Chapter 236 I Want Him to Die
"Arrest them all and interrogate them!" Xie Tingzhou said coldly.
All those who gave gifts were thrown into jail.
The people in charge of the interrogation were very capable. In less than half an hour, Xifeng and Changliu got the confession and sent it over.
Xie Tingzhou had just taken a shower, and some blood splattered on his body when he chopped the mustache man's hand.
Xifeng submitted a confession and briefly explained the situation. "All of them insisted that they had no knowledge of the incident. The items were sealed when they were loaded onto the truck. They were only responsible for transportation. Only Chen Guang, the one whose hand was chopped off by the prince, said that he secretly looked at the small box and found that it did contain jewelry, including a hairpin, a wooden comb, and a small wooden sword."
Shen Yu had no impression of the other objects, but she had a deep impression of the small wooden sword, which was made by Shen Zhao to coax her when she was a child.
She had looked for it specifically when she went back to the Shen Mansion to move things, but she couldn't find it then. She didn't know how it fell into Jiang Lianzhi's hands.
After Xie Tingzhou finished reading the confession, he turned his head and saw Chen Yu lowering her eyes in thought, "What's wrong?"
"I never gave him those things." Chen Yu said, "I don't know about the hairpin and the wooden comb, but the small wooden sword is definitely mine."
Xie Tingzhou put the confession on the table and said, "It's not hard to guess. The things were swapped on the way."
"Why is Your Majesty so sure?" Chang Liu was puzzled.
Xie Tingzhou glanced at him sideways, as if he was looking at an idiot. "The journey from Shengjing to Beilin is long. If the things you are packing are dead bodies, they will be rotten into skeletons by the time they reach Beilin."
Chang Liu suddenly realized, "Yes."
"That's right. Feng Yang has examined the bodies. They were dead less than two days ago." Xi Feng gritted his teeth and said, "They must have been killed by people from our Beilin territory."
Xie Tingzhou remained motionless. "It's still unclear whether the person who switched the baby was someone Jiang Ji hired or someone else."
"What about those people?"
Xie Tingzhou finally raised his head. "Leave the one with the broken hand, and don't leave the rest. Let him go back to tell Jiang Ji, and find someone to follow him. Don't let him die on the road. Make sure he returns to Shengjing alive."
Chang Liu was confused by what he heard, "But Your Majesty, that thing was swapped, Jiang Ji must have been tricked."
Xie Tingzhou ignored him and told them to leave.
Of the four people in the room, Chang Liu was the only one who didn't understand.
Regardless of whether the corpse was sent by Jiang Ji or not, even if he sent a proper gift, giving something as personal as a hairpin or a wooden comb seemed like a provocation.
And Xie Tingzhou is the person who hates provocation the most.
After the man left, Xie Tingzhou leaned in his chair and looked at Chen Yu, "How did your things fall into his hands?"
Chen Yu looked at Xie Tingzhou's expression, unhappy and suppressed. He wanted to get angry, but he held it back.
"You doubt me?"
"Do I dare?" Xie Tingzhou leaned forward, resting his elbows on the table, "How did that thing get into his hands? You have to think about it. That person is definitely not one of us."
"I thought about it." Chen Yu glanced sideways, "The things flowed out of the Chen Mansion."
"There are so many people and so many eyes, and there are many people who can touch your things." Xie Tingzhou said.
Chen Yu looked at him, "That little wooden sword is my favorite thing, and not many people know about it."
"Has anyone chosen?"
Chen Yu directly said a name, "Chen Yan."
Xie Tingzhou sat back down and said, "You forgot a more important person."
Chen Yu said: "Who is it?"
Xie Tingzhou looked at her bewitchingly, "Come closer and I'll tell you."
Shen Yu leaned closer, waiting to hear the answer.
Xie Tingzhou leaned on the table, lowered his head and covered her lips as she looked at him inquiringly.
There was fire in Xie Tingzhou's body, and he kissed her fiercely and wildly. He didn't close his eyes, and his eyes were full of aggression.
"It's me." He panted and said to her between kisses: "It doesn't matter who took the things. The key is that I am angry. You have to comfort me. As for Jiang Ji, I want him dead."
Their hot breaths intertwined, Chen Yu wanted to speak, but was kissed silent by him.
The desk accidentally fell over with a clanging sound when Xie Tingzhou pressed over it.
Changliu shrank his neck under the eaves and said to himself, "It's over. The prince is so angry. Will he beat the princess? No, I have to tell grandfather and ask him to persuade her."
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"It's so cold." The guard at the door rubbed his hands and breathed out white air.
"Yeah, this weather is really weird. Why isn't it snowing this year?"
The weather is not right this year. It rained for days on end during the spring and summer. Many places in the south suffered from disasters and the harvest was poor, leading to a sharp increase in refugees.
Now it is winter, and the weather is getting colder day by day, but there is no sign of snow.
The pond in the palace was frozen.
Changliu didn't even dare to bring the little turtle out, for fear that it would freeze to death if he wasn't careful.
The guards sent him away to discuss matters.
The general was about to close the door when he vaguely heard the sound of horse hooves.
When I walked out of the gate and looked over, I saw a man on a horse galloping towards me. Before he even reached the gate, he started shouting:
"Urgent news! Express delivery from eight hundred miles away! Go and invite the prince!"
The man reached the door and almost rolled off his horse.
As soon as the man dismounted, the horse fell down as well, steaming all over and twitching on the ground.
The guard checked and confirmed the badge, and without delay, he rushed in to look for the person.
The visitor didn't even have time to drink the water, and his voice was trembling, "Your Majesty, the Western Jue people have made a comeback and raided Chihe's camp a few days ago. The Xiao family army was defeated!"
"Say it again." Xie Tingzhou leaned forward, "It's not Yanliang Pass, but Chihe?"
"Yes, Boda led his men to raid Chihe."
Xie Tingzhou's brows were filled with gloom. "Why did they choose to attack the weakly defended Yanliang Pass instead of attacking the hard bone of the Xiao family army?"
Without giving it time to think, Xie Tingzhou walked out and said, "Follow me to the main camp and call all the generals."
It was already dark outside and the wind was howling.
Xifeng caught up with him and put a cloak on Xie Tingzhou.
Xie Tingzhou climbed onto his horse and said, "Tell the princess not to wait for me. Let her go to sleep first."
After saying this, the man and the eagle rode away.
Xifeng called the guards to explain the matter, then mounted his horse and chased after him.
There was a solemn atmosphere in the camp.
Han Jiwu said: "Shengjing is closer to us in the north, so it should have received the news earlier than us. Is there any news about the imperial court sending troops?"
No one answered this question, indicating that no one has received the message yet.
The generals sat around, with Xie Tingzhou sitting at the head. He had no expression on his face, but the candlelight made his complexion look grim.
"How was the damage in Chihe?"
The messenger said: "More than 5,000 people were killed or wounded."
There were sounds of people inhaling gasps all around.
Five thousand casualties were no small matter. There were less than 50,000 troops stationed on the Chihe border, and 10% of them were killed in one battle.
Xie Tingzhou glanced at the messenger and then lowered his eyes.
Chihe is not a river but a place name. To the west of Chihe is a vast desert, and inside the Great Wall is also yellow sand where no crops can be grown.
The area inside the Great Wall was sparsely populated, and the Tiele tribes and the Karluk of the Western Jurchens often caused harassment on the border.
This time, the Western Jue leader Boda led the troops himself. He mobilized the entire army to raid a place where they could not seize any food. Why?
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