Chapter 160 Suspected to be a spy

Chapter 160 Suspected to be a spy

At the Fan Mansion, Chi Ying knelt on one knee and said, "Master, our people have already found out that the person who came to Lingzhou City this time is Qi Beiming, the third prince of Canglang Country. He is insidious, cunning, and cruel. I took your token and mobilized the officers and soldiers stationed in Qingxi County to search for him. We had already found his traces in Xunfang Pavilion, but he escaped in the end."

"Xunfang Pavilion?"

"Yes, it's a brothel in Qingxi County."

"Do you know what Qi Beiming wants to do by coming to Lingzhou City?"

"Master, according to the information our people have found out, the third prince of the Canglang Kingdom wants to get a map from the people who established the base. The place indicated by the map is where something very important is buried, but we don't know what it is for the time being."

"You personally take people to the Xunfang Pavilion and search it carefully. Remember, don't miss any corner."

"Yes."

In Xunfang Pavilion, all the girls and guests who stayed overnight were called out from their rooms. At this moment, everyone gathered in the hall of Xunfang Pavilion wearing their outer coats, and everyone was complaining.

"It's so cold late at night, and you're pulling me out of bed. Are you going to let me live?"

"Yeah, cold and sleepy."

A man in military uniform beside Chi Ying yelled at everyone, "Shut up, everyone! The police are investigating a case, do you think it's your turn to make irresponsible remarks?"

The man in military uniform was a general of the Qingxi County garrison. Chi Ying went to find him today with the token of General God of War, which scared him so much that he immediately dispatched his own troops to search for the criminal.

Mother Yang had a bitter face at this moment. What bad luck had happened to her tonight? The soldiers came in waves. They had clearly left by then, but now they came to search again in the middle of the night. How could she do her business?

She walked forward, waving her handkerchief, and said to the leader Chi Ying with a smile: "Sir, we really don't have any prisoners here, sir, please be kind..."

Before Mother Yang finished her words, a man suddenly ran down from upstairs. He knelt down and said, "Sir, I found something unusual in a room upstairs."

Chi Ying, who was wearing a human skin mask, turned his head and glanced at Mother Yang. Mother Yang was so frightened by his cold eyes that her legs trembled and she immediately shut up.

She was anxiously thinking: What's going on? Why is there something wrong? Obviously, the guests who come here are all familiar to her, so there is no criminal.

Chi Ying followed the man upstairs and found bloodstains on a bed. It turned out that the villain was injured on his back tonight. Qianhuan took off his clothes, and blood naturally got on the bed. Qianhuan was also injured on his waist, and there were bloodstains on the quilt.

Chi Ying quickly asked, "Who searched this room tonight?"

The captain who was in the lead had already gone home to embrace his concubine and was in love with her, but he was unexpectedly called to Xunfang Pavilion for re-investigation, and he was already feeling dissatisfied.

At this moment, he knew that there was something wrong with the room he was searching, so he immediately knelt down and kowtowed, saying, "Your Excellency, I led people to search this room."

"Did you see the appearance of the person in the room?"

"Reply... reply to your Excellency's question, because the people in the room were making love at that time, I was embarrassed to watch."

"So, you didn't even see the appearance of the people in the room?" Chi Ying asked with a cold face.

"Yes, I didn't see it clearly."

"Drag me out and give me fifty blows with a military stick."

Chi Ying has been with the prince for a long time, and has developed a decisive and murderous aura. This person was so careless in doing his job that the third prince of the Canglang Kingdom escaped. It is also unknown what Qi Beiming was looking for after taking the map. This will undoubtedly leave many hidden dangers for their Dayuan Kingdom.

"Please spare my life, sir. I know I was wrong."

The leading captain immediately kowtowed and begged for mercy, but it was of no avail. He was still dragged away and beaten with a stick.

Mother Yang was also brought before Chi Ying for questioning: "Tell me, who owns this house? Hurry and bring the person here to me."

Mother Yang was dumbfounded when she saw this. Wasn't this the room she arranged for Feiyan to change clothes every day? But Feiyan was gone, so where could she go to bring someone to the official?

Mother Yang said in embarrassment, "To answer your question, the owner of this room is Zhao Feiyan, but she is no longer in our Xunfang Pavilion. I don't know where to find her, mother."

"You girls from Xunfang Pavilion, how could you not know where she is? You are not honest, are you? Drag her away and torture her."

Upon hearing this, Mother Yang collapsed to the ground. She quickly explained, "Sir, I am telling the truth. Please listen to my explanation."

So Mother Yang told the whole story of Zhao Feiyan replacing Hongyu.

"Sir, everything I said is true. That woman is not from Xunfang Pavilion. If you don't believe me, you can call our top girl, Miss Hongyu, to question her."

So the real Hongyu was also called over to testify for the madam.

Hongyu said, "My dear officials, what my mother said is true. That woman is not from our Xunfang Pavilion. We don't know where she lives. We only know that her name is Zhao Feiyan. That woman's family was poor at first, and she had no choice but to come here to perform and earn money. Mother Yang felt sorry for her and kept her in our building to perform. This matter really has nothing to do with our Xunfang Pavilion."

"Yes, yes, sir, everything we said is true. If there is a lie, I am willing to be struck by lightning and die a miserable death. Please spare my life, sir."

Then Chi Ying called the painter and asked Mother Yang to describe the woman's appearance and asked the painter to draw it.

Mother Yang had only seen Qianhuan wearing men's clothes. In fact, every time Qianhuan came to Xunfang Pavilion, she wore men's clothes that were modified and different from her usual men's clothes.

And every time she changed into women's clothes in Xunfang Pavilion, she would put on makeup and change clothes by herself in the room and never needed a maid to serve her, so in fact they had never seen her real face. They only saw her wearing a veil and a dance dress.

Mother Yang thought that since the official wanted her look, he certainly didn't want her to look like a man, so Mother Yang recalled how Qianhuan looked when she wore a dance dress and a veil, and the painter painted it accordingly.

Who would have thought that the person in the painting would have eyebrows and eyes that were very similar to Hongyu.

Hongyu quickly explained: "The girl Feiyan actually has long phoenix eyes, but she is extremely good at makeup. Every time she performs a dance, she will paint her phoenix eyes into almond eyes according to my eyes."

Upon hearing this, the painter quickly changed the eyes in the portrait into long phoenix eyes.

Hongyu nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, that girl is like this."

Chi Ying asked again: "Do you know if there are any other features on Zhao Feiyan that can be easily identified?"

Mother Yang quickly told everything she knew: "The girl is slender, about six feet nine inches tall, can play musical instruments, understands music, and is extremely good at dancing. She can do the fan dance and the silk dance."

"Anything else?" Chi Ying continued to interrogate.

Mother Yang suddenly remembered that Feiyan had performed a very special dance a few days ago, and she quickly said, "Sir, Miss Feiyan also performed a dance called the Peacock Dance, which Mother has never seen in the Great Yuan Kingdom."

In fact, Qianhuan deliberately danced the Peacock Dance at that time. She knew that Hongyu definitely could not dance the Peacock Dance, so she could perform alone in the private room on her behalf and earn prize money.

Thus, the portrait of the veiled Qianhuan fell into Chiying's hands.

When Chi Ying returned to the Fan Mansion, the portrait fell into the hands of the prince again.

Teng Yu looked at the portrait in his hand. Why did he feel that the eyes of the person in the painting looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before, but he couldn't remember where for a moment.

"Master, the woman in the portrait is named Zhao Feiyan. She is slender and six feet nine inches tall. She can play the instrument and understands music. She is very good at all kinds of dances, and she can also dance a kind of dance called the Peacock Dance."

"I have attended palace banquets when various countries came to pay homage. I have seen dancers from Nanzhao Country perform the Peacock Dance, but I have never heard that women from Canglang Country can perform this dance."

"Have you found out that this woman is in the same group as Qi Beiming?" Teng Yu asked while looking at the portrait on the table.

"I am not sure either, but according to what the madam and head performer of Xunfang Pavilion said, the woman's family is very poor and she had no choice but to sell her art some time ago. It doesn't seem like they are in the same group. It is possible that Qi Beiming just happened to break into her boudoir tonight and then coerced her, so she performed a scene of lovemaking to help him escape. But we cannot rule out that this woman is a pawn that the Canglang Kingdom has planted in the brothel a long time ago."

"Go to the government and check if there is a woman named Zhao Feiyan in Lingzhou City. Then send people to search for this woman based on the portrait. We must find her. If she is not coerced, then she is a spy hidden in our country by the Canglang Country."

"Yes, I will take your orders."

In the Half-Day Qinghuan Garden, Qianhuan casually stuffed the parchment map under the mattress, then she took out the golden wound medicine powder and sprinkled it on her waist. This golden wound medicine was bought for the black-clothed man who she rescued in the bamboo forest. She didn't expect that she would use it on herself in the end.

After treating the wound, she was exhausted. She covered herself with the quilt, blew out the oil lamp and went to sleep. Perhaps because she was frightened that night, she did not sleep very well.

The person in his sleep could never have imagined that he had been suspected by the famous General God of War as a spy for the Canglang Kingdom, and was being hunted down.