The man in the black tiger mask asked again: "How to deal with Xiao Ran and them? There is also the eldest princess who is imprisoned in purgatory. If we don't get rid of her, even if we poison Emperor Sheng Wen, as long as she is here, we will not be able to sit on it."
There is absolutely no chance at that position."
A basin of cold water came too suddenly and was poured on everyone's heads without warning, making them all calm down.
If you think about it carefully, this is really the truth.
No matter what they did, they could never get around the eldest princess.
With the power of the eldest princess, although she seems to have little power on the surface, it is all a lie. If she had no power, would Emperor Shengwen be so afraid?
Coupled with her own terrifying cultivation level, if she were angered and wanted to avenge Emperor Shengwen, they would all be dead.
You look at me, I look at you, everyone including the dragon masked man is speechless.
quite a while.
The man in the dragon mask said sternly: "Let's let the matter of the eldest princess go for now. She practiced forbidden skills and was imprisoned in purgatory. As long as the sequelae are not resolved, she will not be able to come out. This is very big for us.
Good news."
He paused and said again.
"Wait until we deal with them all before we deal with the eldest princess. With the power we have at that time, won't it be easy to deal with her?"
Everyone thinks it makes sense.
The man in the black tiger mask tried to suggest: "How about sending someone to Purgatory to give her to..."
Having said this, he made a clicking gesture, and the meaning was self-evident.
The man in the dragon mask looked at an idiot without the slightest contempt: "Didn't you hear what I just said? Tianlao is now managed by him. If it was so easy to attack, would you still wait until now?"
"Can't you?"
"Xiao Ran did not come back from the outside. There are many people imprisoned in the sky prison, some of whom are the heirs of big forces. But in the end, those who wanted to rescue all left and never returned, and they were all told there."
The man in the black tiger mask took a breath, he really didn't know this.
Back to business.
Let’s put aside the matter of the eldest princess for now. The most urgent task is to solve the matter of Xiao Ran and them first.
The man in the dragon mask asked: "Kill Xiao Ran first, or deal with the eldest prince and the others first? Or do we do it together?"
Rabbit Mask Man Soul Torture: "Judging from the power we have now, can we destroy them all at the same time?"
This sentence is to the point. If they weren't not strong enough, how could they join forces?
If you show off your horse and horse, and confront the eldest prince head-on in an upright manner, why would you act like a shrunken turtle, wearing a mask, afraid of exposing yourself?
"Deal with Xiao Ran first. This guy is just a troublemaker. If we don't deal with him, sooner or later we will ruin our good deeds."
Make a plan.
Everyone left and followed the plan.
A huge conspiracy against Xiao Ran quickly unfolded.
at this time.
Xiao Ran had already brought Xiao Zhou and the others to the Ministry of Household Affairs again. When he saw that they had just left and returned, the new Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Household Affairs, regardless of the doubts in his heart, hurriedly put down what he was doing and led his people to greet them quickly: "
I’ve met Lord Marquis!”
"Besides the lost 100 million silver, what else is there? Is there any detailed record?" Xiao Ran asked.
"Yes! I will order someone to get it now."
soon.
An official ran back quickly and stopped in front of him. His face was panicked, his forehead was wet with cold sweat, and he said tremblingly: "The account books are missing!"
"Take me there!" Xiao Ran ordered.
Once inside, there was a smell of potion lingering in the room, as if someone had destroyed it with a special potion, and there were some dust from corrupted books on the ground.
Xiao Ran said coldly: "The account books are not missing, but were destroyed."
Looking at Xiao Zhou, he ordered: "Arrest people according to the list!"
"It's Mr. Hou!"
When there were outsiders present, Xiao Zhou was very tactful and called him "Master Hou".
Immediately follow the list and arrest people at the Ministry of Household Affairs. The left servant of the Ministry of Households looked puzzled. He tried hard to open his mouth and wanted to ask something, but his mouth was open for a long time and no word came out. He was afraid that he would be implicated.
.
Nowadays, the Ministry of Finance is a big hole. If he hadn't offended someone, he wouldn't have been transferred here at this juncture.
After arresting more than thirty people, they stopped.
Xiao Ran said: "They are all involved in this case."
"What the Marquis said is that the official has no objection."
"I would like to ask you, were the account books here still there yesterday?"
The left servant of the household department was embarrassed, scratching the back of his head and not knowing how to answer. He didn't know whether the account books were still there.
Seeing him like this, Xiao Ran knew what he was doing.
Take people away, no longer here.
On the way back, Xiao Zhou looked confused, "Brother Xiao, should we just forget it?"
Xiao Ran shook his head and said sarcastically: "Of course not."
"But all the account books have been destroyed. Without the account books, it would be extremely difficult to find out what was stolen."
"We have arrested so many people this time, and it will not take long for such a big news to spread throughout the capital. With the power of the mastermind behind it, it is impossible not to know about it."
Xiao Zhou suddenly realized that this was to lure the snake out of its hole, but he was worried in his heart. What if the mastermind behind the scenes didn't take the bait?
"You have to be patient when doing things." Xiao Ran warned.
Returned to Tianlao.
Xiao Zhou led people to imprison them on the eighth floor and interrogated them personally.
Xiao Ran went to purgatory and stopped in the first cell. When she saw him coming, the eldest princess smiled slightly and said jokingly: "Why did you come here when you were free?"
"Miss you." Xiao Ran opened the cell door and walked in.
He sat down next to her, took a teapot, poured a cup of tea, took a sip, held her hand, and told her about the theft of the household department.
"You took over this case?" The eldest princess frowned.
"Yeah." Xiao Ran nodded.
"How's the check going?"
"Except for the former Minister of Accounts, almost everyone else was involved, and many people were arrested. I just took people to the Accounts Department again, and the account books were destroyed. From this, it can be inferred that the mastermind behind the scenes is not for money.
It's for other treasures in the warehouse, and the money is just incidental, or used to confuse the eyes."
"It seems that you are not far away from solving the case." The eldest princess smiled sweetly.
She stood up from the chair and took the initiative to sit in his arms like the girl next door. She stretched out her jade fingers, held a piece of white lotus cake, and put it to his mouth, "What are you going to do next?"
"
"Sit back and wait." Xiao Ran smiled slightly.
"Are you so confident that they will definitely take action?"
"The name of a person, the shadow of a tree. Since I have taken over this matter, with the ability I have shown before, it would be strange if they are not afraid."
The eldest princess understood that Xiao Ran wanted to force them to take action.
I saw him say again: "Even if they don't take action, I have other methods."
"Giggle..."
A smile like a silver bell came from her mouth, and the smile was so beautiful that people couldn't help but be fascinated by it.
The same goes for Xiao Ran. Except for the last floor, the two of them were almost the same.
He held her waist and kissed her immediately.
"Woooo..."
a long time.
The two of them separated. The eldest princess waved her pink fist, hit him angrily, and then gave him a blank look: "Can't you be gentler?"
"Pay attention next time."
took a sip of tea.
Xiao Ran put away his smile and asked seriously: "What's the situation with the eldest prince and the others now?"
"Do you suspect that this matter has something to do with them?"
"Yeah." Xiao Ran didn't deny it and nodded truthfully.
"There are not many people who dare to do this. Apart from your good nephews, I can't think of anyone else who dares to kill even my own father. It's just a household department. They really don't take it seriously."
"!!!" The eldest princess had a black line on her head.
She threw him a pair of big white eyes and said angrily: "Are there people like you?"
Xiao Ran scraped her nose, took out ten thousand-year-old red dates, put them in front of her, took one, and placed it on her red and attractive little mouth: "Be good! Open your mouth.
.”
"Yes." The eldest princess opened her mouth cooperatively and ate the thousand-year-old red jujube.
Continuing with the topic just now.
"They are very calm, but I always feel that the more this happens, the more bad things are going to happen, as if a bigger conspiracy is brewing."
"Where are the other princes?"
"They are the same. They are all very honest and they don't even dare to come into contact with civil and military officials." The eldest princess said.
"I'm afraid you were deceived by them." Xiao Ran said solemnly.
"Did you lie?"
Facing her confused look, Xiao Ran said his guess: "If you think about it carefully, so many princes have died, and now is the best opportunity to compete for the crown prince's position, but where are they? They are sitting there.
Don't you think it's strange if you don't move, and you don't even win over the civil and military officials? If something goes wrong, there must be a monster."
"I have also thought about this issue, but Sheng Wen is suppressing it. With his current temper, if he does not take the initiative to give it and someone dares to reach out randomly, even the prince will end up in a miserable way."
Xiao Ran shook his head again and poked her forehead: "You are so smart, but you still can't see through it?"
The eldest princess's complexion changed, she understood.
Before, I was unwilling to go in the worse direction. After being reminded by Xiao Ran, I felt like the sky was falling when I thought about the worst.
He said solemnly: "If your guess is true, then Shengwen will be in trouble again this time."
"You want to send him a message?" Xiao Ran asked curiously.
"Yes." The eldest princess nodded.
"No matter what, now that you know it, you can't let it go. As for whether he believes it or not, that's his own business."
"He won't believe it." Xiao Ran shook his head.
There was still a word left unsaid. If she sent the message, Emperor Sheng Wen would probably think too much and think she was planning something secretly.
The eldest princess knew this, but she still did it.
"It's getting late, I should go back." Xiao Ran stood up from the chair.
After leaving the cell, he closed the cell door and walked outside.
After such a long time, the mastermind behind the scenes is probably ready, right?
When we arrived at the lobby on the first floor, Xiao Zhou quickly came up to us: "Brother Xiao, what should we do now?"
"Get off work!" Xiao Ran said.
It was already dark by this time.
"Ah! What about this case?"
Bang!
Xiao Ran hit him on the head angrily, "Don't you want to go back early?"
Xiao Zhou chuckled, thinking of Sister Yan's kindness.
Over the past few days, the attitude of his parents has completely changed. They went from not talking to each other to now living together and getting along very well.
"Then I have to go!"
"Yeah." Xiao Ran nodded.
Xiao Zhou and others left in a hurry.
Out of the prison.
Looking at the night, there are some stars in the night sky, shining slowly, and the starlight illuminates the night. He is not sure whether the mastermind behind the scenes will take action. If not, he will have to implement the second plan.
He changed direction and walked towards Shuirou Tofu Shop.
I just did that yesterday. I was busy during the day and didn’t have time to go there. I had to squeeze out some time to go see it anyway at night.
Shui Rou Tofu Shop.
The aunt and daughter were sitting across the table. The table was filled with dishes, but neither of them had much appetite and each had their own thoughts.
Shui Ling was thinking about Xiao Ran, looking at the door from time to time, listening with her ears pricked up, thinking in her heart, why doesn't he come over?
Shuirou was even more complicated. Thinking of what happened last night, how did Xiao Ran get into her room? He also took away her palace guard sand?
At that time, she drank millet wine and was so drunk that she fell into a daze. She didn't have much strength yet and became confused.
When she woke up in the morning, she was shocked. If Shuiling knew about this, how could he see her?
She is my niece!
Chewing the steamed buns, my chopsticks didn't move for a while, I lowered my head, and my heart turned into a mess.
If Xiao Ran comes over later, how can I see him?
Will he come to find me again?
Shui Ling didn't know her thoughts. Seeing her aunt chewing a steamed bun for a long time and still not finishing it, she kindly put a large piece of beef in her bowl and said, "Auntie, why do you only eat steamed buns and not vegetables?
Doesn’t the food I cook tonight taste good?”
Looking suspicious.
"That's not right! It still smells the same as during the day."
"Okay, delicious!" Shuirou responded in a panic.
He tried his best to smile and make his smile appear more natural, "I just think that our life is getting better day by day, and this is all inseparable from Xiao Ran's help."
I didn't want to mention him, but I couldn't help but mention him.
I secretly asked myself, did I really fall in love with him?
As soon as this idea came up, I was shocked. He was the person Shui Ling liked, and she couldn't be tempted no matter what.
"Yes!" Shui Ling felt the same way.
"In the past, let alone eating fish and meat every day, I even had to save on steamed buns. I wanted to break a penny in half and use it. But now, I don't have to worry about money anymore. I can buy whatever I want, and I still have money.
Also rouge, gouache, nice new clothes and jewelry.”
Staring at my aunt.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but she seems to think that her aunt is more beautiful than before, and she has a mature charm.
He said, "Auntie, you seem to have become more beautiful."
"Nonsense! I've always been like this."
"Really! You are so charming now that even I can't help but feel attracted to you."
Shui Rou was shocked and did not dare to continue the conversation, so she changed the subject: "Eat it quickly!"