Gongqing bone

Chapter 108 "The Peony Competition"

Zhou Pan was pacing frantically in the gorgeous inner mansion. He wanted to smash things, but the things were either too heavy or too expensive, and he would feel distressed if he dropped any of them!
From the corner of the eye, he saw Xiao Fudi's confidant, he wanted to hit people, but he also thought about the old ten and others being placed in his team, so he had to deal with the only people left who could be sure to be his own. Everyone in the world has to take two points to please!
So, no matter how angry he was, in the end he just kicked over an embroidered stool, and then sat on the grand master's chair, his chest heaving violently, so as to expel the anger that had no way to vent.

Seeing the master's appearance, the confidants below had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Master, those suspects have all been sent to prison. I think there should be a result soon..."

"Check it out for me! Especially the one who suggested that the prisoner be tortured on the way, he tried every means to pry his mouth open! I want to see what kind of benefits Lao Shi and the others promised him, so that he dared to betray the one who never Treating his master badly!"

Zhou Pan was so angry that the root of his teeth itched, wishing he could skin the man and cramp it himself!

The confidant was also guilty for a while, extorting confessions by torture is a common method used by them, the third master's subordinates, that person may just be clever and want to ask for credit, but he ruined the master's big event if he didn't realize it...

"Also!" Zhou Pan pointed his stubby fingers at his confidant: "Follow the clues given in the original confession to investigate quickly! Not to mention Yunnan, even the ends of the earth, I have to find out their fox tails!"

The confidants complained endlessly, the sky was so high that the emperor was far away, I am afraid that after going there, there would not be a single hair left!

"By the way, master, the owner of Lanzhi Hall who escaped..."

"Look for me too! If you can't find anyone, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

The appearance of Zhou Panwo in the Taishi chair is very similar to the bloated and stupid wolverine crouching in the snow nest; but if he is provoked into a rage, he will mercilessly tear open the prey's chest and die in the snow. Spilling blood like splashing ink, tearing the whole person to pieces.

"Yes! This subordinate understands!" The confidant hurriedly agreed, and left in a hurry without looking back, to do the work of finding a needle in a haystack.

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Half a month later...

"Is there a clue?" Concubine Long spread out her tender hands that were well maintained, and smiled with satisfaction as she saw the sunlight refracted by the blood-red pigeon egg on her finger ring like blood lines.

Sure enough, people still have to be a little fatter to look younger...

Zhou Pan stood aside with his hands down, like a dejected grizzly bear: "Not yet..."

Concubine Long rolled her eyes: "Fortunately, the emperor has not been thinking about this recently, so we mother and son have a chance to breathe—"

"I'll try harder, this time I specially invited you from the imperial prison..."

"A reckless move! You know how to fight and kill all day long. The subordinates are afraid of you instead of respecting you. No wonder there is an inner ghost!"

Concubine Long couldn't contain her anger, she straightened up from the concubine's couch with a "teng--", wishing to poke Zhou Pan's face with a finger wearing a pigeon's blood ruby: "You mean that you have been in the past half a month? No progress at all?"

Zhou Pan scratched his finger: "It's not really counted... Go and arrest the owner of the Lanzhi Hall, and you've caught him!"

"How? Is there anything to do with Zhou Si and Zhou Yan?"

"According to the preliminary interrogation, there is no..."

"Then what kind of good news is this?" Concubine Long's face sank like water, staring at Zhou Pan.

Zhou Pan continued to bite the bullet and said: "But the boy has an unexpected harvest. It turns out that the owner of the Lanzhi Hall is not a serious medicine merchant;

Under the guise of opening a pharmacy, he was actually engaging in lucrative business such as 'five stone powder'.

Now that the incident happened in the capital, he simply hid back to his hometown; when the child's people found him, he was hiding in the village and planting something by himself... Oh!What about Sai Peony! "

"Isn't she the poppies?!" Concubine Long was surprised, "A desperado still has such leisure?"

"Ma'am, is it possible that it's a kind of drug!" A little eunuch beside him said with a low eyebrow.

Zhou Pan took a look at him, and found that it was the little eunuch who brought him cold food and got kicked last time?

Looking at his low-browed, pleasing to the eyes, unobtrusive appearance, he is really knowledgeable!

"A Furong..." The imperial concubine held her chest with one hand, and quickly beckoned the servant girl to bring a box.

The box brought by the maid was a tooth dowry with black lacquer and gold inlays. This dowry was not like the luxurious style that the mother and concubine always liked. The jade hibiscus on the ebony wood was not wiped often, and the hibiscus flowers on it really seemed to wither in autumn. The appearance of defeat.

When the box was opened, there were some bottle-shaped oval dried fruit shells lying inside. The shells were light purple in color, and the cut marks were glowing with a light luster, exuding a light fragrance.

"What is this?"

The imperial concubine replied: "This is Aphrodisiac." Zhou Pan picked up one and shook it gently, and there was a "rustling" sound from inside.

"That's it? What can you do!"

"This is the black incense raw material from Siam, Java, Panggarai and other real estates in Fanbang. It is the same thing as what we call a hibiscus. It is said that it has miraculous effects in curing fatigue, cough, and dampness and heat. It is the same price as gold;

At that time, foreign countries donated dozens of catties, and some prepared brown ointment. When the emperor rewarded it, I thought the ointment smelled bad, so I didn't want it;

You said just now that the owners of Lanzhi Hall are all engaged in profiteering? Concubine Long frowned, puzzled.

"Yes, yes..." Zhou Pan continued in a daze.

"There is a problem, San'er, keep checking!"

"Yes, mother-in-law!"

"And..." Concubine Long waggled her fingers: "I remember hearing from the emperor that day that a tax would be levied on drugs, about one cent seven cents and three cents of tax silver per ten catties..."

Zhou Pan's head was empty, "Just this little money? What's the deal? Besides, isn't this just an ordinary medicine tax?"

Concubine Long Gui slapped him on the head:
"Stupid! If it weren't for the large amount of imports, how would tax be levied? Besides, if it is only effective for coughing, why would it be the same price as gold? Can you use your brain before you speak or act?"

Concubine Long is in a bad mood. Since Wan Zong died, she has no one to talk to, and her only son is useless. Can she not worry?
"Also, change your habit of beating and killing at every turn, and extorting confessions by torture!..."

Zhou Pan opened his mouth several times, but swallowed it back——

Seeing his behavior, Concubine Long became more and more angry: "Say what you have to say! Don't hesitate and babble!"

"Mother, mother concubine, what is Father's attitude towards this matter! My heart is always up and down..."

If you don't look at his appearance, just listen to his tone of voice and appearance, you might think it's a young girl in the age of cardamom!
(End of this chapter)