Gu Qingyan twirled his fingers and finally asked, "Don't you know Wangsuo used Cheng Qi's identity to threaten him?"
"I don't know. If I knew, even if I killed him, even if I offended the third prince and the virtuous concubine in the palace, I would not let him murder Princess An." Fang Yuan said bitterly, "Who knows what happened to him?
The thing is, he is obviously an orphan from the Jokhang Temple, but he knows Cheng Qi’s secret identity."
Gu Qingyan thought for a moment and said coldly, "I can only promise you to save that child's life. As for your life and that of Concubine Cheng, I have no interest in saving it."
Fang Yuan moved the corner of his mouth and said with a gloomy face, "If the Seventh Young Master can save the child's life, I will admit it even if I am chopped into pieces by Ling Chi."
Gu Qingyan said, "You haven't seen me today."
"Yes, I've never seen you." Fang Yuan nodded.
Gu Qingyan smiled, "I never believe that a person with memory can keep secrets." After saying that, he stood up and ordered, "Feed him a memory pill."
"Yes!" The secret guard stepped forward, opened Fang Yuan's mouth, stuffed a pill in, and watched him swallow it.
An amnesia pill can erase a person's memory for half a day, and in a blink of an eye he can no longer remember what he saw and said to Gu Qingyan.
"Send him back to the mountain behind the Jokhang Temple, roll him down the hillside, and wait for Chu Chen to find him." After Gu Qingyan gave the order, he left the darkroom.
The secret guard picked up Fang Yuan, then left the dark room, and secretly sent him back to the mountain behind the Jokhang Temple.
Gu Qingyan glanced at the sky and saw that the sun was already rising. He didn't expect that he would be delayed for so long. He wondered if she would have the patience to wait for him to have breakfast today.
An Huajin has never been patient, but if that person is Gu Qingyan, she will be more patient.
So, when Gu Qingyan braved the long-lasting sun and came to the An family's old house and entered Fenghongyuan, he saw An Huajin sitting at the dining table in the painting hall, holding a red rope in his hand, with nimble fingers.
The ground is compiling something. There are neatly arranged dishes on the table. The dishes are clean. Apparently they haven't had breakfast yet and are waiting for him.
His eyes moved, and his brows were filled with a smile.
Hearing the noise, An Huajin raised his eyes and saw that Gu Qingyan was wearing a brocade robe and jade belt, which was noble and elegant, but there was a faint scent on her body that she had not smelled in the past few days but made her feel that she had not seen it for a long time. She raised her eyebrows and said, "You...
Did you go to Eighth Street? Where did you come from?"
Gu Qingyan paused and looked at An Huajin in surprise, "How could you tell?"
"The breath!" An Huajin looked away, "The breath of the darkroom three years ago is exactly the same."
Gu Qingyan was surprised, "Is your sense of smell so keen?"
"Yes." An Huajin intertwined his fingers and kept moving, "I have been very sensitive to smells since I was a child. I learned from your lesson three years ago, and I spent a lot of hard time practicing when I went back to Nanyang.
, I am particularly sensitive to the breath on your body."
Gu Qingyan: "..."
He laughed dumbly, "It seems that I won't be able to hide anything from you in the future."
"Not necessarily." An Huajin said seriously, "As long as you take a shower and change clothes after doing something bad, I won't be able to smell it."
Gu Qingyan coughed, "I didn't intend to hide it from you, I just wanted to tell you."
An Huajin raised his eyebrows.
Gu Qingyan lowered his voice and told him that his people were secretly watching the Jokhang Temple, spying on Fang Yuan who had escaped in the middle of the night yesterday, and what he had interrogated from Fang Yuan in the darkroom on Eighth Street.
An Huajin stopped what he was doing and said in shock, "Concubine Cheng is dying? She had an affair with a monk? She even gave birth to a child?"
The most bizarre thing is that the child is ten years old and is still alive and well!
Gu Qingyan said, "I was shocked when I found out about this."
"No wonder Princess Cheng lives in the Jokhang Temple for half a year, and her relationship is under the guise of worshiping the Buddha and doing underground business." An Huajin paused for a moment and frowned, "Does Princess Cheng have such a deep foundation? The Ministry of Punishment has it.
Her spy? She delivered the news to Fang Yuan to the Jokhang Temple so quickly? Especially since the Jokhang Temple was blocked, the news could still be delivered."
"Concubine Cheng's son died for your majesty, and concubine Cheng herself also helped your majesty. Your majesty is very respectful and tolerant to concubine Cheng. Concubine Cheng is tired of staying in the palace. When she leaves the palace, she only needs to send someone to communicate with your majesty.
Let me tell you, over the years, countless people have taken advantage of the situation and curry favor with Princess Cheng, and her network of relationships has been built up like this. It is not surprising that the Ministry of Punishment has her as an informant."
An Huajin clicked his tongue, "A concubine has so much power. No wonder she is so bold to have an affair and have a child."
Gu Qingyan sighed with emotion and asked, "What are you making up?"
He had wanted to ask for a long time, but now that he explained the reason for coming late today, he couldn't help but ask.
"Auspicious knot."
Gu Qingyan blinked, "It's very beautiful."
"Of course it looks good. I learned this technique from a master. There are many tricks. This is the most complicated braiding method. When I am bored or upset, I will braid it to calm people down." An Huajin continued.
Movements in hands.
Gu Qingyan stared at An Huajin's tangled green fingers, the complicated gaps and several strands of red rope that were blinding to the eyes, but she was very organized and skillful without staring at them, "No wonder you met me.
The auspicious knots I have made are different. Such complicated craftsmanship cannot be matched by the skilled embroidery ladies in the palace. It is really ingenious."
"Not all good things will go to the palace. There are also countless things among the people that are not as good as the palace."
"Yes." Gu Qingyan nodded and said gently, "I have never seen such a beautiful auspicious knot. You... have finished making it, can you give it to me?"
An Huajin raised his eyes and looked at him, "Young Master Gu Qi has so many good things, how can you like such a gadget?"
"It's very impressive." Gu Qingyan looked serious and stared at Jixiang Knot's beautiful eyes.
"Okay, I'll give it to you if you want it." An Huajin agreed happily.
Gu Qingyan's smile was a little more joyful, and her eyes were a little clearer, "How come you know so many things and are so ingenious."
Anhua Jin smiled, she liked hearing these words, everyone can say complimentary words, and it seemed particularly comfortable to say it from his mouth, "My grandfather also once praised me for my cleverness, I can learn anything, and I can do anything."
Pretty, but not as nice as your compliments. Are good-looking people better at complimenting others?"
Gu Qingyan coughed and blushed slightly, "Maybe."
An Huajin laughed out loud. He praised her, and she praised him in turn. Was he embarrassed?
Gu Qingyan covered her lips and coughed a few more times. Suddenly her mind was wandering, and she managed to calm down for a moment, "You said you made this up when you were bored and upset, so are you upset today? Because of the grain robbery case?
”
"Yeah." An Huajin stopped laughing, "If it hadn't been for this case, when His Majesty first came to the throne, he planted the seeds of doubt about the Nanyang Palace, he wouldn't have ignored the weapons supervision and improved the weapons. The battle at Yuxueling,
The bones of my father and brother were not buried. I then thought that the grain robbery case that year was probably done by someone just to destroy the Nanyang Palace. It was done so flawlessly that it has not been exposed for eighteen years. It must have been that
A person can cover the sky with only one hand. If he thinks too much, he will become very depressed."
Gu Qingyan pursed his lips, "Back then, the grain robbery case was not seamless. After all, there was the ghost sword Cheng Qi who escaped, and there was also Fang Yuan who escaped from the murderous double and escaped into the empty door. Your Majesty couldn't find out that it was the new throne.
The foundation is unstable and the Nanyang Palace cannot find it out because Nanyang is too far away from the capital and the south bank of the Huaihe River."
"According to Fang Yuan, Zhang Huan, who was the head of the Household Department at that time, is now Zhang Zaifu. He was not necessarily the head of the Household Department who could plan such a big thing. Eighteen years ago, people who were close to him, and
Who?" An Huajin thought.
"This requires checking the files of the officials who were in power at that time." Gu Qingyan said, "Now Zhang Zaifu ranks first among hundreds of officials. He is below one person and above ten thousand people. He cannot be easily shaken. Without enough evidence, it cannot be done just because of the situation.
If there is any suspicion in the past, it is necessary to investigate slowly. What's more, His Majesty loves Concubine Shu. Although the second prince is the same as the other princes, except for the seventh prince who is a direct descendant, His Majesty seems to treat the other princes equally, but in private, he still
I value it very much, otherwise I wouldn’t secretly give one or two things from my private treasury to the second prince for good luck every New Year.”
The second prince’s maternal grandfather is Zhang Zaifu.
Your Majesty treats you equally on the surface, but is there such a difference in private?
An Huajin narrowed his eyes. Since His Majesty did it in private, only Eunuch Zhang, who is Gu Qingyan's person, must have known about it, "Did my seventh cousin get it in private?"
Gu Qingyan smiled and said, "The Seventh Prince is a legitimate prince, so there is no need to get it privately. His Majesty has already given him generously."
"So it turns out that His Majesty is interested in the second prince?" An Huajin racked her brains and thought about it. She seemed to have met many of His Majesty's princes three years ago, but what they looked like, except that she remembered her cousin.
Chu Yan and the others don't remember. She can't even remember what the second prince looks like, let alone his temperament.
"Maybe! His Majesty's thoughts are very deep, you can't say for sure." Gu Qingyan was ambiguous.
An Huajin chuckled, a bowl of poisoned tea, which involved the grain robbery case, involving Concubine Cheng, Concubine Xian, the third prince, Zhang Zaifu, Concubine Shu, and the second prince. If we dig deeper, there must be more involved.
, the court is afraid that it will shake the world.
