Chapter 197 – Selling sweet potatoes in my previous life

The seal master Shen Tongzhi is not in, the northern town of Fuzhi by the town of Fuzhi in charge. The town ambassador is one of the few in the Feng case was not liquidated in the original appointment, so he was very sensible, put the real power to Shen Tongzhi’s beloved – stone eave frost, Wei Tassel two thousand households.

The two of them were in the middle of a conversation when they suddenly heard the lieutenant report that His Highness King Yu and Lord Su had come.

Wei Ying froze and said, “King Yu? What is he doing in the Northern Zhenfu Department?”

Stone Eaves Frost also found it strange, “Lord Su is a regular visitor, but why did he come to the door at the same time as King Yu? I’ve heard that these two aren’t very compatible ah ……”

Unexplained to unexplained, the Prince’s arrival should still be greeted solemnly. The two of them brought their men to welcome the gate, but saw King Yu lightly dressed in civilian clothes, not even with guards, just striding in. Su Yan is not slow to follow behind him, never leave the left and right of the personal guards also disappeared.

Shi Wei and his duo were about to salute when King Yu waved his hand and said, “No need, everyone’s time is precious, let’s get straight to business.”

He guessed that the thunderous pragmatists were, by and large, impatient to waste time on red tape, so he peered at Su Yan’s face as he spoke, and knew that dispensing with pleasantries for the other party was just what he wanted.

Su Yan smiled and arched his hand, “Lord Shen is not here, the two Thousand Household Lords have worked hard. Regarding the case of the explosion at the White Paper Mill, this official has some clues here, and I also hope to borrow the Jin Yi Wei’s secret detectives to check it out.”

He took out the list of names that the Dali Temple’s errand boy had inquired about and handed it over, briefly explaining the inside story.

After listening to Wei Ying, he said, “At the end of the year, he suddenly purchased flour in large quantities, and almost emptied the flour inventory of the capital’s grain stores, and all of them were in the identity of grain merchants in other places, so there is really something fishy going on. I will arrange for manpower to investigate these people one by one to see if the identity of the grain merchants is real or not.”

Su Yan nodded, “Also check, where do they get their payments from?”

Stone Eaves Frost laughed, “Don’t worry, Lord Su, secretly investigating the secret dealings of people and funds is something we at North Township Division are most skilled at.”

Aren’t you the best at planting evidence and torturing people? Su Yan is silently spit, and heard the other side added: “Not to mention that the Lord Tongzhi carefully accounted for, but where Lord Su’s request, my North Township Division up and down people, there is no disobedience. Adults can rest assured, within a day or two, there will be a reply.”

When he thought of Shen Qi, who was always thinking of him and arranging all the details while recovering from his injuries at home, Su Yan couldn’t help but feel a warmth in his heart, and even his gaze rippled like spring water ripples.

King Yu squinted his eyes to catch this strand of secret feeling, his heart was sour and annoyed, but he had to pretend not to be concerned, and finally put on his face an expression of “This king is very open-minded, not bothering about trivial matters”.

Wei Ying slapped his head, “Speaking of the bombing case, my humble servant remembered that before Lord Shen was injured, he had ordered us to go to two places to catch the other two ‘caretakers’ according to the confession of the Turtle Duke of Lin Hua Pavilion.”

“How did it turn out?” Su Yan asked busily.

“One is nowhere to be found, presumably having fled on the scent after the explosion. The other killed himself during the capture. Those two secret passages we also went down to explore, both blocked by the explosion collapse of the underground hall.”

Su Yan sighed regretfully and asked again, “Where does the entrance to the secret passage open?”

“One was in an ironworker’s store, and another was surprisingly right in a teahouse where people come and go, all among the marketplace.”

Su Yan and King Yu exchanged glances. King Yu asked, “Great concealment?” Su Yan replied without a clue, “From the masses, to the masses.”

“Group …… of people?” Stone Eaves Frost and Wei Tassel were puzzled.

Su Yan explained, “Those secret passages are not only for the assassins of the Seven Killers Battalion to enter and exit, to avoid being wanted by the government and to contact the battalion master. More so, they are a way for the sect’s mid-level leaders to enter the ‘Hall of Truth’, where they receive brainwashing before going to the people to preach the scriptures and sermons.

“This kind of secret society that gathers by night and disperses by day is very difficult for the government to detect. It seems that the previous rumors against the Crown Prince were spread so quickly and efficiently because of such a strong organization, which was able to carry out and spread the will of those behind the scenes.”

Shi Wei two basically understand. Since the founding of the country, the Jin Yiwei North Township Division has also handled a number of cases of pretending to be God, all in accordance with the felony disposal of demonic speech, all over the obscene shrine that demolition of the demolition, “God” and “foreigner” they should be killed to kill, never soft. If there is a shadow of a cult behind the Seven Killing Battalion, it is still hidden quite deeply, and the means are also more skillful than other counterparts.

Su Yan analyzed, “The current situation is that the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. We are on the stage, with every move in the limelight, while they are lurking in the darkness, ready to strike at places and events we don’t expect. This is where we are most passive.”

“So what do we do? Continue to follow the trail?” Wei Ying asked.

Su Yan shook his head, “They have already been alarmed and pinched the vines. If we touch along again, I’m afraid we won’t be able to touch the melon and touch a handful of mines.”

Stone Eaves Frost frowned, “It is tricky as hell. We can only start by investigating those grain merchants who purchased the flour, but hopefully this vine will not be pinched off again.”

Su Yan said: ”As long as it is a man-made case, I don’t believe there is a seamlessness. This time, you should send out the most capable undercover agents, make sure not to scare the snakes, there are several people in this batch of grain merchants, with a large amount of money circulating, you should be able to find out any important clues.

“I’ll take my chances on the ego of the man behind the curtain – the ego of thinking that only he knows how the Dust Bomb works, of thinking that no one else could possibly react in time.”

Stone Eaves Frost Wee Tassel: “Dust explosion?”

Su Yan held his forehead, “I don’t want to kopen again.”

“Co……p?”

“-No, I didn’t say anything. You guys just know what to do.”

King Yu looked at the two Brocade Guards who nodded their heads in agreement, a sense of superiority arose as he said, “What Qinghe said, this king knows”. He said to the two, “I will leave a reliable guard here with you, once there is any news, inform him and he will report it in time.”

Generally, major cases are investigated by the Da Lisi, the Northern Zhenfu Division in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice. Stone Eaves Frost was a bit puzzled: “This case, the king is also in charge?”

King Yu finally found a chance to counter “Lord Tongzhi carefully explained”, laughed: “This king does not care about the case, only care about the safety of Qinghe. Turn around and tell your fellow scholar Shen to recuperate from his injuries, but don’t try to act in a heroic manner so as not to fall into some kind of sickness and delay the rest of his life.”

Wei Ying listening just feel not the right taste. As for Shi Eaves Frost, he knew a little about his superior officer’s personal affairs and vaguely guessed something at this moment, so he gritted his teeth in displeasure and bowed his head and cupped his fists, “Thank you for your king’s concern, I will definitely bring the original sentence to you.”

After leaving the gate of the Northern Zhenfu Division, Su Yan hesitated slightly beside the carriage, as if he hadn’t thought about the next step of his journey.

King Yu asked him, “What’s on your mind?”

Su Yan casually replied, “A trick to break the game.” He paced back and forth for a dozen steps, still had not waited for the urgent wisdom that came to protect his master, and always felt that there were still some places he had not considered.

King Yu looked at him like a tail-chasing cat and found it amusing, he couldn’t help but hold his wrist and said, “Get in the car first and then think about it, it’s warm in the car. Why don’t we find a restaurant for lunch first?”

Su Yan subconsciously withdrew his hand, “It’s not even lunchtime yet. Besides, I’m tired of eating at the several restaurants in the capital, it’s expensive and not as unique as the street food stalls.”

King Yu immediately changed his words, “Then we’ll go to the end of the street, just walk around, and eat whatever we like.” The breakfast in your mansion is just two buns and a bowl of soup, what about feeding the cat?

Su Yan was not in the mood for shopping, besides, it was with the enemy that he hated with a gnashing of teeth a month ago, how to think about how to be embarrassed. But the other party added: “Didn’t you say, go to the group …… of people? Then go walk among the marketplace, maybe there will be a harvest.”

This reason did touch Su Yan, he nodded and said, “Good, I’ll change into civilian clothes first. The carriage will stop at Zhengyangmen Street later, and we’ll walk along the east and west markets.”

Half an hour later, among the bustling flow of people in the marketplace, there were two more young men dressed in brocade tassels, walking side by side in a leisurely manner.

The big explosion in the past three or four days, the people of the capital other square life seems to return to normal, but in the end it is a major disaster with heavy deaths and injuries, people gathered in groups, but also more talk about the tragedy of the White Paper Square.

Su Yan walked around, stopping from time to time to pay attention to the surrounding movements, heard more than a few uninspired lagging news, as well as sensationalized false news. So it seems, and the later life is not much difference, eat melon culture is really the same lineage.

King Yu saw a clean snack stall and sat down, greeting the boss to come to two bowls of meat dumplings wontons egg mind soup. Su Yan hesitated, “Your Majesty ……”

“Call Lush Kingfisher.” King Yu tapped the tabletop with the back of his chopsticks in a matter-of-fact tone, “Sit down and finish eating.”

Su Yan was also hungry, and thought that it would be like having a meal with a less familiar colleague, which was really no big deal, so he sat down at the opposite seat, picked a pair of flush chopsticks, and wiped them with a handkerchief.

King Yu stared at his paddle.

Su Yan raised his eyes to look at King Yu, then lowered his eyes to look at the chopsticks in his own hands, and finally handed the pad over in a mumbled voice: “Wang ……”

“Said to call Livid Kingfisher.” King Yu took the pad and wiped his chopsticks as well, slipping the pad into his pocket.

“Zhu Xuxu King you son of a bitch” is scolded several times, but “Xuxu King”…… Su Yan killed also called out.

Head soup served hot, in time to hide his embarrassment, he lowered his head and concentrated on picking up the meatballs to eat. King Yu gazed at his polished forehead in the white mist, and couldn’t help but smile.

Not far away from the ringing of crisp children’s voices children’s songs, carefree laughter interspersed between the city’s smoky atmosphere, seems particularly moving.

Su Yan suddenly put down his chopsticks and listened with his ears.

Four or five children ran out of the alley chasing each other, clapping their hands as they sang the nursery rhyme, “…… The sky and the earth are dark, the sun and the moon have no light ……”

Su Yan’s face gradually became grave. He glanced at King Yu in a gesture-like manner, got up and went to the store next door to buy a packet of sesame candies, and called out towards the children, “Come here children, uncle invites you to eat the candies.”

The children cheered and crowded over, and each of them took two pills and couldn’t wait to stuff them into their mouths. Su Yan squatted down and asked, “What song are you singing, read it to uncle, okay?”

A boy with missing front teeth bit into a sesame seed candy and said aloud, “I can recite, ‘The thunderbolt signaled a great catastrophe, the heavens and the earth were darkened, and the sun and the moon had no light,’ and I’ve forgotten the …… back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back of the back.”

Another girl with clearer articulation continued, “I know! ‘The vacuum saves suffering, the red lotus appears, and chaos reopens’.”

Su Yan followed up with, “Who taught you to sing?”

The children spoke up:

“My lord taught me.”

“A lot of people sing.”

“It’s the ones who can sing that are the smart kids, and the ones who can’t are the fools.”

“Uncle do you know how to sing?”

“It won’t. Uncle isn’t smart enough.” Su Yan laughed and distributed all the candies to them. The children finished dividing the candies and ran away laughing and giggling again.

Su Yan was still crouching on the ground when a hand reached out to him. He looked up and saw King Yu’s handsome face, and ghostly took the other man’s hand, allowing him to pull him up.

King Yu said, “Who says you’re not smart? I’ll slap him with a huzzah too.”

“‘Also’? Who was the last one you smoked?”

“Demon monk Jiyao.”

Su Yan laughed, “Good job. This time there’s a bigger demon delivered to your door for you to smoke.”

He drew up his legs to leave, then turned back to look at the bowl of mind soup that he had just taken two bites of, and reassured himself, “If it’s urgent, I don’t care about the time it takes to eat a bowl of soup.”

King Yu agreed, “That’s right.”

The two returned to their seats, eating and chatting as they ate quickly and jumped around.

King Yu asked, “It’s just a nursery rhyme, why are you so nervous?”

Suyen said, “It’s not a nursery rhyme, it’s some kind of sign.”

“Signs?”

“Since ancient times, borrowing ghosts, gods, and strange and weird things to say is the most confusing.”

King Yu pondered briefly, “…… ‘Foxes calling out that the Great Chu is emerging and Chen Sheng is the king’?”

Su Yan nodded, “Yes, besides borrowing the fox, also borrowing the science of prophecy–‘Liu Xiu shall be the Son of Heaven’; and borrowing the mouth of the gods–‘ ‘The Zhao Family’s Son of Heaven, the Yang Family’s General’, ‘Who says there is no Allah today, two emperors in one load’.”

King Yu said in a deep voice, “Liu Xiu and the Zhao brothers, both have become successful.”

Su Yan said, “The sound of the death of the state also mostly started from nursery rhymes. For example, ‘the moon will rise, the sun will dip, the arc of mini-clothing, the actual death of the state of Zhou’, that is to say that the yin flourishes and the yang declines, the Zhou dynasty will be subverted by the people who sell mulberry bows, mini-arrow bags, and the King Xuan of Zhou for this reason to hunt down and kill the people who sell bows and arrows throughout the country, thinking that they can escape the disaster of the death of the state. Later a couple selling mulberry bows and skip arrow bags picked up an abandoned baby girl on their way to escape and raised her to adulthood, naming her Bergsi.”

“The prophetic ballad of King Yu of Zhou Beacon …… the death of his country was answered to his son.”

“There is also a nursery rhyme, popularized at the end of the Sui Dynasty, ‘When the Yang flower falls, the Li flower blooms; when the peach and the plum child, there is a world.’ Yang Guang killed a large number of people surnamed Li because of this.”

“But he didn’t expect that the one who finally cut short the Sui Dynasty was Li Yuan, who was still the Duke of Tang at the time.” King Yu revealed a skeptical look, “Is this the mysterious prophecy?”

Su Yan said with certainty, “No, this is a war of public opinion!”

He tilted his head back to finish the last mouthful of soup, put the bowl down on the desktop, and boasted: “I’m not good at fighting, but when it comes to this, I’m really not afraid of anyone! I don’t even think about what I did in my previous life–“

King Yu looked at him with a smile, “Dare I ask what Lord Su did in his last life?”

Su Yan swallowed back the second half of the sentence that almost slipped out of his mouth and laughed dryly, “In his last life …… his last life was selling sweet potatoes, so he became an official in this life.”

He got up and said, “I’ll leave you to eat.”

King Yu did not eat and also got up, “Where to go, I will accompany you.”

“Going to the palace to see the saint. I think it would be better for you not to accompany me, so that you may be good for me.”

“What is …… looking for my royal brother for?”

“Get a new official position. And, I’ve come up with a way to draw out the man behind the curtain.”

“Two guests, two – Hey!” The boss scolded after them, “You haven’t paid yet! Eating a king’s dinner, you two humanoid things!”

King Yu laughed, and without looking back, threw out a silver ingot, which was set into the corner of the table with a “snatch” sound. The owner’s eyes are staring straight, a few moments before reacting, this is a big man, give more than a hundred times the cost of the meal! He was overjoyed, lying on the edge of the table with his hands and teeth to pick the silver.