Chapter 605: Suspicious Character
"My lord, will I light the candle for you now?" Wen'er took a piece of red wax and asked softly about the latest chapter of the Silly Prince of the Underworld.
"Dot." Song Zheng wandered around the bookshelves and flipped through them casually.
The red candle was lit, and the room was suddenly full of shadows. This room is the archives of the Gyeonggi Right Division, and the whole room is half a foot above the ground. There are windows in front and back, but they are tightly sealed with felt cloth. The room was naturally dark, and if it weren't for the candles, it wouldn't be easy to tell.
After inquiry, Song Zheng knew that this was to prevent moisture. Only at noon in the scorching sun is ventilation allowed for two hours. The rest of the time, both doors and windows, are relatively closed.
As he was talking, Yuan Rong's call came from outside, "Wen'er! ”
Wen'er stuck out her tongue at Song Zheng and said in a low voice, "Lord Song, I'll go back first, Miss called me." With that, he ran out with a red face.
Song Zheng walked to the door, closed the door, and his face calmed down. He walked around the room, listened for a few more moments, and after making sure that no one was watching, he went to the corner and took the paper ball out of his cuff.
This is exactly what Yuan Rong threw to him just now, and he has not moved. It wasn't until he confirmed that it was safe that he unfolded the paper ball and took a closer look, and there were only four words on it, "Yongxu Xiangyin".
Yongxu Lane? Song Zheng read it silently. He had an impression of the address. For a while, he wandered around Jiangning City when he had nothing to do, and almost walked all over the streets and alleys, focusing on looking for some places of interest.
The word Yongxu comes from the famous poetess Xie Daoyun of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, known as the talent of Yongxu. The location of Yongxu Lane is said to be the location of the Xie family's mansion. Of course, the Xie family's mansion has long since disappeared. Otherwise, Liu Yuxi would not have composed the poem "Wuyi Lane": "In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people. ”
When Song Zheng searched that day, he found that it was just a narrow alley. There are Anshi (Eastern Jin Dynasty Xie Anzi Anshi) Lane, Xiao Xie (Guide Dynasty Poet Xie Wei) Lane, Dongshan (taken from Xie An's Dongshan resurgence allusion) Lane, etc., anyway, they are all related to the Xie family. The name is good, but the location is average. After Jiangning City moved south in the early years of the Great Qi Dynasty, the area around Yongxu Lane did become an "ordinary people's home", and they were all civilian areas. However, it is not too far from the Song Mansion, about four or five miles southeast of the Song Mansion.
What does Yuan Rong mean by giving herself such an address? Where to meet? It's impossible, there should be time to meet. It's like "the willow tops on the moon, people about after dusk" or something.
Is that a trap? It's a little possible, but Yuan Rong once helped herself through Mu Yu, so she shouldn't hurt him in this way. It would be nice if Mu Yu was in Jiangning, Song Zheng couldn't help but sigh secretly.
Most likely, of course, this address is suspicious and related to itself. In any case, I can only go to investigate it at night.
The candle flame flickered, Song Zheng collected his thoughts and began to look for information about Huan Xing. Although Duan Jian told him that there was nothing special about Huan Xing's experience, Song Zheng still had to find some clues from him first.
As the former governor of Taiping Prefecture, Huan Xing's information is not difficult to find, and Yuan Rong has already made it into a separate book. This also shows that Yuan Rong is a very careful person and is very good at sorting out materials. In this regard, there is also a gap between Li Hongniang's side.
Song Zheng flipped through the materials and couldn't help frowning. Judging from the records, Huan Xing can be regarded as a good official. For example, the judgment of the case is quite fair, the rescue of the orphaned and the elderly in the disaster year, etc., and the fact that he once led people to catch a big thief gang, can be regarded as some achievements in martial arts. As for what Duan Blade said about taking bribes, there are also records on Dark Eagle's side, but it is just a rumor. It is said that when Tu is a poor and a rich and two households sue for a lawsuit, the rich family won, so it has been rumored among the people that Huan Xing has accepted bribes as many taels as many as possible, and that's it.
Is it because he can judge cases and know a little kung fu that he was transferred to Zuo Si to see the prison correction? Song Zheng shook his head, if it was only like this, it would not be his turn to join such an important department as the Zuo Division. The Zuo Division has the right to monitor all the Great Qi troops, and the supervisor monitors the Zuo Division, so the power is naturally great.
If there is anything special about this material, it is that Huan Xing is too low-key, except for work matters, he rarely shows his head, for example, there is almost no record of him participating in banquets, and only a few times he participates in field hunting.
Putting down the materials about Huanxing, Song Zheng began to look for other materials about Taipingzhou. These materials are very complex, including Wuhu, Lishui and Dangtu counties below Taiping Prefecture. Song Zheng naturally can't look at them one by one, just look at the general outline. There are two key points in these materials of Dark Eagle, one is related to the military aspect, and the other is related to their original opponent, the Imperial City Division, which is basically a separate book.
From these materials, Song Zheng saw two notable names. One was Ge Zhao, the leader of the Taiping Prefecture garrison. When Song Zheng took the Wujin Shi exam that day, Ge Zhao was one of the examiners, and he actually asked him to introduce the dead "Grandson of Qi", obviously to embarrass Song Zheng. Ge Zhao was the general of the city guard. There were more than 100,000 city guards, and except for the general barracks, which was stationed about 50,000, the rest were scattered in various states in Gyeonggi Province. Ge Zhao is the leader of the city guards stationed in Dangtu, with more than 10,000 people under his tent.
Another important point is to learn about it. Due to the confrontation between Dark Eagle and the Imperial City Division for several years, they both tried to collect each other's information. When Song Zheng was in Mizhou that day, Yang Tong collected materials for the Mizhou Dark Eagle. In Taiping Prefecture, Teng Hongcheng, the former commander of the Dark Eagle (now the Right Division), also focused on Ping Xizhi.
Judging from the materials, Ping Xizhi has entered the Zhizhou Mansion three times. As for whether it was a visit to Huanxing, there is no record. Obviously, it is because the tentacles of the dark eagle have not yet penetrated into the interior of the Zhizhou Mansion.
In contrast, Ge Zhao's record is much more active. Good field hunting, feasting and drinking, and have many contacts with big families and celebrities all over Taiping Prefecture.
Field hunting? Song Zheng was slightly touched. He immediately looked back at Huanxing's materials, and sure enough, in April of the seventh year of Zhengyuan, August of the ninth year of Zhengyuan and May of the tenth year of Zhengyuan, he saw the records of Huanxing's field hunting. And the date of the field hunt is the same.
Huan Xing and Ge Zhao hunted on the same day three times, why didn't they go together? Could it be that these two people secretly got into the base?
Looking at Ge Zhao's record details again, Song Zheng found a line of small characters in the record on August 11, the ninth year of Zhengyuan, "The person who accompanied him is suspected of being a habit." Because Teng Hongcheng's people didn't see it clearly, they used the word "doubt".
Song Zheng flipped through the relevant materials again, and never saw any more questionable records.
At this moment, Song Zheng heard a shouting outside, and it seemed to be Cai Yong. Song Zheng suddenly woke up, and unconsciously, more than half an hour had passed.
When I opened the door of the house, I saw Wen'er running over from a distance, "Childe, your guards are looking for you and have broken in." ”
As soon as the words fell, Cai Yong leaned out from the shadow wall in the southeast corner, pushing and shoving with the black-bearded man.
"Stop! All quit! Song Zhenggao snorted. When Cai Yong and the others saw Song Zheng, they immediately stopped and slowly withdrew from the backyard.
Seeing Wen'er's forehead sweating, Song Zheng smiled, "My subordinates are rude and disturb the girl, and I hope you will tell Commander Yuan, and Song apologizes to her." ”
Wen'er Yingying said, "My young lady is a little tired and is taking a nap, so the little slave is going to wake her up." ”
"No need! Sleeping is disturbed by others, but it is one of the most hateful things in the world, and Song does not do this evil person. Let's go! "Regardless of whether Yuan Rong avoids suspicion or pretends to be a gesture, anyway, Yuan Rong doesn't want to see herself now, and Song Zheng has no interest in appreciating Begonia's spring sleep.
"Greetings, sir!" Wen'er gave a blessing.
Song Zheng nodded, and suddenly smiled, "It's okay, there's Miss Wen'er here." Otherwise, the flowers and plants in the courtyard will be made of ice. ”
"Made of ice?" Wen'er was stunned for a moment, suddenly realized something, and hurriedly covered her mouth and smiled.
Pacing slowly, Song Zheng walked around the courtyard for half a circle, casually talked to Wen'er, and then walked out of the backyard. With Song Zheng's wit, Wen'er's identity was revealed in a few words. She is the girl who takes care of Yuan Rong's daily life, and she usually cooks, plants flowers and grasses, and rarely goes out. This Yuan Rong is also careful enough, passing paper balls to herself, and even Wen'er hid it.
Coming out of the right division stronghold, Song Zheng went directly to Li Hongniang. When the lover arrived, Li Hongniang was extremely happy. Song Zheng lingered with him for a while, and then got into the database. Li Hongniang also received an order from Duan Jian to assist Song Zheng. Therefore, Song Zheng can enter and exit the database. Otherwise, with his capacity as the supervisor of the left division, he really can't directly check the information of the right division.
Li Hongniang accompanied Song Zheng into the database and held the lamp for Ailang.
Here, Song Zheng made a discovery, and the information about Huan Xing's three field hunts, Ping Xizhi only reported it once in the seventh year of Zhengyuan. Ping Xi has been the commander of the Imperial City Division of Taiping Prefecture for six years, and there should be no reason to omit the last two times. Related, Ge Zhao's two field hunts are also not recorded.
It seems that this is really suspicious.
"Xiaolang, have you found anything?" After a woman belongs, her body language is immediately different, even a thunderbolt like Li Hongniang is no exception. When he spoke, his voice was as gentle as water.
"Have you ever seen this person in Ping Xizhi? How is this man? ”
"I've met a few times, and I'm quite an honest and serious person. The information is reported every month without delay. ”
"Where did he go this time when Zuo Si adjusted?"
"It seems that he has entered the city guard, and he is still in charge of the local garrison in Taiping Prefecture. How? What's wrong with him? ”
"I just came from Yuan Rong, and the materials of the right division over there are different from here, and they seem to be more complete than here."
"You went to Yuan Rong? You ......" A hint of strangeness flashed in Li Hongniang's eyes.
"Where have you been?" Song Zheng stroked his buttocks, "I want to investigate Huan Xing's affairs, so naturally I want to compare the two materials." ”
Li Hongniang's body trembled slightly, and murmured, "Good man, this is the database!" ”
"Isn't it just secluded?" Song Zheng smiled and took Li Hongniang in his arms.
With the direction of searching, Song Zheng has a bottom in his heart. It is a good age for emotion, and Song Zheng will not disappoint the beauty in his arms. A moment later, the room sounded the voice of Li Hongniang crying and complaining.