Chapter 66 My People

The eunuch walked a few steps and said to the carriage road: "My Lord, I am here to pass on the message. The emperor heard that the prince has arrived. It is so late, so he specially ordered me to invite the prince to the palace for dinner."

Xie Tingzhou lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw that the visitor was the godson of Defu, the seal holder of the Silijian. Besides, in public, this statement should not be false.

He turned his head to Shen Yu and said: "You and Changliu go back first."

Shen Yu asked: "What about you?"

"Changliu will take you back and pick me up. He knows how to arrange it."

Shen Yu felt bad for having to toss Changliu back and forth, "Why don't I go back by myself and let Changliu follow you."

Xie Tingzhou glanced at her, "Do you have the final say in the palace or do I have the final say?"

Shen Yu curled her lips and turned her head away from him.

Xie Tingzhou got off the carriage and stood beside the carriage to explain to Changliu.

Jiang Lianzhi had just come out of the Ministry of Revenue and happened to see the eunuchs 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, and Shen Yu whispered to Xie Tingzhou: "If Your Highness comes back late, will I still wait for you?"

"Not late," Xie Tingzhou said: "Wait for me at Qingpuju."

Shen Yu discovered something last night, and he would discuss it with him today.

Others could not hear the connection here at all.

This made the eunuch think of something, and he lowered his head and dared not look at it.

The curtain of the carriage was lowered, and Changliu drove away.

Jiang Lianzhi frowned and looked at the carriage, and suddenly said, "Your Highness, may I ask who is in the carriage?"

Xie Tingzhou said concisely, "My people."

After that, he left.

The eunuch smiled with his mouth covered, and whispered to Jiang Lianzhi: "Master Jiang, don't ask so clearly, some things are not easy to put on the surface."

The eunuch followed Xie Tingzhou away.

Gao Jin behind him whispered: "Recently, there are rumors in the capital that Xie Tingzhou likes men and has found a young man in Zuiyun Tower. There is also a favored young man beside him, probably..."

"Don't talk nonsense without basis." Jiang Lianzhi shouted.

Gao Jin bowed his head and said: "Yes, sir."

The carriage went farther and farther, out of Guanghua Gate and drove onto Yongning Street.

Jiang Lianzhi looked at the direction where the carriage disappeared and was a little absent-minded. Just now, he saw half of the profile from under the raised curtain. It was 70% similar to Ayu, but the voice he heard was that of a young man.

...

Xie Tingzhou really went early and came back early, and came back before the hour of Xu.

When he entered the courtyard and didn't see Shi Yu, he asked, "Where is he?"

Xi Feng knew who he was asking, "He's still eating."

"Why so late?"

Xi Feng was speechless, "Shi Yu thought the prison was unlucky, so he asked Chang Liu to find him a brazier. Chang Liu was also a crazy person, jumping over the brazier and looking for mugwort leaves to smoke. The two of them tossed around in the courtyard for a long time, and Er Ya was so smoked that she cried and ran to me to complain."

Xie Tingzhou didn't mean to punish her after hearing this, but a light smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

Chang Liu is not yet sixteen this year, and Shi Yu is seventeen, which is the age to play.

"Let them make trouble." Xie Tingzhou said, "Let Shi Yu come over later."

Shen 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, "Is Cang your pet?"

"No." Xie Tingzhou said.

"Then how did you tame it?"

"Not tamed."

Xie Tingzhou thought for a moment and said, "We hunted a black panther that autumn, and later we found out that it was a female panther that had just given birth, and Cang was her cub. There was another one that we couldn't raise, and it wasn't tamed, but we just raised it from childhood."

"So you asked me if Cang was my pet, no, I should say I was its enemy."

Shen Yu was silent, "Let's talk business, did Your Highness catch that guy?"

This was a plan that the two had discussed in advance.

Liang Jianfang was imprisoned in the Dali Temple Prison, and the man behind him had two options. One was to continue to find ways to silence him before Liang Jianfang spit him out, and the other was that if Liang Jianfang was tight-lipped enough, he could continue to be used by him and bite other people.

Obviously, Liang Jianfang and that person chose the second option.

Xie Tingzhou: "No."

"No?" Shen Yu raised her voice, "I took such a big risk, but you didn't catch up with him?"

Xie Tingzhou looked up at her, "I haven't finished yet, I didn't catch up with him, but I found that he entered Liu Cheng's mansion."

Shen Yu rolled her eyes at him, isn't this the same meaning? They wanted this effect.

That person can not only suppress the food and grass in Yanliang Pass, but also create various difficulties on their way back to Beijing. He must be a man with a lot of hands and eyes.

So it is impossible that Dali Temple does not have his informants.

Shen Yu visited Liang Jianfang last night, Liang Jianfang must have begun to waver, even if he didn't waver, the person behind him would not completely believe it.

In addition, Dali Temple has already asked Shi Yu for questioning, these people are afraid that they will not be able to sit still, because they don't know how much Shi Yu knows, and how much Liang Jianfang has told him.

"Will Liu Cheng send someone to silence him?" Shen Yu asked.

Xie Tingzhou propped up his head, "I always feel that this matter will not be so simple."

"I think so too," Shen Yu said seriously, "but first we have to lure someone out."

Xie Tingzhou said, "If Liu Cheng doesn't kill Liang Jianfang within three days, what are you going to do?"

"Then I'll have to trouble you," Shen Yu said, "Then do you mind lending me two secret guards? Just to scare Liang Jianfang."

Xie Tingzhou said lazily, "What if I don't lend it?"

"Then the worst I can do is go in person."

Xie Tingzhou pursed his lips and said after a moment: "I have made arrangements for the prison in Dali Temple."

Shen Yu pretended to be flattering, "His Highness is really powerful. There are actually people from His Highness even in Dali Temple."

Xie Tingzhou: "I have something even more powerful."

"What?" Shen Yu asked reflexively.

Xie Tingzhou stared at her face for a moment, then suddenly turned away and said unnaturally:

"Dali Temple has been organized. The problem now is that you have to go to the Dali Temple Prison in three days. Then you will go in disguised as a jailer."

Since Shen Yu said those words that night, Liang Jianfang can't sleep well now. He is frightened all day long. If there is the slightest noise in the middle of the night, he thinks someone is coming to kill him.

In the past, he would eat the food as soon as it arrived, but now he was worried that someone would poison the food.

Whenever the meal arrived, he would not eat it first, but would put some in the corner, waiting for the mouse to eat and find it safe before he started eating.

The first two days passed, and in the early 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 leftover rice in the bowl from last night was missing.

Liang Jianfang was horrified. It seemed that the young man had really predicted that the master really wanted to kill him.

It seems that the other party saw that he was very cautious when eating every day, so he put the poison on the bottom layer of the food. Fortunately, he had a bad 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. He didn't eat all day on the third day and didn't even dare to drink. He was eagerly looking forward to the arrival of night.

The man said that as long as he told the truth, he would save his life.

Now that the adults have abandoned him, he has only one way left to go.

Liang Jianfang gritted his teeth, since you are treating me unkindly, don't blame me for being unjust. If you want me to die, even if I die, I will drag you to hell.

As the sun sets, Dali Temple Prison gradually disappears into the night.

Liang Jianfang didn't dare to sleep. He sat in the corner and leaned against the wall, staring in the direction of the cell door.

The footsteps gradually came closer and stopped in front of the prison.

The young man's voice sounded, "Three days are coming, have you thought about it?"