He looked worried and his voice became lower: "Li Erniang, is it true that Gu Dalang opened a rice and grain store in Shengpingfang?"
Li Erniang raised her head without knowing what was going on and hummed. Her expression was dazed and didn't seem to be fake at all.
Han Changmu became suspicious. Where was Yao Yao five years ago? Yao Yao was still in the Beiya Forbidden Army. How could he know Gu Dalang, who opened a rice and grain store in Shengpingfang? But looking at her behavior today, no, what she has done in the past two years Pai, she should have known Gu Dalang for a long time, and their friendship was extraordinary.
He was about to speak when he saw that Yao Yao had finished taking the medicine, washed his hands, and said to Li Erniang: "It is safe to enter the Prince's Mansion. It is much safer than following me around and wandering around. Erniang, Please relax and take a good rest tonight. If you have anything to say or anything to do, we can talk about it tomorrow. You must remember that the rules in the Prince's Mansion are very strict. You must not move around randomly."
Li Erniang nodded repeatedly with tears in her eyes. She believed Yao Yao very much. As long as Yao Yao said it, she would not believe anything.
Yao Yao wiped his hands with a handkerchief, raised his head and looked at Han Changmu deeply. There was a profound meaning in his words: "Sir, it's late at night, and the curfew is on. I wonder if there are any free rooms in the mansion. Can I borrow a night in the mansion? ."
Han Changmu understood in an instant, knowing that Li Erniang would not be able to ask anything different. Many doubts about this case would eventually fall on Gu Dalang and Yao Yao. He nodded and said calmly: "Okay ."
In this way, Li Erniang followed Jin Yu to the next room to rest, while Mrs. Liu stayed to take care of the unconscious Gu Dalang. Yao Yao followed Han Changmu out of the courtyard and into the study.
The study was a little deserted, with a few wall lamps set on the wall, and the firelight shone gracefully on the wall.
Apart from a few shelves full of books and a floor-to-ceiling desk, there are no extraneous decorations in this study.
Yao Yao looked around the study room and was secretly stunned. Han Changmu was indeed the same person on the outside. He was strict with himself and even more strict with others. He was a person without any vulgar taste. Being rigid was really boring.
Han Changmu didn't know Yao Yao's inner slander, so he clicked on the bed opposite the desk and said calmly: "Sit down."
Yao Yao sat calmly, straightened his back, Qing Lingling's eyes were cold, and said calmly: "Whatever you want to ask, sir, just ask me. I will tell you everything I know."
Han Changmu asked with a half-smile, "Yao Canjun and Gu Dalang are old acquaintances, right?"
Yao Yao was not surprised and nodded.
"Gu Dalang is not just a rice and grain shop owner in Shengpingfang."
Yao Yao continued to nod.
Han Changmu said calmly: "Who is Gu Dalang?"
Hearing this, Yao Yao involuntarily clenched the cup in his hand. The veins on the back of his hand emerged little by little and became extremely tight.
She seemed to be struggling, but Han Changmu waited patiently for her to make a choice.
She raised her head and stared at Han Changmu intently: "Your Excellency has checked Beizhi and found out that Beizhi was from the Bei Ya Forbidden Army, and Gu Dalang is the same."
Han Changmu was stunned for a moment, and soon understood what Yao Yao meant. She still concealed her and Gu Dalang's true identity, which was helpless.
However, there was no harm in hiding this. He nodded and said: "Since he is also a Forbidden Army, why was he forced into such a situation."
Yao Yao breathed a sigh of relief: "The Forbidden Army is not a gold medal to avoid death." She raised her eyes and looked at Han Changmu, her expression solemn as never before: "Sir, what I said may sound unbelievable, but in practice, There may be a risk of death, sir, do you still want to listen?"
Han Changmu smiled sarcastically: "You don't have to be so mysterious, just tell the truth."
Being exposed, Yao Yao didn't feel embarrassed at all. Instead, he smiled calmly: "Yes, the Crown Prince has always been bold and dared to do things that no one in the world would dare to do." She paused and said with hidden worries: " Gu Dalang was also a member of the Forbidden Army, and he was an old friend of Beizhi. He was expelled from the Forbidden Army because he failed in his errand. As for what the mistake was, you don't need to ask Beizhi, and Beizhi doesn't know. The rules in the Forbidden Army are strict, and it is strictly forbidden to inquire about each other's errands. Even though Gu Dalang was expelled from the Forbidden Army, he did not reveal anything to his humble position."
Han Changmu nodded and motioned for Yao Yao to continue.
Yao Yao's expression became more and more gloomy: "On the day of the incident, Beizhi received a message from Gu Dalang, asking Beizhi to go to Sese Building in West City to find him at 11:11. Beizhi had other errands that day, so he delayed for a while and rushed to Sese Building. At that time, just after a quarter of Haishi, Gu Dalang was not found. Then the girl of the Li family was bullied by Song Huaide, and the Gu family and the Li family fled. Beizhi had been looking for Gu Dalang's whereabouts, and found that not only Beizhi was looking for it, there was a wave of Sogdians. The servants in the court were all looking for Gu Dalang's whereabouts, so I followed these two groups and finally found Gu Dalang before them and brought him back to the capital."
Han Changmu was extremely surprised. He never expected that this matter would involve Yeting and the Sogdians. He narrowed his eyes slightly and asked suspiciously: "Didn't the Song family send someone to hunt down Gu Dalang?"
Yao Yao shook his head: "No, at least not on the surface. The ones who are chasing Gu Dalang are always the Sogdians and the servants of Yeting."
Han Changmu rubbed the center of his brows. He really couldn't figure out the connection. He asked in a deep voice, "Has Gu Dalang confided anything to you?"
Yao Yao shook his head helplessly: "The blame lies here. I don't know what Gu Dalang experienced in Sese Tower. As long as I mention Sese Tower, he will have a splitting headache. Most of what he said is nonsense and he can't tell what's going on. Come."
Han Changmu's eyes flashed and he suddenly asked: "It is precisely because of this that you went to Sese Tower to investigate today."
Yao Yao smiled calmly: "Sir, I am not just going to Sese Tower to investigate today, but I will go to Sese Tower to investigate whenever I have time."
Han Changmu raised his eyebrows. This was Yao Yao's nature. He would not let go easily once he grasped some clues.
He said calmly: "But we found something."
Yao Yao pursed his lips: "Although it's not much, it's not in vain and nothing is gained."
As she spoke, she took something out of her sleeve and gently placed it on the desk: "My lord, please take a look."
There were a few scattered strokes on the picture, which looked chaotic, but where the strokes connected the meaning, it seemed as if there were invisible lines connecting them.
Han Changmu frowned as he watched, his hand trembled slightly, and he suddenly said with difficulty: "Is this a formation?"
Yao Yao nodded heavily, with a flash of admiration in her eyes. She had been to Sese Building many times in the past two years. She spent a lot of money there and became a VIP. Only then did she see that the building was a little bit different. , and drew something like this.
She thought about it for a long time, and with the little skills she had learned from a half-hearted master in her previous life, she could vaguely see that it looked like a formation diagram. However, she didn't expect that Han Changmu could only take one look and saw that he was indeed a god. .
Han Changmu tapped the desk with his fingers and frowned: "This picture is not complete. I can't tell what the formation is. Besides," he hesitated. The place where the formation appeared was too sensitive and he could not draw conclusions easily. .
Yao Yao had no taboos at all and spoke nonchalantly: "The formation is either to eliminate demons and defend the way, or it is a crooked way. This one in Sesel Tower has been in existence for I don't know how many years, and I don't know what the formation is, but okay Now that something happened in the building, it's been sealed off, so it's easier to investigate."
Han Changmu nodded. Fortunately, he had left a lot of manpower in the Sese Building. He felt shocked, suddenly patted the desk, and shouted outside: "Jinyu."
Jin Yu came in in response, bowed and said: "Your Majesty."
"Go to the Department of Internal Security quickly and tell He Zhenfu to send more people to Sesel Tower. Once someone breaks in, take them all down and leave them alive." Han Changmu gave instructions with a sinister look on his face.
Jin Yu hurriedly claimed yes, turned around and went out.
Unexpectedly, Jin Yu came back a moment later, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the widow of the Internal Security Department has asked to see you, saying that he has something important to report."
Han Changmu was stunned for a moment and said, "Please."
In just a moment, Jin Yu led Wu Zuo in, bowed and walked out.
Han Changmu raised his eyes and looked at Wu Zuo, and asked calmly: "If anything happens, just tell me."
Wu Zuo was a little embarrassed. He held a thick stack of test documents in front of Han Changmu and said tremblingly: "Sir, I have found something wrong in my humble duty. Please take a look at it."
Han Changmu took the stack of documents and read each page very carefully. His face was so gloomy that he could almost drip with water. After reading it, he handed it to Yao Yao with his backhand: "Yao Canjun should also read it."
Only then did Wu Zuo realize that there was someone else in the study. He became even more uneasy, feeling that he had come at the wrong time tonight and had stumbled into some incredible secret.
Yao Yao looked at it again, frowned and whispered: "These heads were all cut off after being frozen!!"
Wu Zuo nodded: "Yes, it is to freeze the person alive, freeze the whole person into ice cubes, and then cut off the head. Such cruel methods are really rare."
Han Changmu asked again: "Besides these, are there any other discoveries?"
Wu Zuo said: "After your Excellency left Sese Tower, the frozen pond was also dug out, but after the ice floe was dug out, it was not water underneath, but a layer of extremely frozen silt. Mr. He Qi had already I ordered people to dig, but the mud was frozen solid, and it hasn't been dug for a while."
Standing on the roof today, Han Changmu looked at the ice surface and vaguely felt it was very strange, so he ordered He Zhenfu to find someone to break the ice. Now it seems that there is indeed something wrong with the pond.
He picked up the sketch drawn by Yao Yao and traced the location of the pond on the paper. His face darkened. If he expected it correctly, the pond seemed to be the center of the formation, and there must be a ghost under the pond.
He asked sharply: "Are you still digging now?"
"No more. When I left Sese Tower, Mr. He Qi had already asked the internal guards to stop." Wu Zuo shook his head.
