Xiao Ying was a stupid man, suspecting that Xiao Ye was very likely to send someone to keep an eye on him nearby, for fear that he would be targeted by Xiao Ye's people when he walked out of the palace, so he put on a cloak and went out!

Ridiculous move is self-defeating, since he took Zhu Jian out of the gate of the palace, crossed the Xiangsi Bridge to the other side of Qingxi, and finally walked into the teahouse about fifty steps away from the north of the bridge.

Xiao Ying and Zhu Jian happened to walk by the duck blood soup stall, as the stall owner, You Xiao, and the only buddy An Zi, also pretended to be busy, seeing them go to the north of the bridge, An Zi immediately put down the rag in his hand, and was about to move to follow, but was grabbed by You Xiao's wrist, only to see You Xiao's eyes glance in the direction where the two spies in Wuling Wangfu were sitting, and then lowered his voice and said: "Don't worry." ”

Anzi will understand, this second brother You said early in the morning that the king of Linchuan is a cicada, the king of Wuling is a praying mantis, and they are yellow birds, as the so-called "praying mantis catches cicadas, and yellow finches are behind", now that the king of Linchuan is moving, it should be the spies of King Wuling who take the first step, as for the yellow finch...... Naturally, it has to be hidden at the end.

Sure enough, the two spies were also staring at Xiao Ying and Zhu Lian, the two sat facing each other, retracted their gaze and glanced at each other, the one facing east hurriedly raised his butt and followed, and when he walked about ten steps away, You Xiao withdrew the hand that was holding Anzi's wrist, and told him uneasily: "Don't follow too closely." ”

"Yes," Anzi nodded, and when he turned around, he glanced at the other spy who was sitting with his back to them, fearing that he would be suspicious, so he deliberately shouted: "Second brother, I'll go home." ”

You Xiao also cooperated and scolded: "You are doing it every day, where do you have so many things!" Go and come back quickly! ”

"Got it!"

After the two of them sang and harmonized, Anzi's tracking can be said to be logical.

Xiao Ying walked into the teahouse, led the way by Zhu Lian, turned around and found a small cubicle located in the southwest corner of the teahouse, pushed open the door and saw Ma San, who even Zhu Lian had never really seen, a tall and burly, and bearded rough man, but he really grew all the characteristics that a jailer should meet.

Zhu Jian had closed the door of the house tightly, and the spies of the Wuling Mansion walked over unscrupulously, leaning against the door, eavesdropping openly, as for Anzi, he was hiding in a hidden corner, while pricking up his ears and listening carefully to the conversation in the house, while beware of the spy in the Wuling Palace, however, seeing that the spy twisted his eyebrows and pressed his ears to the door from time to time, and his face was angry, he knew that the sound coming from the house was not loud.

The spy was standing in the doorway, and he couldn't hear it clearly, let alone Anzi, who was standing a little farther away...... Anzi looked around, thinking about getting closer to listen, but at this time he heard Zhu Lian's voice coming from the room: "Ma San, this is a hook kiss, you just need to mix this thing into the meal of Duzhi Shangshu, the one hundred taels of gold can be easily obtained, since you are on an errand in Tingwei Prison, you have a chance to start, you don't want to live up to His Highness's expectations of you!" ”

Zhu Lian's words really summarized their conversation, and deliberately raised his voice, which was said to the two people outside the house, he was entrusted by the scholar to calculate Xiao Ying, so that Xiao Ye and Xie Zheng knew that Xiao Ying had arranged for the murderer to kill Lu Huilin and extinguish his mouth, and it was also in the plan.

After a while, he suddenly saw the spies retreat to the door of the adjacent compartment again and again, gently pushed open the door and reflexively hid in, leaving only a small gap to peek outside.

Immediately afterwards, I saw that the door of the compartment at the top opened, Xiao Ying and Zhu Jian walked out one after the other, looked east and west, and made sure that there was no one around, so they left with peace of mind, and estimated that the two of them had already walked out, and Ma San inside then swaggered out.

When Ma San walked a little farther, the spies also hurriedly followed, and as for Anzi, he was naturally the last to go.

Xiao Ying and Zhu Jian naturally went back to Linchuan Palace, Ma San walked out of the teahouse and went straight north along the street, and the Tingwei Office and Tingwei Prison were in the north direction, the spy stood at the door, watching Ma San go away, only to be sure that he was indeed going back to Tingwei Prison, so he sneered, and then turned back to make peace with another spy.

When Anzi left, he also glanced to the north, at this time Ma San had already walked a long way, standing outside the teahouse, and his vague figure could be vaguely seen.

The spies walked under the Xiangsi Bridge, and the other sat in front of the stall and saw him coming back from afar, and immediately greeted him, the two whispered, and quickly parted ways, one crossed the Xiangsi Bridge and went north, and returned to the Wuling Mansion to report to Xiao Ye, and the other rushed to the Tingwei Office to inform Zheng Hui to keep an eye on the jailer named Ma San.

All this was seen by You Xiao, until Anzi came back, he asked, "Is King Linchuan ready to do it?" "Looking at the posture of the two spies in the Wuling Palace, if it weren't for Xiao Ying's movement, they wouldn't have left so easily.

Sure enough, Anzi nodded and said, "They paid a hundred taels of gold to bribe a jailer, called Ma San, and ordered him to poison Duzhishangshu with a hook kiss. ”

You Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "It's finally moving, I'll go back to the Hou Mansion to report to Xie Niangzi first." ”

"Second brother, then I'll go to Tingwei Prison to keep an eye on?" Anzi was a little tentative in his words, but You Xiao said: "No need, Xie Niangzi said, she just needs to make sure that the King of Linchuan will attack Du Zhishangshu, as for the rest of the matter, there is King Wuling to keep an eye on." ”

The two were talking, but they happened to see Xie Zheng walking in front of the stall from south to north with a jade branch, Xie Zheng also deliberately glanced sideways at You Xiao, You Xiao naturally understood, glanced around, and immediately followed them silently, always maintaining a distance of ten steps.

Coincidentally, Xie Zheng happened to enter Fang Cai's teahouse, she and Yuzhi walked to the private room on the second floor, left the door open, and after a while, she saw You Xiao follow.

You Xiao closed the door, and then walked quickly to Xie Zheng to salute, and arched his hand: "Xie Niangzi." ”

"Get up," Xie Zheng raised his hand to signal him to get up, and asked, "I just saw that there were no diners on your stall, it seems that the two spies from the Wuling Mansion have already left?" ”

You Xiao straightened up and replied, "Just left, Xu is going back to report to King Wuling." Just now the king of Linchuan and Zhu Jian met in this teahouse, a person named Ma San, that Ma San, is the jailer of the court bureau, the king of Linchuan gave him a bottle of hook kiss, told him to poison Du Zhishangshu, and promised him a hundred taels of gold as a reward, and his subordinates were about to go back to the house to report to the lady, and the lady came over. ”

Hearing the news, Xie Zheng finally put her mind at ease, she breathed a long sigh of relief, and then smiled proudly from the bottom of her heart, and said: "Finally, I can't help but do it, King Wuling sent someone to keep an eye on him, I believe that it is the same as me, I expected that he would definitely buy murder and kill people, presumably at this time, Zheng Hui had already laid a net in Tingwei Prison, just waiting for him to jump in." ”

"It's so easy to let us know his movements, could this be a trap...... Lady, be careful to sail the boat for ten thousand years," Yuzhi is very cautious, this is not unreasonable, Xie Zheng has already seen the situation clearly, and is naturally ten percent sure, she said: "This matter, on the surface, we are not involved in it, no matter how much they calculate, they can't calculate our heads, as for King Wuling's side, at most, it will be a waste of work, and it will not suffer." ”

You Xiao then also said: "Xie Niangzi, the subordinates also suspect that this is a trap, at that time, Zhu Jian and people met in the alley south of the Linchuan Palace, Xiao Linzi went to follow, he has already noticed it, this time with Ma San, he should be more cautious, how can he be so careless, he actually made an appointment with Ma San in a place like a teahouse, and his subordinates always felt that this matter was something that Zhu Jian deliberately wanted King Wuling to know." ”

Xie Zheng sat in front of the tea case, stood up with a few people on the side, paced in the private room, and said: "You are right, that jailer was recommended by Zhu Jian for the king of Linchuan, he could have brought the jailer into the palace, but he wanted the king of Linchuan to come to the teahouse in person to meet him, he knew that there were spies from the Wuling palace under the bridge, but he still had to walk across the bridge to attract the spies to follow, he did this just to let the king of Wuling know their plan, so that the Tingwei prison could prepare early." ”

"As for why he designed the King of Linchuan like this, I think..."She said this, she had already stopped, suddenly turned to look at You Xiao, and said with great certainty: "There is someone else behind him!" Otherwise, he would not have carried the king of Linchuan on his back and secretly connected with people in the alley next to him. ”

Yuzhi pondered: "Could it be that he is a person from the King of Wuling?" ”

Xie Zhengxiu frowned slightly, and shook his head, "Impossible, if he is King Wuling's person, then why should King Wuling send people to keep an eye on him, and Zhu Jian doesn't have to deliberately attract spies to the teahouse." ”

"So who could he be? It can't be the prince's person...... "In this Jiankang City, in addition to King Linchuan, there are only the two crown princes, the prince and the king of Wuling, since they are not the people of King Wuling, then in addition to the prince, Yuzhi really can't think of anyone else."

But the prince's side didn't interfere in this matter!

Xie Zheng sighed lightly, not that he regretted that he couldn't find out the details of Zhu Lian, but that he hated that he didn't even know who this menacing enemy was.

"I don't know for the time being," Xie Zheng's eyes were a little glazed, his thoughts were confused, and he was in a trance.

You Xiao thought about it and said: "Xie Niangzi, in fact, the person who connected with Zhu Lian, his subordinates saw it from a distance on the other side of the bridge, that person was dressed up, no different from a scholar, but he walked very coquettishly, and his buttocks twisted and twisted like a young lady in a green building, especially on his face, it was like smearing two catties of powder, and it was whiter than the wall, so ...... The subordinates suspected that it was a woman, but she was dressed as a man, and she was afraid of being recognized. ”

When Yuzhi heard him say this, she couldn't help laughing: "Have you ever seen a woman dressed as a man walking on the street and twisting her buttocks, because she was afraid that others would not be able to see that she was a woman?" ”

"Oh...... That's right......" You Xiao thought for a while, and said, "That...... Is Bao Qi a eunuch? ”

Yuzhi didn't say a word, just looked at Xie Zheng sideways, and Xie Zheng had racked his brains, thinking for a long time, and finally had no clue, so he had to put it down for the time being, "This matter, let's talk about it later." ”

She said, and then explained to You Xiaoxiao: "You Xiaoxiao, collect the net, there should be nothing for us to do for a while, let the brothers rest for a few days." ”

As soon as he heard the word "Xiu Mu", You Xiaodeng's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly thanked: "Thank you, lady, that... The subordinates will arrange it. ”

Xie Zheng couldn't help laughing when he saw the surprise that You Xiao couldn't hide in his eyes, and said happily: "Go ahead, have a good rest." ”

After You Xiao left, Xie Zheng still stood in place, neither turned around to sit down before investigating the case, nor did he mean to leave, but just looked at the door of the private room with a heavy heart, Yuzhi stood behind her, and did not disturb her, until a moment later, the little man in the teahouse knocked on the door outside and asked, "Guest officer, do you want to add tea inside?" ”

This call barely brought Xie Zheng's thoughts back, and she only replied: "No need." ”

Then I heard the guy outside the door say, "I'm sorry." ”

Xie Zheng was already confused, and Yuzhi also took advantage of the situation to ask: "Lady, shall we go home?" There was a hint of temptation in her words, and she also expected that Xie Zheng was a little unhappy with Huan Ling because of Huan Rang's matter, and at this time, I am afraid that she did not want to go back.

Then I heard Xie Zheng take a deep breath and said coldly: "You go back first, I'll go out for a walk." ”

"But ......" but the county marquis told him to stay with the lady an inch......

Yuzhi couldn't say this well, so he put the words to his mouth and swallowed them back, Xie Zheng turned around and smiled at her, and said, "What are you afraid of, can I still get lost?" She also knew what Yuzhi wanted to say, so she replied to her.

After she said that, she left without looking back, Yuzhi looked at her and walked away, sighed lightly, and said to herself: "I don't have to use Erlangjun's ......"

Xie Zheng had walked out of the teahouse, but did not leave, just stood at the door, looking at the Linchuan palace on the other side of the Xiangsi Bridge from a distance, thoughtfully, she wanted to go to the alley to see if there were any clues nearby, but because the alley was next to the Linchuan Palace, and there was a gatekeeper at the door of the palace, it was too suspicious to walk over......

She looked at the Huaiqing Bridge to the south, and unconsciously let out a laugh, thanks to the terrain in this Jiankang City, there are countless streets and alleys of all sizes, which seem to be intricate, but in fact they are all connected, so no matter where you want to go, there are always many choices for the route, but it is the difference between a short road and a long way.

Xie Zheng then went to Huaiqing Bridge openly, and when he passed the Xiangsi Bridge, he glanced at the Linchuan Palace, intentionally or unintentionally.

The east bank of Huaiqing Bridge is Dongfu City, Xie Zheng crossed the bridge and went north along the street, but she did not hide it, because this road is connected to Yanque Lake in the north, and the Prince's Mansion is on the south bank of Yanque Lake.

Linchuan Wangfu and Xichang County Hou Xiaoluan's mansion is adjacent, only a long alley in the middle, Xie Zheng walked through the Hou Mansion of Xichang County, stopped at the mouth of the alley to look inside, to make sure that there was no one inside, then walked in, this long alley is connected to Yanfu Street, a straight alley, there is no fork in the middle, only a few zhang far away from the dead end, and they are all concave when the Hou Mansion of Xichang County was built, so, the person who connected with Zhu Jian disappeared in the alley, there is only one possibility, he climbed over the wall into the Hou Mansion of Xichang County, and then escaped from the Hou Mansion.

Sure enough, Xie Zheng only walked to the mouth of the first alley, and he noticed the clue, the three walls of the alley, under the corner of the wall facing the exit, there was an obvious footprint, like a right foot, obviously someone intended to climb over the wall to the opposite side, so he raised his right foot to kick the wall to borrow the force, and the mud on it was still very new, it must have been inadvertently left by the person who connected with Zhu Lian.

It seems that that person is not very good, the one-foot high wall, he still needs to borrow strength to climb over it, so thinking about it, if he wants to escape from the Hou Mansion over the wall, he will definitely leave footprints!

Xie Zheng jumped lightly, and happened to enter the backyard of the Hou family in Xichang County, but saw that the yard was empty, and he couldn't even see a maid, and then went deeper, and suddenly heard a woman's reprimand: "How many times have you said it, the county marquis can't see pickles, such a big footprint on this wall, you have more than a dozen pairs of eyes, and none of them have seen it?" It's also a shame that the county marquis doesn't walk here much on weekdays, if he sees it, he can be careful about your skin! ”

Follow the sound to find it, and see a woman in coarse cloth clothes is counting two or three rows of a total of ten or twenty maids, listening to the woman just said that the footprints on the wall, I think it was also accidentally left by that person, the reason why he chose to climb over the wall from the side, and did not go directly from the back door, is because the back door is guarded.

Wait a minute! The back door of the Xichang Marquis Mansion seems to be facing the ......

Xie Zheng was shocked, and hurriedly turned back the same way, climbed over the wall to the outside, walked out of the alley, and then walked east along the long alley, and when he reached the alley, his eyes turned to the right, and there was a slightly shabby mansion in front of him, and the plaque directly above the gate of the mansion was particularly dazzling, Xie Zheng had already frowned, and whispered: "Changsha Wangfu ......"

As soon as the words fell, a big hand suddenly put on Xie Zheng's left shoulder, which startled her, but the familiar dipterocarp snorted and told her to let down her vigilance, and she exhaled helplessly, Huan Ling's voice came from behind her: "What's wrong?" ”

Without waiting for Xie Zheng to reply to him, he followed her gaze to look at the Changsha Palace, and also whispered: "Changsha Palace? ”

When Xiao Linzi returned home to report Xiao Ying's movements to Xie Zheng, Huan Ling was also listening, and he also knew that Zhu Zheng was connected with people in this alley, and now seeing Xie Zheng standing here staring, of course, he guessed a little.

Xie Zheng looked back at him and only asked: "The county marquis still remembers that at the birthday banquet in Dongfu City, the king of Changsha sent someone to send a congratulatory gift to his grandmother?" ”

Huan Ling thought about it carefully before he said: "I remember, that person wore heavy makeup, behaved awkwardly, was neither male nor female, like a eunuch. ”

Xie Zheng was a little stunned, and only after a long time did he say: "His name is Deng Cheng, and he is the chief secretary of the Changsha Palace." ”