Uncle, don't overdo it

"This Marquis is not too clear either." Ximen Jingyu was vague, until now he still didn't know what Lin Xiner was going to do.

"Take this corpse and go to Xiaoyaohou Mansion with me."

Upon hearing the news that Xiaoyaohou's Mansion was on fire, Ximen Jingxuan glanced at the man's corpse in front of him and said.

His people found this corpse at the foot of Sunset Cliff yesterday evening. Since one of the roads at the fork leads to Sunset Cliff, his people also found it there.

The sky was getting dark, and the tread marks on the surrounding grass were blown away by the strong wind, and no other suspicious traces could be discerned, so his men secretly brought the body back to Prince Xuan's Mansion.

After a secret investigation, Ximen Jingxuan confirmed that the corpse came from the Xiaoyaohou Mansion. It was very suspicious that Ximen Jingyu's people committed suicide in such a remote place under the sunset cliff, and the sudden fire in the Xiaoyaohou Mansion was even more suspicious. Doubt.

Ximen Jingxuan even decided to take the corpse to see Ximen Jingyu.

When Ximen Jingxuan passed by, Ximen Jingyu was living in a tavern with the people who had escaped from the Xiaoyaohou Mansion.People coming and going at the door kept stopping, looking inward at the embarrassed royal family, and when they saw Ximen Jingxuan approaching, they quickly moved away.

Ximen Jingxuan first stood at the scene of the extinguished fire and observed it for a while, then walked silently into a nearby tavern, and came to Ximen Jingyu.

"Brother Four Emperors, what do you think about this fire?" Ximen Jingxuan asked.

Ximen Jingyu stood up from his chair, walked to the entrance of the tavern, looked at the Xiaoyaohou Mansion ruins that were still burning with sporadic sparks not far away, shook his head and sighed, "I don't know which slave accidentally caused the fire, Hou The mansion has been destroyed, so what's the point of finding out? Benhou didn't intend to catch fire, so let him live."

"Brother Four really has a compassionate heart." Ximen Jingxuan signaled his subordinates to carry the man's body in front of Ximen Jingyu, "This person committed suicide bizarrely. I wonder if Brother Huang thinks his death is related to this fire?"

"Isn't this the Erbao?" Ximen Hai came over, said the name of the person first, knelt down, and checked the fatal injuries of the person, "Did he commit suicide by cutting his neck?"

"That's right, my people found his body near Sunset Cliff, and the situation at that time was to commit suicide with a knife." Ximen Jingxuan said.

"Looking at the incision mark on the knife edge, it really looks like it was left by suicide, but how could Er Bao commit suicide when he was doing well?" Ximen Hai stood up and asked in doubt.

"This is exactly what this king came to discuss with the emperor." Ximen Jingxuan said.

"Who exactly is trying to harm our Hou Mansion?" Mrs. Hou said from the side, "This Er Bao is usually very honest. He is a handyman in the Hou Mansion. If Hai'er hadn't said his name, I would have killed him." I don’t even know what it’s called.”

"Hai'er only knew his name after letting him feed the horse once." Ximen Hai said.

That is to say, that person is an inconspicuous character in the Hou Mansion?

"It must be a secret work hidden somewhere in the Hou's mansion." Ximen Jingyu judged, among all the people, only he himself knows how much this inconspicuous handyman has been reused by him again and again, but this time he died in the In the hands of that fake Lin Xiner!

"My lord, my lord!" The person in charge of investigating the scene ran over to Ximen Jingxuan and Ximen Jingyu and cupped their hands.

"What did you find?" Ximen Jingxuan asked.

"From the fierceness of the fire and the difficulty of extinguishing it, as well as the small amount of inclusions in the ashes, this subordinate concludes that this fire was caused by a unique thing in the Yuehua Kingdom that allows firewood to continue burning." The subordinate reported. reports.

"Scorching sun oil?" Ximen Jingxuan was stationed in southern Xinjiang for a generation, and quickly thought of such a thing.

In the Yuehua Palace, there is a magic weapon specially used for sacrificial offerings, called scorching sun oil, as long as a small amount is added to the firewood, the sacrificial fire can be made to burn stronger and last longer.

This kind of thing was used to burn Xiaoyaohou's Mansion, and it was obvious that the person who set the fire reported his determination to completely destroy the Hou's Mansion.

"Exactly." The subordinate nodded affirmatively.

"People from Yuehua Kingdom sneaked into the capital and set fire to the Hou Mansion?" Ximen Jingxuan cast a questioning look at Ximen Jingyu.

"This... I don't know too well." Ximen Jingyu wiped off his cold sweat.

Lin Xiner just told him in advance that the Marquis Mansion would be set on fire in the name of Yuehua Nation, but she didn't expect that Ximen Jingxuan's recognition would bring him worry from the bottom of her heart. Now, seeing the entire Hou Mansion reduced to a pile of rubble, he felt as guilty as a thief.

Strategizing is what Ximen Jingyu has always hoped to grasp, but in the face of this sudden fire, the bargaining chip he had built in his heart seemed to collapse.

"Yuehua Nation?" On the contrary, Mrs. Hou retorted calmly, "Our Hou Mansion has never cared about world affairs. What are the people of Yuehua Nation asking us to do? When did we offend them?"

"Report to the lord, this subordinate found these things in the Hou Mansion." Another subordinate ran over and showed Ximen Jingxuan a bunch of things.

"Where did you find this?" Ximen Jingxuan picked up one of them, the scorched cloth strips, occasionally there were one or two pieces that were not burned, which seemed to be light green with a layer of gray.

"It's in the dry well in the garden of the Hou Mansion." The subordinate replied.

Due to the lower terrain in the well, the fire above was avoided, and the contents inside were not directly burned to ashes.

"Green ribbon?" Mrs. Hou looked at the strip-shaped thing in her subordinate's hand, and couldn't help blurting out.

Ximen Jingyu was also stunned, how could there be such a thing in the dry well in his garden?

The green ribbon is the token of his second and third brothers eight years ago when they rebelled and seized the throne. In order to distinguish them from those who were loyal to the emperor, the person wearing the green ribbon became a symbol of the rebels. At that time, his mansion also prepared A pile of green ribbons, but seeing that the situation was not good, they were all destroyed in advance. How could they find residues in the dry well now?

"Brother Huang, you need to explain something to me." Ximen Jingxuan put the scrap of cloth back into the hands of his subordinates, and said to Ximen Jingyu with deep meaning, "The newlywed concubine who was kidnapped by this king was ordered to track down the carriage. But after returning in vain, yet another handyman died near Sunset Cliff, and the Xiaoyaohou Mansion caught fire and accidentally discovered these things that should not have appeared, Brother Huang must have a unique opinion in his heart."

"It's been eight years. It's been eight years since that incident. How could it be mentioned again?" Madam Hou's face flashed with panic. People who keep secrets in their hearts live in fear all the time, especially in Anwen. After several years, they were suddenly raised again, as if God still refused to let them go, as if they were facing the danger of doomsday again, and could no longer hide the panic in their hearts.