ebookland Chapter 355: Search of Honglian Villa
Chapter 355: Search of Honglian Villa
Chapter 355: Search and Seizure of Honglian Villa
Xiao Quanzi went to Prince Rui's Mansion to meet Prince Rui.
Prince Rui was still the same as usual, no matter what was going on, he was surrounded by a group of beautiful women, holding expensive wine glasses in their hands, flirting and tasting wine.
The first thing Prince Rui said when he saw Xiao Quanzi was, "Move back from Honglian Villa."
Xiao Quanzi, with his usual calm face, looked up at Prince Rui in surprise.
Prince Rui drank the last sip of wine in his hand, and then he said slowly: "I have lived a lifetime, and the day I met him, I really understood what love is. No wonder my father looked at his favorite concubine, Concubine Xianrou, that way. You don't know, he is still capable. People in the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Temple, and the Censorate praised him for his speed in handling cases in front of the emperor. You also know that if you want to win a person's heart, you have to understand what he wants. Since he wants to solve the case in the court and make achievements, I might as well give him a great achievement. Do you understand what I mean?"
After hearing this, Xiao Quanzi shook his head in his heart. How could this be possible? Isn't this just courting death?
Xiao Quanzi looked embarrassed. He knelt down and said, "Your Highness, this is not okay. Honglian Villa is very involved with the officials of various families. And you also said that Master Shen Shiqi is so smart. If he finds any evidence about you, he will definitely implicate you."
Prince Rui was not nervous. He said, "I just want him to find some evidence. I am the emperor's only uncle in the world. The emperor is a soft-hearted child. He will not punish me for that little bit of evidence. Besides... the officials involved in Honglian Villa are not just a dozen or twenty, but the whole court. If their evidence is sent to the emperor, he will not be punished. You know, this is shaking the decision of the entire dynasty. Now you know that it is not a comfortable position to sit on the dragon throne."
Xiao Quanzi tried to persuade Prince Rui, but knew that he could not do so, so he had to do as Prince Rui wanted.
But his life would be miserable afterwards. All the witnesses and evidence in the entire villa had to be destroyed and moved. The most important thing was that all the things he had done without telling the prince and the abandoned villa had to be moved.
Xiao Quanzi walked out of the Prince Rui's Mansion, one foot deep and one foot deep like a wandering soul, with thousands of secrets in his head lingering in his heart.
"It looks like another group of people will be killed. Although I told the prince about the abolition of the academy, I don't know if the prince's meaning just now is that he wants me to abandon it. If I move it away? Such a big commotion? Never mind! The most important thing right now is to hide the real Seventeenth Master Shen somewhere else."
Let’s not talk about what will happen to Honglian Villa for now.
Let’s talk about the substitute Shen Wen who was thrown by Pu Zhao onto the roof somewhere in Duke Ji’s mansion.
The stand-in was a criminal police officer in a small country in modern times. He was assigned to follow a female detective named Winter to investigate an international case. During the investigation, he was corrupted and betrayed, which almost killed the entire investigation team. The woman named Winter was also injured. However, he did not escape and was caught by the woman. The woman looked kind and amiable, but he could not bear the cruelty. The woman personally drove a helicopter and threw him from a high altitude into the dense forest in the war zone.
What he didn't know was that the woman who used the alias Winter was actually named Shen Wen, which was the name given to him after he was transformed into a woman in that time and space.
His real name is Jesse. He is a grown man but he is unlucky. He flowed into the ancient times from the time and space loophole of the modern battlefield. He was hunted down by Guan Daye's team in the Slit Mountain for many days, like a stray dog. He had nothing to eat and nothing to drink, like a ghost. He swore that as long as he could escape, he would be able to become anything. I don't know if God heard his oath. When he dragged his tired body and fainted outside the Slit Mountain, he was rescued. After waking up again, he lost that thing and became a woman. He was brainwashed and taught lessons every day, and suffered from physical and mental torture.
Thinking of the past, Jesse sighed to the sky and almost cried to death.
However, in the subsequent murder and silencing manhunt, he was taken away by Puzhao's robot. When he woke up again, good things happened to him one after another, as if he had gotten lucky.
Although he is not welcomed by the servants in the mansion of Duke Ji as a substitute, their Second Madam Ji treats him well.
Later, Tong Xianyu came and supported him. Tong Xianyu also brought a girl named Xiaojiu. Both of them were nobles of special status from the palace. They ignored the obstruction of the servants in the Ji mansion and brought her out of the mansion in a swagger.
When he looked at the crowds on the street outside, he simply couldn't imagine it.
Tong Xianyu cared about him very much. It was from Tong Xianyu and Xiaojiu that he learned about his other identity.
It turned out that he was not the unmarried young mistress who was not worthy of being on the stage as the servants said, but the seventeenth son of Marquis Shen's mansion. The most surprising thing was that he was also a third-rank official under the Emperor, which made him extremely happy.
Since he had the status of a third-rank official to protect him, why would he be a young lady that some wealthy family looked down upon? What a joke!
So, the next day he went to the palace to attend court in a swaggering manner.
But then again, as a man with a career as a policeman, he did a good job as a third-rank official in ancient times, except for his appearance which was a little disappointing. His pretentious and coquettish manner was already ingrained in his bones, and even if he tried hard to become more masculine, he couldn't change it.
This caused bursts of suppressed laughter in the court.
To a man who had lived two lives, this matter was nothing. But who would have thought that the emperor sitting on the throne would stand up for him, scolding all the civil and military officials in the room with a stern face, and even dragged out several fourth and fifth rank officials and beat them with a stick on the pretext that they disrespected the court and did not know the rules and etiquette.
Jesse himself was stunned. No wonder modern people fantasize about traveling back to ancient times. This is a god-like luck to get promoted, get rich, marry a wife, and enjoy the life of hugging the emperor's thigh.
So in the days that followed, Jesse worked hard every day to investigate the case because the emperor stood up for him, and he was very busy for several days.
There was also Lord Ruan Qingxia from Yingtian Prefecture, who was particularly caring every time they collaborated on a crime, making him feel the precious emotions of a close friend and confidant.
Once, Ruan Qingxia came to the Prince's residence where he was handling a case, carrying a basket of paper money and offerings.
Ruan Qingxia said, "It's been a hundred days since the little girl Tian Liu'er died. Here, there is a custom of burning paper for newly deceased people on the 17th, 37th, 57th and 100th day. I know you've been thinking about that girl, why don't we go to her grave and see her today."
Jesse then remembered one thing. He transformed himself into a woman and was locked up in that house. Every day he had to get to know the real Shen Wen and what Shen Wen did. He just suddenly broke into Shen Wen's life and was unfamiliar with him at first. Now he thinks that he has really become Shen Wen, so he knows very well who Shen Wen is interacting with.
Jesse went with Ruan Qingxia to Tian Liuer's grave to burn paper money.
In front of Tian Liuer's grave, Jesse brought up the matter about him and Tian Liuer again, and the two of them also discussed the matter of Tian Liuer's brother Tian Yu.
When the two came back from the cemetery outside the city, it was already night. Jesse lived in the house that Chu Yanqiu had given Qingcheng. While searching for clothes, he found a letter that had been sent to him at some unknown time.
When he opened it, he saw that it was written by someone named Qu Qiu Shui. Judging from the content of the letter, it was written about seven or eight days ago.
The content of the letter that Qu Qiu Shui wrote to Shen Wen shocked Jesse.
First, he discovered that the person who wrote the letter, Qu Qiu Shui, was actually a modern person.
In the second Qu Qiu Shui, it seems that he has written a letter to the real Shen Wen, saying that he is in danger and asking Shen Wen to go to Honglian Villa to save him.
The third one is even more shocking. Qu Qiu Shui reveals many bizarre incidents of illegal and criminal activities in Honglian Villa.
Since then, Jesse has been keeping his eyes on Honglian Villa. He doesn't know where the real Shen Wen has gone. He also once guessed that Shen Wen's behavior is like that of a modern person.
Jesse was severely brainwashed by the closed place like the mansion. After leaving the mansion, he was thrown into the Jiguo Mansion. Although it was only for two days, he felt scared and lonely all the time. He even forgot how to behave in modern times.
Jesse probably felt that he could connect with his modern fellow villagers, so he decided to rescue his fellow villager Qu Qiu Shui.
Jesse thought it through, and threw himself into the investigation the next day. However, since he had no way to investigate the case at the Prince's Mansion, Jesse, in his position as an official in Yingtian Prefecture, found some other cases and solved a few of the simple ones. He also took this opportunity to compare the information given by Qu Qiu Shui and looked up many related cases.
Jesse figured it out, and when the emperor was giving advice in court, he directed his criticism at Honglian Villa and requested an imperial decree to conduct a thorough investigation at Honglian Villa.
Honglian Villa is the private property of the emperor's uncle, and all the civil and military officials in the court know that the young emperor respects and is close to his uncle. Suddenly, it was revealed that it was related to a murder case. The young emperor was still hesitant, but he could not resist Shen Wen's repeated evidence pointing to Honglian Villa. Finally, the young emperor had to summon Prince Rui into the palace, question him about the evidence in front of him, and asked him what to do.
All the civil and military officials in the court were watching the debate between the royal uncle and nephew. They knew that the young emperor was giving his uncle a way out. As long as the uncle said that he could not conduct a thorough investigation, the young emperor would give him this face. To everyone's surprise, Prince Rui actually agreed to a thorough investigation and was very kind to Lord Shen Wen who had falsely accused him, which shocked everyone.
The whole court was surprised at the uncle's attitude towards a small third-rank guard. Their secrets in Honglian Villa were about to be discovered. They were nervous at first, but then they calmed down. What was the fuss? Who was the uncle? How could he be brought down by an unknown guard? The uncle must have been prepared. The ministers in the court who were related to Honglian Villa retired silently and went home.
After Jesse pushed the court out of the palace, he went to Ruan Qingxia's yamen, and together with him, he gathered about a hundred yamen runners and soldiers, and immediately set off for Honglian Villa.
Although Ruan Qingxia felt that this was a bit hasty, he also thought that only by catching Honglian Villa off guard could they win in the chaos. In addition, Jesse's analysis before departure also made sense, so they could go this time.