Your Majesty, the princess is fleeing famine with her child!

Chapter 317 Met an opponent

The soldier smelled a faint smell of blood.

The smell of blood is very faint, almost imperceptible.

But he was born with a sensitive nose and could smell even the faintest smells.

The soldier immediately took a few quick steps and caught up with the sergeant leading the team.

At this time, the sergeant had already walked out of the house. The soldier quickly walked up to the sergeant and whispered a few words to him.

A look of surprise flashed in the sergeant's eyes, and he looked back at the courtyard behind him.

In the courtyard, the middle-aged man and the beautiful lady breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the searching officers and soldiers had finally left.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the gate to the courtyard was suddenly broken open.

The group of officers and soldiers who had searched earlier broke in again.

The middle-aged man felt his heart tighten when he saw this, but he remained calm and walked forward with a smile.

Before he could even open his mouth, the chief officer pushed him aside and ordered in a deep voice, "Search this house again inside and out, and search it thoroughly!"

A group of officers and soldiers responded and immediately dispersed to search again.

The soldier with a keen sense of smell stood in place, his nostrils moved, and then he followed the smell of blood in the air all the way to the backyard.

A quarter of an hour later, four bodies, two large and two small, were dug out from under the jujube tree in the backyard.

The bailiff who had gone to the yamen to retrieve the household registration also returned at this time.

"According to the household register, the head of this household is Gu Baiqing, his wife Lin, and they have a son and a daughter, both under the age of seven."

This situation is very consistent with the four bodies that have just been unearthed.

The leading sergeant had a very ugly expression on his face.

He suspected that the four bodies were the real owners of the house.

"Go and ask some of the neighbors who live nearby to come over and identify the body!"

Immediately a soldier took the order and left.

This entire street is being searched, so it won't be difficult to find a few people to interview.

After a while, three or four people who lived near Gu's house came.

After these people entered the Gu family, they were taken to identify the body.

The result of identifying the bodies was the same as what the sergeant had guessed. The four people who were buried in the backyard after death were the owners of this house.

The sergeant then asked those who were interviewing on the street to identify the middle-aged man and the beautiful woman who had been subdued and tied up.

All said they did not know the two men.

The captain sneered and dragged the middle-aged man and the beautiful woman away for interrogation.

A family of four who were killed and buried, and a middle-aged couple who occupied the home and pretended to be the owners. Who would believe that there was no trick going on?

The captain suspected that these two people were related to the Moon Clan they were searching for.

Unexpectedly, before they could be taken away for interrogation, the middle-aged man and the beautiful lady bit open the poison sac hidden in their teeth and died on the spot.

Seeing this, the chief couldn't help but look annoyed.

It's all his fault for not being careful enough!

That night, Jinzhou City was searched all night and dozens of suspicious people were found.

Except for some who committed suicide on the spot, after interrogating the rest, not much information related to the Moon Clan was obtained.

After Xiao Jingyi learned the result, he didn't speak for a long time.

After a long while, he finally said, "It seems that the Moon Clan's State Master is more cunning than I thought."

"I think there must be someone inside this city who is supporting him."

"Searching the city is a time-consuming and laborious method. Since it has been used once, it will not be used again."

"Tianquan." Xiao Jingyi called out and ordered, "Keep the city gates closed and withdraw all the search personnel in the city."

"Remove half of the people guarding Wen Zhao, and have the remaining half move from the open to the secret."

"Spread some news about the place where Wen Zhao is imprisoned."

Upon hearing this, Tianquan immediately understood that the prince was planning to sit back and wait for the opportunity.

Since Wen Zhao is the young master of the Moon Clan, his status in the Moon Clan is naturally extraordinary.

When the Moon Clan members learn that Wen Zhao has been captured, they will definitely find ways to rescue him.

Tianquan immediately went down to carry out Xiao Jingyi's order.

However, after waiting for three days, there was no movement from Wen Zhao.

Xiao Jingyi realized that he had met his match.

The Moon Clan's Imperial Master was so ruthless that he was now somewhat helpless.

Logically speaking, if the Moon Clan members wanted to restore their country, the existence of Wen Zhao, a descendant of the royal family, would give them a legitimate reason to do so.

Otherwise, with only that national teacher, why would the rest of the Moon Clan obey his orders?

But after so much time, the Moon Clan members showed no signs of rescuing Wen Zhao.

Did she see through his plan? Or did she think now was not a good time to rescue him and planned to wait and see?

Or has the Moon Clan given up on their young master Wen Zhao?

Xiao Jingyi thought about it and felt that it was unlikely that the Yue people would give up their young master Wen Zhao.

After all, without Wen Zhao, the Yue people would become a group of scattered sand. Under what pretext could they restore their country?

Unless, they have a better choice than Wen Zhao?

Or there is a replacement for Wen Zhao.

So Wen Zhao’s existence becomes less important.

When Xiao Jingyi thought about this, he suddenly remembered that when he counted the number of people in the Wen residence, he found that one of Wen Zhao's concubines was missing.

Although Xiao Jingyi asked people to investigate the whereabouts of the concubine at that time, he did not care too much about it.

But at this moment, for some unknown reason, an idea suddenly popped into his mind.

If the concubine is already pregnant...

With Wen Zhao's bloodline, the royal family of Yue Kingdom will continue.

The existence of this child can naturally replace Wen Zhao.

Following this line of thought, Xiao Jingyi immediately felt that he had grasped the truth.

But then I thought again, after ten months of pregnancy, who can guarantee that the baby will be born safely?

Even if the child is born safely, it is still unknown whether it is a boy or a girl.

Would the Moon Clan's Imperial Master really take such a risk, choose a baby of unknown gender, and give up on rescuing Wen Zhao, the young master of the Moon Clan?

Xiao Jingyi had no idea that his ideas coincided with Mr. Wen's to a certain extent.

At this time, Mr. Wen was hiding in a secret room in a house.

During the search that day, fortunately he had the foresight to contact his insiders in the city and then changed his hiding place.

Although he was hiding and dared not show up, he had the news in the city in his hands through those insiders.

After learning that half of the people guarding Wen Zhao had been withdrawn, Mr. Wen suspected that this was Xiao Jingyi's strategy to lure the enemy, so he did not rashly lead people to rescue Wen Zhao.

And after learning that Yuzhu was pregnant, Mr. Wen had a bolder and better idea in his mind.

He went through so much trouble to find Wen Zhao and made all kinds of plans with great effort. It was certainly not possible that his intention was to push Wen Zhao to the throne and let the world return to the hands of the Yuezhi royal family.

He is not that noble.

His original plan was to use Wen Zhao as a puppet, and once Wen Zhao came to power, he would be the regent, second only to the emperor.

If Wen Zhao is obedient, let him live a few more years and then let him abdicate.

If they didn't obey, he would just kill them and take their place.

But now, a better idea came into his mind.