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Shangguan Xiu looked left and right, approached Tang Yu, and whispered in his ear: "Your Highness, according to the kidnappers' confession, the reason why they kidnapped Gu Qingling this time was because they were instructed by others, and the person who instructed them promised to give them 50,000 taels of silver after the matter was completed. ”

Tang Yu frowned and asked, "Who are they instructed by?"

"This ......"

"Ah Xiu, you should say it quickly!"

"The kidnapper confessed that he was instructed by Cai Zhong. ”

"Cai Zhong, who is he?"

"It is the head of the First Auxiliary Minister Cai Xiao's Mansion. Shangguan Xiu said word by word.

Tang Yu gasped, he finally understood why Shangguan Xiu came to him in a hurry, it turned out that the case of kidnapping Gu Qingling involved Cai Xiao. With a solemn face, he paced back and forth in the gazebo with his hands behind his back.

Cai Xiao's power in the DPRK and China is deep-rooted, even Tang Yu, who is the prince, is polite to him. He pondered for a while and asked, "Ah Xiu, is this news accurate?"

"It was a kidnapper who confessed before he died, so he shouldn't be wrong, and I also captured a kidnapper alive, so I found out when I asked. ”

"Hmm!" Tang Yu nodded and muttered, "Cai Zhong is just a manager, how dare he do such a big thing? Presumably the real culprit is Cai Xiao! But why did he do this?"

"Maybe it's for the Gu family's cloth business. The Gu family's cloth business is booming, and the Cai family has always been very popular, and they have not been able to interfere, so this time they took a risk and hired a group of Jiangyang thieves to kidnap Gu Qingling, wanting to force the Gu family to submit. ”

"Lawless!" Tang Yu was furious, clenched his fists hard, and the scroll in his palm was also slammed on the stone table by him. "How can it be reasonable that the dignified first and auxiliary ministers, the ministers of the imperial court, should do such a dirty and despicable deed!"

Tang Yu was so angry that his body trembled, and after a pause, he squeezed out another sentence from between his teeth: "Now that Dafeng is still surnamed Tang, does he think that changing his surname to Cai can let him do whatever he wants?"

After speaking, seeing Shangguan Xiu's brows furrowed, Tang Yu also realized that he had lost his temper, he said in a soft tone, "I'm sorry, Ah Xiu, I'm just too angry." ”

"Your Highness's anger, I can understand it. Shangguan Xiu said calmly: "However, I think Your Highness doesn't need to be so angry, from another point of view, this is not only not a bad thing, but a good thing." ”

Tang Yu was puzzled when he heard this, he blinked his eyes, couldn't help but laugh, and asked with a smile: "Ah Xiu, tell me, how did this become a good thing again?"

Shangguan Xiu Zhengse said: "Hasn't Your Highness always wanted to collect the criminal evidence of hundreds of officials? It is relatively easy to collect the criminal evidence of others, but Cai Xiao's criminal evidence is the most difficult to collect. But now, His Highness already has Cai Xiao's incriminating evidence in his hands, that is, the kidnapper who was captured by me. As long as His Royal Highness firmly holds this kidnapper in his hands, he can convict Cai Xiao of bullying the king and mutilating the people at any time, and when His Royal Highness ascends to the throne in the future, how dare Cai Xiao not obediently cooperate with His Highness's changes?"

Listening to Shangguan Xiu's analysis, Tang Yu was stunned at first, and then laughed on his back, he grabbed Shangguan Xiu's arm, looked at him with joy and appreciation, and said with a smile: "Unexpectedly, this king's Ah Xiu is still a talented person who is both civil and military!"

"Your Highness has won the prize. Shangguan Xiu shook his head with a smile and explained: "It is precisely because this kidnapper is so important that I dare not interrogate him in private, so I specially brought him to the palace to wait for His Highness's fate." ”

Shangguan Xiu was like a mirror in his heart, which one of the kidnappers he was captured, but a barrel of gunpowder, if he didn't know when it would explode, it was the safest and safest to hand it over to Tang Yu. No matter how bold Cai Xiao is, no matter how deep his power is, and how strong his ability is, does he dare to send someone to break into King Yu's mansion to kill people?

"Very good! Ah Xiu, you are doing a good job!" Tang Yu nodded again and again, subconsciously looked outside the courtyard gate, and asked, "Where is this thief now?"

"It's at the back door of the palace!"

"Hmm!" Tang Yu shouted to the guards guarding the gate of the courtyard: "Someone!"

As he spoke, a guard officer walked in, intervened, and said, "What does Your Highness command?"

"There is an extremely important criminal outside the back door, you immediately escort him to the palace dungeon, and send your most trusted and powerful subordinates to guard it, if there is a half-point difference, this king is the only one who asks!" Tang Yu said with his hands behind his back and a sinking face.

"Subordinates obey!" the guard officer intervened and saluted, and took the order.

After the guard officer left, Tang Yu's cold face showed a smile again, he pulled Shangguan Xiu's sleeve, and the two of them sat down on the stone bench in the center of the pavilion, and he said: "Ah Xiu, this time you have done me a great favor again, and you have made a great achievement, tell me, what reward do you want?"

Shangguan Xiu shook his head with a smile, the reward he wanted would never be the richest reward.

Seeing that he only shook his head and didn't speak, Tang Yu glanced at him deeply and said meaningfully: "Okay, I can't reward you now, but Ah Xiu, don't worry, as long as you have the opportunity, I will let my father give you a title and official position." ”

"Your Highness misunderstood, Xiufu His Highness, not to get His Highness's reward, but because he agreed with His Highness's philosophy. As long as His Highness is willing to change the law, Xiu will swear to follow him, even if he goes up to the Sword Mountain and the Sea of Fire, he will not give up!" Shangguan Xiu Zhengse said.

It was true that he supported Tang Yu's change, but Shangguan Xiu also knew very well what Tang Yu liked to hear and what he said would make him happy.

"Well said! It is rare to have a confidant in life, and with a confidant like Ah Xiu, I am satisfied!" Tang Yu took the wine jug on the stone table and poured a glass of wine for each of them.

Shangguan Xiu hurriedly said: "Your Highness, let me come ......"

"Hey?!" Tang Yu waved his hand and insisted on pouring the wine, and then he handed the wine glass to Shangguan Xiu, picked up the glass himself, and said, "Ah Xiu, you and I have a toast!"

"Your Highness, please!"

"You don't have to be so polite, whatever, as I said, in private, we get along like friends. Tang Yu and Shangguan Xiu knocked down the glass, and the two drank the wine in the cup. After that, Tang Yu picked up the wine jug again and poured a glass of wine again.

He took the exquisite silver wine glass, and said quietly: "Actually, it was mentioned in the preambles of the emperor that if the Tang family wants to last for a long time, they must first know how to delegate power. The father and the emperor followed the instructions of the emperor and let the power out, but the father and the emperor delegated power to the ministers, but did not delegate the power to the people, and the ministers all bullied the king, flattered the father and the emperor, sang praises and virtues, and persecuted and oppressed the people, causing complaints, the people will certainly hate those officials who oppress them, but what they hate even more is the Son of Heaven, it is the royal family, Sister Xiang's assassination is an example, in this regard, I am completely powerless now!"

These complaining words, Tang Yu usually can't say it, and he has no one to talk to, so he can only hold it in his stomach. Being in the midst of a decaying court, being a prince and a prince with a bright heart is actually a very painful thing.

He tilted his head and drank the wine in one gulp.

As the contact deepened, Shangguan Xiu became more and more aware of Tang Yu and became more and more able to understand his situation.

Seeing the painful look he showed at this time, Shangguan Xiu could empathize, he picked up the wine glass and said, "Your Highness, I'll drink with you!" After speaking, he also poured the wine into his stomach.

Putting down the wine glass, he suddenly remembered something, and said, "Your Highness, several of my friends are still waiting for me outside the back door of the palace, can you invite them into the palace to eat something?"

"Of course you can!" Tang Yu smiled and beckoned to one of the guards to make arrangements.

Shangguan Xiu and Tang Yu talked while drinking, and sat for more than an hour, seeing that Tang Yu was already drunk, he got up and said goodbye to Tang Yu.

Sending Le San to Yuwang's Mansion is like sending a hot potato, Shangguan Xiu can be regarded as the end of a matter.

Shangguan Xiu, Luo Ren and others left the palace together and returned to their homes.

This time they rescued Gu Qingling, Shangguan Xiu didn't know if Cai Fu was aware of it, if Cai Fu knew about it, their situation would be very dangerous.

However, Shangguan Xiu's worries seemed to be superfluous, and after two days, the situation was calm, that is, no one found him, Luo Ren and the others, and no one went to the academy to inquire about Gu Qingling's kidnapping, as if this incident had never happened.

I can feel that someone has suppressed this matter and doesn't want to make this matter a storm in the city.

Shangguan Xiu's heart hanging in his throat gradually fell.

In the past two days, Gu Qingling has been staying at Gu Chunfeng's house and has not gone to school in the academy.

In the evening of that day, Qian came in and went to the library of the academy to find Shangguan Xiu.

"Brother Xiu, Qingling hasn't come to school for two days, let's go to her uncle's house to see her!"

Shangguan Xiu also had this intention, nodded along the water, closed the scroll in his hand, and said, "It's okay, let's go to Gu Mansion now." ”

Gu Mansion is located in Dongcheng, a large old mansion, not dilapidated, looking antique.

After reporting their names and intentions, the two waited at the gate of Gu's mansion for a while, and then were invited in by a young domestic servant.

As soon as the two of them walked into the door, they saw Gu Qingling walking out from behind the shadow wall with a happy face.

"Ah Xiu, Ah Jin!" Seeing the two of them, the joy on Gu Qingling's face was even stronger.

Qian Jin looked at her with a worried face and said, "Qingling, you haven't been to the academy for two days, Brother Xiu and I are very worried about you!"

Gu Qinglingyu's face was slightly red, she raised her eyes to look at Shangguan Xiu, showing resentment, pouted, and said deliberately: "I can't see it, if you were really worried about me, you should have come to me a long time ago!"

Of course, Shangguan Xiu could hear that she was saying this to herself. He was also very busy in the past two days, the Capture the Flag Tournament was about to begin, he had to study tactics with Luo Ren, Cao Lei, Yuan Mu, Ding Leng, and Jia Caixuan, and he had to learn as much knowledge as possible about spiritual martial arts, so he really couldn't find time to visit her.

He smiled bitterly and said, "Qingling, I'm not here!"

"Hmph!" Gu Qingling snorted dissatisfiedly, and then beckoned to the two of them, unable to hide the excitement in his heart, and said with a smile: "Let's go to the garden for a walk." ”