After Jia Huan told what Jia Xichun had done in Liaodong, both Situ Pan and Feng Ziying were shocked. Situ Pan read the book for a while before asking, "Is what she said true?"
Jia Huan said: "It's still something in the future. Who knows whether it's true or not? It's all what Master Cong'er said, and it sounds quite reasonable. Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway. It's just that the current empress of Russia is not economical either.
I will not be casually persuaded by my fourth sister's words. Sooner or later, I will send someone to Beijing to inquire about this matter. I also hope that the prince and the adults in the Ministry of Rites will help to describe the matter more truthfully. Their empress Elizabeth is also getting older.
The old man believed in the prophecies of gods and Buddhas. If the prince divorces the daughter before he ascends the throne, the other country will miss a generation of British masters. Cong'er's master said that there are two monarchs in Russia who can be called great emperors. One is Peter a hundred years ago.
Great Emperor, the other one is the current Crown Princess, Empress Catherine. Comparing our dynasty, they are Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty."
Situ Pan was surprised and said: "Isn't this Crown Princess a woman?"
Jia Huan said: "Not only is she a woman, she is also a foreign woman! She is a German, and she married to Russia. There are many heroines in Western countries, and it doesn't matter whether they are male or female. Most of them have queens on the throne. And her throne is
It was taken from her husband, and her husband is a mediocre man. Your lord, they are right next door to us."
Situ Pan couldn't help but nodded slowly: "If this woman really can become a hero, we must let them miss it."
Jia Huan stood up and bowed to the ground: "Please, Your Majesty."
Situ Pan waved his hand and said, "This is my responsibility." After thinking for a moment, he asked, "What did your sister say to Qu Shen yesterday?"
Jia Huan said: "Selling sun-salted prescriptions. For Lord Qu's sake, Lady Yingge served him in a separate courtyard of our house last night, so the two of them never returned to the post house and Yihong Courtyard."
"I see. Who ordered the table?"
"I don't know. I'll ask my fourth sister later." Jia Huan hesitated, but finally said, "My fourth sister has admired the Russian crown princess since she was a child. She just ruined the future of an empress. In her heart,
It's quite unpleasant... His Highness blamed Concubine Hui for all the causes of the chaos in the world, so she was a little unhappy."
Situ Pan was startled and said with a wry smile: "I don't blame her." He then added, "Your fourth sister is not young, right? With such a temper, what will others do in the future?"
Jia Huan smiled and said, "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. She doesn't have to worry about getting married. There are people who are willing to protect her as she travels all over the country, sometimes pretending to be a coachman, sometimes a bodyguard, and sometimes an evil slave. Although they often quarrel, she is very happy."
Situ Pan was very interested: "Who is the son of a general?"
"He is the son of one of my uncle's soldiers."
Situ Pan frowned and said, "Your status is too low."
Jia Huan sighed: "She has such a temperament, it would be great if someone is willing to marry her. Back then, she was known as the 'Little Shrew of Kyoto', but now it has spread throughout Kyushu because of the royal family members leaving the capital. Besides, she can't be locked up in the backyard, and the people around her can't.
Are you willing to agree? If an ordinary woman wants to go out and establish a career, unless she is a widow like my third aunt, I'm afraid she won't even be able to do it without getting married."
Situ Pan thought for a while and sighed: "That's really the truth. There are talents among women. It would be a pity to bury them."
Jia Huan said: "Speaking of which, the Russian Crown Princess is really talented. My fourth sister was thinking about trying to scare her mother-in-law into changing her name and sending her to another country? Russia is the largest country in the West.
The country does not border our country, so if we send her to another small Western country, even if she still becomes a British master, it will still be just a small country."
Situ Pan frowned and said: "Today's small Western countries are no longer small. That's all. Let's discuss this matter later."
Jia Huan nodded.
After a moment of silence, Situ Pan suddenly asked: "The person you just mentioned who protected your fourth sister all the way was the one who followed her to Demenglou last night?"
"Exactly."
"How are your skills?"
Jia Huan said: "They set out the year before last and traveled all over the world for such a long time. They encountered countless bandits and water bandits on the way, but they were all fine. Naturally, their skills are not bad."
Situ Pan shed tears immediately. He waved his hand and motioned for Feng Ziying to lead Jia Huan out.
When Feng Ziying came back, Situ Pan wiped his tears and said: "If he doesn't mess with that Qu Shen, he won't die..."
Feng Ziying was silent. Isn't that right? The assassin didn't know that Jia Xichun's guard was a master. He broke into the next room and tried to knock out the people in the room.
He interrupted and said: "Your Majesty, that Russian Crown Princess?"
Situ Pan suddenly turned cold: "Miss Jia Si is a little girl after all, and Jia Huan is still young. How can we let another country get a British master? If her mother-in-law is reluctant to kill her, we will kill her for her. You can kiss her from the Ministry of Rites.
If you go and make arrangements, you will not be able to spare this woman's life." Feng Ziying responded "yes".
Coincidentally, Qin Sangu came here at this moment. She came in to say hello to Situ Pan and asked if there was any progress. Feng Ziying explained everything to her in detail. After discussing for a long time, she had no clue, so she went to move out the files from that year and pulled them up.
Several colleagues consulted for details. Suspecting that the assassin was the Black and White, Sangu Qin ordered a few people to go to the market to find SHIELD, while she stayed in Prince Yan's Mansion to discuss matters.
Not long after, someone from the Rongguo Mansion came over to deliver a message. Last night, a steward in their mansion had ordered the banquet. This was because there was a lot of buzz about the new dishes in Menglou. The prince’s banquet was also ordered by the steward, and he had also heard about it.
New dishes. The boss of Demenglou has been imprisoned for a long time. Feng Ziying interrogated him for half a day. He thought that his new dishes were known all over the city because his dishes tasted good and did not look fake.
In the afternoon, Situ Yue's people found out the clues. It turned out that someone paid to hire some idle people to go to the inns where the wealthy families lived to spread the news that the new dishes of Demenglou were very good, and they had already been praised by the wealthy family.
The table has been booked, and if you want to eat, you will have to wait until later, and you will not be able to eat the fresh food from the first day. It is of course useless to say this to Situ Pan and others, but if you say it to the steward, he will listen to it.
They took the bait immediately.
After hearing the news, Feng Ziying thought for a long time and said: "The assassins didn't have enough time, so this plan was a little hasty, and they were a little lazy, so they used the method they used seven years ago. Otherwise, why would they lure everyone to Menglou?
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Qin Sangu said: "The Second Highness has been detained in the palace by the prince before. Yesterday was the sixth day he went out."
Situ Yue's staff said: "It was from the day after he left that the assassins hired people to spread the word on the streets. The person who hired the people was a man in his thirties, fair-skinned, and claimed to be a clerk from Demeng Tower.
There is no such person in Menglou." Feng Ziying ordered him to draw a shadow and search for this person in the city.
In the evening of that day, Qin Sangu excused herself from several colleagues and invited them to have a meal with her. She rode her horse home leisurely. Sure enough, she saw Jia Xu chatting with an old man selling sesame cakes in front of a sesame cake stall. She jumped off the horse with a smile. The old man happily handed over the cakes.
He gave her a sesame seed cake and said, "Thank you very much, girl, for always taking care of the old man's business." Qin Sangu accepted it, while Jia Xu gave her money, and the two of them walked away.
Qin Sangu sighed softly: "He is asking for it."
Jia Xu said: "As the old saying goes, it is difficult for gods and Buddhas to save those who seek death. Whoever the Lord of Hell wants to die at the third watch will not survive until the fourth watch."
Qin Sangu said: "I hope the princess will not come to trouble me again in the future."
Jia Xu looked at her and said, "Princess, I'm afraid that we will fight to the death with you."
Qin Sangu frowned: "Huh?"
"Like a son, like a mother. Princess Lou is actually somewhat similar to the one who just died yesterday. Life used to be smooth, but when things were smooth, you were not used to introspection; you suffered several setbacks in succession, either because of you or because of you. She was wrong. She didn't reflect on herself, she could only hate people. She didn't dare to hate King Yan. She wanted to hate the assassin, but she didn't know where the assassin was and couldn't take revenge. Remember, she would lose her son, lose her face, and die. My confidants are no longer the same as before, and they will go crazy if they are not kept safe."
Qin Sangu thought for a long time, shook her head and said: "I obviously have nothing to do with her." She smiled and said, "Is Qin Sangu scared? There are many people in the capital who are looking forward to my sudden death. , I went to the battlefield in my early years, and I just lived well."
Jia Xu smiled softly and said: "If she gets the chance, you can't expect King Yan to uphold justice for you. The prince is not wrong. He will not abandon the prince for nothing, so he will not abandon the prince's biological mother."
Qin Sangu glanced at him: "I already knew these things."
Jia Xu said with a smile: "I know you know, but it's just a warning. What do you want from me?"
Qin Sangu said: "We suspect that the assassin is the black and white evil spirit."
Jia Xu frowned and said: "If it was them who dared to do such a big thing, they would definitely receive a lot of money. According to their habits, they left the capital last night. It was easy for them to climb over the city gate and cross the moat. Three years and five years Zai will not come again.”
Qin Sangu said: "There was an old case seven years ago, and the methods were very similar." Jia Xu couldn't help but turned around and laughed a few times, and glanced at Qin Sangu, and then said, "I wonder if it's the same person." Hired. I have never heard of these two in the capital for many years. Where did others find out and hired them to do work? It's just that Huo Xuan and His Highness the Second Highness are not related to each other, and they shouldn't have the same enemy."
Jia Xu said: "Both of them are people of high status. If you plot against them, someone will benefit. Some benefits are straightforward, and some benefits are roundabout." He thought for a moment and said, "Back then, Huo After Xuan fell and broke his leg, a female spy in their house who was appointed by the imperial court at that time took the opportunity to serve the patient and got him favored and raised a son. This was considered a benefit. After that incident, Huo Xuan's health deteriorated a lot, and he died the next year. , Huo Sheng succeeded to the throne of Nan'an County, and the princess in the palace took over the power. Their mother and son are another benefit. "
Qin Sangu hummed: "You know everything about it."
Jia Xu said seriously: "We are here to eat this bowl of rice, and we treat these things like the third shopkeeper's accounting book."
With a smile on her lips, Sangu Qin added: "Huo Sheng and his mother will never give Huo Xuan the title of Broken Sleeves; it is impossible for the Supreme Emperor to hire someone to kill the son of King Yan when he is hunting in the East."
Jia Xu thought for a moment and said, "I heard that the second prince had a good relationship with Huo Sheng back then."
Qin Sangu said: "The second prince has always behaved with great nobility and lived in the palace for a long time. How could he think of doing something so commonplace as cutting off someone's sleeves?"
Jia Xu said: "The master doesn't need to make his ideas too clear. Just tell the people below him what his purpose is."
Qin Sangu said: "The people below him are also students and martial arts practitioners, and they can't think of such an idea."
"What about the eldest prince?" Jia Xu thought for a while, "The eldest prince has someone in the market, and he is a very flirtatious person, and he has Concubine Hui by his side."
Qin Sangu frowned and said: "According to what you said, someone who was the second prince or concubine Hui instigated the eldest prince and used his power to plot against Huo Xuan in the hope that Huo Sheng could succeed to the throne of Nan'an County as soon as possible?"
Jia Xu said: "No one will do anything that is not beneficial. The commission for Black and White Shuangsha is very expensive."
"What about this one last night?"
Jia Xu smiled slightly: "This is not for benefit, but for revenge or venting anger."
Qin Sangu still shook her head: "Although King Chen is young, he is not reckless and not so bold."
Jia Xu tilted his head and thought: "Where is the little saint in the palace?"
"I don't have the ability." Qin Sangu thought about it and had no clue, so she said, "The son of the Supreme Emperor really hates the prince. That's all." By now she had finished eating the sesame cakes and jumped on the horse, "I don't know there will be news tomorrow. Yes. This sesame seed cake restaurant is really good." He patted his horse and left.
Jia Xu led his horse and stood at the street corner, watching her gradually walk away, her figure blurry, and suddenly smiled: "Actually, the sesame cakes elsewhere are also good, how about we try them together?"
Jia Xu really guessed the Princess of Yan, Lou. Seeing that Qin Sangu was right in everything, she herself was wrong in everything; Qin Sangu succeeded in everything, but she herself failed in everything; but Qin Sangu was a She was born into a humble and lowly family, and now she is just a common widow. She is now a princess. Now that her second son is dead and her eldest son is not close to her, her husband has fallen out with her in court, and her younger brother has no hope of career, she has no choice but to think about it more and more. She became narrow-minded and secretly obsessed. She actually sent someone to invite Situ Pan, saying that she knew who bought the assassin.
Situ Pan hurried to her courtyard, and the princess grabbed him and whispered: "Qin Sangu killed Zhang'er!" Situ Pan fluttered his sleeves and started to leave. The princess immediately knelt down and hugged his legs tightly. He said, "She said for no reason that someone wanted to harm Zhang'er and put the blame on Yue'er. Who knew that Zhang'er was really harmed by someone! Who did it if it wasn't her?"
Situ Pan looked down at her for a long time and pointed out: "Why...you became like this!" He sighed, threw her arm away and walked away.
When the princess saw that he refused to believe him, she became so sad that she burst into tears.
Not long after, the prince came to see his mother, and the princess kept talking to him about this matter for a long time. The prince knew that it was ridiculous, so he only pretended to coax her with a few words, and coaxed her to get on the kang to rest.
As soon as he left the door, the prince breathed a long sigh of relief. Suddenly he saw a figure flashing in front of him and asked, "Who is it?" He chased after him after a few steps. It turned out to be a maid next to the princess. After running for a few steps and seeing that she couldn't escape, she turned around. Turning around, he knelt down and kowtowed tremblingly. The prince asked, "Why are you running away for no reason?" The maid could only tremble all over. The prince suddenly became suspicious and said sternly, "It's obvious that she has done something shameful, why don't you punish her quickly!"
The maid was timid and unintimidated. She burst into tears and cried, "My lord, spare my life! I have never done anything." Does the lord believe it? He asked a few more questions.
It turns out that she really didn't do anything, she just knew a few things. For example, the princess once paid 150,000 taels of silver to buy Qin Sangu's life, and just now she was planning to ask someone to curse her to death and make the maid go out. She was trying to find out if the man named Ma Daopo who knew how to perform the Five Ghosts method had a sect. This maid didn't dare and hurriedly slipped out while the prince came in. Now that the prince was about to leave, she was afraid that the princess would ask her to find the mage again, so she evaded it. of.
The prince wondered, "Shopkeeper Qin San is my father's confidant and has nothing to do with her, so why bother?" After thinking for a moment, he told the maid, "If she orders you again, just say yes."
The maid cried: "I don't dare! The third master Cong of Rongguo Mansion is from Nezha's lower realm. He has an irreversible friendship with the third shopkeeper Qin. I'm afraid he will kill me."
The prince said: "I only asked you to agree with your mouth, but I didn't ask you to seriously find someone! Just coax her with a few words and that's all."
The maid just shook her head: "I don't dare to deceive the princess."
The prince drank: "I want you to coax her, then coax her." The maid was too frightened to say a word and just cried. The prince said, "I have my own arrangements for this matter. Just come to me when the time comes." The maid said with a smile.
The tears answered "Yes". The Crown Prince sighed and walked away.
Returning to his own courtyard, he was at a loss as this was his mother's business, and there was a very important subordinate of his father on the other end. There was a serving eunuch beside him, who was not very smart, but was considerate and caring.
The master's brows were furrowed with worry, and he stepped forward and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, what's going on?"
The prince sighed: "My mother is so obsessed now that she insists on killing shopkeeper Qin San. She even wants to use witchcraft. I don't know what to do."
The eunuch thought for a moment and said: "The princess has nowhere to vent her grievances, so she vented them all on the head of shopkeeper Qin San. Shopkeeper Qin San is an important subordinate of the prince, and there is absolutely no reason why she should have any complaints because of the princess. I don't know.
Is there any way to keep her away from the capital for a year and a half?"
"What do you mean?"
The eunuch whispered: "A woman's anger will not give up until she is exhausted. Now the princess is only angry at the shopkeeper Qin San, but shopkeeper Qin San is also very important. If she avoids it, the princess will not be able to find her.
, naturally there are other ways to vent her anger. When she has vented her anger... the princess is not an unreasonable person."
When the prince thought about it, it seemed to make sense, and he couldn't help but nod.