"I... fell in love with the Jiang girl?" Ning Nanyou murmured to himself.

"Zhou Yuanmo...why are you talking nonsense?" He lowered his black eyes and showed a rare look of panic.

"I haven't settled the score with you yet, so you are talking to me here? Lu Xun took the herbs from the North Courtyard... Did you give them? Did I tell you that if you dare to touch the Jiang girl, I will definitely not spare you easily?" Ning Nanyou felt that the dusty place in his heart seemed to be suddenly pulled open, like a sharp arrow piercing him, saying that he had nowhere to escape. He was eager to take the topic next to him and clenched the fists in his sleeves tightly.

Zhou Yuanmo was stunned and calmed down his eyes, without any hesitation and concealment, saying, "Yes... it was handed over to Lu Xun by my subordinates. But that was just an ordinary herb. My subordinates did not want to hurt the Jiang girl, but they just wanted her to suffer more of her flesh and blood."

"Why do this?" Ning Nanyou didn't expect him to admit so quickly, so the anger in his heart became stronger and he asked sternly.

"I just want her to recover from her injuries in the command mansion." Zhou Yuanmo said frankly, "The maid Qian Shan, who is under the Jiang family, is extremely protective of her master. Seeing that she is injured, she will definitely not let her investigate your whereabouts in the past few days. I am also doing this for the sake of your lord."

"So, are you going to let the Jiang girl suffer more flesh and blood just to make her unable to interfere in what we do? Zhou Yuanmo, when did you become so naive? No matter how high Jiang Chengjia's status in the Water Pavilion is, just because there are so many spies in the Thousand Machines of the Water Pavilion, do she have to rely on herself if she wants to find out the news?" Ning Nanyou sneered Zhou Yuanmo coldly, suddenly thinking that he was ridiculous and funny, and it was hard to believe that Zhou Yuanmo had come up with such an unreasonable way to stop Jiang Chengjia.

"I know that this will not stop the Jiang girl from using spies from Qianji District outside the mansion to get information, but it can prevent her from following you out of the mansion again. If she learns where Gu An and Jiang Shan are, it will definitely destroy your plan again." Zhou Yuanmo knew in his heart that his method of treating symptoms but not root causes may not be of no use.

Ning Nanyou felt that Zhou Yuanmo was a little unreasonable, and he couldn't even figure out why Zhou Yuanmo was so hostile to Jiang Chengjia?

He stroked his forehead, his face was cold, and he was very angry: "If you came to argue with me today for the Jiang girl, there is no need to. I have a certainty in my heart about this matter, and you don't need to say anything more."

Zhou Yuanmo looked at the bored feeling on Ning Nanyou's face, and the persuasion that came to his mouth rolled in his throat for a few times, and finally said it with a tough bullet: "Lord, I don't want to argue with you, I just think..."

"No need to say anything more. If you say something, get out of my study." Ning Nanyou slapped the bamboo rolls placed on the desk next to him, and his tone gradually calmed down, but the ice in this sentence still did not diminish at all.

"Lord, you are the most open-minded and wise, why don't you listen to advice this time?" Zhou Yuanmo touched the protruding veins on his forehead, looking gray and depressed.

"Isn't it over?" Ning Nanyou raised his eyes and glared coldly at him.

Zhou Yuanmo ate his flying knife and knew that this matter could not be continued. If he still insisted on his own, he would be afraid that he would not even be able to say the purpose of coming here today.

"I... know my mistake." He stood in front of Ning Nanyou, but he still asked for something and bowed his head to admit his mistake.

Ning Nanyou lowered his head, put the bamboo roll on his knees, and ignored him.

There was silence in the house, and Zhou Yuanmo could even hear his heartbeat clearly.

The man in black clothes sitting on the mat opposite, who was sitting on the mat, fell into a dead silence like an ice cellar. This made Zhou Yuanmo know that he had completely angered Ning Nanyou.

"Lord..." Zhou Yuanmo stood in front of the door honestly, not daring to walk inside.

Ning Nanyou still ignored him, holding the bamboo roll in his hand, frowned deeply.

"Master." Zhou Yuanmo called out carefully again.

Ning Nanyou moved his deep brows, moved from the mat by the window to the table table, lifted the gray-brown wolf hair placed beside him, and looked at the dried ink in the inkstone.

Zhou Yuanmo saw his seemingly inadvertent look and immediately understood what he meant, so he hurriedly raised his foot and ran inside, kneeled beside him, and polished the ink for him.

Ning Nanyou still kept silent, as if he had acquiesced to him and continued to stay in the study. He made annotations on the bamboo rolls, took two more paper rolls, and excerpted some records from the bamboo rolls.

Zhou Yuanmo endured the words and grinded the ink. After a while, the two small message tubes in his arms called out tentatively: "Lord..."

Ning Nanyou's pen tip shook slightly, and the ink became a black vortex on the paper, which made him interrupt his cry impatiently, "Speak quickly if you have something to do."

Zhou Yuanmo stared at the vortex on his paper, sighed, and then slowly took out the two mailboxes that had been slightly covered with heat from his sleeve.

"The news came from Jianye that it was to find out why the king had joined forces with Deng Guozhong to remove Lu Yu, Yueqi, and even the Lüshi, and Murong." He pulled out a letter tube from the two letters, opened the bamboo lid, took out the note inside and handed it to Ning Nanyou.

Hearing Zhou Yuanmo mention the reason why his father framed the teacher, Ning Nanyou's subordinate shook again and completely scratched the words in his pen. He calmed down, raised his head, and docked the brush in his hand on the inkstone, and took the small scroll of paper handed over by Zhou Yuanmo.

"What the letter said... The spy found a farmer in a small village in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang and learned that the king had blocked the mountain roads of all farmers' transactions in the area, and isolated the roads from the eastern suburbs to the city and the next county."

There are only two words on the note: "Dou."

His heart trembled suddenly, and he became a little scared of the truth.

Ning Nanyou took the note of paper and put it on a cotton cloth to pick up the burning hot teapot and threw it in.

Seeing the note gradually burning to ashes, Zhou Yuanmo continued: "The spy also found out... Dou Jue stayed in this area, and the time when the King of Dai blocked the eastern suburbs was the period when Dou stayed."

After a while, Ning Nanyou looked up with a gloomy face and asked, "Which time?"

Zhou Yuandu said: "The end of the third year of Yongning is in late autumn."

"The late autumn of the third year of Yongning?" Ning Nanyou trembled, he said to himself, then raised his head to confirm to him, "I haven't made any mistakes at this time?"

Zhou Yuanmo, who was standing beside him, nodded and said, "It's true."

At the end of the third year of Yongning, it was the day when Dou Yueshan's third uncle Dou Xunen was attacked and killed by horse bandits outside Luoyang. Dou Jue stayed in the eastern suburbs where Dou Yueshan had an accident, which confirmed that at least half of the testimony that Cheng Yue was forced to question after torture was true.

Dou Xunen's death is inseparable from the Dou family's own clan.

Then the reason why his father blocked the eastern suburbs at that time was obvious. He also had a close relationship with Dou Xunen's death.

The teacher's death...is it actually related to the accidental murder of Dou Xunen back then?

"What else did the spy find?" Ning Nanyou continued to ask.

Zhou Yuanmo frowned and said, "It is said that when Master Lu, General Yue Qi, Uncle Lu, and... my father and four of them learned that Dou Xunen was attacked by bandits in the eastern suburbs, they quickly went to rescue. It is very likely that they would collide with the army of King Dai, the guards of Deng's family and the men of Dou's family... lord, this is very likely the real reason why Ning Zheng and Deng's family joined forces to deal with the four families..."

This made Ning Nanyou think of the assassination he encountered more than three months ago when he chased Dou Yueshan to Jiangling on the night he wanted to attack Dou Yueshan. It was indeed Ning Nankun who wanted to attack Dou Yueshan, but if his father had not given the order, his third brother would not dare to blatantly attack the children of aristocratic families so openly, especially the Dou family like the Dou family.

If the father framed the teacher, it was really because the teacher and General Yue Qi knew the truth about Dou Xunen's murder. Then three months ago, the reason why his father wanted to chase Dou Yueshan... was also exposed. The father probably saw Dou Yueshan going to Linyuan to meet him, and had contact with Cheng Yue, the person who had participated in the murder of Dou Xunen, who thought Dou Yueshan knew the truth, so he wanted to silence him. But if it were just Dou Xunen who was killed by his father and Deng's hands... Why didn't the teacher and General Yue Qi, Uncle Lu, and Uncle Murong tell the emperor's grandfather directly about this? If he told the emperor's grandfather about this, perhaps the situation now would not have become like this. There must be other reasons in this, which prompted his father and Deng to have the intention of killing these four families that must be eliminated.

Ning Nanyou became deeply uneasy. Seeing that Zhou Yuanmo had a letter tube in his hand, he asked, "Who sent the other letter?"

Only then did Zhou Yuanmo hand over the other letter tube in his hand to Ning Nanyou: "This letter was sent by the third and third young masters of the Dou family four days ago."

"What did you say?" Ning Nanyou was a little surprised and hurriedly took the letter.

He hurriedly opened it, and the beautiful and familiar words fell into his eyes.

"Zhaoyuan: It has been several months since I parted. I have listened to your words and returned to Zuo Fengyi safely. Now I have received my father's edict and ran to Luoyang. When I met a bandit on the way, I fought desperately. I realized that this matter was different, so I woke him up with faith. I hope you can pay attention."

This is just a simple message, and the notes are a bit hasty, which shows that Dou Yueshan was very anxious when she wrote this creed.

Zhou Yuanmo felt uneasy when he saw Ning Nanyou's face changing again and again.

"What did the lord remember?" he asked softly.

Ning Nanyou was staring at his spirit, frowned very tightly. When he heard his question, he slowly spoke: "At present, all clues point to the truth about Dou Xunen's murder. I'm afraid that the teacher and General Yue Qi's death... are also inseparable from it."

"Dou Xunen's unexpected death, Emperor Ming was furious when he heard the news. He sent four or five groups of people to find the bandits who killed Dou Xunen. Strangely, the bandits who attacked Dou Xunen disappeared after they appeared once in the eastern suburbs. They have never found any people. This shows that there is a lot of articles to find in this matter." Zhou Yuanmo gradually frowned and said with a serious expression, "My lord... what should I do next?"

"What I can't understand is... why Uncle Dou also wants to attack me?" Ning Nanyou turned the ring on his hand.

"Maybe Anping Hou also noticed the strangeness in the incident back then? He thought that the King Dai sent someone to kill Dou Xunen, so he wanted to take revenge. He could not take action against the King Dai, so he wanted to make your father pay the debts and sons?"
Chapter completed!