Chapter 3502: This water is muddy enough
Nan Yan frowned and said in a deep voice, "In other words, someone took this thing and put it here to help the princess escape?"
The manager's face turned pale.
Doesn't this mean that someone in the South Courtyard has ulterior motives?
It would be fine if Her Royal Highness the Princess returned safely, but I just heard that His Majesty the Emperor has sent people out to look for her, and I'm afraid she hasn't returned yet. So what is the intention of the person who secretly helped the princess? Will he hurt the princess?
If that's the case, then even if he had nine heads, they wouldn't be enough to chop off!
Thinking of this, the steward broke out in a cold sweat and trembled as he said, "This, I will immediately patrol the mansion and find this person."
But when Zhu Feng heard this, his expression became somewhat indifferent.
If someone really helped Xinping, and if Xinping has not returned until now, then the person who secretly helped him might not have simple intentions. Then how could he be found so easily?
But he still said, "Go check it out."
"yes."
The manager raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, then turned around and hurried downstairs.
Nan Yan looked at Zhu Feng, her expression also showing great anxiety, but Zhu Feng just reached out and pressed her shoulder, saying calmly: "Don't panic for now, wait until you have news."
Soon, the news came.
But it is not optimistic.
The manager gathered everyone in the mansion and asked them, and found out that someone had indeed gone to the storehouse to get a ladder, saying that he wanted to trim the branches in the backyard. This person was a servant working in the outer courtyard, named Jia Si.
But the person who was supposed to be on duty today was nowhere to be seen.
The manager immediately sent someone to his house, but found that it was already empty.
It seems that the princess's disappearance is closely related to Jia Si.
The government immediately arrested all of Jia Si's relatives and friends. After being tortured and interrogated, these people were beaten all over their bodies, but they could not get a single word out of them. It was obvious that they really knew nothing.
The matter was reported to Zhu Feng. Nan Yan sat nearby, feeling incredibly upset as she listened, but she still gritted her teeth and calmed herself down. After Zhu Feng heard what the steward had said, he scowled and said coldly, "Go down and receive fifty lashes of the cane. If the princess doesn't return safely, none of you here will have to go home."
The manager was sweating profusely and did not dare to beg for mercy. He thanked the emperor tremblingly and left.
After a while, there were sounds of beating and muffled screams outside the second gate, but at this time, Nan Yan had no mind to pay attention to it.
She walked up to Zhu Feng and said in a deep voice, "Is someone plotting against Xin Ping?"
Zhu Feng glanced at her and nodded: "I'm afraid so."
In the South Courtyard, besides the maids and eunuchs they had brought with them, there were also some servants who did rough work, all of whom were selected and arranged by Cui Yuanmei in advance. Cui Yuanmei was originally very prudent in his work, at least during his screening, he had considered Jia Si to be qualified before he dared to let him into the South Courtyard.
But now, this person took the risk to help the princess escape from the South Courtyard, and until now, the princess has not returned, it is very likely that she fell into his hands.
So what is this person's purpose?
Is it just for peace of mind, or to use peace of mind to achieve some purpose?
Zhu Feng thought for a while with a gloomy face, then slowly said: "If this Jia Si has any purpose, he should find a way to pass on the news to me after a while."
“…”
"It depends on what he's going to do."
Nan Yan stood by, frowning and saying nothing.
Feeling the low aura on her body, Zhu Feng looked up at her and said, "Don't be anxious."
Nan Yan shook her head and said, "I'm not anxious. I just thought of something."
"What's up?"
"This Jia Si—logically speaking, he should have passed the previous review by Lord Cui and his team, so there should be no problem. But now he suddenly did something so decapitating. I'm afraid it's not just because of himself."
“…”
"If he has any problems, or if he has any ulterior motives, with Mr. Cui's meticulousness, he should be able to find out."
Zhu Feng's brows also furrowed: "You mean—"
Nan Yan bit her lower lip and said slowly, "I suspect this person was instructed by someone else."
“…”
"Being able to pass Lord Cui's test shows that Jia Si originally had no problems. However, after the emperor brought his concubine and Xinping into the South Courtyard, his position, or rather, everyone in the South Courtyard, became an opportunity for exploitation. It was only because he happened to be bribed that he did this."
Zhu Feng's eyes suddenly flashed.
He said, "I understand what you mean."
“…”
"But no matter what, the person who ordered Jia Si is still hiding behind. Only if we find Jia Si can we find the person behind it."
Soon, Cui Yuanmei also learned what happened in the South Courtyard.
He was so frightened that he came to apologize, but Zhu Feng did not punish him immediately. He just asked him to do meritorious service while serving his sentence and that he must find Jia Si. So Cui Yuanmei mobilized the remaining troops in the state government and searched the city for Jia Si.
Although Zhu Feng tried his best to control the situation, there was a war outside the city and the officers and soldiers inside the city were digging deep in the ground looking for something. This tense atmosphere still made the common people like frightened birds, and they all stayed indoors. Soon, there were no pedestrians in Yongzhou City, and it almost became a half-sleeping city.
Thanks to this, they quickly found Jia Si in a remote alley.
But it was a corpse.
He was stabbed in the chest and died instantly.
His face still maintained the expression of surprise and disbelief before his death, his eyes bulged and wide open, as if he couldn't believe that the other party would suddenly attack and kill him.
The person who killed him was obviously an extremely skilled master, otherwise, it would be impossible for an ordinary person to kill an adult man with such a precise knife.
When Nan Yan heard the news, her whole body went cold.
She thought for a moment, then asked anxiously, "Is there any clue on him, even a thread?"
Cui Yuanmei knelt on the ground and said solemnly, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I had the body brought back and searched it myself, but there was nothing on him."
Wouldn’t that mean the clue is broken?
Just when Nan Yan was feeling heavy-hearted, Zhu Feng, who had been silent the entire time, spoke up, "You go down first and have them take care of Jia Si's body. I'll go and see it myself later."
Cui Yuanmei said: "Yes."
After saying that, he walked out.
They were the only two left in the room. Zhu Feng sat there with a solemn expression, as if talking to himself, or perhaps to Nan Yan. He said solemnly, "This situation has become quite muddy."
When Nan Yan heard this, her heart skipped a beat.
"Your Majesty means—"
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