"The third master has left. The real culprit must be punished, but not necessarily now." Su Ye looked at the second prince who had returned and felt relieved.

"Hmm." After a while, the second prince hummed in a low voice. He was really not in a hurry to avenge the third child. At this moment, unless there was irrefutable proof, even if he knew, he would not be able to touch the real culprit.

There are many people in the world who dare to stab the third child to death in such an arrogant way.

"The case of the Xiong family and the Yang family was brought against the Zhao family, and the sword was pointed at the prince. It was not us, it could only be the Qin Palace. Now that the emperor is suspicious of the prince again, it is time to use what we have in our hands.

If we can use this to remove the uncle from his position as prince, we will..."

Su Ye swallowed back the words "the gains outweigh the losses" and said vaguely: "It's not too much. What I mean is that in the future, if you avenge the third master, you will get a few more points."

"Yes." The second prince thought carefully for a moment, then agreed in a low voice, looked at Su Ye and said: "To clean up the Jiangyin army's troubles, we originally planned to push Bo Qiao to Liangzhe Road to clean up the mess and clean up several other garrisons. Now,

"

The second prince was silent for a moment, "The emperor's trust in the Bai family is really...I am afraid that the emperor will not let Bai Qiao out. This matter cannot fall into the hands of the prince. What do you mean?"

"The second master and I have the same idea. We cannot fall into the hands of the prince no matter what. Without Bai Qiao, we have no candidate who can make the emperor nod. Then, I mean, let Prince Qin go and transfer him out of the capital.

.”

Su Ye looked at the second prince. The second prince lowered his head and thought carefully for a while before nodding. "It will take at least a year to clean up the mess on the two Zhejiang roads and clean up a few garrisons. If everything goes well."

"One year is not enough, it will take almost two years." Su Ye added softly.

"Well, he has not been in the capital for the past two years. If he wants to dispatch and command, he will not be able to keep up." The second prince looked at Su Ye, "I'm afraid he won't go."

"He should be going." Su Ye leaned forward slightly, his tone and attitude were very respectful and modest, "First of all, the Emperor is in his prime, and he is far away from the last moment. The capital is not inseparable; secondly, since he went to the Ministry of War for training,

When he brought up the corruption of the garrison in various places and asked Jin Muran to go south to investigate, all his subordinates tried their best to make friends with Bai Qiao. It can be seen that he was very eager for military power, and he would definitely be reluctant to leave this mission;

Third, he is in a difficult situation now. As long as he persuades the emperor, he does not want to leave the capital... There is no queen mother now. Judging from his current pettyness, he must not dare to make the emperor unhappy. "

"Well, that's it. For the rest, you and Prime Minister Su can discuss the matter. The two Zhejiang roads are now in a state of disarray. For the country and the people, this matter should be done urgently rather than slowly." The second prince quickly made up his mind.

Su Ye agreed, discussed a few more things with the second prince, got up and left, and returned home to discuss these two important matters with his father.

It was already dark. In Dali Temple, Bai Jingning asked people to clear out the small courtyard dedicated to investigating the case. Under the wide corridor in front of the main room, there was a low table. Chen Jiang and Zhu Xi sat opposite each other.

On the table were pig head meat, mutton sticks, fish jelly and other cooked foods bought in the market. Chen Jiang and Zhu Xi each had a wine flask and a cup. They drank by themselves, drinking and eating slowly.

Dish, talking.

"Oh, Lao Zhu, I see, sooner or later I will be tricked to death by myself." Chen Jiang took a sip of wine and sighed.

"I think so." Zhu Xi nodded in agreement, "I think I will be tricked to death by you sooner or later."

"Don't worry, I...don't worry, I don't want to trick you, but if nothing else, I can't live with this matter right now, and I'm afraid you can't escape either, alas." Chen Jiang smashed it.

He said, "But I'm very happy when I think that we can go on the road together."

"Bah!" Zhu Xi spat at Chen Jiang, "You come and go alone naked, I have a whole family."

"I don't even have a queen, and I don't care. You have several sons and grandsons soon. You are so scared!" Chen Jiang spat back.

"If we really want to go together, I will have to take care of your food, drink and money when we go to the underworld. You will take advantage of all this." Zhu Xi ate a piece of fish jelly.

Chen Jiang laughed out loud, "Let's get down to business. What do you think of this case?"

"Are you asking about the real culprit, or how to explain the case?" Zhu Xi took a loud sip of wine.

"The real culprit, how do you explain it to us? We can't control it. There are many people at the top."

"I don't know." Zhu Xi answered simply, "The person who stabbed the third master in the back of the head with an iron thorn is still alive and dead. I'm still talking about whether this person is famous or not. I'm still talking about whether he has a name or not.

You can check. As for whose family this person eats from, although the world is big, there are only a few families, who do you think he is?"

"Well, even their own family can't tell for sure. After much deliberation, the benefits of Third Master leaving seems to be..." Chen Jiang dragged his voice and stopped talking.

Zhu Xi nodded knowingly, "Those noble people know these things better than we do. However, they are the descendants of dragons and phoenixes, the blood of real dragons. It is not a big deal whether we can find out who the real culprit is. Which family to kill?"

Serving blood food to the third master as a sacrifice is the official business, and those noble people are probably planning this."

"This year is red and festive." Chen Jiang raised his head and drank a glass of wine. "Privy Privy Bai said this morning that the only ones who can come and go freely in Da Ci'en Temple without attracting attention are those monks."

"Are you planning to blame the monks in the temple?" Zhu Xi asked in one sentence. Before Chen Jiang could answer, he sighed and continued: "That's right. It would be best to blame these bald donkeys for this crime."

, Buddha is compassionate."

"This is bullshit!" Chen Jiang spat fiercely, drank another glass of wine, and slammed the glass on the low table with a long sigh, "Be it a monk or not, he can come and go naked without any worries, just like me.

"

Zhu Xi didn't answer, lowered his head, and drank one drink after another.

Chen Jiang stopped talking. He held a pot in one hand and a cup in the other, drinking one cup after another.

After finishing the bottle of wine, Zhu Xi stood up, poured a pot of wine for Chen Jiang from the large wine pot that was warm in hot water next to him, poured a pot of wine for himself, and sat down to continue drinking.

"Lao Zhu, let's talk a few drunken words. Do you remember that Yi Xin back then?" After a long while, Chen Jiang said in a low voice.

Zhu Xi's hand holding the pot trembled, "I remember, when she entered the city, I went to see her. She was a ruthless person."

"When she died, I tried my best to take a look. Here," Chen Jiang pointed to his neck, "such a long and deep wound, the blood vessels and throats cannot be cut easily. Going back and forth, there is a trace of

Not too much, not too little, so clean and tidy. Lao Zhu, to be honest, I have seen not a thousand but eight hundred of these murder cases. Such clean and sharp knife edges and such good workmanship have never been seen before.

Just that one time, at that time, to tell you the truth, I had a cold sweat on my back."

Zhu Xi looked at him, sipping his wine one mouthful at a time, but didn't answer.

"That's not suicide. Suicide is enough to cut the blood vessels. Cut off the throat together to prevent her from making a sound." Chen Jiang touched his own throat, trembled, and quickly put down his hand.

"This time, I saw Third Master's wound for the first time. My back was covered in cold sweat. It's the same good skill." Chen Jiang stretched his upper body towards Zhu Xi and his voice could not be lowered.

.

"General Bai must be an insider in Yi Xin's case..." Zhu Xi's words stopped abruptly, he picked up the glass of wine and drank it.

"Privilege Bai is a gentleman. Nothing will happen to either of us this time. Alas." Chen Jiang leaned back on his chair and looked up at the stars in the sky. "There are so many talented people and so many wonderful things in the world.

It’s really inspiring to look up to, Yi Xin deserves to die, I admired this man very much at the beginning, I thought he must be a rare righteous man in the world, but look now.”

Chen Jiang paused in his words and lowered his head. After a while, he looked at Zhu Xi and said, "It's not a bad thing for the court to have such a person of true knowledge and insight, don't you think?"

"I don't know." Zhu Xi shook his head, "I don't understand the affairs of the imperial court. Several old monks in Daci'en Temple have been friends with me for decades... Don't drink. Leave the wine to me. In my heart... Oh

, I will drink hard tonight."

Chen Jiang looked at him for a while, then sighed and agreed, passing the half bottle of wine in front of Zhu Xi.

If he wants to get drunk, he shouldn't drink. This is Dali Temple. If he gets drunk, he has to watch.

On the top of the mountain behind Potai Temple outside the city, in front of a lush mountain forest, a huge bluestone is mostly lying on the top of the mountain, and the other half is sticking out. It is surrounded by forests on three sides and a cliff on one side. The mountain wind is facing you, and the trees are rustling behind it. It is a rare and good scenery.

At night, the scenery is even better.

Jin Gui and a dozen or so young guards were scattered in the woods, each leaning against a tree and dozing in a daze.

On the huge bluestone, close to the cliff, a short, fat little red clay stove glowed with a faint red light. Beside the stove, Guo Sheng, Lu Yi and Jin Zhuoyan were sitting around.

Guo Sheng was right next to the stove, picking and eating peanuts, Jin Zhuoyan was the farthest away from the stove, drinking tea from a cup, and Lu Yi was sitting not far away, neither drinking tea nor eating peanuts.

"The peanuts this year are not very good." Guo Sheng ate a dozen peanuts in a row and commented with disgust.

"This is taken from Xujiazhuangzi." Lu Yi looked at Guo Sheng.

"That's not very good." Guo Sheng was not polite at all.

"Maybe there is not enough fat," Jin Zhuoyan said coolly: "I heard that the dead are the most fertilizing fields. If you kill a few more people and bury them in the peanut field, the peanuts will be delicious."

"It's useless." Guo Sheng ate peanuts, "When pirates were still rampant, which piece of land on the coastal sandy land from Jinmen to Fujian didn't bury a few dead people? When there were many, just shovel it down and they would be buried.

I dug out a human bone, and I ate a lot of peanuts, but not all of them tasted good, most of them didn’t.”

Guo Sheng answered very seriously.

Jin Zhuoyan looked at Guo Sheng speechlessly. Lu Yi laughed out loud, stretched out his hand to weigh a peanut, peeled it open and ate it. He looked at Jin Zhuoyan and said with a smile, "Old Guo, everything else comes second, he is not stingy.

Just like that, I have already reached the state of transformation, which no one can match."

Jin Zhuoyan snorted as if sighing.

"Did you do it yourself, the third child?" Lu Yi looked at Guo Sheng and asked directly.

Guo Sheng stopped peeling peanuts and looked at Lu Yi with a serious look on his face, "I can't answer your question, so you shouldn't ask this question."

"How do you say this?" Jin Zhuoyan frowned.

"You and me," Guo Sheng made a circle with his fingers, "The three of us each have our errands, you, and you," Guo Sheng pointed at Lu Yi and Jin Zhuoyan, "I have never asked you two,

You shouldn’t ask whether it’s like this or that. Everyone should just perform their duties.”

Lu Yi frowned slightly.

Guo Sheng looked at Lu Yi's frown, threw the peanut shells into the fire, and clapped his hands, "I know what you mean. Since you asked, I will say a few more words. Not all of the missions I am on are from the prince.

, This is not quite right. Let me put it this way, the prince gave very few orders for the missions I was sent. Even if the prince did give orders, the princess would not let her know about it. "

Lu Yi looked at Jin Zhuoyan, who slowly put down his teacup and stared at Guo Sheng.

"I am a counselor under the Fifth Master. After all, I am a member of the Li family, so I naturally obey the princess's orders. This is one. Secondly, this is what I want to remind you. How did the Queen Mother explain the funeral arrangements before leaving?

Yes, I heard what the princess said, so I don’t know if there is any discrepancy.”
To be continued...