After a stick of incense.
Wei Zhongxian met Zhu Youjian in the Qianqing Palace. Also present were the cabinet chief minister Han Kuang, the second minister Qian Longxi, and the excited Queen Yi'an Zhang Yan.
"Your Majesty, I wonder why the Emperor summoned his ministers here?"
Zhu Youjian said: "Does Wei Qing know that a murder occurred in the alley opposite the Punishment Department Yamen?"
Wei Zhongxian couldn't understand why Zhu Youjian was concerned about the murder case. Wasn't it an errand of the Wucheng Military and Horse Division and the Jin Yiwei?
"Old minister, I don't know."
"The three deceased were all Imperial Guards, one commander-in-chief, and two school lieutenants. These three were ordered to protect Lin San when he went to the Penal Department Prison to interrogate Hakka's confidants, and Lin San also disappeared at the same time."
Wei Zhongxian frowned: "Your Majesty, this has nothing to do with me..."
"When the murder occurred, the soldiers on duty and nearby residents heard someone calling your name, and initially judged that it was Lin San."
Wei Zhongxian's expression changed: "Your Majesty, this is a false accusation. Someone is falsely accusing an old minister."
He wanted Lin San to die, but he definitely didn't want Lin San to die at this juncture, but he was afraid of what would happen, whether someone really kidnapped Lin San or it was a self-directed and self-directed scheme, in short the situation was not good for him.
Zhang Yan said angrily: "Wei Zhongxian, the whole capital knows who wants Lin San dead the most. Do you think that once he dies, the treasure ship case will no longer be investigated, right?"
"Empress, you must speak with evidence. You cannot conclude that this case was committed by an old minister based on just one sentence."
"If it wasn't you, there's no guarantee it wasn't someone under your command sharing the burden."
Zhu Youjian tilted slightly: "Han Shoufu, Qian Cifu, what do you think about this matter?"
Han Kuang and Qian Longxi looked at each other, and the former said: "Your Majesty, I agree with Eunuch Wei. You cannot attribute the murder to Eunuch Wei just because you heard someone calling Eunuch Wei's name at the scene of the murder, but... Yi There is some truth to what Queen An said. Regarding the disappearance of Lin San, I think it is probably some daring young people who are stirring up trouble."
Qian Longxi said: "I second the proposal."
Zhu Youjian looked at Zhang Yan: "Sister-in-law, I think Han Shoufu and Qian Cifu are right. Just because the word "Wei Zhongxian" was heard at the murder scene, we cannot conclude that Wei Qing did it."
"Your Majesty, Lin San exposed the crimes of the Hakka family and investigated the treasure ship case. He did not receive a reward for his merits. Instead, he disappeared because of offending Wei Zhongxian, and may have been silenced. If you favor him like this, what will the civil and military councils of the Manchu Dynasty think? What will the late emperor do when his body is still cold? look?"
Zhu Youjian looked embarrassed after saying one sentence.
Wei Zhongxian was worried. This woman was more difficult to deal with than he thought. What kind of relationship did Lin San have with her? It was worth it to reach this point. He was almost forcing her to have a baby.
"Sister-in-law, don't worry. There is no body of Lin San at the scene, which means that the kidnappers will not take his life for the time being." Zhu Youjian sighed, looked at Wei Zhongxian and said: "Well, Wei Qing will put the affairs of the East Factory aside first. Once Lin San comes back, I can continue to lead Dongchang, so as not to provoke criticism from the officials and say that I am protecting Wei Qing."
"emperor……"
Just as Wei Zhongxian was about to speak, Han Kuang and Qian Longxi said in unison: "Your Majesty, your Majesty."
"Then let's do this, Wang Chengen, send the emperor's wife back to Kunning Palace for me." After saying this, Zhu Youjian got up from the dragon chair and left.
Wei Zhongxian looked at Han Kuang and Qian Longxi with hatred. Of course, these two people were happy to see him step down from the position of admiral of Dongchang.
If he is a tiger, then Dongchang is the sharp tooth. What is left of the tiger with its teeth removed?
Claws~
He looked at Zhang Yan again and found that the despair on the woman's face was not fake. It seemed that Lin San's disappearance really had nothing to do with her.
Zhu Youjian asked when Lin San would come back and when he would be reinstated, which showed that the emperor still gave him a lot of face, but was just using dismissal to beat him to force him to put the person back to silence Zhang Yan.
Han Kuang and Qian Longxi made it clear that they didn't care about Lin San's life or death, and just wanted to use this matter to mess with him.
Could it be that... Lin San's disappearance was really an accident to them?
…
Wei Zhongxian didn't know that the man who caused him big trouble had already left Shuntian Mansion and was heading to Hangzhou non-stop.
He didn't tell anyone about pretending to be missing. Even Miao Tong only knew that he had important matters to go south, but the method of leaving was very special, requiring her to stay calm and cooperate.
Brother has left the capital, but is the capital still full of legends about him?
Lin Yue felt that he had some talent for causing trouble.
The straight-line distance from Beijing to Hangzhou is more than 1,000 kilometers. He can't afford the eight-hundred-mile express service. A strong horse can only travel about 300 miles a day, because one mile in ancient times was longer than one mile in modern times.
The scale was smaller, and Lin Yue had spent money to buy horses and transfer to other trains on the way, and it still took thirteen days to get to Hangzhou.
This speed was laughed at by the villain all the way, and he was so angry that he almost roasted the stupid bird like a game.
When one person and one bird found Beizhai and Ding Baiying in their house on the outskirts of the city, the sun was setting and the afterglow was dim.
The winding Xiaoqing River carries the dream of the sunset, gurgling into the distance. The still warm wind blows the gauze hanging under the eaves, like the skirt of a beautiful woman. Behind the fence is a loofah field made of bamboo poles.
There were a few bunches of bloated fruits hanging on the shelf, and it looked like they were being kept for sowing.
Opposite the loofah patch is a combination of stone tables and stone benches, with a chessboard on top and a bamboo bench next to it. On the bamboo bench lies a white cat with a mottled nose.
The sound of Lin Yue pushing open the courtyard door startled it. It opened its eyes, looked at them, closed them again, and continued its lazy sleeping posture.
At this moment, the curtain at the door of the main room shook, and a thin figure came out carrying a wooden bucket, as if he was going to fetch water from the urn.
"Hokusai."
Following this greeting, the woman carrying the bucket stopped and stared blankly at the man walking towards the courtyard gate.
She received Zhou Tai's reply and knew that he would come to Hangzhou, but in her opinion, it would take more than half a month to get from the capital to Hangzhou. However, he had arrived in only eleven or two days. Look at the dusty appearance, and he was afraid of the road.
I didn't get a good rest.
"You arrived so quickly."
She stopped scooping water, put the bucket on the ground, turned around and shouted into the room: "Bai Ying, look who's here."
Not long after, the curtain at the door opened, and a slightly sad face appeared behind Hokusai. He was stunned when he saw the man standing in the middle of the courtyard.
Ding Baiying, like Beizhai, didn't expect him to arrive so quickly.
Lin Yue patted the dirt on his body, took off the package on his shoulder and handed it to Beizhai: "Fetching water, right?" As he spoke, he picked up the wooden bucket and walked to the water urn, picked up the gourd and gourd next to it and gave it a shake.
Fill the bucket with water and carry it into the main room.
It wasn't until the question "Where to put it?" came from inside that Hokusai realized what he was doing and rushed into the living room.
After putting the bucket into the back room, Lin Yue walked back to the front hall and took a look at the furnishings in the room. He couldn't help but smile and nod. After all, she was a young and artistic woman who managed the house in just a month and felt like a monk.
"You sit down, sit down first." Hokusai asked him to his seat: "Looking at you like this, you probably didn't stop on the way. I'll go make you a pot of tea first to quench your thirst."
"Okay." Lin Yue watched her leave and turned to look at Ding Baiying, who was sitting at the bottom.
"You look very bad. You haven't had a good rest these past few days?"
Ding Baiying looked at the ground and nodded. No woman would be happy if she encountered this kind of thing. How about a good rest? If she could eat and sleep, she would be considered arrogant.
Lin Yue didn't beat around the bush and got straight to the point: "The child... are you sure he belongs to that fake eunuch?"
Ding Baiying's mouth twitched a few times, took a deep breath, and nodded slowly: "Yes."
After pondering for a moment, Lin Yue asked again: "What are you going to do?"
"This child cannot be kept..." When she said this, Ding Baiying's voice was trembling, because her eyes were always looking at the ground, and Lin Yue didn't know how her eyes had changed.
Not to mention in ancient times, even in modern society, if a decent girl decides to abort the child in her belly, whether it is the child of the person she hates or the child of the person she loves, she will never look calm.
At this moment, Hokusai walked out from behind, holding a tray with a blue and white porcelain tea bowl in his hand. Perhaps sensing something was wrong with the atmosphere in the living room, he put the tea bowl on the table next to Lin Yue and excused himself to go outside to chop wood and boil water.
So that he could take a bath later to relieve his fatigue and quickly walked out of the living room.
With the current temperature, Lin Yue's physique didn't need a hot bath, but he didn't stop her.
"Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Otherwise? Give birth to the child and raise it?"
Ding Baiying smiled miserably. She had been persuading herself to treat what happened that night as a nightmare. When dawn came and she woke up from the dream, that was it. However, she never thought that it was not a nightmare, but a nightmare that followed her everywhere.
Just once, who knew she was pregnant.
What is the most precious thing for a woman? Chastity.
How ironic it is to lose your virginity and still be pregnant with your enemy's child.
After knowing that she had the child of the fake eunuch Lin San in her belly, she even thought about death, but after thinking about Zhou Tai who had rescued her from crises several times and cared for and enlightened her all the way, she felt that she should not live up to his efforts, so
I have been living in confusion and confusion these days, not knowing what to do.
Chapter completed!