Chapter 231 Unexpected people come to visit [three]
"Haha, you really have time to flirt here." Li Zige looked at the two of them and spoke sarcastically, "Crown Prince Feng has a really annoying physique. I don't know whose order Han Yuting obeyed, and is here today."
After Feng Chenyao saw his cousin, before the smile on his face was unfolded, he was shocked by the words that struck him, and turned into a stiff expression. He asked in a deep voice: "Zige, what do you mean by saying this?"
Li Zige held the style of the young master of the Li family, glanced at the two of them with slender phoenix eyes, then quickly turned his head, and said in disgust: "I am a sage, how dare I be serious with the prince? Haha, even if the prime minister was ordered to come to my grandfather's birthday, our Li family could not say anything dissatisfied."
Qi Liyan, who was standing aside, couldn't bear to watch it anymore. She looked at Feng Chenyao in a state of contemplation and spoke coldly: "That is, you have a good temper, don't let anyone be in front of you."
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"If you hear that you can't see any trace of pain from the outside, but you can make the person who is infected with this poison fall into a deep coma, but your physical functions will aggravate your aging and you will die automatically after seven days."
"Your Highness said it is right. But in fact, the antidote is very simple. It is to boil some herbs to refresh the mind and make them into medicine with red water flowers, and take them while it is hot. But..." Qinghe looked at Feng Chenyao hesitantly.
"It's just that there is only the Qingming Stream in the Red Flower River." Feng Chenyao thought for a moment, "Since that's the case, I will go to Qingming Stream."
"Your Highness, Qinghe just said that the relationship between Grandma Posa and Taoist Fu Yan should be asked to go with Qinghe. Qinghe is still Grandma Posa's apprentice."
"Chihua, I was expelled from the stream by my grandmother Posa. Now I'm not going to die? Besides, the red water flower is called the Hell Flower in the world. Unless the flowers picked at sunset in the evening are the good medicine for detoxification. If it were other times, it would be poison."
"What a perverted flower is this! By the way, this grandma is not only a weird name, but also a strange poison developed. People must be even more strange." Gong Hanting, who had slightly messy hair, held the door frame and gasped, and said dissatisfiedly, "Chen Yao, I've done what you told me. This is your token."
Gong Hanting handed the token to Feng Chenyao and asked Qinghe Ye Zhanfei how he was. After Feng Chenyao told the poison and medicine he was in. After a moment of silence, he said to the three people in the room: "Ye Caishen was poisoned after he came back from the Umbrella Pavilion. Since that's the case, let's go to the Umbrella Pavilion first to see if he can find any clues."
"Hanting's words are reasonable. Umbrella Pavilion was opened by Han Yuting. This matter must be related to Han Yuting. Let's go there first and take a look. Maybe you can find some clues. Qinghe, you can stay and take care of Mr. Ye, Chihua and we will go with us."
After Feng Chenyao finished speaking, he and Gong Hanting went out to walk towards the Umbrella Pavilion.
From north to south on Zhuque Street, there were traffic. The three of them came out of Zhenweizhai and walked towards the Umbrella Pavilion. The distance was not long, and it took about a cup of tea to arrive.
At the end of Zhuque Street to the south, an ancient two-story building came into view. Two large red lanterns were hung on the door. The two words "umbrella pavilion" on the door plaque of golden nanmu were golden under the sunset, which was particularly illuminating. After looking at the door plaque, Gong Hanting secretly complained about Han Yuting's rich man, but he became greedy. Feng Chenyao did not have too many expressions and walked straight to the store?
Because it was summer, there were not many people buying lanterns in the umbrella pavilion. The only two servants who were looking at the shop were also sitting on the chairs on the counter, lowering their heads and feeling drowsy. Feng Chenyao walked over, and Qinghe knocked on the counter with his hands a few times. The two servants were dissatisfied with being woken up, so they lifted up, and shouted as if they had not woken up, "Who, I dare to quarrel with you, I'll rest."
After his arm was hit by his partner, he saw the person coming clearly and quickly smiled and said, "Your Highness the Prince is here, making the shop full of glory. Are you and your friends here to see the lanterns? Please sit down."
""No need. I came here because I had something to verify." Looking at the two trembling servants in front of me, I said lightly: "My friend of mine customized two lanterns that I had in the Umbrella Pavilion before. For some reason, I just took them back yesterday and exploded today. Who is your lantern master? Call him out and ask something."
"This, Your Highness, you don't know anything. Master Wu, who makes lanterns, left Beijing and returned to his hometown in Haocheng this morning. Last night, his family letter said that his only son lost too much money due to gambling and had no money to pay off his gambling debts. He was beaten to death. He went back to see his son this morning."
"Where is the letter?"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, Mr. Wu was so angry that he burned him off after reading the letter.
"I won't go back sooner or later, but I just rushed back on the day when the lantern exploded. I said, are you the ones who you are trying to make trouble?" Gong Hanting angrily grabbed a servant's clothes and said, "Hurry up, take out the antidote for reminiscence, otherwise don't blame me for being polite!"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, please spare me! We two really have no idea about this."
"Hmph, I heard that the owner of this umbrella pavilion is Han Yuting. Since you two can't call out the Wu surname, you can just find Han Yuting." Gong Hanting, who was impatient looking at him, said angrily, "Can you two have a ghost in your heart and know why the lantern explodes. Tell me quickly, otherwise you will have a good look."
"This... Your Highness, I'm not to hide it. We are just a shop-seeing person. We usually clean and greet customers and do dirty work. Generally, Master Wu handles the matters related to the accounts." The two were so scared by Gong Hanting's tone that they knelt on the ground and said, "There is no chance to see Lord Han on weekdays."
"Hanting, Qinghe, let's go back." For some reason, Feng Chenyao suddenly said to the two of them.
"We haven't found out the matter yet, and it's not too late to leave after it is found out." He said dissatisfiedly: "If you don't say it, right? Qinghe, are you carrying poison on your body? Use it for them both to see if you say it or not."
"Prince, please spare me, hero! We really don't know anything." When the two heard this, they kept kowtowing and begging for mercy. "Otherwise, we will write down the address of Master Wu's house."
"Yes, Your Highness." Qinghe, who was looking around, responded to the words.
Gong Hanting looked at the two people walking out, and in desperation, he could only follow.
"Yezi, go and tell the adults at this time."
After the three of them walked for a while, the two kneeling on the ground stood up.
"Well, it seems that the prince's movements are a little faster than expected." At this time, the two of them were not as timid as they were when they faced Feng Chenyao and the other two. The momentum they emitted at this time was clearly the aura of the secret guard after training.
"Chen Yao, aren't we here to find out the reason for Ye Caishen's poisoning? Why didn't we find anything now, and we just stayed for a while and left?"
Looking at Gong Hanting walking beside him, Feng Chenyao said in a deep voice: "We can't ask anything from the mouths of the two of them. Although they were deliberately concealed, if they were carefully observed, they could still find the training aura of the secret guards on their bodies."
"Secret Guards! The two of them are Han Yuting's secret Guards!"
"Hanting, what are you doing?"
"Chen Yao, I will kill them now and I will exhale them first."
"Young Master Gong, if I were you, what I had to do now is not to kill a few minions who were not very small, but to find a way to find a medicine." Qinghe looked at Gong Hanting who was about to kill him back and said slowly, stroking his sleeves. "If the exposed hands of the two of them were not seen by the Lord of the exposed hands, we would probably be spending time in the Umbrella Pavilion and them. Although we don't know why Han Yuting poisoned Mr. Ye, one thing is certain that it would be very difficult to find the medicine."
"Qinghe said it is right. The hands of those who practice martial arts are slightly different from those of ordinary people. There are calluses in the right hands of the tiger's mouth, which is clearly caused by holding swords for many years. If I expected it, they will definitely inform Han Yuting of the news of us going to the Umbrella Pavilion."
"Chen Yao, Hanting! Fortunately, I caught up."
"Zige, why are you here? Did Uncle Ye know? How is Zhenweizhai's business arrangement?" Feng Chenyao asked, looking at Li Zige who was walking over slightly in a hurry from the opposite side.
"It has been arranged. I just asked the secret guards of Yeshamen to check near Zhenweizhai and found some things. Let's go back soon, maybe we can solve some problems."
"Well, thank you for your hard work."
Eve before departure
"I didn't help much in this matter. Basically, I just used Chen Yao's secret guard to give a few ideas. By the way, I told Uncle Ye about the accident about Zhan Fei." Li Zige smiled gently and said humbly.
"So we can encounter things that we can't usually encounter with Chen Yao. Look at this time, this time, it's the first time I've encountered such a good lantern explosion." Gong Hanting took the opportunity to tease.
"Mr. Gong, don't be happy with our Highness. Everyone feels uncomfortable now."
"Qinghe, nothing."
As the few people walked and talked, they arrived at Zhenweizhai in a short while. The four of them walked in and saw a middle-aged man wearing a silver-gray brocade dress with half-white hair but a solemn face sitting in the hall. He held a mirror in his right hand and was thinking about something seriously. This person was the largest imperial merchant in Li Kingdom. He was the head of the Ye family, who had half the economy. He felt someone coming in, turned his head, and after seeing the person clearly, he nodded slightly and signaled the few people to sit down.
"Is Uncle Ye so good recently?" Feng Chenyao, led by the leader, spoke first, "It's something we don't want to see when something happened to Zhan Fei. Uncle Ye wants to take care of his health, and Zhenweizhai still needs to be managed by you."
"Thank you for your concern. You are Zhan Fei's friends and are familiar with this place, so I will not do too much hospitality." After looking at a few people, putting down the mirror in my hand, he said in a deep voice: "I have understood Zhan Fei's situation. I will not give up the people who hurt my son. I heard that I am only short of medicine to attract red water flowers. I think my Ye family is rich enough to match the country's wealth, and I just ordered people to offer a reward of tens of thousands of gold to find this flower."
"Uncle Ye, just call me Chen Yao. When looking for red water flowers, I will go to Youmingjian to find this flower tomorrow morning. You don't have to worry so much. Zhan Fei is your only son, so it's understandable to worry about us."
"This mirror was discovered by me on the roof of Xianghe Building opposite Zhenweizhai. Looking at the broken traces, it should be caused by someone falling in a hurry."
Feng Chenyao listened to Li Zige's words, picked up the mirror and looked for a moment. He found a very small character Yan on the back. He thought of the explosion of a lantern and said to several people, "The mirror aimed at a flammable object in the sunlight, which will cause an explosion. Look at the character Yan behind it. As expected, the operator behind it is undoubtedly Han Yuting."
"The Ye family and Han Yuting have no holidays. Why do he do this? I really think my Ye family is easy to bully!" After hearing this, Ye Haisong slapped the table heavily and said angrily.
"Uncle Ye, don't get angry. If what I expected was, Han Yuting should have come for Chen Yao. But what I don't understand is that Han Yuting is not afraid that we will catch the handle of this matter and tell the emperor to learn about it? Do he really think that Yan Sitang has great power in the capital and can cover the sky with his hands?" Gong Hanting said with a puzzled look on his face.
"No one in the capital knows that whenever there is something wrong, the lawsuit that is difficult to settle now is not the Yamen or Dali Temple, but the first thing that comes to mind is Yan Sitang. By the way, Chen Yao, if you don't come back, the people and officials in the capital will probably have forgotten you as the prince. Your second brother Feng Linghuan took advantage of your absence in recent years, and nearly half of the ministers in the court have become his supporters." Gong Hanting said with some gloating in his words.
Li Zige continued: "Yan Sitang has only been established for three years, but its power has grown rapidly. Nowadays, Han Yuting can basically handle some matters that do not involve the emperor and report them to the emperor. It is no wonder that the people in the capital are not as impressed by you as the prince. After all, Han Yuting is the one who can handle the lawsuit directly for them."
"I have heard of it at this time, but for the Ye family, the business they are engaged in is basically gold, silver, cloth, ore, and they have dealing with neighboring countries. The main one in the capital is Zhenweizhai, and they don't have much contact with Han Yuting. I have seen this person a few times. If the Ye family had not had the title of royal merchant, Han Yuting would have drawn personal gain from it long ago." Ye Haisong looked around the store and thought for a moment and said.
"No matter what conspiracy Han Yuting has, the most important thing is to find the red water flower now. Qinghe, you can stay here to take care of Mr. Ye. I will go to Youmingjian early tomorrow morning."
"Chen Yao, let me go with you!"
"Your Highness, yes, Qinghe knows."
"No Zige, I'll go alone this time. You are in the capital to help Uncle Ye manage Zhenweizhai's business and take care of their safety." After a pause, he said to Li Zige: "Zige, you will go to the palace tomorrow and tell my mother where I will go. The situation is urgent. I will go there for several days this time, otherwise she should be worried again."
Chapter completed!