Chapter 47 Ye Jingchuan knows that the secret room has been stolen
After Qi Yanzhou was called away by people from the Dali Temple in the afternoon, he stayed in the palace until the palace gates were locked.
He searched the Xishou Palace thoroughly and questioned all the palace servants, but the more he investigated, the more bizarre things became.
The palace masters and the imperial guards did not discover the person who broke into the palace.
The entire Xishou Palace was dug up three feet deep, but no secret passage was found.
It took only a quarter of an hour from the time the palace maid fell into coma to the time Eunuch De returned to the palace.
It was as if everything in the entire palace had disappeared out of thin air.
Qi Yanzhou was overwhelmed by the investigation, so after leaving the palace, he went back to the Dali Temple to continue looking for clues.
Later I heard that the prefect of Jingzhao took on a case that was exactly the same as the theft of Xishou Palace.
He immediately went to Jingzhao Prefecture to find out what was going on.
Then I learned that a few days ago, Ye Chutang’s Ningchuyuan was also looted within two incense sticks.
Again, no clues could be found and the things disappeared out of thin air.
Qi Yanzhou thought of waiting outside the Shangshu Mansion first, and then going in to check after daybreak.
Then he ran into Ye Chutang who was climbing over the wall.
Ye Chutang was wearing men's clothing and had her face covered with a black scarf, so Qi Yanzhou naturally couldn't recognize her.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Ye Chutang knew that he couldn't beat Qi Yanzhou, "It's none of your business!"
After she said this in a male voice, she climbed back over the wall and sneaked back to the Shangshu Mansion.
Qi Yanzhou immediately chased after him.
He and the thief landed at the same time, but he ended up losing the thief.
Although the granary was large, it was so empty that there was no place to hide people.
That man disappeared just like the things in Xishou Palace!
At this time, the person guarding the granary heard the noise and rushed over with torches.
"Who are you? What are you doing in Li's Granary?"
After the leader had finished speaking, he discovered that the warehouse full of food was gone.
He pointed the torch at Qi Yanzhou and shouted, "Catch him quickly and send him to the authorities!"
Qi Yanzhou looked at the people rushing over and said, "I am King Chen, Qi Yanzhou."
After saying that, he took out the black jade card that represented his identity.
After seeing the word "Chen" and the python pattern on the black jadeite plate, the group immediately knelt down and saluted.
"Greetings, His Royal Highness Prince Chen."
"Stand up."
Qi Yanzhou asked, "Are you guarding here because there is food in the granary?"
"Your Highness, when I inspected the granaries this afternoon, they were all full. But now they are empty. Your Highness, have you seen anything?"
"I just saw a man in black coming out of the granary. Just when I was about to catch him, he went back into the granary and disappeared. Go and call all the people guarding the granary."
The leader knew what Qi Yanzhou was suspicious of and immediately took orders to call for help.
Soon, all twenty people guarding the warehouse arrived.
Qi Yanzhou compared the figures of the twenty people with the man he had seen before, but they didn't match.
"Neither. Go report to the police."
After saying that, he climbed over the wall and left.
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After Ye Chutang returned to Ningchuyuan, he took off his men's clothes and removed his disguise.
Tired and sleepy, she fell asleep immediately.
The next day was just dawn.
Butler Chen sent a maid to tell him that Prince Chen had arrived and wanted to know about the theft in Ningchu Courtyard.
Ye Chutang didn’t get enough sleep, felt a little irritable, and didn’t want to get up.
Dan'er coaxed her for a long time before letting her get up and wash and dress up.
"My lady, His Royal Highness Prince Chen is very capable, and he may be able to find your stolen items."
Ye Chutang was so sleepy that he kept yawning. He thought to himself, "Even if he has great abilities, he won't be able to find out."
"Well, I hope so."
After she had packed up, Ye Jingchuan personally brought Qi Yanzhou to Ningchuyuan.
The Emperor is returning to the palace from Qingyun Temple today, and all civil and military officials must go to the city gate to welcome him at around 9:00 p.m.
Eunuch De was exempted from today's morning court session.
Ye Chutang bowed to Qi Yanzhou and said, "Greetings to His Royal Highness Prince Chen."
"Stand up."
Qi Yanzhou looked at Ye Chutang, whose eyes were blue, and asked, "Miss Ye, did you not sleep well last night?"
Ye Chutang nodded sleepily.
"Too much happened yesterday. I was too worried. I had a light sleep and nightmares."
As soon as she finished speaking, Jinzhi with disheveled hair rushed out barefoot.
"Miss, go in and have some sleep."
Ye Jingchuan looked at the crazy Jinzhi in her middle-length clothes and yelled at Shan'er, "Take this crazy woman away quickly and don't offend the prince!"
He had been worried that Jinzhi was pretending to be crazy, but it seemed that she was really crazy.
As soon as Shan Er responded, Ye Chutang pulled Jin Zhi's hand and coaxed her, "Jin Zhi, go in and have a rest, be good."
"Okay, Zhizhi, be obedient."
Qi Yanzhou was not interested in the Ye family's affairs, so he got straight to the point and asked about the theft in Ningchuyuan.
Ye Chutang ignored Ye Jingchuan's warning and told Kong Ru about how Kong Ru had given her a muscle softening pill, which made her run away from home in anger.
"Your Highness, I was not there at the time. I only found out that Ningchuyuan had been robbed the next day when I came back. I thought my father had come and robbed the house."
Ye Jingchuan was so embarrassed that he said, "Chu'er, stop talking nonsense!"
Ye Chutang added: "Later, I thought that although Dad was stingy with me, he would not do such a shameless thing as stealing from the house, so I had another guess."
Qi Yanzhou asked with great interest: "What guess?"
"My mother couldn't stand me being bullied, so she took away everything in Ningchu Courtyard as a warning. Otherwise, how could everything in the entire courtyard disappear without a trace within two incense sticks?"
"Miss Ye, you are wrong. If she is really your mother, she should take away Minister Ye's things."
Ye Chutang glanced at Ye Jingchuan with an ambiguous look.
"That's true."
"Can the king inspect this yard?"
"Your Majesty, please do as you please."
When Qi Yanzhou carefully inspected Ningchuyuan, Ye Jingchuan felt like sitting on pins and needles.
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously.
He now regretted very much that he did not take a look into the secret room when he went to the study a few days ago.
"Your Majesty, I have some official business to attend to."
"Master Ye, please go and do your work. I will leave on my own after I have checked this yard."
Ye Chutang sat at the stone table in the yard, yawning continuously.
"Shan'er, go to the main kitchen and ask for some food. Tell them that Prince Chen wants to have breakfast in Ningchu Courtyard. You are injured, so don't do it yourself. Just ask a maid to bring it."
"Yes, Miss."
When Shan'er arrived at the kitchen, Ye Jingchuan also arrived at the study.
He went straight to the secret room.
I walked down the stairs, but I didn't see the familiar green light emitted by the night pearl.
He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
He even stepped on the wrong step and was nearly killed by an arrow shot from the wall.
Ye Jingchuan dodged in panic and fell down the stairs, accidentally saving his life and rolling into the secret room.
He groped in the dark for a long time, finally found the oil lamp and lit it with a tinder.
Looking at the empty secret room, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
"I must be too tired and blurry."
After comforting himself, he opened his eyes wide and looked hard.
Still nothing.
Ye Jingchuan lit all the oil lamps, but the secret room was still empty.
The gold, silver and jewelry were gone, the secret letters were gone, and the food and weapons were gone.
Thinking that his support for the Crown Prince and the Second Prince might have been exposed, he was so frightened that he fainted.
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