Gu Zhao walked in front, and the Xiaohes escorted a group of relevant personnel to follow behind her.

The gap between the temporarily added execution chamber and the one inside the He Control Division is still relatively large, but it is terrifying enough for these detained servants.

Several servants were so frightened as soon as they entered the door that their legs were twisted into a ball like boiled noodles and they could not walk.

Lu Qi was relatively calm.

Gu Zhao asked Shen Wei and Qi Si to interrogate the others separately, while he personally interrogated Lu Qi.

"Master Lu, I think you should know something. Do you want to say it yourself, or do you want me to force you to say it?" Gu Zhao sat lazily behind the table and looked up at Lu Qi in the chair opposite. .

As a partner who had worked together many times, Gu Zhao absolutely did not believe that Lu Qi would make such a big mistake.

Letting the unreasonable crane dance in front of the emperor was such a dangerous move that Lu Qi could not be careless. But just when there should be no problems, a big problem like this happened that could affect the nine tribes.

Then this is worth considering.

Lu Qi glanced at Gu Zhao, thoughtfully, "Mr. Gu, I do have a guess. Unfortunately, I found out too late..."

Gu Zhao's eyebrows trembled invisibly. That's right, Lu Qi's tone meant he was digging a hole. I wonder who he was digging a hole for?

Give it to her, Qin Youjin, the prince, or someone else?

"Guess? Then tell me your guess."

Lu Qi's expression was heavy and his eyes were complicated, "What if the person I guess is in a high position?"

Gu Zhao suddenly smiled, "Master Lu, you have already made up your mind, why waste time testing it again?"

Lu Qi glanced at Gu Zhao again, inexplicably feeling that the other person seemed to know him very well?

It was as if she could guess every move he made. It felt bad to be controlled by someone.

His eyes deepened a little, and he lowered his eyelids again, "The king entrusted this important matter to me, and I tried my best to show my face in front of the king, so I have always been very careful. From choosing cranes, From choosing the people who serve the cranes to the people who tame the cranes, I carefully selected them all."

Gu Zhao remained calm and listened quietly.

"In the past few months, these people have been doing their duty. But since last month, some of them have become less honest."

"Half a month ago, I just caught a servant who was feeding the cranes. He took fifty taels of silver from someone else and planned to poison the two cranes to death."

"So I stepped up my precautions, and fortunately nothing happened again in the past half month. What I didn't expect was that this time the other party's methods were more sinister, and they actually caused the crane to have an accident while dancing in front of the driver."

Lu Qi covered his forehead with a painful look on his face, "This time is about my family and my mother's life, and I can't hide it any longer.

If I had known that something like this would happen, I would never have agreed to the prince's invitation to become a governor in his mansion."

It turned out that Qin Youjin took the initiative to find Lu Qi. Since Qin Youjin also came back from his previous life, of course he knew Lu Qi's talents.

However, when Lu Qi said that he regretted becoming Qin Youjin's long history, Gu Zhao only believed half of it.

Lu Qi loves Quan.

But this is not all bad. This character makes him much more pragmatic than those old bureaucrats.

So in his previous life, he didn't mind being infamy. He didn't put on airs like those literati and regarded working with the Crown Princess as a shame.

Qin Youjin asked him to be the chief historian, and he would definitely be happy to accept it.

Gu Zhao was not interested in applauding his performance. He tapped the table with his fingers and said in a cold voice, "Let's get to the point."

Lu Qi sat up straight, "The servant who took bribes to poison the crane was still locked up in the palace. He confessed that he was found by one of his fellow villagers, who had a nephew who worked in Prince Cheng's palace.

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Gu Zhao was thoughtful, "You mean, King Cheng ordered people to bribe the servants who feed the cranes to poison the cranes?"

Lu Qi looked indifferent, "It's not up to me to judge this. Mr. Gu should be professional."

"Go and invite Mr. Qi to come over." Gu Zhao asked someone to call Qi Si and asked him to take people to the Xinyang County Prince's Mansion immediately to bring the servant over.

Gu Zhao continued to ask Lu Qi, "Master Lu, is there anything else you want to say?"

Lu Qi's face was slightly surprised.

Everyone said that the Konghe Division was like a dragon's den and a tiger's den, with no way in or out. Even a tough man could not withstand those cruel punishments.

He had long been prepared to be tortured to extract a confession, but Mr. Gu, who controlled the He Division, had no intention of doing so.

Did Konheji change his mind to doing good deeds? Or is the sun rising from the west today?

Or maybe this Master Gu has already seen his plan?

Lu Qi couldn't help but glance at the young Master Gu again.

The name Gu Zhao was not unfamiliar to him, Qin Youjin had mentioned it to him more than once.

From Qin Youjin's words, he already knew Gu Zhao's life experience, Gu Zhao's character, and Gu Zhao's special status in Qin Youjin's heart.

But when we really met today, we realized that there seemed to be many differences between the real Gu Zhao and the Gu Zhao in Qin Youjin's mouth.

Qin Youjin described Gu Zhao as a woman who loved him deeply, was kind and reliable, but the Gu Zhao in front of her didn't seem to be interested in the love between her children.

She has more of a general demeanor and a majesty that cannot be ignored.

How could a woman be a mediocre person if she could hold a position of unique responsibility like Qingyi Yunhe in the Control He Division?

Lu Qi's thoughts were racing in his mind, and he said what he had sorted out several times, "Before today's accident, I went to check the crane for the last time. At that time, the crane was still in high spirits and there was no problem."
Chapter completed!