After rebirth, the cold prince clings to me every day

Chapter 101 Such a contrast left him at a loss as to what to do

Fang Dacheng came to the study room in the front yard. Feng Lisheng, who was sitting behind the jade desk, raised his hand and asked directly: "No need to salute, is there any news about Shuo'er?"

Fang Dacheng shook his head in shame: "My subordinates are incompetent and have not found any news about the young master."

Feng Lisheng was a little disappointed, "So there are clues to the assassination of Qi Youzhi five years ago?"

In recent months, he had only ordered Fang Dacheng to do two things. One was to find the whereabouts of Shuo'er, and the other was to track down the murderer of Qi You's assassination five years ago.

After the previous Luodu Silver Mine corruption case, he realized that Qi You's death was not as simple as it seemed.

So he interrogated a high-ranking official in Luodu who was involved in the matter and was still alive. According to that person's confession, he and the deceased Xu Tong, Jia Tongzhi, had indeed planned to pay for the assassination of Qi You on his way back to Beijing. They just waited for them.

When the people passed by, Qi You had already been killed, and many people died at the scene.

None of the secret guards who followed Qi You survived. It happened to be June, and a heavy rain fell, washing away all traces.

In the end, the officials of the post station had not seen Qi You and others passing by for a long time, so they sent people back to search, only to find that Qi You had been killed.

By the time people from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment passed by, more than half a day had passed since the crime occurred. Coupled with the heavy rain, it would undoubtedly be even more difficult to find the murderer.

In other words, Jia Tong sentenced the person they sent to assassinate Qi You to be the only witness.

According to the Luodu official, what they were looking for was a group of thieves who committed murder and swindled goods. After the incident, the fake judge and others were afraid of being exposed, so they paid the group a large sum of money to keep their names anonymous.

Based on the official's description, Feng Lisheng drew portraits of two of them and asked Fang Dacheng to send someone to secretly investigate.

Fang Dacheng whispered back: "Our people found one of the people in the portrait in Shu. But that person is now the second head of Longhu Mountain."

"Then Longhu Mountain is a large-scale bandit force in the local area, and the subordinates dare not act rashly?"

Feng Lisheng asked: "Approximately how many people are there?"

"There are nearly two thousand people in the entire village including women,"

Feng Lisheng looked ugly: "Are they secretly colluding with the local county magistrate?"

The imperial court has regulations that if the local army is unable to exterminate any anti-social forces such as Shanzhai with more than a few thousand people, the local county can report it to the superior army. In the end, such letters and documents will pass through his hands.

Fang Dacheng nodded: "The territory is remote, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so it is difficult for the news to spread back to Beijing."

Feng Lisheng unfolded a piece of rice paper, on which he had written a lot of handwriting. He picked up a pen and wrote in the blank space "Longhu Mountain in Shu".

Fang Dacheng looked at the dense handwriting and sighed secretly.

Back then, the former prince went out incognito to investigate the public sentiment. Within a year, he uncovered countless corrupt officials and offended many people.

So on the way back to Beijing, I encountered dozens of assassinations, large and small. Because there were so many people involved, it was really difficult to investigate.

Because those who want to kill the former prince are not only those corrupt officials who were found out, but also other forces from all over the world who fish in troubled waters.

Just as the master and servant were silent, someone knocked lightly on the study door from outside.

Fang Dacheng looked over in confusion. His Highness Xindao never allowed outsiders to disturb him when he was discussing things in the study. Who is so unafraid of death?

When Feng Lisheng heard the commotion, he put down his pen from deep thought, his cold expression softened instantly, and he softly ordered Fang Dacheng to open the door.

When Fang Dacheng opened the door and saw Princess Su, he was startled and quickly bowed to salute. Shen Mingjiao waved her hand, walked in with the food box in hand, and smiled very gently at Feng Lisheng.

"I didn't bother you!"

After that, he opened the food box and whispered softly: "You are tired, I asked the kitchen to make your favorite preserved egg and lean meat porridge, try it quickly."

Fang Dacheng stepped aside knowingly, not surprised by this kind of thing. He just thought that Shen Mingjiao was like those ladies from aristocratic families, in order to please her husband, she would send some soup, water, etc. to the study from time to time.

In his heart, there were rumors that the princess was domineering and did not take their Highness seriously. He had secretly regretted that their wise and mighty Highness actually married a rouge tiger.

Now that I look at it, the rumors are indeed not credible. The princess is obviously very gentle!

What Fang Dacheng took for granted was like red rain from the sky to Feng Lisheng.

He watched as his princess gently opened the soup cup, took a spoonful, blew it carefully, and then gently handed it to his mouth: "Your Highness, please try it."

Feng Lisheng opened his mouth a little erratically, feeling flattered and wondering when had his princess ever been so gentle to him?

Especially after the incident in the study room in the backyard a few days ago, Shen Mingjiao found everything about him disgusting.

Such a contrast left him simply at a loss as to what to do.

(End of chapter)