Hongli kept walking and said: "Is it useful to continue asking? Nala will not reveal a word at all, so it is better to save this time and find clues from another aspect."
Hong Zhou thought about it, and then said: "The fourth brother is talking about the other side, but he refers to the dead little eunuch."
"Yes, it's a pity that I was a step too late, otherwise I would have been caught alive. When I mentioned Hong Shi just now, Nala looked a little uncomfortable. This person should have been sent by Hong Shi. Maybe we can find something on him
, find Hongshi’s hiding place.”
Hong Zhou nodded and then said: "Do you want to tell the imperial concubine about this?"
Hongli thought for a while and said: "Don't worry, let's see how many clues we can find first. However, I don't understand how Hongshi's secret guards sneaked into the palace."
After arriving at the duty of the Ouchi guard, Liu Hu came up to him and said, "Fourth brother, my subordinates just checked the body of the man just now. He is indeed a eunuch. The wound on his body is still very fresh. He should have been cleansed not long ago."
Entering the palace."
Hong Zhou said from the side: "Just now I was wondering how the secret guard could sneak into the palace without being noticed, but now I understand that the price of becoming a eunuch is quite high, but it is indeed unexpected."
Hongli said: "Do you know his name?"
After Liu Hu shook his head, he said to Hong Zhou next to him: "Go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and invite the steward responsible for registering the new eunuchs to the palace and ask him to identify this person."
"Okay." Hong Zhou agreed and left quickly. Not long after, a fat eunuch came hurriedly. Through his identification, Hong Li and others knew the name of this person and who was responsible for it.
The person who recommended him.
Following this line of investigation, he finally found Zhou Li. Hongli immediately retrieved Zhou Li's files through the Ministry of Personnel.
After some careful investigation, it was found that Zhou Li had Ying's shadow in his career as an official. In other words, Zhou Li was probably Ying's chess piece placed in the court. It was just because he was a low-ranking official and had a small position that Yin Ge was not favored last time.
Zhen Che missed it during the inspection.
Hong Zhou knocked on the file spread on the table and said: "Obviously, this Zhou Li is the one who arranged for Changlu to enter the palace. He should know where Changlu came from. Fourth brother, he should be sent to ask questions quickly.
Question. "Changlu is the name Anjiu took after entering the palace.
"I have to ask, but to avoid further complications, I'd better go there in person." After that, he said to Hong Zhou, "Do you want to go together?"
"Everything is fine, let's go with Fourth Brother. I hope we can find out the whereabouts of Hong Shi this time, so as to avoid him always using tricks behind our backs. Just like this time, he asked someone to go into the palace to find the man.
La Shi, I don’t know what kind of conspiracy we are going to discuss. From that day on, I always felt uneasy in my heart, as if something was about to happen."
Although Hongli didn't say anything, he felt the same way. He stood up and said, "Without further delay, let's go."
When the two people appeared in front of Zhou Li and revealed their identities, Zhou Li welcomed the two people in fearfully. After serving tea, he said carefully: "I wonder if the prince and Lord Beile have come to see me. What do you want me to do?"
Hongli took a sip of the bitter tea and said, "I would like to ask you if you know an eunuch named Changlu."
Zhou Li panicked in his heart. He never expected that Hongli and the others came here for this purpose. He managed to calm down and denied: "The name Changlu is very close to my ears. I have never heard of it, let alone know it."
Already."
Hong Zhou flicked the brocade robe on his body and said: "Zhou Li, you don't tell secrets in front of people. Prince Bao and I both know that you are looking for someone to introduce Changlu to the palace. I advise you to recruit people from the truth."
That's good. Don't think that if you don't admit it, we can't do anything to you."
Zhou Li rolled his eyes and smiled dryly: "Yes, Xianguan remembered it. Changlu is Xianguan's distant cousin. He hasn't seen him for more than ten years. He suddenly came to Beijing a few days ago and said that his family was too poor to reveal the blame. He
If you want to become a eunuch in the palace, even though your six faculties will be incomplete, at least you can
In order to have food and clothing without having to suffer from hunger, the lower official saw that he was really pitiful and thought about his cousin again, so he found a eunuch to introduce him so that he could enter the palace. The rest of the servants really had nothing.
Got it. Master Baylor, he...did he commit any crime in the palace?"
"It seems that you are still unwilling to tell the truth." Hongli put the coarse porcelain tea cup on the table and said calmly: "In that case, please ask Mr. Zhou to go to the Ministry of Punishment to talk about it."
Zhou Li hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this...why is this? I have really told everything that the official knows. Even when he went to the Ministry of Punishment, he said the same thing. Besides, the official just recommended him to the palace, even if he really committed a crime.
Whatever happened, it has nothing to do with me, so please let me know what I am doing."
"If it is really your distant relative, nothing will happen. But as far as I know, he is the secret guard left by Yingge, the one who rescued Hongshi four years ago. Zhou Li, I really want to know, you
When did you have a cousin who was a secret guard?"
Hong Li's understatement words sounded like thunder in Zhou Li's ears, and all the strength in his body was instantly taken away, and he immediately collapsed to the ground.
"Tell me the truth. If you lie again, even if I want to spare your life, I can't. Colluding with Hong Shi and introducing secret guards into the palace. These two things are capital crimes no matter where they are said."
Zhou Li said hurriedly: "Xiaguan said, Xiaguan said right now, I only ask the prince to spare the lives of Xiaguan and Xiaguan's family."
Hong Zhou snorted coldly and said, "Now I know I'm afraid. What did I do before?"
Zhou Li said with a bitter face: "I don't want to do this either, but they threatened me with the past things. If I didn't do it, they would expose the matter. I really had no choice but to do this.
Just do it."
Hong Zhou waved his hand and said: "Okay, stop talking nonsense and tell me everything you know."
"Yes, yes, yes." Zhou Li quickly agreed and explained in detail the situation when Anjiu came to him. However, besides knowing that Changlu's real name was Anjiu, he came to the capital to find him on Hongshi's orders and asked him to help.
Once you enter the palace, you don’t know anything else.
After Hongli listened carefully, he said, "You didn't ask Hongshi how and where he was?"
"Xiaoguan asked about it at the time, but Anjiu refused to say anything. He only said that Hongshi was in a very safe place, and Xiaguan didn't dare to ask any more questions."
"What else?" Faced with Hong Zhou's questioning, Zhou Li said: "I have told you everything I know, and I really don't know anything about the rest." For fear that they would not believe it, Zhou Li swore again and said: "
If you say one more thing, your entire family will suffer a terrible death."
Seeing that Zhou Li even said such harsh words, Hongli knew in his heart that he really didn't know anymore. In other words, except for the Nala family's clue, all the rest were broken.