Chapter 580: Still Got Hands
The imperial study belongs to the scope of the outer court, and the people in the harem cannot come to the front without a reasonable reason, so the people sent by Concubine Zhao Xian could not approach the imperial study, but they saw the prince come out from a distance, and they didn't know where to go after leaving a palace gate.
Concubine Zhao Xian couldn't make up her mind all of a sudden, it was natural for the prince to appear in the imperial study, who knew what he talked about with the saint when he went in and out, and he didn't know whether to go back to the East Palace or simply leave the palace this time.
After thinking about it, Concubine Zhao Xian felt that she couldn't take the risk, so she sent her little eunuch to the imperial kitchen to pass a few snacks, and by the way, she looked for Wang Xiaodong's traces.
The little eunuch went for a trip, and came back with a food box to restore his life, saying that Wang Xiaodong had finished his day shift and went home, and not long ago, the East Palace also sent someone to the imperial kitchen to eat and drink, and asked Wang Xiaodong.
Concubine Zhao Xian suddenly felt that her head was swollen into three big, although she didn't know what the East Palace was looking for Wang Xiaodong to do, but the uneasiness in her heart came up, and she always felt that something was going to happen, Wang Xiaodong was probably exposed, and the prince just came out of the imperial study, didn't he.
Thinking of this, Concubine Zhao Xian wrote a secret letter to her daughter, which looked like an intimate letter between mother and daughter to outsiders, but only they knew the meaning of each word and sentence, and told her daughter to kill Wang Xiaodong before the East Palace and the official mansion at any cost.
The dim sum that was just brought back from the imperial kitchen became the best cover for sending letters, and it was because Concubine Zhao Xian loved her children and specially rewarded some palace meals, so the little eunuch who ran errands went through the palace gate to check it.
The prince's men and horses learned that Wang Xiaodong had gone home from duty, and chased all the way, but never caught up with Wang Xiaodong's carriage, just wondering if he was going the wrong way, Wang Xiaodong was walking on the way to He Jie's house, He Jie pretended to be on sick leave, and sent someone to the prison early in the morning to deliver food, Wang Xiaodong naturally wanted to know if things were going well.
The person chasing Wang Xiaodong had no choice but to continue to Wang's house and ask his family where Wang Xiaodong usually goes.
Seeing that it was the people from the East Palace who knocked on the door to check on the people, the Wang family was frightened, and said a few places randomly, but they did not mention the address of He Jie's house, which was the closest one.
The soldiers often do things with a tendon, the Wang family said it, the soldiers didn't notice what was missing for a while, leaving a team to wait for the rabbit, and the rest of the people set off separately to find people.
The Wang family was so anxious that they were sweating, and they wanted to secretly send someone to sneak out to ventilate and report the news, but they couldn't avoid the sight of the people in the East Palace, there were people watching the front and back doors, and all the masters and servants in the family counted the number of people and then separated, the master's family stayed in the main room regardless of men and women, and the subordinates stayed in the kitchen, not allowed to talk or move around, and naturally there was no place to eat dinner, and there was nowhere to talk if they wanted to be reasonable, and the soldiers of the East Palace did not care about the family of the Qipin Imperial Kitchen at all.
At the other end of the Yingtian Mansion, the prince took someone to personally supervise the interrogation of the confession, and the palace Yin entertained relatives and friends in the back house, and heard that the prince came to care about the suspect sent by the Yeguo Mansion, so he hurriedly dressed up and came to the front.
Those who were sent to the prison yesterday have only been beaten for a day and a night, and the three of Wen Gushan have been dragged directly into the torture room by the officials like three dead dogs, thrown on the cold ground, and poured a few scoops of cold water on their heads to wake them up.
The three of them all had hoarse voices, and their confessions were not smooth, but fortunately, there was a copy of the confession of the Ye Guo Mansion, and the head of the torture room nodded when they asked, and the master next to them quickly wrote down a note.
The prince only thought that the three of them could not stand the prison environment and fell ill, and told the governor to change the ventilated place for them, and then ask the doctor to check and examine them, so as not to die before the formal trial, and asked them to identify other suspects.
Fu Yin responded repeatedly, and according to the identification of the confession, he sent the official to the Lin family to summon Lin Leren to the yamen to make a confession.
Lin Leren was beaten by Gu Yun's guards so that he couldn't get out of bed, even so, he had to hire a car and carry him on a stretcher to the yamen.
The **** heirs of the government servant finally let the family members of the two people in the same neighborhood finally understand who hired the man of their family to go to the Yeguo Mansion to do that deadly thing, and immediately called a group of relatives and friends to go to the Lin family to find trouble, Wuhou and his subordinates couldn't hold this group of people who were already angry, so they could only stand outside in a safe place and watch, so as not to affect the surrounding neighbors.
Lin Leren was also tight-mouthed, and he didn't tell the truth to his wife and children at home when he was injured like this, and blindly only said that he was drunk and fell and was injured, but after he was forcibly taken away by the officials, his wife wanted to quickly ask her son to go to his uncle He Jie's house to report the news, ask him to help, go to the yamen to inquire about the situation, and bring people back as soon as possible.
But who would have thought that before the son had time to go out, the avenger broke into the house first, and the scuffle began immediately, everything that could be smashed in the house was smashed, and people were injured, and the idea of going to He Jie's house was naturally beaten into the ditch long ago.
He Jie was having a drink with Wang Xiaodong at home at this time, celebrating that the three people were not far from death, and he didn't know that the East Palace was looking for them everywhere, and Lin Leren had been carried into the Yingtian Mansion.
The prince's people failed to find Wang Xiaodong in time, but the guards sent by the eldest princess rushed to the Wang family and the He family separately, and quietly climbed the wall at night to see that something had happened to the Wang family.
And the people in He Jie's house saw that Wang He and the others were there, and knew that now was not the time to do it, so they could only hide in the dark and wait patiently.
This matter has to be made an accident, and you can't directly pick up a knife to cut someone.
Wang Xiaodong's meal of wine drank after the evening drum time, the drum stopped and the door closed, the He family cleaned up his usual guest room for Wang Xiaodong, and set up a big brazier to make the room warm, Wang Xiaodong's daughter served her father to wash his hands and clean, let him rest early, he is still on duty tomorrow, to make breakfast, and get the imperial kitchen before dawn.
The eldest princess's subordinates continued to wait patiently in the dark, until everyone in the He family fell asleep, and even the cats and dogs stopped barking, then they dodged out, rushed straight to the guest room, quietly broke into the room, touched the side of the bed, helped the drunken Wang Xiaodong up, put on his shoes, helped him to the basin stand, and pressed his head into the water.
Wang Xiaodong in a drunken dream struggled in vain a few times before he stopped moving, and the scene looked like he woke up in the middle of the night with a dry mouth and wanted to wash his face to sober up, but he accidentally fell down and finally drowned in the basin.
After doing this, the eldest princess's subordinates did not forget to add some charcoal to the brazier, so that the charcoal fire burned more vigorously, which was more in line with the feeling of hot and dry, and then cleaned up the scene, closed the door, and the eldest princess's subordinates immediately evacuated the He family, went to hide elsewhere, and waited for dawn to come out.
(Author's note: Happy New Year 2016, everyone!) Thank you for your support for most of the past six months, and please continue to feed the bugs next year! )