Pingzhuang, who was chasing Chongfeng out of the city, finally found Chongfeng at the gathering place of the officials outside the city. When they were found, Chongfeng was digging the ground with his hooves, leisurely chewing on the weeds on the roadside.

As for the two riding heavy winds out of the city, they were gone.

"Where are those two?" He looked around and asked the people around him.

The official who had passed by hurriedly said, "Brother Ping, who do you mean?"

Ping Zhuang said: "Who else can you? Lord Qiao and Master Zhang Tian!"

"Zhang Tianshi followed Lord Xu to the Guandao to find someone. Lord Qiao returned to the city and went to the Xie family." Guanchao said, then looked at the sky gradually getting darker and said, "If Brother Ping is tired, please go back to Dali Temple to wait for news!"

It is not a business matter to find Lord Xie, but it is actually a voluntary act. The old men from Dali Temple are fine. Brother Ruping, who had just arrived for a few days, may not have even spoken to Lord Xie. There is really no need to force him to find him with them.

Pingzhuang said oh, turned around and turned his horse, turned his head and walked towards the city.

What he had to do was follow Lord Qiao closely. Since Lord Qiao had gone to the Xie family, he would go too. The man's intuition told him that Master Zhang Tian was a little disliked, so when Master Zhang was not with Lord Qiao, he would do what he could learn best.

As for the Xie family, there are many people who know about Chang'an City, and he is no exception. He knows where the Xie family is without anyone else's guidance.

When returning from the Xicheng Gate to the Xie family, you have to pass through Dali Temple, and naturally you will also pass through the Nanji Shop not far from Dali Temple. When Pingzhuang was riding a horse by Nanji Shop, you were seeing Tang Zhongyuan and two officials bringing out the uncle and aunt of the two little flowers who did not show up from the Nanji Shop.

Several passers-by were watching the fun on the roadside.

Seeing this, he instinctively "please" him, grabbed Chongfeng, then turned over and dismounted, walked up and shouted "Tang Zhongyuan".

Seeing that it was him, Tang Zhongyuan replied to him, then raised his hand and sternly said: "Take it away!"

Pingzhuang looked at Uncle and Aunt Xiao Hua who was taken away curiously, and couldn't help but pull Tang Zhongyuan aside and asked in a low voice: "Didn't you say don't alert the snake? Do you want to suddenly arrest these two people and say something to Lord Qiao?"

Tang Zhongyuan said: "This is Lord Qiao's order. She said that the situation has changed and these two people cannot be let go." At this point, Tang Zhongyuan simply pulled him into the neatly arranged Nanji Shop, and then pointed to the two bags placed on the table and said, "If you come one step later, these two people will run away."

Pingzhuang suddenly became confused: "Why can't I understand? Didn't I say that I was catching Xiaohua to test Xiaohua's uncle and aunt? Why did Lord Xie disappear in less than a day, and suddenly arrest someone or something?"

Seeing this, Tang Zhongyuan sighed, reached out and patted his shoulder, comforted him, "Brother Ping will get used to it in the future. Lord Qiao has always been like this. Unexpectedly, it is not only the military formation on the battlefield, but also the orders of Lord Qiao are changing rapidly."

Pingzhuang was stunned for a while before slowly looking at the two people who were dejected outside, with a dazed look: "When did she give the order? Are you not looking for Lord Xie?"

"Mr. Xie is looking for it, and these two people will be arrested," said Tang Zhongyuan. "Mr. Qiao said that if Xiaohua vomits blood, if it is directly related to Master Xie, then these two people must be caused by information and we cannot forget these two people because of chaos."

In fact, Lord Qiao said a lot.

"If the poison of Xiaohua Gu was induced is a sign that the other party was preparing to stop and retreat, then the personnel of all parties involved would definitely go out of the city while the chaos was in chaos. At this time, you must not be confused. Don't forget the two of Nanji Shop." He still remembered that when he said this, Lord Qiao looked solemn, "The incident happened suddenly. I caught Xiaohua in the morning, and Xie Chengze appeared at noon. Then if the two Nanji Shop wanted to leave the city quickly, they would definitely not go home to clean up anything, but left directly from the shop. You go directly to the shop to catch people. Don't talk too much when you meet those two people, just take the people away."

In fact, everyone was in chaos at that time, only Lord Qiao was not in chaos from beginning to end.

Tang Zhongyuan thought to himself: Although he has been following Lord Qiao, at this point, even though he caught Xiaohua's uncle and aunt, he was still confused. However, Lord Qiao should explain later.

Pingzhuang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly turned over and ran towards the direction of the Xie family mansion.

Uncle Jiu is right. He has learned a lot of things with this Lord Qiao. He can't even understand what she is going to do if she is confused.

...

The twilight approaching the evening covered the girl's calm expression, and her eyes were shining brightly among the lights on the Xie family.

The Xie family was not as panicked as she imagined. Even when she entered the door, the manager had already been waiting in the doorman. On the way to Xie Chengze's yard, he met a maid walking with food. He walked calmly, as if the move of Mr. Xie sent someone to stop people on the official road was just an illusion.

Even if he suddenly encountered such a thing, the clans who had changed dynasties still responded calmly, as if they were dormant beasts. Qiao Ran suddenly remembered the chat with Zhang Jie in her spare time.

She laughed and said, "Why can you allow others to snore on the side of the bed?" Doesn't your majesty like this have any idea?

Zhang Jie's expression was quite intriguing: "I just got to the throne, but I failed." At that time, the foundation of the throne was unstable and it was indeed impossible to shake these aristocratic clans. Not to mention taking the effort to deal with the aristocratic clans who have never set foot in the throne for generations. It was indeed a loss-winning thing for both parties.

What did she say at that time? Qiao Ran took a deep breath. She remembered that she said, "It is indeed an extremely dangerous thing to maintain all rights on the emperor alone."

There are wise monarchs and unwise ones, and it is a good thing to have constraints.

While he was thinking about it, Xie Chengze's yard had arrived. Qiao Ran walked into the yard. The owner of the yard was not there, and the two slaves stood by and waited.

This scene surprised Qiao Ran a little. There are only two servants in Xie Chengze's courtyard with such a profound family?

As if seeing through the doubts on her face, the manager who led the way said, "Mr. Qiao, my son doesn't like to serve others all the time. These two are just taking care of the son's daily life and cleaning."

Qiao Ran nodded, did not ask any more questions, but walked forward. After pushing the door and entering the house, the manager did not follow in, but said that he was waiting outside, and the lord gave him an order.

This is definitely a good thing for Qiao Ran to search for Xie Chengze's residence without any interference.

The lights in the house were lit up, and it was as bright as daytime. It was probably a bit tired when I was hurrying back and forth. Qiao Ran first sat down on the seat in the house, and then looked up at the room.

The arrangement is low-key, elegant and exquisite, just like Xie Chengze himself, he is a master of orthodox children of a large family.

Qiao Ran slightly shrank her eyebrows: Xie Chengze has been an official in Dali Temple for many years, not to mention that the original Mr. Xie Liu was quite talented in investigating cases, and Xie Chengze's own abilities and methods should not be underestimated.

Whether she thought that Xie Chengze herself was replaced, the ability of this replacement person was no less than that of him. At least recently, everyone discovered the abnormality. If they were ready to retreat, it would not be easy to find clues from it, because the opponent is also a veteran who is good at filing cases.

She was so impressed that she was so dry that she was so rushing and drier that she was so busy that Qiao Ran picked up the tea cup on the table and poured herself a cup of tea. The smell of plum tea in her mouth made her slightly stagnant, as if it was more confirmed that Xie Chengze, who had been in these days, was not the Xie Chengze that Zhang Jie knew.

This is also the most common sense inference. After all, with Xie Chengze's background, she really couldn't think of any reason for him to get involved in such a thing. Once he was involved, the big family like the Xie family was in danger of overturning. The Xie family's signature was enough to protect their descendants, so there was no need to do so.

Qiao Ran put down Meizicha and stood up, and with her hands in her arms, she observed the house that opened up the bedroom and study. The house was cleaned up very clean, and there were not many books on the bookshelf. She looked through them one by one, but she didn't see any special books.

If so, Ms. Xu Shi's storybook is also on the bookshelf and there are signs of turning it around. Of course, whether it is out of respect and curiosity for her fiancée or concern for her friends, there seems to be nothing wrong with turning it through this storybook.

Qiao Ran put the script back on the bookshelf and reached out to pick up the stack of letters next to the script.

The thick stack of "Chengze Qinqi" signed "Heyuan" in the lower right corner should be the letter sent by Miss Xu Shi. Qiao Ran was hesitating and heard a familiar voice sound from outside the door.

"You let me go, I'm here to find Lord Qiao."

It is Pingzhuang's voice.

The voice of the manager of the matter outside rang out in a hurry: "This man, since you are looking for Lord Qiao, why not walk through the main entrance? Flying in for no reason, you will naturally be unable to blame the secret guards for taking action."

Pingzhuang was still explaining there: "The concierge will not let anyone go, so I am not allowed to come in, so I overturned the wall. If you have something to say, don't take action, I'm not easy to mess with."

When Qiao Ran heard this, she simply walked to the door, looked at Pingzhuang, who was suppressed by two secret guards, and said to the manager: "Thank you, let him come in, it's not an outsider."

The secret guard stepped back, and Pingzhuang, who breathed a sigh of relief, came over and asked, "Mr. Qiao, how are you doing this?"

Qiao Ran looked at the letter in her hand and said, "No, I saw these letters."

Pingzhuang leaned over and looked at it: "What is written in the letter? Is the love letter?"

Qiao Ran shook her head: "It was written by Mr. Xie's fiancée, Miss Xu Shi. Some daily trivial matters have been explained in it, and there are at least two letters almost every month."

Pingzhuang said oh, obviously not very interested in it.

Qiao Ran held the letter in her hand and looked up at him: "Did you see anything?"

Ping Zhuang was stunned for a moment, took the letter from her hand and flipped it carefully. After a while, he returned the letter to her, shook his head and said, "I didn't see anything except the good writing."

Qiao Ran put the letter back on the spot and said, "At least two letters a month, regardless of rain or rain. The latest letter was from a few days ago, and it was still a few daily trivial matters. But Miss Xu Shi had already returned to Chang'an at this time, but she had to send letters to Lord Xie every month. If we just respect each other, there was no need to be so thoughtful." After a pause, Qiao Ran looked at the thick stack of letters and took a deep breath, "Besides, Miss Xu Shi is still a very meticulous woman."

So did Xie Chengze deliberately avoid Miss Xu Shi just to prevent her from discovering her identity? Qiao Ran thought to herself.

Of course, it is difficult to make a rash judgment if you can't find someone right now.

After walking around the house, Qiao Ran and Pingzhuang walked out and thanked the manager.

The manager copied the gift and then said, "The old man has instructed that the yard will not move until the young master is retrieved. Lord Qiao wants to come over and do it at any time."

Qiao Ran thanked him and took Pingzhuang out of the Xie family mansion.

When he walked out of the mansion, it was already dark. Pingzhuang took a deep breath and turned to look at Qiao Ran on the side: "Mr. Qiao, are you hungry?"

He was so busy that he didn't even eat. Pingzhuang touched his stomach and said instinctively: "Do you want to buy it in Nanji..."

Halfway through the conversation, the Nanji Shop was gone.

"You go buy some food and bring it back to Dali Temple." Qiao Ran seemed to have not seen his sadness, and took out a silver ingot from her sleeve bag and handed it to him, saying, "I asked Tang Zhongyuan to capture Xiaohua's uncle and aunt, and I need to be tried first."

Today is destined to be a sleepless night.

Tang Zhongyuan rarely made any mistakes in his work. After Qiao Ran returned to Dali Temple, he went to prison alone.

When she arrived at the prison, Xiaohua was holding the rice bowl and ate the most delicious food. When she saw her coming in, she greeted her, and then said mysteriously: "I saw my uncle and aunt."

"It was the one I asked to arrest." Qiao Ran said, pausing, "That's not your uncle and aunt, don't recognize him in the future."

Xiaohua nodded constantly. She hadn't figured out anything before. Seeing that her uncle and aunt were taken in, she greeted her warmly, but her uncle and aunt reacted very panic. She seemed to have seen a ghost when she saw her, and then she heard the official send her a message that the poison that vomited blood was given by her uncle and aunt.

"Being good to you for no reason, except for your relatives, you must have some intentions." Qiao Ran warned her and walked to the prison for interrogation.

Uncle and Aunt Xiaohua, who was beaten by the board, had a white face and her ten fingers were black and blue. She thought she had been tortured. Seeing her coming in, the official who was interrogating quickly stood up and called Lord Qiao, and then took the torture record over.

Qiao Ran took the chair beside her and sat down. After looking through it from beginning to end, she looked at the two men and women with trembling expressions and said, "So, as you said, are you just taking money and ordering to do things?"

The couple who had been tortured kept nodding and their expressions were trembling, "That man himself said he was Xiaohua's alive elder. He was ruined for some reason and could not see anyone. He was afraid that he would scare the children. So he asked me to take care of her and take good care of her. Two years later, the shop of Nanji Shop will be handed over to us."

"Lie!" Qiao Ran didn't even raise her eyelids, "Why do you run away if you don't know anything?"

The couple said, "A man from Dali Temple came over at noon and told us that something happened to Xiaohua. Did you feed Xiaohua anything that shouldn't be fed? We did feed Xiaohua, but it was the pill given by the elder who claimed to be Xiaohua. The pill was fragrant. The elder Xiaohua said that Xiaohua had a problem in the fetus and asked us to feed her medicine to condition her body."

"We were frightened at that time, and the adult said that there was a 80% problem with the pill. We asked us to run away quickly, otherwise we might not be able to explain it clearly." The couple cried and shivered. "He said that our one-sided words were not enough to win the trust of Dali Temple, and there was no evidence to prove what we said. In this way, we were accused of poisoning people to seize the property, so we packed up our things and ran away." As a result, the clinker did not run away. Not long after the adult left, the official officer of Dali Temple who was always here came to the door, but today it was not about eating or arresting people.

The interrogation officer on the side heard this and walked to Qiao Ran and whispered: "I have already identified it just now. The master they are talking about is Lord Xie. Calculate the time they said to meet Lord Xie, which is consistent. And some people also saw that Lord Xie had indeed been to Nanji Shop, and the witness had been found."

After all, Lord Xie has a very good appearance, and he is wearing an official robe. Compared with ordinary people, adults wearing official robes are naturally more noticeable.

After lowering his eyes and pondering for a long time, Qiao Ran spoke again: "You said that you used to sell chaotic, soup, braised food, and roast chicken in your hometown. Why do you need to add walnut crisps? This seems a bit inappropriate!"

The couple hurriedly explained: "The recipe for walnut crisps is carved on the stone slab in the shop! If you don't believe it, you can go to the shop to look. We found it after taking over the shop, and then tried to make it. I thought it was good, so I sold it."

This adult interrogated him, why did he even ask Walnut Sauce? This matter should have nothing to do with Xiaohua's poisoning!
Chapter completed!