Xing Tianze helped Tao Mingxi tidy up the cloak on her body and explained patiently.

There is only one possibility why there will be a situation in the study without a trace.

The captain ordered that the maids in the house should not be allowed to go in to clean, and the top of the bookshelf was generally stored with books that were not often touched after reading, and if no one touched them often, they would be covered with dust over time.

"Why don't you let people in and clean up? I see that the old man is well-dressed and decent, and he doesn't look like a person who doesn't like to be clean. Tao Mingxi tilted his head slightly and looked at the two.

"Why are you so stupid? The lieutenant must have something to discuss with the others, so that people will not be allowed to enter the study at will. Xing Tianze did not explain impatiently: "Who people can't be seen casually, of course, they can't enter and exit the study in a bright light, and they can only enter and exit through the doors and windows or the skylight above the beams in order to hide people's eyes." ”

Tao Mingxi listened very seriously, and suddenly had a feeling of sudden realization, but she had another doubt in her heart, isn't modern science explaining that light work is purely apocryphal? How can these ancient ones be used vividly?

Traceless played with the jade pendant hanging from his waist in his hand, his eyes couldn't help but become a little heavy, and the suspicion on Taiwei's body became heavier and heavier, but they didn't have any conclusive evidence in their hands now, and it was impossible to convict others by looking at the speculation in their hands.

200,000 military salaries is not a small amount, and where will the captain hide them? And who would be the one who conspired with him in his study?

The military salary must have been changed to the prince before leaving the capital, and the time of the incident was so short, even the captain could not transfer such a huge amount of money in time.

So there are only two things that can be determined for the time being, the captain must have been involved in the crime, and the military salary is still in the capital.

"Where are we going now?" Tao Mingxi lifted the curtain of the carriage and found that this was not the route to the Five Princes' Mansion.

"The Taiwei is just one of them, and it is very likely that he is the mastermind, so the generals who escorted the military pay may also be accomplices." Xing Tianze leaned back in his seat: "We must now start with the four generals in charge of escorting and see if we can get any useful information." ”

"You don't want to torture them, do you?" Tao Mingxi inexplicably remembered the treatment she had received in Su Mansion before, and the pain of the whip on her body made her remember it vividly.

"This king is not a man who likes to bend into tricks." After Xing Tianze said this, he lowered his head.

Soon the carriage came to the gate of the prison, and was still intercepted by the soldiers standing guard.

Even if they are relatives of the emperor, they are not qualified to enter by car, and only the emperor in the entire Xingzhao country has such treatment.

"I've seen the prince, I don't know if you want to be the first to interrogate that general? Is it good to arrange it? The head of the prison knelt respectfully in front of Xing Tianze.

"The four generals who are in charge of escorting the military pay first, separate them into four rooms and lock them up separately, remember that you can't give them any chance to deliver the news, and the people who entertain them with good food and drink and the people who bring them wine and food can't be the same batch." Xing Tianze smiled and ordered: "Remember, they must be far enough away from each other, and they must not come into contact with other prisoners, and this king will come to examine them tomorrow morning?" ”

After ordering all this, without any explanation, Xing Tianze didn't even enter the door of the prison, so he returned to the palace with Tao Mingxi without a trace.

Xing Tianze and Wuxian still had something to deal with and went back to the study directly, Tao Mingxi hadn't returned to his yard yet, when he saw Zhu'er kneeling on the snow at the door, and there were two maids standing next to him who looked very eyed.

The eyes in his heart immediately boiled, and he hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhu'er up from the ground.

"Bold, where are you so ignorant of the rules? This is the person punished by our side concubine, and you dare to help her up? A maid snorted coldly, and tried to snatch Zhu'er from Tao Mingxi's hand and let her continue to kneel on the ground.

"Presumptuous, such a big dog, how dare you be so reckless with the princess?" After Zhu'er saw her master, she immediately came to her senses.

"Princess?" The two maids suddenly didn't dare to do anything, and quickly knelt on the ground.

Especially the maid who did it before, she was desperately kowtowing at the moment, wanting to beg Tao Mingxi's forgiveness.

"What kind of demon is Sun Yingru sitting on? Could it be that the warnings given to her by this princess before were all taken as deaf ears by her? Tao Mingxi's breathing began to become heavy, and he felt that he had to establish a high reputation in the backyard of this palace.

Now that Taiwei has reached the point where Great Xia is about to fall, maybe his head will move that day, and Sun Yingru, as his daughter, will dare to run to her head to make a fortune?

"Back to the princess's words, Zhu'er knocked over our mother's favorite plum blossom potted plant, so the side concubine let her kneel in the snow, and she was not allowed to get up without her." A maid kneeling on the ground didn't dare to raise her head to explain.

Tao Mingxi turned his head to look at Zhu'er when he heard the sound.

"Niangniang, don't listen to them, you don't know, in the morning, you left the palace with the prince's front foot, and someone came to tell the slave maid that the plum in the plum garden was in full bloom, and the side concubine Niangniang invited the best florist in the capital, and wanted to send a pot of flowers to the lady in each room, so the slave maid went to receive the flowers." Zhu'er hurriedly explained: "And the pot of flowers was broken because the snow on the tree fell, not because the slave maid intentionally broke it." ”

"I believe in you." Tao Mingxi turned to look at the other two maids: "You two go and call all the concubines who have received flowers to the plum garden now, and say that this princess has something to discuss with them, remember that I only give them half a quarter of an hour, and if they are late, they will kneel in the plum garden for four hours." ”

"Yes!" The two maids nodded several times and hurriedly left to inform someone.

Before he went back to his courtyard to change clothes, Tao Mingxi only took Zhu'er to see the plum garden, and saw that there were two gardeners still building flowers in the garden.

Tao Mingxi asked Zhu'er to take her to the pot of plum blossoms that had been knocked down, and after careful investigation, she made it to the pavilion in the garden.

Zhu'er asked the two gardeners to leave first, and asked them to come back to the palace tomorrow to repair the flowers.

Half an hour later, the other concubines except Sun Yingru were all present, but without Tao Mingxi speaking, they didn't have the courage to sit down, so they had to stand in the pavilion.

"Princess, what's the matter? Why did you suddenly gather all the sisters together? "Sun Yingru's people haven't arrived yet, and the voice has arrived first.

On the way to Tao Mingxi, there was a resentful smile on her face, Sun Yingru received the news that Xing Tianze left the palace with the princess and Wuxian early this morning, and no one could guess how angry she was in her heart at that time.

"The side concubine is really a big shelf, this princess has made it clear that those who don't arrive on time will kneel in the snow for four hours." Tao Mingxi took a sip of tea without raising his eyes.