Shu Blossoms

Chapter 170 Who is the Fisherman?

In the Third Prince's Mansion, Tuoba Yu was lying on the kang in a plain white cotton robe, and Mo Qi, who was standing at the bottom, glanced lazily, and said softly, "The girl has left the city?"

Mo Qi nodded and replied: "Your Highness, the city that He Bamu sent them out of when the He Ba family just returned, now lives in..."

Tuoba Yu waved his hand, "That girl really hates me now, never thought that Luo Yan brought that thing in, just check it in advance!"

Mo Qi looked at his highness's tone of regret, but there was a gloating smile on his face, quite helpless. He also didn't understand his highness's attitude towards the princess of Da Zhou. He obviously didn't seem to care at all. She often gnashes her teeth angrily, but as long as it's about the princess, she can't help but intervene!
It's like the fact that their highness did not do the victory this time, but it just added fuel to the flames, causing the long-hidden conspiracy to break out in advance.

As for those puppets, they are really related to His Highness, but now His Highness is detained in the mansion, the news is not as timely as before, so last night His Highness received the news that Luo Yan brought it to Concubine He Lai, so he ordered himself to send someone Send a message to He Bamu!
Thinking of the news that he received this morning, Mo Qi frowned slightly, and said a little dullly: "Your Highness, don't worry, the princess is not so innocent in this matter, and Mo You has another news this morning. The doll was made by the Princess and the others, and was sent to the palace by Doctor Luo."

Tuoba Yu became curious now, "What did they send a few dolls to Concubine He Lai, could it be that they really colluded with Concubine He Lai, that's impossible!"

Before finishing speaking, he himself shook his head and vetoed it.

Mo Qi continued: "The Princess is here to make money, the clothes they gave the dolls are all very beautiful, and the noble concubine He Lai likes them very much, so she ordered the embroiderers in the palace and the embroiderers in Pingcheng Liji Buzhuang to embroider all night. I bought a set of embroidered robes, which is the one worn by the imperial concubine on the eighth day of the lunar new year, and even Your Majesty praised it at that time!"

Tuoba Yu remembered, and asked with great interest: "Is she asking for the concubine's bounty?"

"The imperial concubine's bounty can't satisfy that princess, they went to Liji cloth village with the same tricks as the imperial concubine, and made a hundred gold!"

Tuoba Yu didn't think the hundred gold was too much, but asked curiously, "Is that girl thinking of this idea?"

Mo Qi shook his head, "I don't know, the girl next to the princess accompanied her there. That day when the miracle doctor Luo came out of the palace, he went directly to Liji Buzhuang with the eunuch next to the imperial concubine. .”

Tuoba Yu nodded, thought for a moment and told him, "Speak to Mo You and ask him to send someone to send a letter to that girl's master. Since you have done all the good things, just do it to the end, so as to avoid future problems."

He didn't say anything in the future, and Mo Qi didn't dare to ask, he just obeyed orders.

Mo Qi hesitated and did not leave, Tuoba Yu asked him without raising his head: "But there is something else to say?"

"Your Highness, now that you are being detained, Concubine He Lai and the Eighth Prince are also rejected by His Majesty, will it be someone else in the end?"

After all, this is a taboo, Mo Qi said it cautiously.

"There is a saying in the Central Plains that the snipe and the clam fight for the fisherman's profit. Are you trying to say that He Lai and I are just the snipe and the clam. We fought happily, but in the end we were turned into fishermen."

Tuoba Yu uttered Mo Qi's worries, and Mo Qi nodded repeatedly.

"Of course there are people who want to be a fisherman. Otherwise, there would be no chance of winning. Now that I have fallen, I even helped him drag He Lai into the water. The fisherman hiding behind should also take the lead!"

Tuoba Yu's smile was brilliant, but Mo Qi felt a little cold. He didn't know who the fisherman was talking about, so he shook his head and stepped back.

It's good that His Highness knows what His Highness has ordered. With this little ability, I just need to do the things His Highness ordered me honestly.

When it was dark, there was a figure in Lifang in the west of the city running through an alley. He was about to go home just now, but he noticed something was wrong before he got close to the small courtyard. The Lifang was too quiet today.

He quietly observed the entrance of the small courtyard at the corner of the alley, and there were indeed a few unusual people walking back and forth near the small courtyard.

He immediately realized that something might have happened to the people inside, and after thinking about it for a moment, he didn't force his way in, but left quietly.

Just as he was about to leave Lifang, someone stopped him.

"But Zhao Zhi?"

The person in taupe bunt and bamboo hat was dressed too ordinaryly, but the calm and solemn voice in his voice and his clean and neat skills showed that he was not an easy person.

Zhao Mingzhi looked at him vigilantly, holding the long sword tightly, "Who are you?"

The man didn't answer, but threw an arrow at him without warning, then turned around and ran away.

Zhao Mingzhi dodged the arrow, turned around and held the arrow in his hand, and chased after the man without even looking.

But that person was very skilled and familiar with the terrain, so he had already disappeared.

Only then did Zhao Mingzhi find a secluded place, took out the arrow and began to ponder. The arrow is hollow, otherwise it would not be so easy for him to avoid it.

Take out a piece of rattan paper from the arrowhead, a simple picture is drawn on the rattan paper, after looking carefully, it should be a few miles to the south of the city.Zhao Mingzhi hesitated for a moment and rushed to the south of the city.

But there was already a curfew at this time, and the gates of the city had been closed long ago. Zhao Mingzhi was so anxious that he had no choice but to wait in an unoccupied dilapidated house for the whole night.

As soon as the gate of the city opened the next day, he left the city and drove for more than an hour to the place on the map. This was a village. Zhao Mingzhi asked the fellow villagers in the village.

Sure enough, there were outsiders in the village yesterday, and following the instructions of the fellow villagers, they came to a dilapidated wooden door and knocked on the door.

When the door was opened, a woman wearing an indigo coarse cotton robe opened the wooden door and looked at him vigilantly.

"Who are you looking for?"

The woman lowered her voice carefully and asked.

"Sister, I told those people who lived in your house yesterday that Zhao Zhi came to look for them."

The woman looked him up and down cautiously, then slammed the door and left.

Not long after, the door was opened again, this time it was Sanping, very happy to see Zhao Mingzhi, excitedly said: "Master Zhao, you are back, you know."

Zhao Mingzhi grabbed him, and Sanping realized that this was not a place to talk, so he hurriedly dragged Zhao Mingzhi into the door.

"Master!"

"Master Zhao!"

Zheng Wei, Liao Wennan, and Tong'er had been waiting outside the house for a long time, and they hadn't seen each other for a whole night, but they couldn't help but burst into tears as if it had been a lifetime.

Zhao Mingzhi saw that Zheng Wei's eyes were full of worry and relief, he couldn't help but smiled and patted her on the head, "Master is back, everything is fine."

Several people crowded into the room and told about the matter of Concubine He Lai and Luo Yan's arrest one by one.

Zhao Mingzhi was surprised when he heard the words, "I heard about the matter of Concubine He Lai and He Lai's family yesterday, why Luo Yan was also involved in it, isn't he a doctor?"

Zheng Wei showed guilt, "Those dolls caused the trouble, and someone tampered with it, saying that there was a letter leading to us hidden inside."

"That's impossible!" Zhao Mingzhi wondered, "Didn't it mean that the sixth prince of that noble concubine died at the hands of us? It would be good if the noble concubine didn't encourage Emperor Wei to go to war. How could she communicate with us?"

(End of this chapter)