Murder

Ma Yongzhi's destination is Prince Lu's Mansion.

Chi Yebai quietly stalked behind him, and when he saw Prince Lu's Mansion from a distance, he knew that he couldn't be kind tonight.

The gold bricks in the brick kiln seemed to be the handwriting of King Lu, and it was also his intention to transport the bricks on the merchant ships on the river.However, the Lu Palace was heavily guarded, and Chi Yebai was not sure of getting out completely.

He gradually distanced himself from Ma Yongzhi.There were no bustling streets around the Prince Lu's Mansion, and it was already late at night, and the road was quiet except for the sound of Ma Yongzhi, a man and a horse.Chi Yebai lay on the roof of a family, holding his breath and concentrating.He was familiar with this kind of silence—there were many people hiding in the dark, so this silence was also extremely dangerous.

I saw Ma Yongzhi galloping on horseback, suddenly showing his right arm.A golden token is tied around his arm.

Before the token was revealed, Chi Yebai heard a very slight sound of a machine.

No one attacked Ma Yongzhi, and the token was his amulet. He passed the avenue smoothly and stopped at the back door of Prince Lu's Mansion.

It was only then that Chi Yebai noticed that there seemed to be a carriage outside the back door.

He had seen this carriage a few times before, it was the one used when King Lu sent someone to invite Shuanghua.His heart tightened, and then he saw a servant supporting Shuanghua and walking down from the car.Shuanghua held the qin in her hand, obviously she was also invited.

This idea turned in Chi Yebai's mind, and then he knew it was wrong: from Jinyan Pond to King Lu's Mansion, even if it was just a round trip, it was far closer than he was from Jiutou Mountain to King Lu's Mansion.If Shuanghua arrived at King Lu's mansion at this time, it means that the time when King Lu invited her to the mansion was before and after he chased Ma Yongzhi down the mountain.But at that time, the brick kiln had already exploded. Even though King Lu didn't know which kiln exploded, it was impossible for him to invite a luthier to play the piano in the mansion at such an urgent moment.

Chi Yebai's heart was pounding.He saw Shuanghua enter the door, and Ma Yongzhi followed her in.

Shuanghua wanted to protect him, but he also wanted to hear the conversation between Ma Yongzhi and King Lu.Chi Yebai immediately made a choice: he first quietly climbed down from the roof, and then ran silently in the alley.According to his order, Ying Beishe's people monitored Lu Wangfu [-] hours a day. He was familiar with their hiding places, and soon found two Ying Beishe disciples.

"There are seven of us around," the disciple told him.

"I know." Chi Yebai said very quickly, "You, immediately go to Sima Feng, go to his house to look for him. Tell him that the murderer on Jiutou Mountain is a member of King Lu, and he has entered the palace of King Lu now. It is also in Prince Lu's mansion. In addition, you must tell Sima Feng that Miss Shuanghua from Jinyanchi is also in Prince Lu's mansion, and she may be in danger. If Sima Feng is not there, tell Gan Lele or Ah Si, do you recognize them? "

"I know." The disciple immediately took the order, and soon his figure disappeared.

Chi Yebai turned his head and said to another disciple: "You immediately notify the people around you to cover me from entering the Lu Palace."

After watching the disciple leave, he quickly swam down against the wall and took out a few broken bricks from his pocket.The thumb-sized broken bricks were broken pieces of gold bricks that he picked up from the ground when he left Jiutou Mountain, and they just happened to come in handy at this time.

After a while, a woman's scolding suddenly came from not far away, followed by the sound of dogs barking, chai gate opening and closing, men and women scolding each other.The barking dog was getting closer and closer, and the birds on the surrounding trees were also flying around in shock, and all kinds of noises were buzzing for a while, which was confusing to the ears.

The quiet atmosphere around Prince Lu's Mansion suddenly changed amidst these chaotic sounds, and Chi Yebai faintly sensed the murderous intent.

He bounced the fragments left and right, and the fragments fell on the roof tiles on both sides of the road.He accumulated the inner strength of Hua Chun Jue on the broken bricks, and the bricks bounced back and forth on the tiles, and there was a rustling sound all around.Only after the sound was heard, several black shadows jumped out of the hidden places on both sides and followed the sound.Immediately, a few more people jumped out from the quiet place and scattered to various places in order to monitor a wider area.

This place is already very close to the back door of the palace, Chi Yebai took advantage of the cover of night and this brief gap in defense, and flashed into the half-closed door like a gust of wind.

The servant who closed the door felt a gust of wind blowing towards his face, but no one saw what was going on.

Chi Yebai hid in the porch, and only quietly crawled out after the servants left.

If Sima Feng came over, he would definitely not be able to get in.Chi Yebai thought for no reason: his lightness kung fu is not as good as mine.

In the middle of the night, the Prince Lu's Mansion was silent and quiet.Hiding in the rockery in the courtyard, Chi Yebai began to recall the topographical map of Prince Lu's Mansion he had seen.

Ying Beishe has topographic maps of every dignitary's residence in Pengyang, and there are various ways to obtain them. He remembered that the topographic maps of King Lu's Mansion were purchased from others at a cost of several hundred taels of silver.But it's been a long time, and I don't know if the house has changed, so Chi Yebai followed the signs on the topographic map and chose to check the study room of King Lu's Mansion first.

After Ma Yongzhi entered the palace, the housekeeper immediately took him all the way to King Lu's study.

"My lord is playing chess with Mr. Wen." The housekeeper said, "Would you...won't you wait?"

Ma Yongzhi knew that this chess game was just a cover, and the two of them dismissed the servants around them, often to discuss secret matters.

This is also a secret.Ma Yongzhi shook his head: "It's important, please pass it on."

When the butler reported that Ma Yongzhi had arrived, Wen Xuanzhou immediately stood up.He was still holding a handful of sunspots in his hand, and he couldn't care less about it now, and threw them all on the chessboard: "Let him in!"

When Ma Yongzhi entered the study, he didn't dare to lift his head. He went straight to King Lu and knelt down deeply.

King Lu was still sitting on the couch, slowly turning two jade-white chess pieces between his fingers.He didn't make a sound, and Wen Xuanzhou didn't make a sound. One of them was sitting and the other was standing, looking at Ma Yongzhi who was kneeling on the ground.

Ma Yongzhi was sweating coldly.

"Come here, is there something wrong with Liu Fangcun, or something wrong with the burning of bricks?" King Lu asked.

"Yes...something happened to the brick kiln." Ma Yongzhi stammered, "Mao, Mao kiln."

King Lu was taken aback for a moment, and the two chess pieces in his hand suddenly fell down, hitting the ground with a crackling sound.

"What?!" His voice changed, he jumped off the couch immediately, and asked coldly, "Raise your head and say! What happened?"

Ma Yongzhi raised his head tremblingly.

Someone killed people in the brick kiln and cheated money. He knew about it, Liu Fangcun knew about it, Wen Xuanzhou knew about it, and King Lu naturally knew about it.On the first day Liu Fangcun took over the brick kiln, he got the news from Ma Yongzhi.Unlike the previous adult, in order to show his loyalty to King Lu, he immediately reported the matter to King Lu.Liu Fangcun thought that the king of Lu would think that this was a bad thing that would easily involve the secret of the brick kiln, but Wen Xuanzhou suggested to him to use the four people to kill Wang Huanxi, who was sent by King Lu to monitor the work of the Maozi kiln. up.

Wang Huanxi knows too many things, including old Lu Wang's and the current Luwang's.Seeing that the firing of the gold bricks was about to be completed, King Lu also thought that Wen Xuanzhou's proposal was very reasonable.

So there was a proposal from Liu Fangcun, Zhang Songbai and others.

The loud noise of the brick kiln can also be heard in Lu Wangfu tonight.But both King Lu and Wen Xuanzhou thought that everything was going according to plan, and they really didn't expect that there would be such a big mistake in the middle.

After Ma Yongzhi finished talking about what happened on Jiutou Mountain, King Lu finally sat back on the chair slowly.

"You said...a mysterious person rescued the arrester?" King Lu said in a low voice, "You didn't catch up?"

Ma Yongzhi began to sweat again: "I, I can't catch up."

King Lu turned his head and asked Wen Xuanzhou, "Who would know about this?"

Wen Xuanzhou thought for a while, and replied: "Qinggong is so powerful, and he is so eager to do justice, especially the one who knows that border guard quickly, should be Chi Yebai, the leader of Ying Beishe."

Chi Yebai who had been listening for a while under the window: "..."

not me.He said silently in his heart.And that person's lightness kung fu is not particularly good, it's because Ma Yongzhi's kung fu is not good enough.

"Kill it as soon as possible." King Lu continued to say calmly, "An accident happened to Maozi Kiln. Anyone who knows about this matter must not stay."

Ma Yongzhi quickly said, "I have already killed Liu Fangcun and Liu Dali."

"What about the other two?" King Lu asked.

Ma Yongzhi didn't hesitate at all: "I just went down the mountain and caught up with the two of them, and stabbed them to death."

Chi Yebai followed him the whole time, and didn't see him killing people on the way down the mountain, so he knew he was lying.

But this lie also failed to protect Ma Yongzhi.As soon as he finished speaking, a turbid panting sound came from his throat.Wen Xuanzhou grabbed his neck and broke it.

"Dirty..." King Lu waved his hand, "You deal with him as soon as possible."

"You said everyone who knew about this would die, including me?" Wen Xuanzhou waved his hands and asked in a low voice, "My lord?"

King Lu didn't make a sound, but looked up at Wen Xuanzhou.

The two have known each other since childhood, and decades have passed in a flash.King Lu slowly closed his eyes: "Don't joke."

Wen Xuanzhou bent down and picked up the chess piece from under his feet, and put it in the chess box.

"And then? What are you going to do?"

King Lu closed his eyes and meditated.

During the day today, he had an argument with Wen Xuanzhou.Wen Xuanzhou told him that he inserted a needle into the back of Shuanghua's head, but King Lu didn't understand why he did so.Shuanghua was just a prostitute in Jinyanchi, a lowly person whom the King of Lu could not take seriously. Wen Xuanzhou spent time and thought on such a person, and the King of Lu thought he was too inappropriate.Before this matter takes shape, the fewer people involved, the better, but Wen Xuanzhou doesn't seem to think so.

But Wen Xuanzhou said that King Lu was in Pengyang City, so he absolutely had to guard against the Sima family and Ying Beishe.

From King Lu's point of view, the Sima family has not moved at all, and Ying Beishe is just an intelligence agency, so there is no need to provoke him.On the contrary, it was Wen Xuanzhou who wanted to confront Chi Yebai again and again, which aroused the hostility between the two parties.

Shuanghua and Sima Feng have a very close relationship, and Wen Xuanzhou thinks there is a lot to be done.Anyone who claims to be a hero is eager for justice - even if he is not anxious for justice, he still has to pretend to be eager for justice, let alone a sincere person like Sima Feng.It was difficult for Chi Yebai to get close to him. Everyone in the Sima family possessed martial arts, but at present, it seemed that only Shuanghua was the weakest and the easiest to attack.Shuanghua is definitely Sima Feng's weakness, so Wen Xuanzhou decided to keep it in his hands.He still doesn't know what kind of effect that needle can play, but as long as it is stuck in, it will be useful one day.

King Lu was noncommittal about Wen Xuanzhou's thoughts.

"Wen Xuanzhou." He said, "You and I have the same goal. You don't need to ask me to know what to do."

"You are a prince, you have to ask about anything, and I have to listen to what you say." Wen Xuanzhou laughed.

King Lu was a little annoyed by his laughter, so he opened his eyes.

"My lord said that you and I have the same goal, which is a bit wrong." Wen Xuanzhou said, "Although we both want to rebuild the Eagle Camp, what you care about is how to cultivate a group of people who are loyal to the country and the court like your father. Er's dead soldier, and I don't have your ambitions."

"You just want to enjoy the pleasure of manipulating others." Lu Wang whispered, "Yes, I know. You are interested in Chi Yebai only because he is a man of memory, and in this life, apart from your sister, he It's the second Divine Recaller you've come into contact with. Did you feel happy when you participated in the torture of your sister?"

Wen Xuanzhou took a deep breath, sat next to King Lu, and grabbed the pieces on the chessboard to play with. "Very, very happy." He laughed softly, "My lord's heart is home, country, and the world. I'm afraid I can't understand someone Wen. A person with the most outstanding memory in the world is tortured to the point of madness by you in front of you. Finally died. My sister was better than me, better than me, and has always been like this, but what is the use of it? As long as I master the right method, no matter how good or outstanding people are, I can control their life and death. And make them commit suicide Compared to, I prefer..."

"Stop talking!" King Lu stood up irritably, "The more you talk, the farther you go!"

"Lezheng, you have to listen." Wen Xuanzhou called King Lu's name affectionately, "Since you want to rebuild the Shenying Camp like your father, how can you ignore these things in the Shenying Camp? Actually listen It sounds disgusting, if you do it yourself, maybe you can get some unspeakable fun..."

"Stop talking, you and I think differently, I'm afraid I'll never understand your fun." King Lu walked a few steps, then turned around and said, "This batch of damaged gold bricks is not many, so it won't be harmful to the Shenying Camp." The construction has a big impact. You let them finish it as soon as possible. Now I have to go to the government in person and ask them to close the brick kiln, and then clean up the traces."

Wen Xuanzhou also got up and followed behind him.

"I heard that the emperor is going to send Prince Qing's son as a pawn to make peace with the Di people?" Wen Xuanzhou asked, "After Prince Qing's son, Boliang will be there."

Chi Yebai had been listening intently, and at this moment his heart moved: Bo Liang is the son of King Lu.

"Actually, Bo Liang is also on that list. But after the envoys of the Di people have seen King Qing's son, they must go there." King Lu's voice suddenly became low, "The two children of King Qing, the older one will come In the past few years, they have defeated Di Ren twelve times in a row on the battlefield, killing countless enemies, and now they have named the younger one and sent them there again, I am afraid... there will be no return."

"What did Prince Qing say?"

"Prince Qing...Prince Qing has fallen ill. Concubine Qing held the coffin of her eldest son and knelt down in the East Palace, begging her grandmother to intercede with the emperor. After kneeling for three days, she was carried back to the palace." King Lu paused. After a pause, he sneered, "I will never let Bo Liang encounter such a thing."

"Three years as a hostage, but Prince Qing's child may not live for three years. Will the Shenying Camp make it in time?"

"It's too late." King Lu's voice was low, like gold and iron, "He also participated in the construction of my father's Condor Eagle Camp back then, and he understood the original intention and function of the Condor Eagle Camp best. Internally and externally, they are all sharp blades. It's just that People at the time didn’t know how to use it.”

Wen Xuanzhou nodded: "As long as you find that money, it will not be difficult to build two more Condor Battalions."

King Lu agreed, "It is true."

The two talked about this issue, but did not go into details, and left the study one after another.

Chi Yebai has been hiding in the corner, listening attentively to the footsteps of the two.He waited until both of them had walked a certain distance before quietly following.

King Lu and Wen Xuanzhou left separately, and Chi Yebai chose to follow Wen Xuanzhou closely. He planned to find out where the new Shenying camp was.

But Wen Xuanzhou did not leave the palace.He walked through the middle door, seemed to think for a while, then turned his head in another direction.Chi Yebai thought about it carefully, his destination was the weapon storeroom of the guards of Prince Lu's Mansion.

Anticipating that he was going to get a self-defense weapon, Chi Yebai carefully hid his figure and waited for Wen Xuanzhou.

Wen Xuanzhou stopped suddenly when he was approaching the weapon storeroom.He listened sideways, then walked to another house next to the warehouse.

"How did you open the dungeon?" He asked the guards outside the house, "Is there a thief?"

The guard immediately straightened his back: "No, it was the people under Wang Hao who made a mistake, and they should be punished one or two times."

Wen Xuanzhou paused, bent down and pulled out a silver-white hairpin from under the attendant's shoe.The hairpin is plain and simple, with only one pearl embedded.

"...You are not the prince's attendant, you belong to the princess. Your mission is to protect the princess, why are you guarding the dungeon?" Wen Xuanzhou asked with a half-smile, "And this, is this hairpin yours? You What are you doing under your feet?"

The guard swallowed: "No, it's not mine."

"It's really not yours." Wen Xuanzhou said softly, "Why don't you tell me why Miss Shuanghua's hairpin from Jinyanchi fell at your feet?"

Chi Yebai was taken aback.The attendant murmured for a long time, and simply gave way: "Mr. Wen, Mr. Wen, let's go in and see by yourself. I... I dare not speak."

Sima Feng took Bian Jiang with him. Because Bian Jiang was injured in his abdomen, he couldn't ride a horse or jolt, so he hugged him with both arms and ran all the way back to Pengyang.Frontier's face was extremely pale due to blood loss. Most of the soldiers who opened the city gate for the two knew Frontier, so they couldn't help but came up to ask.Sima Feng didn't bother to answer at all, just like a gust of wind, he brought Bian Jiang home.

"Gan Lele! Song Beiyan!" He kicked open the door and shouted, "Come out and save people!"

It was Sima and Yingsuo who were talking in the hall who came out.

Yingsuo arrived in Pengyang tonight, Chi Yebai and Sima Feng had just left the city gate and went to Jiutou Mountain, she had already arrived.

She brought three letters from Chi Xingjian, Tian Ku and Lin Shaoyi respectively.

Because Tian Ku and Lin Shaoyi used Yingbeishe's eagles to deliver these Simin letters, Yingsuo simply sent them to Yingbeishe together for insurance, and then brought them over by himself.

The three letters are all about the progress of the investigation.Tian Ku and Shen Qing finally found the whereabouts of the money: they almost searched through the books stored in Jiezilou, and finally found clues in a reward order issued by the imperial court.Back then, the official who was ordered to investigate the Shenying Camp and received a commendation was actually a student of Princess Lu's father.Princess Lu's father was an official in the same dynasty as the old King Lu, but they had different political views and belonged to two factions.After the death of King Lu, the old man also resigned and returned to his hometown. His daughter married King Lu and he died in his hometown.

The problem is that in the accounts submitted to the imperial court by the official who investigated the Shenying Camp incident, that amount of money was missing from the beginning.

When she found this information, it happened that Shen Qing's baby was moving. Tian Ku watched her day and night, and unexpectedly guessed a possibility: the money should be in the hands of King Lu.King Lu cooperated with Wen Xuanzhou, but he did not inform Wen Xuanzhou of the whereabouts of the gold. Instead, he used it as a restraint and asked Wen Xuanzhou to help him.

Tian Ku further guessed: Wen Xuanzhou and King Lu may have half of the same purpose, that is, they both want to obtain all the information about Shenying Ce and Shenying Ying.But after obtaining the information, King Lu's goal was obviously different from Wen Xuanzhou's, so his wife held the unaccounted-for money, but he kept his mouth shut about Wen Xuanzhou.

Sima Liangren was noncommittal.Compared with Tian Ku's guess, the news from Shaoyi League and Ying Beishe is more important.

Lin Shaoyi, Tang Ou and others visited the Jiujiang faction's leader Wang in person, and unexpectedly found that the leader Wang was seriously injured and had been lying in bed for recuperation.After questioning, I found out that the territory that Jiujiang faction and Sanyi gang were competing for has been frequently active recently.Those people have high martial arts skills and neat actions, they don't seem to be reckless in the world.Many disciples of the Jiujiang School were injured, and the land now seems to be in the possession of the Sanyi Gang, but the Sanyi Gang did not manage it, and instead allowed the strangers to come and go frequently.Tang Ou and Shen Guangming went to check and found that apart from a group of strangers with high martial arts skills, there were also many workers living on that site, and it seemed that a village was being built.

Ying Beishe's news and Shaoyi League's news just complemented each other.The spies of Yingbeishe started from the merchant ships, searched for clues from the debris on the bottom of the ship, the conversation of the boatmen, etc., and finally determined that the adobes were indeed loaded on the strange deep-draft ships sailing from the other side of the Yulan River.And they later discovered that some of the bricks fired from Jiutou Mountain would be carefully wrapped and transported to merchant ships in the name of cloth, porcelain, etc., and then returned to the other side by merchant ships.The debris pulled out from the bottom of the cabin was quickly returned to Chi Xingjian. Chi Xingjian immediately recognized that these secretly baked and transported bricks were not ordinary red bricks, but gold bricks used by the emperor.

The soil at the junction of Jiujiang School and Sanyi Gang is highly viscous and suitable for firing bricks. It is very similar to the soil around Yuyao Village in Suzhou.So the mud was made into adobes, which were transported to the Jiutoushan brick kiln for firing, and then returned to the original site after firing.

Chi Xingjian did not explain some things in the letter, but asked Yingsuo to tell Sima Liangren.

"The Jiutou Mountain brick kiln was built under the auspices of King Lu, who was involved in this matter from the beginning to the end. They were so cautious because they were afraid of burning bricks in the mountain and attracting suspicion from the villagers. But as the bricks were fired successfully , must be put into use, in order to ensure that no one finds out, King Lu will definitely clean up the surrounding villages and towns." Yingsuo quoted Chi Xingjian's words, "It was the same when King Lu built the Eagle Camp next to the imperial city. "

Sima Liangren frowned and was thinking, when he heard his son screaming outside, he rushed out with Yingsuo.

Bianjiang was sent to Gan Lele's small yard. Gan Lele came out to take a look, and almost fell to the ground: "Why send a dead man here!"

"Not dead!" Sima Feng grabbed Bian Jiang's neck, "You're still alive!"

"You're going to crush him to death!" Sima Liang said angrily.

Gan Lele and Song Beiyan quickly took out the tools to stop the bleeding on the frontier.Bian Jiang had fallen into a coma, and Gan Lele didn't even wake up after slapping him a few times.

"No, I'm not sure." Gan Yue turned his head and said, "Call the doctor! Ah Si! Go find the doctor!"

"No!" Sima Feng said quickly, "Bianjiang was injured at the Jiutou Mountain brick kiln. He discovered the secret of the brick kiln..."

"He'll die without a doctor! Call a reliable doctor!" Gan Yue yelled angrily.

In the midst of the commotion, Ah Si raised his voice: "I'll go to the doctor right now!"

He turned around and ran out of the yard, just in time to collide with a person passing by the wall.

"Si, it's me."

Ah Si caught the uninvited guest, took a closer look, and immediately recognized that it was a spy from Ying Beishe.

"What's the matter?" He felt uneasy, thinking that the place Ying Beishe is monitoring now is Jinyan Pond, Prince Lu's Mansion and his own home, and asked quickly, "Did something happen to King Lu's Mansion or Jinyan Pond?"

"Is Young Master Sima here?" the spy asked him, "Our head has something important to tell him."

Ah Si hurriedly brought the spies to Gan Lele's yard.Gan Lele and Song Beiyan were busy in the room, while Sima Feng, Sima Liangren and Yingsuo were all standing in the yard.The spy spoke quickly, and told all the things that Chi Yebai had told him in one breath, and he didn't forget to add the sentence about Shuanghua at the end.

Ah Si, who came to the gate of the courtyard, turned around immediately, and rushed to him: "Shuanghua?!"

"Miss Shuanghua is currently in Prince Lu's mansion, and the family thinks she is in danger." The spies repeated.

Sima Feng and Sima Liangren glanced at each other quickly, Sima Liangren nodded: "You go."

"Okay." Sima Feng turned around and ran out of the yard.

Ying Suo heard that Chi Yebai was the only one in Lu Wang's mansion, so he couldn't stay anymore, and followed Sima Feng to leave.

Ah Si hesitated for a moment, then ran to the door and called Song Beiyan out: "Xiao Song, I'm going to the Lu Palace with the young master now, you go and call the doctor."

He hastily told Song Beiyan the address of the reliable doctor, and ran out too.Sima Liangren did not stay in the courtyard, he walked back to the study and called out his confidant guards.

"You immediately take a team of elites out of the city overnight with tokens, so you don't have to worry about being discovered." He urged, "Rush to General Qu's mansion as quickly as possible, no matter what the people in the mansion say, and don't care about Qu Yongchang's attitude, You must protect your wife and Miss Shuangtong. Protect them in the Qu Mansion first, and don’t come back... Anyway, if there is no summons from my side, you must not come back. You can talk to Chi Xingjian through the spies from Ying Beishe. Contact Xia, you all know the password."

Those guards took orders.

Sima Liangren went back to his room, changed his clothes, and went out to lead the horse.

The butler knew that many things had happened at home, and although he didn't understand what was going on, he was still worried. "Master, where is this going?"

"Go to the government." Sima Liang got on his horse, looked ahead and said, "Go to see our official in Pengyang."

"Is there another case?" said the housekeeper, "The young master left in such a hurry just now, to save someone?"

"Well, he's going to save others." Sima and the two laughed, "I'm going to save our own family."

Wen Xuanzhou gently twirled the hairpin in his fingers, and walked down the stairs of the dungeon step by step.

Almost all palaces have such a dungeon.Disobedient servants, disobedient wives, disobedient anyone can enter this dungeon.The dungeon of King Lu's Mansion was rarely used by anyone, but every prisoner who entered here had no chance to get out.

The person guarding the door is Princess Lu's attendant, so Shuanghua offended Princess Lu.

But King Lu didn't invite Shuanghua today, the reason why she appeared here should be Princess Lu who invited her here directly.

Wen Xuanzhou thought of Princess Lu who came in with tea when he and King Lu were discussing things in the study today.

Concubine Lu and King Lu have known each other since childhood, and they have a deep and affectionate relationship—at least on the surface, it seems that they are deeply affectionate.Although Wen Xuanzhou felt that King Lu's respect and fear for the concubine might be far more than affection, although Wen Xuanzhou didn't know where these respect and fear came from, but it should be related to the various interests behind the royal family.

He has no interest in the things behind that woman, and naturally he will not explore.

Today in the room, when he talked to King Lu about the needle in Shuanghua's head, King Lu was very angry, and Princess Lu happened to pass by the corridor.

Wen Xuanzhou has never experienced the relationship between a man and a woman, but he knows the negative feelings of jealousy and resentment very well.Concubine Lu heard those words without end, and most likely thought that King Lu had a different feeling for Shuanghua, so she objected to Wen Xuanzhou's approaching Shuanghua.

Shuanghua is deeply loved by King Lu, which is known to many people.King Lu does not take concubines, this is something that many people know.

But Shuanghua is a fireworks woman, even if she has no status, it is very common for her to have a good time with a man.

When he reached the bottom of the dungeon, Wen Xuanzhou had probably guessed the reason why Shuanghua appeared here.

The dungeon is not big, there are only four cells, and now only the last cell has lights and voices.Wen Xuanzhou didn't hear the woman's voice, and he didn't know why until he got closer.

Shuanghua was thrown on the ground with his limbs bound, and his mouth was stuffed, so he couldn't make any sound.

There were several men standing in the cell, and two of them had already taken off their shirts.Seeing Wen Xuanzhou walk in, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, but still said "Mr. Wen" respectfully as much as possible.

"It's okay." Wen Xuanzhou waved his hand, "I won't disturb your play."

When Shuanghua saw such an elegant scribe walking in, her eyes were pleading, but Wen Xuanzhou's words did not leave her with any hope.

"Before you play, I want to ask this girl a few things." Wen Xuanzhou knelt down beside Shuanghua.

The men obediently left the cell, leaving only Wen Xuanzhou and Shuanghua inside.

Wen Xuanzhou took out the piece of cloth stuffed in Shuanghua's mouth, and Shuanghua begged him immediately: "Sir... sir, help me! I am not from the palace, I was tricked by the princess."

"How did she lie to you?"

"She said, she said that the prince invited me to play the piano, but I didn't even see the prince's face, so the princess brought me here." Shuanghua said repeatedly, "I don't know anything, and I don't know anything. I know what happened. The princess hit me with a vase, but I really didn't do anything to her, I didn't..."

Wen Xuanzhou quietly listened to her.He used to listen to Shuanghua playing the piano from afar, and only had a brief exchange with her last time.But at this moment he discovered that this girl was not an ordinary person.

Her forehead and hair were covered with blood, presumably the injury was caused by the princess smashing the vase.The people surrounding the cell just now obviously wanted to rape her.But she didn't panic, nor was she afraid. She knew how to call for help when she saw herself, and she spoke clearly and without confusion.

Wen Xuanzhou suddenly remembered something.

For example, Shuanghua and Sima Feng have a very good relationship. For example, Shuanghua can come and go freely in most of the courtyard of the palace. For example, she and Sima Liang had a dispute at the princess's birthday banquet.

Suddenly, an inexplicable uneasiness welled up in his heart, as if shrouded in a thick fog, he could only see a vague outline.

Wen Xuanzhou nodded, and leaned over to help Shuanghua sit up.

"Miss Shuanghua, do you remember me?" he asked.

Shuanghua was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "I haven't seen you before. Are you the... steward of the palace?"

Wen Xuanzhou nodded again: "You're right if you didn't see me."

He stroked Shuanghua's hair tenderly with gestures, and moved his palm behind her head.In this dilapidated, dirty, and smelly prison cell, Wen Xuanzhou's sudden gentleness made Shuanghua show an extremely vigilant look.

However, in the next moment, she was knocked down by the sharp pain from the back of her head, and let out a scream.

The cry was too sudden and unpleasant, and it startled the men waiting outside the cell.

"Mr. Wen!"

"It's okay, I'm asking about something." Wen Xuanzhou said.

The pain was gone in an instant.He just used his internal force to move the needle in Shuanghua's head, and let the needle pull the flesh and veins and turn it around.

Shuanghua's face was full of tears, trembling all over, looking at Wen Xuanzhou, he couldn't speak anymore.

"Next, you can answer whatever I ask, okay?" Wen Xuanzhou said softly, "It really hurts, poor."

His hand was still on the back of Shuanghua's head, dragging her limp neck.Shuanghua didn't dare to move. Although the severe pain just now had disappeared, the pain seemed to be deeply embedded in the flesh and blood, making every bone in her body tremble.

"Who are you from Sima Feng?"

Shuanghua remained silent, tears kept streaming down her face, and her pale lips trembled.

Wen Xuanzhou frowned and said with a smile, "Hey, you are not good."

He moved his fingers lightly, and pinched Shuanghua's neck with his other hand.

The severe pain hit again, just like before, and it seemed to be more fierce than before.Shuanghua was shaking violently in his hands, but she couldn't make a sound. She was completely restrained by Wen Xuanzhou.The pain at this moment seemed extremely long, and when Wen Xuanzhou slowly let go of the hand that was pinching her neck, Shuanghua kept twitching, and made a barely audible sound from his mouth: "He is... he... I The...guest..."

"Just a guest?" Wen Xuanzhou said in a low voice, "Didn't make a private life? He didn't make any promises to you? Sima Feng is not a fun thing. He and Chi Yebai are on good terms, and he is still pestering you, don't you?" Angry? You are no better than a man."

Shuanghua's tears were streaming down her face. Her ears were actually buzzing. She didn't hear what Wen Xuanzhou said clearly. She only knew that he was asking about Sima Feng.It was impossible for her to say, so she shook her head desperately.

Wen Xuanzhou then changed the way of asking: "He went to find you, what are you talking about?"

"Talking...chatting the piano, he, he likes me...my song..." Shuanghua cried out, "I don't know anything...Master...please...I don't know..."

Wen Xuanzhou also felt a little distressed.This girl is so good-looking, much more beautiful than Princess Lu when she was young. King Lu really likes her.I don't know if King Lu will be sad if he tortures people to death?While Wen Xuanzhou was thinking in his heart, he activated his internal force again, allowing the thin needle to continue to drill a little deeper.

Shuanghua fainted immediately.But he woke up immediately.

"Master Wen doesn't believe you." Wen Xuanzhou said with a smile, "I'm sorry Miss Shuanghua, I don't want to use this method, but I have to dig out some things about Sima Feng from you. I won't deal with him. He doesn't deal with good friends."

When Shuanghua woke up again, her eyes were blank, and tears were still flowing in her eyes, but she didn't cry or beg.

Wen Xuanzhou asked softly: "Come on, Shuanghua, tell me, are you Sima Feng's spy?"

"No..." Shuang Hua said in a hoarse voice, her voice was flat and without any ups and downs, "I'm not from the young master."

Wen Xuanzhou didn't expect that he was wrong, and he was a little annoyed and regretful for a while.The needle went deep into this place, even if it was pulled out, Shuanghua would definitely be different from before.She will lose part of her memory, and she will have to learn many things from scratch, even speaking...

"You two really only play the piano and chat?" Wen Xuanzhou shook his head, and was about to put Shuanghua down when he heard Shuanghua speak again.

"The young master will bring me the master's letter, not only playing the piano and chatting."

Wen Xuanzhou was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately grabbed Shuanghua's neck.His heart was beating wildly, and the thick fog covering him was quickly dissipating.

"You are Sima Liangren's spy?!"

Shuanghua didn't look at him, only to be oppressed