Chapter 1024: Chapter 1024: Strict Interrogation
"You want me to heal you, but you also want to bind me. Is this your way of treating guests?"
The voice was quite cold.
Ye Zhenxian patted Ling Lang’s hand. With his throat being gripped, his face turned red, and his words came out unevenly: "I have no choice, it’s an act of desperation."
"Lead the way, to the exit."
"Yes, I will lead the way."
Ye Zhenxian pointed to the exit ahead.
Taking advantage of Ling Lang’s moment of carelessness, his elbow crooked and directly struck Ling Lang’s stomach.
Ling Lang’s skills were not ordinary, dodging easily.
Following the direction of the sounds of fighting, he restrained him and walked toward the exit of the dungeon.
The dungeon wasn’t too large nor too small.
Adding that Ye Zhenxian refused to lead the way, Ling Lang walked somewhat slower.
By the time he reached the exit, Mo Chen Ruo Feng had already brought people to subdue everyone in the dungeon.
Seeing Ling Lang unharmed, Mo Chen Ruo Feng felt relieved.
Immediately, someone took Ye Zhenxian from Ling Lang’s hands.
Ling Lang looked around; this place seemed to be an abandoned yard, Ye Zhenxian was indeed cunning, building his dungeon in a place nearby.
At this moment, someone asked, "How do we handle this person?"
"Handle? How? I’m still the Prince Xian, dare you handle me?"
Ling Lang pondered for a moment, then spoke: "Cover his head and take him back, there are black bags for heads in the dungeon."
"Yes."
Thus, Ye Zhenxian’s head was covered with a black bag.
As they exited the yard, Mo Chen and Ling Lang said: "Lian Yan came to the two Your Highnesses for help, that’s why we showed up."
Ling Lang nodded: "At critical moments, it’s one’s woman and brothers who are reliable. Many thanks to the two Your Highnesses."
Mo Chen agreed: "One’s woman is indeed reliable."
Upon hearing this, Ruofeng shouted: "Is it appropriate to bully me for not having a woman?"
No matter the occasion, these two always teased him.
Ling Lang turned to look at Ye Zhenxian, who was covered with a black bag, tied up with ropes, and unable to speak now, and laughed: "Even Song Guo has a woman now, you should really try harder."
On the surface, the words were meant for Ruofeng, but in reality, they mocked Ye Zhenxian as a eunuch.
Sure enough, Ye Zhenxian was enraged upon hearing this.
He raised his leg wanting to kick someone.
However, Eastern Palace people are skilled, how could they easily let him kick Ling Lang?
Kicking his knee bend, Ye Zhenxian immediately fell to his knees.
With a thud.
Just listening to the sound made one’s knees ache.
More than one hour later, the group returned to the secret interrogation site outside the Eastern Palace Dark Guard Bureau.
Mo Chen instructed An Shiba and others to detain Ye Zhenxian and then directly interrogated him, while leading Ling Lang and Ruofeng back to the Eastern Palace to report.
At this moment, Ye Zhenxian’s black cloth bag was removed, and the rag and rope on his mouth were also taken away.
Seeing Eastern Palace people wanting to interrogate him, he cursed immediately: "I’m a prince, you dare interrogate me, are you seeking death?"
An Shiba laughed: "Here, there are no princes, only those who interrogate and those being interrogated."
An Shiqi pointed a stick at Ye Zhenxian’s forehead: "I advise you to explain why you kidnapped Mr. Ling?"
Ye Zhenxian spat: "No way I’m telling!"
A quarter-hour later, Mo Chen and the others returned to the Eastern Palace.
Seeing Ling Lang return unharmed, Lian Yan excitedly ran up to him, cupped his face, and examined him from head to toe: "Are you alright? Are you alright?"
Ling Lang held her hands and smiled: "I’m alright."
Seeing their affectionate looks, Leng Yu Yan smiled and said to Ye Yiheng: "It seems we should arrange for them to marry sooner."
This sentence hit Ling Lang’s heart.
He turned to Leng Yu Yan and said: "Master sure knows me!"
Ye Yiheng rarely jested: "Ling Lang, this old rascal of your age, should indeed marry soon."
With the approval of the two Your Highnesses, Ling Lang was overjoyed, and Lian Yan’s face flushed with redness.
The two walked around the lakeside, then Ling Lang asked Yin Shuang and Liu Yun to escort Lian Yan back to the Prince Mansion, while he went to report the kidnapping incident to the two masters.
"After being kidnapped, I was locked in a dungeon, which appears to be an abandoned courtyard, but is actually the dungeon of Prince Xian Mansion, though very far from Prince Xian Mansion."
Upon hearing, Leng Yu Yan said: "Seems Ye Zhenxian isn’t entirely brainless."
Ling Lang nodded: "He indeed has some brains. He guessed I am the Divine Doctor and then captured me. He hopes I could cure him and turn him back into a man."
Leng Yu Yan furrowed her brows: "How did he guess?"
"Not sure where he learned that our Eastern Palace steward Song Guo turned back into a man, then he just guessed upon me."
"So Song Guo’s reverting to a man was leaked?"
Ling Lang nodded: "Probably."
Ye Yiheng’s expression was unpleasant: "Who spread the word?"
The tone was extremely cold.
The Eastern Palace people are known for tight lips.
But now, it seems they’re less so.
Moreover, with this news spreading, anyone could link the Divine Doctor with the Eastern Palace.
Now people are only associating it with Ling Lang, someone with some medical skills. In the future, naturally, someone would link it to Yanyan!
"Investigate!"
He spat out coldly.
Mo Chen Ruo Feng acknowledged, received the order, and left.
Seeing Ye Yiheng so enraged, Leng Yu Yan took his arm, softly comforting him: "In the present situation, even if people know I am the Linqing Pavilion Master, it’s of no consequence."
Ye Yiheng gently patted her hand: "As you say, but Eastern Palace people leaking information without permission is unforgivable."
If someone leaked the information, it means it was done by someone inside the Eastern Palace.
Mo Chen Ruo Feng swiftly and thoroughly examined everyone from top to bottom within the Eastern Palace.
The news reached Song Guo, who was still recuperating.
He stood up, and with Miao Zhu’s support, came before Ye Yiheng and Leng Yu Yan.
"Why did you come? Go rest." Leng Yu Yan instructed.
"Your Highnesses, I have some news that must be told."
Ye Yiheng said: "Speak."
"Eastern Palace ingredients were previously inspected by me personally; I had to check early every dawn. Recently, as I underwent surgery, I couldn’t inspect them, so someone else replaced me. During that time, farmers delivering vegetables often asked where I went; could that have caused the leak?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Yiheng and Leng Yu Yan exchanged a glance.
Indeed, even with tight lips and strict Eastern Palace personnel access, the vegetable delivery had flaws.
At that time, there were too many people, and it was messy.
The people coming were mixed, and if someone deliberately concealed their identity, the Vegetable Inspection Eunuch couldn’t cover all bases vigilantly.
Just as the couple thought the incident derived from the vegetable delivery, Mo Chen Ruo Feng also uncovered the truth.
The two arrived to report.
Ruofeng said: "Indeed, someone disguised as a farmer delivered vegetables, actually was a spy from Prince Xian Mansion, who reported Song Guo underwent surgery, reverting back into a man, to Ye Zhenxian."
Leng Yu Yan asked: "So at present, only Ye Zhenxian and his people know this situation?"
"Roughly so, specifics await interrogation of Ye Zhenxian to know." Mo Chen said, seeking Ye Yiheng’s opinion, "Your Highness, can we rigorously interrogate Ye Zhenxian?"
