Chapter 194: Serious Murder
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Ma Changde beckoned to the people outside the door, and three people came in.
One is wearing a slave short, and he looks young, so he should be a little second in the hall. One wears a long coat and holds an account book in his hand. One person walked in the front, the robe was made of silk satin, and the person also saw the extravagance, it may be that the boss of the Li Zihao heard that the accountkeeper was going to be pulled to the East Palace for questioning, thinking that something was wrong, and he came with him without worry.
"Your Highness, this is the boss of the Li brand."
Boss Li led the two behind him to bow down: "The grass people see His Royal Highness the Prince, see His Royal Highness King Xu, and ......"
Boss Li's eyes moved to Gu Fuwei, and he felt panicked, but this person is domineering and introverted, with a luxurious posture, and can sit and talk with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King Xu, which shows that he is also a person with a very high status.
When the crown prince was not yet crowned prince, he accompanied him out of the palace on a parade, and the people had seen it at that time, so he recognized it.
King Xu loves to mix things in private, and he has been to all venues in the capital, and he has seen them once or twice.
But the rest of him, he really hasn't seen it once, and he turned out the appearance of all the dignitaries and nobles in his mind and compared them, and none of them seemed to be able to match them.
You must know that looking at the entire court, if you want to say that the most beautiful person is not the prince modulus, and he is more handsome than the prince, he has indeed never heard of it.
So when he arrived at Gu Fuwei, he was dumbfounded for a while, and looked at Ma Changde like a helper.
"Look at your eyes, this is His Royal Highness King Qi!" Ma Changde pointed.
"King Qi...... His Royal Highness King Qi! The grass people see His Royal Highness King Qi! Boss Li bowed heavily, deeper than the prince.
The overlord of the Western Regions, which everyone has in their mouths, is a hawkish figure who kills people like hemp and eats fierce soldiers.
In his impression, King Qi should have a leopard head and eyes, and his face is full of meat.
didn't expect that his eyebrows were so handsome, but the evil aura that couldn't be hidden in his facial features was in line with his rumors.
"Get up." Seeing that there was a hint of admiration in Boss Li's eyes, the prince couldn't help but glance at Gu Fuwei, and his fluttering figure seemed to be a bright light shining into his eyes, and he immediately couldn't help but straighten his back, not wanting to fall behind.
Boss Li got up with a smile. "I don't know why His Highness summoned the villains into the palace?"
"It's not very important, it's just asking something, you don't have to be nervous."
Boss Li waved his hand respectfully: "Your Highness asks, the villain will know everything." ”
"Do you know how many shops in this capital are selling pigments made of phlogopite?"
Boss Li paused suspiciously.
He didn't know why the prince asked this question, and he had to be so meticulous, even knowing such scarce goods as phlogopite.
He thought for a moment and replied truthfully: "If you go back to Your Highness, there are only two. In addition to our Li brand, there is also a pigment shop called Gui Xin that has also been sold. ”
"Sold too? Is that not sold now? ”
"Yes, it's been ...... recently" Boss Li was about to blurt out the reason, when he suddenly thought of King Qi's presence again, so he glanced at King Qi worriedly.
In fact, what he was going to say next, King Qi should know, it can be seen that he was unmoved, and he didn't seem to care about this, so Boss Li continued: "Recently, the Western Regions have not been peaceful, I heard that all tribes have been in turmoil, and there are more rogues. The Central Plains businessman duty, the Liukou favorite to point to the Central Plains people to bully, a recent batch of phlogopite pigment out of Qishui, just handed over to our Central Plains was robbed by the Liukou more than half. Therefore, the goods have been very tight recently, and the price has risen several times. ”
Gu Fuwei's eyelashes tightened and he didn't say anything.
King Xu couldn't tell if Gu Fuwei was displeased, so he quickly diverted the topic: "What can't be divided, I think it's Boss Li, you are too generous, and you deliberately cut off the goods!" ”
Boss Li smiled a little embarrassedly: "The villain is in business, business, it depends on the price, the goods are tight, and the one with the highest price will naturally get it." ”
"So, your family is selling in the capital?" The prince asked.
"Yes."
"Who have you been selling to lately?"
Boss Li stepped aside and beckoned to the man holding the account book behind him, "You are in charge of the accounts, you will answer." ”
The middle-aged man holding the account book stepped forward cautiously, with some stage fright, glanced at the prince, and quickly lowered his head.
"Back to His Royal Highness, the biggest shipment recently is to sell to the Bian'an Temple on the outskirts of Beijing, they are in a hurry to repair the Buddha Hall, and the Buddha's golden body must be painted with a layer of phlogopite pigment. The remaining small part was given to Xu Cheng pawnshop, they often had to use gold pigments to replenish the utensils, and the previous pigments ran out, so they came to get new ones a few days ago. ”
"What about the ones who buy bulk goods?" Gu Fuwei, who had been silent, suddenly turned his eyes and asked.
The cold voice made the man shrink unconsciously.
In fact, Gu Fuwei's tone is not fierce, but he has never spoken, and he has a sharp aura on his body, which is the same as a tiger napping.
"Bulk Cargo...... Bulk cargo has, to check. ”
"If you were to see people with your own eyes, would you remember recognizing them?" Gu Fuwei asked again.
The bookkeeper hesitated for a moment, then replied, "I remember all the things that were bought from me, but sometimes I may not be there." After that, he turned back to the second person behind him, "Can you remember?" ”
The little two heads didn't dare to raise it, but they only said they could.
The bookkeeper said with a stiff smile: "That should be fine, he is the front hall to entertain guests, and there is always one of us who is in the shop every step of the way." ”
Gu Fuwei didn't ask any more when he asked this, and gave the prince a look.
The prince understood what King Qi meant, and immediately asked Sun Fuzheng to bring out all the people behind the curtain, and in a huge study, more than a dozen people stood in a neat row.
The people who left home who had relaxed their spirits were a little uneasy by this sudden battle, for fear that the little two and the account room would be clumsy and admit that they were wrong, what should they do?
"You two take a good look at it, and see if any of these dozen people have ever bought anything from the Li brand." Prince Road.
Lizhan stood safely, and Lixiaoxiao and the old lady, who were standing next to her from a few positions, were not so comfortable.
The account room and Xiao Er looked carefully one by one.
The footsteps of the two of them stepped on the wooden plank, making a creaking sound, like the black and white impermanence that came out of the underworld to ask for their lives, and they were slowly approaching the target.
Under the scrutiny of the two of them, the back of the spine was cold, and after finally being observed back and forth twice, the account room suddenly stopped, hurriedly walked back to the old lady and paused, and called Xiao Er to discuss in a low voice.
"Do you think she looks familiar?"
Xiao Er glanced at it again, lowered his eyes and nodded repeatedly: "Familiar, I remember that she seemed to have been here last afternoon." ”
The fine sweat on the nurse's forehead formed into beads the size of beans, rolled down from her forehead to the wooden board, "crackled", and fell into eight petals.
"Is it the one who urged for a long time, but only bought the phlogopite pigment for less than two dollars?"
"Yes." Xiao Er is sure.
The man in charge of the accounts had a bottom in his heart, and turned around to tell the prince.
"Your Highness, there is indeed one in this group of people who came to buy the pigment of phlogopite, just yesterday afternoon."
"Oh, who, you point to this palace."
The bookkeeper walked up to the nurse and raised his hand and pointed: "This is the person." ”
The old woman's body shook more and more, and she couldn't bear it anymore when she was pointed at by him, and she knelt on the ground with her legs bent, shook her head and shouted, "It's not me...... Not me...... Your Highness is wronged, the slave doesn't know anything, the slave really doesn't know anything......"
When the account office saw that she refused to admit it, she was immediately angry and panicked, she refused to admit it, wasn't she indirectly saying that she had wronged her?
The bookkeeper said disdainfully: "The pigment was originally sold for two taels of silver for one dollar, and you still had to make a price with me, and after half an hour, I agreed to sell you two dollars for one or two halves of silver, but you didn't weigh enough in the end!" You say I don't remember you, so who do I remember? ”
The old lady couldn't bear it, and the account room completely collapsed when she pointed at her at will, not to mention that the account room angrily took out yesterday's old accounts and settled them with her.
She didn't say anything to argue for a while, she just smashed her head on the ground fiercely, knocking a blood mark, as if the heavier she knocked, the less suspicion she had.
"The villain didn't ...... The villain did not ...... They spew blood, and the villain has never been to any pigment shop......"