Chapter 418: Suspicion
After Zhao Qian left, a figure quickly flashed into his study, if Zhao Qian saw that person here, he would be very surprised, because it was none other than the bewitching maid who was still flirting with him in the study not long ago.
The maid found a secret compartment in the study, and saw the letter from the Tatar king to him before Zhao Qian could destroy the corpse, and the maid showed a triumphant smile, and then quickly took it out and restored the dark compartment to its original state. The maid didn't dare to delay for a moment, and the people who avoided the General Soldier's Mansion quietly left the mansion and ran all the way to King Yan's mansion.
Three days later, Zhao Qian arranged the affairs of Yangcheng, and announced to the public that he was going to take his family to Zhuangzi outside the city to recuperate from the summer, so he generously went out of Yangcheng. A hundred miles outside Yangcheng, he joined his own secret guard, plus the personal soldiers he brought out, and walked separately all the way to the capital.
Two days later, Zhao Qian received a flying pigeon from Durian Yan, saying that everything would be arranged in the palace and waiting for them to enter the palace. But Durian Yan said that Concubine De was seriously injured in the assassination, and many people around her were killed by the emperor in anger, and now there is only one cronie left in front of Concubine De, and she can't go out of the palace to meet them at this time. Durian Yan also brought a map of the capital and a map of the palace with the letter, and the map of the capital also indicated the location of the secret passage.
Zhao Qian came out this time, and all the people he brought were people who were good at kung fu, and there was only one small guy who didn't know martial arts, not to mention that he couldn't even ride a horse, and he needed to arrange a person to ride a horse with him every day. Zhao Qian's subordinates didn't understand why their master had to carry such a burden, but out of loyalty and reverence for their master, none of them dared to raise any questions.
After riding for ten days, Zhao Qian and his people successively arrived at a Zhuangzi outside the north gate of the capital. Wen Zhong, who arrived first, probed and made no mistake with what was described in Durian Yan's letter, so he moved in directly with people, waiting for others to arrive one after another. There are no people in this Zhuangzi for several miles, only a newly built two-entry house. There was only one mute old man in the house, and there was no one else.
Zhao Qian led people to find the entrance of the secret passage, and arranged for Wen Zhong to take people down to investigate first, and Wen Zhong came back with people half a day later.
"General! Our leather shop in the capital was burned clean by a fire! The secret passage and the secret room are still safe, there is no trace of being found, and the exit of the secret room of the leather store seems to be blocked from the outside, and it should be that something fell down when it was on fire, just blocking the exit! ”
"Why is it that Durian never mentioned it in the letter?" Zhao Qian frowned and asked.
"Last time, Durian sent a message asking you to send her another batch of dead soldiers into Beijing, and you were annoyed that she lost five hundred dead soldiers at once, so you ignored her!" Wen Zhong explained that Durian Yan is Wen Zhong's own sister, so she naturally has to help say good things at this time. It was Wen Zhong who proposed to let Durian Yan and them join forces to capture the emperor, and he also wanted to make Durian Yan guilty and meritorious. After all, Zhao Qian gave more than half of the dead soldiers in his hands to Durian Yan and asked her to use them to deal with the Lin family, who knew that they were all folded in?
What did she say in the letter? Could it be that so many dead people were burned to death by the fire? Zhao Qian said with some dissatisfaction
"It's not! Durian Yan said that many dead soldiers died at the hands of the Lin family, and some of them should have had an accident when they caught fire! ”
"That's not right! Very wrong! The dead should have been hidden in a secret room under the leather store, and they would not be affected by the fire at all! And they can come here through the secret passage, so it stands to reason that they shouldn't be wiped out, right? There must be something wrong with this! What about Durian's letter? Can she tell you how the dead died? ”
"Nope! At that time, Du Yan only said that you were sending some people to use it for her, and she also asked Zhen Yingjia to implement the plan in advance! ”
Zhao Qian's brows furrowed even tighter, and he felt that something was wrong, so he asked Wen Zhong not to rush to dig the secret passage into the palace.
"You send a message to Durian again, let her think of a way, be sure to go out of the palace and meet me, I have something to ask clearly!"
"Yes! Subordinates are going to write letters! ”
Zhao Qian suddenly felt that he was a little hasty to come to the capital with people like this! He didn't know anything about the situation here, so he risked his life to come here, and he didn't know if the road ahead was auspicious or evil! Zhao Qian was a little dazed in his heart, he didn't know whether this operation was a backwater battle or a self-defeating net. He decided to stand still for the time being before he saw Durian Yan, and everything had to be clarified before he could make the next decision, he didn't want to die stupidly!
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The Royal Palace, the Imperial Study.
"Emperor Zhao Qian and his people have all arrived at the Zhuangzi of the Lin family outside the North City Gate! Just now, his subordinates received a message from Zhao Qian's side to Durian Yan, asking Durian Yan to find a chance to go out of the palace and meet him no matter what! A man wrapped in very colored clothes said respectfully to the emperor.
"Hmmm! Zhao Qian is worthy of being a veteran who has fought for many years, and he has some doubts! What's wrong? ”
"It should be that they sent to hunt down and kill the divine doctor who solved the Gu poison for the emperor and the queen, and they were all wiped out by the Lin family's secret guards! I read that the letter also mentioned a sentence, asking how those dead soldiers died! ”
"Those people are all killers from Dayuan Fang, each can fight one against a hundred, and it is not unusual for Zhao Qian's people to be wiped out! But then it's a bit of a problem! I also plan to wait for him to enter the palace through the secret passage before arresting him, in that case, don't wait any longer, let's settle them tonight! ”
"Yes! Slaves obey! ”
"Plus! You go and tell the county lord of Huigui, that Zhuangzi I wanted, how much silver did the Lin family use to buy those wastelands, and I paid double the silver! ”
"Yes! The slave will get this done! ”
It was only after receiving Zhao Qian's message to Durian that the royal guards learned that they had dug a secret passage to the palace, and they were about to dig through! After some investigation, the royal guards found an entrance to the secret passage, which was the place outside the North City Gate that was bought by Jia Min. and found the secret room under the leather store through the secret passage, so that the fire in the leather store and the dead soldiers who disappeared are inseparable from the Lin family!
When the emperor asked Jia Min to tell him that he wanted to use the newly built mansion outside the north gate of the Lin family, Jia Min readily agreed. The emperor didn't suspect Jia Min's intentions, she helped get rid of so many dead soldiers, which was a good thing for the emperor, that is, to buy the farmhouse with a secret entrance and a large wasteland around it, and the emperor didn't think Jia Min had any bad intentions.