Su Xingze had no choice but to say, "Don't be too arrogant. In a game between two countries or a game between three countries, it is easy to dodge open guns and hidden arrows. Especially in the case of Southern Chu, it is not the King of Southern Chu who has the final say. All forces in Southern Chu are eyeing it. be careful."
Su Rong nodded, "Okay, okay, I got it! Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone to Beijing to cooperate with the prince, and lived in the princess's mansion. When the princess's consort suspected my identity, I told the truth, and now I'm living in this heavy building." Mansion. Aren’t you all trying to find support for yourself?”
She leaned back, lazily leaning on the back of the chair with her legs crossed, and said, "If Ye Guixue came for me with the secret decree of the King of Nan Chu, I would not have to spend a lot of time thinking about how to get to Nan Chu." If he didn't come for me, I would have to think of a way to keep him, and I can't let him go."
Su Xingze frowned, "Do you think Ye Guixue came for you under the secret decree of the King of Southern Chu?"
"Nine times out of ten." Su Rong said: "You will know tomorrow if you look at people. My biological father is not really incompetent. Otherwise, he would not have agreed to my mother's request and persuaded Nanchu as the prince. King, help Daliang to attack the Wei Dynasty. Over the years, I heard the old protector said that it was because he did not set foot in the harem that he had no heirs. However, Nanchu did not cause chaos. He sat firmly on the throne. It must not be A simple man, all the forces in Southern Chu have been mobilized, it makes no sense that as a king, he still doesn’t know about my existence."
Su Xingze said no more, "Anyway, just think about it and I'll accompany you tomorrow."
Su Rong nodded.
At noon, the Shen Mansion's kitchen prepared a large table of delicious dishes.
Su Rong was satisfied with her meal and said to Mrs. Shen: "Fengling is the most greedy. It's a pity that he's not here. If he knew that the food cooked by the chef of Shen's house was so delicious, he would probably have a sad look on his face that he didn't eat it."
Mrs. Shen smiled and asked, "I heard that Fengling is also Xie Yuan's disciple?"
"Well, he is Uncle Xie's disciple and also my guard." Su Rong said.
Mrs. Shen understood, "Fortunately he is here, otherwise the thief might have succeeded."
Su Rong thought to herself that it was not possible, she was not a vegetarian, at most she would just expose herself in the street.
After lunch, Su Rong felt no burden and slept soundly. After waking up, she walked out of the room and saw Fengling sitting at the table eating pastries, wolfing down the food. She raised her eyebrows and said, "The assassin has been caught?" "
"Yes, I caught it." Fengling swallowed the pastry, took a sip of tea, and said quickly: "His Royal Highness is still so powerful that he sent people to secretly investigate. The assassin was hiding in the brothel. There was a secret room in that brothel. How could he escape from it? He went through a thorough investigation by Jing Zhaoyin and Dali Temple, but did not escape the people from the East Palace. Mr. Li from Jing Zhaoyin searched for a day and a night and found nothing. He was so anxious that he waited until the East Palace sent someone to give him secretly. After passing the message, he hurried over with his people. When he saw the assassin and confirmed his identity, he almost knelt down. Although the assassin had committed suicide, the entire first floor of the brothel had been taken away. Entered the Dali Temple Prison."
Su Rong praised, "His Royal Highness is really amazing."
As expected of a prince, he has deep roots and found the assassin's hiding place in such a short time.
Li Shu of Jingzhao Yin got the assassin and kept his official position. He was afraid that his prison of Jingzhao Yin was not reliable and these people were repeat offenders, so he transferred them to Dali Temple. The minister of Dali Temple had no objection and sent everyone in the brothel to Dali. The temple is in a prison and is strictly guarded.
Then, Cheng Wansheng, the minister of Dali Temple, and Li Shu, the governor of Jingzhao Palace, entered the palace without stopping to report the progress of the case to the emperor.
After the emperor heard that the assassin had committed suicide and that everyone who had hidden the assassin's den was taken to the Dali Temple prison, he frowned and asked: "Which brothel?"
"Misty Rain Alley."
The emperor had never heard of it and only ordered the officials of Dali Temple to "interrogate him strictly."
The minister of Dali Temple should be.
The emperor then said to Li Shu: "You must pay more attention to the security in Beijing. I don't want this kind of thing to happen again."
Li Shu responded repeatedly, almost cursing the assassin in his heart. It was not good to kill anyone, but he wanted to assassinate Princess Qingping. This matter has become a big deal. He would be happy to die. He almost couldn't keep the black gauze hat on his head.
He thought to himself, this time he really owed His Highness the Crown Prince a favor, but how could he repay it, hey...
At the same time, the Protector's Mansion, despite being exhausted, handed Zhou Gu a list of names in the middle of the night.
Zhou Gu took the list and saw a long pile of names, hundreds of them, with their identities and time of arrival in Beijing marked.
"This is the day of the scientific examination, that is, after Miss Seven entered the capital, a list of suspicious persons flooded into the capital. But when my subordinates checked this, they discovered something."
"what's up?"
Midnight wanted to speak but stopped.
Zhou Gu looked up at him.
Midnight scratched her head, "My subordinates suspect that Miss Su Qi didn't come to Beijing just on the day of the scientific examination. She seemed to have come to Beijing before the scientific examination. She and Fengling had appeared in the capital earlier.
, but the traces were wiped away..."
"Suspect?"
Ziye nodded, "They seemed to have gone to Zhuangyuan Building for dinner before, but there were so many people that day that the shopkeeper said he couldn't remember it. However, his subordinates checked that day and found that there was indeed a pair of siblings named Feng. After all, the surname is Feng.
It's rare. But more of them can't be found."
Zhou Gu nodded.
Ziye added: "But it seems that the young prince Xie brought a group of people to have a banquet at the Zhuangyuan Building that day. If I ask the young prince Xie, I might be able to get some information. After all, even if someone wipes away the traces, it can't erase the traces of Xie.
Where is the young prince?"
Zhou Gu frowned, "Is there any progress in the assassination case?"
Ziye immediately said: "There is progress. Jingzhao Yin Li Shu got the news from nowhere, searched Yanyu Alley three times, and found the assassin from the secret room in Yanyu Alley. However, the assassin committed suicide immediately. The entire Yanyu Alley, including
Hundreds of people, including the madam, went to the Dali Temple prison."
He said with some uncertainty: "When my subordinates were investigating this matter, they found that there seemed to be traces of the East Palace. Could it be that His Royal Highness also sent people to investigate the case? After finding out, he secretly passed the news to Li Shu? Otherwise, Li Shu
, it’s impossible to find the assassin so quickly.”
Zhou Gu stood up and said, "You can have a rest. There is no need to check again. These people on the list will be sent to pay close attention to their movements."
Midnight nodded, he had not slept all day and night, and he was almost going crazy with sleep.
Zhou Gu left Shuanglin Garden and rode to Prince Ruian's Mansion.
When the gatekeeper of the Ruian Palace saw Young Master Zhou coming to see the young prince again, he thought to himself that since his young prince went to Jiangning County, he and Young Master Zhou have become good brothers. The two of them now meet every now and then.
Who would have thought before that the two of them would have a good relationship one day?
When Zhou Gu heard that Xie Lin was in the mansion, he was led directly to Xie Lin's yard.
Xie Lin was listening to Qingfeng telling him about the news from outside. When he heard that Zhou Gu was coming, Xie Lin was confused and a little scared, "At this time, it's almost dinner time, won't he come to me for a drink again?"
Qingfeng's mouth twitched and he retreated.
Xie Lin walked out of the room with his heart in mind, and greeted Zhou Gu. Without waiting for him to speak, he immediately expressed his position, "I'm not feeling well today. Let's make a deal first. If you want to drink, drink it yourself. I won't drink today."
Zhou Gu stopped in his tracks and glanced at him speechlessly, "I won't drink with you today."
Xie Lin breathed a sigh of relief and enthusiastically asked him to sit down, "Just don't come to me for a drink. Let's talk. Why did you come to see me suddenly?"
Zhou Gu sat down and said nothing.
A maid served tea, and Xie Lin suddenly realized that he waved his hand and asked everyone who was waiting on him to go down.
The door closed, and Xie Lin asked nervously: "What's the big deal? With your look like this, I always feel like you're going to do nothing good with me."
Zhou asked him, "What happened after I left Jiangning County?"
Xie Lin was stunned, "Why do you ask this suddenly?"
"Just answer me."
Xie Lin looked at Zhou Gu, "Do you know something?"
Zhou Gu said nothing.
Xie Lin scratched his head, with a somewhat apologetic expression on his face, "Um, do you want to ask Su Rong?" Seeing that Zhou Gu still didn't speak and just stared at him, he immediately apologized, "Oh, I didn't mean to hide it.
You, on the day you left, didn't Miss Su Qi send you out of the city? After she sent you out of the city, she didn't return to the Su Mansion. She sent back a message saying that she was going to Xie Mansion for a short stay. But after hearing the news, Prefect Su hurriedly
I went to the Xie Mansion. Soon after, Su Taishou returned to the mansion. The eldest lady and Su Xingze also hurried to the Xie Mansion. I felt something was wrong, so I sent Qingfeng to find out, but nothing was found out. I just said that the Xie Mansion invited
After seeing the doctor at Huichun Hall, I thought that something had happened to Miss Su Qi. However, since I was a guest in the prefect's mansion and lived in other people's houses, I didn't have the nerve to get to the bottom of their affairs for fear of being exposed.
People found out how bad it was. When I had dinner in the evening, I asked about it. Su and the first lady both said it was okay. They only said that Miss Su Qi went to Xie Mansion for a short stay. So, I didn't care. So,
Until I left Jiangning County, I never saw Miss Su Qi again."
Zhou Gu's face was calm, "When you met me in Jiangzhou, why didn't you tell me when you saw me?"
Xie Lin glared, "That's your fiancée, why am I talking so much? We were not good enough to wear a pair of pants at that time, why should I take the initiative to tell you to cause trouble?"
Zhou Gu stopped talking.
Seeing that Zhou Gu was silent, Xie Lin felt a little guilty again, "Well, I didn't expect that Miss Su Qi would come to Beijing to ask you to break off the engagement..."
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