The predecessor who was scumbag by me was the emperor

Shen Jia originally thought that he had to bend down all the way to walk through the secret passage, but after entering, he found that only the exit was half the height of a person, and after a few steps, there was a passage that could accommodate two grown men walking side by side. Exudes an unpleasant smell.

"This well should be just one of the exits. My subordinates have investigated it. This house was left by the owner's ancestors. It was rebuilt decades ago. The well in the backyard has been abandoned because there is no water. I don't know that there is a secret below. road.

Going a few hundred meters further, there are two forks, one to the southwest and the other to the southeast. Both passages are blocked, and I don't know where the specific exit is. "

The group soon reached the fork, and Zhao Zhang asked Shen Jia, "Which way?"

Shen Jia casually pointed to the passage on the right, and the group of people moved to the right. After walking a few steps, they saw a small secret room. The stone door of the secret room was half open, and the stench that made people want to vomit came out from inside. of.

Lu Baihu stood in front of the door and said: "I checked inside and found eleven corpses in total. They were big and small, and they were old. I can't verify their identities. Judging from the scene, they should have been tied up and starved to death." of."

Shen Jia took out a handkerchief for Zhao Zhang to cover his mouth and nose, and he tied one himself, then slipped in through the crack of the door.

It was too late for Lu Baihu to stop him, he really didn't know what Master Shen was doing to drag the emperor to such a dirty place.

The light illuminated the secret room, the bones had been carried away, and the valuables had been cleaned up, leaving only a smelly room and scattered unidentifiable objects.

Shen Jia asked the guards to take a sword, and used the point of the sword to scratch the ground a few times, and saw insect corpses and some scattered bones, which should be some kind of small animal.

There is no furniture in the secret room, it looks like it was cut out temporarily, it is hard to make a stone door, and I don't know who was hiding here at the beginning.

Shen Jia thought of the boy he rescued halfway just now, and asked Lu Baihu: "Is it possible that this is a place where some organization trafficked Tibetans? If the human traffickers hid people here, they would not be able to find them anywhere in Chang'an."

Lu Baihu nodded: "Master Cao also speculated, but for some reason the last group of people were not sent away but died here. Later we thought, these people could not have come in from the dry well above, there must be other Exit, and then walk along the passage, but unfortunately the road collapsed."

"Can you dig through?"

"It hasn't been excavated yet, what instructions does the Lord have?"

Zhao Zhang was looking down at something in the corner, and waved to Shen Jia, "Come and see, does this pattern look like a duckling?"

Shen Jia walked over and wiped off the mud and sand on the wall. Seeing that the pattern on the wall was scraped by a sharp tool, it really looked like a duckling, and it was drawn by a child. I don't know what the child thought at that time.

Lu Baihu hadn't paid attention to the corner of the wall before, because the location was too low, so they ignored it. Now they searched along the corner and found patterns in several places, including two characters with missing strokes.

After trying hard to identify it, Shen Jia felt that it was most likely the word "help", but unfortunately, in such a dark corner, every day should not be called well, and no one came to rescue.

Zhao Zhang walked out and ordered in a cold voice: "After the inspection, let someone fill in all the places here, and seal all the exits!"

Lu Baihu responded, and when the group of people walked out, Shen Jia stepped on something and made a clear cracking sound. He moved his foot away, lowered his head and picked up the fragments on the ground. It turned out to be a small jade pendant, because the surface was stained There is no difference between soil and stone.

He wiped the surface with a handkerchief and found that the quality of the jade was actually quite good, so he knelt down and picked up the other half, and put them together to form a jade pendant carved with double fishes.

"It looks like something worn by a woman, and her family background should be good." Zhao Zhang glanced at it, frowning slightly.

He was very unhappy that there was such a place where there was such a place of filth under the emperor's feet.

"Look, there is a word on the back, it's the word "Zhu", right?" Shen Jia handed the jade pendant over.

An older Xiaoqi in Jinyiwei suddenly said: "My subordinates remember that about twenty years ago, the Ning'an Hou Mansion was surnamed Zhu, and once lost their family's favorite jewel, and there was a lot of trouble at that time. , Even Jin Yiwei sent out to look for someone, but found nothing, and in the end, rumors spread from somewhere that Miss Zhu's family had eloped with a poor scholar, and there has been no news since then."

"Marquis of Ning'an..." Zhao Zhang thought for a while before he dug this character out of his memory. It was the fallen Marquis Mansion, the last generation of the Marquis, who seemed to be at odds with the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion.

"Let Cao Ruiwen check after you go out."

Lu Baihu promised to take the evidence and put it away. A group of people walked out, and then went to the passage on the other side, but there was no secret room here, but the bones were found at the end of the passage. It is said that they were two The woman probably escaped from the secret room but found the wrong way.

"Listen, there seems to be a voice from above." Shen Jia said suddenly.

Everyone held their breath, and then heard a sound similar to digging, one after another, especially infiltrating people in the middle of the night.

Shen Jia lowered her voice and asked, "What's up here?"

Lu Baihu opened the drawing, sent it to Shen Jia, and said, "We should be in this position now, and there should be houses on it."

Who's digging in the middle of the night?You can't hear the voice of the above in the secret passage, and even the voice is not very clear, if it is not at night, you will not notice it at all.

However, there are quite a lot of people digging at home in Chang'an City recently, and everyone can't control this, so they turned around and walked out, but when everyone turned around, the soil on the top suddenly loosened, Zhao Zhang walked in the middle, and was the first to respond Come over, grab Shen Jia and run forward, a piece of soil fell from the sky, smashing the Jin Yiwei behind him.

"Ouch, what's going on?"

"Protect the Emperor!"

"There are assassins!" Several chaotic voices sounded, Shen Jia was held in Zhao Zhang's arms, unable to lift his head, and soon heard the sound of weapons colliding and several screams.

Not long after, Lu Baihu came over and said, "Master, everyone is subdued, and the situation is a little delicate."

Shen Jia pushed Zhao Zhang away, turned around and looked up, and saw the big hole above the secret passage.

"What's going on?" Zhao Zhang's face was as dark as water, and anyone who was buried suddenly in the middle of the night would be terrified.

At this time, Jin Yiwei, who was suppressed by the earthwork, was also rescued. Directly above, two big men were pinned down by the guards and could not move. stick out.

"Someone? Alive...alive?"

Someone stepped forward and opened the straw mat with the tip of a knife, revealing the "corpse" wrapped inside. The man was wearing a white brocade robe, and he closed his eyes and groaned, obviously not holding his breath yet.

"Is this going to bury people alive?" Even Lu Baihu was stunned. Such a thing is not unusual, but if these two happened to run into each other, they could only say that they were unlucky.

"Go, go up!" Zhao Zhang ordered, and then guards climbed up to the top, followed by Shen Jia, and after standing still, they realized that they were in the back garden of a certain house.

The "corpse" was also carried up, and when the light came on, someone gasped and turned their eyes to Shen Jia with a look of surprise.

Zhao Zhang pushed the man away and walked forward. When he saw the man's face clearly, his brows were tense, and his anger poured into his chest, "See what's going on with him, if he can talk!"

Shen Jia also saw that most people are the least intuitive about their own appearance, but from the perspective of outsiders, the one lying on the ground and the one standing on the ground look very much like brothers, and people will definitely believe that they are a family.

Shen Jia felt trembling in her heart, "What... what happened today? Why do you find people who look similar to me one after another? Could it be that my face is the face of the public?"

It wouldn't be very similar, but for some reason, even the clothes and hairstyle of that person were similar to Shen Jia's daily attire, and the somewhat similar face increased the similarity a few degrees.

"Come on, go to Shuntian Mansion and bring back the boy who was sent tonight!" Zhao Zhang is not stupid. Two such people appeared on the same day and were victimized at the same time. Who would believe that there is no problem?

After checking the lying person, Lu Baihu got up and said, "Return to the emperor, this person's neck was injured, as if he was strangled by someone with a belt, but I don't know if the other party was not strong enough or did not kill him on purpose. Tone, with this injury, I'm afraid I won't be able to speak for a few days."

"Take them back, find the imperial doctor to treat them, and..." His eyes fell on the man who was subdued on the other side, his eyes were dark, "Take these two people to Zhao Prison, let Ling Jingyun interrogate him personally, I am waiting for the answer!"

After he finished speaking, he didn't even bother to look at the secret passage. He held Shen Jia's hand, only to find that his hand was very cold and his face was pale, as if he had been frightened.

He took the cloak handed over by the guard and wrapped it around Shen Jia, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, there will always be an investigation to find out the truth."

When something like this happened, Jin Yiwei guarded Zhao Zhang back to Shen Mansion every step of the way. Although they didn't know why the emperor went to Shen Mansion at night, Jin Yiwei was the emperor's personal force and absolutely obeyed him.

The two of them didn't sleep well that night, and when they went to court the next morning, Shen Jia was already in the front of the Jinluan Hall, but she was not in the mood to listen to what was said around her, her head was in a daze and her nose was blocked Yes, I'm afraid I caught a cold last night.

After the court was over, Zhao Zhang asked Shen Jia to stay, and the two waited for the result in the imperial study, with a dignified atmosphere.

Shen Jia even drank a few glasses of water, his head was heavy, and he didn't even hear Zhao Zhang calling him a few times.

"What's going on?" Zhao Zhang walked up to him, stretched out his hand to touch his forehead, paused, and pressed his cheek to it uncertainly, only then did he realize that Shen Jia's temperature was higher than usual.

"Come on, pass the imperial doctor!"

As soon as the imperial hospital was summoned, several old imperial physicians came to take Mr. Shen's pulse in turn, and they came to a consistent conclusion: "Master Shen has a cold and has a fever."

Shen Jia sat on the soft chair, felt her throat dry when she opened her mouth, coughed twice and said, "It's all right, please make a bowl of brown sugar ginger tea, it's just a little cold, no need to take medicine."

All the imperial physicians rushed to see the emperor, who nodded, and they left.

Soon, Manager Du came in with ginger tea himself, and Zhao Zhang reached out to take it, and blew it cold spoonful by spoonful for him to drink.

Shen Jia rolled her eyes, snatched the bowl in his hand, blew it and put it in her mouth, and said disgustedly after she finished drinking, "Do you know that ginger tea is only useful if you drink it hot?"

"Aren't I afraid that you will be burned?" The emperor said aggrievedly, after waiting for a while, he couldn't help touching his head and his hands, and found that his body temperature hadn't dropped.

"You should ask the imperial physician to prescribe medicine. What's the use of drinking this alone?"

"It's a three-point medicine, it's just a little cold." Shen Jia felt that it was fine, there was no need to take medicine for a normal cold, and it could be overcome by relying on her own immunity.

Compared with drinking traditional Chinese medicine, he still prefers to take western medicine. Three bowls of traditional Chinese medicine a day are bitter and smelly, and he can't even eat after drinking.

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