Chapter Nineteen Five The Means of Little People
Li Jundu returned to the palace, smelling of gunpowder. Seeing the princess holding her son who had been two months old, pulling her daughter to meet him, she quickly raised her hand to stop him: "Don't, I'm covered in stinky sweat and gunpowder, don't choke on your mother's three."
After saying that, he went to change his own clothes. Now the disarmament has officially begun. Soldiers and nobles have their own thoughts. Whether out of public or personal wishes, most of them are unwilling to be detained. The same is true for soldiers. There is no way. If you want to disarmament, you can only compete first. According to the disarmament plan, you must first compete in the imperial guards before domestically and then promote them to overseas provinces. Li Jun reviewed the imperial guards' competition, and was covered in smoke.
After half an hour, Li Jundu walked to the living room and saw a man and a woman who had just been sent out by the princess. There was an extra bracelet on his son's wrist. Li Jundu had guessed that Chen Yourong's family had come again, pretending not to know, and asked, "Who was he just now?"
"My cousin's family said they were here to see the children, but in fact they came to see the two sons of his family. One son was in the army and the other was in the Lifan Courtyard. They were afraid that you would be laid off, so I rejected them. But no matter what, they were all from my family. I can't refuse them." Chen Yourong teased the child with a bracelet and smiled.
Li Jundu nodded: "You are aware of the general principles, and everything depends on you, but......"
Chen Yourong said without waiting for her husband, "But, when you arrive in Shen Jing, don't accept other people's gifts."
Seeing Chen Yourong pointing out, Li Junduo smiled awkwardly. Chen Yourong said, "This time I went with the Queen, and I have to take care of the food, clothing, housing and transportation. Although my mother's family has an industry in Shenjing, they don't need them. Who would like to be filial to me? Go to my mother-in-law and Empress, right?"
"It's hard for you. I'm in this position now, so I'm not careful in doing things." Li Jundu said, but he was not unkind. He took out a gift list from his arms and handed it to the princess, saying, "If you go to Shenjing, you won't even walk around your parents' home. That's the roof of the house will open and your relatives will not recognize you. If you wait for your brother to come to the door, others will gossip. These are some gifts I have bought, and they are unique to the north. If you go to Shenjing, you will go back to your parents' home first..."
Chen Yourong opened it and saw that it was all northern specialties such as fur. There were not many and not very eye-catching, but they were very expensive and hard to find. Obviously, Li Jundu was really attentive.
"Okay, okay, listen to you..." Chen Yourong said happily and collected the gift list.
The two were chatting about home talks, but Lin Xitang walked in from outside. Chen Yourong's face looked a little ugly. Li Jundu also frowned. He had already made a decision. The princess was about to set off in a few days. The family was about to reunite tonight. Official affairs were left for the next day. But Lin Xitang came again. Li Jundu waved his hand slightly and signaled him not to disturb him. Lin Xitang still walked down, facing Chen Yourong and Li Jundu reported to Li Jundu about the guard sending squads and princess going south. The originally scheduled matter was brought out again. Li Jundu was angry, but Lin Xitang slightly opened his outer robe and revealed the blood-soaked underwear inside. Li Jundu immediately understood that Lin Xitang had an emergency secret report. He smiled and said, "You can't handle such a small matter well. Come to the study room and fight and kill, which scared my son."
"Your Majesty is just going to work hard. I will go to the palace later and come back for dinner." Chen Yourong said virtuously, watching her husband and Lin Xitang walk into the study. When she passed by, she smelled a little bloody smell when she was studying medicine since childhood. This kind of thing is extremely rare. Chen Yourong was worried, could something big happened?
Chen Yourong called the maid and gave a few instructions. Soon, the maid came out with a tea tray, with a low face, obviously being scolded. She walked to Chen Yourong and whispered: "Miss, the chief guard does have a heavy smell of blood. I dare not listen too much, but when he heard the prince tell him about the prince, the prince looked a little scared."
This maid was Chen Yourong's dowry. She learned medical skills with her since she was a child. She could still smell the bloody smell on her body, so she was sent to inquire about it under the name of sending tea.
"Okay, go, don't talk to outsiders." Chen Yourong said casually. When the maid left, Chen Yourong picked up his son and looked at the little guy sleeping chubbyly. Chen Yourong felt soft. She and King Ying had been married for many years. They knew her husband's temperament. The world was great. Apart from the emperor, there was no one who her husband was afraid of. But today Lin Xitang came with blood and mentioned the prince. King Ying was afraid. Is there really something going to happen?
Yingwang Study.
After scolding the maid who had been recklessly in, Li Jundu sat on the chair with a pale face and asked, "Tell me quickly, what's wrong? Did the prince's people do it?"
"All of our people at No. 17, Yanzhi Hutong were killed, and none of them ran out..." Lin Xitang briefly introduced.
Yanzhi Hutong is now full of brothels in the capital. No. 17 Yanzhi Hutong is a small yard rented by Lin Xitang. This yard is used to house arrest Ouyang Zhi's son Ouyang Yunyi. Only by holding Ouyang Yunyi can you use Ouyang Zhi with confidence. Ouyang Yunyi is lustful and greedy, and house arrest near the brothel is considered to be his preference. If nothing is important, the guard will also submit a letter to report Ouyang Yunyi's situation every three days, and Lin Xitang does not go to see it for a fixed time. However, when he went to see it this morning, he found that the yard was attacked, including Ouyang Yunyi, everyone was killed, and his body was cut off. The blood on Lin Xitang was stained there.
"............Prince, from the perspective of Beizhi, the person who attacked No. 17, Yanzhi Hutong was Ouyang Zhi's subordinate. Beizhi looked at it carefully. Although the body was wearing Ouyang Yunyi's clothes, the age was about the same and the time of death was the same, there were some doubts. Judging from his hands, it seemed that it was not Ouyang Yunyi..." Lin Xitang whispered.
"Are you sure?"
Lin Xitang said: "I am sure that although Ouyang Yunyi is the son of the rebellious party, he has been frugal since he was a child, and his hands are not touched by spring water. How could it be so rough? I met Ouyang Yunyi many times and are familiar with him. This guy often uses pens and pencils to write. Therefore, there is a wide collapse on one side of the first joint of the middle finger, and the deceased's middle finger only collapses the size of rice grains on the side of the middle finger. This is clearly a pair of hands that use a quill pen to write.
According to common sense, cutting off the head has two purposes, either covering up the killing method or covering up the identity of the deceased. Seven people's heads were cut off, five of them had no wounds, and both of them had fighting injuries on their arms and chest and abdomen. It can be inferred that five people were killed, and two were guards were attacked and killed. Everyone was killed, but the guards outside the yard were locked in the gate. It was obvious that they did not want outsiders to see the reporter. After thinking about it, only Ouyang Zhi had the ability and motivation to rescue his son and try not to cause trouble."
After listening to Lin Xitang's analysis, Li Jundu nodded slightly, and believed it completely in his heart, and asked: "Sometimes ago, Ouyang Zhi sent someone to say that they were going to evacuate the people in the capital. Ouyang Zhi wanted to take the opportunity to take his son away, but I rejected it. Maybe he......"
"Prince, this is impossible. All the kings are in the world. Even if he can save his son, he will be captured if he cannot escape the empire. The assassination of No. 17 of Yanzhi Hutong was very secretly done, and the fake corpse was prepared very well. If it weren't for the old Jinyiwei under my command, it was hard to see that, but Beizhi secretly sent someone to find Ouyang Zhi, but he was gone. Please think, if he saves his son, run away, there is no need to cover up the fake corpse in Yanzhi Hutong, and there is no need to prepare for us. If he wants to rescue Ouyang Yunyi from you, he should still pretend that he is fine at this moment." Lin Xitang said softly.
Li Jundu nodded slightly, crossed his fingers, thought carefully, and murmured to himself: "We have to think from Ouyang Zhi's perspective. In theory, if you hadn't suddenly gone to Yanzhi Hutong today, I wouldn't have known what happened there within three days. He rescued his son without revealing his identity, and he disappeared again. There is only one possibility that he found a way out, or found a new backer, and if he left us, he could survive."
"Is it the prince?" Lin Xitang widened his eyes.
Li Jundu shook his head: "No, the only one who is more reliable than me is the only one who is the father."
"But if the emperor intervenes, there will be no movement here." Lin Xitang felt puzzled. For a long time, whenever the three princes had any problems, they would be punished by the emperor in the end. Good and bad things are royal housework.
The two were discussing, and a guard asked for a visit. It was Lin Xitang who sent someone to inquire about the news. The man sent a note and then retreated. Lin Xitang opened it and looked at it, and said to King Ying: "Your Majesty, it's not good. Ouyang Zhi's two subordinates took the initiative to surrender to the Security Bureau."
"Who is it? Is there any Ouyang Yunyi?" Li Jundu asked.
"No, one Mu Changlong and one Mi Yongqing are two minions under Ouyang Zhi who do dirty work. Bei Zhi once saw him and Han Zhiwei escaped, and these two were also ruined by these two people."
Li Jundu nodded: "It seems that it is a test. Xitang, there is one thing you may not know. There are fewer prisoners in the prison, all of whom are Zhu Ming's restorationists. Our people asked, and they only said that they were taken away by the emperor's order, killed, released, or other consequences. They didn't know that I was plagued by the decentralization of the army these days, and the princess was going south again. She didn't think about it carefully. Now it seems that it is probably because the father gave those guys a way out. If we judge it based on this, Ouyang Zhi would betray me and get rid of me."
"That's bad. Since Ouyang Zhi threw out the two minions, he was to test whether the emperor really gave them a way out. If the emperor really wanted to do so, Ouyang Zhi might tell you about your cooperation with him." Lin Xitang became anxious.
Li Jundu walked back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back and forth, saying, "Now there is no other way. If you start all your relationship, no matter what, you will have to kill those two minions. If you don't kill them, it will be hard to hide this matter."
Lin Xitang immediately took people to the General Office of the Security Bureau and contacted the people in the General Office. It was only then that the Zongya had just received news that the emperor wanted to pardon a group of orphans of the Ming Dynasty. The one who did this was King Cheng and his confidants. Idle people were not allowed to get close to him. The people in Lin Xitang only learned that King Cheng had a list in his hand, and all the people on the list were pardoned.
In the afternoon, Mi Yongqing and Mu Changlong had already walked out, looking red and had no signs of torture and abuse, and their bodies were full of bulges, as if they were rewarded. The two of them had a security bureau. First, they changed their clothes in the garment store. They were originally dressed as porters, but they looked rich and generous. They first went to the casino and stayed in Huamanlou in Shaanxi Lane at night. They came out at noon the next day, went to the restaurant and casino, and went to another brothel in the evening. Lin Xitang followed behind and asked the people they had contacted several times. They only knew that the two had been castrated, but they were still lustful. The tortured brothel girl was very powerful, but the prostitutes in the brothel and the people in the casino both spoke in unison, saying that the two were generous.
"Are you sure they didn't contact Ouyang Zhi's people?"
"You can be sure of your humble job. If you can't even do this job well, you will have no face to stay by the prince anymore." Lin Xitang promised.
Li Jundu said: "I originally wanted to kill them in the Security Bureau and let them go without going back. Now it seems that there is no need to be impatient. Xitang, do it tonight." After that, Li Jundu pulled Lin Xitang and whispered a few words in his ear.
That night, Lin Xitang led people into Huamanlou and came out the next morning. Soon the people in Huamanlou reported to the official, saying that two people died in the garden, one drowned in the cottage, and the other died suddenly on the prostitute's bed, which seemed to have died unexpectedly.
In a farm outside the city, Ouyang Zhi, dressed in a billboard, listened to a farmer's report. The farmer was wearing mud and had no shoes on his feet. The farmer said: "The security department said it was an accidental death. He reported Mi Yongqing to drown, and reported Mu Changlong to a sudden illness. Hua Manlou paid several thousand taels of silver. The two were pulled to the mass grave in the north of the city this morning and buried it. The young man dug up the grave and looked at it. Both of them had signs of torture, but it was not very obvious. It was common to the security bureau. I don't know if they confessed."
Ouyang Zhi pointed to a lake north of Zhuangzi and said, "It must be a call. I have made a reservation for them. I will leave the Security Bureau and wander around the city for five days. In five days, I will meet in this lake. But today is the fourth day, and there are two fishermen here that I have never seen before. They must be the fanzis of the Security Bureau! Han Junyi, the old thief, must have surrendered to the Xin Dynasty and used our heads as a step to deliberately deceive us to surrender. Fortunately, I guessed it long ago and sent two damn idiots to."
"What should I do next?" the farmer asked.
Chapter completed!