Thinking of it this way, Yang Tingfeng relaxed a lot, but what he was worried about was that although the king of Beichen Kingdom had left, he was unlikely to let him go easily, so he ordered the chief of the palace to strengthen the guards to prevent anyone from sneaking in to search again.
The Lord of Beichen Kingdom had no choice but to return to the inn, only to find that his daughter's personal servant girl was waiting for him. Seeing the Lord of Beichen Kingdom plop on the ground, the servant girl said with tears in her eyes, "My lord, you, do you want to save the princess?" Ah, Your Highness, Your Highness, she..."
Bei Chenguo hurriedly grabbed her arm and asked, "Why are you here, where is the princess?"
The servant girl wiped her tears and cried: "Your Highness went to look for Yang Tingfeng and never came back. The slave girl waited in the inn for many days but there was no news, and she went out to look for it but never found it. Now I heard that the king When you came to the capital, you rushed over to pay a visit, please ask the king to send more people to look for the princess."
The Lord of Beichen Kingdom thought deeply and did not speak. The servant girl thought that the Lord of Beichen Kingdom was still angry and came to the capital with his own princess. She knelt on the ground and cried very sadly, "Your Majesty, Your Highness Princess has been missing for several days, something must have happened Something happened, if, if... Your Royal Highness, maybe it’s too bad, Your Majesty, I’ve kowtowed to you.” As she spoke, the maid kowtowed non-stop, and within a short while, the maid’s head had already appeared. blood.
The lord let go of her sleeves, got up and sighed: "Isn't it true that Gu has never been searched for? It's just that there is a lot of fish and dragons in the capital, and I'm worried that someone with bad intentions will attack the princess, so I don't dare to search in a big way."
He had already suspected that Yang Tingfeng was related to his daughter's disappearance. He had the physical evidence of the jade earring and the witness of the servant girl.
When Yang Tingfeng saw the lord leaving and returning, his heart became nervous again, and he tried to calm down and said: "What else can the lord say? Xiao Wang must know everything and say everything."
The king sneered and said, "I just have something to ask the lord. Dare I ask where the lord was when he saw the little girl for the last time?"
Yang Tingfeng pretended to think for a while before opening his mouth: "It was at Yongxing Tea House. Xiao Wang went to listen to the opera that day, and the princess happened to be there. She seemed to be very happy, so I went to say hello."
The lord thought to himself, his daughter doesn't like these things on a regular basis, when did she like to listen to operas, it can be seen that Yang Tingfeng is lying to himself in all likelihood, so he tried again: "Since you are in a teahouse, what are you eating?"
Yang Tingfeng thought, the country lord came here specially to know what they ate, and besides, he made up all of this, and he couldn't tell him the previous plan with the princess, so he just said with a smile : "I don't remember that, it's nothing more than melon seed snacks or something."
The king knew that he was telling lies, so he said directly: "How did the little girl's earrings get into the hands of the prince?"
Yang Tingfeng was stunned, but soon came up with a reason: "That day the princess left first after listening to half the scene and said she was not feeling well. Xiao Wang left later, when she suddenly saw an earring on the ground. , very valuable, I thought the princess dropped it by accident, so I picked it up first, and planned to return it when I saw her in the future, but I never met her afterwards."
The king heard what he said clearly and logically, but couldn't find any flaws, so he asked again: "Since this is the case, why didn't the prince tell the truth earlier?"
Yang Tingfeng thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said: "Oh, it was Xiao Wang who was dazzled and didn't recognize it for a while. Because after picking up the earrings first, Xiao Wang thought it was a princess's thing, so he should take good care of it and take good care of it. It was stored in the room, how could it have been thought that it would end up in the flower garden? Some greedy maid secretly took it when she saw it, but accidentally left it by the flower garden.”
His defense was well-founded, but the cause and effect were too detailed, the king became suspicious instead, and secretly planned to mobilize some more people to closely monitor the actions of Yang Tingfeng and the Eighth Prince's House, and try his best to find the princess Heqin.
In the palace, Concubine Shu's confidants have been tortured to the point where they are almost inhuman, but they still refuse to confide a word, only saying that their master was wronged.
Concubine Shu waited in her bedroom for a few days, but her confidant did not come back, and she was restless. She really didn't understand why the emperor sent someone to arrest her confidant, so she planned to pry some news from the emperor's confidant eunuch, so she ordered her servants to order some gifts, and she personally brought people to find the emperor's confidant. eunuch.
It was noon at this time, and the emperor was still asleep, so the eunuch came out to chat with Concubine Shu in a low voice in the side hall.
Concubine Shu didn't say much and opened the box in her hand. Inside was a string of high-grade Hepu beads, and she raised her hand to order the maid behind her to come over and opened a gilt copper box. The eunuch glanced at it and found various jade bracelets and agate chains inside. Other gold and silver jewelry.
The eunuch knew the reason for Concubine Shu's visit, and without looking at the box, he smiled at Concubine Shu: "What is the meaning of Concubine Shu?"
Concubine Shu said with a gentle smile: "I usually see my father-in-law working hard to serve the emperor, and I feel deeply in my heart, so I brought a gift to thank you."
The eunuch bowed humbly: "Serving the emperor is the job of this old slave, how dare you accept the reward from the empress? Does the empress have nothing else to do when she comes here this time?"
Concubine Shu saw that he was speaking bluntly, so she got straight to the point and said: "Well, it is true that the father-in-law was right, and I have something to ask you, please accept this small gift. The people in the palace, the day before yesterday I was taken away, and I haven’t come back yet, I think the emperor may have misunderstood me, may I ask if your father-in-law knows the details?”
The eunuch took a step back calmly, separated some distance between Fuchen and Concubine Shu, and said with a smile on his face: "This old slave dare not speculate on the holy will, and is really powerless to do what Concubine Shu has entrusted to you, so don't worry about it." If you dare to accept gifts indiscriminately, please ask your empress to take them back."
Concubine Shu was impatient and thought he was greedy for money, so she personally handed the gift to the eunuch, and said with a smile: "Eunuch really refuses to help me with this favor? I beg you. Could it be that eunuch thinks the gift is too light? There can be more palaces."
The eunuch didn't reach out to pick it up, instead he said with a smirk: "Your Majesty is in a hurry today, so naturally she thinks about the benefits of the servant, but in the past, she was unwilling to even talk to her, so the old slave was terrified and dared not accept her. Things. Please forgive me for being incompetent and unable to help you."
"Look at what you said, you are a celebrity in front of the emperor." Concubine Shu Gui saw that the eunuch had such a bad heart. At the beginning, the eunuch was not powerful, so naturally she didn't pay much attention to it, but now the eunuch has become the one who understands the emperor the most. The one in his mind became a great eunuch, and all the concubines in the harem would please him, but he would not accept anyone.
"Your Majesty, please go back. This old slave can't help you with your Majesty's busy schedule." The eunuch said expressionlessly.
Concubine Shu wanted to persuade her a few more words and then lure her with a gift, but the eunuch turned over the old account and knew that he would not agree, so she had to give up without further words, took the maid and the gift and left.