【Nine Rounds】Lu Sheng calculates karma and effect
Mu Yun said with a sad face: "But he is now in the palace, if this matter is discovered... Not only him, but you are also implicated. ”
She was naturally worried about Jiang Chengyi.
But at this moment, Jiang Chengyi was annoyed by his behavior of sending that person into the palace with his own hands, so that now he has indirectly harmed so many innocent people.
He fell into a kind of guilt that could not be extricated, and he was even more angry, and he couldn't help but rush to the palace to question the man.
Mu Yun pressed him and said, "You need to stay calm at the moment... If something goes wrong with you, or if the matter is discovered by the Grand Commander Jing Ting... That's it! ”
Jiang Chengyi's heart fell into a chill at this moment, and when he heard Mu Yun's persuasion, his heart slowly settled down and said, "What you said is... I shouldn't have been so flustered..."
Mu Yun nodded, took his slightly trembling hand, and reassured him: "Believe me, this matter... There is always a solution, and the most important thing now is how to get that person out of the palace. The more he stayed by Emperor Wei's side, the more he would be exposed. ”
Jiang Chengyi's palms were sweating slightly, and Mu Yun was deeply worried when he saw him like this.
He has always been a person who does not panic and can treat each other calmly. But now it involves the lives of the people around him, especially the luck of mortals. No matter how he usually behaves, he has to be afraid at this moment.
Jiang Chengyi leaned on the pillar under the corridor, his eyes drooped and he was very annoyed: "Over the years, he has been hiding from me and Aluo, and has been in contact with someone to send letters. But I never expected that the person who corresponded with him turned out to be Zhou Yuanmo. There were traces of this matter, but he did a good job, and I didn't pay attention to it.
No wonder, in recent years, he often used the excuse of dispensing medicine for Ah Luo, went to Jianye, and let Uncle Fang go with him, now that I think about it, Uncle Fang is the best cover for him to avoid my questioning... However, it also made me know... At the end of this week, the identity must not be as simple as the third-in-command of the Yegong Pavilion. ”
Mu Yun was silent, lowered his eyes and pondered, but said for a moment: "Could it be that Zhou Yuanmo is also a descendant of the scholar clan who was persecuted in the Chang Meng bloody case back then?" ”
Jiang Chengyi sighed, nodded and said, "It is very likely that Qin Ye has been privately looking for the children of the scholar clan who were lucky enough to escape after being raided and exterminated in the bloody case that year. If Zhou Yuanmo had nothing to do with the events of that year, he would not have lasted for five years of correspondence. What's more, every time Uncle Fang takes goods from Jianye, he has to follow. However, I can't be completely sure that the person he corresponded with is Zhou Yuanmo, but I just feel that all kinds of coincidences put together have become inevitable. ”
Mu Yun saw that his face was decadent, and he also fell into deep worry: "Now... Emperor Wei's illness was still much better, and the imperial physician Ling Cheng Suyun also returned a month ago, thinking that now was the time to bring Qin Ye out. ”
Jiang Chengyi threw a glance at her and said, "I'm afraid it's not so easy." Originally, I sent Qin Ye into the palace just so that he could get in touch with the Dao Taiyi Palace and obtain the heirloom medical book that his master had stored in the Tibetan Medicine Pavilion of the Medical Palace, so that after he obtained this book, he could develop a method to unravel the fire and poison that Yue Fu had contracted when he was seriously injured by the Xiongnu. But he still couldn't restrain the hatred in his heart...
Now he colluded with Zhou Yuanmo and succeeded in Deng Yuan's private mansion. This was one step closer to their plans. This explosion case deepened Emperor Wei's jealousy and resentment against the Deng family, and if you add Ning Nan's plan... The Tang clan will soon collapse and fall apart. Next, he will join forces with Zhou Yuanmo to deal with His Majesty and Ning Zheng. How could he give up such a good opportunity... Come back with me? ”
Mu Yun frowned deeply, knowing that the situation was serious, but she had no good way for the time being, so she could only calm down and remain silent.
As Jiang Chengyi guessed.
The mastermind of this bombing is a person in this vast capital that no one would have thought of. This person secretly colluded with Zhou Yuanmo. The preparation and transportation of the sulfur powder and charcoal powder that were enough to detonate alone, and the meticulous plan of secretly sending them into the capital in batches, avoiding the Taiwei Mansion, Shangshutai, and Dongfu Division, would have been absolutely impossible without detailed planning and preparations that had been made at least two or three months before.
And this unexpected person is Qin Ye, who was personally sent into the palace by Jiang Chengyi more than four months ago, waited by Emperor Wei's side, and is now a medical officer in the imperial doctor's order.
More than two months ago, Deng Yuan suddenly fell seriously ill for unknown reasons, and even died of breath, and his life was in danger. Deng Guozhong hurriedly took the invitation and went to the palace to find a doctor. At that time, Emperor Wei happened to meet him, so he ordered Qin Ye to follow Deng Guozhong to Deng Yuan's mansion for diagnosis and treatment. Flying Library
Originally, Deng Guozhong was unwilling to let Qin Ye return to the house with him for treatment of his grandson, he knew that Qin Ye was the person sent into the palace by Jiang Chengyi himself, and such a person was clearly the eyeliner planted by Jiang Chengyi. But Emperor Wei personally cared for him and gave an order, even if Deng Guozhong didn't want Qin Ye to enter his Deng mansion, there was no way.
It's just that Qin Ye's acupuncture is a must in the capital and even in the world, and Deng Yuan's illness gradually improved and even healed under his wonderful hand rejuvenation, which took less than a month. Deng Guozhong saw that Qin Ye didn't make any small moves from beginning to end, let alone visit Jiang Mansion, or communicate with Jiang Chengyi in private in the palace, so he believed him for the time being.
Deng Yuan trusted Qin Ye a lot and reused it.
In the following month, Qin Ye often went to Deng Yuan's mansion to diagnose his pulse on the grounds that he had been recuperating after illness. And Deng Yuan is a hospitable person. The renovation and construction of his private residence is also a must in the capital, and the huge mansion is like a fairyland in the forest garden, elegant and fresh. What is rare is that every flower, grass, wood and pile in this mansion was repaired and renovated by Deng Yuan personally under the command of the masons, and it can be regarded as his own design. Usually when guests come to the door, Deng Yuan will take the guests to walk through the garden from beginning to end, so as to boast of the exquisite repair style of his mansion.
Naturally, Qin Ye will not be an exception. He pretended to love the construction of Deng Yuan's mansion very much, and every time he came to diagnose his pulse, he would ask Deng Yuan to take him around the mansion, and over time, he became familiar with this garden, and also knew that there was a private prison under Deng Yuan's mansion.
Although the dungeon is underground, it has a clever slanted opening from the top, so that the light of day can shine through the inconspicuous open window and illuminate the entire dungeon.
Therefore, there is no need to light candles during the day, and the dungeon is clear and bright, unlike the edict in the Imperial Palace, which needs to be lit every day and night.
He colluded with Zhou Yuanmo before March, because he was afraid that just poisoning Shi An would not make Emperor Wei completely suspicious and suspicious of the Deng family. I was even more afraid that if Shi An was just poisoned by ordinary people, Deng Yuan would find out in time and have the opportunity to discuss countermeasures with his grandfather, so that the matter would not be resolved. That's why the two of them came up with this strategy.
Qin Ye's master was not only a world-famous moxibustion saint, but also an old immortal who cultivated alchemy, and he knew very well how to make alchemy, and naturally knew that a large amount of sulfur and charcoal were ground into powder and spread in a relatively closed place, and they would inevitably explode when they encountered an open flame.
He took advantage of this and asked Zhou Yuanmo to buy a large amount of sulfur and charcoal more than two months ago, and let them grind into powder, and the merchants who used the Yegong Pavilion entered the city in batches, avoiding the screening of Taiweifu and Shangshutai.
In the end, after he gained Deng Yuan's trust and determined that Shi An was in his mansion, he locked the palace door at night, and when he was able to return to the imperial hospital, he secretly took Zhou Yuanmo to send the master of the rivers and lakes in Beijing to infiltrate the private prison of Deng Yuan's mansion to explore the terrain. After figuring out the rotation time and number of dungeon guards, a large amount of sulfur powder and charcoal powder scattered in various corners of the capital were gathered together, and a time was chosen to extinguish the candles in the dungeon in the early morning, and when the hands were rotated, everything was arranged. When the sky sank slightly in the evening, the guards in the prison lit the candle flame and it was able to detonate smoothly.
However, on the day of Laba, it happened to fall in Luoyang. By noon, the snow was piling up everywhere. The Deng Mansion was no exception, with snow piling up on the entrance to the dungeon and the bright windows in all directions, blocking the light. The guards felt that the light was too dim, so they lit the candles, which caused Deng Yuan's mansion to explode after noon, when the rituals of the people to worship the gods and ancestors were held or when they returned from the garden, they were all boiling Laba porridge in the house.
Originally, at ten o'clock in the evening, according to custom, all the princes of all families still need to go to the worship point to make a second sacrifice in order to be considered loyal to ask the gods to bless the coming year. If the Deng Mansion had exploded at this time, the casualties would not have been as heavy as they are now.
However, the world is impermanent, and Qin Ye probably didn't expect that a heavy snowfall in Luoyang would make the explosion several hours earlier, causing so many casualties.
Of course, Qin Ye didn't mean to kill so many innocent people, and Jiang Chengyi didn't know about it.
He thought that he had calculated everything, including counting the innocent who died in vain, because only serious enough casualties could make Emperor Wei pay attention to it, and only then could the dispute between Deng and Emperor Wei become more intense.
And Jiang Chengyi was chilled by this.
At the beginning, he had already warned Qin Ye, but Qin Ye still insisted on going his own way, so that all the Water Pavilion brothers in Beijing ignored the danger.
Once this incident happened, not only would he no longer be able to stay by Ning Wuheng's side and complete the task assigned to him by the aunt of the poor Sang Empress, but even Xue Qing, Fourth Uncle Fang, Yan Ji and others would be in danger.
Needless to say, he, Mu Yun and even Jiang Chengjia are god bodies, and if they escape, there is still a way. But these mortal bodies are certain to die.
Even, even General Yuefu, the son of Yue Qi, who he and Jiang Chengjia rescued with great effort from the Sakha steppe of the Xiongnu, may be exposed.