"Fire?" Zhao Mo, who had just returned to the Suning County Palace, turned his head to look at Ah Shou with some surprise, his hands kept moving, still sorting out the brocade clothes he had just put on.

He rode back to Beijing on a fast horse from other places, rushed to the city when the city gate was closed, and now he had to rush into the palace to report to the emperor, and only ate some snacks to satisfy his hunger in a hurry, and he couldn't even eat it raw. He didn't know if he would be able to leave the palace tonight, so as a precaution, he asked Ah Shou if anything important had happened recently, but he didn't expect to hear the news of the fire in the Prince of Shu's mansion from Ah Shou's mouth.

Ah Shou hurriedly explained the situation, and said: "After the fire in the backyard of the Prince of Shu's mansion was extinguished, even the back garden of the Gu family's house became a ruin, and now it is impossible to clean it up. The people in the Prince of Shu's Mansion were crowded into the front yard and the main courtyard, and the people in the Gu family's house moved directly to the front house. The prince of Shu has been honest and has not moved, the guards in charge of guarding have been watching closely, and the people in the Gu family's house have hardly had time to go out except for buying funeral supplies. Looking at this situation, I guess the clue is broken, and although I ordered people to continue to watch, I don't know what to do next. I thought that this matter was not urgent, so I didn't report it to Miss Qin San again. After all...... This is somewhat unlucky, there is no need to let our princess of the county follow suit. ”

Zhao Mo smiled when he heard this, and glanced at Ah Shou with satisfaction: "You are quite clever, you have done a good job! Go back and receive the reward, you can see how much you will reward." ”

Ah Shou was overjoyed, and hurriedly gave him a big gift: "Xie Jun Wang Ye rewarded!"

Zhao Mo smiled and sat down on the chair, bowing his head and tucking his cuffs. Ah Shou hurriedly took the boots on the ground on the side, personally served Zhao Mo to wear them, and said: "Now that the prince of the county is back, I don't have to worry about who to ask, and I also ask the prince of the county to command." ”

Zhao Mo stepped on the boots on his feet and said, "Since you are not in a hurry, then wait until I come out of the palace." You send a letter to Yongjiahou Mansion for me, and report safety to my uncle and grandfather, my aunt and grandmother, my fourth uncle and my third cousin. I have to go to the emperor first, I can't go to my uncle, grandparents and grandparents, don't you make amends for me. ”

Ah Shou was a little surprised: "It's not long before it's dark, why don't you go to Yongjiahou Mansion before entering the palace?" If you are afraid that people will see it, you can go through the back door." "Anyway, if you enter the palace at this hour, you will only bump into the emperor for dinner, and Zhao Mo doesn't know when to wait.

Zhao Mo shook his head: "I can't go." Errands matter. "There are still important things on him, he has to present them to the emperor first, in case something goes wrong on the way, won't it affect the Yongjiahou Mansion? What's more—

He said to Ah Shou: "You always talk about it, I shouldn't meet my third cousin before I get married, at least not a month before the wedding." On this big night, even if I go to the Yongjiahou Mansion, my uncle and grandparents will not let me see my third cousin, so what is there to worry about? You go and report to me and let them know that I am safe and sound. If Ming'er is free, I will go to Yongjiahou Mansion to say goodbye. ”

That's right, His Royal Highness the King of Suning County is such a double standard.

Ah Shou was speechless, lowered his head and took a step back, Zhao Mo strode out of the house, and he quickly followed.

Zhao Mo entered the palace very smoothly, although he bumped into the emperor and the prince having dinner together, but he was not so miserable that he was sitting alone in the side hall and waiting, but was summoned by the emperor to have dinner with their father and son. Today's royal family doesn't talk about so many false pomp, the emperor wants to have dinner with his baby son, considering that the prince has a poor appetite in the summer, he specially let the people in the imperial dining room serve light, fresh and nutritious dishes, not only the prince eats deliciously, but also quite in line with Zhao Mo's taste. The three of them had a dinner that suited their hearts, then moved to the imperial study, let the palace people serve the medicinal tea to clear the heat and eliminate food, retreated left and right, and only kept the henchmen and attendants to listen to the instructions, and began to talk about business.

Zhao Mo really failed to leave the palace this night. By the time he finished talking with the emperor and the crown prince, the palace gate would have already been keyed. However, there is a room for the officials on duty to stay overnight in the outer palace, and it is no problem to set out a clean and tidy wing room for Zhao Mo to rest. In order to rush back to the capital, he changed to the land route after leaving Shandong, galloping all the way, day and night. Now, after the work report was finished and the errand was over, his whole body was relaxed, and he could no longer hide the tiredness on his body, so he fell into bed and fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning, the waiter who was still waiting in the room on duty called Zhao Mo several times before waking him up. Hurriedly freshened up, he ate a few things indiscriminately, and heard that the early dynasty had dispersed, so he rushed to the imperial study, and saw the emperor again, and when it was close to noon, he was able to leave the palace and return home.

Then he was stopped halfway through.

Zhao Mo looked at Yuan Tongzhi who was blocking him angrily, and almost couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Lord Yuan, I'm very tired, I don't want to go around in circles with you." Why do you want to do it?"

Yuan Tongzhi looked left and right and smiled at him, but instead frightened the passers-by around him to exclaim, and scattered in fear to dodge. The smile on Yuan Tongzhi's face suddenly froze, he took a deep breath, and then said dryly: "Please take a step to speak." ”

Zhao Mo looked around and sighed helplessly: "Go to my palace." "His Suning County Mansion has been newly renovated, because he thinks that the other courtyard is closer to the Yongjiahou Mansion, so he has not moved back to the main courtyard of the County Palace, and his life is still in the other courtyard. However, the place of hospitality has been replaced by the county king's mansion, and now that Yuan Tongzhi is brought back, the things are all ready-made.

Yuan Tongzhi was not polite, so he followed him.

Entering the Suning County Palace, Yuan Tongzhi glanced around casually, and then stopped paying attention to the environment of Zhao Mo's new residence. After waiting for the tea boy to retreat, he got straight to the point with Zhao Mo: "The prince of the county seems to have been paying attention to the movements of the prince of Shu? ”

Zhao Mo tugged at the corners of his mouth: "It turns out that Lord Yuan is here for this? I also know that it is a bit taboo to do this, but how the prince of Shu used to calculate our family, Lord Yuan also knows it in his heart." I'm not the kind of soft guy who suffers a loss and keeps his mouth shut. He acted unreasonably at every turn, and clearly had big plans. Naturally, I have to order someone to keep an eye on him, lest he make a big disaster, so that the emperor and the prince will worry about it, and the queen mother will not be at ease. ”

Yuan Tongzhi smiled: "The prince of the county doesn't have to say these high-sounding words. It's true that you're doing something taboo, but as long as you don't want to rebel or do evil, then nothing is taboo. The rules of our secret spy department are different from others, as long as we can achieve our goals, occasionally making a taboo is just a piece of cake. The most important thing is to see if this method of breaking taboos is useful. You didn't do anything to be a traitor, but you just looked at the prince of Shu who was not pleasing to the eye, so people stared at it more, even if the emperor knew, he wouldn't say anything. In my opinion, you are already quite well-behaved compared to many of the clan's disciples. As long as you're not an enemy of our secret spy department, why don't you do whatever you like?"

The implication of these words is that if Zhao Mo becomes an enemy of the secret spy department, it will be another matter. The Secret Service sometimes behaves unconventionally, which may also refer to the way they deal with their enemies.

Zhao Mo understood the meaning of Yuan Tongzhi's words, and just smiled: "I can get Lord Yuan's words, I will feel at ease." Since Lord Yuan has found out that I am paying attention to the movements of the prince of Shu, what news do you want from me?"

Yuan Tongzhi said: "I don't know what the prince of the county knows, why don't we communicate with each other?"

As a result, Zhao Mo and Yuan Tongzhi exchanged a wave of information. Fortunately, the others are basically the same, what Yuan Tongzhi said is almost all that Ah Shou's people have already investigated, and the reports are at most poor in details. However, a situation added by Yuan Tongzhi is very important.

The silk gold sent to the neighbor's house by the prince of Shu was four silver ingots in a black wooden box, each weighing ten taels. It is said that this silk gold has been sent to the merchants of the Gu family, but in fact, the things are now in the hands of Yuan Tongzhi. At that time, the person in charge of inspecting the silk gold acted very cautiously, worried that if he did not check whether there was entrainment in the box, he would be exploited by the prince of Shu and win the opportunity to contact the outside world, so he changed the things, found four silver ingots weighing ten taels, took another box and loaded it, and sent it to the merchants.

In this way, if the prince of Shu sent silk gold to others normally, then the other party did not suffer a loss, and still got the same amount of silver, and no one would think that anyone deducted the money given by the prince of Shu. However, what the prince of Shu gave out is still in the hands of the imperial court, and if there is a cat, it will definitely be discovered soon.

Yuan Tongzhi really found out.

At the bottom of the four silver ingots, there were some shallow scratches, which seemed to be meaningless scratches at first glance, but Yuan Tongzhi, who had been in the Imperial City's secret spy department for a long time, recognized it at a glance, it should be a mark with a special meaning. When he was chasing Hei Feng, a subordinate of the prince of Shu who was suspected of colluding with the Beirong people, he had found such a mark on his relics, and suspected that it might be some kind of code word common in the Shu Palace.

"Relic?" Zhao Mo frowned, "I thought you chased someone away, what's the matter?"

Yuan Tongzhi sighed: "It's dead." Died quite neatly. Our men had already surrounded him, and they could have captured him alive, but he still had a sharp blade hidden in his body, and before our men could take him down, he cut his own throat with a knife, and he didn't have time to say anything. Even his name, we only found out after the fact, after tracking down people who had contact with him. ”

Zhao Mo asked, "How did I hear that he escaped?"

Yuan Tongzhi tugged at the corners of his mouth: "It's the rumor released by the secret spy department, so as not to make the person who instructed Heifeng think that he is really dead, so he should be vigilant." "Of course, their secret spy department also had plans to dig a pit and wait for others to jump down, but it was obvious that it was not successful. The prince of Shu has been imprisoned, even if there is a pit outside, he can't jump.

This kind of somewhat embarrassing thing, Yuan Tongzhi is not willing to talk about it. He only asked Zhao Mo: "The prince of the county has a lot of talents, is it only this news?" What he wanted to know was what he didn't know.

Zhao Mo touched his nose: "Oh...... Well then. I would like to ask Lord Yuan, have you ever thought about it...... Is there anything unspeakable under the collapsed wall of the Prince of Shu's Mansion?"

Yuan Tongzhi was suddenly solemn: "What does the prince of the county mean by this?"