Chapter 104 Did you hit him?
Jiang Fei hasn't figured out a solution yet. She has no idea what the prerequisites are for Pei Jing's favorability to increase. If she goes to see Pei Jing rashly, what if his favorability increases again for no apparent reason?
Besides, the system is not here now, so the favorability cannot be checked. Don’t wait until the system is online and the favorability is full. That would be the real catastrophe.
Jiutao went to the palace by herself, but when she came back she was accompanied by a palace guard.
Jiang Fei didn't dare let the guards into the house, so she had to meet him in the alley at the back door.
"Greetings, young lady." The guard saluted and then got straight to the point. "The prince sent me to deliver a message to you, young lady. We have arrested several scoundrels in the palace. The prince has not yet decided what to do with them, so I need your advice."
Jiang Fei was puzzled. "You guys can just arrest someone and deal with him yourselves. What does it have to do with me?"
"There is some connection," the guard said. "According to the main messenger, he is working for the young lady."
"Impossible." Jiang Fei smiled and waved her hands, but the smile on her face suddenly froze, "Could that person be... Zhao?"
Guard: "It is Zhao Xingbang, the son of Prime Minister Zhao."
Jiang Fei stumbled and held onto the wall. "He said he was under my orders?"
"That's right." The guard nodded and said, "That person claimed to be under the orders of Miss Jiang Er to find out information, so the prince asked me to ask Miss Jiang to go back and ask. The prince also said that it was okay for Miss Jiang not to go, so the prince made his own decision."
"What is he going to do?"
The guard said, "They should have killed him and buried him directly."
…
Inside the palace dungeon.
Zhao Xingbang knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, please believe me. It was really Miss Jiang Er who asked me to investigate Miss Wei. If I tell even a single lie, I will be struck by lightning!"
Pei Jing sat in the only chair in the dungeon, his elbows resting on the armrests to support his forehead, playing with the folding fan in his hand with a lack of interest.
"Tell me, what have you found out?"
Zhao Xingbang swallowed hard, "In reply to your Highness, I found out that Miss Wei went missing while visiting relatives in Jiangnan. She seemed to have been wandering around for a long time. Marquis Dingyuan felt that this matter would be disreputable to the Marquisate, so he has been suppressing it."
"What else?" Pei Jing's voice became a little colder.
"Also, when Miss Wei was a child, she often talked about a person named Aaa, Anian." Zhao Xingbang glanced at Pei Jing's expression cautiously.
Everyone knows that King Zhaoning's courtesy name is Songnian. That was the name given to him by King Ping before Pei Jing was born. Somehow, he was renamed Pei Jing after he was born, and from then on, Pei Jing used Songnian as his courtesy name.
Zhao Xingbang thought that Prince Zhaoning had special feelings for Miss Wei. It just so happened that Prince Zhaoning had disappeared for a while when he was in his teens. Could it be that the two had some kind of intersection at that time?
Duan Jiu immediately said, "It's exactly the same as what my subordinates found."
Pei Jing suddenly narrowed his eyes and turned to look at Duan Jiu. "How long have you been investigating this?"
Duan Jiu was stunned. "It took more than a year to investigate."
"More than a year." Pei Jing sneered, his gaze returning to Zhao Xingbang. "He's a piece of crap, and you figured it out in just a few days?"
Zhao Xingbang knelt there blankly. "W-Will this take so long to investigate?"
Duan Jiu understood instantly, "Your Highness, you mean... someone leaked it on purpose? Now that Your Highness mentioned that, it seems like things have been going much more smoothly recently."
"It seems," Pei Jing said slowly, "someone is using you as a microphone."
After he finished speaking, he looked back and tapped the armrest with his fingers anxiously. Duan Jiu immediately understood what he meant and said:
"It's quite far from the Jiang residence. Miss Jiang Er must be on her way."
Pei Jing raised his eyes, "Did I ask her?"
Duan Jiu: “…”
When will this habit of saying one thing and thinking another be corrected?
Suddenly, footsteps were heard outside the dungeon. Pei Jing's fingers stopped tapping immediately and he asked knowingly, "Are they coming?"
As soon as Jiang Fei stepped into the prison door, Zhao Xingbang burst into tears, "I thought you weren't coming."
He looked like a child who was bullied and sought support from his parents.
Jiang Fei ignored him and looked around the dungeon's furnishings after entering.
Pei Jing suddenly felt a little regretful for setting up the dungeon for the interrogation. This girl, who had been raised in seclusion, had probably never seen such a scene before and might be scared to tears.
He couldn't coax her into submission. The girl had cried so hard that his ears hurt last time, so he had to ask her to beat up Zhao Xingbang.
"Fear?"
"Ah? No," Jiang Fei said, "It's so cool here. It's a great place. It should be very comfortable to sleep here at night."
Pei Jing: "..."
Duan Jiu was also speechless. The style and angle of the painting were too novel. There was no other like it in the whole capital. It was a perfect match for his own prince.
Zhao Xingbang looked back and forth between the two of them. Why did he feel that there was an inexplicable meaning flowing between them?
"What are you looking at?" Pei Jing's cold eyes fell on Zhao Xingbang.
"No, I didn't see anything." Zhao Xingbang said quickly, "Miss Jiang Er, I'm doing this for you. You asked me to investigate Miss Wei's case. You have to save me."
Jiang Fei then looked at Zhao Xingbang. His clothes were intact and he looked like he hadn't been tortured. But his face...
"Did you have him beaten?"
Pei Jing sneered, "This idiot ran into the door while trying to escape."
Jiang Fei sighed and said earnestly, "Zhao Xingbang, you're too unreliable. You've already been discovered."
Pei Jing was slightly pleased with himself, "No matter how reliable a person is, he cannot escape my secret line."
The more Zhao Xingbang thought about it, the more aggrieved he felt. He had worked so hard and tirelessly, and was even responsible for paying the bill at the restaurant, yet he was still being brought to this damn place.
"I, Zhao Xingbang, work hard and never complain. As soon as the lady asked me to do so, I sent someone to investigate," he said and then he started to cry loudly.
"Your Highness, please understand! Although I am a playboy, I would never dare to do such a thing if I hadn't been instructed to do so."
"Did you really order it?" Pei Jing asked.
Jiang Fei nodded reluctantly.
"Why are you investigating Wei Ciying?"
Jiang Fei pinched her sleeves and said, "I just want to check, do I need a reason?"
Zhao Xingbang cried until his eyes were blurred with tears, and he crawled forward with tears and snot, "Miss Jiang, help me! Didn't you say you would save my life?"
He reached out to grab the hem of Jiang Fei's skirt, and just as he was about to touch it, Pei Jing calmly took a step forward.
"I'm really wronged!" Zhao Xingbang was crying when he suddenly felt that the material in his hand was not right.
Don't girls like to wear soft gauze skirts in the summer? Why is this material so stiff?
Zhao Xingbang looked up and was immediately frightened to death. He saw that one of his hands was holding Pei Jing's clothes, and he was looking at him coldly with his eyes down.
"Prince?!" Zhao Xingbang almost peed himself, and quickly let go of his hand and crawled away.
Pei Jing didn't seem to want to waste time on him. He looked at Jiang Fei and said, "If you want to investigate her, just ask me. Why bother looking for an idiot to do it for you?"
Jiang Fei secretly glanced at Pei Jing out of the corner of her eye. She needed to be careful with her words and actions when facing this person.
The system was not around, so she didn't know how much its favorability had increased, but judging by the tone and attitude, it was definitely not low. It was so gentle that she was a little scared, as if she had already seen herself being exiled to the world of nothingness after failing a mission in the future.
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