Chapter eight hundred and seventy-fifth picture poor
When Zhao Guogong Zhu Jing came to the Lin Mansion, he saw that the place was already deserted. From a glance, there were not many guests coming in and out, but the servants of the Lin Mansion were not only sad, but also had a kind of difficulty.
The name was so desolate. Especially when Lin's son came out in a hurry, his whole body was shaking like chaff, looking like he couldn't bear the beam.
Zhu Jing has always hated cowardly people, but even he couldn't be too harsh on this young master Lin at this time, because the young and powerful father suddenly died suddenly, and then the cause of death secretly coincided with the recent turmoil, so it was him.
When three children in the family encounter this kind of thing, Zhu Tingfang and Zhu Ying are determined and ambitious, so it probably doesn't matter, but Zhu Er was not much better before!
Therefore, he was not as cold as usual, but said in a gentle tone: "I will give Lin Shangshu a stick of incense."
After his father died of a sudden illness, almost all his disciples, old relatives and friends avoided him like snakes and scorpions. Only a few people who were really close came to express condolences. Meanwhile, the public comments from outside became more and more intense. Young Master Lin, who was almost on the verge of despair, only
When Zhu Jing came today for questioning, he even made the most tragic preparations in his heart.
But at this time, Zhu Jing actually expressed euphemistically that he came to express his condolences. After he was slightly stunned, the huge stone in his heart seemed to explode instantly. He was a manly man, and tears actually came out of his eyes. Fortunately, as a filial son who lost his father,
Such crying was not excessive, so he quickly lowered his head to wipe his tears while respectfully inviting Zhu Jing inside.
After bringing the person to the mourning hall, he saw Zhu Jing holding incense and bowing in front of the mourning body, and then stood in silence for a while. However, he turned around and walked out without saying anything. After answering the ceremony, Mr. Lin finally couldn't help it anymore and got up.
He rushed forward and mustered up the courage to stop this emperor's trusted minister who was known to everyone in the capital.
"Mr. Zhao Guo, regarding my father's matter...what is the court saying?"
Seeing Master Lin's expression of grief and indignation, Zhu Jing lowered his head and glanced at the filial sons and grandsons kneeling next to him. He saw that the younger ones were only three or four years old, and they were kneeling there with confused faces. Others either lowered their heads in silence or raised their heads in anticipation.
Pan, perhaps as filled with righteous indignation as Young Master Lin, was exactly the same as all living beings in the outside world, so he couldn't help but sigh deeply.
"Don't listen to what those people say."
As soon as he finished speaking, he could certainly see that the energy and spirit of many people inside and outside the entire mourning hall were instantly different. However, he did not want to simply comfort him, so he said calmly: "The pure will become clear, and the turbid will become clear."
Since the dead are the most important, you, as descendants, should know best what kind of person and character Mr. Lin Shangshu, the head of the family, has."
This time, Master Lin's face turned pale again. His father was really low-key outside and did not look like an official, but at home, especially in front of his eldest son, his true nature was revealed, and
He knew that there were actually quite a few officials coming and going from his home. A few days ago, many of the people who were jumping up and down, throwing stones and asking for directions, were guests of his home.
"We know what we know." He tried his best to squeeze out these few words. Seeing Zhu Jing's silence, he had to bite the bullet and say, "But the limelight outside is all directed at my family. My mother was originally suffering from the loss of her husband.
He is bedridden due to pain, and now he is even more frightened, and his siblings are still young. Duke Zhao, there should be an explanation for this matter, right? "It would be great if the court could grant a funeral offering!
Zhu Jing stared at Young Master Lin for a long time, until he lowered his head in panic, and then he said word by word: "Please help Ling return to his hometown. In a place like the capital, where your family is sick, the little one is sick."
I'm too young to stay any longer. Of course, if you think it would be easier to live in the capital and take the imperial examination, then just pretend I didn't say anything."
Young Master Lin was immediately speechless. Because he was a scholar who passed the exam in Shuntian Prefecture, and it was much easier to pass the exam in Beizhili than in Jiangnan. Originally, he planned to take advantage of his father to take charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Jinke.
, to see if he could pass the examination, and then get a good rank in the palace examination. But now, with his father passing away and this trend, everything is over.
Not only his fame, it may even affect the future of him, his brothers, and even the next few generations!
Therefore, he watched Zhu Jing go out and wanted to chase him, but his feet felt like lead. In the end, he could only turn his head and glare at the spiritual statue fiercely.
It’s all you, it’s all your insatiable greed, you are already the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and you are still not satisfied! If you hadn’t caused these things behind the scenes, I would still be a safe and secure Young Master!
When Zhao Guogong Zhu Jing left the Lin Mansion, he did not mount his horse and gallop away as usual, but got into a carriage surrounded by guards. This was relatively rare for him, but for those who discovered his trip
Although the Minister of War came to express his condolences openly, it was not surprising that he covered his whereabouts a little.
And precisely because the guards were shouting and swarming, others could not get close, so they could not notice the clues of these guards and entourage. Therefore, of course, no one noticed that Zhu Jing was stunned for a moment after an entourage opened the car curtain.
He was stunned, and then he got into the car with a serious look on his face.
In the dark corner at the back of the carriage, there was still a person sitting. When the thick curtains came down, and the curtains were motionless and no light was revealed, Zhu Jing got on the carriage and asked coldly: "I'm still thinking, Queen Mother
How could you suddenly instruct me to come to the Lin Mansion to express condolences? It turned out to be your instigation. But when Lin Shangshu was in power, the Queen Mother had already withdrawn the curtain, and Lin Shangshu was not hypocritical to the servants in the palace."
"Neither the Queen Mother nor you should have any good impressions of him. Why do you still want to instigate the Queen Mother to let me go on this trip? And now you come here specially to wait for me?" Zhu Jing's eyes suddenly turned sharp, and he even said
They all became horrified, "He, Mr. Lin, is indeed not a good person. The rumors outside this time actually did not accuse him unjustly, but how dare you!"
The people in the car said as if nothing had happened: "Before the coffin has been opened for autopsy, Mr. Zhao, you are blaming the whole thing on me. Isn't this too arbitrary?"
Zhu Jingran sneered: "I just bowed in front of the spirit, and the strong smell of medicine hit my nostrils. Unless my sense of smell has failed, it is absolutely impossible to ignore that smell. Those few medicines combined together,
It can make people who already have heart problems suddenly become sicker and then die suddenly. I think you have used this trick before."
"Since that time, I have memorized the prescription, and I have also memorized the special taste together. And now, almost thirty years have passed, and you use this trick again because you think I am
Will you forget your extraordinary achievements back then?"
The person hidden in the shadows at the back of the carriage finally sat up slightly, and then said calmly: "Zhao Guogong has a good memory, and I am naturally unmatched, so of course I dare not not take you seriously. This is not me.
The reason for deliberately exposing such a flaw is because there are very few methods that can be used to make an official, an official, die of a sudden illness in a dignified manner."
"I can't hang people from the rafters!"
Hearing such an explicit statement, Zhu Jing's face suddenly turned darker. Especially when he saw the other party suddenly leaning forward, he shouted sharply: "Are you admitting it? Do you think I really won't report it to the emperor?
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"Mr. Zhao Guo, you are a first-class loyal minister, so you will never report it to the emperor casually." When he said this, the person finally revealed his face, it was Chu Kuan. Facing Zhu Jing, he felt like needles pricking him.
Looking at him, he remained calm and said word by word, "Some people can be punished by national laws, but some people cannot. In this case, why don't I come and share the emperor's worries?"
"You are trying to overstep your bounds... No, it is simply lawless!" Zhu Jing's face suddenly filled with anger. At this time, he finally understood why the Queen Mother sent a group of royal servants to follow him today. It turned out that it was not to prevent some people from peeping and spying on Lin.
It was to prevent outsiders from seeing this scene.
He clearly remembered that Chu Kuan rarely visited Qingning Palace in these years, and the friendship with the Queen Mother seemed to have faded a lot. Now it seems that his aunt still treats him as her confidant as she did then.
However, the more this happened, the more Zhu Jing couldn't understand why Chu Kuan would directly deliver such a handle to him. Even if the Queen Mother knew about it and acquiesced to it - this was not impossible - but he firmly believed that the emperor would not agree.
He hated such methods even more, so he couldn't help but be more vigilant about Chu Kuan's purpose.
Immediately afterwards, he heard something that almost shocked him to the point of crashing into the carriage: "Moreover, whether it is the deposed queen or the eldest prince and the second prince, even though they died at the hands of traitors, they are still much better than me."
It rarely has anything to do with it."
"Of course, you don't need to be suspicious of the Queen Mother. She has no idea. I have stayed in the palace for too long. Although these imperial servants are now taken over by Hua Qi, I spent too much on them in the past years.
Time, so they, like me, put Ming Dynasty first in everything."
With this last sentence, Zhao Guogong Zhu Jing not only failed to feel a little at ease, but became even more vigilant. He is a person with extremely rich experience. Naturally, he knows that some people in the world simply cannot listen to certain truths and wholeheartedly
I regard this as a golden rule and will never repent.
The emperor has a similar character, but in comparison, the supreme emperor has become much better in these years than when he was a boy, but Chu Kuan is clearly more serious than the emperor, and he dares to do evil things to the deposed queen, mother and son, and Lin Shangshu!
Maybe there are more than just these four, there are probably more people who have been victimized over the years!
Zhu Jing quickly went through the list of abnormal deaths over the years in his mind, and based on his memory, the list started from the deposed queen, the eldest prince, the second prince, Lin Shangshu, all the way to a certain pedestrian Si Xingren and a certain minister.
...With such a rough calculation, he found that there were at least one or twenty people, and he secretly took a deep breath.
Without hesitation, he leaned forward to open the door curtain in front of him. Unexpectedly, he felt something pressing tightly against his back in an instant, as if if he moved, it would dig straight in without mercy.
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Even though he did not have the experience of fighting on the verge of life and death like he did when he accompanied Emperor Ruizhong during the Northern Expedition the year before last. After all, the most dangerous task was taken by his eldest son Zhu Tingfang, Zhu Jing's reaction was still extremely sharp. However,
, before he could give it a try, he heard Chu Kuan's calm voice.
"If I were Zhao Guogong, I would not act so rashly. You should know that since I have said so much, I am putting life and death aside. It is not the first day you and I met. You should know that once I am determined to die, then
I will never back down, let alone be soft-hearted."
"Yes, if you don't say it, no one in the world will know that you have done this. But since you have said it, it means that compared to the previous things, what you want to do next is more important to you than these things.
It was too big, so I threw it aside.”
Even though he had a sharp knife on his waist, and in this small carriage, he was probably no match for Chu Kuan, who was better at small maneuvers, but Zhu Jing calmed down quickly after his initial surprise and anger. He slowly
He slowly sat back and saw that Chu Kuan calmly put the sharp knife in his sleeve back into his sleeve, and then he asked a question.
"What do you want?"
"It's very simple. Please invite Duke Zhao, your good son-in-law who rides the dragon, to come out."
Seeing that Zhu Jing's brows stood up for a moment, and he was obviously angry about it, Chu Kuan laughed and said: "The Queen Mother is my savior, and she is also the mistress I have served for many years. I respect her like a god, so naturally
I won't do anything to her nephew. And you don't have to worry about what I do to your Chenglong son-in-law. If it weren't for the fact that he kept a distance from me and was too wary, I wouldn't have made such a move."
Zhu Jing simply felt that Chu Kuan was unreasonable. It was understandable that people thought Zhang Shou was more important than him. After all, even he could not understand Zhang Shou's extremely difficult things.
However, Chu Kuan's statement actually meant that he valued Zhang Shou more than the deposed empress and the eldest prince and the second prince who had previously assassinated him? Moreover, what does it mean that Zhang Shou treats people at a distance and is too wary? Is it possible that Zhang Shou is afraid of others?
Shou had already known something about Chu Kuan, but he kept it secret?
Although Zhu Jing is a martial artist, Chu Kuan knows very well that people are always very thoughtful and do not want to be subordinated to officials, so when he saw the person like this, he knew that the other person was thinking too much. But at this moment, he didn't care whether Zhu Jing wanted to
Too much, but I am very worried that the other party will reject me directly regardless of it, and it is impossible for him to really treat the person. At that time, I can only use the most drastic means.
Therefore, while Zhu Jing was frowning and thinking, he said seductively: "Mr. Zhao, you arranged to raise Zhang Shou in that small village. That small village should be full of your spies. So, the emperor and Ge
The old master believed that it was learned people from overseas who enlightened him and taught him the things he now teaches others."
"But you should be able to realize that this is impossible! In that case, where did he learn these things? Is it like Emperor Taizu who can dream of the Emperor of Heaven, so he can do what others cannot?"
Zhu Jing clearly saw that the more Chu Kuan spoke, the more ferocious, or fanatical, his face became. In the end, he even turned the sharp blade in his hand, and his eyes became more dangerous than before. He thought about it in his heart.
After a long time, he asked coldly: "Liang Jiucheng tried him alone according to the order, but there was no result. I think you have lost your mind and gone crazy!"