Chapter Twenty-Six: Hidden Treasure
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Li Weizhen's heart can't say what it feels like, and his marriage never seems to be decided by himself.
There was a father and brother who were in a hurry to die, and then there was the emperor who intervened, but compared with the two, Li Weizhen felt very grateful to the saint.
After all, if it weren't for this wanton obstruction, he would have been tied up by his family and boarded the seemingly gorgeous, but actually dilapidated rotten ship of King Lu's mansion.
In the final analysis, Li Weizhen is still the princess, it is already his best result, he is now a seven-rank petty official in front of the saint, a cabinet secretary, and a close minister of the emperor, put it on ordinary people, everyone has to praise the sentence 'promising future', but who called him the second son of Anxin Houfu?
I don't know when I will be tired by that superb father and brother, yes, but anyone who has vision will not marry his beloved daughter to him.
The laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty are different from those of the previous dynasties, and it is still resolutely not allowed to lead the troops with horses, and they cannot be appointed as local officials, but they can serve as civil servants, but they cannot serve as high-ranking officials above the second rank.
I have to say that Li Weizhen's body is full of contradictions, you say that he is unlucky, but there are nobles to help him at critical moments, you say that he is lucky, but he can't even keep the woman he likes......
As for Princess Qin Rong, whom Li Weizhen is still looking for, he has heard some from his friends, this golden branch and jade leaf is the younger sister of the current saint, the twenty-sixth princess of the first emperor.
His mother is a Jieyu who has no title, and throughout her life, she has not even been able to earn the list of nine concubines, and although the first emperor has many children, there are few princes who can survive, and the princess accounts for two-thirds.
Princess Qin Rong is just one of the sixteen princesses, her mother is not favored, and her uncle's family is just a small Beijing official, so she has no sense of existence in front of the first emperor.
But Princess Qin Rong seems to be gentle and weak, and even lives a life of patience among sisters, but people can't look good, this one has a seven-trick exquisite heart under the weak and pitiful appearance.
Don't look at her usual silence, in fact, she pays close attention to the movements between several brothers, the so-called bystander Qing, Princess Qin Rong did not throw herself to King Lu and King Cheng, but handed an olive branch to the weak King Qi.
Princess Qin Rong always felt that her low-key and generous brother Qi Wang was inexplicably similar to herself, such a person was forbearant and tenacious, and he knew himself very clearly, and he always had to go farther than ordinary people.
Not only did she become friends with King Qi and was willing to be the eyeliner in the harem, but she even signaled that her mother-in-law, who was not strong, took the family to join King Qi, regardless of the official or the official, the key is this unconditional support attitude, right?
Now that Emperor Zhengqing has ascended the throne, the discerning Princess Qin Rong's contribution is not small, among the several princesses who have not yet married, it is the most favored, the emperor often summons not to say, the queen also has rewards every once in a while, it can be seen that this in the near future, she is a hot princess of Jinyang.
In such a situation, it is really not strange to be able to get a good match from her emperor's brother, but there are a lot of marriageable men in the capital, many of whom are from high families, why, this pair of distinguished brothers and sisters would choose Li Weizhen, who has an embarrassing identity and has no future?
It's not because Li Weizhen is too handsome!
Since Li Weizhen served as the secretary of the cabinet and often went in and out of the palace, it was inevitable that he would meet with the women in the harem, and Princess Qin Rong, who often met with the saint, was one of them.
This princess is eighteen years old this year, and it stands to reason that she should have married a long time ago, and if she is lucky, she may have children.
But in order to survive, Princess Qin Rong, who could only spend the first half of her life in grievances, once she turned over, she didn't want to let herself have any reluctance, she didn't want to find someone to marry casually, so she begged Emperor Zhengqing early, and asked the emperor's brother to promise her a son-in-law.
No, since she saw Li Weizhen, who was unparalleled in the imperial study, like an immortal, Princess Qin Rong could no longer be calm.
He sent someone to inquire about the family background of this Lord Li, and asked people to take the silver and serve the palace maid and eunuch beside the emperor to inquire about Li Weizhen's temperament.
Inquire about the news back, one good and one bad, the bad thing is that it seems that Anxin Houfu is not very reliable, and the master of this family is the bright King Lu faction!
The good news is that Master Li is gentle and polite, well-founded, not flattering to the saints, not contemptuous of the subordinates, is a rare humble gentleman, and the most important thing is that he has not yet made a marriage!
Princess Qin Rong couldn't help but be happy and good, happy that the lover was still single, and he was also well-behaved, but the good thing was that the family was too uneasy, and if they didn't do it well, they would implicate Lord Li in the crime.
In the end, Princess Qin Rong still lost to Li Weizhen's excellent skin, and secretly thought, "If you really become a family, you might as well secretly mention An Xinhou, if you really can't stop it, then you can't blame the palace for being ruthless, if something happens in the future, the palace only wants to keep Lord Li safe, and if you want to protect only one person, the saint will still reward the palace with a face." ”
Princess Qin Rong thought about it here, and finally made a decision, but she didn't expect that Li Weizhen went to Pingjing to announce the decree, and the girl's first love was the most lingering and emotional.
I was already thinking in my heart that after Li Weizhen returned to Beijing, he might as well create a few chance encounters first, cultivate a relationship with Master Li, and then ask the Holy Lord for marriage.
But I didn't expect that the plan couldn't catch up with the changes, and within a few days, I heard that the county lord of Changming also fell in love with Li Weizhen, and he took the path of An Xinhou, and if he didn't do it, he would have to take the lead!
At this time, Princess Qin Rong couldn't care about her feelings or not, so she hurriedly entered the palace to see Emperor Zhengqing, told her daughter's thoughts completely, and begged her emperor's brother to call the shots, which was finally the first step to snatch one of the four princes of the capital to her own home!
Emperor Zhengqing didn't connive at his sister's nonsense, but through this period of contact, he observed that Li Weizhen was quite upright, and his brain was not confused, and he knew what his identity was at any time.
For this son of a family with a good character, a clear position, and elegant and free and easy gestures, Emperor Zhengqing still admires it, such a person is on an errand in front of him, at least he can raise his eyes, right?
Think about it, it would be a pity for such an immortal-like character to be dragged into the water by King Lu's mansion.
The opportunity to pull someone was held in front of his eyes again, and Emperor Zhengqing thought about it a little, so he stretched out his hand and pulled it.
Li Weizhen still doesn't know the truth of the matter, in fact, two women have taken a fancy to his face, but one person's backer is the prince, and the other person's backer is the emperor, and the person with thick thighs wins in the end, and he, Li Weizhen, will be owned by others from now on.
The guess in his heart at the moment was that it was the Holy Hongde, and he couldn't bear to see him fall into an embarrassing situation, so that he could give up a noble royal princess to save him!
I am really grateful to Emperor Zhengqing in my heart, and my loyalty is scurrying up!
Completely gaining Li Weizhen's loyalty, I'm afraid it was also something that Emperor Zhengqing didn't expect when he nodded at the beginning, right?
After sending Li Weizhen and Song Qiaofang and his party away, the serious matter was about to be done in full swing, Mu Yi seemed to have been guarding the outpost for seven or eight days, but in fact, he had been secretly doing things according to the master's orders.
He asked Mu San to take the secret guards left by Mu Lingxuan into small groups to search outside, at the beginning, half of Mu Yishan's henchmen were sent to the iron mine, half were sent to the coal kiln, and only a few people had the ability to be transferred to other places.
As long as you sift through these places, you will definitely have useful news.
Under the hard work of everyone, they really found a crucial clue, and this clue was neither from the iron mine nor from the coal kiln, but from Gutian City, which was not far away.
The target person is named Niu Datou, and now he is under Hao Duwei in Gutian City, serving as the captain of the hundred people, he was also a member of the outpost, but this person was lucky, not long before the fall of Mu Yishan, he spent money to go to the account of Hao Duwei.
Speaking of which, Niu Datou's suspicion was originally the smallest, this person has been on an errand in the military camp, taking turns once every five days, and also going home to visit his family, and the contacts are all stuck, so there is no chance to collude with the Rongdi people.
However, sometimes the opportunity falls from the sky, and when Mu Qi and the others walked on East Street and walked around West Street to explore, they inadvertently bumped into two groups of people and quarreled at the door of the silver building.
Mu Qi's ears were sharp, and he got a key sentence from the words of shouting and scolding, "I know that you Xiao Jincui are now tied to a rich military master, but no matter how rich he is, can he be richer than the prefect?!" ’
Mu Qi glanced at him at that time, and asked Mu Si and Mu Liu to inquire why this group of people were quarreling, and the result of inquiring was very exciting.
It turned out that the two beautiful women dressed in wealth and silver today were both prostitutes, and the one named Xiao Jincui snatched the jewelry that his opponent liked today, a peony peach blossom hairpin inlaid with rubies.
The market price, one hundred and eighty taels of silver, Miss Xiao bought it with cash!
Niu Datou is a small captain of 100 people, and his salary for a month is only five taels of silver, even if he is smarter than others and can get some benefits in private, but twenty taels of silver will be dead.
But he not only feeds his family of eleven, but also raises a concubine outside, who casually buys a golden hairpin, which is one hundred and eighty taels of silver, if there is no problem here, then it is really a hell!
Things are often like this, when you don't find that point, you can't enter the door at all, you can only do it in a hurry, and go around, but once you find that point, everything will be solved, so fast that you can't even imagine!
Mu Er was originally in charge of all the sources in the West, and he usually didn't go far away. Basically, I faced all kinds of gossip at home, and then took people to find out the really useful things from these seemingly chaotic gossip, arranged and summarized them one by one, and then presented the most simple and useful information to the master.
This time, because Lan Jiayin didn't say goodbye, Liang Wenyu was too worried, so he sent him out, after all, finding people and collecting news is his forte.
Seeing that the door to the truth was in front of him, Mu Er simply took the initiative to invite Ying, and took people to the intelligence collection point of Gutian City, and then replaced the leader here, and personally took command, so that the spies here put down the things in their hands and went all out to find the place where Niu Datou's golden house was hidden.
Because Xiao Jincui had an argument with someone on the street just now, and Mu Er knew her name, these people just inquired a little, and found out that this generous woman turned out to be the kiln sister of Chunhualou, but at the end of last year, she became good, and now her residence is in Xiaotong Lane in front of Wutong Street.
It is the west of Gutian City, and most of the people who live there are honest ordinary people, but I don't know, how did Niu Datou think about placing a kiln sister there?
Mu Er and Mu Qiyi combined, felt that it was no further ado, and immediately took someone to Xiaotong Lane, and inquired, Xiao Jincui moved over in less than half a year, the daughter of the original family married to Jiangnan, and her life was good, so she had to take her father and mother to support the elderly, no, she sold the house to Niu Datou cheaply.
The woman named Xiao Jincui has lived here for a long time, but Niu Datou has not been seen by anyone, but fortunately, they have enough people and a lot of sweet and silver, so they still asked.
This bull is a cautious and cautious person, he doesn't flash his face during the day, and always comes to dawn at night, so only the one who fights the watch and the one who pours the dung water can see it, and the two of them are right, and it is estimated that they can come four or five times a month.
Mu Si pinched his fingers and counted, thinking that Niu Datou should have come to the barracks for a tryst in the past few days, in this case, Niu Datou would come tomorrow.
The group simply came to wait for the rabbit, set up traps around the small courtyard, and waited for the big head of the cow to come to find a good match, and gave him an urn to catch turtles!
The next day, there was no figure of Niu Datou during the whole day, but the mother-in-law in the house took a little girl, and the two went to the market, bought a lot of food and came back.
Sure enough, when it was dark, Niu Datou carried a few bags of things in his hand, hummed a little song and leisurely entered Xiaotong Lane, and went straight to the courtyard where Xiao Jincui lived.
Waiting for the maid to put all the wine and food together, Mu Qi and they started to act, and soon got all the three minions in the yard, and then, the sentry guard, the cat under the cat window, each performed its own duties, from beginning to end was silent, and there was no sound at all.
The room was extraordinarily lively, Xiao Jincui kept smiling and persuading him to drink, and he was gentle and coquettish to Niu Datou, without the slightest pungency.
When he was flirting with his lover, he still refused to stop, and he still took out the matter of fighting with his former sister Yinlou to complain.
Listening to Niu Datou, who was still smiling, he threw away one hundred and eighty taels of silver to buy jewelry because he was angry with others, and immediately became angry, "Didn't I say that you should not make trouble?" ”
"There was an accident over there in Lao Shigang a few days ago, we have to be vigilant, if we show our feet, all the people in this yard are dead!"