The Fifth Master's house is located inside Chaoyang Gate. Its area is not as large as that of Prince Gong's Mansion, but it is basically close to the area of Prince Chun's Mansion!
Wu Ye returned to the capital today and thanked guests behind closed doors. Many officials who wanted to see him were rejected. However, at three o'clock in the middle of the night, a group of unwelcome guests came to the back door of Wu Ye's house.
Headed by Prince Laoli, Prince Zheng, Prince Rui, Prince Duoluo Chengshun... plus some princes who are not iron haters, there are seven people in total, who came to pay their respects collectively!
These concierges didn't dare to stop him, so they hurriedly ran into the inner house and woke up the fifth master Yi Pei who had just fallen asleep!
"I don't see you... I don't see anyone. Are you coming to me now to cause trouble for me?"
"Oh...my good prince, there are spies everywhere in the capital. These seven palace officials are here to pay their respects. If you don't see them, you won't leave!"
"If this stays at the door for a long time and someone with ulterior motives sees it, it will definitely be a rumor... It won't sound good if it reaches His Majesty's ears!"
Yi Pei thought for a while and found out that this was indeed the truth. He nodded with a dark face, and then the housekeeper returned to the back door to welcome the princes into the study.
On a cold day, several princes, wearing suede furs and Hailong hats, walked into the Fifth Master's study one by one, wrapped like bears.
The book boy was re-activating the pressed coal stove, and inserted a few more pieces of anthracite coal that glowed black!
Asking for help, these princes all smiled flatteringly. Prince Zheng Chengzhi bowed to the Fifth Master, "Oh... Uncle Wu Wang is too simple. These cast-iron coal stoves are used by ordinary people in the capital. What do you think of your prince?" use this?"
"I will ask my slave to give you a top-quality white copper charcoal basin later. It is made of two layers and is completely smooth. I light it with silver charcoal and throw in a piece of agarwood. The whole room will be fragrant without any smoke... …”
Chengzhi didn't expect that the flattery would hit the horse's leg. Fifth Master Yipei snorted, "Haha... I don't have that luck! Even if I live on my own salary, I don't have any good slaves to make money for me!"
"You can keep such a good charcoal pot for yourself! I can't enjoy it! Do you think my cast-iron coal stove is not easy to use, or do you dislike the high smoke?"
"Then please come back! The temple here is too small to accommodate a great Bodhisattva like you!"
Prince Zheng's face suddenly turned red, and he was as embarrassed as a monkey's butt. "Ah...I...um...this...ouch..."
It's like having a toothache, I can't say a word!
Prince Lao Li looked at him and sighed in embarrassment, "Lao Wu! Don't make it difficult for him... He also suffered from the slave, isn't he too worried to sleep?"
"Sleep? He still wants to sleep! Six workers at the iron factory night school lost their lives and will sleep forever... Chengzhi, don't sleep for the rest of your life. Those six lives have been slept for you!"
These words were so cruel that Cheng Zhihong's face turned dark. He stamped his foot and said aggrievedly, "Uncle Wu! I'm so unjust! I don't even know about the killing, and I can't let them kill!"
"It's true that Guang Liang is my slave, but I really don't know what he does in the iron factory! Even if he gives me some souvenirs, who among us princes cares about that little money?"
"I really want the slaves to share the emperor's worries and get the job done... As for the greed for money, I dare not say it clearly, but I will never let them earn money from human lives!"
"How much money is too much? Just enough...there are too many doubts about this matter today, and it's not what Uncle Wu thinks!"
"Ouch... do you still have a point? You tell me and I'll listen..." Yi Pei sneered.
Chengzhi also risked his life, "Let me make it clear in front of all the princes! There is no need for Guang Liang to kill people! Even if Xin Jian and the others find a group of night school students as witnesses, are there more witnesses outside than him? ?”
"The common people are like this. As long as you don't kill people, don't take their wives, and just leave some food for them... these people won't rebel!"
"So Guang Liang has no need to kill at all, he has no such motive!"
"Now that six workers are dead, who will benefit in the end? Haha... I'll make it clear. The last one to laugh is not our Majesty, but the Chinese Xiao Letian!"
"Can't your uncles and brothers understand this trick?"
"It's just a matter of borrowing the lives of six workers to suppress us! If I are imprisoned then, His Majesty's power will be even greater!"
"Xiao Letian watched his apprentice torture us to death, and the master and apprentice just divided the Qing Dynasty between them!"
Having said this, the fifth master rushed over like a gust of wind, and slapped him with a slap, "You kid is going to die! Are you epileptic? How dare you say such treasonous words?"
Master Wu's face turned pale with fright. Chengzhi covered his mouth and muttered with tears in his eyes, "What I said didn't sound good, but that's what happened..."
"Go and taste it for yourselves, taste the taste here for yourselves... Is this world still for our Eight Banners? Do you think we still are?"
Everyone in the room fell silent, with gloomy faces. Fifth Master Yi Pei returned to his chair as if his muscles and bones had been ripped out of his body.
He pointed at the chair, "Sit down first! I have sent people to Qinghe before. Once the results of the interrogation come out, Qinghe will send me a telegram!"
The room fell into silence. After a long time, Prince Tianli Shiduo said, "Lao Liu...are you gone?"
Yi Ping was stunned for a moment and lowered his head and said, "He hasn't left yet. He is now being held in a cell in the Zongren Mansion. He was said to be escorted back to Xiling early tomorrow morning!"
Shi Duo wiped his tears and said, "Hey... I miss him! I miss Lao Liu... Is it cold in Xiling? Seeing him wearing a ragged cotton-padded jacket today, I feel bad..."
"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ding in their eyes. This sad atmosphere made everyone in the room feel the same.
Prince Zheng Chengzhi knelt down in front of Fifth Master Yipei and said, "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...Fifth uncle...our Eight Banners are a family! We are a family!"
"We can't let outsiders bully us...we can't...wuwuwu..."
Fifth Master Yi Pei looked at Chengzhi holding his legs, his eyes were red, he wanted to kick him away but he couldn't!
At this moment, the foreigner's clock struck five o'clock in the morning. As the clock rang, the housekeeper ran in, "Your Majesty... the telegram from Qinghe is here!"
"After a night of interrogation, the killers all confessed... Guang Liang did not give them an order to kill. It was because these killers miscalculated the situation!"
"They did it without permission! Ma Ming, the Three Treasures and even that Xin Jian... were tortured throughout the whole process. More than a dozen killers made hundreds of confessions in succession..."
"It can't be wrong! It can't be wrong... Guang Liang was wronged. Guang Liang was guilty of greed for money, not murder!"
ah! There was a burst of relaxed exclamation in the room, and Prince Zheng Chengzhi simply jumped up from the ground and shouted excitedly, "What did I say? What did I say? This is an unjust case, an unjust case!"
