Zhao Bohu went straight out of the side door of the main house and walked along a cobblestone path inside. Uncle Mi stepped forward at the end of the path and asked in a low voice, "Time is in a hurry, I only have time to sweep roughly, don't be surprised."

The group came to a wing room in the far west of the row house, which had no furnishings at all, only a round low table, a low couch next to the table, and a huge flower pot by the window, in which the mud and grass were dry, and it was obvious that no one had taken care of it for a long time.

Zhao Bohu took a rough look, saw that the window was bright, and the ground was spotless, nodded and said, "Just judge the thief, and work hard for a while, so it's not bad." Bring them up."

Uncle Mi left in response, and after a short time, he turned around, followed by a group of people, two government soldiers holding a middle-aged woman with her hands and feet tied, and two mothers-in-law dragging a girl who was tied up. The soldiers threw the woman to the ground and put their hands on guard. The two mothers-in-law did the same, and threw the girl to the ground.

Look carefully, that girl was born plump and graceful, and her pretty apricot eyes were swollen by a raw beating, and she was embarrassed, isn't it Ying Ji, the personal maid next to Meng Ji? As for the other woman rolling on the ground, it was her mother Ying Ji, who was Meng Ji's bridal nurse.

Uncle Mi arched his hand: "Xiangye, the thieves inside and outside the Xiangfu have been cleaned up, and the remaining two internal ghosts are sent by Xiangye himself." As he spoke, he bent down and pulled off the cloth stuffed in the girl's mouth: "Xiangye, please ask!"

As soon as the cloth was torn off, Ying Ji immediately burst into tears, and stepped forward on her knees and cried: "Xiangye, I was wronged------ I asked Tao Qing about the whereabouts of Shizi, I wanted to find a safer place for the second lady------ I didn't want to be coerced by those thieves-------- and the knife was put on my neck. Slave maid-------Slave maid has never seen the world, how dare you!"

"Last night, at least three people saw you leading the thief to the back mountain, where there was a knife on your neck. I really don't cry when I don't see the coffin!" Zhao Bohu flicked his sleeves angrily.

Ying Ji knew that this matter should be a terrible traitor's felony, but at the moment of life and death, she couldn't help but feel lucky, and said stiffly: "They were all wrong last night, maybe they were wrong?"

"Good!" Zhao Bohu snorted coldly: "I'll make it clear to you today!"

He got up suddenly, pointed to the garden outside the window that had been ravaged by the wildfire, and said slowly, "Last night there was chaos in the palace, and the servants either helped to guard the mansion or protected their masters. But what about you? Appeared in the back garden for a while, looked for Tao Qing at the side door for a while, and led the thieves to the back mountain to forge the sword for a while, why are you so busy? What are you doing?"

Ying Ji trembled, and said with a weak face: "------ me------ I only asked Tao Qing for information for the safety of the second lady, I don't want to be caught and held hostage by those thieves, I don't want to ------- either-------

"Really?" Zhao Bohu said coldly: "Then why did you tell that gang of thieves that the fourth prince is also forging swords? You've been in the backyard with Meng Ji for so long, don't you know that the imperial father has left the house? Why do you deliberately lure the thieves and induce them to treat Shizi as the fourth prince?"

This question hit the bull's-eye, Ying Ji's body writhed, and instinctively said in a weak heart: "I don't ------- I don't, Mother Tao has never looked down on me, make up this kind of words to bury me, Xiangye must not believe it!"

"Mother Tao has died under the knife of a thief!" Zhao Bohu's tone became more and more fierce: "Boyan was on duty outside the Sword Casting Mansion, and I heard you say to that group of thieves that the fourth prince was inside, and when those thieves were fighting with Uncle Mi, they also kept saying goodbye to the fourth prince and running away!" Do you dare to quibble? Say, "What is your intention in such a preoccupation?"

Ying Ji was forced to ask at a loss. Uncle Mi on the side had a fierce look in his eyes, and said gloomily: "Why should Xiangye talk too much to this cheap maid who almost harmed the little master, hand it over to the old slave, tear down her bones one by one, and keep what she says!"

Zhao Bohu waved his hand, after all, he is a noble scholar who abides by the "Zhou Rites", and he must salute first and then soldier.

However, Uncle Mi's threat was still quite effective, Ying Ji was frightened, hunched over like a spasm, desperately moved in the direction of Zhao Bohu, and shouted sharply: "Xiangye spare your life! The slave and maid dare not deny it anymore!"

"Then let's recruit it! Who's out there looking for you?"

Ying Ji bit her lip and said in a trembling voice: "I don't know which side of the slave is from, Uncle Rong, who was looking at the back door a month ago, came to me and said that someone outside wanted to inquire about the affairs of the fourth prince, and gave me a golden cake. But before the slave could start, she was separated from the backyard with the second lady, and there was no way to communicate with her!"

"Uncle Rong?" Uncle Mi was stunned: "He was burned to death in the back garden last night!"

Ying Ji was afraid that the fire in the back garden would also be planted on herself, so she shouted loudly, "It's really him! As soon as there was chaos last night, he came to the courtyard to look for me, saying that the situation had changed, and there were people at the door of the house who couldn't open it. He went to the back garden to set a fire, and asked me to hurry up and inquire about the news of the fourth prince and go to the back garden to answer it!"

Zhao Bohu heard something strange and interjected, "In that case, why didn't you tell him that the fourth prince was no longer in the mansion. But to deceive the thieves?"

Ying Ji was obviously weak-hearted, and pretended to bow her head and sob, and no longer opened her mouth. Uncle Mi was impatient, and lifted Ying Ji's collar and shouted, "Don't tell the truth, believe it or not, Lao Tzu twisted your neck with one palm?"

Ying Ji was so frightened that she hurriedly said, "Slave maid------ slave maid changed her mind after listening to the words of the second lady."

"What did she say?" Zhao Bohu grabbed the corner of the table, and his body shook twice.

Ying Ji glanced at her mother Ying Ji, as if she had received approval, and then boldly said, "When Uncle Rong came to me, the second lady had just finished in pain and asked me what was wrong. I didn't want to say it, but ------" She glanced at Ying Xi again, gasping and said, "The second lady has promised me a large sum of money, and I am a dowry servant, so whatever the master says. She asked me to lie to the thieves that the fourth prince was in the mansion and led them to kill Shizi. In this way, even if the thief finds out that he has killed the wrong person, he will not dare to speak out. Even if the lady can survive the disaster, it will be difficult to have children in the future, and everything in the prime minister's mansion will belong to the second lady and the son in her womb. When the time comes, you will have whatever you want------

"Shut up!" Zhao Bohu slapped the table, so frightened that Ying Ji's heart was broken. With a wave of his hand, Uncle Mi willingly took off the strip of cloth from Ying Ji's mouth, and asked, "Your mother and daughter are the family members of the criminal slaves, and they were supposed to be sold as one, and I blame me for being kind for a while, and I thought that you were also regarded as the bloodline of the surname Ji, and allowed you to linger in the mansion until now, and finally caused this disaster. Now that he is committing a great crime, he dares to implicate his master to atone for his sin, which is really a big problem."

"Uncle Mi! Drag these two girls down and kill them on the spot!"

"No!"