Jinghong Tower

Chapter 316 Found (two chapters in one)

The good news came the next day that Feng Xueying returned to Beijing.

Feng Xieying's inspection trip lasted more than three months. Of the more than 20 interns he brought with him, only eight returned with him, and the other 12 stayed in the local government office temporarily.

To He Ran's delight, Feng Xieying brought a letter from Fu Yansheng.

Fu Yansheng stated in the letter that his injuries had healed, and he spent three full pages expressing his desire to serve King Zhao.

After reading the letter, He Ran looked at Feng Xieying: "General Fu wants to serve the country. Is it your credit?"

Feng Xieying smiled: "I think the boss has already made arrangements for Fu Yansheng in his heart."

He Ran did not deny that since she agreed with Zhong Yi to leave the two Mr. Fu in Jinyang, she had the idea of ​​taking Fu Yansheng under her command.

Fu Yansheng is a handsome man.

"I want to send him to Datong as the commander-in-chief of Datong."

Fu Yansheng's appointment was sent to Jinyang three days later. Fu Yansheng had mixed feelings when he learned that he had been appointed as the commander-in-chief of Datong.

At the beginning, after he turned against the King of Jin, he led his troops northward, and the place he went to was Datong.

At that time, he actually had the intention of defecting to He Ran. After all, both of his sons were in He Ran's hands.

But he was not a nobody. He couldn't lose face and voluntarily surrendered, so he rushed to Datong.

What he was thinking at that time was that if He Ran wanted to kill him, then he would take his soldiers out of Datong and go to Heisong Mountain.

After settling down in Heisong Mountain, he went to fight the Tatars and bandits, and then he would find a way to rescue his two sons.

But subsequent developments gave him no chance to leave seclusion and go to Black Pine Mountain.

Although He Ran sent He Xiulong to surround him, he did not kill him completely. He did not want to die, let alone let his soldiers die, so after losing to He Xiulong, he decisively decided to surrender.

In the eyes of the world, Datong is the place where Fu Yansheng lost all face.

But in Fu Yansheng's heart, Datong is his place of rebirth.

He and his soldiers who fought bloody battles with him ushered in a new turning point in Datong.

Fu Yansheng was once the commander-in-chief of the army, and the official position of a general soldier was nothing to him, but at this moment, Fu Yansheng was extremely satisfied with this position.

Datong is an important military town. He Ran handed Datong to him not only to show his respect, but also to rectify his name.

Although Fu Yansheng was a demoted general, he still stood upright. He was not a useless person, he was a good general who could guard the country.

Besides, his two sons have a bright future ahead of them.

A few days later, He Ran met Fu Yansheng in the capital. What Fu Yansheng did not expect was that the people who greeted him outside the city gate were actually four of his old subordinates.

After they surrendered, they were incorporated into He Xiulong's army. A few days ago, they suddenly received an order to go to Datong. They were surprised at first, but after asking about it, they found out that the new commander-in-chief of Datong was Fu Yansheng. They were ecstatic.

Fu Yansheng was surprised when he saw them. He never expected that He Ran would send these people here.

"General, we can finally continue to follow you."

If Fu Yansheng was still dissatisfied, he went to see He Ran first. He Ran encouraged him with a few words and then asked him to go and thank King Zhao.

Fu Yansheng failed to see King Zhao because King Zhao was in class and sent Chunwang out. Fu Yansheng kowtowed in the direction of King Zhao and left.

Before leaving the palace, Fu Yansheng looked in the direction of Wenxian Palace with complicated eyes.

When he comes to Beijing next time, I'm afraid he won't have to kowtow to King Zhao again.

Three days later, Fu Yansheng led more than a thousand people from his old army to Datong. Of course, he had taken far more than these people from the Jin army, but now that He Ran could return these thousand people to him, Fu Yansheng was already very satisfied.

In Laomofang Alley, Lu Chang came to see He Ran.

"Master, we found out Dong Jin's true whereabouts."

He Ran became interested and signaled Lu Chang to elaborate.

According to the information found by Jinghong Tower, Ruyiju in the capital received a female guest who looked exactly like Dong Jinzhen two years ago.

Ruyiju is neither an inn nor a teahouse or restaurant, but a smart hotel.

The items sold here are all ingenious things, and they are expensive. There are usually not many customers. It is the kind of shop that only sells one order for a year.

It is precisely for this reason that the shopkeepers and waiters in the shop still have fresh memories of the customers who have visited their shop and spent a lot of money in the shop.

What's more, the guest is still a young girl.

Two years ago, this girl spent one thousand taels of silver in Ruyi Juli and bought four boxes with mechanisms.

The shopkeeper and the waiter carefully identified the portrait provided by the Dong family and confirmed that Dong Jin was indeed the girl.

Hearing this, He Ran became interested and asked, "What kind of box? Four boxes cost one thousand taels?"

Lu Chang said: "The shopkeeper said that the box was made by the father of their wife, and there is nothing similar in the world."

He Ran's heart moved and she asked, "Tell me about this Ruyiju."

Lu Chang smiled and said: "Ruyiju has been open for at least more than ten years. As long as I can remember, when I was a child, my father spent twenty taels to buy a chicken with a machine from Ruyiju. That little chicken The chicken was only the size of a child's fist. My grandmother saw it and scolded my father, calling him a prodigal.

Later, no one in our family dared to go to Ruyiju to buy anything, otherwise they would be scolded by my grandmother.

The owner of Ruyiju was named Shan Fan. His health had always been poor and he died when the capital was moved. Therefore, Ruyiju did not go south and stayed in the capital.

The proprietress's surname is Wei, and everyone calls her Mrs. Wei. She is from Yudi and has been in the capital for more than ten years. After Shanfan died, she was in charge of Ruyiju. "

Hearing the surname Wei, He Ran suddenly remembered the village he had visited when he was in Yudi.

Wei Village.

In ancient tunnel warfare, there were tunnels under the pots and stoves.

When she heard the history of Wei Village, she remembered Wei Xuanji, the mechanism master she knew in her previous life.

At that time, she suspected that Wei Xuanji had something to do with Wei Cun, and sent Jin Bo to follow her before leaving. Later, Jin Bo saw that there were many young people in the village, and the originally lifeless village regained its prosperity overnight.

And those young and strong men appeared suddenly as if they were falling from the sky.

Therefore, He Ran confirmed the speculation at the time. The people in the village did not leave. They were still hiding in the village. Just like the movie she had seen in modern times, the tunnels in Wei Village extended in all directions. When seeing danger, the villagers They will enter the tunnel and hide.

The people in that village were all named Wei.

Wei Village is also called Jinshi Village because there were Jinshis in the early years, but later that Jinshi was executed by the whole family.

Now the people in Wei Village are only distant relatives of the Jinshi who came out of the fifth service.

He Ran said to Lu Chang: "Continue." Lu Chang continued: "The shopkeeper and the clerk of Ruyiju still remembered that the four boxes were too heavy and Dong Jin couldn't carry them, so they sent them to a house in Zaohua Hutong in the capital. inside.

Two clerks from Ruyiju delivered these four boxes. There was a booklet in the shop, which also recorded the address of the house.

Our people went to the house and found that the outside of the house was locked. We asked the neighbors and found out that the original owner of the house had moved south when the capital was moved. No one had lived in the house for a long time.

We showed the portrait of Dong Jinzhen to our neighbors, and several neighbors said they had never seen this person before.

We climbed over the wall and checked in. The house was in a mess, and it really didn't look like someone had lived there recently.

So we asked the guys at Ruyiju again, and they were sure it was delivered here. Without knocking on the door, Dong Jinzhen opened the door, and they put down their things and left. "

He Ran asked: "Who was the original owner of that house?"

Lu Chang: "The original owner is the deputy supervisor of Qintian Prison."

He Ran thought for a moment and said to Lu Chang, "Is this case stuck after being investigated here?"

Lu Chang was a little embarrassed. She hadn't made any achievements since she took over Jinghong Tower. The boss personally agreed to this business, but she just started checking and couldn't do it. She was too stupid. Bar.

He Ran saw the red glow on the little girl's face and couldn't help but smile: "Let's go and have a look at that house."

Lu Chang was startled and pointed outside: "Are you going now? It's getting dark."

He Ran: "It's best when it's dark. It's not convenient for us to check during the day."

Lu Chang was confused, but Xiaoli had already quickly fetched two pairs of night clothes. He Ran asked Lu Chang to put them on together. After a while, the two of them took Xiaoli and left Laomofang Alley.

Zaohua Hutong is named after several jujube trees at the entrance of the alley. The deputy forest supervisor’s home is located in the innermost part of the alley.

Looking around to see if there was no one there, He Ran and the others climbed over the wall and jumped in.

As Lu Chang said, the house was very messy, and you can imagine the family's rush and panic when they left.

The locks of each house were broken and thrown to the ground.

He Ran asked: "Did you smash it?"

Lu Chang: "No, most empty houses like this in the capital have been visited by thieves, and this house is no exception."

He Ran nodded and checked several rooms.

After coming out of these rooms, she suddenly thought of something and turned around to go to the kitchen.

She was stunned when she entered the stove. The stove was empty and the pot was gone.

Xiaoli burst out laughing. She knew what the big boss was here to see. The big boss must have remembered the stove tunnel he saw when he was in Wei Village. Unfortunately, this house didn’t even have the big iron pot on the stove. It was obviously Stolen.

The thief did not escape, and there was really nothing left to steal, so he took advantage of the situation and stole the pot.

Xiaoli lit up the book, and with this light, He Ran checked a few more places. Fortunately, the house was not big, so she finally found an authentic entrance.

The entrance was designed very cleverly, and He Ran was able to find it thanks to what she learned from Wei Xuanji.

He Ran looked at the entrance and said to Lu Chang, "Check this Deputy Supervisor Lin and see if he has anything to do with the Dong family."

As for this entrance, He Ran also handed it over to Lu Chang.

The next day, Jinghong Tower quietly sent someone in through that entrance. Originally, He Ran thought that the secret passage from Superintendent Lin's house would at most lead to a secret place outside the house, so that the Lin family could be reached in case of danger. Escape from home.

But she never expected that this secret passage would wind for five miles, and the exit would be in the library of the palace!

Not to mention the people from Jinghong Tower, even He Ran was shocked and opened her mouth wide when she heard the news.

Who would have thought that a secret passage leading to the palace was hidden in the home of a mere sixth-grade Qin Tianjian official.

Being able to build a secret passage from the palace to the outside of the palace without anyone noticing is simply a shocking move!

He Ran immediately thought of Mr. Dong.

Mr. Dong, who became an official at an early age, rose to prominence because of the construction of a library.

It seems that when the library was being built, Mr. Dong quietly built this secret passage.

That house, nominally owned by Deputy Superintendent Lin, was actually the property of the Dong family.

Dong Jinzhen obviously knew about this, so she lived here after coming to the capital.

But what if Dong Jin really didn't live in Zaoshu Hutong? After all, it's such a mess here.

He Ran thought of the palace. She called Yuanying over and showed him Dong Jinzhen's portrait.

He Ran paid attention to Yuanying's expression. She saw that when Yuanying saw Dong Jinzhen's portrait, her brows moved slightly, but soon she became calm again.

He Ran smiled: "This person is in the palace, have you seen her?"

Yuan Ying quickly knelt down and said, "To be honest, the lady in this portrait is somewhat similar to a rough lady in the palace."

In the past, Yuanying would not have paid attention to the appearance of a rough maid. With his status, those rough maids might not even have a chance to see him.

But after He Ran came to Beijing, he asked Yuan Ying to re-register all the chamberlains and maids in the palace. Yuan Ying wanted to leave a good impression on He Ran and King Zhao, so he spent several days in a row registering all the people who stayed in the palace. They were all called in front of them to lecture them. Worried that they were ignorant of practical matters, Yuan Ying reminded them one by one.

It was at that time that he met this rough maid.

"Her name is Chun Yan'er. The old slave saw that she was quite pretty and behaved well. At that time, I was still wondering why she was assigned to sweep the yard with such an appearance."

He Ran asked: "Have you seen Chun Yan'er before?"

Yuan Ying was a little embarrassed: "Maybe I have seen them, maybe I haven't, and I don't remember them either. By the way, it was Eunuch Liu who was in charge of them before, and Eunuch Liu went to Jinling."

When the capital was moved, everything that could be taken away from the palace was taken away. What could not be taken away was either worthless or could not be moved.

The same is true for people.

Just like the concubines who worked as prostitutes in the palace to make money, they were abandoned.

The same is true for the chamberlains and maids who stayed in the palace.

These people were not taken seriously in the first place. Everyone who knew and was familiar with them has all left. People like Chun Yan'er are just rough maids responsible for cleaning. Her Eunuch Liu is gone, and no one pays attention to her anymore. .

Since she is in the palace, there is no fear that she will escape.

Chun Yan'er was quickly brought over. He Ran took a look and found that the girl was indeed 50-60% similar to Dong Jinzhen in the portrait. She asked Xiaoli to take her to wash her face. After washing her face, the 50-60% resemblance turned into 89%. point.

This is Dong Jinzhen.

Seeing the portrait, Dong Jinzhen smiled bitterly and knelt down straight.

The foreshadowing I am talking about is Wei Village. Wei Village is in the chapter about the tunnel battle. As for Wei Xuanji, I have mentioned it several times before. He Ran mentioned it when he visited the Jin Palace at night, but only one agent was mentioned at that time. Master, he was also mentioned later in the chapter on tunnel warfare.