Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 541
Is it related to things in the palace?

How could Xiuxuan Tea House have anything to do with the palace?

Xiong Jinkang took the money, but refused to say a word.

Sun Qianli looked puzzled: "My lord, you can't let him go, and we don't dare to force him, can you let us meet those guys, they came to work in our tea house, and they also have parents, mothers and fathers." The people of my family have suffered such an innocent disaster, I can't even take a look at it."

Xiong Jinkang shook his head and said, "This is difficult."

Sun Qianli lowered his voice and said, "I'll just take a look. I'm the only one. I'll leave after just one look. I still have a small gift for you."

Xiong Jinkang smacked his lips and said: "This is not a matter of being rude, you are embarrassing me, besides, even if I agree, it is not easy for me to open my mouth at the Yamen in charge of the lantern.
You think I'm the deputy commander, and I can be the home of the Imperial City Division, but Qiao Shungang is used to being domineering, and he is not so easy to talk to. "

Sun Qianli said: "We will prepare another small gift for you, which can be regarded as a tribute to Qiao Qianhu."

After discussing for a long time, Xiong Jinkang reluctantly accepted Sun Qianli's eight hundred taels of silver.

At night the next day, Sun Qianli disguised himself as a follower, and followed Xiong Jinkang into the prison of the Yamen in charge of lamps.

Seeing Qiao Shungang, Xiong Jinkang said with a smile: "Shungang, I'll come and see the criminal, just take a quick look, you're busy with your business, don't stay with me."

Qiao Shungang was happy to be at leisure: "Commander Xiong, you can take care of yourself, the subordinates have gone to watch the night with the brothers."

Qiao Shun had just interrogated these stewards, buddies, Captain Sencha, and Dr. Cha, and they were all useless people, and they were not afraid of Xiong Jinkang's manipulation.

Xiong Jinkang entered the prison, and said to the lantern-handlers in charge of the cell: "Brothers, thank you for your hard work. I have prepared some food and wine. Let's have a drink or two."

Lantern Lang didn't want to drink with this deputy commander, because his status was too far away, and he felt uncomfortable drinking and eating.

But Xiong Jinkang opened his mouth, and it was not easy to save his face, so everyone set up a table, surrounded the deputy commander, and pretended to exchange cups and cups.

Sun Qianli took the opportunity to enter the cell and saw everyone arrested in the teahouse.

After searching for a long time, he couldn't find a single judge, and took Colonel Sencha aside, and asked in a low voice, "Where are the rest?"

Captain Sencha watched for a while before he recognized Sun Qianli, and exclaimed: "Shopkeeper, save me..."

Sun Qianli grabbed her by the throat, preventing her from speaking.

"Just say one more word, and I will kill you. Where are the rest of you?"

Captain Sencha coughed for a while, shook his head and said, "We were taken into prison by Lord Denglang and kept here. The rest of us don't know where we are."

"Has anyone come to interrogate you?"

"Yes!" Colonel Sencha said with an aggrieved face, "These people are ruthless. They whipped my family several times, but my family never dared to say a bad word about you."

Sun Qianli was not worried about what she said bad things, this Captain Sencha didn't know anything inside.

"What did they ask you?"

Captain Sencha thought for a moment and said: "Ask me if there are any women from the palace in the tea house, and I say why there are people from the palace in our place, even if there are, I don't know."

Sun Qianli frowned and said, "What else did I ask you?"

"I also asked the names of the three shopkeepers. I told you that this is not something to be afraid of."

Sun Qianli asked several stewards again, and their answers were similar to those of Captain Sencha.

Sun Qianli took out some silver taels and distributed them to the crowd, saying: "You have suffered so much, you take the money, after two days I will arrange it properly, they will let you out, today's matter must not be mentioned to outsiders. "

……

Leaving the Lantern Yamen, Sun Qianli kept thinking about one thing, what is the relationship between the people in the palace and Xiuxuan Tea House?
Could it be that Mr. Zukazai brought the people from the palace to the tea house?

This matter is serious, must tell Zukazai.

Sun Qianli didn't dare to delay, went back to his residence, took out the reward order, and wrote a line on it with a pen.

In the penance workshop and craftsman's building, Long Xiulian took out the Tomb Zailing Order, removed the gauze from his face, and saw the line of words.

The Lantern Yamen sealed up Xiuxuan Tea House?
Long Xiulian wrote three characters on the Tomb Zai Ling: Tomb Zaifu.

He lightly tapped on the seal of Zai Zhongzai, and his figure disappeared.

Long Xiulian sat in the main hall of the Zaifu for a while, and Sun Qianli hurriedly came to him.

Long Xiulian said: "When did this happen?"

"Two days ago."

"Why did you tell me now?"

Sun Qianli lowered his head and said, "This subordinate thought that if he went to Commander Xiong, he would be able to rescue him."

"Have you been rescued?"

Sun Qianli shook his head and said, "Commander Xiong refuses to make a move."

Long Xiulian smacked his lips and said, "This matter should have something to do with Ma Shangfeng. Ma Shangfeng is the Marquis of Xuanguo. Xiong Jinkang must not dare to offend him."

Sun Qianli said: "Commander Xiong said that this matter was not instigated by Ma Shangfeng, he said that the Lantern Yamen is investigating the affairs of the palace, and found out about our teahouse."

"What's going on in the palace?" Long Xiulian was startled, "What's going on in the palace?"

"I went to the prison to see the arrested fellows. They said they wanted to check the people in the palace, and they said that some people in the palace had been to our teahouse."

Long Xiulian pinched her chin, feeling a little dignified.

The news of the Queen Mother leaked out.

Who leaked it?

"Tell the judge who was arrested to kill all irrelevant people, and then let them escape by themselves. Don't worry about revealing my identity."

Sun Qianli bowed his head and said, "My lord, I don't know where the comrade who was arrested is."

Long Xiulian said: "Didn't you go to the prison and see them?"

"In the prison of the Lantern Yamen, there are only some irrelevant people. I don't know where the comrades are detained."

Long Xiulian was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "Are you saying that you are a waste? Such a big thing happened, you searched for two whole days, but found nothing?"

Sun Qianli was covered in sweat and said, "This subordinate is incompetent."

"Go and investigate again. I will give you two more days to investigate and find all the twenty or so judges in the tea house. If you can't find them alive, you can just get their heads back."

"Your subordinates obey!" Sun Qianli left Zukazai's mansion tremblingly.

Long Xiulian sat silently in the Zaifu for a while, then returned to the penance workshop.

Sitting in the small car, he pulled off the gauze on his face, looked at the Queen Mother He Shuiling and said, "Da Sishi, your whereabouts have been leaked, and someone has found me, and the yamen in charge of lamps has sealed off the tea house I run in the capital." .”

He Shuiling said in astonishment: "How is this possible? I have been in the penance workshop since I came out of the palace, and I have never even left the door."

"Yeah, I haven't even been out of the house, but how did this news get out?" Long Xiulian looked at Ye Ansheng, "Da Sikong, what do you think?"

"Big Situ, what do you mean by that?" Ye Ansheng was repairing a hanging wire puppet without raising his head, "Could it be that you suspect that I leaked the news?"

Long Xiulian smiled and said, "Maybe you were careless when you entered and exited, and the craftsmen in the workshop saw you."

Ye Ansheng picked up the carving knife, and carefully shaved the puppet's eyes: "Da Situ really knows how to joke. If I was discovered by a craftsman, the lamp-handling yamen should be found in the workshop. Why did you seal up your teahouse?"

"That's true, but how did the news get out?" Long Xiulian still looked at Ye Ansheng.

He now suspects that Ye Ansheng betrayed him in order to divert attention.

Ye Ansheng said: "The matter was done by Zhangdeng Yamen, so it must have something to do with Xu Zhiqiong."

Long Xiulian shook his head and said: "Xu Zhiqiong is still in Yu Xianguo, I heard this from your incense burner, it is absolutely unmistakable."

Ye Ansheng put down the puppet in his hand, turned to look at Long Xiulian and said, "Big Situ, why are you always staring at me?"

He Shuiling looked at the situation of the two of them silently, with a little fear on his face, but a lot of peace in his heart.

These two people are at odds with each other, which is very beneficial to He Shuiling's living conditions.

If the relationship between the two is very harmonious, she becomes a pawn for the two.

The two looked at each other for a long time, Long Xiulian suddenly turned his gaze to the outside: "There is a voice, there are people outside!"

Although his ears are still weak, Long Xiulian firmly believes that he heard correctly.

Ye Ansheng walked outside the door and looked around.

Zhong Jianxue, who was hiding on the beam of the corridor, was dripping with sweat one by one.

Zhong Jianxue followed these three people for several days, and finally found them in the penance workshop.

Mohist practitioners and impermanent Taoist practitioners are not strong in perception. Long Xiulian was seriously injured and his hearing was poor, so Zhong Jianxue dared to take such a risk.

But now Ye Ansheng approached step by step, but what should he do?

Play a game with him?
This is the world of the sun, practitioners of the underworld do not take advantage of it, and Ye Ansheng's cultivation is still higher than that of Zhong Jianxue.

What's more, there is He Shuiling in the room.

Zhong Jianxue became more and more nervous, and put his hand on the hilt of the sword.

There was a sound of footsteps, and Ye Ansheng quickly stopped and hid under the stairs.

Two craftsmen entered the craftsman's building, and one craftsman said: "Hurry up and give me the things, it's weird to have to come to this place."

Another craftsman said: "This is a deadly business, what should I do if someone sees it?"

Hearing this, Ye Ansheng felt at ease, and heard the two exchange things in a rustling manner, and quickly left the craftsman's building.

He went back to the house, heaved a sigh of relief and said, "They are two craftsmen who resell equipment."

There are many special tools in the penance workshop, which can only be accessed by high-level craftsmen.

Some high-level craftsmen will occasionally steal one or two pieces and sell them to well-connected craftsmen.

When entering and exiting the penance workshop, the craftsmen will be searched and interrogated. Only these well-connected craftsmen can escape the search, so the transactions are all completed in the workshop.

Today, these two craftsmen happened to come to the craftsman's building, which frightened Ye Ansheng, but saved Zhong Jianxue's life.

With such a small twist, the situation of Long Xiulian and Ye Ansheng eased up a bit.

Ye Ansheng pondered for a while, then suddenly asked: "Could the eunuch have leaked the news?"

He Shuiling said: "You mean Chen Shuncai?"

Long Xiulian pinched his chin and said, "Does he have the guts? Don't want that woman's soul anymore?"

After finishing speaking, he picked up the porcelain bottle on the table and rubbed it for a moment: "Maybe he came here for this woman. It seems that we have to live in another place, and I have to store this thing in another place."

……

In the north of the city, Qingjiang Yuanzi Restaurant.

Chen Shuncai was so drunk that he staggered out of the wine shop.

These days, he lived like this.

Eat wine at night, eat until dawn, get drunk, and fall asleep when you go back.

Sleep until dark, and go to drink at night.

After walking through the street and entering the alley, Xu Zhiqiong quietly followed behind Chen Shuncai.

Relying on Lu Yanyou to inquire, Xu Zhiqiong found Chen Shuncai's residence. He had been waiting at the entrance of this alley for a long time today.

After following two steps, Chen Shun suddenly turned his head, and Xu Zhiqiong immediately hid his figure.

Thanks to Chen Shuncai being drunk, otherwise Xu Zhiqiong wouldn't even have the chance to become invisible. It would be too difficult to follow Chen Shuncai.

Seeing that there was no one behind him, Chen Shun staggered and went back to his small courtyard.

Xu Zhiqiong still wanted to follow, but suddenly he felt someone approaching behind him.

He turned around and saw a man in black.

"Brother Zhong?" Xu Zhiqiong was taken aback.

The man in black waved at Xu Zhiqiong and said, "Brother Ma, talk in another place."

……

Chen Shuncai sat on the stool for a while, thinking about whether to go back to the hut.

When I go back to the hut, I will think of Qu Qiao, think of her cutting fruit, think of her sitting silently by the bed.

Thinking of her, my heart hurts like a knife.

Forget it, just fall asleep in the yard.

Just as Chen Shun was about to lie down on the ground, he suddenly saw Qu Qiao standing in the middle of the yard, looking at him silently.

Is that Qu Qiao?
that is not.

Every time he was drunk, Chen Shuncai could always see Qu Qiao, sometimes on the street, sometimes in the hut.

Knowing that it was an illusion, but every time he saw Qu Qiao, he couldn't help but rush over.

This time was no exception, just as Chen Shun rushed two steps, Qu Qiao disappeared.

Where has she gone?

Why is it gone again?

Chen Shuncai rubbed his eyes and found himself standing by the well.

She fell into the well?

Chen Shuncai was lying on his stomach beside the well, looking at the dark bottom of the well, he seemed to see Qu Qiao's figure.

She was there, she was there.

Chen Shun just laughed and crawled into the well bit by bit.

He is not afraid of falling, he is not afraid of drowning, he is afraid that if he climbs too fast, Qu Qiao will disappear again.

Seeing that his body lost his balance, Chen Shuncai was about to fall into the well when someone behind him suddenly grabbed him.

Chen Shuncai turned around suddenly, and saw a handsome woman standing beside her.

What a handsome woman!
Chen Shuncai has stayed in the palace for so many years, and has seen countless beautiful concubines, but he has never seen such a beautiful woman.

But beauty is not the key, the key is how she got in.

No one in this world can get close to Chen Shuncai without him noticing.

"Who are you?" Chen Shuncai looked the woman up and down.

The woman touched Chen Shuncai's face, sighed and said, "I've wanted to see you for a long time."

"Who are you?" Chen Shun took two steps backwards.

"Since you have the pain of physical disability, why add the pain of mental disability, silly boy, we are all suffering in Taoism, but how can a thought of tenderness in your heart make you suffer so much?"

(End of this chapter)