Chapter 66 My People
The eunuch walked a few steps and said to the carriage road: "Your Excellency, I am here to tell you that the Emperor has heard that the Prince has arrived. It is so late, so he has specially ordered me to invite the Prince to the palace for dinner."
Xie Tingzhou lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw that the person coming was the godson of Defu, the head of the Imperial Household Department. Moreover, since everyone was watching, what he said could not be false.
He turned his head to Shen Yu and said, "You and Changliu go back first."
Chen Yu asked, "What about you?"
"Changliu will send you back and pick me up later. He knows how to arrange it."
Chen Yu felt bad for having to make Chang Liu run back and forth, "Why don't I go back by myself and let Chang Liu follow you."
Xie Tingzhou glanced at her and asked, "Who has the final say in the palace, you or I?"
Shen Yu curled her lips and turned her head away from him.
Xie Tingzhou got off the carriage and stood beside it to give instructions to Changliu.
Jiang Lianzhi had just come out of the Ministry of Revenue and happened to see the eunuch stopping Xie Tingzhou's carriage at Guanghua Gate.
He was not familiar with Xie Tingzhou, so he just bowed and greeted him when he passed by.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted a little more, and Chen Yu asked Xie Tingzhou in a low voice: "If Your Highness comes back late, will I still wait for you?"
"It won't be too late," Xie Tingzhou said, "Wait for me at Qingpuju."
Chen Yu discovered something last night and wanted to discuss it with him today.
Others can't hear the connection here at all.
These words reminded the eunuch of something, and he lowered his head and didn't dare to even look at her.
The car curtain was lowered and Changliu drove away.
Jiang Lianzhi frowned as he looked at the carriage, and suddenly asked, "Your Highness, may I ask who is in the carriage?"
Xie Tingzhou said simply, "My people."
After saying this, he walked away.
The eunuch smiled with his hands covering his mouth, and whispered to Jiang Lianzhi: "Master Jiang, please don't ask so clearly. Some things are not easy to talk about openly."
The eunuch followed Xie Tingzhou away.
Gao Jin behind him whispered, "Recently there have been rumors in the capital that Xie Tingzhou is a man of color and has looked for young prostitutes in Zuiyun Tower. There is also a favored young man by his side, who is probably..."
"Don't say anything without basis." Jiang Lianzhi shouted sternly.
Gao Jin bowed his head and said, "Yes, sir."
The carriage went farther and farther, and drove out of Guanghua Gate and onto Yongning Street.
Jiang Lianzhi looked at the direction where the carriage disappeared in a daze. He just saw half of a profile from under the lifted curtain. It looked about 70% similar to A'yu, but the voice he heard was that of a young boy.
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Xie Tingzhou really went early and came back early, returning before 10 p.m.
When he entered the courtyard and didn't see Shi Yu, he asked, "Where is he?"
The wind knows
Who is he asking? "Still eating."
"Why so late?"
Xifeng was speechless, "Shiyu thought the prison was unlucky, so he asked Changliu to find him a brazier. Changliu was also a crazy person, so he jumped over the brazier and found moxa leaves to smoke. The two of them tossed around in the yard for a long time, and Erya was so smoked that she burst into tears. She came to me to complain."
After hearing this, Xie Tingzhou did not have any intention of punishing him. Instead, he raised the corner of his lips into a faint smile.
Changliu is not yet sixteen this year, and Shiyu is seventeen, which is the right age for them to play.
"Let them make trouble." Xie Tingzhou said, "Send Shi Yu over later."
Chen Yu came over after dinner. Xie Tingzhou had already washed up and was waiting in the study.
Shen Yu walked into the study and thought of the black panther that night again, "Is Cang your Highness's pet?"
"No." Xie Tingzhou said.
"So how did you tame it?"
"Not tamed."
Xie Tingzhou thought for a moment and said, "We hunted a black panther in the autumn of that year. Later we found out that it was a female panther that had just given birth. Cang was her cub. There was another one that we couldn't raise or tame, but we just raised from a young cub."
"So you asked me if Cang is my pet. No, I should say I am its enemy."
Chen Yu was silent for a moment, "Let's talk business, did Your Highness catch up with that person?"
This was a plan the two had discussed in advance.
Liang Jianfang was imprisoned in the Dali Temple Prison. The person behind him had two options. One was to try to silence him before Liang Jianfang gave him up. The other was to continue to use Liang Jianfang if he kept his mouth shut and target other people.
It is obvious that Liang Jianfang and that person chose the second path.
Xie Tingzhou: “No.”
"No?" Chen Yu raised her voice, "I took such a big risk and you didn't catch up with him?"
Xie Tingzhou raised his eyes to look at her, "I haven't finished yet. I didn't catch up with him, but I found that he entered Liu Cheng's mansion."
Chen Yu rolled her eyes at him. Isn't this the same meaning? This is exactly the effect they wanted.
That person was able to suppress the food supplies at Yanliang Pass and create various difficulties on their way back to the capital. He must be a man with great connections.
Therefore, it is impossible that the Dali Temple does not have his informants.
Chen Yu visited Liang Jianfang last night, so Liang Jianfang must have begun to waver. Even if he didn't waver, the person behind him would not completely believe it.
In addition, the Dali Temple has already questioned Shi Yu, so these people are probably going to get restless because they have no idea how much Shi Yu knows and how much Liang Jianfang has told him.
"Will Liu Cheng send someone to silence us?" Shen Yu asked.
Xie Tingzhou propped up his head and said, "I always feel that this matter won't be that simple."
"I think so too," Chen Yu said seriously, "but we have to lure someone out first."
Xie Tingzhou asked, "If Prime Minister Liu doesn't kill Liang Jianfang within three days, what are you going to do?"
"Then I'll have to trouble you," Chen Yu said, "Would you mind lending me two secret guards? Just to scare Liang Jianfang."
Xie Tingzhou said lazily: "What if I don't lend it?"
"Then I can go there myself."
Xie Tingzhou pursed his lips and said after a moment: "I have already made arrangements in the Dali Temple prison."
Chen Yu pretended to be flattering, "Your Highness is really powerful. Even the Dali Temple has your people."
Xie Tingzhou: "I have something even more powerful."
"What?" Chen Yu asked reflexively.
Xie Tingzhou stared at her face for a moment, then suddenly turned away and said unnaturally:
"The Dali Temple has already arranged everything. The problem now is that you have to go to the Dali Temple Prison again in three days. When you go in, you will disguise yourself as a jailer."
Ever since Chen Yu said those words that night, Liang Jianfang has not been able to sleep well and is worried all day long. If he hears the slightest noise in the middle of the night, he thinks someone is coming to kill him.
In the past, he would start eating as soon as the food arrived, but now he is worried that someone has poisoned the food.
Every time the meal arrived, he would not eat it first, but put some in the corner, waiting for the mice to eat it and find it safe before he started eating.
The first two days passed, and on the morning of the third day, Liang Jianfang woke up and saw a dead rat lying next to the bowl that the jailer had forgotten to collect last night, and the leftovers in the bowl were nowhere to be found.
Liang Jianfang was horrified. It seemed that what the young man said was right. The master really wanted to kill him.
It seems that the other party saw that he was very cautious about eating every day, so he put the poison at the bottom of the food. Fortunately, he had a poor appetite last night so he used less, otherwise he would be the one lying on the ground now.
Liang Jianfang felt that he could not wait any longer, so he did not eat the entire day of the third day and did not even dare to drink water, eagerly awaiting the arrival of night.
The man said that he would save his life as long as he told the truth.
Now that the adults have abandoned him, he has only one way to go.
Liang Jianfang gritted his teeth and said, "Since you treat me so unkindly, don't blame me for being ungrateful. You want me to die, and even if I die, I will drag you to hell with me."
As the sun sets, the Dali Temple Prison is gradually plunged into the night.
Liang Jianfang didn't dare to sleep. He sat in the corner leaning against the wall, staring at the direction of the prison door.
The footsteps gradually approached and stopped in front of the prison.
The young man's voice sounded, "Three days have come, have you made up your mind?"
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