Chapter 505, the mastermind behind the scenes
When the old county Bo Xie Wuya was alive, he once asked his eldest son Mingche to be crowned the prince, but because Mingche was the confidant of King Qin, Gaozu Li Yuan was bent on cutting the wings of King Qin in order to make the crown prince Li Jiancheng succeed to the throne smoothly, so he repeatedly found excuses to shirk and did not allow it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Therefore, after Xie Wuya's death, there was no legitimate heir in the county uncle's mansion, Li Jiancheng supported the Ming and Qing dynasties because of the Pei family, and the king of Qin supported the Ming Che dynasty.
On the Xie family tree, Ming Che is the eldest son, and Xie Wuya also asked for the title of prince for Ming Che before his death, so it stands to reason that Ming Che should be the heir.
However, Li Yuan has always refused to allow Ming Che to attack the lord on the grounds that Ming Che is not his real son-in-law, and because of the opposition of King Qin and Xie Wuya, he has not asked for the title of Ming and Qing Dynasty, and he cannot let the Ming and Qing Dynasty attack the lord, so this matter has been deadlocked.
Li Yuanhe Jiancheng also saw the intention of the King of Qin, if the succession was defeated, he would either flee to the south of the Qinling Mountains to become the king, or retreat to Jinyang to support the army and wait for the opportunity to seize power.
The matter is to build a smooth succession to the throne, but if the King of Qin successfully retreats to Jinyang, with his connections and ability, sooner or later he will attack the capital and seize the throne, so they are desperate to win over Mingche and turn his back on the King of Qin, and they also plan to disintegrate the Jinyang army from the inside.
But Mingche's mind is firm, the city government is very deep, no matter what can impress him, and Jinyang is run like an iron bucket, and all the important positions are controlled by his henchmen, and it is useless to do anything.
I had no choice but to start with the Junbo Mansion, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties tried to find a way to buy the minions of the General's Mansion, trying to see if there was any way.
Among the minions of the Jinyang General's Mansion, Xie Chengzhong was the most familiar to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and Xie Chengzhong did not explicitly say that he wanted to take refuge in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in order to connect with the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but he and Ming Che showed favor to the Ming and Qing Dynasties when they returned to the Junbo Mansion to visit relatives.
He bought Xie Chengzhong without much effort, but he didn't think much about it, thinking that Xie Chengzhong was a smart man, and he saw that the successor must be the prince, and after the prince succeeded to the throne, he must be the future county uncle, so he was willing to take refuge.
Xie Chengzhong willingly betrayed his master for the sake of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and spared no effort to provide something useful for the Ming and Qing dynasties.
But because Mingche is extremely strict in governing the army with a clear distinction between public and private, no matter how much he tries his best, he can only grasp some internal affairs and provide some external information that is not of much use.
Later, the urgency of the King of Qin and the crown prince became increasingly intense, and it has changed from a secret fight to an open fight, to the point where you are desperate for life and death, and the entire government has been seriously affected.
Li Yuan originally wanted to settle the matter by directly passing on the crown prince or condemning the king of Qin to prison, but he did not dare to do it because of his scruples about the hundreds of thousands of troops.
It can be said that as long as there is Mingche behind him, the prince has never dared to succeed to the throne, otherwise it will either be divided into two, or the war will start again, and the consequences will be extremely serious.
After a long time, he couldn't attack Mingqing, and he didn't dare to use strong means to force Mingqing, and he was rejected for sending a concubine, so there was almost no way to think about it.
After learning that the people Ming Che values most are his wife and daughter, he discussed with his henchmen and decided on a plan, one is to find a way to kill Lin Xinyi, and then control Ming Che through marriage, because the weight of concubines is too light, even if you send ten, you can't pay one wife.
The second is to control his daughter, a young girl, as long as she buys off the people around her, it is very easy to do.
First, Xie Chengzhong discovered that the relationship between Mama Lu and Bai Mei was extraordinary, and then the Ming and Qing dynasties bought off a mother-in-law in Xinyi Yuan and discovered Bai Mei's longing for Mingche.
The two persuaded Mama Lu and Bai Mei to betray Lin Xinyi through threats and lure. Xie Chengzhong made the plan, Ming Qing secretly manipulated it, and Lu Mama and Bai Mei secretly acted, and they began to implement the plan according to the prince's requirements.
It is no secret that Lin Xinyi has been taking medicine because of heart disease, and they decided to do something about it, which is convenient and not easy to find, and can cover up the past afterwards.
They first tried to force away Wei Liu, who was loyal to Lin Xinyi, and then took advantage of Ming Cheyuan's distance in Jinyang and began to slowly manipulate Lin Xinyi's medicine to achieve the goal of aggravating Lin Xinyi's condition.
also provided Lin Xinyi's prescription to Li Jiancheng, and the imperial doctor he trusted carefully studied it and found a way to make Lin Xinyi's condition suddenly worsen, so that she could die at any time due to a sudden heart attack.
They calculated the date of Mingche's visit to relatives, and they were very cautious, although Lin Xinyi felt a little unwell, but because she took care of her daughter by herself during that time, she thought she was tired, so she didn't care.
In addition, Mama Lu deliberately induced her, and she didn't realize the seriousness of the problem because she didn't understand medical science, so she deliberately hid it from him in order not to worry Mingche. Because she and Mingche trusted Mama Lu and Baimei too much, they never suspected anything.
After Mama Lu designed Lin Xinyi to get a cold, she took the opportunity to make a big deal with the medicine, which caused Lin Xinyi's condition to worsen rapidly, but she thought that the cold had not healed, so she didn't care too much, and she never thought that Mama Lu would betray her and do something with her medicine.
Then the Ming and Qing dynasties found a reason to persuade Mrs. Xie to take his wife and children to the temple to incense her father, leaving only Lin Xinyi and Jinshu, who had not recovered from the cold, in the house
That night, Mama Lu personally fried a bowl of cold medicine for Lin Xinyi according to the method researched by the imperial doctor, and she died within a few hours after drinking it.
The symptoms looked like a heart attack caused by an aggravated wind chill, and there were almost no flaws.
Ming Che rushed back immediately after receiving the bad news, and he was grief-stricken and did not forget to find out the cause of his wife's death, it may be that the imperial doctor's method was very clever, and several doctors said that after reading it, they all said that it was a sudden death caused by wind and cold.
Mama Lu acted very secretively, and everyone believed in her loyalty to Lin Xinyi too much, and no one suspected her, so she hid it from everyone like this.
It's just that after Lin Xinyi's death, Mingche not only did not marry another person as he wished, but because he missed his wife, he didn't consider family affairs for the time being, even if anyone came forward to say that he could, he was only willing to accept Baimei as a concubine according to his wife's last words.
Li Jiancheng was angry and unable to do so, and signaled the Pei family to marry Mingche and set up a family affair for the children of the two families, but Mingche kept ignoring it.
Later, it happened that Mama Lu controlled Jinshu for her own selfishness, and after being discovered by Changsheng, she and Mingjing designed to send her to Jinyang, wanting to hand it over to Mingche to investigate the truth, Mama Lu committed suicide in order to protect Baimei, and Baimei was killed by Xie Chengzhong
Ming Che began to suspect Xie Chengzhong, but before the results were found, the Xuanwumen Incident occurred, and then the Xie family was convicted and imprisoned, Xie Chengzhong did not know where to go, and the matter could only be temporarily resolved.
Ming Che burst into tears after hearing this, it turned out that his wife was really implicated by him and died innocently, if he was willing to take state affairs and loyalty lightly, Xinyi might not suffer this misfortune.
Mingjing was also sad and indignant, it turned out that the sister-in-law was killed by someone!
Worried that Mingche couldn't stand it, he hurriedly helped him to rest next door, and tried every means to persuade him, and it took Mingche to ease up after a while, and said to himself: "I finally found the truth about Xinyi's death, if it weren't for you and Changsheng, I might have been hidden for the rest of my life."
Five real murderers, three are dead, this Xie Chengzhong must also die to solve the hatred in my heart! ”
"What about Ming and Qing?"
"We can't execute him openly, it's too cheap to execute him secretly, and he's my father's only son-in-law, so I can't do it. Skynet is restored and not leaked, he has done many evils, and he will be punished in the end, why should he dirty our hands?
With his character, he attacked the position of county uncle and didn't know how arrogant and debaucherous he was, and then we deliberately indulged it to see what fate he could end?
As for Lin Xinhui, although she was the reason why Xie Chengzhong did these things, she was not directly involved in anything, and she didn't know at all, since we had promised to let her go, we would let her go.
Anyway, the character of the Ming and Qing dynasties, she suffered after the attack, and she didn't know how many flowers and plants she wanted at home, and she would not have a good life if she took care of her shortcomings.
And several children still need her to be raised personally, so let her fend for herself in front of her father. ”
Mingjing also thinks that this is the best way to deal with it, for the sake of his father, no matter how much they hate Mingqing, they can't attack him, and it is too cheap to kill him secretly.
The two came to the next room again, and without waiting for them to speak, Xie Chengzhong said flatteringly: "There is one more important thing that the old slave has not said, that is, the relationship between Mama Lu and Bai Mei. ”
This is exactly what Mingche wants to know, Mama Lu has been her nanny since Lin Xinyi was born a few days ago, her biological mother died early, and she has regarded Mama Lu as her mother since she was a child, and Mama Lu is also very loving and considerate to her, so she won the trust of Mrs. Lin, so she entrusted Lin Xinyi to take medicine.
And Bai Mei is just a girl who entered the Lin Mansion halfway, even if the two are more compatible, even if they become her righteous daughter, how can they compare to her relationship with Lin Xinyi?
What was the relationship that made her betray Xinyi without hesitation for Bai Mei?
Xie Chengzhong said with emotion: "Actually, I didn't expect that Baimei was actually Mama Lu's biological daughter!" ”
Although Mingche and Mingjing had a lot of speculations, they were shocked when they heard the result, no wonder she betrayed Xinyi mercilessly, it was more important to be her own daughter.
It's not that Mama Lu's daughter was born and died young, she was disliked by her mother-in-law, her husband wanted to sell her to pay off her gambling debts, she used all the dowry to pay off her husband's gambling debts, in exchange for a free body, and was introduced to the Lin family, and since then she has never married, where is her daughter?
Mingjing thought of Changsheng's life experience, and thought to himself, could it be that maybe the baby girl who died early also died and came back to life like Changsheng?
Xie Chengzhong said: "No one thought that they had this kind of relationship, and I also found that Mama Lu cared too much about Baimei, and then thought of the relationship between me and Xinhui, so I became suspicious."
Later, because the Ming and Qing dynasties needed Baimei to be their eyes and ears, the old lady proposed that the general had no heirs, and refused to continue the strings, so she couldn't always use the concubine's room as a decoration, so she proposed to send Baimei to Jinyang, but other generals refused to agree, but they also agreed to go with Baimei.
Before leaving, Mama Lu entrusted me to take care of Baimei, and I took the opportunity to tell the truth. She said that she had given birth to a baby girl who was only three days older than the young lady, but died early two days later, and she was also forced by her husband and mother-in-law to exchange all the dowry for a letter of resignation, and came to the Lin family to be a nurse for the young grandmother.
When the eldest grandmother was eleven years old, the sister-in-law of the neighbor who had been good friends with her came to the door with a little girl and a letter written to her by her mother-in-law in her hand.
It turned out that the baby girl she gave birth to looked desperate at the time, but she didn't die, and when she was buried and found that she still had a breath, she hugged it back, and she slowly eased her breath and survived, it was Baimei. ”
Mingche and Mingjing smiled helplessly, it was really the same as what happened to Changsheng when he was a child.
When Bai Mei was eleven years old, her grandmother was seriously ill, and before she died, she was worried that her granddaughter Bai Mei would be sold by her gambling son.
The Lu family originally thought that there would be no biological children in this life, but they didn't think that Pingkong would get a teenage daughter, so they immediately mixed with joy and sorrow, and after thanking the neighbor's sister-in-law, they made up a reason and background to lead Baimei into the house to see Mrs. Lin.
It just so happened that Mrs. Lin was looking for a wedding girl for her granddaughter, and when she saw that Bai Mei was smart and beautiful, and believed Lu's words, she agreed, and in this way, Bai Mei came to Lin Xinyi's side.
Later, they all followed Lin Xinyi to Xie's house, but Bai Mei had a longing for Mingche, and to the point where she had to marry, Lin Xinyi proposed to hire her out to be a serious young grandmother, but she refused to agree on the grounds that she couldn't do without her master.
Lin Xinyi refused to share her husband with others, and never considered letting her husband take the dowry girl into the house, Mingche was even more devoted to Lin Xinyi, and she didn't want to take a look at other women, Baimei couldn't get her wish, and gradually became an obsession.
Mama Lu was helpless, and gradually complained about Lin Xinyi, thinking that she was too jealous.
The dowry girl was originally prepared for her husband to receive the house, but she only thought about monopolizing grace, regardless of the life or death of others, Bai Mei said to the outside world that she was one year younger than Lin Xinyi, but in fact, she was the same age as her, but she was still helpless for life when she was getting older.
At this time, Ming Qing and Xie Chengzhong wanted to buy them off, not only gave them a lot of money, but also promised to let Baimei get her wish, Mama Lu was still hesitating at first, she still had true feelings for Lin Xinyi, who was raised single-handedly.
But she couldn't bear Bai Mei's bitter begging and even forced her to die, and finally chose Bai Mei to abandon Lin Xinyi.
Later, Mama Lu committed suicide in order to protect Baimei after the incident, and Baimei was killed by Xie Chengzhong, and Jiancheng also died in the Xuanwumen Incident, and only Xie Chengzhong and Ming Qing knew the truth about this matter.
At this point, all the truth is clear.
Mingche sat in front of Lin Xinyi's grave all night, and only Lao Xia accompanied him with a torch.
After Mingjing went back, he told Changsheng about it, and Changsheng sighed after crying, thinking it was a natural disaster, but it turned out to be a man-made disaster. Indeed, the most terrible thing in the world is not the threat from the enemy, but the deception and betrayal of the people around you.
Mingjing was used to her special feelings for Lin Xinyi, although she didn't know what to do, she was already used to it, and she just waited for Changsheng to figure it out and take the initiative to mention it to him. (To be continued.) )