Chapter 44 Conspiracy inside and outside the court - Chang Lan eyeliner
Mr. Mo raised his head and just said "You...", the little girl from Yunnan Province had disappeared. Tang Bohe came over, pointed at the thing on the counter and said: "What should we do with this gadget?
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Mr. Mo took a closer look and saw it was a small sachet.
Tang Bohe wanted to take it with his hand, but Mo quickly slapped his hand away and said, "Don't touch it. People in the southwestern provinces are very evil. Although this little girl doesn't seem to have any ill intentions towards us, she still
It's better to be careful." As he said that, he used a handkerchief to cushion it, picked up the sachet and put it into a bag.
Mrs. Mo didn't think that the little girl wanted to harm them. If she really thought that way, she would just throw away the sachet and it would be over. What Mrs. Mo thought was that the people in the southwest were different from the Han people. They were used to treating them
Some things that are harmless may be harmful to Han people. So she has to be careful.
Mo held the bag with the sachet and said to Tang Bohe: "You go to the market in the afternoon and buy a rabbit. We will clean the rabbit at night and put the sachet on the rabbit. In a few days, if the rabbit
It’s okay, this sachet is harmless.”
Tang Bohe nodded in agreement and put the matter aside for the time being.
On the afternoon of September 22nd (3 to 5 p.m.), the Qinhuai River in the southwest of the city.
At this time, Chang Sheng was on a flower boat here, and opposite him there were several men of different shapes.
On the ninth day of September, Lan Yu said that he would hand over some of his people to Chang Sheng. Chang Sheng knew that now that his uncle had spoken, he would not take it back, so although he was worried about whether he could make good use of these people, he
I can only take over.
But it is not easy to find the right time and place to meet these people. It is okay for Chang Sheng to play around with his friends in his free time. Lao Zhu may be willing to see him like this; but if he meets a few new faces, Lao Zhu will
Zhu may not be relieved.
But this was his first time meeting them, and he couldn't just pass by them like he did when passing on information, so Chang Sheng racked his brains in the past few days to arrange a suitable meeting based on the identities of these people in the information Lan Yu gave him.
Time and place of meeting. I managed to meet a few people the past few days. Today I finally got to meet three more people.
The last time I met three people, Chang Sheng was greatly surprised to see three people this time. Let’s talk about the first one first. It turned out to be someone from the Governor’s Mansion of the Fifth Army outside Chengtianmen who specially cooked for the Governors.
Chef. This chef’s surname is Yu and his given name is Cheng. Everyone calls him Lao Yu. Chang Sheng also knew him before. Lao Yu has been in charge of the Fifth Army Governor’s Mansion for more than ten years. At that time, the Fifth Army Governor’s Mansion was still called Da Dudu.
When he arrived at the mansion, he was cooking there. Everyone almost guessed that he was a Jin Yiwei or an agent directly arranged by Lao Zhu to sit in the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion. They didn't expect that he was from Lan Yu, or that he was taking advantage of both sides.
The second one is the Ouchi guard of the imperial palace. This Ouchi guard is a hereditary family of the avant-garde of the government army. His surname is Mao and his given name is Ren Feng. He is in his thirties this year. He only served as a soldier when Feng Sheng and Fu Youde went to the northwest. He is from his hometown.
All his relatives are dead, and his past experiences have nothing to do with Chang Yuchun and Lan Yu. I don’t know how Lan Yu managed to win over him.
The last one is the most powerful, because he is the master who specializes in soup making in the dining room of Wenhua Palace. This master's surname is Li and his given name is Ya. He entered Wenhua Palace in the same year that the Crown Princess Chang died. After the death of the Crown Princess, Wenhua Palace It was left to Concubine Lu to take over. Concubine Lu had to clean up the servants of Wenhua Palace over and over again. The number of informants left by the Chang family had dropped several, and now there was only one left. Unexpectedly, Lan Yu could still be in Wenhua Hall. Hua Dian left behind such an unusual eyeliner.
Moreover, the last master who cooked soup in the Wenhua Palace did not represent him alone, but also represented a eunuch serving in the Qianqing Palace. In fact, Lao Zhu also knew that various nobles had spies in the palace, but most of them were not here. It is too difficult to find a small, inconspicuous palace like Qianqing Palace.
Chang Sheng thought that they were all men today. It was not too eye-catching to meet him while drinking wine at the flower boat, so he chose here. Before meeting the three of them, he only had a few people. The approximate identity was just that of the guard. He had always thought that the cook there could be called one of the four most important informants by Lan Yu, but he didn't know how important the place where these two cooks was until he met him. .
This was the second time Chang Sheng saw the eyeliner left by Lan Yu. Normally, he should be familiar with the job, but he still didn't know what to say when faced with such three important eyeliners who were more important than he imagined.
Today the three of them have changed their appearance, and it is impossible to tell that they are the same person as usual. Anyway, if Sheng Sheng hadn't been able to speak normally, he wouldn't have been able to recognize them.
Chang Sheng was silent for a while, but decided to talk to Lao Yu whom he knew first. He said to Lao Yu: "Old Yu, you have been lying to me for a long time. I really didn't expect you to be my uncle."
Old Yu said calmly: "Where the order lies, I dare not reveal anything."
Chang Sheng didn't have anything else to say and greeted the other two people. In fact, he really wanted to know how they were attracted by Lan Yu and how they were able to stay where they were now, but he knew that asking them would probably be wrong. If I don’t know how to say it, I just hold back and don’t ask.
After roughly understanding some of the situation, Chang Sheng agreed with them on a contact code, what to do in an emergency, and other matters. He felt that there was nothing else to do, and was about to call a few girls in for a drink when he saw Li Ya and said: "Mr. Chang Master, something unusual happened in Wenhua Hall recently."
Chang Sheng immediately stopped what he was doing and said, "Why are you talking about something important now?"
Li Ya said: "Because I'm not sure."
Chang Sheng said: "What on earth is going on? That makes you unsure?"
Li Ya said: "Today, Concubine Lu kicked a palace maid out of the palace because she broke a wind bottle. Ordinarily, this was nothing, but on the 20th, there was another female official in Concubine Lu's palace who took leave of absence to visit relatives. went."
Chang Sheng said doubtfully: "Could it be that when a disaster strikes, they all fly away, and those people abandon Concubine Lu one after another."
Li Ya said: "What you said makes sense, and it is indeed possible. But I always feel that something is wrong; it feels like Concubine Lu is trying to do something. The atmosphere in Wenhua Palace except Dongnuan Pavilion is tense now, and it is very tense. It seems like something is going to happen, but there is no evidence now.”
After hearing what he said, Chang Sheng also became cautious. He said: "Be careful and you will never make a big mistake. Especially before His Highness the Third Prince officially becomes the Emperor's Grandson, you must pay more attention to everything. Be careful to find out the news. I have another one in the text. Hua Dian's spy, you might gain something by contacting him."
Li Ya immediately said: "Master, please don't tell me other people's news. Although I, Li Ya, have come here safely for so many years, I might be discovered one day. I have seen people who were passively tortured and felt that they were
No matter what, if you can't bear it, if you don't die by suicide, you probably won't be able to keep any secrets. It's best for the people in my hands to be known only to you."
Chang Sheng heard that what he said made sense and quickly stopped. But he asked doubtfully: "You are so sincere when you say it, aren't you afraid that I won't trust you?"
Li Ya chuckled and said, "Even if you don't believe me, will you still betray me? At most, you don't need me to deliver the news. If you don't believe my news, it may not be bad for me." Does he have anything else to say?
To put it bluntly, if Yunxi successfully succeeded to the throne, he would probably die. Who would tell everyone about his success in obtaining information through spies, and reward the spies generously?
Chang Sheng had nothing to say. He could only say: "Try your best to protect yourself in the palace and pay more attention to find out the news."
Then nothing happened, so I called a few girls to come in and drink wine with them. After drinking for a while, the three of them left intermittently, but Chang Sheng’s friends came one after another, as if Chang Sheng was waiting for his friends.
It was just like meeting someone by chance and chatting casually over a drink, which did not arouse suspicion. In the end, Chang Sheng and the others did not go home until almost midnight (21:00 to 23:00) after drinking.