Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 295
Wu Chen sighed and persuaded, "Let's discuss a way out while Yuan Niang is still awake."

After hearing this, Yu Shi'an wiped his face, straightened up and said, "It's all up to you!"

Wu Chen turned his head to look at Liu Jinzhong, only seeing Liu Jinzhong's pale complexion and trembling legs, Wu Chen guessed that before they came to this courtyard, they should have met Uncle Qin who was cleaning the courtyard, and met Yu's mansion The corpse that had been torn apart by Yuan Niang.

Wu Chen asked Liu Jinzhong: "The officials asked you to come to see if it's true or not, or to give us advice?"

Liu Jinzhong hurriedly said:
"Deputy Envoy Wu asked Song Tixing to enter the palace to talk about the affairs of the Yu Mansion. His Majesty was very worried. He ordered me to follow because he wanted to see how Deputy Envoy Wu could use it. Maybe he could use the old slave to find an imperial physician and pass on a message. What, His Majesty said that this matter must not be spread, so as not to panic the people."

Wu Chen raised his eyebrows, pointed to the chairs next to Gao Er and Xu Da, and said, "Sit over there, I still don't know what Yuan Niang will look like when she wakes up, if it's like before... I'm afraid I can't save..."

"Those, those...how could it be Yuan Niang did it? She, she's only eight years old!" Yu Shi'an asked excitedly, grabbing one of Wu Chen's arms.

Song Gu stepped forward and pulled Yu Shi'an to the chair next to the sophomores, pushed Yu Shi down to sit on the chair, and then persuaded:

"Yuanniang didn't stay in Prince Cheng's mansion for a day or two. Prince Cheng wanted to seek rebellion, and the method he used was not to rebel in an open and aboveboard way. Just looking at the evidence at present, Prince Cheng didn't want the world. He clearly wanted to turn the world into a mess." Purgatory! With such thoughts, how could Yuanniang stay safe and sound in Prince Cheng's Mansion?"

Yu Shian clenched his hands into fists, and the veins on his forehead popped out.

Wu Chen sighed and shook his head again, saying:

"Now is not the time to be angry. When we were in the other courtyard, we met a female ghost. At that time, I didn't dare to make a move easily, because I was afraid of killing the old man. The current Yuan Niang is not a normal Yuan Niang. She became fierce. You have also seen that I can use brute force to restrain her, but this is not a long-term solution..."

Before Wu Chen could finish speaking, Yu Shi'an fell to his knees with a 'plop', begging in a trembling voice, "I still hope Brother Wu, please be merciful!" He wanted to kowtow, but was stopped by Song Gu and Xu Da.

The sophomore stood aside and said:

"What do you mean, if Brother Wu doesn't show mercy, you will still see a sleeping girl when you come back? Brother Wu was able to rescue Yuanniang last night, he must want Yuanniang to be well just like you, but today... ...You haven't seen what she looks like when she goes crazy, we came here in time, if she ran out of Yu's mansion, what would you think of the consequences? That's not a matter of Brother Wu being merciful."

Song Gu and Xu Da general Yu Shi'an helped him up, and Xu Da said again:

"The few of us have experienced life and death. If there is a way, Brother Wu can't stand by and watch. Now he is begging the officials to release you in order to find a better way. Deputy Yu, you have to calm down. , let’s find a way together.”

Yu Shian nodded heavily.

Then Wu Chen said again:

"When I rescued Yuan Niang last night, she was normal. I heard from Uncle Qin that she suddenly went crazy after getting up this morning. I deduced that it might be the color of something that made her crazy, or what she was eating, but at that time The people around Yuanniang are either dead or injured, it may be difficult to be sure, but then again, since there is already something in Yuanniang's body, it will happen sooner or later, sooner rather than later!"

Several people nodded, and Wu Chen said again:
"I asked Uncle Qin, and Uncle Qin said that Yuanniang didn't have that much strength at the beginning, she basically used scratching and biting, but after she drank some human blood, her strength suddenly increased, and she couldn't restrain herself when she saw people. Tear, the servants in the mansion wanted to lock her in the courtyard, but she was able to break through the wooden door and go out, running wildly to a remote courtyard in the mansion. I deduced that she wanted to leave the mansion, but that thing didn't know the way, Just now I thought about it carefully, no matter whether Prince Cheng cast spells or medicines on Yuan Niang, it's not the time!"

Song Gu asked: "Prince Cheng didn't expect us to investigate so quickly, but Chen Zhong keeps reporting to him, maybe he has prepared in advance?"

Wu Chen waved his hand and said:

"Prince Cheng couldn't think of those things before, and he couldn't think of the following things, especially after Chen Zhong was arrested. First of all, he didn't expect Deputy Envoy Yu to show up so soon. Maybe he still wanted to let Deputy Envoy Yu see him in the past few days. Let me know Yuan Niang so that I can continue to coerce Deputy Envoy Yu to do something, and secondly, he didn’t expect that I could deduce that he was in the palace so quickly! Why did the officials just seal the palace of Prince Cheng and arrest all the servants during this time? But did not touch the 'Prince Cheng'? Firstly, Chen Zhong stopped him with the excuse of not knowing whether Prince Cheng also understood the illusion, and secondly, because everyone knew that the one in Prince Cheng's mansion was a fake..."

"Then among the three people caught yesterday, one must be Prince Cheng?" Liu Jinzhong asked.

Wu Chen said:
"What is the result of my deduction that Prince Cheng is in Prince Cheng's mansion? I went to Prince Cheng's mansion and destroyed the tunnel they thought they could escape. Even with previous experience, Prince Cheng would never have thought that I would Acting like this, I don't think Yuan Niang will be hopeless, he still needs to use Yuan Niang to blackmail Deputy Envoy Yu, and besides... one of those three people must be the real prince!"

"I said I wasn't sure before, how come I'm sure all of a sudden?" asked the sophomore in puzzlement.

"Because I didn't think about it before, but this time because of Yuanniang, I figured it out. The person who held Yuanniang hostage last night was an old Taoist. The old Taoist wanted to use Yuanniang to delay time. At that time, they didn't know that the tunnel was destroyed. If three people They are all fake Prince Cheng, they don't need to sacrifice a veteran, of course, there is one most critical point, that is, they don't have time to deal with it, I went suddenly, and the attack was also sudden, I counted the whole time, they There is no extra time to discuss a plan, all reactions should be instinctive, and the instinctive reaction of a fake prince will not be to run away!"

Wu Chen paused and said:
"Deputy Envoy Yu said last night that he had met Prince Cheng before going to Yang'an County. I believe that some people, Prince Cheng must meet in person, and in addition to inferences about other arrangements of Prince Cheng, so I thought that Prince Cheng might be in the Inside the palace, and then flew to the palace, the person who became the prince had no chance to see it clearly during this time, but when I got to the gate of the palace, his people should have seen it, and the reaction after seeing it was to report back immediately, but the prince's mansion Being sealed, they can only go through the tunnel. This process will take time. When his people bring the news to Prince Cheng, I will almost come out of the palace. Prince Cheng knows that I entered the palace late at night, and that Deputy Envoy Yu is going Passing by my house, it is easy for him to think that Deputy Envoy Yu has betrayed him, but before he can think of a way to deal with it, I have arrived at the palace!"

(End of this chapter)