Lu Yi weighed the wooden box in his hand and was about to speak when the current Duke of Lai, Lu Yu, suddenly jumped out from the crowd.

With shock and anger on his round face, Lu Yu rushed to Bai Changkong's horse, pointed at Lu Yi and shouted: "Why is it so? Why is it so? On such a happy day, Lu Yi, you forced Lord Zhao Yao to death, you, you, you..."

Lu Yu's face drooped.

Looking at his uncle, Duke of Lai, who was filled with indignation, Lu Yi said coldly, "Duke of Lai, are you going to rebel?"

A heavy accusation was thrown at him. Lu Yu took a step back and hissed, "Nonsense, Lu Yu, how dare you slander me?"

Lu Yi said coldly: "If you don't want to rebel, the title of Duke of Lai is already the highest title for a minister, and there is no more to be gained. Do you need to flatter Bai Changkong and cheer for him?"

"You are the Duke of Lai. Instead of staying in your own mansion to enjoy your wealth and splendor, you are jumping around and wantonly colluding with ministers in the court... If you don't want to rebel, what are you going to do?"

"But it seems that you really have the ability to rebel. The territory of the Jingyang Lu family is tens of thousands of miles, and they have millions of private soldiers. If you can make friends with all the ministers in the court, when the time comes, you can lead the army to rebel, and Lord Bai and his men will cooperate with you from inside and outside, tsk tsk!"

"Oh my, there are countless disciples of culture and education all over the world cheering for you!"

Lu Yi gave Lu Yu a thumbs up and praised him, "This is a promising thing, Duke Lai... Oh, no... If this is successful, what should I call you?"

In Zhao Yao's yard, in a small building that luckily was not knocked down by Ah Hu, Yin Yuan and Yu Changle were watching the movement at the gate with a smile.

Hearing Lu Yi's words against Lu Yu, Yin Yuan frowned, "Although it's nonsense, it makes sense. Lu Yu is already a duke, and he is too close to these ministers. Lao Yu, send a letter to the Lu family in Jingyang, and give them a warning. Well, this year and next year, the salary of the Duke of Lai's Mansion will be withheld."

"We are poor, so we should save as much as we can!"

At the gate of Zhao Yao's house, Lu Yu looked at Lu Yi in amazement, then he raised his sleeves, covered his face, turned around and rushed into the crowd.

He couldn't respond to this.

As the Duke of Lai, he had indeed reached the pinnacle of being a minister. As the top military noble, he did not spend his days in debauchery, eating, drinking and having fun in his mansion, but spent every day hanging out with the ministers of culture and education whose power was growing day by day...

To say that you are rebelling is the lightest punishment.

If it was when Dayin had just established the country and Taizu was in power, which military hero would dare to make friends with ministers at will? I would charge you with "clique plotting rebellion" and kill all nine generations of your clan. That would be a sure thing.

Lu Yu was defeated, and Bai Changkong sighed in his heart with a bit of regret. He jumped off his mount and slowly took two steps towards Lu Yi.

"Lu Yu, your grandfather and I..."

Lu Yu hurriedly raised the Nine Yin Sect Leader token in his hand and said hastily, "Don't mention this matter. I'll give you some face today. Since you brought it up, hehe, Deputy Principal Bai, I'm sorry, let's end this wedding today."

Bai Changkong's face turned cold as he saw clearly the token in Lu Yi's hand.

"Leader of the Nine Yin Sect? What does that mean?" Bai Changkong looked at Lu Yi with a wandering gaze.

Lu Yi threw the token to the eunuch beside him, opened the wooden box in his hand, and took out the skull that Shi Wuyou had prepared with lime: "Luozhou Mu, Shi Wuyou, a dignified second-rank official of the imperial court, is the leader of the Nine Yin Sect."

Lu Yi smiled brightly: "No wonder the Nine Yin Sect, which brought chaos to the country of the previous dynasty and made the people live in misery, leading to the Taizu of the current dynasty to restore order, can still survive in this dynasty and cannot be completely wiped out. It's because there are senior officials of the imperial dynasty acting as collusion!"

In the crowd, all the great sages and ministers were in an uproar.

Several ministers who were on good terms with Shi Wuyou took a few steps forward and saw clearly the head in Lu Yi's hand.

"It is indeed Shi Wuyou! This, this, this..."

"How is this possible? Lord Corpse..."

"This, this... Is the Guardian going to make a false case again?"

"Who, who is it?" Lu Yi suddenly looked at the group of ministers: "Who said that I, Lu Yi, would handle a false case? Haha, it's this gentleman, arrest him, arrest him, he must be Shi Wuyou's accomplice!"

A group of captains and strong men rushed over and surrounded a man in a purple robe with a white face and long beard.

The man waved his hands hastily: "Nonsense, I, I..."

"Bang!" The man was hit hard on the stomach, two walnuts were stuffed in his mouth, his arms were bent behind his back, and he was tied up like a dumpling with a special rope made of several tendons mixed with thin steel wires.

'Slurp'.

The man struggled frantically, and was dragged into Zhao Yao's yard in a few seconds by the guard like a big fish.

"I, Lu Yu, will not handle false cases." Lu Yu pointed at the great sages and ministers and said coldly, "Shi Wuyou is the leader of the Nine Yin Sect, and the evidence is irrefutable. Everyone go back and reflect on yourselves to see if you have any correspondence with Shi Wuyou on a daily basis. What if the palace guards find evidence? Hehe."

In the crowd, the faces of several ministers suddenly turned pale.

How could Shi Wuyou, who had managed to rise to the position of governor of Luozhou, not have a network of connections in the court?
In the court, at least one-tenth of the officials had correspondence with provincial governors like Shi Wuyou.

Shi Wuyou has been killed, and the people from the Palace Guard must be on their way to Luozhou.

If their past letters were confiscated and contained some ambiguous words, they would probably have to go to the secret prison of the palace guards like the unlucky guy just now.

Lu Yi took a deep look at the officials whose faces suddenly changed, and put the head in front of Bai Changkong: "Deputy Principal Bai, I'm sorry. Before Shi Wuyou was killed by me, he confessed in person that there was a minister in the court whose son was not a good person and had an affair with his Nine Yin Sect."

Bai Changkong said coldly: "The minister's son? Who could it be?"

Lu Yi smiled particularly brightly: "I heard that Li Erya, the youngest son of the Minister of Rites Li Zi, is very suspicious."

Shaking his head, Lu Yi said, "So, I'm sorry, Li Erya can't spend the wedding night with Miss Bai Lu today. He has to follow me to the palace guard and cooperate with the investigation!"

Li Erya, who was holding a whip in the carriage, was shocked. He stood up suddenly and said in a hoarse voice: "Nonsense, nonsense, what Nine Yin Sect, I don't know anything about it. This, this, Luozhou Mu Shi Wuyou, I have never seen him, how could I have anything to do with him?"

Dozens of heavily armored guards, on horseback, surrounded Li Erya's carriage.

The horse lance reflected a cold light and locked onto Li Erya's entire body at a distance of only two or three feet.

Feeling the chill from the lance, Li Erya was so frightened that his face turned pale and his body trembled like a sieve.

Li Zi strode out of the crowd, his hands waving busily: "Lord Tianyang, Lord Tianyang, my Erya has been obedient and honest since he was a child. Apart from romance, he never touches those messy people and things."

"He has absolutely nothing to do with the Nine Yin Sect. I guarantee with my life that he has absolutely nothing to do with Shi Wuyou, and absolutely nothing to do with the Nine Yin Sect."

Li Zi had countless beautiful greetings in his heart that he wanted to express.

He really dared to guarantee with his own head that his precious little son could never be a disciple of the Nine Yin Sect - as the current leader of the Qiqiao Pavilion, which was ranked first among the Four Saints Alliance, how could he not know whether his son was a member of the Nine Yin Sect?

Lu Yi stuffed Shi Wuyou's head back into the wooden box and handed the box to the young eunuch beside him.

Li Zi rushed in front of him. Lu Yi put his hand on Li Zi's shoulder and whispered in his ear: "Master Li, of course I believe your son is not a disciple of the Nine Yin Sect... I have no ill intentions. Master Li doesn't even have to go to the secret prison. I will ask him to live in my Investigation Department for three months!"

"He is well fed and well served. I have arranged for him to have more than a dozen maids and dozens of guards. He can do whatever he wants except that he cannot leave my Survey Division's station."

"Three months is just a blink of an eye. Let him study hard and learn more. What do you think?"

Lu Yi's voice was neither loud nor soft.

Li Zi heard it clearly, and Bai Changkong, Bai Lang, and Bai Qiong also heard it clearly.

Three months?

Bai Changkong, Bai Lang and Bai Qiong's faces turned pale.

Even the shock caused by Zhao Yao's suicide and the killing of his two sons was not as great as the shock felt by Bai Changkong's family at this moment.

Three months!

Three months later, it was impossible to hide Bai Lu’s belly even if she wanted to!

What Lu Yi meant by his words was simply to tell the Bai family - he already knew clearly about the weirdness in Bai Lu's belly!

Even though Bai Changkong was extremely cunning, he seemed to be struck by lightning at this moment. He stood there stiffly, unable to speak.

Lu Yi looked at Bai Changkong again and said quietly, "If Mr. Li and Bai Lu get married, then Bai Lu is also suspected of colluding with the Nine Yin Sect. Therefore, for the next three months, please ask Deputy Headmaster Bai to restrain Miss Bai Lu and ask her to stay in the Bai family and not go out at all."

"Every day, I will send people to monitor Miss Bai Lu's whereabouts."

"Deputy Principal Bai, you are a person who governs, knows and abides by etiquette." Lu Yi took the staff from Yu Dianhu and waved it towards Bai Changkong: "The emperor's staff is here. If Miss Bai Lu makes a mistake, hehe... that would be a crime of disrespect. Don't blame me for punishing you!"

Bai Changkong stared at Lu Yi with deep eyes: "My daughter Wei Shuang is gentle and virtuous..."

Lu Yi patted Li Zi's shoulder and smiled faintly, "Congratulations, Lord Li, for having a gentle and virtuous daughter-in-law. Haha, Deputy Principal Bai, it's useless to say anything now. Anyway, I'm going to take Li Erya away. I'll let her go after three months."

"As for Bai Lu, just as I said just now, she will be confined to the Bai family and not allowed to go out for three months."

"Three months later, haha!"

Lu Yi patted Li Zi's shoulder again.

Li Zi drooped his eyelids, turned around, stared at Bai Changkong with a dim gaze, and walked towards Li Erya without saying a word.

"Er Ya, listen to Lord Tian Yang."

"Lord Tianyang's good intention is also to clear your suspicion. For just three months, you can study peacefully in Lord Tianyang's office."