Seeing that he was so sure, Hu Xianxian replied with a disapproving smile: "I still don't know you?" What does it mean to trust you completely, is that you want me to listen to you completely. ”

Cheng Haofeng did not refute or defend, but asked her quite aggrievedly: "You don't want to do things with me, don't you want to listen to me?" You want to get me out of the way? ”

Everyone else was anxious about the unknown life and death of the old princess, and he still had the heart to tease her, so she rubbed her eyes and stared at him.

"These eyes want to see through me but can't see through them, right? So, we need to be together and get to know each other better. Well, actually, I know you quite well, but you don't know me well. As he spoke, he leaned in on her.

Hu Xianxian hurriedly turned sideways and walked a few steps away from him, and he laughed twice: "You don't know enough about me, do you?" I just want to ask you to help me sort out and analyze all the news related to the old princess in the past few days. What are you hiding? ”

She smiled coquettishly and walked towards the bookcase, and he took advantage of her inattention to dodge and put his arms around her behind her back.

"You...... You lied to me? ”

"Okay, I lied to you." He let go of his hand around her waist, and instead pressed her shoulder and said, "Don't avoid me, I'll be more flustered." No matter what problem, there is always a solution, you can accompany me with peace of mind, so that I can do things with peace of mind. ”

She didn't know what to say, she couldn't scold him and ask him to remove the wolf's claws, right? She didn't want him to be angry, she didn't want to be alienated from him. But she had a heavy stone in her heart, a heavy stone that was difficult to remove.

"Immortals? Xianxian, why do you ignore me? Some people say that you are arrogant and willful, but I think you are more willful, at least in front of me, you can say whatever you want and do whatever you want without reservation. He took his hands off her shoulders and stretched out his arms to wrap her around completely.

She looked up at him sideways, "What if it's because of my mistake?" ”

"It's good for you to be nice, you deliberately avoid me, it will really make me uneasy and cranky." He kissed her earlobe and hugged her tighter.

"Well, don't worry about me causing you trouble. As long as you don't dislike me, I'll be your little tail. ”

Seeing that there was no hesitation in her eyes, Cheng Haofeng let go of her and sat down behind the bookcase, and Hu Xianxian also sat down next to her. Although Cen Zaidao and the Dao boys have not been able to search for people with great fanfare in the past few days, they still have to visit secretly, and it is too passive to sit and wait for Bian Caiban to come to the door.

He looked a little more serious and then said: "What we do will inevitably involve bloody battles, and these things will inevitably implicate innocents, life and death, you don't need to feel too guilty in your heart." ”

Hu Xianxian nodded solemnly, but she was still a little uncomfortable in her heart, of course, there was no need to have a woman's kindness to the extremely vicious people, but many innocent people who were implicated should not have died.

He sighed lightly and said: "In the past, we have been repeatedly controlled by others, just because we want to strike a balance too much, but how can there be absolutely justice in the world?

Dang Ben'an's handling of those eunuchs and palace maids seems ruthless, but if he waits for the people of the Criminal Department to slowly interrogate and investigate, it will make everyone know and damage the dignity of the royal family. Moreover, if we don't use drastic measures, there are many guards and slaves in the palace, if we dare to hold the royal family hostage, how should we deal with it?

In the case of Gonggong Li, there may have been only 50 or 60 people who were actually involved, and more than 200 people were punished. Dang Ben'an's actions are indeed a bit cruel and cruel, but he is really loyal to the emperor......"

Hu Xianxian shook his hand at him, trying to smile: "I understand, I understand." So, although I can't get used to what the party's father-in-law does, I don't interfere with his work. In the days when the palace was not yet quiet, I sat alone on the roof and played. I know that there are many things that you can't do alone, you need help, as long as the people who can be used for you are help, I will not object. ”

Cheng Haofeng breathed a sigh of relief, and both of them carefully flipped through the information they had collected, hoping to find clues.

At night, Cen Zaidao and the little Taoist boys came back, but they still found nothing.

"Impossible, after Bian Caiban knew that I was coming, it was impossible not to pass on the news to me, otherwise it would be pointless for him to hold the old princess hostage. Well...... Unless their sudden disappearance was not the mastermind of Bian Cai, but a rebirth?! After listening to all kinds of situations, Cheng Haofeng pondered for a while before speaking.

Hu Xianxian had thoughts sprouting in his mind, as if he remembered the key points that had been overlooked, and he couldn't say it clearly for a while. She bit her lower lip and asked, "After repeated analysis, we can confirm that the old princess did not go out of the area around Taixing after her disappearance, but after looking for it so many times in and out of the city, why is there no trace left?" There were five of them, and these five were to eat and drink......"

"Want to eat or drink? Wait a minute, I'll flip through the ......" Cheng Haofeng excitedly pulled out a piece of paper.

The message is about Xiao Daotong asking the owner of the pastry shop in the city if he has seen the old princess, and the boss says that he has not. Then the boss said that the old princess used to love to eat the osmanthus cake in the shop, and every time Bian Caiban went to pick up the cake, he used a delicate small box made of bamboo strips to serve it, not wrapped in paper at random like selling it to others.

The old princess hadn't sent anyone to fetch the osmanthus cake for several months, but I don't know who picked up the small box of bamboo strips and used it to fill it when she bought the osmanthus cake. The boss ridiculed the man for daring to pick up the things of the palace, and the man threw away the small box and ran away. The boss laughed at the man's upside down, picked up the few boxes that had fallen on the ground, and prepared to use them later.

Cheng Haofeng pondered this message again, and then asked Cen Zaidao to take people to the pastry shop and take all the bamboo strip boxes.

After a while, the small box was taken. He looked at it carefully, sniffed it repeatedly, and then handed it to Hu Xianxian: "There are residues and smells in the pastry utensils that should not be there, you can tell me what it is, and try that our conclusions are different." ”

Hu Xianxian did as he was told, and smelled that there was a faint smell of soot in this small box in addition to the fragrance of bamboo strips and the sweet fragrance of osmanthus cake. The smell of soot was not the smell of firewood and grass soot, she closed her eyes slightly and whispered, "There is a smell of fragrant ash...... This is not an ordinary cypress and elm fragrance......"

"Well, with sandalwood, you can use more expensive spices to burn incense and sacrifice, and you must be a rich and noble family." Cheng Haofeng smiled approvingly at her, and she also smiled.

The two laughed, and each knew that they had the same judgment of the other. Cheng Haofeng ordered Cen Zaidao to take more than 30 Taoist children to the old prince's cemetery quickly, and not to make noise along the way.

And let Cen Zaidao spread the word to the people guarding the mausoleum, but anyone who came around the cemetery would be interrogated, and all the people who could not say the right reason would be detained in the east chamber of the palace.

After the explanation, Cheng Haofeng flew away first, and Hu Xianxian followed. After a short time, the two of them had reached the sky above the old prince's mausoleum.

At this time, the night was dark, and only the sound of the wind blowing and falling leaves was heard in the quiet cemetery. Ordinary people come here at this time, even if they are not terrified, they will inevitably feel hairy in their hearts, but they will not. Because they can see the essence behind the gloomy scene, they have only worries, not fears.

They were worried that the dragon qi on the tomb was disordered, and someone must have destroyed the dragon veins. Hu Xianxian asked Cheng Haofeng with his eyes if he wanted to go to the tomb, and he shook his head.

The two of them flew around the mound of sealed earth of the tomb three times in a row, each circle flying slower than the other. Because Cheng Haofeng was doing the renovation of the cemetery after the insect infestation and the matter of luring the remnant soul of the black dragon to replenish the dragon veins, Hu Xianxian could only see that there was a problem here, and she couldn't see what the problem was.

At the end of the day, Cen Zaidao swept to the ground. He swept up to a height of only about three zhang, looked up at them and shouted anxiously: "National teacher, catch a very suspicious person......

Cheng Haofeng responded with a "hmm", and flew towards the wing room of the Xiangdian Palace, accompanied by Hu Xianxian. Before Cen Zaidao finished speaking, he panted and swept back.

Seven or eight little Taoist boys and three mausoleum guards in the wing room of the hall hugged one person tightly, for fear that he would escape. Cheng Haofeng arrived, let them disperse, only to see that this person was a thin man about twenty years old. His hands were tied behind his back, his feet were tied together, and his mouth was still stuffed with rags, and he lay on the ground and cried "whining".

Cheng Haofeng asked people to pull the cloth in his mouth first, and he retched several times before shouting: "I...... I'm a long-term worker in the cemetery...... I'm a good person......"

"Good guys? Are you a good person or sneaky running to the tomb gate every day, and still picking at the tomb door? You dare to look there tonight...... We're noticing you not for a day or two! One of the guards immediately retorted to him.

The guard also made it clear to Cheng Hao that this person was indeed a long-term worker in the cemetery, but he had behaved strangely since ten days ago. At first, they thought he was trying to steal, but then they didn't find out what he was stealing. Just as he was about to inquire about him, he saw him looking at the tomb gate, as if he was still shouting, fearing that he had an accomplice, so he kidnapped him and put him under strict guard.

After Cheng Haofeng heard this, he praised the guards a few words, and then asked him to take people away and continue to patrol, and he came to interrogate this long-term worker personally.

Hu Xianxian didn't pay much attention to the words of those interrogations, what she thought was that this person was different: some people died without a place to be buried; Some people rolled a straw mat and dug a pit and buried it; More people are thin coffins and small graves; And the tomb of the old prince covers a vast area, and there are many mausoleum guards.

The inner garden of this cemetery originally had a red wall of 121 zhang, which was added to 131 zhang after Han Zexi ascended the throne, and the inner garden covered an area of about six acres.

The conical mound of two zhang eight high, the diameter of the bottom surface is about eight zhang seven, it is the position of the main tomb, there is a solid tomb door of carving dragons and phoenixes before the mound sealing, and there is a stele pavilion before the tomb door. Originally, there was no stele pavilion, the top of the tombstone only had the eaves to shelter from the wind and rain, after Han Zexi became the emperor, he built an octagonal arch of the blue tile red pillar stele pavilion.

The main building in this inner garden is the tall and spacious seven halls, and there are ten wings on each side of the hall. There are five god kitchens and three slaughtering rooms behind the palace, and there is a bell tower not far from the hall of enjoyment. These buildings were used for ceremonial purposes, and were usually guarded by eight diligent priests.

There are several tomb keepers' huts on the side of the Lingxing Gate at the entrance of the inner garden, and more than a dozen tomb keepers who live here are mainly responsible for sprinkling and cleaning.

There are also a few huts next to the gate, where the grave keepers are mainly in charge of the prosperity and decay of the flowers and trees in the garden.

In addition, there are sentry posts at the four corners of the inner garden, and each sentry has nine guards, each of whom is on duty in three shifts.

On the periphery of this inner garden is the cemetery, and the cemetery is surrounded by the inner garden to form the outer garden, and the outer garden has about 180 acres of land. Half of the long-term workers in the fields were slaves who had made minor mistakes in the palace in the past, and half were local villagers. All proceeds from the land were given to the chief priest in charge of the sacrifices, which was used for the expenses of the cemetery.

Hu Xianxian sneered and laughed, there are more than 100 people with different positions in this old prince's cemetery, isn't it ridiculous to use so many living people to serve a dead person?

And when she was thinking nonsense, Cheng Haofeng had already reviewed the matter of the long work.