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When Taizu was first established, he advocated frugality. The Dayue Palace was rebuilt on the basis of the old envoys, which was much smaller than the previous dynasty. Bianliang did not build a larger imperial city. It only built an outer city outside the original Bianliang City, and divided Bianliang City into two levels: internal and external.

Since the Chihu people invaded the south, hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured into Bianliang City to escape the war. Most of them are stranded in Guocheng, and only a small number of them have entered the inner city by relying on relatives and friends.

These people said they were seeking relatives and friends, but after entering the inner city, many of them had no relatives and friends to seek refuge. Now most of them were driven to the vicinity of Tongji Temple on the south bank of the Bian River.

This is also the most concentrated area of ​​the inner city. It was originally mixed with fish and dragons, but now tens of thousands of refugees are driven over, which is becoming more and more chaotic.

Curfew does not exist in this area. There are fewer night patrol soldiers and they dare not enter this area easily.

There are many shops in the streets and alleys south of the Bian River holding lights, but the water surface is pitch black. A black-panned boat slides silently and slowly, and finally stops in front of a cargo warehouse dock.

Several "cuckoo" sounds of birds sounded from the cabin.

"Crack!" The sound of striking the lit sickle came in the darkness, and soon two lanterns were lit. Seven or eight people on the dock were guarding the darkness. At this time, two pallets were placed on the side of the ship.

Zhu Han and Zhu Zhi stood by the dock. When he saw Princess Yingyun walking off the boat, he whispered: "Thank God!"

There was no more words at the moment, and everyone surrounded Princess Yingyun through the messy stack and walked into the yard in front.

The yard is not big, and there are waves of mules and horses roaring from the outside from time to time, but a few lanterns cannot illuminate much of the place, and Yingyun cannot see clearly what the inside and outside the yard looks like.

At this time, she calmed down, but she had a lot of doubts in her heart.

However, as soon as she walked into the yard, someone called Zhu Han and Zhu Zhi away. Yingyun didn't know what they were going to be busy with, so she could only patiently and ask someone to take her to a room on the second floor to rest.

Where can she rest?

Except for the mules and horses outside, she could vaguely hear the intermittent dull screams downstairs. Yingyun became more and more curious. When she was about to push the door to the yard to see what was going on, she heard someone walking up the wooden stairs and hurriedly sat at the table in front of the window. After a while, the wooden door was "squeaked" from outside.

With the faint lights, Yingyun saw the person's face clearly and shouted in surprise: "Xu'er, why is it you? Why are you here?"

The visitor put the hot steam bowl in his hand on the table and said, "It was Xu Junhou and Zhu Xiaolangjun who found the servant the night before yesterday, saying that they had been ordered by the prince to take the princess out of the prince's mansion, and asked me and Xiao Shuanzi to be the inner servants to inquire about the news and cooperate with them to pick you up! Thank God, I didn't expect that you would really pick you up and not be sent to Chong'an Temple!"

"Where is Xiao Shuanzi?" Yingyun asked as he grabbed the maid.

"Xiao Shuanzi is still in the palace - Master Xu said that the princess disappeared rashly, and the officials will definitely investigate it. The princess is the biggest object of suspicion. He will definitely turn the princess around and search for you. If someone is left in the palace, you can generally know the movements in the palace." The maid said.

"Does my mother know about this?" Ying Yun couldn't help asking expectantly.

"Master Xu said that the fewer people know about this, the better. It is best not to ask the princess and others in the princess to know about it. Otherwise, there will be too many flaws, and you may be found by someone before you can escort the princess out of the city." The maid shook her head and said.

When Yingyun saw Xiu'er, she really hoped that all this was arranged by her mother herself, but she didn't expect that her mother didn't know about it at all, and couldn't help but feel lost.

"Princess, you haven't eaten well these days. There is no good food here. There is some noodles left at night. I cooked a bowl of noodles. Princess, you're almost eating and filling your stomach. Look, you've lost a lot these days." The maid urged.

Yingyun ate the egg noodles without any taste, not so hungry. At this time, he vaguely heard a dull scream from the building and asked Xiu'er: "What's the sound?"

"I don't know either. It seems that someone is being interrogated! The yard here is not big, and the doors and windows are facing the yard, and it is not tightly blocked. Listening to these sounds, it's strange!" said the maid.

After sitting for a while, he heard the sound of footsteps walking in the yard downstairs, and the sound of armor pieces gently tide. Yingyun suddenly thought of Xu Huai and others who were pretending to be night patrolmen. He pushed the door and looked at the railing, but Xu Huai walked into the yard surrounded by a group of soldiers.

"The princess hasn't rested yet?" Xu Huai looked up and asked.

Yingyun could not lie down to rest at this time. She walked down the wooden stairs and asked, "Xu Huai, everything is fine in Gong County, right?"

"Of course everything is fine in Gong County," Xu Huai said, "but there is one thing we didn't tell the truth before - I came back to Bianliang this time to meet the princess and Zhu Qiang. After meeting the princess, I learned about you. I thought of sending a message to the prince, afraid that there would be too late, and there would be no time to stop the princess on the road. There were too many unpredictable accidents, so I took the initiative to rob the princess first. This was also the decision of my brothers, Zhu Qiang and Wang Fang. The princess was not aware of it. However, I believe that the prince knew about this and would definitely order us to save the princess!"

Yingyun was not surprised and said, "I said, it's only been four or five days. How could his father know about this so quickly and send you back to arrange everything?"

Xu Huai rushed over and had a lot of things to deal with. Seeing that Princess Yingyun had no intention of going back to her room to rest, she directly asked Zhu Han: "Did Qin Zhihui give any useful information?"

"Qin Zhihui bit to death and said that he was not in the museum for those two days. He didn't know who contacted the envoys. He had never changed his words. The Honglu Temple Properties Court has a chief clerk, chief clerk, recorder and more than 20 officials under the Shaoqing. Qin Zhihui may really not know about it. Why don't we find someone to follow him?" Zhu Zhi said from the side.

"The clues of our investigation were crossed to him - Zhuang Shouxin, as the minister of the Salt and Iron Department's construction case, could hear a lot of rumors in a hurry. How could Qin Zhihui not know at all? Even if he didn't see it with his own eyes, he could hear a lot of news. The more he gritted his teeth and didn't reveal a word, the more it means that there was something wrong with him. It was just that he knew that the matter was very involved, so he gritted his teeth and wanted to get through it!" Xu Huai said, "I'll go to interrogate him personally!"

Xu Huai, Zhu Han and Zhu Zhi walked towards the west wing.

Seeing Princess Yingyun following him from behind, Xu Huai stopped, hesitated for a while, took out a black cloth from his arms and said, "We don't want to kill someone to silence us until we have no choice, so we can't let Qin Zhihui see our faces clearly during the interrogation!"

"Ah!" Ying Yun was just still confused in his heart, and he didn't intend to see Xu Huai and the others interrogate others severely. He just didn't know what he could do at this time. He couldn't help but follow him a few steps. Suddenly, he saw Xu Huai handed over a piece of black cloth. He was stunned for a while, and finally took the black cloth over and covered his face.

Seeing Zhu Wei, Zhu Zhi covered his face with a black cloth, but Xu Huai reached out to wipe the armor, then wiped the blood on his face. In the dim light, it was indescribable.

Following Xu Huai and others, Yingyun saw several candles lit inside, which were quite transparent, and only used thick cloth curtains to cover the doors and windows. The inside was not visible outside, and the sound was not very loud. No wonder he felt that it was very far away when he heard the sound just now. A middle-aged man in his forties was tied to the beam of the house, his shirt was stripped off, his upper body was naked, and his back was beaten with a whip. There were three people in charge of torture in the room, and all covered his face with black cloth.

Xu Huai waved his hand and asked someone to put down Qin Zhihui, the head of the Honglu Temple's Concierge Courtyard. Seeing his mouth trembling with pain, his eyes swept across his face and he would dodge in panic, as if he was afraid of recognizing him.

Xu Huai pulled out the bag knife, cut off the rope tied to Qin Zhihui, and said, "Are they too inaccurate to use torture? They cover their faces again, obviously they don't want to kill people to silence them at any time. How can they fool Qin Langjun? However, Qin Langjun should be able to smell the fresh bloody smell on me?"

Qin Zhihui's eyelids twitched, lowered her head and said hoarsely: "I really don't know anything. If you don't believe it, I can't do anything!"

"The news leaked from the Concierge House. Xuanwu Army's three thousand unjust souls. Qin Langjun said you don't know. Is this matter revealed? And now in this world, even if we don't kill you, put you back and do not implicate your family. Qin Langjun, can you and your family really live for a long time and safely?"

Xu Huai shook his head and sighed, took out a sweat towel from his arms, wiped off the blood stains on his face, held Qin Zhihui's chin with his hand, let him look directly at him,

"Qin Langjun, look at me, see this face clearly, and tell what you know. You can't get through this level today. The first rooster crows, and you don't even speak, I'll kill you to silence you, and then send someone to arrest Gao Chengyun, the chief clerk of the Concierge Academy, and arrest Qian Chengyuan..."

Speaking of this, Zhou Jing came over and said something.

"Qian Chengyuan has been arrested by the Concierge House. You are very efficient in your work,"

Xu Huai beat him up and continued to say to Qin Zhihui,

"Catch you and try them one by one, kill them one by one until someone is caught and the news is revealed to the envoy. Don't think that you are dead wronged. Someone secretly communicated with the barbarians. The three thousand great Yue Jianer was destroyed. Do you know that you are not reporting it. Do you think that you are dead and die at all? Even if you are killed, you will have more than enough death! By the way, don't think that you are dead, so you don't have to implicate your family. Think about it, we must continue to investigate and simply kill you to silence you, and not create the false appearance of a thief in your house, which is difficult not to arouse some people's alertness, right? Qin Langjun, think about it again, where did my blood come from? You don't think I slaughter a sheep and put the sheep blood on my armor to scare you?"

Xu Huai waved his hand and asked Zhou Jing to bring Qian Chengyuan’s recording staff in.

A middle-aged official was tied up and blindfolded. In order to prevent him from shouting, he stuffed a cloth into his mouth. Zhou Jing stepped forward and uncovered the black cloth on the man's face and pulled out the cloth in his mouth.

"Who are you?" Qian Chengyuan asked in panic. Seeing Xu Huai's cold eyes but without saying a word, he turned around and suddenly saw the head of the courtyard Qin Zhihui and shouted, "Qin Langjun, why have you been caught here by these evil men?"

"I need to know now that the night when the 3,000 Xuanwu army soldiers attacked the enemy camp at night and the night before, who had seen the envoys in the court? Why did there be no records in the Concierge House?" Xu Huai stared at the two and said.

"You thief, you kidnapped the imperial officials in Bianliang City, aren't you afraid of being executed by the whole family?" Qian Chengyuan angrily scolded.
Chapter completed!