After the Dragon Boat Festival in May of the 56th year of Kangxi, bad news suddenly came from the courtyard of the Nian family, the daughter of the Nian family, who was less than two years old, suddenly convulsed all over her body for some reason, and when the imperial doctor arrived, the child had turned purple and suffocated to death. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The child's weak but sudden onset of illness without warning not only surprised me, but also made everyone smell extraordinary.

"It doesn't look like I'm dying of illness, it's like I'm dying of ...... Poisoned!" At that time, the imperial doctor said after examining the child's body, and the words once again caused an uproar in the house.

Yinzhen immediately asked everyone in Nian's yard to be taken into custody, and also took care of all the things that the child had eaten and used, so that the imperial doctor could carefully inspect them, and finally found bauhinia pollen on the toys on the child's bedside and the silver jewelry worn on his body.

Bauhinia flowers bloom from November to April, and their pollen is poisonous, and prolonged contact with people can induce asthma. Nian's daughter was already weak, and she was under two years old, and her cardiopulmonary function was insufficient, so she did have asphyxia caused by asthma after inhalation. It is impossible for this pollen to appear after May, it must have been extracted in advance, which excludes the possibility that the servants and maids accidentally contaminated it.

It was determined that someone had assassinated him, Nian's heart was too sad and he fell ill for a while, and Nian Qianyao was furious when he learned about it, forcing Yinzhen to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Coincidentally, those silver ornaments and toys were awarded by the Ulanala clan on the fifth day of May, Nian's thought that the silver could have been detected as poison, and looked at the bright silver bell bracelet style that the Ulanala clan rewarded was quite new, and those toy children also liked it, and would take the initiative to reach out and grab it, so they put it on and played with her. Unexpectedly, there was bauhinia pollen hidden in some of the cracks between the bell of the silver bracelet and the toy. However, after just a few days of exposure, the pollen toxins absorbed by the child's lungs were deposited in the body, which eventually induced pollen allergic asthma and caused the child to suffocate to death.

These silverware and toys were originally made by the Ulanala clan in order to be friendly with the Nian's, so that the treasury side specially customized them for the child, and the treasury took them back and handed them directly to the Ula Nala clan, and then handed them directly to the Nian's through her hands, and on the day of the reward, the Nian's personally put them on and played with the child, there was no other link, unless someone on the treasury side did the tricks, but according to the head of the treasury, these things were taken back on the same day and sent directly to the courtyard of the Ulanala clan, and there was no stop in between, so there is no doubt that all the unfavorable evidence pointed to the Ulanala clan。

"How could it be Fujin, she has no reason to do this" I said with a frown after listening to Xiao Shunzi's reply.

"But at the moment, all the evidence does point to Fujin, the treasury side from the previous inventory of the hidden pile, it was replaced by the master, Fujin and our people, I also asked our people to say that when this batch of things arrived at the treasury, because Fujin specifically asked to be prepared before the Dragon Boat Festival, so the treasury manager did not dare to delay and sent it directly in person. So it definitely won't be a problem on the side of the treasury. Xiao Shunzi said with certainty.

"Is it possible that there is a problem with these jewelry and toys outside the house?, or is it that the people around Fujin have done something?" I thought about the time difference between the possible tampering and tampering.

"It's hard to say, because the silverware and toys are procured through the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it stands to reason that it is unlikely that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a problem. As for the people around Fujin...... This minion is not good at talking. And the people around Fujin actually have the opportunity to do tricks, not necessarily it is really a problem with silverware and playing, I can't be sure who deliberately smeared on these objects, otherwise how could there be so many geniuses. Xiao Shunzi said.

"It's a problem, there are so many possibilities, it's completely clueless. What is the attitude of the fourth master at the moment?" asked the Qian family the question that I also thought of.

"The fourth master has detained all the people on Fujin's side, and the courtyard of Fujin has also been sealed, and no one is allowed to enter or leave for the time being, and all the people involved in the house have been locked up, and I don't know what the result will be. The slave felt that this matter was too strange, it stands to reason that after the Li clan lost power, no one in the mansion should be able to make such a big move, how could something happen for no reason, could it be that the person who Gege guessed made a move? But in just two years, how could she put people in the courtyard of Fujin and Nianfang Fujin under our noses?"

The more Xiao Shunzi talked, the more he felt that he couldn't figure it out, and the Qian family was even more glad and afraid that this matter had nothing to do with this courtyard.

"Do you really think this has nothing to do with us?" I said, my eyes darkening, and a sneer curled into my lips.

"Oh, we didn't interfere at all, how could it have anything to do with it?" Qian asked in surprise when he heard my words.

"What is the reason why we can live in peace in the inner courtyard?" I glanced at the two of them and said, "It's nothing more than that we have Fujin as a guard of honor, plus the secret protection of the fourth master." But now the fourth master is busy with things outside, and he has to spoil Nian's face to make Nian Qianyao feel at ease, how can he have the energy to take care of us, the Li family is no longer a top matter, once something happens to Fujin, the power in the house will naturally fall into the hands of the Nian family, but Nian's age is young and his body is very delicate, so the fourth master will inevitably let me assist. Do you say that I will take this errand or not?"

"If the fourth master really arranges like this, he will naturally refuse to do so. Qian said.

"Yes, but there is a saying that more is wrong, once this happens, as long as there is a slight mistake in the house, the Nian family will not do anything, but I am afraid that it will end up like the next Fujin. "I coldly analyzed the direction of the situation and the purpose of the person who shot it.

"It's another meticulous trick that links one after another, and it seems that the person really made a move. What should we do now?" Qian's expression also became solemn, she knew very well that according to my inference, this person's next target was probably me, and if something happened to me again, she would have nothing to fear.

"She can't do anything, her move is really a vicious move to take one step and see three steps. On the surface, killing Nian's daughter to deal with Fujin doesn't seem to have anything to do with us, but I suspect that he has a plan for the future. First of all, in addition to the possibility I just mentioned, she probably also wants to use this to separate our relationship with Fujin. I said.

Although we won't burn ourselves if we don't make a move, but if we look on the wall at this time, we will inevitably fall into the heart of the Ulanala clan, and once we find out if she is wronged in the future, or turn over for other reasons, the alliance between us will be officially broken, and it will be difficult to imagine that it is difficult to live in harmony with her like this now. However, if you intervene, it is very likely that this matter will be a snake and a stick, and you will eventually fall into right and wrong, and you may be said to be an accomplice of the Ulanala clan, and it may even be said that you are the mastermind of instigating the Ulanala clan to do this. We can't be sure that the people above will throw us out as scapegoats to calm the situation in order to save the Ulanala clan. Even the motivation for doing so is at our fingertips - just because we are jealous of Nian's favor.

"This person is terrible, so what should we do, whether we can save it or not, we will fall into her trap, it is really a dilemma. Qian suddenly became anxious.

"Of course, people want to be saved, but they can't be saved openly, now we can only find a way to send our speculation to Fujin, let her understand our difficulties, and then ask her to be calm. What we can do now is to make the man think that we are going to choose Mingzhe to protect our lives, so that we can continue to act according to the first script she prepared, and when we get the assistant rights of the house, we can clearly transfer the information from all parties to find out when the bauhinia pollen was put into the silver jewelry and toys. I thought for a long time and said.

"But now the people who guard the courtyard of Fujin are the people of the master, and even the people who deliver meals can only be sent to the gate of the courtyard, and then handed over to the guards for inspection, and then sent in by the people in charge of guarding. Xiao Shunzi said.

"Yes, that's why I said that this matter doesn't seem to have anything to do with us, but in fact, it's us who is the hardest. If the news can't be delivered, I'm afraid I can only make a desperate bet and risk being misunderstood by Fujin and act according to the plan. I sighed.

Things are really not as simple as thought, it is estimated that she is afraid that the Wulanala clan will deliver news or collude confessions, her courtyard is guarded by Yinzhen's people like an iron bucket, and she can hardly find any way to deliver news, and even if someone stays in front of the courtyard for a long time, they will be arrested and interrogated.

In this case, I had to wait for the next development as I had planned.

As I expected, after the Wulanala clan was detained, Yinzhen temporarily handed over the affairs of the inner court to the Nian family, but the Nian family had just experienced the pain of losing his daughter, and he had been sick, and his body and energy could not deal with those trivial affairs, and it was impossible for the Li family to interfere in these again, so he directly asked me to assist in handling it.

Now that the second move is settled, it depends on where she plans to make the third move. Let's brace ourselves and start coping. Now that the enemy is dark and we are clear, the situation is very passive with us, and we can only divide the troops into two ways to deal with it. Sister Qian, you and Xiao Shunzi don't meddle in the affairs of the house with me, but go and find out what might be wrong with those objects. In this way, the situation becomes that I am in the light and you are in the dark, and if I accidentally fall for it, at least you can find a way to save it. Remember, don't panic at any time, even if something really happens to me, you don't need to worry, just deal with it slowly, even if it takes a long time, it will never hurt, there will always be a day when the clouds will see the day. "I made arrangements for Qian and Xiaoshunzi, and then instructed.

"Sister, this muddy water is too deep, since that person is only targeting Fujin at the moment, we still have a chance to find a way to avoid it, why do we have to risk our lives......" Qian took my hand nervously, and thought about retreating.

"Silly sister, do you really think that she is only targeting Fujin? Obviously, she is not mainly targeting anyone at all, but wants to muddy the waters of our Prince Yong's Mansion, this person is probably not small. Now there are only a few of us in the house, the Li family is down, the Fujin family is down, I am down, the Song family is useless, and the only ones left who can support things are Nian and you, but who of you can compare scheming with this person, when the time comes, she is afraid that she will start to pay Nian's, Nian's is not happy, Nian Qianyao will not follow the fourth master in a down-to-earth manner, and how can the fourth master concentrate on letting go. What's more, the inner house is not well handled, how can the country be stable and stable, and what does the emperor think of our fourth master? So this is not a matter of you and me, for the sake of the fourth master, and for our own sake, we can't let her fulfill her wish, even if you are the only one left, you have to fight her to the end, understand?" I said to the Qian family with a wry smile.

It is now 56 years since Kangxi, and there are only five years left before the critical year of the change of dynasty. Yinzhen's power in the court has just been established, but it is not stable, and the strong enemies he needs to face are the Eight Masters who have always had huge connections and financial resources, and his younger brother Yinyu. Before, I also thought that that person supported the Li family to compete for favor, but later I found out that it was not. So I began to wonder what this person was trying to do, and the more I pondered, the more I realized that this matter may not be as simple as the dispute between the inner house.

Qian is right, this water is too deep, I don't know when I started to slowly get involved in the complex political torrent from the simple inner house fight, even if I did not directly participate in the court political struggle, but there was also a fierce political fight in the inner house.

The inner house of the court, one is prosperous, one is lost, and the whole body is involved, this is not a lie, it is a battle for life that is either you die or I die, and if you win, you will be rich and honored, and if you lose, you will be ruined and your reputation will be ruined and the whole clan will be affected, but even if you know that there will be such a result, you still have no way to retreat, and you can only fight with all your might.

Qian and Xiao Shunzi knew very well that they could only go on according to my arrangement, and there was no turning back.

In June of the fifty-sixth year of Kangxi, the disposal of the inner courtyard of Prince Yong's mansion was obviously handed over to the Nian family, but in fact, it all fell into my hands.

At first, I still got up early every morning to listen to the reports of the stewards in the house last year, but then Nian's simply called illness and handed over everything to me to deal with, even in the morning, I didn't have to go to her side, except for some important things, the trivial matters in the rest of the house were directly let the steward come to my hospital to explain things clearly and arrange it. Even small amounts of money don't have to go through her, just make the accounts and check them for her at the end of the month.

The trivial things seem small, but if they are not handled well, they will cause big trouble, especially the money and goods, how many people have been planted on this in the past, so I don't dare to take it lightly.

However, with the power of stewardship, it is much easier to act. As long as they find an excuse to inform them, Qian and Xiaoshunzi can get the first-hand information they want.

"Gege, when the minions checked the provenance of those objects, they found a drawing, I'm afraid Gege will have to see it for himself. Xiao Shunzi looked serious and cautious, and took out a piece of paper from his arms.

I took it and was shocked. What is drawn on the paper is the pattern of the pair of "perfect matches" purple jade pendants that Yinyu gave me, and it is obvious that they are a pair from the picture. If this drawing falls into Yinzhen's hands, he will definitely know that I lied in order to get away with the crime. Although it has been a long time since Degege's incident, and he also knows that I have crossed paths with Yinyu, I have never told him that this jade pendant is also related to Yinyu, and it is a pair. The piece of jade pendant that was abandoned in the Degege house has long been destroyed, and the piece of Yinyu has also been placed by me in the small storeroom of my house. And the booklet he got at that time didn't mention this pair of jade pendants, so I forgot about it.

If you let Yinzhen know that this jade pendant is Yinzhen's, and it is a pair, you will inevitably suspect that the relationship between me and Yinzhen will not be just a general friendship, if it is really just like this, how can it reach the point of exchanging "love tokens".

"This drawing is just a rubbing, the original is in the hands of the craftsman who made this jade pendant, and the craftsman said that if Gege wants the original, he must meet him in person, otherwise he will ......" Xiao Shunzi said here with a gloomy face and wanted to stop talking.

"Otherwise what?" I asked.

"Otherwise, I don't know if this drawing will fall into the hands of someone who shouldn't see it," Xiao Shunzi said slowly.

"Bastard, you dare to blackmail us with this thing. But the silversmith and the jade smith are not the same place, how did you find out here? "I was angry at first, but then I became confused.

"The things that Fujin gave to Fujin on the side of the year are all made by craftsmen in the Internal Affairs Office, and the craftsmen in the Internal Affairs Office are all good hands, how can the craftsmanship of those folk craftsmen outside be accessible, in the past, the Internal Affairs Office was in charge of the eighth master, so it is not surprising that the ninth master found these craftsmen to make things. It's just that the slave feels that a jade craftsman may not have the courage to dare to say such a coercive word, and someone must have asked him to say this behind him. Gege thinks what to do with this?" said Xiao Shunzi.

"If this is the case, can we infer that there will also be people behind the silversmith and carpenter's side, so it is likely that the small items containing bauhinia pollen were problematic from the beginning, but because no one cared, they were successfully handed over to Nian's hands, and finally harmed Xiao Gege?" I put aside the drawings in advance, and calmly thought about all kinds of involvement.

"It should be like this, so in fact, there is a person involved behind the two things, and the slave feels that Gege is afraid that he is really going to go through this experience himself. Xiao Shunzi said. (To be continued.) )