After I died, the sickly prince turned black

Seeing this, You Ziqing raised his eyebrows, and was about to drive the horse over when Zhao Zhen grabbed the reins and controlled the horse.

"Your Highness?" You Ziqing turned around in doubt.

"Wait first." Zhao Zhen looked at the old man expressionlessly.

Then everyone watched, no matter how Xiaobing asked, the old man shrank and didn't speak.

This time, You Ziqing ignored Zhao Zhen's obstruction and drove the horse over. Without saying a word, he swung the whip in his hand and slapped the ground beside the old man's feet.

Not only the old man screamed and hugged his head in shock, but even the soldier next to him was startled.

"Raise your head." You Ziqing looked at the old man condescendingly. Seeing him cowering and trying to hide, he flicked the whip again, wrapped it around the old man's neck and pulled it in front of him, forcing him to raise his head: "Open your mouth!"

The old man was shaking like a sieve, his eyes were full of fear and panic, but he just bit his teeth to death and couldn't open his mouth.

You Ziqing narrowed his eyes and tightened the strength of the whip, but even if the opponent blushed and his neck was thick, he would not open his mouth.

He didn't intend to kill people just like that.

Almost the moment You Ziqing retracted his whip, the old man collapsed to the ground.

You Ziqing just stared at the slumped on the ground, wishing that the old man who was completely shrunk could be thoughtful.

Zhao Zhen has come to You Ziqing's side at this time.

You Ziqing turned to look at him: "I'm afraid there may be some discrepancies in His Highness's speculation before. This matter is not that simple. Anyway, there is nothing wrong here."

"Well." Zhao Zhen glanced at the old man, turned his head and ordered: "Some people surround this place for this king, and the rest are searched for by this king, and not a single fly is allowed to be released. If there is any resistance, it will be shot to death." !"

Following Zhao Zhen's order, everyone took action immediately.

You Ziqing looked around: "The scale of this village is not large, and it seems that it can't accommodate many people."

"Yes." Cao Yanzhi stepped forward at this moment and said, "A village of this size can only have a few hundred people at most."

However, there are quite a few children brought in in that batch alone!

If the head catcher didn't lie, these people are still here, so many people can't disappear out of thin air, so they can only hide.

"Let's take a look too." Zhao Zhen said.

You Ziqing thought so too.

It is impossible to rely solely on the people at the bottom to find them, and sometimes sufficient judgment is required.

"Tie this old man up and look." You Ziqing finished ordering Cao Yanzhi, then turned around and followed Zhao Zhen on horseback.

The matter of kidnapping people is done by the people below.

So the two didn't go far, Cao Yanzhi followed with the head catcher and some soldiers, carefully guarding the two of them.

But the avenue is okay, the ridges are narrow, so when walking, Zhao Zhen is in front, You Ziqing is in the middle, and a group of people are hanging behind.

A group of people walked from village to house, and all the way they came, they were all chaos caused by soldiers' search.But they all have one thing in common, that is, these people, regardless of men, women, or children, do not speak.

This is similar to the information obtained by Zhao Zhen, but there is a big discrepancy.

"Unless the other party has discovered something is wrong before this and made arrangements in advance, otherwise it is impossible to see what is happening now."

You Ziqing frowned: "But if that's the case, Prime Minister Song wouldn't have reacted in that way when he heard Cao county magistrate report himself to Zhao County, so there must be something we didn't expect."

"You're right." Zhao Zhen looked around: "Just based on the news we got and the number of people in the ledger, this place shouldn't be what it is now. Most of them must have been transferred away, and Prime Minister Song Maybe even he didn’t know about that reaction at the time.”

The original leader of the whole matter was the Song family, and when Prime Minister Song was taken into custody, the rest of the Song family were also taken into custody. It was obviously impossible to secretly tip off the news and secretly set up suspicions.

Then, there is only one possibility.

Prime Minister Song is not the real mastermind, the real mastermind is someone else, and the Song family is at best an intermediary.

Another thing You Ziqing couldn't figure out was that since they were going to be transferred, why did they keep these people? If they were normal people, it would be fine, they could pretend to be ordinary villagers, but they were all dumb.

At this time, those responsible for the search came back one after another.

"Report!" The leading soldier said: "All parties have searched carefully, but nothing was found!"

For those who came back later, the report was the same, and they were not found.

Zhao Zhen frowned.

You Ziqing patted the back of his hand: "Have someone guard this place, let's go back and discuss the long term."

Zhao Zhen nodded: "Yes."

Then he said to the soldiers who brought him: "Strictly guard this place, don't be negligent!"

After giving the order, he took You Ziqing and Cao Yanzhi and the officers and soldiers of the county government out of the canyon.However, he did not return to the county seat after quitting, but was ordered to camp on the spot.

As soon as the camp was set up, Zhao Zhen took You Ziqing into the tent.

Seeing his serious face, You Ziqing thought he wanted to continue discussing the previous matter, but Zhao Zhen took him to the bedside and sat down when he didn't want to.

Zhao Zhen didn't sit down, but squatted in front of You Ziqing, helped him take off his boots and socks, and then rubbed the soles of his feet.

"Your Highness..."

You Ziqing was startled, and subconsciously wanted to shrink her feet, but Zhao Zhen held her tightly and did not let go.

"Don't move." Zhao Zhen put You Ziqing's feet on his legs, and massaged his acupoints with just the right strength of his hands: "After driving for so long, you have to press the acupoints to dredge it, otherwise, once you relax, your The legs will suffer."

"But you can't, Your Highness..."

"Yes." Zhao Zhen held down You Ziqing's movements: "I'll press it for you first, and then boil some hot water to make bubbles later, and you will feel much better when you look back."

But Hu Chang is obviously by his side!

Obviously you can let the servants come, why do you want a prince to do it yourself!

You Ziqing was terrified, but Zhao Zhen insisted that he could only obey.

Hu Chang, on the other hand, was very active in hot water. Seeing that Zhao Zhen had almost finished massaging You Ziqing, he hurriedly fetched a basin of hot water.

But it was just hot water, and there was no intention of helping. After putting down the basin, he bowed and retreated.

"Your Highness, it's almost time, I'll go clubbing by myself." You Ziqing didn't know whether it was panic or embarrassment, his face flushed, and when he saw the basin was placed by his feet, he immediately told Zhao Zhen not to press it.

However, Zhao Zhen put You Ziqing's feet in the water as if he couldn't hear them, and helped him wash them.

In the end, You Ziqing didn't struggle any more, and let him do whatever he wanted.

"Is it better?" Zhao Zhen put his hands in the water and pressed You Ziqing for a while, then looked up at You Ziqing.

You Ziqing nodded hurriedly: "Okay, okay!"

Zhao Zhen laughed, then lifted You Ziqing's feet, and wiped them dry with a cloth towel.

Almost the moment Zhao Zhen let go, You Ziqing's feet swished back on the bed and coiled up.

"What's so embarrassing between you and me?" Zhao Zhen stood up amusedly when he saw You Ziqing's flustered look of wanting to shrink himself into the seam.

"That shouldn't make His Highness like this..."

"Okay." Zhao Zhen interrupted You Ziqing: "After driving for so many days, even if you don't like to sweat, you still need to wash yourself. I'll ask someone to fetch water for you to bathe."

Hearing this, You Ziqing hurriedly called Zhao Zhen: "It's inconvenient to go out, so don't bother, let's go to the river to wash casually."

"No." Zhao Zhen refused straight away: "You are in poor health, and it's not good to take cold water, so it's more troublesome. You have everything on your left and right, but it's more troublesome to boil water."

After Zhao Zhen said that he would not give You Ziqing a chance to continue to refuse, he turned around and went out of the tent to give orders.

It has to be said that those people below are still very fast.

It didn't take long for hot water to be sent into the tent.

Zhao Zhen asked You Ziqing to wash first, planning to wash himself after he finished washing.But You Ziqing was unwilling to say anything, and had to let Zhao Zhen wash first.

The two insisted on each other, and finally Zhao Zhen ran out of patience, so he simply stripped the person clean, picked him up and put him in the tub, then he took off his clothes and stepped in.

Well, it happened to be a mandarin duck bath.

As soon as Zhao Zhen entered, he pulled You Ziqing into his arms, deliberately pinched his chin and said with a smile: "Ziqing is a bad learner, and you know the tricks. Brother Zhen took a bath in love."

You Ziqing: "..."

I'm not I didn't stop talking nonsense!