readytorunbook Chapter 565 Thinking Loophole
Chapter 565 Thinking Loophole
Have you done something wrong and are afraid of being found out?
Or are you starting to get suspicious and suspecting there's a traitor around you?
Zhong Yu had obviously asked this question before, and had also verified it: "I have checked it out, and it should be nothing. Otherwise, if so many generals died one after another, it would have aroused suspicion."
"Then where is this Sun Xiang now?" Zhou Chang was thinking about how to capture him and interrogate him directly.
Zhong Yu frowned and said, "This person disappeared some time ago."
"What? Missing?" Zhou Chang's mood was like a roller coaster.
Zhong Yu sighed heavily, "Alas... Sun Xiang was transferred to the East Garrison Battalion as a lieutenant general. According to the information I got, he returned to his hometown to mourn his father's death more than half a year ago. So I sent people to his hometown to inquire about his whereabouts, but I didn't expect the news I got yesterday was that Sun Xiang was missing."
"Missing? How did he disappear?" Zhou Chang asked.
Zhong Yu replied: "The news we received said that Sun Xiang did not return to his hometown at all. His father's funeral was handled by his wife and children. As for where he is, no one knows."
With this said, Zhou Chang could almost be certain that this person was a serious suspect. Calculating the time, wouldn't the so-called time of returning home to mourn be the time when he ran to Beiji to kidnap Yuan Yu?
So he ordered: "This person is very suspicious, he must be found."
"Yes, as soon as I got the news yesterday, I immediately sent a reply, and transferred people from Yidanxing to follow up from Jindu." Zhong Yu has always been one step ahead of Zhou Chang in doing things.
Sun Xiang's clues were temporarily cut off, so Zhou Chang took out a few pieces of paper he got from Yuan Qi and said, "It seems that there will be no news about this person in the short term. It is better to discuss the 'gifts' prepared for Brother Duan Wang and Brother Xian Wang first."
"Li...what does the prince mean?" Zhong Yu couldn't follow his train of thought.
Zhou Chang handed a few pieces of paper to Zhong Yu.
Zhong Yu hurriedly took it and looked at it carefully.
Zhou Chang took advantage of the time to read to combine his own ideas with the information on the paper and gave a brief account of it.
Zhong Yu looked at the papers for a long time, then put them down and said, "If that's the case, according to the prince's meaning, then from the information I got before, there is indeed a person who can be used, that is the expelled eunuch mentioned in the previous letter."
"The expelled eunuch?" In their previous correspondence, Zhong Yuziran reported the progress of Jindu's investigation in detail to Prince Yi, but Zhou Chang apparently ignored it.
Zhong Yuye knew that he couldn't write so much in detail in the letter, so he gave a detailed introduction: "This is also the news that I have inquired about earlier. The eunuch is called 'Sixth Eunuch'. There must be such a person in the palace before. He worked under Fang She. Later, he was expelled from the palace because of his gambling addiction and could not hide it. After he left the palace, he had a large sum of money with him, but he was addicted to gambling and lost all the money in the gambling house. He has no choice but to live in the shabby house behind the grocery store in Mawei Hutong. It should be confirmed that he has come here."
As a lesson from the past, Xiao Jiangzi’s incident had to make them all more cautious.
Zhou Chang didn't find any loopholes in this statement, so he nodded.
Zhong Yu continued, "It's not hard to confirm that the Sixth Eunuch is a gambler. He gambled away all his capital and borrowed money at high interest rates. When he couldn't pay back the money, he started to sell all kinds of information he had heard from the palace before. In the end, he told everything when he was cornered. He told others about the incident in which Prince Xian did not help Prince Duan and broke his leg in order to get gambling money. That's why I was able to trace him back to him."
"This matter is also mentioned in the news from the Yuan family. It is estimated that a large sum of money must have been spent." Zhou Chang deduced from this and thought of another thing. "From this point of view, this eunuch is really not an easy person to deal with. He must have offended many people. We have to hurry up, otherwise he will be silenced by others if it is too late."
Zhong Yulue thought for a moment and said, "My subordinates only wanted to use him to deliver a message. It shouldn't be a big deal. We shouldn't get too involved. If someone like him is silenced later, anything is possible and it will be difficult to track him down."
"Indeed, sir, you are very far-sighted." Zhou Chang was satisfied with Zhong Yu's idea and couldn't help but touch his chin. "So, some things can be given directly to Brother Duan Wang. Maybe he can even do me a favor. It says that Duan Wang is short of money and has been colluding with the Ministry of Works to embezzle the money for building the imperial mausoleum. Unfortunately, we have no substantial evidence."
Zhong Yu's eyes fell on the wooden box with a mechanism on the upper right corner of the table, and he added: "The things in this wooden box should also come in handy."
The wooden box was originally given to Prince Yi by Yuan Yu, and it has been kept there ever since. Ma Feihu came to steal it and set it on fire, but he was unable to take it away...
Zhou Chang suddenly paused when he thought of this: "Oh, sir, that's not right, that's not right... I realized that I made a serious and stupid mistake, a loophole in my thinking..."
"Thinking loophole?" This is another new word that Zhong Yu has never heard of before.
Zhou Chang was still concentrating on his own thoughts. He stretched out his hand and pushed the wooden box with the mechanism to Zhong Yu: "Sir, open the wooden box and divide the things inside. Then...we will give half to Prince Duan and half to Prince Xian. This is the right way, yes, this is a good idea..."
"What your Highness means is..." Zhong Yu was puzzled, but he took the wooden box with the mechanism and unlocked it.
Zhou Chang stroked his chin, his thoughts becoming clearer and clearer: "Sir, you also know that our palace was robbed and set on fire by Ma Feihu before. I originally thought that those thieves came to steal this thing, but I just realized it. Inertial thinking really kills people..."
"What is inertial thinking?" Zhong Yu turned the mechanism smoothly and opened the wooden box, but he still couldn't understand what Zhou Chang was saying.
Zhou Chang sighed, "Alas... that day, the master was busy putting out the fire, and I was anxious to interrogate Ma Feihu. At that time, Ma Feihu accidentally said that he had been assigned by the person behind the scenes to participate in the arson and assassination of the Hunting Palace. As for the Hunting Palace incident, I have always believed that Prince Duan was the mastermind and Prince Xian cooperated. Therefore, when Ma Feihu said that, I also concluded that Prince Duan secretly assigned Ma Feihu to steal back the evidence of his bribery."
"Isn't it?" Zhong Yu asked back.
Zhou Chang didn't want to interrupt his train of thought, so he continued: "And what a coincidence, Ma Feihu was "caught" in this study, so I really made up my mind without thinking. It was not until just now that I realized how Prince Duan knew about the existence of such evidence."
Zhong Yu followed this line of thought and frowned: "Indeed, if the Yuan family doesn't tell us, only the prince, his subordinates, and the three skinny monkeys know about this matter. And we won't reveal it..."