Jia Huan went to Feng Ziying's house to file a complaint and did not return home. He ate some snacks at a shop near Feng's house, and then rushed to Qin Sangu's house in the west of the city. Reading at midnight
Qin Sangu was lighting a candle and reading the account book. When she saw him coming in, she asked without raising her head: "What are you doing here in the dark?"
Jia Huan pursed his lips and said, "Come again." Then he sat down in front of her and said, "I just complained to Brother Feng. Cong'er said that Brother Feng is a man who knows the general situation. If the eldest wife of the King of Yan and the younger wife live or die,
Wanting to protect his son, Brother Feng would only keep his resentment in his stomach, drink wine and shoot arrows to vent his anger. Therefore, he said that he had to find the third aunt and sister to complain again. "
Qin Sangu raised her eyebrows, and Jia Huan told the previous story again. What she had just said to Feng Ziying was quite plain, and this time she became more jealous. Qin Sangu thought for a long time after listening, and only said: "I understand.
You can’t act recklessly.”
Jia Huan lowered his head and said, "It's hard to say. What do you think the third aunt will do to King Yan?"
Qin Sangu thought for a long time, shook her head and said, "I don't know."
Jia Huan said: "Seducing one of my important subordinates is like stealing my important concubine. No matter how much the prince likes that son, he will not let it go easily."
Qin Sangu glanced at him: "According to common sense, I shouldn't be able to bear it." Just at this moment, someone knocked on the door. It turned out that it was the person sent by Prince Yan's Mansion to invite Qin Sangu. Qin Sangu stood up and said: "
It's obvious that this is the case." Jia Huan nodded, waved first, and then cupped his hands. Qin Sangu then rushed to Prince Yan's Mansion that night.
When he entered Situ Pan's study room and saw Feng Ziying, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Huan'er just came to my place to complain again." Feng Ziying shook her head.
Situ Pan rubbed his eyebrows and asked, "What did he tell you?" Qin Sangu then repeated Jia Huan's words, including "stole my concubine." Situ Pan still had a calm face.
, after hearing this, he actually sneered and said: "You really have the guts." Then he looked at Feng Ziying.
Feng Ziying smiled bitterly and said, "It's all because my subordinates didn't investigate."
Situ Pan said: "If you know it or not, then find out. There is only the second child, or everyone has a share; the second child is the only one who hooked up with the Jinggangshan people, or there are others." He rolled up his sleeves and left.
Feng Ziying looked at Qin Sangu and said, "Huan'er went to tell you what you were doing again?"
"It's probably what Cong'er told me in the letter." Qin Sangu said, "I'm afraid you know more about how the princess protects her son."
Feng Ziying closed her eyes and said, "Cong'er has always used the word 'know the general' to be sarcastic."
The two of them put aside their other things and checked Situ Pan's four sons. None of them were clean, including Situ Pan's youngest eight-year-old son. Three of them had already befriended Ziying's own son.
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Qin Sangu looked at the list and said, "Fortunately, time is mostly short, only in the past two years."
Feng Ziying hummed: "Short? Fang Xiong's troops and horses all came out the next day after they withdrew from the capital."
Qin Sangu sighed: "I have been in love for a long time, but now my love has become weaker." She said, "No one in Rongguo Mansion wants to get involved."
Feng Ziying silently handed her a note, which said that Situ Jian played the piano upwind of the Su family garden every three to five months, and played a piece of music composed by himself for almost four years.
Qin Sangu was shocked and looked at him. Feng Ziying said: "No wonder he can persuade that old man Wan Zhang, his eyesight is farther than others. Four years ago, the prince was idle in the mansion to avoid suspicion, and even the prince did not dare to go out to meet friends.
He was afraid that he would have guessed at that moment that the prince was going to rebel."
Qin Sangu shook her head and said: "I only look at things but not people. How has that girl from the Su family been spoiled by Cong'er and Huan'er? It's weird that she dares to plot against that girl and not let them die!"
Feng Ziying said: "If Su Yatou is willing to do it herself, she is afraid that hitting the mouse will hurt Yu Ping'er, and there is nothing anyone else can do."
Qin Sangu sneered: "He thinks he is the prince's son, and everyone else admires this status. Cong'er once said that the second girl of the Xue family really married well. Her husband's family is simple, there are no sisters-in-law, and even the mother-in-law
No, the old man is getting older, so he can sleep a lot. Su Yatou is also his eldest son. She has to run away when she hears the word 'Prince's Palace' - she doesn't have the energy to get up early to say hello."
Feng Ziying smiled bitterly and said: "Extraordinary people probably have extraordinary wishes. If he uses ordinary people to infer extraordinary people, it's not surprising that he failed."
So he bravely went to see Situ Pan. Situ Pan knew that nothing good was going on when he looked at their faces, so he said solemnly: "The matter is over, let's talk about it."
Feng Ziying lowered his head and took out the booklet and read it one by one. The first few items were followed by his own son. Situ Pan glanced at him with a smile, and then his face turned green and white. However, Feng Ziying read for a long time, and when he heard
His son unexpectedly made friends with a general and couldn't help but kicked the coffee table over; Feng Ziying just continued to read. Finally, after hearing this, Situ Pan said solemnly: "It's better than their father." Because he sent someone to ask Princess Lou when her second child will be born.
Returning to Beijing, the man came back and said that he had received the letter earlier and would come back before the end of the year. He ordered Feng Ziying to do nothing. Feng Ziying went back and beat her son up, and ordered him not to have any contact with anyone named Situ.
Seeing that it was the New Year's Eve, Situ Pan also got the news that his second son had rested in a village outside the city four or five days ago and would not go to Beijing. Seeing that this was strange, he asked Feng Ziying. Feng Ziying lowered his head and said: "
That day I went back and beat up that brat of mine." Situ Pan snorted, "I'm alert," and walked away.
On New Year's Eve, Situ Pan still showed no intention of coming back. The princess was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, asking questions more than a dozen times a day. Situ Pan wanted to leave him alone, but was annoyed by the princess, so he simply
He rode out of the city in person and went straight to the village where Situ Jian lived.
When they arrived at the village, they saw that all of Situ Jian's men were so frightened that they knelt down on the spot. They were silent and did not dare to say a word. Situ Pan asked, "Where is your master?" A young boy pointed at the main house tremblingly. Situ Pan
Urge the horse to pass.
There were more people in the room, but when they saw him, they knelt down and bowed their heads without saying a word. Situ Pan randomly named someone to lead the way, and the person got up, trembling all over, and led him inside.
Situ Pan frowned as soon as he entered the room. The room was airtight, with several layers of curtains. But in broad daylight, candlesticks were burning on the desk, and a charcoal basin was burning on the ground. Although lily incense was burned in the copper cauldron, there was still a peculiar smell.
Come. The tent was opened. Situ Pan was lying on the kang. When he saw his father coming in, he was startled for a moment, and then he suddenly covered his head with the quilt. Situ Pan couldn't help but feel a little funny, so he walked over and uncovered the quilt on his head.
Situ Chan immediately covered him with the quilt. Situ Pan simply flipped the quilt over him and took a look: Situ Chan was huddled on the inside of the earthen bed, curled up with his head in his hands, like a ball.
Situ Pan was very angry and sneered: "How can you not accept it if you dare to do it?"
Situ Jian remained silent, holding his head and shaking all over.
The more Situ Pan looked at him, the more irritated he became, so he withdrew and walked out. He took a few breaths, raised his leg and kicked his son's attendant who was kneeling at the door, and kicked the man far away. He only heard a sudden noise in the room behind him.
There was a loud cry, heartbreaking. Situ Pan stood and listened for a while, then cursed: "Silver pewter spear head!" He picked up his feet and walked away.
After returning to the palace, the princess sent someone to ask when the second son would come back. Situ Pan said: "I have been outside the city for many days, but I just refuse to return to the capital. I don't know the reason." After hearing this, the princess asked him to send someone.
Go and pick her up. Situ Pan only said that she was not free and asked her to pick him up by herself.
A personal attendant beside him said: "The princess will feel distressed when she sees His Highness's appearance."
Situ Pan said: "Let her feel bad. From now on, the second child will just focus on making his mother happy." This remark was not evaded by anyone, and everyone who should have heard it heard it, and it spread throughout the whole house in the blink of an eye.
Not long after, the princess drove her carriage and horse out of the city. After spending half a day in the village, she finally brought Situ Pan back before dark. That night, Situ Pan ordered his three other sons to be beaten fifty to fifty times in front of the hall.
Without waiting for twenty days, he was ordered to be locked up in the courtyard to think about his faults and not be allowed to celebrate the New Year. Situ Ao was the only one left alone. Everyone in the mansion knew that the Second Highness had really pissed off their prince this time.
In the blink of an eye, on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Situ Pan held a banquet in the mansion to entertain some important staff and subordinates. Qin Sangu was late! She only apologized and said that she had remembered the wrong time, but this person was meticulous and thoughtful. Situ Pan knew what he meant.
She said it was all right, but it was inevitable to have doubts in my heart. I saw her wink at Feng Ziying again, and I became more and more concerned. After the banquet was over, everyone gathered together to chat, and sure enough, Feng and Qin went out one after another. Situ Pan
Busy as he was, a confidant followed him quietly. For a while, the two of them came back one after another, as if nothing happened.
Situ Pan pretended to make a fuss and went to the back to call his confidant for questioning. The confidant hesitated for a long time. Situ Pan knew that the two of them were very good friends with the two boys from Rongguo Mansion, so he sighed: "But what did Jia Huan do?
What happened?"
The confidant shook his head repeatedly: "It has nothing to do with their house." He stopped talking. Situ Pan stared at him. The confidant lowered his head and said, "Businesskeeper Qin San said... the person below her just now got a piece of information."
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"Um?"
The confidant lowered his head even more: "Businesskeeper Qin San has opened a restaurant. Today, a few young men who have always been friends with His Highness are having a drink together and talking... talking..."
Situ Pan's heart sank: "What did you say?"
"The Second Highness was told that he had stabbed a big thing and was discovered by the prince. He hurriedly tried to find a countermeasure. One of the young masters said that he heard that it was a tactic of suffering the flesh. The other said, no. It looked like a tactic of suffering the flesh, but in fact it was not.
It is self-defeating. Anyway, the prince will not miss him in the past few years. He is more secure than the other brothers, and it is easier for him to exert power secretly. Let me put it another way, His Highness is very witty. The one in front said... He said... "Then
The confidant glanced at Situ Pan secretly, "He said, he learned it from the prince. The mantis stalks the cicada, and the oriole follows behind."
Situ Pan casually grabbed a vase and smashed it on the ground, causing porcelain shards to fly. After a while, he smiled and said: "Together with him, I am a mantis and he is an oriole."
The next day, he ordered his second son, Situ Ke, to move to a small courtyard on the outskirts of the city to study behind closed doors. He ordered soldiers to guard him day and night, and was not allowed to take a step outside the wall. It was really like drawing the ground as a prison.
The princess was shocked, begging for mercy was useless, crying was useless, and she became anxious and asked: "What on earth did Jian'er do? He didn't tell me, and neither did the prince! Even if he did something wrong, he is your biological son after all.
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Situ Pan said calmly: "Your son is very capable. He said he was going to the south of the Yangtze River to enjoy the mountains and rivers, but in fact he even took away my confidant. If he was not my biological son, he would have been killed long ago."
The princess was stunned on the spot and could not recover.
A few days later, the princess only said that she wanted to go back to her parents' home. Situ Pan glanced at her and agreed. The princess started the car and drove back to the Lou Mansion. As soon as she entered the door, she saw her younger brother Lou Gui hurriedly picked him up from inside. The princess was anxious.
Asked: "You all said it was kept secret, how did the prince know about it?" Lou Gui sighed.
The two siblings arrived at the study and were guarded outside. Lou Gui asked in a low voice: "Does the prince know that my sister is also in charge of things inside?"
The princess said: "He doesn't know, not even Jian'er himself knows."
Lou Gui said: "I'm sure we will still be able to recover in a few years." He shook his head and said, "His Royal Highness is a little more anxious this time. It was fine, but we underestimated Jarvis and Jia Cong. In Jinggangshan
When the next plan failed, I tried to persuade him to return to Beijing, but he just refused. After all, he was young and energetic." Then he recounted the past in detail, and finally said, "Who knew that Wan Zhang was actually a waste, and he was killed instead of succeeding in his assassination?
They caught him." He couldn't help laughing and said, "That Jia Cong is really interesting. He put a sign on his head with the word 'hostage' written on it to clear the way. When he encountered a crowded place, it was replaced with 'adulterer'.
Wan Zhang was the prince's confidant, so we were afraid to move again. Since the New Year was approaching, we left a few people to follow them all the way. The rest hurriedly protected His Highness and rushed back to Beijing. We met my sister in the suburbs of Beijing.
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The princess said: "It's obvious that Feng Ziying knew about beating his son. He already knew it, how could the prince not know about it? In the past, he didn't check because he never thought to check this. They are all young people, how meticulous can they be in doing things? Check it out.
Everything is clear."
"Thanks to my sister's plan, otherwise what would have happened to the prince?" Lou Gui took a breath and said, "I got a letter from Fei Ge the day before yesterday, and Wan Zhang has been released by them, and not a single word has been examined, not even his face.
His fake beard and powder fell off, but no one was there to wash his face."
The princess nodded and said: "Linhai Jia Cong is a pair of old foxes and little foxes. Jia Cong knew how to protect himself at a young age. I said many years ago that this Jia Cong was lucky to have voted for the prince; if he had voted for others, he would have been killed early."
My son did not do anything wrong." He sighed again, "In that case, this man will belong to Yue'er one day. After all, he is also my son."
Lou Gui said anxiously: "The prince is kind and dull, not the kind of person Jia Cong likes. If I can't guarantee it, I will vote for those two."
The princess smiled and said: "He respects Jarvis, whose temperament is somewhat similar to Yue'er's."
Lou Gui sighed: "Mr. Jarvis defeated our 3,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry with a thousand soldiers and horses borrowed from Wang Ziteng. He is good at water and volcanoes and can count. He is like the lower realm of Wuqu star! Rely on
He has real abilities, and as Jia Cong's elder brother, the prince can't compare with him. Without Jia Cong, the prince would have Jarvis; with him, it's hard to say."
The princess thought for a moment and said: "It doesn't matter, it still depends on who the prince chooses. Yue'er is the eldest son."
Lou Gui said: "Prince Xianyi Zhong is also the eldest son." The princess frowned. He asked again, "Does sister know what happened on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year? The plan has already been accomplished, and the prince's anger will fade sooner or later.
It only takes a few years of silence. Why did His Highness the Second Highness suddenly be locked up outside the city?"
The princess said: "I have been investigating this matter for several days but I haven't found any clues." After thinking for a while, she said, "There is something suspicious. I just don't know if it is related to Jian'er."
"What's the matter?"
"Qinsi is late." The princess said, "On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the prince hosted a banquet for some important staff members, and she was late. Qinsi is so meticulous and meticulous, which is rare among men. How could she be late for such an important occasion?