Chapter 136: The Prince
"It's the Prince." Blusch uttered those three words almost angrily.
Knowing that this lonely building was a place for him to meditate, and knowing that he didn't like to be disturbed when he was meditating, the prince still came.
Sure enough, the prince never took his uncle seriously.
Not once.
"Rude and savage little cub of the Gurtai family!"
Brush cursed in a low voice, his widely separated features gathering in an instant, and the anger between his brows was almost unsuppressable.
Mu Wen looked a little dazed at this time.
He turned his head slowly, his lake-clear eyes wide open and narrowed again, as if trying to identify someone in the distance.
For some reason, the weak and tired face in front of him, and the hearted but weak look, actually calmed the anger in Debrush's heart.
There was a little unbearability on his face, and when he spoke, his voice was much softer than Fang had just been.
"Father Mu Wen, can't you still see clearly?" He asked softly.
His stepfather had a slight eye disease that made him unable to see clearly when he was far away, also because he only had one eye to use.
Mu Wen shook his head, gave up his intention to identify the visitor, turned his head to look at his righteous son, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Yes, I have to watch everything for a while now." Alas, I'm really old. ”
As he said this, there was no resentment or anger on his face, only a constant, empty calm.
"The kid will be able to deal with him, so you better go back and rest first." Brush's voice grew softer and softer, as if the calm and old countenance gave him solace and peace of mind.
Mu Wen didn't speak, only sighed deeply, and then bent his back and walked to the stairs.
Bullish thoughtfully stepped forward to help him and sent him downstairs.
There is a back door in the lonely building, and after going out, turn a corner, it is the most famous "labyrinth" of the right marshal's house, where many guests have been lost.
The lodging that Bulusch arranged for Muwen was located in a corner of the labyrinth, and it was difficult to find it without guidance.
Seeing his father-in-law's back disappear at the intersection, the warmth on Blusch's face gradually faded, and he stood alone for a while, flicking his sleeves, and turned to walk outside.
"What about the musket?" On the empty sandy ground, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince strolled forward with his hands on his sleeves, pretending to admire the surrounding scenery while whispering to Wumengdao.
Three days ago, when chasing and killing Jiang Yang's thieves on the street of prostitution, although Wumeng returned with a feather, he did not find nothing, the treasure money was only one of them, and the discarded musket was the biggest gain of this trip.
At that time, the gun had been dismantled into pieces, and there was no way to put it back together. The man who dismantled the gun probably thought that no one knew about it in White Frost City, or perhaps he felt that it was a trouble to keep it in his hand, so he dismantled it and threw it out little by little.
But these people obviously forgot that there was also a prince in White Frost City.
The earth buns in White Frost City don't know the musket, but the vision of His Royal Highness the Prince, is that comparable to ordinary people?
Of course, the prince himself has no liking for these things, but he has occasionally seen them twice when he was in the imperial capital of Changli, and the one who loves to collect these strange and ingenious things is not someone else, it is the sixth brother of the prince, His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince.
Speaking in detail, the crown prince is actually not much older than the sixth prince, if calculated by age, the prince is actually the sixth, and the sixth prince should be seven.
However, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the bloodline of the emperor's descendants, and it is also the youngest son of Empress Fulun who died two sons in a row and was born with great difficulty in middle age.
But even so, he knew everything he should know, and as far as he knew, there was a group of private guards in the house of the Imperial Concubine Hezhe, among whom was a team of ten guards, who were specially designed to protect the six princes, and they were equipped with this incredibly expensive Western musket.
This is unique in the whole Dajin, and several children of the Hezhe family have shown off more than once, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince recognized the musket at a glance.
And until he recognized the musket, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't think much about it, just thought it was just a coincidence.
One of his staff members made a mistake, and after discussing and analyzing it with several other advisers overnight, he came to an incredible inference that was very consistent with the current situation:
The Six Princes are likely to be in White Frost City.
This is a conclusion based on the previous anomalies of the Six Princes, as well as Mangtai's recent abnormalities and reverse deductions, of which there are two most anomalies:
First, Mang Tai lost his beloved daughter, but he did not sit in the city to arrest the murderer, but only issued a sea fishing document, and then returned to the new army camp.
Is there anyone or something in the barracks that is more important than the dead flowers?
"Your Highness can think like this, if His Highness the Sixth is really in White Frost City, where is he hiding in the safest place?"
The night before, the staff had asked the prince this question, and he gave the answer before the prince could answer:
"The New Army Battalion."
Mangtai's actions were indeed incomprehensible, but if the Six Princes were placed in them, their actions would immediately become reasonable.
His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince, of course, is much more important than Hua Zhen.
Second, the day when the six princes were "seriously ill" and did not come out of the house was when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince supervised the household department, and the six princes after that were also too quiet, and they were sick from time to time.
This inevitably makes people guess: Is this sixth prince who is always locked up at home really the sixth prince?
In addition, the female swordsman with strong martial arts three days ago, as well as this musket, also pointed the finger at the Six Princes, and also led to another conjecture:
During the period when the six princes supervised the household department, did he fall into a huge deficit, so that he took the risk to leave the capital without permission and went to the White Frost City to steal silver mines, in order to obtain a large amount of silver money to fill the shortfall?
Combined with all of the above, this is really a reasonable inference, even if the last one is far-fetched (the time of the silver mining case occurred much earlier than the time when the prince supervised the household department), such a major event as the prince leaving Beijing without a call is enough for His Royal Highness the prince to take risks.
Anyway, if it's wrong, it's just a misunderstanding, but if this matter is confirmed, it will be difficult for the six princes and the Hezhe clan to turn over.
The matter was a top secret, and no one knew about it except Umon and a few of his advisers, not even Brush. And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's sudden visit to the lonely building was to leak the news to this uncle.