please don't believe me

Before noon in the daytime, Huaqing Temple.

Green bamboo and white walls, curved water cups, although the view is small, the scenery is exquisite.Most of the flowers and trees in Guannei can be used for medicine, but they are all common, and they can flourish by themselves without too much effort.The flowers bloom in four seasons and are too beautiful to behold.

A tall ginkgo tree in the courtyard was lush and lush. Tong Lingshui walked through the corridor and knocked on the door of a room facing the ginkgo.

"Master Guoshi." Ling Shui entered the door and made a bow, "Prince Tan came to send a message that Xu Chang's wife and children have been brought to justice, and they are now detained in the darkroom of Le'an Hall."

The Hall of Le'an was actually the residence of the eldest princess in the palace, and it was temporarily reserved after she got married for the use of the eldest princess who returned to the palace from time to time to visit relatives.Prince Tan and Eldest Sister are siblings of the same mother, and they have a very good relationship. It is not a big deal to requisition the side room when Eldest Sister is away.

The national teacher seemed to have just finished writing something, he raised his hand and put down the brush: "The morning court is over?"

Lingshui said: "It ended two quarters of an hour ago."

"When did Xu Chang's wife and children come to justice?"

"...I don't know yet."

"The same trick." The national teacher sneered, "I don't believe that Xu Chang's wife and children are capable of hiding until dawn, especially if Prince Tan has accurate information."

Lingshui didn't dare to answer.

"Take the initiative to ask me to go, because you haven't asked the meaning of valid information..." The national teacher lowered his eyes, "Go and answer, I will be there after lunch."

"But, my lord..." Ling Shui hesitated, "Prince Tan..."

"You don't need to say too much." The national teacher picked up the small piece of letter paper on the table, the ink that had just been written on it was not completely dry, "tell Prince Tan, if he really welcomes me, he will do it according to the conditions on this paper; If you are not welcome... don't blame me for investigating the case at any time."

Lingshui took the paper with both hands respectfully: "Yes."

Interrogation, sometimes early, sometimes late.

Even if Dai Bowen has reached the point where he is world-famous, he will still go to the speeches of other psychologists, behavioral scientists, magicians and even other talents with no related fields.The first two items are often combined with investigation, giving birth to many common or individual skills.

This gave Dai Bowen a lot of references, but rarely had the opportunity to verify them one by one.

Now, he has some opportunities.

At the end of the next day, the Hall of Le'an.

The long-awaited Master Guoshi finally appeared here.The little boy Lingshui followed him nervously, seeing any of Prince Tan's guards felt that he was about to be beaten.

No way, who asked him to answer "after lunch", but the national teacher came after a nap?

His worries made the guards dare not speak out.But as soon as he entered the side hall, Prince Tan's ridicule came: "Your lunch time is too long. If you are not in good health, you might as well stay in the Taoist temple honestly and ask the imperial doctor to take a look."

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your concern, but you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." Dai Bowen stood still in front of Prince Tan, flicked his sleeves, and pretended to be an expert, "You did this first, didn't you?"

Prince Tan was the first to hear the news every time, and the national teacher was always a character who was deliberately delayed, and Dai Bowen did not fall into this trap.

Prince Tan narrowed his eyes and said, "If you're here to play tricks, it's better not to waste everyone's time."

"I'm just here to play tricks." The national teacher laughed in a low voice, "I'm just playing tricks in front of Xu Chang?"

Prince Tan seemed to be choking, squinted at him, and said after a while, "So, you plan to stand here forever?"

"No, how can I live up to His Highness's trust?" Dai Bowen flicked his whisk and raised his right hand: "Please, Your Highness."

Prince Tan also raised his hand: "National teacher please."

After two hours of darkness, Xu's wife Zhang once again ushered in the light.

The headgear was taken off, and she was startled by the man who was just a few feet away.

"Wuliang Tianzun." Obviously dressed in a fairy style, the other party's staring eyes made the woman flustered, "Xu's wife, Mrs. Zhang, Xu Chang told me, you know the clues to the treasure map...huh?"

Dai Bowen followed Zhang's gaze that suddenly moved away, then smiled and straightened up.

"Unbind."

As the guards approached, Zhang turned her head in a little panic, but saw something that frightened her even more from behind the guards.

The most feared person her husband used to talk about day and night, the well-known "cold-faced Hades" throughout the country--Prince Tan.

"Looking at him is useless, believe me, he will only make you more painful." Dai Bowen glanced at the Huayi prince who was watching coldly, and stretched out his hand to grab Zhang's wrist, "Come with me."

His words seemed to be gentle, but his pull was unambiguous, and Mrs. Zhang was almost staggered by him.When she reacted and wanted to struggle, the other party squeezed her artery warningly.

"Resisting will do you no good if you still want to see your son."

Mrs. Zhang was held by Dai Bowen and walked through most of the room.This is not the dark room where she and her son were imprisoned together, but a bright and quite small hall.There is an empty table in the middle of the hall, and there is a row of bookshelves beside it, and there are many kinds of albums on the shelves.

Finally, they stopped in front of a wall of maps.

Zhang is still struggling, but not very violently.Because the guard who untied her earlier followed two steps behind, holding a long cane at some point in his hand, able to restrain her at any time.

Obviously, even if this Taoist priest is in charge now, Prince Tan will not sit idly by the danger.

"Ms. Zhang." Dai Bowen straightened Zhang's face with the other hand, and the two sides suddenly met their eyes, "You remember where that clue is, don't you?...Very well, you remember."

He let go of Zhang's face, stretched out his hand towards the guard behind, and took the cane.

The rattan knocks on the map.This map is so big that it is almost as high as two Dai Bowens. Even if you hold the rattan with your straight hands, it is difficult to reach the top.

"Now, tell me, where is the treasure map?"

Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but glanced at the map, then became alert again, and lowered her head.

"We are in the imperial city now, is the treasure map around here?"

Mrs. Zhang didn't speak, but the cane was moving slowly.

"Now we go north...wrong? Then go west and southwest, the treasure map is in the southwest of the imperial city?

"Going southwest, Mrs. Zhang, will we see the river? There is a big river called Linhe..."

Dai Bowen's cane suddenly retracted.

"Mr. Zhang." Just like pushing up Xu Chang's chin before, Dai Bowen turned the cane across and raised Zhang's chin, "If you still think about the purse you gave Xu Chang, your son will definitely I will suffer more than you, I promise."

Zhang's eyes suddenly opened in shock.

Dai Bowen stopped looking at her.He turned to look at Prince Tan: "As I said before, please put down the map."

Nodding next to Tan Qin Dynasty, several guards quickly moved the table away, and the map hanging on the wall was taken down very rarely, and spread flat on the ground.

Dai Bowen dragged Mrs. Zhang to the side of the map, and asked the man who was also approaching, "Do you want to take off your shoes?"

Prince Tan was simply tired of these corner questions from the national teacher: "Don't talk nonsense."

"Oh, that's disrespectful." Dai Bowen dragged Mrs. Zhang onto the map.Zhang's footsteps were flustered, but she had to open her eyes to look at the road.

This is why Dai Bowen put the map under his feet.As long as Ms. Zhang opens her eyes, no matter whether she lowers her head or not, the map will enter her field of vision.Even if she deliberately didn't look at it, and thought she didn't see it, she would still fall into Dai Bowen's design.

And the more she thinks that something is impossible, if it happens, the faster her defenses will collapse.

Therefore, when she found that Dai Bowen went straight to the middle of Linhe, panic was inevitable.

"What is this, a negative state?" Dai Bowen grasped all the movements of the other party under his palm, but kept walking, "Mr. Zhang, the more you tell yourself not to think about it, the more you will think about it.

"Because you clearly remember the scene when Xu Chang told you this information. I think it should be one night, you were in a dark room... yes, you didn't turn on the lights. Xu Chang was in the dark, hiding Baotu's clue told you."

Footsteps move, robes flutter.

"He mentioned a place. You're familiar with the place, and even quickly realized where it was—now you remember it, don't you?"

He took Mrs. Zhang around in the southwest direction of the imperial city, and it seemed that he was very disorganized.His words sounded like nagging, and I don't know what effect it had on Mrs. Zhang. Anyway, Prince Tan has been watching coldly.

Soon, Dai Bowen stopped talking, and only held Zhang in front of her from time to time and stared into her eyes: "Treasure map!"

Staggering eyes, swallowing, eye movement, expression, pulse...all muscle reactions are telling him the answer.

They continued to turn around "without purpose" for a quarter of an hour.Because Mrs. Zhang first endured a long period of dark panic, followed by tremendous pressure and fear, coupled with the state teacher's performance like a prophet, she finally couldn't help opening her mouth: "I..."

"To shut up."

Dai Bowen grabbed her and shook her skillfully, Zhang staggered a few steps and made a half circle, and stood facing each other.The cane was raised and pointed at her, almost reaching her eyes, with a clear sense of threat: "His Royal Highness gave you a chance, but you don't cherish it. Don't try to make it up for me."

Prince Tan frowned and looked at the national teacher's face, unable to tell the support he meant for him from the expression.

After Dai Bowen finished speaking, the rattan moved away from Zhang's eyes, and her eyes followed the past naturally.When the top of the rattan crossed the air and landed on the map at the bottom of the foot, there happened to be a line of writing here.

——Pingliang Mansion.

Mrs. Zhang lowered her head without showing any expression, but Dai Bowen bowed slightly and looked at her face sideways.

He said something irrelevant: "Sometimes, literacy is not a good thing, is it?"

Standing a few steps away, Prince Tan could hear it clearly. He subconsciously "translated" the meaning of this sentence—the national teacher found the clue to the "treasure map".

Sure enough, the next sentence of the national teacher was "Prince, please trouble me with the map of Pingliang Mansion".

However, this time, Prince Tan did not make a gesture to let the guards run errands, but walked a few steps forward himself.

"There is no need for a map." Prince Tan said, "The rebels brought to justice with her today just provided some information about 'Pingliang Mansion'."

"Oh, it seems that your husband-in-law's friends are not as firm as you." The national teacher smiled, "By the way, let me tell you, Xu Chang is as unwilling to say a word as you at night, but His Royal Highness is also right. the answer."

Prince Tan glanced at him.

The national teacher motioned for the other party to speak.

"About Pingliang Mansion, they explained two things." Of course, Prince Tan would also ask for classified information, and he understood that this is the way of questioning by the State Teacher, "About the location...and people."

The national teacher maintained the posture of supporting the cane with one hand, holding Zhang's wrist with the other, and looking down at her face: "It's a human."

Prince Tan said: "A total of twelve people, divided into..."

"You thought of that name, didn't you?" What the national teacher said to Zhang suddenly interrupted Prince Tan. Just as the choked prince was about to wait for the national teacher to continue speaking, the other party told him instead, "Just say the name." .”

Prince Tan narrowed his eyes, opened his mouth and began to report his name.Surprisingly, Prince Tan didn't take any information, and just started to report the names of people rhythmically out of thin air, which shows how familiar he is with the information he just got.

"Zhang San."

Zhang's eyes blinked, but Dai Bowen didn't move.

"Li Si."

Mrs. Zhang curled her fingers obviously, but Dai Bowen still didn't move.

"Wang Wu."

"Liang Liu."

"Cheng Yu."

When Dai Bowen swung the cane, Prince Tan stopped knowingly.

However, Dai Bowen didn't make any other movements and didn't speak.His eyes never left Zhang's eyes. Zhang's eyes were closed halfway with fright, and now the long silence can almost condense the pressure into substance.

After an unknown amount of time, Dai Bowen finally let go of Mrs. Zhang.As if he had seen enough of the trembling appearance of the other party, he showed a slight, triumphant smile as if he had succeeded in a prank, and his face was relaxed.

"Pingliang Mansion, Cheng Yu. You see, Prince Tan knows everything."