Seeing that the situation was over, Lin Ming considered and weighed things up in prison, and then faced Lian Shurong, Yu Qingfeng and Pei Wuyan and begged.

Lin Ming lamented that God's will is a trick. He never thought that the tattoo artist he was looking for was secretly tattooing people other than him. If the tattoo artist hadn't helped Xu Yuanwai tattoo the ghost exorcism charm, if it hadn't been for Yu Qingfeng who happened to encounter this incident.

The murder case solved the mystery of the mechanism at the scene. His death can easily be concluded as an accident.

Lin Ming confessed that he was not Lin Ming. His original name was Gong Liangxu. He was the grandson of Gong Lianghan, the Minister of Rites, who participated in a rebellion during the reign of the late emperor and was executed by his family. When he was three years old, he was rescued by a slave from his hometown and entrusted to a distant relative.

relative.

Returning to the capital at the age of sixteen, he wanted to obtain fame, become an official in the court, find out the truth about his ancestors who were wrongfully accused of rebellion, rehabilitate his family, and clear away their grievances.

But his identity was fake, and he couldn't pass the imperial examination. Once his true identity was discovered, he would be dead. In order to achieve his goal, he had to kill his destitute grandmother who looked very similar to him, and only the demented old grandmother was left in the family.

Scholar Lin Ming pretended to be someone else.

After he got the honor, he always took care of Lin Ming's old and confused grandmother with a mentality of atonement. He was upright and honest, and he wanted to be a good official.

During his work, he discovered that the victims in several cases submitted by the local government had similar characteristics, and the cases were fishy, ​​so he wanted to re-investigate thoroughly.

At this time, the eunuch Gao Manpeng approached him. Gao Manpeng had a wide eye and had already noticed the secret of his impersonation. He used this as a threat to ask him to give up pursuing these cases and to turn a blind eye if any such cases were reported in the future.

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However, some cases caused uproar due to some coincidence involving the theory of ghosts and gods. When the case was sent to Dali Temple for review by the local government, Lian Shurong discovered something fishy.

He originally thought that everything was under control, and he only needed to assign his men to go to the place to review the case. However, he did not expect that the emperor personally sealed an airborne Dali Temple minister Pei Wuyan, which disrupted his plan.

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Pei Wuyan is the new minister of Dali Temple. He is very interested in cases involving ghosts and gods. He wants to investigate in person, but Lin Ming cannot stop him at all.

And Gao Manpeng put pressure on him. The reason why he sent dead men to pretend to be murderers and killed people through cases was to cover up people's eyes. If these cases were exposed, Gao Manpeng would disclose Lin Ming's secret. As a last resort, he could only follow and act according to the situation.

, to prevent Pei Wuyan from finding out the truth and to bring out the mastermind Gao Manpeng.

Lin Ming admitted that he had switched the pills in Yu Qingfeng's purse and poisoned the dead woman. He and Gao Manpeng had been in secret communication and were controlled by Gao Manpeng.

Now that he has been exposed and defeated at the hands of his best friend, favorite woman and most powerful opponent, he is willing to admit defeat and go to the palace to testify against Gao Manpeng in front of the emperor, but he has only one request, to ask Pei Wuyan

Rehabilitate the Gongliang family, clear their grievances, and allow him to rest in peace.

Yu Qingfeng and Pei Wuyan entered the palace and went to the Taishi Bureau together to find historical records recording Gongliang's participation in the rebellion. Taishi Ling also told them that Lin Ming had also come to the Taishi Bureau several times to check historical materials. According to the data, the Gongliang family did participate in the rebellion.

.But Lin Ming said it with certainty, the Gongliang family must have been framed.

Yu Qingfeng and Pei Wuyan met. The emperor had become addicted to alchemy and had taken a lot of elixirs, and was deeply poisoned. The emperor told them that when Gongliang participated in the rebellion, he was still the prince, and Gongliang was loyal to his third emperor brother.

After the rebellion, except for the brother of the three emperors, King Xuan, all the rebellious officials and traitors had their homes confiscated. However, the emperor at that time was reluctant to part with his own son, King Xuan, and only sentenced him to guard the imperial mausoleum for life.

When the two learned that King Xuan was still alive, they planned to go to the imperial mausoleum to ask whether the Gongliang family had been wronged and whether there was any hidden secret. Pei Wuyan always felt that Lin Ming, as the male protagonist of the small web drama, had a dark background.

He should be burdened with hatred of the country and family and huge grievances.

The two reported Gao Manpeng's crimes to the emperor, but the emperor directly confessed due to physical reasons. He admitted that he had long known the truth about the death of the late empress. In order to protect the reputation of the prince, he ordered Gao Manpeng to kill and silence him.

Like the late emperor, the emperor learned that the eighth prince, Prince Xun, wanted to find those palace witnesses to reveal the truth about the death of the late empress and seize the throne of the crown prince. He could have directly stopped the eighth prince.

But he also couldn't bear to part with his own son, the Eighth Prince, and wanted to use the lives of ordinary civilians to whitewash the royal peace of a loving father and a filial son and the beautiful records in the history books. Others thought that as long as all the witnesses were dead, the Eighth Prince would naturally give up.

The emperor ordered Pei Wuyan and Yu Qingfeng to keep this secret, and he could give them a marriage to fulfill their wish. Otherwise, the emperor would not tolerate anyone who damages the reputation of the royal family.

Yu Qingfeng and Pei Wuyan were extremely disappointed with the emperor. The real culprit they were looking for turned out to be the half-dead king of a country. How should they bring the real culprit to justice?

Pei Wuyan told Yu Qingfeng that according to his original plot, this mediocre emperor was not going to die soon. Next, the Imperial Counselor would help the prince ascend to the throne, win over people's hearts, and take advantage of the unstable situation to rebel and seize the throne in the name of the Qing Dynasty. What they can do now

The best thing is to go step by step, let the imperial master help the real crown prince to ascend to the throne, and then fight back.

In order to fulfill the last wish of the fake Lin Ming and the real Gong Liangxu, they took him to the imperial mausoleum and asked King Xuan to personally tell him the truth about Gong Liang's involvement in the rebellion.

Fake Lin Ming learned that his ancestors were not wronged. He thought he could find out the truth and clear up his family's reputation, but he didn't expect that he would only be infamous for thousands of years. The records of his family in history books would also include the numerous crimes he committed. He

Unable to accept the facts, he went crazy and committed suicide, crashing into the tombstone of the late emperor.

Pei Wuyan sighed, could this be the biggest counter-routine of a small web drama? The screenwriter could even use the title of the show and the first male lead as a counter-routine, which was really unexpected.

The relationship between Yu Qingfeng and Pei Wuyan has progressed to the stage where they are full of love and affection. Their love style shocked the jaws of people around them. Others did not dare to say it to their faces. Only Lian Shurong complained to his face that both of them were swingers.

Not serious.

Under pressure from Queen Zhou, Yu Qingfeng had no choice but to embark on a journey to find witnesses and physical evidence together with Pei Wuyan and Lian Shurong again. This time they were followed by dead men sent by Gao Manpeng. The dead men were so powerful in martial arts that they could not see each other.

Real face, I just feel like I'm being followed.

After arriving at their destination, they approached the target person and contacted the informant planted by the Eighth Prince. The target person was a young daughter-in-law with a Beijing accent. She said that her family members had all died from the plague. She was married back home by a local husband five years ago, and An Xin was there.

During this period, a young son was born.

There were three other people who arrived here with Yu Qingfeng and others, an old doctor, a down-and-out scholar looking for relatives, and a rich lady who escaped from marriage.

The old doctor, the down-and-out scholar, and the Eighth Prince's informant were killed one after another, and died in miserable conditions. It was rumored that they were sucked to death by the zombies in the ancient tomb in the back mountain. Yu Qingfeng and the others suspected that the real culprit was the target's daughter-in-law, and she went on a killing spree to protect herself.

, using zombie legend as a cover.

But Yu Qingfeng, Pei Wuyan, Lian Shurong and the wealthy lady also encountered zombie attacks and witnessed them with their own eyes. But there is no doubt that the zombies are pretended to be human beings.

Yu Qingfeng thought of a case she had seen before checking the files in Dali Temple before the fire: Five years ago, in a village near the capital, a pair of male and female thieves committed a massacre and then both escaped.

Yu Qingfeng speculated that if male and female robbers escaped together, they would definitely attract the attention of local officials. If they escaped separately, and the female fugitive had a biological child, it would be more deceitful. Since they are male and female robbers, there is a high probability that they have also robbed tombs. The so-called zombies are probably male robbers.

, this little daughter-in-law is not a maid who served the late queen at all, but a fugitive. The biological father of the child she gave birth to is most likely a "zombie" hidden in the tomb.

These people were all killed by this pair of male and female thieves. They must have thought that these people were officials sent by the government to hunt them down.

Yu Qingfeng asked Lian Shurong to go to the nearest government office to dispatch government officials to arrest the male and female thieves. The night after Lian Shurong left, the rich lady who escaped from marriage put on night clothes and went to the ancient tomb alone.

The so-called rich lady who escaped from marriage was the killer sent by Gao Manpeng. Yu Qingfeng and the others had known this for a long time. When they realized that they were being followed, Yu Qingfeng's keen sense of smell detected that the killer this time was a woman.

But at this moment, the dead man left the target's wife alone and ran to the ancient tomb. This was beyond Yu Qingfeng and Pei Wuyan's expectations, and they followed him all the way to the ancient tomb.

In the ancient tomb, they came face to face with the dead man who had taken off the disguise of the rich lady. At this time, the dead woman had already put a dagger at the throat of the "zombie".

Yu Qingfeng admitted frankly that the so-called male and female robbers were just a play they performed, and the vampire zombies and the three deceased were all part of their play, in order to make Gao Manpeng's dead men believe that his daughter-in-law was a wanted criminal of the court and not the former queen's maid.

, thus giving up the pursuit.

Her original plan was to let Lian Shurong take away the little daughter-in-law in the name of a male and female robber, and then find a way to reunite her with her husband and children in the future. In this way, they wanted to protect the people who were still alive on Queen Zhou's list, no matter they were

They are not the witnesses that Queen Zhou is looking for. Whether there is any physical evidence, they must be kept safe so that they do not have to become victims of the nobles' struggle for power.

I just didn't expect that this female death warrior would be so persistent. She knew that the other party was a male and female robber and was not the person Gao Manpeng was looking for, so she still wanted to kill him.

Upon hearing this, the dead woman learned that she had been deceived, and was extremely disappointed. She let go of the "zombie" in her hand and planned to go back and recover.

Yu Qingfeng stopped her and told her her theory that the reason why the dead woman wanted to get rid of the male and female robbers and destroy their bodies before Lian Shurong brought the government officials to arrest them was to overturn Yu Qingfeng's reasoning and let the couple

The male and female robbers escaped first.

Since there is no male thief, it means that the daughter-in-law is not a female thief. Then the female thief will complete the task assigned by Gao Manpeng and kill the female thief who deserved to die. In this way, she, the dead thief, can go back and collect the thief after completing the task.

Gong, regain freedom.

Yu Qingfeng asked the female death warrior. She was obviously a highly skilled killer in martial arts, but no one present was her opponent. She could have killed a few of them according to the original plan, and could also complete the task and go back to receive the merit. Why was she willing to just return without success?

?The dead woman didn’t answer.

Yu Qingfeng boldly speculated based on the anti-routine rules, saying that the female martyr was the maid who had served the late queen. The best way to be invisible was to hide under the eyes of the enemy. The female martyr would not be at peace even if she left the palace, knowing Gao Manpeng's rules.

, as long as he completes a mission and escapes intact, he can regain his freedom and a bounty, so he relies on his superb martial arts to serve Eunuch Gao.

In the past, she was just a little palace maid who was inconspicuous and had no flowers. It was normal for Eunuch Gao not to recognize her.

The reason why the female dead warrior did not kill a few of them was precisely because of what Yu Qingfeng said just now, she wanted to protect all the still living palace residents and prevent them from becoming victims of power struggles.

The dead woman acquiesced, saying that the reward she was eager to go back to receive was not money, but her son Goudan who died and became sworn to her sister.

She persuaded Yu Qingfeng not to do things for the Eighth Prince. As far as she knew, the Eighth Prince's spy was secretly observing and monitoring to confirm his identity, but in fact, he was secretly tortured and interrogated. Those who died in the Eighth Prince's torture chamber were not around.

On the list given by the Queen to Yu Qingfeng.

The Eighth Prince, like Gao Manpeng, is a high-ranking devil. In front of the majestic imperial power, they, the common people, are just the most humble ants, and even surviving has become a luxury.

Yu Qingfeng made up her mind that she could no longer compromise with the Queen and the Eighth Prince, and wanted to completely overthrow them. She and Pei Wuyan made a tacit decision to first use the Imperial Guard to defeat the Eighth Prince, and then defeat the Imperial Guard.

Yu Qingfeng asked for evidence from the dead woman, saying that the evidence of the late queen's crime was a weapon that could save the country. Handing this evidence to the eighth prince would be tantamount to letting the eighth prince get burned. In exchange, Yu Qingfeng would release the news of her daughter-in-law's death, so that her daughter-in-law could be saved.

The dead man can go back to pay homage, take his sworn sister's son and fly far away, far away from right and wrong.

The dead woman hesitated and left the dagger she carried with her.
Chapter completed!