Shengjing Conspiracy

Chapter 72, The Fog Difficult to Disperse

"It's ridiculous, isn't it, His Royal Highness paid the wrong person affectionately."

"Why did you exchange that scroll with Duke An's gift?"

The national teacher slowly walked behind Shang Lanqing, the distance between them was only one step.

Shang Lanqing turned around, her cold face seemed to be covered with an indelible frost, "Shanyuan, I don't like people who make their own decisions."

"Self-assessment? I just obey orders, isn't this your order?" The national teacher or Shanyuan took another half step, and the distance between the two became smaller and smaller, "I'm so angry because I hurt you Wen Youqing?"

"Knowingly asking."

Shanyuan laughed at his cold face of asking questions, pinched the opponent's chin, and raised it slightly, "I have never been your subordinate, your highness, please be more sober, your favorite Wen Youqing has never cared about You, I don't want you to ruin our plan because of those chores, let's concentrate on the things in front of us."

"You don't need to remind me." Shang Lanqing patted his hand away and left the hall without any intention of staying for a moment for Shanyuan.

The preliminary preparations for the palace banquet are very rigorous, and people who enter the palace will also carefully check whether they have weapons on their bodies, so there are many opportunities to replace the gifts.

Because the case happened in the palace, if you want to investigate the case, you must start with the people in the palace. Fortunately, Emperor Anping didn't make things difficult for Wen Youqing except for the embarrassment at the palace banquet. This made Wen Youqing feel relieved. Take a breath.

On the second day after the incident, Wen Youqing packed up and went into the palace. Jing Yun couldn't accompany her because she was going into the palace today.

Today, Mr. Wen will fight alone.

"Master Wen, these are the court ladies and eunuchs who were in charge of inspecting and presenting gifts yesterday." The eunuch in charge led a group of people into the courtyard.

Wen Youqing glanced at the palace maids and eunuchs who did not dare to raise their eyebrows, smiled, and bowed to the eunuch in charge, "It's really troublesome, father-in-law." She hid a few coins in her sleeve and put them in the hands of the eunuch in charge.

Those who can make a name for themselves in the palace have brains, and the eunuch in charge picked it up without looking at the amount of money, and smiled even more obsequiously, "Mr. Our family will retreat first."

The eunuch in charge walked out of the yard, Wen Youqing didn't rush to interrogate, but sat on the stone bench with a cup in his hand to observe everyone in front of him.

After about a stick of incense, the maids and eunuchs stood nervously in place, and some of them swayed in place.

despair.

The cup was put down, and the courageous maid slightly raised her head and glanced at it, but she happened to meet Wen Youqing's eyes, she quickly lowered her head in fright.

Wen Youqing coughed lightly, and said calmly: "Did something strange happen before the palace banquet last night?"

The court ladies and eunuchs looked at each other with their heads down, but no one made a sound.

This kind of reaction was expected by Wen Youqing, and he said again: "Those who are in charge of which rounds of review respectively stand in a team."

The palace maids and eunuchs, who looked at people's faces to make a living, did it very quickly this time, and they stood up in a short time.

Wen Youqing looked at each of them separately, and noticed that a court lady in the third round of review was also the one who peeked at him just now.

Wen Youqing walked up to the court lady, leaned slightly, "What were you doing last night?"

The maid was not very old, she looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, her face was flushed because of Wen Youqing's approaching, but she spoke sharply, "The servant girl went to the main hall to serve fruit dishes after helping to check the gifts last night. "

"What was your original job?"

The maid paused and said: "The slaves are from the palace of His Royal Highness, the palace was too busy last night, so the slaves were assigned to help."

Wen Youqing nodded, thinking to herself that it's no wonder that this court lady looks familiar, maybe she accidentally met her in the East Palace before.

However, this court lady gave Wen Youqing an idea. He picked up the pen and paper that had been prepared on the table, "Tell me one by one which palace you are working in."

There were not a few palace maids and eunuchs working at the palace banquet, and it was past noon when Wen Youqing finished recording everyone's records, the sun was gradually setting, and the eunuch in charge came again.

"Okay, you guys go back, if you think of strange things about last night, you can tell me." Wen Youqing's bones were about to crumble after sitting for a whole day, but he was embarrassed to stretch because of the crowd, so he could only put on a show.

The eunuch in charge sent everyone away, and said to Wen Youqing with a smile: "Master Wen, His Royal Highness is here to invite you."

"His Royal Highness?" Wen Youqing felt a headache when he thought of this person. He supported the table and stood up. He didn't know if he got up in a hurry. He was dizzy for a moment, and he supported the stone table to stand still.

"Master Wen, are you okay?" The eunuch in charge wanted to come over to help.

"It's okay, maybe I got a little bit of cold." Wen Youqing smiled, "I wonder if I can trouble my father-in-law to help me talk to His Highness the Crown Prince, I am too busy with this case to see His Highness the Crown Prince, so I won't go today. When the case is over, I will apologize in person.”

When Wen Youqing smiled and talked to people, it was difficult for anyone to refuse him. The eunuch in charge is also an old man. His Royal Highness's closeness to Wen Youqing does not seem to be fake, and it should be fine if he is rejected, so it is very easy. He simply complied, and also instructed: "Our family must bring the message, and Mr. Wen should also pay attention to his health."

"Thank you father-in-law for your kindness, I will pay attention." Wen Youqing said goodbye with a smile, and the eunuch in charge went out with her hands in her hands.

……

Because of the palace banquet, almost everyone in the palace knows Wen Youqing now. When passing by the patrolling guards, Wen Youqing stopped, "This commander, Wen Youqing at Xia Dali Temple, has something about the palace banquet last night. May I ask the commander a few words?"

The commander of the forbidden army who was stopped was tall and majestic, and he looked at Wen Youqing a few times, "Yes."

"Did you see any strange things or people who behaved strangely during the patrol last night?"

The commander recalled for a moment and shook his head.

Wen Youqing said again: "Then I don't know if Commander Lao can take me down to the prison. The case has something to do with my father and younger brother. I want to ask a few questions."

"This is not in compliance with the rules." The commander had a serious look on his face, and even the less timid would dare not talk to this person.

Fortunately, Wen Youqing is a bold person, and he feels that although this person is also very dignified, he is not as good as Jing Yun.

"Just to say a few words, the commander can send someone to watch over me, I won't do anything beyond the rules." Wen Youqing said.

The commander took a few more glances at Wen Youqing. He was tall, and he looked down on people from a height, which actually didn't make people feel very good.

Wen Youqing was almost unable to laugh because of his strange eyes, and wondered what this man was looking at all the time, could he say something.

The commander was silent for a moment, letting the guards behind him go first, "Follow me."

"Thank you, Commander." Wen Youqing smiled and followed closely.

The distance from here to the prison was not close, and the commanders were silent all the way. Fortunately, Wen Youqing was not a talkative person, so the two walked to the gate of the prison without saying a word.

The guards of the Shoutian Prison stopped people when they saw them coming, and the commander took out his token, "Assist in the investigation."

After the guard confirmed that the token was genuine, he let the person in. Wen Youqing followed suit. Suddenly, the commander turned to look at him and said, "Jing Yun and I are good friends. He mentioned you to me."

"Ah?" Wen Youqing was taken aback for a moment, but didn't realize what was going on for a while. It took a long time to understand the narrowness in the commander's eyes, and he was completely confused.

Is this person friends with Jing Yun?

Jing Yun mentioned himself to this person?

Thinking of those frontier soldiers who called him his wife, Wen Youqing was extremely thankful that the lights in the dungeon were dim, and the commander should not be able to see the blush on his face.

But what Mr. Wen didn't expect, all martial arts practitioners have clear eyes and ears, even though it is dim, they can still see the flushed cheeks clearly.

"My name is Ling Feng, you can call me by my name directly." Ling Feng kept walking, "I used to work in the army, and I was transferred back to Beijing in recent years, so you may not know me."

"Yes, that's the case, that's quite a coincidence." Wen Youqing, who is eloquent and eloquent, is stupid. Now he especially wants to ask Ling Jingyun how he told him about himself, but he is too embarrassed to ask, so he can only Embarrassed smile.

Ling Feng took a few more steps and stopped, "It's just ahead, I'll wait for you here, you go."

"Thank you." Wen Youqing didn't say any more to waste time.

……

The dungeon has never been a comfortable place. The damp coolness penetrates seamlessly into every joint of the body, and it only takes one day to torture a healthy person to lose their vitality.

An Guogong and Wen Yunzhu were locked together. When Wen Youqing arrived, An Guogong was lying on the ground like a dead fish, and Wen Yunzhu sat cross-legged on the ground, his eyes were still red but he didn't cry.

"Yunzhu, brother is here."

"elder brother!"

Wen Yunzhu threw himself on the iron railing, clutching the iron railing tightly, "Brother, why are you here!"

An Guogong also heard the voice, and staggered up from the ground, "Young Qing! You Qing! You are here to take my father out, right?"

An Guogong is the only son of the old An Guogong. When he was young, the old An Guogong joined the army and fought, so his life was not good. After a good life, people also started messing around. So disappointed in this son.

Wen Youqing knew about An Guogong's temper, so he didn't pay attention to him, and looked at Wen Yunzhu intently and said, "Yunzhu, think about it carefully, is there any other reason besides leaving the wooden box for the scroll of the night dress? Someone took it?"

"No! I was watching the wooden box the whole time!" An Guogong said loudly.

"Shut up." Wen Youqing glanced at him, "Yunzhu, think about it carefully."

An Guogong who was treated indifferently was almost going to explode, but now the hope of going out is on Wen Youqing, he dare not make Wen Youqing angry, so he can only bear it anxiously.

Wen Yunzhu has calmed down a lot because of what Jing Yun said last night, and he can calm down and think about it carefully at this time, but he still shook his head, "No one took it away. After the review, my father and I went to the main hall. No one touched it the whole time. Wooden box."

"It's okay, brother, just go check it out." Wen Youqing patted Wen Yunzhu's head, and suddenly saw that Wen Yunzhu's hand holding the iron railing was injured, and frowned, "Is someone embarrassing you?"

Wen Yunzhu was taken aback, looked at his hand, thought for a moment and said: "No, it was caused by a fall and knock before."

"fall?"

"Well, I was knocked down by a eunuch before and fell down, probably at that time." FBJQ sorted out

"Before the palace banquet?"

Wen Yunzhu nodded, he said cautiously: "Is there something wrong with that eunuch? But his hands are empty, he didn't hold a wooden box."

Wen Youqing pondered: "I'm not sure, do you still remember the appearance of that eunuch?"

"It was too dark at that time." Wen Yunzhu's voice weakened, "He kept his head down and couldn't see clearly."

"It's okay." Wen Youqing patted his head again, "I can't stay long, brother will come to see you again."

After instructing Wen Youqing a few more words, she walked out with a heavy heart, and Ling Feng was waiting for him not far away.

"Finished?"

"Yeah." Wen Youqing paused, then smiled with the corners of her mouth pulled up, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

Ling Feng shrugged, "It doesn't matter, it's not a big deal."

Wen Youqing could tell that Ling Feng just had a cold face, and his personality seemed a bit out of order.

Ling Feng sent Wen Youqing out of the palace all the way. As soon as Wen Youqing arrived at the gate of the palace, he saw Jing Yun who had been waiting there for some time, holding a lantern and a cloak in his hand.