First Lady of the Crown Prince

  Chapter 694 Return of the National Teacher

   "No."

  Gu Jiao denied.

  Mu Qingchen looked at her coldly, trying to see even the slightest flaw and guilty conscience from her eyes, but Mu Qingchen was disappointed.

  If Gu Jiao is asked to act in love, hatred, and hatred, it might be able to flash blind people’s eyes and make her not guilty. This is a true performance.

   flaws?

impossible.

  It’s just that Gu Jiao’s lack of guilty conscience and Mu Qingchen’s disbelief are two different things. Mu Qingchen is not as foolish as Li Sande, and there is no logical blind zone in his thinking that can be guided at will.

  He has his own inference and will not be affected by Gu Jiao.

   He clenched the hilt of the sword in his hand, his eyes were ice-like: "You won't save Nangong Li, you have only one possibility at the scene, you killed him!"

  Mu Qingchen has been with this classmate for so long, not to mention knowing each other well, but he can also see that he is definitely not a person who retaliates with virtue.

  Since he had a long time with Nangong Li, how could he risk being treated as a killer to rescue him?

  It's the kindness of this classmate who didn't make up for Nangong Li.

  Gu Jiao spread her hands: "You say yes."

Mu Qingchen kept squeezing the hilt of the sword in his hand, his anger seemed to have reached a certain peak, in fact, he couldn't tell what he was angry with. He was simply angry that he was doing evil in Shengdu, assassinating the famous general of Yan, or angry that he has always been against him. I conceal a lot of things and never treat each other frankly.

  "Who are you? What is your purpose in coming to Yan State?"

  Gu Jiao did not speak.

   Mu Qingchen became even more angry. Compared to arguing with herself, asking herself why she didn't believe him, the other party's attitude of not wanting to say anything was the most maddening.

   Mu Qingchen gritted his teeth and said: "Why don't you speak? Did you admit it?"

  Gu Jiao looked at him and said calmly, “I’m going in there for nothing else. I’m going to fight another day. I don’t want to do it at the door of my house.”

   After all, Gu Jiao turned around and raised her hand to push the courtyard gate without even looking at the long sword that lay across her neck.

  Mu Qingchen said coldly: "You stand still! If you don't speak clearly today, don't blame me for doing it to you!"

  Gu Jiao ignored him, and the gate of the courtyard had been pushed open by Gu Jiao.

   Seeing Gu Jiao's threat and anger turned a deaf ear to him, an unknown fire rose from the bottom of Mu Qingchen's heart. He raised the long sword in his hand and stab Gu Jiao's back.

  Gu Jiao didn't want to fight with Mu Qingchen, but just avoided a little sideways.

  Mu Qingchen was determined to force Gu Jiao to do it. He quickly made a second move.

  At this moment, there was a rush of small footsteps in the yard, and came to the door.

   "Jiaojiao, are you back?"

   crunch——

  The courtyard door was opened, and Xiao Jingkong’s little head was stretched out!

  Mu Qingchen's eyes trembled, and she closed her sword abruptly!

   But there was still a trace of sword energy that could not be taken back in time.

  Only one slit was opened at the courtyard gate, if someone was caught out, they would be injured; if they were pushed in, they would fall again.

  Said it is too late, then it is fast, Gu Jiao stepped forward, bending over to protect the small clear space, blocking the sword energy.

  Mu Qingchen didn't kill him either, not to mention having collected most of it. This is just a trace of the remaining sword energy, but for this, Gu Jiao was still cut in the back.

  The clothes were torn apart, revealing a small piece of ice muscle and bones and a ring of corsets tightly wrapped around her front.

  Mu Qingchen was taken aback for a while, he only felt that the small patch of skin was dazzling, and he didn't even bother to think about the circle of cloth wrapped around Gu Jiao.

  He turned around, his mind buzzed for some reason.

Xiao Jingkong didn't see Mu Qingchen outside the door. He thought that only Gu Jiao was back, and he wanted to call Jiaojiao. Gu Jiao raised an index finger and gently pressed it on his small mouth.

  Mu Qingchen wanted to turn around, but inexplicably resisted, he squeezed the long sword in his hand, and whispered in a low voice: "I will find out the truth and find evidence. If it is really you, then I will not tolerate it!"

   After finishing speaking, he held the sword, his eyes deep into the night.

  Gu Jiao closed the courtyard door to prevent Xiao Jingkong from seeing her back, otherwise the little guy should be worried again.

Xiao Jingkong tilted her head and said, "Jiaojiao, who was outside just now? I didn't understand what he said."

   "Nothing, a classmate who sent me back." Gu Jiao touched his little head, "Why are you here?"

   Xiaojingkong said: "The college is on holiday, my brother-in-law sent me here!"

  Gu Jiao asked, "Your brother-in-law is there?"

   Xiao Jingkong shook his head, and said, "He was there at noon. Now he is going out. He said he will pick me up tomorrow, or Brother Chengfeng will pick me up!"

  Xiao Heng specially sent Xiaojingkong here, there should be important things to do.

  Gu Jiao guessed right, Xiao Heng was indeed going to work.

  Gu Chengfeng is also there.

  Xiao Heng first sent Xiao Jingkong to Gu Jiao's side and handed it over to Master Nan and Master Lu. Then he went to Tianxiang Pavilion and returned to the inner city with Gu Chengfeng.

  Gu Jiao didn't tell anyone about her plan to assassinate in the palace, but Xiao Heng could guess it.

  The two people who know Gu Jiao best in the world, one is Gu Yan and the other is Xiao Heng.

  From the moment Nangong Li left the city to look for Gu Jiao, the two had already focused on him.

  Gu Chengfeng followed his carriage all the way, while Xiao Heng first sent Xiao Jingkong to Nan Shiniang and Master Lu.

  After Nangong Li left the Tianqiong Academy, he went straight to the palace.

  Gu Chengfeng and Xiao Heng did not dare to chase too close. Fortunately, Nangong Li did not dare to park the carriage too close to the palace in order not to be spotted.

  Nangong Li contacted a palace eunuch, hid in a box where he bought ingredients, and sneaked into the palace.

  Nangong Li's confidant guard stayed in the carriage and waited.

News of Nangong Li’s death did not come out so quickly. It was not until the evening that the confidant guard heard from passers-by that General Nangong had been killed in the palace.

  Others don’t know the inside story, how can the confidant guard know?

  Nangong Li went to kill the student at Tianqiong Academy. If something happened to Nangong Li, that student must have been killed!

  The confidant guard hurriedly drove the carriage to report to the people of Nangong's family.

  It's not easy to get started on the street.

  Xiao Heng spread the map of the inner city and said to Gu Chengfeng: "Go east."

  Gu Chengfeng drove the carriage and said, “Don’t make a mistake!”

  Xiao Heng said: "It can't be wrong."

  They crossed an alley east, and happened to meet the carriage of the confidant guard head-on. The confidant guard seemed to notice that they were being watched, and turned around and passed through another alley.

  Xiao Heng looked at the direction of the alley and said, "Turn around and go to Nanyu Street."

  Finally, the two blocked their confidant guards at the corner of Nanyu Street.

  Get rid of him, and no one knows why Nangong Li entered the palace today.

  ……

  Nangong Li’s death caused an uproar in Shengdu. There are three major doubts about this matter. First, why did Nangong Li appear in the palace? There is no record of his entering the palace at the gate of Mingming Palace. In other words, he entered the palace secretly.

  Nangong’s servant said that he had gone out with a guard named Liu Dong.

  The Criminal Department immediately sent people to search for the guard named Liu Dong, but found that Liu Dongheng had died on the street.

   was stabbed by someone with a hidden weapon and killed with one blow.

  The murderer apparently possessed very powerful anti-reconnaissance capabilities. No clues were left on the scene, and no witnesses were found nearby.

  As soon as there was a breakthrough, the case fell into a deadlock.

  The second most suspicious point is the three eunuchs who died at the scene of the crime.

  Two of these three are from the Imperial Dining Supervisor, and the other is from the Palace of Zhonghe. The three of them do not meet in private, and they are not close to each other, so they will appear there together somehow.

  There are sacks and ropes around them, and they look like they are going to grab something.

  And after an autopsy, it is speculated that they were shocked to death by Nangong Li’s internal force.

  "Why can't it be the internal force of the murderer?" In the morgue, Dali Temple asked him.

  Shangshu of the Criminal Department is also there, and he is also quite curious about it.

  Dezaku said: "The young man has also performed an autopsy on General Nangong. General Nangong has no internal injuries. The young man dares to speculate that the murderer has no internal strength."

  Dali Temple frowned and said: "Without internal strength, but you can kill the famous Nangong general with a branch, old man Sun, do you understand what you are talking about? Could it be you who made a mistake?"

   Dozuo said in a humble manner: "The small post-mortem has been done for dozens of years, and I dare not say that I have never missed it. If adults don’t believe me, you can also find another post-mortem for General Nangong’s autopsy."

  Dali Temple Qing naturally found it.

  The result is consistent with that of Old Man Sun’s autopsy.

   "If he kills General Nangong without using internal force, then killing three eunuchs is not even necessary." Based on this reason, Wu Zuo concluded that the internal force for the death of the three people came from Nangong Li.

  So, the third most suspicious point of the case appeared-who on earth could easily kill Nangong Li without internal power or using internal power at all?

  Qing Yang Chang of Dali Temple and Dong Wei, Shangshu of the Criminal Department, checked all day and night, but found nothing.

  Qing Yang Chang of Dali Temple said: “Obviously that Liu Dong is the best breakthrough. As long as he asks what Nangong Li did in the palace, the truth of the case can be easily solved.”

  Shangshu of the Criminal Department Dong Wei said: "People are dead, and it's useless to talk about it."

  Dali Temple and the Xing Department are both in the outer face of Duanmen, except that Dali Temple is to the west and the Xing Department is to the east.

   Seeing that the day is about to dawn, it is impossible to return to the house to rest. I can only go to the government office to change clothes and prepare to face the monarch to report the case.

  When he was about to part ways, Yang Chang saw Dong Shangshu's face in thought, and he couldn't help asking: "What are you thinking?"

  Dong Shangshu said: “I’m thinking, who actually killed Nangong Li? Or killed him in the palace. It feels like...”

   "What is it like?" Yang Chang asked.

Dong Shangshu shook his head: "I don't have any conclusive evidence, but when I stood at the crime scene and looked at Nangong Li's body and the branch that was thrown at the scene, I seemed to feel a vengeful killing intent. "

  This is one of Dong Shangshu's abilities. He is a judge with a keen intuition for cases. His intuition is accurate in most cases.

  They once arrested a murderer in a serial murder, and they had no clue. However, once the murderer and Dong Shangshu ran into the street. With a glance, Dong Shangshu pointed to the man and said, "He is the murderer."

  So, when Dong Shangshu said that the other party was taking revenge, Yang Chang did not immediately deny this statement.

  Yang Chang thoughtfully said: "Has Nangong Li offended anyone?"

  Dong Shangshu said: "You should ask, who among the people that Nangong has offended can easily kill him? Have you carefully observed the shape of that branch? Do you think it looks like a spear?"

  Yang Chang recalled, nodded and said, “Yes, the front end is sharpened, and the length is close to that of a spear.”

  Dong Shangshu said: "As far as I know, the only thing that can achieve such power without internal force is the Xuanyuan family's marksmanship."

Yang Chang frowned: "You mean... was Nangong Li killed by the Xuanyuan family? All the Xuanyuan family members died, and only one former maiden was abolished by martial arts. You infer this fundamentally. invalid."

  Dong Shangshu pondered for a moment, and said, "What if...anyone who is lucky enough to survive?"

  Yang Chang said confidently: “Nothing in case, don’t forget, the bodies of everyone in the Xuanyuan family have been examined one by one, and the coffins were nailed to death for the two brothers Jing Shizi to carry away.”

  Dong Shangshu said with a solemn expression: "Xuanyuansheng, I thought of him inexplicably when I saw the murder weapon in the daytime."

Yang Chang said amusedly: "It's even more unlikely that he was a murderer. Of all the sons in the Xuanyuan family, he was the one who died the most miserable. He was nailed to the tower by his own red tasseled spear. Ten thousand arrows pierced his heart and died. Hanging on the tower for a whole month. Jing Shizi almost ran out of family wealth before returning to Xuanyuan Jiaerlang's corpse, as long as there is a living mouth, Jing Shizi does not have to do that step.

  Jing Shizi, today's Anguo Gong.

Yang Changdun stayed in step, patted Dong Shangshu on the shoulder, and said with earnest words: "Old Dong, I understand that you were promoted by the Xuanyuan family in your early years, and you have always been worried about not begging for the Xuanyuan family back then, but you too It should be understood that you personally took over the case, and the Xuanyuan family did rebel. As the imperial order officer, you and I must not be with the rebels, and you must not perish for justice. You mentioned the Xuanyuan family in front of me today. He didn't hear anything. You must be silent before your Majesty, and don't touch your Majesty's mold."

   "Lao Yang." Dong Shangshu stopped him, who turned to the direction of Dali Temple.

  Yang Chang looked back at him: "What's the matter?"

  Dong Shangshu's expression is complicated: "That thing...really did not do it wrong back then?"

  Yang Chang asked: "What do you mean?"

  Dong Shangshu said: "You know."

  Yang Chang's eyes sank, and he said with a serious face: "Old Dong, you just have to remember that what the top ten families do... is righteous!"

  ……

  Nangong Li’s death caused an uproar among the family. Although Nangong Li was not the eldest son of the Nangong Patriarch, he was better than the older brother above. The Nangong Patriarch had always been trained by him as his heir.

  Unexpectedly, he was killed in the palace.

  Nangong Patriarch Lei Ting was furious and pressured the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple to find the murderer within three days!

  However, this is impossible. Not to mention that they have no clue now, or they have a clue, and they can’t thoroughly investigate this murder case with great fanfare.

  Because the monarch’s birthday is coming.

  Shengdu was busy celebrating the monarch’s birthday. This junky Admiral Nangong’s fierce murder case caused a lot of trouble. Are you looking for bad luck for the monarch?

  Not to mention that Nangong Li sneaked into the imperial palace privately, and somewhat irritated the monarch.

  After the monarch’s birthday banquet is over, they will conduct a high-profile investigation.

  ……

  Gu Jiao didn't know anything about what happened to the DPRK. She went to the academy as usual.

  Mu Qingchen also came to class.

  He still sits in the second position in the last row near the right back door.

  The first one is the position of Gu Jiao.

  Everyone has long been accustomed to Mu Qingchen and Gu Jiao at the same table, and no one felt wrong to see him sitting there.

  Only Gu Jiao clearly felt that Mu Qingchen's aura had changed, and he looked at Gu Jiao with a very guarded look.

  Gu Jiao sat down without changing her face.

  Zhou Tong, who was in the front row of her, turned around and looked at Erren with a grin: "Sure enough, you still have a lot of face in Liulang. When you come back to class, Young Master Qingchen will also come."

  Yes, the face is big enough, so big that the first son of Shengdu came to watch her personally.

   Mu Qingchen did not speak, her aura was terribly cold.

  Zhou Tong's neck shrank, covering his face with a book, and whispering to Gu Jiao: "What's the matter with Mr. Qingchen? Are you unhappy?"

  Gu Jiao thought, just your voice can be heard in half of the classroom. What else do you use the bookend?

   "Ask him yourself." Gu Jiao said.

  Zhou Tong curled his lips, he didn't dare to ask.

   Zhou Tong turned to the front and said: "Hey, Liu Lang, did you see the monarch when you entered the palace yesterday? Is the twelve thousand flowers worth it?"

  "What ten thousand taels?" Gu Jiao's focus is always on gold.

   Zhou Tong said: "It's all spreading outside, and the prize for the second place is ten thousand taels. Even the young man in our college said that."

  Gu Jiao took out the book in the bag: "One thousand taels."

  If it were ten thousand taels, Mu Chuan had already been buried alive by her.

  No, she wants to bury Muchuan alive now.

   Forget it, because I took this opportunity to kill Nangong Li, and I will bury him later.

The birthday banquet of the monarch was scheduled for the tenth day of June. The officials of the fourth rank and above in the court hall and the Zanying family in Shengdu received banquet posts.

  Just the day before the banquet started, Gu Jiao heard a message she had been waiting for.

  The national teacher returned to Shengdu.

  (End of this chapter)