Chapter 59 The ghost of the Grand Canal was arrested overnight!
Qin Yun stood up and continued to threaten: "Have you ever heard of cooking? Throw a living person into a water tank, light firewood underneath, close the lid, and boil the person alive."
Xia Yan's eyes showed a trace of fear, and she cried: "Your Majesty, I say, I say!"
Qin Yun raised his eyebrows, why did he let go so easily? It seems that Xia Yan's true identity may really be just a concubine, an ordinary weak woman.
"Before Lin Changshu's accident, he had a premonition that he might fail in forcing the palace. He was afraid that Wang Wei would regard him as an abandoned son and ignore him, so he gave me a map and asked me to leave early."
"If things fail, let me hide the map. This will make Wang Wei throw a trap and have to find a way to save him."
"But after the incident failed, Wang Wei took action and sent many people to hunt me down and try to silence me."
"I...I didn't even have a chance to threaten him with the map."
"I was lucky enough to escape from the chase, but I didn't have anywhere to go. I wandered for a while, and then I was captured by the Forbidden Army."
Xia Yan said fearfully, having been involved in such a conspiracy, she had already panicked.
Qin Yun narrowed his eyes and took out the map: "Does Wang Wei know about this map?"
Xia Yan shook his head: "He doesn't know. Lin Changshu said that no one knows about this map. This is a back-up he left for himself to prevent himself from being thrown away as a chess piece."
Qin Yun asked again: "Then what does this map represent? Have you ever been to the places marked?"
Xia Yan said: "I don't know what it represents, and I don't dare to go there."
"It seems, it seems to be related to the palace assassination case..."
Qin Yun's eyes shone with a sharp light. He was not surprised that the assassination case was related to Wang Wei. What was surprising was the map. He felt that he had touched the truth behind the conspiracy!
This is the most important!
"Tell me clearly, everything you know about the palace assassination case!"
Xia Yan looked horrified and sobbed: "Your Majesty, I'm telling you, can you spare my life? I really haven't participated in anything. It's just that Lin Changshu doted on me and told me a lot of things. That's all.
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Qin Yun signaled with his eyes that the Imperial Army helped Xia Yan up and gave her a seat.
"Say it, as long as it's true, I won't kill you and will let you out of the prison."
Xia Yan looked at his face, then lowered her head, not daring to ask for anything more.
He said, "One time I overheard Lin Changshu talking to a man in black, saying that he had arranged a place for them to stay and prepared a plan to enter Xuanwumen. Wang Wei would cooperate and let them act when they are ugly."
"The next day, people in the streets of the imperial capital were talking about an assassin entering the palace last night to kill him."
Qin Yun asked: "Who is the man in black? Do you know him?"
Xia Yan's eyes hesitated: "It seems, it seems that Lin Changshu called him Master... This man is masked, and Lin Changshu doesn't even know his true identity."
Is he the man who arranged the eunuch killer in the palace?
Sure enough, the assassination case and the fire in the prison were plotted by the same group of people.
But Qin Yun's expression changed immediately. If he put it this way, the mysterious master was not Wang Wei. Otherwise, there would be no need to hide his face to communicate with Lin Changshu. They were just a pair of comrades.
Mysterious master, who could that be?
"Feng Lao, Tao Yang!" he shouted decisively.
"The humble duty is here."
"The old slave is here."
Qin Yun turned around and said, "Go, the Shadow Guards and the Forbidden Army will work together to find the marked points on this map overnight to see what's weird there. They can actually involve the killer leader and Wang Wei at the same time!"
"yes!"
Feng Lao and Tao Yang took the order, took the map, and left the prison as quickly as possible.
Soon after, the Shadow Guards, as well as the most elite thousands of Imperial Guards, quickly left the palace, covered with stars and moon, and galloped along the Grand Canal without any hindrance.
It is expected to be very late when we arrive at the Grand Canal and find the deep mountains and old forests.
This night, Qin Yun was extremely restless.
He brooded in the imperial study until midnight. He thought about everything in the past and became very suspicious that the Wang Group was just a traitor on the surface.
Secretly, there is another big fish.
And this conjecture can only be known after the mysterious master is arrested. Maybe he can involve a lot of things.
While in Tianlao, Xia Yan also said some related things.
But it was all intermittent and of little use. All she knew was influenced by Lin Changshu's favor, and she was not a direct participant in these things.
Lin Changshu was unlucky and was afraid that Wang Wei would betray him.
But Wang Wei was more ruthless. As soon as something happened to Lin Changshu, he immediately sent people to kill those close to him.
In particular, Xia Yan's disappearance caused Wang Wei's uneasiness, which led to the subsequent events.
In the imperial study room, Qin Yun wanted to directly give the order to send out the army and kill the entire Wang family.
But he suppressed this impulse for life.
First, there is no ironclad evidence, it is all one-sided remarks. If you act rashly, there will be chaos in the court and even palace changes.
Second, if you want to disturb the Wang family, you have to eradicate them all, otherwise it will only alert the enemy. If the mysterious master and the killer leader in the palace are not found out, Qin Yun will not be at ease for a day.
His mind was in a mess, and many of his thoughts could not be sorted out. It was as if there was an invisible big hand controlling everything, but he was kept in the dark, and the clues were fragmented. This feeling was really uncomfortable.
At this moment.
Grandpa Xi said softly: "Your Majesty, it's very late. Why don't you turn over the signs and rest first?"
Qin Yun was not in the mood to think about those romantic affairs now, so he frowned and said, "I just fell asleep in the imperial study. If any news comes back from Mr. Feng, I will be woken up immediately."
"Yes." Eunuch Xi nodded, then stepped aside and waited.
Qin Yun was lying on the dragon bed in the imperial study, thinking about things, and slowly fell asleep.
In the early morning, the sky is slightly dawning!
Eunuch Xi woke him up, and sure enough, there was a reply from Mr. Feng.
An urgent letter came from the Grand Canal. There were only two sentences in the letter: "The valley is the killer's base camp. Please ask your Majesty to increase troops and clean up the mess!"
Qin Yun lost his sleepiness and immediately summoned Xiao Jian to the palace overnight.
A few hours later.
The Mangshan camp, which was closest to the Grand Canal, sent five thousand troops and marched straight into the valley mentioned in the letter.
Everything happens in secret and no one knows about it.
Qin Yun sat in the imperial study, waiting in a daze. When the time came for the morning court meeting, no news came back from the front line.
He was anxious, but he also knew that the journey was far and not so fast.
As usual, he went to the morning court to handle government affairs, then found Yan Zhong and listened to his report on his work.
When it was almost noon, Qin Yun finally couldn't hold on any longer. He didn't sleep all night and felt extremely tired.
Finally, he went to the Yangxin Hall and fell asleep.
Concubine Xiao Shu felt heartbroken when she saw him like this. She kept guarding Qin Yun beside the dragon bed, holding him in her arms like a big sister to make him sleep more comfortably.
Afternoon dusk!
When Qin Yun woke up, his father-in-law Xi happened to be running over.
"Your Majesty, Shadow Guard Fenglao, Guard Tao and the others are back!"
"He even secretly escorted a person back! Mr. Feng asked Your Majesty, how should we deal with it?"