In the prison of Jingzhao Yin Mansion, Sima Qing, who was wearing a prison uniform, sat cross-legged in the middle of the prison.

The cell door opened, and the official entered.

Sima Qing raised his head and looked at them.

"Interrogate the prisoner Sima Qing."

Sima Qing chuckled lightly and let the two officials take him to the torture room.

Li Changqing sat on the chair with Erlang's legs crossed, looking at Sima Qing, who had been sitting quietly on the chair since he came in, with a calm expression.

"It seems that Sima Gongzi doesn't know how much of a crime he has committed, or even if you know that you have killed the entire Sima family, it doesn't matter to you."

Sima Qing didn't raise his eyelids, it seemed that the life or death of the people in Sima Mansion had nothing to do with him.

Li Changqing took out a confession and sent it to Sima Qing. "Sima Gongzi has been smart since he was a child, and he is also called a supernatural power by the saint, you must be able to understand the words on it, if there is no objection, draw a charge on it."

Sima Qing glanced at the confession but did not move. "Peddling big cigarettes, gathering people to eat big tobacco, intending to disturb the stability of Daqin, such a big crime, but to kill the head."

Li Changqing sneered. "Now that I know that I have committed the great crime of killing my head, what did you do earlier?"

Sima Qing leaned lazily on the back of the chair, looking like a noble son. "Li Zhutou, I was wronged, someone told me that it was a good thing, so I gathered my friends to enjoy it with me, who knew it would be big smoke."

"You don't know a word and you want to push the charge? Even if the official promised the emperor, he wouldn't agree, but what about it...... If you honestly explain where this thing came from, the emperor may be able to spare your life. ”

Sima Qing looked at him and tilted his head and thought about it. "Who gave it to my son, let me think about it, oh remember, it's the shopkeeper of Xinglin Garden, before my son's attendant went to buy medicine, and the shopkeeper recommended this thing to my attendant, it was him, he gave it to my son."

Li Changqing's pupils shrank suddenly, regardless of whether Sima Qing's words were true or not, he immediately sent someone to Xinglin Garden.

"How do you give it, and how often?"

"Once every ten days, it's been two months."

Li Changqing stood up, grabbed his shirt and stung him coldly. "Sima Gongzi, I hope you don't lie, after all, I have never been a patient person."

Sima Qing looked at him and smiled.

Li Changqing let go of his hand and asked people to send him back to the cell.

"Someone is guarding the door of his cell, and no one is to be put in until I return."

"Yes."

Xinglinyuan is located on a very prosperous street in Longyang City, and there is an endless stream of people who come to see a doctor every day.

This is not the point, the point is that Xinglin Garden is an industry under the name of the Zhao family.

Before Li Changqing started to arrest people, he first went to Qin Yiyan's side to breathe.

Qin Yiyan's face was also very unsightly when he found out.

"Lord Wang, this matter will actually involve the Zhao family." The Zhao family is Zhao Zhiyu's maiden family, if this matter is really related to the Zhao family, will the emperor believe that the prince does not know?

"Tell Li Changqing to be quieter when you do it."

"Yes."

Night.

When Zhao Zhiyu waited until Qin Yiyan returned home, she found that his face was very unsightly.

"Lord Wang, is something wrong?"

Qin Yiyan nodded, pulled her to the chair and sat down, she would know about this sooner or later, rather than knowing the anxiety from the mouths of others, it was better for him to make it clear to her.

"Well, Sima Qing confessed that those big cigarettes were obtained from the shopkeeper of Xinglin Yuan, which is an industry under the name of the Zhao family."

Zhao Zhiyu's heart jumped. "That ......"

"When Li Changqing went to arrest someone, the shopkeeper drowned in the well in the backyard of Xinglinyuan, and found a letter and some unused cigarettes in the room where he was resting."

Zhao Zhiyu held Qin Yiyan's hand tightly. "It's a coincidence."

Qin Yiyan was calm. "Yes, but now that the person is dead, and there is no proof of Da Yan's death, now Jing Zhaoyin has ordered the entire Xinglin Garden to be sealed."

Qin Yiyan held her hand. "Don't be afraid, if this matter has nothing to do with the Zhao Mansion, this king will definitely not let the Zhao family be implicated."

Zhao Zhiyu looked at his tightly knit brows and knew that things must not be so simple.

The Zhao family was framed by the imperial concubine before, in order to hold her and treat King Rui, this time, who will it be?

Sima's family?

But the Zhao family and the Sima family have almost no intersection, and even if there is, there is a Qin Yiyan between them, to put it bluntly, whether they want to or not, they are grasshoppers tied to a rope, and cannibalism is not good for anyone.

What's more, this matter has already involved the Sima family.

"Is it possible for Sima Qing to lie?"

"Very likely."

"But he is also from the Sima family." It's not that some unfavored concubine has a grudge against the Sima family, if he lies, what good will it do him?

"This king will personally go and meet that kid."

Zhao Zhiyu shook her head. "Lord Wang, there is no impermeable wall in this world, if Sima Qing is really lying, then his big smoke will definitely have other sources, some things, as long as he does it, there will definitely be clues, and the prince can't help but let people check his whereabouts or the people around him during this time."

"Yu'er is right, as long as he does it, he will definitely be able to find out the clues."

"Lord, princess, are you going to have dinner?"

As soon as the two finished speaking, Hua Man asked outside the door.

"Well, bring it up." Qin Yiyan looked at Zhao Zhiyu's somewhat emaciated cheeks, and was very distressed. "This king asked the big kitchen to make chicken soup for you, and you have to drink it."

"I've drunk them all, and the prince should drink more." Zhao Zhiyu also felt sorry for Qin Yiyan, he had a lot of things to do, and he couldn't eat on time when he got to dinner, just like his brothers, when his father let them take charge alone, he was so busy that he couldn't stop.

Hua Man brought the food, and Zhao Zhiyu gave Qin Yiyan a bowl of black chicken soup.

Qin Yiyan took a bowl and drank it in one gulp, and when he was about to eat with chopsticks, Wu Sheng arrived outside the door. "Lord Wang, something happened to the Criminal Department, and I want Lord Wang to come over."

Qin Yiyan casually took a few mouthfuls of food and ate it into his mouth. "Yu'er, you don't have to wait for this king at night, you can rest early when you are tired."

Before Zhao Zhiyu opened her mouth and spoke, Qin Yiyan followed Wu Sheng and left.

"The prince is really busy, and the slaves and maids are looking at the prince and are a little thinner than before."

Qin Yiyan left, Zhao Zhiyu lost the appetite to eat, and she didn't know what happened to the Criminal Department to rush over in such a hurry.

This night, Qin Yiyan didn't come back after he went out, and only asked Wu Sheng to come back and say that there was nothing wrong so she didn't have to worry.

Zhao Zhiyu asked Hua Man to prepare the carriage, she wanted to go back to Zhao's Mansion and ask what the situation was in Xinglinyuan.

After breakfast, Zhao Zhiyu went out.

Now that the matter of the big smoke is well known, Zhao Zhiyu doesn't want to make too much noise, so when he arrived at the Zhao Mansion, everything was simple and low-key, and after arriving at the Zhao Mansion, he also entered through the side door of the Zhao Mansion.

"The princess has returned, and Madame knows that you are already waiting in the house when you return."

Zhao Zhiyu nodded and followed the maid to Mrs. Zhao's house.

There was no need to report, the maid lifted the curtain and let her enter the house directly.

"Madam, the princess is here."

Mrs. Zhao barely pulled a smile on her face, and just as she was about to get up, Zhao Zhiyu stepped forward and took her hand and asked her to sit down. "Don't be polite to me."

Mrs. Zhao sighed and patted her hand.

Zhao Zhiyu found that Mrs. Zhao's complexion was not very good, and there was a faint dark blue under her eyelids, maybe she didn't sleep last night.

"Mother, don't worry." Zhao Zhiyu wanted to say some words of comfort, but she felt that before things came to an end, any words of comfort would be pale and powerless.

Madame Zhao shook her head as she held her hand. "Recently, I don't know if our family has committed some big trouble, why do we always encounter such disasters."

"Does Mother know what's going on?"

Mrs. Zhao furrowed her eyebrows. "That shopkeeper Fan is already an old man in the Zhao Mansion, your father read his contribution to the Zhao family over the years, and let him redeem his deed of sale at the beginning of the year, who knew that such a thing would happen."

"Is there anything unusual about Shopkeeper Fan on weekdays?"

Madame Zhao shook her head. "There has been nothing abnormal as usual, Shopkeeper Fan is a sincere person, in my opinion, he would not do such a thing, his wife and daughter are all on errands in the house, he is an old man who has been in Longyang City for many years, where would he not know the consequences of selling big cigarettes without permission."

Mrs. Zhao sighed and said worriedly: "If we can't find out that this matter is related to Shopkeeper Fan, our Zhao Mansion is afraid...... If it's going to be difficult, I really regret it, I should have married your sister earlier, you are all married, and Zhao Fu can't implicate you even if there is anything. ”

Zhao Zhiyu didn't expect that at this time, what Mrs. Zhao was worried about was her comfort with Zhao Zhizhi.

She suddenly couldn't bear to deceive her, and wanted to tell her her true identity, but she didn't dare to speak when she saw Mrs. Zhao's sad eyebrows, the matter of the big smoke was enough to annoy her, so let's wait until this matter is over.

"Mother, is the eldest sister back?"

While the two were talking, Zhao Zhizhi walked in from outside.

Zhao Zhizhi saw Zhao Zhiyu happily stepped forward and took her hand.

"Eldest sister, you can be regarded as back, I have prepared several small gifts for you, you go to my yard and I will get them for you." Zhao Zhizhi pulled Zhao Zhiyu out as he spoke.

Mrs. Zhao had a smile on her face. "You love to grind your eldest sister."

"What good thing for me is so mysterious." Zhao Zhiyu smiled and followed her. "Mother, my sister and I will be back in a while."

Mrs. Zhao nodded kindly. "Go, you two sisters talk about small things, and my old lady won't eavesdrop."

Zhao Zhiyu followed to Zhao Zhizhi's courtyard.

Zhao Zhizhi took all the people in the room out and closed the window before pulling Zhao Zhiyu to the bed and sitting down, and said in a low voice: "Sister, I know where that thing came from." ”