Chapter 229: Mysterious Powder
Feng Qi took the guards and the officials who arrived to hunt down the fleeing Yuantai people. Jian Yi took a few people who stayed behind and escorted Hong Wen and the two seriously injured back to the county office.
Zhen Zhen and Feng Hanzhao also walked back in the carriage, a large group of scholars had never seen such a situation, and they followed as if they were lively, and some people were too lazy to turn back, and they still copied the guy's affairs in their hands.
In the car, Zhen Zhen said to Feng Hanzhao: "Lord Wang, can you not put this Hong Wen in prison for a while?"
"Why? You're going to try him? Feng Hanzhao asked.
"I have something to ask him. Also, his identity hasn't really been figured out yet, wouldn't it be better to give some preferential treatment? After all, there is no real war between Daning and Yuantai, if we take the liberty of detaining important people in Yuantai, what impact will it have on the situation? Are we ready for war? ”
"It doesn't matter who he is, just robbing you of him is enough to kill him." Feng Hanzhao gritted his teeth and said.
"I don't think he meant to hurt me that time. There should be other purposes. Isn't there a big contradiction between the princes of Yuantai, if this person can be used by me, wouldn't it be a good thing? ”
"Yuantai's problem is very complex, far beyond our ability to control. Do you know why Emperor Yuantai let his son compete with the prince for the throne? ”
"The dispute between the concubines. I heard that the eldest and second sons of the Yuantai prince were not born to the queen, and the third son-in-law born to the queen was not the prince. So was this prince born to a concubine? Particularly pleasing to the emperor? Zhen Zhen guessed.
Feng Hanzhao shook his head and said, "No." The prince Sheng Lianke is not the son of Emperor Yuantai Sheng Jun, he is actually Sheng Jun's younger brother. It is said that the condition for the old emperor to pass the throne to Sheng Jun was to establish Sheng Lianke as the prince. Because Sheng Lianke's mother clan is powerful, it is the strongest tribe in Yuantai. But after any emperor sits on the throne, he doesn't want his successor to be his son. Over the years, Sheng Jun has worked hard to give birth to a son, and it is said that the harem is really beautiful. He let his son fight again, hoping that one of them would be powerful and finally be able to bring down Sheng Lianke and the forces behind him. Otherwise, even if he deposed Sheng Lianke and passed the throne to his son, his son would not be able to sit for long. ”
Zhen Zhen asked strangely: "This calculation, even you can see it, can't that Sheng Lianke see it?"
Feng Hanzhao sneered: "Just because this is a competition on the surface, Sheng Lianke also wants to desperately spoil the good deeds of his nephews in order to protect himself. This attack on Ji is likely to be the handiwork of Sheng Lianke, so many war horses, without the support of his maternal family, Yuantai is also very difficult. ”
Zhen Zhen asked again: "Sheng Lianli, who came to make peace, told me at the beginning that he supported the third prince Sheng Lianzhang to seize the throne. Does that mean that there is a contradiction between Sheng Lianzhang and Sheng Lianke? Can't we take advantage of it? ”
Feng Hanzhao was noncommittal: "It can only be said that this is an open contradiction." The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Who knows how the secret alliance between these princes went? Without corroboration, do not be gullible. ”
"What you mean is that even if Hong Wen admits that he is the prince of Yuantai and agrees to cooperate with us, it is still not worth believing." Zhen Zhen said with a little regret.
"It's better to be cautious." Feng Hanzhao said with certainty.
"But I'm still curious to know what's going on between him and Sheng Lianli." Zhen Zhen said.
"You want to ask him in person?" Feng Hanzhao asked.
"Is that okay?" Zhen Zhen felt hopeful.
"What's wrong with that? When would you like to ask? Just ask someone to bring it to you. Feng Hanzhao said.
"The sooner the better."
"It's better to ask those showmen first, what kind of person Hong Wen usually is." Feng Hanzhao proposed.
"It's fine." Zhen Zhen agreed.
Back at the county office, Feng Hanzhao summoned the talents who came with him for questioning, and Zhen Zhen also listened to it, and soon figured out the origin of Hong Wen.
Hong Wen came from Hongjia Village, which is the farthest away from the county seat, and when he came, he took the post of the chief of Hongjia Village, so no one doubted his identity. He said that he slept lightly and was not used to squeezing a kang with many people, so Hong Wen did not live in the county school, but lived alone in the Xilai Inn in the county seat. Usually, Hong Wen rarely speaks, coming during class and leaving after class. The dress and manners are also unobtrusive. Some people say that he often sees him buying things from a small vendor at the gate of the county school, and some people say that he often rewards beggars---- but now it seems that he is in contact with his accomplices.
Jian Yi immediately sent someone to the Xilai Inn to search. The officials went back and brought back a small rattan box.
Jian Yi asked the talents to go back to the county to study, and then opened the box in front of Feng Hanzhao and Zhen Zhen, and there were only a few changes of clothes in it, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. Some of the paper was already full of words, all of which were taught in the county school, and some of the paper was blank and had no words. There was also a fist-sized bottle of white powder that didn't smell anything.
Feng Hanzhao said: "Master Jian has handled many cases, do you see any clues in this?"
Jian Yi shook his head and said, "This is a box used by ordinary readers, and there is nothing special about the items inside. It's just that this bottle of powder looks a little strange. ”
"Could it be poison?" Feng Hanzhao asked.
"We'll find out when the next official tries it." Jian Yi asked someone to catch a few fish from the pond in the yard. He sprinkled the powder from the bottle into the wooden barrel containing the fish, and the powder quickly dissolved, but the fish remained unharmed.
Jian Yi brought another bowl, scooped in some powder with a spoon, poured in some water, turned the powder into powder, and asked someone to bring a small piece of meat from the kitchen, dip the meat in the water, and throw it to a dog in the yard.
"It doesn't look like it's poisonous." Jian Yi said.
Zhen Zhen picked up the bowl, looked at the remaining powder dissolution inside, stirred it with a spoon, and said, "It's a little sticky, like rice paste."
Feng Hanzhao said to a servant, "Go and bring the white paper in the box."
The official brought the white paper, Feng Hanzhao smeared the sticky paste on the white paper, and Zhen Zhen asked, "What do you think this is?"
"It could be the ink used to write the secret letter, or it could be the handwriting." Feng Hanzhao replied.
However, no handwriting is visible on the white paper. Feng Hanzhao mixed some more paste, smeared it all over the white paper, and still found nothing.
Feng Hanzhao lit the candle again and put the white paper on the fire to bake, and the white paper was still white paper.
Zhen Zhen found that two pieces of white paper were glued together, and she tried to tear them carefully, but they were really glued and couldn't be separated.
She thought it was a little incredible, but she said, "This can't be just a paste for sticking things, right?"
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