Chapter 58 Interrogation

When Chen Hui opened her eyes, she thought she was blind.

When she could vaguely see the stars in the sky, she breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that she had not been blinded by falling off the cliff.

At this time, the sky was no longer raining, but the dark clouds were still there and the visibility was very low. Chen Hui was about to try to sit up, but she felt the ground loose, as if something had rolled down. She immediately did not dare to move anymore, but just turned her brain and eyes carefully and looked down.

Below was a bottomless darkness, like a monster's huge mouth, waiting to swallow her. Chen Hui was so scared that she hurriedly grabbed a vine hanging from the cliff.

It turned out that she was lucky enough to fall on a small bulge. If she leaned a little more or her body was a little bigger, she would fall down. Because she felt that it was not solid here, Chen Hui didn't dare to move around. Her stiff body was close to the cliff, staring at the sky with her eyes.

Here is five or six meters away from her landing point, and she can't get up with her own ability, and she may not even be able to hold on for long. And at this time, she didn't know how long it had been since she fell down. Did the two brothers mistakenly think that she was dead and left? So will they come back? Are they still nearby? Chen Hui has no answers to these questions, so she dared not shout for help.

Xiao Hu came out with her, so after she disappeared, Xiao Hu should notify others. Maybe someone will come here and she will be saved.

After making up her mind, Chen Hui clinged to the cliff wall and kept moving. Although the rain had stopped at this moment, the cliff walls on the ground were wet, and Chen Hui's whole body was tide. Many parts of the rain were infiltrated, and her shoes disappeared at some point. Her white socks were mud. She couldn't care about it now. She could only be glad that it was not winter now, otherwise she might have survived like poor Jack, but she had finally freezed to death before she could wait for the rescue.

Waiting is boring, and Chen Hui can't sing a mountain song to make noise, so she naturally had to think about it and divert her attention. She thought about her cloth shop, her design draft, Princess Shuning, and Xiao Zao... When she recalled the funeral after she was about to wear it, it was already bright. When she was yawning, she suddenly thought that after learning what the two people wanted to do, she felt disgusted, but when she was afraid that Li Youde would treat her in this and that in the bed, she didn't feel disgusted, but she was just a little scared.

Before Chen Hui could figure it out, she suddenly heard a little noise in the distance. Her heart moved. Did she come to find her?

Outside Tanmen Temple, a team of more than 30 Jinyiwei surrounded the entire temple. A carriage stopped at the temple gate. A thin white-faced man got off the ground and tickled in disgust after stepping on the mud all over the ground.

"Brother-in-law, everyone is inside." A Er hurriedly came up to him.

Li Youde walked in with a cold face. As soon as he walked into the temple gate, he heard Princess Shuning shouting: "What are the princess Li? My father is Prince Qing, and I am Princess Shuning. Why should he hold me?"

Li Youde looked over and said that it was Princess Shuning who had a small festival before. At that time, in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, he made temporary concessions, but this time, it was different.

"Bring Princess Shuning here." Li Youde raised his chin. Ada, who was about to come to report his life, immediately took the order. He continued to walk forward, entered the backyard monument, and came to the house where Chen Hui lived in the middle of the night.

When Xiao Zao saw Li Youde, he knelt down and said in panic: "Dadfather-in-law, Miss Chen is gone. She must have been taken away by a bad person. You must save her!"

A Er hurriedly dragged the chair beside him and wiped it with his sleeve. Li Youde sat down and looked at Xiao Zu coldly: "Tell me, how did it happen."

Xiao Zu hurriedly said what he had said more than once again: "Last night, Miss Chen got up and woke me up, and I accompanied Miss Chen to the cottage outside--"

"There is no pot in the house?" Li Youde suddenly asked.

Xiao Hu was stunned. Seeing Li Youde's eyes, he hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Master said there was not enough, so Miss Chen gave it to Princess Shuning and Miss Zheng..."

"Continue to talk." Li Youde closed his eyes, neither knowing whether he believed it or not, so he seemed to continue listening.

Xiao Zu said, "Later, I and Miss Chen returned. I saw a shadow on the road. I couldn't see it clearly. I wanted to go and see it, but was pulled by Miss Chen and said I wanted to come and see it together. I left with a lantern in front of me, but after walking for a while, I didn't hear the sound behind me. When I turned around, Miss Chen disappeared, and the shadow on the ground disappeared!"

She started crying as she said.

"Father-in-law, please save Miss Chen, she must have been captured by the gangster..."

Li Youde opened his eyes slightly, but he just half opened it, looking indifferent: "Where did the evil people come from in the pure Buddhist land? Xiao Zuo, I will give you a chance to make up for your merits. If you tell me the truth, tell me where Chen Huiniang went, I will spare your life, otherwise it will take only a moment to kill you!"

Xiao Zu was stunned and kowtowed hard, crying: "Brother-in-law! I am so damn it! I am not taking good care of Miss Chen! But I really don't know where Miss Chen is going! My father-in-law, please save Miss Chen, otherwise, otherwise I will wait too late, Miss Chen...she..."

Li Youde's cold and hard heart became soft for a moment because of Xiao Hu's words. What if Hui Niang was really a villain...

He snorted coldly: "Xiao Hu, you are still covering up Chen Huiniang? Why do you think she was arrested by the gangster? I will believe it?"

Xiao Hu looked at Li Youde blankly. She didn't know why her father-in-law was so kind to Miss Chen before, but now she didn't believe that she was captured by a villain. It has been so long since last night. If you don't go to find her quickly, will Miss Chen, and will it be...

Xiao Zao didn't dare to think about it anymore. She couldn't guess what her father-in-law was thinking. She just kept kowtowing and kept saying: "Father-in-law, please save Miss Chen, please save Miss Chen!"

"What a loyal girl." Li Youde smiled sarcastically.

As soon as he raised his hand, Ah Dao came in and said, "Father-in-law, Princess Shuning is here."

Li Youde glanced at A Er and signaled to take Xiao Jia out.

Princess Shuning walked in with her head raised and her chest raised. When she saw Li Youde, she had no good expression: "Eunuch Li, right? You either let me go as soon as possible, or I will let my father study your book when I go back!"

Li Youde chuckled and said, "Princess Shuning is afraid that she doesn't know the situation. I'm here today, but I'm going to capture the imperial prisoner who was brave enough to assassinate the emperor. Even if His Highness Qing comes in person, he will not stop him. Princess, you have a noble status, but you are not as expensive as the emperor, right?"

The assassins who assassinated the emperor had not been arrested yet. This time, he borrowed some people from the Jinyiwei and surrounded the Tanmen Temple with this reason.

Princess Shuning was stunned, then said without showing any weakness: "I haven't seen any imperial offensives in the court. You obviously took the opportunity to take revenge!"

Li Youde smiled sarcastically: "What does the princess mean?"

Princess Shuning shouted: "You have a grudge with Miss Chen's family, so I deliberately took the opportunity to harm her!" She saw Xiao Xi crying and naturally thought that it was Li Youde who took his personal revenge.

Li Youde said with interest: "Princess Shuning, I'm very curious, how did Hui Niang tell you about her relationship with me?"

When Princess Shuning frowned in discomfort when she heard Li Youde call Chen Huiniang so intimately, but she didn't want to argue with him, so she said, "You have had a marriage with her father, and you even fell in love with her and pestered her, right?"

Li Youde's mouth drooped: "Hui Niang said I'm pestering her?"

Princess Shuning choked and snorted coldly: "Even if she didn't say it, can't I see it?"

Li Youde lifted his eyelids, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was really vicious: "Then Princess Shuning, have you seen that Hui Niang was my woman long ago?"

Princess Shuning was stunned again, then her face turned red. She said viciously: "Don't slander someone, just slander someone for being innocent! You are... you are... how can you..."

Li Youde said the vague words for her: "Princess Shuning wants to say that I, Li Youde, is a castrated man, how could Hui Niang become my woman?" He raised his eyes and smiled sarcastically, "Princess Shuning is such a naive woman. I have a way..."

"Shameless! You can also say such dirty words! Shameless!" Princess Shuning was both ashamed and angry, "You despicable and shameless person! None of you good things!"

Li Youde had long been used to being scolded in person in person. He was not in a hurry to get back if he could get back. If he couldn't get back, he could only laugh it off. At this moment, he looked at Princess Shuning, shook his head slightly, as if he was wronged: "Princess Shuning was probably misunderstood me! Hui Niang was sent by her father, so I had no choice but to accept it, and gave her food and drink, and gave her two shops. It was a perfect ending. I didn't expect that she would say that to me outside. She is really an ungrateful wolf."

What's even more hateful is that she plotted against him, deceived him, and ran away with her lover! When he caught her, she looked good!

"You're talking nonsense!" Princess Shuning subconsciously didn't want to believe Li Youde, a shameless treacherous and cunning person in her eyes, but she suddenly remembered something and blurted out, "Li's cloth shop... is it yours?"

"If it's not mine, who else can it be?" Li Youde smiled.

Princess Shuning suddenly remembered Chen Huiniang's explanation of why Li's Clothing House was not called Chen's Clothing House, and then she remembered that she refused to say where she lived. Every time she had something to do, she would go to Li's Clothing House to contact her... It turned out that she had lied to herself!

Princess Shuning didn't know who she should be angry with, so she was stunned.

Li Youde did not have the little emotion of patience to take care of Princess Shuning. He asked, "Princess Shuning, I ask you, have you ever seen a suspicious person?"

"I don't know..." Princess Shuning said sadly.

Li Youdeben was not really here for the imperial court, so he called Princess Shuning, saying that she was now in a daze. He seemed to have vented some anger at Chen Huiniang, and his mood was getting better.

"Send Princess Shuning back." Li Youde waved his hand to Ada, and Ada immediately stepped forward and politely asked Princess Shuning to leave.

Princess Shuning also said nothing and followed Ada out.

Li Youde asked A Er: "A Er, how many people are there in Tanmen Temple?"

A Er hurriedly said, "Go back to my father-in-law, there are currently fifty-two monks and twenty-two pilgrims in Tanmen Temple, four of whom are scholars who temporarily live here to study, three are local people in the capital, and the rest are Princess Shuning and Miss Chen and her group."

Li Youde narrowed his eyes: "Those scholars..."

"Everything is still there, Xiao Zu said that one of the scholars and Miss Chen seemed to be old acquaintances, and they had seen them in Wangyuan Bookstore before." A Er said hurriedly.

Li Youde's expression turned cold: "Let him come here!"

"Yes, father-in-law!" A Er hurriedly took the order and went there.

Qi Shengwen walked over under the leadership of A Er, and there was no sign of any uneasiness on his face.

After entering the room, Qi Shengwen first looked at Li Youde quietly, then lowered his head and said respectfully.

"What's your name?" Li Youde raised his chin slightly, with his expression or tone, full of contempt.

Qi Shengwen seemed to be unaware of it and smiled slightly, "Qi Shengwen is just a white dress. I guess you are the Chief Li Eunuch Li? It's better to see him at first sight than to hear him, and my father-in-law is lucky to meet you!"

Li Youde frowned. He didn't like Qi Shengwen's attitude, but he was pretending to be other things in his heart, so he was too lazy to care about it. He just said, "Did you see any suspicious person yesterday to this morning?"

Qi Shengwen said: "I don't know what Eunuch Li calls a suspicious person..."

"The person who has suspicious appearance and hides his head and tail." Li Youdedao.

Qi Shengwen seemed to have thought for a while and shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it before."

Li Youde stared at Qi Shengwen for a while, and suddenly sneered: "I heard that you were actually hooking up with a woman, it was unpretentious!"

Qi Shengwen said: "You are wronged, Eunuch Li, how could you do such shameless things?" He paused and looked confused, "I don't know where my father-in-law heard it?"

Li Youtie ignored his question and asked again: "Do you recognize a scholar named Wen Jing?"

Qi Shengwen didn't care that Li Youde ignored his words, and thought for a while before saying, "When I go back to Eunuch Li, although I have made extensive friends, I have never heard of this person."

Li Youde sneered: "Qi Shengwen, if you know something, I advise you to tell me as soon as possible, otherwise I will be afraid that your skin and tender flesh will not be able to bear it!"

Even though he was threatened so nakedly by Li Youde, Qi Shengwen did not look much fear on his face. He said seriously: "Go back to Eunuch Li, he was sitting down and sitting upright. If he didn't recognize him, he wouldn't recognize him. I heard that my father-in-law came to capture the imperial offender? He has always been a good citizen, so he dare not join such a slut. I hope his father-in-law will understand clearly!"

Li Youde sneered. He was too lazy to tell the truth. Since this person and Chen Huiniang once recognized him, he would definitely not be able to escape the relationship when he appeared here "coincidence". He would always get angry if he beat him harder. If he beat him harder, he would beat him twice.

Just as Li Youde was about to order the person to be dragged out and beat him, suddenly a great general of Jinyiwei came in and reported: "Eunuch Li, he found a suspicious trace in the back mountain, and there was also a woman's cloth shoe!"

Li Youde suddenly stood up, and no longer cared about Qi Shengwen, shouting, "Lead the way!"

Li Youde and his group hurried out. Qi Shengwen stood there for a while, and walked back with a wonderful smile on his lips. He thought, Miss Chen is very capable, and I hope she can be safe this time.

Li Youde hurriedly followed the person to the place where the women's cloth shoes were found. The inconspicuous little boy also followed everyone. When she saw the cloth shoes, she immediately squeezed forward and said in a trembling voice: "That's Miss Chen!"

Li Youde stared at the cloth shoes and looked back at the mountain. The fragrant mountain was not high. After crossing this mountain, there was a town. I guess Chen Huiniang ran along this road. She was so anxious that she ignored her shoes.

His face turned dark. He thought that Chen Huiniang ran in the middle of the night. Even if it was difficult to cross mountains and ridges, she had already arrived in the town now, right? When he got to the town, he changed into a carriage and chose a place to escape, and he could not catch up with her - she must have thought so. Haha, if he didn't chase her, how could he go back like that? Among the people he brought this time, there were a few good trackers who asked them to chase them, so that they would not worry about not being able to catch up with two inexperienced ordinary people!

Li Youde ordered one person and asked him to pursue the people. Seeing that the few people were leaving quickly, he looked at Xiao Zu and said, "Xiao Zu, did Chen Hui Niang run away with Wen Jing? Or did they meet in the town?"

Xiao Hu was stunned and looked at Li Youde in surprise. He was about to argue for Chen Hui. When a voice came from under the cliff not far away.

"Father-in-law...I'm waiting for you below..."

The voice seemed to be not far ahead. Li Youde didn't hear anything at the beginning. After shuddering, he asked the others: "Did you... hear it?"

What are you waiting for him below? How could you be haunted in the sky and the sun?

"Listen, I heard..." The rest of the people nodded repeatedly.

Li Youde was slightly stunned, but heard the voice sounding again: "Father-in-law, Hui Niang is here! Come and save me quickly, I can't hold on..."

"Hui Niang?" Li Youde was shocked and walked forward quickly, looking for the source of the sound. Fortunately, Chen Hui said a few more words, and he finally found her directly above.

Looking down from here, Li Youde saw Chen Hui's dirty but suddenly smiling face. He saw surprise and excitement in her eyes. At that moment, the irritability and resentment that squeezed into her heart were instantly relieved.
Chapter completed!