1. The Spring Cold is Still Warm Chapter 60: Chinese New Year's Eve Night Walk
The dragon gave birth to four sons, not a dragon, each with its own advantages.
These four princes have their own personalities, and I don't know how it will end.
But on the other side, Zhao Tong went out to buy wine and food for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in Nanshi Town, and did not want to meet the concubine of the third prince, Feng Huanhuan, who he had seen while hunting outside the city.
Although this Feng Huanhuan was wearing a hood and cloak and covered tightly, because he was walking too quickly, and there was an occasional breeze, he slightly showed some of his face in the brightly lit place.
Zhao Tong recognized this woman at that time, even if she was not at home on Chinese New Year's Eve, she looked mysterious when she came out to play, remembering that Zhao Yingqi told him about this concubine and the third prince's guest outside the hunting camp, Zhao Tong followed curiously.
Zhao Tong saw that Feng Huanhuan's steps were frivolous, his breathing was rough and irregular, he should have no martial arts, so he simply followed behind him, and did not deliberately hide his figure.
Feng Huanhuan entered an alley from the street of Nanshi Town, and then twisted into a small courtyard on the southeast edge of Nanshi Town.
Zhao Tong jumped over a roof on the west side of the courtyard, watched Feng Huanhuan take out a key from his arms, open the door and enter it.
In about a quarter of an hour, Feng Huanhuan walked out, without taking anything in his hand, and feeling that there was nothing missing from his body, so he directly locked the door and the courtyard door and left.
Zhao Tong noted the location of this courtyard, and then continued to follow.
Feng Huanhuan still arrived on the main road, then entered Luofeng Gate all the way, and then went straight to Tongying Street, and went straight into the inner city.
After entering the inner city, Zhao Tong couldn't follow too closely, because the inner city was the residence of the princes and ministers, and there were many masters in the middle, so they could only be far behind.
I just lost Feng Huanhuan and happened to meet Zhao Yingqi.
Zhao Yingqi heard Zhao Tong say what happened before and after, and was thinking about the various possibilities of Feng Huanhuan's behavior, but he saw Feng Huanhuan appear again, this time he didn't hide his identity anymore, and there were a few Spirit King Guards behind him, looking in that direction, it should be back to the Spirit Palace.
According to Zhao Yingqi's thoughts, it is Chinese New Year's Eve, there is no curfew in the city, and because of the birthday of the emperor of the Zhou State, all the countries in the world have basically sent envoys to send gifts to congratulate the birthday, and the people of the three sects and nine streams in the Tiannanhai and North in the Tongying Mansion will enter and exit Wuji in these days, which is indeed a good time to do things.
Thinking of this Tiannan Haibei, Zhao Yingqi suddenly recalled that when hunting outside the city, the third prince said that this Feng Huanhuan was the down-and-out official lady of the Jin Kingdom.
Hurry up and ask Zhao Tong to take him to the small courtyard to have a look.
After Zhao Yingqi and Zhao Tong made sure that there was no one around, they stood in the small courtyard, looking at the lock on the door, Zhao Yingqi hesitated a little.
"Sir, shall we go in and have a look? This broken lock can be easily opened and will never leave a trace on the lock. Zhao Tong looked at her husband and waited for her husband's decision.
"Don't act rashly, since she dares to use such a mediocre lock, she is naturally not afraid of someone picking the lock, even if we open this lock, there must be other arrangements, don't startle the snake, let's wait on the roof opposite." Zhao Yingqi took Zhao Tong and waited on the roof of the west.
The two waited on the roof for almost a quarter of an hour, and Zhao Tong couldn't help but ask: "Sir, isn't it good for us to go in directly?" What are you waiting for here? ”
"Don't worry, I think it's impossible that there is no special protection in this kind of place, you only paid attention to Feng Huanhuan's behavior just now, but you didn't pay attention to the subtleties, let's rush in for fear that we will miss the details and startle the snake." Zhao Yingqi looked around from the rooftop.
This small courtyard is on the southeastern edge of Minami Town, and there is a wilderness to the east and south, and you can see the wide official road that runs through the middle of Minami Town in the west. To the west and north are the low-rise courtyards of Nanshizhen, which are basically warehouses for traders in Nanshizhen because of its remoteness.
It is open on both sides, and the yard is facing south from the north, and the gate is facing the wilderness, which is convenient for viewing the surrounding situation, and can quickly disappear in a large warehouse behind if something happens, which is a very good handover location.
Zhao Yingqi was waiting on the roof at this time, carefully combing through the information he knew about the three princes, Dong Xiang and Feng Huanhuan.
Dong Xiang took refuge in the Three Princes six years ago, became a guest of the Three Princes, and served as the head of the Lingwang Mansion.
Feng Huanhuan was accepted as a concubine by the third prince three years ago, and she was deeply favored, and she has not faded for three years.
Dong Xiang and Feng Huanhuan may be childhood sweethearts, and they have a marriage contract, but Dong Xiang led the Zhou army to capture their hometown for some reason, and also killed the two people's families.
This triangular relationship made Zhao Yingqi very confused, what happened to make the three people who should hate each other be able to get along in peace for three years.
Just when Zhao Yingqi was trying to find an entry point from it, Zhao Tong grabbed Zhao Yingqi's hand and squeezed it.
It turned out that someone was coming.
I saw a middle-aged thin and tall man appear not far away, and he didn't make a lantern, but he just went to the door of another courtyard behind Feng Huanhuan's small courtyard in the dark, opened the door lock, and entered it.
Zhao Yingqi had already confirmed just now that this courtyard should be a warehouse of medicinal materials, and some medicinal smells could be vaguely smelled.
Looking at the past from Zhao Yingqi's point of view, basically you can see all the movements of the middle-aged man, and Zhao Yingqi and the two are sure that this person should not have high martial arts, maybe he just happened to come to pick up the goods.
But the lights in the room were on, but there was no one, Zhao Yingqi felt that something was wrong, and took Zhao Tong down from the roof, and went to the wall of the herb warehouse, only showing one head to watch.
Zhao Yingqi also just remembered, if this person just came to pick up the goods normally, how could he not use a lantern to smear it, it is now the thirtieth day of the lunar month, there is almost no moonlight, and it has been gloomy and snowing for the past few days, which is very unreasonable. And on such a day, I didn't look at the store, but I came empty-handed to pick up the goods. Plus such a coincidental location. There must be a problem.
The two of them waited in the courtyard for less than two quarters of an hour, and the middle-aged man came out, with neither anything more nor anything missing.
Zhao Yingqi confirmed that this person was connected with Feng Huanhuan.
Zhao Yingqi used his internal strength to the fullest, and carefully stared at every movement of the middle-aged man after going out.
After the middle-aged man left in the dark again, Zhao Yingqi ordered Zhao Tong to follow and see who this person was.
Then he jumped into the courtyard of the herb warehouse and looked at this small warehouse.
There is only one relatively large room in this courtyard, unlike the courtyard where Feng Huanhuan went, and there are also east and west halls.
There is also a lock on the door of this herb warehouse, which is also a very simple lock.
Zhao Yingqi recalled the middle-aged man's movements just now, imitated his posture just now, bowed down, and looked at the door carefully.
Finally, the clue was found at the door hinge on the left side, as the only entrance and exit of this warehouse, there was a short and complete wheat stalk without any creases at the hinge, which was obviously left by the middle-aged man on purpose, so that if someone entered, the door would cut off the wheat stalk when it opened and closed, so that he was aware of it.
Zhao Yingqi carefully pulled out the wheat stalk, and then stabbed the small wire that Zhao Tong gave him a few times to open the lock.
After walking in, I didn't turn on the lights, but I had enough internal strength to look for clues in the dark.
But as far as Zhao Yingqi could see, it was an ordinary warehouse, a few shelves against the wall, a few boxes on them, and a few large and small boxes and sacks against the wall.
In order not to leave traces, Zhao Yingqi did not move anything in the house, but only found clues on the surface.
"There's nothing strange about it, it's just a simple warehouse." Zhao Yingqi looked back and forth, there were only two or three zhang square here, and he could see his head at a glance, and said to himself.
Zhao Yingqi thought for a moment and took out the fire fold from his arms.
Open the door, go to the yard and rub the fire to prevent saltpeter, sulfur and other traces in the house, and wait for the flame to burn more steadily before going in and closing the door.
Zhao Yingqi stood in the four corners of the house and in the middle for a while, observing the direction of the flames, and finally found that the flames were a little skewed in the northeast corner.
Zhao Yingqi carefully observed in the northeast corner for a long time and found that there was a problem with a box.
The dust on other boxes is always a little uneven due to moving and opening, and there are even some handprints or drag marks on it. And the ash on this box is a little too much compared to other boxes, and some of it is too flat, and it feels like a bit of a cover-up.
Zhao Yingqi carefully held up the box, and then put it aside, trying not to leave drag marks on the ground.
Sure enough, a wooden cellar door panel was exposed underneath the chest.
Zhao Yingqi opened the door panel of the cellar and found that it was not a cellar, but a passage, because the flames on the fire fold were constantly shaking, and if there was wind, it meant that there was a passage, not a closed space.
Zhao Yingqi thought for a while, anyway, he was already a master of the top armor, even if there was something, there would be no problem in running, so he closed the door and went down to the tunnel to check.
After going down, it was still like an ordinary storage of goods, Zhao Yingqi found the secret door through the shaking direction of the flames, and opened it to find that it was the cellar of the courtyard that led to Feng Huanhuan entered.
Zhao Yingqi entered the house where Feng Huanhuan went from the cellar, and found nothing, just a very normal dwelling.
Could it be that the middle-aged man has already taken the things?
Zhao Yingqi carefully looked at the layout and items in the house again, retreated from the tunnel to the warehouse just now, and also carefully looked at the layout and items in the warehouse and the tunnel, and remembered it in his heart.
went out and locked the door again, stuffed the wheat stalk placed next to the door back to the original position of the hinge, and returned home to wait for Zhao Tong.
In less than half an hour, Zhao Tong came back.
Zhao Tong said that the middle-aged man walked around Tongying Street, bought a pound of beef and a pot of wine, and went to a pharmacy at the wharf in the west of the city.
According to the location that Zhao Tong said, Zhao Yingqi knew.
It was the pharmacy next to the weapons store "Lingrui Pavilion" that Dong Xiang went to last night.