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As soon as Shi Jing's voice fell, the three nursing homes in the flower hall couldn't help but look at each other, and they didn't act for a while, thinking that they had heard it wrong.

The two maids who were kneeling on the ground were also stunned when they heard this, looked at the three nursing homes, and then stared at Shi Jing's back when he came out of the house.

Shi Jing didn't say a second word, nor did he turn back to make up for it, so he brushed his sleeves and left.

No one knows what Shi Jing thinks in his heart, and even from his political enemies, it is difficult to find such a 'confidant'. However, it is not difficult for the subordinates in the Prime Minister's Mansion to understand a question at this time, Shi Jing will definitely not forgive those two maids.

The two tortured his wife for more than ten years, and the cruelty of the methods made the three nursing homekeepers who listened to the two maids' statements of guilt couldn't help but grit their teeth.

However, when he looked at these two people, he could still calm down, and there was only one conclusion.

Shi Jing had already carved the word 'death' on the white and smooth foreheads of these two cheap maids with a cold gaze, he couldn't see the fear in their eyes, the sweat on their foreheads, he only looked at the two corpses by himself.

He doesn't use his mental power to deal with the dead.

After Shi Jing left the flower hall, it didn't take long for the three nursing homes who were stunned to look at each other gradually come back to their senses. The three of them looked at each other again, as if they had decided something in silence, and then dragged the two maids out of the flower hall again, who had suddenly understood and wept later.

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Shi Jing took a half-day off to go home, mainly to bid farewell to Cen Chi, and to try the crime at home that had been shelved for a few days.

This family case involves some family affairs of the historian, as well as some family ugliness. Shi Jing was once the prime minister and didn't want to make a noise about it. He has a lot of experience in interrogating people, and he can do it himself at home, and he can get more information he wants to know.

Dispose of those two evil slaves. It was already a little insufficient, but when he listened to the two maids' dictation in the flower hall, he suddenly wanted to take another look at his 'Lan'er' before leaving.

Although today's Lan'er can no longer be like when he first married him more than ten years ago, when he went out to go to the official office, he stood at the door of the house and looked at his back with a smile, and called softly: "Be careful on the road." ”

However, when Shi Jing walked to the quiet courtyard where his wife was grounded, he was just about to step forward, but he retreated again.

He sighed inwardly, turned and walked back. The sedan chair stopped at the gate. He must hurry back to the court.

Not far back, Shi Jing suddenly saw a somewhat familiar maid. Before the maid got too close, Shi Jing recognized her. It was the girl named Qingqiang who he arranged to serve by Cen Chi's side.

Qingqiang has been a servant in the Prime Minister's Mansion for several years, but since she was arranged to Cen Chi's side, she has rarely met with Shi Jing, but Shi Jing has not neglected her existence because of this. In fact, it's probably because of Cen Chi. Shi Jing's cultivation of this girl can be regarded as attached.

However, because Shi Jing is still a little unsure of what Cen Chi's mind is, she has not taught Qingqiang anything other than serving people for the time being, so her heart is still a blank slate, which is much simpler than the two cheap maids who taught in the flower hall just now.

Shi Jing saw Qingqiang. A thought arose in his heart, so he called him close to him and looked at it.

Qingqiang was originally a maid who served Cen Chi closely. Today, Cen Chi left the Prime Minister's Mansion and went to the northwest, but her spirit seemed to be more haggard than when she took care of Cen Chi day and night a few days ago.

After Shi Jing carefully observed Qingqiang a few times, he felt that this girl seemed to have lost her soul. Her soul was not in this body that should have been full of youthful vitality, and probably followed the carriage.

Shi Jing couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic in his heart, he could serve people with heart and affection to this point. It's really rare, but I haven't seen the filthy intentions of the two cheap maids who served Lan'er. It was just too big a mistake. It seems that for family affairs, if you can't think of chaos, you have to start from the root.

Shi Jing knew that Qingqiang's heart for Cen Chi was not as simple as a master-servant relationship, but he believed that as long as Qingqiang had a pure heart and could serve his 'Lan'er' well, it was often only a matter of time before the cultivation of feelings was often a matter of time.

"You're worried about Cen Chi?" After staring at Qingqiang for a moment, Shi Jing suddenly asked.

Qingqiang's shoulders trembled slightly, and she said in a low voice: "The slave doesn't dare to trespass." ”

Shi Jing spoke slowly, as if he was just describing a very ordinary thing: "You must also know that although my wife has been crazy for more than ten years, I have never thought of abandoning her. But you may not know that my wife and I were both from poor backgrounds, and we were able to support each other all the way, until I became famous, and no one could replace her significance to me during this period. ”

Speaking of this, he changed his words and said: "There is no need to deliberately hide emotional matters. As for the problem of identity, there is always a solution. The most expensive thing in the world is true love, and its price is not because of the high price, but because it cannot be measured by treasure. ”

It may be foolish to show what you care about most in front of others, but it can also be said to be a great trust in this 'other person'.

From Shi Jing's words, Qingqiang heard a lot of past stories about Master Shi that she had never known before, and among them, the most surprising thing for Qingqiang was that Master Shi, who had always been strict and busy, would talk to her about his attitude towards 'love' when he met her halfway.

Qingqiang, who lowered her head slightly, couldn't help but glance up at Shi Jing, and saw that he was also looking at herself, she immediately lowered her head again, and there was some awe in her heart that she couldn't understand the reason, and she didn't know how to answer.

Maybe I'm not qualified to discuss my attitude towards 'love' with my lord at all.

"From tomorrow onwards, you will serve by the side of the eldest lady!" Shi Jing suddenly spoke, the topic changed very quickly, and there was no room for Qingqiang to think in his tone, "In the future, the eldest lady will only have you to serve, and I will send someone to stay by your side to protect your safety." ”

The safety he said naturally did not mean that the eldest lady would poison again, but to prevent the eldest lady from going crazy again, leaving someone to stop it when she needed to take action.

Although he didn't say this too bluntly, Qingqiang would only think about it in this way. And once she figured this out, her heart was full of gratitude.

Looking at the back of the old man leaving, although he did not ask for it. Some of the hindsighted Qingqiang still knelt down at him and kowtowed seriously.

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On the way to the gate, Shi Jing decided one more thing and called the housekeeper closer, but only after he sat in the sedan chair did he signal the official to come to the small window on the side of the sedan chair.

Shi Jing said calmly: "The three family members who led the eldest lady to the flower hall just now, but who are the locals?" ”

The housekeeper glanced at Shi Jing with his eyebrows suppressed, and said in a deep voice: "None of the three are from Kyoto, but two of them are cousins. ”

"Let the cousins go back to their hometown, and don't come back. The other one and the two maids ......" Shi Jing said this, was silent for a moment, and then spoke again. "Send the rock sugar osmanthus cake left over from the eldest lady's food, so that they can eat enough and go on the road."

The eldest lady is not noble, and her gluttonous snacks are more common, and her favorite snack since she was a child is rock sugar osmanthus cake.

Shi Jing won the fame and finally became a prominent position. Every day, he asked the servants to buy enough fresh rock sugar osmanthus cake and give it to the eldest lady, so that she could eat happily and live a sweet life.

Later, the eldest lady suffered from frequent episodes of madness and lived in that quiet courtyard, and Shi Jing did not cut off this supply.

However, when there was an accident in the small courtyard a few days ago. Among the refreshments that the eldest lady gave Cen Chi to taste, there were also osmanthus cakes.

Although after Cen Chi was poisoned, Shi Jing personally inspected the osmanthus cake and other snacks stored in the eldest lady's house. It turned out to be safe, but he still had all the food stored there.

Only a few days have passed since this incident, and some of the pastries that have been sorted out have not been thrown away, and since they are not poisonous, some servants are still a little greedy when they look at them. But...... Shi Jing said such things now, which made the housekeeper understand a problem.

The old butler's eyes were slightly condensed. But it didn't take long for it.

In the face of Shi Jing's order to end the lives of three people and almost ruin the lives of two people, this old servant who has been loyal to the Shi family for most of his life will not have a trace of objection.

He is Shi Jing's most trusted confidant and servant, so he will not live up to Shi Jing's trust. As for the three people who were going to die, the reason why they wanted to die must be to live up to Master Shi's trust.

ended the lives of three people in one sentence, Shi Jing's heart still felt a little irritable, not because of the killing, but because he cared more about the truth, the two maids didn't say it in the end.

For the evil deeds they had done before, they were so small that they spit in the porridge bowl of the eldest lady when she was not paying attention, and they didn't dare to say it out, but they didn't admit that they had poisoned Cen Chi's teacup and then blamed the eldest lady.

The evil concubine who instructed the maid to do evil to the eldest lady has long since died, and Shi Jing knows very well that the only thing that can compensate for this matter is to care more about his 'Lan'er' in the future.

At the same time, Shi Jing was a little unconvinced that for the new manipulator behind him, those two maids could be so loyal in the face of death.

Shi Jing suddenly had some doubts about the third son's speculation.

But he can't find any evidence to prove his son's idea for the time being, or it should be said, even if he forcibly finds evidence to prove that Cen Chi poisoned his cup, but this poison is really amazing, Shi Jing looked for several Lang Zhong to see, and they all judged that it was the kind of poison specially developed by the poison doctor, if he couldn't get the antidote, he would really die.

This is tantamount to self-defeat, why did Cen Chi do this?

Even if he really suffered any setbacks, based on his temperament, he would never think of using death to solve the problem.

Could it be that there is a problem among the other Qingke in the house?

Shi Jing shook his head and decided not to think about these complicated trivialities anymore. The matter of self-trial in the court had just ended, and the sea was about to begin, whether it was to do his job well or to be vigilant against the plots of political opponents, he had to keep a clear head during this period.

Perhaps time will tell.

Shi Jing closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then opened his eyes and said slowly to the old butler who was still bowing next to the sedan chair: "Beside the eldest lady, arrange for Qingqiang's girl to serve, if she has needs, the outer courtyard needs to try its best to meet them." In addition, arrange for Xiao Leng to go to the courtyard of the eldest lady and be responsible for the security guards. ”

The housekeeper hurriedly nodded and said, "The old slave will arrange these things that the master ordered, and the master can rest assured." ”

Shouldering the heavy responsibility of Xiangguo, Shi Jing has the right to keep a few guards by his side.

In fact, in addition to him, many Beijing officials have martial arts guards in their own houses, and some wealthy businessmen are the same, and the meaning is similar.

This habit has been derived from the previous dynasties. Although the Zhou Dynasty has now died and the new dynasty has replaced it, the emperor of the current dynasty did not order to prohibit this unspoken convention, but only vaguely mentioned it, and the number should not be too large.

The number of such people who are good at kung fu is linked to the position of their protector, but there is an upper limit.

Although Shi Jing's current identity is almost equal to more than 10,000 people under one person, there are less than 30 people in the Xiangfu Nursing Courtyard, which is far lower than the upper limit of domestic military attendants.

And only those with slightly higher seniority in the Prime Minister's Mansion know that among these twenty or so people, only ten are Xiangye's close guards.