After the immortal disappeared

Cen Boqing was found guilty, it was a certainty.

"Qingfu Temple?" Bai Ziqi was startled when he heard this, but immediately turned to Fu Shanyue and said, "With the confession, the prince can approve the arrest of Cen Boqing."

Fu Shanyue nodded and went to mobilize his troops.

Bai Ziqi said again: "Commander Fan, you should also go and help."

Fan Sheng immediately stood up and jumped out of the cellar in two steps.

Fu Shanyue's eyes moved slightly but he didn't object.

…

After they all left, Bai Ziqi turned to He Lingchuan: "You can judge the rest."

He Lingchuan nodded and ordered someone to bring a pen and paper to examine Wu Kai carefully.

Wu Kai asked for a glass of water and drank it in one gulp before wiping his mouth and answering He Lingchuan's question.

It turned out that Cen Boqing's father, Cen Qiao, had long been engaged in hunting monsters and obtaining pearls. After Wu Kai became his confidant, he became the person in charge of this business. After Cen's father passed away, Cen Boqing's son inherited his father's business and still ordered Wu Kai to take charge of the matter.

"Why did Cen Qiao do this in the first place?"

"The profits are very huge." Wu Kai leaned against the wall, exhausted, "You don't know how quickly a family like the Cen family can spend money in Lingxu City... That place is simply a bottomless pit, and no amount of money is enough to cover expenses. . In the early years, the Cen family lost a lot of money from their business. If these incomes were not used to make up for it, the Cen family would have been ruined long ago. How could they have the honor of marrying the daughter of a great farmer?"

"Isn't it true that marrying the daughter of a great farmer means marrying a rich man?" He Lingchuan asked, causing Bai Ziqi to look sideways, "Why does Cen Boqing still take the risk?"

"He said several times that he wanted to quit, but the buyer of Qingfu Temple did not agree."

"Buyer?" He Lingchuan sneered, "You mean, superior?"

Wu Kai whispered: "This kind of thing cannot be withdrawn just because you want to."

He Lingchuan hummed and wrote down the confession on the paper.

He was very slow and silent for a long time in the cellar.

There was a lull in He Lingchuan for a long time, and Bai Ziqi had no choice but to say, "Who did you trade pearls with at Qingfu Temple, and who did you collect money from?"

"A temple congratulator surnamed Hu." Wu Kai said, "Twice a year, when we meet, we go to the back of the temple to hand over pearls and collect money with the other. Unless the price of purchasing pearls changes, there will be no communication with each other."

"You don't recognize the other buyers?"

Wu Kai shook his head.

"Speak, do you recognize it or not?"

"I don't recognize it."

Bai Ziqi paused and then asked: "Does Da Sinong know what you are doing?"

The answer to this question has wide implications.

"We did it secretly, and the great Sinong and his wife never asked about it, maybe..." Wu Kai shrugged.

Bai Ziqi didn't let him fool him: "So, does Da Sinong know or doesn't he know?"

Wu Kai could only say: "I think I probably don't know."

He Lingchuan kept his head down while transcribing, but said nothing.

For these deeper questions, just let the envoy from Lingxu City ask them. He didn't intend to join in the fun.

"Did you provide Fu Songhua with perjury?"

"Yes." Wu Kai said bluntly, "Cen Boqing accidentally discovered three years ago that Fu Songhua, the fugitive who killed the governor of Bingzhou, also lived in the northwest corner of Baishaqiang, not far from Cen's mansion."

"How can you not get your shoes wet when you often walk by the river?" Wu Kai smiled bitterly, "Cen Boqing was also afraid that the matter would be exposed one day, so he asked me to prepare perjury. If the incident happened, Fu Songhua would be blamed."

"Who appointed the source of the White-shouldered Eagle route that you are going to frame?"

"Cen Boqing."

"Why?"

Wu Kai swallowed: "I just followed orders, I don't know why."

"Let's talk about Zhongsun Mou." Bai Ziqi continued to ask, "Why did he cooperate with you to give false testimony?"

"Zhongsun Mou's grandfather was about to die and couldn't take any tonic. Cen Boqing instructed Zhongsun Mou to go to Qingfu Temple to seek medicine. The code word was 'prolong life and ensure peace'. If the old man of Zhongsun family takes it, he can get more Live ten to thirty years.”

"This time Cen Boqing found out that the inspector who investigated the case of the courier and the case of killing monsters and taking pearls was Zhong Sunmou, so he used this matter to threaten him." Wu Kai asked for another glass of water, "Purchased the elixir privately, and in Lingxu City It’s a felony.”

"So both Cen and Zhongsun are involved in the case." Bai Ziqi nodded to He Lingchuan again, "I've finished asking, and I'll leave it to you later."

So He Lingchuan asked Wu Kai about the whereabouts of other demon-catching men.

Having reached this point, Wu Kai no longer concealed anything, and revealed the hiding places, modus operandi and results of the other five groups of men, as well as the joint secret codes.

Before the ink on the paper was dry, He Lingchuan handed the dossier filled with confessions to Bai Ziqi:

"Boss Bai, the other five groups of demon hunting fanatics are all outside the borders of Chiyan."

In short, arresting them is not the task of Chiyan Kingdom, but the responsibility of his special envoy.

Bai Ziqi took it and put it away, stood up and said, "I'm going to Cen's Mansion, just follow me."

He Lingchuan had no objection.

The inn is very close to Cen Mansion, just a few hundred steps away.

He Lingchuan walked with Bai Ziqi, followed by several guards.

He could feel that this person was looking at him intentionally or unintentionally, so he simply asked directly: "Bai Duzhi, is there anything abnormal on your face?"

This young man seemed to be very straightforward, and no one else dared to ask him this question. Bai Ziqi smiled gently: "There is nothing strange. I just see that you are young, and the more you get along with the prince, you become less like a master and a servant, and more like a friend of the same generation."

"I am not from Chiyan, nor am I a servant of the prince." There is nothing to hide from this. Since Bai Ziqi brought Fan Sheng here, he must have heard the basic information about He Lingchuan from the deputy commander of the Tongxin Guard.

He Lingchuan always felt that the way he looked at him was a little strange, so he mustered up all his energy and did not dare to make any mistakes.

Bai Ziqi said: "I have been to Fu State in my early years. The monarchs and ministers were not so good, but the merchants were very powerful. Basically, they can get you whatever you want."

He Lingchuan thought of the Shimen Chamber of Commerce and the Gan family who were doing sole business with Zhu Erniang, and couldn't help but smile: "There are no obedient people in poor mountains and harsh rivers. We all believe that wealth can be found in danger."

"There are no obedient people in poor mountains and rivers, that's right." Bai Ziqi also smiled, "Why did Prince Yue appoint you to handle the messenger case?"

"I am a foreigner, so I have less involvement and less worries." He Lingchuan had a lot of time to take care of himself. "Otherwise, the Chiyan officials would not have been able to investigate Zhongsun Mou the moment they met."

"If you are not an obedient citizen, there are benefits to being obedient to the people." Bai Ziqi said leisurely, "How does Prince Yue know that this case will be very involved?"

He Lingchuan shrugged: "I have to ask him. I'm new here and don't know much about Chi Yan."

"Find a stranger who doesn't understand the national conditions to investigate the case. Prince Yue's behavior is unexpected." Bai Ziqi glanced at him, "How did you and Prince Yue meet?"

He Xiao's origin is a mystery. Fan Sheng doesn't know about it, and Fu Shanyue didn't mention it in his memorial.

"The Emperor's Ointment arrived a while ago, and we were all in the wild, fighting over a piece of ointment." He Lingchuan narrated in a simple way, "If we don't want both sides to lose, we won't fight each other until we get to know each other."

"It sounds like it is indeed something the prince is good at doing." What Bai Ziqi paid attention to was of course the implication of "no acquaintance without fighting".

What kind of temperament and methods does Fu Shanyue have? Kill all your own brothers!

Even Bai Ziqi thought he was cold-blooded and cruel.

The harder Fushan can kill the young man in front of him, the more likely he can be friends with him.

But being able to draw with Fu Shanyue was obviously an honor, so why did this young man downplay it?

"I have one more thing to ask." Bai Ziqi thought for a while and decided to go straight to the point, "Fan Sheng said, Cen Boqing invited the spell master Cheng Yu to plot against you, but he came back defeated and suffered backlash and vomited blood. I have also heard of Cheng Yu. , He is really capable. How did you defeat him?"

He Lingchuan said calmly: "I still have some means to save my life. But I don't have the ability to fight back against Cheng Yu. He was injured by the backlash of his own spell."

"What spell did he use?"

He Lingchuan spread his hands: "He is a curse master, so it should be some kind of evil curse, right? It's a pity that I'm not good at this."

Without waiting for Bai Ziqi to ask any more questions, he turned from defensive to offensive:

"You just said, 'It is indeed something that the prince is better at doing.' It seems that you know the prince very well."

He Lingchuan has his own secrets and cannot be questioned endlessly.

"We have dealt with him several times." Bai Ziqi said with a smile, "As the prince of Chiyan Kingdom, he has studied in Lingxu City for more than ten years; I, who was elected to the Star-Zhaing Tower since I was a child, am about the same age as him, and I have been there several times. Make friends.”

Similar in age... He Lingchuan scratched his nose.

Yes, Fu Shanyue's guy just looks tender-faced, but he is actually over forty, and he is the same age as Bai Ziqi.

Monsters just have some unique qualities.

"Although the prince's temperament is a bit... straightforward." He Lingchuan carefully selected his words, but both of them knew that what he wanted to say was "cruel", "But for the monarch, this is not a shortcoming. On the contrary, he is shrewd, alert, flexible and reasonable. Why doesn’t King Chiyan like him?”

King Chiyan had always been interested in Fushanji and did not want to make his eldest son the crown prince.

I'm afraid it would be difficult for him to get the answer from anyone else, except Bai Ziqi. Even Jiao Yu, the fierce tiger who had been traveling with him for a long time, turned his back on him when he heard this.

Avoiding taboos is the basic conduct of all officials.

Bai Ziqi was unusually silent, as if thinking.

After a while, he said: "It doesn't matter if I agree with you. Many people in Lingxu City know about it."

Of course, the "many people" he mentioned are probably all top-tier people.

He said slowly: "When the prince was younger, he ate his biological mother!"

He Lingchuan was startled.

But he didn't ask, because there must be more to it.

Sure enough, Bai Ziqi turned her head to observe his expression and continued: "The two brothers, Prince Yue, were born from the same mother, and the mother was a commoner woman. Later, King Chiyan sent guards to pick up their mother and son back to the palace, but something unexpected happened on the way. Oh no! An accident..."

He did not expand on the details, but simply said: "The prince had no choice but to eat his mother, but King Chiyan cherished this concubine very much. He has been grudged since then and was not happy to see him."

He Lingchuan murmured: "I'm probably even more unhappy now."

Fushan Yue killed his biological brother not long ago. When the old monarch saw this eldest son, did the hatred of killing his wife and son suddenly surge into his heart?

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