Chapter 7: Old Things
The clouds drifted silently, obscuring the half-crescent, and revealing the half-crescent. Suddenly www.biquge.info water sparkled and wrinkled on the surface of the water. Shen Lin'an's skirt hanging under the porch shook a few times, bringing two or three crisp bells.
Shen Ji wiped his forehead, and simply fell to the ground, looking at the already calm lake of water.
Shen Lin'an stared at the half-uncovered roof of the corridor, counting the stars, but his mouth was careless: "Since you already know that it is a trick, you should understand that letting you lose power and making you decadent is just the first step for them to seize the northwest." The Shen family is being ground by their soft knives, and they are forcibly pushed to the forefront. If you can't do anything, the two uncles are in the northwest, and it will be even more difficult to move an inch. ”
How could Shen Ji not know this truth? He was just annoyed that he had been exploited in vain: "What if I hadn't left the camp today?" ”
"As soon as I returned to Beijing, I was calculated, and it can be seen that this game has not been prepared for a day or two. Even if it weren't me today, it would be for other reasons, and there would be a way to get you out of the camp after all. Shen Lin'an snorted: "It's just that today's situation is interlocking, and the connection is smooth, not only dealing with you, but also involving the Liu family and the eldest princess's mansion, but killing three birds with one stone." ”
Shen Ji rolled "hula", rolled out the tray where the wine jug was originally placed, and the whole person jumped up instantly, grabbed a pillar, and looked at Shen Lin'an with bright eyes: "What do you mean, is it the bastard idea of the old guys of the Su family?" ”
Before she could answer, he already had his own opinion in his heart: "It must be them: those old guys don't have a face or a conscience for the sake of glory and wealth!" ”
This is not to blame Shen Ji for being impulsive, the Su and Shen families have indeed had a grudge for a long time. The Su family on Delong Street is also a high-ranking family, but the family style is declining. The first generation of the Su family concubine is the favorite concubine of the former emperor, the current concubine Su, and the sister of Su Shandao. The two of them were originally side branches of the Su family, but because one was a noble concubine and the other was the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they attached great importance to the main family.
Later, Su Shandao was found to have accepted bribes, embezzled disaster relief funds, attacked Qincha, trained private soldiers with the intention of rebellion, and the evidence was conclusive.
originally thought that the Su family would be in a collapse since then, who would have thought that the new emperor would ascend the throne later, and the Su family urgently stood in line, and later sent a daughter of a concubine into the palace to be a concubine, and she recovered by virtue of her in-law relationship.
From this point of view, there is not much difference between the Su family and the Liu family.
And this time the granary was burned, which really made Shen Ji feel unhappy in his heart: grain and grass are the guarantee of the army in wartime, and it is important to maintain people's livelihood in times of disaster.
Shen Lin'an heard him scold the Su family, and his heart was secretly refreshed, but he also came to correct: "This time, it wasn't the Su family's doing!" ”
Shen Ji was silent at that time, he knew! It must have been a mistake again! Shen Lin'an tapped his fingers twice on the marble stool in the corridor: "You think about all the information I asked Qing Apple to read today, and then guess who it is with me." ”
Today? Shen Ji frowned slightly, recalling it.
Shen Lin'an and Shen Ji went straight into the study in silence all the way, Qing Ping stepped forward and bit her ear to speak, Shen Lin'an only whispered back and then said, and then instructed her to investigate the recent changes in the eldest princess's mansion and the Liu family, and then go to see the background of the person who stole the gold square and the background of the store that sold the gold square, and asked her to investigate the recent movement trajectory and preferences of the Gao family's list, and asked the military commander about the family situation and the people he had been in contact with recently.
Shen Ji was already blindsided by this large number of requests, and he didn't have much patience, he sulked in his heart at the time, he didn't care much at all, he listened hastily, and sat on the chair.
Shen Lin'an was unhurried, drank two cups of iced sour plum soup, and waited for the news of Qingapple. Qingapple entered the door, closed two carved doors, and stood behind the screen. Shen Lin'an glanced at the absent-minded Shen Ji, and lazily leaned on the couch: "Say." ”
Qingapple knew that there was a screen to cover it, but she still saluted and made a serious report. "The Eldest Princess's Mansion has sold a total of three waves of twenty-one maids since the Liu family returned home, plus the departed Liu family's dowry, there are a total of one hundred and eighty-seven vacancies, and the Eldest Princess's Mansion has not been filled, and the fourth batch of takeaways is also being prepared."
"In the past month, the Qingtong Courtyard where the eldest princess is located is not allowed to turn off the lights at night, and the maids and daughters-in-law have to take turns to keep vigil."
"Today, the Liu family came to the door, in fact, the eldest princess and the county lord An Rong are not in the mansion, but they are fasting outside the city."
"This month, the eldest grandmother of the Liu family, Su Shi, went to Linjun Wangfu a total of six times under the pretext of learning tricks, and her personal grandmother went to Linjun Wangfu twelve times and Su's house nine times."
"The name of the person who shot the gold side is Wang Ming, a well-known thief on the street, according to his confession, the gold side was sucked out of Shen Lin'an's sleeve when Shen Lin'an touched Brother Bao's head with a powerful magnet.
The store that was sold was just an ordinary store, and the shopkeeper was a middle-aged man with a bad temper, surnamed Chen, who didn't have too many means. ”
"I'm afraid that the son of the Gao family is finally able to come out of his illness, and he wanders the streets every day, buying some kinds of gadgets that he doesn't have, today's old books and tomorrow's jade. He walked from the East Market to Huangjie today, and he must enter every store along the way. I happened to see it and bought Jinfang. It was such a coincidence."
"As for the commander of the army, his name is Gong Sanli, his father was a cavalry leader of the Jiucheng Terracotta Division and later died in the line of duty, his mother was paralyzed in bed due to illness, and he also had a wife, the daughter of the master who taught him martial arts, surnamed Lin. He has two boys, one is nine years old and the other is six years old.
Gong Sanli has always been poor, but recently he has suddenly become more generous, adding a full set of faces to his son, from the top hat to the soles of his shoes. He also made a solid silver bracelet for his wife, added two bird's nests to his old mother, and renovated his ancestral grave. ”
Shen Lin'an nodded, asked Qing Ping to step back, and then started to analyze with Shen Ji, but Qing Ping called the door again: "Girl, the slave has something to tell you." Shen Lin'an had to let her in, but when she saw Qing Ping's face was heavy, she also became serious.
"Girl". Shen Lin'an raised her head slightly at her before she continued: "I just got the news, the granary of the Gyeonggi camp is on fire. ”
Shen Lin'an suddenly changed color, and his first reaction was that this was the handiwork of the Su family. After pondering it again, I also found that it was not similar, but this series of schemes had a slight taste of deliberate provocation.
Someone wants to bite a piece of the Shen family's meat, but this matter will not just be the intervention of one party. Shen Lin'an had a headache to screen many possible people, and sadly found that there were so many people who offended on weekdays that he couldn't judge accurately.