That night, Jia Cong took Li Wan's maid Qingping to the Lin Mansion overnight and handed him over to Feng Ziying. Feng Ziying only threatened her for a while, and then Qingping took action. She was a good friend because she listened to the Dharma.
Disciple, a seventeen-year-old young monk from Wanshou Zen Temple. She was not a trickster, but she was fascinated by the young monk. The young monk only said that he was curious about what it was like in Rongguo Mansion, and often asked her about it; she told her everything she knew.
They are all the same as informants.
Jia Cong listened outside the screen and was dumbfounded: "It's been a long time since I've seen such a silly fool."
Lin Daiyu said: "Since I heard the Dharma and didn't take it seriously to be rude to my sister-in-law, I think it's because of King Yan's words that I don't dare to do anything wrong."
Jia Cong sighed: "I'm really afraid that he will do whatever he wants. Human nature often cannot stand the test, not to mention that my sister-in-law is young and widowed. If the other party doesn't have evil intentions, there is nothing to blame for finding a lover. After all, I can't do it in the current situation.
Let her remarry." Nai smiled bitterly and said, "When Sun Shaozu mentioned my sister-in-law just now, I said that I knew her, but I was not at ease in my heart."
Lin Daiyu glanced at him. "We just guessed that Wenfa deliberately released the list of people who had affairs with other people's wives and concubines, but we don't know if it's true or not."
Jia Cong thought for a while: "It should be true. A few years ago, the fifth uncle sent Liu Er to pretend to be Zhen Zangzhu and go to Wu State. Because he knew that people from Wu State would definitely check him, he specially arranged some background checks for them - if
The results of the investigation are normal. If the spies feel that they can't do the job and investigate further, we will expose the truth. If we find something, we will probably think that we have succeeded and will not investigate again. There are so many spies in Beijing, big and small, and there is no need for someone to verify the information.
Fa’s affair account. But is there something else hidden behind those twenty-some women?”
Lin Daiyu took a sip of tea and said, "Can a woman who has no rights hide something from Feng Ziying?"
"Well, they are probably a cover, and there are women from powerful families hiding behind them." Jia Cong said with a smile, "Don't tell me, how did he come up with this path? Talent..."
Before she finished speaking, Lin Daiyu put her finger on her lips and made a "shush" sound, gesturing to the other side of the screen. Jia Cong couldn't do two things at once. While talking to Lin Daiyu, he forgot to listen to Feng Ziying's interrogation. Instead, he shrank his neck and held his breath to concentrate.
Then I heard Qing Ping say: "He asked me carefully for a long time."
Feng Ziying said: "What did you say?"
"Tell it like it is."
"Now tell the truth again."
"I said that from the look on our uncle Xiaolan's face, it was obvious that he had fallen in love with this girl. Our grandma didn't notice him at a glance and turned to look at her. When grandma turned around, he was still looking around as if nothing happened. He was feeling guilty.
"
"Hmm. What did your friend ask about this girl?"
"How do you look, what clothes are you wearing, and what kind of people are you following?"
"What happened next?"
"Later... I heard from the people who followed Uncle Xiaolan that Uncle Xiaolan turned the capital upside down and couldn't find the girl. I'm afraid she has no luck."
"Didn't they leave their names in the merit book?"
"How can I say there is no fate? Coincidentally, that night, the monk in the temple was taking a nap and knocked over the oil lamp that made a wish. The oil in the lamp and the wick fell on the case. Coincidentally, the merit book was placed on the case.
It was burning, and even the ashes were gone in the blink of an eye."
"Burned?"
"Yes. Zhi Ke Monk re-wrote some according to his memory, but it is inevitable that some were missed. The one about the girl and her mother was missed."
"Did you tell me that you're in love?"
"I told you."
"Did he say something?"
"He said that after a hundred years of cultivation, you can cross the same boat, and a thousand years of cultivation, you can sleep together. Probably, Uncle Xiaolan and the girl have only been cultivating for five hundred years, and they can only meet once in this life. They need another nine hundred years to consummate their marriage. But we two
This is the fate that has been cultivated for thousands of years."
There was a smile in Feng Ziying's words: "You two have been destined for thousands of years? Do you believe this?"
Qingping immediately said: "I believe it."
Feng Ziying hummed: "Then I say he has spent thousands of years cultivating fate for seven or eight girls, do you believe it?" There was silence on the other side of the screen. After a while, Feng Ziying asked again, "Go on, you also told him
What."
On the other side of the screen, Jia Cong secretly took a breath. No wonder Jia Lan hasn't gotten married yet at such an old age. The boys in the second room, starting from Jia Baoyu, all fall in love at first sight. Since no one has given Jia Lan a wife, it's because the girl has something in her family.
This was unusual. He then shouted: "Brother Feng, let her make a shadow pattern."
Feng Ziying paused: "That's fine. Go call a painter."
Daiyu said, "I can draw shadows and figures." Then she walked around the screen.
Qingping blurted out: "Miss Lin."
Daiyu wondered: "Do you recognize me?"
Qingping said: "I met the girl when I was a child, and she rewarded my mother with two hundred coins."
Not long after, the girl's portrait was completed. The maid had a good memory. She remembered that the clothes the girl was wearing, the jade pendant on her body, and the jewelry on her head were probably from an official family. Jia Cong didn't care about the hard work, and immediately took this thing.
He rushed to Baoyu's house. Shi Xiangyun had already turned charity into a career. There were few wealthy women in Beijing that she did not recognize, whether they were girls, grandmothers or wives.
After holding on to the door knocker for a long time, Jia Cong heard the sound of slow footsteps and the slow sound of the door opening. There was still snow in the sky, and Jia Cong just wanted to kick the door open. After a while, the door slowly opened a crack.
Then I heard Menzi's voice as if he was still asleep: "Who is this late at night?"
Jia Cong said coldly: "Prince Regent." The doorman was so frightened that he quickly opened the door. Jia Cong glanced at him and walked in. The doorman followed behind to apologize and ran inside to report the news.
After waiting in the hall for half a day, the couple finally arrived. Baoyu smiled and said, "Why did Cong'er come here on the snow in the middle of the night? We were just guessing at the sieve to compose a poem. Since you're here, it's a must to write a poem."
Jia Cong said angrily: "I don't have time. I'm afraid that if the poem is not finished, there will be a fire in the capital." Baoyu was stunned. Jia Cong ignored him and took out the portrait from his arms and handed it to Shi Xiangyun, "Sister Yun, do you recognize this girl?"
?”
Shi Xiangyun recognized it after just one glance: "This is a grandma."
Jia Cong was overjoyed: "You really recognize her! Who is she?"
"This is Mrs. Yao, her maiden name is Jiazhen, and she is the third daughter-in-law of Xu Hanlin. Her husband seems to have already achieved fame?"
Baoyu said from the side: "I have passed the imperial examination and will prepare for the next subject."
Jia Cong frowned and asked, "What is the origin of her natal family?"
"Her grandfather is Yao Qiming, the Superintendent of Qintian Prison."
"Yao Qiming?" Jia Cong thought for a long time and couldn't remember this person.
Jia Baoyu said again: "Master Yao is a wonderful man. He knows everything about astronomy and geography. When he was young, he traveled all over the country, including the Saibei Desert and Qiongzhou Island."
Jia Cong hurriedly asked: "Brother Bao'er is familiar with him?"
Baoyu smiled and said: "We are literary friends. In theory, I should recommend you to a person like Mr. Yao. But he is a free and easy man. He likes to watch the stars and understand the celestial phenomena. This is what you call astronomy.
By the way, he can also predict the weather, which is not far from that of Zhuge Kongming. He doesn’t like the trivial entertainment in the court. Wouldn’t it be happy to recite poems and enjoy the snow during the day, and peek at the stars and moon at night?”
Jia Cong looked at him and said: "This Master Yao has traveled all over the country. He is good at reading stars and can predict the weather. I am afraid he is also a talented scholar."
"Not bad." Baoyu nodded.
Jia Cong gradually came up with some ideas in his mind: Qin Tianjian, eminent monks, and actors. This is to take the road of advocating feudal superstition. In addition, the bandits from Yanshan can sing well enough to make Qingjun come to his side. He looked at the portrait,
He asked out of nowhere: "How is this girl?"
Shi Xiangyun sighed: "Zhilan Yushu, what a pity."
"Her husband's family treats her badly?"
"It's not bad." Shi Xiangyun said, "She has a soft temper and a lot of thoughts. Those two sisters-in-law are not easy to use. Fortunately, she is generous and doesn't care." She thought for a long time, "This girl carried a lot of money on her back in the early years.
She also showed a bit of out-of-temperature in life, but the family was very tight-knit. After getting married, gradually... some of the character of Sister Bao was very virtuous and generous. I heard that her husband also respected her, but he doted on a common man.
Fang girl. That girl is already pregnant, and her belly hasn’t moved yet. Her husband’s family doesn’t care, and her mother’s family doesn’t ask.”
Jia Cong couldn't help but clapped his hands: "Great!"
Baoyu hurriedly said: "It's obvious that the days have worn away the temperament. How can it be good?"
Jia Cong hummed, "You two have been married for so many years and your temperament has not worn off." Baoyu and Xiangyun looked at each other. Jia Cong cupped his hands and said, "You can continue writing poems, I'm leaving."
Xiangyun said hurriedly: "Have a cup of hot tea before leaving!"
Jia Cong first ordered the people following him to have some tea. He picked up the tea and poured it out. He put down the cup and said, "Let's go."
Baoyu sighed: "What fun are you doing as the regent! It's such a windy and snowy night. It's really a snowy night to return home."
Jia Cong said casually: "I'm going home today on a snowy night so that I can have clear skies tomorrow." He turned around and left.
But Xiangyun said from behind: "They traveled at night in the snow so that we could cook tea in front of the stove. Cong'er, thank you for your hard work."
Jia Cong's eyes suddenly became hot, and he turned around and said, "With my sister-in-law's words, it won't be hard." He clasped his fists. Xiangyun also bowed to him. Baoyu hurriedly bowed to the ground.
Rushing back to Lin Mansion from Baoyu's house, Liu Xiaoqi also came. Looking at his frustrated face, you knew that Wanshou Temple not only failed to find the mother and daughter, but also did not find the Dharma. Fortunately, it was a gain. Liu Xiaoqi
Qi found several secret compartments in the Zen room where Wen Dharma was staying, and there were various files in them. For fear of disturbing others, he didn't move for a while and just looked at it. Wen Dharma was like a turtle, raised in more than a dozen temples and Taoist temples.
He married a young monk and Taoist priest, specializing in seducing wealthy women. What Sun Shaozu and the others knew was like a drop in the ocean. Half of the city of Beijing was seduced by Sun Shaozu, and he even slept with Jia Zheng's aunt.
Jia Cong laughed for a long time after hearing this, and then talked about the Yao family. Finally, he said: "The daughter of a fifth-rank official is really not guilty of not marrying our Lan'er. Unless this Lord Yao Qiming is one of King Yan's trump cards.
They cannot let their trump card daughter marry into the Rongguo Mansion, for fear that the love between children will disturb their loyalty."
Daiyu nodded and said: "Xiao Qi, since the one who heard the Dharma is not at Wanshou Temple just now, I guess he won't go back tonight."
Liu Xiaoqi said: "He left the temple a long time ago. He said he was traveling for a few months. He obviously went to the countryside to buy food. I was afraid that he had accomplices, so I didn't bring the files back."
Daiyu said, "Bring it back. The people guarding it won't look at it in the middle of the night for no reason. Let's make a copy in a hurry." She smiled and said, "Our soldiers are not like the Royal Forest Army. Most of them don't know a few words;
We are all literate, so it won’t be long before we copy it separately.” Jia Cong laughed out loud - it’s a good thing she could think of letting the army copy the confidential files. Daiyu sighed again, “There is no other way, otherwise, we have to
Take into account the dignity of those women."
Liu Xiaoqi thought for a while, there were a lot of files there, and he couldn't carry them by himself, so he asked Zhan Kun to go with him. Unfortunately, Zhan Kun had never done anything like climbing walls at night since he became a civil servant in the Taiwan government. Wait.
After they left, Jia Cong sent someone to SHIELD to notify Liu Si and ask him to search the Qintian Prison Yamen to see if the mother and daughter of Zhou Deshan's family were there. Daiyu glanced at him. Jia Cong said:
"I think since it is a trump card, there won't be too many. One monk and one actor have already taken up two places. Since there is no Wanshou Temple, the Qin Tianjian will be the one who can't guarantee it."
Daiyu nodded. After a while, she said: "Monk Wenfa didn't provoke Sister-in-law Zhu, so we know that he doesn't provoke everyone. Look at the powerful people's families, who does he not provoke?"
Jia Cong couldn't help but snap: "Sister, this reverse thinking! I didn't expect it."
Daiyu looked out the window and sighed: "I won't be able to sleep well tonight again."
After waiting for a long time, Zhan Kun and Liu Xiaoqi came back with two bags of files on their backs. There were many soldiers in the Lin Mansion, so Daiyu transferred some people to divide the files and let them each copy one copy. It was almost the fifth watch.
, Liu Si is here. Jia Cong has forgotten it this time. The mother and daughter of Zhou Deshan's family are indeed imprisoned in Qintian Prison. However, both of them were seriously injured and unconscious. It was obvious that Liu Si had suffered a lot of severe torture.
They have been rescued and sent to reliable medical centers for treatment.
Liu Xiaoqi felt as if the master had landed: "It is worthy of the fifth master's trust."
Jia Cong frowned: "The injury is so serious, it's not life-threatening."
Liu Sidao: "Nothing else is wrong, it's just that she needs to be recuperated for another two years, and I'm afraid the left leg won't be able to heal well." Everyone's heart was filled with panic, and no one spoke for a while.
After a long while, Jia Cong said: "In order to be worthy of my aunt's left leg, we have to guess the enemy's plan and don't let them succeed."
Lin Daiyu thought for a while and asked Zhan Kun: "Do you know astrology?"
"No." Zhan Kun said honestly.
She asked Liu Xiaoqi again: "Who else in the capital knows astrology?"
Liu Xiaoqi smiled bitterly and said: "Those who know astrology are all in Qintian Prison."
Feng Ziying, on the other hand, laughed and said: "Is the entire Qintian Prison the trump card of King Yan? Let's assume that there is only one Yao Qiming. The Qintian Prison not only has supervisors, but also deputy supervisors, principals, facial features, clerks, etc. Could it be that
Yao Qiming is the only one who can read the stars? Mr. Ji, the Deputy Supervisor, is also talented and knowledgeable. Mr. Lin wants to find someone to read the stars?"
Daiyu nodded: "I wonder if there will be any celestial phenomena in the near future, such as a broom star. In that case, I will ask Mr. Feng to ask Mr. Ji." She breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a little lazy, "It's the fifth watch again.
Everyone, please go and have a rest. No matter how someone is found, others are not in such a hurry."
Feng Ziying thought for a while and asked Liu Xiaoqi: "Are you sleepy?"
"I'm not sleepy. I also want to go to the hospital to see them. Is there anything wrong with Mr. Feng?"
"If you're not sleepy, let's go to Ji's house right now." Feng Ziying said, "I'm anxious and don't dare wait until tomorrow."