Chapter II. 216. The patella is like a full moon
The common doubts of the two 'Weng sons-in-law' will eventually fall on Wan Changning, who has lost his patella and is recuperating in the backyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Pushing open the door, the scene that greeted him was completely different from the picture that Shen Gui imagined himself. Instead of lying on the sickbed in pain, the waiter, who had lost his knees and patella, sat on a wooden wheelchair that looked a little bulky, and looked at the scroll in his hand quite leisurely by the warm sun that poured into the room from the window.
Although after Shen Gui cut off the patella of his legs, Li Deng invited Sun Baizhu from Tai Hospital to treat his injured legs; But there is a saying - 'a hundred days to break your bones'. At this time, it was not yet a full moon before the day of his injury, and this squire was already able to sit in front of the window and read a book! You must know that his Wan Changning suffered not only a permanent physical wound, but also a double blow of being completely destroyed mentally.
Shen Gui looked at Wan Changning, who had regained his strength in less than a month, and his heart also gave birth to a great sense of admiration; Shen Gui couldn't help but ask himself, if the two of them moved places, could he be like Wan Changning?
Wan Changning heard the voice coming from the door, gently put down the scroll in his hand that he didn't know the content, raised a face that was still slightly waxy, and the corners of his mouth still had the arc of a smile, and he didn't know what kind of beautiful scenery he saw from the scroll:
"Oh? Did the teacher and Brother Shen come together to visit me, a person who has sinned against me? It's a pity that Wan is now unable to move, so he can't get up and correspond to the two. Please ......"
After Wan Changning finished speaking, he gently raised his slender arm, leading the two of them to look at the two Taishi chairs by the window. Shen Gui looked at the nature and harmony between his gestures, as if he saw the transcendent realm of the Buddha recorded in the Zen classics when he smiled.
Li Deng, who came with Shen Gui, did not sit down at this time; Instead, he stretched out his hand and let Shen Gui sit opposite Wan Changning, and he turned around and went out.
"Brother Shen seems to be a little uncomfortable, is he still thinking about the embarrassment between you and me before?"
Wan Changning's words broke the embarrassment in Shen Gui's heart. Now that I saw his leisurely posture, I forgot about it, and even made Shen Guisheng have a different idea: Did I cut his patella that day, or cut off his dust?
In fact, when it comes to the root, it is not too much like what Wan Changning defended before. He secretly formed an alliance with the crown prince, but in fact, he couldn't be regarded as eating inside and out. After all, he has not become Li Deng's son-in-law to this day, and he is only an outsider at best; And the prince Yan Day, but he is a real young master of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Isn't it obvious who kisses whom?
As for the Shuangtian gambling house that made Shen Gui indignant, it had nothing to do with him Wan Changning. Whether it is the wanton slaughter of fireworks women for the amusement of others; is still secretly selling those murderous Hibiscus creams, no matter what kind of business, it is not something that he Wan Changning can participate in; At best, he just released a few sums of money to Yan Tian, and he can't be regarded as a mastermind at all, at most he is just an accomplice.
But now the mastermind of this matter, the crown prince Yan Day, is still sitting in the Winter Warm Pavilion and preparing to inherit the throne; And this accomplice Wan Changning was cut off by himself on the patella of both legs, and ended up unable to walk for the rest of his life. In any case, Shen Gui's approach is also a bit of a suspicion of 'bullying the soft and fearing the hard'.
"What? After Brother Mo Feishi was cut off by Shen's sword, he threw himself into the arms of the Buddha? ”
"Neither is it, whether it is Shakti, Xuanmen, Confucianism, or the shamanism you are in, they are all different ways to go to the same place. I have followed Enxiang for half my life, and I only believe in real things that can be seen and touched. After following his mentor into the office, he was immersed in the vast sea of complicated accounts every day, and all the thoughts in his mouth and heart were all gold, silver, money and food, and there was no day when this was not the case. How can you believe in those 'mysteries and mysteries', but not enough to feed people's knowledge? But in recent days, I have been given by the king, and my actions are quite inconvenient, so I am completely idle. It is also taking advantage of this 'coincidence' leisure that I can re-examine the past 30 years or so...... All in all, if you can have today's losses in the future, in the final analysis, you are all to blame, and you can't complain about Brother Shen. ”
Shen Gui carefully distinguished Wan Changning as if he had been reborn, and only felt that the person in front of him could no longer be associated with the original Wan Changning, who was eager for quick success and quick profit, shrewd and meticulous.
"Ahem...... Cough...... Since Brother Shi'an himself can let go, Shen, a person who has been poisoned, naturally has nothing to let go. Today, I would like to ask the Prime Minister to bring me here to disturb me, in fact, there are some private matters about the prince, and I want to ask Brother Shi'an for advice or two. ”
Wan Changning looked at Shen Gui for a while, then turned his eyes to a hundred knots that were blooming outside the window, and then tapped the wooden table top rhythmically with his slender fingers......
"Let Wan guess what is incomprehensible in Shen Gongzi's heart...... Now that the Double Sky Casino has been reduced to ruins, it is unlikely that it will be rebuilt anytime soon...... This is because the prince has no silver in his hands; Second, as soon as the Northern Yan army retreats, our Emperor Xuande, who has been dormant for a winter, will not be able to sit ......."
"Emperor Xuande Yan Hunt has died, and it is said that he died of an emergency......" Shen Gui interrupted his analysis at the right time. And after Wan Changning heard the news, his eyes immediately flashed with suspicion. He knew that Liu Banxian had broken into the palace twice before and after, and he also knew that the death of Lu Xiangyin, the supervisor of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, was inseparable from the master of the Heavenly Spirit Vein who did not know the details of Shen Gui.
Shen Gui looked at his suspicious gaze, and naturally understood in his heart:
"I know what you're thinking, it's not me."
"That's weird...... Your Majesty is in the prime of life, and his body has always been tough on weekdays. Now an unclear 'sudden death in an emergency' is not convincing at all? ”
Shen Gui thought about what He Wendao said to himself at the beginning, and just wanted to relay it to Wan Changning, but after thinking about it, Wan Changning was like his own 'previous life', he was an outright 'atheist', so he had to dispel this idea.
Wan Changning saw Shen Gui shaking his head, mistakenly thinking that he didn't think there was anything unusual about Emperor Xuande's death, so he carefully explained his thoughts:
"Okay, let's treat Your Majesty as a 'sudden death', but who is most beneficial to this situation at the moment?"
Shen Gui's first thought at this time excluded the crown prince Yan Tian who was on the bright side. Not to mention whether he can be ruthless and do such a father-killing and usurping power, and a great rebellion; Even if Yan Tian really had this 'courage', he did not have a 'master of metaphysics' who could take advantage of the 'power of the celestial phenomena'; and if he used 'physical means' to kill the king, the imperial horse supervisor who had always been loyal to Yan Hunt would not obey his command; and Nan Kang's 'Di Ting' had always only looked at the silver and spoke, and would not care about this 'poor ghost prince' at all......
"...... the Northern Yan people?"
Shen Gui, who hadn't figured it out for a while, threw out a plausible answer, but Wan Changning shook his head again and again:
"Shen Gongzi, Shen Gongzi, I don't know that you are a fan of the authorities? Still pretending to be confused. On the surface, the first emperor died violently at this time, and the biggest beneficiary should be Yan Day, the prince of the prison country. Because in this way, he will be able to inherit the throne in the name of righteousness at once, and he will not have to worry day and night about when his father will announce that he will be 'reinstated from illness'; but even if he does not take the initiative to attack, he only needs to wait a little longer, and he will naturally be ripe, and there is no need to do such things as adding to the snake......
"So ......?"
"So? So now the biggest beneficiary is your best friend, the second prince Yan Qinghong! And this is also an important reason why I mistakenly thought that it was Brother Shen who killed the king. ”
As soon as Shen Guiyi heard Wan Changning's answer, he thought about Yan Lao Er who 'eavesdropped' on his wall in the morning, and immediately shook his head and waved his hand and said:
"No way, no way! Even his fool who can't hold up the wall with mud can't lay such a big net at all; And if there is no Shen to protect ...... past few years"
"That's right! Why did Brother Shen protect the second prince like this? Seriously, this is also something that both Zai Xia and the prince couldn't figure out at the beginning; If it is said that Brother Shen is to regain the ancestral business of his grandfather Guo Yunsong on Zhongshan Road, then it is obvious that assisting the prince with all his strength is the simplest and most direct way; If Brother Shen is to 'replace him', then there is no need to deliberately befriend a royal child. Moreover, according to the results of Wan's investigation, your friendship with Yan Qinghong is at most a friendship of wine and meat, and it has not reached the point where life and death are entrusted like now. ”
Shen Gui scratched his forehead and thought for a long time, then replied with a smile on his face:
"Hmm...... The answer to this question can be said to be complex, or it can be said to be very simple. And to put it simply, it's just a sentence - just fate. Compared with Yan Day, I prefer Yan Qinghong's temperament. ”
Wan Changning nodded and did not ask any further; Because no matter how true or false Shen Gui's answer is, this answer has already shown that he is unwilling to dwell too much on this matter.
"Okay, since that's all that, let's start talking about the prince......"
Wan Changning waved his hand towards Shen Gui, and then pointed in the direction of the bookshelf behind him. Shen Gui happily got up, pushed Wan Changning, who was in a wheelchair, over, and took out a few thin account books.
"Brother Shen, you see, this secret account records the gold and silver exchanges he traded with the Nankang people for the first time......"
It only took one morning for Wan Changning to give Shen Gui all the actions of the crown prince Yan Day since he was imprisoned. After reading these secret books with various symbols, Shen Gui breathed a sigh of relief, gritted his teeth and looked at the account book with blood and tears on the table, and squeezed out four words from between his teeth:
"This bastard!"
Wan Changning put away these confidential account books with a smile, just threw them on the desk so casually, and said lightly:
"If it weren't for Brother Shen's sword cutting off Wan's patella, Wan would not have had time to understand the accumulated white bones behind these accounts. Of course, this is one of the reasons why I now voluntarily suffer from a broken leg; I don't know if this kind of punishment can wash away the blood debt on my hands......"