Chapter 174: The Face of the Stone Court
Chapter 174: The Face of the Stone Court
Everyone had a good time on this outing.
Except that the appearance of the county lord of Yuanyang made Xiao Jing's family a little disappointed.
Originally, the Ling family invited Shi Ting, and Ling Qingyun also thought that he would appear, but in the end he did not come. What exactly he planned to do, Ling Qingyun didn't know.
Shi Ting has been in and out of Prime Minister Yang's mansion frequently.
He had a close relationship with Mrs. Yang.
Ling Qingyun felt a little sorry for him. He was once born in the Taiyuan Wang family, the world's first high-ranking family, and has lived a dignified and graceful life since he was a child.
Now, he wants to use his beauty to make friends with the noble ladies in the capital to obtain the gains.
For a man, it's humiliating. What's more, Wang Qilang was once the pride of the sky. The humiliation he endured was deeply thought of by Ling Qingyun.
It's May in the blink of an eye.
On the day of the Duanyang Festival, a banquet should be held in the palace to entertain the women inside and outside. So, the Queen Mother made an edict in advance to let all the foreign wives go to the banquet.
"The eldest princess of Huaiqing has just been beheaded, but the queen mother wants to preside over this year's Duanyang Festival banquet, what is the reason?"
In the past, the queen mother didn't care about anything, and these festivals and banquets were all handled by the queen. After the death of the queen, there has been no banquet in the palace for two years.
Among the wang families in Beijing, they are speculating about the queen mother's intentions.
Nobody understood.
Everyone smelled something unusual. The Queen Mother loves the eldest princess Huaiqing very much, and now that the eldest princess of Huaiqing has been beheaded for less than 20 days, the queen mother has the heart to preside over the banquet, which is too unusual!
There's a conspiracy here.
What kind of plan the Queen Mother has, no one knows. However, Prime Minister Yang's department completely offended the Queen Mother.
The people who received Yi's order were all uneasy. They asked each other and consulted to see how they could avoid the limelight.
Two days before the Duanyang Festival, the Queen Mother called An Su to Cining Palace: "I heard that the fiancΓ©e of Deputy An's commander is a smart and good at medicine. The mourning family has been heavy these days, so let her come and see the mourning family, okay?
The mourning family knows that you don't have a daughter, so on the day of the Duanyang Festival, let Mrs. An take Miss Ling into the palace. β
An Su was slightly surprised.
He didn't quite understand it.
Ling Qingyun is extremely low-key among the nobles in Beijing. If it weren't for her and An Weiding, no one in Beijing would know about her at all.
After the next dynasty, An Su found An Wei and told An Wei about it.
"You haven't been messing around lately, have you?" An Su asked his son, "Why did the Queen Mother suddenly want to see Wan Niang?" β
"No nonsense." An Wei replied to his father, "You are also in the court, you know what I have done." β
An Su nodded, said no more, and went home with An Wei.
On the way home, An Wei was preoccupied.
An Wei thought to herself: "The matter of the eldest princess of Huaiqing, it is impossible to suspect Jiu Niang. We are all just small fish, and we can't shake the high-powered princess Huaiqing.
The Ling family is even more powerless, even if the Queen Mother sniffs out clues, it is the Shi Ting who is in the limelight.
The Queen Mother wants to see Jiuniang, but I'm afraid that the county lord of Yuanyang hit a wall during an outing, and she went to the Queen Mother to complain, and the Queen Mother let Jiuniang enter the palace, right? β
An Wei also knew that Lu Jiuniang had always wanted to enter the palace. She wanted to see the official family, and even the Queen Mother.
"Dad, you go back first, I'll go to Ling's house." When I was about to arrive at the door, Anqiao Road.
An Su bowed: "Go ahead." β
An Wei drove the horse to Ling's house and told Ling Qingyun about the matter.
Ling Qingyun was also taken aback.
After calming down, Ling Qingyun said, "Is it the idea of the county lord of Yuanyang?" β
She thought the same as An Wei, and did not suspect that the Queen Mother found out that they were the masterminds behind the case of the eldest princess Huaiqing, because they were really inconspicuous.
They are all children.
The child is not capable of bringing down the eldest princess of Huaiqing, which is a common understanding in the world.
And that's exactly what happened.
They just took advantage of the deceit between the magnates to provoke the fight between Prime Minister Yang and Princess Huaiqing, and then added fuel to the fire, so that Prime Minister Yang took action against Princess Huaiqing.
This is called sowing discord.
"It should be." Anquis Road.
Thinking of this, An Wei's eyes were like sharp swords, with a vicious murderous aura. It was all the people who saw the mount out of control when they were in the court that day, and they relented for a while and saved the county lord of Yuanyang.
Who knows, he actually saved a scourge and put Jiuniang in danger.
"When you get to the Queen Mother, if the county lord of Yuanyang embarrasses you, you swallow your anger first. Previously, don't talk about us, even the official family was helpless to take the queen mother. In front of the Queen Mother, you have to be calm and talk about it when you get out of the palace. "Ann Wai Road.
If the county lord of Yuanyang really dares to embarrass Ling Qingyun, wait until she gets out of the palace gate, and then Anwei will clean her up.
"I understand." Ling Qingyun said.
The two of them stood under the window and spoke, and the evening wind blew the curtains, and the satin soft curtains rippled like ripples; Some flowers were planted outside the window, and the eaves could not be named, and they bloomed brilliantly in the sunset, like clouds falling in the mortal world.
"I'm going back." Anquis Road.
In his voice, he felt a little reluctant.
After a pause, he said again: "When you come out of the palace, I have something to tell you." β
Ling Qingyun immediately grabbed his sleeve and said, "You person, this is the most annoying!" You know I'm going to guess what you're going to say, and then you can't stay up to me day and night, and you're still hanging my appetite like this! β
The corners of An Yuan's lips curled slightly, and there was a faint smile.
He stretched out his hand and touched Ling Qingyun's face.
"I found out the identity of Shi Ting." An Wei replied to Ling Qingyun seriously.
Shiting to Beijing, extremely high-profile, attracted the attention of all directions. His purpose was to make friends with the powerful.
However, he has too many powerful people in and out, and he can come to almost everyone's house. Therefore, no matter whose mansion he goes to, he will not attract too much attention from outsiders.
It is difficult to tell who is his main purpose.
It's dark under the lights.
Shi Ting is so high-profile, naturally someone wants to check his identity. But after months of hard work, he could hardly find his flaws. He is the fifth young master of the Shi family, a medicine merchant in the south, and he is deeply liked by the old lady.
"Thirteen years ago, the crown prince and the two kings competed for the throne and both died. The dead soldiers who followed the prince were wiped out.
However, in the Prince's Mansion, there is no shortage of strange people. I sent someone over there to visit the Shi family, and let people sneak into the Shi family's mansion and hibernate for half a year. According to my report, he was in the courtyard of the old lady of the Shi family, and he always saw a sneaky person coming and going late at night.
After spending three months, he slowly followed and found that the person was fifty or sixty percent similar to the appearance of Zhan Shi of the original Prince's Mansion. After the crown prince was executed, some people in his house fled in order to make a comeback. "Ann Wai Road.
Ling Qingyun was slightly surprised.
"You mean"
"The messenger is not sure, and I am only surmising from this information. The Shi family, a pharmacist, used to have only a small pharmacy, and they didn't make much money in a year, so they lived a tight life.
Ten years ago, they suddenly entered the ginseng industry. As far as the pharmaceutical market is concerned, the ginseng store is the most profitable, and the Shi family relied on this to get rich overnight. However, if you think about it, it is amazing to be able to get so rich. "Ann Wai Road.
Indeed, it is surprising that there is no right opportunity to suddenly become rich like that.
Just like Ling Qingyun's sister-in-law's maiden family, the Chen family, because they saw the opportunity and stockpiled grain as soon as possible, so after the drought last year, their family suddenly became rich, and now they are as rich as the country.
And the status of the Shi family in the south is similar to the status of the Chen family in the Central Plains now, and it is also rich and famous.
Ten years ago, there was no big event in the ginseng store that could get rich all at once.
Therefore, the wealth of the Shi family is still unknown.
"The Shi family wants to rebel?" Ling Qingyun pondered, and lowered her voice, "But the crown prince is dead, who are they going to support, the Nine Kings?" β
The Nine Kings, like the current Holy Lord, are not the faction of the crown prince.
What is the use of the prince's advisers supporting the nine kings? What is the plan?
Wouldn't it be nice to take that money and go to live a peaceful life?
"I don't know." An Wei said conservatively, "I just remembered another thing: Shi Ting said that among the people who murdered the queen, there are also officials. Is this true?
If the Shi family behind him really wanted to rebel, then his intention to say those words can be imagined! β
Shi Ting wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to help Lu Yu and Empress Lu take revenge, and by the way, fulfill his purpose of entering Beijing.
He wanted to use Ling Qingyun, An Wei, and the Lu family and An Wei behind Ling Qingyun's ability to win over him, to contribute to his revenge plan together.
Ling Qingyun clenched her palm, and her nails were all sunk into the flesh.
Her eyes were cold.
Again!
He's taking advantage of her again! He kept asking her to follow him, but he used her very easily!
Ling Qingyun bit her lip.
"Are these words true?" Ling Qingyun raised her eyes suddenly, with a bit of caution in her eyes, "Did you frame Shi Ting?" Can I trust you? β
She didn't know who to listen to now.
Men lie.
"Trust me!" An Wei was not annoyed, not indifferent, and looked at Ling Qingyun very seriously, "I will never lie to you!" β
Under Ling Qingyun's eyes, a layer of mist floated.
She suddenly hugged An Wei's waist.
"I believe in you!" Ling Qingyun said.
An Wei gently stroked her hair.
In this matter, An Wei originally didn't plan to sue her now, so as not to distract her. She is going to enter the palace the day after tomorrow, and An Wei is afraid that she will suffer.
But, he said it anyway.
Now that she was holding him tightly, An Wei felt that what she had done was right. He should have sued her sooner.
"You still have to be careful when you enter the palace." An Wei repeatedly told her, "The Queen Mother is angry now, it's okay to suffer a loss at this time, and let's make up for it later." β
Ling Qingyun nodded.
She naturally knew that the Queen Mother was angry.
This kind of anger can burn a qiΔ to ashes. Imagine a mother who watches her daughter beheaded, and can't mourn for her, but also watches the joyful celebrations of others, the opening of curfews by the imperial court, etc.
Now, whoever blocks the Queen Mother is looking for death.
After An Wei left the Ling family, Ling Qingyun didn't sleep all night.
She thought a lot about Wang Qilang.
When I think about it, I can't help but be discouraged again.
For Wang Qilang, there will always be something more important than Lu Jiuniang, and he will not hesitate to hurt Lu Jiuniang.
He was like this, which made Lu Yu feel that he had fallen in love with him like an ugly joke. Her former love, and even her children, have become unsightly.
Shi Ting probably felt that any damage could be remedied.
As everyone knows, an injury is a scar that can never be filled. This time, Shi Ting knew that Lu Jiuniang was eager for revenge and had little time, so he still used her easily.
Early the next morning, Ling Qingyun took Liansheng out and went to Tianyi Pavilion to find the stone garden!
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