Shengshichun

Chapter 303 A fish slipped through the net?

The time spent returning to the city only took up 70% of the time it took to leave the city. The people guarding the gates on all sides were Liang Chen, Du Ming, Qian Cheng and others who had been arranged by the emperor to hold the ceremony. It would not be smoother when passing through.

When the carriage arrived at the small courtyard of the Pei family where Lu Chongyang was housed, Guo Song, who had come to the front station in advance, had already led Lu Chongyang to welcome him out.

Pei Zhan got out of the car first and handed the people he brought back from the box to them: "He reacted very violently just now. I have knocked him out. He has injuries on his body and his hand tendons seem to have been severed. You can put him down first and see. See if he is in any other danger, and it’s best to wake him up within an hour!”

Guo Song and the others immediately took the people down. Lu Chongyang had already rolled up his sleeves and sent people to prepare hot water and medical tools.

As soon as the arrangements were made, Du Mingqian rushed over: "Lao Wu! What happened?"

When they came back, they happened to pass by the North City Gate that Du Mingqian was guarding. How could Du Mingqian not pay attention to the couple who were wet and hurried in and out of the city gate at night? So after they entered the city, they paid attention to the movement outside the city gate for a while, then immediately told them their errands and rushed over.

In the past few months, Pei Zhan and the others have frequently had conflicts with Prince Rong's Mansion and the Xu family. Even Pei Yu, who used to be brothers with Prince Rong, went to the Prince's Mansion with a gun and demolished the door and wall of Prince Rong's Mansion. This was unimaginable. Du Mingqian and the others They had expressed doubts before, but because Pei Zhan was careless, they never asked. After all, brothers, you will naturally say it when you can, how can you not believe it?

But the sudden death of Princess Rong left so many doubts that people couldn't figure it out. Tonight, the couple's strange behavior just happened to hit his hand. How could he not come and ask?

If we don't ask this question, we won't be considered brothers anymore!
Pei Zhan looked at Fuzhen, who nodded.

Pei Zhan said, "Go wash up quickly and change your clothes before you come out."

Then he motioned to Du Mingqian: "Come with me."

Du Mingqian avoided the dripping Fu Zhen and quickly followed.

Fu Zhen also glanced at himself, when Zi Yan Tour Xi quickly came out of the back room: "Young Madam!"

They arrived in a small gasp, not knowing how urgent it was to get out, but there was no expression of surprise or astonishment on their faces. It was obvious from a glance that something had happened and that they had been waiting for her here for a long time.

"Young lady, the hot water is ready and the clothes are brought. Let's go inside and wash up first!"

Fu Zhen has exercised diligently in the past few months, coupled with the Liang family's ancestral health prescriptions and Mrs. Ning's baskets of nourishing foods that have been sent over from time to time to take good care of herself. Her bones have grown a lot and she has gained weight. She can cope with these actions. Not a problem.

But I didn't dare to show off. My clothes had been wet for so long and I really needed to clean them up.

Then he followed Zi Yan and the others into the vacated side room in the back.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw that everything was ready, even the hot supper was served. He took a bite and said, "Did the general arrange for you to come?"

Zi Yan nodded and came up to change her clothes: "Before going out, the general told the slaves to wait until the young lady comes back before sleeping. Two-quarters of an hour ago, the guards returned home and suddenly asked us to take the young lady's clothes and go to the other courtyard. We will Come quickly. Later, Guo Song came back and asked us to prepare hot water quickly, saying that you would use it when you came back, young lady. No, I just caught up. "

At this point, Zi Yan tilted her head and glanced at Fuzhen, then pursed her lips and smiled: "In the past, I thought the general was a careless person who only cared about external matters. I didn't expect that I was wrong. The general is the young lady. The most careful thing is that there are too few opportunities for the general to show off, otherwise, the general would not know what he would be like. "

"That's right." Bixi also came up with clothes at this time, "Yinshuang and the others in the main room gossip about how the general dotes on his wife every day. When he sees the slave, he stuffs melon seeds into the slave's hand and asks our general and the young lady How about it? When will the general and his wife have their eldest grandson?
"What a eldest grandson! Isn't it true that some pots are not opened? God knows that our general and the young lady don't even put pillows together, which makes the slaves feel so guilty that they dare not pick up the melon seeds..."

Fu Zhen just asked casually, and everyone took turns to fight. They didn't care about why Fu Zhen was so wet.

Pei Zhan led Du Mingqian into the house and spent a few sips of tea changing into dry clothes.

When he came out, Du Mingqian stood up: "Where did you go? Who did you bring back? Also, did you know that Xu Yin also left the city in a carriage two hours ago?"

To go to Tongzhou Pier, you must pass through the city gate he was guarding. Of course he knew when Xu Yin left the city. It's just that there are officials who occasionally go out of the city at night. Du Mingqian wouldn't have cared if he didn't encounter this couple coming back like this.

Pei Zhan made him a cup of tea: "Before I answer your question, do you want to hear how Princess Rong died?"

"……you know?"

Du Mingqian was stunned.

Pei Zhan pushed the tea to him and said with a stunned look as he stopped breathing: "Not only do I know, but I also saw it with my own eyes. The person who killed Princess Rong was Xu Yin."

……

Tongzhou Pier has never experienced such hustle and bustle.

All the ships that had docked in an orderly manner to load and unload cargo were forcibly suspended after the ships of the General Guards needed to salvage an extremely important item immediately. But for some reason, the sunken objects should be searched for in the submerged place, but the guards of General He stopped all the vehicles entering and exiting the dock and were investigating them one by one?

All the ships lit up their lights and watched from a distance, but at the dock under the dark night, only shadowy figures could be seen moving, but their faces could not be seen.

He Qunying stood on the stairs with Xu Yin, watching each other's guards take turns entering the water with no results, and then looking at the streets that were getting more and more congested due to the inspection of carriages, he couldn't help but said: "What kind of important person is this person? Is he worth it?" Are you so nervous? If you have been submerged for so long, you will be dead even if you catch it!"

"Even if he is dead, we still have to find him. I want to see him alive and his corpse even if I die!" Xu Yin said in a deep voice. He turned around and said again: "Didn't I tell you to act carefully? Why did such a big thing happen anyway? If you throw away the basket, then all the efforts you have made in the past two months will be in vain! "

He Qunying frowned: "If I hadn't been careful, I would never have gotten out of the trap after arriving in Tongzhou. You also saw it, just one step away from landing, but it happened at this moment. You are really sure that it won't be the case. Did you leak the news?"

"No one knows except Lian Ron. Are you saying that Lian Ron can't be trusted?" Xu Yin said and glanced at Lian Ron next to him.

Lian Ruan looked at him for a moment: "I don't even dare to die!"

He Qunying took a deep breath: "Then there is no one else. Except for the people on the ship, no one else knows that this person is hiding on the ship. If there is a problem, it will already happen!"

Xu Yin took two steps down, looked at the sparkling river under the shadow of the lamp, and said categorically: "There are no omissions, so it can only be that someone is watching."

He Qunying followed up: "Who could it be?"

Xu Yin looked deeply: "Pei Zhan has never been an easy person to deal with."

He Qunying's eyes flashed: "Is it him?!"

Then he immediately said: "But that day I regarded the cause of Ningbochi's death as smoke according to your words, and he did not doubt it. And even if you and I had contact, how could he guess that you must be involved in this boat? You did not You are not the only person I interact with, and I recognize more than one person. Why do you think I want the boat to cover for you?" He looked at Xu Yin who pursed his lips and said, "It's really unreasonable for us to be secretive at this time. , except for tonight's trip, there has been no trace of involvement in these two ships. There is no other relationship between Pei Zhan and General He. Why did he devote so much energy to these two ships? "

Xu Yin faced the river and remained silent. After a long time, he ordered word by word: "If you can't find it where you fell into the water, then search along the river bank. Then expand the scope of the investigation. If there is nothing under the water, it must have been robbed! And if it is not found under the water, it must have been robbed!" If it was kidnapped, it must be Pei Zhan’s doing!”

He bent down and said yes, and immediately went downstairs to send a message.

Xu Yin turned around and walked up the embankment.

He Qunying followed him into the carriage and asked: "Who is this missing person? If you keep secretive, you will treat me, He, as a fool!"

After saying that, He Qunying's face also darkened.

Xu Yin looked at him: "He has a tattoo on the back of his neck. Did you see it before?"

He Qunying frowned: "What kind of tattoo is that?"

Xu Yin took out a piece of paper from his arms, unfolded it and spread it in front of him: "This is it. Your General Wei's Mansion also participated in the campaign against Dayue. You should recognize this?"

He Qunying looked at the pattern on the paper and his expression suddenly changed: "Big Moon?!"

He straightened his back suddenly: "The person you are hiding on the boat is a Dayue person?"

"That's right." Xu Yin's eyes were gloomy, "He is from Dayue. Moreover, he is also a member of the Dayue royal family."

He Qunying's expression changed drastically. If he hadn't been in the carriage, he would have jumped up in shock at this moment!
"As an important minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, why did you have private contact with the Dayue royal family? And didn't all the Dayue royal family kill themselves when Pei Zhan entered the palace? Why are they still there? people at?"

"I was also surprised by this." Xu Yin folded the paper and put it back in his arms, "When I received the letter from my ancestral home in Tanzhou, I realized that I could only find the answer by bringing him to the capital and interrogating him face to face. "

"But why would he go to Tanzhou again?" He Qunying looked at him, "Why would he go to your ancestral home?"

Xu Yin looked forward, pursed his lips and took a sip, and said slowly: "Of course I don't know this either."

"master!"

The voice of the Xu family's guards came from outside the carriage. Xu Yin was like a charcoal stove that was suddenly struck. A cluster of fireworks burst out from his dark eyes and disappeared in the darkness in an instant. He responded: "What?!"

"The brothers searched along the river for a mile, but there was no trace of the box! However, they found a large water stain not far from the place where they fell into the water, as well as a wooden box that had been opened and hidden behind a tree!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Yin and He Qunying stood up at the same time, got out of the car one after another, and followed the guards towards the place where the wooden box was found!

There were already many guards gathered under the tree. Xu Yin stepped forward and saw that it was indeed a wooden box with the Ning family's name on it. But at this time, the box was empty!

Xu Yin's facial muscles twitched and he looked toward the capital with piercing eyes: "Who else besides Pei Zhan has the ability to handle this matter so neatly?!"

He Qunying bent down and looked at the damage to the wooden box, and then looked at the extent of the water stains on the ground. However, he was not as nervous as Xu Yin. He just said bad luck, and then said: "But since this person is just of unknown origin, Even if the foreigner fell into Pei Zhan's hands, he would only have done a job for him. At most, he would have to take the credit, and it would not be a particularly big loss for us. "

Borrowing these two boats from the Ning family was because, firstly, he had indeed misappropriated the He family's property to do some private work, and secondly, Xu Yin wanted to avoid unforeseen circumstances on the way and secretly escorted this person to Beijing. Now one of the goals has been achieved, and the other If something went wrong, it would be a pity, but it would also be life-threatening.

As a general of the Great Zhou Dynasty, He Qunying was unwilling to get involved with the defeated outsiders from the bottom of his heart.

But after Xu Yin heard what he said, his expression became even more unclear. He stood up silently and left the tree.

"Come here, ask about Pei Zhan's whereabouts tonight!"

……

Du Mingqian held the tea and looked at Pei Zhan on the other side of the light, his mind in a trance no longer in his body.

"Are you saying that the reason why Prince Rong and his son spent so much effort, or because they suppressed their anger and allowed Xu Yin to be lawless, was because they wanted to hide that murderous case that I had heard about for the first time? And he was trying to hide his own secrets. The murder evidence is not known to anyone?”

Pei Zhan put down the tea he drank in one breath, nodded and said, "That's right."

Leaving out the part where Liang Ning became Fu Zhen, he told all about the rest of the turmoil that happened all the time.

Since the investigation of the Baiyu Hutong murder case began, many clues have been revealed, even if they were deliberately concealed.

Not to mention anything else, the fact that the two Pei family members were constantly in conflict with Prince Rong's Mansion and Yongping made this matter unusual.

The Du Cheng family is different from the He family. Except for the He family, the remaining four families in the five generals' mansions are still closely related and treat each other with sincerity. Although the truth of the murder has not been confirmed in the most crucial step, there is a huge hidden behind the murder of Prince Rong and his son. The secret was already confirmed. They didn't even dare to say a word about the fact that their wife and mother were killed by Xu Yin because of this. Pei Zhan and the others no longer had any reason not to attract everyone's attention.

Although only Cheng Chili knew about the Cheng family, it was enough that Cheng Chili was watching over him.

The Du family is still in the dark. Pei Zhan can at least not let the Du family let Xu Yin take advantage of it like the He family did.

"No wonder," Du Mingqian murmured, "No wonder you guys are so secretive. It turns out it's because of this!"

After sighing, he raised his head again: "Mrs. Ning is the only witness. Is this why the fifth brother and sister will become your wife?"

Pei Zhan knew that he couldn't avoid this place, and all the promising young people from these families had their brains in vain. But now is not the time to elaborate on these, he said: "It's a long story. But that's about it."

"General!"

At this point, Guo Song happened to come in: "That man is awake!"

Pei Zhan's pupils shrank, and his calm expression suddenly turned cold: "Excellent!"

He stood up and looked at Du Mingqian: "Didn't you just ask me who I brought back? Come with me, you should be surprised."