"If you hadn't trusted Qin Ye too much, the Deng family would not have been disguised as a humble commoner like Jiang Mengzhi. Now, Your Majesty has already become suspicious of Deng family, thinking that we had some connection with King Ningzheng of Huai, so he would be anxious to imprison Shi An in the dungeon of the private mansion.

Shi An died of poisoning, but still has no solution... Although Wang He came out to take the blame, he finally left the Deng family. Your Majesty naturally does not believe that this matter has nothing to do with the Deng family. At such an important moment, if you are like this, you will only be angry. In my opinion, after the New Year, you no longer have to be the Left Chief of the Shangshu. Just in time, your private residence was blown up and you moved back to the residence. I can take care of you too!"

Deng Yuan was the son of Deng Ling, and Deng Ling was the most outstanding child of the Deng clan and was very favored. Because of his father's extraordinary talent, Deng Guozhong was also extremely spoiled for this grandson. Deng Yuan loved gardens, so after the ceremony, he wanted to move out of the mansion and set up a new mansion to live in. This was a very unruly and a bit out of order. However, because Deng Guozhong was favored, he allowed him to live in separate houses. Now Deng Yuan's private mansion has become ruins due to the explosion. Deng Guozhong naturally ordered him to return to his residence and refused to purchase his own house and leave his residence to live in another mansion.

Deng Guozhong believed that the reason why such a huge disaster like an explosion occurred is that he was too indulged in Deng Yuan in the past, which led to his arrogant heart, doing things without consequences, and easily trusting others, which led to the disaster.

After Deng Yuan was trained, he was relieved of half his anger and sat in front of the hall and didn't dare to say anything.

Deng Guozhong thought about the chaos in the streets after Wang He entered the East Mansion Office and surrendered, and he felt that Jiang Chengyi was not the only one behind this.

He did make the rumor in the streets and alleys, which made the uninformed people determine that Wang He was the culprit and wanted to use this matter to force Jiang Chengyi to release Deng Yuan from the Dongfu Department, but he never talked about it. The rumor was like Mars riding on the wind, igniting the public and public opinion in the capital. However, the day before New Year's Eve, the long streets and alleys were filled with people discussing the matter.

Deng Guozhong was very sure that he just ordered someone to surrender Wang He. The news that the Dongfusi Department had not closed the case was spread in teahouses and restaurants and east-west markets, and he never looked for the relatives of the victims involved in the Laba explosion. He knew that if these people who were directly affected by the explosion received the news that the culprit surrendered, they would go to the Dongfusi Department to make a big fuss as soon as possible. If the timing was not well controlled, it would easily lead to the consequences of civil chaos in the long street.

He just wanted to use the rumors circulating all over the city to force the Dongfu Office to make a decision as soon as possible, submit a memorial, and ask His Majesty to decide and rescue Deng Yuan from the Dongfu Office prison, but he did not expect that in just one night, the matter caused a storm in the city.

Someone must have added fuel to the fire behind the scenes, which made the rumor spread more quickly throughout Luocheng.

The news spread so quickly not only made Dou Yuelan, Chang Yu and Jing Ting feel that the explosion case must have nothing to do with his Deng family, but even His Majesty thinks so.

On New Year's Eve, he went to the palace to congratulate. The emperor also deliberately inquired and asked, thinking that he wanted to save Deng Yuan from the Eastern Palace, so he was anxious to prosecute Wang Heding. The emperor just asked him directly: If he had a clear conscience, why did he do such a thing to cover up his ears and steal the bell?

Deng Guozhong had already noticed from this incident that someone wanted to use the Laba explosion to cause a rift between his Deng clan and the emperor to alienate the relationship between the monarch and his ministers.

Moreover, this matter is not set up by Jiang Chengyi alone, and there must be someone else behind him to control it.

Just as Deng Guozhong was thinking about this matter, Ning Baikai, who was resigning from the position of Cao Li, rushed to Deng's mansion in the scorching winter sun.

Ning Bai drove off the horse and rushed into the Deng family mansion. The gatekeeper was caught off guard and said in a panic: "Mr. Ning? Why are you so anxious?"

Ning Bokai is a young man with a white face. At this moment, he is wearing a high crown, wearing an official uniform, a ribbon, and a boot. The wide Xuanhei official uniform always looks unfit on him, and his thin body is completely covered by the fat and wide sleeves of the skirt.

At this moment, his eyebrows were tightly piled up, his expression was burning, and he hurriedly said, "I need to see the Grand Marshal. Please don't stop him."

He hurriedly rushed into Deng's mansion.

Seeing this, Manager Jiao from Deng's house came up and said, "Mr. Ning? Master Taiwei is having meals with his family in the mansion, so he may not see him at this moment."

Ning Baikai was sweating all over his head and said anxiously: "Please go and report it. Even if the lower-ranking official is waiting in the side hall, he will still meet the Grand Marshal!"

The in charge immediately knew that something must have happened in the court or the government. So he responded to Ning Bai: "Master Ning, please wait for a while. I will go to the front hall in the courtyard to report to the lord."

Ning Bokai nodded repeatedly and said, "Please please hurry up, the subordinates have something important to do."

Manager Jiao responded twice, then turned around and ran towards the inner courtyard.

Ning Baikai was led to the side hall by the servant, and waited in the hall to restlessly.

It was not until Deng Guozhong responded to Manager Jiao's report and came slowly towards the side hall that Ning Bokai calmed down a little.

"How did Ning Cao Li look for me so anxiously? But what happened to the government?" Deng Guozhong went straight to the topic as soon as he entered the side hall.

Ning Bai bowed to him three times and replied in a hurry: "Master Taiwei, news came from the Tingwei Mansion that Dou Yuelan reopened the case of Songzong after the New Year's Day celebration. Somehow it was found that the governor of Yangzhou Su Ren also participated in the case of Songzong's private trafficking and trafficking of women and children.

This morning, the officials also received a piece of news from Yangzhou. Half a month ago, when Su Ren left office and came to the capital, bringing his family and congratulations to attend the ceremony of the Zhengdan ceremony, Shouchun and Wujun had a series of murders of people in the local area.

The prefects of the two places reported the matter to the governor's office. Somehow, the matter came to the ears of the Tingwei. At present, Dou Yuelan had already linked the murder case of Yangzhou and the case of Song Zong and investigated... The officials were only afraid that Lord Su... would be in danger."

Deng Guozhong's face changed drastically when he heard these two messages, and he said frightenedly: "Su Ren was in the Beijing Inn. If Dou Yuelan really linked these two things together... In less than two days, he would go to the inn to get people!"

Ning Baikai replied: "It is precisely because of this that the lower official got the news and quickly went to the Lord's Mansion to inform him. He also asked the Lord to make the decision to decide the matter."

Deng Guozhong walked back and forth in the side hall, his face showing frost, and said with gritted teeth: "Although the Tingwei Mansion has concluded the case, if you want to appeal, you must go through your hands. In the past few days, you will be watching Dou Yuelan's movements. If there is any movement in this case, you will immediately inform me."

Ning Bokai nodded repeatedly and replied: "The official will tell the news to the Lord as soon as possible."

"Also, this matter needs to be hidden from Su Ren, and even more so from Xie Fang. The news must not be leaked to the Regent." Deng Guozhong remembered another incident and reminded him.

Xie Fang, the legal official in charge of all matters in the inn, was Ning Zheng's confidant. Although the legal master was under the jurisdiction of the Taiwei Mansion, the power of the control of the various cadres under the Taiwei Mansion was not controlled by Deng Guozhong. All dynasties were jointly managed by the emperor, important officials and the Taiwei.

Su Ren was the governor of Yangzhou, so he entered the official career as a disciple of Deng and had a very good relationship with the Deng family. During his tenure, there were many murder cases of people who were killed by the local people, which was a big taboo for Emperor Wei. If Ning Zheng knew about it, he would definitely focus on the matter and make a big fuss, but for fear that the consequences would be unimaginable. What's more, the governor of Guangzhou, Song Zong was originally the confidant of King Ning Zheng of Huai. Now, Su Ren, a disciple of the Deng family, was found to have participated in private trafficking in the case of Emperor Song Zong, which inevitably made Emperor Wei suspected that Deng and the King of Huai secretly had some kind of transaction.

Ning Bokai also knew the seriousness of the matter, so he nodded and said, "After the lower official got the news from the Tingwei Mansion, he ordered people to suppress the rumor. I think it should be able to hide it from the Regent for a while."

Deng Guozhong was a little discouraged and sat in front of the side hall case, murmured: "How could Su Ren be involved in the case of Song Zong?"

Ning Bokai was also frowning and said: "The officials are also wondering. Lord Su is not a person who loves money, and he knows that the people who Your Majesty hates the most to use bad methods to abduct women and children as slaves and servants, and he should not make such a big mistake."

Deng Guozhong looked tense and thought about countermeasures.

At present, what he was most worried and afraid of was that Ning Zheng had already known about it before Ning Bokai came to inform him of the matter.

Although he blocked the news in time according to Ning Bokai's statement, the Regent had a wide range of connections and eyesight, and it was difficult to know whether he had received the news.

However, the Regent Ning Zheng has remained silent about the Laba explosion these days. When Emperor Wei was weak and adjourned the court, he did not raise any questions about the judgment of the case. He only focused on the case of Emperor Song.

After Ning Zheng was disappointed from the Tingwei Mansion, he went to the Dongfu Office and the Shaofu Office to obtain the transfer order documents with the seals and seals of the two governments, and then went to the Tingwei Mansion to review the files.

Dou Yuelan had no reason to stop him, so he could only let Ning Zheng check the file.

But because he stopped Ning Zheng once, he had won some time to hide all the important evidence of Song Zong and his personal evidence, which was to avoid Ning Zheng's possibility of investigating all the cases.

However, even though Ning Zheng only retrieved some of the case files from Dou Yuelan, he found the doubts.

He found that in the case file that was found at Dou Yuelan, the smuggling strongholds in various places that were verified were basically carried by land along Yekongge's commercial transportation.

Ning Zheng, who has always been keen, immediately discovered that this matter was inseparable from Ning Nanyou.

Just yesterday, after the New Year's Day ceremony, the spy sent by him to the Linhe Supervisory Command Office was finally able to return to the capital from Jingzhou and bring a message.
Chapter completed!