Chang Feng is about to start investigating the case overnight again.

Xu Fatzi asked: "Chang Ye, you say, how to check?" ”

Chang Feng said: "Investigating a case is like solving a mess. The first thing to do is to find out the end of the thread. ”

"Fatty, you've been working with me for more than ten years. Test you, what is the thread of this case? ”

After thinking about it carefully, Xu Fatzi said, "That Han general who is full of lies must be impersonating. At this moment, they are either silenced or they are far away. ”

"He's not a thread."

"The only thread that can be traced down the vine now is the forged warrant for troop transfer!"

Chang Feng gave a thumbs up: "The prince is clever!" Let's start with the troop transfer warrant. ”

Qian Ning said: "The warrant for the transfer of troops should still be in Li Guang's hands." If we ask him, he won't give it. ”

Chang Feng said: "Tomorrow, I will ask for an order from the emperor to order Li Guang to hand over the key physical evidence of the troop transfer warrant to us." ”

Xu Fatzi asked, "Then let's rest tonight?" ”

Chang Feng waved his hand: "No." The matter is urgent. You'll have to check it overnight. Save Li Guang from killing people and destroying his mouth. ”

"Although the order to transfer troops is not in our hands, we can be sure of one thing. After Ma Wensheng's investigation of the old ministry hall, the small seal of Xingwang on the troop transfer order was real. ”

"Let's check now which palace maids and eunuchs around King Xing can access Xiaoyin. Who stole the small seal of King Xing. ”

"If you find someone who steals the small seal, you can follow the vine."

Xu Fatzi was a little big-headed: "How to check?" King Xing is now under house arrest in the palace. Let's go to Xingwang to inquire? ”

Chang Feng waved his hand: "King Xing should not be seen easily." Otherwise, people with ill intentions will say that I colluded with King Xing. ”

"Don't forget, Princess Xing is our Jinyiwei! Let's go, go to Xingwangfu! ”

Before the prince of the Ming Dynasty and the prince of the county went out of Beijing to take up the domain, there were palaces in Beijing.

After entering the feudal domain, they all lived in the old palace during the period of tribute in Beijing.

Chang Feng summoned the hundred Tujia men who were most loyal to him in the guard, and came to Xingwangfu with Xu Fatzi, Qian Ning, and Shi Wenyi.

King Xing had an accident during the day, and Concubine Jiang naturally couldn't sleep.

Hearing that Chang Feng was coming, Concubine Jiang was like a life-saving straw. Hurriedly came to the living room to see Chang Feng and others.

Concubine Jiang said: "Chang Tongzhi knows what the hell is going on. Your Highness was fine when he left in the morning. Why did he suddenly say that he mutinied and rebelled? Directly detained in the palace and not allowed to go back to the palace! ”

Chang Feng will tell the truth one by one.

Concubine Jiang was furious when she heard this: "Which one has eaten the gall of a bear's heart and a leopard, and dares to frame the emperor's own brother?!" ”

Chang Feng said: "Don't worry, princess. The minister must find out the mastermind behind the scenes, so that he can get the punishment he deserves. ”

"The key to the matter now is to find out who stole His Highness's small seal."

"I bother the princess to make a list of the maids and eunuchs who can get in touch with His Royal Highness after returning to Beijing the day before yesterday."

"Let's ask one by one."

The emperor has more than one jade seal. For example, there are eight jade seals in the Tang Dynasty, called eight treasures, nine treasures after the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, and eleven treasures after the Song dynasty crossed to the south.

The jade seal of the Ming Emperor has seventeen treasures. Later, Emperor Jiajing increased to twenty-four treasures.

The Prince's gold seal is also more than one. There are nine treasures, each with different uses.

One of the smallest small seals, similar to the Qin and Han seals, was not much larger than a fingernail. Carry it in a scarf around your waist.

Concubine Jiang nodded: "Cheng!" Let Lu Song come over too. Think with me. ”

Concubine Jiang and Lu Song are worthy of being the children of the brocade clothes of the red Miaozheng, and they are thoughtful.

They wrote a list. After King Xing returned to Beijing, there were a total of eight people who could come into contact with his small seal.

The three are the little eunuchs who served King Xing to change his clothes in the morning, named De'an, Dekui, and Debing.

One is King Xing's maid, thirty-six years old, named Cui Niang.

One is the supervisor of the Wangfu palm seal who is responsible for wiping the small seal, named Feng Lao.

One is King Xing's personal favorite eunuch, Huang Youlu.

The other two are Concubine Jiang and Lu Song.

Chang Feng let the six of them come to the front of the palace hall. Be prepared to ask questions one by one. At the same time, let Concubine Jiang and Lu Song avoid it.

The first person who came in was Cui Niang, the maid in the room.

In ancient times, maids had a low status, and all those with the words "through the room" and "warm bed" were all tools for the master to vent.

Thirty-six-year-old Cui Niang is.

King Xing has a disease, and it is not easy to stand out. It needs the woman's lips to be supplemented in order to be successful.

Concubine Jiang's family education is very strict, and to put it bluntly, she is conservative. I always feel that it is too pickled to do that.

At this time, you need the help of the maid. Let the princess and King Xing be able to succeed smoothly, spread branches and leaves for the small sect, and give birth to grandchildren.

This kind of hidden matter is recorded in the first-class secret file of Jinyiwei.

The last time Xu Fatzi saw the secret affair of King Xing in the secret file, he also joked with Chang Feng.

Cui Niang came to Chang Feng and the others.

Chang Feng secretly said in his heart: What a charming mature girl! It's ditched and lost, and it's so beautiful that it's bubbling. No wonder she can take on the heavy responsibility of being a maid in the room.

Chang Feng asked Cui Niang: "Your name is Cui Niang?" ”

Cui Niang's voice was like cotton: "Go back to your lord." Be. ”

Chang Feng asked again: "Have you ever been married?" ”

Cui Niang smiled bitterly: "How can a person like me be married?" ”

Cui Niang's identity is very embarrassing. To say that she is the woman of King Xing, it is definitely not counted. Just a slave.

Let's say that she is not the woman of King Xing. Her errand is again the auxiliary king Heli.

Chang Feng asked: "The night before yesterday, you entered the bedroom of His Royal Highness and the Princess?" ”

Cui Niang replied: "Yes." His Highness traveled long distances by boat. The ship was bumpy, His Highness was dizzy, and he lived alone in the cabin all the time. I didn't need it for a month and a half. ”

"If you come ashore to the palace, Your Highness can share the room with the princess."

When Concubine Jiang summoned the six people, she said that they would know everything about the Chang adults of Jinyiwei, and they would say everything.

Cui Niang is more sincere, and even told the hidden things of King Xing.

Chang Feng has been handling cases for many years, and his interrogation skills have been perfected.

He asked Cui Niang: "You are still unmarried, do you hate this birdcage palace?" ”

Cui Niang did not speak. There was resentment in his eyes.

Chang Feng said: "If I were you, I would definitely grit my teeth with hatred." ”

Cui Niang sighed: "Alas, what's the use of hate? It's all fate! ”

Chang Feng instructed the Tujia Baihu Basha: "Call the captain named Xilang in." It's the one who looks like a talent. ”

After a while, a handsome Tujia man walked in. This man's name was Xilang, twenty years old, and he was recognized as the tallest handsome person among the hundred Tujia people of Jinyiwei.

It's a pity that he is not Han. Otherwise, everyone who comes to propose marriage will break through the threshold.

Chang Feng pointed at Xilang and asked Cui Niang: "What do you think of the growth after this?" ”

Cui Niang glanced at Xilang, and her eyes seemed to be able to breathe fire, which was completely the kind of state that she couldn't pull out her legs at a glance.

Chang Feng coughed embarrassedly: "Say, what do you think he looks like?" ”

Cui Niang replied: "He looks like any woman will look at him a few more times when she sees him." ”

Chang Feng said: "I'll say hello to the princess and let you out of the house." How about being a matchmaker for you and letting you marry him? ”

Xilang was stunned: "Chang Ye."

Baihu Basha scolded Xilang: "Less nonsense! ”

Two blushes appeared on Cui Niang's face: "It's all up to the adult." ”

Chang Feng said again: "I don't just give you a media!" Then send a single-family courtyard house in Beicheng. How about giving you another 1,000 taels of silver, which will be regarded as a dowry? ”

Cui Niang knelt directly on the ground: "My lord, you are my great benefactor!" I will give you the tablet of eternal life, and burn incense for you every day! ”

Chang Feng smiled: "There is no pie in the sky." Sister Cui Niang, I helped you, and you have to help me too. ”

Cui Niang wondered in her heart: Could it be that this Chang Da also has a disease that is not easy to stand out?

Cui Niang asked, "How can I help my lord?" ”

Chang Feng replied: "It's very simple. I know that someone instructed you to steal the small seal of His Royal Highness King Xing. ”

"Last night, after you helped His Highness and the princess to have a room, you withdrew from the bed and closed the curtain. Secretly took a small seal on the coat rack next to it."

"Just tell me who instructed you! All I need is a name! ”

"If you name it, you will become the wife of the handsome man. Live a prosperous life in the capital. ”

Changfeng is a typical combination of inducement and fraud.

This is one of the interrogation techniques. The interrogator will say to the person being tried: I know that you have sinned and done so-and-so. As long as you confess, I will give you as much as you want.

In fact, the interrogator cannot be sure whether the person being tried has actually committed a crime.

Cui Niang listened to Chang Feng's words and was dumbfounded.

She stared at Chang Feng intently: "My lord, you are wronged!" I have never stolen His Highness's things. Where is the name to tell you! ”

When Cui Niang said this, Chang Feng kept looking at Cui Niang's eyes and paying attention to her body movements.

This is also the interrogation skill accumulated by the Jinyi guards in the past generations. When a person is lying, he will subconsciously blink and roll his eyes.

There will also be extra movements on the hands to cover.

Cui Niang's reaction is the normal reaction of an innocent person after being wronged.

Chang Feng sneered: "Then there is no way!" You don't tell the truth. I can only put you on the spot to correct the Fa! ”

"Junlang is gone! The courtyard is gone! Even my life will be gone! ”

Xu Fatzi has partnered with Chang Feng to handle cases for more than ten years, and they have a tacit understanding. He immediately pulled out the embroidered spring knife and laid it across Cui Niang's neck.

Xu Fatzi asked: "Chang Ye, such a beautiful face, it's a pity to wipe your neck and splash blood." ”

Cui Niang trembled. Chang Feng smelled a fishy smell, and she was so frightened that she drowned directly.

Cui Niang cried bitterly: "My lord, don't wronged a good person! I wish I had really done something sorry for Your Highness, and I was rewarded by you and married to this handsome descendant. ”

Chang Feng gave Xu Fatzi a look.

Xu Fatzi put away the embroidered spring knife.

Chang Feng said: "That's it." It seems that you are really wronged. It's none of your business here. Go down. ”

Cui Niang wiped her tears: "My lord's mirror is hanging high!" That and that"

Chang Feng asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

Cui Niang said: "What you said is still counting?" My marriage to this little brother? ”

Chang Feng smiled awkwardly: "Ah, this matter has to be considered in the long run." You go down and wait for the letter. ”

Cui Niang immediately changed her face, and the spring breeze was blowing: "The little woman is all up to the adults!" If you can marry this handsome descendant, you must be."

Qian Ning impatiently teased people: "Master Chang asked you to go down and wait for Xin'er first." Don't dwell around here. ”

Cui Niang even claimed yes and retreated.

For such a desperate woman, a word from a big man may be her hope for the future.

After Cui Niang left. Xu Fatzi asked, "This woman's suspicion has been ruled out?" ”

Chang Feng nodded slightly: "It won't be her." She's miserable! It's like a drowning man. I handed her a bamboo pole and she would do everything she could to grab it. ”

"The beautiful man's plan plus the courtyard, the dowry temptation, and the coercion with the blade. Her reaction didn't look like she was cheating on me. ”

Xu Fatzi sighed: "It's a pity for this wonderful person." ”

Chang Feng quipped: "What, you like it?" Shall I tell the princess? ”

Xu Fatzi waved his hand again and again: "How dare I." That's the woman who serves the vassal king. ”

Chang Feng said again: "Let Feng Lao, the eunuch of the palace palm seal, come in." ”

Feng Lao, who was in his thirties, walked in.

Seeing Chang Feng, Feng Lao knelt down: "Grandpa!" ”

Chang Feng was surprised: "Gonggong Feng, don't recognize your relatives indiscriminately." When did I become your godfather? ”

Feng Lao said with a smile: "I have a low rank in the palace, and when the old minister Huai'en is there, I am his grandson. You are the godgrandson of the old minister, so I should naturally call you my godgrandfather. ”

Chang Feng said: "To put it this way, our relationship is very close. ”

Feng Lao nodded: "It's not close!" When I went to Anlu Prefecture with His Royal Highness, it was Liu Jin and Liu Gonggong who recommended it in front of the queen. ”

"You are the benefactor of Gonggong Liu. Father-in-law Liu is my benefactor again! ”

Chang Feng said: "Since he is my godgrandson." I'll just have something to say. Why did you steal the small seal of His Royal Highness King Xing? ”

Feng Lao was dumbfounded: "Stealing His Highness's small seal?" That's the crime of killing the head! How dare I? ”

Chang Feng put on a face: "Don't think I don't know! ”

Feng Lao was surprised: "I washed the gold seal with urine, do you know about it?" ”

Chang Feng frowned: "Wash gold with urine?" What and what! ”

Feng Lao summoned truthfully.

His official position is that of the Imperial Seal Supervisor. King Xing's nine gold seals are all cleaned by him.

To clean the gold seal, it is generally done with rice washing water.

However, when the golden seal of King Xingwang was cast, Emperor Hongzhi had just ascended the throne, and the funds of the Ministry of Industry were greatly reduced.

Therefore, the fineness of the nine gold seals of King Xing is insufficient, and it is often "pulped". According to later scientific explanations, the surface of gold products containing impurities is prone to oxidation.

The pulp is washed with rice water, which cannot be cleaned.

Feng Lao learned from an old goldsmith in Anlu Prefecture that the best way to deal with pulp was to add a soak of urine to the rice washing water.

So Feng Lao did so. The golden seals of King Xing are shining with golden light that he maintains.

But it is a great rebellion to wash the gold seal with urine and pass it out.

Feng Lao thought that Chang Feng knew about it, so he said, "Don't think I don't know."

After listening to Feng Lao's confession, Chang Feng couldn't cry or laugh.

Chang Feng said: "I'm not interested in peeing or not!" All I know is that you stole His Highness's small seal. ”

"Tell me who told you to do this. For the sake of the old minister's face in the spirit of heaven, I will keep you safe and sound. ”

Feng Lao's brows furrowed into eight characters: "Godgrandpa, you can't smear people's innocence out of thin air!" ”

"I have worked diligently in the palace and have been appreciated by His Highness. His Royal Highness also said that after the end of the tribute, I will be promoted to the deputy steward of the palace! ”

"I'm just two months away from becoming a eunuch!"

"I'm not blinded by the mud, why do I want to do something sorry for His Highness at the critical moment of being promoted to eunuch?"

Every eunuch has a dream of becoming a eunuch.

Becoming one of the "eunuchs" is the lifelong pursuit of eunuchs.

Feng Lao has always been dedicated to his duties in the palace. The only bad thing I ever did was to wash the gold seal with urine and rice water.

Chang Feng stared at Feng Lao. In Feng Lao's eyes, he saw no deception, only sincerity.

Chang Feng said: "That's it." You go down first. ”

Feng Lao showed an embarrassed look on his face: "That. . What about the grandson taking urine to wash the gold seal?"

Chang Feng said: "I have never heard of this. Oh yes, there is a sincere gold shop in the north of the city. There are two goldsmiths in it, who are old men from the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry. ”

"To deal with the gold seal pulp, you can ask them for advice. Don't use that pickle again. ”

Feng Lao arched his hand: "Yes! ”

After Feng Lao left, Xu Fatzi said, "I don't think your godgrandson is lying. ”

Chang Feng nodded: "Hmm." A eunuch who is about to be promoted to eunuch has no need to make extraneous branches and help outsiders frame King Xing. ”

"Call in the three little eunuchs who are responsible for changing King Xing's clothes."

De'an, Dekui, and Debing walked in. All three were around twelve or thirteen years old.

As soon as the three of them entered the door, Chang Feng said to Xu Fatzi: "Pull the three of them down and cut them!" ”

When the three of them heard this, they were stunned. After a while, she began to cry bitterly.

De'an said: "My lord, I shouldn't peek at Sister Cui Niang's bath." After letting her bump into her, she was called into the room and played her a little husband for a night! ”

"Spare your life, my lord!"

Dekui said: "My lord." I'll steal it once! My mother wrote to me that my father was sick and that the family was in a hurry to get money. I just stole a Yunjin purse from His Royal Highness, and went out of the palace a little bit to exchange it for thirty taels of silver."

"The adults want to kill me, I admit it. Don't hold my dad accountable! ”

De Bing said: "I shouldn't mix snot in the tea that Concubine Lin drank." I'm damned! Concubine Lin is the master, I was slapped by her, it was rewarded! I shouldn't have taken revenge! ”

After listening to the crying of these three guys, Xu Fatzi couldn't laugh: "I can't see it." The three of you have done something wrong! ”

"Pretending to be a young husband? You don't have that thing, how can you pretend? ”

Dean stuck out his tongue: "Use this to pretend." ”

Chang Feng said: "I don't care about your bits and pieces. I ask you, who instructed you to steal His Highness's small seal? ”

The three of them denied it repeatedly: "We don't have it, my lord!" ”

"If we do this, there will be five thunderstorms in the sky!"

Chang Feng said: "It seems that the three of you won't tell the truth if you don't fight!" Come on, take it down, give me a scabbard to spank their ass! ”

The five big and three thick wrestlers rushed up, knocked down the three little eunuchs, picked up the scabbard and hit them on the buttocks.

They themselves have committed crimes. Chang Feng belongs to the implementation of government rules for the Xing Palace.

Each of them hit more than 20 times, and all three of them had their skin and flesh open, and they fainted in pain.

Chang Feng waved his hand: "Stop the execution, splash them up with cold water!" ”

"Boom, boom, boom". Three basins of cold water should be poured over the head. The three woke up.

Chang Feng said: "I should have beaten each of you with a hundred scabbards." Now only twenty have been hit. Whether the remaining eighty dozen or not will be fought depends on whether you tell the truth or not! ”

"Tell me, who instructed you to steal His Highness's small seal?"

(End of chapter)