C233 (2/2)
”Fifth Prince.” The newly appointed Prime Minister Leng cupped his hands and said, ”Is it inappropriate for these thousands of soldiers to remain in the capital?”
”Why would it be inappropriate for them to escort This King all the way back to the capital and rest in the capital for a few days?”
”This …”
Mo Lianjin glanced at him sideways, and Prime Minister Leng immediately went silent, not daring to say another word.
Hei Qi brought his soldiers and headed towards the east mountain. His flute also followed along to arrange for the campsite to be set up.
When the soldiers were all gone, Mo Lianjin jumped down from the carriage and carefully helped Su Li off the carriage.
Just as Su Li stood still, two voices came from afar.
”Fifth brother, Fifth Sister-in-law …”
Mo Lianlang and Mo Chanyu ran over happily.
Mo Chanyu extended his arms to hug Su Li, but he was blocked by Mo Lianjin's cold expression, he could only stick his tongue out at Su Li, ”Fifth Sister-in-law, I knew that you would be fine.”
Su Li smiled at her.
Several officials braced themselves to urge her on. ”Your highness, wangfei, princess, if we don't get to the palace soon we'll be in trouble.”
Mo Lianjin indicated for Qing Mu not to follow, and sent Zhu Qian and Feng Jiu back to their Fifth Prince's Mansion.
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The group of people majestically boarded the carriage arranged by the palace, then headed towards the imperial palace.
Along the way, from Mo Lianlang's words, they found out that Prime Minister Zuo's family was in jail, and the dirty deeds done by the Zuo family had all been exposed. The Zuo family had already been expropriated, and all their wealth had been confiscated.
”Who's got the salt now?” Mo Lianjin asked.
”It is still in the hands of the crown prince.” Mo Lianlang was unaffected by this matter, and excitedly asked about the matters at the border.
Mo Lianjin didn't have much to say, so he explained the case with Lin Sanniang to them. and Mo Chanyu were so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths for a long time.
”Right.” Mo Lianlang then slapped his thigh, ”The reason the father is calling you back to the capital so urgently is because a strange case has also occurred in the capital.”
”What strange method?” Su Li was interested.
”I'm not too sure about the specifics either. The father suppressed the case, and very few people knew about it.” Mo Lianlang curled his lips, ”I only know that three officials from the imperial court have died, Vice Minister Wu from the Ministry of Rites, Meng Shaoqing from the Supreme Court, and the Minister Sun from the Ministry of Work.”
Su Li frowned, ”The justice court's Meng Shaoqing, is he Meng Qingning?”
”It's him.”
Su Li opened her mouth, and was startled for a moment. She had seen this Meng Qingning before, and he was not a bad person.
Mo Lianlang lowered his voice, ”I heard that every time the killer kills a person, he would leave a name on that person, and that name represents the person he wants to kill next. But no matter how you defend, that person will still die.”
Su Li and Mo Lianjin looked at each other, and suddenly felt that in the sky above the capital city, there was going to be another wave of blood rain.
”I also heard that when Minister Sun died, the name that was left on his body was Liu Chongming.”
Liu Chongming?
That was a Minister of the justice courts!
Su Li's scalp tingled. This Minister Liu had helped her a few times, she was not the type of person who would repay favors easily.
”How many days did Minister Sun die?”
”Three days.”
Su Li's pupils contracted, ”Is there a pattern to the time interval between each of the dead?”
Mo Lianlang thought about it seriously, ”After Vice Minister Wu died, Meng Shaoqing and Minister Sun died. The time between the three of them seemed to be five days.