Chapter Ninety-Six: When the water is clear, it is difficult to fish
Jin Ling is located in the middle of Da Chen, the rain in summer is more than the north, but less than the south, relatively speaking, it should be the most suitable environment for people to live in, plus this place is located in the plain, the road extends in all directions, and it has become the best choice of the imperial capital of all dynasties. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
After a rare night of thunderstorms, the stuffiness in the air has obviously disappeared a lot.
After recuperating in the Jin Mansion for four or five days, the wound on Liang Zhiyan's back has begun to heal gradually. During this period, Liu Yu also came to the Jin Mansion once, because Liang Zhiyan had just taken the initiative to mention it when she woke up before, and Bixi also arranged for Liang Zhiyan and Liu Yu to meet, but it was very inexplicable, when they saw each other, it was clear that neither of them seemed to have a lot to say, but in the end, no one said anything, just a simple "thank you" and "no thanks", and the conversation ended here.
When Su Jin and Bixi walked into the back garden, they saw Liang Zhiyan sitting alone on the stone chair under the old locust tree with her forehead slightly distracted, Su Jin walked to Liang Zhiyan and sat down, chuckled softly and said, "Miss Liang has something on her mind?" β
Liang Zhiyan came back to her senses at this time and smiled apologetically at Su Jin, "I'm sorry Miss Su, I'm ...... Distracted! β
"Where's Qu Ge? Didn't I let her take care of you? Your wounds haven't healed yet, so why did she leave you here alone? How good is it if you bump into it! Su Jin frowned.
"Don't blame Qu Ge, I want to be alone for a while, and besides, my wounds have begun to heal, and it's not on my hands and feet, so it doesn't affect me to go out for a walk!"
"Miss Liang, change your name!" Su Jin said suddenly.
Liang Zhiyan was slightly stunned.
Su Jin explained with a light smile, "After all, Liang Zhiyan is still the princess of Ming in Mingli, and she is still by King Ming's side, on Lingyue Mountain." But now you're not! Therefore, the identity of Liang Zhiyan no longer belongs to you! β
Liang Zhiyan smiled and nodded, "I understand, although I am free now, I still can't live in the sun after all!" β
Su Jin looked at Bi Xi with a smile and nodded, and Bi Xi immediately stepped forward and handed Liang Zhiyan something: another sandalwood box.
Liang Zhiyan opened the lid of the box and said in slight surprise, "Miss Su, what is this?" β
"This is you from now on!" Su Jin replied, "Although King Ming's arrangement is quite proper, and now someone has replaced you, but going out with your true appearance is still easy to arouse the suspicion of people with a heart, in order to ensure your absolute safety, I can only wronged you like this!" In the future, your identity is the cousin of Brother Du Xiudu's hometown, the master of Jiyue Pavilion, your name is Shi Tingyan. β
Liang Zhiyan smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'll listen to your arrangement!" β
Su Jin smiled lightly, "Miss Liang is now free, do you have any plans for the future?" β
Liang Zhiyan smiled and shook her head, "To be honest, I'm still really...... I don't know! It is impossible for me to go back to Cangzhou and Lingyue Mountain, but apart from these two places, I don't know anything about anywhere, and even the people I know are almost only you! β
"Isn't there still Liu Yao?" Su Jin smiled.
Liang Zhiyan smiled and nodded, "He saved me, I ...... Thank you so much to him! β
Su Jin smiled lightly, looked at Liang Zhiyan and said, "Miss Liang ...... to him Is it just gratitude? β
Liang Zhiyan was stunned for a moment, her face unconsciously flushed, and then she smiled, "I've only known him for a few days, if he hadn't rescued me, I would probably have spent my life in a dark dungeon." β
Su Jin smiled and nodded, noncommittal, but then continued, "He is Chinese New Year's Eve four today, he is not married, he does not have a fiancΓ©e, and he ...... He cares about you and has asked you many times in the past few days about your injuries and healing. β
If Liang Zhiyan doesn't know what Su Jin wants to express at this point, then Liang Zhiyan is really stupid.
It was precisely because she understood that Liang Zhiyan's whole face turned red, "Miss Su, I ......"
"It's okay, you can think about it slowly and let me know when you have the answer." Su Jin smiled and said, "Liu Yu is my person, I naturally understand how he is a person, he is a person worthy of trust, but after all, it depends on your own meaning!" It's just that, again, I have to tell you plainly, is that because he's my man, and like that night, sometimes he had to do something very dangerous, maybe even stabbing and licking blood. β
Liang Zhiyan nodded lightly and said in a low voice, "I understand this." β
"You take care of your injuries now, and then if you want, you can go to Jiyue Pavilion to help Brother Du do something, after all, your current identity is his cousin! After that, it's up to you whether you choose to stay or where you want to go! Su Jin said.
Liang Zhiyan smiled and nodded, and said softly, "Thank you, Su Jin!" I owe you this affection, Liang Zhiyan will not be able to repay it in the future! β
Su Jin smiled lightly, "In the end, it was Liu Yu who saved you first, and it's just a gesture for me to do it now, Miss Liang is polite." β
While the two were talking, they suddenly saw Jing Yu walking briskly towards here.
"Girl, Brother Jiang is here." Jing Yu said.
Liang Zhiyan had also stood up and smiled at Su Jin, "Since Miss Su has something important, then I'll go back first!" β
Su Jin smiled and nodded, turned sideways and said to Bixi, "Bixi, help Miss Liang back to the room!" β
Liang Zhiyan immediately smiled and shook her head, "No need, it's just an injury on my back, and it's not that I can't walk, I can go back by myself, and I won't bother Miss Bixi for trouble!" β
Su Jin nodded, "Okay, be careful yourself, just shout if there is anything, there is no one in this house!" β
Liang Zhiyan stepped forward and left, and Jiang Chushi, who was wearing a dark blue brocade robe, was also led over by the maid.
Su Jin hurriedly got up to greet him and said with a smile, "Why is Brother Jiang free to come here today?" β
Jiang Chushi smiled heartily, "I'm just a small servant now, and I naturally have time, but I can't just be free, you have to be free here!" β
"Brother Jiang, if these words are heard by those old decays who have worked hard in the officialdom for half a lifetime to climb to your height, I guess they either hate you to death or can't get up in one breath, and they will be directly angry with you!" Su Jin said with a smile.
"I don't know if you're praising my big brother or scolding!"
"Brother Jiang, please take a seat!" Su Jin smiled and pointed to the opposite position, and then pointed to the white jade teapot on the stone table and said to Bixi, "Bixi, go and change to the Dongyi Red Snow Top that was just sent last month, that is Brother Jiang's favorite!" β
Bi Xi nodded, and immediately took the teapot down to change the tea, Jiang Chushi also sat down opposite Su Jin, and said with a smile, "Look, others think that the best tea in Jinling is in Jiyue Pavilion, and the best tea is in Qingfeng Building, but in fact, these two are here with you!" If you want to drink the best tea, it's not enough to go to Qingfeng Building, you have to come to Jinzhai! β
Su Jin smiled lightly, "Brother Jiang, who among the Jinling Tombs doesn't know that Jiyue Pavilion belongs to the Su family in Yingzhou, and who doesn't know that now I am in charge of Jiyue Pavilion, the best tea in Jinling is in Jiyue Pavilion, and the best tea in Jiyue Pavilion, of course, it is here!" β
"Tsk, you're really not modest, you're about to catch up with your brother's face!"
"Excessive modesty, I usually understand it as hypocrisy!"
Jiang Chushi suddenly laughed, "Okay, I can't compete with you, and I won't fight with you, let's get down to business!" β
Su Jin smiled lightly, "Then does the eldest brother want to talk about King Qing's recent actions first, or is it the rumor that Cangzhou Wen Bohou has an anti-heart that has been spread in the past two days?" β
"Let's talk about King Qing first!" Jiang Chu said.
At this time, Bi Xi had already brought up the new teapot, and made it for Su Jin and Jiang Chushi respectively, and then called the Xie sisters to come up and wait for them from afar, and she went down first to do the rest.
Su Jin nodded, "Well, King Qing has indeed made a lot of moves openly and secretly during this time, and some time ago, he secretly stirred up the contradictions between the three departments of Lihu Gong, and now the Criminal Department has been dug up with some messy insiders, and there are many large and small officials below; Just last night, there was a protest farce in the barracks of the imperial army that some people were dissatisfied with the old lieutenant general Wang Qi who had been monopolizing power and squeezing out the new general Zhou Xing, these are the handiwork of King Qing, but what I want to say is that although I actually know about his actions, they have nothing to do with me! This is King Qing's own opinion, and he has not come to consult with me. β
Jiang Chushi was shocked when he heard this, "Why is this?" Does he already distrust you? β
Su Jin shook his head with a smile, "No, it's not that he doesn't trust me, he just doesn't trust my ability!" Because he thinks that if he follows my path, he will definitely be far from that supreme position, especially the stimulation of the comparison between his father-in-law Zhao Linchong's Zhao family's accident and Xu Changzhen's fall last time, which makes him want to overthrow Emperor Chen and replace him even more, so he has to grasp this rhythm by himself, and I, just as a tool to assist him to overthrow Emperor Chen faster! β
Jiang Chushi picked up the teacup and blew it lightly on his lips, took a sip, then put down the teacup and smiled with satisfaction, "I also have a little bit of Dongyi Red Snow Top there, but it was produced last year, and you know, I am now a servant of the ministry, and my position is not high, but the people I deal with are basically officials from various departments of all sizes, and I dare not drink such a top tea!" β
Su Jin shook his head helplessly and said with a smile, "Brother Jiang, are you really worried about my tea?!" β
Jiang Chushi smiled, "Okay, let's get down to business, since he hasn't discussed with you, what are you going to do, just sit idly by?" β
Su Jin shook the teacup, smiled lightly, and said, "How can it, such a good opportunity, does Brother Jiang think I am like a person who will stand by and watch?" β
Jiang Chushi looked at Su Jin and said with a smile, "My intuition tells me that when you usually show such a smile, it means that someone is going to suffer!" β
"Then who does Brother Jiang think will say that he will come to suffer this hardship?"
"Except for King Qing, there should be no one else, right?" Jiang Chushi said with a smile.
"In fact, if he had consulted me on everything, I really wouldn't have been able to do anything to him, but now he has given me such a good opportunity, if I don't take advantage of it, I'm too sorry for him, right?"
Jiang Chushi smiled lightly, "Do you need my eldest brother to help you do something?" β
"Gao Yongyi and Gao Shangshu appreciate you very much!"
"And then?"
"Then, you should make him appreciate you more, and it's better to be promoted to a squire again!"
"You're going to move Gao Shangshu, aren't you?"
Su Jin nodded, "He is Emperor Chen's father-in-law, I don't want his life, it's just that he has to leave that position." β
Jiang Chushi nodded, "Well, then, let's talk about Wen Bohou!" β
Su Jin took a small paper roll from his sleeve, handed it to Jiang Chu, and said, "Look at this first!" β
Jiang Chushi hesitantly took it, opened it to see, but was stunned, and said, "This is?" β
"This is the night before when the shadow was sent out of the palace!"
"In other words, the secret letter that Qu Wenxin submitted overnight is very likely to be about this matter?!"
Su Jin nodded, "Well, it can basically be concluded that this is the case!" β
"And where did this secret letter come from? Also, it was mentioned in this letter that after Qu Wenxin left, Emperor Chen secretly summoned a female official named Han Yu alone, what is the identity of this Han Yu? What secrets are there that the outside world doesn't know? β
Qu Wenxin, the source of the secret letter, seems to be secretly investigating, but since the sender chose the anonymous method, where is it so easy to be found out, and it can't be checked openly! Although I haven't found it here, but," Su Jin took a sip of tea and continued with a light smile, "I actually probably already know the source of this letter!" β
"So, you already know who that person is?"
Su Jin smiled faintly and said slowly, "First of all, this person chose to send the anonymous letter to Qu Wenxin's mansion, it can be seen that he must know that Qu Wenxin is Emperor Chen's most trusted courtier, and there are not many people who dare to make such a big puddle of troubled water, not to mention that it is still dominant, and then excluded from other aspects, in the end, there are only two people left who meet the requirements: one is the Ming King who is idle on the surface and has no real name but has hidden amazing power, and the other is the Qing King who is ambitious and has begun to cultivate the plank road in the Ming Dynasty and secretly Chen Cang!" β
Jiang Chushi raised his eyebrows and said, "Then I think, it's probably King Qing!" Although this letter seems to be sent very secretly so that people have nowhere to check, but in fact, this method is not very clever, if it is King Ming, the means and methods used are definitely not so ordinary! β
"King Ming already knows my identity!"
Jiang Chushi was slightly stunned, "What?" You explain the king......."
Su Jin nodded, "On the second night of the last time you came here, big brother, I sent someone to spy on Lingyue Mountain, but Jing Yu was detained that night, and I went to Lingyue Mountain early the next morning to ask him for someone, and then ....... He already knows who I am! β
"And what did he talk to you about?"
Su Jin smiled faintly, paused for a moment, and said, "He said he ....... Give up the battle for the throne! β
Jiang Chu was stunned.
Su Jin continued, "Although I don't know if he really gave up or just to make me shake, but at least in this matter, I believe it has nothing to do with him!" β
Jiang Chushi frowned, "Then what does he want to do, and what is the purpose of doing this?" β
Su Jin smiled lightly, "His purpose is naturally still Emperor Chen's position, but if the water is not muddyed first, how can he fish in secret?" β
.......... (To be continued.) )