"Your Majesty, have mercy on me, Your Majesty, have mercy on me! I really don't know anything. I am just a well-behaved businessman..." The shopkeeper of Baoyu Zhai was lying on the ground with a pale face, his face turned pale with fear.
Stay shivering.
"I will ask you again! Where did you come from this phoenix hairpin? Tell me!"
The sun was shining brightly at this moment, and it was noon.
The entrance to Baoyu Zhai was surrounded by a group of soldiers with three layers of iron barrels inside and outside.
Kang Wang Chu Xuan and Cheng Wang Chu Rong sat in front of everyone in Baoyu Zhai who were kneeling on the ground.
Chu Xuan played with the hairpin in her hand and looked at the shopkeeper who was crouching at her feet with a gloomy face.
The shopkeeper kowtowed, suddenly raised his face and shouted, "Young one got it from Wang Ergou. You really don't know the truth!"
Chu Xuan narrowed her cold eyes slightly.
Cheng Wang Churong asked hurriedly, "Shopkeeper, who is this Wang Ergou and where is he at this moment?"
"He is a gangster who doesn't do his job all day long. At this moment, he should be in a nearby gambling shop!"
Chu Xuan turned her eyes and glanced at Ye Ying.
The latter nodded knowingly, clasped his fists and said, "I will do it immediately, please wait a moment, Your Majesty."
After Yeying whipped out a small group of people and left, the air suddenly became quiet.
This grueling time passed very slowly bit by bit. The shopkeeper did not dare to express his anger, and the group of Baoyu Zhai clerks did not dare to say anything. They just bowed and knelt down, as if they were dead. The prince did not cry out,
No one dared to move, it was just wasting away.
About half an hour passed.
Ye Ying escorted a grumpy gangster in shabby clothes and walked in, kicking him until he fell to his knees in front of the prince.
"The villain Wang Ergou has seen the two princes." The ruffian raised his face, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen and full of dirt. You can't blame him for being so embarrassed. This guy took the old shopkeeper's eighty-tael silver note and immediately went to the gambling house.
He squandered everything, lost everything and borrowed thirty taels of loan sharks. When Ye Ying came to find him, he was being beaten by the crowd. If Ye Ying hadn't saved him, he might have been thrown into Zhanjiang's Mining Lake and his body was dead.
It sank to the bottom of the water.
"I ask you, this phoenix hairpin was given to the shopkeeper of Baoyu Zhai by you." Chu Xuan held the phoenix hairpin and waved it slightly in front of the ruffian.
Wang Ergou looked at the handsome prince, smiled a little silly, and nodded, "Yes, prince, I gave it to shopkeeper Luo."
The shopkeeper, who was lying on the ground, held his chest and let out a sigh of relief after hearing this.
"I will ask you again! How did this hairpin fall into your hands? What did you do? Who did you meet? Whatever happened to you, tell the truth!" A series of questions were asked, and the ruffian was a little stunned.
.
He scratched his head and said, "I picked this up."
"Where did you pick it?"
Wang Ergou chuckled and glanced at Chu Xuan, "If the prince wants to know, it depends on how much money you are willing to spend to buy the news."
"Bold!" Ye Ying scolded angrily, and quickly drew out his sword, "You dare to threaten the prince, don't you want to live?"
"Don't you dare!" Wang Ergou was so frightened that he hurriedly shrank his hands.
Chu Xuan waved her hand lightly and told Ye Ying to step back. Her cold eyes glanced at the frightened Wang Ergou, then she suddenly swept her sleeves and said, "Give him a thousand taels and lead the way for me immediately!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty. Thank you, Your Majesty." Wang Ergou kowtowed frequently, couldn't help but took the thousand taels of silver notes, stuffed them into his pocket, and set off immediately.
The group got on their horses and followed Wang Ergou out of the city.
Until they arrived at the outskirts of Yecheng, on a deserted slope, Wang Ergou pointed over there, "Your Majesty, I discovered it here when I returned to Beijing two days ago. There were so many dead people there that I didn't dare to go. The hairpin is
I picked it up under that tree."
Chu Xuan rode her horse to the scene of the accident.
The horses circled back and forth along the coagulated blood stains on the ground.
King Cheng rushed to his side immediately, dismounted and looked around, looking up with a cold face, "They were all killed with one knife, and the shots were extremely ruthless."
"Your Majesty, this person is Lei Hu." Ye Ying opened the wanted poster in his hand and looked at the man lying on the cold ground with his eyes open.
"Qin'er..." Chu Xuan's eyes were so red that she glanced back and forth at the corpses in this area.
King Cheng knelt down to inspect Lei Hu's body. He was stunned for a moment and said, "What a cruel technique. He was whipped to death."
"Your Majesty, there is no one alive nearby."
"Qin'er." Chu Xuan rode down the hillside.
Ye Ying was shocked, jumped on his horse and chased after him, "Your Majesty!"
Half an hour later, Chu Xuan and Ye Ying came back with nothing. Seeing that his face was ashen, his lips were white, and his complexion was extremely bad, King Cheng couldn't help but said, "Ninth brother, please don't get angry. You have been very tired these days.
, it’s better to go back to the mansion to rest first, and leave it to Brother Wei to take care of it.”
"How can I rest? Qin'er's life or death is uncertain, and it's hard to tell whether it's good or bad. How can I be in the mood to rest at this time..."
"Ninth brother, you don't have to worry too much. I think this matter may turn out to be a turn of events, and the imperial concubine may be rescued by an expert." King Cheng pondered for a while and said, "Although there are traces of massacre here, the imperial concubine is not seen.
, it can be seen that the imperial concubine is still safe so far."
"Ye Ying, did you find out before that Lei Hu's family lives in Daozhou?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." Ye Ying nodded, "Lei Hu's wife, children and mother all live in his hometown in Daozhou."
"Catch them all and bring them back for questioning. I want to know who this Leihu associates with. There may be clues to find out."
"Ninth brother." King Cheng frowned, "I'm afraid these women and children don't know anything about what Lei Hu usually does, so why bother them anymore?"
Chu Xuan sneered, her black eyes filled with coldness and ruthlessness, "I don't care about so many things, whether they are innocent or complicit, I will catch them all and ask them to find out! If there is something wrong with Qin'er,
These people were all buried with their innocent victims."
King Cheng sighed.
"Continue to search! Every inch and every inch of the ground will be searched by me. No doubt can be missed. If there is any news, report it immediately."
"It's the prince!"
****I am the dividing line of the prince**********
After noon, in the Yanning Palace, the Queen Mother was talking to her niece Li Cairou.
This Li Cairou is generous and decent, dignified and virtuous. The more the Queen Mother looks at her, the more she likes her. The more she looks at her, the more she feels that Cairou has the appearance of an emperor and empress. If this niece can give the emperor a boy and a half girl, the position of empress will be within her grasp.
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She smiled and put the tea bowl down gently, "Your Majesty, in the past few days, you have been staying in the study, and you have not been invited to sleep with him?"
Li Cairou lowered her head in shame and shook her head slightly.
"The emperor doesn't know what he is doing. He is either in the study or in the prison every day. Is there anything else worthy of his fancy in this prison?"
"I heard that the Holy One is interrogating a woman who is pretending to be the imperial concubine."
"Hmph. The Ai family made a huge mistake back then. They shouldn't have pointed this imperial concubine into the palace." A cold light shone in the Queen Mother's eyes.
Who would have known that a fool who could be controlled by his hands would suddenly transform into such an exquisite, wise and impeccably intelligent person. If she had known this, why would she have done it in the first place?