Looking at Tai'an from the full moon

"Today, we have to assign the second task!"

"Second mission?"

Zhen Luo was stunned for a moment, while Liuli explained to her. After Liuli finished speaking, Xiao Zuochen began to add to her story.

"Yesterday, Chu Yao and I went to the Princess's Mansion and met Li Jinxiu, the daughter of Lord Li who died for his crimes. The relationship is quite complicated. To put it simply, Lord Li was most likely framed for the incident. He may have had some evidence of the Dukou Caodu's crimes, and this evidence may be hidden in Li Jinxiu's hands."

"Many years have passed. Can she still remember what happened back then?"

"She certainly doesn't remember much. She told me that she only remembered that Lord Li had a quarrel with the governor of the ferry, and mentioned several names at the time. She was still young at the time and didn't know those people, let alone remember them clearly. But she has her father's relics in her hand. Lord Li asked her to give them to someone she trusted before he died. She gave them to me last night."

"So she trusts you so much. But why is she living in the Princess's mansion?"

Prince Qing was a little surprised. The woman lived in the princess's house, but she didn't give the evidence to the princess. And with the princess's character, how could she allow a woman to live in her house casually? What was going on?

"There are some hidden stories in this, but it's just a matter between the princess and Li Jinxiu, so I can't tell you. But I have promised her that as long as you can hand over the evidence to me, I will definitely help her father overturn the case and clear the Li family's name."

After Xiao Zuochen finished speaking, he turned and looked at Prince Qing, as if to signal him that he would need his help in this matter in the future.

Prince Qing shrugged his shoulders. He had no reason to refuse Xiao Zuochen's arrangement.

Seeing that everyone seemed to be waiting to see the evidence, Xiao Zuochen passed the evidence that Li Jinxiu brought last night to everyone.

"This letter clearly states the former Dukou Caodu's spies in the palace more than a decade ago, while another account book clearly records the amount of his embezzlement and bribery."

"But this letter and the account book are from more than ten years ago. What do they have to do with what happened ten years ago?"

Zhen Luo asked.

"Then take a look at these~"

Xiao Zuochen handed over five sheets of rice paper with the contents copied on them, which contained the names, birthdays, addresses and related personnel of the people in the letter.

"These are just some brief introductions. Any clues?"

"Don't you think some of this information looks familiar?"

"look familiar..."

Liuli took the rice paper and looked at it carefully again. Suddenly, she seemed to think of something and opened her mouth slightly.

When Xiao Zuochen saw that she had discovered it, he smiled slightly, turned around and took a few more sheets of rice paper.

"This is the information of the deceased we investigated last time. Although the address has been changed, the gender and date of birth are completely consistent. If the matching date of birth of one person is a coincidence, then the matching date of birth of these people is definitely not a coincidence!"

"Then why didn't they change the birthday when they changed the identity of the person?"

"Perhaps they are afraid that if they change their birthday, they will let it slip to others. After all, they have lived for so long, and when they talk about their birthday, they will definitely say the one they often say. Besides, who would have thought that many years later, someone would discover this problem through their birthday."

Liuli thought of a reasonable explanation. Xiao Zuochen nodded and continued.

"Or to be more precise, they didn't expect that they would die together ten years later. But no matter what the reason is, we now know that the victims of the serial murders were Cao Lu's helpers at the ferry. As long as we can understand what happened in the past, we may know why they were killed, and perhaps we can get some information about the murderer, and it may be possible to solve the Shenyin Pavilion case."

"But how can we find out what happened back then? We have already interviewed the families of these people, and they basically know nothing about what happened to the deceased ten years ago."

"Even though their current family members don't know, it doesn't mean that their family members ten years ago didn't know either."

Xiao Zuochen held up the stack of information and shook it, saying with a smile.

"Didn't we just say that they all have two identities? That means they have two families."

"So what we're going to do next..."

Even Chu Yao who was standing by understood what was said. Now that he was aware of the situation, he immediately became alert and wanted Xiao Zuochen to quickly tell him about the next task. He was almost bored to death these past few days.

"Six cases, six deaths, the identity of the last deceased is still unknown, so we only visited the first five."

Xiao Zuochen distributed the information of the five people to them.

"This records their previous addresses. Some people's addresses may have changed over the years. In addition, it has been a long time, so there will definitely be some difficulties in the actual investigation. Let's do our best."

So everyone started the investigation based on their own information.

Xiao Zuochen took Yun Wei to investigate the owner of the pig slaughtering stall.

Chu Yao took Yixing to investigate the fish stall owner.

The King of Qing took his servant to investigate the Grain Transport Commissioner.

Liuli went to investigate the pharmacy owner. Since she didn't know martial arts, Xiao Zuochen asked Yunyou to accompany her.

Zhen Luo was responsible for investigating the waiter.

As expected, everyone encountered different difficulties.

The mother of the butcher stall owner said that her son had died ten years ago and even his body had been claimed. Her son had been working in the palace and had never married. There was nothing left for her to remember him by, and she didn't know anything about what happened to him in the palace.

The fish stall owner did have a wife and a child before, but his wife said that because his son had some intellectual problems, he suddenly disappeared ten years ago after leaving a letter, abandoning them and their child.

The pharmacy owner's maternal family has moved away. Liuli and Yunyou asked around and found out that they had moved south many years ago, but no one knew where they moved to.

The waiter's family was not a big deal, but it was a small family. However, those people saw that Zhen Luo wanted to find out something, so they asked her to pay, and they asked for ten taels of gold. Of course, Zhen Luo didn't give it yet.

The only one who was successful was the ferry supervisor. In order to save his life, his son told Xiao Zuochen everything. So when everyone got together the next night, they were all dejected.

“I feel like there’s nothing to be said.”

Chu Yao lay on the table with a little fatigue. He had been running all day but gained nothing. He felt very frustrated.

"You're lucky. At least they can talk to you nicely. But Xiaoer's family didn't even tell me. They only considered it if I paid them. Liuli is even worse. She doesn't even know where he is~"

"Okay, let's stop comparing our misfortunes to each other. I had actually anticipated this situation yesterday."

Xiao Zuochen spoke.

"Although there are no clues yet, we know the general direction. And the people who lived with them before must have some clues.

Let's change our target. Yun Wei and I will be responsible for investigating the pharmacy owner's maternal family.

Liuli, Zhenluo, Yunyou, the three of you are in charge of the mother of the butcher stall owner and the wife and children of the fish stall owner. Both of their families are women, so I think you will be able to empathize with them more when you interact with them."

"Ok!"

"it is good."

"Royal brother, Chu Yao and Yixing are in charge of Xiao Er's family. Royal brother can use his status to intimidate them. Besides, his family has many people. You three can ask separately when the time comes."

"no problem!"

"What about you? I don't know where the pharmacy owner's mother's family has moved to now. Where are you going to find her?"

"I naturally have my own way, don't worry. But I need to go out of the city in the next few days, so you should be careful in the city."

"Ah, then when will you be back?"

Yes, if I want to find out where the pharmacy owner's mother's family has moved, I can only leave the city. But if Xiao Zuochen leaves, I will be the only one in Prince Yun's Mansion.

"Soon, I'll set off again early tomorrow morning."