"Old Wang, before I tell the truth, first of all, please answer me a question. As long as you answer my question, I will tell you everything you know!" Lu Huiqing invited Butler Wang to sit next to the short table under the tree and raised his hand.
She poured him a glass of water and whispered.
Butler Wang sat up straight, looked at Lu Huiqing and nodded, no matter what, he had to give this man a chance to explain.
"The Wang family is about to face a disaster. Are you saying that as a member of the Wang family, you are willing to kill at the slightest provocation, or do you plan to win? The disaster I am talking about is not Long Jiu or Hua Tianshou, I am referring to the concubine of the Prince Consort.
The royal family knows this clearly!"
Butler Wang's fat body trembled, and sweat suddenly oozed from his shiny forehead. He said in a trembling voice: "It's impossible for the royal family to know, right? If he knew, His Majesty would have taken action long ago."
Lu Huiqing drank some water and said: "You are too careless. The peace you have enjoyed for many years has made you forget the majesty of the royal family. The princess is modest and kind. This is the biggest reason why your Wang family can continue to this day.
In the early years, the Princess of Wu jumped into the ice water to save the young His Majesty in the middle of winter. It is no secret that the Princess had a life-saving grace for His Majesty, so after His Majesty ascended the throne, he awarded the richest place in Wuzhong to
The princess was given the title of Wu Kingdom! What kind of gift is this? Don’t you, the Wang family, know about it?
You once told me that the princess had already fasted, chanted Buddha's name, and ignored the secular world five years ago. If you think about the princess's two miscarriages, I clearly know what kind of mentality your Wang family has towards the princess. To put it bluntly, the Wang family only wants to
In order to seize the princess's property, the princess was not allowed to get pregnant, so the princess had two miscarriages."
When Butler Wang heard this, his clothes were completely soaked with sweat, his eyes flashed fiercely, and he put one hand into his arms.
Lu Huiqing filled the teapot with water, smiled and waved her hands: "Don't rush to kill people, listen to what I have to say first, and don't cut off the last trace of life of the Wang family. Even if you don't kill me, what do you think?"
How long can I live? Who else knows about Long Jiu except you?"
"I accidentally found out from the account books that a batch of our goods went to Pianguan, so I tried to trick you!"
Steward Wang stiffened his face and smiled sarcastically, but his smile was uglier than crying. He picked up the teapot and drank the full pot of tea, which made him feel a little normal.
Lu Huiqing nodded and said: "I just said that Zeng Gongliang is a fool. I didn't expect that I would make the same mistake. Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's continue talking about the Wang family. You underestimated His Majesty's wisdom. He is an informant in the palace.
All over the world, if my prediction is correct, the Wang family has spies arranged by His Majesty to live beside you, and you don't even know it.
The princess has been in poor health since spring this year. Once she dies, your Wang family will be in great trouble."
Steward Wang said with difficulty: "These are all your guesses."
Lu Huiqing smiled, patted Butler Wang's trembling hands and said: "In the past five years, has anyone in your Wang family been promoted to an official position? In these five years, has any of your nephews in the Wang family been promoted to an official position?"
Even though you purchased a large number of military merits from Yunzheng, did your Majesty allow the nephews of the Wang family to become officials? No, right? It seems that the nephews of the noble family who bought the merits with you are now officials, right? Even if they didn't
If you become an official, you will at least receive royal rewards, right? How is your Wang family doing?"
Lu Huiqing stood up and patted the pendulum, but Butler Wang said again: "Your Majesty's meaning is very clear. If the princess lives, your Wang family will survive, if the princess dies, your Wang family will be destroyed. I actually don't understand how the prince-in-law's father, Wang Yizheng, became the
The envoy of Xijing Treasury cannot understand how he became a third-rank official even with such a clear meaning.
The most stupid thing is to help his son to kill his only life-saving straw, Princess Wu. Even if he wants to commit suicide, he cannot choose this method. It would be much better to choose Gelsemium."
Butler Wang's face turned green. He looked at Lu Huiqing eagerly and said, "Sir, where is the last chance of survival for the Wang family? Is it Long Jiu? Are you planning to set up a line for the Wang family to escape?"
Lu Huiqing stood up and stood under the tree, climbed a branch and said: "I originally planned to use this excuse to deal with you, but then I found out that you wanted to kill me, so I changed my mind. I have been hurt by others before, so I became
From that moment on, I swore that I would never let anyone hurt me, so I treated you to a pot of Gelsemium tea."
"What is Gelsemium?" After Butler Wang asked this question, he immediately felt pain in his abdomen like a knife. He fell off the stool and rolled continuously on the ground, stirring up large pieces of loess and making dust all over the sky.
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Lu Huiqing covered her mouth and nose and said to herself: What is Gelsemium elegans? Wang Chong's "Lunheng" says: Ye, the place name, is in the southeast. It makes sense. People in Guangzhou call it Hu Mancao, also known as Broken Heart Grass.
In the abdomen of humans and animals, that is, on the mucous intestines, it turns black and rotten within half a day, and is also called rotten intestine. People in Yunnan call it Torch Flower, because its flowers are red and hot in nature. Yuezhou calls it Huangteng.
I eat a little every day to kill the bugs in my belly. Of course, when I gave it to you, I was worried that the amount of medicine was not enough, so I specially grabbed an extra handful, which should be enough to poison you."
Butler Wang's eyes bulged, and his hands convulsively scratched his chest and abdomen, leaving shocking blood marks, and he couldn't say a word.
Lu Huiqing felt bored and went out of the courtyard. From a distance, she saw Brother Chun delivering cakes and wine from house to house. He smiled and closed the door again. This was a very remote village with only three or four households.
All the young people in the family went to the plains to work as caterers, leaving only the elderly and children in the village. Lu Huiqing would give food and drinks to the elderly and children whenever he came here. Seeing that the elderly seemed reluctant to eat and drink, he was very dissatisfied.
, I think everyone is not happy enough, so as long as people here get the food sent by Lu Huiqing, they will happily eat it immediately, which is especially popular with children.
Butler Wang is in very good health and has strong resistance to poison. Lu Huiqing waited for a long time, but he was still writhing in the loess. Lu Huiqing talked a little too much, and found that she was very thirsty, so she picked up Butler Wang's
He touched the teapot on the ground, poured out the tea inside, rinsed it with water from under the eaves, made himself another pot of tea, and sat under the eaves to watch Butler Wang stir.
Brother Chun opened the door and walked in. When he saw the stirring dust raised by Butler Wang, he frowned and picked up a hoe in the farmyard, and hoeed the head of Butler Wang a few times.
He stopped moving, then wiped his hands, walked to Lu Huiqing's side and used a handkerchief to help Mr. dust away.
"They ate all the food you sent?"
"Yes, we have all eaten. Today, the people in the village have gathered together and are waiting for Mr. to give them food and wine. There is a lot for each of the eleven people. There is a lot of food and wine today. Everyone has eaten a lot. You
Look, there’s no food left in the basket.”
Lu Huiqing touched Brother Chun's round head with her hand and looked at him fondly and smiled: "The most indifferent thing in the world is human beings, and the most numerous ones are human beings. It's not a bad thing to die. I saw it for the first time."
You, I just like you, because you are exactly the same as me when I was a kid, especially when you fed the spikes frozen in the ice to the drunkard who bullied you and swallowed them, it was very similar to when I killed the dog when I was studying in Tokyo.
Technique, I don’t believe you have ever heard anything like this before, so I say, this is all talent.”
Brother Chun raised his face with a smile and said a little embarrassedly: "I didn't do well today. I sprinkled too much arsenic on the cakes, which made the cakes a little bitter. I had to sprinkle more arsenic on them.
I added some icing sugar to cover it, and just like that, an old man who was hunting still asked."
Lu Huiqing smiled and tapped Brother Chun's forehead with his knuckles and said, "Since you made a mistake, you should be punished. When you do these things in the future, try to be thoughtful and don't be self-righteous. Take a look.
Sir, the miserable situation I am in now is a lesson. I acted too rashly at the beginning, so please don’t follow my old path."
Brother Chun put his head on Lu Huiqing's knee and asked: "Sir, who on earth caused you to do this?"
Lu Huiqing looked up at the blue sky and said leisurely: "I suspect a person, or even definitely this person, but I can't find any evidence. We came from Wuzhong to Guanzhong. I kept thinking about every detail along the way.
, but no matter how much I think, I can't find any flaws. The people I saw were all women from the back house, and they were all very beautiful women. There was even a beautiful girl, who didn't have any features at all.
A strong man, and then a boat.
There was no way to see those women, and the strong man basically left no impression on me. I had to start from the ship and asked the owner of the canal to help me verify the origin of those women. I always
I felt that those women came from brothels, but the ship did not belong to any brothel, let alone any salt merchant. That night, I seemed to have had a dream, a very beautiful dream, but when I woke up it was like this
I feel ashamed. When I wake up, things are different and people and ghosts have different paths."
"Sir, if you can't find it, I will definitely help you find it." Brother Chun said bitterly, clenching his fists.
Lu Huiqing laughed loudly, very satisfied, patted Brother Chun's head and said: "It's getting late, we should leave. Let's pour oil on this room and burn it. After eating, we must wipe it down.
Mouth is good."
Brother Chun first led the ox cart out of the stable, helped Lu Huiqing get on the ox cart, then returned to the small yard, used a stick to pry the fat steward Wang into the house, and then
A lot of lamp oil was poured into the house, and the oil lamp was pushed over. Seeing the flames jumping up to the roof, I carefully bolted the door and stood outside to watch the fire.
Soon, thick smoke came out of the window in the house. Brother Chun found a long stick and poked the window open, and a large ball of flames spurted out from the house. He also saw Butler Wang standing there.
The fire grew louder and shouted, which frightened him. It wasn't until the beams fell down and knocked down the already burned and blistered housekeeper Wang that Brother Chun left the yard and drove the bullock cart with his husband to the capital.