Chapter 399 Suspicion

Xiao Yanli looked at her quietly, his face calm and his eyes deep.

He did not answer, but asked: "What happened in the past few days?"

Banzhuang thought for a while and replied: "At first she was like usual, listening to music and watching dance, drinking to cheer herself up. Then a few days ago, she suddenly said that she wanted to redeem herself for a woman. I thought she saw that the woman was getting along well with her and wanted to take her back to serve her, so I agreed."

"Later she said she didn't bring any money, so I wrote it down first and paid it back later. I thought she came every day and... she would definitely not default on the bill, so I wrote it down. I didn't expect..."

Banzhuang spoke more and more quietly, and her tone was full of regret.

If she had known this would happen, she shouldn't have set this precedent!

I have never heard of a brothel redeeming someone and getting back on track!

I regret it so much!

Xiao Yanli listened to her quietly, and waited until she stopped before speaking: "I saw you clearly rejected her just now, so why did you let her take the person away in the end?"

Banzhuang was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that her master had also seen the scene just now.

She thought Xiao Yanli came in from the secret passage as before.

Seeing her stunned, Xiao Yanli's expression did not change, but his eyes became a little darker.

"My master, the reason why I let her take the person away is because she said that she knew the person behind Zuiyuelong was you."

How is it possible? !

Xiao Yanli couldn't hide his surprise and widened his eyes.

Uncle Zhang was also shocked: "How is it possible? Not to mention that the master was only a few years old when Zuiyuelong was established. In the following years, he also showed himself as an idiot. After returning to normal, he never stepped into Zuiyuelong with his true identity. How could Jiang Zhiyu know?"

Xiao Yanli calmed down and spoke as if squeezed out from between his teeth: "What else did she say?"

"She also said," Banzhuang said carefully: "If I don't let her take the person away, she will report it to the emperor. At that time, let the emperor choose whether to believe her or you..."

"Click".

The armrest of the chair where Xiao Yanli was sitting was broken off by him.

Banzhuang trembled and dared not say anything.

"What a Jiang Zhiyu, what a Yushi appointed by the emperor himself!"

There was rage in Xiao Yanli's eyes, and one could see his hands trembling slightly because of anger without looking closely.

Uncle Zhang waved his hand slightly and retreated carefully with half-makeup.

After a long time, Xiao Yanli seemed to have regained his composure, and his voice was mixed with doubts: "Besides Zuiyuelong, what else does she know?"

Without waiting for Uncle Zhang to answer, he continued: "Zuiyuelong is my deepest secret. She even knows this. Doesn't it mean that all my actions are under her nose?"

"Your Highness, I don't think so."

When there were people around, he would call Master Xiao Yanli, and when there was no one around, he would call His Highness Xiao Yanli.

"It's been a long time since the Zuiyuelong incident, and as I just said, no one should have linked you to Zuiyuelong in terms of age, movement trajectory, or identity." "

In my opinion, if she really knows your identity, there is only one possibility: someone betrayed your highness."

Xiao Yanli looked up at him, and Uncle Zhang paused and said, "Not many people know your highness's identity, and they have been with your highness for a long time."

"Even if we want to investigate, we can't make a big move, so as not to chill the hearts of others."

Xiao Yanli knew this himself.

He couldn't help but sigh. There was Lan Yan first, Liu Jie later, and now Banzhuang...

I don't know since when, things have been very different from what he had imagined before.

He rubbed his temples and said in annoyance, "Let's do it this way for now. Let's all keep an eye on Banzhuang and investigate secretly. Don't let her find out anything... By the way, what's the name of that guy, oh, Ling Zizhong, what happened? Is Xiao Lingyu suspicious?"

"How can he not be suspicious after being resurrected from the dead?" Uncle Zhang said coldly, "But don't worry, Your Highness. The prince's men are nothing to be afraid of. I have already sent people to fabricate clues, and the prince's men can't find out anything."

Xiao Yanli nodded slightly when he heard it.

"I'm at ease leaving it to you. But don't let anything go wrong again. There have been enough mistakes in the past few days."

Uncle Zhang nodded in agreement and watched Xiao Yanli drinking tea. He hesitated for a while and asked cautiously, "What about Jiang Zhiyu, Your Highness?"

Xiao Yanli thought for a while and said, "This person acts too casually and is unpredictable. Although she told Banzhuang that she would not tell the emperor after redeeming the person, who knows whether she was telling the truth or a lie." Uncle Zhang

looked at Xiao Yanli's face carefully and said, "Actually... I just thought of another possibility. Does Your Highness want to hear it?"

"You can tell me."

"I'm wondering, is there a possibility that Jiang Zhiyu didn't say this at all, and everything is just a lie told by Banzhuang to cover up the problem?"

Xiao Yanli paused with the teacup in his hand.

"Your Highness also saw Banzhuang's hesitation when she spoke just now. If Jiang Zhiyu really said that, why did Banzhuang hesitate? Moreover, even He Yanting has not been able to find out Your Highness's identity for so many years, but Jiang Zhiyu knows it. I just can't figure it out."

Uncle Zhang frowned.

Xiao Yanli was also a suspicious person. Hearing him say that, and thinking of Banzhuang's expression before, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible.

"What you said makes sense," Xiao Yanli's eyes turned slightly: "Well, tomorrow I will go to Xu's house in person to test Jiang Zhiyu."

...

On the other side, in the study of the East Palace.

The secret guards half-knelt on the ground, carefully stating the facts they had investigated.

"Ling Zizhong bribed the imperial physician in advance, and when he was only one breath left, the imperial physician fed him a life-saving medicine and lied to the emperor, saying that he had died suddenly."

"Afterwards, the emperor ordered his body to be hung on the city wall, but did not assign guards to guard it strictly. So the imperial physician bribed a few guards and sent people to give him medicine and food late at night every day. After he was thrown into the mass grave, the people who had been waiting there took him away and placed him in the Jiangnan area by water."

Jiangnan was too far away, and they could only find out this much.

"The imperial physician of that time has passed away. I found these letters in his home. The letters clearly stated who he had received money from throughout his life, including Ling Zizhong."

"I also went to the homes of the people he wrote about in the letters, and they indeed matched."

The more Xiao Lingyu listened, the deeper his brows furrowed.

This plan was too perfect and too meticulous.

It really didn't fit his uncle's character.

It really didn't fit the work standards of his secret guards.

It wasn't that Xiao Lingyu looked down on them. In the past, for a very simple assassination case, they could only hand him back a report of the investigation and torture of the Jinyiwei in a dozen days.