Sure enough, Xu Shichu found on the wall of the mud room incense-making raw materials that were obviously stolen from her spice shop, as well as several spice recipes and a survey of the craftsmen in the spice shop.
After finding these, Xu Shichu lit another incense. A quarter of an hour later, the fierce expression on the tied man's face changed, and he began to look dazed.
At this time, Xu Shichu had his jaw bone repaired, allowing him to regain his ability to speak.
"Tell me, who is the person behind the incense shop that asked you to go to Zuixiang Pavilion to steal the incense?" Xu Shichu asked.
The man's eyes were distracted, but he answered word by word: "I don't know. Only a masked man came to me at night and asked me to go to that address to steal the spice recipe. It would be best to instigate the craftsmen inside."
"What does that man look like? What are his characteristics?" Xu Shichu continued to interrogate.
"You can't see clearly with your face covered. He's about five and a half feet tall, with a medium build... characteristics? His left thumb seems to be underdeveloped, with only one short section." The man answered solemnly.
"Then how did you contact him after you stole the spice recipe?" Xu Shichu asked again.
"After stealing the prescription, I hid the information in the statue of Tugong God in the dilapidated temple five miles outside the city towards Dawo Village. That person would go there regularly to get the information, and then wait for him to take the initiative to contact me." That man had no ego. Like a puppet of will, he revealed the contact information of the person who ordered him without reservation.
When Xu Shichu heard his words, she was not surprised at all by the caution of the person behind the scenes, but she already had an idea in mind, so she knocked the man unconscious and threw him into her companion space to ensure that he would not come out to arouse the enemy.
After finishing these tasks, it was already getting late. She collected all the information collected by the spies and quietly returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, changed her clothes and fell asleep again.
After dawn, she was not in a hurry to find the person who had contacted the spy. Instead, she patiently acted as her prime minister's wife and occasionally teased little Du Zhao.
After dark, she disguised herself as the spy and rushed to the ruined temple the spy had mentioned. Sure enough, she found a tattered statue of the Earth God, so she took the modified spice recipe and the craftsman's Personal circumstances are hidden inside the statue.
It was impossible for the contact person to appear in the ruined temple immediately and take away the things, so Xu Shichu just hid the things and left directly.
She was not worried about not being able to find that person. After all, the information she had hidden was stained with a special, almost colorless and odorless smell. It happened that her pink moth could smell it, and Xu Shichu could smell it even if he was close. Smell, that spy was an example of being caught.
The bait has been released, and Xu Shichu is not in a hurry to start fishing. After all, it will take some time for the fish to catch the bait.
After waiting for another seven days, Xu Shichu went back to the ruined temple to check. Sure enough, the information she had placed there had disappeared. It had obviously been taken away by someone, so she released the pink moth and chased it back to the city.
But this time, the place where the pink moth flew was not the slums in the West City, but the wealthy families in the East City.
Before Xu Shichu sneaked in, he saw the word "Qufu" written on the plaque on the door of the mansion where the pink moth flew into.
Even at night, you can see that this Qu Mansion is very grand and spacious, with carved beams, painted pillars, rockery, rivers and ponds. It is magnificent. At first glance, it looks like a luxurious mansion that only aristocratic families can afford to live in.
In this way, it will be clear which family this Qu Mansion belongs to. After all, only one of the powerful ministers in the dynasty is named Qu.
That is to command Qu Xiaofeng from the front of the second-rank palace. Qu Xiaofeng is the uncle of the current second prince. He has a high position and is working hard for his nephew to ascend to the big position. Unexpectedly, he works hard and works hard. At about midnight, the head came up.
It takes a lot of money to seize the throne, but Xu Shichu didn't expect that there were all the commanders in front of the palace, and the second-rank officials would even spare their own little Zuixiang Pavilion. Shouldn't she feel honored?
The pink moth did not fly to the magnificent main courtyard. Instead, it went to a servant room on the left side of Qu Mansion and stayed on the beam. Xu Shichu lit some incense and made everyone in the room faint, and then walked in.
There was a man of medium build in the room, lying on the bed with his arms around a woman. Xu Shichu happened to see that the thumb of the man's left hand was one section shorter than that of ordinary people. He immediately knew that this man was her. The person the spy mentioned was the one who gave him the address and asked him to go to the spice shop to steal spice recipes.
This man is a servant of Qu Mansion. You can imagine who his master is. Who else is there besides the master of Qu Mansion? Xu Shichu didn't need to find the right person behind the scenes, she just needed to know that the people who beat her in Zuixiang Pavilion were from the Qu family.
She is impatient to seek revenge bit by bit, and is better at removing fuel from the bottom of the cauldron.
Didn't the Qu family have the energy and confidence to seize her secret spice recipe because of the commanding officer in front of the palace, Qu Xiaofeng and the second prince?
Then she will take down Qu Xiaofeng and the second prince!
Few people who can have a smooth career and become high-ranking officials have clean hands, and the fact that the people of Qu Mansion can use such unscrupulous means to seize Xu Shichu's secret spice recipe already shows that they have evil intentions.
If a person with evil intentions happens to be powerful, will he refrain from doing things like bullying others, bullying men and women, seeking wealth and killing, pretending to be public for personal gain, lining his own pockets, embezzling and accepting bribes?
This was impossible, so Xu Shichu planned to help the second prince's rival to get rid of Qu Xiaofeng.
Of course, Xu Shichu didn't come to mess with him openly. After all, as the prime minister's wife, her status was inconvenient, and it was more convenient to mess with him secretly.
She didn't do anything. She just found the secret room in Lord Qu Xiaofengqu's study. In the secret room, she found evidence that he had made money for the second prince, enriched his own pockets, and accepted bribes. She quietly put half of it in the big room. The other half of the prince's study was placed on the third prince's desk.
In this way, there is no fear that the eldest prince or the third prince will show favoritism and not get rid of Qu Xiaofeng, but will seize on him and make him work for him.
While collecting these evidences, Xu Shichu also did not forget to collect all the gold, silver, jewelry and rare treasures that Qu Xiaofeng had placed in the secret room, and returned them to his own companion space. Wouldn't she accept these ill-gotten gains? Are they still reserved for this corrupt official?
Xu Shichu didn't need to worry about what happened next. Those fatal pieces of evidence were handed over to the second prince's political opponents, and Qu Xiaofeng, who was the second prince's right-hand man, was doomed.
As a result, the capital and the court were bustling for a long time. As the prime minister, Luo Changqing was even more busy. He didn't even have time to care about his son's marriage. He was busy in front of the palace and commanded Qu Xiaofeng to take bribes and pervert the law. It's over.
Xu Shichu's potential enemy was soon confiscated, dismissed from office, and exiled thousands of miles away. Qu Xiaofeng was spared his life because he was the second prince's uncle. However, it was impossible for the Qu family to rise again.
