While they were eating noodles, Cheng Liang, who had gone to the west of the city to search, came over with his people. The west of the city was the farthest from Zhongchengfang City, and poor people lived in the west of the city. It was a mess. Cheng Liang and others found no clues after searching.

He came back quickly.

Zhao Zhao and the others were nowhere to be seen in the distance, so he looked around and saw a noodle shop emitting warm smoke and smoke. Who would have thought that they were really here.

"Ouch, the guest is here? What can we have something to eat?" Cheng Liang was walking into the noodle shop. When the quick-eyed proprietress saw it, she waved her handkerchief to meet him.

Zhao Zhao lowered his head to eat noodles. As soon as he raised his head, he saw Cheng Liang leading someone inside. He quickly wiped his mouth: "Cheng Liang!"

When Zhao Zhao saw Cheng Liang coming, he was filled with joy, thinking that he had made some discoveries after being gone for so long.

"General Zhao...Zhao Zhao!" Cheng Liang saw Zhao Zhao and hurriedly went to greet him.

Seeing that they knew each other, the landlady also quietly stepped aside.

"Do you have any clues there?" Zhao Zhao asked anxiously.

Cheng Liang had a solemn expression and shook his head: "No... We have been looking for it for a long time and asked some people, but we can't find any clues."

If you go to the capital to say whether it is big or small, how long will it take for them to find it?

After hearing this, Zhao Zhao deliberately suppressed his disappointment, but there was still a little bit of disappointment in his eyes.

This was too weak. They could not lead the search in a public manner, but could only sneak through the streets and alleys to investigate, for fear that Prime Minister Lu's Mansion would find out and stop them.

When Deng Xin saw it, he stood up slowly, and then said to Cheng Liang, who was standing at the door and was very remorseful: "Come in first and have something to eat to warm yourself up. I have been running outside all day."

Then the landlady, who was very understanding, went in with the waiters to cook noodles and bring soup, without saying anything, and the atmosphere was unusually peaceful.

Zhao Zhao didn't say anything, and winked inside. Cheng Liang and the brothers behind him also entered the noodle shop, lowered their heads and took big sips of the soup, but they didn't make any sound.

At this juncture, no one feels comfortable. Although they don't know what the mission is and what is involved behind it, as soldiers, they are born with that kind of sensitivity and secretly investigate the case behind everyone's back.

, it must be an earth-shaking case.

The proprietress was also unusually calm. She sat behind the counter and hugged Xiao Heyang without making a sound. She probably sensed something was wrong in their atmosphere.

Suddenly, a carriage stopped in front of Yongxing Noodle House. Xiao Heyang pointed at the carriage happily and said in babbling words: "Mom, here comes the sheep and goats~"

This is the carriage that delivers slaughtered lambs to Yongxing Noodle House. It comes every afternoon without interruption.

The landlady held down Xiao Heyang's hand and said comfortingly: "Oh, it's Yangyang. Little Heyang, be good. Please sit by yourself for a while."

Xiao Heyang nodded, looked up and watched his mother walk to the back kitchen to clean up a clean area, then stood at the door and said to the butcher driving the carriage: "Okay, I would like to trouble you to help move the carriage today."

Come in, the old master finished making soup and went home to celebrate New Year's Eve. I thought you wouldn't come today."

The butcher looked honest and honest. He smiled and said, "I can't help but make money on New Year's Eve!"

As he said this, he glanced inside and saw that Zhao Zhao and the others had filled up the Yongxing Noodle House, but there was not much noise. The butcher smiled and said, "The boss lady's business is booming!"

Zhao Zhao and the others also looked back at the butcher.

The landlady smiled and said, "How can your business be so prosperous? You are busy even on New Year's Eve."

The landlady is a woman who knows how to live her life. As she spoke, she opened the greasy gray cloth to check the quality of today's sheep. She pinched it, then frowned and said, "Hey, boss, you are a big bully in the store."

Is that so? The mutton delivered to my family today is not as fresh as before. Could it be that it was left over from someone else’s pick?”

Then he pretended to be unhappy, flicked the gray cloth, and said: "What can you say, our noodle shop is also your old customer. We always pay attention to the quality of meat. We haven't missed a penny of this silver. The boss is too disrespectful."

Attention."

The butcher smiled helplessly, looked at the customers in the shop who were looking back at them, and then apologized to the landlady and said with an apologetic smile: "Mrs. landlady, please don't be angry. It is true that this mutton was not just slaughtered today, but it has definitely not been left for too long. This

New Year's Eve... For those who celebrate the New Year, you also know that the Prime Minister's Mansion also likes to eat my mutton, so he came to my shop in the east of the city to order it. There is a Beijing Street between the Prime Minister's Mansion and my shop.

As soon as they were slaughtered today, the Prime Minister came with a carriage to place an order. I said I would leave one, but they insisted on taking it away on the spot. I said I would give it to you in the afternoon, but they didn’t want it either. They insisted on taking it away on the spot... It was right.

I can’t help it anymore. What I’m sending you today were all slaughtered yesterday. I’ll give you a lower price. It’s freezing cold here, so the quality of the meat won’t be much different.”

Seeing the butcher's apologetic smile and his sincere look, the landlady also asked for her ideal price, so she pretended to be reluctant and nodded: "Okay, next time it will be delivered to our house as soon as possible.

But I’m a regular customer.”

"Yes, yes, I will definitely remember it next time, don't worry, boss lady!" With that, the butcher smiled and wrapped the slaughtered sheep in a gray cloth and carried it to the kitchen.

When he came out, he looked at little Heyang behind the counter. The butcher waved his hand and said, "Heyang is so good today. He didn't even cry when he saw the sheep."

The proprietress hugged He Yang and pretended to complain and said to the butcher: "Next time, please don't bring it to me in front of He Yang. It's not good for the child to see too many bloody things, and it's not like your Shengyan.

The boy will inherit your family business."

The butcher used his greasy hands to tease He Yang and said, "I don't have any family property to inherit. My Shengyan wants to take the first prize exam. Xiao Heyang, please marry brother Shengyan and become the first prize wife in the future, okay?

?”

Xiao Heyang looked at the butcher with wide eyes, unable to understand what they were talking about, and looked up at his mother blankly.

The landlady smiled, looked down at He Yang and said: "I, He Yang, don't want to be the wife of the number one scholar! I'm busy here and there all the time and can't go home. It's better to marry the young master of the cloth shop on East Street. I won't have to worry about food.

To wear.”

"Hahahahahaha." The butcher smiled, then drove the carriage away.

As soon as the butcher left, Zhao Zhao raised his hand and said to the proprietress: "Proprietress, pay the bill."

The landlady responded, put down the lotus and walked towards them, smiling and saying: "Let the guests laugh."

Then he seemed to want to explain something and said: "Except for the fact that the ones delivered today are not freshly slaughtered, they are usually slaughtered on the same day. Today, the Prime Minister wants sheep, so that is a last resort. Guest, please come back next time!"

Zhao Zhao and the others nodded politely, got up and went out.

As soon as he reached the street, Zhao Zhao seemed to be walking forward with great purpose. Deng Xin quickly caught up and asked, "Where is General Zhao going?"

Zhao Zhao stared straight ahead: "Prime Minister Lu's Mansion."

Both Deng Xin and Cheng Liang were shocked: "Prime Minister Lu's Mansion? Shouldn't you let others discover it? Are you going to Prime Minister Lu's Mansion in such a arrogant way?"

Zhao Zhao explained as he walked: "The butcher just said that his shop is in the east of the city, and the prime minister's house is in the west of the city, with a Beijing Street in between. With so many powerful people coming out today, there must be many checkpoints in the city to guard against in the morning.

, except for the carriages in the palaces of dignitaries, all carriages were not allowed to pass. Lu Chen had a way to take the body of the palace maid out of the palace, but he had no time to bury the body.

Today, people from Prime Minister Lu's Mansion deliberately drove Prime Minister Lu's Mansion's carriage from the west to the east of the city to buy a lot of slaughtered sheep, just so that Lu Chen could bring the corpse out of the palace so that they could meet him at Jing Street. If it were another carriage,

He would definitely not be able to reach Jing Street, and Lu Chen had to go back to the palace early in order not to attract attention.

There are countless security checkpoints on Jing Street, and even the young masters of the Lu family cannot escape the search of the carriage. They must have found a hidden way to place the body of the palace maid on the carriage of Prime Minister Lu's Mansion on Jing Street, and then slaughter it.

The sheep were used to cover it up, so that people from Prime Minister Lu's Mansion could get the body in Jing Street, and Lu Chen didn't have to run too far and could rush back to the palace before being discovered.

But there is also a disadvantage in doing this, that is, the carriage of Prime Minister Lu's Mansion is too ostentatious. Even if it is loaded with slaughtered sheep, it will still be noticed by others, so they cannot leave the city. When they are interrogated along the way,

They would definitely say that they had gone out to purchase lambs and sent them back to Prime Minister Lu's Mansion. In this way, the body would naturally be still in Prime Minister Lu's Mansion.

It was impossible for them to make a mistake at this juncture. If they drove a carriage directly out of the city to dump the body, if someone saw it, evidence would be left behind. And with such fatal evidence, Lu Gaohong and the others would definitely not feel free to throw it away casually.

It will be placed in the Prime Minister's Mansion and the body will be dumped when the time has passed. So now, the body must be in the Prime Minister's Mansion!"

In Zhao Zhao's view, this was completely in line with the delicate thoughts of Lu Gaohong and Lu Huiling, and no one would find a shred of evidence.

Deng Xin and Cheng Liang were stunned when they heard this, but they did not expect that General Zhao Zhao, who usually looked inconspicuous, had such a cautious and delicate heart, and they had to admire him.

But then they thought about it, and the two asked: "But how are we going to get the body now? Isn't our mission to successfully find the body to provide evidence? If we go directly to the Prime Minister's Mansion, wouldn't it be discovered?

"

"Now we can't control so much. There are so many of us, and none of Lu Gaohong and the others are in the house. After we robbed him, we sent him directly to the palace to see what else he has to say!" Zhao Zhao said through gritted teeth.

Now is really not the time to think about this. We already know where the body is. If we don't go there early, I'm afraid they will destroy the body and there will be no evidence. Hurry! Must be quick!
Chapter completed!