There is a black lotus in the deep palace

Chapter 290 Strict Investigation
"I don't know if others dare or not, but I think you will!" Tang Wanning glared at him with phoenix eyes.

"Since you have said that you have no money, then tell me who you gave your money to?" She said while playing with the dagger in her hand, which made Cai An's heart tremble.

"You...you..." he asked tremblingly, "what on earth do you want to do?"

"Of course it's to catch the big fish on your back, why? Don't dare to say it again?" Tang Wanning smiled coldly.

Cai An was so frightened that he wanted to die. There were people who wanted to make money before, and he himself was kidnapped, but they were all sneaky and covered their faces and never dared to let others know, let alone let others recognize their faces.

But now the group of people in front of them, they are so bold that they don't even cover their faces in the open sky, they must be covering the sky with one hand, and there is nothing they can do against them.

"Where are you coming from? I will warn you again. Kidnapping an imperial court official is a capital offense. It's too late for you to stop now..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Tang Wanning threw the dagger heavily by his ear, with such force that the dagger stabbed hard on the ground, and the end kept vibrating.

Cai An immediately peed in fright, a pool of yellow liquid dripped out from the skirt of his clothes slowly.

Tang Wanning couldn't bear to look any further, she got up and walked away, and said calmly, "Oh? You are the imperial court official, so I'm still the queen? Do you believe it?"

When Cai An heard that it was the queen, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and he stopped peeing and just smiled: "You are the queen? Then I will become the emperor?"

He was talking triumphantly, but Xia Houjue's face was already dark and blue.

Unbearable and no need to bear it any longer, he waved his big hand and ordered: "Come here, put on the torture tools."

Cai An was involuntarily framed, tied to the tiger stool and unable to move. Before he could react, Xia Houjue had already started beating him.

The five-finger wide and one-inch-thick wooden plank slapped heavily on the flesh, making a dull sound, followed by Cai An's cry like killing a pig.

"Who the hell are you? You are so bold, you..."

Tang Wanning leaned forward very puzzled and said calmly, "I've already told you that I'm the queen, but you still ask, are you deaf or deaf?"

Cai An: "..."

I didn't believe it once, and I didn't believe it twice. When Tang Wanning repeatedly emphasized that she was the queen, Cai An suddenly believed it.

It is said that the current empress is born in the Tang family. She has practiced martial arts since she was a child, loves weapons, has a free and easy temperament, and behaves uninhibitedly.

Although the person in front of him was wearing ordinary clothes, but when he looked closely, the fabric was indeed faintly shiny, and one could tell it was not ordinary.

Looking at this woman's appearance, she really has exquisite features and a hearty atmosphere, especially the temperament of her every move, which is by no means comparable to that of ordinary women.

It can be seen that she said that she is the queen, which is very likely to be true.

Thinking of this, Cai An was paralyzed with fright, even dripping down his crotch with the few drops of urine that he didn't finish urinating just now.

Before fainting from fright, he accidentally saw the man sitting behind the empress.

He was dressed in black clothes without any pattern, and he just sat there silently, and he didn't say a word except ordering torture.

But even if he sat there all the time, there was already countless chills around him, and it went straight into the pores of people.

Thinking of the cold-faced prince who was the former prince of the current emperor, Cai An's heart could no longer bear such a blow, and he passed out directly.

"Hey, I thought how brave I was, but that's all!" Tang Wanning lacked interest.

Xia Houjue was a little skeptical: "Why don't we change the method, I don't think this will work."

Firstly, he didn't have a good impression of torture to extract confessions, and secondly...doing this would still scare the snake, so it's better to leave it aside temporarily, so as to lay a net to catch them all.

In the past, he planned every step of the way, and never did anything he was not sure of.

But this time, it was obviously not his style.

"No need." Tang Wanning waved her hand.

"Don't worry, today is just an opening statement. I will let him know how powerful I am. When he wakes up tomorrow... It only takes one day, and I will definitely let you see the list."

This is how my dad used to interrogate spies. Those border spies are a hundred times more difficult to deal with than Cai An, and dad can make them survive or die.

Now it's my turn, and if I have learned a little bit, it can be considered useful. Seeing that she really wanted to try, Xia Houjue had no choice but to follow her.

……

The next day, Tang Wanning disappeared early in the morning, and Xia Houjue was not surprised.

Sure enough, in the evening, she excitedly ran in with a bunch of lists.

"Look, I'm all out"

"Where's Cai An?" Xia Houjue took the list and glanced at her.

"Don't worry, it's okay. He's still alive. I won't let him die." She patted her chest and promised.

Xia Houjue looked at her with a bright smile: "Tell me, how did you interrogate?"

Tang Wan waved her hand embarrassingly: "Actually, there wasn't much interrogation, it just made him have two arms and two legs broken."

Xia Houjue: "..." That's all, is that what you call it?

The case that Cai An was involved in came to an end. After verification, the people on the list were all dismissed from their posts and exiled as punishment. Some of them were even sentenced to death, but not many.

Looking at the report sent by the Ministry of Officials in Beijing, Xia Houjue suddenly felt a little dazed, "When the water is clear, there will be no fish..."

……

After the corrupt officials were released, the money collected from them was not as much as expected.

Tang Wanning was a little puzzled: "The price in Yangzhou Mansion, this way of making money, it's impossible for it to be only 20 taels, and they wouldn't take such a big risk for this little money..."

"What's more, such a small amount of money is not worth it when so many of them are united in one place."

She knew something was wrong, but she didn't know what was wrong, so she could only watch Xia Houjue in a daze while eating her snacks.

"Hey, why are you frowning all of a sudden?"

Xia Houjue smiled lightly, pursed his lips and did not answer, but that night, he asked someone to check the whereabouts of the huge sum of money.

"It's impossible for so much silver to disappear out of thin air. I estimated that there are about 1000 million taels, which is quite different from the 20 taels we found out."

Tang Wanning's expression also changed.

She was born in a military family since she was a child, and she is extremely sensitive to the matter of soldiers and horses. If someone uses this money to recruit soldiers and horses, then... the consequences will be disastrous.

"Your Majesty, we must strictly investigate!"

"Ok!"

Under the candlelight of the moon shadow, the small front yard looked extraordinarily quiet. The two of them sat by the window and admired the mottled moon shadow, and neither of them spoke.

No one could notice a black shadow flashing past under the window.

Sometimes the most dangerous things are often the softest and least aggressive, but who would have thought that?

(End of this chapter)