"Your Highness Prince Su, please forgive me. I didn't know it was you at that time. If I knew it was you, even if I gave you a hundred thousand courages, I would not dare to severely injure you, Your Highness Prince Su... for a hero like you.
Heroes are the dreams of our generation."
A moment later, in a prison cell in the Dali Temple official office, the prisoner whose nickname was "Sun DaDa" and whose real name was "Sun Luo (yù)" was licking his face and flatteringly trying to please Zhao Hongrun.
It's hard to imagine that such a tall, eight-foot-tall man could flatter him like a villain.
"Okay."
Zhao Hongrun, who felt more and more numb as he listened, waved his hand to interrupt Sun Luo's words, and said in a deep voice: "If you tease me, I won't kill you... However, I have a few questions to ask you."
After hearing this, Sun Nuo, who had just seen Zhao Hongrun not saying a word, suddenly became energetic, patted his chest and said solemnly: "Your Highness, Prince Su, please tell me everything I know."
Zhao Hongrun nodded, then looked at Sun Luo and asked: "Two days ago, a prisoner was detained in a prison about 130 steps away from your prison. Do you know?"
Sun Luo's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, and he said: "But the family order of Yuanlinghou Mansion, Feng Guan? Is he the one who died in prison today?"
"How do you know?" Zhao Hongrun asked in surprise.
Sun Luo chuckled and said: "Your Highness Prince Su, you don't know. There are no secrets in the prison. Not long after Feng Guan was imprisoned in that prison, the villain knew the details of this person.
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"Then do you know when Feng Guan died?" Zhao Hongrun asked.
"This..." Sun Luo touched his chin and thought for a while, then recalled: "It should have been at the fourth watch... At that time, I was lying in the cell and heard a rush of footsteps. I looked up and there was
I saw "Li Laoliu" running out in a panic... Oh, Li Laoliu was the jailer who patrolled the prison last night. This old boy was so unreasonable. He had half a chicken and a jug of wine, but he refused to share some with me.
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"Tell me the important point!" Zhao Hongrun interrupted with a frown.
Sun Luo was startled and said quickly: "The fourth watch, yes, around the fourth watch!"
"The fourth watch? It's the ugly hour... Feng Guan dies at the ugly hour."
Zhao Hongrun closed his eyes and thought for a moment, calculating the time.
Chou Shi, the jailer of the Dali Temple Prison, discovered that Feng Guan was dead in the prison. He immediately informed the jailer Jinxu, and the jailer Jinxu hurriedly asked someone to report Dali Temple Qingzheng Xu Rong and Dali Temple Shaoqing Yang Yu. Then Xu Rong saw the wall
He realized the seriousness of the situation, but asked Shaoqing Yang Yu to immediately go to Prince Su's Mansion to inform him of Zhao Hongrun.
There shouldn't be anything wrong with this.
So when did Feng Guan die?
The figure of Uncle Fengguan, the Marquis of Yuanling, appeared in his mind, and Zhao Hongrun asked Sun Luo: "When will those who call themselves servants of the Marquis of Yuanling's house send people to visit Fengguan in prison?"
Hearing this, Sun Luo smiled bitterly and said: "Your Highness King Su, I am a prisoner who committed a crime and was locked up in the prison, and I am not the jailer who guards the prison. How can a villain know this?"
Zhao Hongrun frowned when he heard this. Suddenly, he felt a slight movement in his heart: Since the jailer Jin Xu just subconsciously said "a servant of the Marquis Yuanling Mansion" and not "a person claiming to be a servant of the Marquis Yuanling Mansion", this
This shows that the jailer Jin Xu has met the other party, and may even have accepted some bribes.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun asked Sun Luo: "Sun Luo, please recall, in the past two days, has the jailer Jin Xu personally brought people to visit the prison... If so, recall when it was."
Sun Luo tilted his head and recalled it for a long time, then shook his head and said, "Young man... I don't remember that Jin Yucheng personally brought people to visit the prison..."
"Huh?"
Zhao Hongrun was stunned and asked in confusion: "Hasn't Jin Yucheng been here?"
"No, no, no." Sun Luo frowned and recalled, "Jin Yucheng came to the prison, but he didn't bring anyone with him."
"When did he come?" Zhao Hongrun asked.
"Um... last night, right?" Sun Luo touched his chin and said unconvincingly: "Last night, around 1:00 pm, Jin Yucheng came."
"Why are you here?"
"His Royal Highness, King Su, look at what you are asking... How dare this little man ask? He is the prison chief."
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded and asked, "Has he ever been to Fengguan's prison?"
"This little guy doesn't know." Sun Luo shook his head and said, "However, it should take less than half an hour for Jin Yucheng to go back and forth to my prison."
"..." Zhao Hongrun frowned suddenly and asked in a deep voice: "What happened after that? What else did he do?"
"Then it was nothing. I just chatted over wine with Li Laoliu and the other guys on patrol..." As he spoke, Sun Luo licked his lips, as if the alcohol bug in his belly had been aroused.
After hearing this, Zhao Hongrun's heart flashed with a cold look, and he asked in a deep voice: "Jin Xu, when did you leave?"
"Same as before, probably around midnight." Sun Luo said unconvincingly.
"Did Jin Xu say anything before he left?"
Sun Luo thought for a while and said: "I didn't say anything... Oh, he said that there were a few oil lamps deep in the prison that were not very bright. It might be that the lamp oil was about to burn out, so he asked Li Laoliu and the others to refill them after they finished drinking.
Light the lamp oil."
"..." Zhao Hongrun narrowed his eyes.
After a while, he suddenly asked Sun Luo: "Sun Luo, why are you being imprisoned here?"
Sun Luo was stunned for a moment, then said with a gloomy look on his face: "I just... got into a fight with someone in the market, and accidentally beat a guy... until he was half dead."
"Who?" Zhao Hongrun asked.
Sun Luo scratched his head and said nonchalantly: "It's those local colleagues from Daliang..."
Zhao Hongrun shook his head speechlessly after hearing this.
Just based on Sun Luo's few words, he had already guessed Sun Luo's identity: Ranger.
To put it nicely, he is a ranger, but to put it worse, he is a rogue who lives by extortion and extortion in the market.
It is not difficult to guess that Sun Luo is a foreign ranger who competed with the local rangers in Daliang for territory. They fought for their own interests and beat the other party half to death.
Daliang Mansion has always arrested everyone who comes across this kind of guy who affects public security.
And the reason why this guy is in Dali Temple instead of Daliang Mansion is that, in all likelihood, this guy beat the other guy to death and caused a loss of life.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun stared at Sun Nuo for a long time, chuckled and said: "You are still imprisoned here after causing a lot of deaths. It seems that you are quite capable."
"Don't dare, don't dare." Sun Luo said nonchalantly: "The younger one still has a group of brothers, and they stuffed some money..."
At this point, his voice stopped abruptly.
Looking at Sun Luo's worried expression, Zhao Hongrun said with a smile but not a smile: "Sure enough, you have a good relationship with the jailers in the prison... Sun Luo, I have something for you to do. If it is done, I will
The king recommends you to be the Xiaoshiwei of Daliangxi City, or let you be the head of the city."
"King Su, please speak." Sun Luo said immediately and seriously.
Zhao Hongrun narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice: "After you return to the prison, please find out clearly for me whether anyone visited Fengguan that day. If so, who exactly was that person? What did he look like? What is his appearance? I believe that the person in the prison
So many jailors and prisoners should be able to remember it."
"Don't worry, Your Highness Prince Su, this matter will be left to the villain."
Sun Luo patted his chest confidently, and then said sarcastically: "But, Your Highness, this requires some..."
"A little money doesn't matter, but I can't give this money to you, and you can't reveal that it was me who asked you to investigate... Didn't you say you still have some brothers?" As he said that, Zhao Hongrun pointed at Lu Mu.
, continued: "Tell him your contact information and gathering place, Lu Mu, you can call Gao Kuo later to handle it."
"Understood." Lu Mu nodded.
Later, before Zhao Hongrun was about to leave, Sun Luo made a request, asking Wei Jiao, Lu Mu, and Mu Qing to punch him in the face several times. According to his explanation, he punched him and others.
In the eyes of people and jailers, they can distinguish it at a glance.
This made Zhao Hongrun secretly surprised: This Sun Luo was unexpectedly a thoughtful person.
After leaving Dali Temple, Zhao Hongrun and his party rode back to Prince Su's Mansion.
After returning to the study of Prince Su's Mansion, Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao closed the door of the study and said to Zhao Hongrun: "Your Highness, according to what Sun Luo said, the jailer named Jin Xu is quite suspicious... What the hell...
Unfortunately, he took advantage of his position and brought poison to Fengguan."
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded when he heard this, then frowned and said: "The problem is...if this person really did it, why did he do this? Is he taking advantage of someone? Wei Jiao, send someone to find a way.
Go find out the details of this Jin Xu."
"Let Gao Kuo do it. Gao Kuo has some connections in the three sects and nine schools in the city."
"Hmm."
After Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao left, Zhao Hongrun sat alone in the study, thinking about these two things over and over in his mind.
In Zhao Hongrun's eyes, whether it was "Feng Guan's letter that framed King Su's army" or "Feng Guan's blood letter that framed Zhao Hongrun before he died", it seemed that they were all intended to make Yuanling Marquis Uncle Feng and other great nobles in the country agree with him.
Zhao Hongrun's relationship worsened.
But, why do this?
Zhao Hongrun thought about this question for two days in a row, but couldn't figure it out.
Two days later, Chengling King Zhao Shen and Anping Hou Zhao Tan came to visit.
After that, in the study, Chengling King Zhao Shen asked Zhao Hongrun: "Your Highness, Prince Su, the family leader of the Marquis of Yuanling's Mansion, Feng Guan, committed suicide in prison. Before he died, did he write a bloody letter on the wall identifying Marquis of Yuanling?
"
Zhao Hongrun was surprised when he heard this and asked: "How do you know?"
Chengling King Zhao Shen and Anping Hou Zhao Tan looked at each other and smiled bitterly when they heard this, and said: "This matter has long been spread among the dignitaries in the city... Your Highness, does Feng Guan's death have something to do with you, Your Highness?"
Zhao Hongrun frowned when he heard this and said displeasedly: "Did King Chengling say this to doubt me?"
Chengling King Zhao Shen shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The two of us naturally believe in His Highness' character, but... the rumors are strong, and they say that His Highness King Su is eager to take the opportunity to suppress the great nobles in the country, so he made this move. For this reason,
, Jiyang Wang Zhao
However, Zhao Xuan, the King of Zhongyang, Liu Mao, the Marquis of Weichuan, Wang Xi, the Marquis of Li Yuan, and Zhao Anding, the Marquis of Shangliang, all rejected my attempts to win over Anping Marquis. They said that unless His Highness swore in public that he would never weaken the power of the great nobles in the future.
, dare not defect."
"..."
Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth but was speechless for a while.
In fact, when he saw the blood letter, he had already guessed that this might happen.
Unexpectedly, it finally happened.
"Is this the purpose of Marquis Yuanling and others?"
Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly.
In fact, up to now, this matter has become reasonable, but Zhao Hongrun intuitively believed that Yuanling Hou Feng Shu and others might have been used as guns this time.