Chapter 428: Cheated

The emperor always felt that something was wrong with Eunuch Zhang. Although he gradually discovered the clues about the two people last time, Eunuch Zhang was clearly not in the palace for those few days. How could he realize that the two people were fakes as soon as he returned to the palace.

Could it be that the two people he knew from the beginning were impostors.

He knew it was fake without even seeing their faces?

The emperor thought about it and finally came up with an answer, that is, Eunuch Zhang knew where the real queen and prince were.

After confirming this idea, he stood up suddenly.

"Eunuch Zhang knows where the queen is?! He must know where the queen is?!"

After thinking about it, the emperor immediately sent his confidants to secretly follow Eunuch Zhang.

Eunuch Zhang was also very smart. He was very cautious in everything he did during this period, for fear of being discovered by the emperor.

But the emperor was more patient than him. He sent people to follow him for three months, and finally discovered the clues on the last day of autumn.

Apart from being in the palace, Eunuch Zhang rarely leaves the palace every day, but whenever he leaves the palace, he will pass by the Zhoujia Incense Shop. ?.?????.ℂ??

Every time I pass by, I don't go to the incense shop to buy anything, as if to avoid suspicion.

After the emperor found out, he paid a private visit incognito and followed Eunuch Zhang all the way to the Zhoujia Incense Shop.

Eunuch Zhang did not linger at the door this time, but went into the shop to buy incense.

The emperor was waiting for him in the carriage at the door. When he saw him coming out of the incense shop, he immediately stopped him and asked: "Eunuch Zhang, you are not in the palace, what are you doing here?"

Eunuch Zhang looked surprised and quickly took out the incense pills in his hand, "If you return to the emperor, I will come here to buy incense."

The emperor looked at him and asked coldly: "Are you really here to buy incense?"

Eunuch Zhang nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, I have been wanting to buy it a few days ago, but I can't get so much money at the moment, so I can only wait until I save some money before I come to buy it."

The emperor was dubious.

Eunuch Zhang then took out the notebook he used to keep accounts from his arms and handed it to the emperor, "Your Majesty, you see, these are all things that this slave saved his money to write down."

After hearing this, the emperor felt relieved.

Then Eunuch Zhang continued: "Your Majesty, I have always forgotten to tell you about the banquet that day."

"What's the matter?" the emperor asked.

Eunuch Zhang replied: "Last time, the fake princess was actually a fellow countryman of Shopkeeper Zhou. On that day of the banquet, Shopkeeper Zhou saw it at a glance and immediately told the servant about it. He said that this countryman was not married. He ran away from home some time ago."

"Not only that, the fake princess wanted to poison Shopkeeper Zhou that night."

The emperor was shocked, "Is there anything else going on?"

Eunuch Zhang nodded, "Yes, the old slave also concluded at that time that the queen and the prince were also fake, so he immediately found the jade statue."

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. This time he finally understood everything. It turned out that shopkeeper Zhou had recognized that the princess was a fake early in the morning.

He did not blame him any more and asked Eunuch Zhang to get on the carriage and return to the palace.

After Mr. Yuan's incident, the emperor ordered that in order to no longer allow the ministers of the court to take advantage of them, no one could go to find the queen and the prince without permission, except for the spies sent by the emperor himself.

If there is any news, it must be reported to the emperor first. Anyone who violates this order will be severely punished.

The ministers in the court gradually became more honest, and actually recruited all the people who were sent out to look for Aunt Zhou and Zhou Ruiyuan.

The Zhou family's life returned to calm.

In Cheng'an, Du Wanchun still went back and forth between his shop and his home.

But Aunt Zhou couldn't worry about her. She would send her to the shop in person every day and pick her back up in person.

Du Wanchun was afraid that she would be tired, so he went in and out with Tao Yaofang every day.

After the two of them arrived at Mipu, they listened to the gossip of people on the street.

Slowly I also learned that Tao Meiyu was exiled for pretending to be a princess.

Du Wanchun said slowly: "The news about your little sister has spread so widely, I guess your parents also know about it."

Tao Yaofang nodded, "I saw my parents walking around in front of my house a few days ago."