Chapter 84 Stormy Seas (1)
The meeting between the three parties was not too long. When the carriage came out from the red gate again, the moon hung in the sky, but not at the Xu hour.
Before leaving, Zhanghua asked Ji Ying: "Where is she?"
He didn't say his name, it sounded very abrupt at first, but Ji Ying seemed to be ready and replied, "It's in the bowl."
Zhanghua stared at Ji Ying for a moment, but finally said nothing and got on the carriage.
In the car, he kept staring at Wushuidie's bowl. The bowl was rectangular, divided into two layers inside and outside, and when it was pushed together, it became a square.
Zhanghua pushed it away, closed it, closed it, and suddenly his eyebrows moved: "Shunt the car! Go to Yunxiang Inn!"
"Oh? What's wrong?" Ruyi asked hurriedly.
But Jixiang had already turned around the front of the car and rushed to the east.
"Do you look at the shape of this bowl look familiar?"
Ruyi immediately stared at the bowl and looked again and again, but she didn't feel familiar at all.
Zhanghua had no choice but to continue reminding: "Does it look like a door?"
Ruyi looked at it again. When it was closed, one side of the bowl wall was indeed like a Taoist door, and a pair of snakes were carved and coiled. A sudden enlightenment appeared in his mind, and he said "ah": "Miss Xie's guest room door!"
Yunxiang Inn and the door of the room where Xie Changyan lived was very similar to this bowl wall!
But, what does this mean? Ruyi still doesn’t understand.
But he quickly understood.
Because, after arriving at Yunxiang Inn, Zhanghua came to the east of the third floor and did not enter the guest room. Instead, he walked to the east wall outside the door, stared at the snow-white wall for a long time, and then kicked it hard.
Looking at the very strong exterior wall, it was broken with just a kick, and the bricks and stones flew behind, revealing a hole, and the other end of the hole was pitch black.
"Blast me!"
At Zhanghua's order, the Qianniu Guards who were summoned by Jixiang immediately began to smash the wall. The shopkeepers following behind were so scared that they looked pale and did not dare to stop them, so they had to hurry to find the shopkeeper.
The wall was very thin and it broke open in just a few strokes. There was actually a corridor and a room behind it.
And at this point, Ruyi finally understood the meaning of that bowl-
When Xie Changyan disappeared, he lived in the easternmost wing room on the third floor, but there was a mechanism in the corridor that could move a fake wall horizontally. In this way, most people would subconsciously feel that they were walking back when they walked to the wall.
This was a very simple trick, but he deceived Meng Buli and all the secret guards who protected Xie Changyan. He also deceived them who came to check out for the first time.
Zhanghua walked into the real "the first room in the east", and the layout inside was exactly the same as the second room. And here was the room that Xie Changyan had really lived in.
"Search!" Zhanghua waved his hand.
The experienced Qianniu Guards soon discovered that there was a secret passage under the bed, the oil lamp used for lighting inside was turned off, and some footprints remained on the ground.
Jixiang immediately took people to chase him.
Zhanghua and Ruyi were in the inn, preparing to interrogate the inn shopkeeper, but a panicked guy found the shopkeeper's body in the dry well in the back alley. His eyes were wide open and his face was full of fear.
On the ninth day of the sixth month, this night was a thrilling night for Cheng Guo, especially for the people of Luwan.
The General of the Central Army, Yun Di, led three thousand iron armored troops to ambush and kill the second prince Hanqi on Yongxing Chang Street.
The eldest prince Lin Su committed suicide by taking poison in the Eastern Palace.
The third prince Yifei fled in a hurry and disappeared.
The King of Yan blocked Yunxiang Street and did not allow anyone to go out. Most of the guests who could live here were either rich or noble, so how could they stand this kind of restraint? A rich man who was not afraid of death cursed the King of Yan in the inn lobby for a whole night. At dawn, the Qianniu Guards patrolling the street finally dispersed. The rich man immediately rode a horse to find another place to live, but found that the street next door had changed color, blood was pouring on his body.
The rich man fell from his horse in fear and fell seriously ill.
Then, the Cheng Guo escorts came, carried away the dead bodies, cleaned the streets, as if nothing had happened, and posted the new imperial list on the wall of the notice.
Only then did the people realize that the eldest prince and the third prince rebelled and killed the second prince. King Cheng was furious and passed the throne to the princess. Their Princess Yishu would become the first queen in the history of the four countries!
Both King Yan and King Yi will crown her personally.
As for why King Yan blocked Yunxiang Street, he would not be concerned about it.
Light green tea is slowly poured into the white jade porcelain cup.
After pouring the tea, the boy holding the pot returned to his master with his hands, lowered his eyebrows and looked at him in a manner.
However, such a standard slave appearance fell in Zhanghua's eyes, which was indescribable. He looked at Xue Cai behind Ji Ying. He clearly could not handle a bunch of rags, but he still thought that if Xue Cai was willing to speak up at this moment, he would take him away.
He once thought Xue Cai was like him, like him who had never been treated before he was six years old;
Now he felt that Xue Cai was more like him, like he had suffered a huge change from heaven to hell.
Because of such changes, when I saw Xue Cai at this moment, I really wanted to reach out and pull it.
It is all a heavy responsibility to tell him not to be as unfortunate as him.
However, Zhanghua knew in his heart that he was as proud as Xue Cai or as himself, and he would not want such help.
Zhanghua could only pick up the tea he poured, swallow it slowly, swallowing this thought and idea that he shouldn't have.
At this time, Ji Ying, who was sitting opposite him, spoke: "Have you not found this?"
Zhanghua's heart tightened - he did not find Xie Changyan.
At the end of the secret passage is the street, with people coming and going, and no one knows where they would take her. The shopkeeper of Yunxiang Inn died and the clues were broken. The shopkeepers were temporary workers, and the longest ones were only working here for two years, and they knew nothing about the fake wall agency. The 70-year-old woman in charge of cleaning the east of the third floor was a fool. She knew nothing except work and meals, and she didn't respond to anything. Now, Jixiang sent someone to invite Hu Zhiren to ask, and it was said that she was on the way. Zhanghua went back to the inn to see Ji Ying first.
"How much do you know about Ruyi Sect?" Zhanghua looked directly at Ji Ying and said in a deep voice.
"Not too much. Your Majesty knows, I probably knows. Your Majesty doesn't know, I don't know." Ji Ying said this, thinking about it, and then said, "The matter of Yunxiang Inn was said by Princess Yishu inadvertently. She said that she had met the 19th Langjun, but she didn't expect that she was a woman, and she didn't expect that she actually lived in the Tianzi Room east of the third floor of Yunxiang. I asked what was wrong with that room, and she said... King Cheng had abused the girl there."
Zhanghua's expression changed slightly: "But King Cheng has been ill for half a year."
"Yes, so he hasn't been there again in the past six months. Therefore, when he saw the Lord Shijiu live there, Princess Yishu felt something strange, but he didn't take it too seriously. But later His Majesty took people to the inn to search, and he thought it was a useful message, so he told me." Therefore, Wushuidie was just a cover, and the gift he really offered to the King of Yan was the key clue to the disappearance of Shijiulang.
When the King of Yan came to Cheng Kingdom, he neither celebrated his birthday nor married Princess Yishu, nor did he do it for the butterflies, but for the nineteenth son of the Nineteenth son who wrote "The Record of the Morning Sea and the Miles".
When the news was reported by Bai Ze's secret guard, Ji Ying was really shocked for a while. So he ordered someone to investigate Shijiulang's true identity, and finally found that Shijiulang was actually Xie Changyan.
King Yan... is looking for his ex-fiancee...
This is really an interesting thing to remember.
Ji Ying smiled.
Zhanghua frowned and looked at his smile, feeling it was really annoying. At this moment, Jixiang hurried over and attached himself to his ear and said, "I found the traces of Hu Zhiren and Miss Xie."
Zhanghua was so shocked that he could no longer sit still, so he immediately stood up: "Where is it?"
"On Miss Xie's ship."
"What?"
"We have stayed at the inn these days, and no one remembered that ship. The ship went out to sea three days ago. According to reliable information, there was Hu Zhiren on the ship at that time, and he was carrying a woman, Miss Xie."
"Wait, you'll say it again."
"Yes. We went to Hu Zhiren to ask questions and found that he was not in Luwan's private house. The old servant confessed that he had gone out to sea three days ago. We chased the ferry and a beggar told us that Mr. Hu was walking on a red boat. At the same time, we found that Miss Xie's boat was missing. The beggar claimed that Mr. Hu had a girl next to him when he got on the boat, taller than Mr. Hu. I showed him the portrait of Miss Xie, and he said it was her. By the way, the girl also dropped something."
Jixiang said, taking out something from his sleeve, which was a knot tied with various silk threads. It was tied very roughly, obviously very careless.
Xie Changyan has always been skillful, and it is hard to imagine that this was made up by her.
However, Zhanghua watched the knot and his heart sank little by little.
At this time, Xue Cai, behind Ji Ying, suddenly said, "Elop?"
Once the two words came out, the whole world was silent.
On the evening of the seventh day of the April 1st, Xie Changyan claimed that he wanted to rest and closed the door of the inn. On the second day, he left without saying goodbye and left no news.
The inn was opened by the Hu family. As the core figure of the Hu family, Hu Zhiren may not know about the inn, but he must have known it.
He arranged for Xie Changyan to move into the Tianzi room.
He took Xie Changyan to avoid the first wave of searches from Qianniuwei's Ancient Ministry; then used a hair trick to hide Zhanghua's second wave of searches; in the end, when Zhanghua was attracted by the chaos in Cheng's domestic, he took Xie Changyan on the boat and left...
——This is all the clues found so far.
King Yan returned to the inn room and looked at the hair taken out of the treasure bag and the knot left by Xie Changyan, his eyes were clearly extinguished.
But Jixiang was still adding insult to injury: "According to the beggar's recollection, the woman around Hu Zhiren's side was free to move and was not restricted. She was talking and laughing when she boarded the boat, unlike being hijacked..."
Ruyi was shocked: "So he really elopes?"
Jixiang gave him a look.
Chapter completed!