In my previous life, I killed my whole family. In my next life, I killed the royal family.

The senior officials in the Jingzhao government office have been very busy lately and are also having a lot of headaches.

Originally, no one took the brothel case seriously, but Lord Qin Gaoming attached great importance to it, which forced them to pay extra attention to handle the matter.

So, Lord Xiao was ordered to bring Xiaochuan's body back to the government office and dispatch a coroner to perform an autopsy. "Sir, this person was obviously strangled to death with a rope."

Lord Xiao bravely stretched his head to take a look, and was immediately stunned with fear.

He couldn't say a word, and could only bite his lower lip tightly to prevent himself from screaming. Because the body lying in front of him was actually Princess Yonghe, who was reported by the Lu family to have been killed by robbers!

The officials all knew the prince and princess.

In addition, they had the deepest memories of Princess Yonghe. They had witnessed with their own eyes that she listened to the instructions of the Zuo family and Lu Fengyun and tried to forcibly take away the eldest prince in front of the civil and military officials of the royal family. The young emperor now wanted to kill her in order to secure the throne for the second prince and benefit the Zuo and Lu families.

At that time, Lord Xiao secretly thought: "Princess Yonghe is so stupid. She was used as a knife by others. I'm afraid she won't have a good ending."

Unexpectedly, she became a prostitute in a brothel and was killed. This was a horrifying thing.

Lord Xiao guessed the inside story: Princess Yonghe must have been taken into a brothel by Lu Fengyun, who wanted to escape to his fiefdom to become a superior man, and he didn't know how he came back. Lu Fengyun then ordered someone to kill the princess to silence her.

He had no evidence that Lu Fengyun had done this. But if he didn't investigate and concealed the matter, Lord Qin Gaoming would definitely hold him accountable for his dereliction of duty, and the royal family would never let it go.

Lord Xiao sighed, "Alas, I'm afraid Lord Qin knew that she was Princess Yonghe, so he ordered the government office to investigate the case."

"Quickly close the brothel and take all the people to jail for interrogation." After thinking it through, Lord Xiao quickly gave the order.

His men had just closed the brothel and arrested the man and sent him to jail.

That night, a fire broke out in the small brothel opposite the brothel, but fortunately no one was injured.

The series of events that occurred in the capital city caused headaches for the officials of the Jingzhao government.

"The first month of the year hasn't even ended yet, and several cases have occurred in succession."

The head constable checked the fire scene and came back to report, "My Lords, it looks like someone set the fire intentionally."

He asked someone to bring a few porcelain jars, which still contained a lot of tung oil.

Several cans of tung oil were found at the fire scene, which clearly showed that the fire was set intentionally.

Lord Xiao called Mr. Gui and personally asked, "Who do you have a grudge against?"

The turtle man was round and fat, with a slightly hunched back, thick eyebrows and small eyes that kept moving around.

His fat face was turned black by the fire. If someone closed their eyes and smelled the strong smoky smell, they would think they were looking at a roasted pig.

"Why would someone burn down the prostitute's house?" Lord Xiao asked in confusion, "Who do you have a grudge against?"

Turtle shook his head, "We don't make enemies with others."

Master Xiao cursed, "Bullshit, when you see a good-looking man, you will do everything you can to get him to sell your body, and you still say you have no grudges."

"You better tell me now, or that person will come back to kill you." Lord Xiao added, "And kill your whole family."

The old man looked around, and Xiao the servant waved his hand, and all the yamen runners retreated.

Turtle swallowed his saliva and said something strange, "On the night when the late emperor passed away, someone threw a man who had fainted into the prostitute's building and left a message: Don't believe anything he says. If you let him go, I will kill you!"

The tortoise saw that the man was very handsome and knew that he was a good commodity. He called a wealthy man over that day and asked, "Do you want this? It looks like a new commodity."

When the man saw the man's appearance, he was startled at first, then laughed, "Haha, I didn't expect to be able to sleep with this guy, come on, book him for a few days."

After the old man finished his story, he said to Mr. Xiao, "From then on, the man was locked up in the prostitute's house and sold his body. A few days ago, an official came and the two of them fell in love. A few days later, the man jumped out of the window and escaped. I didn't dare to say a word."

"Tell me the names of some of them."

The turtle man was terrified, and he walked up to Master Xiao and whispered, "The young man first said that he was a member of the Lu family, and he wanted me to let him go and give me a lot of silver."

"The Lu family?" Lord Xiao jumped up in surprise.

"He is very handsome, like the eldest son of the Lu family's eldest branch." In fact, Gui Gong had always recognized that the man who was sent here to be a prostitute was Lu Fengyun.

Lu Fengyun was the top scholar, and he was well-known in the capital.

"Ah!" Several adults were stunned after hearing this.

After a while, Mr. Xiao asked again: "Who is the man that the official and the young man are having an affair with?"

"His surname is Hu. He is the prefect. His concubine is the one from the third room of the Qi Mansion who died and came back to life and changed her name to Ding."

Ding Jinxiu's legendary story is now known to everyone in the capital.

When the officials heard that Lord Hu had become an affair with the woman named Lu, they were all very shocked.

"Doesn't Lord Hu have Ding as his wife? Do you like men?"

"Sir, this is normal. The men who come to our place all have wives and concubines. They just come here to relax and have fun." The old man said in a low voice.

"Maybe it was Lord Hu who rescued the man named Lu." The people present only mentioned the surname and not the person. After all, it was not necessarily true that Lu Fengyun was a prostitute.

"It's really a deep and lasting love."

Mr. Xiao smiled and said, "I'm afraid they each have their own agenda."

When everyone thought about how Lord Hu came to power, they all nodded.

It was an extraordinary ability for Hu Dingmin to rise from a waiter to a high-ranking official.

His greatest ability is that he has no shame.

Therefore, it is entirely possible to please both men and women and the Lu family.

"How can we get the evidence and arrest the person?" these officials worried.

Now we have no evidence, so how can we say that Lord Hu or Young Master Lu allowed someone to set fire to the brothel and cause property damage?

The constable was interrogating the brothel's people in the jail. After being whipped a few times, the madam quickly confessed:

It turned out that Xiaochuan was actually a dead person.

That night, Xiaochuan, who was sold to a brothel by her family, was unwilling to receive customers and hit her head against the wall and died.

The madam was so angry that she ordered her corpse to be whipped.

A masked man jumped down from the roof and said, "Don't kill him. I'll give you a living one." The man threw a person to the ground.

When the madam saw that the woman on the ground was pretty and charming, she was delighted on the spot and said, "Okay, then use her to act as Xiaochuan to receive customers, so we don't have to go to the government office to go through the formalities." The death of a person had to be reported to the government office for record, and the purchase of a person by a brothel also had to be reported to the government office for record.

She was afraid that the night would be too long and might lead to more trouble, so she sent the guest to the fake Xiaochuan's bed that night.

Unexpectedly, the newcomer was very happy to receive customers. She forgot about what happened before and accepted everyone calling her Xiaochuan.

After hearing this, the officials in the government office realized that the princess had been knocked unconscious and thrown into the brothel.

Everyone agreed: "It must have been done by the Lu family, otherwise, who would have such courage?"

Qin Gaoming made the same judgment after hearing the case. He said firmly: "It must have been done by the Lu family!"

The assistant ministers of the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice were both royal children. One was the son of the eldest princess, and the other was the prince Wang Xiong.

Although they hated Princess Yonghe, they were extremely angry about the fact that the princess was thrown into a brothel to entertain customers. They felt that this was not only an insult to the princess personally, but also a ruthless trampling on the reputation of the entire royal family.

They decided to thoroughly investigate the case, avenge Princess Yonghe, and make those who dared to challenge the royal majesty pay the price.

Qi Mansion Yilan Courtyard

Qi Wan was drawing in the study when Wu Yi came back quietly with a happy look on her face.

"Master, things are going well."

Qi Wan put down his pen, looked up at Wu Yi, and said with a smile, "Great, we'll just wait for the show to begin."

Wu Yi glanced at the painting on the table. Her master was standing lifelike on the paper.

She bit her lower lip and held back from saying, "The master is on his way back."

She just received a message from Xiao Ren: "We are on our way back. The master said he wants to give your master a surprise. Don't let anyone know about it first."

Wu Yi was looking forward to seeing the two masters reunite again.