Stepmother Shaoguang

Chapter 88 The mastermind behind the scenes
Lu Xiaowen walked over quickly, just now he turned his back to Lu Mingyan, his reaction was not as fast as He Shaoguang's, she actually jumped off immediately.

Lu Xiaowen hugged him, and quickly walked towards the carriage, which contained clean spare clothes.

He Shaoguang briefly changed his clothes on the carriage. Although his hair was still stinky, he felt a little more comfortable.

Lu Xiaowen stood guard at the door, and when she heard that she was well, she brought the children in.He had just helped Lu Mingyan change his clothes and dry his hair.

"Let's rest on Zhuangzi today, and return to the mansion tomorrow. I have sent someone over to guard you tonight, and escort you back tomorrow, and I will pick you up again."

Lu Xiaowen took the towel from her hand and wiped her from behind.

"You're not with us?"

He Shaoguang wanted to turn his head to look at him, but he turned back: "Wipe your hair, don't move."

"We captured the man alive, and listened to what he said. We didn't guess the direction deeply enough before. Tonight, we will interrogate him overnight. Tomorrow... we will throw him at the gate of Xiao's house."

Throw people at the door of Xiao's house as a warning.

"So soon you are sure that it was sent by the Xiao family?"

There are quite a lot of princes in the palace, right?He Shaoguang thought it was the second or fourth prince who was not favored, and wanted to fight for it.

The Fifth Prince is already a popular candidate for the Crown Prince, so there's no reason to be in such a hurry?

"It should be the private soldiers raised by Xiao Chongdao. He has trained many in the name of official duties. In addition to the obvious ones, we also found the hidden guards."

"I'm afraid those in the palace... also participated." He Shaoguang whispered, "The Fifth Prince has won the Sacred Heart, why are they so anxious?"

"Not only in the palace, but the prince who is far away in Yanzhou also has some cooperation with them." Lu Xiaowen's face was gloomy. It’s clear. Later, Xiao Yan went to Yanwang’s mansion, which tied the Xiao family and Yanwang together.”

"So Xiao Chongdao loves his daughter so much? How dare he even tell her about beheading?"

He Shaoguang clicked his tongue. Although Xiao Chongdao seemed to be forced to board the boat, it turned out that the Xiao family was the most powerful, gaining the support of the First Prince and even the King of Yan.

Xiao Yan's move is really the key...

"Why did they kill you?"

He Shaoguang was puzzled, Lu Xiaowen was a royalist, and the Xiao family tried to win him over through Xiao Yan, but failed.

It's true that Lu Xiaowen is their biggest resistance now.

But even if they want to rebel, it's too early to kill Lu Xiaowen now.

The fifth prince is fledgling, ascending to the throne, there is no guarantee that he will not become a puppet.

"Recently, the sage has praised King Qi one after another, and let him directly take over Xue Ran's case, saying that he is learning something. If King Qi really finds out something..."

King Yan, Xiao Family, Concubine Shu, Fifth Prince...

Like dominoes, one lead will move the whole body.

"I see, then you are all right to go back, where is the saint?"

Can Concubine Xiao Shu and the fifth prince still get along well?
Lu Xiaowen found out about the royal scandal, can the Lu family survive the torrent?
"You can't directly talk to the saint about this." Lu Xiaowen obviously thought of this, "I will tell the saint that we encountered bandits fleeing from the north, and we have wiped out all of them."

"Okay." He Shaoguang said softly.

The carriage wobbled, and Lu Mingzhen couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep.

Lu Mingyan listened to their conversation quietly. Outside the car, dozens of personal guards escorted them back to the Zhuangzi. Aunt Jiang, Rong Jin and Guanshi Chen all stood guard at the door, looking anxious.

"The second master is back, is the second master injured?" Aunt Jiang excitedly squeezed Rong Jin's hand, and took a step forward, "Brother Yan is also back, hurry up, give Rong Jin a hand."

Rong Jin was pushed forward by her, just bumped into He Shaoguang who came down from the carriage, a little embarrassed.

Rong Jin greeted her with a smile, first reached out to help her down, and then went to help Lu Mingyan.

Lu Mingzhen was hugged by Lu Xiaowen and fell into a deep sleep.

Zhijun and Nijun... It was only then that He Shaoguang suddenly remembered that his two maidservants hadn't been around all this time. Did any other assassins abduct them?
Lu Xiaowen comforted her: "Don't worry, the two servant girls are clever, and no one bothered to take care of the two servants. It was they who took advantage of the chaos and ran back to the mansion and brought these rescuers for me."

He Shaoguang breathed a sigh of relief.

Today, he has been dealing with the assassin in fear all day, pretending to be relaxed, but in fact he is extremely nervous, and can only take care of himself and the two children beside him.

In fact, today it happened that because Lu Xiaowen was in the same car with them, the two maids went to another car with Yuanjin and the others to squeeze together.

But the assassin only paid attention to Lu Xiaowen's car, so he escaped.

Aunt Jiang was also a little embarrassed when she saw He Shaoguang, she walked back silently and saluted.

"Okay, let's all go in. Madam was shocked today, so don't bother her."

Lu Xiaowen spoke, but before Aunt Jiang could say a word to Lu Xiaowen, she could only silently watch him enter the room with He Shaoguang on his arm.

"Mother also knows about today's events. When I go back tomorrow, I will take Ming Yan and the others to say hello."

Lu Xiaowen ordered someone to boil hot water, and let her and Lu Mingyan take a hot bath respectively.

"It's natural. Your wound needs to be bandaged again. Is there a doctor in Zhuangzi? Let him take a look at it for you."

Lu Xiaowen nodded, indeed he is busy tonight.

He took a deep look at He Shaoguang and went out.

To be honest, he was surprised that He Shaoguang would jump off today.

Because even if she didn't jump down, he wouldn't feel anything.

Anyway, both sides are his personal guards, and soon someone will go down to fetch Lu Mingyan, and they will not be able to choke.

Today, she has the guts to lead the two children around for so long, and she has already made him look up to her, and even risked herself to dive to save others...

Ordinary people don't say they are women, even young and middle-aged men can't help being a little weaker when they meet someone with a knife, let alone being taken captive.

Thinking about this, Lu Xiaowen ordered Chen Guanshi and the others in a deep voice: "No one is allowed to spread the news today. Madam and Miss just rested in Zhuangzi for a day, understand?"

In order to protect the reputation of his wife and children, he forbids others to gossip.

In addition to the assassination on He Shaoguang's side, King Qi's investigation was also blocked one after another.

First, Luo Yunde sent someone out of the city with the portrait, and went along the road to find the informant who injured Xue Ran that day, but was found by his subordinates that the informant had hanged himself in a Taoist guest room in the western suburbs.

The thread is broken here.

On the other hand, after King Qi took over, he sent people to inquire in the city about all the people the informant had contacted, conspicuous and inconspicuous, and brought them one by one into the prepared interrogation room for questioning.

Among them are the clerk of the steamed stuffed bun shop, the boy of the Ma Cao shop, the shopkeeper and waiter of the Honglou Tavern... and even Ge Dapang, the manager of the back kitchen of Mingyuelou.

King Qi didn't pay much attention to the others, but he became interested in this Mingyuelou's Ge Dapang.

(End of this chapter)