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My lord, Zhang Jiru has been found, and he has been following the subordinate officials. He was arrested in Tongzhou and is about to take him back for interrogation. In addition, the person you confessed to, Xiaoguan, has been found and will be given to you later.The two people in Tongzhou had no clues at all. Both of their colleagues disappeared, and no one saw them.

Lin Xie's letter arrived, and the prince finally woke up. When he opened his eyes, he saw Yuan Qi and a group of court ladies and eunuchs kneeling in front of him, and said, "How long has this king been sleeping?"

These people saw that the lord finally woke up after sleeping for two days, and hurriedly cried and went about doing things. Yuan Qi was so excited that he grabbed the lord's hand and cried: "My lord! I miss you so much. !"

The prince shook his hand away in disgust, and said, "Why did I faint?"

"You also said, didn't you fainted after coming back from the emperor a few days ago! The emperor came to see you yesterday, so it's crying sad!"

"The emperor has come to see me?"

"Yeah, Eunuch Li managed to persuade him to go back, and he hasn't had a long rest."

As Yuan Qi said, he also ordered to bring some food for the prince, and showed the letter from Lin Xie to the prince, so he was relieved.

Wang Ye looked at the letter and was very puzzled, why did this picture of Ji Ru suddenly appear?Didn't you look everywhere and couldn't find it?

He suddenly remembered something, and suddenly his heart was clear.

"When will Lin Xie come back?"

"I'm afraid it will be the end of the month."

The prince sighed, and said: "It's useless to come back, I'm afraid I already know."

Yuan Qi just didn't understand, and said: "My lord, didn't Xiaoxue disappear a while ago, and now she came back suddenly, saying that she wants to see you."

When the prince heard this, his eyes lit up immediately, as if a light of hope had been ignited, and he said anxiously: "This king wants to see her!"

"Hey! The slave is going to call her over."

Not long after, Xiaoxue came to the front, her nose burst into tears, she first greeted the prince, and then her eyes wandered.

The prince understood it, and quickly took Yuan Qizhi away.

"My lord, that young master has a flirtatious nature, and I heard that he often causes troubles, so his reputation in the local area is not very good."

The prince nodded and asked, "When did he go there?"

"It happened in May three years ago."

"What is he doing there?"

"Nothing happened, I heard it was idle."

The prince pondered, since this is the case, then there is nothing to think about.

"Okay, my king promised you that if you finish the job, I will promise you a good family—" the prince suddenly paused, and said, "I will arrange it for you later."

"Yes."

Xiaoxue retreated while talking, at this moment Yuan Qi came in and said, "My lord, let's have some porridge."

"Ah."

The prince was thinking about the information that Xiaoxue brought just now, and it seemed that the case was settled.

Thinking about it, the corners of his mouth turned up unconsciously, and he trembled when he saw Yuan Qi, this prince really rarely smiled like this, he always felt very weird...

After the meal, the prince wanted to visit the emperor, but the young minister of Dali Temple came to disturb the situation at this time, saying that he wanted to see the prince.

As soon as he saw this person, Bian immediately said, "My lord, you asked the little officer to check the last time, and they already found it, because it happened not long ago, about three months ago, it was said that one of the beggars outside Chang'an city was missing a person. A few days ago, when the petty officials went to ask about it, they said they took the money and left with others, and told them not to speak out, but when they saw that it was people from the imperial court who came to investigate the case, they panicked."

"Beggar..." The prince pondered for a moment, then said, "Okay."

After the two met, the prince hurried to Daming Palace to meet the emperor.The old emperor finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the prince was in high spirits again, and said, "You scared me to death."

"The emperor is worried about me, but you are not worried about yourself?"

The prince smiled and said, "I know what happened to the stone-throwing case."

The emperor smiled gently, and said, "So fast? Tell me."

The prince played with the porcelain cup in his hand, and said slowly: "This matter is really due to the emperor. If you didn't say to reverse the case, the real perpetrator would have been at large for a long time."

As he spoke, he took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to the emperor.

"This is?"

"This is a very early letter. As for who wrote it, it has nothing to do with this case."

The prince said indifferently, "This is what I got in exchange for not returning to the palace the night before."

The emperor looked at it, and there was a very short sentence on it:

March [-]th

must give silver

I'm afraid he will threaten again

Never mind, just do it

March [-]

darn thing

no one knows anyway

you go somewhere else

I'm going to shut up

the fifth day of april

already ready

as long as he dares

It's all useless

After reading it, the emperor wondered, "What is this?"

The prince smiled: "Your Majesty, I don't know. There are three families in Chang'an that can be said to be the richest. They are the Xiao family, the Zhang family, and the Zhao family that is said to be related to the royal family. That day, I went to these three families to have a look. .

"This big family is the same outside, very respectable, but I don't know how many things are hidden inside."

After finishing speaking, the prince smiled, but the emperor was not angry, and continued to listen to him.

"I went to Zhang's house in the end, and I didn't ask anything, but when I was about to leave, a servant of his family said that I had dropped something and came to deliver it, and told me to go to the steamed stuffed bun shop in the east of the city to find a man in black. To win the trust, now that I think about it, this must be a spy sent by some family to monitor the Zhang family. He even dared to eavesdrop on the conversation between the master and the young master, and even found a scholar to write it down for him. to be condemned.

"Fortunately, if it weren't for him, I wouldn't have solved the case so easily. After I found the man, he said he wanted to win the letter. He actually said that he wanted me to play three games with him. If I won, he would give me the letter. It seems like My son, this literati always has a strange temper. He had to be forced to play chess all night before he gave me the letter.

"I guess there's something wrong with this letter. I found out that Zhang's eldest son is somewhere else, so I sent a maid who cleaned my yard to find out some news. The eldest son really has no peace.

"At the same time, three years ago, after the stone-throwing case, there was another strange theft case not long after. According to my opinion, it is absolutely inseparable from this stone-throwing case!"

"Who do you think the culprit is?"

The prince smiled and said, "Who does the emperor think it will be?"

Seeing the emperor's silence, the prince said: "According to my speculation, someone should have pushed the victim into the well that day, and then stoned him to death. Afterwards, I felt that according to the letter, there should be something The evidence was dropped on the scene, and this thing was picked up by another person, so he took the thing to force the Zhang family to pay money, of course it succeeded, but later, his house was burglarized and the things were stolen, now Zhang The family should feel very terrified, so the eldest son went out to take refuge, and the master stayed behind to seal the mouth, lest this thing spread out. Naturally, the theft happened at this time, and the thief had already returned to Tongzhou. The Dali Temple has been found out, but the things may not necessarily be handed over, and hiding this evidence is what the person who was stolen before must do, otherwise he will be convicted if he is accused."

The prince did it in one go, leaving no room for consideration.

The emperor nodded and said: "Then you want to say that the eldest son of the Zhang family is the criminal?"

"It's just my conjecture. After a while, servant Lin brings people back, and the ironclad evidence will arrive."

There was a confident smile on the prince's face. His spirit was unstoppable and unparalleled, as if he had personally caught the criminal and wanted to send him to prison.

The emperor lowered his head slightly, as if he couldn't bear it, and said: "Fuyi, you missed a detail."

"What details?"

"Although the eldest son was unreasonable, why did he want to kill a stranger? Few people in Chang'an city knew that nameless corpse, let alone Zhang's eldest son. The two had no grievances or enmities, so why did they have to be put to death? "

The prince frowned, and said displeasedly: "People's hearts are treacherous, this is not something I consider."

"If you don't consider this, no matter how strong the evidence is, it doesn't make sense."

The emperor resolutely said, "Because, I feel that Zhang's eldest son didn't intend to kill him, maybe it's just—"

"The emperor wants to say, is the statement of the person who surrendered himself correct?"

The prince interrupted him and said, "Indeed, I have thought about it, if it is true, then his statement that he saw someone crawling out of the well is not true at all.

"If it's correct, could it be that he fell into the well by himself? But as far as I know, there is a low wall that is nearly half a meter high around the well. Even if you kick it across, it's impossible to fall in. "

The emperor shook his head and said: "If you really know why, you will solve the disappearance case."

The emperor who said this had an inexplicable light in his eyes, which seemed sad and remorseful.

"Could it be that the emperor knows about this?"

The prince frowned, he didn't want to think about it, the more he thought about it, the more he knew, the more troubled he might be.

"I said, after a hundred years, you will know."

The prince was silent, he turned his head away from looking at the emperor, and said: "The emperor clearly knew the inside story, but he pretended not to know, and said he wanted to overturn the case, just to clear up the suspicion for someone, right?"

The emperor said nothing.

The prince said to himself: "I just hope that the emperor can think more about himself, not for some irrelevant people, and get sick for nothing."

After finishing speaking, the prince came out of Daming Palace, and when he saw Yuan Qi, he said, "Go and call that Shaoqing over, and also, ask him to bring over the person responsible for the theft on March 29 three years ago, I want to question you. "

"Eh!"

Yuan Qi responded and went back. At this time, the prince took out the long knot in his pocket, looked at it for a long time, finally sighed, wrapped it up, and put it in the box.

He doesn't remember when, and he no longer thinks about that person, even a little bit, it will take people's heart and soul, like floating in the clouds, the uneasy feeling of never being able to find a foothold, seems to have disappeared Disappeared many years ago, only the last bit of sparks are left.

So what if you know?

After all, he should not get too involved in this worldly matter.