Qinglong District.

This is a courtyard covering an area of several acres, with white lanterns hanging at the door, and the people who come in and out are also wearing linen and filial piety, obviously just recently done white things.

The mansion of Shangshuzuo of the Ministry of Rites is naturally not bad, and the location is excellent, close to the junction of Suzaku District and Qinglong District, and not far from the palace land.

When Relo arrived at the mansion, it was getting dark, and the doors of the mansion were open, as if they knew a distinguished guest was coming.

But he didn't go in, because he knew that the door was not open to him, and that something good seemed to be about to happen.

I saw a group of people coming menacingly at the corner of the street, and Lei Luo even knew with his eyes that they were coming to the victim's mansion.

Because the other courtyards on this street are all academies, those people came in a rage, it didn't look like they were going to the academy.

Then a second group of men rushed from another street corner, followed by a third team, all of whom poured into the mansion of the priest of the Ministry of Rites, and confronted each other in the courtyard.

After a while, there was a shrew's scolding sound in the compound, accompanied by a war of words, verbal ridicule, and even the vague pedestrians outside the courtyard could hear it clearly.

After listening to it for a while, Lei Luo understood the general situation of the matter, it turned out that several wives and concubines of the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Zuo quarreled and wanted to divide the family property.

People go to tea and cool, in short, the trees fall and scatter, and this mansion has become a battlefield for several concubines to compete for family property at this moment.

As for the wife, it is unfortunate that this woman does not have any ability, and there is no way to keep the family property.

From which quarrels, Lei Luo also heard that the wife of this Lord Shangshuzuo was his wife, the wife of the chaff, not a young lady who married princes and nobles, and had no ability.

Generally, the wives of high-ranking officials and nobles are the right ladies of the big family, so even if this wife has no ability, she will have her mother's family to take care of her, and she will not make trouble like today.

However, this Shangshuzuo attaches great importance to his reputation, and he did not make a move to divorce his wife, and even took his wife to enjoy glory and wealth.

Even if he is in a high position and has to take a concubine, his status as a wife is still unshakable, and at this point, I have to say that even if this Lord Shangshuzuo pretends to be, he is also very good.

If this person is sincere, then this Shangshuzuo is a good man like no other.

But even so, his concubines are different, these women are all women from official eunuch families, since the head of the family is dead, he will always score some benefits, this is why there is such a scene.

What's more, because of the original status of the wife, the mother's family of these concubines came here to make trouble, and the aggressive attitude was indeed a little uncomfortable.

In the end, the women of the concubine room really went too far, and even scolded them for being ugly, if they didn't care about the last bit of face, they would have to bring people up to use force.

Lei Luo sighed after listening to it for a while, and then walked into the mansion with a cold expression.

"Who are you?"

"I'm here to investigate!"

"That dead ghost has been dead for six months, you said you came to investigate the case, who did you deceive, are you the helper that the slut found, come here to help him fight for the family property!"

"You're looking for death!"

There were bursts of screams, and the mansion of this Lord Shang Shuzuo was bloody, and more than 100 people died.

When Lei Luo walked out of the mansion covered in blood, only the wife and some old servants who did not leave were left, and the concubines were all killed with them.

In this way, on the second day of Lei Luo's case, he slaughtered the concubine of the first victim, Lord Shang Shuzuo, and the family they brought, and there were more than 100 lives on his hands.

As soon as this news spread, all the ministers in the imperial city were shocked, whether the Holy Emperor had found someone to investigate the case, or had he found someone to kill someone.

This poisoner killed six people, and more than 300 people died at the hands of the person who investigated the case.

Even during this time, there were fewer rumors about the poisoner inside and outside the court, and everyone was afraid of the 'Lord Qincha', for fear that the other party would kill him if he was unhappy.

The poisoner killed one at a time, and this one killed more than 100 people at a time, and some officials in the DPRK and China did not have so many people.

In short, someone's murderous reputation made the entire imperial city change color, for fear that when he would follow in the footsteps of the concubines of the Zhenfu Division and Shangshu Zuo.

As for the central figure of the rumors, the initiator came to the position of "Jiao" and "Mu Jiao" in Qinglong District, and this place is the location of the Shengtian Academy, which is as famous as Yuanshan Academy.

"An immortal cultivator, it is absolutely impossible to kill people randomly, there must be some purpose, so he will kill these people, but why would the other party kill a Confucian student of the Holy Heaven Academy!" Lei Luo looked at the academy in front of him, and said with doubts in his eyes.

The second victim was just an ordinary Confucian who worked as a staff member in the mansion of a certain prince in the court. However, this prince heard that he does not like to compete for power and profit, so the people who are his staff have no future at all.

After all, if you follow a prince who doesn't want to inherit the throne at all, it is equivalent to cutting off the room for rise, and the other party will become a prince in the imperial city at most in the future, and there will be no fief for you to govern.

This second victim involved the prince, and he was killed in the Shengtian Academy, Lei Luo did not immediately enter the academy to investigate, but thought about it here for a moment and left this place.

Next up is the Xuanwu District.

Lei Luo visited the mansions of the third, fourth, and fifth officials in one day's time, and this time no one dared to stop them, and all the people in the mansion were polite, for fear that this Lord Qincha, who was ordered to investigate the case, would be unhappy and slaughter himself.

Of course, someone has been laughing at himself for not being a murderer, but no one believes him when he says this, so he doesn't say it.

Finally, Lei Luo glanced in the direction of the court, but did not enter.

Although he could have entered the palace to investigate the case if he took out the Holy Emperor's edict, he did not do so, but came to the mansion of the first victim.

At this time, after the bloody slaughter in the morning, there was no one left here, and the wife of Shang Shuzuo had gone away with the family, and the corpses here had also been cleaned.

As the place where the murder occurred, no one dared to break in casually, and this is the mansion of the first victim, at least no one will disturb this place until the poisoner is caught.

Lei Luo naturally used this place as his temporary base to organize his thoughts.

After a short time, he used the main hall, which was already empty at the moment, as a hub room for analyzing the case, and called out the little white fox Lu Linglong and Huangfu Yuqian.

Then he took out all the clues he had obtained from the Supervision Department, as well as some of the letters he had found from the mansions of the four victims, as well as the information from the Confucian in the palace and the Shengtian Academy.

"Hey, Childe, why did the three victims in the Xuanwu District also exchange letters with each other?" Lu Linglong asked suddenly.

The woman was holding several secret letters, which were correspondence between the senior officials of the DPRK and China, and among them were some letters exchanged between the three victims, and there were quite a few of them.

"Because those three people all support the Five Princes, it's normal for them to communicate with each other!" Lei Luo explained.

He had also seen the five princes of the Holy Heavenly Emperor Dynasty, that is, the golden-robed young man who had stopped Beitang Yao from being rude to them in the Ascending Tower, and he was courteous and polite from beginning to end, without the slightest appearance of a prince.

"Huangfu Yu, advance and retreat in a measured manner, polite, very capable, some ministers in the court have chosen to stand by this son, this person is the most threatening competitor of the Great Prince Huangfu Law!" Lei Luo continued.

If only the three ministers living in Xuanwu District died in this case, then it is very likely that the eldest prince did this matter, and the purpose was to eradicate the henchmen of the five princes and consolidate his position.

But the first victim was a henchman of the Great Prince, and one of the core figures on which he relied the most, which is a bit of an overstatement.

By the way, the Confucian student who died in the Shengtian Academy was the guest of the Four Princes.

However, the fourth prince Huangfu Wen likes poetry and songs, and his hand is not ready to let go of the volume, and his future dream is to be a great Confucian who studies poetry and literature.

This person's ambition is not to be on the throne but to Confucianism, this matter is known to everyone in the court, and even this prince has lived in the Shengtian Academy for a long time, and he doesn't often go back to live in the palace.

Therefore, among the six people who died, five of them were the descendants of the three princes, even if the four princes were not successful in the eyes of the Holy Emperor, but the ones who died were the prince's subordinates after all.

As for the sixth person, she was the daughter of a senior member of the court.

This woman heard that she was a close friend of the Nine Emperor Daughters, and was invited by the Nine Emperor Daughters to come to the palace as a companion before the accident, but as soon as she separated from the Nine Emperor Daughters, she had an accident.

"Hey, this victim's family background is not simple, this woman is actually the daughter of Shangshu of the Criminal Department, one of the six departments!" Huangfu Yuqian seemed to have discovered something, and said with a dossier in her hand.

Shangshu of the Criminal Department, that is a big official from the first grade, second only to the humerus ministers such as the Taifu, the Taishi, and the Prime Minister of the first grade, this is the elder of the court, one of the six departments, and the real person in charge.

But his daughter died tragically in the court, which is somewhat interesting.

"Find out which prince this Shangshu Lord supports!" Lei Luo hurriedly asked.

Lu Linglong and Huangfu Yuqian hurriedly made a move, but they looked through many files and found no clues.

"Woooooo

At that moment, the little white fox let out a cry and patted the file scattered on the ground with its little paws.

Lei Luo hurriedly stepped forward, and really let the little white fox find a clue, which is a record of the Ministry of Rites Shangshu participating in the Nine Emperor Girls' Day Banquet.

Generally, the ministers of the court and the central government will not attend the birthday banquet of the prince and the princess, and at most send some juniors to participate, but this secretary of the Ministry of Rites actually went to the birthday banquet of the Nine Emperor Daughters, because the other party supported the Nine Emperor Daughters.

"Impossible, the throne of my Huangfu family is only passed on to men and not to women, this rule has never been changed, and it is impossible to change even now!" Huangfu Yuqian hurriedly said.

After this woman said this, a trace of helplessness and a hint of sarcasm flashed in her eyes.

"Since this is the case, then it also means that this Nine Emperor Lady secretly supports a certain prince, otherwise this Ministry of Rites Shangshu doesn't need to secretly contact someone by attending the birthday banquet!" Lei Luo guessed.

Then his eyes signaled, Lu Linglong hurriedly rummaged through the file of the birthday banquet, and found that except for the eldest prince, the rest of the princes and princesses went to the birthday banquet.

"Then nine times out of ten, the Nine Emperor Maidens are the Fifth Prince, because apart from the Great Prince, only this Imperial Fu Yu has the qualifications and ambition to let him secretly meet with the Rite Servant!"

Of course, some extreme cases are not ruled out here, such as the invitation of the Nine Emperor Daughters to break the rules of the Huangfu family for tens of thousands of years, but this possibility is very small.

"There is one supporter of the eldest prince, one subordinate of the fourth prince, and three supporters of the fifth prince, who secretly supports the martyrdom of the fifth prince's servant of the Ministry of Rites, who did this?"

The relationship between the six deceased is here, and these all show one thing, some people are interested in the battle for the throne, so they are secretly purging the subordinates of these princes.

The thought that he might be involved in a palace struggle made Lei Luo feel furious, because these were the things he was not good at.