Contract Prince

After Deng Kuan was released, Concubine Li Guilai left with an ashen face, shaking her sleeves angrily.

Gu Yunjing looked at the imperial physician who was kneeling on the ground, and said: "You imperial physicians have worked hard, you should step down first."

All the imperial physicians felt as if they had been pardoned. They had knelt on the ground for a long time, and their legs were already numb.Gu Yunjing's words were a great relief to them.

After all the imperial physicians saluted and thanked Gu Yunjing, they left one by one.

Deng Kuan adjusted his somewhat embarrassed clothes, kowtowed and said: "Thank you, Your Royal Highness, Princess Consort, for helping me out, and I am very grateful."

Gu Yunjing said: "Master Deng, get up and answer."

After Deng Kuannuo made a sound, he got up and bowed slightly.Xiao Muxue did not participate in the conversation between the two. In her heart, Ku Yin was important, but after all, it was not as important as her father's life.

In order to save Deng Kuan just now, Xiao Muxue and Concubine Li had been arguing with each other, which had already wasted a lot of time.As soon as Concubine Li left, she couldn't wait to go to the dragon couch to visit Xiao Guan.

The conversation between the two of Gu Yunjing continued.

"Master Deng, explain the situation in detail."

"Yes, my son-in-law." Deng Kuan said with trepidation, "In the past two days, His Majesty has issued an order to ask the Ministry of Accounts to allocate funds to the Western Expeditionary Army. After receiving the imperial order, I will immediately send people to the warehouse of the Ministry of Accounts to withdraw the silver taels."

Deng Kuan's voice became deeper and deeper, "Who knows, after the people under his command went to the warehouse, they hurriedly told me about the loss of Kuyin. I was shocked and rushed to the warehouse to check."

"The loss of Ku Yin is indeed true." Deng Kuan sighed suddenly, "This matter is no small matter, I immediately rushed into the palace to inform His Majesty about it. When Your Majesty heard this, Longyan was furious and furious. It became like this.”

Gu Yunjing frowned, and asked, "Kuyin was lost for no reason. Is the key to the warehouse damaged? Did you find any clues at the warehouse scene?"

Deng Kuan said sadly: "No. This is also the place where the guilty minister is puzzled. The 100 million taels of silver bills seem to have disappeared."

"The household department is the most important department of the imperial court, and the warehouse of the household department is the most important thing." Gu Yunjing said with deep eyebrows, "As far as I know, there are always heavy guards around the warehouse. If such a big event happened, wouldn't the guards Don't all the soldiers notice it at all?"

Deng Kuan said helplessly, "I've asked them one by one, and they don't know anything about this matter."

Regardless of the process of the disappearance of the bank notes, since it was lost in the warehouse of the household department, the household department has an inescapable responsibility.Deng Kuan actually stated the case with a few figures that he knew nothing about.

"I don't know anything?" Gu Yunjing's heart was filled with anger, and his tone was slightly cold, "Could it be that some flies flew into the warehouse of the household department and took the bank notes away?"

Deng Kuan hurriedly said: "My son-in-law forgives the crime, the guilty minister has absolutely no intention of shirking responsibility. The loss of Ku Yin, the entire household department cannot escape the blame, the crime deserves death!"

Deng Kuan's attitude at this meeting made Gu Yunjing's anger slowly dissipate, and the son-in-law said in a deep voice: "Investigate the case clearly first, and then it won't be too late to die."

"You go down first, let someone protect the warehouse site, and I will go to the household department to check later."

The son-in-law is extremely clever, and Deng Kuan once witnessed the scene where he made Yu Wenyan, the king of Southern Chu, lose face.Gu Yunjing is willing to take action to investigate the case, and the day to solve the case is not far away.

A look of joy flashed between Deng Kuan's eyebrows, and his tone was very excited: "On behalf of the entire household department, I thank the son-in-law."

After Deng Kuan stepped back, Gu Yunjing moved his steps and walked to Xiao Muxue's side.At this time, Her Royal Highness Princess' complexion was extremely ugly, and there was an expression of sadness and fear on her pretty face.

Gu Yunjing knew that Xiao Muxue was very worried about the emperor's situation.She patted the princess on the shoulder, and said softly: "Xue'er, don't worry, father and emperor are blessed with great blessings, and he will be safe and sound."

Xiao Muxue leaned slightly, leaning her body towards Gu Yunjing.For so long, she has developed a habit.Whenever she encounters important or unhappy things, she always likes to lean her body on the son-in-law. This feeling of being reliable gives her more or less comfort.

"Father has been in a coma all this time, I'm very, very worried about him, afraid of him..." Xiao Muxue couldn't bear to continue talking.

In all fairness, the current Xiao Guan is not a good emperor.Before marrying Xiao Muxue, Gu Yunjing was disgusted with this suspicious emperor.After marrying Xiao Muxue, the emperor did treat her kindly, but even so, Gu Yunjing didn't have much affection for Xiao Guan.

The son-in-law hated the emperor, but he never wanted Xiao Guan to die.Right now, Xiao's foreign country is going to fight against Xiliang, and there are many courtiers hiding filth and filth in their corpses. Besides, they are still in the vortex of various power struggles.

If Xiao Guan died at this time, the situation would only become more chaotic and out of control.The onset of his illness was so sudden that he didn't even leave an oral order to pass the throne.At that time, the princes will definitely fight for the throne.

Gu Yunjing continued to comfort the princess softly: "Xue'er, the emperor will be unconscious now, what we have to do is not to sigh here, but to find a way to save him."

"How to save?" Xiao Muxue disappointed, "The imperial doctors are helpless."

"The imperial physicians have nothing to do, the old man in our family should have an idea."

Xiao Muxue's eyes lit up, she knew that the old man was referring to Shangguan Lan, the medical sage.If it wasn't for Gu Yunjing's reminder, she would have really forgotten about Shangguan Lan.

"My son-in-law, let's go and invite the senior to treat the father." Xiao Muxue said quickly.

Gu Yunjing's answer was not straightforward, she hesitated a little, and said helplessly: "Xue'er, you also know the strange temper of the master, he doesn't like to enter the palace as an old man. If I hadn't begged him several times, the master probably wouldn't." Stepped into the Hou's mansion."

Xiao Muxue had heard about Shangguan Lan's temper, so she asked Gu Yunjing: "Then take Father to the Hou's Mansion."

Gu Yunjing moved closer to Xiao Muxue's ear, whispering something.

"Xue'er, in the entire court, only a few people know that I am Shangguanlan's apprentice. Not long ago, there was an uproar about the Chun.Xin.Motion incident. Lu Zhong was just convicted. I guess Concubine Qu will not let it go. "

"She must do everything possible to find clues about Master through Chun. Xin. Dong. The grievances between Master and Huangfu Yun must be resolved, but it is definitely not now. Right now, we still have many more important things to do, so we can't rush Leak the master's whereabouts."

"Whether the master enters the palace to treat the father, or carries the father to the Hou's mansion, the whereabouts of the master will be exposed. At that time, the Hou's mansion will become the target of attack by Huangfu Yun and others."

Xiao Muxue nodded: "En."

Gu Yunjing said again: "Don't worry, leave this matter to me, and I will naturally have a way to heal my father."

The princess consort shared weal and woe, Xiao Muxue of course trusted Gu Yunjing unconditionally.

"Xue'er, you stay here with the father first, and we will talk about it when the empress comes." Gu Yunjing paused, but still said what she shouldn't have said, "People's hearts are unpredictable, I am worried that someone will fight for the throne. Make an act of murdering the king."

Xiao Cong and Xiao Yang have been eyeing the throne covetously, and now that the emperor is unconscious, it's hard to guarantee that they won't do anything.

"Ku Yin's inexplicable disappearance is an extremely serious matter. I need to go to the household department immediately."

Although Xiao Muxue really wanted Gu Yunjing to be by her side, she could handle the seriousness of the matter, and said slowly: "Go, be careful."

"Well, I will." After Gu Yunjing leaned in and kissed her on the forehead, he turned around and walked out, heading straight to the household department.

Deng Kuan had just returned to the household department, before he had time to take a breath, he heard the news of the son-in-law's visit from his servants.Deng Kuan hurriedly led the crowd out to greet him, Gu Yunjing waved his hands and said, "I'm not here today to put on airs, but to investigate the case of Kuyin's loss. The etiquette is unnecessary, Mr. Deng, take me to the warehouse quickly one trip."

"Obey." After Deng Kuan dismissed the crowd, he led Gu Yunjing forward.After passing through several trails, we came to the location of the warehouse of the household department in a short while.

The warehouse has a huge construction area, and a powerful "ku" character is written on the plaque in the middle.There are high walls and iron walls all around, and there are two rows of tall and mighty soldiers guarding the warehouse door.A dense group of people, no less than a few hundred in number.

Such a place can be called an impregnable fortress, Gu Yunjing couldn't figure out who was so capable to steal Kuyin quietly under the eyes of everyone.

Gu Yunjing was slightly puzzled, and asked all the soldiers: "You guard here, can you find anything unusual?"

All the soldiers looked at each other and replied respectfully: "No abnormalities were found."

Gu Yunjing asked again: "Who was the first person to discover that Ku Yin was missing?"

Deng Kuan said: "My son-in-law, it's Zhang Changqing, Master Zhang."

"Okay, where is he now? You go and find this master. I have something to ask him."

Deng Kuan immediately sent his servants to pass on Zhang Changqing.Master Zhang was checking the account book, when he heard Deng Kuan pass him on, he immediately pulled away and rushed over.

Zhang Changqing said: "I will see Mr. Deng."

Deng Kuan pointed to Gu Yunjing, and introduced to Zhang Changqing: "This is the prince's son-in-law."

It was the first time for Mr. Zhang to deal with the emperor's relatives. He respectfully looked at the handsome son-in-law, and immediately felt flattered.He bowed and said, "My subordinate Zhang Changqing kowtows to the son-in-law."

Gu Yunjing said: "Excuse me. Are you the first person to find out that Ku Yin was stolen?"

Zhang Changqing was slightly stunned, and then said: "Go back to the son-in-law, that's right."

"Okay, let's talk about the situation." Gu Yunjing looked into the other person's eyes while talking.

Zhang Changqing spoke eloquently, and what he said was almost the same as what Deng Kuan expressed.