Chapter 63: The Malleability of Rumors

There is nothing to check about the whole thing, the results are clear in front of him, Ouyang Ye doesn't want to say anything, and he can't say anything, but if he is a little bit stained with the county lord of Zunyi, there will be no good thing, his nominal daughter is used to being a troublemaker, even if he doesn't cause trouble, he will automatically come to the door, look, isn't it the best example right now.

There is no way to solve the matter at all, Ouyang Ye wants to take care of it, but how can he take care of it, whether to catch the murderer or kill those subordinates who chew the root of their tongues.

Catch the murderer, who this murderer is, and who he wants to arrest, I can't say. You said to arrest the county lord of Zunyi, the county lord of the family is not in the mansion at all, this matter has nothing to do with the county lord at all, if you insist on saying that there is, it is just to bear the responsibility of conniving at the subordinates, what is the use. I can't explain Princess Hening at all. If you want to say that you can catch the person who started it, you can catch it, but after you catch it, do you want to kill the person who did it? The people who started were all the gatekeepers who were responsible for relying on Lanyuan not to be disturbed by outsiders, and they were the most trusted henchmen of the county lord of Zunyi. No, because with the rules set by Orchid Garden, no one can trespass without permission, if you want to enter, you will have to bear the consequences, and if you die, you will be justified, how can there be such a reason.

Ouyang Ye's father and son discussed all day, but there was no good way to solve the problem, their hair was almost white, and things couldn't drag on like this, Princess Hening was definitely not willing to stop there, and none of the people in the Lan Yuan could move, this was a dead end, and it couldn't please either side.

"Dad, this matter must be resolved, or arrest those two servants and hand them over to the princess to dispose of." Ouyang Lin had no better way to appease Princess Hening's anger.

"Nope." Ouyang Ye immediately denied it, no matter what, he couldn't touch the person who respected the county lord, his nominal concubine was notoriously ruthless, and he couldn't be provoked.

"Why?" Ouyang Lin was puzzled: "Isn't it just two minions, besides, it was the two who made the first move, and it is only right to kill people to pay for their lives, if the little sister comes back and learns the truth." They will not condone such evil slaves. โ€

"No way!" Ouyang Ye bit his mouth and didn't let go, he knew very well in his heart that the true identity of the Zunyi County Lord was more sacred than Princess Hening in the eyes of the emperor, and the Zunyi County Lord was a protector. It is absolutely impossible to let others move any of the minions in the Orchid Garden, even if the minions make mistakes and kill people, it is not okay, as the saying goes, it depends on the master to beat the dog, the dog of the county lord is more than a hundred times stronger than the dog next to Princess Hening, and you must not do such things that offend people.

"Dad, what are you afraid of?" Ouyang Lin didn't understand that it was just two minions, what was the big deal, "Dad is afraid that the little sister will come back and blame, so he will send two more minions to the top." "What's the difference between being subordinates, just use it.

"You don't understand." Ouyang Ye sighed. He didn't want his son to know the truth now, after all, there were many people, and if it really spread out, the entire Prime Minister's Mansion would probably be difficult to keep.

"I really don't understand why Dad is hesitant." Ouyang Lin really wondered, what happened to his father. Not even one or two minions can't move, what kind of secret is there in this.

"So be it." Ouyang Ye really couldn't think of a good way, "You tell Princess Hening about the whole thing as it is, and see what the princess wants to plan." โ€

"This ......" Ouyang Lin was a little embarrassed, "I'm afraid that the princess will pursue it again and again." "In the end, things will still get bigger, and it will deviate from the ideas of the two of them, and it will end more and more badly.

"You go first." Ouyang Ye knew this. "It's up to you." At the same time, it also depends on whether Princess Hening has any plans to settle the matter, and for the sake of Ouyang Lin is face as her husband, they take a step back.

"Okay." Ouyang Ye couldn't refute his father's words, so he could only be a dead horse doctor.

Princess Hening was surprised when she heard Ouyang Lin's words, she had to make up her own mind and kick this ball so easily, she herself was not stupid. has already understood that there must be something to do in this, it is obviously a simple matter, but it has to be so complicated, no matter how he asks Ouyang Lin, he can't get a useful answer, so angry that Princess Ning shook his face and drove Ouyang Lin out.

Princess Hening has no grandmother by her side. There was no one available, and no one had to negotiate with them. If you really can't do it, you can sue your father, otherwise your mother and concubine will be okay, and someone has to help you get an explanation. Moreover, she also wanted to know what position the county lord of Zunyi occupied in her father's heart, and whether it was really as rumored that she was no princess as a little county lord.

Within two days, there was a new saying in the house, and the maids and girls below were gossiping at the bottom, but they didn't dare to spread the gossip to the ears of the master, and they couldn't please it, and they would be punished, so why bother.

The house seems to be calm, and the subordinates perform their duties as usual, lest they make a mistake and let the master find the wrong place and be punished, and the atmosphere in the house is tense and cloudy.

"The house has not been peaceful since Aunt Zuo entered the door." Xiao Yahuan and another Yahuan who lived in the same room hid in no one and gossiped.

"It's not, when something happens to the sky, it doesn't stop for a day."

"Pity our eldest young master, I have to clean up the mess for Aunt Zuo when I come back from my busy work." Yahuan is particularly indignant about this.

"Relying on his illustrious family background, look at the arrogant energy, don't treat us subordinates as human beings, and always beat and scold on weekdays, and always make fun of us." mentioned this, and resented Zuo Zhen even more in his heart.

"That's it, now that I'm punished, I haven't kept my two children." A maid was very relieved and said: "You deserve it, who let Aunt Zuo not accumulate virtue and do good deeds on weekdays, as the saying goes, there are gods in the three feet of your head, and the gods can look at everything you do." โ€

"Tear off the position of the main wife, and see how she can be publicized again." Yahuan suffered a lot of idle anger from Aunt Zuo, and now that she sees Zuo Zhen unlucky, she is very happy.

"This is called evil retribution." Yahuan said happily: "Her Royal Highness the princess should take this opportunity to leave Aunt Zuo from the house." โ€

"Are you saying that Aunt Zuo intends to get rid of Her Royal Highness the Princess's child?" A maid was puzzled and said, "Didn't you say that there is no evidence?" โ€

"What did you say, I heard the people in the front yard say that it was Her Royal Highness the princess who gave Aunt Zuo a hand, so she didn't have a child, but there was no evidence, Aunt Zuo could only hold it in her heart, you think this breath can be swallowed by a person, so it happened that Her Royal Highness the princess broke into Pinglan Yuan before."

"I've heard about it." A maid opened her mouth to solve her doubts, "I heard someone talk about how Her Royal Highness the princess is not as good as the princess of Zunyi, and then everything is comparing Her Royal Highness the princess with the princess lord, and it must have reached the ears of Her Royal Highness the princess." couldn't listen to these foul words, so he took people to Pinglan Yuan to confront him in a fit of anger. โ€

"Why do you say that some people want to compare Her Royal Highness the princess with the lord of Zunyi?" I don't quite understand in my heart, "There is no comparison at all, and the identities of the two are different." I really don't know what to think about anymore. โ€

"That's what I'm talking about." Yahuan echoed: "Now that Her Royal Highness the princess has no children, and the henchmen around her have died tragically, a series of things seem to have returned to the time when Aunt Zuo was still a young lady." โ€

"Don't mention it, panic." A girl had goosebumps in the cold, and she hurriedly clasped her arms to relieve the chill in her heart.

"Pinglan Yuan has always been a forbidden place in the house, but it wasn't like this before. Since the county lord came back, he has changed, and even the mansion has lost the joy of the past, so he must always be vigilant every day, for fear of losing his life. A maid sighed.

"Not only that, but I always feel that the place of Pinglan Yuan is unlucky." Yahuan lowered her voice. "Three people died in a row, or the same way of death, it's really chilling, this time it's the people around Her Royal Highness the princess who have an accident, no matter how you look at it, it's weird. Don't really collide with something, so that the whole house is restless. โ€

"Don't talk about it, it's going to scare people to death." Yahuan looked shocked.

"It's not scared, it's really like you said it's a collision with the ghosts and gods, then you have to solve it as much as possible, I hear the old people often say, this kind of thing can't be delayed. The more it drags on, the more severe the consequences will be. โ€

"No matter how reasonable you say, can you really tell your master?" A maid asked rhetorically: "Don't say whether it's true or not, the masters will definitely not believe it, in case the matter is spread out and the face of the Prime Minister is lost, we will all suffer if we are the first to be the next one." โ€

"Yes. Yes, you can't talk nonsense. A maid hurriedly agreed.

"Alas, what can I do, Pinglan Yuan is like a haunted house that eats people, specializing in eating human lives. What should those of us do as subordinates? Speaking of it, it's fate, whoever lets himself be born in the belly of his subordinates is born to be a slave.

"The matter has not been resolved, I am afraid that I have to be cautious, don't be used as a raft by the master." Yahuan sighed helplessly.

For a while, Pinglan Yuan's originally good residence was rumored to be a ghost courtyard, and the more it was rumored, the more outrageous it became, and the already quiet Pinglan added a touch of deep and mysterious secrets.

These are all people talking in a whisper, no one dares to really say on the surface, a bad offense is not only the owner of Lanyuan, but also has to take a small life is not worth it, the people have always been cautious, they will not really gamble with their own lives.

"Oh, that's how it goes." Aunt Liu listened to Wang's mother's words, and her eyes revealed a smile of unknown meaning.

"It's not, it's weird and scary." Wang Ma patted her chest with palpitations, she was not afraid of the nonsense outside, but afraid of the evil star of the county lord of Zunyi, whether it was really a demon to survive, and the evil methods made her spine cold when she thought about it, and she couldn't sleep all night.

"I don't know who is secretly doing the trick." Aunt Liu really doesn't believe this, things are man-made, there is something that can't be done, and she has long been surprised by the measurement of pretending to be a ghost.

"Madam is wise, obviously someone deliberately slandered the county lord of Zunyi, I don't know if there is a backhand?" Wang Ma knew how the whole thing happened.

"It doesn't matter who he is, it's good for me anyway." Aunt Liu hates the cheap girl ring the most in her heart, this time someone made a move for herself, she has to take a good look at how the cheap girl turns over.

"The county lord of Zunyi is not in the mansion, so you can say anything." As soon as Mama Wang's mind turned, she immediately understood the subtlety, and a smile appeared on her face.

"Just wait and see the show." Regardless of whether he is a princess or Zuo Zhen, anyway, there will be an injury when the two sides fight, and Aunt Liu really wants to see Zuo Zhen's wolf bรจi.

"Madame doesn't interfere?" Wang Ma said strangely, Aunt Liu doesn't like to see the stitches the most, she didn't push the boat down the river before, why did she stop this time?

"It seems like an ordinary thing, but the knowledge inside is great." Aunt Liu hasn't really gotten to the point of getting bruised in her head, "Pulling the princess and that cheap girl, it's not up to you and me or the master to say it, look at it, this matter must be big, and it will be stabbed in front of the saint, this matter can't be interfered with, it's not cost-effective to get fishy." โ€

"Or Madame has a vision." Mother Wang praised Aunt Liu in a timely manner.

I don't know which person with a broken mouth for two days. The Prime Minister's Mansion spread the word that Orchid Garden is a ghost house, and once this matter was reported, people from all walks of life attracted sideways, which was a major event and related to the reputation of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Some people deliberately sent people to inquire to see if something terrible had happened in the prime minister's mansion.

Originally, the matter was not big, but now it is so troublesome that everyone in Shangjing knows about it, and the rumors spread too fast, and Ouyang Ye and his son are not allowed to stop it at all.

Rumors spread and spread more and more boundless, at the beginning it was said that Pinglan Yuan was haunted, and people died one after another, but somehow it was rumored that Pinglan Yuan was a fierce place, but no one who went in had a good end.

The people in the Xiangfu are full of mouths, even though Ouyang Ye and his son have spent a lot of effort to warn the people below not to talk about anything in the mansion to anyone outside the mansion. It's a pity that no matter how you check it, there are still a few fish that show your nets, and the strange things that happened one after another in the Prime Minister's Mansion have opened the eyes of the people in Beijing.

The affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion are too big, and some people have already thought of joining Prime Minister Ouyang Ye, and the reason for the invitation is that they have not taken good care of the princess. , which caused a small birth injury to the body, which is undoubtedly a slap in the face for the royal family.

Regardless of whether the participation can be successful or not, the courtiers at the bottom always have to take advantage of the topic to play a role, show their faces in front of the emperor, and deliberately test whether the prime minister is still honored.

Some ministers are here to see jokes, especially the jokes of the prime minister. This happened not long after marrying the princess, can people not be curious about the reason.

Ouyang Ye is really famous now, whenever he encounters it, there will always be a sentence that asks about the things in the Prime Minister's Mansion, which makes Ouyang Ye's head almost explode, and it is not good to scold his face and scold back, so he has to deal with helplessness. What he was most worried about was the emperor's attitude and the means of handling the situation.

Ouyang Ye knew in his heart that the emperor would definitely stand on the side of the county lord of Zunyi, and if she was also a princess, there would be a distinction between high and low, and the lord of Zunyi was the treasure on the tip of the emperor's heart. However, the difficulty is that no one knows these truths, and the emperor always has to make a gesture for the outside world, which makes it difficult for Ouyang Ye to guess the holy will.

What happened in the Prime Minister's Mansion became another attractive topic of conversation after dinner, especially in the case of the Orchid Garden, which I heard was the place where the lord of Zunyi lived.

There is no way to verify whether the Orchid Garden is really haunted, and no one really dares to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion and say that he wants to see ghosts, unless his brain is pumped, even the Prime Minister will not let anyone in, and it is the boudoir of the young lady.

Fortunately, what everyone cares about is not based on the haunting of Orchid Garden, but about the dead, someone once bribed the subordinates of the Prime Minister's Mansion to find out the news, and then publicized it for everyone to judge.

One of the points is whether Pinglanyuan is a fierce place, and why do people die, and the truth is often not believed, people only believe what they measured, and feel that it is the best way to be worthy of the murderous house of Pinglanyuan.

Someone said, "I think it must have collided with the gods, otherwise there would have been one accident after another." โ€

"The dead people have all entered Ren Lanyuan, you say that the county lord of Zunyi was not there at that time?" As soon as these words came out, they were poured down like a basin of ice water, and everyone was stunned and suddenly sobered up.

"Oops, how did you forget this stubble!" Someone slapped their legs and exclaimed, apparently they had overlooked the most basic and important things.

If the county lord of Zunyi was in Pinglan Yuan at that time, why the lord of Zunyi County, as the master, did not stop the dead people, or even bolder guesses, it is not known whether it was the hand of the lord of Zunyi. On the contrary, where would the county lord of Zunyi be if he was not in Pinglan Yuan at that time, he hadn't seen this county lord for a long time, so how to say this, there were many doubts, and people couldn't help but guess more.

"In my opinion, if the lord of Zunyi is in the mansion, it is impossible to embarrass a grandmother next to the princess, and the two have no enmity, so why make trouble." One person presents his own point of view.

"That's right." Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Is it really a crash?" Some people are suspicious, "With the power of the prime minister, you have to find a master who looks at feng shui to take a good look, don't really have another accident." โ€

"I haven't heard that the Prime Minister invited such a master." For the prime minister's mansion, everyone has been paying attention to it, and there is no intention of giving up, this is the biggest anecdote in the history of Shangjing, and it would be stupid not to pay attention to it.