It's relatively easy to find a place with few people in the imperial city, just go to the suburbs.
So, after realizing that someone was following him, Shi Qingzhou took Xu You to the suburbs.
Sure enough, as soon as they left the north gate, before reaching the suburbs, those people started to attack.
It's just that there was no one else around Xu You, and he was the only one, and Xu You's kung fu was a bit better, and the others were barely second-rate, so he was forced into a mess and had to run away.
But now with the help of Shi Qingzhou and the shadow guard, a total of six people in Tianyin Castle have been taken down.
"Go back to the palace." Shi Qingzhou ordered directly after the shadow guard took him down.
Xu You almost turned into star-eyed, "Brother Shi, you are amazing! You are so handsome!"
Shi Qingzhou glanced at Xu You with a smile. "Yeah?"
"Of course!" Xu You was not stingy with his praise at all, and praised him vigorously.
Shi Qingzhou sighed helplessly, and really felt... the person next to him can be noisy!
However, it is even more impossible for such a person to have anything to do with Long Xiaoyuan...
After returning to the palace, Xu You wanted to wait for the results of the interrogation of the shadow guards, but... Shi Qingzhou said: "The people in Tianyin Castle are not that weak, they won't reveal the secrets of Tianyin Castle so soon, wait until tomorrow. "
Xu You was a little disappointed, but there was nothing he could do.
Then, Xu You could only go back disappointed.
At night, Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou were lying on the bed, and Long Xiaoyuan said: "For those who are following the prince, there was a mysterious person who entered and exited his mansion late last night, but the opponent's martial arts were so strong that he couldn't track him down. However, That person never came out after entering the mansion of the great prince."
Shi Qingzhou said "Huh?" and squinted his eyes. "So the person is still inside?"
"Well, it probably didn't come out."
"Do you suspect that the master has something to do with the person who killed Muzar?"
"It's very possible." Long Xiaoyuan said in a deep voice. "Now I'm checking where that person was before he went back to the Grand Prince's mansion last night."
Shi Qingzhou nodded, "But that man's martial arts is too high, it's still very difficult to find out."
"En." Long Xiaoyuan responded, and then hugged Shi Qingzhou into his arms. Shi Qingzhou glanced at the big hand on his waist, but did not move.
Long Xiaoyuan leaned closer in his arms. "Qingzhou... can you sleep?"
Shi Qingzhou rolled his eyes. "Just tell me what you want to do."
Long Xiaoyuan touched his nose, and said quite innocently: "Qing Zhou... how come I heard a strong smell of disgust from your voice?"
Shi Qingzhou rolled his eyes again when he heard the words, "Long Xiaoyuan."
"Huh?" Long Xiaoyuan responded immediately.
Shi Qingzhou said with a half-smile: "You just said you would control yourself this morning."
Long Xiaoyuan blinked, then blinked again, and then said aggrieved "Oh".
Shi Qingzhou was about to be annoyed.
Long Xiaoyuan shrank his neck closer to Shi Qingzhou's neck, rubbed it against Shi Qingzhou's neck, and then smiled.
Shi Qingzhou: "..."
"Qingzhou's body is really smooth and tender." Long Xiaoyuan praised. "And the taste is also very good, very comfortable."
Shi Qingzhou: "..."
Long Xiaoyuan continued: "Qingzhou, tell me, aren't those people tired after tossing around like this?"
Shi Qingzhou smiled lightly. "have no idea."
Long Xiaoyuan sighed. "Your father, has the message been sent?"
"En." Shi Qingzhou responded. "It has been sent, and it is urgent for eight hundred miles. Don't worry, Dad will know what to do."
"Your father, I'm sure you can rest assured." Long Xiaoyuan immediately said: "Qingzhou... By the way... You haven't told me about the border yet?"
"What?" Shi Qingzhou turned to look at Long Xiaoyuan.
Long Xiaoyuan kissed each other's eyelids. "Your life at the border."
Shi Qingzhou chuckled. "Why are you like Xu You?"
"Huh? Did he ask you?" Long Xiaoyuan narrowed his eyes. "Did you tell him?"
"He is very interested in the customs of the border, so I just said something casually." Shi Qingzhou said.
"Is that so..." Long Xiaoyuan felt extremely jealous. "You never told me."
Shi Qingzhou said lightly: "There's nothing to say, isn't that the case when joining the army?"
Long Xiaoyuan was silent for a while, then hugged Shi Qingzhou's head and put it on his shoulder. "During that time...Qingzhou was unhappy, right?"
happy? Shi Qingzhou fell silent.
She should be happy, but her relationship with Long Xiaoyuan has gone wrong... she is indeed unhappy, it is undeniable.
Shi Qingzhou's silence made Long Xiaoyuan feel even more distressed. "Qingzhou, it's all my fault, it's my demonic obstacle..."
Shi Qingzhou smiled slightly. "It's also a good thing, just let it go."
Without this march, he might not be able to say in his life... If you want me, you can only want me to say something like this...
Between the harem and Shi Qingzhou, Long Xiaoyuan can only choose one!
Long Xiaoyuan nodded. "Well, what Qingzhou said is right... It's a good thing to talk about it. And, knowing what Qingzhou wants, I don't lose at all!"
Shi Qingzhou smiled lightly.
Long Xiaoyuan kissed Shi Qingzhou's eyelids. "Let's sleep..."
Shi Qingzhou nodded lightly. "Um… "
Afterwards, Long Xiaoyuan hugged Shi Qingzhou and closed his eyes.
However, it was destined that Long Xiaoyuan would not be able to sleep well that night.
Not long after I closed my eyes, Liu Xiangyang appeared by the door...
After calling softly, Long Xiaoyuan frowned and opened his eyes.
"No matter how much you want to sleep, you can't sleep well."
Shi Qingzhou also frowned slightly. "what happened?"
It would be great if Long Xiaoyuan knew.
Calling people in, Liu Xiangyang left and reported: "There was a big fire in the mansion of the great prince. Now the guards have rushed over, but the fire is very big... I'm afraid it's..."
"Huh? In the palace of the great prince?" Long Xiaoyuan was really surprised now.
"My lord..." Shi Qingzhou also pondered. "This is indeed a bit strange."
It was indeed strange that Long Xiaoyuan swung Liu Xiangyang back after reporting.
"Qingzhou, let's go and have a look."
Shi Qingzhou raised his eyebrows. "Go to the palace of the great prince outside the palace?"
"Yes." Long Xiaoyuan smiled. "To show how much we care about the great prince."
Shi Qingzhou's eyes flashed, and he understood what Long Xiaoyuan meant.
But Long Xiaoyuan had turned over and sat up.
Seeing this, Shi Qingzhou naturally followed suit, the two quickly got dressed, and then Yu Jia went directly to the outside of the palace.
Guards of the forbidden army followed all the way.
Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou sat in the sedan chair. The sedan chair was very spacious, Long Xiaoyuan hugged Shi Qingzhou's people on him. "Are you sleepy?"
Shi Qingzhou shook his head, "Not sleepy."
It is normal to not sleep for three days and three nights when marching and fighting.
Shi Qingzhou looked outside, "It's almost there."
Long Xiaoyuan nodded. "Um."
When they arrived at the grand prince's place, Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou got off the imperial driving together.
The people below shouted Long live, and the queen Qiantui.
Long Xiaoyuan waved his hand. "I'm almost flattened, firefighting is the most important thing, where is Uncle Wang? Can you see anyone?"
"Report to the emperor." It was the leader of the forbidden army who spoke. "Even if the great prince hasn't seen anyone, half of the servants and maidservants in the prince's mansion are still trapped inside, and the guards can see very little."
Long Xiaoyuan's face darkened. "Why is it so serious, hurry up, put out the fire!"
What Long Xiaoyuan expressed was a worry.
Shi Qingzhou also expressed his worry appropriately, "Your Majesty, the fire is too big... It is difficult to put out the fire."
Looking at the fire, Long Xiaoyuan frowned tightly.
Although I heard Liu Xiangyang's report, I was still a little shocked when I saw it.
Such a big fire, but it doesn't look like a show at all...
And at this moment, a voice came from the shadow guard. "My lord! I found my lord!"
Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou looked at each other, and then they hurried over there.
It turned out to be the great prince... However, the other party was already on the verge of death!
Long Xiaoyuan was shocked. "Uncle King!"
The great prince opened his eyes. There was a big hole in his chest, blood flowed out from him, and his eyes were a little loose. He seemed to have heard Long Xiaoyuan's voice, opened his eyes, and said: "Your Majesty... I... was... ... Harm... Be careful... Be careful... "
The great prince seemed to want to remind Long Xiaoyuan to be careful about someone, but when he said this, his eyes widened and he twitched, and after that, he couldn't say anything...
Long Xiaoyuan was almost pissed off.
This kind of situation actually happened in front of him. In the past, whenever someone was reading novels or watching TV, when someone was about to die, and when it came to the most important point... but he felt that it was too exaggerated when someone just burped. A little bit.
Now it seems... damn it!
Long Xiaoyuan's face turned ashen for a while, and he shouted in grief: "Uncle Wang!"
Shi Qingzhou also shouted in cooperation.
At this time, Long Xiaoyuan's figure swayed, as if he had been too stimulated.
Seeing this, Shi Qingzhou quickly supported the other party. "Your Majesty, are you alright?"
The others also became worried, deeply afraid that something would happen to Long Xiaoyuan.
Long Xiaoyuan waved his hands dejectedly. "I'm fine..."
"Your Majesty, let's go back first. Your Majesty must take good care of the dragon body. Your Majesty must die with regret. Your Majesty, we have to avenge your Majesty!"
Long Xiaoyuan was silent for a while, and finally nodded sadly. "Okay, let's go back first."
Then, Long Xiaoyuan helped him onto the sedan chair, and the emperor's motorcade returned to the palace.
After arriving at Kunning Palace again, Long Xiaoyuan didn't bother to act anymore.
"Qingzhou, this is not right, the great prince has been silenced."
"Well, there are traces of being pierced by a sharp knife on his chest, and he was indeed silenced."
Taking a deep breath, Long Xiaoyuan said: "It's not me who said those in the Ministry of Punishment. Anyway, I don't think they can give me any results. This matter needs to be investigated by the secret guards."
Shi Qingzhou nodded, "I think so too, but... the clear process that should be done by the Ministry of Punishment still has to go."
Long Xiaoyuan sighed, "There are too few talents in the Criminal Department, Qing Zhou, do you have any good talents to introduce?"
Shi Qingzhou smiled slightly, "Your Majesty, I'm in the palace."
"My light boat is so powerful, it can control the world even in the palace." Long Xiaoyuan said immediately.
Shi Qingzhou squinted his eyes. "Um?"
Long Xiaoyuan looked at the other party firmly and smiled. "Qingzhou, I'm complimenting you."
Shi Qingzhou rolled his eyes, and then said slowly: "The emperor hides it deeply enough, in fact, the emperor knows many things in his heart, doesn't he?"
"Huh?" Long Xiaoyuan blinked, "What does Qing Zhou mean?"
Shi Qingzhou snorted coldly. "Why does the emperor ask knowingly?"
"Okay." Long Xiaoyuan flattened his mouth aggrieved, "Well, Qingzhou, I do know that you are secretly cultivating your own power, and I did have the factor of wanting to see how far you can go without mentioning it before. Yes, but later, after I really fell in love with you, I just didn't care about it at all, anyway, my family's light boat is strong and I'm good, isn't it? "
Shi Qingzhou fell silent.
Long Xiaoyuan was afraid that the other party would think too much, so he said quickly: "Qing Zhou, I have confessed everything to you."
Shi Qingzhou squinted his eyes and looked at Xialong Xiaoyuan, met the other's extremely serious eyes, and finally sighed slowly.
"Since the emperor has said so, I don't need to hide it anymore. In fact, I am indeed cultivating power in secret."
Long Xiaoyuan smiled, and kissed Shi Qingzhou's cheek with a smile.
"Qingzhou, you don't have to worry about anything. Now, we are husband and wife, we are one body, there is nothing I can't let you know, and there is nothing you can't let me know, understand?"
Shi Qingzhou raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and after a long time, Shi Qingzhou said: "So, I have a candidate for the Ministry of Punishment, but it depends on whether the emperor dares to use it."
"Huh?" Long Xiaoyuan's eyes lit up immediately when he heard the words. "Then tell me, who is it?"
Shi Qingzhou smiled slightly, "Huanshan county magistrate Hu Qingyuan."
"Huh? Huanshan county magistrate?" Long Xiaoyuan was taken aback. "Who is this?"
Shi Qingzhou glanced at the other party speechlessly. "Ten years ago, he was the third Tanhualang before the palace examination, okay? He was just an upright person, so he was always demoted. Now he has been a county magistrate in Huanshan for several years."
Long Xiaoyuan's eyes lit up. "Hearing what you said, the other party looks very powerful, um... Although Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice is one of our people, his ability is not very high. Qingzhou, the Long Qingyuan you mentioned, how is his strength?"
"That's right, it's definitely not inferior to the current Minister of Criminal Affairs. In addition, the other party is very good at handling cases. He is only a county magistrate now. We don't need to give him a high official position when he comes up. He is good at investigating cases, so let him He's in charge of the investigation."
Long Xiaoyuan's eyes lit up again when he heard the words. "That's a good idea. Okay, I'll issue a transfer order tomorrow. Qingzhou, what official position do you want to give him?"
"Minister of the Ministry of Punishment... It's enough to be promoted three times in a row. However, it can only be a servant."
It is enough for Hu Qingyuan to be promoted to three ranks from the top of the servant to the chief servant.
The most precious thing about that man is that even though he has been in the officialdom all these years, he has never changed his principles.
Even though he was rejected by his colleagues, he did not change his original intention, which is to seek the truth from facts.
Therefore, Shi Qingzhou admires this person.
In addition, since three years ago, he has sent someone to secretly contact, and now, the other party is already on his side and has pledged allegiance to him.
In the past three years, he has also learned a lot of information from Hu Qingyuan.
After Hu Qingyuan's matter was settled, Long Xiaoyuan went to bed with Shi Qingzhou...
In the case of the great prince, we have to talk about it tomorrow morning.
However, the envoy Muzar had just died, and followed the Great Prince's palace into trouble. This matter... is too much of a coincidence.
And tomorrow morning, it is estimated that it will be very lively.
In his sleep, Long Xiaoyuan wasn't in a good mood. Thinking of all the troubles now... he was in a bad mood!
But the only good thing is that his light boat is beside him.
For the rest, he can barely endure it!
On the second day, it was indeed very "lively" on the morning court.
Naturally, there are people from the Great Prince’s faction in the court. Normally, some of these people have not been revealed, but this time, the Great Prince was actually killed, and there was still such a big fire in the mansion, which made some people unable to Accepted.
They all felt that their status and interests were threatened. In addition, the fear and worry in their hearts drove them crazy. Zao Shang, these people doubted this and that, almost biting everyone.
It seems that everyone is the real murderer!
Long Xiaoyuan's head was about to explode when he heard this, but at this moment, the two who were quiet were the left and right ministers.
Long Xiaoyuan glanced at the left and right ministers, and sighed secretly, old fox.
Shi Qingzhou was talking to Xu You when there was a quarrel in the hall.
Xu You came over early in the morning, and naturally asked about the situation at Tianyin Castle.
Shi Qingzhou ordered someone to call the shadow guard over there.
The shadow guard who was in charge of the torture said: "Queen Qi, four of the six people committed suicide by swallowing their tongues, and the other two have not said a word so far. Xu You's face changed." What? Suicide? "
The shadow guard continued: "There is a bit of information revealed from the population of a deceased Tianyin Castle. That person...is not familiar with the situation of Tianyin Castle and is very suspicious."
Xu You was taken aback. "Do you know what happened in Tianyin Castle now?"
"No." Shi Qingzhou answered Xu You. "What he means is that that person is not familiar with Tianyin Castle."
"How is it possible!" Xu You was surprised.
Shi Qingzhou squinted his eyes. "Those people, do you know them?"
Xu You was taken aback again, then shook his head. "I know but I don't know each other, but when they came to arrest me, they said that they were under the order of the master... The master they said must be the owner of Tianyin Castle. How could it not be..."
Shi Qingzhou shook his head slightly. "It's too easy for you to think."
Xu You pursed the corners of his lips, feeling a little helpless. "Brother Shi..."
Shi Qingzhou said slowly: "The owner of Tianyin Castle knows that his son is attached to you. I heard you say that those people who caught you are killers. It is unlikely that the owner of Tianyin Castle will directly issue the order. The killing order, you know, it will make his own son hate him, and the loss outweighs the gain."
Xu You was completely stunned.
"Fang Shuoyang is the only son. Fang Qiuhua and Zhou Huan are the masters and mistresses of Tianyin Castle. It is impossible not to leave room for themselves. They will send someone to arrest you, but they probably won't kill you. Say, A few times they have directly killed you, I suspect... There are probably two groups of people who arrested you, and the group we caught is likely to kill you. "
Xu You heard the words and thought for a while, then his expression changed suddenly. "I remembered, indeed, once there were two groups of people, and I just escaped from one group...but was soon caught up again, but after being caught up, those people did not kill as much as before...
... Could it be that there are really two groups of people, one who wants to kill me and the other who wants to arrest me! "
Shi Qingzhou nodded. "You said that yourself... Then my inference is more likely to be correct!"