Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 290 Is it all fake? (two more)

"Yes, on weekdays there is only a dumb woman serving, and I can't see anyone. Tonight, I had already fallen asleep, and suddenly felt shaking. I opened my eyes and saw that it was a, it was a dark road, very scary. The old Taoist hugged me, and I was so scared that I cried, and he said that if I cried again, he would throw me to feed the wild dogs, and I was too scared to cry." Yuan Niang said, poking her lips.

"Later, you drilled up from the ground and got here?"

"Ah."

Wu Chen nodded. Originally, he wanted to ask if the courtyard where Yuanniang lived was in the palace?But after thinking about it, how could Yuanniang know?

Wu Chen said gently to Mother Yuan: "Now uncle is carrying you, remember, no matter what happens, you have to just hug uncle's neck and don't let go!"

Yuan Niang nodded heavily.

Wu Chen carried Yuan Niang on his back, listened to the voice, and after finding Xing Yun, he immediately said, "The old man was just trying to delay time, which means Prince Cheng and the others should be in the tunnel!"

Xing Yun was stunned for a moment, then reacted and said, "They don't know that you have destroyed the tunnel."

Wu Chen nodded and said, "I'm fast enough, and they're not slow to react. They escaped very quickly, but because there's no torch to light them, they can't figure out what I'm really doing. Prince Cheng thought there was something wrong with Yu Shi'an." It’s gone, so the old way brought Yuan Niang to try to hold us back..."

"What happened to my father?" Yuan Niang asked anxiously.

"Your father is fine, it's because the bad guys think your father is fine." After Wu Chen explained gently, he said to Xing Yun, "If you go nearby, you definitely don't need to procrastinate for time. If my deduction is correct, he should want to go out of the city. .”

"Out of the city? Out of the city from here?" Xing Yun asked with wide-eyed eyes.

"It's not very practical, is it? That is to go to one place first, and then leave the city! No matter how many transfer stations there are in the middle, his direction is to leave the city, which direction will be the closest?"

Wu Chen looked at Xing Yun and waited for the answer.

Xing Yun thought for a while and said: "The imperial palace is in the center, and these palaces are also in the inner city. If you have to say which city gate is closer... then this is a little closer to the east city gate."

Wu Chen suddenly realized that his idea didn't apply here. He scratched his head and said, "Then the only way is to use a stupid method, let the soldiers outside surround the wall to find places with severe collapse. Some people, after finding it, take out the gravel, go down and have a look..."

"It's as detailed as you said? Who hasn't done a job before?"

After Xing Yun finished speaking, he strode to the courtyard and called a man who looked like a general to give some instructions.

Wu Chen came out with Yuanniang on his back, and said, "Let's go, I have to watch, he must be taking Su Chang with him, it's hard to say whether he will bring other people, and how many become princes, this It's not good."

Xing Yun looked at Yuan Niang on Wu Chen's back and said, "You can't carry her all the time."

"Yu Shi'an should come in a while, I hope the officials can figure it out."

"Hmph! It depends on what's going on, it has something to do with treason..."

"Is it you who came down to the tunnel with me to fight the hunchbacked old man?" Wu Chen interrupted Xing Yun and asked.

"Yes."

"It wasn't you who told me to show weakness?"

"That's my brother."

Wu Chen nodded and said, "I know you guys are thinking of me, but what you said just now, stop at the point and don't go into it."

The two talked while walking, Xing Yun stopped when he heard Wu Chen's words, and asked, "Did you misunderstand?"

Wu Chen immediately reacted and asked, "Is this what the officials asked you to persuade me?"

Xing Yun nodded.

Wu Chen took a breath and walked quickly towards the gate.

Sure enough, as soon as he walked to the edge of the collapsed courtyard wall, he saw Liu Jinzhong waiting there.

Wu Chen walked over quickly and asked, "But the official ordered Yu Shi'an to pick up the child?"

Liu Jinzhong lowered his head and said, "The family members of Deputy Envoy Yu have come to pick up the child."

Wu Chen's heart became cold again, he put down Yuan Niang, Liu Jinzhong said a few words to Yuan Niang, pointed to the carriage not far away, there was a woman standing there, Yuan Niang rushed towards her.

Seeing that the errand was finished, Liu Jinzhong turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Wu Chen.

"Go back and tell the officials, just say what I said, I want to protect Yu Shian's life! If you don't want to be an official, you can also confiscate your property, but you must be a good person. This is my bottom line! Give him some back, tonight's good show hasn't started yet, I don't care, or if I don't manage it thoroughly, you can just say it directly when you go back."

Liu Jinzhong was so frightened that his legs were shaking, he begged for mercy in a low voice trembling: "Ancestor, I can answer these words? Please forgive me!"

"Don't be afraid. When you go back to the official's house, they will definitely ask you. You always have to go back. I am very annoyed now, and I don't have the mind to do errands. I don't know how many princes are hiding in the ground. I really said that I was careless for a while. It’s really a big trouble for the officials to let go, kill me? No one can continue to investigate the case, don’t kill me, it’s hard to solve the hatred in my heart..."

"I'll go back as I said before." Liu Jinzhong turned around and left after speaking.

Wu Chen heaved a sigh of relief. Xing Yun was right. For an emperor, what crime could be greater than treason?Although Yu Shi'an only participated in a certain link, it was also an accomplice. If it is really a crime of Gang Chang's ethics or a crime of corruption and murder, perhaps Li Heng would raise his hand.

At this time Xing Yun came over and asked in a low voice: "I'm very puzzled, where do you have the courage?"

Wu Chen chuckled and said, "Humans, who isn't afraid? Ghosts, demons, right? Officials are the same. Is there enough manpower? The sooner you find them, the better. If you become a prince, you find that your way is blocked. , what will you do if there are pursuers in the future?"

"Naturally clear the roadblock ahead..."

"According to the time, they have already reached the blocked place. When they are dredging underground, the bricks, stones and tiles above will go down. It should not be difficult to identify."

Xing Yun snorted and said, "You said you have all the skills, why do you have to worry about such a trivial matter? The soldiers are not stupid!"

"Many major events were discovered because of these details, you..."

Before Wu Chen finished speaking, he heard a soldier shouting from the south wall: "There is a whole cave in here."

Wu Chen turned his head and asked Xing Yun, "Have good people been arranged everywhere in the palace?"

"Of course!"

"Then let's start to catch the turtle in the urn!"

……

The tunnels under Prince Cheng's mansion are indeed not extending in all directions, but there are three of them. Now the 'Prince Cheng' has been found inside. Seeing the soldiers jumping down from the collapsed place one by one, these people hurriedly turned around and ran back, and the most terrible thing was , each 'Prince Cheng' brought a few followers, and the soldiers didn't know Su Chang. When Wu Chen returned to the palace, there were more than a dozen people who were arrested. Who was following whom? I don't know.

　I'm on fire every day, I dare not look directly at the weather forecast, it's almost done!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)