The Salty Little Cannon Fodder Was Targeted By the Prince

Chapter 74 Whose interests are it hindering?

 On the way home.

Du Prince Consort looked at his daughter with wonder.

“What kind of look is that?” The eldest princess gave him an angry look from time to time.

　　Du Consort chuckled and said, "Our daughter is very popular with the emperor."

 “My daughter is so well-behaved and cute, so her elders will naturally like her.” The eldest princess really thought so.

　Du Wan, who was sitting beside him, nodded his head in agreement.

Du Prince Consort averted his eyes, not daring to look directly.

The daughter's face is so thick that even her father is ashamed...

Du Qian did not ride a horse this time, but sat on the shaft of the chariot.

He also heard the conversation in the carriage. My sister was very powerful today. She actually asked for more than 700 personal guards from the emperor's uncle. Even if there are more than 400 private guards who have retired from the Imperial Guard, so what?

　　A powerful person remains powerful no matter where he goes.

 The whole family went back to the princess mansion.

The first thing Du Qian did was to tell the housekeeper, talking about Du Wan's plan to establish a private guard, "We must pay attention to this matter, and properly arrange the private guards who come to report. As for the treatment and specifications, please refer to my mother's guard."

 “Yes, young master.”

 The chief steward responded respectfully.

Just as Du Qian was about to leave, the steward remembered something and said quickly: "Master, Prince Pei came to see you and made an appointment with you. I took him to your yard to wait for you."

Du Qian paused and said, "You did a good job. Ask the kitchen to prepare some food and wine."

After the butler responded, Du Qian strode towards his yard.

Originally, he wanted to go find his sister, so he naturally went to see her first if he had guests.

Du Qian stepped into the courtyard where he lived and saw a person standing in the hexagonal pavilion in the small garden in the front yard.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the man turned around, it was Pei Hao.

 The two of them are acquaintances, so there is no need for greetings or greetings.

Du Qian went straight to the point: "Did you find out anything about Wangyue Tower?"

"On the way back to the city last night, a group of people set up an ambush in the woods. It's unclear who the target was. They didn't wait for anyone and they withdrew before dawn." Pei Hao also went straight to the point and told what he had investigated. "In addition, I later sent people to search carefully near the river bank. I picked this up by the river."

Du Qian then noticed that Pei Hao was still holding half of a bamboo pipe in his hand.

 He took it from Pei Hao and looked at it carefully.

Du Qian said: "It is a finger-sized, slender bamboo tube, hollow, and the cut part is new."

“Brother Du must have seen this kind of bamboo pipe before.” Pei Hao reminded.

Du Qian paused slightly, "This..."

“The army trains soldiers to dive or hide under the water. Occasionally, they will use small bamboo tubes to stay under the water to breathe.” Pei Hao didn’t want to make any trouble, and he would be a soldier.

 It's just that the timing was too coincidental and it was not his turn to be careless.

Du Qian suddenly grasped the bamboo tube, gritted his teeth and asked, "Did my sister ask the guards to stay away while she put out the river lanterns alone?"

"Yes." Pei Hao nodded solemnly, "Fortunately, Wanwan didn't stay by the water for long."

At that time, the place where Du Wan put the river lanterns was temporarily selected.

And the river beach around there is flat and wide, clearly visible at a glance. If the killer wants to dive into the water to assassinate him, he must find a secluded place to go into the water in order to avoid being seen and heard. It will take some time for the killer to sneak into the river where Du Wan is. Estimating the time, if there was no accident at that time, Du Wan came ashore...

Du Qian and Pei Hao were equally frightened.

Pei Hao hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm not sure whether these people are targeting Wanwan or whom." "It should be Wanwan," Du Qian was sure.

Pei Hao lowered his eyelids and asked, "Brother Du, why are you so sure?"

"My sister is so eye-catching. As long as she leaves the house, there will be trouble." This is obviously not the first time that this kind of thing has happened to Du Qian.

Pei Hao couldn't help but ask: "Who did Wanwan offend?"

 “If I knew, I would still need—”

Just as Du Qian was about to say something, a servant came in carrying a food box.

 The two of them remained silent for the time being.

　　The people set out the food and wine and then retreated.

Du Qian sat down and poured a glass of wine for Pei Hao, "Here, let's have a drink first."

Pei Hao could only sit down, pick up the wine glass and drink it all, "Drink the wine, Brother Du, please say something."

"Actually, there's not much to say. My sister has been in a lot of troubles in recent years, and she often has minor accidents whenever she leaves the house. We didn't pay attention at first, until the guard who protected her was killed, and she disappeared again..." Du Qian told the story that his family had been secretly investigating, but it was only recently that he found out that someone had been targeting his sister.

Pei Hao felt strange, "Whose interests is Wanwan hindering?"

 “How do we know?” Du Qian said with anger.

Pei Hao filtered the people around Du Wan in his mind, and after going back and forth, he really couldn't find anyone who had a deep grudge against the little girl.

Pei Hao asked again: "Is it possible that Wanwan has offended someone before, and you don't know about it?"

"When my sister goes out, she is always surrounded by people. As soon as she found out who she offended, it was clear that it was a dispute between some little girls. This person was very hidden. We have been investigating for so long, but we have not found any clues. "Du Qian didn't tell Pei Hao that his mother had restrained her sister as much as possible.

 Last time I found the source of the rumor, it was Miss Huang San.

 But with this girl's mindless impulsiveness, she has already played herself to death. She cannot be the person behind the scenes. At most, she is a **** used by the people behind the scenes.

Pei Hao thought about the last big dog incident again, "I personally interrogated Wang Jin'er. She hired the dog just to scare the princess, and did not dare to kill the princess. The person who went to execute the dog was one of her maids. That night the maid She was silenced. The official found a thousand taels of silver from this maid's residence."

Du Qian said: "So, the maid was bribed by an outsider?"

 “The specific details have not yet been determined.”

“The yamen’s ability to handle affairs is getting worse and worse.”

Du Qian was disgusted with the slow progress of the yamen investigation.

 The two chatted for a while.

Pei Hao did not say anything about his actions while staring at the killer.

 It was not that he could not trust Du Qian, but he was worried that if too many people knew about it, the information would be leaked, which would affect the investigation. Since the last time he asked some confidants of the Imperial City Division to investigate the mine, it was leaked out soon after. Since then, Pei Hao has acted more and more cautiously.

 About an hour after touching.

Pei Hao slowly left the princess mansion.

 I didn’t see the little girl until I left.

And the person Pei Hao was thinking about was currently lying on the bed, sleeping soundly.

  I didn’t sleep all night last night.

 After returning to the city, I worked around the palace for a while. It’s strange that I’m not tired.

By the time Du Wan woke up, it was already dark outside.

Ningqin and Luoqi were not there, but Shuxiang and Painting were on duty. The two of them served Du Wan and brought out the warm dinner in the small kitchen.

 (End of this chapter)