Chapter 1206 The Junior Official and the Fire
“Shao Jing has a backer, and what happened to Shao Jiang happened more than a decade ago. At that ti, my son was still young, and my imperial concubines were not that powerful. The only man who could do that is my younger brother, Prince Cheng. Is Shao Jing Prince Cheng’s man?” The Emperor clenched his fists slowly. “If that is the case, he deserves to die.”
“Uncle the Emperor, don’t get angry. It won’t be good for your health. When I ca in just now, I saw Pri Minister Zhang and the minister of the Ministry of Justice going out. Pri Minister Zhang has always been capable, so he should be able to find out the truth soon. I’m here to report another thing today.” Chu Liuchen stood up and bowed again. Then, he took out a morial from his wide sleeve and presented it.
“I’ve checked it out and found out these things. Please take a look.”
Derong stepped forward, took the morial from Chu Liuchen, presented it to the Emperor, and opened it.
The Emperor read rapidly, and the more he read, the more serious his face beca. After reading the morial and recollecting it, he asked, “Do you think there is sothing wrong with it?”
“I think there is sothing wrong!” Chu Liuchen said, “Uncle, don’t you think so? So many years have passed, but we still can’t find out the truth.”
The Emperor fell silent. A lot of things had happened recently. No matter how hard he tried, he seed to be unable to find out the truth. He couldn’t find out anything about the current incident and the maple leaf painting sent to the Empress Dowager, as well as what had happened between Chu Liuyue and Chu Liuzhou.
Since so many things had happened, sothing must be wrong.
“There can only be one coincidence. Since so many strange things happened, this is not a coincidence. My son may have been involved in it. What about Prince Cheng? Since Madam Jiang’s death may have sothing to do with Prince Cheng, what about what happened before? I’ve suspected that so things are related to the Empress. Now when I think about it, they may also be related to Prince Cheng.”
Thinking of this, he suddenly seed to find the reason for many things that could not be explained or investigated.
“Prince Cheng is indeed suspicious!
“I found it strange back then. Why did he want to beco a monk wholeheartedly? Originally, he didn’t really want to be a monk but just tried to avoid . So that’s how he managed to prevent from seeing what he has been doing…”
After such a serious thing happened in the Ministry of Justice, Pri Minister Zhang summoned all the people present at that ti and interrogated them. All the people who had contact with Madam Jiang ca over, including Wen Xichi.
Many people began to panic. Only the officials of the Ministry of Justice could really understand how terrible it was to be involved in this kind of thing.
Wen Xichi sat calmly in the middle of the crowd. When Pri Minister Zhang asked, he repeated everything without any deviation or subjective thoughts. He answered completely according to what he saw, heard, or wrote down.
Pri Minister Zhang was very satisfied. After hearing Wen Xichi’s reply, he asked him to cooperate with the investigation on the side, while the others asked more questions. It was late at night that so relevant personnel were allowed to go ho.
They could finally go ho, so they went back to their own places. It was late, and one of the junior officials ca out with them. Then, he separated from the others, turned a few corners, and walked into a long alley. After he passed that place, he would reach his ho.
The alley was very long, and it was dark in the middle of the road. As soon as the junior official ca here, he suddenly felt a heavy blow on his head. His vision darkened and he imdiately fainted.
A person ca from the depths of the dark alley and reached out to lift the junior official. Suddenly, he was also hit on the back of his ear. His body went limp and he fainted silently at the place where the junior official had fainted before.
The junior official was taken away. The one who took him did not pass through the alley. He turned around and ca to an ordinary carriage at the entrance of the alley. Then, he disappeared into the night.
Not long after, another man in black ca over. When he saw the person lying unconscious on the ground, he went up and woke him up with two slaps.
The person who ca later lowered his voice and asked, “Where is he?”
“He was here just now. I knocked him out.” The man who ca earlier jumped up, reached out to touch the back of his head, and said angrily, “Soone took him away behind us!”
The other man shouted in a grim voice, “Chase after him!” If that junior official fell into the hands of soone with ill intentions, then it would be a great disaster. They originally intended to get rid of this official, yet never had they imagined that soone was right behind them when they carried out their mission. They had failed.
There were not only these two people but also several people around. They didn’t know what had happened in the alley, so they didn’t get skeptical. When they heard that sothing had happened in the alley at this ti, soone imdiately thought of the ordinary carriage.
They didn’t see the man who got in the carriage, but when the carriage left, soone saw it.
Prince Cheng looked at the black-clad guard in front of him coldly and asked, “They’re going to Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion?”
“Yes. I was a little late. Our n failed to see the person who was taken away. They only said that a carriage happened to pass there, stopped at the entrance of the alley, and blocked the road. Then, the carriage left. Our n paid special attention to the carriage because sothing happened in the alley. Later, when they inquired about it, it is said that the carriage stopped at the back gate of Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion after a few turns. The people inside entered Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion, and then the carriage was parked there.”
The black-clad guard explained in detail. It took him a long ti to find many flaws along the way, and he was sure that those people were from Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion.
Prince Cheng thought for a mont and asked, “Why is the carriage of Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion parked outside the back gate? Where is the coachman?”
“Maybe they’re trying to cover up sothing. In this way, even if soone finds it, they won’t think that the carriage belongs to Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion. When I went over, the coachman was gone,” the black-clad guard said.
Those people didn’t directly enter Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion, and they could deceive others by pretending to pass by Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion. Only in this way could they avoid suspicion from others. It was just like Prince Cheng staying in the temple could avoid the surveillance of his brother, the Emperor.
Prince Cheng felt that it was reasonable and said with a sneer, “Chu Qing is rely a nobody. How dare he try to take this position? He doesn’t even know his place!”
The guard did not dare to answer and could only lower his head.
“Go to Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion and set a fire!” Prince Cheng said casually. He really didn’t take Chu Qing seriously, but if Chu Qing wanted to intervene, he would definitely teach him a lesson. “When it’s on fire, find this person when helping Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion put out the fire.”
This junior official was the key. Prince Cheng didn’t want Chu Qing to ruin his plan.
Right now, the most important thing was to find that junior official and silence him.
“Your Highness, won’t this make a big deal out of it?” the guard asked uneasily. It would not be appropriate to set a fire in the middle of the night while the whole capital could see it.
“It doesn’t matter. Chu Qing will be afraid only when we make a big deal out of it. No matter what his purpose is, he must want to find that person and kill him,” Prince Cheng said indifferently. Chu Qing had never been powerful enough to be his match, so he looked down on him.
“Yes, Your Highness!” The guard answered and left. Seeing that it was about ti, he imdiately arranged for his n to go out.
Prince Cheng didn’t wait for the result and went to sleep after washing up. It was not a big deal to deal with Chu Qing. So what if Chu Qing’s Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion was burned?
Prince Cheng thought that he had seen through Chu Qing and thought that Chu Qing was not a big deal at all, but the result shocked him.
Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion was on fire. The fire was so big that it burned for a long ti. People could see very far in the night and many people were alard. Not only the servants of Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion but also the people around the mansion were awakened and ca over to help put out the fire with water.
Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion was newly bestowed by the Emperor. It was inferior compared with other mansions, and it covered a small area. There were also so other mansions around it. This area was not quiet, and there were many people coming and going.
In fact, Chu Qing was not satisfied with this place, but since it was granted by the Emperor, he had to live there. The mansion was not his center of focus anyway, so he could only live there for the ti being.
It looked inconspicuous outside the mansion, but in fact, the security asures in the mansion were very good, and there were many secret guards. Even because the place was small, it was more closely monitored.
There was a fire. So guards went to put out the fire, and so hid in the dark to check on the neighbors who ca to help.
There was nothing wrong with most of the neighbors who ca over to help put out the fire sincerely. However, so of them quietly rushed into the front yard and backyard of Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion and took off their ordinary clothes. These people were all dressed in black. It was obvious that they were not guards of ordinary families.
Soone imdiately reported it to Chu Qing, who was furious. He had carefully hidden his strength to make himself look inconspicuous. Now such a thing had happened. Who wanted to hurt him at the mont?
Needless to say, the fire must have been deliberately set by those people. They wanted to find sothing in his mansion or find soone.
There were many secrets in his mansion, and how could he let others see them? He ordered his n to kill the n in black whenever they saw one. There was no need to show rcy. They could just take those n as bandits and kill them. In the dark night, no one knew who they were.
Since Chu Qing gave this order, his guards imdiately took action.
Prince Cheng’s n thought that no one would know about what they were doing, so they carefully searched for the junior official of the Ministry of Justice. Unexpectedly, they had been targeted for a long ti. Many people scread in the darkness and imdiately died.
The fire was very strong, and there were many people putting out the fire. Everyone was in a hurry to put out the fire, so the screams coming from the depths of the house did not attract any attention at all.
Several guards of Prince Cheng’s Mansion died without being discovered. Later, it was the leader of the guards who reacted the fastest. When a sword stabbed him in the dark, he quickly jumped onto the roof and fought with the guards of Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion who were hiding.
Several guards jumped out of the dark and appeared in public. Many people, who were putting out the fire, saw them and scread in fear. One wave after another ca. Was soone going to take action against Commandery Prince Qing?
The scene was in chaos.
Jing Zhaoyin’s n finally showed up. A large group of soldiers rushed in. Half of them went to put out the fire, and the other half rushed into the house to arrest the guards who were in the middle of a fight. In the fire, blood splashed. There were broken arms and legs, and screams rang out. At this mont, Commandery Prince Qing’s Mansion was almost like purgatory.
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