Everyone in Shangshan Supervisor nodded hurriedly.
Lu Jing shouted loudly and asked: "Who came to Shangshan Prison this morning and is not here now? Tell me quickly!"
Everyone looked around, and several people shouted one after another: "Lai Yu was here in the morning, but he's not here now." "Hey~ Yes, Lai Xiaoer was still working here in the morning, and he hasn't finished work yet.
time, but no one else!"
"Lai Yu? Lai Xiaoer?" Lu Jing asked: "Are these two people? Or the same person?"
Six or seven people answered almost simultaneously: "It's the same person." "Lai Yu is Lai Xiaoer." "Lai Xiaoer is Lai Yu."
Lu Jing asked again: "What does this Lai Yu do?"
Three cooks, two eunuchs and two palace maids answered almost simultaneously: "He kneads the dough in the pastry room."
"Specialized in kneading dough?" Lu Jing repeated, and then asked: "Has he kneaded dough this morning?"
Two cooks replied: "Kneaded."
"Then the dough he kneaded was made into pastries for the king?" Lu Jing asked hotly.
The three cooks and two eunuchs replied at the same time: "Yes" "He has been kneading dough for more than ten years and his skills are very good. It is specially for the king to eat"...
Lu Jing thought to himself: The person kneading the dough has a chance to poison him, and he is not here now... Hmm! This person is quite suspicious!
He immediately turned around and said to a guard chief: "Go to the Criminal Court now and tell them: Lai Yu is a serious suspect and needs to be arrested immediately!"
"Yes!" The guard chief took the order and left.
Lu Jing was silent for a while, and then asked loudly: "Apart from Lai Yu, whoever participates in the production, or has the opportunity to come into contact with the refreshments consumed by the monarch, please come to my side!"
A dozen cooks quickly came out and stood at the position designated by Lu Jing. Later, several cooks, four eunuchs and three maids came out one after another.
Lu Jing thought to himself: None of them looked nervous, and there were so many people that it would be impossible to finish the trial at one time.
Suddenly, Lu Jing noticed a strange phenomenon: the person with the highest position in the Food Supervision, the fat Manager Hong, had not said a word from the beginning until now, and his expression was always gloomy, very different from everyone else, and seemed
Very weird!
With a stern look on his face, Lu Jing slowly walked up to Manager Hong, staring closely at the manager's face.
At first, Manager Hong just looked at the ground or ahead and ignored Lu Jing. However, after being stared at by Lu Jing for a long time, he couldn't help but glance at "Hua Longyang" a few times, but he quickly turned around every time.
Look away from "Hualongyang".
"There is most likely something wrong with this person!" Lu Jing thought to himself.
He said to the two soldiers: "You two, bring this manager Hong here." Then he walked towards an empty room.
Two soldiers pushed and pushed Manager Hong into the room where Lu Jing was, and then closed the door.
Lu Jing stared at the man who almost became his boss. The more he looked at him, the more strange he looked: after such a big thing happened, everyone else was nervous or eager to prove his innocence, but this guy looked a little nervous.
In addition, what is more "disdainful", or more accurately, "feeling confident"!
Although Lu Jing looked calm, he was very surprised in his heart: Could it be that Manager Hong was really related to the murder of the monarch? And he had a very powerful background, so he was unafraid?
He felt that he was at a disadvantage in the first round of psychological warfare with Manager Hong, and even felt an inexplicable fear.
"Do you know what big thing happened in the palace?" Lu Jing calmed down and finally asked.
Manager Hong glanced at Lu Jing and did not answer. Instead, he looked out the window, as if waiting for something.
Lu Jing couldn't help it anymore and asked again in a louder voice. His voice bounced off the four walls and made Manager Hong and the two soldiers' eardrums hurt.
Manager Hong shuddered. He was very surprised by Lu Jing's strong inner strength, but he quickly calmed down, continued to maintain a dismissive look, and said coldly: "What's the fuss about?! You'll know later!"
"
Lu Jing was in a panic when he suddenly heard a noise outside. When he walked out of the room, he heard the noise approaching quickly. It seemed that a large number of soldiers were coming here.
Lu Jing quickly walked out of the gate of Shangshan Prison and soon saw hundreds of fully armed soldiers forming several long lines and rushing towards the place. The officer leading the group was something Lu Jing had never seen before.
Obviously this force is not the palace guard.
"It took half an hour to march from the nearest military camp to here. These people came so quickly! Could it be that they were not far from the palace when they learned that something happened in the palace? In fact, they had already predicted that something big was going to happen?!"
Lu Jing speculated in surprise as he walked towards the nearest officer. Looking at the man's clothes, he learned that his position was that of a general.
Lu Jing asked loudly: "I am Hua Longyang, the new cavalry general. Which army are you from? Who ordered you to enter the palace? What are you doing here?"
"General of Chariots and Cavalry?" When the general leading the team heard this title, he looked at Lu Jing, who was wearing the uniform of the captain of the guard, and was surprised. But the general still slowed down, gave Lu Jing a military salute, and replied
: "Report to the general, the second battalion of the Beijing Guards was ordered to surround the palace, and the third battalion was ordered to enter the palace to capture the rebels!"
Lu Jing knew: The Beijing Guard Army was one of the troops guarding Qufu, with a total of 45,000 people, divided into five battalions, with 9,000 people in each battalion. The commander of the Guard Army was named Zheng Rong, although he belonged to General Lu
Lian was the commander, but according to King Lu Xiang, Zheng Rong had close contacts with Tian Gang.
Lu Jing already had a very ominous premonition in his heart. He asked again: "Rebel to the Party? Who is the traitor to the Party?"
The general replied: "I don't know this, I am just following the order. No one in the palace is allowed to move around at will, including you, Mr. Hua."
"I know, you go ahead." Lu Jing waved his hand, and the general saluted again, and then left with the troops.
Lu Jing quickly thought about the series of events that happened one after another: the monarch and himself were poisoned; Manager Hong's fearless expression and words; the Beijing Guards arriving so quickly to capture the rebels... Behind all of this, there was obviously a terrible conspiracy.
! And the main messenger of the conspiracy is most likely the evil Tian Gang! And Manager Hong of Shangshan Supervisor is at least an insider, and may be one of the poisoners!
"If it is really a conspiracy launched by Tian Gang, then Hua Longyang must be one of the targets. Since he was not poisoned to death, he will most likely be framed as the murderer of the regicide! Oh my God!"
Lu Jing looked at the large number of running sergeants and thought: Although these people are not very powerful, they are nearly ten thousand people after all! It is impossible to defeat an army with your own martial arts. The only feasible way is:
To capture the thief, capture the king first, catch the mastermind of the conspiracy by surprise, and then find a way to expose the truth to the world!
"Yes! Find the culprit first, kill or kidnap him, and then figure out what to do!" Lu Jing made up his mind and looked around.