Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

The smile on Li Junze's face froze a little bit. He glanced at Li Junhao and said, "Lord Yan, are you going to interrogate me?"

"I dare not." Yan Nangui immediately explained.

Li Junhao looked at the two of them, one saying "this king" and the other "this official", and felt amused. He waved his hand and said, "Okay, Third Brother, don't worry too much. This is what I meant."

Li Junze rolled his eyes helplessly and followed them to the interrogation room next door.

Today's interrogation room seemed to have been specially cleaned up. Except for Li Junhao who was sitting in the main seat, Yan Nangui and Li Junze were sitting opposite each other. Behind Yan Nangui stood Deputy General Niu, who looked like he was enjoying a good show, while behind Li Junze stood the butler with a worried look on his face.

"Your Highness Prince An, I think the general situation has been told to you by Vice Admiral Niu. Among those who came to the Dali Temple to set fire last night, several mentioned Prince An's Mansion, and also mentioned Your Highness and Scholar Wang."

Yan Nangui turned around and said to Deputy General Niu, "Go and show His Highness their confessions. Are they true?"

"Yes." Deputy General Niu answered loudly, and with a "rustle", he took out several pieces of paper from his arms, which turned out to be prepared in advance.

He took a few steps forward and came in front of Li Junze, and presented it to him with both hands.

"Your Highness, please have a look."

The corner of Li Junze's mouth twitched. He had to admire their quickness in doing things, but when he saw the confessions of those people on those pieces of paper, he couldn't help but frowned.

Each of them said something different. Some said it was in Prince An’s mansion, some said it was in a villa of Prince An, and some said it was in a village. And they were subjected to high-intensity training every day.

Li Junze looked up at Yan Nangui and asked in disbelief, "You invited me here just based on these nonsense? These confessions were obviously made when you were mentally ill, right?"

Deputy General Niu took the papers back and handed them to the legal advisor who was preparing to take notes.

Yan Nangui's face was not looking good either. He bowed to Li Junze and said, "To be honest with you, Your Highness Prince An, these people are all assassins. They took poison before taking action. If I hadn't acted quickly, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to get any information from them."

"You have these confessions. What questions do you want to ask me?"

Li Junze had been treating this matter very seriously, but now he looked distracted. It was no wonder that he was like this. Those testimonies could not do anything to him at all. Even if they were handed over to the emperor, they would not be accepted.

"These testimonies were made by them after the Illusion Master used some illusions on them. If there is a chance for His Royal Highness Prince An to witness the ability of the Illusion Master, His Royal Highness will definitely not think so."

Yan Nangui said in a calm tone, and he bowed in the direction of the palace before continuing, "The emperor has seen it, so he agreed to let the illusion master stay in the Dali Temple to help me solve the case."

After listening to this, Li Junze fell silent again. He had never heard of this matter before, and he didn't know much about illusion, so he didn't know how to react for a moment.

Seeing that he was silent, Yan Nangui continued, "I also had someone check the villa mentioned in the confession. There were indeed signs of life, but it was empty. Does Your Highness know what happened?"

The villa is located in the southern suburbs of the capital. It was awarded by the emperor on Prince An’s fifteenth birthday. Because there is a hot spring inside, it is named "Hot Spring Villa".

Li Junze looked at the butler, indicating that he should answer this question.

The butler immediately understood and stepped forward and said, "Master Yan, it is like this. Your Highness rarely goes to that courtyard. On weekdays, he only leaves a few servants to take care of the cleaning. Occasionally, Scholar Wang or the Chief Winery will go there to recuperate for a while and soak in the hot springs. It is not surprising to find traces of people living there."

They had arranged all these things in advance, and Master Wang also knew about them, so they were not afraid of Yan Nangui going over to verify them.

"Hmm, so that's how it is. Then, could you let me take some people to Prince An's Mansion to check out the places mentioned in their confessions?" Yan Nangui continued to inquire.

The butler looked back at Li Junze, he couldn't answer this question.

Li Junze nodded, not wanting to say anything more to them. "Okay, let the butler take you there. If there is nothing else, I will go back first. Grandfather is still waiting for me to go back and take care of him."

Li Junhao said at this time, "Third brother, Master Wang is ill. I should go with you to visit him. Why don't I go with you now?"

How could Li Junze possibly say no? He could only nod again.

"Lord Yan, now that things here have been dealt with, please help send some more manpower to the post station. We should go to the palace tomorrow. Don't let anything else happen today." Li Junhao said this to Yan Nangui before leaving, and then he left the Dali Temple with Li Junze.

Li Junze listened to his words and his mind was in turmoil. Yes, they would be entering the palace tomorrow and they still had one day to take action. Unfortunately, his grandfather would not allow him to take action anymore.

Gu Xunwei has been practicing making incense at home these days. After "camphor" was brought to her by Sang Mo, she fell in love with the smell. She tried sixteen kinds of local spices to blend with it and finally found two very suitable combinations. She also figured out the most accurate data for the proportions in the past two days.

So, when there was such a big commotion in the capital last night, she didn't even notice it at all. It was only when Gu Ziyu and Mrs. Du hurriedly ran to her yard that Bai Zhi called her out from the incense-making room.

At that time, when his father asked about the smell on Gu Xunwei's body, he had already sensed something was wrong. Under his repeated questioning, Gu Xunwei had to tell him that she was making borneol.

Gu Ziyu was a little surprised, but didn't say much. After the chaos was over, he immediately returned to his incense-making room.

Before leaving, he asked Gu Xunwei for a small piece of "camphor" for his own research.

Therefore, in the next few days, they would probably hardly see Gu Ziyu coming to chat and play chess with Gu Xunwei.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter, so Chenxiang placed two ice boxes in Gu Xunwei's incense-making room. Since the room was not ventilated and a fan could not be turned on, it was very stuffy and the only way to cool down was with these two ice boxes.