"How did you know that the emperor's thumb is shorter?" Lu Bai asked again.
Liu Yan is not from Beijing.
Even if Liu Yan was from the capital, he would not have known that the emperor's thumb was short.
Lu Bai was in charge of a lot of information as a royal guard, and his subordinates kept asking for information. He didn't even know that the emperor's thumb was shortened.
Liu Yan was not far away from Wu and Yue. He suddenly heard someone saying that the emperor's thumb was too short. When he looked at his thumb, he felt that the emperor was his grandson. Then he ran to the capital and wanted to recognize the emperor as his wife.
Grandson.
Unexpectedly, Liu Yan really answered like this, "An old eunuch who retired from old age and returned to his hometown told me. When I thought that my daughter had entered the palace and never came back, that was probably the case, and then I hurried to the capital.
"
His eyes rolled, "As a commoner, I don't dare to be the emperor's grandfather. I only ask for one thing - to seek justice for my daughter Liu Cuilian. In this way, I will be willing to die."
Lu Bai clapped his hands and said, "Hey, what a coincidence. I am here to seek justice for your daughter. Sir, when will you die?"
Liu Yan was startled when he heard this and pointed at Lu Bai angrily, "What's wrong with you, an errand? You actually cursed me to death and don't want to live anymore. Let me tell you, I am the emperor's grandfather!"
He turned his head and announced the notice to the fat factory, "Father, did you hear this? This guy wants to kill me!"
The fat factory man turned his head around helplessly, "Mr. Lu, this is what you are wrong about. Uncle Liu clearly said that after seeking justice for his daughter, he was willing to die. You have to seek justice first before giving up.
He dies."
After the fat factory man said this, he gave himself a thumbs up in his heart.
This was said beautifully, neither humble nor arrogant, nor did it offend Lu Bai.
Liu Yan glanced at Lu Bai proudly at first, but when he returned to the future, he said angrily: "Who, who is going to die? What I just said was an expression of determination. Do you understand determination?"
"Yes, yes, determination. Then tell me, which old eunuch told you this?" Lu Bai asked.
His intuition told him that this old eunuch was the key.
"The old eunuch is just an old eunuch. I don't know which old eunuch he is. He just said that he had a good relationship with my daughter when he entered the palace, so he kindly told me when he retired and returned home." Liu Yan muttered.
"In other words, he is not a local?" Lu Bai asked.
Liu Yan nodded.
"Then how do you know he is a retired eunuch? What if someone disguised himself as a eunuch deceived you?"
Lu Bai's words successfully made Liu Yan unhappy again, "How rare is it that there are still people pretending to be eunuchs these days? Also, don't doubt my identity. Let me tell you, I am the emperor's grandfather. I am very special and already very special.
It’s true.”
"Evidence." Lu Bai asked again.
If he didn't believe it, the emperor could confirm that what Liu Yan said was true with just one thumb. If that was true, Lu Bai believed that he could still find many people with shorter thumbs. Could these people be the emperor's grandfather?
When Liu Yan saw Lu Bai asking questions, he jumped up and said, "Who are you? Why should I tell you that you are not qualified? Do you know that? I tell you, I am the emperor's grandfather. Look at this courtyard and this pomp. I
If not the emperor’s grandfather, who is!”
He turned back to the fat factory man and said, "Who is this guy? I don't like him. Get him out quickly!"
Lu Bai stood up and said, "I wanted to save the factory owner's face by not arresting you for interrogation. If you continue not to answer, I won't be polite."
"What can you do to me? What do you dare to do to me?" Liu Yan said, squeezing his neck.
"I can--"
Lu Bai was halfway talking when he saw Liu Yan sitting down on the ground, "Oh, there's a murder, someone wants to kill the emperor's grandfather, someone wants to rebel, help me."
Lu Bai was speechless and looked back at the fat factory man.
The fat factory man raised his head and looked at the top of the pavilion, feeling that the carvings on it were really good.
"I came to check you on the order of the Queen Mother, but you just screamed and broke your throat——" Lu Bai patiently took out the token given by the Queen Mother.
"Okay!" Liu Yan simply rolled on the ground, "That old witch Queen Mother is going to kill someone and silence her! She robbed my grandson, killed my daughter, and now she wants to kill me and silence me - uh -"
Liu Yan was suddenly speechless.
His face was red from suppressing it, and his eyes were white. It was as if someone had pinched his neck and lifted him up into the air, and his body gradually left the ground.
"Help, help!" Liu Yan's voice became hoarse.
He desperately grabbed his neck with his hands, trying to free his neck from something, but it became tighter and tighter until his face turned purple.
"Master Lu, please show mercy!" The fat factory man was shocked.
He didn't expect that Lu Bai would dare to attack Liu Yan. Just this yard and the treatment in prison made it clear that it was true.
Lu Bai smiled slightly and spread his hands, "Mr. Factory, you have wronged me. I didn't do anything."
The fat factory master knew how powerful Lu Bai was, so he persuaded him again: "Master Lu, if he dies, we won't be able to do anything with the emperor."
"That's right." Lu Bai nodded.
Then, Liu Yan sat down on the ground with a "plop", like a fish dropped from the water, breathing desperately, and his face turned from purple to red.
"You, you, I will tell the emperor and let him take you..." Liu Yan also tried to speak harshly.
In his opinion, the emperor is the biggest in the world. This man dared to kill the emperor's grandfather, which was simply audacious.
Before he could finish speaking, another invisible thing strangled Liu Yan's throat.
The fat factory man rushed up and whispered something in Liu Yan's ear.
"What, a half-step god!" Liu Yan was startled, and then he realized what kind of person was standing in front of him.
No matter how small his brain capacity is, he still knows that people who are about to ascend to the fairyland halfway into the fairyland are not afraid of the emperor.
The fat factory man turned around and said, "That's enough, Mr. Lu. He will tell you everything he knows now."
Lu Bai nodded, exhaled a breath, and Liu Yan sat on the ground again.
"Can we talk now," Lu Bai asked.
Liu Yan glanced at Lu Bai warily and shrank to the side corner, "The old eunuch took the emperor's swaddling clothes out of the palace and gave them to me. There was also a palm-sized longevity lock in the swaddling clothes.
"
This longevity lock was given to Lian'er by Liu Yan when his daughter was young.
"There are a pair of longevity locks, and my son also has one." Liu Yan brought this longevity lock to his daughter in the palace because he wanted to use it when his daughter left the palace in old age and could not recognize her family.
The lock makes a token.
He never imagined that one day he would make such a token.
"Comparing the longevity lock with the longevity lock on my son, you will know that it is definitely my daughter's longevity lock." Liu Yan's tone was not so bold this time, but his tone was still determined, "The emperor is my grandson.
"
"Swaddling clothes and longevity locks?" Lu Bailian muttered.
Seeing that Lu Bai's attitude towards him was better after the mediation, he boldly interrupted: "Master Lu, this prince's swaddling clothes are different from ordinary people's swaddling clothes. The swaddling clothes are all special, and in order to prevent mistakes
Note or exchange, if there are evil things like civet cat changing for prince, the baby will have the mark of the prince's size on it."
There is absolutely no room for error in these things.
Therefore, the swaddling clothes are definitely the ones used by the emperor.
"Plus his fingers..."
Fat Factory official said half of it, but the meaning of what he said was in the words that had not yet been heard: swaddling clothes and longevity locks may be a bit far-fetched, but combined with Liu Yan's short-eyed fingers, Liu Yan can be confirmed in nine out of ten cases.
He is the emperor's grandfather.
Lu Bai suddenly realized that the relationship between the Emperor and Liu Yan was so certain.
This is quite easy to check.
It's a pity that the Queen Mother probably already knew about these things, so she didn't ask him to investigate the relationship between Liu Yan and the emperor at all. Instead, she asked him to investigate the person behind the case and how Liu Cuilian died.
This is a bit tricky.
The key to the mastermind behind this lies in the old eunuch who retired and returned home.
Lu Bai believed that as a foreigner, the old eunuch took a detour to Liu Yan's home when he retired and returned to his hometown. He also gave him swaddling clothes and a longevity lock, and told Liu Yan that the reason why the emperor's thumb was short was definitely not because of him.
I have a good relationship with Liu Cuilian.
There is definitely a conspiracy here.
"You really don't know the identity of that old eunuch?" Lu Bai looked at him.
Liu Yan looked innocent, "I, I am a farmer in the countryside, how could I know who he is."
Lu Bai stared at Liu Yan for a long time, and then gave up after seeing that he was not lying.
He stood up and patted the fat factory man on the shoulder hard, causing his flesh to tremble tremblingly. At the same time, his heart also trembled - the fat factory man thought Lu Bai was going to attack him, but he didn't know that Lu Bai just took the opportunity to do something.
A little bit of merit.
"Okay, I'm done asking, let's go." Lu Bai said,
The fat factory man's heart dropped to his stomach, and he hurriedly sent Lu Bai out.
There is really nothing he can do against Lu Bai now.
Master Lu was a transcendent being who could take his life at any time. Therefore, Mr. Fat Factory was very frightened and walked on thin ice around Lu Bai, wishing that he would leave as soon as possible.
Now he walked naturally very fast when he was walking, and it didn't look like he had to move twice the amount of flesh on Lu Bai's body for a long distance.
When Lu Bai walked out of the gate of the East Factory, he had the carriage ready.
By the time Lu Bai came to his senses, he was already on his way back.
"this--"
Lu Bai smiled, he had really done something wrong, he was afraid that ghosts would knock on the door.
Lu Bai had been deep in thought just now. Now he came to his senses because he had some clues, but he was still far from solving the case.
This old eunuch can no longer be found, and finding him is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
But what is certain is that this old eunuch's identity is unusual, and he is definitely not an eunuch who retired from old age and returned to his hometown. Moreover, he must have some ulterior motive for telling Liu Yan this.
So what is the picture?
Lu Bai felt that if the old eunuch's plot was found out, then the old eunuch's identity would be inseparable.
It doesn't matter even if the old eunuch's real name cannot be found.
This old eunuch was originally a puppet pushed to the front.
"Then what is this man trying to do?" Lu Bai muttered.
After much thought, he felt that the old eunuch had only one goal: to let the emperor know that the queen mother was not the emperor's biological mother, and then to make the emperor misunderstand that the queen mother had killed Liu Cuilian.
Thinking of this, Lu Bai roughly understood what the Queen Mother asked him to check.
The first is to find out who is driving a wedge between her and the emperor.
The second is to find out who killed Liu Cuilian and clear the Queen Mother's suspicion.
"Then who would want to sow discord between the Queen Mother and the Emperor?" Lu Bai tapped his fingers lightly on the carriage, trying to catch some thoughts.
Behind the Queen Mother is the Gu family. If the Emperor and the Queen Mother are at odds with each other, then the people from Yiqiu Villa will definitely benefit. If so, the Emperor may also be involved.
After all, the Supreme Emperor is firmly on the side of Yiqiu Villa.
As the emperor's biological father, the Supreme Emperor must know these secrets, and it is not impossible to bring them out now to help Yiqiu Villa achieve these goals.
But then the question arises. The emperor is on the side of the eight major factions. Can the relationship between the emperor and the queen mother worsen and change?
of course not.
The art of the emperor lies in balance.
The Supreme Emperor was also an emperor, so it is impossible for him not to know this.
The emperor is now on the side of the eight major sects. It is only because the Yiqiu Villa is in full swing that the forces above the temple are out of balance, so the emperor is on the side of the eight major sects.
If one day the offense and defense change, the emperor will not hesitate to side with Yiqiu Villa.
This can also be seen from the emperor's harem.
The daughter of the Gu family is the queen, and the daughter of the Lu family is the concubine. The emperor is particularly fond of Prince Kang, which shows that the emperor is also very good at balancing, and is good at putting eggs in two baskets, or making the two forces fight within themselves.
But if it wasn’t done by the forces of Yiqiu Villa, then who did it?
Is there really such a kind eunuch?
Lu Bai couldn't make up his mind, and now everything could only be guessed, and as the guesses came and went, many people became more likely, and his thoughts became a mess, and it was difficult to sort out anything useful.
Lu Bai let out a breath, opened the curtain of the car window, looked at the capital city still immersed in the drizzle, prepared to enjoy the scenery, empty his head, put everything he just thought behind, and don't let the thoughts behind it affect him.
to these.
The drizzle kept falling.
There were two children playing in the water on the side of the road. Their parents hurriedly ran out. The worries on their faces disappeared in Kendo. The two children took a deep breath and picked up the children, suddenly ignoring the children's struggles.
screamed and carried them home.
The carriage passed by Yu Street again, and Lu Bai saw the old woman still kneeling in front of the Tiandi Temple with her head held high.
At the end of Imperial Street are the Qinhuai River and Zhuque Bridge.
Instead of getting on the bridge, we turned eastward and headed east along the Qinhuai River.
When passing a pier, Lu Bai saw two groups of people on the boat at war with each other and signs of starting a fight again.
"Hey, that's right!" Lu Bai suddenly remembered that King Luo had invited him to go to the theater and have a drink.
So Lu Bai opened the curtain and gave a command to the coachman.
The coachman agreed and turned the horse's head to Juxian Pavilion. Lu Bai returned to the carriage and continued to think about the case with an empty mind.
There is no way to investigate the old eunuch who has retired from old age and returned to his hometown. It is better to start from the swaddling clothes and longevity lock.
If these two things are real, they must have been taken from the deep palace, and they are probably closely related to Liu Cuilian. If they are inserted like this, the cause of Liu Cuilian's death may be found out.
Lu Bai clenched his fists and decided to check the whereabouts of the baby tomorrow.
Hu~
Just when he thought of this, the carriage heard and Juxian Pavilion arrived.