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Dongfang Ze rolled his eyes. He pulled the cloth and said, "If I didn't come to see Seventh Brother, how would I dress like this? You actually started to make fun of me."

Mu Qianxue covered her lips and said with a smile, "The Nine Kings are so elegant and unrestrained. Even if they are dressed in cloth, it would still be difficult to conceal the noble aura that they are born with."

Dongfang Ze happily said, "The princess has good eyes. Unlike Seventh Brother, she only knows how to judge a person on the surface. She is very superficial."

"You!" Dongfang Qin smiled and shook his head. After Xia Yue served the tea, he cleared his throat and said, "I heard that today, you entered the palace with big brother and Yu Sanzhong. Did something happen in the Capital Prefecture?" Dongfang Ru had asked Yu to keep a low profile before investigating the case, so this matter had yet to be spread around Jinling City.

Dongfang Ze quickly put down the tea in his hand and said seriously, "As expected, the princess expected it. I dragged Big Brother to Jing Zhao Prefecture, and before we had said much, a guard came to report that Mother Ruan had hanged herself in her cell."

Mu Qianxue waved the hexagonal fan in her hand and said coldly, "Let me guess, Ruan Niang was killed by someone, right?"

"That's right. Because of the princess' warning, I carefully examined the bruises on Ruan Niang's neck. I discovered that there were two marks. One was a rope mark, and the other was not. The coroner has confirmed this point."

Dongfang Qing raised his eyebrows. "So you're saying that she was first killed, then disguised as suicide?"

"That should be the case. Seventh Brother, you didn't see Wei Jingcheng's expression at the time, it's as ugly as it can be. This case has been handed over to Yu Sanzhong for trial. He's Big Brother's man, watch and watch. There's going to be a good show." He was curious: "Princess, how did you know something would happen today?"

Only Dongfang Ze knew in his heart that he was intentionally pulling the messenger to the Residence of Beijing Zhao. Just one night ago, he suddenly received a secret letter from Mu Qianxue, telling him to make a trip to the Residence of Beijing Zhao with the messenger king at dawn, and to leave some time there. There was a high possibility that something would happen there, and the result was as expected.

Mu Qianxue slowly said, "After I found out that Wei Jingcheng was the Zhou Emperor's subordinate, I had sent someone to keep an eye on him. Last night, he left the Residence of Jing Zhao through the back door in the guise of a servant and went to the Glazed Glass Workshop at the end of the street."

Dongfang Wenshui frowned. "Glazed Workshop, what kind of place is that?"

"Seventh Brother, you have been either a military camp or a mansion. No wonder you don't know that the Glazed Light Workshop is famous in the Jin'ling Room, far more than the Emerald Pavilion."

"It's also a brothel?"

Dongfang Ze smiled strangely and said, "Although the girls inside are all beautiful, so far, I haven't heard of anyone who has the luck to be intimate with someone."

Xia Yue had been mumbling the words "glazed workshop" ever since. She finally remembered now and blurted out, "I remember now, last time I accompanied the princess to a street to buy a bracelet for the empress dowager. I saw it before. I heard Xu Li say that it was a music shop."

"That's right, all the girls there have unique musical instruments, and their skills are not for sale, which is very different from brothels. However, there are still many people who want them, and I heard that the Sect Leader of the Glazed Light Workshop, Miss Xing, has raised the price to fifty silver taels."

Xia Yue was shocked by what she heard. "So you're saying that Mr. Wei went to the Glazed Light Workshop to listen to music?"

Mu Qianxue shook her head and said, "If you want to listen to a song, you can go in broad daylight. Why would you need to dress up and sneak around? "Great Zhou did not have a rule that forbids officials from going to the brothel."

Xia Yue thought about it and said with a face full of doubt: "Since it's not for the sake of listening to music, then why are we going to the Glazed Glass Workshop?"

Mu Qianxue's eyes turned slightly, and her gaze fell onto the sunken expression on Dongfang Shou's face. "Your Highness, have you thought of something?"

Dongfang Wenshui's curled fingers slightly tightened. He looked at her for a moment and said: "You want to say that the Glazed Light Workshop belongs to royal brother as well?"

"Because of the matter with Jingyu, the various kings had been pressuring Wei Jingcheng to the point that he couldn't bear to speak. It just so happened that at this time, he disguised himself and went to the Glazed Grass Workshop. I think over and over again, I can only come up with one answer, and that is that the Glazed Glass Workshop has someone who can help him settle this matter."

Dongfang Ze suddenly said, "And the solution that Liu Li's Workshop gave us is to secretly kill Ruan Niang and then create a fake will that will cover all matters." As he said this, he sneered. "They thought that they had done it without anyone noticing, but they didn't know that all of this was within the Princess's expectations. Killing them all, however, is in keeping with Dongfang Qian's cold and heartless style. Seventh Brother, do you think?"

All these years, he had always believed that Dongfang Lun was an upright, honest, and kind person. However, the things that had recently happened had crossed that line in his heart again and again, reversing all of the things that he had known for so many years.

Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Dongfang Ze frowned and said with dissatisfaction, "Seventh Brother, don't tell me you still believe him even at this time?"

"No." Dongfang Zhi thought for a while and said, "We've already handed the matter of Ruan Niang over to Yu Sanzhong. For now, we don't need to interfere. Compared to that, I'm more worried about Ol 'Nine's situation. I've asked Sixteen to investigate for a few days but still couldn't find the origins of that group of people."

The reason Dongfang Ze came to King Rui's mansion disguised as a servant was to avoid the eyes and ears of the people who were monitoring him from the shadows. The cat's cry from before was a signal given by Number Sixteen, telling him that everything was safe and that the group of people did not discover him.

Mu Qianxue lowered her head and stroked the lifelike peony flower on her fan. "I suspect … Those are the people sent by the Zhou Emperor. "

Hearing this, both of their expressions changed. Dongfang Yi hurriedly asked, "Princess, do you mean that royal brother is beginning to suspect Ninth Brother?"

Mu Qianxue indifferently said, "From the words of the nine kings today, it is clear that the letter king isn't suspicious of him. As for the other dukes, I have also asked nineteen other dukes to investigate them, but none of them are suspicious.

"Doesn't this mean that Ninth is in a very dangerous situation?"

"From the current situation, it would appear that Emperor Zhou is merely suspecting Chu Feng. There is still no conclusive evidence. Else, it would not be as simple as surveillance."

Dongfang Ze felt relieved and said coldly, "Luckily, Seventh Brother found out in time. Otherwise, they might have found out that the Easterners were hiding in my residence by now."

Mu Qianxue said with sunken eyes, "I'm afraid they aren't willing to give up at this point."

Dongfang Ze disapprovingly said, "So what if they don't want to? Don't tell me they can break into my house and search?" He was both the prince and the direct descendant of the late emperor. On the surface, even the Zhou Emperor wanted to teach him a lesson. Who would dare to barge into the Mu King's manor and cause trouble?

However, Mu Qianxue wasn't as optimistic as him. "I'm afraid that it's easier to dodge an arrow than an arrow."