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

Chapter 256 Human Skin Mask

Xiao Jingyi explained: "Feng Niang is the owner of Chunfeng Tower on the surface, but in fact she is using Chunfeng Tower to collect information for me."

"She has a unique skill inherited from her ancestors, and is good at making human skin masks."

Yun Fuling showed a look of slight surprise.

I didn't expect that Chunfeng Tower was actually Xiao Jingyi's property.

Chunfeng Tower is a famous brothel in Beijing, but the girls in the building are all elegant prostitutes, so it can be considered a very high-end club.

Not long after, a graceful woman, about thirty or forty years old, was brought over by a servant.

She bowed down: "Feng Niang greets the prince and princess!"

This woman is very charming, and her eyes are full of seduction.

Even though she is no longer young, she is still a beautiful woman with charm.

Even Yun Fuling would be willing to take a second look at such a beauty.

However, Feng Niang was very well-behaved and had a clear look in front of Xiao Jingyi and Yun Fuling.

Xiao Jingyi raised his hand, "Get up."

He remained calm and was not disturbed by Feng Niang's beauty, as if she was just an ordinary person.

"I called you here today because I have something for you to do."

Feng Niang bowed her head: "Your Majesty, please give your orders."

Xiao Jingyi: "Make me a human skin mask of Cui Xudong, the seventh son of Duke Cheng'en's mansion. Make it within two days."

Feng Niang didn't ask any more questions and immediately replied respectfully, "Yes."

Xiao Jingyi took out another box of golden ointment.

When his secret guards kidnapped Cui Xudong and others, they found a lot of gold paste and pipes used to smoke the gold paste on them.

This box of golden ointment was obtained from those people.

He handed the golden paste to Feng Niang to look at, "This thing is called golden paste, and it is sold secretly by Shenxianju."

"It can make people addicted and dependent after taking it."

"Long-term use can make people weak and die."

"Ask the people in Chunfeng Tower to keep an eye on this thing and find out all the information related to it."

Feng Niang took the golden ointment, looked at it carefully, sniffed it, and secretly memorized it in her heart.

"Feng Niang understands and will definitely let the sisters pay attention to it."

After Xiao Jingyi finished giving instructions, he waved his hand and said, "You can leave now."

Feng Niang bowed respectfully to Xiao Jingyi and Yun Fuling again before leaving.

Yun Fuling watched Feng Niang gradually walk away, and felt that she was a person with a story.

In the following days, Xiao Jingyi secretly investigated Shenxianju and Huangjin Gao, while Yun Fuling was busy helping Zhao Xuesi quit his drug addiction.

Fortunately, Zhao Xuesi discovered it in time and the drug addiction was not serious.

With the help of Yun Fuling's acupuncture and decoctions, and Zhao Xuesi's own determination and perseverance, after enduring the initial few drug addiction attacks, he successfully quit his dependence on the golden paste.

Seeing this, Yun Fuling was very happy for Zhao Xuesi.

She warned Zhao Xuesi: "Stay away from things like golden paste in the future. Remember not to touch it again! If it happens again, it won't be as easy to quit as it was this time."

People who relapse for the second time are more dependent than those who relapse for the first time and it is more difficult for them to quit.

Zhao Xuesi has suffered a lot recently in order to quit taking the golden paste.

When Zhao Xuesi thought of that feeling, he still felt scared and didn't dare to touch it again.

He even wished that the golden paste would completely disappear from this world so that no one else would be harmed.

So in response to Yun Fuling's earnest warning, Zhao Xuesi immediately agreed obediently, "I will never touch it again!"

After being locked up in Prince Yi's mansion for many days, Zhao Xuesi is finally released. He decides to take revenge.

He must catch the mastermind behind creating the golden paste to harm people and beat him to death!

When Xiao Jingyi came back in the evening, Zhao Xuesi stopped him on the way and the two went to the study.

After entering the study, Xiao Jingyi glanced at Zhao Xuesi and asked, "Are you okay?"

Zhao Xuesi nodded, "I haven't had any attacks in the past two days. When the princess brought the golden ointment to me, I didn't have the strong urge to suck it like before."

"The princess said that it was a temporary success in quitting."

"I came to you to ask how your investigation at Shenxianju was going?"

"The person behind the scenes used the golden paste to harm me so badly. I don't know how many people in the capital have been harmed. I will never let him go!"

He has been concentrating on quitting taking the golden paste lately. He only knows that Xiao Jingyi reported the matter to Emperor Jingping and started to investigate.

As for the extent of the investigation, I don’t know.

However, Zhao Xuesi always spoke his mind in front of Xiao Jingyi and never beat around the bush.

He did not hide his purpose.

He wanted to be Xiao Jingyi's assistant and investigate the case with Xiao Jingyi.

Xiao Jingyi glanced at Zhao Xuesi. He just happened to be short of someone he could trust. Since Zhao Xuesi wanted to help, he naturally would not refuse.

He then told Zhao Xuesi what he had found out recently.

"I had my men disguised as guests and go into the Immortal Residence to investigate, and I also arranged ambushes around the Immortal Residence to keep watch over that place."

"On the day of delivery, I wore a human skin mask and pretended to be Cui Xudong to contact the middleman. After receiving the goods, I arrested all the other party's people."

"Shenxianju is now open for business as usual, but everyone from top to bottom has been replaced by my people."

"In order not to alert the enemy, all those involved were arrested in secret."

"I have been interrogating for the past few days and finally got some useful information."

Xiao Jingyi took a sip of tea before continuing:

"The place that sells the golden paste in Jiangnan is a casino called Jinyulou."

"Whether it's the gold paste in the Jinyu Building or the Shenxian Residence, they were all transported from other places."

"As for where it was shipped from, the middleman was of low status and had no access to such core secrets."

"As for the others we caught, all they could tell us were superficial information."

"If I want to investigate further, it seems I can only go to Jiangnan."

Zhao Xuesi immediately said, "I'll go to Jiangnan with you."

Xiao Jingyi patted Zhao Xuesi on the shoulder and said, "Okay!"

He paused, "There is one more thing. Among the people captured from Shenxianju, two had crescent moon marks engraved on their bodies."

"I suspect that the Moon Clan may have been involved in this matter."

Zhao Xuesi was startled and his eyes widened instantly.

"The assassins who tried to kill you in Jiangzhou had a crescent mark on their bodies."

"I suspected at the time that they were from the Moon Tribe."

"First the assassination, then the golden paste, what do they want to do?"

Xiao Jingyi sneered: "You have such a wolfish ambition, you deserve to be killed!"

Zhao Xuesi frowned, "Could it be that they still want to restore their country?"

"The Moon Kingdom has been destroyed for many years. The royal family of the Moon Kingdom was killed at that time. Is it possible that there are still some fish that have escaped the net?"

Xiao Jingyi said: "I don't know if there are any fish that slipped through the net."

"But the Moon Clan has repeatedly provoked trouble, and their intention is obviously to start a civil war in me."

Zhao Xue thought about it and felt that what Xiao Jingyi said made sense.