Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 34 The Highest Price
A piece of paper was handed behind the screen.

After a while, another beautiful maid came out with it and handed it to Ji Wen.

"Ji Wen also take a look."

"Yes, prime minister."

Ji Wen looked at it, and saw that the maps of Daozheng and Changle were drawn with a brush on it, and the locations of sixteen households were simply framed.

"This is the hiding place of the dead in the East Palace, which I inferred based on Wu Kangcheng's night patrol route." Xue Bai said: "The reaction of the East Palace proves that this picture is correct."

"Your Prime Minister." Ji Wen said: "You don't need to be so troublesome, you will know after winning the first trial of Wukang Cheng."

"What if Jifa Cao can't be interrogated?" Xue Bai asked, "So what if these dead soldiers are forced to die?"

"According to what you mean, are you looking for each family? You should easily mobilize the sixteen guards of Nanya?"

"I only know that Ji Facao has been busy for a whole year, and the dead bodies piled up like a mountain, but the momentum of the Eastern Palace has not decreased but increased. And although I am not talented, I am about to get the lifeline of the Eastern Palace."

"you!"

At this time, Cang Bi came to report again: "Ah Lang, Guo Qianli has arrived."

"Let him in."

After a while, the clanging of armor sounded.

"Guo Qianli, the left middle guard of the Jinwu Guard, has met the right minister, and the right minister is healthy!"

"Guo Qianli, let me ask you the truth, after you and Xue Bai inspected Daozheng and Changle Erfang the night before, did you send someone to secretly watch over ten houses according to what Xue Bai said?"

"Have!"

Guo Qianli responded loudly, and said: "Mr. Right, Mr. Xue Xiaolang is careful in doing things, and the general finds nothing unusual. Mr. Xue Xiaolang insists on checking again."

"So far, have you ever seen suspicious people leave these ten houses?"

"No, Marquis Wu are all watching, not even a fly can fly out of these houses!"

As he said that, Guo Qianli cupped his hands and asked again: "Your Prime Minister, will the last general lead his troops to search?!"

Li Linfu remained silent for a while.

The prime minister passed the Shangshu province, and the sixteen guards of Nanya issued ten men, ten horses, and ten military weapons, so there was no need to wait for the saint's edict.

Before that, Li Linfu directly mobilized more than twenty right guards to go out of the city to arrest Jiang Mao and Jiang Hai, but he did not expect that they could kill several right guards, which really gave him a shock.

This time, a dozen or even dozens of fierce veterans were to be arrested, fearing that hundreds of people would have to be mobilized.

With the power of the Right Prime Minister, of course there is a solution, but you can't let hundreds of soldiers break into the official house at will in Chang'an City, it is too easy to be accused of treason.

At least the news should be accurate.

In the end, he couldn't show the courage to search Chang'an after all.

"Guo Qianli, the people who lead you continue to keep an eye on this Erfang."

"Here."

"Ji Wen and Xue Bai, let the two of you investigate and use all means to find out the truth!"

Ji Wen hurriedly saluted and asked, "Your Prime Minister, can you hand over Wukang to Ji Wen?"

"The truth has been said, we will do everything we can."

"Here."

Ji Wen was overjoyed and responded quickly.

"Xue Bai."

"exist."

"Finish this matter as soon as possible, I'm waiting for you to change your mind."

"We must live up to the expectations of the right side."

Ji Wen watched coldly, with mixed feelings in his heart.

If Xue Bai handles this matter well, he will reach the sky in one step and become the son-in-law of the prime minister's mansion.But at the same time, Prime Minister Right didn't forget him, Ji Wen, and beat Xue Bai to cooperate with him.

This is to urge them to kill the prince.

~~
The front yard of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

Xin Twelve bent over, hurried up to Ji Wen, and called, "Ah Lang."

There was a smell of stench in front of him, and Ji Wen grabbed Xin Twelve's collar.

"Have you found out the details of Xue Bai? Do you know that the right minister wanted to recruit him as his son-in-law? We have to find a way to prevent him from being reused by the right minister. Don't you feel that he doesn't like me?!"

"Yes, even villains don't like him." Xin Twelve replied holding his breath.

"My Dalang has an extraordinary demeanor. He proposed marriage to the Right Prime Minister several times, but he refused to agree. He actually fell in love with Xue Bai? I have been in the saddle for so many years, but in the end, I am not as good as a little bastard of unknown origin?"

Due to the case of Du's family, the two sides already had grievances. How could Ji Wen let Xue Bai fight for the right minister's favor and climb up the ladder in front of his eyes? He couldn't help being a little annoyed.

Xin Twelve breathed carefully, and said, "Ah Lang, the villain is a little strange."

"Say."

"How can anyone really lose their memory and still act as usual? That Zhuzi refuses to report his family name, maybe there is something hidden?"

"Do you think I don't know? Why do you think Prime Minister Right asked me to check his details?!" Ji Wen pointed to the heavy guards outside the gate of Prime Minister Right's mansion, and said in a low voice, "Prime Minister Right is worried that he is an enemy. Do you know Prime Minister Right? How many enemies are there? That's exactly how I thought about it, so I thought that Xue Bai would definitely accept the arrangement from the Eastern Palace, but unexpectedly, he refused."

Xin Twelve took a piece of information from Ji Wen and looked at it, and said, "He doesn't recognize it? There is no more prominent family named Xue in Chang'an who lost their son."

"I usually hide it deliberately, but today I said that I want to find my biological parents."

"Ah Lang, the villain has an idea." Xin Twelve said: "If we can't find out, how about we also arrange a background for him? If the East Palace can do it, why can't Alang do it?"

Ji Wen's eyes flickered, he began to think, and finally said: "Come here with your ears."

Xin Twelve was a little reluctant, but he still moved his head.

"There is indeed a family surnamed Xue whose family status is higher than that of Xue Rengui's descendants. His family was ransacked and wiped out by the right minister... You can make arrangements."

"Alang's trick!"

Ji Wen smiled slightly, secretly thinking that there is no need to check those bullshit files anymore.

It's still refreshing to do things in your own way.

"Send me another yamen servant to take down Wu Kangcheng, and I will try him hard!"

~~
Xue Bai also left the Right Prime Minister's residence.

The Tian brothers immediately came up to meet them.

"Xue Langjun, shall we go and get those traitors?"

But Jiao Nu snorted coldly first, and said: "It's good now, half of the credit for getting it is taken away."

Li Linfu asked her to follow Xue Bai for the sake of the prince's dead man, and she would have credit for this matter if it was done. She was obviously quite upset at letting Ji Wen share the credit at this time.

She understood that the East Palace wooed Xue Bai, and the Right Prime Minister had no choice but to woo Xue Bai. This matter made the Right Prime Minister unhappy.

"It doesn't matter." Xue Bai said, "It's better for Cao Jifa to find out first, and then we go to arrest people with General Guo."

"Oh, you are generous."

Tian Shengong hurriedly explained: "Xue Langjun is right, those Longyou veterans are very tough, it's good to find out."

Tian Shenyu curled her lips, disapproving of what her brother said.

Looking at Xue Bai's calm and composed look, he already had a premonition that he would meet those people again soon, and this time, he would never let them escape again.

"Let's go." Xue Bai got on the horse and said, "Let's go to Daozhengfang to have a look."

~~
"Where did Xue Bai go today?"

In Du's house, Du Youlin rarely called Du Wulang to have a chat, but it was Xue Bai who asked.

"Why does Grandpa care about this?" Du Wulang was called by his two sisters to have a long talk, and asked in a somewhat tentative tone: "The Bo Taigong's family has sent someone here again?"

"Asshole, it's not time for you to ask me about my father."

Du Wulang shrank his neck, and replied: "Yes, Xue Bai went to see the right minister, and said that if I have time at noon, I can go to Qingmen with him for lunch."

"Qingmen?"

"Yes, there is a restaurant in Qingmen that does a good job of fish cakes."

"Where?"

"Daozheng Fang." Du Wulang said, "the north gate of the Fang is facing Chunlinmen Street. There is a Wang's shop, which is a famous restaurant in Chang'an."

He looked over, but saw that Du Youlin's expression remained unchanged, he just nodded.

"Well, I know for my father, let's go."

As if he had been pardoned, Du Wulang immediately left the study, bypassed the small bamboo garden, and ran to the east side hall.

But he saw Du Jin sitting there drinking tea.

"Second Sister." Du Wulang said: "Grandfather really asked me, shall I go to Qingmen to look for Xue Bai now?"

"No rush." ​​Du Jin put down her teacup and said, "You wait for me here."

Du Wulang was a little uneasy, and asked, "Are you really going? I'm not afraid of offending Grandpa."

Du Jin smiled slightly, and said, "Grandfather, did you mention his own future?"

"Of course he won't mention it to me."

"He not only won't mention it to you, he won't mention it to Bo Taigong either. I won't persuade him, our family's efforts for Bo Taigong are for nothing, and we will only drink northwest wind from now on?"

"Oh."

Du Wulang scratched his head and said, "Then I'll wait for you?"

Du Jin nodded, sat for a while, and then went to the study.

On the steps, Quan Rui was standing guard there.

"Second mother."

Du Jin said, "Why did Wulang faint in the courtyard?"

Quan Rui was taken aback, and hurried a few steps towards the backyard.

Du Jin calmly walked to the door of the study and stretched out her hand to push it.

"Hey, Er Niang, you..."

In the study room, the two people who were talking to each other turned their heads with stern eyes.

Du Jin was not afraid of them, and gracefully saluted Wanfu, saying, "Grandpa, you are so confused."

……

Du Wulang glanced out of the side hall uneasily, only to see Quan Rui hurried to the study and fell down.

He became more and more anxious, Xin Dao's second sister still thought of herself as the prince Liangdi, she might have gotten into trouble this time, and he didn't know if she would be beaten up by Grandpa.

But after a while, Du Jin walked over calmly.

"Second sister, is grandpa angry?"

Du Jin smiled, handed an object to Du Wulang, and said, "Go."

"Oh."

Du Wulang glanced in the direction of the study again, but no one was chasing him, so he hurried to the stable, chose a horse, and rode to Qingmen Restaurant.

However, he didn't notice that today the Marquis Wu in Shengpingfang were patrolling the streets, all staring in the direction of Du's house.

"Remember, Du Wulang left Du's residence half an hour after Du Hope sent someone to meet Du Youlin..."

~~
Daozhengfang, Wang Jian's house.

"Come and see."

"What's the matter?"

"That kid is here again."

Jiang Hai frowned, and went up to the small building, only to see a few people leading horses standing in the alley outside the house and looking around, it was Xue Bai.Apart from a maidservant, two right guards followed behind her.

"Is it him?" The person who spoke was a big man named Tuoba Mao, and said with some viciousness: "I think it was him, I buried him alive with my own hands."

"Well, he knows we're here?"

"If he could confirm it, the traitor would have done it a long time ago. I guess he has some doubts. If he finds out, he will do it."

"Then we're going to have a big fight."

"Don't worry, wait for the order. The above said that there is already a way to stop this kid from investigating."

Tuoba Mao turned his head to look in another direction, frowned suddenly, and hurried down the small building.

At this time Xue Bai was still in the alley on the east side of the house, but there was a visitor from the west side door, a middle-aged man in a dark blue official robe.

"Why is Mr. Pei here at this time?" Tuoba Mao hurriedly opened the door to welcome him in, and said: "The traitor is still watching."

"It's okay, I'm also staring at him." The visitor looked calm, and said: "The situation has changed, Wu Kangcheng has been taken, you have to leave Chang'an immediately."

(End of this chapter)