Chapter 40: The Underground Cellar
Fan Yu reacted, hugged Seventeen's feet, and dragged him to prevent him from moving forward, "Your Highness's forgiveness is the lower official, it is the fault of the lower official, it is the lower official's insatiable greed, and it is belowใใใใใใ โ
"Tsk!" Seventeen interrupted him, pulled his foot out of his arms, and kicked him farther away by the way, "If there is anything wrong, confess it in front of Your Highness, and I will not cure your sin." โ
Hey, what do you say? Isn't it always that he's cleaning up, and he's having a lot of fun.
I was too lazy to bother with him, and suddenly ordered the little pick on the side to give Gao Yushi a seat.
The soft couch was gone, so Xiao Pick had to move him a bench that had not been completely burned down, but Gao Qing didn't care and thanked him very sincerely.
"Master Gao, the Yiren don't understand the situation, it's just that I just met it today, the Yiren are shallow, and I've read a few books, so it's better to leave this matter to the Yiren to do, and test the knowledge of the Yiren, you supervise and supervise on the side, and see if I have anything missing?"
Gao Qing secretly said that it was not good, he was completely a bystander, but his face was still not obvious, and he said respectfully: "Your Highness is smart, the world knows it, and the minister naturally has nothing to supervise."
"That's good, then please take a good look at it, the Yiren still have some means." There was a smile in his tone.
She stood up, walked up to Fan Yu with Seventeen's wrist, and looked at him condescendingly, for a moment, Fan Yu even felt that this princess did not have eye disease, through the light veil, her eyes were like torches.
"Master Fan, you say that this is your own responsibility?"
"Yes, the lower official is guilty." As he spoke, he pressed his body even lower, extremely humble.
A chuckle of 'poof' puzzled everyone.
The Seventeen Umbrellas led her among a group of kneeling men, and a faint fragrance filled her wherever she went.
"Lord Fan is guilty, why did you kneel down early? Isn't it, the heart is empty? โ
"Seeing the princess's phoenix face, the officials are terrified to show respect." The person who spoke was an old man with a long beard, and Yiren just stopped in front of him, and it seemed that he had lived long enough, and his ability to open his eyes and tell nonsense was not small.
The Iren looked at the top of his head, "So, you don't know what's buried in the ground?" โ
"I don't know."
Now they are all answering positively, for fear of getting into a little trouble, very good!
"Seventeen! This palace is lacking, I see these people saying some foolish things, you are so smart, you must be able to make them say something different! โ
Through the light veil, he felt that he could see through the smiling eyes under the brim of her hat, full of stars, full of light, what else could not?
Before they could react, they heard the umbrella man beside the princess ordering the Praetorian Guards to tie the kneeling officials to the tree.
The people were puzzled, even if they were in awe of this princess, based on this scene, they also felt that she was arrogant and rude, unreasonable, and began to accuse and discuss.
Seventeen heard the condemnation of the people in the periphery, and after placing the people on the soft couch, he ordered the fire to be lit.
"In the early years, my princess ordered to greet him with courtesy, and not to kneel without guilt. Your Excellency has just pleaded guilty to yourself, and since you are guilty, then admit your guilt, and if you don't say anything, then wait for yourself to set yourself on fire. โ
This mouth is really underbeaten, and you can say anything!
Iren was sure that she had never given such an order, and she didn't want to beat him so much when she heard him make up nonsense to protect her.
They know what is buried in the ground, but they don't know enough, they have to let the people know, and let these officials admit it themselves.
The matches were piled at his feet, still pulled out of the ruins, and some of them were burned red, and they were scorched at his feet.
"But think clearly, what's buried in the ground?"
At that time, they were still very calm, and it was not until the torches were lit that they began to panic.
Their biggest reliance is only on Gao Qing, but because they are officials of the imperial court, no matter how pampered the princess is, she can't give them to death at will.
Yiren had long known the thoughts of this group of old foxes, and crushed Gao Qing to death early, as for letting them die, she blocked them from having the courage to send them to death by themselves.
No, she's going to win.
"Gunpowder, gunpowder, gunpowder buried in the ground!"
"Your Highness forgives your sins and spares your life."
One person admits that the next few people spoke out one after another, and they are not people with backbone, which makes people despise.
"Hongu didn't hear clearly."
"Gunpowder is buried within a radius of ten miles, yes, it is to hide gunpowder privately in order to make profits, and once the east window incident occurs, this place will be blown up."
This news made everyone gasp, this is Kyoto, even if it is a defeated South Lane, it is enough to cause a lot of damage and casualties within ten miles.
The focus of the people's discussion at this time also shifted the princess to this matter, and even more so, they directly smashed the fire-fighting tools in their hands on the group of officials.
Yiren waited for it to gradually subside before he spoke slowly: "It's the first time I've heard about this, when the palace was trapped underground, I didn't find any gunpowder, but I found that there was a lot of official silver hidden underground."
"What!"
Gao Qing looked incredulous, he stood up excitedly, the bench was pushed to the ground, the reason why he dared to let Fan Yu come out to confess was because he knew that the underground official cellar could not be discovered, no matter how big the crime was, it was just a private possession of gunpowder, but now, it was completely beyond his expectations.
Before everyone could recover from the news just now, they saw Xiao Yu'an coming over with an unhappy face.
"Your Highness, I found a secret room mechanism."
As soon as Fan Yu heard the news, he fainted directly, and Gao Qing leaned on the little guy and stood still.
Seventeen raised his chin at Shen Qizheng, "It's too early to faint, wake him up quickly, the show is still to come." โ
If it weren't for the fact that his identity was unknown and his Royal Highness was reused, he would want to fight with him, and for now, he would still be obedient, and he would also be looking forward to the good show in the future.
Fan Yu was woken up by a bucket of cold water, and when he woke up, he saw a flash of cold light in front of him, and he almost fainted again.
Seventeen drew Shen Qizheng's saber and patted Fan Yu's face with the hilt of the sword, "Lord Fan, lead the way, if you accidentally take the wrong secret passage and ignite the gunpowder, it is not good, your little life will be explained here." โ
Someone came to untie him, and without support, his legs went limp, and he fell to the ground like a puddle of mud, and his pants were wet and dark, and Seventeen turned his face away in disgust, and poked him impatiently with the hilt of his sword, using ten percent of his strength.
Fan Yu was in pain, thinking that he was going to strip his flesh too, so he got up in a puff of smoke.
Seeing Seventeen following him slowly, Xiao Yu'an probably understood what he meant.
Bitterly, the people outside the house don't understand anything, a head stretches out, Gao Qing has long lost his initial calmness, and a pair of fox eyes are full of calculations.
Fan Yu entered the house, the house was full of burned wreckage, and the Praetorian Guards were waiting for it, but they didn't see any passages, so they realized that they had been fooled, and pointed at Seventeen angrily, "You lied to me!" โ
Seventeen shrugged his shoulders senselessly, raised his ponytail, shook his big eyes, turned around and walked out, and said in a loud voice: "General Shen, escort those people who are tied up to the criminal department and interrogate them carefully." โ
Xiao Ye and Gao Qing don't deal with each other, and if they are sent to the Criminal Department, they can get dirty even if they are not guilty.
Gao Qing settled his mind and did not speak.
Watching this group of people being escorted away by the Praetorian Guards, some of them old men who had been with him for decades.
Seventeen doesn't have any mercy, what he fights is psychological warfare, relying on a serious nonsense to catch the other party off guard.
Seventeen left, leaving Xiao Yu'an to face Fan Yu alone.
In fact, there was no secret room passage found at all, General Shen was still there, but His Royal Highness asked him to lead the Praetorian Guards to dig the ground, which was unusual, but she asked General Shen and Lord Gao to take a good look at it.
What to see?
He pondered as he walked, until he saw that there was nothing in the house that had not collapsed but the burned wreckage, and when he saw the buried half of the house, he reacted suddenly, and Seventeen gave him a rough account of the person they had seen secretly carrying the official silver in the alleys of South Street, but when they entered the house, they did not see the shadow of the official silver, and in any case did not find the secret passage switch.
His thoughts flashed, and he was awakened at once.