Chapter 220 Feng Shui Who is that?
Zhao Lan's eyes narrowed and he returned to the chaotic incident. "Are you sure those people are not suspects?"
Prince Wei replied: "Just ordinary civilians."
The first things he checked were the barefoot girl, the three grown men chasing her, and the little boy who was about to be stepped on. Their identities were quickly confirmed.
The barefoot girl was the daughter of a gambler in an alley in the north city. She was sold to a brothel in the west market by her father to pay off a debt. The girl refused and slipped away from her father. The three behind her were the thugs in the brothel. Their identities were clean and verifiable, and there was nothing suspicious about them.
The little boy was a child of ordinary people. He came out with his mother and was squeezed, knocked down and almost trampled to death. He was so scared that he has not come back to his senses yet. He can only cry and does not understand anything. Even if the child is brave, it is estimated that nothing can be asked about him, after all, Mao Ya was staring at him without blinking, and the murderer disappeared from her sight.
Zhao Lan did not let it go. "This matter cannot be as simple and coincidental as it seems. Brother Jing Huai, the two jugglers, the gambler, and the small gambling house, all the people in them must be screened."
Prince Wei nodded, "Okay, I'll check it out now."
Lu Youbai also said, “I’ll go check on Master Xue.”
Hua Ping, Ye Huaizhen: ...
Lord Xue was quite surprised to receive the invitation from the Yang family. Although they had been neighbors for several years, neither the women in the inner house nor he and Lord Yang had much friendship. At most, they were just nodding acquaintances.
After a palace coup, Lord Yang actually jumped from a seventh-rank minor official to a third-rank official in the imperial court. It was like he was ascending to heaven. No, even if he flew to heaven, it wouldn't be that fast! I flipped through the post for a long time, and I was filled with emotion. They all lived in the same alley, but some were promoted, some were transferred, but why didn't he move?
Lord Xue was in a bad mood the whole day. While he was out on business, he left the office early and passed by Su Ji to buy some cold noodles to eat at home.
When they arrived at the door of their house, the gatekeeper led the donkey away. Lord Xue lowered his head and stepped onto the steps with his hands behind his back. The moment his foot landed, he subconsciously looked towards the two houses on the right. The house bought by the Yang family was sold two years ago, and the house rented by the Su family was bought three years ago and was now occupied by Su's employees.
He looked up at his home again. It had not been moved in more than ten years. What had gone wrong? Why could he not cross the threshold of the fifth rank?
Lord Xue seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit. He took a few steps back and walked towards Su's and Yang's homes. As he walked, he looked around. In the east-west alley, his home was in the southwest, while Su's and Yang's homes were in the northwest. This was an ideal location for feng shui. Looking at the gates of the two houses, the brackets were stable and the eaves were as high as the blue sky.
Do these two families have good feng shui?
With neither a prosperous career nor wealth, Mr. Xue, who is forty years old and has no doubts, is looking around in the alley in front of Yang and Su's houses, studying them. Should he also change the doorway?
So should I change to the Su family's stable style, or the Yang family's soaring style?
When he met his little niece when he went to pick up the princess two nights ago, he didn't even have time to say a word. Su Yanzu found an opportunity to ask the princess for half a day off to come and see his little niece. He walked through the streets and found that there were patrolmen everywhere. He was stopped and questioned several times. What happened?
It had not been long since the previous emperor’s death, and Su Yanzu was shocked. He thought, even the princess’s mansion didn’t notice it, what could have happened?
"Brother, what happened? Why are you checking the identity so strictly?"
The yamen runner was very impatient. "Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. If you don't have anything to do, go home quickly and don't hinder us from doing our job."
Su Yanzu was pushed aside by the impatient patrolmen. Seeing that they did not even let go of the proud son of a fourth-rank official, were they going to arrest someone? He arrived at the Su family's new house with doubts, but he did not expect that his niece had not returned from shopping yet.
Mother Dong looked at the sky outside and said, "It's already 3 p.m., the Second Lady should be back. How about you wait a little longer, Mr. Su? I'll go prepare dinner and have a simple meal with my Second Lady then."
After asking for half a day off, Su Yanzu was not in a hurry and nodded, "Thank you, Mom."
"You're welcome, sir." Mother Dong went to prepare dinner.
Su Yanzu sat in the living room, waiting for his niece while wondering what had happened in the capital.
Dusk is falling and the lights are coming on.
Lord Fan was on duty at the office. As a third-rank official, no one investigated his status as a proud son, but his identity made him feel strange about the city-wide martial law and search. He asked people to inquire, but he did not expect that all the patrol officers and runners of the three departments of the capital had been dispatched.
"Did I hear that correctly?"
The steward nodded affirmatively, "I saw the Crown Prince of Wei, the young Prince of Zhao, and Lu Siqing. They went to the battlefield in person, especially in the West Market. Anyone who passed by the West Market today was transferred to the Five Cities Military Department for questioning."
"Are you arresting someone or looking for someone?"
The steward replied, "I have inquired and heard that a bandit from the south who has killed more than a dozen people has fled to the capital. The Imperial City Department and the Dali Temple are working together to arrest him."
This kind of talk can only fool the common people. Lord Fan narrowed his eyes and thought, South...? Isn't that the direction where the second prince, Prince Wei, fled? Did the second prince send people into the capital?
Suddenly, he shouted, "Amu——"
"Master, what do you want to ask me for?"
"Let Yan Jia go find Prince Zhao and ask him what's going on?"
"Yes, sir."
The two jugglers could not stand the torture of the Imperial City Bureau and finally confessed, "That man was generous and gave us a fifty-liang silver coin. We, the petty thieves, have never seen such a shiny silver coin. He asked us to take the opportunity to create chaos. We pushed people around and messed up the crowd to get the silver."
The two of them were having a great time pushing each other.
If you don't want people to know, then don't do it. Even if you think you are invisible, passers-by will still point it out.
Prince Wei asked a painter to draw the man that the juggler had described, with a thin face, a goatee, and a medium build.
The juggler thought for a moment and added, "There is a faint scar on his face."
Dinner was about to be served, but Su Yanzu did not wait for his little niece to come back, but waited for his older nephew Su Anzhi who had just finished school.
He bowed to his uncle.
Su Yanzu asked, "Ajin has been invited to dinner by the young prince again?" The niece had gone to dinner with the young prince two nights ago.
Su Anzhi shook his head: "Ajin told me last night that he was going to buy fabrics during the day, but he didn't say he was going to have dinner with the young prince."
Mother Dong was also anxiously waiting, "Hua Ping, Shopkeeper Ye, Mao Ya, Mang Zhong, none of them came back. Even if they were eating, they should send someone back to tell us. This will make Dalang worry."
Su Anzhi asked the servant Ah Hua to go to the alley: "Go and have a look, maybe Ah Jin is already at the street corner."
Ah Hua then rode away on a donkey.
Fan Yanjia finally saw Zhao Lan who was interrogating a prisoner. Santai and others were beating and hitting him. It was the first time he saw the Imperial City Prison, and it was quite creepy.
Facing the screams and howls, Fan Yanjia asked, "Zijin, my father asked me to come here and ask you a question. Are the prisoners from the south sent by the King of Wei?"
When Zhao Lan heard this, he turned his head to look, then turned away again.
Fan Yanjia thought, isn’t it?
All I heard was Santai asking, "You and Bi Changgui are good friends. Will he come to see you when he returns to the capital? Tell me, where does he usually go and who does he date?"
"Sir, I am good friends with Bi Changgui, but I haven't seen this guy since he escaped. I really haven't seen him..."
Although Fan Yanjia didn't know who Bi Changgui was, he knew that Zhao Lan asked him to listen in response to his question, so he nodded to show that he understood, then bowed and left.
Zhao Lan turned around and said, "Ajin is missing."
Fan Yanjia was horrified, "So the whole capital is under martial law and people are being searched, not to find spies who are against the king, but to find Ah Jin?"
Zhao Lan looked pained.
Fan Yanjia couldn't believe it, "Ajin was out and had guards with her, how could she..." be kidnapped? The person who could kidnap her must not be an ordinary person.
Zhao Lan was in a hurry to find someone and had no mood to waste time arguing with Fan Yanjia. He was stunned for a moment and quickly returned home to report to his father.
"Dad, the whole city is under martial law to find Ah Jin."
Lord Fan and his youngest son had the same reaction when they heard it. They just couldn't believe it. It's not that he didn't feel sorry for his student's daughter, but he didn't dare to think about what the consequences would be if the emperor found out about using imperial soldiers to find a young lady.
"Have you found any clues?"
Fan Yanjia replied, "We are looking for a man named Bi Changgui. It is estimated that Ah Jin's disappearance is related to this man."
His son was so focused on his studies that he didn't know about this kind of petty official, but Lord Fan knew about him. The main reason was that this man was a lackey of Fang Wenzhong, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and was a bully. He had noticed this and when he thought of this, Lord Fan had an idea in his mind. If someone impeached him in the morning court, he knew what to say.
While Zhao Lan was interrogating the man, all the elite troops of the Jin Palace's secret agents and the Investigation Department were searching every inch of the capital.
Hua Ping followed the West Market to the Imperial Street, and to the south of the Imperial Street was the Osmanthus Alley where Su Ji and the Su family had rented a house.
Ye Huaizhen felt something was wrong, "Brother Hua, could it be that we are looking for the wrong place?"
"But the news from the palace's secret line is that Miss Su's scent is coming from this direction."
"But these are the places we have walked through. Could it be that they already have the scent of the young lady?"
It's possible, but Hua Ping would rather take the wrong route than give up, "Search first."
"good."
Zhao Lan finally found out two places where Bi Changgui might have gone, and Lu Siqing's men brought Lord Xue over.
As soon as Lord Xue saw Zhao Lan, he shouted that he was innocent. "Little Prince, Ajin and I are good neighbors and uncles. You have to help me speak a fair word. I just want to see what's wrong with the feng shui of the Su and Yang families. Why do you want to arrest me? What law have I broken?"
Zhao Lan was so eager to save the person that he pretended he hadn't seen or heard anything. He left the interrogation room and went to those two places to look for the person.
Lord Xue was anxious and grabbed Zhao Lan. "Little Prince, I am an official of the court. You can't arrest me like this. What crime have I committed?"
Zhao Lan became impatient with him pulling her hand and said, "Ajin is missing." Then he pulled his hand away.
What?
Master Xue's eyes widened, as if he had been struck by lightning. "I thought Ah Jin was in Osmanthus Alley?"
Zhao Lan, who was about to leave, turned around and asked, "What did you just say?" He grabbed Lord Xue by the collar and asked sternly.
"When I looked at the Su family's door just now, I seemed to see the Su family's girl through the crack in the door. This girl usually stays in the Su family's new house. Today she is in the old house. I thought Ah Jin was there?"
Zhao Lan and Prince Wei looked at each other, and he suddenly let go of his hand and ran straight towards Osmanthus Lane.
Hua Ping followed the instructions given by the secret agent and walked all the way to the house that the Su family had rented before. Just as he was wondering, the Ershi couple who were in charge of the breakfast business just came back. Seeing Hua Ping in the alley, they asked, "Why are you here? Is the young master here?"
Hua Ping gestured to him to open the door with a serious face.
The young master didn't come? Ershi opened the door doubtfully.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
