Someone assassinated the Empress Dowager, but they did not kill her. They only used fire and gun to kill all the expert guards around her, and set fire to burn the body. Feng Ziying wanted to use dogs to track her, but several dogs fought in circles for a long time and found nothing.
They sniffed it out; they searched the entire palace without finding a single bullet casing. The corpses burned by the assassins could not be identified at all, so they had to ask the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager who they were. Everyone was dead, and the Empress Dowager could not hide it, so she listed them all.
She had said everything from 5 to 10. But she never mentioned the Ouchi Liu family. She thought that since she was a loyal person, she left because she was wronged, and she would come back when she heard that her master was in danger.
Feng Ziying investigated for half a day, and after lunch, she rode out of the palace gate and went straight to Lixiangyuan. Jia Cong just choked Jia Zheng and came back feeling refreshed and in a good mood, shaking his head and singing "Little Apple". Feng Ziying stepped on the door and walked in.
After entering, he couldn't help but rush him out together.
Jia Cong stood up to change clothes and asked, "Where are you going?"
Feng Ziying said with a smile: "I'll find out when I go." Jia Cong then changed into a brand-new crab shell Qingliu Yun bat light robe, with a forehead mop tied on his head. Feng Ziying secretly laughed in her heart - he thought he was going to visit the flower house.
After finishing packing, Jia Cong followed Feng Ziying out and casually shouted: "I'm leaving."
Chen Ruijin suddenly took up embroidery recently. He was sitting on the porch holding a bag and doing tricks, and said "hmm" without raising his head.
Feng Ziying recognized Chen Ruijin and thought she was a maid; now the clothes she wore no longer belonged to the maid. When he got out of Lixiangyuan and mounted his horse, he asked with a smile: "Do you want to put it away? Do you want the girl to move in? Have you set a date?"
"No." Jia Cong got on his horse and said, "I want to marry her, but she hasn't planned to get married to me so soon. Brother Huan hasn't even finished his honeymoon yet. If I rush to get married like a chicken, wouldn't it be wrong?
Looks like a pervert?"
...The point is totally wrong! Feng Ziying frowned: "Wait a minute. She is a maid. I know that you are acting like a fool, so you must not be presumptuous in matters of marriage."
Jia Cong smiled and said: "She is not a maid. Even if she is a maid, it won't be a big deal. There are a lot of misunderstandings here. I will tell you in detail later."
Feng Ziying didn't have time to lecture him about marrying a wife at the moment, so she nodded and walked straight to the gate of the Forbidden City. Jia Cong was stunned: "Brother Feng, what are you playing at?"
Feng Ziying said: "The Empress Dowager was assassinated last night."
"ah?"
"The assassin didn't kill her, he only killed her bodyguard and left a strange note." Feng Ziying said, "Take a look."
Jia Cong pursed his lips and said, "I thought you were inviting me to drink." Feng Ziying looked at his clothes and laughed.
Jia Cong had visited the Palace Museum three or four times in his previous life, but this was the first time he entered the palace, so he inevitably looked around curiously. Feng Ziying urged from the side: "Go back and take your time when you have time." Jia Cong shrugged.
The two walked around the scene, and Feng Ziying explained the story in detail. Jia Cong listened thoughtfully and said, "That Xue Tao note can be thrown away." Feng Ziying was stunned. He immediately said, "Oh, don't throw it away!
You can also check where you bought it. Also, let me warn you that the assassin may not be able to catch it."
Feng Ziying glanced at him: "What do you know? What happened to that prince?"
Jia Cong said: "Bullshit prince! There is no such person." He pointed to the sky, "This is the Forbidden City." Then he pointed to the house of the Empress Dowager, "The Empress Dowager lived there, the most powerful woman in the harem.
"The harem eats people without spitting out their bones." He gave a high-five and said, "What else can attract the attention of the perpetrators more than the secrets of the palace?"
Feng Ziying had only been frightened by the words on Xue Tao's note before. After hearing the words, she suddenly understood: "That's nonsense."
Jia Cong twisted his lips: "If the 'Prince' was seeking revenge on the Empress Dowager, why did he kill her bodyguards alone and not her? Is it easy to come into the palace?"
Feng Ziying immediately said: "That's right. How did they get in?"
Jia Cong shrugged: "It's possible that how you got out in the past is how you get in now. There's no guarantee that someone didn't come in or go out at all."
Feng Ziying took a breath, and suddenly thought of many possibilities, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. After a long time, she slowly said to the deputy who was following him: "Search everyone in the Forbidden City." The deputy took the order and left.
Jia Congdao asked: "Has anyone left the palace after last night's incident? Has the news been spread? Has anything been sent out?"
"No one left the palace. Since the Queen Mother is fine, we couldn't hide it from the fire last night. There are already gossips on the streets."
"That's a bit of a headache." Jia Cong said, "Shut up everyone and don't let out a word. Let the word go out again. Just say that there was an accidental fire in the small utility yard next to the imperial kitchen. It has been extinguished long ago. Nothing happened.
.Check again carefully if there is anything to send out. What about emptying the toilet, leftovers, etc." Feng Ziying raised her eyes and looked at him. Jia Cong bared his teeth and said, "How many palace maids and eunuchs can make people angry?
.Gun, I don’t believe in it.”
Feng Ziying hurriedly sent people to investigate, and then said: "You just said that you might not be able to catch the assassin?"
Jia Cong spread his hands and said: "If we have already left and the city gate is not closed today, God knows where we have flown to. There are some things that we have to ask the Queen Mother."
"This is easy."
Feng Ziying then led him to another palace not far away, where the Empress Dowager would move. By chance, she met the imperial doctor who treated her old man. Feng Ziying casually asked how the Empress Dowager was, and the imperial doctor said: "
We just took a rest." Feng Ziying frowned.
Jia Cong said: "Are any of her confidants alive?"
Feng Ziying said: "Most of the dead are the imperial guards, and most of the ordinary palace maids and eunuchs are not dead. Her confidant," he snorted, "isn't it Dai Quan?"
"Well, let's not disturb the Empress Dowager for now." Jia Cong thought to himself. I don't want to kowtow to her. "It's the same thing if you ask Eunuch Dai."
The two of them went inside to see Dai Quan and had some conversation. Jia Cong immediately asked: "I dare to ask Eunuch Dai, do the guards around the Empress Dowager have any way to avoid the imperial guards outside the palace?"
Dai Quan was startled and said, "I don't know about the Zajia family. But most of the internal guards have a way to get in and out of the palace."
Jia Cong asked: "Does the Empress Dowager know?"
Dai Quan said: "How can the Za family find out about this?"
Jia Cong turned to Feng Ziying and spread his hands: "In this case, he probably escaped."
Dai Quan hurriedly asked: "Mr. Jia, do you think there are Ouchi guards among those assassins?"
"It's not that I think it, it's for sure." Jia Cong said, "Why else would they burn the corpses and not run away as soon as they have time? There are guards outside. If you run a step earlier, you may not be able to save your life."
Dai Quan suddenly slapped the case and said: "Li Daitao's plan!"
Jia Cong touched his nose: "It seems like we should let the golden cicada escape from its shell."
Dai Quan didn't care to argue with him and asked hurriedly: "Master Feng, that piece of paper?"
Feng Ziying said: "Fake, just a false shot."
That means the Empress Dowager is fine. Dai Quan breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned: "Master Feng, Mr. Jia, the guards in the palace don't have Western guns or guns in their hands."
Feng Ziying said: "Someone must help them."
Jia Cong pinched his right hand with his left hand and said: "Let's look into it, there must be a flaw. How many Ouchi guards are there - it seems that there are seven assassins in black?" Dai Quan nodded. "There are more than seven Ouchi guards.
, Well, I don’t want to do it anymore. But it’s not easy to get out of this business. It’s impossible to say that there is any evidence that fell into the hands of the court, or that they made many enemies in the early years. If they want to leave cleanly, they have to clear their past. So they pretended to be assassins,
He killed his fellow guards with a Western fire gun he didn't know where he got. He also got some corpses from elsewhere to make up the number. He piled his colleagues and the remaining corpses together and burned them. They then faked their deaths and escaped." Jia Cong began.
He clapped his fingers and asked, "The first doubt is where did the fire and the gun come from? Eunuch Dai, is there a fire or gun in the palace?"
Dai Quan said flatly: "No."
"Are there any guys from the Imperial Forest Arms Battalion in the early years?"
Dai Quan still said: "No."
"This is rather strange." Jia Cong held his cheek and said, "Brother Feng and the others did not find the bullet casing. It is said that the gun battle cannot be without this. I thought it was an imitation of fake fire and gun."
Dai Quan said: "All the masters in the palace are very skilled in martial arts. If it weren't for fire and spears, how could ordinary people kill them so quickly?"
Jia Cong faked a smile and said: "Of course ordinary people can't do it, but my companions can. There is a group of assassins with high martial arts standing opposite. The guards are all staring at the assassins. How can they pay attention to their companions behind them?"
Feng Ziying suddenly remembered: "We found some firecracker clothes this morning."
"It's more likely to be a fake fire and gun." Jia Cong said, "The assassins were divided into two groups. One group pretended to be men in black and lured other guards out. They had fake fire and guns hidden in their arms, but they might actually be quivers.
And so on; a group of people from behind killed the companions who did not join the group; another person was assigned to set off firecrackers. All the palace maids and eunuchs who were watching were silenced, and those who did not see were not killed, but their eyes were only blindfolded. The Empress Dowager was not killed, for fear of
It’s because the principal and ministers have had some kind of friendship over the years.”
Feng Ziying thought: "It makes sense. If not, those firecracker uniforms are weird."
Jia Cong said: "It could also be fire. They have guns, but there are just a few, one or two." He clapped his hands, "The second doubt is how they got the corpses to make up for the charges."
Feng Ziying smiled bitterly and said: "This is easy. There are many eunuchs in the palace, and the head count is hard to count. I'm afraid no one knows how many people were killed from a secluded place."
"Okay then. I just don't know where the assassin has gone." Jia Cong said, "Was he hiding in the palace waiting for an opportunity to escape, or has he already sneaked away."
There was a secret passage in the palace, but Dai Quan knew it. Dai Quan knew it. He immediately remembered that the boy guarding the house at the entrance of the tunnel was killed a few days ago. How could he not know if it was a traitor? He couldn't help but sigh.
Jia Cong said again: "There is another strange thing: Xue Tao's Jian. It's not like there are no paper in the palace. Did Te Te use Xue Tao's Jian that he got from outside the palace to make us mistakenly think that they are from outside?"
Feng Ziying said: "Zhao Cheng said that last month someone sent a sealed letter on Xue Tao's note to the Wucheng Army and Horse Department, offering to sell the stolen goods at Yinfengju."
Dai Quan's eyes jumped! Yinfengju had always been hidden in the market, and no one knew about it, but that was the beginning of a series of chaos. He secretly connected everything together and sighed sadly: "They must be colluding with the outside world.
"
Jia Cong looked at him twice, opened his mouth and closed it again. After a while, he held his chin and said: "There must be a reason for the good guard to put his body down. Who can pry him away? Who would think of it?"
The person who wants to pry the Empress Dowager? You have to be able to pry her even if you want. And you have to clean up the past. Do you want to be an official?"
Dai Quan and Feng Ziying's hearts trembled at the same time: Apart from the man named Situ, who would plan to seize the Queen Mother? Dai Quan knew that the female guard Liu Mingqiu had come to the capital to recruit people, and it was her own plan. Rongguo Mansion
She didn't know it at the time, and she had already been here once. Besides, Jia Cong had been instigating people to go overseas to expand their territory, and people who went overseas didn't have to clean up their past. So he left their home behind.
Jia Cong added: "I heard that people who serve as guards are extremely loyal and are not easily tempted." Feng Ziying nodded in agreement without saying a word - those who were not extremely loyal had already been pried away by Situ Pan, and now all that is left behind is
Extremely loyal. Jia Cong thought for a while, "Then what are they using to tempt these people? Gold? Beauty? There is no shortage of them in the palace."
Dai Quan said "Ah", and Feng Ziying immediately understood. Most of the people around the Queen Mother were eunuchs. Eunuchs had to purify themselves when entering the palace, and the things they took off could not be taken away until they left the palace. Feng Ziying immediately said: "I
There’s a place we need to check! Cong’er, you have to play with yourself for a while first.”
Dai Quan hurriedly said: "I will go with you. Your Excellency may not find it."
Jia Cong was stunned: "Ah? Hey Brother Feng! You can't leave me alone in the palace... There are women everywhere who are like wolves and tigers."
Feng Ziying smiled and said: "Who can touch you? If you like someone, just take him away." After saying this, he winked at Dai Quan, and the two of them led some people away - seriously leaving Jia Cong behind.
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Jia Cong walked around in circles three times in a daze and asked the two subordinates left by Feng Ziying: "Is there anything interesting in the palace? Can I go and see the legendary Imperial Garden?"
Both of them guessed what Feng and Dai had done. Besides, how can the palace now be as good as it was back then? He smiled and said, "Master Jia wants to visit the Imperial Garden. I will take you there."
Jia Cong quickly raised his hands and said, "Brothers, you are about ten years older than me. Don't shout so respectfully. I'm so awkward."
The two of them smiled and said, "I know Mr. Jia is a refreshing person." So they both called him Brother Jia and took him to the Imperial Garden.
When he arrived at the place and took a look, Jia Cong was a little disappointed. He didn't think it was very beautiful! Compared with the remains of the Old Summer Palace that he visited in his previous life, it was too far away. It was small and dull, not even comparable to the garden in Prince Yan's Mansion, let alone
King Wu's. It's just that the flowers and trees in this imperial garden are really well-manicured, straight and dense, well interspersed, and very interesting. Jia Cong sighed in his heart: How many talents are occupied in the palace! From the imperial kitchen to the gardeners who trim the flowers and trees, all
He is the most outstanding figure in the country. Earlier, he had never been to the palace. He only thought about the palace walls locking up the spring scenery, and it was a pity that the palace was full of young women. But now when he saw it with his own eyes, he realized that there was an even worse pity. So he secretly thought about it.
Can you ask Situ Pan to let go of the gardener in charge of the Imperial Garden?
Suddenly, I heard the sound of a piano coming from nowhere. It was carried by the wind, and it seemed like fairy music. Jia Cong bared his teeth: Could there be another romantic encounter? Miss Chen Ruijin, I am very determined~~ turned around and looked at where the sound came from.