readytorunbook Chapter 560 Intelligence
Chapter 560 Intelligence
Yuan Qi noticed nothing: "No need, since the jade pendant was given to the prince, it belongs to the prince."
"Then I'll keep it. Come back to me when you want it." Zhou Chang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and even felt a little happy in his heart.
Yuan Qi didn't know what Zhou Chang was thinking. He was still immersed in the sorrow of losing his father, and his mood was always low: "It's better for the prince to keep it. Didn't Mr. Xun just say that wealth should not be shown to the public? No one will know if it's kept by the prince. I will also set off to return to Danlu soon."
"Wen Fei will take you back?" Zhou Chang blurted out this question for some reason.
Yuan Qi did not answer, but said quietly: "Although I have lived here half of my life since I was a child, Danlu is the ancestral home of the Yuan family after all, so my father must return to his roots."
Zhou Chang thought he had gotten the answer, but he felt uncomfortable again.
Yuan Qi suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, is there anything that the prince wants to talk to me about tonight?"
Zhou Chang came over because he couldn't help himself. He really had nothing special to say at the moment, so he stammered, "Ah... I, originally... nothing happened..."
"It's good that nothing happened..." Yuan Qi didn't care about Zhou Chang's words. He lowered his head and took the chicken wing wood brocade box in his hand again. Then he glanced at the direction of the door, thought about it, and turned back to pick up the oil lamp on the main table. "It's better to talk in the inner room. Your Majesty, please go with me to the inner room."
The two of them had been talking while standing just now, and now Zhou Chang could just lift his legs to keep up.
Yuan Qi brought Zhou Chang to the inner room on the right.
The inner room was an exquisite guest room, not a bedroom as Zhou Chang thought, but it did have a Luohan bed.
Yuan Qi placed the oil lamp and the wooden box on a round table in the middle of the ground.
After asking Zhou Chang to sit down, he said, "This study was originally where father discussed matters with his close friends. The inner room is more private. If there is anything important, they usually move here to discuss it."
Zhou Chang unconsciously took it seriously: "What important thing do you want to tell me?"
Yuan Qi also sat down opposite Zhou Chang: "Nothing, but since the prince is here, I'll tell him about it, so that I don't have to leave in a few days. By then, there will be a lot of things to do and I'm afraid I'll forget it."
When the thought of leaving was mentioned, Zhou Chang felt uncomfortable.
As Yuan Qi spoke, he opened the box made of wenge wood and took out a stack of papers of different sizes and colors. He pushed them between the two of them and showed them to Zhou Chang: "These are all the information that the Yuan family has collected in recent months. I wonder if your Majesty can use them?"
Zhou Chang picked up a stack and looked through it with the help of an oil lamp.
Originally, she had difficulty recognizing traditional Chinese characters, but as time went by, she was able to read fluently without realizing it, perhaps with the help of Yi Wang Fengming.
Scanning the pages one by one, it turned out that the papers contained the whereabouts and information of people collected from all over the neighboring countries, and one of the main directions was the imperial capital.
While watching this, Yuan Qi sighed softly: "Alas... This information was specially collected by the Yuan family since Daddy was kidnapped. I checked everything I could think of, everything I couldn't think of, everything I could check, and everything I couldn't check. There are a lot of irrelevant things mixed in. Now that Daddy is gone, it's useless for me to keep it, but I thought maybe it could be of some use to the prince, so it wouldn't be a waste of effort."
Zhou Chang flipped through the papers and found some useful information for Prince Yi, especially those about Prince Rong, Prince Duan and Prince Xian.
"This, is this true? Tsk tsk..." Zhou Chang took out a picture and looked at it carefully again, and suddenly found the feeling of "like-minded".
Yuan Qi was puzzled: "What is that?"
She read through the messages one by one, but there was nothing worth being sentimental about.
Zhou Chang shook his head and picked out a few more pieces of paper and handed them to Yuan Qi. "Look, Prince Duan is short of money, Prince Xian is short of money, Prince Rong is also short of money... Haha, it seems that everyone is short of money, not just Prince Yi. Haha... Looking at it this way, it makes me feel much better."
Yuan Qi originally tried to take a closer look seriously, but he didn't expect that Zhou Chang only had money in his mind, so he rolled his eyes, but in the end he was amused and laughed.
After laughing, he immediately realized that it was still a period of mourning, and then his face turned stern again, saying bitterly: "Humph, anyone who is short of money would have the motive to kidnap, and dare to be so blatant to steal money and kill people... If it is the underworld forces? The underworld forces Yuan family has already informed them, so the only ones left are these few, and they happen to be the suspects."
"You've been suspecting them for a long time?" Zhou Chang was shocked and stopped smiling.
Yuan Qi glanced at the papers Zhou Chang picked out, and there was no need to look at them in detail: "Prince Duan is short of money to win over court officials, Prince Xian is short of money to privately manufacture weapons, but Prince Rong is also short of money for some reason. His business of 'Lishengyuan' should have made a lot of money, but since it is not a legitimate business, it has made a lot of money. But why is he still short of money?"
"As for money, how can you ever have too much? If it were me, I would make more." Zhou Chang was telling the truth and was also speaking for himself.
Yuan Qi glanced at Zhou Chang, then moved his gaze to the oil lamp in the middle of the round table. His fair face looked somewhat red under the light of the fire, but his expression darkened. "Although they are all short of money to varying degrees, there is indeed no evidence that can point to any connection with Daddy's kidnapping. In any case, I still have to check the Mirage Country. It is obvious that someone is colluding with both inside and outside, and the three ransoms should have been shipped out of the border by now."
"Have you confirmed that it is related to the Mirage Kingdom?" Zhou Chang was somewhat discouraged about tracking down the kidnappers.
Yuan Qi asked back: "Have you forgotten that Dad revealed before he died that some of the kidnappers spoke the language of the Mirage Kingdom?"
Indeed, during Yuan Yu’s lifetime.
The first two times Zhou Chang came to visit Yuan Yu, he asked Yuan Yu if he could think of some characteristics of the kidnappers so that they could be tracked down.
Yuan Yu had been given a chronic poison and was severely poisoned, so he was in a weak mental state and had difficulty recalling things, but he finally remembered a detail.
There were two times when he overheard the kidnappers' conversations unintentionally, and they were actually speaking the Mirage language.
The Yuan family's business is spread all over the world, and they have many business dealings with the people of Mirage Country. Yuan Yu has even been to Mirage Country once, so although he cannot speak their language, he can tell what they are talking about just by listening.
Zhou Chang couldn't help but recall that when he was tied up on the big ship and was about to be killed by the white masked man, he vaguely heard the kidnappers on the ship babble in some foreign language, which just happened to fit in.
Therefore, Zhou Chang and Yuan Qi both regarded it as a major clue and sent people to the Mirage Kingdom to investigate, but gradually, no news was found and the kidnappers seemed to have disappeared from this world. Coincidentally, the two of them never mentioned it again.