Chapter 224: Tracing (2nd Update)
Zhou Gu directly ordered Midnight to re-tie up Zhao Lao'er and Zhao Fei, and then dispatched his own personal guards, escorted the two to the front hall, and directly invited He Zheng to enter the palace with him.
He Zheng didn't know anything, but Zhou Gu's identity and what he did must have been allowed by the old protector, and His Majesty said that he should cooperate with him, so he could only listen to Zhou Gu's words and actions, and followed him, escorted people, and entered the palace.
Zhou Gu's team of personal guards was full of 100 people, and He Zheng also brought more than a dozen people, so the group surrounded the escorted Zhao Lao'er and Zhao Fei's carriage, which was impermeable, and nothing happened on the way, and they entered the palace smoothly.
Came to the gate of the palace, He Zheng sent someone to tell the emperor, and when the emperor spoke, Zhou Gu asked the guards to go back, leaving only midnight to follow him, and together with He Zheng, he escorted someone to see the emperor.
The emperor didn't expect Zhou Gu to come to see him so soon, and after Qingping left, he had a headache and asked Gonggong Yu to serve him and rub his forehead.
As soon as Father-in-law Yu rubbed it for a while, someone told him that Zhou Xiaogongzi had escorted Zhao Lao'er into the palace to ask to see His Majesty.
The Emperor motioned for Father-in-law Yu to stop, and instructed him, "Send him to bring someone to me."
Father-in-law Yu should be.
Not long after, Zhou Gu took Zhao Lao'er and Zhao Fei to the emperor, Zhao Lao'er and Zhao Fei had seen the emperor anywhere, and they didn't even dare to raise their heads, so they knelt on the ground with two "poofs".
Zhou Gu saluted the emperor, "Your Majesty, I don't dare to delay this matter that Zhao Lao'er has confessed, I have to call the shots of Your Majesty, so I will bring him to your Majesty."
He grew up in front of the emperor since he was a child, and he has not yet entered the court, so he does not need to be called a minister, and he calls himself me.
Nodding, "Say it!"
Zhao Lao'er was trembling and speechless.
Zhao Fei was bolder, "Dad, say it quickly, tell Your Majesty everything you know, my son doesn't want to die."
Zhao Lao'er became a little more bold when he heard this, and he trembled and explained thoroughly what kind of person he found him, threatened him to say about the county lord Zhenmin, etc.
The more the emperor listened, the more ugly his face became, "You said someone gave you a booklet? Recording the affairs of the county lord Zhenmin? And that the man's boots had white tiger stripes specially made by the Praetorian Guard?"
Zhao Lao'er nodded, "Exactly, the villain doesn't dare to deceive Your Majesty."
He Zheng's face turned white at this time, he was standing immediately, and immediately knelt on the ground, he thought that it was no wonder that after Zhou Gu saw him, he didn't say anything, and he didn't need him to interrogate people, but only perfunctorily invited him to drink two teas, and directly asked him to follow him to see His Majesty, it turned out that it involved the Praetorian Guards in his charge.
The emperor's gaze fell on He Zheng, and he asked with a straight face, "He Zheng, do you know about this?"
He Zheng hurriedly said, "I don't know what I do."
The Emperor snorted coldly, "I don't know, if you knew, if you did such a thing, I would be able to raise such a thing as you to the position of the commander of the Praetorian Guard."
He Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing this, Zhou Gu handed the portrait painted by Zhao Lao'er to the emperor, "This is painted by Zhao Lao'er, Your Majesty has seen it."
The emperor took it, glanced at it, didn't see anything, and threw it to He Zheng, "The people of the Praetorian Guard, you are the most familiar commander, you give me a closer look to see if he is a member of the Praetorian Guard, from the size to the eyes, although he is tightly wrapped all over his body, if it is a familiar person, he may not be unrecognizable."
He Zheng glanced down, his face changed slightly, "Your Majesty, this person, this person is a lowly acquaintance, he is a member of the Praetorian Guard, his name is Feng Si."
"Where is he now?" The Emperor asked, "Can you be on duty in the Praetorian Guard today?"
He Zheng shook his head, "He took a leave of absence three days ago."
"Take someone quickly, go to his house, and bring him to me." The emperor commanded, and glanced around again, "You go with you."
Zhou Gu said yes, thinking that His Majesty said that he believed in He Zheng, but he still needed him to stare at the side, worthy of being an emperor.
So, together, the two of them went out of the palace, took people, led by He Zheng, and went straight to Feng Si's house.
Zhao Lao'er and Zhao Fei saw that Zhou Gu was gone, and their two miserable faces opened their mouths, wanting to keep people, but they didn't dare to say anything.
The emperor instructed Yu Gonggong
"Take the two of them down, and you will personally send someone to watch it, and if something goes wrong, you will die to apologize."
Father-in-law Yu's face changed, and he hurriedly responded, but he didn't dare to be careless, chose two little eunuchs with cronies, took people down, and instructed repeatedly, "Take care of people, if something happens, the heads of the miscellaneous family will be gone, and your little lives will be gone."
The two little eunuchs said yes again and again, "Father-in-law, don't worry, we have good eyes on it, we must be optimistic."
Feng Si's home is in Nancheng, and the ordinary people in the city live here, it stands to reason that Feng Si served in the Praetorian Guard, and the treatment was good, so the family should be richer, but Feng Si has a sick old mother and a younger brother, and it costs a sum of silver to find a doctor and medicine for his mother every month, and it costs silver for his younger brother to study, so his family is not rich, only three small tile houses, and a small courtyard.
When He Zheng broke in with someone, Feng Si was not at home, only an old woman was lying on the bed, and the old woman was startled when she saw so many Praetorian Guards coming, and she reluctantly struggled to sit up from the bed, "You are ......
Zhou Gu saw that she was so sick that she was about to fall out of shape, stopped her from going to the ground, and asked her kindly, "Auntie, where is Feng Si?" We're coming to him."
"Feng Si, his younger brother got into a fight with someone and injured his leg, so he took a leave of absence and took his younger brother to the doctor to change the medicine." The old woman replied.
"Why don't you bring the doctor to your house?" Advisor Zhou.
"Invite the doctor to come, and you have to pay the doctor errands and spend more money." The old woman is humane.
Zhou Gu nodded, "Where did you go to the medicine hall?"
"Not far away, just east of the street, called Li Cripple Pharmacy." When the old woman had finished speaking, she cautiously asked, "...... you are looking for him?"
"He served in the Praetorian Guard, and some things were handed over, so he took a leave of absence, and I came to ask him about it." Zhou Gu soothed the old woman's uneasy heart, "Auntie, rest, let's go to the pharmacy you said to find him."
After speaking, Zhou Gu motioned for He Zheng to go, He Zheng nodded, and the two of them exited the old woman's room together, and led people straight to Li Cripple's pharmacy.
In Li's lame pharmacy, at this time, there was no one, just an old doctor, limping, changing the dressing for the leg of a teenager who was about ten years old.
After Zhou Gu and He Zheng walked in, He Zheng asked the young man, "Are you Feng Si's younger brother?" Where's your brother?"
The boy was a little thin and thin, "My brother was called out."
"Who called him? Where did you go?" He Zheng asked.
The boy shook his head, "I don't know, I didn't see anyone, I just heard someone shout at my brother outside the window, and my brother went out." It's been a while."
The lame man said on the side, "There are two teas."
He Zheng looked at Zhou Gu.
Zhou Gu immediately walked out of Li Cripple's pharmacy and said to He Zheng, "Disperse the people and go to find them, his brother is here, he shouldn't be able to go far."
He Zheng also thought so, nodded, and waved his hand, and the rest of the Praetorian Guard scattered to find it.
Zhou Gu didn't stay here, but walked a few steps along this alley with He Zheng.
Not long after, a Praetorian Guard came to report, "Report to the commander, Feng Si died in an alley in front of him, as if he had been blocked by a sword, and his body was still warm not long after he died."
The color of the congratulatory face changed.
Zhou Gu's face also changed slightly, and immediately together with He Zheng, the two rushed to the alley, only to see that the Praetorian Guards had surrounded the alley, and no one moved the seal to protect the scene.
When the two approached, the Praetorian Guards dispersed.
He Zheng squatted down to check, then stood up and said to Zhou Gu, "It's true that he just died."
Advisor Zhou: "Who first found out?"
"It's his subordinates who are with him." Midnight gestured to one of the Praetorian Guards.
Zhou Gu nodded, since he followed in the middle of the night, he ruled out the people who came from the Praetorian Guard today, he glanced around, there was no trace of a fight, it can be seen that it was someone who was familiar with He Zheng, otherwise he would not have been called here to speak, and he was killed with a sword, he said to He Zheng: "Please do an autopsy!"
He Zheng nodded.
Zhou Gu instructed Midnight, "You go, please ask the best servant to come."
Midnight should be, immediately went.
Zhou Gu turned around and went back to Li Cripple's pharmacy, and asked the young man, "You said that you didn't see anyone, but the person who can call your brother out must be someone your brother knows, and you didn't hear who the voice was?"
The boy shook his head, "It's a strange sound, I don't know it."
"Uncle Li, what about you?" Advisor Zhou to Li lame.
Li Cripple shook his head, "What? Didn't you find anyone? The old man drugged this kid with his back and didn't see anyone."
"My eldest brother shouldn't be able to go far, and after changing the dressing every day, he has to carry me back, and the dressing change is very fast." The young man looked at Zhou Gu's clothes and the nobility of his body, and said carefully, "Why don't you wait patiently?"
Zhou Gu looked at the young man, and was a little unbearable to tell him that his brother had been killed, Feng Si was the pillar of the family, and as soon as Feng Si died, how should his mother and this young man live?
He Zheng walked in at this time, heard the young man's words, and said to the young man, "After your brother was called out, just before we found him, he was killed and died in a dark alley not far away. If you think about it again, what kind of person is it that called him out?"
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