Chapter 110 City-wide Manhunt

A Yu heard the hidden meaning in her words and showed a hurt expression on his face.

"Madam, don't you believe me?"

He said in a hoarse voice, with a hint of grievance in his voice.

"I've never seen this thing before. I was worried someone might frame me and take action against my wife, so I came here in a hurry..."

Feng Qingsui hurriedly explained, "Don't blame me for being suspicious. It's just that the musket appeared by sheer coincidence."

After that, he told him about the Spring Hunting assassination that happened not long ago.

"...The fire lance is a new weapon from the Weapons Department, only issued to the Suihuo Guards and never leaked. Yet, the assassin has a fire lance in his hand. Your Majesty suspects the Weapons Department's blueprints have been leaked and is investigating. You just happened to pull out a fire lance..."

It was hard not to connect this incident to the assassin's accomplices.

A Yu placed his right hand on his left chest and said solemnly, "Madam, I swear on my life that I am not a spy from another country. Madam, please send someone to the escort agency to verify your information. If I tell you anything false, I will be pierced by thousands of arrows and left to die in the wilderness."

Feng Qingsui couldn't find any reason why he, an accomplice of the assassin, would self-destruct, so he said apologetically, "Sorry, I was overthinking it."

A Yu shook his head: "Madam, it is only right that you should be cautious. My identity as a foreigner is indeed likely to arouse suspicion."

Feng Qingsui pondered for a moment and asked, "Did you avoid people when you came from the workshop?"

"I was afraid that the man hadn't gone far and was still secretly following me, so I changed my clothes and quietly slipped out of the room. I also called two workshop guards and pretended to go to the restaurant for a midnight snack. I then used the excuse of washing my hands to get away and come back to find you."

A Yu replied.

"On the way to Ji Mansion, I didn't notice anyone following me."

He was dressed similarly to the workshop guards. If he lowered his head and concealed his eyes, he wouldn't look like a foreigner.

Feng Qingsui praised, "Very clever. Go back the same way you came and don't let the secret agents notice. I'll take care of the rest, and you can just pretend nothing happened."

A Yu nodded and said okay.

After he left, Feng Qingsui packed up the musket and went to Canghaixuan to find Ji Changqing.

Ji Changqing was sleeping soundly when he was awakened by Baifu. When he heard that Feng Qingsui wanted to see him for something, he sat up suddenly.

"hiss--"

There was a sudden pain in my chest.

Only then did he remember that his chest injury had not healed and he could not make any large movements.

But he only paused for a moment, then got out of bed, changed his clothes, and hurried to the study to see Feng Qingsui.

Seeing that she was fine, he slowed down his pace.

"What happened?"

He asked in a gentle voice.

Feng Qingsui pulled away the cloth that was wrapping the musket and replied, "Someone put a musket in my workshop."

Ji Changqing's eyes suddenly darkened.

After taking the musket and examining it, he said in a deep voice, "This is the latest musket made by the Weapons Department."

Feng Qingsui: "Is it the same one used by the assassins at the Spring Hunting Grounds?"

"No," Ji Changqing replied, "The muskets used by the assassins were not made by the Weapons Department."

Feng Qingsui frowned.

Could it be that the people who framed her and the assassins from the hunting ground were not from the same group?

No, it could be the same group of people.

Having a musket does not mean that you cannot steal it. Perhaps it is intentional to distinguish it from the behavior of an assassin.

What she thought of, Ji Changqing naturally thought of as well.

He summoned Zhu Ying and said, "Find out what happened in the Weapons Department tonight."

Zhuying took the order and left.

Ji Changqing invited Feng Qingsui to sit at the tea table and ordered Baifu to light charcoal and boil water. While waiting for the water to boil, he asked Feng Qingsui about the whole story of how he discovered the musket.

Feng Qingsui explained everything to him in detail, and just as he finished, Zhuying came back from investigating.

"A new-style musket was stolen from the Arms Department. The guards reported that the thief had green eyes. The Pursuit Department suspects it was an alien spy. They just asked Jingzhao Prefecture for a list of registered aliens and are preparing a city-wide search."

A Yu then grew a pair of green eyes.

Before he went to the northern border, Feng Qingsui paid money to redeem him, eliminated his slave status, and registered him as a foreign household. Naturally, his name was on the list of foreign ethnic groups in Jingzhao Prefecture.

If he had not been alert at night and reacted quickly, he would have been caught by the Pursuit Division along with his musket.

At that time, not only would he be accused of being a foreign spy, but Feng Qingsui, who guaranteed his citizenship, would also be charged with treason and collaborating with the enemy, and even Ji Changqing would be dragged into it.

Feng Qingsui and Ji Changqing both understood what the consequences would be.

After the two looked at each other, Feng Qingsui smiled slightly: "Second Master, can you lend me two people?"

"Which two?"

"The one who is investigating the news is the one who usually follows me."

“…”

It was unprecedented that this person would actually ask for his consent.

Don’t you usually just use it directly?

Ji Changqing chuckled and agreed.

Feng Qingsui called Wuhua over and said to the three of them, "Go and guard near the workshop. When the Pursuit Division comes to search..."

The three of them took the order and left.

At midnight, the restaurants were closed and the breakfast shops were not open yet. The streets and alleys should have been the quietest, but the iron boots of the pursuers broke the silence.

One after another, the doors of foreign households and families with foreign slaves were knocked on and forcibly searched.

Ying Sanzang was waiting quietly for the arrival of the person who was pursuing Sitiqi near the Qinghui Nuanrong Pavilion down workshop.

It was not until half past three that the figure of the Tiqi appeared.

The Ti cavalry broke into the workshop, woke up everyone, gathered them in the courtyard, and then searched every room, interrogating the only foreigner in the workshop.

Then he left quickly and ran to the next house.

Ying San was stunned.

He had clearly hidden the musket in the foreigner's house, and it could be seen by just glancing at the beams. How come these Ti cavalry left empty-handed?

Are they not working hard enough, or...

After the workshop returned to silence, he hesitated for a while, then sneaked into the alien's room to find out what was going on.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he jumped off the eaves, three black shadows jumped out from the darkness.

He didn't even have time to bite through the venom sac before he was captured and his jaw was broken.

Then he was brought before a young woman.

Of course he recognized this woman.

Yesterday afternoon, it was because he witnessed her going to the workshop to meet the foreigner and having dinner with him at the restaurant that he came up with the idea of ​​stealing the weapons department's muskets and framing her.

To do this, he endured the pain and repeatedly soaked his eyes in indigo juice to temporarily create a pair of green eyes.

When he went to the weapons department to steal the musket, he wrapped his whole body tightly, leaving only his eyes exposed, so that the pursuit department could trace him back to the foreigner in the workshop.

He really couldn't understand how such a perfect plan could fail.

However, if this woman wanted to pry open his mouth, it was pure wishful thinking. The people in the Shadow Guard Camp had suffered all kinds of hardships.

However.

Half an hour later, he spat out everything about the Shadow Guard base where he was and the orders given by his master.

┭┮﹏┭┮。

It’s not that he has a weak will, it’s that the enemy is too cruel.

The repeated feeling of drowning and suffocation can really drive people crazy.

Brothers, I'm sorry.

I'll go first as a sign of respect.

May God bless you.

At dawn, the pursuer Sitiqi, who had gained nothing, returned to the office with heavy steps.

He was worried about meeting the emperor with a sad face.

A little beggar ran to the door of the government office, holding up a piece of paper and shouting, "Sir, someone wants to file a complaint!"