Chapter 7: Grief and Hatred
The princess's mansion is located far away from the Chujing authority, and when the two of them arrived, as soon as they got off the horse, someone from the princess's mansion came forward to lead the horse, entered the princess's mansion from the back door, and led it to the backyard stable to feed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
From the two big white lanterns hanging in front of the gate of the princess's mansion to the white cloth and white flags everywhere in the princess's mansion, the white patch in her eyes made Yushi feel a depressed and sad atmosphere.
The two of them first went to the mourning hall to worship Zhong Qingchi, the attached horse, and then Zhu Rong led the two to the main hall of the front yard of the princess's mansion.
Zhu Rong and Zhong Qingchi have a son and a daughter, the eldest son is five years old, and the younger daughter is four years old, all of them are dolls carved in pink and jade, Zhu Rong instructed their respective nurses to take them back to the backyard, and began to ask Luo Gong and Yu Shi when they came to the princess's mansion, in addition to worshiping Zhong Qingchi, what else was there.
Luo Gong repeated the emperor's imperial decree, and Zhu Rong nodded after hearing it:
"Even if my father, Emperor Qinluo, commanded the envoy to investigate the case in person, then the princess would be relieved! In this month, as long as you can catch the assassin who assassinated Qingchi and find out the main messenger behind it, it will be the middle of the night, as long as you need the cooperation of this princess, this princess will never say anything, and will definitely cooperate with you to investigate the case! ”
Zhu Rong's expression was firm, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she almost gritted her teeth in the end.
Both of them can understand Zhu Rong's grief for the loss of her husband in the prime of life, and they can also understand her hatred for wanting to unload the assassin who killed Zhong Qingchi and the mastermind behind the scenes.
Luo Gong said: "Then please ask Her Royal Highness the princess to tell me in detail about the assassination of Master Ma last night." ”
Zhu Rong nodded, and began to slowly reminisce.
Last night, Zhong Qingchi, as usual, accompanied Zhu Rong to finish dinner and take a slight walk in the garden, Zhu Rong returned to the courtyard to rest, and he went into the study.
Zhu Ronggui is the only Haoying princess of Chu State, and the only dragon girl born of the queen of the main palace, and her degree of favor by the emperor and queen is naturally the first person in Chu State, and Zhong Qingchi, as Zhu Rong's attached horse, naturally rose from the son of Hubu Shangshu to the attached horse of Princess Haoying, and his identity is even more expensive.
Zhong Qingchi has not been able to develop in his career since then, but fortunately, he is not in the officialdom, and his life with Zhu Rong is also rich and noble, moisturizing and beautiful.
Although Zhong Qingchi is not in the officialdom, he has been influenced by his father's household department Shangshu Zhong Yan since he was a child, and he is extremely interested in silver and two, and he has also made a good calculation for the account book since he was a child, and he has placed some private business in Chu Jing before marrying Zhu Rong.
So every time he accompanied the princess and his wife to take a walk in the garden, Zhong Qingchi would go into the study to calculate the accounts of his private business.
Zhu Rong also rested at three o'clock in the morning, until she was awakened by the shouting outside the bedroom, she got up in a panic and ran to Zhong Qingchi's study, and saw Zhong Qingchi lying in front of the study's bookcase, and he had been angry for a long time.
During the period when Zhong Qingchi sent Zhu Rong back to the hospital to rest in the dormitory, and when Zhu Rong found out that Zhong Qingchi had been assassinated, everything was normal, and there was no abnormal movement.
Zhu Rong raised the handkerchief in her hand and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said hatefully:
"I don't know who Qingchi offended outside, and it was so bad that he was so ruthlessly assassinated! That assassin is also a dog, and even a country attached to the horse master dares to assassinate! It's really the other way around! ”
It's really the other way around.
If it weren't for the reversal of the sky, the main messenger behind the scenes who sent the assassin to assassinate Zhong Qingchi would definitely not have thought of such a thing as assassinating a country attached to Ma Ye.
and then summoned the first subordinate who found out that Zhong Qingchi had been killed last night to lead the way for Luo Gong and Yushi, and Zhu Rong returned to the backyard with a haggard face, no longer accompanying the two of them around.
This subordinate is called Zhong Xiaoli, and he is Zhong Qingchi's personal servant who brought him into the princess's mansion from the Zhong family, and he knows everything about Zhong Qingchi's affairs in the Zhong family or the princess's mansion.
Zhong Xiaoli took Luo Gong and Yu Shi to Zhong Qingchi's study, and before Yu Shi entered the small courtyard where the study was located, he looked at the big courtyard next door and asked Zhong Xiaoli:
"That compound is inhabited by Her Royal Highness the Princess?"
Zhong Xiaoli responded: "Yes, that is the 'Lingqiu Courtyard' where Her Royal Highness the Princess and the second young master of my family live!" ”
has always been used to calling Zhong Qingchi "Second Young Master", after living in the princess's mansion, Zhong Xiaoli has not changed his words, Zhong Qingchi and Zhu Rong are also very tolerant of him, and have never forced him to change his mouth and shout "Attached to the Horse".
Thinking that Ling Qiuyuan would never see Zhong Qingchi again, Zhong Xiaoli's eyes turned red again.
The reason why Zhong Qingchi's study is located in the small courtyard next to Lingqiu Courtyard, rather than in Lingqiu Courtyard, I heard Zhong Xiaoli say that this is what Zhong Qingchi meant, saying that the study is located in the quiet courtyard next door, which can make him focus more and concentrate on calculating the accounts.
Zhu Rong has always been more in favor of Zhong Qingchi's words than against them, so the small courtyard named "Yiqiu Courtyard" next door became Zhong Qingchi's exclusive place.
Entering the Yiqiu Courtyard, the courtyard is indeed not big, there is only one main house and two side houses on the left and right, the small courtyard in front of the house is not big, and there is a small flower garden in the corner of the courtyard wall diagonally opposite the courtyard gate, which accounts for almost one-third of the small courtyard.
Ling Yushi couldn't help but look at it twice, the flowerbed was actually a flowerbed, and it was better to say that it was a grass garden.
Zhong Xiaoli is a clever little guy with excellent eyes, and when he saw Yu Shi's eyes glancing at the flower garden, he explained:
"That's the copper coin grass, others like to be surprised, but the second young master likes this green grass."
Copper coin grass?
The household department is in charge of the economic lifeline of Chu State, and it seems that Zhong Qingchi is deeply influenced by Zhong Yan, and he is very attached to money.
The small courtyard had nothing but this full of copper coin grass, not even a table and stone bench.
Because after Zhong Qingchi was assassinated, he asked Zhu Rong to enter the palace overnight and personally reported to Zhu Yuan, Zhu Yuan was furious after hearing this, and after Zhu Rong left, he ordered the chief of the chamberlain to urgently pass Luo Gong to enter the palace to receive the imperial order, so after the assassination of Ma Ye, Zhong Qingchi's study as the scene of the crime has asked Zhu Rong to let the subordinates in the princess's mansion guard it for the first time, neither letting in nor letting out.
Zhong Qingchi has never liked too many people around him to wait, only Zhong Xiaoli has always followed and waited, after Zhong Qingchi was assassinated last night, Zhong Xiaoli was so frightened that he had no master, and after crying Zhong Qingchi for a long time, he was shocked to go to Zhu Rong quickly, and he ran and climbed to the Lingqiu Courtyard next door to report to Zhu Rong.
After that, Zhu Rong ordered to surround Yiqiu Courtyard to protect the scene of the crime, Zhong Xiaoli was waiting for Zhong Qingchi in Yiqiu Courtyard alone, Zhu Rong's order, he let Zhu Rong be trapped in Yiqiu Courtyard, until today, Luo Gong and Yu Shi came to the door, he received Zhu Rong's order from Zhu Rong's personal maid, and he was able to step out of Yiqiu Courtyard to lead the way for the two.
After Zhong Xiaoli opened the door of the study, Yu Shi followed Luo Gong into the study, and when she heard Zhong Xiaoli say this, she couldn't help but praise:
"I didn't expect Her Royal Highness the Princess to have such a strong and decisive side!"