Yingge sighed softly and handed the letter to Hongshi, "No, Buqi didn't make a move. It seems that our move failed."
"How could it be possible? Didn't uncle say that they would definitely take action?" Hongshi said as he took the letter. What he wrote was the same as what Yingge said. There was nothing unusual along the way.
"I thought it was not wrong. After all, Yang Yingxiong killed Buqi's 80-year-old mother. Most people would never be able to swallow this breath. But now it seems that I guessed wrong. If Buqi can endure it better than I thought, there is someone else.
Insight into our plan.”
Hongshi frowned tightly and said, "Except for me, my uncle, and the secret guards, no one knows about this matter. How could anyone possibly notice it?"
"I don't know, maybe I can't guess it. It's very possible that the other party also expected that we would make this move." As he said this, Yingge suddenly changed the subject and said: "Second brother, do you think that fourth brother will come back this time?"
Afterwards, things are a little different from before.”
When he said this, Hongshi also noticed something, and said: "It's a little bit, just like the last time he came to the house to ask for someone, it was obviously his turn to beg me, but he had a tough attitude and insisted on it. Now I just want to
As soon as I saw him, I felt uncomfortable all over, but I couldn't tell what was wrong."
Yingge nodded solemnly, "It seems that the fourth elder brother is much more difficult to deal with than before. Maybe the person who expected our move this time is the fourth elder brother. Second elder brother, you have to be more careful than usual in the future.
Especially in front of the emperor, there must be no mistakes. You must know that the emperor does not favor you as much as the fourth elder brother. Although the fourth elder brother has promoted the crown prince, I believe that the fourth elder brother is still the only candidate in his heart."
Listening to Yingge's words, Hongshi's cheeks kept twitching. When he thought of Huang Ama's love for Hongli, he went crazy and said with a ferocious expression: "Uncle, is there really no way to deal with Hongli?"
"At least not now, that's why my uncle asked you to look carefully at the emperor's end." Seeing that Hongshi's face was not very good, Yingge wanted to comfort him a few words, but Hongshi gritted his teeth and said: "I know, I will be careful, but
Uncle, you have to help me find a way to deal with Hongli. I have been uneasy since he and his mother returned to Beijing."
"Uncle will help you, but your empress asked Xiao Ningzi to bring a message a few days ago, asking you and me to act more carefully recently. When I asked Feng and Liu to stop Concubine Xi from using the Queen's ceremonial guard, I asked them to
Your empress is very unhappy, and she also said that no matter what happens to Feng Liu in the future, you and I will not let you get involved."
Hongshi said in confusion: "Feng and Liu? Didn't Huang Ama just get promoted to their official positions? What else can happen?"
Yingge shook his head and said: "I don't know either, but your empress has always considered things thoughtfully. Since she would come here specially to say this, she has her reasons."
They soon found out, because not long after Feng and Liu were promoted to cabinet ministers, they were demoted for some minor mistakes, and they were demoted three levels in a row, from the sixth rank to the seventh rank, which was worse than the previous censor.
Times were not as good as before, but it was not over. Just two days later, before they could even take the seventh rank position, they were demoted again. This time, they were demoted so much that they even lost their official official positions and became inferior to the ninth rank.
gatekeeper.
Feng and Liu never expected that their dream of being promoted to the cabinet would be shattered after only half a month, and they would also be demoted to guard the city gate, working with the rude sergeants they had looked down on before.
After the officials in the court learned that they had been demoted one after another, they somewhat guessed Yinzhen's intention of promoting them to cabinet ministers. But now that the matter had come to this, they could not say anything more and could only pretend to be deaf and dumb. , don't listen or ask.
Feng and Liu wanted to go over to ask Yingge, but they couldn't even get through the door of the Duke's mansion. However, after nightfall, two people came to their residence, but they didn't save them from suffering. On the contrary, they wanted to send them away. They went to see the Lord of Hell and took the body and some of its body parts to a deserted place to bury it without leaving any traces.
The next day, the city gate officials couldn't find them anywhere, and found that Xiruan was missing. He guessed that they could not stand the hard work of guarding the city gate, so they escaped. However, how they escaped is unknown. Since no one can be found, the matter will naturally be settled, but the so-called settled matter is only for some people who don't know what's going on.
In the Hall of Yangxin, Yinzhen was looking at the book at hand while listening to the spy leader who was kneeling on the ground reporting the recent developments in the capital.
After the secret agent finished speaking, Yinzhen raised his head and said, "Have you found the whereabouts of Feng and Liu?"
When he mentioned this, the spy leader said: "When I get back to the emperor, I have sent people out of the city to search, but no traces have been found. I suspect that they are still in the city, so I have sent people to monitor their family's residence."
"In the city..." Yinzhen repeated these two words and stood up and said: "If they really can't stand the pain of defending the city, they shouldn't continue to stay in the city. They will be found easily."
"I have also thought about it, but according to their itinerary, they should be able to catch them even by carriage, but after several checks, they are nowhere to be seen, so I suspect that they have not left the city."
Yinzhen tapped the table a few times and said, "Where are Yingge and Hongshi? Is there anything strange?"
"When I get back to the master, there is nothing unusual between Mr. Yingge and the second elder brother. Except that the second elder brother sometimes goes to Mr. Yingge's house, everything is normal." Although the previous assassination of Hongli has passed, what was found out The result had nothing to do with Hongshi, but Yinzhen still had doubts, and still ordered spies to pay attention to the movements of Yingge and Hongshi, "But the subordinates sent by the slaves to monitor the Duke's Mansion reported back that Feng and Liu had been there before they died. I went to the Duke’s Mansion, but Mr. Inge didn’t see them.”
After a moment of silence, Yinzhen said coldly: "Find a way to find Feng and Liu."
After the spy leader retreated, Yinzhen thought for a moment and said: "Sixi, go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and give me the case files of Feng and Liu, and let Chuan Yingge enter the palace. I have anything to ask him."
When Yingge came in, Yinzhen was flipping through the files of Feng and Liu. After Yingge carefully asked him to come back, he said: "If I hadn't read the files of Feng and Liu, I would have almost forgotten. Ying Ge, you were the examiner twice during the Kangxi period, and the two of them were also admitted when you were the examiner."
Hearing the words of Feng and Liu, Yingge was shocked and said hurriedly: "Replying to the emperor, I am very favored by the late emperor. I have indeed been the examiner twice, but I have absolutely no bending of the law for personal gain. All candidates are admitted based on their essays." , please give your Majesty a clear warning.”
Yinzhen smiled slightly and said: "I didn't say you were selfish, so why are you so nervous? I heard that Feng Qi went to find you before they disappeared, right?"