General, he's cheating again

The gentle wind blowing on his face in spring could not soothe the look of panic and consternation on this man's face.

The butler of the Tiju Mansion stared wide-eyed at the bedroom that had been swept away in front of him, as if he had been petrified, unable to say a word for a long time.

The faces of the two boys in civilian clothes were covered with bruises, which were caused by Fang Fang and the others stumbling towards the wooden door of the bedroom without paying attention to the steps they were stepping on while fighting in the yard.

It’s just that it’s a trivial matter to have paint on their faces. When they looked up and found that the bedroom behind the wooden door was in a mess, and all the rare objects, gold and silver equipment that were placed on weekdays were all gone, they felt that their souls were about to be frightened. .

One of the servants looked up at the butler's expression carefully, thinking that the butler was frightened, he knew very well that the butler was a mean and difficult character.So a clever idea flashed in his mind, and he ran out of the courtyard regardless of his legs being weak and his feet fluttering. While running, he shouted, "It's not good! The house has been attacked by thieves!"

The young man rushed to Gu Zhen's courtyard as soon as he left the courtyard, thinking in his heart that Gu Zhen is a high-ranking official from Beijing, so he would definitely be able to find out the truth of this matter.

The boy ran around the mansion for about half a circle, and the news of the robbers in the mansion has spread.

When the boy ran to the courtyard of the Beijing official, he took a deep breath, covered the wound on his face, and rushed into the courtyard.

At this time, Gu Zhen was holding a bowl of ginseng soup and was standing on the porch drinking, when suddenly he saw a gray thing slipping in from the gate of the courtyard, "squeaked" and knelt down on the cobbled path, almost choking in shock Good or bad.

The phoenix eyes lightly glanced at the boy who was trying to squeeze tears at the moment, Gu Zhen frowned slightly, and said in a cold voice: "Get up and talk first, what's the matter?"

"Yes... yes, my lord."

Not daring to look at Gu Zhen, the boy kept his head down and showed bitterness when he spoke, "My lord, there has been a thief in the house! Our master always likes to keep some rare playthings in the bedroom. The little one went into the master's room to clean it yesterday. Those things were fine back then, but today those treasures are all gone!

The little boy looked at the butler as if he was frightened, and he was afraid that if the housekeeper didn't find out what was wrong, he would blame the little boy for this matter. If this is the case, you must make the decision for the little boy!Little injustice! "

While speaking, he secretly wept, and when he finally got dim eyes, he raised his head and took a direct look at Gu Zhen, and the tears that Fang Fang squeezed out were frightened back.

Hearing this, he felt that troublesome things were happening again and again, Gu Zhen rubbed his brows lightly and said lightly: "Understood, let me take the general to have a look."

Hearing what Gu Zhen said, the servant felt relieved, what he was most afraid of was that the housekeeper would unknowingly pull him to be a scapegoat in the end.

In a daze, he saw a one-eyed guard appearing behind Gu Zhen in the blink of an eye. After being frightened, he thought that this person was also among them when they entered the mansion, so he didn't think about it anymore and agreed to take the two of them to Han Zhaocen's bedroom. .

When the three of them arrived, Qin Qingrong and the others in the bedroom were already present, and the other boy who was kneeling in the courtyard and fighting with him just now was being scolded by the housekeeper.

Seeing someone coming, the steward glanced at the skinny servant who was huddled behind Gu Zhen. He pointed at the gray thing and trembled all over. He gritted his teeth and cursed, "You bastard! You want to steal something if you want to steal it!" Escape! See if I don't skin you, so I can give the master an explanation!"

His face turned pale from fright, and the servant looked at Gu Zhen in front of him to settle his mind, and from nowhere, a burst of anger gushed out so that he could stretch his neck and yell back at the housekeeper, "Don't spit blood! The life of the slave It's also fate, now I have invited the official to come over to find out the truth, and you can't say that I did it before the results come out!

You want to prevaricate this matter with me, you have a good idea!no way! "

The butler blushed furiously, but he looked around and saw that there were some high-ranking officials higher than his lord, so he could only hold his breath and shut his mouth first.

Inside the house, Ye Ru'an saw Gu Zhen walking in and took Qin Qingrong to the bedroom to check.

Gu Zhen noticed that Ye Ruan did it on purpose, but he didn't take it seriously. He looked at Han Zhaocen's bedroom carefully, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the decoration is really good. Just looking at the area, Han Zhaocen's bedroom is three times that of an ordinary room. many.

Since Ye Ruan deliberately went to the left, Gu Zhen and Leng Ji went to the right.

Lifting up the beaded curtain, Gu Zhen discovered that behind the curtain were three or five wooden shelves for displaying antiques. There was nothing left on the shelves at the moment, only a few worthless trinkets, lonely and crooked. Falling to the ground scattered among them.

His eyes fixed on a blue-glazed vase standing on a wooden stand, Gu Zhen approached it with his hands behind his back and looked it over carefully, but he couldn't lift it when he reached out.Changing his thinking angle, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and he turned the vase slightly to the right with his slender fingers, only to see that the wall behind him with the bookcase as the background moved away.

Leng Ji stared at the secret passage behind the wall in front of him, and couldn't help being slightly stunned, then asked Gu Zhen humbly for advice: "How did the general find out?"

"Don't you find it strange?"

Gu Zhen glanced around as if he had been ransacked, and pointed at the vase beside him with a calm expression, "This room is in a mess, but this vase is still neatly placed on the wooden shelf, and you can tell what kind of mechanism it is just by guessing it." .”

Everyone heard the movement in the East Chamber and came to check it out. The butler was surprised when the tunnel came into his eyes. It was the first time he found a secret tunnel in the mansion after living in the Tiju mansion for many years.

Staring at the secret path in front of him with a trace of murderous look, Gu Zhen snorted coldly, "It's really ridiculous, what happened to the thief, it's clear that Han Zhaocen took his treasure and ran away."

"Housekeeper, do you know where Mr. Han's private house is?"

Whether Han Zhaocen absconded in fear of crime is insufficient evidence at this moment.But Qin Qingrong was sure that if Han Zhaocen really planned to escape from Tanzhou, he would definitely bring his family with him.

"If you go back to the adults, the master's mansion is in the west of the city. If the adults need it, the old slave can take the adults there."

When the housekeeper replied, cold sweat broke out down his spine. Today he was frightened one after another, but now seeing the truth about to surface, he was on the verge of despair.

If my master really committed a felony and absconded in fear of crime, when the group of officials return to Beijing to return to life in the next day, the emperor will probably sentence the master to a serious crime of ransacking and beheading if he blames him.

Although he is the steward of Tiju Mansion and is only responsible for taking care of every Tiju envoy and has nothing to do with the Han family, but he still has lingering fears.

After getting the housekeeper's answer, Qin Qingrong planned to confirm it, but when he left the house, he found that Gu Zhen was still standing there, as if he didn't want to go with them, and he couldn't help but stop. He looked at Gu Zhen's back with hesitation.

Ye Ru'an noticed that Qin Qingrong had been silently watching Gu Zhen, and felt angry and jealous.

Standing in front of Qin Qingrong, Ye Ru'an curved her lips and said with a smile, "Qingrong, why are you still standing there? Aren't we going to the Han Mansion for investigation?"

Hearing this, Qin Qingrong smiled and nodded, "Okay, then let's go."

After everyone had left, there were only two young servants and Gu Zhen Lengji who were paralyzed on the ground in fright.

Leng Ji saw that everyone else had left, but his own general didn't know what he was thinking and didn't intend to leave, so he became confused.

"General, shall we go?"

Leng Ji lowered his head and asked.

"Didn't you find that there are people who don't want me to go with them?" Gu Zhen sighed lightly, with a relieved look on his face, "Forget it, he is just such a good friend.

After leaving Lengji, he went into the tunnel to have a look. "

he?who is he?

Leng Ji tilted his head slightly, and now his mind was even more clouded, thinking that he could not understand his general more and more.

This secret passage was built very long, and the two walked for a long time without seeing the bottom. When they walked to the exit, they found that they were already near the ferry.

"General, it seems that Han Zhaocen is indeed absconding." Leng Ji said worriedly: "I'm afraid he has gone away by boat at this moment."

"Tsk, what a hassle."

Gu Zhen's eyes were deep, and he clenched his hands behind his back, "Do you still remember someone went to see Yu Duochen in the dungeon yesterday?"

"Remember." Hearing this, Leng Ji groaned in his heart, and after thinking for a moment, he said clearly: "The general meant that this person is probably Han Tiju's envoy."

"Shouldn't you know if you ask?"

Gu Zhen's eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of his lips raised slightly, "I think Yu Duo is going to be hungry and crazy when he sinks in the dungeon, so I'll reward him with a chicken leg."

After a while, Yu Duochen, who was half asleep and half awake lying in the haystack, could vaguely smell the smell of meat, and opened his eyes involuntarily.

But when he opened his eyes, he was startled.

Yu Duochen was more scared when he saw Gu Zhen than when he saw black and white impermanence coming to him to ask for his life, and the first sentence Gu Zhen uttered made his heart jump even more.

"Master Yu, do you know that you made a mistake."

Slightly narrowing his phoenix eyes, Gu Zhen's tone contained danger, "The general asked you, what did you say to Han Zhaocen yesterday?"

"You, cough cough!" Yu Duochen was startled and sat up, choking his throat with saliva. He stroked his chest and looked up at Gu Zhen, "Aren't you in Tiju Mansion? How do you know he came to see me?" ?”

"Never mind that."

Gu Zhen sniffed the chicken leg in his hand, knelt down and passed it in front of Yu Duochen, his evil eyes were full of temptation, but the words uttered from his thin lips were tinged with threats, "Being lenient when you confess, and being strict when you resist is the ideal of an adult." I still understand.

If Mr. Yu cooperates, this chicken leg is specially brought by this general to reward Mr. Yu.

But if you don't cooperate, this general will chop off one of your legs and roast it on the fire in this prison cell.

Anyway, what the emperor cares about is the result. As long as the case is handled properly, if the general wants to kill any death row prisoner along the way, it should be fine to say that he died of illness.

Of course, there is another situation, if Mr. Yu dares to play tricks with this general, such as concealing the facts or lying. "

Gu Zhen pursed his lips into a smile, and a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes, "Master Yu, you must believe that this general will make you die a miserable death."