The girl who wears fast

Chapter 38 The Prime Minister's Tool Man Stepwife (38)

Sure enough, Xu Shichu found on the wall of the mud room the raw materials for making incense, which were obviously stolen from her spice workshop, as well as a few spice recipes and a survey of the craftsmen in the spice workshop.

After finding these, Xu Shichu lit another incense stick. After a quarter of an hour, the ferocious expression on the face of the man who was tied up changed, and he became dazed.

Only at this time did Xu Shichu fix his jawbone, allowing him to regain his ability to speak.

"Tell me, who is the person behind the scenes who asked you to go to the fragrance workshop in Drunken Fragrance Pavilion to steal incense?" Xu Shichu asked.

The man's eyes were distracted, but he replied word by word: "I don't know. Only a masked man came to me at night and asked me to go to that address to steal spice recipes. It would be best to turn against the artisans inside."

"What does that man look like? What are his characteristics?" Xu Shichu continued to interrogate.

"I can't see my face clearly. I'm about five and a half feet tall, with a medium build... Features? The left thumb seems to be underdeveloped, with only a short section." The man replied sternly.

"Then how do you contact him after you stole the spice recipe?" Xu Shichu asked again.

"After stealing the prescription, I hid the news in the statue of the God of Earth in the ruined temple five miles outside the city toward Dawo Village. That person will go to get news regularly, and then wait for him to take the initiative to contact me." The man had no ego. Like a puppet of will, he unreservedly told the contact information of the person who ordered him.

After Xu Shichu heard his words, she was not surprised by the cautiousness of the people behind the scenes at all, but she already had an idea in her heart, so she knocked the man out and threw him into her accompanying space to ensure that he would not come out to startle the snake.

After finishing all this work, it was getting late, she put away all the information collected by the spies, and then quietly returned to the Prime Minister's mansion, changed her clothes, and went back to sleep.

After dawn, she was not in a hurry to find the person who was in contact with the spy, but patiently became her prime minister's wife, occasionally teasing little Du Zhao.

After dark, she disguised herself as the spy, and rushed to the ruined temple that the spy said without stopping. Sure enough, she found a dilapidated statue of the God of the Earth, so she took the modified spice recipe and the craftsman's recipe. The personal situation is hidden in the statue.

It was impossible for the contact person to show up in the ruined temple immediately to take the things away, so Xu Shichu just packed the things and left directly.

She wasn't worried about not being able to find that person, after all, the materials she hid were all stained with a special almost colorless and odorless smell, which happened to be able to smell it with her pink moth, even when Xu Shichu got close. Smell, that spy is an example of being caught.

The bait had already been released, Xu Shichu was not in a hurry to start fishing, after all it would take some time for the fish to catch the bait.

After waiting another seven days, Xu Shichu went to the ruined temple to check again. Sure enough, the materials she had put had disappeared, apparently taken away by someone, so she released the powder moth and chased it back to the city.

It's just that this time the place where the powder moth flies is not the slums in the west city, but the wealthy families in the east city.

Before Xu Shichu sneaked in, the word "Qufu" was written on the plaque on the gate of the mansion where the powder moth flew in.

Even at night, this Qu mansion can be seen to be very grand and spacious, with carved beams and painted pillars, rockery and river ponds, magnificent and magnificent, at first glance, it looks like a luxurious mansion that only aristocratic families with strong fires can afford to live in.

In this way, it is clear which family this Qu Mansion belongs to. After all, only one of the important ministers in power at that time was surnamed Qu.

That is, from the front of the palace of the second rank, Qu Xiaofeng is the commander of Qu Xiaofeng. Qu Xiaofeng is the uncle of the second prince. He has a high position and is working hard for his nephew to ascend to the big position. At the beginning of time, the head came up.

It takes a lot of money to grab the throne, but Xu Shichu didn't expect that there are commanders in front of the dignified palace, from the second-rank official, to not let go of her own small Zuixiang Pavilion, shouldn't she be honored?

The powder moth did not fly to the magnificent main courtyard, but instead went to a servant room on the left side of the Qu Mansion and stayed on the beam.Xu Shichu lighted the incense and stunned everyone in the room, and then walked in.

In the room, there was a man of medium build who was lying on the bed with his arms around a woman. His clothes were disheveled. Xu Shichu happened to see that the man's left thumb was short and stubby, so he immediately knew that this man was The person that the spy said gave him the address and asked him to go to the spice shop to steal spice recipes.

This person is a servant of Qu Mansion, one can imagine who his master is, who else is besides the master of Qu Mansion?Xu Shichu didn't need to find the right person behind the scenes, she just needed to know that the people who beat her up in Zuixiang Pavilion were from the Qu family.

She is impatient to retaliate bit by bit, and she is better at drawing salary from the bottom of the pot.

Didn't the Qu family have the energy and confidence to seek her secret recipe of spices, because they all commanded Qu Xiaofeng and the second prince in front of the palace?

Then she will get Qu Xiaofeng and the second prince down!

If the official career is smooth, few people who become high officials have clean hands, and the fact that the people in the Qu Mansion can use such a shady method to obtain Xu Shichu's secret recipe of spices already shows that their intentions are not right.

People with unrighteous intentions happen to be powerful and powerful, will they refrain from doing things like bullying others, bullying men and women, murdering money and killing people, swindling public affairs for personal gain, enriching private pockets, embezzling and accepting bribes?

This is impossible, so Xu Shichu decided to help the second prince's rival and get rid of Qu Xiaofeng.

Of course, Xu Shichu didn't come to mess with him openly, after all, as the prime minister's wife, her status was inconvenient, and it was more convenient to mess with him secretly.

She didn't do anything, but found the secret room in Mrs. Qu Xiaofeng's study, and found evidence in the secret room that he had been seeking money for the second prince over the years, embezzling private pockets, embezzling and accepting bribes, etc., and quietly put it in the big room. The other half of the prince's study was placed on the table of the third prince.

In this way, there is no fear that the eldest prince or the third prince will not get rid of Qu Xiaofeng because of selfishness, but will use him to make him work for himself.

While collecting these evidences, Xu Shichu didn't forget to scrape away the gold, silver, jewelry and rare treasures that Qu Xiaofeng put in the secret room, and put them back in his accompanying space. Wouldn't she accept these ill-gotten gains? Is it still reserved for this big corrupt official?

There was no need for Xu Shichu to worry about what happened after that. Those fatal evidences were handed over to the second prince's political opponents, and Qu Xiaofeng, who was the second prince's right-hand man, was doomed.

As a result, the capital city and court halls were bustling for a long time, and Luo Changqing, as the prime minister, was so busy that he didn't even have time to ask about his son's marriage, so he was busy in front of the palace directing Qu Xiaofeng to take money and pervert the law. It's over.

Xu Shichu's potential enemy was quickly confiscated, dismissed from office, and exiled for thousands of miles. Qu Xiaofeng was not beheaded for the sake of the second prince's uncle and survived, but it was impossible for the Qu family to recover.

(End of this chapter)