Red Mansion Rebirth: Ghost Phoenix

Chen Duo was worthy of being praised by the prince and comparable to Tang Lai Junchen. In less than a quarter of an hour, he realized the vague connection between these cases and then thought about the three shareholders behind those gambling houses.

He just felt the hairs on his back stand up!

No wonder Old Xia told him not to get involved!

But now, I'm afraid it's too late...

Chen Duo hesitated for a long time, but finally gritted his teeth and decided to give it a try!

In the evening, the prince returned to the palace.

Just as Qing Hai finished reporting the day's chaos, a report came in from outside the palace: "Chen Duo from the Criminal Division wants to see you."

The prince frowned.

Qinghai might have exaggerated and alarmist words, but since Chen Duo took over the Eastern Palace's prison, he would rather not take any action when it came to cases. If he took any action, he would have to have 100% evidence.

Moreover, this person has never been a person who likes to curry favor with others. In the past seven or eight years, he has only taken the initiative to approach me a few times.

I'm afraid I came here today for these things -

"Tell it." The prince rubbed his temples, feeling that there were too few people around him who could use him.

If there was a capable Neifang Dian Nei, or a shrewd and capable Crown Princess...

Otherwise, transfer Old Xia back?

But even if Old Xia comes back, he may not be able to settle all these things...

"Greetings to the Crown Prince. I am Chen Duo, a humble servant. I have some speculations that need the permission of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince before I dare to investigate further. I have come to report this." Chen Duo was simple and direct.

The prince glanced at Qinghai.

Qinghai felt aggrieved, but he didn't say anything.

Qinghai led all the eunuchs and palace servants in the hall out.

Chen Duo expressed his guess: "...If these cases are connected, then we have to trace them back to Zhang Zhu's case.

"At that time, I checked Zhang and Zhu's background... The three shareholders were..."

After saying this, Chen Duo knelt on the ground, saying nothing, just waiting for the prince to speak.

The prince's face was calm at this time, but a tremendous amount of anger was accumulating in his heart!

He had heard about the three shareholders from Qinghai a long time ago.

But Zhongsu came once the day before and talked to me openly, and his attitude afterwards was also very good. A young man of that age would not be so scheming, to be so sly as to flirt with me emotionally while secretly instructing someone to kill someone.

However, would he cooperate with the old nobles, whom he has claimed to hate for more than a decade, in such a dirty business that would destroy his reputation?

He is only twenty-one, he doesn't have this ability.

The prince lowered his head in thought.

But what if there is someone who is just borrowing Zhongsu's name but is actually making a secret contribution?

When Qian was boasting to Fuguier and others, he said that he would never be angry if he knew who was behind this.

But since you know that he won't be angry, why do you want to silence him?

So, in fact, it was a person who... on the surface, seemed to be very close to me, and even able to be my master, but in fact, he was wary of me and hated me...

The prince lowered his head.

He thought he had guessed it.

but……

What if Qian has already thought of this and is deliberately misleading and trying to sow discord?

"Check it out." The prince said with a wooden face, "Go find General Pang and tell him what I said. Ask him to transfer four brave and careful guards who are familiar with the people in the capital to you.

"Don't worry, as long as you can verify it."

Chen Duo confirmed the prince's hidden anger and the chill of being betrayed in his exhausted and disappointed voice, and roughly knew the scope of his investigation.

Apart from the fact that the person behind the scenes is the emperor, the other person is the king of heaven, so there is no need to hide the fact.

Chen Duo felt relieved and left neatly.

Qinghai opened the palace door for him, watched him walk away, then strode back to complain to the prince: "This Chen guy is becoming more and more lifeless. When he passed by me just now, he was gloomy and cold."

"If the people in the prison don't have this kind of coldness, then you should be worried." The prince regained some warmth, leaned lazily on the throne, and gave a little chat state, "It must be that he didn't investigate the case seriously, but just fooled around."

Qing Hai smiled: "That's right."

He immediately changed the subject and asked, "Your Highness, do you want to eat anything for dinner? Or do you still want Wang Chenghui and Li Dianshan to discuss it?"

"Let them discuss it. If these two get together, one can think and the other can do it, I and He Ketao will both be blessed with delicious food." The prince became more interested, "I am waiting to see the dishes tonight."

Qinghai smiled and asked Changying to pass on the message.

In just a short while, the sky outside became overcast and the clouds in the sky gradually became thicker.

The prince looked outside for a few times and said, "I thought it was going to snow the other morning, but a gust of wind in the afternoon blew away all the clouds. I thought the snow was over, but it gathered again today."

"Then I will arrange the night patrol and entering the palace tomorrow morning." Qinghai hurried away.

The prince then picked up a few memorials and read them by candlelight.

Nanny Duan appeared quietly and instructed the palace servants to replace the candlestick with a three-layer osmanthus candlestick and make the candlelight brighter.

"Mammy is here?" The prince noticed, looked up at her and smiled, "It's cloudy, I'm afraid it will snow. Mammy, are your knees and lower back okay? Do they hurt?"

Madam Duan smiled and shook her head: "Not bad."

The prince thought about it, uttered an "oh", and said with a smile: "I asked my father to approve the memorial I wrote the other day, so I don't have to wait until after the New Year to take up the post.

"He entered Beijing yesterday and will rest for three days. He will come here on the tenth day. He will first meet Brother Tao and take him to play for a few days.

"Classes will start after the first month of the lunar year."

Aunt Duan's wrinkled face suddenly smiled: "Good! This is good!"

Seeing that she did not leave after hearing this reply, the prince knew that she might have something to do, so he put down the memorial in his hand and asked seriously, "Madam, is there something wrong?"

"There have been incidents one after another in the palace recently. This is all because of my lack of ability and poor discipline. I have come here to apologize." Nanny Duan said as she knelt down.

The prince stood up quickly: "Mammy, please get up quickly! This is an oversight by the inner court, what does it have to do with you?!"

"The prince handed over the matters concerning the back palace to me three years ago. Now almost all the problems happen in the back palace, so it is naturally related to me." Nanny Duan insisted on her principles and refused to go with the flow.

The prince was helpless, sighed, and personally stepped down from the high platform and helped her up with his own hands: "My foundation is shallow, for one thing. Secondly, I am afraid that when I started to supervise the country, I ran into the interests of some people.

"So let alone the nanny, even if my mother was here to look after the back hall for me, I'm sure something bad would happen to me."

When Nanny Duan heard the Queen being mentioned suddenly, her heart skipped a beat: "Your Highness, what have you found out?"

The prince took a deep breath, sighed, put his hands behind his back, looked down at the ground, and whispered: "When they went out to investigate the case and the gambling houses, they unexpectedly discovered that Zhongsu learned how to do business from others and actually had shares in many gambling houses.

"I wonder if the Queen Mother knew that her beloved youngest son had gotten involved in such a dirty thing, would she be so angry that she would cry?"