Chapter 58: Blackmail

This matter can only be hidden, not to mention the prince, let anyone know that Su Yuxian will die without a place to be buried, and she is reluctant to give up the child she finally conceived, anyway, now the prince thinks it is his, as long as he hides it, there will be nothing.

Everyone in the East Palace knew about Su Yuxian's pregnancy, and Qian Qing, the little steward who was in charge of the purchase of flowers and trees in the East Palace, was the one who had a personal relationship with Su Yuxian, and naturally knew about it.

Su Yuxian felt bored, and it was hot outside during the day, so she went to walk around the garden after the sun went down in the afternoon.

The flowers and trees in the garden grew luxuriantly, she walked the path with the maid, and suddenly there seemed to be something jumping around in the flowers not far away, so frightened that Su Yuxian didn't dare to move, and the maid hurriedly went over to look.

She only took one maid with her, and the maid left only herself, and she looked at it with curiosity and fear, when suddenly a person jumped out and covered her mouth with one hand.

She was frightened, turned her head to see that it was Qian Qing, her eyes widened, thinking that he wanted to do that thing again, and struggled hard.

"Don't move, I have something to tell you." Qian Qing whispered something in her ear, and dragged her back for a while, and only let go of her when he reached a peach grove.

"What are you doing?" Su Yuxian lowered her voice and scolded him.

Qian Qing looked at her slightly bulging lower abdomen under her brocade clothes, and a scoundrel smile appeared on her face, "I'm really pregnant." ”

Su Yuxian took two steps back with her hands on her stomach and looked at him vigilantly, "What do you want to do?" This is the prince's, and it has nothing to do with you. ”

"Doesn't it have anything to do with me?" Qian Qingqing's delicate face became treacherous at this time, he put his hands behind his back and paced a few steps in front of Su Yuxian.

Su Yuxian looked at him nervously, as if she was waiting for Qian Qing to give her some sentence.

"I still have the red belly pocket of the side concubine here." Qian Qing suddenly turned his face and looked at her with a wicked smile.

"When...... You, you give it back to me. Su Yuxian's chest rose and fell violently, and her whole body was tense, she knew that Qian Qing was such a scoundrel, and she must have wanted to blackmail her if she stole her things.

"I can give it back to you, as long as you give me a thousand taels of silver, otherwise, I will accuse you of fornication." Qian Qing said shamelessly.

Su Yuxian is not stupid, she swallowed a mouthful of saliva nervously and said, "If you go and denounce me, you are an adulterer, and you will die the same." ”

"Naturally, I won't say it's me, anyway, if you're not afraid of losing your reputation, you're not afraid of being beaten to death by the prince, just wait." Qian Qing pretended to leave as he spoke.

Su Yuxian measured it a little and immediately stopped him, "Don't go, you wait." ”

Qian Qing looked at her, and she had no choice but to promise to give him money.

However, when she gave Qian Qing a thousand taels of silver, Qian Qing still didn't give her a belly pocket, and continued to blackmail her to ask her to give another thousand taels, she swallowed her anger and had to give it again, the belly pocket was given to her this time, and a stone fell to the ground in her heart, thinking that this was the end of it.

But it didn't take long for Qian Qing to find her again, saying that the money was spent, let her give more, otherwise she would say that the child's father was not the prince.

Su Yuxian panicked, so she had to give him money again. After a few times, almost all the money in her hand was blackmailed by Qian Qing, and she realized that Qian Qing was a bottomless pit and would definitely kill her in the end.

When Qian Qing wanted to blackmail her again, she hurriedly asked someone to pass on the news to Huo Qingqing and let her enter the palace.

Huo Qingqing came to the palace to see her with trepidation, she told her about being blackmailed by Qian Qing many times, Huo Qingqing almost fainted again, she wanted to leave it alone, but no matter what, what if that Qian Qing really said the matter, and a person like him can do anything.

Su Yuxian naturally cried and remorseful again, beating her chest and cursing Qian Qing, but it was useless.

"Otherwise, just don't do anything and get rid of him, and no one in this world will know about it anymore, and no one will threaten him." Huo Qingqing gritted her teeth, her eyes were full of resentment, and she was also forced to be helpless.

Su Yuxian said: "It's all up to the mother, and the daughter is waiting for good news in the palace." ”

"In the future, you can do it yourself, the hardships you have endured this time should be enough, and you will never do such a foolish thing in the future." Huo Qingqing sighed and warned her weakly.

"Yes, mother, my daughter will never do foolish things again in the future, and she will definitely behave."

"That's good, you have to remember."

Huo Qingqing returned to the mansion, and while sending the money in his hand to Su Yuxian, let her solve her urgent need first, and at the same time pooled money to hire a murderer to get rid of Qian Qing.

But this is not the first time for her, a lot of money has been spent, and there are many people in the house, and the expenses are also large, and when she married Su Yuxian, she added too much silver, and almost emptied the house.

She contacted the killer, and she couldn't get enough money for a while, so she had to take some valuable jade items from the house that were easy to take out and send them to the pawnshop, so that she could finally get enough money.

But Su Wanyan has been letting the people from the Surprise Hall monitor outside the General's Mansion, and the people below reported to her that the people around Huo Qingqing have been in and out of the pawnshop frequently recently.

Su Wanyan changed into men's clothes and immediately went to the street, pretending to wander into the pawnshop, and asked the pawnshop shopkeeper if there were any good things recently, and the pawnshop shopkeeper saw that she was a fresh face, and she didn't take out real good things at first. Su Wanyan said that she didn't like them after reading them, and the pawnshop shopkeeper had to take out the white jade carvings that Huo Qingqing had sent in recently.

Su Wanyan looked at it, wasn't it something in the house, she showed that she was very interested in jade, and asked the shopkeeper if there was anything like this, and the shopkeeper took a few more pieces, and when she saw that they were all in the house, Su Wanyan paid for the things and took them back and hid them in a place where Huo Qingqing couldn't find them.

She asked the people from the Surprise Hall to find out what Huo Qingqing had been doing recently and where he had spent all the money.

After the people under her found out, they reported to her, telling her that Huo Qingqing had recently gone to the East Palace, and after coming out, he began to collect money, met a little steward in the East Palace, and then was still looking for a killer everywhere, and the killer he was looking for happened to be someone from the Surprise Whisper Hall.

The little housekeeper Huo Qingqing saw was Qian Qing, and she told Qian Qing that Su Yuxian had already told her about his threat to blackmail her, and asked him to ask for money in the future just to find himself, and not to go to Su Yuxian again.

Qian Qing didn't agree at first, so Huo Qingqing had to give him another five hundred taels to stabilize him temporarily.

Su Wanyan asked Qian Qing to be arrested and locked up in a branch hall, and she went to interrogate Qian Qing after she disguised.

Although Qian Qing was very bad, he used to bully others in the name of the steward of the East Palace, but he had never seen the current situation, and after being caught, he was tied up, and several mysterious people looked at him, and the room was also very heavy, he was so frightened that he couldn't do it, and kept shouting for mercy.

Su Wanyan walked in with two murderous guards, Qian Qing saw that she had handsome facial features, white skin, only half of a golden mask, and she was well dressed, looking very mysterious and noble, so she hurriedly knelt in front of her and begged her to let herself go.

Su Wanyan sat down on the chair, and the cold-faced guards stood behind her separately, and then she spoke: "You can let it go, you just need to answer honestly." ”

Qian Qing nodded like pounding garlic, "Okay, good, the villain said, whatever you ask, the villain will say." ”

Su Wanyan asked coldly, "What is your name and where do you make a living?" ”

This question is easy to answer, and Qian Qing hurriedly responded: "The villain's name is Qian Qing, and he is a little housekeeper in the East Palace to purchase flowers and trees." ”

Su Wanyan said directly: "Recently, someone bought to kill you, do you know?" ”

Of course he didn't know, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, shook his head and said that he didn't know, and asked with courage: "May I ask this young master, what are your origins?" ”

Su Wanyan leaned forward and looked at Qian Qing with murderous eyes, "We are the ones who collect money to kill people, commonly known as killers, to tell you the truth, we took over the business of killing you." ”

"Don't, don't." Qian Qing trembled with fright, and kept kowtowing, "Don't kill the villain, you are also a trader, the villain gives you money, buy the villain's own life?" ”

"Okay, okay, you say a price, and then tell me what bad things I did to let people kill you and then quickly, master, I may lower the price for you as appropriate." Su Wanyan's eyes swept over Qian Qing with an evil look.

What is the truth of this, saying that you will lose money if you do bad things, is it said that the worse it is, the cheaper the price?

Qian Qing knew on his knees that it must be Su Yuxian who wanted to kill him, so he told him about seducing Su Yuxian and causing her to get pregnant, and now threatening her with this matter and blackmailing her a lot of money.

"You're really bad enough, who did you say was this woman who committed adultery with you? Is the crown princess a side concubine? Is it the eldest girl of the Su family who used to be famous in the capital? ”

Su Wanyan heard it clearly just now, she asked this on purpose, it seemed that saying this string of Su Yuxian's names was an insult to her, and besides, she really couldn't believe this fact.

And she still wanted to look up to the sky and laugh, feeling that this Su Yuxian didn't need her to solve it at all, she was digging her own grave at any time, and one day she would dig out a grave as she wished to bury herself.

"Yes, that's her." Qian Qing trembled and said, "I'll give you five thousand taels, don't you want to kill me?" ”

"Five thousand taels?" Su Wanyan sneered, "Five thousand taels is enough to unload the price of a leg, but for the sake of you answering me honestly and satisfying my curiosity, if you give another five thousand taels, I will spare you from death." ”

"The villain didn't pay much in total, less than 10,000 taels of silver, and spent some more, it's not enough." Qian Qing said embarrassedly.

Su Wanyan said coldly: "So you still plan to leave some out for good flowers, right?" I haven't handed over all the money yet. ”

Qian Qing was so frightened that he hurriedly agreed, "Yes, yes, as long as you spare my life, I will hand over the rest to you." ”

So, Su Wanyan took seven thousand taels of silver from him, anyway, the money belonged to Su Fu, and now it has been returned. She didn't kill Qian Qing, not because Qian Qing took out the money, but for another purpose.

She had people create a murder scene, and after deceiving Huo Qingqing, she secretly imprisoned Qian Qing, maybe it will be useful in the future.

After a few more days, the battle at the border pass continued, but it had been defeated, and the losses had been heavy, and the emperor had to agree to the ministers' advice, consider reactivating Su Sui, and return the military power to him.

But the emperor is still not at ease, Su Sui's credit is too great, and he is a really powerful person, and there are a large number of loyal followers under his hands, although his power has been disintegrated this time, but as long as the military power is handed over to him, his subordinates who have been suppressed will be promoted by him again, and his power will be restored as before.

The emperor was afraid of Su Sui and had to use him, so he had to come up with a way to control him.

When the emperor's chief eunuch took the emperor's decree to the door of the Su Mansion, everyone thought that the emperor had issued an order for Su Sui to be ready to go, and he would set off soon, but he didn't expect the chief eunuch to read out aloud the marriage of the three girls of the Su family, so that she would marry Duanmu Rui on the eighth day of the next month.

Everyone knelt on the ground and hung their heads, but the atmosphere seemed to change immediately, Su Wanyan was stunned, she didn't know what the emperor was doing, why did she suddenly remember her, and as soon as she remembered her, she pointed her out.

After receiving the holy decree, Su Wanyan was called to the study by Su Sui and asked her what was going on, but how did she know.

"My daughter is also confused, my daughter and the prince have never had any rumors, why did the emperor suddenly get his daughter and the prince together?"

Su Sui held his hands behind his back and was silent.