Gongqing bone

Chapter 103 Five Stone Powder

Before he knew it, spring had arrived, and Du Heng's mood was improving day by day compared to the previous days.

She took a walk in Xue's garden, took a deep breath, and her nostrils were filled with the smell of ice and snow; but this breath had become fresh and warm with the warmer weather.

She squinted her eyes, watching the birds settling down on the scattered residual snow, and the grass seemed to turn green again the next year, and her mood gradually jumped with joy.

Some time ago, she worked with Xue Feibai, and secretly let Xue Feiqing "know" how many important criminals Luoyang had mastered, and left the rest to Xue Feiqing and Zhou Xian.

Zhou Xian was quick at work, Du Heng saw the good news when he saw Xue Feibai running towards her.

Xue Feibai was really excited, he took a handful of fish food from Du Heng's hand, and sprinkled it all down.

The fishes in their hands surged upwards, opening their mouths wide and desperately eating their stomachs round and fat, without bursting their stomachs.

Du Heng watched him make a gesture before feeding, frowned and withdrew his hand: "Is there anyone who feeds fish like this?"

Xue Fei's white eyes were filled with crescent moons: "I'm so happy!"

"It makes me happy to say anything good."

"Ahem!" Xue Feibai said softly, straightening his clothes:

"Zhou Yan used the name of Zhou Pan to negotiate with the governor of Henan with a lot of money, saying that he could bring the documents from Henan to Beijing, and promised that those criminals would be brought back to the capital without being killed. ', Henan officials will not suffer at both ends;
Now that the prince has said so, wouldn't it be ignorant if the Governor of Henan shouldn't step down?Besides, they didn't take any risks themselves; the struggle to seize the heirloom was getting more and more intense, and it was not appropriate for them to offend the prince as a big official in the frontier.

The prefect of Luoyang is also a cunning one, known for his non-stick pans, he was going to hand over those criminals who were like hot potatoes to his boss, but the boss didn't accept it!He simply didn't interrogate well.

If they had been interrogated separately, they would have been defeated one by one. Now those people Zhou Yan was arrested are still as hard to open their mouths as clam shells. Didn't they also thanks to the prefect of Luoyang? ..."

"Stop, stop --" Du Heng waved his hand, "What kind of good news are you talking about? I didn't hear a good word!"

"Listen to me! Didn't Zhou Xian also know about these things? He suddenly went to the emperor to ask for an order to call the governor of Sichuan back to Beijing. We don't know the reason, but he did it anyway——

Zhou Xian also took advantage of the advantages of the Ministry of Officials, and spread a gossip that 'the prefect of Luoyang is expected to move to Sichuan'. Then the governor of Sichuan passed through Luoyang, and the prefect of Luoyang, who was trusted, could not rush to curry favor?
So, the prefect of Luoyang, who thinks he is smart, directly handed over the criminals to the governor of Sichuan, who was still confused! "

"Hahahahaha!" Du Heng held back his aching stomach from laughing. The governor of Sichuan is the direct descendant of Zhou Pan, the serious third prince. It's no wonder Zhou Yan doesn't shed his skin when he falls into his hands!

Zhou Xian's trick of "falsely attacking Guo" is really wonderful!

"The Zhou family is only a sensible person like Zhou Xian..." Xue Fei said bluntly, but his eyes turned into the distance, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

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Zhou Pan hated the old Bayi Party to the bone, and now he has the opportunity to send it to his door.

After he heard the news for the first time, he loaded the thief in the prison car and swaggered all the way to Beijing, wishing to spread the news along the way and fly all over the country;
Then he sent his own soldiers and invited the Escort Bureau to guard him.With this posture, even if it is a fly passing by, he will not let a single one go; he is not afraid that someone will come to rob the prisoner, but he is afraid that someone will not come to rob the prisoner!
He was still yelling that when he returned to Beijing, he would interrogate himself to see who was so daring enough to make black powder privately.

Later, his not-so-bright brain melon seeds actually figured out some things for the first time. He intuitively felt that this group of thieves would be related to the gold mine incident that was rumored in Beijing some time ago:
Wu Youdong, the prefect of Chuncheng, happened to write a letter a few days ago, saying that the discovery of a fake gold mine in Yunnan caused people to scramble, and the fact that gunpowder was used to open the mine at the scene, how can there be such a coincidence in the world!

Deeply aware that although Zhou Pan, who has discovered the truth, is still acting recklessly, he can't help but pay attention to it: he has begun to carry out a soft policy uncharacteristically.

So not only can he not interrogate in advance, he can't even intervene in the interrogation; he must also protect the suspect.It's best to let the father's people go to the trial!

Zhou Pan only felt that he had opened up the two veins of Ren and Du, and even felt in a trance that he had operated two big and small Zhoutians, and his mind had never been so clear.

So when the prisoner was escorted to Beijing, Zhou Pan only asked a few simple questions. Unexpectedly, the guy confessed everything in a hurry, and it was exactly as he guessed: Lao Ba and the others dared to make gunpowder and firearms by themselves!

But the problem is...

Zhou Pan looked at the prisoner's scarred appearance, and a confession with more bloody handprints than words. Isn't this a typical "beating into a trick"?Are your subordinates a little too smart? ...

He had no time to think about it. There was already such a commotion, so he had to take a shower and change clothes, choose his father's usual attire, and even find a counselor to sum up his speech skills before he dared to pass the sign into the palace.

When she saw the figure of her mother and concubine Long Guifei in the inner palace far away, she felt relieved: at least she won't be in a restricted situation like last time...

He strode forward, passing by the medicine mortar, binaural medicine pot, medicine pestle, etc. scattered on the side.

The mortar looked like brass, but Zhou Pan reckoned it should be gold.

A row of realgar, amethyst, white quartz, sulfur, red stone fat and other miscellaneous things are all stored in Chenghua Doucai seawater exotic animal pattern medicine tank.

The blue smoke was about to go out, and there was still a faint black smoke lingering in the room; Zhou Pan always felt that the solemn hall had become smoky like a kitchen.

At this time, his concubine mother was moving her fingers that were as moist and plump as pearls inside an oyster, and she was holding a blue-and-white high-footed bowl with double-dragon patterns in sea water and dark-flowered dragon patterns in both hands. The bowl was separated by a layer of butterfly-pink The handkerchief rested on the palm of her hand, as if the contents of the bowl could easily trample the flowery beauty above the clouds under her feet.

Concubine Long took advantage of the time when the emperor drank the medicine in the bowl, and flirted with Zhou Pan.That probably meant that she didn't know how the emperor felt after taking Wushi powder.

The emperor swung his arms a few times and rolled his sleeves into a ball. Using his sleeves, he wiped off the medicine stains on his beard, untied the outermost jade belt impatiently, and held Concubine Long's hand, Sitting on the jade steps with his buttocks seemed to make him much cooler.

After sitting for a while, he couldn't stay any longer, as if he had a hot stove in his chest that he couldn't throw out, and began to pace impatiently on the shiny ground.

He glanced sideways and seemed to see Zhou Pan, Zhou Pan immediately took the hot wine his mother had prepared with ease, quickly poured it into a chicken heart bowl and served it.

After the old emperor drank a cup impatiently, before Zhou Pan poured him a second cup, he grabbed the flagon and drank from the spout.

Seeing this, Zhou Pan took the initiative to take off the soft old clothes with frayed edges that his father had worn for many years.

(End of this chapter)