Chapter 530 The First Test

Cen Boqing was found guilty, and it was set in stone.

"Qingfu Temple?" Bai Ziqi was startled, but immediately turned to Fu Shanyue and said, "We have the confession, and the prince can arrest Cen Boqing."

Fu Shanyue nodded and was going to mobilize troops.

Bai Ziqi said again: "Commander Fan, you also go to help."

Fan Sheng immediately stood up and jumped out of the cellar in two steps.

Fu Shanyue's eyes moved slightly, but he did not object.

...

After they all left, Bai Ziqi turned his eyes to He Lingchuan: "You can interrogate the rest."

He Lingchuan nodded, ordered people to bring paper and pen, and interrogate Wu Kai carefully.

Wu Kai asked for a glass of water, gulped it down in one breath, wiped his mouth, and answered He Lingchuan's questions.

It turned out that Cen Boqing's father, Cen Qiao, had been engaged in hunting monsters and taking pearls for a long time. After Wu Kai became his confidant, he became the person in charge of this business. After Cen's father passed away, Cen Boqing inherited his father's business and still ordered Wu Kai to take charge of the matter.

"Why did Cen Qiao do this in the first place?"

"The profit is very lucrative." Wu Kai leaned against the wall, exhausted. "You don't know how quickly a family like the Cen family spends money in Lingxu City... That place is simply a bottomless pit. No matter how much money you have, it is not enough to cover expenses. In the early years, the Cen family's shops had lost a lot of money. If they didn't use these incomes to make up for it, the Cen family would have been ruined long ago. How could they have married the daughter of the Minister of Agriculture later?"

"Marrying the daughter of the Minister of Agriculture, isn't that marrying a money bag?" He Lingchuan asked, causing Bai Ziqi on the side to look sideways. "Why did Cen Boqing continue to take the risk?"

"He said several times that he wanted to withdraw, but the buyer of Qingfu Temple disagreed."

"Buyer?" He Lingchuan sneered, "You mean, the superior?"

Wu Kai whispered, "This kind of thing, you can't withdraw just because you want to."

He Lingchuan hummed and wrote down the confession on paper.

He was very slow, and there was no conversation in the cellar for a long time.

He Lingchuan had been silent for a long time, so Bai Ziqi had to speak: "Who did you trade the beads with in Qingfu Temple, and who did you collect the money from?"

"A temple priest named Hu." Wu Kai said, "We go twice a year, and we go to the back of the temple to exchange beads and collect money. Unless the price of the beads changes, we don't communicate with each other."

"Don't you know the other buyers?"

Wu Kai shook his head.

"Speaking, do you know them or not?"

"No."

Bai Ziqi paused, and asked again: "Does the Minister of Agriculture know what you are doing?"

The answer to this question involves a wide range of issues.

"We did it secretly, and the Minister of Agriculture and his wife never asked about it. Maybe..." Wu Kai shrugged.

Bai Ziqi didn't let him fool around: "So does the Minister of Agriculture know or not?"

Wu Kai had to say: "I think he probably doesn't know."

He Lingchuan kept his head down and kept silent.

Let the special envoy from Lingxu City ask these deeper questions. He didn't plan to join in the fun.

"You provided false evidence to Fu Songhua?"

"Yes." Wu Kai said bluntly, "Cen Boqing accidentally discovered three years ago that Fu Songhua, the fugitive who killed the governor of Bingzhou, actually lived in the northwest corner of Baisha, not far from Cen's mansion."

"If you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet?" Wu Kai smiled bitterly, "Cen Boqing was also afraid that the matter would be exposed one day, so he asked me to prepare false evidence. If the matter was exposed, Fu Songhua would take the blame."

"Who designated the source of the information about the white-shouldered eagle route that you were going to frame?"

"Cen Boqing."

"Why?"

Wu Kai swallowed his saliva: "I just followed orders, and I don't know why."

"Let's talk about Zhongsun Mou." Bai Ziqi continued to ask , "Why did he cooperate with you to give false testimony?"

"Zhongsun Mou's grandfather was about to die, and he couldn't take any tonic. Cen Boqing instructed Zhongsun Mou to go to Qingfu Temple to ask for medicine, and the codeword was 'extend life and keep safe'. The old man of the Zhongsun family can live another ten to thirty years after taking it."

"This time, Cen Boqing found out that the inspector who investigated the messenger case and the case of killing monsters and taking pearls was Zhongsun Mou, so he used this matter to threaten him." Wu Kai asked for another glass of water, "Privately purchasing and taking the immortality medicine is a serious crime in Lingxu City."

"So both the Cen and Zhongsun families are involved in the case." Bai Ziqi nodded to He Lingchuan again, "I've finished asking, and I'll leave it to you later."

So He Lingchuan asked Wu Kai about the whereabouts of other monster-catching men.

At this point, Wu Kai no longer concealed it, and confessed the hiding places, methods and results of the other five groups of people, as well as the contact codes.

Before the ink on the paper had dried, He Lingchuan handed the dossier filled with confessions to Bai Ziqi:

"Envoy Bai, the other five groups of demon hunters are all outside the borders of Chiyan."

In short, arresting them is not the mission of Chiyan, but the responsibility of his special envoy.

Bai Ziqi took it and put it away, then stood up and said, "I'm going to Cen's house, you come with me."

He Lingchuan had no objection.

The inn was very close to Cen's house, and it was only a few hundred steps away.

He Lingchuan and Bai Ziqi walked together, followed by several guards.

He could feel that this man was looking at him intentionally or unintentionally, so he simply asked directly: "Envoy Bai, is there anything unusual on my face?"

This young man seemed very straightforward, and no one else dared to ask him this. Bai Ziqi smiled gently: "Nothing unusual, I just see that you are so young, and you and the prince don't interact like master and servant, but like equal friends."

"I am not from Chiyan, and I am not the prince's servant." There is nothing to be shy about. Since Bai Ziqi brought Fan Sheng with him, he must have heard the basic information about He Lingchuan from the deputy commander of Tongxinwei.

He Lingchuan always felt that the way he looked at him was a little strange, so he mustered up all his energy and did not dare to make any mistakes.

Bai Ziqi said: "I have been to Fu State in my early years. The monarchs and ministers were not so good, but the merchants were very powerful. Basically, they can get you whatever you want."

He Lingchuan thought of the Shimen Chamber of Commerce and the Gan family who were doing sole business with Zhu Erniang, and couldn't help but smile: "There are no obedient people in poor mountains and harsh rivers. We all believe that wealth can be found in danger."

"There are no obedient people in poor mountains and rivers, that's right." Bai Ziqi also smiled, "Why did Prince Yue appoint you to handle the messenger case?"

"I am a foreigner, so I have less involvement and less worries." He Lingchuan had a lot of time to take care of himself. "Otherwise, the Chiyan officials would not have been able to investigate Zhongsun Mou the moment they met."

"If you are not an obedient citizen, there are benefits to being obedient to the people." Bai Ziqi said leisurely, "How does Prince Yue know that this case will be very involved?"

He Lingchuan shrugged: "I have to ask him. I'm new here and don't know much about Chi Yan."

"Find a stranger who doesn't understand the national conditions to investigate the case. Prince Yue's behavior is unexpected." Bai Ziqi glanced at him, "How did you and Prince Yue meet?"

He Xiao's origin is a mystery. Fan Sheng doesn't know about it, and Fu Shanyue didn't mention it in his memorial.

"The Emperor's Ointment arrived a while ago, and we were all in the wild, fighting over a piece of ointment." He Lingchuan narrated in a simple way, "If we don't want both sides to lose, we won't fight each other until we get to know each other."

"It sounds like it is indeed something the prince is good at doing." What Bai Ziqi paid attention to was of course the implication of "no acquaintance without fighting".

What kind of temperament and methods does Fu Shanyue have? Kill all your own brothers!

Even Bai Ziqi thought he was cold-blooded and cruel.

The harder Fushan can kill the young man in front of him, the more likely he can be friends with him.

But being able to draw with Fu Shanyue was obviously an honor, so why did this young man downplay it?

"I have one more thing to ask." Bai Ziqi thought for a while and decided to go straight to the point, "Fan Sheng said, Cen Boqing invited the spell master Cheng Yu to plot against you, but he came back defeated and suffered backlash and vomited blood. I have also heard of Cheng Yu. , He is really capable. How did you defeat him?"

He Lingchuan said calmly: "I still have some means to save my life. But I don't have the ability to fight back against Cheng Yu. He was injured by the backlash of his own spell."

"What spell did he use?"

He Lingchuan spread his hands: "He is a curse master, so it should be some kind of evil curse, right? It's a pity that I'm not good at this."

Without waiting for Bai Ziqi to ask any more questions, he turned from defensive to offensive:

"You just said, 'It is indeed something that the prince is better at doing.' It seems that you know the prince very well."

He Lingchuan has his own secrets and cannot be questioned endlessly.

"We have dealt with him several times." Bai Ziqi said with a smile, "As the prince of Chiyan Kingdom, he has studied in Lingxu City for more than ten years; I, who was elected to the Star-Zhaing Tower since I was a child, am about the same age as him, and I have been there several times. Friendship.”

Similar in age... He Lingchuan scratched his nose.

Yes, Fu Shanyue's guy just looks tender-faced, but he is actually over forty, and he is the same age as Bai Ziqi.

Monsters just have some unique qualities.

"Although the prince's temperament is a bit... straightforward." He Lingchuan carefully selected his words, but both of them knew that what he wanted to say was "cruel", "But for the monarch, this is not a shortcoming. On the contrary, he is shrewd, alert, flexible and reasonable. Why doesn’t King Chiyan like him?”

King Chiyan had always been interested in Fushanji and did not want to make his eldest son the crown prince.

I'm afraid it would be difficult for him to get the answer from anyone else, except Bai Ziqi. Even Jiao Yu, the fierce tiger who had been traveling with him for a long time, turned his back on him when he heard this.

Avoiding taboos is the basic conduct of all officials.

Bai Ziqi was unusually silent, as if thinking.

After a while, he said: "It doesn't matter if I agree with you, many people in Lingxu City know about it."

Of course, the "many people" he mentioned are probably all top-tier people.

He said slowly: "When the prince was younger, he ate his biological mother!"

He Lingchuan was startled.

But he didn't ask, because there must be more to it.

Sure enough, Bai Ziqi turned her head to observe his expression and continued: "The two brothers, Prince Yue, were born from the same mother, and the mother was a commoner woman. Later, King Chiyan sent guards to pick up their mother and son back to the palace, but something unexpected happened on the way. Oh no! An accident..."

He did not expand on the details, but simply said: "The prince had no choice but to eat his mother, but King Chiyan cherished this concubine very much. He has been grudged since then and was not happy to see him."

He Lingchuan murmured: "I'm probably even more unhappy now."

Fushan Yue killed his biological brother not long ago. When the old monarch saw this eldest son, did the hatred of killing his wife and son suddenly surge into his heart?