Chapter Fifty-Eight: Tired Eggs
Tong Ling sent everyone to look for Qinglian, but she was like evaporating from the world, without a trace, which made him anxious like an ant on a hot pot. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 What's even worse is that Qingyue is in the palace, he can't inform her, so he can only wait for Qingyue to come to Cao Gang the next afternoon as agreed. Wen Xiang is also sitting on pins and needles in the Spring Festival Courtyard, although Qingyue did not explain the true identity of these two women to her, but asked her to hide them in the Huixin Courtyard, here Qingyue asked her to buy it in the name of the old sisters, except for Qingyue, only she knows, now people have lost one for no reason, how can she not be frightened. The two of them were restless outside the palace, unaware that something big had happened in the palace.
After Qingyue passed Yinxiang last night, her heart became more and more determined, no matter what the cost, she had to implement her plan. Get up early, it's her turn to be on duty, and she takes the people in the imperial dining room to serve Kangxi for breakfast. Kangxi has been in poor health recently, and he often has insomnia at night, and looking at his appearance today, he hasn't slept all night. His appetite was not very good, and after only half a bowl of millet porridge, he ordered him to withdraw his meal. She instructed Xiao Sula to withdraw the meal, took the medicine bowl in the palace maid's hand, and presented it to Kangxi, but Kangxi waved his hand and said, "That's it, suspend today for a day." I eat it every day, and my spleen and stomach can't stand it anymore. Qingyue persuaded: "Your Majesty, the hospital has explained that your medicine cannot be stopped, otherwise, it will damage the dragon's body." Kangxi snorted and said, "The medicine prescribed by Sun Daoling is good, but it is too bitter. I took his medicine and lost my appetite. Heaven feeds people with grains, and taking medicine is a trivial matter compared to not eating. Qingyue handed the medicine back to the palace maid and instructed her: "Reheat the medicine." The palace maid said yes and withdrew from the main hall.
sent away the palace maid, Qingyue knelt down and kowtowed to Kangxi to thank him. Kangxi leaned on the pillow and said, "Yesterday, I also saw Yinxiang, and his complexion was not very good. When you see him, comfort him more and tell him that I still treat him as a son, and I will not be difficult for him except for being imprisoned. Although Qingyue's face was not colorful, she was sneering in her heart: What about you raising pigs in your circle? But he said: "The slave has brought the emperor's words." The Thirteenth Master said that since he was confined, he still eats, wears, and uses it in it, and those minions in charge do not dare to make it difficult at all, and he has probably guessed the holy will, so the Thirteenth Master said that he is really not aggrieved in it. As for the private transmission of the news, it was because after he was convicted, some old relatives who valued love and righteousness were worried about him, made their own opinions, and took some effort to ask him to kowtow. The Thirteenth Master thought that everyone in the world has the heart to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but when he is down, there are still people who can miss the old, and he can't bear to brush off the feelings of those people. I thought that I was a prince anyway, although I was sleepy, it was good to have a love between brothers and help take care of it. It's just like this, coming and going, but it brushed the emperor's kindness. The Thirteenth Master knew that he had misbehaved, and asked you to punish him, he would never dare to complain. In addition, the Thirteenth Master has made a promise that in the future, as long as he is a guilty person, he will no longer have anything to do with those people, after all, the grace of heaven is greater than the small profit, and he still understands this reason. Kangxi lay on the kang and didn't say a word.
The palace people came in with a tray, and saw Qingyue kneeling on the ground, knowing that she was discussing important matters with the emperor, but she broke in rashly and knelt on the ground in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, the medicine is hot, the slave and maid please use the medicine." Qingyue Road.
Kangxi sat up and said, "I said that if I stop for a day, I will stop for a day." No matter how many times you heat it, I won't eat it! ”
Qingyue got up, took the tray of the palace person, ordered the man to go down, and then walked to Kangxi with the tray and said, "Your Majesty, you said that the thirteenth master has a bad complexion, but your complexion also worries the thirteenth master." He asked the slave yesterday, how often do you sleep every day? How do you boil like a black-eyed chicken...... The emperor forgives the sin, the thirteenth master and the slave maid lost their words! Please punish the emperor. Qingyue peeked at Kangxi, Kangxi was not the slightest annoyed, but instructed her: "You go on." Qingyue continued: "The thirteenth master is worried about your body, let the slave and maid prepare some soothing pills with you, if you see that you are late in reviewing the performance, mix it with wine, and you can sleep for two or three hours at night." The second day was less lacking. After listening to this, Kangxi asked, "Calming the Nerves and Replenishing the Heart Pill?" What kind of medicine is this, and how does he know about it? Qingyue handed over the medicine bowl, Kangxi frowned slightly, didn't say anything, and used a small golden spoon to send it to his mouth one by one. Qingyue replied: "The thirteenth master also has the problem of not being able to sleep at night, and later a doctor in the Tai Hospital, named Xiao Weimin, made a soothing pill for the thirteenth master, and the thirteenth master used it, and he slept soundly at night." So the thirteenth master asked the slave to go to Xiao Yizheng and take some medicine to present to the emperor. On the way back last night, the slave maid went to the Tai Hospital, and it happened that Dr. Xiao was on duty, and the slave took three pills, and the slave maid tried one last night, and the effect was good. Because this matter is related to the Holy Communion, so this morning the slave maid went to the Tai Hospital again, so that the first doctor Zhengsun Daoling saw it, he said that this medicine should be good for insomnia, and the slave maid let the little eunuch in the dining room also eat a pill. If the emperor wants to use it, he can use it after letting Aunt Wei see it at night. Seeing that Kangxi had finished drinking the medicine, Qingyue stepped forward to take the medicine bowl and handed over the honey water, Kangxi did not use a spoon, but drank it all, Qingyue took the empty bowl, and then waited for Kangxi to rinse his mouth and wipe his face. Because he still had to go to the court, Qingyue called someone to change into court clothes for Kangxi. After everything was over, when Kangxi was about to go out, he confessed to her: "Give the medicine to Wei." Qingyue replied yes, and sent Kangxi to the early court.
Qingyue walked out of the living hall, and as soon as the sky was bright, the eunuch who was sweeping hurriedly ran past her with a bucket and broom, and the cars carrying water from each palace also passed one after another. She paced slowly along the road, and as time passed, the morning light illuminated the entire Forbidden City, which was much brighter than the dark night, and also made the people inside more vivid. An aunt in charge walked up to her, judging from her dress, her grade was higher than herself, according to the rules of the palace, she turned sideways to give way to her and saluted, but the man walked past her without squinting, and did not return the salute, as if he did not see her. Although Qingyue felt strange in her heart, she didn't pay attention to it, and only waited for her to go away before continuing to move forward and return to her residence.
As soon as she entered the courtyard gate, she saw the little eunuch of the eighth master at a glance, he carried a box and walked around the courtyard.
"What are you doing with me?" Qingyue didn't want to have anything to do with Yinyu anymore, so she naturally had a questioning tone in her questioning.
The little eunuch kowtowed to him and said, "Auntie, this is your monthly rule, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will hand it over to the little one to present to you." ”
Qingyue took the monthly example, didn't look at it, only said that she was tired, and she was going to enter the house. The little eunuch saw that she hadn't opened the bag, and said with a smile: "Auntie, let's order, and the slave can go back to the errand." Qingyue smiled: "No need, you can still be short, I can't do it." Seeing that Qingyue refused to give him a reply, the little eunuch said almost in a pleading tone: "Auntie, you should be considerate of the little one, let's take a look." Qingyue frowned slightly, then sighed lightly, opened the baggage, and as expected, there was a note on the silver tael, and she instructed the little eunuch to send some fresh fruits in the evening. The little eunuch got her reply and went away happily.
When she entered the house, she took out a note from the bag, which was written in secret language, she took down the "Three Kingdoms" from the bookshelf, and matched them one by one. Qingyue's eyelids jumped, and she put on the book, polished the fire folds, and lit the note, but before the note was burned, a palace maid beside the Wei family broke in in a panic, and Qing Yue dropped the fire folds on the ground.
"Auntie, it's not good, Shi's is dead, Mama Wei asked you to go quickly."
Qingyue suppressed her emotions and said that she knew, let her go out first. The palace maid refused to retreat, but just urged her to go quickly. She picked up the folds of fire on the ground, burned half of the note again, and then asked: "I went to the hospital yesterday, and I didn't hear that the old princess was in poor health, why did she go today?" The palace maid rubbed her hands in fear as if she had been pricked by a needle, and whispered back: "The slave doesn't know what happened, but looking at the situation in the house, it seems to be the prince, no, Yinren, no, the second master's hand." Blood flowed from the hall to the courtyard...... You, go and check it out. ”
Hearing that Shi Mengxin died tragically, Qingyue didn't know what it was like in her heart. She trotted all the way to Xian'an Palace, and on the way, the eunuchs and palace maids who were cleaning kept looking sideways, and she couldn't take care of it anymore, and ran into Xian'an Palace in everyone's strange eyes.
As soon as she entered the courtyard, she was scolded by Wei: is she panicking, do you want everyone in the palace to know that something big is happening in Xian'an Palace? She bowed her head apologetically. After Wei trained her, he let her enter Xian'an Palace.
Bypassing the tangled lotus flower to get the stone screen, she saw Shi Mengxin lying in the courtyard, the blue satin dress had been soaked in blood, turned brown, and the bottom of her body was also thick brown, looking along the bloodstains, from the courtyard to the main hall, the ground was stained with her handprints and bloodstains. Qing Yue entered the main hall and threw a blood-stained dagger on the ground, the handle of the dagger was mahogany, and a flying dragon was drawn with wrong gold craftsmanship, and an eastern pearl was embedded in the dragon's head. Not far from the dagger, blood of various shapes was scattered.
After reading it, Qingyue returned to Shi Mengxin's corpse and gently turned her over, Shi Mengxin was stabbed a total of three times, one in the stomach and two in the back.
"What do you think?" Wei asked her.
Qingyue thought for a moment before replying: "Mama, the second master is a prisoner, and the things used are all provided by the Internal Affairs Office. No matter how confused the people in the Internal Affairs Office are, they will not bring something like a dagger to the second master. Also, there are a lot of blood stains in the house, and there are a lot of blood stains in the courtyard, and I think this blood stain is not only Shi alone. ”
Wei closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and said, "You guessed right, this bloodstain is not only Shi's, but also the second master's." ”
"Second master? Could it be that the second master is also? Qingyue stopped, she didn't dare to guess anymore. But after thinking about it, I remember that Yinren died in the Yongzheng Dynasty, and he should be fine now.
Wei shook his head and instructed her: "You go to the Westinghouse to see the second master, if he wakes up, you can ask him what happened." I'm going back to the living room and waiting for the emperor. If he has anything to say, you can only pass it on to me. Do you understand? ”
Qingyue replied yes, and leaned over to send Wei out of Xian'an Palace.
The room was dim, and there was a kneeling person on the ground, who was taking the pulse of Yinren, who had gauze tied around his neck and gauze on his hands. Hearing someone coming in, the person who took the pulse turned around, and Qingyue recognized that it was Meng Liangfu, a medical administrator who had been taking care of the East Palace. When Shi Mengxin had a miscarriage, they met. Meng Liangfu saw that it was her who came in, and seemed to be relieved and breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Miss Qingyue, the second master has lost too much blood, and I'm afraid I won't be able to wake up for a while." Before she could ask anything, Meng Liangfu said it first, as if she wanted to share this terrible thing.
Qingyue nodded at him and asked, "Is the second master worried about his life?" Meng Liangfu shook his head and said, "It's timely, although the wound is deep, it is not fatal." After hearing this, Qingyue's eyes flashed, and she asked him again: "What about the Shi family?" Doctor Meng should have seen her wounds, what do you think. Meng Liangfu wanted to speak, but he stopped talking, Qingyue waved his hand and said, "That's it, when the emperor comes, he will ask you." She set her eyes on Yinren, who was pale, breathing heavily, and twitching from time to time. And Meng Liangfu's face was full of gloom, like mourning. After about half a cup of tea, he probably couldn't help it, and asked carefully: "Girl, I don't know whether to talk about it or not, and I don't know whether I should report it to the Holy Lord, can you help me with the staff?" Qingyue shook her head and said, "Imperial Doctor Meng, this big incident happened in the palace, I think the less I know, the better, and you'd better not say it." Hearing Qingyue say this, Meng Liangfu hurriedly said: "None of the knives in the Shi clan are fatal immediately, as long as they are found a moment earlier, they will not die." And the knife wound, deep and shallow, large and small, obviously not caused by the same knife. After he finished speaking in one breath, he stared at Qingyue tightly, for fear of missing something from Qingyue's face. Qingyue sat in the chair, looked at Yinren on the kang, and said: "Doctor Meng, my suggestion is that you tell the truth, if you don't say it, there are also masters around the emperor, and everything that happens here may not escape the eyes of that master." Meng Liangfu wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said several times, what the girl said was right, what the girl said was right. Qingyue interrupted Meng Liangfu's repetition mode and said, "Doctor Meng, I am guarding here, please go and boil medicine, the second master wakes up, there is no medicine." Meng Liangfu turned on the repetition mode again, said yes, yes, yes, and went out of the room.
Before he went out, Yinren on the kang immediately opened his eyes and asked Qingyue: "You said that Shi Mengxin's death can't escape the eyes of Mrs. Wei?" ”
Qingyue smiled: "Second master, okay?" ”
Yinren sat up, spat at the ground, and said, "Even you look down on me!" ”
Qingyue became serious and said, "Second master, the slave will not look down on anyone. In this world, no one can look down on you, only yourself. What did Shi Mengxin do wrong? You're going to kill her? You are already imprisoned in Xian'an Palace, doing so can only embarrass the emperor even more, do you have to force him to kill you? ”
Yinren closed his eyes in pain, and two lines of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes. After crying, Yinren said: "He promised that he wouldn't kill me, he wouldn't kill me." As for...... As for her, I have nothing to say, and whoever comes to ask me, I will not tell you what happened between us. ”
Qingyue looked at Yinren's distorted face, her crazy expression, like a trapped beast about to end, and suddenly felt a trace of pity for him, but as soon as she had this thought, she thought of Shi Mengxin, who was lying in the courtyard and died miserably, and she died with that little pity.
When Kangxi came in, Yinren was still convulsing, Qingyue knelt on the ground obediently, Meng Liangfu was sweating profusely and poured medicine on Yinren, Yinren gritted his teeth, didn't drink a sip, and the potion was sprinkled everywhere. Seeing this, Kangxi instructed Meng Liangfu to wake up Yinren. Meng Liangpu made a bitter face, took out a silver needle from the medicine box, and pricked Yinren with two needles, but Yinren still closed his eyes and twitched, not waking up at all. After Meng Liangfu finished pricking the needle, there was nothing he could do, so he quickly knelt down and said, "Qiqi Sheng, the second master has lost too much blood and is too frightened, and I am afraid that I will not be able to wake up for a while." Kangxi scolded with a gloomy face: "Useless things." Think of something else! Meng Liangfu wiped the sweat from his palms, and pricked a needle into Yinren, Yinren grabbed the quilt in pain, but he still insisted on pretending to have convulsions and be unconscious. Qingyue looked at it and smiled secretly - you can really bear it!
"The minister is incompetent, do you want to order other imperial doctors to treat the second master?" Meng Liangpu knelt on the ground and knocked his head on the ground.
Kangxi "snorted", turned his head and told Wei to try it, and then instructed Qingyue to take Meng Liangfu down, Qingyue replied yes, when she got up, Kangxi gave her a look, Qingyue replied yes again, and then took Meng Liangfu to retreat.
When she arrived in the courtyard, Qingyue stopped Meng Liangfu: "Doctor Meng, you are so confused!" Meng Liangfu rubbed the bag on his head and said: "I really have nothing to do, the second master is obviously ......" Qingyue interrupted him: "Just know it, don't say everything." Also, today's events, no matter who asks, you have to say that the Shi family and the second master are sick, and you can't tell the second person what you saw and heard today. I suggest that you have better go and complete the medical cases of the Shi family and the second master now, and when the emperor returns to the Heart Cultivation Palace, you will let the imperial doctor Zhengsun Daoling present it. In this way, although you are suspected of dereliction of duty, you have no fear for your life. ”
Meng Liangfu patted his head, just knocked on the bag, and he grinned in pain, and then saluted: "Miss Xie mention it." The girl's grace of recreation, Meng Mou will definitely give you a grass ring. ”
Qingyue nodded and told him to get busy. He entered the house, took out a piece of white silk from the cage, returned to the courtyard, and covered Shi Mengxin's body.
It took a long time for Kangxi and Wei to come out of the Westinghouse, and their faces were not good. Kangxi left Xian'an Palace without saying a word, and Wei led people to close the palace gate of Xian'an Palace, so that all the people who were waiting in Xian'an Palace gathered in the courtyard. An ominous premonition rose in Qingyue's heart.
"Who are the people who serve the Shi family?" Wei asked the eunuch in charge, and the eunuch pointed to the people in the courtyard and pointed out two palace maids and a eunuch.
"I heard that the Shi family usually treats you well, but since she died, it's too lonely to go over there, so why don't you go with her." You are so loyal, your family, the Shi clan will naturally take care of Youjia. After Wei finished speaking, the three people on the ground had been shaken into chaff, and Wei signaled that a eunuch from the Shen Xing Division behind her brought white silk and poison. Qing Yue looked at this battle, secretly squeezed her hand tightly and then let go.
With tears in her eyes, one of the palace maids climbed to the side of Bai Aya and the poison, touched Bai Aya and then the poison with trembling hands, paused slightly, and then chose the poison with trembling. She whispered to Ama and Eniang, closed her eyes in pain, raised the poison in her right hand, and the little eunuch on her left was already wet on her lower body, while the palace maid on the right cried loudly...... Qingyue couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "Slow down!" Turning around and kneeling down for Wei: "Auntie, does it have to be like this?" They were only allocated here by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and compared with other palaces, they usually have no rewards or gifts, and they only rely on a little money to support their families. Although they are responsible for the Shi family's affairs, they can't be blamed entirely. Can you compromise and let them live in this Xian'an Palace for the rest of their lives, without seeing their families or the old days? ”
Wei Shi smiled playfully and said, "Once something happens, it will be difficult to recover." Therefore, those who are slaves must fulfill their duties as slaves. There is a saying, from ancient times to the present, the eternal remains the same - the lord mourns the death of the servant! When Shi had an accident, you didn't want to be loyal and keep your duty, but now you want to live, it's too late! ”
Qingyue still wanted to argue, but the palace maid who knelt on the ground and cried bitterly shouted: "The second master didn't let it, we wanted to save it, but the second master said that the Shi family wanted to kill him, whoever saved the Shi family, he would kill whoever he wanted, and we couldn't ......help it."
Wei Shi waved his hand, and immediately two eunuchs rushed out from behind her, blocked the palace maid's mouth with a strip of cloth, pressed her to the ground, and then one pressed her head, and the other covered her neck with white silk, the palace maid struggled desperately, as Bai Yan tightened, she grabbed the ground in pain, her ten fingers gradually became red, and her shoes were kicked off, but it was useless, and after a while, she lost her breath. The little eunuch next to him was already frightened, and the other two eunuchs of the Shen Xing Division also put the white silk on his neck, and pressed hard left and right together, clicking, the little eunuch's neck was broken, but the little eunuch's legs were still reflexively kicking and kicking, until he swallowed, and he didn't have the strength to look at the world for the last time. The last remaining palace maid seemed to be stupid by this scene, and raised her hand several times, but she didn't get the poison into her mouth accurately, and a eunuch pinched her mouth open and helped her pour the medicine down......
The rest of the minions, some of them turned pale, some trembled, some lowered their heads and choked, Qingyue knelt on the ground, closing her eyes tightly.
"The rest of the people, you are so good at serving the second master, if anything goes wrong, they will be your lessons from the past!"
Hearing Wei say this, Qing Yue thought that the punishment was over, and slowly opened her eyes, and there were three more corpses in front of her. The eunuch in charge of Xian'an Palace was kowtowing to Wei with a pale face. Wei Shi didn't look at him, and continued: "Although I have disposed of them, this time the matter is not over!" Whoever passed it on and who chewed the tongue, you know in your hearts. As soon as Wei said this, the entire courtyard immediately fell into a terrible silence.
The eunuch of the Shen Xing Division carried a brazier, and the charcoal fire inside was blazing vigorously, and the torture instruments placed in it were already burning red. Seeing this, Qingyue got up from the ground and walked towards the palace gate.
"Bold! Hold it! Wei scolded her.
Qingyue turned her back to her and said, "Auntie is busy here, and Qingyue can't help much." Qingyue is on duty today, and it is almost time, I want to go to the dining room to see how today's lunch is prepared. I'm not here to accompany my aunt. ”
Wei didn't say anything more about Qingyue's confrontation, and then instructed the people of Shen Xingsi: "Remove their tongues." By the way, there is also Dr. Meng......" Meng Liangfu shouted with a snort, "Miss Qingyue, don't go, quickly plead for me." Wei scolded him: "Shut up! for you to heal them, not to torture you. ”
As soon as he came out of the palace gate, there were bursts of wails inside, and the terrible thing was that on the palace road of Xian'an Palace, there was no one to be seen, and the entire palace city was as if dead. Qingyue resisted the urge to cover her ears and walked back step by step.
In the afternoon, she was supposed to leave the palace, but because of the collision in the morning, she was punished to kneel in front of the Heart Cultivation Palace.
This kneeling lasted until the early morning of the second day. It wasn't until the Wei family came that she squatted down and tidied up her forehead and sideburns for Qingyue, and then she picked her up and entered the Heart Cultivation Hall together. Goodbye Kangxi, Wei helped her to kneel down together to say goodbye, Kangxi said goodbye and sat down. Wei Shi was not polite, and helped her to the group stool, and then sat down, the blood came back, and Qingyue's legs became conscious, painful and numb, and she tried to grit her teeth and endure it.
"The medicine you came in was very good, and I had a good night's sleep yesterday despite all the complicated things." Seeing that she didn't speak, Kangxi took the initiative to speak.
Qingyue only replied, "It's the credit of the Thirteenth Master." Kangxi saw that Qingyue refused to admit his mistake, so he could only say: "Shi Mengxin is a good boy, Yinren is not worthy of her!" When Yinren was ten years old, I worried about him, thinking that I would always choose a virtuous person by his side, and after choosing, I was still not at ease, so I sent my most intimate Mama Wei to train him. I wholeheartedly hope that they will be reconciled with each other, like me and Hesheri. I can't save her, I have to avenge her, right? Kangxi asked, staring at Qingyue.
Qingyue got up from the stool, knelt down, and replied, "It's all slaves who are not used to it, so they are out of shape." ”
"It's okay, it's always good to have good thoughts." After Kangxi comforted Qingyue, he let her go down to rest. Wei summoned the palace people and sent her back to the house. When she came back, Kangxi was already waiting for her.
"Sister, Qingyue's appearance makes me angry from the bottom of my heart, but I appreciate it. In order to protect my son, I killed the palace people, and everyone knew it, but she was the only one who showed it. I don't know how to deal with this matter. ”
Wei Shi bowed his head and said: "The emperor is in the court, and there are always one or two imperial envoys and doctors who are not afraid of death, and they dare to criticize the scales. Qingyue is assertive, she is principled in her work, isn't this the reason why the emperor is willing to use her several times? ”
"If this happens, will she still protect Yinren like she protects everyone else?"
Wei nodded affirmatively: "Your Majesty, she will!" The slave concluded that she had already discovered that the second master was pretending to be sick, but she did not dismantle the second master. ”
Kangxi closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said: "If the Di Listening Bureau controls it well, it can govern the country and secure the country, but if it is not controlled well, it will bring disaster to the country and the people." Qingyue, she is still unreliable, and the Di Ting Bureau cannot be handed over to her. When she completes the last major thing for me, whether it is you or the person who inherits the Di Listening Bureau, you must urge the 'Ten Ice Gu' in her body. You know? ”
Wei lowered his head and laughed miserably, it turned out that this was the end! The only answer in his mouth is yes.
Although she didn't sleep all night, kneeling tired and hungry, Qingyue didn't rest, and after returning to the house to change her clothes, she left the palace.
In the Cao Gang, Tong Ling and Wen Xiang were about to go crazy, the two used all the people they could use, but they still found nothing, and Qingyue did not appear as agreed. Because Qingyue confessed to hide it from the fourth master, Tong Ling couldn't ask for help from the Yongwang Mansion, and he didn't sleep all night and asked around for news.
Seeing Qingyue enter the door, Tong Ling's hanging heart fell halfway. Wen Xiang couldn't wait to tell Qingyue that Qinglian was missing! Qingyue listened, her head was dizzy, she held on to the chair and sat down. I asked where Wenxiang Wang Bai and Wang Yu'er were placed? Before Wen Xiang could answer, Tong Ling said: "I arranged it on a boat in the Cao Gang, and that ship has a pass from the household department, which does not need to be inspected, and can go directly to Jiangsu and Zhejiang." As long as there is any wind and grass here, God can send them away without knowing it. Qingyue nodded and said very well. Turning her head and instructing Wen Xiang, let her call all the people who had served Qinglian and Wang Bai to the Huixin Courtyard, and she would interrogate her personally. After smelling the incense, go and arrange it. When she went out, Qingyue asked Tong Ling to go to Toutuo and asked him to tell the fourth master that there were suspicious people in the old department of the thirteenth master, so let him be careful, and also let him tell the thirteenth master to be careful. After confessing to Tong Ling, Qingyue rode a horse to catch up with Wenxiang. Huixin's small courtyard was originally a safe house arranged by her, which contained money, food, chariots and horses, in order to avoid one or two for the time being in case of danger, but now it seems that this safe house is too unsafe.
When she arrived at the small courtyard of Huixin, Wen Xiang stood in the courtyard with a chagrined face, and three maids stood in front of her.
At this time, Wen Xiang's face could no longer hide something, "Who is missing?" Qingyue asked as soon as she entered the courtyard. Wen Xiang knelt down and said, "Girl, there is one less violinist named Ji Niang." Qingyue asked her to get up first, the three maids in the courtyard, two old women, and a little girl, Qingyue took out a string of Kang money from her arms and said, "I asked, you answered." If you answer well, I'll have a reward. The three of them, who were still a little nervous, immediately smiled when they saw the yellow copper coin in Qingyue's hand.
"Who do you usually serve the second lady?"
The older one was the first to reply: "It's all Ji Niang, the old woman, I serve the eldest lady, Xiao Juan'er serves the little son, and the Li Wang family only burns the fire and cooks." Qing Yue took four copper coins from her hand and handed them to the old woman.
"Then what does the eldest lady usually do?"
This time, it was Li Wang's who grabbed the opportunity: "Usually the grandmother embroiders and embroiders, and brings the little son." Qingyue gave her a copper coin, and Li Wang looked at the copper coin in his hand, and then at the four copper coins in the old woman's hand. Qingyue smiled: "Whoever answers well, I will give more, I just asked a question, but she answered four questions, and you only answered one question, so there is only one eldest son." ”
Li Wangshi had an epiphany, and then said: "** Grandma usually loves to read, and occasionally teases the little boy, the little boy usually likes to play with mud, loves to pick up branches and branches, and is a sword envoy, killing and killing in the yard to the end." Qingyue added two copper coins to her, and Li Wangshi looked at the copper coins in his hand, and his face turned red with excitement.
"What kind of books do the second ladies usually like to read?"
The three of them looked at each other, you look at me, I look at you, the older woman replied: "Girl Mingjian, we are all rural village women, how can we read and write, I don't know what books the second lady reads." ”
Qingyue snorted, and then asked, "Who has been in the house recently?" ”
Li Wang was afraid that others would rob him of the opportunity to make money, so he hurriedly replied: "No one has come, only on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was a flower arrangement with powder, but that person is not young." ”
The old woman glanced at Li Wang's and said, "Girl, she doesn't know and can't speak clearly." You listen to the old woman, the oily and powdery-faced person, with a green turban tied around her waist, you can tell at a glance that it is the person in the hook bar, he said that he is here to find Ji Niang. I saw it at the time and knew that it was not appropriate, this broad daylight, hooking up with the people in the fence in front of the widow's door. The second lady is beautiful and gorgeous, how can there be a good one. ”
Qingyue put five sons in the hands of the old woman, and Li Wang's cheeks bulged out with anger.
"What does that man look like, do you remember?"
Without waiting for the old woman to answer, Li Wang said: "I know, I know, that man has a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, eight feet tall, thick eyebrows and big eyes...... Qingyue interrupted her, "I'm not here to listen to you." Then the old woman answered, and the old woman recalled for a while before she said, "The man is extremely white, but he has a red mole on the tip of his left eyebrow." Also, when he came, the old woman saw him playing with a pair of stuffy pointed lion heads (Wen plays with walnuts) in his hands. Qingyue nodded and gave the old woman ten eldest sons. Then she paced up to the little girl and shook the copper coin at her: "It's been so long, why don't you say a word?" ”
The little girl said aggrievedly: "I...... I, I'm stupid, squeezing, can't squeeze them. But that day, when I was picking up wooden balls for the little boy, I heard it...... Hearing it, Ji Niang's name is ** Miss Milk, they seem to know each other. ”
Qingyue was shocked, as if she had found hope, after she gave the little girl five coppers, she asked some miscellaneous questions, and rewarded them with a lot of copper coins before letting them go. After they left, Qingyue instructed Wen Xiang: "You let people go and investigate that old woman, her words and knowledge are not like ordinary people, and we must also know her details." Smell the fragrance and answer yes. Qingyue asked again: "Where did this Ji Niang find the person?" How did you get to Huixin Courtyard? Wen Xiang knelt down again and pleaded: "Please punish the girl!" She was transferred from the Spring Festival Courtyard by the slave maid, and the slave maid saw that she was usually honest and steady, so she was sent here. I don't want to get into such a catastrophe. Qingyue thought for a moment and asked, "Is she from an official slave?" Wen Xiang replied: "Yes, she was the servant of the Ru Jin family who was the former Hanlin attendant, and later Ru Jin was convicted, and she was sold to the Spring Festival Courtyard for twenty years. ”
It was really a sesame seed that fell into the eye of the needle, she was speechless, she thought about Qinglian and them, and the fewer people who knew about it, the better, but she didn't expect that Wenxiang would find someone from the old mansion of Rujin. It seems that if you want to find Qinglian, you can only start from Ji Niang. Qingyue and Wenxiang returned to the Spring Festival Courtyard together, and sent someone to call the old flower.