Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 271 Debunking ([-]) One more

When Wu Chen brought Chen Zhong to the gate of the palace, Li Heng also received the news.

He knew that Wu Chen would not go to war easily, even if he knew how Chen Zhong plotted against him behind his back, Wu Chen had always acted indifferent, and Chen Zhong was very scheming, Li Heng had beaten him before, and hoped that the two of them would stay safe in the future.

But how could the two make such a scene that everyone in the city knows about it?

Wu Chen followed the little eunuch on the corridor in the palace, he didn't care where Chen Zhong's legs bumped, Chen Zhong screamed all the way to Wende Hall.

When Li Heng saw the posture of the two, he frowned even tighter. He put down the memorial in his hand, walked to the desk and asked, "Why did this happen?"

Wu Chen threw Chen Zhong to the ground, found a chair and sat on it, and said to Liu Jinzhong, who had a shocked expression on his face, "Give me a pot of warm water." Regardless of the fact that Chen Zhong on the ground was already hugging Li Heng's thigh Complaining.

Liu Jinzhong only hesitated for a moment, then waved to let the little eunuch do it. He listened attentively to Chen Zhong's crying.

"...He called me a useless person. In front of those detectives in the investigation department, this old slave is loyal and loyal. No matter what he does, he does it for the official family. He Wu Chen doesn't remember the kindness of taking me in. Instead, on the first day he took office, Taking advantage of my weakness and losing my face, the officials must make decisions for this old slave."

Li Heng looked at Wu Chen. Wu Chen was drinking water. He put down his tea bowl and said, "Listen to him first. Your Majesty, see if he can come up with something new?"

"The old slave has not dared to forget His Majesty's grace all these years, and has always thought of solving His Majesty's worries and problems. His Majesty has also seen it over the years. The old slave has always been loyal and dare not slack off in the slightest. No errands given by His Majesty are wrong. Finished carefully, not to mention offending the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, and his life was threatened from time to time. The old slave thought that he would guard the imperial city for the official family and find the next commander for the official family. Wu Chen , Wu Chen was favored by the old slave. This, the official family knew about it, but the old slave was worried about his background. If he was willing to enter the palace, he would have no worries. Only when the old slave fell ill this time did he really understand. The sickness is like spinning, and there must be someone to succeed, so this old slave is inevitably a little anxious, Wu Chen remembered that I let him enter the palace cleansed, so he took revenge on this old slave by any means."

Li Heng looked at Wu Chen again.

Wu Chen shrugged and said, "Let him say, let him say what he wants to say and what he can say."

Chen Zhong panicked, he wanted to provoke Wu Chen, as long as Wu Chen was angry, some things could be dealt with, and it would be useless to talk about it in the future, he would deal with it when he went back.

But Wu Chen was very calm, and this calm made Chen Zhong terrified.

Li Heng looked down at Chen Zhong and asked, "You mean, what happened today is Wu Chen's revenge on you?"

Chen Zhong nodded subconsciously.

"He always has to find a reason? Why did you two have a dispute?"

Chen Zhong took a quick look at Wu Chen, and said, "Let him speak first, lest he later say that the old slave bullies the young, and that the official's family has been serving the old slave for a long time, and he is biased towards the old slave."

What Chen Zhong thought was that there must be mistakes in what Wu Chen said, and he only needed to catch one.

Unexpectedly, Wu Chen smiled and said, "Are you sure you want me to talk?"

Chen Zhong suddenly became uncertain, but how could Li Heng let him lead the rhythm.

I saw Li Heng pulled out the leg that was held by Chen Zhong, walked back to the armchair behind the desk and sat down, and said seriously to Wu Chen, "Tell me!"

Wu Chen stood up, walked close to Chen Zhong with his hands behind his back, looked at Chen Zhong and said:

"Since Laojie Mountain, I have always encountered the question 'How did they escape the detectives?' Laojie Mountain needs a lot of herbs, and people who go up and down the mountain often disappear. There are natural caves, and there are later It was dug out manually, the tunnel under the Taoist temple was built later, and the mountain people are all fake mountain people... I would ask this question every time I found out a little clue. Collusion between the Yamen."

Chen Zhong couldn't stop shaking after hearing Wu Chen's first sentence. He wanted to control it, but he could only tense his body and knelt there stiffly, but no one asked him to kneel, he actually forgot to stand up .

Also only after hearing the first sentence, Li Heng's heart was overwhelmed. He trusted Chen Zhong's loyalty very much, and this old dog can only be loyal to him. Since he ascended the throne, he has explicitly and secretly explained to him that Chen Zhong is not available. Yes, I don't know how many people there are, but no one dares to start with the word loyalty.

Li Heng looked at Wu Chen with a sullen face. He had to wait patiently to hear the end of the day, whether it was Wu Chen who found another way out for his grudge, or...

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Listen to me. I have never doubted Chen Zhong's loyalty. Just like Your Majesty, when we arrived at Longgu Mountain, the same problem reappeared. There are hundreds of people in the other garden, no matter the eldest princess. Now, there are hundreds of mouths waiting to eat every day. How did the food get sent to other courtyards? How could it escape the eyes of the soldiers? At that time, I only thought that there was a secret passage, which might solve this problem. In short, the old community The problems encountered in Longgu Mountain and Longgu Mountain were not encountered at the same time. Think about it."

Wu Chen paused and said:
"Until today, I interrogated several eunuchs. The five-color jade in the internal treasury disappeared. The eunuch on duty and the eunuch who counted died. This matter must be investigated, but after I interrogated, I found out that the five-color jade was lost for a while. However, they killed these three people when the official's family went to another courtyard. The eunuch who said he was in charge of counting should actually be asked by the official one day. The person replied that the five-color jade is still there, but in fact it has been lost."

Li Heng looked at Chen Zhong with extremely stern eyes, and Chen Zhong hurriedly said, "He just wanted to take revenge on the old slave and made up things randomly. How would he know when the five-color jade was lost?"

"The inner treasury is under the management of Bingjing. If the eunuch who said the answer hadn't lied, why did you kill him? And knowing that His Majesty left the capital to go to another courtyard, there are only a few people. If His Majesty and you are in the capital, would you dare to do it? After you ordered people to kill these three people, the tails were cleaned up extremely cleanly. No one knew the cause of death of the deceased. They thought they had contracted a serious disease and threw them to Yizhuang. No one even saw the corpse during this process, and the corpse was never seen again Yizhuang is gone, I was thinking that if I could not ask the living, I would have to ask the dead, so I decided to go to Yizhuang tonight, there must be grieving ghosts there, they can know who will The dead body was taken away."

Li Heng frowned deeper and deeper, and he asked, "Didn't you go there yet? How do you know that Chen Zhong did it?"

"Your Majesty was wronged. He couldn't find out why, so he blamed me like this..."

"Do you need to blame me?" Wu Chen lowered his head and asked.

Chen Zhong opened his mouth and looked at Wu Chen in horror, but his mind was spinning desperately.

(End of this chapter)