The list of the yamen, the list of the people of the palace, and the evening of the day of the accident.

Unfortunately, almost all of them have traces of their whereabouts, and there are people who can testify to each other.

Wang Aoxiu asked uncertainly, "...... Do you think an acquaintance committed the crime? ”

"Yes." Song Ning looked at him, "The other party can enter the yamen and be familiar with the time and path of your father's yamen, which is difficult for non-acquaintances." ”

Wang Aoxiu didn't speak, because he didn't expect it at all.

"The two people who accompanied your father at the time were not there?" Song Ning asked.

Wang Aoxiu nodded: "Yes, at home." ”

"Call all the people in your family to the yamen." Song Ning commanded.

Zhao Yi was strolling around the backyard, Song Ning followed him, and asked with a smile: "Lord Wang, let's catch the kidnappers tonight?" ”

"Don't run, catch kidnappers?"

"Anyway, it's a matter of physical strength, maybe there will be a fight." Song Ning raised his eyebrows and said, "Lord Wang, I will test you a question." ”

Zhao Yi looked at her with his arms crossed, his eyes provocative: "Since it is a test, I have to be rewarded if I answer it." ”

"Lord, you have changed."

"It's me who comes and goes, it doesn't matter. Say, what is the reward? Zhao Yi said.

Song Ning thought for a while and said, "Reward, foot massage!" ”

Zhao Yi was disgusted: "No need. ”

"There's nothing else, I'll give you a chance, and if you don't need me, I'll cancel it."

She began to count: "One! ”

Zhao Yi interrupted her and said, "I reluctantly agreed." ”

Quirky and quirky, but better than nothing.

Song Ning laughed, patted Zhao Yi's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Tonight, I will definitely make you satisfied." ”

Zhao Yi showed a shy, you just talk about it or not, and you are shy and fake.

"Keep talking." Song Ning followed the path to Wang Fuxian's office room, pushed open the door, the room was very neatly tied, Wang Fuxian's teacup was still on the table, in addition, there were a lot of letters and files on the table.

She casually pulled out a letter, but she didn't open it, just looked at the envelope and said, "Lord Wang, is Wang Fuxian the Wei Party?" ”

"Hmm." Zhao Yi replied, "He is Su Wenchu's protégé. ”

After a slight pause, he looked at the send-off: "Su Wenchu, do you know?" ”

Song Ning shook his head.

He entered the cabinet from Jingwen for three years, and served as the first assistant for four years, until the death of Wenzong in Jingwen's tenth year, and the court was in his hands. Later, the first emperor succeeded to the throne, and he was still the first assistant. ”

"He is the leader of the Zhejiang Party, and now although he is hidden in the mountains and forests, his protégés are still all over the court."

Song Ning raised his eyebrows and asked, "Wei Xunchang is also his protégé?" ”

"Count yourself half a protégé." Zhao Yi looked at her and said, "Count, your father is also half, after all, when the first emperor was in power, your father was also considered a Wei party, and now he wants to split and sit big." ”

Song Ning still didn't understand: "What is half?" ”

After Wei Xunchang returned to Beijing after being released for decades, he worshiped Su Wenchu's disciples. Su Wenchu is only older, Wei Xunchang is two years old, he is not convinced. Zhao Yi said.

"As for your father, he was able to enter the mansion back then, and then turned his face and set up a household registration again, it can be seen that he is a person who has milk and is a mother, nothing strange."

Song Ning did not object.

"And this Wang Fuxian should be regarded as the real protégé of Su Wenchu, because Wang Fuxian's mother is from Yuyao, and Wang Fuxian worships Wang Wenchu when he enters the court."

"Speaking of which, Niu Chunyi and Su Wenchu also have a relationship, he has a fellow villager Liu is Su Wenchu's protégé, this Liu is serving as the political envoy of Guangdong, last year everyone thought that Wang Fuxian was going to be transferred back to Beijing, and Liu wanted to come to Shandong for activities, which is close to the capital."

"Who knew that Wang Fuxian would be re-elected, and the matter would be yellow."

Song Ning understood, and looked at Zhao Yi in surprise: "Why did the prince suddenly know so much?" ”

"I've only learned about it lately." Zhao Yi casually pulled out a file of Shandong Shuizhi and flipped through it, "I wasn't interested before." ”

Song Ning suspected that he had been sick before, and of course he was not getting better now.

"Is the prince infected by my strong upward vitality?" Song Ning asked him, "Does the prince really want to progress and want to go up?" ”

Zhao Yi inserted the file back and suddenly pinched her face: "Do you really want to see me rebel?" ”

He is upward, and there is only the throne.

Song Ning also pinched his face: "Do you have the ability to rebel, you can't even shout a dog while waving a big flag!" ”

Zhao Yi's face was torn out of shape, but he still looked good: "Are you the dog?" ”

"Phew!"

Song Ning ignored him: "Don't talk about anything else, and move on to the case." ”

"If Wang Fuxian is removed, can anyone be the prince in the position of the political envoy of Shandong?" Song Ning asked Zhao Yi.

Of course, it can't be given to Lord Liu. It's still the Wei Party to get around.

She felt that she could move.

"Three-legged toads are hard to find, and two-legged people can't be found?" Zhao Yi said.

Song Ning became more and more surprised, she could be sure that Zhao Yi had hated the government before, and he even hated people who played with the government, for example, he hated Song Yanxu and Wei Xunchang, and even he hated the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty.

He doesn't like those things.

But now he is obviously paying attention, and even investigating and understanding things that he once didn't want to know.

"The prince really wants to run Jinan."

Zhao Yi corrected her: "It's Shandong." ”

Song Ning looked at Zhao Yi and smiled. She had never understood why Zhao Chi was spying on Zhao Yi, she didn't think he was an ambitious person.

Such a younger brother, although it is very tormenting, should still be relieved.

But now she seems to have touched a little bit of Zhao Chi's scruples.

This is like reading and taking classes in the past, some people do problems until dawn, and brush out life-size papers in a year, but they are still not as good as those who go home and play all night in class.

Some people are born with the highest standard of human excellence.

Even if he is lazy and just wants to die, you will be afraid that he will not want to die one day, and suddenly a small flame of fighting spirit will crush you.

Song Ning squatted on the ground and said, "Lord Wang, lift the table a little." ”

"Okay." Zhao Yi lifted the table, and Song Ning took out something made of wood chips from the gap, looked at it a few times, and handed it to Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi raised his eyebrows and said, "Chips? ”

A five-tael silver chip with a red badge on it.

It is an exchange chip used by a gambling house called Hongtong.

"Wind." Zhao Yi went to the door and handed him the chips, "Go check it." ”

As he was leaving, Song Ning suddenly added: "Regardless of Wang Fuxian, the people around him and his family, you can ask who are the regulars." ”

"Yes."

Lang Feng took the list of personnel and left.

Wang Aoxiu came back, with his entourage, Niu Chunyi, Cheng Zhi and other people.

"Lord Song, the kidnappers said that they would send a ransom tonight, will they send it or not?" Cheng Zhi asked Song Ning.

That's the most important thing.

It was only a few hours before the kidnappers said they would deliver the ransom.

"You have made such a big deal of investigation, if something happens to my father, who will be responsible?" Wang Aojin said anxiously, "This is not something that can be eased or delayed, please find a way to decide." ”

Song Ning looked at him and asked, "Wouldn't it be good to straighten out this kidnapping case first?" ”

"However, you can also go and prepare the money now, can you prepare it in one afternoon?" Song Ning asked the two brothers of the Wang family.

Wang Aoxiu slumped his shoulders and said, "I can't raise it." 200,000 taels is our limit, and now the whole family can only mobilize 20,000 taels of silver. ”

"I see." Song Ning looked at this Wang Aojin, "So afraid of our involvement, can you raise 500,000 taels?" ”

Wang Aojin blushed and said, "We can discuss with the other party again, but they said that they can't report to the official, if they find out, what should we do?" ”

"They can't find it, just like they didn't find out that Long Xingda was involved." Song Ning and the others.

Everyone looked at her in surprise, and Niu Chunyi asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

"I don't know. In the eyes of the people of Jinan Prefecture, is there any difference between Longxingda and the Torture Hall? Song Ning asked everyone.

Everyone blushed, thinking that Song Ning was going to accuse them of bypassing the Torture Hall to find Long Xingda, but Song Ning said: "If they don't care about Long Xingda, they won't care about our involvement." ”

There was such a big danger in the first five days, they didn't care about the existence of Long Xingda, and now it is the last half of the afternoon, they obviously take the money to kill and then leave, how can they still be afraid of the disreputable torture hall for several years?

"Anyway, how do you negotiate with the other party?" Song Ning asked Wang Aojin.

Wang Aojin glanced at Cheng Zhi, and Cheng Zhi replied with his eyebrows: "Lord Song, you really can't come up with the money, of course you can discuss it with the kidnappers." ”

"They are for money rather than for people's lives, so they sent the letter with a more sincere attitude, and I think it can be discussed."

Song Ning bowed slightly, and suddenly asked, "So what is the price in your heart?" In the end, is it to take the money or to delay the time, and is the goal determined? ”

"Lord Song, although there are some words that are rude here, I still have to say it." Cheng Zhizhi, "If you don't have the ability to do something, you think that others can't do it?" ”

"Today's ransom was sent by me with the eldest prince of Wang, and it was also sent by me."

Song Ning nodded: "Okay, you have the ability, then let you negotiate tonight, okay?" ”

Cheng Zhi showed a natural expression.

"Looks like the two of you have discussed." Song Ning asked Wang Aojin.

Wang Aojin nodded.

"Don't talk about this line of thought." Song Ning asked Wang Aoxiu, "What about the two entourage?" ”

Wang Aoxiu let Wang Fuxian's two entourages come in, Song Ning on the left who was fat and Dundun had never seen it, and the one on the right was the little guy she saw at the dumpling stall last night.

His name is Wangmao.

Fat Dundun's rest went to Zhuangzi to accompany the family.

He rests on the 8th and 22nd of every month.

"What about you?" Song Ning asked Wangmao, who he had seen last night.

Wangmao hung his head and replied: "I went out with the master, and when I went out, I remembered that the master's private seal and the two documents to be brought back for processing were not taken, so the villain went back to get them." ”

"How much time did it take?"

Wangmao glanced at Cheng Zhi: "This, this Cheng Ye asked, I walked half way and turned back, and the master continued to walk to the side door, and when I came back, the master was no longer at the door, and at most half a cup of tea time in between." ”

"The villain thought that the master was on the sedan chair, who knew that when he saw the master's hat and shoes on the ground, he felt wrong, and opened the side door to find the sedan chair man, and the sedan chair man said that the master did not come out, and the side door was always closed."

Song Ning raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise, "You opened the side door?" ”

Wangmao nodded.

"Didn't the palanquin man hear any movement?"

Wangmao shook his head: "The villain panicked, asked carefully, if you don't believe it, adult, the villain will find the sedan chair man to ask." ”

Song Ning glanced at him, walked out of Wang Fuxian's public house, and walked along the path to the side door where he disappeared, and walked two corridors in the middle, each corridor was a fork in the road, and a pond and rockery, and it was a very short path around it, and you could see the side door.

"Is there a side door?" Song Ning asked.

Wangmao replied: "Yes, there is a side door when you go out from this side, but the villain has asked, and the side door over there is guarded, and no one has seen my master go out." ”

"I didn't see the suspect go out."

Song Ning looked at the little guy: "So, have you searched the yamen carefully?" ”

Wangmao nodded: "Search, search, but I didn't find it." ”

"In that period of time, to make an adult disappear," Song Ning said, "is very interesting." ”