Tian Mang knew so much. The eldest princess was sentenced to death, the second prince was defeated and the prisoner was killed. The person who was robbed was the remnant of the second prince's party was soon executed. The Ministry of Justice explicitly ordered no one to discuss this matter privately. The Marquis asked him to ask him, and he remembered these details after he thought about it carefully.

Tian Mang thought to look at Cui Zhen: "Mr. Marquis, after you returned to Beijing, have you led troops to suppress several unrests? Those people may also be a little angry with you. When they were trapped in prison, they remembered that Mrs. Zhou was your wife who had not passed away, so they attacked Mrs. Zhou."

Cui Zhen's brows were even deeper. During the Second Prince's case, many officials in the capital were affected. The Imperial Concubine Party took the opportunity to eliminate dissidents, which made people panic. Several generals in the Beijing camp were forced to rise up and resist. He did not return to Beijing often in the Datong guarding and was not involved in these struggles. The emperor ordered him to lead troops to suppress the rebellion.

So is there any reason for Zhou's death?

Tian Mang was taken down, and Cui Zhen looked at Wang Jing: "Before the second prince's rebellion case, Cui Wei was injured in Datong and stayed in the lieutenant general for half a year."

Wang Jing said: "After Master Wei entered the officialdom, he followed the Marquis. He stayed in the capital for a long time."

Speaking of this, Wang Jing raised her head: "Did the Marquis suspect that the Second Master had a strange intention at that time?"

Cui Zhen was not sure. Perhaps Cui Wei had other plans earlier, but was just waiting for an opportunity.

Cui Wei stayed by his side, and wanted to find out the situation of Datong and the Northern Gang Guard. It can be seen from Cui Wei's affair with the deputy general that Cui Wei had long planned to take over Datong on his behalf.

Lin Sizhen has set up a spy in Yulinwei. Cui Wei can cooperate with Lin Sizhen if he takes Datong. If he adds the Northeast, he will get the entire northern border.

After losing the real Yulin Guard in Lin Temple, if they want to plan for the northern border, they need to capture Daning, Yongping Prefecture, and Yongping Prefecture are only 550 miles west of the capital.

The map of the northern border appeared in Cui Zhen's mind, so this time the exposing King Huai's ambition to fight for the throne was to eradicate the disaster for the Great Zhou, and did it put the Great Zhou in a more dangerous situation? This speculation is that the next person to take over the defense of the Northeast is the most suspicious.

Wei Yuanchen was at home and was investigating this case privately. Standing in secret, he was watching the changes, making it easier to see the overall situation clearly.

After calculating at least from the beginning of the case of Old General Zhao, those people have been arranged for more than ten years. The foundation can be imagined. Now, they can't be uprooted.

Cui Zhen closed his eyes slightly, it was the same as when he secretly asked about Cui Wei and saw what they were going to do.

"Marty," Wang Jing whispered, "The emperor has never summoned you to the palace. Have you become suspicious of you?"

Cui Zhen said: "When King Huai ordered officials to plead for me, the emperor should have suspicion. Now Cui Wei has made great contributions, and the emperor will be even more suspicious. Is it because I am too incompetent and not as good as my younger brother, and I can't see the strangeness of the Datongwei Institute, or is it that I deliberately concealed it to cover up for King Huai."

Wang Jing became nervous when she heard this: "What should the marquis do?"

Cui Zhen said lightly: "Before I returned to Beijing, I wrote a secret letter to the emperor. I will hand over the military power and ask the emperor to secretly investigate the Datong Guard Office. I did the same after entering Beijing. With this memorial first, the emperor will not completely lose trust in me. What I have to do now is to find out the case and arrest all Cui Wei and others."

After saying that, Cui Zhen stood up and said, "Let's go, this is not a temporary achievement. Only by seeing their plans can he take action." After saying this, he paused, "I asked someone to check what Cui Wei did when he was recuperating in Beijing six years ago and who he met."

Cui Zhen returned to Dingning Hou Mansion from the courtyard, returned to the main house to change his clothes, and told Zhang to rest early.

Mrs. Zhang was originally trying to mention the New Year's Eve in the mansion, but when she saw Cui Zhen leaving again, she couldn't help but look a little disappointed. However, this time Cui Zhen turned around and left the house as if she didn't see it.

Mrs. Zhang looked at Cui Zhen’s back. Is this happening that she didn’t know?

Cui Zhen sat in the study with his thoughts, looked carefully at the map for a while, and Tian Mang's words rang out in his ears.

What kind of personality does Zhou have? It is not as virtuous as the Zhou family said, nor is it as versatile as he knows and is very scheming.

Originally, he shouldn't have spent too much time on a dead man, but when he thought about the tragic situation between Zhou and Wei Yuanchen, he couldn't help but think more.

Cui Zhen suddenly remembered that after the Cui family got engaged with the Zhou family, the Zhou family gave him some things to serve as gifts. The manager's mother asked him to take a look. He was not interested in those things. When he saw a box of books in it, he asked the manager to stay.

At that time, he was plagued by military affairs and did not have the energy to see those things. Later, he was placed on the bookshelf.

After Zhou died, he buried Zhou in the Cui family according to etiquette. Naturally, the Zhou family could not take back the things, so where did the box of books go?

Cui Zhen knocked on the table and Wang Jing walked into the room.

"Come in charge, I want to find something in the mansion."

Wang Jing responded.

Cui Zhen continued, "Don't alarm others." He would not be noticed by Cui Wei.

After so many years, it is not easy to find a box of books in the huge Marquis’ mansion, and the Marquis can’t even remember what that box looks like.

Several managers did not dare to make a statement, so they simply did it themselves and searched through all the places where the books were placed in the Hou Mansion. Finally, they found the mahogany box in the corner of the warehouse. When they found it, the box fell full of dust. Fortunately, there were no traces of insects and rats biting.

The mahogany box was placed in front of Cui Zhen, and the manager breathed a sigh of relief: "The box is locked and no one has opened it, so somehow it was put away."

Cui Zhen's eyes passed by the small lock. He had long since lost the key to the box. In fact, he could pull it off with a little motivation, but the box might contain something from Zhou. Out of respect for Zhou, he still kept the object intact.

Cui Zhen ordered lightly: "Look for someone to unlock the lock!"

After a moment, the manager brought someone into the door. The man opened the lock with two bamboo sticks, and then bowed and retreated.

Cui Zhen was left in the study, and Cui Zhen slowly opened the box.

The boxes are indeed booklets.

Cui Zhen unfolded the book, and the small characters in the style of the Pavilion inside immediately came into view. This character was obviously not from Zhou's family, but should have come from Zhou's father, Zhou Zecheng, the youngest top scholar in the Zhou family.

Yes, they had not gotten married yet, and the Zhou family should not have sent Zhou's private property to the Cui family. It seems that the Zhou family wanted to impress Zhou's dead father at that time, in order to make him happy in the future.

Cui Zhen looked over the books in the box one by one, and his eyes finally fell on the booklet about gold and stone seal carving written by Zhou Zecheng. In front of the booklet was Zhou Zecheng's experience in gold and stone seal carving, and behind it was the pattern carved by Zhou Zecheng.

A Buddha lotus, the lotus is about to bloom and looks very beautiful.

Seeing this Buddha lotus, Cui Zhen's heart shrank and subconsciously touched his neck.

Cui Zhen's blood seemed to rush into his chest, and his chest was leaping wildly, followed by a rapid breathing sound.

He was too familiar with this Buddha lotus, it was the pattern carved on the piece of beeswax he had worn before.

The piece of beeswax was given to him by an old monk. If it weren't for such an opportunity, he might have been buried in the border. He admired the person who carved the beeswax very much from his heart, and regarded the beeswax as his beloved from the bottom of his heart.

Later he wore it as a talisman and kept wearing it around him until he gave it to Zhuzhu when he was in Shanxi.

I can't believe that he would have discovered the true identity of the man who carved the beeswax at this time.
Chapter completed!