As soon as Gu Zhao walked outside the imperial tent, he saw several palace ladies being beaten until they were bloody and being dragged away.

The little eunuch's face was as nervous as if he was about to run into a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​fire, and he cautiously led Gu Zhao into the imperial tent.

Gu Zhao followed the rules and saluted Emperor Shouzheng, and did not raise his head until Emperor Shouzheng spoke.

Seeing Emperor Shouzheng's appearance, Gu Zhao was almost stunned.

Just one night, Emperor Shouzheng seemed to have aged a few years. He looked more and more withered and shriveled, and his face turned gray. Gu Zhao always felt that he would fall to the ground in the next moment.

The atmosphere in the imperial tent was very depressing, and Gu Zhao cheered up and dealt with it carefully.

The dying beast, no one knows what crazy moves it will make. It would be a great loss if it was pulled back at this time.

Emperor Shouzheng asked in a hoarse voice, "How was the investigation of yesterday's case?"

Gu Zhao introduced the case to Emperor Shouzheng. As he spoke, he carefully observed Emperor Shouzheng's expression, trying to find some clues for reference.

There was an obvious phlegm in Emperor Shouzheng's voice, "Have the identities of the deceased been found out?"

Gu Zhao answered truthfully, "Not yet."

Emperor Shouzheng suddenly became furious and said, "Trash! Idiot!"

Gu Zhao remained calm and lowered his head. There must be a reason for this unprovoked rage and insult, but Gu Zhao did not have enough information to make a more effective judgment.

Just these few words seemed to have consumed Emperor Shouzheng's energy so much that even Gu Zhao could clearly hear the sound of his breathing heavily even from such a distance.

Wang Zhong appeared like a ghost and skillfully served Emperor Shouzheng to drink tea.

Gu Zhao smelled the strong smell of ginseng.

After drinking a cup of ginseng tea and resting for a while, Emperor Shouzheng's face became a little rosier and his eyes became a little brighter.

"Gu Zhao, do you know why I care so much about such a case?"

Gu Zhao said calmly, "It should be that the deceased among them has a special identity, and you are worried that the murderer also has an unusual identity."

Emperor Shouzheng glanced at Gu Zhao in surprise, and Gu Zhao knew that he was right.

Wang Zhong's appearance in the temple where the incident occurred yesterday is an anomaly in itself.

Because his identity represented Emperor Shouzheng, Gu Zhao was worried that he would be involved in some conspiracy, so he personally stepped forward to help Wang Zhong and took the opportunity to listen to his thoughts.

It was also because of this that Gu Zhao learned some secrets.

For example, the identity of the person who knelt down and died, for example, why Wang Zhong set foot in such an abandoned temple, and what the emperor's thoughts were behind him.

These secrets that Wang Zhong would not reveal even if others gave him tens of thousands of gold, were all easily obtained by Gu Zhao.

Of course Emperor Shouzheng would not know that Gu Zhao had learned these secrets through this method similar to cheating. He thought that Gu Zhao had really found out by himself.

In addition to being shocked, Emperor Shouzheng was inevitably a little confused. He looked at Gu Zhao carefully, "Oh? Tell me, let me hear, what is the special identity of the deceased, and what might be unusual about the murderer?"

Gu Zhao thought about Wang Zhong's thoughts at that time.

The first sentence is that he is the leader of His Majesty's secret guards! No wonder His Majesty asked me to come and see him.

The second sentence is: Who is so arrogant that even if you kill him, you still ask him to kneel down and repent? You must know that what he did was His Majesty's will. Is this a rebellion?

The third sentence is: What exactly does Your Majesty want me to see? Just to see a dead man? No, no matter how loyal and capable a dead person is, they are not worth a penny. What Your Majesty cares about is who killed his secret guard leader.

The last sentence is no wonder His Majesty wants to ground His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today...

People's thoughts are faster than lightning, and Gu Zhao has become accustomed to picking out the parts that are useful to him from the complicated thoughts.

It was impossible for Emperor Shouzheng to imagine that she had already made some assumptions about the case just by helping Wang Zhong walk a few steps.

Gu Zhao organized his thoughts and said in a calm tone, "The deceased who is currently receiving the most attention, after an autopsy, it can be confirmed that he was a very strong martial arts master."

This was not fabricated by Gu Zhao at all. Lao Men had written it clearly in the autopsy record. The calluses on the palms of the kneeling deceased, the direction of the body muscles, and the weapons he used were all enough to prove this.

It’s just that there are so many martial arts masters in the world. If no one knows him, who can know his identity?

Gu Zhao tried hard to make up the reason: "The kneeling deceased had been tortured extremely cruelly before his death, and not a single trace of his body was intact. However, one thing that I found very strange was that the clothes on his body were basically intact, and were only later removed by various

Marks left by a weapon penetration."

"It is conceivable that after the deceased was tortured, the murderer specially dressed him and put him in a posture of kneeling and confessing, facing the incense case. There may be some memorial tablets for the deceased on the incense case.

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"And the clothes on the deceased did not fit. I thought they were prepared by the murderer, not the deceased's own clothes."

"This shows that the identity of the deceased was not known before the murderer took action."

"With so many dead people in the temple, it is likely that the murderer used some method to gather them together, identify the enemies he wanted to find, and then began to torture and take revenge."

After saying this in one breath, Gu Zhao paused slightly. From the corner of his eye, he could see that Emperor Shouzheng was listening very seriously.
Chapter completed!