In order to hide his identity, Shangguan Shaochen did not follow Liu Changyu back to the government office, but the magistrate followed them back to Nangong Yizhi's previous residence.
When the magistrate heard about what happened to the second prince today, he knelt on the ground guiltily, "I don't know that the second prince and the second concubine came from afar, and they were almost injured within the jurisdiction of this humble official. I ask the second prince to come down."
"Get up, it's already been said that you are going on tour in micro-clothes, those who don't know are innocent, it's none of your business." Shangguan Shaochen nodded to get him up,
"Thank you, Second Prince, for your kindness." The prefect breathed a sigh of relief after he got up, but soon he became nervous again, "I am really ashamed, as a prefect, I can't solve such an evil organization, but why did the Second Prince entangle them? Together?"
"It seems that you really don't know the background of the Hero Pavilion?" Shangguan Shaochen asked.
"This... the old minister is ashamed. Back then, the Hero Pavilion suddenly rose up. The humble minister did investigate, but the other party's details are too secretive, and they caused riots many times, and almost set fire to my magistrate's office. The prince also knows that Pingcheng is The sky is high and the emperor is far away, but I am just a small magistrate with few people under my command and no connections in the capital, so I have to let him suppress me." As he spoke, Liu Changyu sighed extremely ashamed.
"Hmph, this Hero Pavilion is really rampant, even the local magistrate is bullied by him to such a degree, but if there is no expert behind this, they will never be able to do this." Ling Muer said, looking at Shangguan Shao Chen, she pronounced the word 'seven' with her lips. Obviously, he suspected that the descendant of the Hero Pavilion was the Seventh Prince Qin Xuanting.
Shangguan Shaochen also had this doubt, but they couldn't jump to conclusions until they found evidence.
"This prince has some personal grievances with the Hero Pavilion, but since the magistrate doesn't understand the Hero Pavilion, there is no need to get involved, but..." Shangguan Shaochen paused, "In the eyes of my father, Pingcheng is an extremely prosperous place. Why did this prince not see such a phenomenon after arriving today, should you, the magistrate, explain something?"
Boom. Liu Changyu knelt on the ground again. "The second prince doesn't know that five years ago, Pingcheng was indeed the most prosperous city in the Celestial Dynasty, but since the rise of the Hero Pavilion five years ago, they have continued to suppress the people. Although I have stopped them many times, they are so numerous Not an opponent."
"Then why didn't you report it?" Shangguan Shaochen asked angrily.
"Why, hasn't Jingzhong received the memorial from Weichen?" Liu Changyu asked back, everyone seemed to understand something,
All the memorials submitted by the dignified magistrate were intercepted. It seems that this person must be a high-ranking person in the palace.
Liu Changyu hurriedly said, "The second prince, please be the master of my minister. As early as five years ago, my minister reported the bullying of the people in the Hero Pavilion to the imperial court, but it took a long time for me to reply. At that time, my minister was still curious I didn't get a reply, so I would report it once a year, but there was no imperial court's approval, so I gave up over time, but who knows, this memorial didn't reach the emperor's hands."
Looking at Liu Changyu's angry and excited look, Shangguan Shaochen was not angry, "Pingcheng suddenly has such a rampant organization, and the capital has not been aware of it for five years. It seems that this matter needs to be investigated carefully by the prince! Don't worry." , What is the truth, this prince will return your innocence after investigation."
"Thank you, Second Prince." Liu Changyu heaved a sigh of relief after receiving Shangguan Shaochen's words.
"However, you said that the Hero Pavilion rose suddenly five years ago, and five years ago was the time when the Seventh Emperor returned to the fief. Didn't he know about it?" Shangguan Shaochen asked tentatively.
"Back to the Second Prince, the Seventh Prince knows about it." Liu Changyu opened his mouth wide in a sudden realization, "By the way, I just felt that something was wrong. In the first year of the Hero Pavilion's rise, the Seventh Prince once returned Shuai Bing encircled and suppressed the Hero Pavilion, but unfortunately failed in the end. Why, didn’t the Seventh Prince report the matter of the Hero Pavilion to the Emperor?”
When the magistrate said this, Shangguan Shaochen became more certain of an answer in his heart.
That is, the Hero Pavilion is definitely related to Lao Qi!
"He used to be surrounded by soldiers? Where did he go?" Ling Mu'er caught the point of his words.
"This..." Liu Changyu began to think seriously, and finally shook his head guiltily, "It's really because it's been too long, and I really don't remember clearly because of my age. But why didn't the Seventh Prince take the hero? Report the affairs of the pavilion to the emperor, second prince, look..."
"There are twists and turns. When I return to the capital, I will find my seventh brother to investigate clearly." Shangguan Shaochen looked at Liu Changyu, and finally decided not to disclose the details to him, "Okay, about the Hero Pavilion, this prince will understand it by himself." Check again, you don't have to stay here to serve, as for the matter of my prince and concubine's coming to Pingcheng, I hope you will keep it a secret."
"It's the second prince, my minister obeys." Liu Changyu cupped his fists and blessed him, "Then the minister will not disturb the rest of the second prince and the second prince's concubine, and the minister will go back to the payment county office first and wait for the second prince's dispatch at any time. "
"That's natural. The prince still needs to thoroughly investigate the people's sentiments in Pingcheng. In the future, he will need to go to your county government to obtain information. Don't worry, if you really manage well, I will speak well in front of the emperor, but if... ...Pingcheng's depression and backwardness have nothing to do with you, and you, the magistrate's hat, are waiting to be taken off."
"Yes, I will fully cooperate with the second prince, so I will resign."
After Liu Changyu left, Shangguan Shaochen called Mo Qing in, "Any news?"
Today, the Hero Pavilion made such a big battle to put him to death. He guessed that they would have other actions tonight, such as secretly transferring Nangong Yi to prevent them from robbing prisoners. When the magistrate was in charge, he ordered Mo Qing to investigate secretly.
Unexpectedly, he shook his head again. "Master, there is still no news!"
"Bastard!" Shangguan Shaochen was in a hurry, and his fist landed on the table again, "If the person I saw this morning is really Yizhi, he will be captured by the people in the Hero Pavilion again, and his life must be in danger. Our time Running out."
Mo Qing also became nervous, "But my subordinates haven't found any evidence about the Seventh Prince secretly training soldiers, so what should I do now?"
He knew that this old seven was not a cheap lamp. After all, he had lived in Pingcheng for five years, and some things had already been properly arranged.
"Go, give me all the whereabouts of Lao Qi in Pingcheng." Shangguan Shaochen suddenly ordered.
Mo Qing was dumbfounded, "All the whereabouts? You are not joking, sir."
"Do you think I look like I'm joking?" Shangguan Shaochen asked back, giving him a blank stare. He added, "What I want is all his big moves. There must be records in these files. You just need to call out the files of his whereabouts in the past five years to me."
In this way, Mo Qing understood, and he was relieved. He thought he wanted to know all the whereabouts of the Seventh Prince, such as who drank flower wine with him tonight, and where he went to listen to music tomorrow night, not to mention that There is no way to find out the news, even if it can be found out, I am afraid that Nangong Shizi has already died.
"Yes, this subordinate will go and investigate."
After Mo Qing left, Ling Muer walked up to Shangguan Shaochen with a teacup, "This is our first day in Pingcheng, but we didn't expect it to go so badly. It seems that Pingcheng is indeed a den of dragons and tigers."
Shangguan Shaochen realized that she had something to say, took the water, and with his arms, he hugged her on his lap and sat down.
Only when you hug her can you feel more at ease in your heart, and you can relax from the tension of the day, "Tell me, what good idea did you come up with in your clever little head?"
Ling Mu'er smiled mysteriously, "Didn't Mo Qing say that the people in the Hero Pavilion always like to move around at night, and after they assassinated us tonight, they would never have thought that we would pursue the victory so quickly, so we just need to throw some fish to kill us." Take the initiative to attract people from the Hero Pavilion to come to the door, if the person who is lucky enough to catch happens to be the head of the Hero Pavilion, wouldn’t you be able to know their dens?"
Seeing the little woman's sinister and cunning smile, Shangguan Shaochen shuddered for no reason, he suddenly imagined, if one day he did something wrong, would this clever little girl use such means to deal with him.
"How do you want to attract?"
"Beauty trick." Ling Mu'er raised eyebrows at Shangguan Shaochen after dropping three words.
Who would agree with his wife to go out and take risks? Of course Shangguan Shaochen was the first to object, but unfortunately he couldn't resist the soft-heartedness of his concubine.
In the end, he had no choice but to watch his woman dressed enchantingly and walking on the main road in Pingcheng, while he could only disguise himself as a nighthawk and lurk in the corner secretly.
"Hey, what kind of beauty is this? She is so handsome. How come I have never seen it before?"
Ling Muer, who was pretending to buy rouge and gouache, pretended to turn her head, only to see three slightly drunk men standing behind her, and one of them looked her up and down with mischievous eyes.
And the second they appeared, the boy who was selling rouge and gouache screamed and hurriedly put away the booth, "Hero Pavilion? I, I have already paid the protection fee for this month, what are you going to do, I Let's go, can't I go?"
Before Ling Muer could react, the boy had already packed up the booth and left, but he retreated after walking a few meters away. Ling Muer thought that the second brother was going to remind her to run quickly, but he just came back to ruthlessly She snatched the rouge and gouache in her hand.
Ling Muer sighed deeply from the bottom of her heart, then imitated the boy's frightened look and looked back at the three ruffians opposite, "You, what are you going to do?"
"Don't be afraid, little beauty, we don't eat people, we just see that the girl is beautiful, so I want to invite the girl to sit at home."
The man in the middle even stretched out his hand to touch his face after speaking, but Ling Muer deftly avoided it.
"I, I just came here for fun. I only came here when I heard that Pingcheng is beautiful. Who are you? My mother told me since I was a child that I can't go to a man's house casually. I'm sorry I can't accompany you!"
Ling Mu'er tremblingly left a word, turned around and ran away.
Seeing this, the three men looked at each other, and hurriedly chased after her with laughter.
The surrounding stalls saw that the people from the Hero Pavilion were robbing the women again, and ran away in a hurry, and no one stepped forward to help.
Seeing this, Ling Mu'er felt chills in her heart, she couldn't help quickening her pace, and lured the three of them into the alley as agreed with Shangguan Shaochen in advance.
