The waterside pavilion was already in a mess, and the seats were arranged in order of official rank.
Lu Jinchuan was the second rank official. He was the head of the hundred officials together with several others, and his seat was closest to the emperor and others.
The subsequent third- and fourth-grade officials were relatively close to them, but the subsequent junior officials were far away from the Lu family and could no longer hear Lu Xinran's voice.
Many people didn't know that the Zhou family and his son were already dead. When they heard about Zhou Zhengya's accident, they were all as nervous and anxious as if their own daughter had died.
Tang Quyan and Song Junyan, one a minister of Dali Temple and the other a minister of Shuntian Prefecture, both stood up and left immediately.
The emperor's face was gloomy, but when he saw that the Queen Mother's expression was normal and she was not unhappy about being bumped into on her birthday, his expression softened a bit.
"Mother, my son will take you back to the palace first."
The Queen Mother hurriedly waved her hands. Lu Xinran had aroused a lot of curiosity in her that night, and now she wanted to see what happened.
No matter how good things were, something happened to the girl from the Zhou family.
"Queen, give the Ai family a hand and let's go take a look too."
The queen hurriedly stepped forward to hold the queen mother's arm, and they both walked towards the direction of the accident.
The emperor who was left behind touched his nose. He seemed to be disgusted!
He glanced in the direction of the Lu family and saw that Lu Xinran was still a little confused and didn't know what was going on.
"His Majesty……"
Eunuch Fu called out nervously, and the emperor gathered his nerves, his face darkened again, and he strode after him.
Lu Xinran was still confused. She didn't expect that her body was so drunk, and her sleepy brain was still a little unable to turn around.
When the waterside pavilion became a mess and the emperor and queen mother left one after another, she finally realized what had happened.
"Should we go over there and take a look?"
As she spoke, she had already helped Lu Xinlan's arm to stand up, but her head was still a little dizzy, and she almost fell over as she was shaking.
Lu Yuanheng stretched out his hand nervously, but thinking of the thoughts he just heard and seeing that she had stabilized her body, he retracted his hand in a dignified manner.
Lu Jinchuan had already waved his robe sleeves and strode away behind the emperor without even looking at the women at home.
Lu Xinran was supported by a servant and walked crookedly towards an originally secluded path.
Zhou Zhengya's body has been taken out of the lake. The wet dress was wrapped around him. His face was blue and his hair was messy. At this time, he was lying lifelessly on the ground. He was completely missing from the noble family in Beijing. Female appearance.
Wu Zuo was still on his way, but Tang Quyan, who had arrived first, had already rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to take a look.
"The preliminary inference is that he was hit on the back of the head with a blunt instrument, and then pushed into the lake and drowned."
While he was speaking, Song Junyan had also approached, squatting down and inspecting it carefully.
"Where's Tuesday Girl's maid?"
"Your Highness, slave, slave is here."
Two figures emerged from the crowd, all shivering, with panic on their faces.
"Why is your master here? When did you come here? Why?"
The two maids knelt down with a bang, "Go back to your highness, slaves, the slaves don't know, but someone handed the girl a note during the dinner.
"The girl left the water pavilion after seeing it. The slave wanted to follow, but the girl stopped her. The girl asked the slave to wait outside the water pavilion. If she didn't come back after half an hour, she asked the slave to go to Dingbo Pavilion to look for her.
"This slave has not seen the girl come back for a long time, so she and Qingye looked for her. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly..."
Hongmei was shaking as she spoke, causing people to fall to the ground.
Song Junyan and Tang Quyan looked at each other and were about to ask the other maid to repeat the story when a familiar voice came to their ears.
[No, this maid lied! 】
The scene fell silent for a moment, and Lu Xinran, who was being supported by someone, was still flipping through the system.
The emperor and the queen mother were still at the back of the crowd. When they saw Lu Xinran's figure, they hurriedly took a few steps forward and stood within ten steps of her.
[That note was obviously given to Zhou Zhengya by her. She knew who handed it to her, so why would she lie? 】
Song Junyan and Tang Quyan continued to look at each other, and they made a tacit choice to continue waiting for their voices to reveal more details.
But the voice in his heart was silent now. Song Junyan looked through the crowd and saw the owner of the voice fighting against Sleepyhead.
[This glutinous rice wine is fragrant and sweet. Why do you feel so sleepy after drinking it? 】
Lu Xinlan beside her was a little speechless. She had finished three bottles of wine by herself. After drinking so much, she just wanted to sleep. This already showed that the wine was not strong.
[No, no, I have to read the follow-up. I can’t let Zhou Zhengya bump into the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother is so good that she even gave me a reward today. 】
Then there was a burst of silly laughter, which made Lu Xinlan want to cover her head, but she didn't know how to start.
The Queen Mother looked at Lu Xinran, who was standing swaying in the crowd, and felt very sad.
"He is a good boy. The Ai family was indeed right."
It was just a string of Buddhist beads, not considered rare, yet she actually remembered it.
The queen's eyes were extremely gentle, "How could she not remember how kind the queen was to her?"
She was a pure and kind child, but few people treated her well in the past.
The Queen Mother looked at Pei and Zhao and couldn't help but shook her head. These two people... were still a little worse in their behavior.
Lu Xinran's eyes were about to close. She was so sleepy that she couldn't even open the booklets in the system.
[What is the name of this maid? 】
"You two, tell me your names."
Song Junyan, who knew that she needed a name to see the details, started to interrogate the moment this voice came out.
"My name is Hongmei."
"My name is Qingye."
[Hongmei, oh, yes, she was the one who lied just now. Let me see why she lied. 】
[The note, the note was handed to him by a little eunuch. What was the name of that little eunuch? 】
Song Junyan: "..."
Tang Quyan listened carefully for a moment and already understood the logic of Lu Xinran's investigation. If she didn't know the identity of the other party, she wouldn't be able to find out many things.
However, this can already help them a lot.
"Come here, take these two people down and interrogate them carefully. If anyone is found to be lying, they will be killed immediately."
"Yes, sir!"
"My lord, have mercy on me, my lord, have mercy on me!"
Hongmei panicked for a moment, knelt on the ground and kowtowed frantically.
"My slave, I made a mistake just now. I took that note from young Eunuch Chen."
"My slave, I made a mistake just now. I took that note from young Eunuch Chen."
Little Eunuch Chen?
Lu Xinran received the signal and immediately turned up the system, but...there are so many little Eunuch Chens, which one is the one who sent the note?
Tang Quyan's face turned stiff: "Young Master Chen, you are pointing this person out!"
Hongmei looked up in panic, trying to search for the other person in the crowd, but she couldn't find any familiar figure after looking for a week.
"Yes, it's young Eunuch Chen who serves Empress Tong in Anhua Palace."
