Chapter 462: The civet cat exchanges for the prince?
Liu Shuyuan's personal entourage actually knelt down and kowtowed to Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter?
When Qin Shaoyou heard this, he couldn't help but raise his brows.
As the saying goes: There are seven ranks of officials in front of the prime minister.
As Liu Shuyuan's censor, his personal entourage may not have much status in the capital, but when it comes to the local area, it is extraordinary.
Especially since this personal entourage was Liu Shuyuan's confidant, I am afraid that many local officials would have to curry favor with him.
The people who are qualified to make him kneel and kowtow are either Liu Shuyuan's relatives and elders, or they have an unusual status.
Judging from the current situation, it seems unlikely that relatives and elders will.
If Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter were really Liu Shuyuan's relatives, then Liu Shuyuan could just take them over and reunite them. Why should they be so mysterious?
The most likely possibility is that Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter have unusual identities.
Moreover, this identity must be kept secret and cannot be known to too many people, otherwise it will cause trouble and danger.
After Liu Shuyuan's personal entourage met Lao Zhangtou, Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter disappeared the next day.
It seems that it is really possible that Zheng Tu was taken away by Liu Shuyuan as he guessed.
As Liu Shuyuan left Mianyuan County, he was ambushed by the Dazi River.
Is there any connection between these two things?
It was not because Liu Shuyuan discovered the secrets of the Fuso Ghost Tree and the Corpse King, but because he took away Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter that he caused a big disaster?
What is the origin of the person who can make the inspection censor take away him at the risk of his life?
Could it be... that he came from the palace?
In Qin Shaoyou's mind, stories such as 'a civet cat exchanged for a prince' and 'Zhao's orphan' instantly appeared.
The current emperor who is obsessed with cultivating immortality seems to have never had a prince.
I do have a few daughters, but I don’t have any sons.
It's not that he can't be born, it's that he doesn't live long after he's born.
When he was in the Demon Division of Luocheng Town, Qin Shaoyou followed Ba'an, Xin Lu and the others when they went out to drink. He often listened to several general bannermen after they got drunk and listened to them giving advice and making some treasonous complaints.
For example, he complains that the current emperor is not doing his job properly and has caused chaos in the court system and the people are struggling to make a living, so he asked God to punish him and let all the sons he gave birth to live short.
He even half-jokingly said that he should find a way to be transferred to the state capital and establish a good relationship with the people in the Shu Palace. Maybe when His Majesty attains immortality and ascends to heaven, these vassal princes will inherit the throne...
Assuming that Lao Zhangtou came out of the palace, his granddaughter was actually a prince pretending to be a prince. Because some strange things happened in the palace, or maybe he didn't want the prince to stay in the palace and die young for no reason, so Lao Zhangtou gave her to him.
He brought it out to see if he could raise the prince among the people.
But the people from the Black Lotus Sect found out about this through some unknown channel, and wanted to capture the prince.
After all, he is the prince of a country. Whether he develops into a believer or uses it to worship the evil Buddha, it is a huge benefit to the Black Lotus Sect!
Of course, these are just Qin Shaoyou's bold assumptions.
As for the truth of the matter, we have to sort out and deduce it after finding more clues.
As the saying goes, make bold assumptions but be careful to verify them.
Maybe what Lao Zhangtou is raising is not a prince who is a few years younger and disguised as a woman, but a girl who has been frightened out of her soul.
Maybe the identities of Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter are not as high as Qin Shaoyou assumed. They just have some deep relationship with Liu Shuyuan, such as relatives, family friends, etc. When Liu Shuyuan left Mianyuan County, they followed him together. It was simply
In order to avoid the strange incident of children's 'disappearance'.
There may be many more similar ones.
What the truth is, we don’t know yet.
While his mind was spinning, Qin Shaoyou did not stop talking and continued to play with his lips and tongue.
He asked the aunt's daughter: "How did you see Lao Zhangtou's old friends kneel down to them?"
Seeing that what she said interested Qin Shaoyou, the aunt's daughter was very happy. She recalled: "I made an appointment with Zhang Xiaoni to learn female celebrities together that day, but she didn't come when the time came, so I went to look for her and saw her home
The door was closed, and I originally planned to leave, but I heard someone talking in the house, so I went to the window and took a look..."
"They closed the door but not the windows?" Qin Shaoyou asked.
The aunt's daughter said: "The window is also closed, but there are holes in the window paper."
The window paper pasted on the windows is specially made and painted with tung oil. Although it will not break with just a poke, it is normal for it to be damaged after being exposed to wind and sun for a long time and being pecked by birds and mice.
Qin Shaoyou nodded and asked again: "Didn't they notice you peeking?"
The aunt's daughter seemed to have some unclear memory. She frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "I either peeked or glanced at the man and saw the man kneeling down for them. Grandpa Zhang pulled him up and ran away quickly."
, I don’t know if they have discovered it, but they probably haven’t.”
The aunt looked at her daughter in surprise: "Why haven't I heard you mention this matter?"
Her daughter was stunned for a moment, frowned, and muttered in confusion: "Yes, why haven't I thought of telling others about this before?"
After Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter disappeared, the officials came here twice to investigate and also questioned their neighbors who lived in the same yard.
But she never thought of talking about it.
It was as if there was some kind of power that deliberately made her forget about this matter.
Of course, the aunt's daughter didn't think so much. She felt that she didn't tell the officials who came to investigate the matter because those officials were either unsightly or vicious. She had no time to hide, so how could she dare to talk to them about it?
?
The little brother in front of her was better, he was handsome and his tongue was flexible...ah, he spoke so well that she was willing to say anything.
As for why she didn't tell her parents, the little girl didn't know.
Qin Shaoyou had some guesses.
The personal followers of Lao Zhangtou and Liu Shuyuan were probably not ordinary people. They either knew magic or had supernatural items in their possession.
The aunt's daughter was probably caught peeping, but they didn't want to cause trouble, so they didn't do anything to her. They just sealed her memory.
As for the little girl speaking these words now, it may be because time has passed and the spell cast on her has faded, allowing her to regain this memory.
Of course, it's also possible that it's because of Qin Shaoyou's [smart tongue].
Qin Shaoyou's flexible tongue can also hypnotize and confuse the mind, and it is entirely possible to pry open other people's sealed memories.
Immediately afterwards, Qin Shaoyou asked some more about the situation. After thanking the aunt and her daughter, he followed the two sisters Su Jianqing and Su Tingyu into the house where Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter once rented to check the situation.
It's a pity that after Lao Zhangtou left, this house was first searched by the officials and later rented to others, so it has long lost its original appearance.
Although two sisters, Su Jianqing and Su Tingyu, cast several trace-finding spells to help Qin Shaoyou find clues, they found nothing.
Under the reluctant eyes of the aunt and her daughter, Qin Shaoyou took Su Jianqing and Su Tingyu away from the yard next to Sansi Bridge.
"Where do we go next?"
Su Jianqing originally wanted to float in the air, but was afraid of scaring the people around her, so she continued to walk like a child.
After thinking about it for a while, Qin Shaoyou said: "Go to the county government office."
This time he was not visiting the fifth sister's family, but looking at the household registration information of Lao Zhangtou and Zhang Xingzu to see if he could find some clues.
At the same time, he also sent a few Qingji to call all the city gate guards in Mianyuan County to the Demon Suppression Division, intending to ask if anyone knew how Old Zhangtou and his granddaughter left.
, are you really following Liu Shuyuan?
Anyway, in the past few days, the Demon Suppression Department has sent night watchmen to help guard the city gate. If the city gate guards can leave for a while, there will be no serious problems.
Please remember the first domain name of this book: ._