The cold noodle emperor and the pretty princess

"My lord, spare my life, my lord, spare my life! The young one really doesn't know anything, and the young one is just a well-behaved businessman..." The treasurer of Baoyuzhai prostrated on the ground with a faceless face, his face turned pale with fright. Stop shivering.

"I'll ask you again! Where did you come from, this phoenix hairpin? Tell me!"

The sun was shining brightly at this moment, and it was noon.

The entrance of Baoyuzhai was surrounded by a group of soldiers like three layers of iron barrels.

Kang Wang Chuxuan and Cheng Wang Churong sat in front of the Baoyuzhai people who were kneeling all over the floor.

Chu Xuan played with the hairpin in her palm with one hand, and looked gloomyly at the shopkeeper who was crawling at her feet and kept trembling.

The shopkeeper bumped his head and suddenly raised his face and shouted, "The little one was taken from Wang Ergou. The little one really doesn't know the truth!"

Chu Xuan narrowed her eyes coldly.

Cheng Wang Churong asked quickly, "Shopkeeper, who is this Wang Ergou, and where is he at the moment?"

"He is a low-level ruffian who does not do business all day long. At this moment, he should be in a nearby gambling house at this moment!"

Chu Xuan glanced at Yeying in a blink of an eye.

The latter nodded knowingly, clasped his fists and said, "This subordinate will do it right away, please wait, my lord."

After Ye Ying drew a small group of people and left, the air suddenly became quiet.

This excruciating time passed by bit by bit, very slowly.The shopkeeper didn't dare to speak out, and Baoyuzhai's staff didn't dare to speak out, they just knelt down with their heads down, as if they were dead.The prince didn't cry out, no one dared to move, just wasted like this.

About half an hour passed.

Ye Ying escorted a disheveled, disheveled ruffian into the room, and kicked him to his knees in front of the prince.

"The villain Wang Ergou has seen the two princes." The ruffian raised his face, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen and dirty.You can't blame him for being so embarrassed. After receiving the old shopkeeper's 80 taels of silver notes, this guy immediately went to the gambling shop to squander it all. He lost everything and borrowed 30 taels of usury. When Ye Ying came to him, he was being beaten by the crowd , if Yeying hadn't rescued him, he might have been thrown into Zhanjiang Minhu Lake at this moment, and his body sank to the bottom of the water.

"I ask you, this phoenix hairpin, but you gave it to the shopkeeper of Baoyuzhai." Chu Xuan held the phoenix hairpin and shook it slightly in front of the ruffian.

Wang Ergou looked at the handsome prince, smiled a little foolishly, and nodded, "Yes, my lord, I gave it to shopkeeper Luo."

The shopkeeper, who was prostrate on the ground, heaved a sigh of relief while holding his chest.

"I'll ask you again! How did this hairpin fall into your hands? What did you do? Who did you meet? What happened to you? Tell me the truth!" A series of questions stunned the ruffian. .

He scratched his head, "I picked this up."

"Where did you pick it up?"

Wang Ergou smiled and glanced at Chu Xuan, "My lord wants to know, so it depends on how much you are willing to spend on this news."

"Bold!" Ye Ying scolded angrily, and quickly drew out her sword, "Dare to threaten the prince, do you want to live?"

"Don't dare!" Wang Ergou hurriedly shrank his hands in fright.

Chu Xuan lightly waved her hand to let Ye Ying retreat, her cold eyes swept over the terrified Wang Ergou, and suddenly swept her sleeves, "Give him 1000 taels, and immediately lead the way for this king!"

"Thank you, my lord, thank you, my lord." Wang Ergou kowtowed frequently, happily took the 1000 taels of silver note, stuffed it into his pocket, and set off immediately.

A group of people got on their horses and followed Wang Ergou out of the city.

Straight to the outskirts of Yecheng, on a barren slope, Wang Ergou pointed over there, "My lord, I found it here when I returned to Beijing two days ago. There are many dead people there. I dare not go. The hairpin is Picked it up under that tree."

Chu Xuan rode to the scene of the accident.

The horses circled back and forth along the coagulated blood all over the ground.

King Cheng immediately rushed to his side, got off his horse and looked around, raised his head coldly, "All of them were killed with a single blow, and the attack was extremely vicious."

"My lord, this person is Lei Hu." Ye Ying flipped through the wanted poster in his hand, and compared the man lying on the cold ground, dying with regret.

"Qin'er..." Chu Xuan's eyes were reddened, and she scanned the corpses in this area back and forth.

King Cheng knelt down to inspect Lei Hu's body, he was stunned for a while, "What a cruel technique, he was whipped to death."

"My lord, there is no one alive nearby."

"Qin'er." Chu Xuan rode his horse down the hillside.

Ye Ying was shocked, jumped on the horse and chased after him, "My lord!"

Half an hour later, Chu Xuan and Ye Ying came back with nothing.Seeing that his face was livid, his lips were pale, and his complexion was extremely bad, King Cheng couldn't help but said, "Ninth brother, don't get angry, you are very tired these days, you should go back to the mansion to rest, and I will leave it to my brother here." It's done."

"How can I continue to rest? Qin'er's life or death is uncertain, good or bad is hard to tell. At this moment, how can I have the mood to rest..."

"Ninth brother, you don't have to worry too much. I think this matter may turn around, and maybe the imperial concubine will be rescued by an expert." Cheng Wang pondered for a while, "Although there are traces of massacre here, there is no noble concubine. It can be seen that the imperial concubine is still safe so far."

"Ye Ying, did you find out that Lei Hu's family lives in Daozhou?"

"Yes, my lord." Ye Ying nodded, "Lei Hu's wife, children and mother all live in his hometown in Daozhou."

"Catch them all back for questioning. I want to know who this Lei Hu has been in contact with, maybe there are clues to check."

"Ninth Brother." Cheng Wang frowned, "I'm afraid these women and children don't know anything about what Lei Hu usually does, so why bother them?"

Chu Xuan sneered, her black pupils were cold and ruthless, "I don't care about so much, innocent or accomplices, I have to catch them all and ask them all! If there is something wrong with Qin'er, All these people were buried with them to death.”

King Cheng sighed.

"Continue to search! Every inch and every inch of the land will be searched thoroughly by this king, and no doubts can be missed, and any news will be reported immediately."

"It's the lord!"

****I am the dividing line of the prince********

After noon.In Yanning Palace, the Empress Dowager was talking to her own niece Li Cairou.

This Li Cairou is decent, dignified and virtuous, the more the Empress Dowager looks at her, the more she likes her, the more she looks at her, the more she feels that Cairou looks like an empress.If this niece can give birth to a man and a half woman for the emperor, is the empress position still within easy reach?

She smiled, and gently put down the tea bowl, "The emperor, in the past few days, still stayed in the study, and didn't call you to bed?"

Li Cairou lowered her head in shame and shook her head slightly.

"The emperor doesn't know what he is doing. Every day he is either in the study or going to the prison. Is there anything else in this prison that is worthy of his fancy?"

"I heard that the Holy Majesty is interrogating a woman who pretends to be an imperial concubine."

"Hmph. The Ai family really made a mistake back then, they shouldn't have pointed this imperial concubine into the palace." A cold light shot out from the Empress Dowager's eyes.

Who would have thought that a fool who could be controlled in his hands would suddenly transform into such an exquisite, wise, intelligent and flawless person. If she had known this before, why did she do it in the first place?