Many years ago, in order to help the fourth son win a direct heir, the old lady Ding, the concubine of the king of Shu, selected a beautiful girl from the daughter of the fourth son's staff as an apprentice and placed her next door to the courtyard where Jia Cong temporarily lived. The apprentice learned Ding. Jia Cong wanted to attract Jia Cong's attention with his music skills. But at that time, Jia Cong had just begun to pursue Chen Ruijin and sang love songs for future generations at the top of his voice. Then the apprentice's father was liquidated by the prince of Shu, and he himself fell into Slave status.
A few years later, Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin went to Shu again and got a girl named Lingdang with a good memory, who happened to be the cousin of his apprentice. Due to Lingdang's request, the two of them also saved his family. Lingdang's father Shen Zhaodecai Ju Jia, has now been appointed as the governor of Yunnan; he also arranged for his cousin Shen to enter Prince Wu's Mansion to replace his beloved concubine Mei Ji, who was only fifteen years old, and is now Princess Wu. After more than ten years, she still remembers Jia Cong. Songs sung back then.
Eunuch Guo was very excited when he heard the name of Jia Cong. A few years ago, when Jia Cong became the regent of the Yan Kingdom, the King of Wu thought for several days whether he wanted to be the Duke of Zhou or Wang Mang. Unexpectedly, he immediately made his daughter the king. Daughter, he worshiped another woman as his prime minister. At that time, there were no female officials in the country, so everyone guessed that he wanted to confess and had no objections? Moreover, he had always said that Nezha was in the lower realm, and others did not dare to act rashly. They never expected that Lin Hai His daughter turned out to be a prodigy, and she really deserved to be the prime minister. Then the governors of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Fujian were changed one after another. Many new strategies of the Yan State were spread, and they all seemed to be strange, but they were all implemented, and the national power was growing by leaps and bounds. The King of Wu also scolded the King of Yan's family for being so naive. The third child acted recklessly. If he had not killed Feng Ziying, he would not have provoked Jia Cong to lead his troops to rob the execution ground. However, after thinking about it again and again, he finally said: "It is not a good thing that the Wu Kingdom does not want this person."
Just as he was thinking about it, Chen Ruiwen arrived. Eunuch Guo smiled and told him about the cosmetics shop. Chen Ruiwen thought that the owner had given Eunuch Guo some benefits, so he hurriedly said: "These things are originally made by women, how can a lower official know how to use them?" It’s fine for the empress and the father-in-law to make the decision.”
Eunuch Guo said: "This shop is called Hongxiang Pavilion, and it is located near Confucius Temple."
Chen Ruiwen said: "In this case, it is impossible to say that there is some bookishness in the makeup."
"Speaking of which, Master Chen, does he recognize the owner of this shop?" Eunuch Guo raised his eyes and looked at Chen Ruiwen calmly, "The owner's name is Wu Fumao, and his brother is Eunuch Wu Shoumao."
A surge of anger suddenly surged on Chen Ruiwen's face, and he suppressed it immediately: "When my sister-in-law was still here, she occasionally sent Eunuch Wu out to find my subordinate to say a few words, but he only recognized him. Now I don't know his whereabouts. Although I heard that He said he has an older brother whom he has never met."
Eunuch Guo was surprised. The words in front of Chen Ruiwen, "while my sister-in-law is still here", seemed to be gritting his teeth. He then asked tentatively: "Then... have you heard about this person's character?"
Chen Ruiwen said with a sullen face: "I'm sorry. I don't know anything about this." He paused and said, "Wu Shoumao is very cunning. His brother may not be a kind person."
Eunuch Guo nodded: "That's it. The Za family will think about it again." Then the topic changed, "The Za family suddenly remembered that the regent princess of the Yan Kingdom is still the sister of Mr. Chen?"
Chen Ruiwen was stunned for a moment and shook his head dejectedly: "People have long disowned me as my brother. A mere petty official cannot reach such a high position, so don't bring it up again."
Eunuch Guo apologized and said: "The Kingdom of Wu has such a big event, the prince is about to die, and His Highness the Eighth Prince hasn't come back yet?"
Chen Ruiwen's face became a little more ugly: "It's a long journey, I'm afraid the letters won't arrive."
Eunuch Guo did not pay attention and said: "I hope the prince can survive until he comes back." Chen Ruiwen hesitated a few words.
There was sudden silence in the room. After a long while, Chen Ruiwen looked at the gramophone and forced a smile and said: "This thing is interesting. I have seen it in Taiwan Mansion."
Eunuch Guo smiled and said: "This is what Wu Fumao gave me."
Chen Ruiwen's face froze: "So his business is good."
"This is an interesting piece of music. I have never heard it before. Mr. Chen, has he heard it?"
Chen Ruiwen listened carefully, shook his head and said, "No. This music is a bit weird."
Eunuch Guo laughed and said: "Anyway, it's interesting to hear the noise." Then he chatted a few words and pretended to be sleepy. Concubine Shen and Chen Ruiwen hurriedly left.
As soon as the two of them went out, Eunuch Guo ordered his godson to quietly go to Zuiyanfang. Not long after, Chen Ruiwen got a message from the oiran lady and invited him to have a drink. Chen Ruiwen was in a bad mood. How could a beauty invite him? Can you not go? I immediately put aside my official duties and sent the servant back home to say, "I'll stay at the Yamen tonight" to meet the oiran.
This oiran was very skillful. He would give soft-spoken compliments for a long time, and drink one cup at a time. But Chen Ruiwen was feeling depressed, so he drank to drown his sorrows without refusing. After a while, he was half drunk. The oiran saw that he was already drunk. With dim eyes, he whispered: "My lord~ Mr. Chen has the final say in the imperial court now. Why don't you bring His Highness back? Isn't he better than that kid?"
Chen Ruiwen glared and cursed: "That little brat! He only listens to his mother's words and is not ready to come back at all! He asked just now. What can I say? That he doesn't even know that his father is about to die?"
The oiran asked curiously: "He doesn't know? Didn't he send someone to deliver a message?"
"Is it possible to deliver the letter to him?" Chen Ruiwen tilted his body and patted the table, "His mother burned the letter from the Kingdom of Wu when she saw it, and he couldn't even see a piece of paper! It's so shameful! Who helped her become the empress? Who? Support her? She is just a concubine of a third wife. Without me, how could she be a queen?"
The oiran took a breath of air: Listening to his words, it seems that Concubine Chen is not dead? She seems to have abandoned Mr. Chen when she arrived in Dajiala. Instead, she tried and said: "Concubine Chen is a person who enjoys happiness. She still takes care of her alone in Dajiala. How can you live a good life with a pair of children?"
Chen Ruiwen responded again: "There are four girls!" Nai gritted his teeth, "I treat everyone well, but she refuses to help me. She is my biological sister!" He suddenly grabbed the oiran's wrist and said, "She She’s my biological sister! She didn’t help me! Not only didn’t she help me, she also helped the three girls run away! What kind of heart-throbs do they have! Aren’t they afraid of being struck by lightning?!”
The oiran's wrist hurt, so he struggled to free his hand and saw a few red marks on his snow-white wrist. Chen Ruiwen didn't pay attention at all, and cursed several of his girls. The oiran tried to interrupt him several times. He couldn't get a word in. After cursing for a stick of incense, Chen Ruiwen was tired of scolding, so he picked up the wine bottle on the desk and poured it into his mouth. The oiran took the opportunity to make a trick: "Ms. Chen has sons and daughters in the Kingdom of Wu and is favored by the prince. Why? Going south?"
Chen Ruiwen just raised his head and drank the remaining wine in the jug, knocked the jug on the table, and said with a smile: "She thinks the prince is old!" He swayed a few times and was completely drunk. The oiran pushed him for a long time and did not move. He hurriedly called the maid to help, and worked together to move him to the bed. A curtain on the side of the bed was lifted, and a man walked out. It was the godson of Eunuch Guo. The oiran and the maid both saluted. The godson waved his hand. They kept silent and left quietly.
When the godson returned to Eunuch Guo's residence, he saw that there were four more phonographs on the case. Eunuch Guo had listened to each of them, and they were all popular songs from the state of Wu. He even bothered Concubine Chen to listen to them too, and they were all not the same ones as Jia Cong's.
The humming style is also normal. I also invited a businessman who had been to Dajiala to listen to Wu Fumao's gramophone. The businessman smiled and said: "Many young people in Dajiala like to listen to such music, but we don't like it."
Listen, people in Wu would not buy this kind of gramophone." Eunuch Guo became more and more suspicious of Jia Cong.
When he saw his godson coming back, he asked him how he was doing on the other side. The godson said, "I'm afraid Mrs. Chen is still alive."
Eunuch Guo was shocked: "You're not dead? What's going on?"
"It must be that Princess Yan, the regent, helped her fake her death. Master Chen's several stunning girls ignored him." The godson hid behind the curtain and reported back in detail what he saw and heard.
After hearing this, Eunuch Guo was shocked and angry. He was surprised that Concubine Chen was still alive but sent someone to pretend to be dead. He was angry that she blocked the letter sent by the State of Wu to His Highness the Eighth Prince, and she despised the King of Wu for being old. So he thought about it carefully.
: If Chen Ruiwen and his sister and brother-in-law are in the same group, it would be better to support Lao Ba than anyone else. Now that Lao Ba is hiding in Dajiala and not returning home, we know that the Chen family brothers and sisters have been divided into two camps and have really fallen out.
Cong is much more suspected than Chen Ruiwen. Furthermore, the crimes of the late prince could not be discovered in three to five years. The informant did not know how long he had been quietly investigating. Rongguo Mansion has this ability. So he straightened his clothes and went
Meet the King of Wu.
King Wu was lying on the bed with his eyes open. Eunuch Guo said distressedly: "Why doesn't the prince raise the god Huizi?"
King Wu said: "I don't dare. I'm afraid I won't be able to open my eyes again if I close them." Eunuch Guo felt sour in his heart and shed tears. King Wu smiled slightly and said, "But what did you find out?"
Eunuch Guo ordered everyone in the room to go out, and he knelt down by the bedside alone and said, "I am suspicious of Jia Cong, the regent of Yan." Then he reported the matter of the gramophone in the powder shop.
"Anything else?"
"The slave made Mr. Chen drunk and learned that Jia Cong had wooed His Highness the Eighth Prince in the south."
"What a way to win over."
"He was coaxed into liking Da Jiala and not the Kingdom of Wu. He didn't even want to be a prince and stayed there and refused to return to the country." Eunuch Guo did not mention the matter of Concubine Chen. "The letter written by Chen Ruiwen to His Highness the Eighth Prince was
Let Jia Cong's people stop him."
King Wu was silent for a moment, then shouted: "What? Jia Cong stopped Chen Ruiwen's letter to Lao Ba?"
"yes."
King Wu slapped the bed and shouted: "Where is Wei Ruoheng's son? Have you returned from the letter?"
Eunuch Guo thought for a while: "The Wei family... those who stayed in the Wu Kingdom were Wei Ruoheng's concubine Zeng and a pair of concubine children. Wei Ruoheng's legitimate wife Zhen went to Dajiala with her. The two women didn't get along.
, I think the uncle of the Wei family... doesn't know how to write a letter back to Wu."
After a long while, King Wu murmured: "There is also the Kingdom of Shu. The eldest nephew had only an illegitimate son, and he was sent to Dajiala to study with his eldest daughter. The national policies of their Yan Kingdom...every policy was wrong.
Every move is wrong! Every move is wrong!”
Eunuch Guo hurriedly said: "My lord, please calm down! Don't be angry and hurt your body."
The King of Wu smiled bitterly: "There is no harm to the body of a person who has endured his life." He closed his eyes and took a breath for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Help the lonely king to get up." Eunuch Guo did not dare to disobey the order, and stepped forward to help him up with tears in his eyes.
King Wu. King Wu sat on the bedside and rested for a moment. His eyes suddenly opened wide and he said, "King Fu Gu sat down before going to the case." When Eunuch Guo looked at it, King Wu's eyes suddenly shone, and he understood in his heart: I'm afraid it's a flashback.
. He lowered his head and said yes, tears already rolling down his cheeks.
King Wu didn't pay attention to what was going on, and his mind was spinning. Eunuch Guo quietly wiped his face with his sleeve, and then supported King Wu and slowly moved to the case. King Wu ordered him to take down a former eminent monk from the shelf.
The silver bowl he had used came. Eunuch Guo took it and placed it in front of King Wu. King Wu took out a dagger from his sleeve, and before Eunuch Guo could scream in surprise, he cut his left wrist violently.
Eunuch Guo shouted: "What is the prince doing!"
King Wu was seen hanging his wrist above the alms bowl, and said with a smile: "I, an old man, still have some blood." Eunuch Guo watched the blood falling from King Wu's hand into the alms bowl like a trickle, and cried bitterly.
After pouring out half the blood in the bowl, King Wu glanced at Eunuch Guo. Eunuch Guo had already prepared a cloth towel and hurriedly bandaged him. King Wu sat down and shook his right hand. Eunuch Guo gave him a piece of blood as thick as his thumb.
The king of Wu dipped his pen in his own blood and began to write the first letter.
This letter was written to the King of Shu. Most of the nine brothers were dead, the third child was missing, and the ninth child was obvious to Jia Cong. Except for the very unreliable King of Qi, there was only one King of Shu left. Second
He wrote a letter to King Chen, who was originally the heir chosen by the third son, and was somewhat capable. Then he wrote to several promising nephews and grandsons, the King of Qin, the King of Lu, the King of Chu, etc. He put down his pen and thought for a while, and said to himself
He muttered to himself: "The Situ family is in danger. Jia Cong is very human." He gritted his teeth and started writing again. Gradually, the long case was covered with blood letters, and even the minor saints in the capital had a copy.
Eunuch Guo had stopped crying long ago and was carefully helping King Wu collect the bloody books. King Wu asked him who else he had not written, and he answered. He had written for more than two hours, and none of the kings in the world could stop him. Eunuch Guo counted them.
After a while, he bowed and said: "Your Majesty, everything is ready. Every prince has his things."
King Wu nodded: "Go and deliver it in person. Each letter must be delivered to them personally."
Eunuch Guo solemnly said: "My lord, don't worry. The custody of my servants will be handed over to each prince personally, and I will never pretend to be someone else."
King Wu looked at him and sighed: "Now that things have happened, you are the only one I can trust." He took out a jade tablet from his arms and said, "Take this." Eunuch Guo took it with both hands. "Go to Huiji."
Find Monk Jianru in the temple and ask him to escort you to deliver the message."
Eunuch Guo shouted loudly: "Slave, I obey!"
King Wu thought for a moment: "Chen Ruiwen, don't worry about him. The Lord Shen, who can't even control his own nephew... ordered her to write a letter to Yunnan Governor Shen Zhao as soon as possible."
Eunuch Guo was puzzled: "Your Majesty, that person is probably Jia Cong."
King Wu smiled and said: "Isn't Zhang Yuan also a member of the lonely king earlier? It was just Jia Cong who gave him an official position. If Lao Liu is willing to use Shen Zhao, how can there be Jia Cong?" Nai paused and sighed.
, "Zhang Yuan... It's the fault of a lonely king. A small part of the world has fallen into the hands of Jia Cong. If the Situ family doesn't join forces, he will defeat them one by one."
"My slave understands."
King Wu looked at him and said, "I entrust the Situ family to you."
Eunuch Guo's eyes turned red, and he knelt down and kowtowed: "This slave will live up to the prince's trust."
King Wu nodded: "Very good." Then he slowly leaned back on the chair, "I am tired, so I have to take a rest." He closed his eyes, but within a moment he lost his breath.
Eunuch Guo knelt on the ground, weeping silently. After a while, he stood up, folded the bloody books full of cases, put them in his arms, and kowtowed to King Wu three times. Fang cried loudly.