Chapter 43: Old News
After all, he is a veteran who has been in love for many years, and Princess Yanyang likes handsome men, only to see Changkong wearing a thin water-green shirt, wearing a jade hairpin, black hair like clouds, white face like jade, and a sweet mouth, as soon as he opened his mouth, the princess was stunned: "Look at Your Highness, your complexion, this early in the morning, is like a lotus flower in the first bloom, tender, moist, tsk." ”
"What are you doing so early?" The princess was still dressing up, and while the maid combed her hair, she took a golden spoon and lazily pulled the fish fillet porridge.
Yuwen Changkong came up, "Our eldest prince asked us to serve you more for him." ”
"Go, let you serve me, or let you take advantage of me?"
"Who can bear the beauty in front of her?"
In a word, he said it sincerely, and his big black and white eyes seemed to have no scheming at all, and he softened Princess Yanyang's heart, smiled, held a golden spoon in his hand, and pushed him, "Be a good errand, if I marry your Xiaohou General, I will naturally promote you." ”
Changkong didn't stand up, approaching the princess crookedly, "What about you, you are a good woman, ordinary men don't know how to cherish it, we are below, naturally hope that you will marry our eldest son, but you also know that so far, hope is still a little slim." ”
These words reached Mo Yanyang's heart. She is not a person who does not listen to contrary words, it can be said that she is also "happy when she hears it", while Hou Cong has not yet come, she wants to know if Changkong has any good ideas. However, she still has to question Changkong's motives for approaching her: "I took you hostage to capture your sister and kill your sister, don't you hate me?" ”
"My sister can't die anyway. Your Highness, you don't know her. If she didn't have some skills, would our eldest son be so attentive? ”
One sentence hits the point. Mo Yanyang stalked his neck, "Not only is my martial arts not bad, but I can also manage the army and fight." ”
"These may be true, but our eldest prince has never seen them. You can only get the attention of the eldest prince if you do something earth-shattering and no one can think of. ”
"For example?"
Changkong is too lazy to go around the corner, after all, Hou Cong and they will appear at any time, "For example, kill Mo Chang." ”
"What?"
"Your Highness, you are such a happy person, what are you pretending to be confused? You wanted to kill him. Otherwise, we'll protect a ghost! Naturally, you have your own plan, and you, it's because of the step-by-step process that our eldest son finds it boring. ”
After saying these words, Yuwen Changkong stood up straight leisurely and ran to the courtyard to see when his master would come.
Princess Yanyang's heart exploded, why had she never thought about it? If Mo Chang dies in his own hands, the government and the opposition will definitely drown him, but his brother Mo Rong will not ignore her. The reason why it went according to plan was to try to get rid of suspicion. But in fact, killing Mo Chang is much more important than getting rid of suspicion. If you do this dirty work yourself, at most you will get rid of the military power and stay at home for a year or two, and you will not really lose anything.
However, with such courage, Hou Cong will definitely be surprised and impressed by her.
Her gaze passed through the hazy beaded curtain and met the sky in the courtyard. At this time, Hou Cong came in, handsome and covetous.
He came with the task of defending Mo Chang, and if Mo Chang died unexpectedly - does Hou Cong still have the face to return to the north?
Almost instantly, Mo Yanyang made up his mind.
She didn't greet Hou Cong so warmly today, but after about the ceremony, she ordered the people below to follow, and opened the door to set off.
Along the way, Mo Yanyang was silent, and finally couldn't hold his breath, beat the horse closer to the sky, and quietly asked him, "Do you have any ideas?" ”
Changkong had already thought about it, and waited for the princess to ask.
"Yes. First, when I investigated the Bai family, I said that you were the main one, and our eldest son was the auxiliary. You have to take on this responsibility, but don't stick to him every day and let him do some paperwork and archives. Torture him. It's best to trick him into going to the palace, and go to work every day, and have no time to worry about other things. I don't have time to stare at you. ”
"Good! And what's more! ”
"And, of course, don't lock up Mo Chang! He is a prince who lives in your house, and if he dies one day, it goes without saying that you did it! Let him come out and walk around. Suddenly dead, you are only a suspect, not a 100% murderer. As for how to kill people, hey, Mom, Your Highness, do you still need me to mention something? ”
After a while, Mo Yanyang felt empowered, and the clouds cleared.
She and Hou Cong arrived on death row with their entourage, and were greeted by the leader Hou Cong had seen that day with some capable jailers.
Layers of high walls, the land of slaughter, this is the place where Hou Cong and Changkong first went to the place where the whole family in white clothes died, and the place where this woman was imprisoned twice. The chill passed through the spine, concentrated on the back of the head, pierced the soul like an awl, and plunged deep into this place, more desperate and desolate than imagined.
They also reached the meadow covered with stone mounds. The smell of blood mixed with the smell of grass leaves came to my face.
The leader of death row led them to a fairly clean room in the adjacent building, where the boss himself was on duty.
"Your Highness, please be seated."
Mo Yanyang felt uncomfortable and refused to sit. Because he decided to secretly investigate the Bai family's affairs, he didn't say it directly, but frowned and asked: "I'm busy these days, and I haven't come to ask you, what's wrong with the girl of the Bai family?" Ran away? ”
The leader of the thinking had no explanation, no excuse, knelt down and pleaded guilty, "Let His Highness punish him." ”
For this kind of person who deals with death row prisoners and executioners every day, there is really not much that ordinary people can do. Mo Yanyang didn't bother to ask, and hurriedly went straight to the topic, "You get up first, and say something else first." Back then, the people of the Bai family were imprisoned, was it here? ”
"Yes."
"Are you there?"
"At that time, my subordinate was just a jailer."
"Why is the Bai family locked up? Who gave the order? Who performs it? You know? ”
The death row boss didn't blink, "I know a little bit." It was the forbidden army who arrested people, and it was Captain Sun Qi and Sun who took the lead. I don't know who is arrested. The reason for the arrest was the embezzlement of a huge amount of money. ”
Mo Yanyang: "Oh? This is different from what she and even Hou Cong guessed. The Bai family has been an official for generations, known for its incorruptibility, and the family is originally a wealthy family, and the food and clothing rely on the real estate passed down from the ancestors, and the court's fortune may not be in the eyes. Because he was in charge of the intelligence department, everyone speculated that he knew what secret he didn't know, and he died on money?
"How much is that? It's worth cutting down the whole family. ”
"Thirty million."
"It's a lot."
So later, the Bai family's property was confiscated. It's just that the old house is unlucky, and no one wants it. ”
Princess Yanyang asked the chief historian behind her, "What kind of Sun Qi is that, a little familiar, is he still alive?" ”
"I'm not in good health, I'm no longer in the army, and now I'm in the household department, and I'm a squire."
"It's a squire. Hum. Mo Yanyang slowly stood up and ordered the chief historian to give a reward. This is also a strange rule, anyone who comes to death row, one does not dare to criticize the errand here, two does not dare to be suspicious, and three does not dare not let go of money.
One is that people deal with death every day, and the other is that people know too many secrets.
The head of death row was not polite, and ordered a jailer with a meaty face to take it.
Mo Yanyang and Hou Cong drove out of the prison door, and the group exhaled a breath of turbidity.
"What a shady place. Hurry back and bathe in incense. Mo Yanyang commanded.
The chief historian said yes.
She looked at Hou Cong and remembered Changkong's "suggestion": "General Xiaohou, do you believe what you just said?" ”
"Faith."
Anyway, Hou Cong believes that it doesn't matter whether it's true or not, and the goal is to cause turmoil and panic in the government and the opposition in Chengdu through the investigation of old cases. It's better for the boss on death row to lie, so that he can take the opportunity to find more people.
I only heard Mo Yanyang say, "I heard that many old files, especially top-secret archives, are only stored in the Bihan Building in the palace, don't run around outside, I will ask the emperor for instructions, you go there to check the information." ”