Princess Jian'an heard that Lin Luan had buried a witch doll in the courtyard to curse her with childlessness. She was furious and told Jia Huan that the Empress Dowager had someone poison her. Jia Huan was stunned and said after a while:
"Why didn't you tell me!"
Princess Jian'an said aggrievedly: "That Mrs. Liu advised me that you two brothers are not willing to suffer any disadvantages. If you find out, you must find a way to retaliate. The Empress Dowager Pian is surrounded by a large group of expert guards. If you are not careful, you will be caught by her."
It’s hurt. It’s better to endure it for a while. The Empress Dowager is too ambitious, so King Yan will naturally take care of her.”
Jia Huan sneered and said: "I can't tolerate the witchcraft doll for a while." Then he frowned and said, "Sister-in-law Liu Er is a sensible person and never breaks the rules. How could she do such a thing? That's right..." The Empress Dowager of the day
The person sent was a master of the inner circle, and the poison he used was poison. If it was too late to find out later, Jian'an could only survive until now because someone on the other side of Luzhou was secretly protecting her. Concubine Ning had no one at hand.
The only people who could do this were the uncles and nephews of the Zhong family. They would never guard Jian'an in vain unless someone sent them a letter. The only people in Beijing who could ask them to help, besides themselves, were the only ones who used to work with Liu
Shi Li, who was working under Denxi, guessed what the Empress Dowager was planning and didn't tell him. He kept the groom in the dark and kept him in the dark. He couldn't help but grit his teeth.
"What a thief... you hid such a big thing from me! It's a shame you told me today, otherwise I wouldn't know about it for the rest of my life?"
Princess Jian'an's heart was moved. Mrs. Liu was a woman and quite old. Jia Huan's "thief boy" was obviously not her husband, so she asked, "Is there anyone else here?"
Jia Huan snorted: "I went to settle the accounts with him after dinner." He sighed softly, "You must never hide these important things from me in the future. What if someone takes advantage of it and bullshits...even if we misunderstand.
Even a tiny detail is a big deal, and I’m not sure what’s going to happen next. Your man still has some skills, you don’t need to be so sensible.” Princess Jian’an’s eyes heated up, and she gave a low “hmm”.
After dinner, Jia Huan tidied up and went to Lixiangyuan. The boys laughed and said, "Master Huan is here again!"
Jia Huan asked: "Where is your third master?"
"I'm interrogating Mr. Liu Qi inside." The boy said, "I heard that Mr. Liu Qi almost cursed during the interrogation."
Jia Huan asked curiously: "Why are you interrogating Liu Xiaoqi again?"
"I don't know, he won't let anyone listen."
"In that case, how did you know that Xiao Qi was about to curse?"
"Miss Chen got tired of hearing this and came out for a walk."
Jia Huan then entered the house and saw that the hall was full of candles as bright as day. Chen Ruijin had a table of odds and ends spread out in front of her. She didn't know what she was unpacking. Jia Huannai asked her: "Why is Cong'er interrogating Xiao Qi? Or was it him yesterday?"
Can you use Cheng'er to escape?"
Chen Ruijin was thinking about those things with the drawings in his hand, and casually said: "Otherwise, what else could it be for?"
Jia Huan said: "Since everything is fine, why should we interrogate him? What if a child of sixteen or seventeen years old is found to be rebellious in his heart?"
Chen Ruijin smiled and said: "That's not bad. I think Xiaoqi is pretty good."
Jia Huan said: "No, it's better for Cheng'er to marry a scholar, otherwise he won't even be able to fight back after getting married."
Chen Ruijin snorted: "Jia Cong doesn't have the power to fight back in front of me?"
"Can I compare with you two?" Jia Huan glanced at her, "We haven't even gotten married yet and we're almost tired of being alone." Nai thought to himself, "I always feel that we two have less ideas than you two.
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Chen Ruijindao turned around and glanced at him: "You two are not in love, so if you fall in love at first sight and get married a few years later, your temperament and habits have not yet matched. Although Princess Jian'an is a princess, she must secretly feel wronged. You should pay more attention."
Jia Huan responded: "It's more than just an 'idea'! My life seems to be hanging in the balance. I'm here to settle the score with Shi Li. Do you two know about the fact that the Empress Dowager poisoned Jian'an?"
Chen Ruijin was shocked: "Poison? Isn't it a witch doll?"
"That happened after the poisoning failed. Sister-in-law Liu Er, Liu Xianglian's daughter-in-law, was also involved."
"..." Qin Keqing was one of the people Jia Cong trusted most based on the original work. Chen Ruijin thought for a moment and called a boy, "Please come out, Mr. Cong." The boy agreed and went in.
Suddenly Jia Cong came out, puffed out his cheeks and hummed: "Can you still bore that kid to death?"
Chen Ruijin said: "Shi Li is not only brave, but also fat." Jia Cong was stunned.
Jia Huan then quickly recounted the story of Princess Jian'an's poisoning, and said with a sneer: "We brothers have done so many bad things by hiding it from the public. Now it's the turn of others to hide it."
Jia Cong held his cheek and said: "It's not just that. We have coaxed the people close to us countless times since we were young, and now we are coaxed by our own people as well. The most dangerous thing is that you two deliberately hide important things from each other. This kind of
Once the boss is fired, can we still deal with it?"
Chen Ruijin suddenly said: "You should pay more attention to Princess Jian'an's mother-in-law, or she might get something from Mrs. Ning."
Jia Huan thought for a while: "That mother-in-law is a sincere person who is dedicated to Jian'an, so she was probably coaxed by others; Mrs. Ning was coaxed by the Zeng family again."
Jia Cong sneered: "So I say, 'for your own good' is the most difficult person in the world to deal with."
"Prince Lu understands better. Although the Zeng family is not something to be afraid of, it is quite annoying." Chen Ruijin thought for a moment and said, "While we are in the capital, why don't Brother Huan take the princess back to her parents' home to see her brothers? There are some words
, tell the King of Lu everything."
Jia Huan said: "I just thought about this, wait a moment. There is something important that I haven't done." The corners of Jia Cong's eyes moved. Jia Huan thought for a while, "Let's not trouble Shi Li for now. In a few days
Find him again."
Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin looked at each other: "Okay, you can do whatever you want."
The next two days were uneventful. The two wounded men were recuperating honestly, and no one from the Liu family came to harass them. Liu Xiaoqi lay in the yard and hummed: "Princess Jian'an's people didn't leave so quickly!" Shi Li was separated by two small medicine bags.
Tong threw him a peanut: "That idea is promising!"
At dawn the next day, Feng Ziying came to Lixiangyuan in person. Jia Cong slept like crazy, and the boy couldn't wake him up after shouting several times. Feng Ziying listened anxiously outside the door, and stepped in to pick up Jia Cong's clothes.
Collar: "Wake up!" Jia Cong opened his eyes in confusion, looked at him blankly, and closed them again.
Feng Ziying turned around anxiously, picked up the teapot on the small table and poured cold tea on his head. Jia Cong trembled: "What's going on?"
"Are you awake?"
Jia Cong rubbed his eyes: "Brother Feng, what are you doing! It's still the middle of the night!"
"Quickly wake up! I have something to ask you." Feng Ziying turned around and glanced at the boys, "Go out and guard Luanhonglou at the door." The boys left in response. Feng Ziying asked again, "Where is Miss Chen? She also shouted.
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Then I heard Chen Ruijin say at the door: "I'm awake."
Feng Ziying said: "Very good. Could you please Miss Chen to keep watch so no one can eavesdrop?" Chen Ruijin nodded, ordered the boys to guard everywhere, and jumped up on the roof.
Jia Cong wiped his head with the quilt and sat cross-legged on the kang: "I'm completely awake."
Feng Ziying asked in a low voice: "Do you remember what your Dayushanzi looks like?"
Jia Cong said: "I haven't seen it yet! What's wrong? Have you found it?"
"Do you have any pictures?"
Jia Cong shook his head: "I don't know."
"Have you seen your second uncle?"
"He should have seen it," Jia Cong said, "but he may not remember it. Have you found it?"
"No. Someone is looking for the picture of Yushanzi."
Jia Cong was stunned for a while: "If you're not looking for Yushanzi, why are you looking for a picture? Is Yushanzi gone?"
Feng Ziying said: "Don't worry about this. Whether it's there or not, you should check every corner of your house carefully."
Jia Cong responded and muttered: "It's not worth calling me up before dawn. I thought the palace was on fire."
Feng Ziying rolled her eyes: "The palace was not on fire, but the Empress Dowager was almost kidnapped."
"Ah?" Jia Cong's forehead jumped, "Then why does the old woman always cause trouble?"
It turned out that around midnight last night, two night walkers attacked the Queen Mother at night. One of them was stronger in martial arts and defeated one of the Queen Mother's personal guards; the other was weaker in martial arts and captured the Queen Mother's hand.
Go out, lift her up to an old cypress tree in the palace courtyard, throw her onto the roof first, and then jump over.
Unexpectedly, when he jumped from the top of the tree to the roof, there was a "swish" sound from somewhere, and the Empress Dowager was suddenly hit by a hidden weapon! The man was so anxious that he grabbed her and shook her for a long time, and asked: "The honor given by the late Emperor
Where are the blueprints for the Yushanzi built by Duke Jia Daishan?" The Empress Dowager gritted her teeth and refused to answer, and fainted in a few moments.
The man thought she was dead and blew a long whistle. After hearing this, his accomplices in the house feinted and jumped out of the circle and ran away. The Queen Mother's guards chased her out, and the man on the roof shouted: "This old woman is useless
!We don’t want it anymore!” The guard chased him to the roof and saw his master. He ignored the assassin and rescued the Empress Dowager first, and the assassin escaped calmly. The Empress Dowager did not die, but a hidden arrow injured her spine. The imperial doctor must have been paralyzed.
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After hearing this, Jia Cong knew who did this even though he was a fool. He thought for a long time and said: "So, there are two groups of people. One group wants to kidnap the Empress Dowager so that they can get the blueprint of Yushanzi from her; the other group would rather
Even if they kill the Empress Dowager and silence them, they won't let them take them away. I know that Yushanzi must be unusual, Brother Feng doesn't need to tell me. Just tell me, what kind of benefits can you get from getting that Yushanzi or the blueprint? It's money,
Fame or power."
Feng Ziying hesitated slightly and said: "Power."
Jia Cong said: "I don't know who the two people in the front are, and the sleeve arrows in the back... I guess they belong to the Liu family of Da Nei." Feng Ziying glanced at him sideways. Jia Cong just took off the wet clothes and stood up to look for the items.
In exchange for the work, he said, "Prince Yushanzi has also been looking for it, and now someone is looking for it again. Since it is related to power, it cannot be said to be the level of clues in the Forty-Two Chapters. The Liu family is guarding the Situ family.
"Although the Empress Dowager married into the Situ family, her surname is not Situ after all." He clapped his hands, "What's more, she hasn't given birth to a son to the Situ family yet."
Feng Ziying had guessed a lot of people, but she had not yet suspected the Liu family. It made sense for him to make such a few remarks. She thought to herself: "Even if it is not the Liu family, it must be someone left by the late emperor."
Jia Cong said: "Maybe it's someone left behind by Grandpa Tai."
Feng Ziying asked: "What does the Forty-Two Chapter Sutra have to do with power?"
Jia Cong blinked: "Have you seen "The Deer and the Cauldron"?"
Feng Ziying frowned: "What kind of messy books are you reading?"
Jia Congnai called a boy to go to the library to read a copy of "The Deer and the Cauldron": "Brother Feng, you might as well read it. It's about the Ming Dynasty. Although it's Green Lin's commentary, it's very interesting."
When the book was brought in, Feng Ziying held it in her hand and said, "How can I have time to read these?"
Jia Cong winked: "You are tired enough, you just need to rest for a while." Feng Ziying's heart moved.
After he left, Jia Cong had someone change the bedding on the bed and went back to sleep. Chen Ruijin went to Li Wan's place to discuss with her the plans to search Yushanzi in the whole house.
Feng Ziying returned to the Yamen with the comments in mind. She didn't even bother to eat breakfast and sat reading. It took a whole morning to finish reading. Since the Qing Dynasty was no longer around, the Red Flower Club in the adaptation of "The Deer and the Cauldron" was against the Ming Dynasty.
Feng Ziying from the Song Dynasty immediately understood what Jia Cong meant: he suspected that the two night travelers last night were remnants of the Ming Dynasty. Feng Ziying knew the use of Yushanzi, so she just smiled and didn't care.
That afternoon, Jia Huan wandered over to Lixiangyuan after taking a nap, and said to Shi Li with a smile: "The Empress Dowager was stabbed and her spine was injured, and now she is completely paralyzed."
Shi Li was shocked: "Paralyzed? Who did it?"
Jia Huan said, "Me." The corners of Shi Li's eyes twitched. Jia Huan tilted her head and looked at him, "Shi Li, you're a good boy. That old poisonous woman almost poisoned my wife to death, and I didn't know it like a fool.
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Shi Li stayed for a long time, smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Women are indeed unreliable."
Today, Jia Cong was just watching the excitement. He had been sitting there with a sweet-scented osmanthus cake for a long time. Hearing this, he couldn't help but interrupt: "Women are already reliable enough. My ex-son went to see Liu Er's sister-in-law, and she insisted that it was her.
It was my own idea that I didn’t confess to you. It took a lot of effort and Brother Liu’s help to explain to her that your bad idea was wrong.”
Shi Li sighed: "It's so easy for me to use Liu Yunxi's name to get in touch with the Empress Dowager, but Master Huan, you have troubled me again. Since she is paralyzed, how can she be away from Dai Quan for a while? I just don't understand, how can you
Everyone is so impatient, can't they endure it for two years?"
Jia Cong shook his head: "Li, you are too rigid. All roads lead to Rome. The King of Yan, the Empress Dowager Xu, sold the title not because she was the Empress Dowager, but because he did not want to keep the thousands of eunuchs in the palace in vain. The Forbidden City will eventually win.
There are people cleaning and maintaining it, but he can't live in it now; letting the Empress Dowager and the little saint live in it is just like raising two housekeepers. After the Empress Dowager dies, doesn't there still be a little saint? Dai Quan can help the Emperor.
If the Queen Mother sells her title, she can naturally help the little saint sell her title. Instead of hooking up with the Queen Mother, it is better to hook up with Dai Quan. Eunuchs are more likely to have no bottom line than ordinary people and are willing to do anything."
Shi Li was stunned for a while and then said, "I didn't expect this."
Jia Huan coughed: "My business is not over yet."
Shi Li spread his hands and said, "Your wife also helped you save your life. You didn't think of that yourself. I thought of it for you. What else do you want? Is it possible to have a fight while I'm injured?" Jia Huan suddenly choked.
- I really don’t know how to find fault with him. But he can’t swallow this tone. (. )