Chapter 35: Who is behind it?
The prince's mansion set up a banquet in the evening, and that morning, Princess Ningyun came to Xuanyang Hall again. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ning Yun specially brought some pastries from the palace, and Ning Yun already knew about the Prince's Mansion to invite Lan Shaofeng and Zuo Huaishu.
"Imperial sister-in-law, you have to be careful with the crown princess." Ning Yun said to Zuo Huaishu.
"What's wrong with the crown princess?" Zuo Huaishu asked quietly.
These days, Ning Yun and Zuo Huaishu have talked a lot about Jinlin City, the palace, and the people and things in the court, most of which are inconsequential things, such as the emperor went to favor the jade concubine last night, Song Guiren got what reward the emperor received, and the Nine Emperor Princes were furious because they robbed the people's daughters, but the emperor only reprimanded the Nine Emperor Princes and did not punish them. Also, she dislikes Lord Li's eldest son the most...... However, Ning Yun sometimes talked about some battles in the court or the court, and every now and then, Zuo Huaishu listened casually on the surface, but secretly wrote down in his heart who was at odds with whom in the Great Plains Kingdom, or who was not in harmony with his heart, and who else had a close relationship with whom.
With Ning Yun, it is very convenient for Zuo Huaishu to learn about all kinds of things in the Great Plains Kingdom.
Ning Yun had also mentioned Lan Shaofeng's mother before, Emperor Jin, but Emperor Jin had been dead for more than ten years, and Ning Yun was born in the year that Emperor Jin passed away, so Ning Yun had never seen Emperor Jin. But because she is Lan Shaofeng's biological mother, when Ning Yun mentioned Emperor Jin, she treated her own mother with great respect. Ning Yun also said that Lan Jinyu was actually not the prince from the beginning, he was only the second prince, and the Great Plains Kingdom originally had a great prince, but the eldest prince was sick when he was three years old, and Lan Jinyu, as the second prince, became the prince. Speaking of the eldest prince, he is actually the same mother as Lan Shaofeng, and they were both born to Emperor Jin.
Let's talk about the relationship between Ning Yun and the crown prince, their relationship was not bad before, but since Liu Wan'er became the crown princess, Ning Yun slowly alienated the prince. Ning Yun may think in her heart that Liu Wan'er has failed Lan Shaofeng, and the prince is snatching love, so she has prejudices against the crown princess, and she is not close to the prince, right? Or is there something else?
Come to think of it, the imperial palace of the Great Plains Kingdom is also complicated, and which palace does not have the secrets that outsiders don't know?
"The people in the palace, be careful, watch out for some, it doesn't hurt." Ning Yun just asked Zuo Huaishu to be careful about the crown princess, but he didn't say anything else.
Ning Yun had lunch with Zuo Huaishu in Xuanyang Palace, and then returned to the palace, and in the afternoon, the maids in the palace sent the clothes and jewelry to be worn for tonight's banquet specially prepared for Zuo Huaishu.
From this point of view, Lan Shaofeng is quite attentive to the banquet of the Prince's Mansion.
Around the time of the unitary hour, Lan Shaofeng personally came to Xuanyang Hall to pick up Zuo Huaishu, and the carriage was already waiting outside the palace.
Zuo Huaishu got into the carriage first, Lan Shaofeng got into the carriage later, and the two sat in the same carriage.
Qin Fangyong sat in the driver's seat, he hit the horse with a whip, and the horse dragged the carriage away.
Zuo Huaishu sat quietly in the carriage, she lifted the curtain to look outside for a while, then lowered the curtain again, and then kept listening to the sound of wheels outside the carriage, as well as the sound of horses' hooves taping on the stone slabs.
She didn't speak, and Lan Shaofeng didn't speak.
The carriage had already traveled a third of the way.
"Does the prince know General Li Yifeng." It was Zuo Huaishu who spoke first.
"The Red Flame Army under the command of Empress Anling has a total of ten generals, and General Li Yifeng is one of them." Lan Shaofeng obviously knew, but he didn't know why Zuo Huaishu suddenly mentioned General Li Yifeng.
Li Yifeng was the forward general of the Red Flame Army, but during a battle, he injured his left leg. It seems that Li Yifeng's leg was injured by Lan Shaofeng's Three Emperors Shuliang King. Because of his leg injury, Li Yifeng later resigned and returned to the field. As a result, the Red Flame Army has changed from ten generals to nine generals. The year Li Yifeng resigned, Empress Anling was still alive, it should be fourteen years ago, three years after Li Yifeng's resignation, Empress Anling died.
Speaking of which, eleven years ago, the Red Flame Army was not completely annihilated, and General Li Yifeng should not have died.
Zuo Huaishu will not mention General Li Yifeng for no reason, there should be a follow-up, Lan Shaofeng waited for her to continue.
"Overnight, Empress Anling died, all the Red Flame Army was missing, although the King of Jinyang summoned that Empress Anling died of a vicious disease, but did not explain the whereabouts of the Red Flame Army, so many people are missing, it will naturally cause an uproar, even General Li Yifeng, who was relieved and returned to the field, also came to Shao'an City, General Li Yifeng felt that this matter was too bizarre, and he did not believe that Empress Anling would suddenly die violently, there must be something wrong with this, he asked to see the queen's body, and also asked the court to give a reasonable explanation for the disappearance of the Red Flame Army, Many relatives of the Red Flame Army also made trouble, and the matter became bigger and bigger, and the situation was out of control......" Zuo Huaishu stopped when he said the critical moment, she looked at Lan Shaofeng, who had been listening to her carefully, "Does the prince know about the disappearance of the Red Flame Army, how did it finally subside?" ”
Lan Shaofeng didn't know.
"From a certain day onwards, those troublemakers disappeared one after another." When Zuo Huaishu spoke, the color in his eyes darkened, and the hand hanging on his lap clenched into a fist at some point.
"Silenced?" Lan Shaofeng naturally didn't think that the "disappearance" that Zuo Huaishu said in his mouth was a simple disappearance, but when he asked that sentence, he still felt a little shocked.
Lan Shaofeng had confirmed to Zuo Huaishu before that all the missing Red Flame Army were dead, and the number of those Red Flame Army alone had exceeded 10,000. Lan Shaofeng didn't expect that there were far more people who died at that time.
"Yes." Zuo Huaishu's answer verified Lan Shaofeng's conjecture.
"What about General Li Yifeng?" Lan Shaofeng asked General Li Yifeng that Zuo Huaishu mentioned at the beginning.
"When General Li Yifeng sensed that something was wrong, many people had already been assassinated, and he also felt that his strength was not enough to compete with their forces. But the other party has already started to kill, and if he does not die, I am afraid that he will not rest. So, when those people came to assassinate him, he pretended to die by their swords, and then took the rest of the people and hid with him. After that, he began to secretly investigate the death of Empress Anling and the whereabouts of the missing Red Flame Army, including Princess Xiao Huaishu, whose fate is unknown. "The little princess that Zuo Huaishu said is herself, Lan Shaofeng never interrupted her to speak, so she continued, "Two years later, General Li Yifeng learned that the little princess was not dead, but was only put in the cold palace by Jinyang Guo, General Li Yifeng tried his best to enter the palace, met with the little princess, and then learned the truth about what happened back then......"
Lan Shaofeng wanted to know the truth of the year, but looking at Zuo Huaishu's appearance, he still didn't plan to say it to him.
"And then?" It was already unprecedented for her to take the initiative to say so much to him, and Lan Shaofeng was not in a hurry.
"General Li Yifeng vowed to avenge the death of Empress Anling and everyone else, and he began to accumulate power in secret, and he established a total of ten guards, the gold guard, the silver guard, the bronze guard, the iron guard, the wood guard, the water guard, the fire guard, the earth guard, the heavenly guard, and the earth guard. Four years ago, General Li Yifeng passed away due to illness, and before his death, he handed over the four guards of gold, silver, bronze and iron to his eldest son Li Mingyi, and the other six guards were handed over to the widows of several other generals of the Red Flame Army. The existence of those ten guards, as well as the existence of all the orphans of the Red Flame Army, has always been very secretive......"
Zuo Huaishu still had reservations about Lan Shaofeng, except for General Li Yifeng and Li Mingyi, she didn't reveal the names of others.
Then, she roughly told Lan Shaofeng about the things before and after Jin Wei was killed.
"It was Wei Kuichong's people who killed them?" Lan Shaofeng asked. Zuo Huaishu had said before that it was Wei Kuichong who wanted to kill her.
"It's possible, but it's also possible that it isn't." Zuo Huaishu was sure that at least before she left Jinyang Kingdom, Wei Kuichong was not aware of her, and he did not know anything about Li Mingyi's guards. Wei Kuichong suddenly wanted to kill her, and Jin Wei, who was already in the dark, was all dead?
Zuo Huaishu faintly felt that behind this incident, there was a person she didn't know.
And that person, what is the purpose of doing this, to deal with her with Wei Kuichong?
If it was just Wei Kuichong, it wouldn't be terrible, at least Zuo Huaishu knew who the enemy was. But the current situation is much more complicated than she imagined.
Lan Shaofeng also looked at Zuo Huaishu with a puzzled face, if it was according to what Zuo Huaishu said, even she herself didn't know who killed those Jin Wei?
Although Lan Shaofeng didn't know how powerful those Jin Wei were, they were definitely not weak, but they were all killed silently, who killed them?
The reason why Zuo Huaishu said so much to Lan Shaofeng should be that he wanted Lan Shaofeng to help her, but even she was at a loss for what to do about it, and Lan Shaofeng didn't know where to start.
Even if he wanted to help her, he didn't know how to help?
Now one thing is certain, she is in danger, and the only thing he can do is do everything he can to keep her safe.
The carriage stopped at the gate of the Prince's Mansion, Lan Shaofeng got out of the carriage first, he subconsciously glanced around, and found nothing suspicious, and at this time, Zuo Huaishu had already gotten off the carriage.
Marquis Qin Fangyong was outside the mansion, and only Lan Shaofeng and Zuo Huaishu entered the prince's mansion.
When entering the Prince's Mansion, Zuo Huaishu put his left hand on Lan Shaofeng's right arm, Lan Shaofeng glanced at her sideways, she looked at the front with a natural expression, Lan Shaofeng was a little uncomfortable with Zuo Huaishu's arm, but he didn't shake her off.