanshu thought, Li Mingpeng didn't care about a girl's film.

After bringing the person back, Li Mingpeng asked the people below to clean up a room for Li Guihua and came out, warning Li Guihua not to go out, so he ignored it.

To put it bluntly, Li Guihua didn't take Li Guihua seriously at all, which made Zhige's people make a mistake.

But Li Guihua is a living person after all, even if Li Mingpeng didn't take it to heart at all, if someone disappeared from the mansion, the people under him would inevitably report it.

In order to avoid alarming the enemy, Zhi Ge and others did not take Li Guihua away immediately.

After finishing speaking, fearing that Gu Yanshu would be worried, Zhi Ge directly added:

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, this subordinate has left someone in Li Mingpeng's residence."

At least until the results of the investigation come out, the people in Prince Li's Mansion will ensure Li Guihua's safety.

This is already the most appropriate way to deal with it, and Gu Yanshu didn't say anything anymore:

"Then the rest will wait until the results come out."

Now that the people in Prince Li's mansion have clues, they don't have to investigate blindly like headless chickens like they did a few days ago.

In just two days, the people below delivered the results of the investigation.

But this result also greatly exceeded Gu Yanshu's expectations.

Originally, in Gu Yanshu's guess, Li Mingpeng would attack his own Xiaolu because of the promotion of interests behind him, plus the old enmity between him and Xiaolu.

Who knows the truth is far from the case.

Because Li Mingpeng is the eldest prince's man from the beginning to the end!

No, to be exact, Li Mingpeng was a member of Ningguo Duke's Mansion from the beginning to the end.

The Duke of Ning's Mansion has been an honorable figure in Tianqi for nearly a hundred years.

Especially in the past 20 years, after the imperial concubine gained a firm foothold in the harem and gave birth to two princes, the eldest prince and the fourth prince, she has been standing at the top of the pyramid in Tianqi, naturally possessing unimaginable contacts.

There was no shortage of people from Ningguo Duke's Mansion in the former three armies.

Especially after the eldest prince was born more than twenty years ago, Duke Ninguo's mansion has already started to make arrangements for the eldest prince's succession.

And the strength in this army is an extremely important part of it.

Eight years ago, not long after Li Mingpeng joined the army, he was valued by the Ningguo Palace and received an olive branch from the Ningguo Palace.

At that time, Li Mingpeng, who was only thinking of getting ahead, had no hesitation, and directly agreed to the recruitment of the Ningguo Palace, and became a member of the Ningguo Palace.

With his back against Duke Ningguo's mansion and his own talent, Li Mingpeng was the fastest promoted among the same batch who entered the barracks.

After tasting the sweetness, Li Mingpeng quickly gave up his heart to Ningguo Duke's Mansion, and Ningguo Duke's Mansion was also very satisfied with Li Mingpeng's "knowledge" and gave Li Mingpeng a lot of resources.

Seeing that Li Mingpeng climbed step by step from a small soldier to the positions of captain, Baihu, and Qianhu, he would be named deputy general immediately, but Qin Lu suddenly descended from the sky and integrated the entire three armies of Tianqi.

It is too rare and common for a prince without much influence like Qin Lu to enter the army to be gilded.

The same is true for Ning Guogong and others who only think of Qin Lu. They will be recalled by the emperor after staying in the army for a year or two.

Therefore, when Qin Lu first entered the military camp, many dignitaries including Duke Ning's government did not pay attention to him.

Unexpectedly, Qin Lu is different from those princes, not only has good ability, but also has extraordinary skills.

By the time the Ningguo Mansion and others realized something was wrong, Qin Lu had already used thunderous means to smash Xungui's power in the army, leaving only sporadic points like Li Mingpeng Huo Miao, nothing can happen anymore.

At that time, although the nobles such as Duke Ning's mansion were ruthless, but at that time, Qin Lu was too popular, whether it was in the court or among the common people, there was a lot of praise.

Ningguo Mansion can only choose to let it go and choose to stay dormant for a while.

The power in the army has been dealt an unprecedented blow, and the only seedling that Li Mingpeng was so lucky to leave behind is extremely precious.

Since then, the Ningguo government directly gave all the few resources left in the army to Li Mingpeng.

However, before Duke Ningguo's mansion could train Li Mingpeng, Li Mingpeng became famous in front of Qin Lu because of the night attack.

Later, Li Mingpeng retired from the barracks due to injury. In fact, it was not an accident, but intentional.

At that time, Qin Lu's determination to deal with Li Mingpeng was already very high. After all, Duke Ninguo's government had operated in the army for more than ten years.

Li Mingpeng, who controls most of the military resources of Duke Ningguo, knew Qin Lu's plan almost immediately.

Knowing that according to Qin Lu's temperament, if he really made up his mind to deal with him, he would definitely not listen to his sophistry, and he would definitely not show mercy.

Between surviving and leaving the barracks, Li Mingpeng chose the latter very simply.

So in the next battle, Li Mingpeng obviously had room and opportunity to protect himself, but he still sent his arm to the enemy's knife and suffered such a blow.

What happened next was just as Li Mingpeng had expected. After he was seriously injured, Qin Lu was concerned about the soldiers who were still in the barracks, so he let him go in order not to disappoint the soldiers.

But even so, Qin Lu also wrote down his reservations in his comments to Li Mingpeng.

Therefore, it's not that Li Mingpeng doesn't want to go to a more prosperous city, but Qin Lu's comment that he is not allowed to do so at all.

Originally, Li Mingpeng wanted the Ningguo Palace to operate from it, but Li Mingpeng, who left the barracks and lost his right hand, did not have much use value for the Ningguo Palace.

The Ningguo Mansion almost didn't even think about it, so they rejected Li Mingpeng's request.

For Li Mingpeng, who once held power in his hands, the days of being a petty official in a place like Yanglin County were particularly disappointing.

Gradually, Li Mingpeng hated Qin Lu who forced him to retire from the army.

This time when he heard that Qin Lu was coming to Yizhou, Li Mingpeng thought of all the grievances and grievances between him and Qin Lu almost instantly, even thinking of giving Qin Lu some color.

But even with Qin Lu's methods and Li Mingpeng's abilities of Zhi Ge and Xing Ren, he knew that this matter was not as easy as imagined.

If one hit is missed, there is no way out.

In order to come up with a seamless plan, Li Mingpeng could only plan in his heart while trying to arrange his own manpower on the dam.

In this place, Zhige Settings also investigated a small easter egg.

That was what happened in Tongtan County back then, and there was also the shadow of Li Mingpeng behind it.

Li Mingpeng originally wanted the county magistrate of Tongtan County to squeeze the people under his command, and then he fanned the flames from the sidelines, saying that this was a deliberate effort by Prince Li's House to save money and cause riots among the people.

Unexpectedly, the incident was exposed too early at that time, and Qin Lu dealt with it too quickly, without giving Li Mingpeng a chance to complete the next plan.

The first plan went bankrupt. In order to prevent the people from Prince Li's Mansion from finding him, Li Mingpeng could only quickly cut off his tail to survive, and hibernated quickly, trying to find a second chance.

Who knew that since the incident in Tongtan County was exposed, the people in Prince Li's Mansion became more concerned about the matter on the embankment, and Li Mingpeng couldn't find any loopholes at all.

Originally, Li Mingpeng thought that he would not find a second chance to fight, but he received a letter from Ningguo Duke's Mansion.

At this time, Duke Ning's mansion was grounded because of the eldest prince, and the imperial concubine was desperate to ask for help.

Ningguo Duke's Mansion almost bet all their hopes on the Eldest Prince. If the Eldest Prince really fails, when the new emperor succeeds to the throne, the Ningguo Duke's Mansion will definitely have their family ransacked and exterminated.

How could Ning Guogong allow such a situation to exist?

After thinking about it, Ning Guogong knew that the root cause of this matter still had to be solved from Qin Lu.

Immediately, Ning Guogong thought about taking action against Qin Lu. It would be best if Qin Lu was not in the capital and directly cut the grass and roots.

As long as Qin Luren is gone, the emperor will have no choice but to pass the throne to the eldest prince.

But even Duke Ning's Mansion did not dare to confront the forces of Prince Li's Mansion directly.

At this time, a distant relative of Duke Ningguo's wife's personal nanny contracted smallpox and died within a few days.

When Mammy mentioned this matter to others in private, Duke Ning happened to hear about it.

This incident directly inspired Ning Guogong:

Smallpox can be used to get rid of Qin Lu!

With inspiration, how to implement it has become a difficult problem.

Just when Ning Guogong was thinking about it and didn't know where to start, the commander under his hand directly woke him up with a word.

After all, he was someone who had been trained in the past. At that time, Chang Sui just said casually, "Yizhou, why does this place sound familiar to my subordinates?" Duke Ning thought of Li Mingpeng.

Immediately, Ning Guogong directly sent someone to contact Li Mingpeng.

It can be said that the two parties hit it off, and it didn't take long to come up with such a seamless plan.

Duke Ningguo's mansion went to the nurse's distant relative's house to get the smallpox virus, and then paid for Li Mingpeng to do it.

Li Mingpeng worked hard to get rid of Qin Lu directly.

After all, Li Mingpeng has worked under Qin Lun's command for two years. Knowing Qin Lun's temperament, he will definitely ensure that the dam is safe, so he can rest assured.

So before Qin Lu's first inspection, Li Mingpeng deliberately exposed his shortcomings on the embankment.

As for why I chose the East Second District where Li Ergou is located, I would like to have two:

One is to make Xingren notice Li Ergou, and prepare for Li Ergou's approaching Qin Lu when Qin Lu comes to Yanglin County for inspection next time.

Second, the moment Li Mingpeng came up with this plan, he had already made up his mind to get rid of Li Ergou.

The reason for choosing East Second District is that if the matter is revealed in the future, all the responsibilities can be directly shifted to Li Ergou.

Anyway, Li Ergou was already a dead man at that time, no matter how powerful the Prince Li's Mansion is, can he still make a dead man speak?

Afterwards things went more smoothly than Li Mingpeng imagined, almost everything was going according to the script written by Li Mingpeng.

If it wasn't for Gu Yanshu's detection of a flaw during the questioning, and if it wasn't for the hatred in Li Guihua's heart, maybe Li Mingpeng could really be able to hide the truth in the end.

Of course, one thing that Li Mingpeng still missed was the arrival of Gu Yanshu.

When Gu Yanshu came with Zhi Ge and others, as well as the news of the vaccinia vaccine, Li Mingpeng really panicked.

He knew very well that Zhige was better at digging and investigating than Xingren.

He also knows that as long as he reveals a little flaw, Zhi Ge may be able to get to the bottom of it, pull out the carrot and bring out the mud.

Distraught, Li Mingpeng directly made the biggest wrong move:

In order to dispel his suspicions, he deliberately contracted chickenpox and pretended to be smallpox.

It can be said that even without Li Guihua, these flaws exposed by Li Minpeng are enough for Zhi Ge to find out the truth.

However, the existence of Li Guihua directly accelerated Zhige's investigation and saved Prince Li's mansion a lot of detours.

After listening to Zhi Ge's report, Gu Yanshu breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked:

"Where is Li Mingpeng now?"

"After investigating all the inside information, the subordinates sent people to detain Li Mingpeng, and now he has been interrogated once."

Not long after, Zhi Ge gave the answer, and then took out a few more confessions from his hand, and handed them to Qin Lu:

"These are the windfalls of this time."

When he said this, Zhi Ge's tone was faintly disdainful, aimed at Li Mingpeng.

Which one of the people who worked under Qin Lu's command was not strong?

Even Mei Yanxi, before receiving professional training, was able to stand up to punishment in Xirong without revealing anything.

In the end, Li Mingpeng had an accident.

After Zhi Ge took him into custody, he hardly used torture, so Li Mingpeng couldn't stand it, and revealed everything he knew.

While contemptuous in my heart, anger and joy are unavoidable:

Angry at Li Mingpeng's greed for life and fear of death, fortunately, Li Mingpeng had never fallen into the hands of the enemy before this.

Otherwise, this soft-boned man wouldn't be able to entrap Tianqi's good boy?

When Zhi Ge was attacking Li Mingpeng in his mind, Qin Lu had already slowly opened the confession in his hand. After seeing the contents above, Qin Lu's eyes flashed a trace of dumbness.

"It was indeed a pleasant surprise."

After mocking lightly, Qin Lu raised his eyes and saw the curious gaze of his own princess, and immediately handed the confession in Gu Yanshu's hands without hiding it.

Gu Yanshu just glanced at it roughly, and he knew why his little deer reacted like this:

The Ningguo government had tried its best to train Li Mingpeng, which meant that Li Mingpeng knew most of the power and cards of the Ningguo government in the army.

Although after Qin Lu entered the army, he broke up and reorganized the three armies several times, and suppressed these forces to the ground, but there were also one or two fish that slipped through the net.

Now, in Li Mingpeng's confession, information about these fish that slipped through the net is written.

If it weren't for Li Mingpeng, Qin Lu might have to wait until the next time he fights the enemy before he can clean up these moths.

"I don't know what Ning Guogong will think after seeing this confession."

A smile flashed across Gu Yanshu's eyes, and he lifted a rock to shoot himself in the foot, nothing more than that.