Chapter 96
Chapter 96
The Ninth Prince didn't disturb anyone, and he didn't go to the morning court. He went directly to the harem to find the queen mother, but was fooled by the quiet queen mother's bedroom in front of him.
He grabbed a eunuch in the bedroom and asked, "Where did the Queen Mother and Zhenzhen go?"
The eunuch quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "The queen mother will bring the son to sacrifice, and she will come back after the eighth day of the lunar new year..."
"After the eighth day of the lunar new year?" The Ninth Prince suddenly remembered that the queen mother had to offer sacrifices every year, and indeed she would only come back after the eighth day of the new year.
But after the eighth day, he had already returned to the battlefield.
"Then how to explain the letter to me?" Ninth Prince asked aggressively.
The little eunuch seemed to be about to cry, "It was the Queen Mother's order to send it to you according to the time, and the servant just obeyed!"
Ninth Prince recalled the content of the letter, "That is to say, everything is just fiction?"
"The slave doesn't know, I don't know what it's about, I just ordered the messenger to send it to the battlefield..."
"Let me ask you!" The Ninth Prince bent down and pinched the collar of the little eunuch, "You are really by the Queen Mother's side, what's the situation?"
"Shi, Shizi is very good..." The little eunuch was frightened by the breath of the Ninth Prince, afraid that he had said the wrong thing.
"Tell the truth! Or behead!"
"A-actually, before the queen mother left, the prince still missed you... thinking of his Omega father, and still..."
"What else!"
"I'm still thin... Eight or eight, the queen mother was worried that the maid would not be able to take care of her well, so she took her away..."
"Then where does he eat?" Ninth Prince pressed.
"Eating... No, it's not very good. Every day we cajole and persuasion, we don't eat. He only opens his mouth when the prince comes to eat with him..." The little eunuch had big beads of sweat on his forehead.
The Ninth Prince shook off the little eunuch, "Get lost!"
The little eunuch ran away like shit, the Ninth Prince turned around and walked towards the imperial study.
"Why are you back!" The emperor was taken aback when he saw the Ninth Prince, "Even if the fighting is temporarily stopped, someone needs to guard it!"
"For the time being, General Zhenxi and Deputy General are here. I have more important matters! Your Majesty, do you know where Duanmu Rui is?" The Ninth Prince ignored the etiquette and rushed directly to the emperor's case.
"Duanmu Rui? Really dad? I don't know!" The emperor calmly wiped his hands with a wet handkerchief, his hands were still stained with ink, "Your own man, how do I know."
The Ninth Prince stood there dumbfounded, suddenly felt very funny, wanted to find someone, but no one knew his whereabouts, "That's really..."
"Zhenzhen and the queen mother went to the temple to sacrifice, and they will come back after the eighth day of the lunar new year. Why, now I understand? You didn't listen to the previous advice..." The emperor said in an unhurried, unhurried manner.
The Ninth Prince had never been so eager. He knew that when the person was still there, he would not be in a hurry to see him, but could hide behind closed doors. But when the person really disappeared from his eyes, he desperately wanted to see him. To see him, even if you give up everything.
"Duanmu Rui didn't go to the place planned in advance, does the Emperor know what happened to the Queen Mother?"
"It's really rude!" The emperor reached out and pointed at the door, then whispered to him, "If your words are heard by the Queen Mother..."
The Ninth Prince suddenly realized that what he just said was spreading rumors about the Queen Mother, so he immediately lowered his voice, "Fourth Brother said let me ask the Queen Mother, she knows the most."
The emperor raised his eyebrows and raised his chin to look at the Ninth Prince, "Since you said such a thing, you should ask fourth brother, he must know something too, wouldn't it be a waste of time to come and ask me!"
The Ninth Prince suddenly realized that he was obsessed with his thoughts yesterday and forgot about it. When he was reminded, he left immediately. When he came to the door of the study, he turned back uneasy, "If the Empress Dowager comes back...forget it."
The Ninth Prince returned to Fang Mansion again, but Boss Fang was no longer in the mansion.
He grabbed a guard at the door and asked fiercely. When the guard got nervous, he called them all.
When the Ninth Prince arrived at the shop, he was told that Boss Fang had just left and must have gone to drink tea at Zhang Yuanwai's house in the city.
The Ninth Prince flicked the reins violently and kicked down the door of the silk shop.
At this time, Boss Fang flashed out from behind the curtain, "This door is made by the most famous carpenter in the city. It costs 300 taels a door. If you kick it and break it, how can you pay for it?"
"As expected, you didn't leave!" The Ninth Prince jumped into the counter, the shopkeeper hurriedly stepped aside, and there were only those two people behind the counter.
"Just about to leave," the Ninth Prince suddenly grabbed Boss Fang's neck, and Boss Fang quickly changed his words, "I'm back again. What's the matter with Ninth Brother, don't hesitate to go in and talk about it."
The Ninth Prince felt that he was being kicked back and forth like a ball for a long time, and his emotions were on the verge of breaking out. Boss Fang seemed to give him some hope. He strangled Boss Fang's neck and entered the back room.
"You must have come to me because you ran into a wall with the Queen Mother!" Boss Fang casually pushed away his neck that was no longer strangled hard, and poured him a cup of tea to calm down, "But I really don't know much about this. I have to ask your mother."
"What the hell happened!" The Ninth Prince was made restless by him, just sat down and stood up again, walking back and forth behind Boss Fang.
"If I say, you have to make sure that no one comes to trouble me!" Boss Fang looked back at the tall and tall Ninth Prince behind him, and didn't put him in his eyes at all.
"I promise! Don't tell me!"
"Well, as I said, before Duanmu Rui left, I arranged for him to work in a flower field in the countryside five miles north of my city. He was concerned about the real situation, so he didn't want to leave too far away, so he went that day, but he brought back a information."
"What's the news!" The Ninth Prince anxiously stood in front of Boss Fang, preventing him from walking back and forth.
"My flower farmer intended to pick up Duanmu Rui, because there needs to be a mass grave there, and there are sometimes bandits hiding there."
"then?"
"So he saw a terrible scene. A carriage was chased by five men in black. One died in the carriage and one escaped. Three of the other five men in black died and two escaped."
"anything else?"
"What's more... Duanmu Rui hasn't been to Huatian yet, I don't know where he went, and he hasn't heard from me."
Sitting there, Boss Fang spoke very clearly, calmly as usual, but the Ninth Prince felt like thunder, "What else did the flower farmer say? Where did the carriage go in the end?"
"What the flower farmer told me is all he saw. The carriage continued to move forward in the end, and the direction was east, but at that time the horses were already frightened, and they didn't know where they would go!"
"Then...the dead...where is the body?"
"You have to ask your mother about it. According to my flower farmer, I went back to the flower field the first day because of fear, and went to see it the next day. There was no clue there."
The Ninth Prince swallowed, still holding a glimmer of hope in his heart, "You...how can you be sure...that person is the Queen Mother!"
"Hmph!" Boss Fang was annoyed, "If you say that the accountant is tormenting me like this, who else besides your mother and you? If you say who was the most threatening to the child in the hands of the Queen Mother at that time, according to what I have said to the Queen Mother over the years I understand, she will take revenge, and she is used to eradicating all future troubles, so she can know who wants to kill the grass, if it is not for her, my elder brother will still be alive, and my father will not die!"
"Impossible! She clearly promised me not to do anything to Duanmu Rui again!" The queen mother mentioned by the fourth brother is really not the same as the queen mother he knew.
"Believe it or not, I can only say this. You can ask your mother for the rest. I can't help you. Goodbye!" Boss Fang threw up his sleeves angrily and left, leaving the Ninth Prince to sit alone in this room.
Compared with whether the queen mother did it, the Ninth Prince was more nervous about whether the person who died that day was Duanmu Rui.
Suddenly thought of something, he rushed out to catch up with the boss' sedan chair, stopped him and asked, "What's the flower farmer's name? How can I find him?"
Boss Fang lifted the curtain, "My flower farmer died of the cold a while ago, it's useless for you to find him, why don't you save your energy to find your mother!"
He lowered the curtain and told the bearers to move on. The Ninth Prince rode back and forth on the street without any target.
He had to go back at night, in such a short time, where could he find Duanmu Ruihao?
I hope that the one who died was not him, he must have changed his mind temporarily and went to other places!
Watching the crowds on the street, the Ninth Prince pulled the reins, turned the horse's head and ran in the other direction.
When he arrived at the Jade Street, the Ninth Prince got off his horse and went directly to a jade shop that looked the most down-and-out.
"Kowtow to the Ninth Prince!" A man with a scar in his ear hurriedly bowed when he saw the Ninth Prince.
"Get up, you and I are the only ones who don't need to be polite." Ninth Prince helped Boss Luo up, "I need your help this time when I come back."
Boss Luo ordered his apprentice to go out to choose stones, and he closed the door tightly, "I just came back from Liucheng, a hundred miles east of the city, and I happen to be free. I wonder what trouble the Ninth Prince has encountered? You are not at war with the Western Feudal Kingdom. There must be something important to come back from time to time! Could it be that the old man continues to lurk somewhere?"
"That's not necessary, just ask you to help me find someone."
"Oh," Boss Luo was a little excited, "Who are you looking for? Do you want to go with me this time? Could it be that the daughter of Princess Nanuer escaped last time?"
"Thinking!" Ninth Prince cut off his thoughts, "You know the person I'm looking for this time!"
"Oh? Which Omega son? Or which stone gambling maniac?"
"Do you remember Duanmu Rui from last time?" Ninth Prince lowered his voice and asked him.
"Naturally I remember. The jade power that I worked tirelessly that time was not just for him!"
"It's him. He left Shangjing a few months ago and disappeared without a trace. So far, there is no news of him."
"A few months ago? This is difficult. Are there any other clues?" Boss Luo asked seriously.
Lord Nine told Boss Luo about the incident in the north of the city, "I have to go back to the camp tonight, I'm counting on you to find someone!"
Boss Luo was a little hesitant, "Let's not talk about whether we can find this matter. Just because of the ambush that appeared that day, Mr. Duanmu must have been in danger. Not to mention who sent the assassin, it is obvious that it was for the purpose of silence. It wasn't the horses that were frightened, and even the one that escaped was not spared."
The Ninth Prince endured the panic, "But there may be a good result. If it is Rui'er who died and the servant who escaped, the servant will definitely come back to ask for help, but there is no news, so it is very dangerous. Maybe it's where Rui'er went, and she can't enter Beijing... You're so stupid! You have a gold medal in your hand, why don't you know how to enter Beijing!" Thinking of it, he gritted his teeth with hatred.
"Maybe the servants took the money and escaped, but why are there only two people in the carriage? It's not that he has parents at home..."
"That's why I want you to investigate!" Boss Luo suddenly uncovered what the Ninth Prince tried to ignore or didn't dare to look at, and couldn't help being a little angry.
"Yes! This subordinate understands!" Boss Luo quickly shut up.
"In short, this matter is entrusted to you. If you find it, you will be rewarded! Send me a letter in time if you have any news."
"It's the general!"
Boss Luo sent the Ninth Prince away from the back door, and then called back his disciples, "This is a newly collected rough jade from Na Kuai Mansion. You can separate it from the stone in the past few days. As for polishing or selling it, I will do it when I come back." Make up your mind, I'm going out these few days, you watch the shop."
"It's Master!" The apprentice said, then sat down on the wooden bench and resumed the work he had just stopped.
Boss Luo went to the north gate first, while Lord Ninth went to Duanmu Rui's house again.
The gate was still closed, the Ninth Prince looked left and right, went around to the back wall and found an easy-to-climb place, turned over and entered.
Maybe there are clues in the house, the Ninth Prince guessed the weather, there is still some time to look through the yard.
He went to Duanmu Rui's bedroom, and then to his parents' bedroom, and in the end he didn't even miss the place where the servant lived.
Except for a small burn mark on the floor of Master Duanmu's bedroom, there is no information left for him.
Not even a confetti, let alone a letter!
The Ninth Prince was secretly lying on Duanmu Rui's bed, soaked by the cold air in the room, his mood of missing Duanmu Rui suddenly calmed down a lot, but he had to think of other things.
Maybe Ye Rui'er was really angry when she stabbed him with a knife, or she was dissatisfied in some way. If it was an assassin from the enemy country, how could she give away the dagger so easily.
At this moment, when I think about it, I can't find any reason to be angry because of that incident, why the two of them are so stiff, I don't want to lose Rui'er, I really don't want to.
This farewell, I can't find anyone, I don't know when I will see him, if I really release the news, I don't know if he can come back.
He has a death-free gold medal on his body, so he can't use it!
There was still a bit of Ruier's smell on the pillow, but there was no Ruier's warmth in the silk quilt. The Ninth Prince pulled the quilt over and covered him like this, imagining that Ruier was sleeping soundly in front of him, and there was a chubby really...
Maybe he is living well in other places, and he doesn't need to bother or intervene. The two unborn children don't know how old they are now.
If the time is accurate, it should be in the late summer and early autumn, maybe then is a good time to find someone...
The Ninth Prince fell asleep without knowing it, and it was the first time he slept so peacefully after several months of fighting.
Knowing that he was shivering from the cold, he finally opened his eyes and found that it was already dark outside. The Ninth Prince jumped out of bed in an instant, climbed out of the courtyard wall, rode his horse and whipped his horse to the camp.
This road looks so short when you come back, but why does it feel so long when you go there!
The horses ran for two days and felt that they were still at least half the distance from the camp. The Ninth Prince was a little worried and had to rush back before the armistice agreement. Therefore, the horses and people only replenished food and water before embarking on the journey again.
When they arrived at the camp, they flicked the whip, and someone killed the horse, and the Ninth Prince saw Hu Ya running towards him.
"General! There is a secret report!"
"What's the matter!" The Ninth Prince was dressed in dust and dust, and went directly into the tent without taking a rest.
"News from Nanyang suspect that the Western Feudal Kingdom is secretly colluding with Nanyang, and wants to open up this line and seize this jade vein!"
"When's the news?" The Ninth Prince entered the tent and took a teacup to drink.
"I just received it yesterday, and it seems that the two parties have not made any major moves."
The Ninth Prince sighed, and immediately put all his thoughts on the strategy map, "It's safe for the time being, we will definitely not let those two little thieves hook up together, pass on the order, resume training from today, and annihilate the enemy as soon as possible!"
"Yes!" Hu Ya withdrew.
Only then did the Ninth Prince rub his hands that were already blistered from grasping the reins, Rui'er's figure flashed in front of his eyes, and then he brushed away those distracting thoughts, and sent someone to gather several lieutenants in the tent, and began to talk about the battle in detail.
In the blink of an eye, the eighth day of the lunar new year has passed, and the queen mother is about to return to Beijing.
The palace has already made preparations to pick him up, and the maids have been waiting for news since the morning of the eighth day.
On the tenth day of the lunar new year, according to the normal itinerary, the queen mother should have arrived at the palace, but a message was received in the palace, "The queen mother accidentally fell off the cliff on the way back to the palace, and the guards sent back the message and the prince first, and the rest of the people waited where they were Send someone to look for the corpse under the cliff."
The emperor immediately ordered to block the news, and sent a whole team of guards to protect Zhenzhen. Regarding the theory of accidentally falling off the cliff, the emperor immediately thought of the eldest prince at that time, and the fourth prince's own father.
"Go and keep a close eye on Boss Fang in Fang's mansion, and watch his actions these days, and report immediately if there is anything wrong." The emperor sent a Jin Yiwei to carry it out, and at the same time sent additional people to search for evidence at the place where the accident happened.
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