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Chapter 26 Lao Zhang's Motivation

Lao Zhang wanted to see Zhu You's complexion change, but unfortunately, he was disappointed, Zhu You just gave him an indifferent look, with a look of understanding in his eyes.

"tell me the story."

Perhaps it was Zhu You's calm reaction that disappointed him, but Lao Zhang was taken aback for a while before speaking.

"My master is also my cousin, Wang Tianbei, who was the chief priest of Dali Temple back then. He...he had the opportunity to become an official. He has been in Dali Temple for many years and assisted in solving countless cases, but it was all you! Your mother!!!!"

Lao Zhang's expression was exaggerated with anger, Zhu You frowned and said, "Although I don't deny that she is my biological mother, I don't need you to emphasize it. I don't like to hear it. You just need to state the facts."

Ye Ke put his gloves in his sleeves and leaned aside, looking like he was listening to an opera. She was not surprised by Zhu You's reaction, but it was Lao Zhang, who made Ye Ke confused. Going to kill someone?

"Even if he tried to be blocked, you wouldn't be able to do this, would you?"

Old Zhang's eyes were full of resentment, "What do you know?!"

"Back then, I was enjoying family happiness at home. On that day, my cousin came to join me alone, and he was drunk and confide in me. The resentment in his official career should have been promoted, but he was killed by the party and had to resign. , From now on, every time I think about it, I sigh that I have nowhere to show my talents, and then, seeing that I am young, my cousin is afraid that I will be brought into the coffin, so he taught me!"

At this time, Ye Ke probably understood a little bit. It is said that Wang Tianbei should have made a lot of contributions to the cracking of a major case in Dali Temple back then. Zhongliang was beheaded, and there were quite a few people involved at that time, Wang Tianbei probably got a chance at this time and escaped from the capital.

Thinking about it, it should have been written by Princess Qingyang at that time. Everyone in the Daxuan Dynasty Hall knew that Princess Qingyang was ambitious and controlled most of the cabinet. The imperial court has a decree that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, so Princess Qingyang began to flex her muscles in the cabinet at a young age.

Ye Ke quickly figured out the crux of the matter, and suddenly said: "So, you think that your cousin Wang Tianbei will come to join you and teach you skills, and then the bandits came to rob you. I vented everywhere and resisted the bandits, but the whole village was massacred in the end, the original reason was because of Princess Qingyang?"

Lao Zhang nodded his head, as a tacit consent.

"How did you escape from the bandits' knife?" Zhu You asked.

Old Zhang gritted his teeth and said, "That day, I went to the mountains to gather herbs, but I didn't find out until I returned to the village. Those goddamn bandits killed my relatives, those beasts!!!"

"Then why don't you seek revenge from those bandits?" Zhu You said.

Lao Zhang looked at him expressionlessly and said, "Are you looking down on me? Do you think I'm a coward? Don't dare to go find those bandits! I went, but at that time, the court had already wiped them out, and I saw them being killed. I killed them cleanly, and finally, after the people from the imperial court left, I burned that cottage with my own hands, and I want them to die without a whole body!!!"

It turned out that he burned the cottage, and Ye Ke finally understood, "Then I'm curious, why didn't you go directly to trouble Princess Qingyang? Instead, you came to deal with Zhu Yuan."

Lao Zhang said lightly: "I want her to taste the feeling of losing a loved one!"

Zhu You seemed to be in a bad mood, so he summoned the scribes, wrote the case, and asked Lao Zhang to charge him, and then took Ye Ke out of the dungeon.

Afterwards, the two returned to the Duke's Mansion, and Zhu You reported the case to the old lady Qin, which also made her understand who killed her grandson. Ye Ke heard it clearly, and Zhu You turned around and left. After entering the door, there was a low sound of crying from inside. It seemed that the old man was still very reluctant to part with his grandson.

In Ye Ke's yard, she made tea and asked, "My lord, you don't seem to be in a good mood?"

Zhu You's face showed no sadness or joy, but his words were a little melancholy and said: "Although elder brother is a bit harsh, his heart is not bad. Maybe this is his fate." Immediately, he sighed and said: " Tomorrow, I will pay homage to him, so that I can tell him the news that the murderer has been arrested, so that he can rest in peace under the spring."

"That, my lord"

"Just say it directly."

Ye Ke frowned and said, "My lord, don't you feel that something is wrong?"

Zhu Youdao: "Why?"

Ye Ke shook his head, put down the teacup in his hand, propped his chin with a pair of jade hands, his face was full of tangled expressions, he tilted his head slightly and said, "I can't say, I just feel something is wrong, maybe it's Lao Zhang's fault." Recognized. It's too simple?"

"When he made the bet, I noticed that his expression relaxed for a moment, as if he had completed something. Do you understand the feeling of the stone in his heart falling to the ground?"

Hearing Ye Ke's words, Zhu You recalled it for a while, with a clear expression on his face, "In your opinion, there is still an inside story in this case?"

Without answering Zhu You's words immediately, Ye Ke lay on the table for a while, then paced around the room, still having no idea, and finally opened the household registration book from Dongyue County Yashun, and suddenly said: "My lord !"

Zhu You's expression changed, and he hurriedly asked, "Did you find anything?"

Ye Ke smiled innocently and said: "Hey, no, I just want you to ask Xiaomei to cook something to eat, I'm hungry."

Zhu You walked away with a dark face, and after a while, he and Xiaomei came to the room with a bowl of lotus seed soup, and Ye Ke began to transform into a glutton without saying a word.

After the meal, the three of them chatted, Ye Ke's nose lingered a scent, his eyes began to search, and finally stopped on a white sachet on Xiaomei's waist.

"It smells so good, what a beautiful sachet!" Ye Ke praised, "Can you show me?"

"Naturally!" Xiaomei smiled, took off the sachet and handed it to Ye Ke.

It was a sachet embroidered with plum blossoms on a white background, and on the lower right corner of the sachet, there was a delicate character [Chen] embroidered on it.

"The maidservant's surname, we girls in Xishan Village have a habit of showing off a sachet like this when we arrive!" Xiaomei explained.

Ye Ke nodded and sighed in admiration, "What a delicate embroiderer, what a skillful hand." Immediately, Ye Ke said again: "What about Xiaozhu's, she is also from Xishan Village, what is embroidered on her? Woolen cloth?"

While tidying up the bowls and chopsticks, Xiaomei replied casually, "It's bamboo. Her surname is Zhang, so she embroiders the character [Zhang] naturally."

Looking at the 47 people in the household registration book of Xishan Village, the only one with the surname Zhang, Ye Ke raised his eyebrows and said, "Are you sure?"

(End of this chapter)