readsfreenovel Chapter 545 The Warrant is Fake
Chapter 545 The Warrant is Fake
Zhou Chang and Yuan Qi looked at each other, but no one said anything.
Yaoyuefang now belongs to Prince Duan. Could it be that this mask was just taken from the warehouse of Yaoyuefang by Prince Duan's subordinates?
Can it be so stupid and weird?
But it would be unfair to point the finger at Prince Duan based solely on this point.
Even just now, when Liu E mentioned the clue of "Deputy General Sun", the first person Zhou Chang thought of was King Xian.
Although the garrison battalion is not directly under the Ministry of War, the prestige of Marquis Jiang Qin is still there, and Jiang Qin is the grandfather of Princess Xian.
The reason why King Xian was able to gain so much support in the army and control the Jindu Garrison Camp was mostly due to Jiang Qin's reputation.
Speaking of relatives, the Minister of War Peng Pai and Xian Wang Ke can also be regarded as the sons-in-law of the Jiang family.
Since Liu E discovered that one of the kidnappers had a similar body shape to one of the deputy generals, she also found that the mask might be related to Prince Duan's party.
Whether it was Prince Duan or Prince Xian, it was clear what they were after.
What's more, what you want to achieve is most dependent on money.
These days, when Zhou Chang was lying on his bed in the inn and bored, he had been thinking about it over and over again. No matter how he thought about it, he felt that those kidnappers did not seem like people from the underworld, but more like the style of the court's lackeys.
However, it is not known which faction these lackeys come from, whether they are Prince Duan or Prince Xian.
However, no conclusion can be drawn based on these tentative clues alone.
Zhou Chang had no choice but to write down the clue and put it aside, then looked at Yuan Qi: "By the way, is there any special news from the border and the river in the north of Vietnam these days?"
"The prince gave them a warrant. They must have already left the border long ago, whether by land or water. How can there be any clues?" Yuan Qi sighed, not holding out much hope. "It doesn't matter. As long as the prince and father are fine, even if they lose some money, it's not a big deal."
Zhou Chang smiled and shook his head: "You don't know, money is only one aspect, the most important thing is that the warrant I gave you should be useless, so as long as the kidnappers take a large amount of money out of the customs, they will definitely be discovered."
"Is it so?" Yuan Qi was surprised.
Zhou Chang further analyzed: "However, since you said that there is no special news, then either the kidnappers are still in our country, or they have no intention of leaving the country. Everything before was just a smokescreen."
Yuan Qi was still asking: "How could the prince give a fake warrant? It was so risky at the time. If the kidnappers found out that the warrant was fake, wouldn't it be..."
Zhou Chang had no other choice but to come up with an idea in advance: "It is a bit risky, but the order issued by the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel states that the tax is considered paid only when the seal of the Ministry of Revenue is received. How can my private seal count? Because of this, everything on the warrant is real, except the seal, and the kidnappers can easily overlook it if they don't look carefully."
Yuan Qi was still afraid: "Your Highness, don't ever do this again. If you do this even once, you will never be able to recover."
"Well, having said that, who could have thought that even if they didn't find out the warrant was fake, the kidnappers would still kill me." Zhou Chang has been getting more and more scared the more he thinks about it these past few days.
Yuan Qi asked again in surprise: "Why did your Highness say that? Did they want to kill you when they were on the ship?"
Zhou Chang nodded: "So I also inferred that they are definitely not ordinary gangsters. Although the man in the white mask didn't dare to kill me directly on the boat, he pushed me off the boat. Fortunately, there is Mei Sheng..."
It’s all thanks to Prince Yi Feng Ming’s good fortune and also thanks to Mei Sheng’s presence, otherwise his life would be in danger.
Yuan Qi lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.
Liu E suddenly plucked up the courage to ask, "Your Highness seems to like Mr. Lin quite a bit?"
"Well, he has a very good personality and is much better at taking care of people than a skinny guy. Thanks to him along the way..." Zhou Chang didn't want anyone to know how Mei Sheng met him. "Thanks to his care over the past few days, otherwise I wouldn't have recovered so quickly."
Yuan Qi, however, never raised his eyes and didn't care about Mei Sheng.
Liu E said, "Your Highness Prince Yi, you don't know how our young mistress has been spending these days. Not only does she have to take care of the mistress, she also has to..."
"Liu E, no need to say more." Yuan Qi stopped her.
Liu E didn't dare to say anything more.
Zhou Chang had already reminded me, so he naturally thought of it and apologized: "Ah, yes, I originally asked Meisheng to send you a letter, but I don't know what happened, maybe the guys in your store didn't believe it. So the letter was never delivered, and it was Meisheng who asked me to rest for two more days, otherwise I would have come out to find you in person a long time ago."
"Well, no matter what, it's best that the prince is safe and sound now." Yuan Qi didn't seem to mind.
It was a bumpy ride. In the second half of the journey, Zhou Chang asked some questions he could think of, but there were no particularly useful clues.
When the sun was setting, the convoy finally entered Beiji City.
Zhou Chang moved back into the official inn.
Before parting, Zhou Chang comforted Yuan Qi again.
Yuan Qi said nothing more but nodded in agreement.
After Zhou Chang settled down, he went to Gao Yuan to ask again, wanting to know whether there was any news that the kidnappers had been intercepted at the border checkpoints.
However, Gao Yuan's answer also yielded nothing.
Could it be that she really had miscalculated?
Those kidnappers have nothing to do with the Mirage Kingdom?
Zhou Chang was unwilling to accept the result and even called the prefect Yang Yi to ask again, but the answer was still the same.
She could only give up temporarily.
After all, I had been traveling for most of the day and my body was still exhausted.
Just as he was about to lie down to rest, Yuan Qi had someone bring him a lot of daily necessities, plus the prescription written by Doctor Ning.
The skinny monkey took the medicine and boiled it.
Zhou Chang was already fine, so he didn't want to continue drinking the bitter soup.
But there was no way out as the skinny monkey insisted, so he could only continue drinking it while pinching his nose.
After drinking the medicine and eating some snacks brought by Yuan Qi, Zhou Chang was satisfied.
Just as he was about to lie down, Meisheng came over with bedding and insisted on staying up all night to continue taking care of him.
Zhou Chang refused: "Thanks to you these days, I guess you didn't get enough rest. Now the entire inn is booked by our people, and there are vacant rooms. You should also have a good rest. I have monkeys here, so you don't have to worry about it anymore."
Meisheng insisted: "Your Highness still coughs from time to time at night. Meisheng wakes up from sleep and can get up in time to give Your Highness some water."
Zhou Chang also knew that the skinny monkey could not be disturbed when he slept, but he couldn't continue to trouble Meisheng.
Just as he was about to find another excuse, the skinny guy brought in hot water from outside.
Zhou Chang thought of his worries about eating and living for free these days, and told Shouhou: "Monkey, give Meisheng some silver later. I have been eating and living for free in the inn these days. Thanks to Meisheng, he hired a doctor for me, boiled medicine for me, and bought me fresh fruits and cakes."