Hexi

Chapter 314 Re-entering the Tiger's Den
Su Shou eased his tone: "It's not so serious, but thinking that Madam is a woman, maybe it will be more convenient to do this."

"Sir, just say it."

Su Shou was silent for a moment, and said, "Now if you want Chang Wei to confess, there are only two ways to go. One is to persuade his wife and children, and the other is to pressure his own safety. He has let Chang He go. , Even his wife did not reveal the truth, which shows that he has already made plans to give up, this road will not work. I plan to find an entry point from him.”

Aunt Rong stared: "But Chang Wei's details have been emptied, and he only needs to confess his guilt. I'm afraid it will be difficult to find something that can suppress him."

"Let's try it first." Su Shou said briefly, "Chang Wei's only way to steal weapons is to rebel, but he has left no other evidence other than that. Not enough to arrest him for the crime of treason. Chang Wei's wife didn't know what Chang Wei had committed, not because Chang Wei didn't trust her, but because it happened suddenly at night, and he didn't expect that he would not come back. Go. So I think, in the past few years, Chang Wei probably gave his wife something to protect her life. The wife came from Chang’s family and was once trusted by Chang’s wife. It’s best for you to handle it.”

Aunt Rong was silent for a moment: "I left the mansion on the night when the incident happened, and I didn't return for several days. Before I left, I made a plan not to go back. I'm afraid the Chang family has doubts about me. But it's not a big problem, Ning's Not as good as Chang Wei's, and now that Chang's house is guarded by officers and soldiers, at least I won't be in any danger if I go here."

Su Shou nodded: "Now the son of Duke Zhen Guo, Han Mo, who is ordered to guard the Chang family, is trustworthy, but in order to avoid complications, it is not time to reveal his identity, Madam, please remember not to reveal his identity. "

"I know." Mrs. Rong looked up, "Mr. is bothering you."

The words in the room were soft and slow, gradually being suppressed in the quiet moonlight.

Su Wei came back from the ancestral hall, and meditated for a long time under the window facing the lamp.

Anyway, she sent this reply letter to Han Mo, and now she can only hope that he will get the clue as soon as possible.

"Isn't it enough for him to harm Xue's family? It's enough to skin and cramps!" Duke Zhen scolded, looked at him and said, "Why do you ask this?"

Han Mo still wanted to hold him back and babble, but he ran away in a gust of wind, muttering something in his mouth, "That guy has to nag me again..."

Mrs. Rong was still dressed in civilian clothes, and she was standing under the screen wall in the front yard with a bundle on her shoulders. In front of her was Song Yan with her chest around her chest and the guards of the Duke's Mansion.

Both father and son have been busy with this big case recently, and have not met a few times. Han Mo wondered, "Father didn't go to Dali Temple today?"

When Han Mo heard the words, he was mostly sober from the wine!He stepped up the steps disobediently: "Where is she?"

Duke Zhen couldn't answer for a while.I had to ask, "Where is she?"

Yang You walked in quickly, so fast that he was out of breath: "My lord, the one from Chang's house, that maid named Rong Sao, has gone back to Chang's house again!"

Lu Ling's reply was sent after breakfast the next day. Since he only got the anonymous letter and did not have Mrs. Rong's handwriting for comparison, he could only conclude that the owner of the letter was a calm woman, and Which school the calligrapher came from waits for information, but these are already in line with Mrs. Rong, only the calligraphy genre makes people wonder, if she is a servant from a declining clan in the south, how can she still know how to write?Planting flowers and serving grass is to cater to the master's preferences, and it doesn't make sense to be able to read and write.

Han Mo didn't complete his errands, so he didn't dare to enter the palace for several days. In the afternoon, he had dinner with some officials from the Third Division and Yin Linyi from Shuntian Mansion and others, and discussed the many officials from other divisions who were implicated by Chang Wei. , Han Mo just kept silent and listened to their discussion. After the banquet, he returned to the mansion, and happened to meet Zhen Guogong who was going out under the second gate.

……

"what?!"

"That guy?" Han Mo was at a loss, wondering why his usually calm father would lose his demeanor so much for someone?

"It's gone. She fled the Chang's house when the incident happened that night, and she hasn't been seen since."

Zhen Guogong said: "The Defense Department is repairing the machine today, and I made an appointment with Su Shaoqing to go there for inspection. Hey, why are you back?"

"Hey--"

"Sir!"

Han Mo didn't know what to say, so he could only say briefly: "The reason why I was able to catch Chang Wei at Liushu Alley in time was because Miss Su received an anonymous letter, which suggested that Chang Wei might be there. And we later found a woman with suspicious origins in Chang's house, we suspect that she sent the anonymous letter to Miss Su."

Han Mo nodded: "If only the Xue family is enmity, then all the female family members of the Xue family will be exiled to the northwest, and it is said that there are not many people left. It is impossible for them to have the ability to sneak into the Chang family. The only thing left is the Xue family. However, why did all these disciples hibernate in those years and let a woman enter the Chang family to take risks?"

Stepping into Chang's house again, this grand official residence is very different from the previous appearance.

Han Mo said: "I drank two more cups, and I'll come back to rest for a while." After he finished, he paused, and then said: "How is the trial of Chang Wei between Father and Su Shaoqing?"

……

"What else?" Duke Zhen was also stunned.

"It's at Chang's house right now!"

Han Mo said, "Then does father know, apart from murdering Xue's family, who else did Chang Wei have feud with?"

Lord Zhen shook his head when he heard this mentioned: "That thief Chang opened his mouth like it was welded to molten iron, and he insisted on not opening his mouth. If I could directly send him to the execution ground, I could kill him several times! Unfortunately, I can't."

"Send more people to look for it." Zhen Guogong said as he stepped down the steps, "I still have something to do, so I have to go first. If you have any news, let me know!"

"Since you went out, knowing that the Chang family has been imprisoned, why did you come back?" Song Yan had already heard about Sao Rong's background from Han Mo, and his tone was neither polite nor vicious.

Aunt Rong looked at the ground: "If you go back to the official, the maidservant just went out of the mansion to pursue our second master that night, and didn't decide to leave the mansion because of this. Our wife treats me well, and I can't be ungrateful. I heard that the officials are not ungrateful." You are a reasonable person, so you have the courage to come back. Please let the official let me go to see our wife."

Song Yan raised his eyebrows: "But we went to see your house, and it doesn't look like a person who intends to live in it at all. Moreover, we also found that you can read and write, and you have pens and ink hidden in your house. A servant, why did you ever read? Practice calligraphy? And you have to hide it, don't you think we should explain it?"

Aunt Rong raised her head and raised her mouth slightly: "I'm a noble servant of the clan, so it's no big deal if I can practice calligraphy."

(End of this chapter)