Traveling through ancient times, the spy princess had everything going smoothly

Baili Ye frowned and murmured:

"This is strange. If this matter has nothing to do with him, then why would these people related to Concubine Li collude with each other?"

Qing He thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps someone is acting under the banner of Concubine Li and the Second Prince, deliberately disrupting the court situation."

Baili Ye nodded and said:

"It's possible, Baiyi, don't worry about Hua'an Temple. The princess and I will go and take a look. Are there any new news about the officials I asked you to interrogate?"

Baiyi continued:

"Your Majesty, Princess, I used the medicine you gave me and interrogated those people again. I found that in the correspondence between these people, a mysterious code name "Shadow" was mentioned many times, but it has not yet been found out who this "Shadow" refers to.

They waited and said they had not seen the shadow, but were just following the orders of the Duke of England.

Baili Ye's eyes shone, and he said:

"It seems that this 'shadow' is the key. We must find this person as soon as possible to uncover the conspiracy behind this."

Qing He thought for a moment and said:

"These people are already in the Dali Temple jail and have no way of contacting the people above. We'd better be prepared to guard against the actions of the left and right eunuchs. I wonder if there has been any progress at Brother's Liulichang."

At this moment, a servant came hurriedly, bowed to Baili Ye and Qing He and said:

"Your Highness, Princess, there's news from the Crown Prince that Liulichang has caught someone who sneaked into the factory."

"what happened?"

The servant took a breath and continued:

“It is said that the man was sneaking around and was discovered by the factory guards.

After some questioning, the man became evasive and behaved very suspiciously.

The people in the factory felt that this matter was of great importance, so they reported it to the prince and detained him first.”

Baili Ye's eyes lit up and he said, "Let's go and take a look."

The two entered the space and teleported to the Prince's Mansion.

The prince was seen sitting on the main seat, looking at the person kneeling on the ground with a gloomy face.

Seeing Baili Ye and Qinghe arriving, Baili Ting came over to greet them.

"Yer, sister-in-law, you are here."

Baili Ye asked: "Brother, is this the man?"

Baili Ting nodded in response, motioned for them to sit down, looked at the people on the ground, and said sternly:

"Tell me, who are you? What brought you into Liulichang?"

The man kept silent and just lowered his head.

Qinghe said:

"If you tell the truth, there may be a chance of survival.

You know, some of your accomplices confessed after being cut into pieces.

If you want to try what it feels like to be cut 3,600 times and still not die, you can try it.

Otherwise, you will be in big trouble.”

The man looked at Qing He, who was fierce and murderous, and his body trembled slightly. He hesitated for a moment and finally spoke:

"I... I was instructed by someone to find out the secrets of Liulichang."

Baili Ye asked: "Who ordered you to do this?"

The man stammered, "It was... a masked man. I don't know his identity. He just gave me money to let me in."

Qing He frowned: "What secrets did he ask you to find out?"

The man said, "He asked me to find out the formula, latest production process and shipping channels of Liulichang Liuli."

Baili Ye snorted coldly: "What are you going to do with the Liulichang formula?"

The man replied: "The people above said that they want to open a factory in Chuzhou to make money."

"There are so many places, why go to Chuzhou?"

"There is~~~~ in Chuzhou." The man hesitated and did not dare to speak.

With a "bang", the prince slammed the table heavily.

The man was frightened and trembled, and replied in a trembling voice: "There are a large number of people stationed in Chuzhou, and we need money to support them."

Baili Ye and Qinghe looked at each other, both with shock in their eyes.

The prince's face became more gloomy, and he asked, "Where are these people from? What is their purpose?"

The man swallowed and said:

"I really don't know. The masked man never told me. I am just following orders. I beg you gentlemen to spare my life!"

Qing He snorted coldly, "Spare my life? You have committed such a serious crime, how can you just let it go with a simple mercy?"

After he finished speaking, Qinghe's eyes turned cold, a sharp knife appeared in his hand, he took a step forward, and stabbed it into the man's palm.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!” The man’s palms were instantly covered in blood and he shouted loudly.

Qinghe pulled out the sharp knife, and the man screamed in pain again.

Qing He grabbed the man by the collar and said sternly, "If you don't tell the truth, I will continue to serve you with this sharp knife. Let's see which is harder, your hand or this knife."

As he spoke, he placed the blood-stained dagger in his hand against the man's throat.

The man's eyes widened in horror. He felt the coldness in his throat and shouted with a trembling voice, "I'll tell you, I'll tell you! Don't kill me!"

Qing He loosened his grip slightly and shouted, "Hurry up and tell me!"

The man panted and said hurriedly:

"The person I serve is the Right Envoy, and I don't know who is above him.

All I know is that after they massacred Taohua Village and Taoyuan Village under Chuzhou, they replaced the villagers with their own people and secretly gathered a group of people behind the villages, ready to act when the opportunity arises.

I was in charge of kiln firing in Chuzhou, and this time they sent me to Liulichang to steal the recipe because they thought I had experience in kiln firing.

The masked man said that if they could obtain the Liulichang's formula and craftsmanship, they would be able to make a lot of money to finance their uprising.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present changed their expressions.

The prince slammed the table angrily and shouted, "How dare you! How dare you secretly gather troops and plot evil!"

Baili Ye frowned, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "This matter must be reported to my father as soon as possible, and we will discuss it in the long run."

Qing He put the man down and glared at him fiercely: "If you tell even a single lie, I will make you live a life worse than death!"

The man collapsed to the ground and nodded repeatedly: "I dare not, I dare not."

"Then how do you usually contact each other?" Qinghe asked sternly.

The man replied tremblingly:

“Every time, the masked man would come to me on his own initiative, and every time he would leave a mark outside the porcelain shop on Hanlin Street, and I would go to meet him.

But the time and place of the meeting are uncertain, and I really don’t know when and where I can see him next time.”

Baili Ye looked at the man and said sternly:

"Do you remember any features of the masked man? Even the slightest clue could be of great significance."

The man pondered over it, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said:

"I just remembered that the masked man had a scar on the base of his right hand."

Qing He snorted coldly: "You dare not lie. Come, take him away and keep him under guard."

The servant responded and took the person away.

The prince paced back and forth, and said solemnly:

"This matter is of great importance and must be handled with caution. We must not alert the enemy."

Baili Ye nodded and said:

"Brother is right. We need to make secret arrangements and send people to monitor Chuzhou's movements first, then find an opportunity to find the mastermind behind this."

The prince looked at Baili Ye and said worriedly:

"If this is not handled properly, it may cause unrest in the court. Let's go to the palace and report to our father!"