Chapter 185 Found (Part 1)

Fu Yi suppressed his possessive desire and asked someone to let the monk in.

Only then did the monks realize that Pei Jia was missing.

"Since you all happen to be here, why don't we use the name of spreading the scriptures to investigate every household. The search in the mountains and fields will be left to my guards, and finally the officials from the county government will check for any omissions." Fu Yi suggested.

When the monks heard this, they naturally had no objection: "Then Miss Jiang..."

"She's staying with me, so she's safe."

Fu Yi sent the monks away with just a few words, but the news they brought had already left a mark in "Xiao He"'s heart.

She sat there and said, "No wonder they gave Peijia such a name. I know that Jialan means Buddhist temple, right?"

"Yeah." He really didn't care how Pei Jia got his name.

Cheng Nianying added, "When I left, Fourth Master Pei invited me to stay and have dinner with the people from the Fourth House."

She had to mention a few things about the Pei Mansion in order to calm her mood today.

"Then why didn't you stay?"

"Pei Jia hasn't come back yet."

“…”

Cheng Nianying looked at him at this time: "Are you unhappy?"

"You are very happy." Fu Yi said affirmatively.

Fu Yi couldn't help but recall carefully, was she ever so happy when she was with him?

I picked and picked, but I really couldn't pick anything.

Fu Yi was speechless.

Why can’t I pick it out?

When she was in the Prince's Mansion, she was afraid of being exposed by him, but he deliberately tested her, waiting to see her panic.

When we arrived in Weiyang, the situation was even more tense.

——I made them all myself.

Fu Yi: “…”

It's okay.

"...As long as you are happy." Fu Yi said.

After saying this, he found that Cheng Nianying was looking at him with her chin supported.

Fu Yi: "What?"

"Is what the prince said true or false?"

To anyone else, this would have sounded like deliberate sarcasm. But Fu Yi knew she wasn't, she was asking seriously.

"It's true." If she likes it, he will make it true.

"When you are happy, I may not be happy with you." Fu Yi raised his hand and pressed the corner of her eye, "But when you cry, I feel uncomfortable too."

Cheng Nianying was stunned and did not ask whether it was true or not.

They had dinner together.

Afterwards, she checked Fu Yi's wound again, sprinkled new medicine powder on it, and then prepared to leave to rest.

Fu Yi always felt that something was missing.

"Nothing else to tell me?"

"Um?"

"How did Chu Zhen die? Do you need me to clean up the mess for you? Since Fourth Master Pei said he is your father from now on, what does he know?"

Given Xiao He's personality and habits, when he was in the Prince's Mansion in the past, whenever he encountered something he couldn't figure out outside, he would come back and ask him indirectly about it.

I've been through so many things today, but I haven't talked to him. I must have talked to someone else first.

"Princess Wu knows everything."

Cheng Nianying is gone.

Fu Yi: “…”

He called Wu Xun in, and without waiting to ask, Wu Xun immediately reported everything.

Sure enough, I had already talked about it in detail with Mr. Pei Si, and when I came back I was too lazy to talk to him again.

"Since Chu Zhen is dead, there's no need to keep Qin Bowen."

"Hey." Wu Xun responded.

Qin Bowen is the great name of Marquis Wuning.

As soon as he died.

Who else can legitimately investigate Chu Zhen's death?

"Did you carry the body with her today?"

Wu Xun nodded blankly, and instinctively felt a chill down his spine.

He thought about it and thought, maybe his master was jealous?

He thought again: "Even if the master goes, I'm afraid he won't be able to lift it."

"...Alright, let's go."

The moon is at its zenith.

Fu Yi entered Cheng Nianying's room. She was curled up on the bed, with the quilt arched into an arc.

Fu Yi walked closer and took her finger.

Cheng Nianying was rarely awake.

Fu Yi lowered his eyes, uncorked the porcelain bottle in his hand, and applied the ointment on Cheng Nianying's fingertips.

A head suddenly popped out from the tent, and Cheng Nianying asked, "What is this?"

"Apply medicine. You have a scratch on your hand."

Cheng Nianying herself didn't even notice it: "Oh, I think it got rubbed when I was mopping the floor."

Fu Yi held her hand closer and his hot breath sprayed on it, making her feel itchy.

Cheng Nianying couldn't help but sit up: "Not finished yet?"

"And it's thorny."

"oh."

This time he didn't want to hug her or sleep with her. He carefully applied the medicine to her, removed the splinter, and then stood up and walked out.

"Does your prince have shoulder pain?" Cheng Nianying asked.

"It's okay, it doesn't hurt that much anymore, go to sleep."

Cheng Nianying lay back down.

If he said it hurt, she could hug him again.

With a slight sound, Fu Yi closed the door for her.

Cheng Nianying put her finger to her nose. The pill she had taken in Weiyang was wearing off, and she had to get closer to smell it clearly.

Pei Jia was still missing, and she thought she would not be able to sleep.

But after smelling the medicine, I slowly fell asleep.

*

"I've seen it. He left a mark on the street, and that mark is indeed inside the building."

"Killers have no legitimate identities and cannot stay in hotels. They often hide in places like dilapidated temples, abandoned thatched houses, and caves."

When Cheng Nianying said this, Wu Xun continued, "But we haven't found it in these places..."

Wu Xun was puzzled: "The city gates are sealed, and after such a thorough search, how come there is still no trace of him?"

Fu Yi looked at Cheng Nianying: "What other unusual places have you hidden in? Most people wouldn't think of going there."

These are all means of saving lives, but I can't care about so many things at the moment.

Since she has made peace with Fu Yi, there will never be a day when Fu Yi will arrest her again in the future, right?

"In the well."

"Can people live in a well?" Wu Xun was speechless.

"A dry well is naturally habitable."

"And the coffin. That's gone."

Wu Xun thought to himself, if he really hides, it will be hard to find him!

"But he also brought Pei Jia with him. With two of them, hiding wouldn't be that easy. Pei Jia wouldn't move around with him at will, so the hiding place had to be spacious and abandoned, somewhere ordinary people wouldn't go. It also had to be convenient for observing what was happening in Pei Mansion and Yuxian Tower.

"Two living people, eating and defecating will leave traces, how can there be no trace at all?"

Fu Yi looked thoughtful.

Wu Xun sighed: "This man is really patient!"

"As a killer, the first thing you need to learn is to keep your composure," said Cheng Nianying.

"What kind of person, with the entire city under lockdown and manhunt, could snoop around the area every day and still remain inconspicuous?" Fu Yi pursed his lips. "Someone who can enter Yuxian Tower."

"But Yuxianlou has been booked by us." Wu Xun wondered.

Cheng Nianying thought about how she and Wu Xun had sent Chu Zhen's body away.

She said quickly, "The man who carries the manure truck!"

Fu Yi smiled and looked at her approvingly: "Well, people like this won't pay too much attention to others. They just wish they could stay away from them."

Fu Yi immediately ordered someone to invite the owner of Yuxianlou.

After a while, the shopkeeper stood still trembling.

Fu Yi first asked him, "Are there any new helpers in the building?"

The shopkeeper shook his head.

Fu Yi asked again, "Is the man who brings the manure cart every day the same one as before?"

The shopkeeper nodded: "Yes, yes."

"Are you sure you haven't changed it?"

“Never…”

Wu Xun frowned: "Is this way not feasible?"

He then asked, "Could it be a disguise?"

"Appearance is easy to learn, but accent is hard to learn." Fu Yi replied calmly, and asked the shopkeeper, "Do you hear anything different about his voice?"

“No, no.”

Cheng Nianying then thought of another task: "Where are the people who carry the slop away?"

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment: "He hasn't changed, but he, he hasn't spoken in two days."

"Has he been here today?"

"Not yet."

Fu Yi ordered the guards: "Go and wait for someone."

But unfortunately, today I waited until dusk but the man didn't come.

Wu Xun gradually became anxious.

Nothing else.

The archers that Fu Yi requested arrived, and the people accompanying them also brought the emperor's oral instructions.

Urge Fu Yi to return to Beijing.

"No hurry." Fu Yi called the shopkeeper back over and asked him, "Where did that man take the slop that he collected?"

"There's a settlement behind Fengyu Alley where farmers will feed their pigs."

"If this person is truly the killer in disguise, he will definitely follow the path of his predecessors and go wherever he's supposed to go. Otherwise, the soldiers patrolling the city will easily notice something's amiss."

Fu Yi tapped the table lightly with his fingers: "Let's go and take a look over there."

Arriving at Fengyu Lane, the county magistrate stepped forward and said, "Prince, the officials have searched this place before."

Fu Yi looked around and said, "The assassin can disguise himself and blend into the crowd, but Pei Jia can't. Where could Pei Jia be that the officials would miss him?"

The county magistrate thought that the official would definitely not miss it!

At this moment, Cheng Nianying blurted out two words that she couldn't quite believe: "Pigpen?"