Gong Yuanzheng watched Zhang Xueming pick up the pen again and added [Yuegong suggests hanging the assassin's body for public display for three days] and [The body is missing] on the upper half of the paper.

Looking at the words connected by lines, his heart was confused, but his mind was clear and he easily understood what she wanted to express.

"Gong Huanyu... the former young master is not Lao Zhiren's biological son. The palace was invaded by Wufeng ten years ago, and Lao Zhiren's brother and sister-in-law unfortunately died. Gong Huanyu is the orphan they left behind and was adopted by Lao Zhiren."

Gong Yuanzheng spoke with difficulty and handed her the missing fragments: "His position as young master was snatched from my brother by Old Zhiren and the Council of Elders. After he became the young master, he was always kind and polite to the people in the palace, and he had a good reputation, but he didn't have much power. It was not until not long ago when the marriage selection was about to begin that Old Zhiren handed over part of the palace defense to him."

He is different from his brother.

My brother always thinks the best of the elders and peers in the palace, and they also have a share of the palace bloodline that he swore to protect. But he always assumes the worst of them.

Zhang Xueming didn't say anything, but took another piece of white paper and rewrote the key words about changing the young master, and wrote two words at the end: killing the father to seize the throne, and the plan was exposed.

Gong Yuanzheng clenched his fists.

Patricide is one of the ten unforgivable crimes.

No wonder Old Zhiren suddenly changed the young master at the time of the marriage selection, and no wonder the Council of Elders was so happy to support Old Zhiren in making his brother the young master. I'm afraid the former young master Gong Huanyu was not imprisoned in Yu Palace, but was sent to the back mountain.

Zhang Xueming started a new line and wrote at the end of Madam Wu Ji's line: It can be confirmed that Wu Feng was lurking inside the palace gate, and Lao Zhiren knew about it (knowing that he had strong internal strength, so he used a power-dispersing drug to weaken him), and there is a high probability that he will be discovered to be the accomplice of the former young master.

Start another line and write at the end of the line about Yuegong taking away the Wufeng assassin: Check whether there is a fake death drug, whether Yue Gongzi helped Wufeng complete the mission and escape from the palace two years ago, whether the Wufeng assassin and Yun Weishan were sisters or good companions two years ago, and whether Yun Weishan has a token of recognition on her.

Gong Yuanzheng had calmed down. After all, whether those people were good or bad, alive or dead, had nothing to do with him. He just felt sorry for his brother. He felt sorry for his brother who had risked his life for the palace, worked like a slave, and in the end, he got nothing but endless deception and exploitation.

He ignored the ink on the paper and tapped the line "Check whether there is a fake death drug" with his right index finger. He told Zhang Xueming: "The answer to this question is yes. On the morning of the day when the bride-to-be entered the palace, an outpost was attacked by a stealth assassin. The person in charge used a short-acting fake death drug distributed by the palace to escape and reported the news that there was a stealth assassin among the bride-to-be to the palace..."

"Wait." Zhang Xueming was stunned, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly: "You mean, it wasn't the palace gates themselves who discovered that there was a Wufeng assassin among the bride candidates, but a person in charge who faked his death and escaped from the Wufeng attack brought the news back?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" Gong Yuanzheng didn't understand why she was so surprised.

For the first time, Zhang Xueming threw down his pen and wiped his face without caring about his image. He asked Gong Yuanzheng seriously, "If there was no such news, would you suspect that Wu Feng was among the brides?"

Gong Yuanzheng felt as if he had been hit on the head with a stick: Yes, the information about the potential brides was verified by Gong Shangjiao after he spent a whole year visiting each family one by one. If he had not received this information, there would not have been that incident that day.

"Leader Wufeng is probably really sick." Zhang Xueming stopped writing and started complaining: "If I hadn't seen with my own eyes that Wufeng sent people to hunt down your brother, and chased him relentlessly to death, and sent out fourteen groups of people in less than three months. Just based on the marriage selection, I can't believe that Wufeng really wants to destroy the palace. Are they bored? They sent so many assassins to sneak in, but your brother couldn't find out their backgrounds. They just need to wait quietly for the marriage selection, but Wufeng wants to send you a message. Is he afraid that the assassins who sneaked in will complete the task too easily, and increase the difficulty for them?"

Gong Yuanzheng didn't even bother to ask about his brother being hunted down, as he was aroused by her next words and felt ashamed.

He couldn't help but cover his face. He thought Gong Ziyu was so stupid at the time. The person in charge was obviously released by Wufeng on purpose to report the news. If Wufeng said there was only one, then there was really only one?

Now he realized that Wufeng had made a foolish move, and Gongmen Zhiren and the young master had seriously cooperated with Wufeng to come up with a plan and taken it seriously. He was asked to join in and was quite happy to have the opportunity to appear...

Later, he told his brother about this, and it seemed that he led his brother astray, and his attention was focused on catching the three assassins by accident...

Zhang Xueming was also covering her face. She was so angry that she even complained about herself: "What on earth are you two sworn enemies doing? You were just playing around seriously, and I was foolish with you. I was almost suffocated to death by thinking about this and that... I have to tell your brother later. I feel like I'm missing something. Damn it."

The two people fell into an awkward silence.

When the servant knocked on the door to say that hot tea and snacks had been delivered, Gong Yuanzheng opened the door to get them, and everyone cheered themselves up.

Zhang Xueming nonchalantly tucked the loose hair behind his ears, pointed at the line of the former young master with his finger, and said, "Yesterday in the Zhiren Hall, I saw the guard named Jin Fan beside Gong Ziyu come in with a steady body and light steps. It was obvious that the medicine did not completely dissipate his internal energy. According to my observation, Jin Fan's internal energy does not seem to be as strong as your brother's. If the internal energy of your former young master is not much different from your brother, and the power-dispersing medicine that Old Zhiren took away was not used on him, I'm afraid he will cause trouble again."

Gong Yuanzheng was shocked: "Gong Huanyu is definitely not in the front mountain now. Although he is a hypocritical person, he is very protective of the palace. If he was locked up in Yu Palace, Gong Ziyu would not have gone to Zhiren Hall to make a scene the day before the marriage selection ceremony. At that time, the brides to be selected were still in the palace, and he would not allow those outsiders who might not be selected to see the palace's joke."

"That's troublesome." Zhang Xueming pouted, not looking worried at all, "Even your brother can't go to the back mountain easily, right?"

Gong Yuanzheng glanced at her, not showing any sign of worry. What does the matter in the back mountain have to do with the front mountain? As long as it doesn't interfere with the three of them, that's enough.

He let go of Zhang Xueming's hand, quietly wiped the sweat from his palms on his clothes, picked up the teapot and poured two cups of tea, pushed one cup to her, picked up a pair of chopsticks, picked up the red bean cake and brought it to her mouth.

"I'll write a new one for your brother tomorrow." Zhang Xueming said, and took a bite. Seeing Gong Yuanzheng turn his chopsticks and eat from the gap she had bitten, he was stunned for a moment, pretending not to see it, swallowed the soft, sweet and fragrant red bean cake in his mouth, and asked again: "What are you going to do later?"

"Make the facial creams you requested. I remembered two recipes, let me try them first." Gong Yuanzheng picked up another piece and handed it over, "But the beef marrow and butter will have to wait until tomorrow morning for the kitchen to deliver them."

"Don't worry, the motherwort ash I ground yesterday is enough for now. The recipe for Liuyan is based on this." Zhang Xueming took a bite as usual, and he ate the rest as usual.

"Oh, right." Gong Yuanzheng suddenly remembered, "I've been thinking about the color fixation of lip balm. I have an idea, but I don't know how long you can keep the color fixed? A year?"

"What the hell? Lip balm takes a year to fix the color, so won't my lips be the same color every day?" Zhang Xueming's pupils trembled. "It's enough if it can last for a day. The main reason is that it's rude to get it on the cup when drinking water, and it's easy to get it rubbed off when eating. It's troublesome to touch up the color every time after eating."

"So you were already awake at that time, and you even got up secretly to eat..."

"what?"

"Nothing, huh. What's the big deal if the color takes a year to solidify? I can make you something that can wash off the color and protect your lips, right?"

"Really? Ayuan, you are amazing, you are indeed a genius among geniuses. I feel inferior to such a great person."

"... Isn't it boring to have only one color of lip balm? I'd better make you a few more... no, dozens of them, so that you can have room to choose."

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