Chapter Twenty-Three: The Golden Bell
Li Andu already understood that this was Hou Cong calculating himself. Suppressing his fear and reluctance, he entered the room and knelt on the ground. This time, it was still Hou Cong and Mo Chang sitting by the window looking at him, but in addition to the corpse and the "suspect" in the room, it was not as confidential as last time, the crows and crows were crowded with people, and even the door was open, and Wei Yao and Yu Tie stood in the corridor.
Hou Cong's first sentence was a few words: "What's the matter?" ”
Li Andu told the truth, "My subordinates are asleep, I really don't know." ”
He Bachun confirmed this statement, "When my subordinates were matching incense yesterday, cloves, sandalwood, and agarwood incense were ...... There are too many sleeping materials. It's true that he slept deeply, and if he was suspicious, his subordinates also had it. Please General Xiaohou Mingjian. ”
Hou Cong looked at Mo Chang, "Miss Bixiao is a person in His Royal Highness's room, and she is the person who serves Her Royal Highness the Third Princess, so she can't be careless." She, like Hu Shang, was strangled to death, and you can all look at the corpse. ”
The person who strangled her was Duguzheng.
In the early hours of the morning, Bixiao was suddenly awakened, and when she looked up, she saw Murong Xing standing in front of the bed, but Huiniang was gone. She didn't expect this day to come so early, she didn't even think about screaming, and said to Murong Xing, "I want Dugu Gongzi to do it." ”
Dugu was just outside the door, and when he heard this, he came in. Before Murong Xing left, he was beside him, Dugu Zheng's handsome face leaned over, and Bi Xiao thought that he would kiss himself at the end, so he closed his eyes.
Then, there is nothing to be learned.
Jia Fang looked at the corpse and thought that the only person who was suspected was Ling Xiao, "Who in the team is going to provoke a girl?" Everybody's busy. The only contradiction with Bixiao is Ling Xiao. ”
Ling Xiao knelt down pitifully and hugged Mo Chang's knees, "Slave and Bixiao are sisters, how could they do such a thing?" The slave doesn't have the ability to kill her if he wants to! Sister Fluorescent and the girl in white are almost ......"
Mo Chang then helped Ling Xiao up with pity and pleaded with Hou Cong, "I don't think you have to doubt Ling Xiao, and ask for other clues." ”
"Naturally, I want to ask," Hou Cong lowered his eyelids, "what about the person who went to search Bixiao's luggage?" Are you back? ”
Outside, Dugu responded, and his subordinates commanded female soldiers borrowed from the fluorescent office, and stepped forward one by one, holding wooden trays with both hands towards Hou Cong and Mo Chang, and some baggage and bedding were placed on the ground: clothes, jewelry, fat powder, and broken silver.
Traces of a woman.
"Ling Xiao, since you and Bi Xiao are sisters, have you ever seen these things?"
"Ah, I...... Well. ”
That sentence must be said with the help of Ling Xiao's mouth.
"There's nothing missing, take a closer look, you know?" Mo Chang asked.
Ling Xiao lowered his head, as if he was swaying between saying and not speaking.
"Less, a golden bell."
Hou Cong asked: "What golden bell?" Is there anything special about it? ”
Ling Xiao continued to sway between saying and not saying for a while, in fact, this was just a show, because what should be said, Cuizhu taught her to memorize it.
Ling Xiao looked at everyone timidly, Chu Chu was pitiful, "General Xiaohou, that, that golden bell, made of pure gold, has the sun, moon, mountains and rivers, auspicious dragons and clouds. When he was a child, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gave His Royal Highness the Third Princess a reward for things, food, clothing, letters, and golden bells for anyone who came. Seeing Jin Ling is like seeing the prince himself...... But for some reason, Bixiao has that. Slaves too, accidentally saw it. ”
Seeing what Jia Fang was going to say, Hou Cong gave Bai Yi a look, Bai Yi, who was originally standing at the door, withdrew a few feet in one step, and stood firmly at the "pass" from the door to the stairs, if all the people wanted to leave, instead of charging in front of her, they would have to flee to the other end of the corridor with their backs to her.
With the kung fu of the three armies in white clothes, no one dared to move.
Hou Cong's heart was also sweet, "There is such a lady, it really works." ”
He retracted his thoughts and looked at Mo Chang again, "Your Highness, don't worry, we won't persecute anyone for no reason." But the program has to go through a bit. Dugu is taking a few people to search Ling Xiao's luggage to see if there is anything strange, and clear the suspicion first, okay? ”
Mo Chang said one word: "Yes." Dugu Zheng took the two female soldiers to the opposite Mo Chang room.
However, more footsteps sounded in the hallway at the same time, rushing to different rooms.
This means that everyone is being searched. Jia Fang still had to speak: "Your Highness, General Xiaohou, why bother? ”
Hou Cong looked at him, "A person died, and the body was placed under Captain Li's bed, this kind of thing happened on the way to escort the prince back to the south!" Why bother? ”
Jia Fang held his head high: "That's your poor management!" With Ling Xiao's mouth, how do we know that there really is any golden bell that has been placed in Bixiao's luggage? How do we know what else we put in our luggage when we search the house now! ”
"Jia Fang, you are the person sent south by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and I am the person sent by the emperor to the south, what's wrong? Am I worse than you? Why did Miss Bixiao die? I can't just get past it. This matter is over, you can naturally write a letter to the flying pigeon to tell you what happened to the master, how I can't manage it, no one stops you! ”
Ling Xiao cried: "Anyway, what the slave said is true, please ask His Highness and General Xiaohou to learn from it." ”
This sentence made Bai Yi couldn't help but look at Bi Xiao's corpse, his pale face, and his lips pursed with a touch of despair and unwillingness.
Hou Cong sighed, "Do the rest of you know?" ”
Li Andu agreed first, "I know." ”
"Know why you didn't say it? Which of you still has it on you? ”
A female soldier reported softly: "I just asked a few soldiers below, and someone saw Bixiao with a golden bell looking for Yu Tie Weiyao, which is true." ”
Seeing that Yu Tie Weiyao didn't talk, Mo Chang asked again, "Then what do you think Bixiao is going to do when he sees people with golden bells, do you have to give orders to any of you?" ”
Jia Fang snorted, "What, don't you allow it?" Is it illegal? I've also seen Miss Bixiao appear with a golden bell. What can you do with me? ”
Jia Fang said that he had seen Jin Ling in order to attract firepower, and he faintly felt that there was a person in Yutie Weiyao who was not a simple coachman.
Hou Cong was very happy to hear this, "If you don't break the law, the prince will arrange a messenger to command his own people, how can he break the law." But it was only by killing the messenger that he broke the law. Now, isn't it just to find out who killed Bixiao? “
Jia Fang was already a little impatient, "What kind of ghost envoy is she!" ”
Li Andu stood up suddenly, "Jia Fang, shut up!" Don't be rude to General Xiaohou! General Xiaohou, you misunderstood, whether it is the prince's person or anyone's person, the royal father and son, father and son, are all a family. It's just that, to tell you the truth, we were sent by the crown prince, and we do have the responsibility of supervising General Xiaohou's errand, and many things cannot be completely transparent. After searching our rooms, where did you leave the prince? The people sent by the emperor, the people who searched the house and searched the heads of the prince's faction, where do you put the royal father and son affection? ”
Hou Cong is impatient, and when he is impatient, he is smiling. If he offends the prince, he is not afraid. The prince wants to kill him, and he is afraid of offending the prince?
Hou Cong has a ruler in his heart. A soldier, loyal to the king, ready to fight on the battlefield at any time and sacrifice for the country. However, there is a subtle difference between sacrifice and death.
Sacrifice is after everyone has done their best, the situation is still critical, and as a last resort, death is the last resort.
Sending you to death is because someone just wants you to disappear.
Even the emperor's plan to replace the deceased, Hou Cong thought that it was reasonable and reasonable, and never resisted.
Moreover, the crown prince hated the general system of the Eight Great Pillar Kingdoms, and was bent on setting up or eliminating the major families and hitting the imperial power, and Hou Cong even agreed.
However, judging from his current performance, he is not making these arrangements for the sake of the world, and all the things that dirty his hands and heart are for his own selfish interests. He likes small conspiracies, but not big schemes, and his small abacus crackles, and it is even likely to be unfavorable to that father-in-law emperor.
The country is really in his hands, but he is afraid that it will be finished.
Hou Cong changed from smiling to laughing, "Don't let you search for it, right, don't want to be transparent, right?" However, I want to speak to you clearly. Before leaving, I also investigated you more or less, and along the way, I naturally observed you. I still sincerely admire His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he is very good at collecting talents, and he will also buy people's hearts, each of you is practical and meticulous in doing things, conscientious, and quite talented. But do you know what's wrong with the prince? ”
Li Andu knocked the countdown in his heart, "Where is wrong, my subordinates don't understand, please ask General Xiaohou for advice." ”