As soon as Li Longji left, Gao Lishi followed behind, and was about to step out of the door, when he was suddenly pulled by someone, and turned his head to see that it was Li Ye, the king of Qi.

"Father-in-law Gao, please stay." Qi Ye said in a low voice and with a smile.

"I don't know what the prince commands?"

Li Ye said in a low voice: "The matter of the Yulin Army, this king has always paid little attention to it, and the emperor suddenly assigned this errand to me, I feel a little uncertain, and I ask Gonggong Gao to dial it." ”

General Yulin is only nominal, Li Ye also knows this truth, in order to avoid arousing Li Longji's suspicion, he hides as far as he can on weekdays, and suddenly has to deal with a matter of peeking at a ten-family bath, and he really can't take a sense of proportion for a while, or rather, he can't guess Li Longji's thoughts.

If you want to ask someone for advice, Colliers is undoubtedly the best person to be.

Gao Lishi said with some hesitation: "This kind of thing, the old slave is inconvenient to meddle, and I don't know if I guessed it right or not." ”

Li Ye immediately said: "Gonggong Gao, don't push it, the palace is up, who doesn't know that you are the best at speculating about the holy will, this king is sincerely asking for advice, you just click it, and go back to this king to invite you to drink." ”

"Lord Wang, this matter involves the emperor, whether it is big or small depends on the emperor's intentions, in fact, this matter is not difficult to do, you will know if you taste the emperor's arrangements carefully."

After the point was reached, Gao Lishi saluted Li Ye: "Lord, the emperor is still waiting for the old slave, so he will retire first." ”

After Gao Lishi left, Li Ye pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "This Zheng Peng is really a celebrity in front of the imperial brother." ”

was caught in the mandarin duck soup pool, not to mention whether he saw the emperor's woman bathing, just appearing in the forbidden place is not too much to kill ten times, however, Li Longji also let himself deal with it.

Sending a prince to deal with a "weathering case" seems to be a bit of a big fuss, saying that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, Li Ye is the general of Yulin, Zheng Peng is Li Ye's subordinate, it can be said that he is his own person, in terms of arrangement, it is undoubtedly beneficial to Zheng Peng.

Li Ye shook his head, and then led his men straight to the East Inner Garden.

"Everyone." Gao Lishi followed Li Longji and shouted quietly.

Li Longji didn't seem surprised by Gao Lishi's "lateness", he stopped and stepped forward, and said in a deep voice: "Lux, what do you think about this matter?" ”

"Everyone, the old slave is not a trial official, it's hard to say." Colliers did not dare to express his opinion casually.

Li Longji glared at Gao Lishi with some dissatisfaction, Gao Lishi shuddered, and immediately said: "Everyone, the old slave thinks that Zheng Peng has neither a thief's heart nor a thief's guts, with his worth, what kind of woman does he want, there is no need to take such a risk, there must be something else inside." ”

"What if he really made a mistake?" Li Longji asked suddenly.

Gao Lishi paused for a moment, and said with some anxiety: "There are no absolutes in the world, the old slave dare not imagine, everyone, if Zheng Peng is really at fault, how to deal with it?" ”

Young people are afraid that their brains will be hot, and they will be able to do anything.

Li Longji said coldly: "He can follow Sima Qian's example." ”

When Gao Lishi heard this, even the eunuch also felt a chill, and secretly said in his heart: There is a knife on the head of the color word, Zheng Peng, if you do it yourself, our family will not be able to save it.

Sima Qian was a native of the Western Han Dynasty, who was punished by the palace for justifying the defeat of Li Ling, and worked hard to improve himself in prison and completed the masterpiece "Historical Records".

If this kind of thing happens, ask for more blessings.

In Zheng Peng's old house, Lu Shu and Lin Xun'er, who knew that Zheng Peng had an accident, were red-eyed and ready to go out, and when the two were about to go out, Ren An stopped in front and said respectfully: "Miss, Miss Lin, please go back, Lang Jun asked the two of you to wait for good news at home." ”

"No, Miss Ben has to go looking for it now, otherwise the husband will suffer in prison, get out of the way." Lu Shu shouted.

Ren An said without being arrogant or humble: "Lang Jun said that if the two of you go out, he won't care about his uncle's affairs." ”

......

Regarding the Mandarin Duck Soup Pond incident, rumors spread inside and outside the palace, and in the polo field cell of the East Inner Garden, the person in charge of handling the matter finally arrived, Li Ye, the king of Qi and the general of Yulin.

As soon as Li Ye arrived, he immediately detained all the people involved in the case, and then sent his capable people to interrogate them separately, and as for Zheng Peng, he personally interrogated them.

"General Zheng, don't come unharmed, I didn't expect us to meet in such a place." When Li Ye saw Zheng Peng, he was pleasant.

For Zheng Peng, Li Ye still values it very much, firstly, he is famous, secondly, Li Longji and Gao Lishi are very optimistic, and there is the support of Boling Cui's behind him.

Before the conviction, the goodwill that should be there must be released.

Zheng Peng saluted and said depressedly: "The last general will meet the general." ”

Li Ye didn't let Zheng Peng sit down, but looked him up and down, and said slowly: "Zheng Peng, do you know why this king is here? ”

"I know, it should be about the mandarin duck soup pool."

"Very good, now you tell the story in detail, there can be no leftovers, there can be no lies, otherwise, no one can save you, understand?" Li Ye said with a serious face.

Zheng Peng answered, and then told the story of the incident as it was, and in the end, Zheng Peng played a little clever, and said that he was discovered by the palace maid just out of the bamboo forest, and he didn't see who was in the mandarin duck soup pool.

The stupid person only said it, as long as he admitted it, whether it was right or wrong, it was a big crime, and he would gouge out his eyes at the slightest and behead him at the worst, and Zheng Peng would not admit it if he was killed.

Li Ye stared at Zheng Peng and asked, "Zheng Peng, didn't you see who Tang Chi is?" ”

"I really didn't see it" Zheng Peng shook his head like a rattle: "As soon as I came out of the bamboo forest, I was discovered by the palace maid, and she called for the assassin to be arrested with one mouth, which scared me on the spot, where can I care about looking at other things." ”

After thinking about it for a while, Zheng Peng said with some "uncertainty": "Don't dare to deceive the prince, after leaving the bamboo forest, I faintly feel as if there is a woman reaching out by the pool to probe the temperature of the water, well, think about it, oh, the woman seems to be wearing a red Confucian skirt, but I really didn't see who it was, and later... Later, I heard that Commander Zhao said that it was the Lin Shi family of Yichun Courtyard. ”

After being put in the cell, Zheng Peng, who had calmed down, began to recall every detail, remembering that there was a wooden frame by the soup pool, on which a red Confucian skirt was hung, guessing that Lin Shijia took it off when he was bathing, and before Li Ye's interrogation, he thought about all the details.

At that time, there were only four people present, Zheng Peng, Lin Shijia and two palace maids, if they admit to seeing Lin Shijia's body, it would be difficult for Gao Lishi and Cui Yuan to help, and now they can only fight for luck.

Now I only hope that the woman named Lin Shijia is smart enough.

Li Ye glanced at Zheng Peng, frowned and asked, "Zheng Peng, as a thousand cavalry envoys of the Tiger Battalion, you don't even know what forbidden places are within your patrol range?" I just didn't think about it for a while, even if you are not familiar with the terrain, then put up a warning sign and didn't see any of it? ”

Zheng Peng said with a wry smile: "Lord Wang, when I took office, Liu Lijie, the commander of the hundred cavalry of the Tiger Battalion, had already marked the forbidden place on the map, I can guarantee that he definitely did not mention that the Mandarin Duck Soup Pool is a forbidden place, and when Huang Baofeng took me to the Mandarin Duck Soup Pool, I didn't see the warning sign, otherwise I would not dare to break into the forbidden place by borrowing my great courage, this is a crime of killing my head." ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Peng respectfully gave a military salute to Li Ye: "General, the last general has been wronged, please return the general's innocence." ”

When Zheng Peng spoke, Li Ye kept staring at Zheng Peng's face, as if he wanted to see some clues from Zheng Peng's words and deeds.

Li Ye didn't speak, waved his hand, asked someone to bring a map, and said to Zheng Peng: "Look clearly, draw the route to Mandarin Duck Tangquan after you come out of the team." ”

Zheng Peng didn't dare to slack off, so he quickly stood up, walked to the bookcase, and when he looked at the map, he knew that it was a map of the patrol area of the Tiger Battalion.

After marking the route from memory and drawing it, Zheng Peng said pitifully: "I ask the general to uphold justice, and I will be innocent." ”

"Don't worry" Li Ye arched his hand in the direction of the palace: "This king has a holy decree, he will naturally do business, and there are many people involved in this matter, which is just a good thing, because the more people, the easier it is to find out the flaws, before interrogating you, I have already sent capable people to deal with this matter, if this king can't go back to the palace to reply to the emperor before dark, then the king will not have the face to see the emperor." ”

When it comes to the back, Li Ye is full of confidence.

Look at the hour, it's still two hours before it gets dark.

So much confidence.

At the same time as Zheng Peng and Li Ye, the king of Qi, were talking, there was always a secretary Lang next to him to quickly record, recording every word of the two, that is, at the same time that Li Ye personally interrogated Zheng Peng, in the next room, Li Ye's henchman Ouyang Si was also interrogating a woman dressed as a palace maid:

"What's your name? What for? ”

"The little girl's name is Xiaoying, she is the palace maid of Yichun Courtyard, and she waits for Lin Shi's family."

"Xiaoying, you said that you were the first to find out that someone had broken in, you say this matter again, remember, how detailed and detailed, understand?"

"Understood, understood" Xiaoying's mouth responded, and the whispered words that the master Lin Shijia said to himself and Xiaolan on the way back to Yichun Courtyard came to mind:

Lin Shijia: Xiaoying, Xiaolan, you remember, someone asked, you must remember that when that person broke in, Ben Shijia hadn't gone down to the soup pool to bathe, and was testing the water temperature in the pool, understand?

Xiaolan: Ten families, why is that?

Lin Shijia: Stupid, if the body of this Shijia is seen by people, it is an impure body, can the emperor still pamper me? At that time, not only will I lose my grace, but you will also be punished for poor waiting and poor care, and you will be sent to the cold palace to wait for those who are eating and waiting for death in the cold palace, or beheaded, think about it.

Xiaoying: I see, ten, I won't say anything if I die.

Xiaolan: The ten families are so good to us, they all listen to the orders of the ten families.

The thoughts in her mind were like electricity, and Xiaoying didn't dare to slack off, so she said it according to what the master Lin Shijia said, and said it one by one.

At this time, in the next room, dozens of people were interrogating at the same time:

"Ji Changping, let's talk about it, what were you doing when you thousand cavalry envoys left the team, and who could testify for you."

"Wang Xiong, some people say that after the thousand cavalry envoy Zheng Peng left, you left the team, where did you go, and who can testify for you?"

"Huang Baofeng, so many soldiers saw you go out with Zheng Qiancai, where did you go? What, stomach ache halfway? Where to pull, draw on the map. ”

"Han Jinhui, you are the imperial guard who maintains the Lin Shi family, why weren't you at your post at the time of the incident? Someone broke in, but the people inside found out first, tell me what you were doing before the incident, which one can prove it? ”

"Zhang Hua, take it easy, you have no problem, now there is a chance to make meritorious contributions, think about it, what is abnormal recently, or which person you found something wrong, the general said, which of the clues provided is useful, and there is a reward."

.......

In addition to his own henchmen and staff, he also asked people to transfer a group of capable and good men to the Criminal Department to help, and dozens of people were tried at the same time, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

Soon, the interrogation records were compiled one by one, reviewed by the people who were proficient in interrogation in the Criminal Department, and then selected suspicious or contradictory testimony from them, and began to narrow down the scope in preparation for the second round of interrogation.

At the same time as the interrogation, Li Ye's men who were proficient in searching accompanied the elite personnel of the criminal department and began to collect evidence at the scene.

When many soldiers saw this battle for the first time, their expressions were different: some were calm, some were puzzled, some were curious, and some were more and more ugly, such as Liu Lijie and Huang Baofeng, who rushed to hear the news.

Especially Huang Baofeng, his face became more and more pale, and his whole body was trembling slightly......

It's good to have a relationship, Zheng Peng thought secretly while drinking tea and eating snacks in the cell.

As a major suspect, according to normal speaking, at this time, it is not tortured to extract confessions, but also strict interrogation, Li Ye is good, after asking a bunch of questions, he let Zheng Peng stay alone in the cell, not only no one disturbs, but also someone sends fragrant tea and snacks for Zheng Peng to enjoy.

If you are quiet, you can faintly hear the sound of interrogation, and occasionally hear the interrogator moving to the subject of interrogation.

That's the difference.

Zheng Peng is also reflecting: Huang Baofeng will definitely not be able to run away from the person who framed him, that is, he deliberately led himself to join the patrol, and it was he who instigated himself to soak in the mandarin duck soup pool, looking at Huang Baofeng's personality and background, unlike people who do big things, he must not have the courage, but who is behind it?

The person who is jealous of himself or the Taiyuan Wang family?

No matter who it is, this time there must be kindness and revenge.

Zheng Peng agrees with a sentence: If a person wants to succeed, he has to think in the good side and plan in the bad direction.

It is estimated that what will have to be offered to Li Longji at that time, and what will be offered at that time, gunpowder? Textile technology? The method of purifying liquor is something else.

"General Zheng, what are you thinking, don't you be afraid." Just as Zheng Peng was thinking wildly, Li Ye, the king of Qi, suddenly appeared in front of him and asked with interest.

Zheng Peng hurriedly saluted, pretending to be depressed and said: "Don't hide it from the prince, I wonder who is so intent on accumulating and trying to harm me." ”

"Oh, did you come up with it?"

"Back to the prince's words, not for the time being."

Li Ye laughed, patted Zheng Peng's shoulder and said, "If you can't think of it, then don't think about it, go, go to watch the play with this king, you will soon know who is calculating you." ”