The rain outside was still heavy, covering the sun, and the wind blowing in from the window made the lights in the temple sway a little, flickering on and off.
Under the flickering lights, there were nervous and anxious faces with a bit of ferocity and anger.
The King of Qin, Zhu Shanglie, the Commander of the King's Guards, Gao Zhi, the Chief Manager of the Prince of Qin's Palace, Wang Weiren, and another respected old eunuch of the Prince of Qin's Palace, Shan Dejing.
Gao Zhi is a typical martial artist, standing next to Zhu Shanglie with a sword, like a fiery diamond.
The king seemed to have done something wrong, his head and eyes were uneasy. He looked at his master for a while, and looked at Mao Xiang fearfully for a while.
Shan Dejing acted as if the matter had nothing to do with him, standing alone in the corner with Fuchen in his arms, leaning against the pillars of the hall, as if he was dozing off.
"You want to see the king, and I have called him over!" King Qin Zhu Shangli held a wine glass in his hand, "Ask whatever you want, and after you ask, tell me who wants to kill me!" As he said,
The wine glass in his hand slammed down, with uncontrollable sadness and anger on his face.
At this moment, Mao Xiang sensitively noticed that Qin King Zhu Shanglie had a different look in his eyes. He was like a child who had been wronged and pretended not to care.
In fact, he is just a child, a child who has just become weak and energetic.
When Wang Weiren heard this, he shrank his head deeply, and his two buttocks trembled.
"This is a typical slave. He pretends to be a bit smart, but he has no courage or intelligence at all!"
Mao Xiangxin commented on the chief steward of the palace, then slowly walked up to him and said with a smile, "Manager Wang, I have a few words to ask you, okay?"
Wang Weiren forced out a smile that was uglier than pain, "Just ask!"
"How many years have you been in the palace?" Mao Xiang asked.
"The Za family entered the palace after being purified in the seventh year of Hongwu. Later, they were assigned by the internal officials to serve King Qin Qiansui. It has been more than 20 years now." After saying this, Wang Weiren turned to look at Qin King Zhu Shangli, "The Za family came from Hongwu.
Since the seventeenth year, I have been serving the prince."
Mao Xiang lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said, "Who else is there in your family?"
Wang Weiren opened his mouth, as if he was stunned for a moment, and then said with a bit of anger in his voice, "There are two brothers, two sisters, three nephews, and two nephews in the Za family. They are all honest people. Over the years, they have relied on
With the help of the Za family, we purchased some land."
Although he is timid and has no brains, he is the general manager of the palace after all. Even Gao Zhi, Yan Yanqing and other officials are usually polite to him. Now that Mao Xiang is questioning him like this, the clay figure is also very angry.
"The relatives of the Za family are ordinary people who abide by the law. The Za family has served the prince for these years, and they have been careful and never made any mistakes. The Za family has received the grace of the prince's master and is now a human being. They have not gotten carried away, bullying this one and suppressing that...
..."
"Okay, okay!" Mao Xiang interrupted him, "I understand what Mr. Wang means." As he said that, he suddenly smiled and stared into the other person's eyes, which made the king's hair stand on end.
"Then, let me ask you!" Mao Xiang continued, asking word for word, "Why do you want to send people to follow me and keep an eye on me?"
"Um?"
For a moment, Qin King Zhu Shanlie's face turned ugly.
Gao Zhi's brows were furrowed and he took another half step closer to King Qin.
The old eunuch who was dozing on the other side suddenly opened his eyes, but immediately lowered his head in confusion.
"You...you..." Wang Weiren was stunned and speechless.
"What am I? Tell me?" Mao Xiang smiled gently, "Why did you send someone to follow me to find out about me?"
"There is no Zajia!" Wang Weiren's voice was sharp, "You are so slanderous!"
"No?" Mao Xiang sneered, "The man has been recruited. The prince told him to follow me, and then he told the prince exactly where I went, who I met, and when I returned to the palace, right?"
"No! There is no Zajia!" Wang Weiren knelt down and kowtowed to the King of Qin Zhu Shanlie, "Master, I don't have one! You know what I am like, how can I have the courage to send someone to follow...
Follow the people sent from above!"
"In these years, I have never betrayed my master. I have never done anything like this. If I tell a lie... I will be struck by lightning and die!"
Hearing Mao Xiang say that Wang Weiren sent people to follow him, King Qin Zhu Shanglie was so angry that he wanted to strangle Wang Weiren to death on the spot. Others did not know Mao Xiang's identity, but he could guess a little bit. Such a plague god should be sent away early.
This is serious, why send people to follow you?
But now that I saw the king swearing and swearing, and then thinking about the character of this servant, I felt a little uncertain.
"Are you sure he sent someone to follow you?" King Qin Zhu Shanlie asked doubtfully.
"I haven't done it, I have never done it!" Wang Weiren cried, "I swear..."
"What's the use of swearing? If you really send someone to follow me, will you still be a eunuch in your next life?" Mao Xiang asked with a smile.
"You..." Wang Weiren burst into tears instantly.
Gao Zhi said, "My lord, since you said that someone is following you and that he was sent by Manager Wang, why not bring the person to the palace and confront him face to face? Then won't it be clear?"
"Oh!" Mao Xiang scratched his head, "No one has dared to follow me for decades. I killed him as soon as I was happy!" He said, patting his forehead, "Hey, it's really a boat in the gutter, how could I commit such a low-level crime?
It was a mistake and I killed him!"
He said it in an understatement. What he regretted was not killing someone, but killing someone so hastily. Moreover, when he said killing someone, it seemed as if he was talking about a very happy thing, which made everyone in the hall feel slightly frightened.
"If someone is killed by me, there is no proof!" Mao Xiang continued to sigh, "Moreover, if it is not sent by General Manager Wang, then it is hard to say whether the person who followed me is someone from the palace!"
He talked in a roundabout way, confusing everyone.
"What do you know? Tell me quickly!" Qin King Zhu Shanlie suppressed his emotions and said, "Stop talking in circles!"
"That's what the prince said." Mao Xiang cupped his hands and said with a smile, "Actually, it's not a big deal if there is no evidence. I have never looked at the evidence in my work over the years." He said with a devilish smile, "I only look at the results!"
"Actually, this is also evidence!" Mao Xiang paused and looked at the reactions of the people around him. "Think about it, except for a few people, no one knows who I am, right? No one knows what I want to do.
Bar?"
The expressions of the people around him were lost in thought.
"After the prince was assassinated, it was found that there was an assassin's insider in the palace." Mao Xiang paced slowly back and forth on the ground with his hands behind his back. "And as soon as I left the palace, someone followed me, and they said they were assigned by Manager Wang."
"Then, can we infer that the person behind the scenes who assigned people to follow me is related to the assassin's insider?"
"Otherwise, why would he send people to follow me and frame it for Manager Wang?"
Suddenly, Zhu Shanglie seemed to understand something, and his eyes wandered back and forth on the people around him.
"When I come to the palace, everyone who knows is here!" Mao Xiang's words suddenly turned cold, "That means the insider is among us!"
"Please be careful what you say!" Gao Zhi put his hand on the handle of the knife, next to Qin King Zhu Shanlie. At the same time, several soldiers walked up to Zhu Shanlie, looking wary.
"Your Majesty, you are not a slave!" Wang Weiren suddenly shouted and said to Mao Xiang, "You must provide evidence when you speak!"
"I just said that I never talk about evidence!" Mao Xiang smiled, "The evidence can be false, but logic and clues don't lie." As he said that, he also looked around, "The internal agent is among you!
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This chapter has been completed!