This night, for Tian Kangbang and Tian Yufang, was probably the coldest and hungriest night in their lives, but also the most sober and tired night.

This night, for Xu Sanhui and Li Qiu'er, was probably the most fearful, panicked, lonely, and resentful night in their lives.

Although he had already figured out a way to deal with Li Yanxi, it was a little difficult to implement, after all, it was an extremely difficult thing to dig out the core red gilt of the entire vein in a purple gold vein that had just started mining for less than two years, even if Tian Yufang's existing manpower was increased tenfold, it would be impossible to do it. And even if he can find so many people, time will not allow it, after all, the days of Li Yanxi's reopening of the trial are dragging on for longer and longer, and the fourteenth prince is already a little impatient to wait.

For the rest of the night, the two brothers worked tirelessly looking for a good way to stall for time.

It's a pity that things are not as good as they should be, although they racked their brains, but under the interference of the sound of knocking on the door outside the secret room, their minds were already in chaos, plus there was no food, no water to drink, no bed and quilt to keep warm, most of the attention of the two people was on their own feelings, because the physical and psychological state was not too good, so it was inevitable that they would lose concentration when thinking about the problem, and they couldn't think of any effective solutions at all.

Of course, this is also the evening.

The two brothers, Tian Kangbang and Tian Yufang, both knew that even if Li Yanxi waited outside the door for a night, when it was time for the prison shift on the second day, he would definitely go back.

Otherwise, even a super-first-class master would not be able to do these things blatantly during the day.

After all, when the time comes, all the officers and soldiers in the capital, and even the forbidden army in the imperial city, will come to hunt him down, even if Jiang Ning is a super-first-class master, but the commander of the forbidden army is also the top three figures on the martial arts list, not to mention whether he can do it, even if it is just to wash away his grievances, they can conclude that Li Yanxi will definitely go back on time at the end of the moon and sunrise, and when the prison is changed, if someone finds that a prisoner actually ran outside at this time, then Li Yanxi is really wronged, and he is not wronged at all now。

According to Li Yanxi's previous actions, he was obviously not satisfied with fleeing to the rivers and lakes with a stigma on his back, so the two of them clearly knew that he would definitely go back.

However, if I go back tonight, whether I will come back tomorrow night, and whether I will come back the night after tomorrow, this is a serious question.

In order to avoid being assassinated, Tian Kangbang directly ordered people to prepare a complete set of food, bedding, and water in the secret room, and even arranged a maid who was responsible for serving him.

Now that the secret room has been discovered, it is no longer a secret room, and it doesn't matter if some people in the mansion know about it.

In short, the secret room is the safest place for him at the moment, only here, Tian Kangbang feels that his head is standing safely on his shoulders.

As for Tian Yufang, he was already busy going back to his Liangzhou at this time to prepare to dig up the red gilt.

The matter of how to delay time naturally fell into the hands of Tian Kangbang.

And Xu Sanhui and Li Qiu'er, a pair of masters who betrayed the sea for the so-called love and money, are now just a dream, which makes Xu Sanhui show his truest face.

That night, Li Qiu'er woke up earlier than Xu Sanhui, so she listened to all of Xu Sanhui's dream words word for word.

Since then, she has been silent.

Xu San will wake up, it has been a long time later, he didn't realize what kind of dream words he said, and Li Qiu'er was relatively silent on weekdays, he didn't realize anything for a while.

"Come, drink some tea and wake up!" Li Qiu'er walked to Xu Sanhui's side with a cup of tea, supported his slightly rickety body, and spoke softly.

Xu Sanhui likes her gentle and considerate temperament, and her delicate and tactful figure and demeanor are even more superb, that is, because of her bad background, if Li Qiu'er was born in a rich and noble eunuch family, I am afraid that she would have been stepped through by the courtship a few years earlier.

And the reason why he Xu Sanhui made this decision at that time was because the conditions given by Tian Kangbang were too tempting, and secondly, because Li Qiu'er was the personal maid of the Li family's housewife, if there was no accident, she would also be Li Yanxi's woman in the future, the reason why she married into the Li family for so many years, Li Qiu'er has not become Li Yanxi's concubine, is because Li Yanxi's wife is too vinegar and can't tolerate other women at all, and Li Qiu'er's marriage has been shelved again and again。

However, after the last quarrel, Li Yanxi's wife somehow suddenly figured it out.

Rather than letting a person who is unfamiliar with herself, who doesn't know her thoughts, and who is also known to everyone in the world in the capital, enter the house as a concubine, it is better to let Li Qiu'er, a person close to her, be a concubine for Li Yanxi, at least Li Qiu'er's temperament is very familiar to her, and her appearance is not bad, plus her identity, even if she is a concubine, she definitely doesn't dare to fight with herself for anything, it's better than Li Yanxi provoking an uncontrollable wildflower from the outside and losing such a big person to her!

It's a pity that she doesn't know enough about her husband's mind, although Li Yanxi has had frequent quarrels with his wife in recent years, and his love has become cold, but he is not a man who likes to indulge in gentleness and softness, on the contrary, his ambition, his philosophy, and his persistence have always been put on being a good official who asks for the people's life.

What she doesn't know even more is that even the maids who grew up together since childhood, she didn't see what kind of person she was at all.

In all fairness, regardless of Li Yanxi's identity, status, talent or appearance, it is far from being comparable to the housekeeper Xu Sanhui, who has been in contact with Li Yanxi for a long time in the mansion, to say that Li Qiu'er doesn't like this lord at all, and doesn't want to marry the lord as a concubine like the personal maid of the housewife in other mansions, it is impossible, and for a while, this has even become something she is desperately waiting for to happen.

However, the things that can't wait for a long time, gradually extinguished that little bit of charming thoughts, plus clear about her own young lady's thoughts, after a long time, she didn't dare to think about it anymore, after the two got married, the young lady and the master several times lingered with her, the maid who served her closely, and the age was not small, and the heart was more yearning for these men and women, plus the housekeeper Xu Sanhui hooked up with him again and again, and pushed the boat on the thief ship, and when the Li family's housewife talked to her about her decision to marry her to the master as a concubine, she and Xu Sanhui had already been secretly married, and even his child was already in the belly, although there was some regret at this time, but it's too late, if you really want to marry Li Yanxi, I'm afraid that on the first day, the other party will find out that she is no longer a virgin, and when the time comes, it will not only be a matter of not being a concubine, Li Yanxi and Miss are furious, it is difficult to say whether she will survive or not.

Therefore, at this point, the reason why she will kill people ruthlessly and create unjust cases is that the maids and servants in the house give and accept each other privately, which is a mortal sin, if it is exposed, even if the young lady remembers her previous love and doesn't want her life, but she can't get along in this Li Mansion, and she is a weak woman who is pregnant, if she is driven out of the Li Mansion and her reputation is also stinky, she will be homeless after going out, and she can only wait for death.

These are all things she absolutely doesn't want to see, plus Xu Sanhui reached a deal with Tian Kangbang at this time, and after hesitating for a while, she agreed.

Because, after a while, her belly will become more and more obvious, and when the time comes, even if the young lady repents again and does not let him marry the old man Li Yanxi, her secret will not be kept.

Looking at it, it seems that following Xu Sanhui's strategy, killing the young lady, blaming the master, and then getting Tian Kangbang's blessing is her Li Qiuer's only way to live.

She chose to live, and naturally she wanted to die, and it could only be the young lady who had served and supported her for so many years.

Naturally, there is, but for the sake of her own little life, for the sake of the unborn child in her womb, she seems to have no choice.

"Ah, thank you. Xu Sanhui reached out and took the teacup, lifted the lid of the tea and took a sip gently, after putting it down, he rubbed the back of his neck with his other hand, and said with a smile: "Hey, yesterday I somehow, I had a nightmare, and I didn't sleep well all night." ”

Li Qiu'er smiled, then lowered her head and didn't say anything more.

In the past, she was so virtuous and silent, Xu Sanhui was used to this, but she didn't notice anything abnormal. After rubbing his sour neck with his free hand again, he continued to pick up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp.

I got up and was about to leave, when I suddenly felt sleepy, and an indescribable inertia emerged from the depths of my body.

Xu Sanhui shook his head, didn't think much about it, just squinted his eyes and left a gap, and said in a daze: "Oh, I didn't sleep well yesterday, and I was a little sleepy today, or I'll rest for a while, and you will call me again in an hour!"

"Good. Li Qiu'er answered softly, then helped him to bed with a smile and fell asleep, and covered him with the quilt again.

After a few moments, the breathing of the person on the bed began to gradually steady, and after a few more moments, the sound of fine and even snoring began to sound.

Li Qiu'er walked lightly and slowly, gently climbed onto the bed, leaned sideways, supported the bed with one elbow and supported her chin with her hand, just looked at the sleeping man, and gently stroked his forehead with the other hand.

"Three meetings, three meetings, for you, I gave up my master, and for you, I killed Miss," Li Qiu'er said, but the smile on her face became brighter and brighter, but there was no longer half a cent of light in those moist eyes, and some were just ashes, "Now, I don't think it's worth it." ”

The woman got up lightly, sat on the man's body with a slightly bulging abdomen, first tied his feet and his entire body with the hemp rope that had been prepared in advance, and then sat back on Xu Sanhui's body.

A pair of plain hands pressed on Xu Sanhui's neck, watching his breathing gradually weaken, his face gradually turned red and purple, the green tendons on his forehead burst out, and the woman's hands trembled slightly, but her expression was unprecedentedly firm.

It is a kind of helplessness under the confusion, a person is desperate to the extreme, but will return to peace.

I don't know how long it took, the body of the person below me began to stop struggling unconsciously, breathless, sweaty cold, head drooping obliquely to the side, no heartbeat, no pulse.

Li Qiu'er slowly stretched out his arms, lay down gently, and lay down in the arms of the corpse.

She smiled and pulled out a pair of scissors from her arms, held them with both hands, and stabbed them into her heart.

The blood stained her clothes, the clothes of the man next to her, the whole bed, two corpses, three lives, to death, Li Qiu'er was already smiling, but for some reason, there were blood and tears oozing out of her eyes, and the person who found the corpse in Tian Kangbang's mansion tried many times, but he couldn't close those eyes.

When the person dies, the evidence can be regarded as his own destruction, this machine is the scene that Tian Kangbang is most willing to see, and he doesn't even need to find someone to do it, the two people died by themselves, it stands to reason that this should be the most relaxed situation for him, but Tian Kangbang can't be happy anyway.

Li Yanxi's matter is not over yet, these two people died in their mansion in such a hurry, no matter how you look at it, it looks like they have been killed, although he knows very well that this time, although he has the heart to extinguish, he will definitely not choose such an embarrassing time to do it, but unfortunately, things have happened.

At that time, Li Yanxi's case was discovered, and he took the initiative to take these two people in, and some people who couldn't see through things would think that he was kind-hearted, but there were also some people with deep thoughts who suspected that his purpose was impure from the beginning.

After all, above Li Yanxi's mansion, there are a lot of maids, if he is simply kind, why just take these two people over, but ignore the other people in Li Yanxi's mansion?

As long as he figured this out, Tian Kangbang's behavior would become very suspicious, as if he was trying to bribe these two people and prevent them from revealing some of the real situation.

The Fourteenth Prince also had the same suspicion about this, but he didn't have any conclusive evidence, and after all, Zuodu Yushi was a pivotal position in the imperial court, and it didn't mean that he could move casually just by relying on two words of punishment, so the Fourteenth Prince couldn't think of any good way to get close to these two people for a while, trying to ask something from their mouths.

"Originally, I planned to ask for the arraignment of these two people with the evidence in our hands after the trial was reopened, but I didn't expect that the trial would start in a few days, but the two of them died one step earlier, or committed suicide, don't you think it's a bit too coincidental?" Above the Wuying Palace, the fourteenth prince stood quietly in front of Emperor Shengde and said respectfully.

"Even if it's really a suicide, there must be something wrong with it. Emperor Shengde said: "There are also suicides that he kills and pretends to commit suicide, and there are also those who commit suicide by coercion and coercion, in short, there are many kinds, but no matter which one they are, since these two people died in his Tian Kangbang's mansion, they have nothing to do with him." ”

"Father Emperor Shengming. The fourteenth prince bowed and said, "The child has already noticed that there is Prime Minister Li Yun behind this matter, but he ...... I don't know what my father plans to ......."

"This person can't move. Emperor Shengde said: "Even if you succeed to the throne in the future, you must remember that you must not touch him until you can't find a suitable candidate to replace him, but if his wings are too abundant, whether it is in the future or now, you can cut it openly." ”

The fourteenth prince was stunned, and immediately said, "The child understands." ”

Emperor Shotoku glanced at his son with some appreciation.

Emperor Shengde reigned for thirty-six years, and there were many concubines, more than 20 princes alone, but he was very fond of the fourteenth prince whose mother was just an ordinary concubine.

It stands to reason that when the emperor was in power, he did not want a situation of dominance among the princes, because this was not conducive to his rule, and only when he died, he would tell the world his choice in an edict.

Or simply don't say anything, and after you die, let those princes rely on their own abilities.

But he did just that, firstly, because he asked himself that he was absolutely capable of suppressing any of his sons, and that he also had the strength to control the stability of the entire court situation, and secondly, because although the emperor looked good in recent years, a large part of the reason for this was due to the superb medical skills of the imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital, and he knew that his life was short, so he made a desperate bet and chose in advance a fourteenth prince who thought he had the best character and ability, and trained him himself.

Right now, this old fourteenth is growing up very quickly, and it really didn't disappoint him, he just dialed it a little, and the fourteenth prince immediately understood what he meant.

Li Gong is a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, an old cabinet minister, an important minister of military aircraft, and he has done all the six Shangshu except for the military department, and it can be regarded as the ultimate Wenchen, although in many Qing officials like Li Yanxi, this prime minister still has a lot of deficiencies and even disgusting places, but in fact, no one can replace Li Yun's position at all, what the emperor needs him to do, Li Yun can do, but those who claim to be upright and clean with their sleeves can't, the emperor is not happy that the prime minister's family is dominant, Li Yun has offended more people in the officialdom, in order to eliminate dissidents, he even used secret means to kill some innocent people, such a prime minister, others are very afraid of him and dare not disobey him, but they may not hate him in their hearts, and they don't want him to step down.

If the fourteenth prince insists on replacing the prime minister because he can't get used to the other party's actions after taking the throne, I am afraid that the entire dynasty will fall into fatigue because of this.

The previous dynasty, that is, the Great Embarrassment Dynasty from prosperity to decline, that is, when a Jiaqing Emperor ascended the throne, he felt that a son of heaven and a courtier, were eager to execute his father Emperor Qiankun's prime minister Feng Shendu, but the successor prime minister did not have the auxiliary political ability of Feng Shendu, and the result was not as good as the previous dynasty, and finally ended up in a declining country.

The Fourteenth Prince took history as a mirror, and naturally immediately understood.

Substitutions are possible, provided you can find a replacement of comparable ability!