Chapter 61: Collecting Evidence
After Qu Zihao returned to the prince's mansion, he was also worried and always wary. He knew that Qu Fangyu, Qu Zihang and others would act sooner or later, just sooner or later. If he acted earlier, Qu State would be able to settle sooner or later. Qu Ping did not disappoint himself. When he met for the first time, King Qu had a good impression. But if he wanted to continue his favor and even supported him to be on the throne, he had to do something in addition to Qu Ping himself. Qu Li was too vicious and was very unsuitable to be a king. Once he took the throne, the entire Qu State would definitely
There is a recession, and there will be bloody storms. I have to find Qu Li's crimes, report to King Qu in time, and announce to the world. He has descendants of Tang Cave Lord, and although he can only survive for the time being, Qu Zihao believes that as long as he comes forward, the descendants of Tang Cave Lord will have the courage to expose Qu Li; and Zhou Cave Lord, even though everyone in the cave was washed by Qu Li, it is said that the son of Zhou Cave Lord is still there; in this regard, I have to find useful evidence, and I can also meet the Dragon Cave Lord and Chu Cave Lord to listen to their thoughts.
"Prince, Master Weidong asked for a meeting." A guard of the door reported:
"pass!"
"Prince Zihao, you have to make the decision for me!" Master Wei Dong knelt down and cried:
"Get up quickly, please tell me, what makes you, a big man, cry like a woman?"
"Prince Zihao, do you know about Yaoshan?"
"I don't know, the Yaoshan incident was peacefully resolved with the Lord of Zhong Cave five years ago!"
"I don't have much objection to the Lord of Zhong Cave. Now Prince Qu Li is interfering in this matter."
"Let's talk about it in detail quickly."
"Last year, I had an agreement with the Master of Zhong Cave. They accounted for half of each Yaoshan, and did not violate each other, and had to strictly restrict the people from each cave, and they had to patrol and inspect side by side. This solved the decades of grudges with the Master of Zhong Cave. They were all in peace in the first few months of this year. However, Prince Qu Li heard about the existence of this Yaoshan and wanted to take it alone at first, but someone told him that the Yaoshan was negotiated by the prince and the master of our cave five years ago, and the master of our cave was managed by our two caves. I don't know who came up with the idea. It is said that it was a man named Dan Fangcheng. He used a snipe and clam fight. The fisherman made a profit strategy. He first tempted one of our cave owners to cooperate with him to manage Yaoshan together, but we refused both of them.
So Prince Qu Li captured the eldest daughter of the Lord of Zhong Cave to threaten. The Lord of Zhong Cave had no choice but to secretly block Yaoshan. The people here naturally did not do it, so they fought and each other were killed and injured. When Qu Li heard about this, he personally arranged for Yang Xin to block the mountain. Yang Xin was Qu Li's lackey, who liked to pretend to be a tiger's power and did many evil things. Several people on my side went up the mountain to collect herbs, and they were all killed by him. This matter came too suddenly. I thought deeply at night and had been in love with the Lord of Zhong Cave for so many years. I saw that this matter was very strange, so I took the initiative to investigate it secretly. The result surprised me. I couldn't understand why Prince Qu Li was so domineering?"
"Master Wei Cave! You must have heard about Master Tang Cave and Master Zhou Cave."
The Master of Cave Wei frowned and said, "Oh! I have heard that the two masters of Cave offended Prince Qu Li for no reason, and both died miserably."
"My elder is very anxious about this person, because this person is likely to inherit the throne." General Manager Zhang of the Prince's House said depressedly:
"Prince! If this person takes the throne, I am not afraid of death if I am young, our country will be uneasy and may be in a civil unrest."
Zihao drank a sip of tea in a depressed manner, looked at the cave master with his eyes, and said, "What Brother Wei said is all my thoughts! A hundred years are approaching, and now our country is facing civil strife again. How can we face the resurrection of the snow demon army in the future?"
As the conversation was right, a guard came to report again: "The Lord of Zhongdong asked for a meeting."
"Master Wei Dong, you should avoid it for the time being. After the matter is agreed, the three of us will discuss it again."
Master Weidong was introduced to the back hall by General Manager Zhang to have tea.
The Lord of Zhongdong looked sad and knelt down as soon as he entered the door and said, "Prince! It's so bitter! You must make the decision for me."
"If you have something to say, please get up quickly."
After the Lord of Zhongdong stood up, he directly talked about the matter of Yaoshan. The things he said were similar to those of Lord of Weidong. However, he emphasized more that he had no intention of offending and his eldest daughter was still in the hands of Qu Li. He was really helpless and hoped that Prince Zihao would seriously investigate.
Qu Zihao listened carefully and did not miss a word. What the two said was basically similar, but what they said was certain was true. He waved to General Manager Zhang.
General Manager Zhang took the Lord Wei Cave from the back hall. The two masters met. They both knelt down in front of Qu Zihao, and said in unison: "Please be the master of us, be a cow and a horse, and swear to be loyal to the prince to the death."
Qu Zihao quickly helped them up and said, "If you were sincerely loyal, Qu Li would not have become King Qu. I believe you have heard of Qu Ping's people!"
"I have heard of it. I am very smart, and I know etiquette, respect my elders, and seek unity."
"If this person becomes King Qu, Qu will definitely flourish and prosper, and we will be much safer."
"But I don't know what King Qu means? What are the other cave masters' thoughts?"
"Everyone let's leave for a while, let's go to see the situation in Yaoshan, and then go to see the Lord of Dragon Cave and Lord of Chu Cave."
General Zhang arranged horses and dozens of strong personnel to follow Prince Qu, led by Peng Xuanjian. Master Wei Cave and Master Zhong Cave followed closely with his men. Prince Qu knew that there were many spies, and the trip was very important and the content was very confidential. He still divided these people into several groups, and he chose a few Sui Cong and took two cave masters, all of whom turned into merchants and went out of the city. He couldn't help but stayed overnight in the morning and acted cautiously all the way.
I worked hard for two or three days, and at noon that day I saw Yaoshan from afar. The mountain was high and deep, with clouds and mist, lush forests and bamboos, and ancient trees were full of magnificent. Sometimes I heard the sound of apes and birds singing. Standing opposite the mountain, I could see sentries standing guard and soldiers patrolling from time to time.
"Prince! Look, that's the villain Yang Xin."
From a distance, Yang Xinzhi was arrogant, holding a whip in his left hand and putting his right hand on his hip. His roar from time to time seemed to be heard here.
"It's not that Qu Li is the backing, I should have cut him down long ago." The master of Zhongdong said angrily:
"Master Zhongdong! This kind of little person would still let him live a few more days."
After Qu Zihao finished speaking, he looked around again. He was still as beautiful and as friendly as five years ago, but now a bully suddenly came.
"Let's go, let's meet Master Chudong now."
Just as they were going down the mountain, they were drinking tea in a small teahouse, and suddenly they heard a couple crying next door. This was the territory of Master Wei's Cave. So Qu Zihao asked Master Wei's Cave: "Why is this?"
"Report to the adults, this is a couple. They just died of their only son." The waiter shook his head and said:
The Master Weidong was a little panicked and hurried to the next door and brought the couple, because they were all turned into businessmen, teahouse owner, waiter, old couple and other tea customers did not recognize the Master Weidong.
The couple are both middle-aged, wearing coarse blue cloth clothes and black numb shoes. The man is a little strong, while the woman is thin and honest.
"Brother and sister-in-law, why are you crying here?"
"My husband and wife are hunters not far from this. A few days ago, my son was happy to meet a marriage. He was just happy to welcome the bride home and invited many relatives and friends to congratulate him. Suddenly, a group of people in military uniform rushed in to steal the bride, and said that the bride was theirs. This was a huge joke. One of them was called Zhou Weimin, but he insisted on robbing the bride without saying anything. My son was not convinced and ran to argue with them. Unexpectedly, he saw a corpse that was cut to death by a knife on the road. His face was bloody and his body was cut many times. After carefully identifying it, he realized that it was indeed his good son. Unexpectedly, a happy event turned into a funeral." After the man finished speaking, he hugged his head and cried with his wife again.
"Master! This week, Qu Li is also a catch-up to the people. Like Yang Xin, he does evil and specializes in necrosis." Peng Xuanjian said:
"The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. If there is a master, there will be a dog." The master of Zhongdong said angrily:
Qu Zihao turned to Peng Xuanjian and asked him to take out a ingot of silver, turned around and said to the couple, "Good people will be rewarded, and evil people will be punished. Someone will eventually punish them. Take this silver and go home!"
"Thank you, sir, your family is broken. This time I came out, I will find our good cave master, Master Wei, to avenge me and capture the murderer." After the couple finished speaking, they bowed three times, and then left crying.
"Brother Wei! It seems that you have to stay for the time being and meet us immediately after processing."
"Yes! I will definitely complete this task."
Chapter completed!