When the two grandmothers of Ding's family went to visit the third wife, in a shop selling calligraphy and painting on the streets of Chang'an, a young man was hanging up a painting of the Diamond Sutra. A spectator asked, "Are the characters incomplete?"
The waiter said: "I heard that there are five paintings in total, but our boss only got this one, which is the second one. This was originally written by a lady from a wealthy family in Beijing earlier. Prince Yi Zhong was involved in something bad, and this was implicated.
The young lady's father and brother were imprisoned, and the whole house was ransacked. The young lady was also arrested and imprisoned. Later, the imperial court ordered that the female family members be sold to officials. The young lady was afraid that she would be sold to some unclean place, so she swallowed the gold ring and committed suicide to save herself.
clean."
The onlooker nodded and said, "So that's how it is, it's really sad." Then he looked up and looked at it for a long time.
After a while, another customer came in, and the waiter introduced him in the same way.
At dusk, an old man led a boy in with his hands behind his back. The waiter came forward and said, "Flower father-in-law, why are you so free today?"
Hua Gongzheng said: "The Za family are getting older and are not as smart as children. When I have free time, I go out of the house and walk around, wandering my arms and legs, so that I can live in peace and serve the Queen Mother."
"You are always a good person, and you will live as long as Neng and the Queen Mother." The waiter spat out a long list of compliments.
Father-in-law Hua also liked what he heard. He looked up at the calligraphy and paintings in the shop, and suddenly saw the Diamond Sutra. He stood in front of it and looked at it. The clerk immediately came forward and said: "As expected of the people around the old prince, he has the best vision.
But!" He quickly said the words he just said.
After hearing this, Eunuch Hua glanced at the guy for a long time: "Really?"
The guy said sincerely: "Yes!"
Hua Gonggong hummed: "Which rich family is she from? What is her surname, what are her father and brother's names, and what are their official positions?" The man was dumbfounded.
The little eunuch who was following Mr. Hua laughed and said, "You want to coax people, but you didn't even prepare the words. I know these words. They were clearly written by Master Huipan of Bodhi Temple in Qinghua Mountain. How come he became a member of a wealthy family?"
Mademoiselle’s.”
The waiter was stunned for a moment, then forced a smile and said, "Maybe this young lady's handwriting is quite similar to Master Huipan's? All women's handwriting is similar."
A customer next to him said with a smile: "What are your teeth and tongue made of? You even had people expose it and you still had a hard mouth." The waiter smiled awkwardly.
Father-in-law Hua nodded at him: "Little monkey, take it off quickly! Za family, no matter where you got Master Hui Ban's calligraphy treasure, the King and Queen Mother like her very much and also like her calligraphy. It will be there in a few days."
It is the birthday of the Queen Mother. A few months ago, the prince personally sent someone to ask Master Huipan to write a Diamond Sutra for my grandmother."
The waiter was startled: "Yes, yes! Take it off, little man!" He hurriedly took it off. Satisfied, Mr. Hua led the little eunuch away. The guests laughed and talked a few words.
About half an hour later, Zhu Tong sat at the Taiping Escort Office with a telegram and said: "The comrades from S.H.I.E.L.D. said that the daughter-in-law of the Ding family is alive and well, and writes two letters to the third wife every month.
They didn't send anyone into Ding's house, so let's try to find out why the third wife went to that deserted guest house to burn paper. The Diamond Sutra is the handwriting of Master Huiban of Bodhi Temple in Qinghua Mountain. The sister-in-law was only in her twenties. The summer before last year, the king
The Queen Mother went to Qinghua Mountain to escape the summer heat. She passed by their nunnery and had a pleasant conversation with Master Hui Ban. She liked her writing very much. SHIELD is short of manpower, so let us find out what Hui Ban's origins are."
Head Guard Kong muttered, "Do we have enough manpower?" He took the telegram and looked at Huizi, "According to what the woman said, it is clear that Miss Ding is dead."
"It can be seen that the other party is also short of manpower." Zhu Tong smiled and said, "The rules set by Liu Feng are clearly stated, and it is not so easy for others to take advantage of them. What they win over are relatives and the like who have empty names but no real power.
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Just at this time, I heard someone shouting outside with a smile: "Shopkeeper! I took a bribe~~"
The shopkeeper said: "This is the boy who is guarding the old lady of the Ding family." He also shouted, "You have received so many benefits from others, but you still don't get them from real people."
The boy walked into the house and put the things in his hands on the table. Rings, earrings, gold bracelets, and more than a dozen taels of silver. The woman must have used all the valuables she had on her to pay bribes. The boy said: "She said,
She was probably going to die unjustly in our place, and there was only one unsolved concern. She had a sweetheart, and we had originally arranged a private meeting with her yesterday. But she was arrested by us the night before yesterday. She thought, her sweetheart will wait.
If I don't care about her, I'm not sure how anxious I will be. So I wanted to ask me to go and say good-bye to her, saying that the master of the house has sent her on a distant trip to do some work."
Zhu Tong and his accomplices looked at each other for a long time and said: "This poem is not cleverly composed. It can be seen that Mrs. Guan is not an experienced craftsman. She was probably picked out and bribed by the Ding family after they made the plan. Who does she like?"
"The cook at Shilixiang Restaurant is called Shen Daming."
Zhu Tong patted the case and said, "Isn't Shilixiang Restaurant just next to the alley of Fuyuntang?"
"Exactly."
Zhu Tong couldn't help but be happy: "Finally, I've hooked up." Then he smiled at the boy and said, "Since you have benefited from me, you can go."
The shopkeeper said: "Change into the clothes of a government servant."
Zhu Tong waved his hand: "No. Don't you have the clothes of the servants of the Ding family? Wear that." The boy nodded and went out to change clothes. After a while, Zhu Tong sighed again, "These things are like hammers and sticks here and there.
, I’ve finally caught up with you today.”
The shopkeeper didn't feel it was funny, so he said, "I can just go check on that girl from Qinghua Mountain. Mrs. Ding San can't do anything."
Zhu Tong said: "It's not difficult for Mrs. Ding San."
At dusk that day, Zhu Wei's wife sent a message to many civil servants' wives, saying that they had to take a leisurely stroll in the back garden today, and suddenly found a plum forest in bloom, and invited them to come home tomorrow to cook in the snow and enjoy the plum blossoms.
Zhu Wei is now in charge of Fuyuntang's case. Who dares not to go to her wife's post? Regardless of whether there are arrangements or not, they all say they must go. The three wives of the Ding family all got the post.
On the second day, the ladies came in droves with their grandmothers and girls, and the back garden of Zhu’s house was filled with flowers, red and green. Mrs. Zhu smiled and said: “I just try to write a few posts occasionally, who knows?
All of them come with one move.”
All the wives said: "Mrs. Zhu is very thoughtful. It is a blessing that such beautiful flowers are not hidden, so we can come and enjoy them too."
A wife with keen eyes noticed that the person supporting Mrs. Zhu was not the two grandmothers of the Zhu family, and asked quickly: "I wonder who this grandmother is?"
Mrs. Zhu patted the woman's hand and said, "This is my nephew's wife."
Everyone suddenly realized: It turns out that today it was Mrs. Zhu who introduced her nephew-in-law to everyone. In the days since Mr. Zhu Tong returned to Chang'an, it was not that no one had sent messages to Grandma Tong, but she had to shirk them. In addition, Zhu Tong had never agreed to the King of Qin's official career. Mrs. Zhu
This sudden appearance probably meant that Zhu Tong was about to leave the country. Who didn't know that he became the prime minister of the Lu State at a young age? The Lu State is so strong and prosperous because of his credit. Although the Japanese Liu family was lost, losing to the Yan State is nothing.
What? Mrs. Zhu took Liu Jing's hand and pointed to everyone to introduce her one by one. Liu Jing was originally the biological daughter of Liu Tong, the overlord of the Lu State, and had been the wife of the prime minister for many years. She could handle such a situation with ease.
Everyone else gathered around Liu Jing, and Zhu Wei's eldest daughter-in-law was there to help. The second daughter-in-law took care of the guests who were not very talkative. Mrs. Ding San was the one with the highest status in public.
After most of the day, Liu Jing returned to the courtyard and told Zhu Tong: "That Mrs. Ding San is really an honest person. Our Second Grandma Nan talked with her for a while and figured out everything."
Zhu Tong hurriedly asked: "How?"
Liu Jingdao: "The first two words of Mistress Nan are: pity. It is said that this lady is extremely talented in literature. If a man can take the top prize, he will definitely be coaxed by Zhonghua Book Company to sell calligraphy in the capital."
Zhu Tong said: "It doesn't matter if she is talented, her daughter is safe? Why did she burn the paper? Head Guard Kong said she cried terribly. Who else was crying if she wasn't crying for her daughter?"
Liu Jingdao: "She is crying for her daughter."
"Um?"
"She really thought her daughter was dead."
It turned out that Miss Ding’s mother had not received the last two letters. A few days ago, a woman got back an official document from the government, saying that a Xianyang courtesan had died and begged the prostitute who had slept with her in Chang’an City.
Identify the body. The mother-in-law thought that the portrait looked like that of a girl from the third room, so she quietly took it to the third wife to see. The third wife recognized her daughter at a glance. However, the official document said that the pink head had been dead for ten years.
For a few days, there was no news from the family, and it was obvious that they had kept it secret for some reason. Mrs. Ding San was timid and had no other children, and she knew that her husband loved face most. Even if there was a misunderstanding about this matter, Mr. Ding San
She would not stand up for her daughter's reputation. She didn't dare to make a fuss and cried quietly for two days.
I never thought that a sister-in-law came from the family temple yesterday afternoon and personally delivered a letter from the eldest girl. In the letter, the eldest girl complained that her mother did not reply to her letter. Regardless of the handwriting and style of writing, she was undoubtedly the third wife’s biological daughter. I think it was just a coincidence that the fan was here.
She just looks similar to the older girl.
The government sent people to interrogate the young man who got the letter from the family temple. At first he refused to admit that he had lost the eldest girl's letter. After repeated questioning, he confessed. It turned out that there was a nouveau riche. I heard that the wife of a scholar's family wrote "Miss"
He wanted to come up with ideas to make copybooks for his own daughter, and spent a lot of money to buy Miss Ding's handwriting. The boy originally thought that he would just cut off one copy, but he was told that he wanted to buy another one, so he gave it to San
The boy thought, after all, the third wife and her daughter had no status in the house, so what was the point of selling two letters? So he also sold the third wife’s reply letter. Now that person has been kicked out, and the third wife
The wife and eldest daughter will no longer send boys to deliver messages from now on, and will only let this sister-in-law run errands back and forth.
Liu Jing said with emotion: "When I went to Beijing for training, my husband repeatedly emphasized that we should not take the trouble to save trouble, and we must confirm the news with the cooperating comrades. At that time, I just felt that the sting of the scorpion was unpleasant. It turns out that this is really the case.
Wait for someone to take advantage of you."
Zhu Tong said: "People in the world are lazy and credulous. Miss Ding has already become a monk, Master Ding San is seeking fame and reputation, and Mrs. Ding San is timid and has no status and has seen through her husband. It is difficult for a family of three to communicate, and outsiders can take advantage of it."
Liu Jingdao: "What can I use of a housewife?"
Zhu Tong looked at his wife with a half-smile but not a smile: "Aren't you also a housewife? If someone takes advantage of you, you'll be fine."
Liu Jing glanced at him: "Am I a timid person? I am a domineering man, how can I be different from the princess?" Zhu Tong repeatedly held up his hands and smiled in apology.
Just as he was talking, the telegraph machine rang. While Mrs. Zhu was hosting a banquet for all the female relatives in the city, the Taiping Escort Bureau was also busy and sent people to Bodhi Temple in Qinghua Mountain to check on Master Huiban immediately.
Master Hui Ban was also the daughter of a scholar. She left the family because her horoscope was too fierce to overcome her father and her brother. The summer before last, she caught the eye of the Queen Mother, and her father and brother were very happy. As early autumn approached, her brother recognized a man.
The eminent monk who attained Taoism said that her brother must have a noble relative. Her brother calculated the birth dates of the whole family. The eminent monk did the calculations for a long time and said that Master Huipan's Buddha nature had already eliminated all bad luck, and in three years he would be a noble relative.
Son-in-law, you can first cultivate your hair in the temple, and it will take its own shape when the time comes. From then on, Master Huipan grew his hair. More than twenty days ago, Master Huipan disappeared out of thin air, and there was no news. He went to investigate.
The escort specially brought a fake portrait of Bai Lan, and the sisters-in-law in Bodhi Temple all recognized it: it was Hui Ban.
Now that the matter has come to this, a small part of Bi Daguan's actions has been revealed.
Before the early autumn of the previous year, he had begun to investigate the royal family of the Qin Dynasty and made a plan. He first coaxed Master Hui Ban to lead him to practice. According to the account book, Fuyundang was opened in the winter of the previous year, and its role was to give Qiu Xing a stepping stone to officially enter the officialdom.
At the end of the year, Qiu Xingzheng entered Chang'an and joined Master Yu Er, the uncle of the King of Qin, as a Qing guest. The eminent monk calculated that Master Hui Ban would get a son-in-law in the summer and autumn of next year, which showed that their original plan should be later than now. Because Zhu Tong suddenly returned to Qin,
The King of Qin was worried about the sharp reduction in taxes and wanted to persuade him to become an official. Qiu Xingzheng was afraid that he could not compete with Zhu Tong, so he changed his plan and opened Fuyuntang in advance.
On the other side, the Yellow Widow from Jixiang Embroidery Shop in Xianyang persuaded Bai Lan to escape from Baihualou and follow Fourth Master Ding to become a good boy. They also kidnapped Master Hui Ban and either took her away or forced her to rewrite the Diamond Sutra ordered by King Qin for her grandmother.
It was framed as a scroll and sent to Ding's house. Then he killed Master Hui Ban in Baihua Tower and put on pink clothes. He arranged for the reckless man Xia Kui to transport the body at night. He was wrongly imprisoned and then escaped. At the same time, he blocked the correspondence between Mrs. Ding San and her daughter.
After Xia Kui's bloodbath in Fuyun Hall, the government had to post a portrait of Master Hui Ban. Who would recognize a sister-in-law who practiced in the mountains? Who in Chang'an City would recognize her? Mrs. Guan, whom they bribed in the Ding Mansion, sent a fake official document to Mrs. Ding San.
, the portrait of a big girl was painted, making the third wife mistakenly think that the fake Bailan was her daughter.
If Mr. Yu was the one who was ordered to investigate the case, Qiu Xingzheng would be able to tell that the person who died was a sister-in-law and not a fan. Zhen Bailan was an aunt in Ding's house. As long as Grandma Ding Si didn't push her too far, she could live in peace.
Qiu Xing was blowing wind to coax Mr. Yu to go to Ding's house to check on the courtesan's wife. Mrs. Ding had no place to complain about her unjust accusations. Mrs. Guan was talking to her, urging her to take the opportunity to complain to the uncle of the dynasty.
Mr. Yu Er is a confused person, and Mrs. Ding San is timid and not good at words. Granny Guan and Qiu Xingzheng are playing a opposite role. Granny Guan takes the opportunity to hold out the Diamond Sutra written by Master Hui Pan. The two ends are in the wrong place, and they are pinched when things happen.
The story, which was unclear from beginning to end, reached the King of Qin's palace. When the King of Qin saw that the words on the scroll were actually written by Master Hui Ban, he also checked the fake Bai Lan's portrait and mistakenly thought that Hui Ban was Miss Ding.
After listening to Zhu Tong's speculation, Liu Jing held her cheek and said: "What does it have to do with the Gao family?"