Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 1050
"It's him?" Shen Yuyu looked surprised after reading the letter, "How could it be him? This is really unexpected."

"What's written in the letter? Him? Who is he referring to?" Jiang Yuyu asked in surprise.

"The person who recommended Jiang Wen to Lin Yi as Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple is most likely a remnant of Wei Yan's party."

"Then who is this person?" Jiang Yue also wanted to know. She had been with Shen Yue for so long and knew everything about the court.

Especially what Jiang Wenwen did when he was in Texas, using the help of Magistrate Jia to get rid of them, shows how vicious he is.

And whoever recommends this kind of person to Dali Temple must be a good person!
Shen Yuyu put the letter away and said, "This person you don't know is a person that Ah Xun trusts more."

"His name is Hong Zhihe, and he is a classmate of Lin Yi. He was depressed before. It was not until Ah Xun entered the capital from Lingzhou, eradicated Prime Minister Zhou and sent his father to the palace that he showed his prominence in front of Ah Xun."

Shen Yuyu narrowed her apricot eyes as she spoke.

Hong Zhihe, this person Ah Xun had told her carefully.

Emperor Qi Heng went to court for the first time after entering the capital, and Hong Zhihe was the first to stand up.

First, he recommended Lin Yi to be the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and then recommended Duan Zhengde, the eldest son of Lord Duan, to be the Minister of War. In short, he recommended Ji Xun's cronies to fill several important positions, so Ji Xun had a pretty good impression of him.

I never thought that he actually had an inextricable relationship with Jiang Wenwen, haha~~ He was really well hidden.

However, Shen Yuyu didn't think that Hong Zhihe was the supporter behind Wei Yan. He was at most Wei Yan's accomplice. The person behind Wei Yan seemed to be no small figure.

"Then what's the next step to investigate?" Jiang Yue asked. "Just arrest Hong Zhihe and ask him to vomit out all Wei Yan's accomplices?'
Shen Yuyu shook his head and did not answer.

She still had to sort out everything in detail.

What is certain at the moment is that firstly, Murong Mansion is the home base of Renyazi's gang, the Peach Blossom League, secondly, Wang Qiu fell into the hands of members of the Peach Blossom League, and thirdly, Hong Zhi and Tongjiang Wenshu are both Wei Yan's remnants.

For other things, such as Murong Jiao being the daughter of Prince Rui and Yongsheng Trading Company being Wei Yan's property, there is no evidence yet, but it will eventually be found out.

"The matter is a bit complicated, we have to investigate slowly." Shen Yuyu said, "There is no good way at the moment. We can only continue to monitor Murong Mansion, Yongsheng Trading Company and the brothel next to the trading company. In addition, we have to find a way to capture Wang Qiu. find out."

Jiang Yuyu nodded.

Since you don't want to alarm the other party, that's all you can do.

Otherwise, if we send people to Murong's Mansion to search, and then arrest Wei Yan's accomplices and torture them, wouldn't everything be revealed?
Jiang Yuyu's thoughts were simpler than Shen Yuyu's. Even a small-time trafficker in the Peach Blossom League would bite his tongue and commit suicide to keep the secret. It would be even harder to find out the big fish behind Wei Yan's accomplices from Wei Yan's accomplices.

After talking about this matter in the water pavilion for a while, Shen Yue also felt sleepy. He couldn't bear it anymore after not sleeping all night, so he and Jiang Yue went back to rest.

At this moment, at Wushe Villa outside the city, Wang Qiu was sitting on a chair with his hands and feet tied, a cloth stuffed in his mouth.

When Mudan sent people out this morning, she encountered Aunt Yun catching insects in the rice fields. Mudan noticed that someone was following her, so she asked Aunt Yun to carry Wang Qiu away directly, and she drove the empty car back.

This move was not very clever, but it deceived Shen Yue.

"Tear off the cloth at the corner of her mouth." The woman, still wearing plain clothes and a plain V-hat, wrote on the cardboard.

"Yes." Aunt Yun nodded, stretched out her hand and pulled off the cloth from Wang Qiu's mouth.

"Who are you? Why did you arrest me here?" Wang Qiu was so frightened that he trembled all over.

She has been locked up in a secret room in Murong Mansion these days. People bring food and water every day, but no one pays attention to her.

After eating last night, I suddenly fainted from the medicine. When I woke up, I was in another place. There was a woman sitting in front of me who smelled of medicine.The woman reached out to lift her chin and seemed to take a few glances.

"Ugly~~" She spoke out such a word with a voice like a broken gong. This terrifying voice made Wang Qiu's hair stand on end.

After looking at Wang Qiu's face, the woman's eyes fell on the jade pendant hanging around Wang Qiu's neck, then she sat back and slowly leaned back on the chair.

She raised her hand, picked up the paper and pen on the table, and wrote on it: "Cut off her tongue, chop off a finger, and send it to Prince Rui along with the jade pendant.

"Yes, Master." Aunt Yun responded honestly and called for someone to go.

Wang Qiu was illiterate and didn't know what was written on the paper. He looked at the woman and begged.

"Good man, good man, please let me go. I really haven't done anything bad. Please, please spare me."

The woman snorted coldly and wrote on the cardboard: "Spare you? 29 years ago, your father sent people to surround the East Palace, poured kerosene into the East Palace, and set it on fire mercilessly. How did he spare us?"

Wang Qiu stared at the cardboard for a few times, not recognizing a single word, shaking his head and begging.

"Old madam, I can't read. If you have anything to say, just tell me. As long as you let me go, you can do whatever you want me to do."

The woman gritted her teeth, her voice like a broken gong filled with utter hatred.

"I~~want~~to take you and cut you into pieces with a thousand knives~~ten thousand!'
Wang Qiu's face was full of horror, and he almost fainted from fright.

At this time, the door was pushed open with a creak, and Aunt Yun was holding a plate in her hand. On the plate was a box and a knife, followed by an old eunuch who came in together.

"You, what do you want to do?" Wang Qiu was so frightened that he fell off the stool and crawled back desperately, but his father-in-law grabbed his ankle.

"Don't be afraid. Our family used to specialize in cleaning people's bodies. It can be removed with just one knife. Don't be afraid, girl."

The husband said sympathetically, dragging Wang Qiu to him with all his strength.

Wang Qiu cried desperately.

"I'm not a man. I don't need to cleanse myself. Let me go! Let me go!"

Father-in-law Sen smiled coldly, raised his hand and strangled Wang Qiu's throat.

Wang Qiu couldn't breathe. He was pinched so hard that he rolled his eyes and his tongue stuck out of his mouth. At this time, his father-in-law raised the knife and dropped it. Wang Qiu suddenly screamed and fainted.

That wasn't the end yet, the father-in-law took Zhu Qiu's hand again, cut off her little finger at the root, then picked up two bloody objects and placed them on the brocade on the tray.

The woman stared at these two things and let out a strange smile, as if she was extremely happy.

She wrapped the two things in a brocade handkerchief with her own hands, then squatted in front of Wang Qiu and took off the jade pendant from her neck. She put the three things into the box together, closed the lid, then dragged the cardboard aside and wrote quickly.

"Ayun, send the box to Prince Rui's Mansion."

"It's best to hire a homeless man, a beggar or something to send it over. You can keep an eye on it in the dark and be sure not to reveal the truth."

"Yes, Master." Aunt Yun took the order and went out holding the box.

(End of this chapter)