Chapter 508: Follow-up Investigation VI
The Eton house is indeed as Mao Qian said, with white bricks and green tiles, row upon row, very elegant.
Previously, several imperial concubines in the palace held a palace banquet in the east hall of the Taiji Hall on the grounds of helping the current saint Emperor Xuanyuan celebrate his birthday.
At that time, Ruicao saw the concubine, and she had the impression that she was dignified and elegant, not as gorgeous and flamboyant as Concubine Meng Shu, and her speech and demeanor were not as pretentious as Concubine Yu's.
The house in front of me is very in line with the aesthetics of Wang Guifei, but at the exterior wall, it can be seen that there is a lack of repair, but it is not like the lack of bricks and tiles like Prince Xiao's mansion.
From the outside of the wall, in the courtyard, there are no human figures, no human voices, and it is very quiet!
Mu Yirong and Seocho exchanged glances with each other, and jumped in directly from the courtyard wall next to the main entrance.
The elegant house is very empty, but there are no weeds, and two weeping willows are planted on the left and right sides of the gate, making the front hall courtyard very quiet.
There are no wild cats living here, presumably because people occasionally come here to clean the yard.
With the experience of the previous car in Prince Xiao's mansion, Mu Yirong and Ruicao were more cautious this time, slowly walking through the courtyard and into the hall.
The hall was fully furnished and not dusty, but it was not lifeless.
The two of them quickly looked around, and when they didn't see anything unusual, they walked back.
The mansion where other officials live is basically the same, several courtyards are scattered, and the garden is set with flowers, although it is not as chic as the Nineteenth Prince's Mansion, nor as luxurious as the Shang'an Mansion, but it has a unique taste.
Mu Yirong and Ruicao walked around the courtyards a few times, but they didn't find anything unusual and suspicious, and they still didn't see half a figure.
However, when the two of them reached the last courtyard behind, they found the bright yellow-topped carriage in Mao's mouth.
Mu Yirong looked at Seocho, gave her a careful gesture, and then bent forward, picking up the carriage curtain on one side with his saber and looking in.
The carriage had been uncovered, and it was empty, and there were no floors, tables, or other furnishings, and I don't know how long it had been parked here, and a lot of dust had fallen into it.
There was no hidden compartment in the not too narrow carriage, and no relics or blood stains were found, not even traces of fighting, except for the very striking bright yellow roof, which was no different from the two-wheeled carriages of ordinary rich families.
Seeing Mu Yirong shaking his head, indicating that he had found nothing, Seocho set his eyes on the two houses in the backyard.
Mu Yirong, who nodded towards Seocho, took the lead, bent his waist, touched the front of the room, and stretched out his hand to gently push the door.
The door was locked, and Seocho tried to open the window near the door, but was unsuccessful, so she moved to the side and walked to another window.
The windows were all locked, and Seocho had no choice but to use her old trick to freeze the ice into a key and open the lock on the door.
There was such a divine operation, Mu Yirong, who was surprised and amazed, gave a thumbs up to Seocho, then gently pushed open the door and entered the house in a flash.
The airtight room was dimly lit, gray, and smelly, not pungent, but not very good.
The two of them, who covered their mouths and noses with their sleeves, quickly looked around the room, and when they saw that the room was dusty everywhere and did not look like it was inhabited, they both felt that there was no point in checking, and silently withdrew from the room.
While Mu Yirong locked the door from scratch, Seocho used the skill of condensing ice into a key and opened the house next door.
As soon as he pushed the door open, Seocho's eyes narrowed into a slit, because the house in front of him was very clean and showed signs of being inhabited.
Mu Yirong, who walked into the house with Seocho's footsteps, saw that there was a teapot on the clean table, so he reached out and picked it up, lifted the lid of the teapot and looked inside.
Although there is a thin layer of ash on the outside of the teapot, it is very clean inside, which shows that it has been used to make tea recently.
Seocho, who walked to the side of the bed, stretched out his hand and pointed to the neatly stacked quilts on the bed for Mu Yirong to see, indicating the traces of people who once lived here.
According to Mao Yan, someone was stuffed into a carriage with a bright yellow roof by the man in black and brought to this mansion called Eton.
And according to his guess, that person is likely to be the Nineteenth Prince.
Previously, the nineteenth prince disappeared on the stage, according to the later investigation, as well as the confession of the man in black, when the nineteenth prince was performing, the man in black took advantage of the thick smoke to take him away from the back of the stage, and then took him to the nearby palace of Prince Xiao, stripped him of his clothes, and exchanged with the small chopsticks that were killed.
After that, the Nineteenth Prince was temporarily locked up in the palace of Prince Xiao, and after the people who were waiting for the return of the Nineteenth Prince in the stands were led away, the man in black stuffed the body of the small chopsticks under the stage and then lit the stage.
After that, the man in black who stayed near the fire stage heard the conversation between Mu Yirong and Ruicho, and hurriedly informed his companion that Mu Yirong and the others suspected that the corpses under the stage were fake.
After that, the six and seven men in black led people to ambush in Prince Xiao's mansion, because they believed in the investigation ability of Dali Temple, and sooner or later they would find Prince Xiao's mansion, so they waited there to set up an ambush, wanting to kill Mu Yirong, the attendant of Dali Temple, and Ruicao, the pavilion chief, who always destroyed their good deeds.
As for the details of how they killed the little chopsticks, where they hid the nineteenth prince in the palace of Prince Xiao, and where they killed the nineteenth prince, the old seven men in black all said a word, and said that they were in a hurry and chaotic, and they couldn't remember many things clearly.
Anyway, the Nineteenth Prince was killed by them, so what does it matter if you remember those unimportant things or not.
According to the black-clothed Lao Qi, after they set up an ambush in Prince Xiao's Mansion and injured Mu Yirong, they set a fire and burned all the traces left in Prince Xiao's Mansion without leaving any evidence.
Mu Yirong arrived at Prince Xiao's mansion at the beginning of dusk, and after a period of searching with the chickadee Ruicao, he was ambushed by the man in black.
After that, the man in black set fire to the mansion of Prince Xiao, and the fire was extinguished by Yin Peiyuan of Jingzhao Mansion when it was close to Hai.
After the fire was extinguished, the officials of Jingzhao Mansion immediately searched the palace of Prince Xiao, and found nothing at that time, except for two strange broken lanterns, let alone any trace of Prince Xiao's mansion where Prince Nineteen had been imprisoned.
And according to what Mao Wei said, he saw a group of black-clothed people take a person suspected of being the Nineteenth Prince out of the palace after the rooster crowed, that is, after the fire in Prince Xiao's mansion had been extinguished for an hour or two, and transferred to the Eton Mansion.
Judging from the time, there is a big problem, and I don't know if Jingzhao Mansion failed to find the nineteenth prince who was hidden in Prince Xiao's mansion at that time, or Mao Jun was lying?
Or, after the man in black set fire to Prince Xiao's mansion, he first transferred the nineteen princes out, and after Jingzhao Mansion conducted a thorough search of the palace of Prince Xiao, he brought the nineteen princes back. After all, it has been said that the most dangerous place is the safest place.
However, since they all brought the nineteenth prince back to Prince Xiao's mansion from the new, but then why did they toss around blindly and send the well-hidden nineteen princes from Prince Xiao's mansion to Yujing Mansion, but they were hit by Mao Xuan?