Lin Daiyu guessed that one of Lou's people was in danger, and everyone was slightly shocked. Zhan Feng immediately said: "Do you think Lou was our spy who persuaded Cong'er?"
Daiyu nodded and said: "The biggest omission in King Yan's life was not caring about the backyard. Princess Yan's concubine Lou was deliberately chosen to cover up for him while he was dormant. Neither her family nor herself had any major faults or great merits.
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Jia Cong held his cheek and said: "In short, it is okay to be a wise princess, but it is not smart enough to be a Yan princess. If it is inconvenient for the prince's face to change his wife, he should send someone to teach her carefully or be by her side.
A reliable person was arranged to supervise. However, he ignored this woman so much that he did nothing."
Daiyu said: "No matter whether King Yan has returned to the capital or not, it is obvious that he is planning to cause trouble in the capital. I'm afraid this trouble will be quite big."
Jia Cong seemed to have a clear mind: "This chaos has made the entire capital a target of indiscriminate attacks, including the children in Prince Yan's palace. Prince Yan's temperament is that he does not stick to trivial matters when it comes to big things, and he should not send away the women and children. I'm afraid
To alert the enemy. After all, there are many people here who know him well. As the person in charge of the palace's backyard, Mr. Lou will consider this issue."
Luo Man said: "Princess Yan loves the second child the most. Although the second child died early, she still left a common son and a legitimate daughter, who were raised by the princess's side."
Jia Cong said "Oh": "The rumor about the Prince's Palace is probably coming from someone close to King Yan. I'll try to tell it to a few princes and use their power to make plans. I don't necessarily mind, Uncle Lin."
The old man must care."
"No." Roman Feng Ziying and Lin Daiyu said at the same time. Jia Cong made a gesture of invitation. Lin Daiyu said: "This matter will hurt his own reputation."
Feng Ziying said: "If he was serious, he would have many excuses to send his children out of the city. He has not thought about this."
Roman nodded and said, "Not bad."
"Okay." Jia Cong said, "Then Mr. Lou came to see me today because he was anxious, and our detailed work was also urgent."
Daiyu smiled bitterly and said: "Our people are definitely not her parents and brothers. They are probably mothers and eunuchs. If King Yan knows about this, it will be difficult to save his life no matter what his intentions are." She looked at them.
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Liu Xiaoqi first said: "There are two people from the Fifth Master in the mansion, a mother and a daughter. The mother was originally placed in Prince Yan's Mansion by Liu Dengxi. She is not an important person, but she is just trying to find out the rumors and spread the news.
That girl is considered a child of Prince Yan's family. The Fifth Master managed to send her to the Lou family's courtyard, and gradually gained his trust. Now she is married and she is Lou's confidant daughter-in-law. She is very smart. I suspect it is her."
Feng Ziying said: "There is an eunuch who belongs to me and is trusted by the Lou family. But he was placed here by King Yan."
Zhan Feng said: "There are people of mine in Prince Yan's palace, but they are not serving me personally, and they are quite respected."
Jia Cong said: "From this point of view, the most likely person is the confidant's wife. We have just arrived in Beijing not long ago, and the eunuchs under Brother Feng may not have such strong subjective initiative."
Daiyu asked: "Has Xiaoqi had any contact with her recently?"
"I don't know." Liu Xiaoqi said apologetically, "Nothing happened recently, I didn't pay attention." He stood up, "I'll go over and find out." He asked Zhan Feng who the person was, and it turned out to be the gardener of the garden in the mansion.
.He was wearing night clothes inside, so he just took off his outer clothes and left.
Lin Daiyu warned: "Be careful."
Jia Cong said: "There may be other masters in King Yan's hands."
Liu Si smiled and said: "Don't worry, if he didn't have real ability, he wouldn't be alive now." Liu Xiaoqi raised his eyebrows and smiled, and flew out of the window like a shadow.
Everyone continued to discuss. Since some people were harvesting rice at high prices in the suburbs, the idea was probably about grain. Lin Daiyu thought that the purpose of buying grain was not to raise grain, but to clear out the surplus grain in the suburbs of Beijing. Food is the most important thing for the people. If grain is
Something went wrong, and the people had to rebel. To make the huge capital lack food, she only thought of burning it. But how many people would it take to burn all the granaries in the capital? It was too difficult. It was obvious that they had other ideas.
On the other side, Liu Xiaoqi found an uninhabited place and entered Prince Yan's Mansion. He had been there several times and knew the direction, so he went to Princess Lou's yard. After walking around the yard twice, he saw a large locust tree.
Stretching out from the courtyard, he climbed up the courtyard wall from here and jumped into the canopy of the trees. When he looked back, his heart skipped a beat: He had very good eyesight and saw that there was another color of dust on the top of the wall. He guessed that someone might be coming.
The Lou family made inquiries. Liu Xiaoqi quickly held his breath and looked around to make sure no one noticed him. If he turned around and left, his friend, Xiao Zuo Ming'er, would probably be dead.
After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth, took out a small stone from his arms and threw it into the courtyard. In the green forest, this is called throwing stones to ask for directions. It is a thief testing the owner's defense. Not long after, there were very slight footsteps walking not far away.
Come here. Liu Xiaoqi sat on the tree and waited. The man must have been secretly checking. After a while, Liu Xiaoqi jumped down from the tree and looked around. He suddenly felt that someone was staring at him. He deliberately put his steps heavier than usual.
, the breathing was louder. This is at the back of Lou's yard. There are several rockeries piled up, and a pavilion was built on the top of the rockery. Liu Xiaoqi first went up to the pavilion to inspect it for half a day, and then came down from the other side of the rockery. He turned around as if no one was watching.
After walking around for a few times, he chuckled and whispered something - he was speaking a dialect from the western Jiangxi area. He learned it while helping Su Zheng coax the bandits. I don't think anyone in Beijing would understand.
There were more than twenty rooms in Lou's courtyard, and Liu Xiaoqi went straight to the west. There were not many lights in the courtyard tonight, and except for a few main rooms, the rest of the rooms were dark. Liu Xiaoqi then opened a room from the northwest corner.
He poked it up and broke all the windows in the wing rooms on the west side. After reading, he muttered a few words in Ganxi dialect, looked over from the southwest corner, and back again, a total of three times. After reading, Liu
Xiao Qi frowned and cursed a few times, then turned back to the big locust tree, climbed up without hesitation, and climbed out of the wall where he came from.
After walking for more than ten steps outside, Liu Xiaoqi felt someone was staring at him behind him, so he pretended not to notice and walked north. Across a small road was the courtyard of one of King Yan's concubines, and Liu Xiaoqi walked around the courtyard again.
He climbed up the courtyard wall twice. This time he sat on the wall for a while, and it was obvious that there was no dust scattered here - they only guarded Lou's courtyard. Liu Xiaoqi followed the same method and papered the windows of the house on the west side of the courtyard.
They were all broken. I looked back and forth three times, cursed a few more times, and returned the long way back.
In this way, he led the follower to poke the windows on the west side of the seventh courtyard. After coming out of the seventh courtyard, Liu Xiaoqi simply sat on the roadside to rest. After waiting for a cup of tea, no one came to disturb him, knowing that
This person probably wanted to follow him to the end. He looked up to the sky and sighed, stood up and left. This time he walked straight to the place where he entered the palace, climbed over the palace wall and went out.
There is an alley behind the palace, where all the slaves released from the palace live. Liu Xiaoqi walked through this alley all the way to the end, but the person who was following him didn't show up yet! He had no choice but to steal the body from a courtyard.
He put his clothes on over his night clothes and stole a horse. There were many servants in the palace, and Liu Xiaoqi was also good-looking. In the blink of an eye, he became a young master from a wealthy family. He then rode straight to a flower house.
Seeing that the place ahead was where the singing and dancing swallows were dancing, Liu Xiaoqi suddenly reined in the horse and hesitated for a long time, then turned the horse's head and walked back.
This time when they arrived at the Marquis of Dingcheng's Mansion, Liu Xiaoqi casually found a place to tie his horse, and jumped into the mansion without a trace of hesitation. Immediately, he found the outer study of the Marquis of Dingcheng with ease. It was almost five o'clock in the morning.
, everyone in the mansion was already asleep, and the study was empty. Liu Xiaoqi saw that there was still some ink left on the desk, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice. Then he closed the doors and windows of the study tightly, and lit a candlestick inside - making him look like the master.
As if. After tossing for a long time, he extinguished the candlelight, opened the door, and Liu Xiaoqi walked out in a big way. He walked around a courtyard and passed through a moon cave door. Inside was the outer study of the uncle Xie Jing. Xie Jing had already gone to the Kingdom of Wu.
This place was always locked. Liu Xiaoqi easily opened the lock, walked into the study, closed the door, and lay down on the imperial concubine's couch with her clothes on.
Not long after, Liu Xiaoqi began to snore. After a while, someone poked a hole in the window. After a while, there were faint footsteps gradually fading away. Liu Xiaoqi continued to snore for a while.
, got up, poked the hole wider, and ducked out.
The person following him had to go to Dingcheng Hou's study room to see what he had done. Liu Xiaoqi took the opportunity to return to Prince Yan's Mansion. He entered Lou's courtyard again, and everyone in the courtyard was asleep. Liu Xiaoqi searched for a long time, but could not find it.
The daughter-in-law then went to look for her mother, but no one was there. Liu Xiaoqi hesitated for a moment and did not go to find the gardener. She only eavesdropped on the night watchers chatting in the house, but still didn't hear anything. She was about to go elsewhere.
Looking for it, I suddenly remembered the orphan of the second son of King Yan. This son was raised by his grandmother.
Then he returned to Lou's courtyard and saw two women guarding the east side of the Nuan Pavilion. He guessed that the little prince and grandson lived here. He imitated a few cat meows, which frightened the dozing women and woke them up suddenly.
After looking around for a long time and seeing no movement, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Now that he's awake, he needs to be refreshed. One of them whispered: "Old girl, can we leave tomorrow?"
Another sighed: "Then my father-in-law even dares to scold the princess, I can't see him leaving."
The first one said: "Didn't he agree to everything at first? Why did he change his mind again?"
Another said: "Who knows!"
After a long while, "I don't know whether the Zhou Deshan family is dead or alive."
"The empress is the empress after all. What can he do without evidence?"
The stone in Liu Xiaoqi's heart slightly touched the ground: one of her people might still be alive. Just as they pricked up their ears to listen, the two of them sighed deeply and fell silent. After waiting for a long time, there was no new movement, and Liu Xiaoqi was about to
After leaving, a woman said: "What did the Zhou Deshan family say? Why did they send the little Wangsun to Zhuangzi?"
Another said: "I don't know either." After a while, she added, "I heard it sporadically, and I also heard it from Miss Luluo and Miss Hongying. The Zhou Deshan family told the empress that we were helpless.
Since the Duke of Qi has come to your doorstep, what can you do not to do?"
"What do you mean?"
"Those two girls don't know either."
The two of them sighed again and stopped talking. After a while, they began to doze off again. Liu Xiaoqi did not dare to stay any longer and left quietly.
All the way back to the Lin Mansion, those who were discussing the matter lay down on their chairs one by one and fell asleep. Seeing that he was back, they all got up and called Lin Daiyu out from the next room. Liu Xiaoqi told the story from the beginning, with a heavy expression.
Shi Shui: "It's obvious that our people were captured by that father-in-law."
Feng Ziying said: "Since there was an ambush, they suspected that she was a trickster and would not kill her immediately. They just didn't know where she was sent for interrogation." He then asked, "What Ganxi dialect did you say?"
Liu Xiaoqi smiled and said: "The first sentence is, it turns out that the prince's house is just like this, there is not even a barking dog." Everyone smiled. He continued, "The second sentence is, 'There is no one at all, are you trying to trick me?
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Jia Cong smiled and asked, "What did you do in the study of Lord Dingcheng?"
"I wrote a letter." Liu Xiaoqi said, "I found the letter from Marquis Dingcheng to Xie Jing in the study, opened the envelope, stuffed mine inside, and sealed it again."
"What's in the letter?"
"The weather in Beijing is very cold, the late chrysanthemums have faded, the wintersweet is in full bloom, and the plum blossoms are about to bloom. Tianqi Temple held a temple fair a few days ago. At the temple fair, there were dragon and lion dances, and huge hawthorn candied haws."
Jia Cong asked curiously: "What is this?"
Liu Xiaoqi spread his hands: "What I wrote is cryptic!"
"What argot?"
"How do I know? Let Eunuch Quan guess slowly." Everyone laughed.
After laughing, Jia Congnai said: "Although we didn't find any of our own people, we still disturbed the enemy's sight. It was enough to keep them guessing for a while."
Zhan Kun nodded and said: "It can be seen from the words of the two night watchwomen that Princess Lou did not just want to send her grandson out of the city these days, but had already thought about it. At first, she had no idea. She thought it was Duke Qi who had come recently.
Met Lou."
Feng Ziying interjected: "The eldest wife of Qi Guofu visited the Lou family a few days ago."
"That's right. Prime Minister Lin wanted to collect the land tax from the duke's mansion, but Duke Qi and others were unwilling to pay, so he planned to spread the rumor that Cong'er had come to the backyard of the prince's house, and contacted the Lou family to ask her to help sing the opera. The people of Zhou Deshan's family got off the slope and took advantage of the situation.
I persuaded the Lou family to send the little prince and grandson out of the city in this name. The whole father-in-law agreed - it should be King Yan who agreed." Gong Kun said, "I never thought that Gao Mengsheng would return to the Jiaofang Division. We learned about it in advance, and Cong'er
Invite sixteen gongs, drums and suona troupes to cause a commotion throughout the capital. The crime of rape cannot be punished, so naturally the little prince and grandson cannot leave. The princess is worried, fearing that something bad will happen in the capital and harm her grandson; the Zhou Deshan family is also worried,
Afraid that we wouldn't get the news, she incited the princess to come find Cong'er."
Luo Tainiang said: "The King of Yan and the Lou family must not have met yet, and it was all the father-in-law who was passing the message. Otherwise, given Lou's ten courages, she would not dare to go against the King of Yan's words. I am afraid that there is something unclear in it.
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"Well," Jia Cong said, "Ms. Lou must have taken advantage of the situation before King Yan clearly ordered that the previous plan be cancelled." It seems that Ms. Lou still took a big risk. She is really very serious about it.
Worried that her grandson will be affected."
The old man Zhan Feng suddenly said: "Xiao Qi, send two more people to Prince Yan's Mansion."
"ah?"
Zhan Feng knocked on the desk lightly: "In this matter, what is King Yan's greatest strength?"
Everyone asked: "What?"
"He is the real King of Yan." Zhan Feng said, "What we are fighting is the fake King of Yan. Before we can gain a foothold, the fake must be true."