Chapter 1240 Intercommunication

Author: Loeva

Chapter 1240 Intercommunication

"Fire?" Zhao Mo, who had just returned to Suning County Prince's Mansion, turned to look at Ah Shou with some surprise. His hands kept moving, still arranging the brocade clothes he had just put on.

He just rode a fast horse back to the capital from other places, and entered the city before the city gates were closed. Now he had to rush into the palace to report to the emperor. In a hurry, he only ate some snacks to satisfy his hunger, and he couldn't even eat raw food.

I didn't know if I could leave the palace tonight. Just as a precaution, I asked Ah Shou if anything important had happened recently. I didn't expect to hear the news about the fire in Prince Shu's palace from Ah Shou.

Ah Shou quickly explained the situation, and then said: "After the fire in the backyard of the Prince of Shu's Mansion was extinguished, even the back garden of the Gu family's house was in ruins, and now there is no way to clean it up. The people of the Prince of Shu's Mansion are all crowded in front

They lived in the main courtyard and the main courtyard, and the people in the Gu family's house moved directly to the front house. The prince of Shu had been keeping quiet, and the guards in charge kept a close watch. The people in the Gu family's house hardly went out except to buy funeral supplies.

When I saw this situation, I guessed that the clues were broken. Although I ordered people to continue to keep an eye on me, I didn’t know what to do next. I thought that this matter was not urgent, so I didn’t report it to Miss Qin San.

I know. After all...this is somewhat unlucky, there is no need to make our princess and princess suffer."

Zhao Mo laughed when he heard this, and glanced at Ah Shou with satisfaction: "You are quite smart, you did a good job! Go back and receive the reward, you can decide how much it will be."

Ah Shou was overjoyed and hurriedly saluted him: "Thank you, Lord, for the reward!"

Zhao Mo sat down on the chair with a smile, lowered his head and tucked his sleeves. Ah Shou hurriedly took the boots lying on the ground and served Zhao Mo to put them on himself, and said: "Now that the county prince is back, I don't have to

If you are still worried about who to ask for instructions, please ask the county prince for instructions."

Zhao Mo stepped on the boots on his feet and said: "Since there is no rush, let's wait until I come out of the palace. You can send a letter to Yongjia Marquis Mansion for me, to my uncle, grandaunt, fourth uncle Ping and

Third cousin, please report that you are safe. I have to report to the emperor first, and I can’t go to say hello to my uncle and aunt, please apologize for me.”

Ah Shou was a little surprised: "It's getting dark soon, why don't you, Prince of the County, go to the Yongjia Marquis Mansion before entering the palace? If you are afraid of being seen, just go through the back door." Anyway, if you enter the palace at this time, you will only run into the emperor having dinner.

, Zhao Mo still doesn’t know how long it will take.

Zhao Mo shook his head: "I can't go. I have an important errand." He still had something important with him, which he had to present to the emperor first. If something went wrong on the way, wouldn't it involve the Yongjia Marquis Mansion? What's more -

He said to Ah Shou: "You always keep saying that I shouldn't meet my third cousin before I get married, at least one month before the wedding. Even if I go to the Yongjia Marquis Mansion this late in the evening, my uncle, grandpa, and aunt won't be able to meet her."

I will be allowed to see my third cousin, so what is there to be anxious about? Just go and send me a letter and let them know that I am safe and sound. That's all. If I'm free tomorrow, I'll go to the Yongjia Marquis Mansion

Please greet me."

That's right, His Royal Highness the Prince of Suning County has such double standards.

Ah Shou was speechless, lowered his head and took a step back. Zhao Mo strode outside the house, and he quickly followed.

Zhao Mo entered the palace smoothly. Although he bumped into the emperor and the prince having dinner together, he was not so miserable that he was sitting alone in the side hall waiting. Instead, he was summoned by the emperor to have dinner with his father and son.

Nowadays, the royal family does not have so many false ostentations. The emperor wants to have a meal with his precious son. He is worried about the prince’s poor appetite in the summer, so he specially asked the people in the imperial kitchen to serve light, fresh and nutritious dishes. Not only did the prince eat well, but he also enjoyed the meal.

It was quite to Zhao Mo's taste. After the three of them had a satisfying dinner, they went to the Imperial Study Room and asked the palace servants to serve herbal tea that could clear away heat and eliminate food. They left the room and left, only paying attention to the servants waiting for orders, and then began to talk about business.

Already.

As expected, Zhao Mo was unable to leave the palace that night. By the time he had finished talking to the emperor and the prince, the palace door had already been locked. However, there was a room for the officials on duty to stay overnight in the outer palace, and a clean and tidy room was provided.

It was no problem to come to the wing to let Zhao Mo rest. In order to rush back to the capital, he took the land route after leaving Shandong, riding fast all the way, day and night. Now that he has arrived, he has finished his work report and his errands have come to an end.

, his whole body relaxed, and he could no longer hide the tiredness on his body. He fell down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning, the chamberlain who was waiting in the guard room called Zhao Mo several times before waking him up. After hurriedly washing up, he ate a few breakfasts. Hearing that the morning meeting had ended, he had already arrived.

I went to the imperial study room and saw the emperor again. It was almost noon before I was able to leave the palace and return to the palace.

Then he was stopped halfway.

Zhao Mo looked at Yuan Tongzhi who was standing in front of him angrily, and almost couldn't help but roll his eyes: "Master Yuan, I'm very tired, and I don't want to beat around the bush with you. Just tell me what you're doing?"

Yuan Tongzhi looked around and smiled at him, but in the end, the passers-by around him screamed in surprise and fled in fear. The smile on Yuan Tongzhi's face suddenly froze, he took a deep breath, and then said dryly

: "Please ask the prince to lend me a moment to speak."

Zhao Mo looked around and sighed helplessly: "Go to my palace." His Suning County Prince's Palace has been newly renovated. He thought that the other courtyard would be closer to the Yongjia Marquis Palace, so he has not moved back to the county yet.

Going to the main courtyard of the palace, living and living is still in the other courtyard. However, the place for entertaining guests has been replaced by the prince's palace. Now that I take Yuan Tongzhi back, everything is ready-made.

Yuan Tongzhi followed him without being polite.

After entering Suning County Prince's Mansion, Yuan Tongzhi glanced around casually and stopped paying attention to the environment of Zhao Mo's new residence. After the boy serving tea retreated, he got straight to the point with Zhao Mo: "The County Prince seems to have been paying attention to

What's going on with the Prince of Shu? The Prince of Shu has been studying behind closed doors for so long, and the county prince still sends people to keep an eye on him, which is really surprising."

Zhao Mo twitched his lips: "So Master Yuan is here for this matter? I also know that it is a bit taboo to do so, but Master Yuan also knows how the Prince of Shu once plotted against our family. I am not eating it.

He is the kind of coward who keeps silent even though he is in trouble. Everything he does is unreasonable, and he obviously has a big agenda. Naturally, I have to keep an eye on him, lest he cause a big disaster. I will call the emperor, the prince will worry about him, and the queen mother will also

I can’t feel at ease.”

Yuan Tongzhi smiled: "Your Highness, you don't have to say these high-sounding words. What you did is indeed a bit taboo, but as long as you don't think about treason or doing evil, then nothing you do is considered taboo. The rules of our Secret Service

Unlike others, as long as you can achieve your goal, occasionally breaking taboos is nothing more than a piece of cake. The most important thing is to see whether the method of breaking taboos is effective. You haven't done anything illegal, just look at it.

The prince of Shu is not pleasing to the eye, so he just wants to be stared at more. Even if the emperor knows, he will not say anything. In my opinion, compared with many clan members, you are already quite well-behaved. As long as you

If you are not an enemy of our Secret Service, can you do whatever you like?"

The implication of this is that if Zhao Mo becomes an enemy of the Secret Service, it will be another matter. The Secret Service sometimes does not follow the rules, which may also refer to their method of treating enemies.

Zhao Mo understood the meaning of Yuan Tongzhi's words and just smiled: "I feel relieved if I can hear these words from Master Yuan. Since Master Yuan found out that I am paying attention to the movements of the Prince of Shu, he wants to get something from me.

What news?"

Yuan Tongzhi said: "I don't know what the prince knows. Why don't we all share their knowledge?"

So, Zhao Mo and Yuan Tongzhi exchanged a wave of information. The rest was okay, basically the same. Almost everything Yuan Tongzhi said was already investigated by Ah Shou's people, and what they reported was only in details at most.

It's just a little off. However, Yuan Tongzhi added a situation that is very important.

The silk gold that the Prince of Shu ordered to be sent to his neighbor's house was four silver ingots packed in black wooden boxes, each weighing twelve taels. It was said that this silk gold had been sent to the merchants who lived in Gu's house, but in fact

, the thing now fell into the hands of Yuan Tongzhi. The person in charge of inspecting the silk gold at that time acted very cautiously. He was worried that if he did not check whether there was any entrainment in the box, the prince of Shu would take advantage of it and gain contact with the outside world.

Opportunity arose, so he changed the things, found four more silver ingots weighing ten ounces, put them in another box, and sent them to the merchants.

In this way, if the prince of Shu gives silk gold to someone normally, then the other party does not suffer a loss and still gets the same amount of silver. No one will think that someone has deducted the money given by the prince of Shu. However,

The things given by the Prince of Shu are still in the control of the court. If there is something fishy, ​​it will definitely be discovered soon.

Yuan Tongzhi really discovered it.

The bottoms of the four silver ingots all had shallow scratches. At first glance, they seemed to be meaningless scratches, but Yuan Tongzhi, who had been in the Imperial City Secret Service for a long time, recognized them at a glance. They should be a kind of scratches.

Marks with special meanings. When he was chasing Hei Feng, a subordinate of the Prince of Shu who was suspected of colluding with the Beirong people, he had found such marks on his relics, and suspected that it might be some kind of code word commonly used within the Prince of Shu's palace.

"Relics?" Zhao Mo frowned, "I thought you had chased the person away. What? Is the person dead?"

Yuan Tongzhi sighed: "He's dead. He died quite neatly. Our people had surrounded him and could have captured him alive. Unexpectedly, he had a sharp knife hidden in his body. Before our people could catch him, we would have captured him alive."

Before he took it, he slit his own throat with a knife, but he didn't have time to say anything. Even his name was only found out after we traced the people who had been in contact with him afterwards."

Zhao Mo asked: "How did I hear that he escaped?"

Yuan Tongzhi twitched his lips: "It was the secret agent who spread the news, so that the people who ordered Heifeng would not think he was really dead and become vigilant." Of course, their secret agent also planned to dig a hole and wait for someone to jump out.

, but obviously, it was not successful. The prince of Shu has been imprisoned, and even if there is a pit outside, he cannot jump.

Yuan Tongzhi was not willing to talk about this kind of embarrassing matter. He only asked Zhao Mo: "The county prince has so many talented people, is this all he got?" What he wanted to know was something he didn't know.

Zhao Mo touched his nose: "Oh... okay then. I would like to ask Mr. Yuan, if you have ever thought about... whether there is something ulterior under the collapsed wall of Prince Shu's Mansion?"

Yuan Tongzhi suddenly became solemn: "What does the prince mean by this?"
Chapter completed!