Chapter 14: Jealousy
(XX website.xxx.***) (XX website.xxx.***) (XX website.xxx.***) Yan Poxi smiled and nodded, the "strongman" Long Wu can be said to have changed his life, if he hadn't forcibly deceived himself to Yanggu, where would he know the master?
"Sister, can you tell me what kind of person the big official is?" Bai Xiuying asked cautiously.
"I can't say the identity of the master, but my sister just rest assured, Cai Jiu can't help us!" Yan Poxi said with a smile.
Bai Xiuying saw that Yan Poxi's tone was so confident, so she put down her mind slightly, and looked at the furnishings in the carriage curiously, Yan Poxi excitedly explained to her the origin of the fur in the carriage, the texture of the wooden couch, etc., Bai Xiuying opened her mouth wide, stunned, she was only in a small county town when she was most beautiful, and where had she seen the luxury of a wealthy family, and heard of unheard of overseas deerskins, pine trees in the Tianshan Mountains, velvet in bitter cold places, Bai Xiuying sighed, but a trace of jealousy flashed in her eyes......
Wu Zhi returned to the palace and went straight to the study, every afternoon, he had to carefully browse through the sorted out information, as for the person who sorted out the information for him now, it was Mr. Sun.
Mr. Sun defected to Gao Yu four years ago, and concentrated on being Gao Yu's staff, because there was Wu Zhi's intelligence network behind him, and soon stood out among Gao Yu's staff.
Wu Zhi even told him that even if Gao Yu planned to assassinate him. There is no need for him to report the news, but to help Gao Yu come up with ideas wholeheartedly, how can he assassinate himself, Mr. Sun has to be advised by Wu Zhi, and he has done things for Gao Yu wholeheartedly for four years, and even he himself forgot that he is the king's meticulous work.
Until the day the princess broke into the palace, the king suddenly made an appointment. Mr. Sun knew that he was finally going to end his career as a detailed worker, and it was logical to do things in the future, and after helping Gao Yu collect a lot of information, he finally secretly replaced the chapter before he went to court, although Gao Yu was cautious and he couldn't see his account books, but he knew about the officials who had a close personal relationship with Gao Yu. It also made up some money items, and as long as these people are traced, some eyebrows will definitely be found.
At present, although Gao Fu has not been greatly attacked, he has only cut Gao Yu's official position, and Kaifeng Mansion will try the case of Gao Yu's accumulation of wealth. However, Mr. Sun's task has been successfully completed, and he has returned to Guiwang's Mansion, and it just so happens that Wu Zhi lacks experts in analyzing intelligence, and Mr. Sun is familiar with the way, so he has become Wu Zhi's "intelligence analyst".
In the study. Mr. Sun sent a thin page of paper to Wu Zhi, and Wu Zhi took it with a smile, now he is much more relaxed, and he no longer has to look at the vast rumors of the capital every day.
"Is there anything interesting today?" Wu Zhi asked Mr. Sun while watching, the so-called "interesting" thing is the main point of Mr. Sun's intelligence.
"There's one. Cai Jing scolded Cai Jiu fiercely in Fengle Building yesterday...... "Mr. Sun said respectfully.
Wu Zhi smiled: "Cai Jiu is just Cai Jingdi's distant nephew, who is troublesome all day long, and Cai Jing is the first assistant of the dynasty." Hundreds of officials set an example, and having such a nephew is enough for him to have a headache. What's so strange about scolding him? ”
Mr. Sun said: "But since Cai Jing worshiped the prime minister, he scolded Cai Jiu no less than a hundred times, Cai Jiu still went his own way, and there was no restraint at all, if Cai Xiang really took care of his own face, he should have driven Cai Jiu out of the capital a long time ago, why was he just scolded repeatedly?" And the villain from all kinds of signs, Cai Jiu is not simple, the surface is rampant, rampant in the capital, but the things he has done have never been caught, in the past, when Yan was the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, he was not afraid of Cai Jing's power, and he wanted to rectify Cai Jiu, but found that many of Cai Jiu's bad deeds were just hearsay, without the slightest real evidence, and in the end there was only no ......"
"Oh?" Wu Zhidi's interest was hooked up at once, and he didn't expect that the rumored high-flying and domineering Cai Jiu was such a person, so he frowned and thought for a while, and asked, "Then what do you say?" ”
Mr. Sun smiled and said: "The villain and Mr. Wu have thought about it carefully, Xiao Sheng thinks that Cai Jiu is likely to be Cai Jing's shield, and the political enemies of the DPRK and China, if they want to deal with Cai Jing, they will definitely start with Cai Jiu, but this time they will lose everything, that is, they will expose their intentions, and give Cai Jing room to maneuver, so that he has enough time to free up his hands to attack the other party......"
Wu Zhi said "ah", and secretly said ashamed in his heart, he had just seen Bai Xiuying, and he heard Cai Jiu's momentum, and he really had the idea of using Cai Jiu to deal with Cai Jing, after all, it was too difficult for the court to grasp Cai Jing's handle, as the first assistant, before the new emperor's pro-government, Wang Guifei would not touch him, otherwise the first assistant would be investigated in a short period of time, wouldn't it seem that the emperor didn't know anyone? Unless Cai Jing pokes a big leak in the major politics of the imperial court, the people's resentment will boil, and he can't help but not collapse, but this is something he doesn't want to see, not to mention Cai Jing's cunning and cunning, and he won't make such a mistake.
And if Cai Jiu really bullies men and women, does all kinds of evil, and runs rampant in Tokyo for nearly ten years, he can use this to attack Cai Jing, and then make a ruthless move to knock him down, but he doesn't want Cai Jiujiu to be a cover.
Wu Zhi sighed, turned his head with a smile, and looked at the information of the capital intently.
A few days later, Wu Zhi was chatting with the daughters of Jin Lian in the house, the daughters of Jin Lian had just gone to see the eldest sister Li Shishi, they were all sighing, Jin Lian persuaded Wu Zhi to bring Li Shishi into the palace, after the death of the first emperor, several women had to rotate every day to accompany Li Shishi, Wu Zhi also went to visit her every three or five days, a few months have passed, although Li Shishi no longer cries every day as before, but also depressed, it is really not a way to go like this, but Liang Hongyu does not know where to go, Wu Zhi thinks of her and has a belly fire, It is impossible for her not to know such a major event as the death of the first emperor, but she doesn't know that she will go back to the capital to accompany her eldest sister, and she is too ignorant, if it is not for a few noble princesses to accompany her, she doesn't know if the eldest sister can cross this hurdle.
Hearing Jin Lian talk about taking Master Li into the mansion, Wu Zhi shook his head slightly, he also persuaded Master Li, but Master Li refused to move to the palace, and there were memories of her and Zhao Ji in the small building. Living in a small building, Master Li will feel that Zhao Ji is by his side, if he moves to the palace, it will be lively on the surface, but he is afraid that the eldest sister will be even more lonely in her heart.
"Let's go and accompany the eldest sister as much as possible!" Wu Zhi sighed helplessly.
As he was talking, the words of Gong'e outside the pavilion sounded: "The prince is a thousand years old, and there is a guard brother who asks to see the prince." (Fastest update***.****.**)
Wu Zhi got up with an "oh". Look at the little face of Chibazi who is holding Chibazi and kissing Chibazi, and then look at Chibazi's pitiful face with a bitter face, frowning, and walking out.
Qiqiao saw Wu Zhi frowning, sticking out his tongue and putting down Qianyezi, Jin Lian smiled: "Qianyezi is about to grow into a big girl, and she still treats others as children!" ”
Qiqiao grinned: "It's only comfortable for the big girl to hold it!" ”
The girls were stunned, and they all sighed and shook their heads.
Wu Zhi came to the front yard. The guards waiting at the gate of the courtyard hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Lord Chitose, there is some trouble with the lady of the other courtyard." ”
"Mrs. Beiyuan" is the name of the guard who guarded Yan Poxi, Wu Zhiqi said: "What trouble? Is she a bully? ”
The guard shook his head and said, "It was Miss Bai who was taken in by Mrs. that day, and she took the official of Kaifeng Mansion to the other courtyard. kept asking Mrs. to return the man to her......"
Wu Zhi smiled: "Give the man back to her? Talking about that splash? ”
The guards nodded, he was one of the guards who sent Shan Dacheng out to be slaughtered that day.
"What do those errands say?" Wu Zhi asked.
"The officials wanted to search the courtyard, but the villains stopped them, and they didn't use the royal mansion waist card...... "Without Wu Zhi's orders, they naturally didn't dare to reveal their identities.
"Leave the matter to Ryugo." Wu Zhi smiled and shook his head. Since Gao Yu was dismissed, Long Wu was brought to the capital by himself, compared to Lu Cheng, Long Wu is more clever, and these things are better for him.
The guard nodded, and turned to leave.
In front of Yan Poxi's small courtyard. Seven or eight officials with chains were gathered, and the first official was slightly fat, and he was negotiating with the guards of the palace's palace in front of the courtyard. The officials did not know who had stopped them. But in Bianjing, there is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger. I don't know which house is the gold house of some noble family. Seeing the demeanor of a few guards who didn't take themselves in their eyes at all, the poor officer was even more suspicious and didn't dare to make a mistake.
Bai Xiuying couldn't help but feel angry when she looked at the fat officer's cautious appearance, what are you afraid of with the support of the ninth master? Rushed in and took Yan Po to the court, look at the small courtyard of the please, Bai Xiuying gritted her teeth, why are you so beautiful, but I am so down, you were originally just a concubine of a small official, but now you are freshly clothed, like a lady, I really can't see you like this!
Bai Xiuying has seen the little days when Yan Po cherishes the nourishment in the past few days, and the jealousy in her heart has become more and more intense, as if swallowed by a poisonous snake, and she is thinking about how to beat Yan Poxi back to her original form every day before going to bed.
Yesterday, Bai Xiuying finally couldn't bear it anymore, and sneaked out of the courtyard to find Shan Dacheng, who knew that when he got home, he knew that Shan Dacheng had not returned home for a few days, and it was after meeting with Yan Po that Bai Xiuying looked for the gambling house and restaurant he often went to, and he was nowhere to be seen, and it happened that Cai Jiu had not seen Shan Dacheng for a few days, and sent someone to pass on him, Bai Xiuying immediately had an idea, ran to see Cai Jiu, and said what happened that day, and asserted that Dacheng must have been killed by Yan Poxi's man.
Cai Jiu then ordered someone to take his name post, accompanied Bai Xiuying to Kaifeng Mansion to fight a lawsuit, the official on duty saw Cai Jiu's name post, and hurriedly sent the official to take Yan Poxi, Bai Xiuying was in high spirits when she came, and felt as if she had returned to Yuncheng, she was still the previous Bai Xiuying, and she was bound to put on a majestic posture in front of Yan Poxi.
Who knew that it had been half an hour, but the officials couldn't get in, and the sturdy men in front of the courtyard refused to let the officials talk badly.
Bai Xiuying's anger became more and more intense, and she said loudly: "Why don't you report back to Kaifeng Mansion Brother Wang, someone is obstructing official business!" ”
The fat errand official surnamed Wang, when he heard Bai Xiuying's words, he couldn't help frowning, he knew that Bai Xiuying and Cai Jiu had a relationship, but he couldn't afford to provoke these little errand officials on both sides, if he followed Bai Xiuying's words, he would offend the owner of the courtyard, and when the time came, people couldn't fight Cai Jiu, wouldn't they be angry with themselves?
The guards listened to Bai Xiuying's words, and they all looked at it coldly, Bai Xiuying remembered the tragic situation of Shan Dacheng that day, and she panicked slightly, and couldn't help but take a few steps back.
was at a stalemate, when I heard a chuckle from the side, "Is anyone obstructing business?" Where is it? With laughter. Looking at the lively crowd, a roe deer-headed and rat-eyed man squeezed over, but his clothes were luxurious, and he was wearing him, which was very nondescript.
When several guards saw Long Wu arrive, they all took a few steps back and arrived at the door.
As soon as the king saw it, he knew that it was the main master. Although Long Wu has been in the capital, but in the past few years, personnel changes, new people have replaced old people, but these errand officials are no one who knows the famous "five masters" in the past.
Long Wu walked up to the royal officer, made a slight joke, and said with a smile: "This eldest brother has your surname? Can you recognize Lu Cheng? ”
Wang Chaguan was stunned for a moment, and then saluted: "Brother Lu, I naturally know." The little brother's surname is Wang! ”
Long Wu smiled, "This kid has become more and more decent in the past few years. Then he said to the king: "In Xialong Wu, Lu Cheng's sworn brother!" Seeing that the king looked at him suspiciously, he smiled and said, "It's not a glorious thing to be his eldest brother, why should I lie to you?" ”
After a pause, he said, "Forget it." We don't care if Lu Cheng is reckless or not, dare to ask why the eldest brother is here? ”
The king said in his heart, didn't you ask knowingly? "The villain has been ordered to summon this lady of the house!"
Long Wu smiled: "What's the matter?" ”
Wang Chaguan said: "Naturally, it is for the case of Shan Dacheng's disappearance!" ”
Long Wu was surprised: "Shan Dacheng? Isn't Mo West Street Shan Dacheng? ”
Wang Chaguan said: "Exactly! ”
Long Wu's eyes widened in surprise: "Who said Dacheng was missing?" He had dinner with me the day before yesterday, and even borrowed me 300 yuan, saying that he was going to do some business, how could he disappear? ”
The king said "ah". looked at Long Wu, not knowing whether what Long Wu said was true or false.
Long Wu took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Wang Chaguan: "Take a look, big brother!" ”
Bai Xiuying listened to it very clearly, and couldn't help but say anxiously: "Nonsense! Dacheng disappeared a few days ago, how could he have a drink with you? How can they lend you money? ”
"Shut up!" Wang Chaguan's expression changed when he saw the IOU, and he scolded Bai Xiuying even more. Bai Xiuying was stunned by the scolding, and looked at Wang Chaguan in confusion.
Wang Chaguan looked at the IOU for a long time, looked up and said, "It turned out to be the guarantor of Brother Lu and Lord Tuiguan?" "I'm really confused. The Lei Tui Guan, who was the guarantor, was the duty magistrate who ordered them to summon Yan Poxi early in the morning, how could he know that Shan Dacheng was still eating and drinking with people the day before yesterday. He also ordered himself to bring someone to summon the suspect?
But these are not his own concerns, and Wang Chaguan also vaguely knows something in his heart.
Long Wu nodded with a smile and said, "It is Brother Lu and Lord Lei's guarantor, they were both present that day and had seen Shan Dacheng with their own eyes, so what this lady said about Shan Dacheng's disappearance a few days ago is pure nonsense!" Speaking of this, Long Wu suddenly slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Oops! This kid wanted to repay the debt and ran away with the money, right? ”
"No, no, no! He said that he would pay back the money tomorrow, and if he didn't show up tomorrow, this would ...... What can I do? ”
Seeing Long Wu's babbling appearance, Bai Xiuying's face turned green with anger, and she said loudly: "You don't spew blood!" My neighbors can prove that Dacheng has not returned home for several days, and the sister-in-law of the liquor store saw that the entourage brought by the woman in the house took Dacheng away! Since that day, Dacheng has not been heard from again! ”
Long Wu frowned and said, "This is strange......", he pondered for a while, and said to Wang Chaguan: "Brother Wang, have you been to the liquor store and the Shan Dacheng neighborhood?" ”
Wang Chaguan hesitated for a moment, since it was an errand assigned by Cai Jiu, and there was Lei Tuiguan's urging, they did not go to collect witnesses first, but came directly to summon Yan Poxi, and wanted to take Yan Poxi back to the yamen to bring witnesses along the way, who knew that the courtyard was in front of him, but he couldn't take half a step.
"That's it, so why don't we visit first, don't wronged the good people!" Long Wu said with a smile.
At this time, Wang Chaguan already knew in his heart, of course he knew what he should do, he agreed with a smile at the moment, and then turned back to Bai Xiuying and said, "Mrs. Bai, how about we visit the witnesses you mentioned first?" ”
Bai Xiuying hatefully glanced at the weeping willow that showed its head in the courtyard, and nodded: "That's fine!" He glared at Long Wu again, and said in his heart that he didn't know where to come out of nowhere, and the wild man was talking nonsense.
Waiting for Long Wu, Bai Xiuying and Wang Chaguan and his party went to the liquor store, and after taking a turn around the neighborhoods around Bai Xiuying, Bai Xiuying's face turned white, and the aunt of the liquor store couldn't remember the events of that day, which was not counted. The most outrageous thing is Bai Xiuying's neighborhood, there are two idlers who said that they had seen Shan Dacheng the day before yesterday, and those two idlers used to have a good deal with Shan Dacheng, and they often got together to drink a few glasses of wine, they said that they had seen Shan Dacheng, and the neighbors next to them even if they hadn't seen it?
Bai Xiuying stood in front of her courtyard in a daze, listening to the two idlers talking to the king about the day before yesterday. The heart was cold to the soles of her feet, and at this time, Bai Xiuying already knew that everything had been arranged by others, and Yan Po regretted that she didn't even have to see herself, so she trampled herself under her feet.
Perhaps, she was laughing at my incompetence at this time! Bai Xiuying thought angrily. It's even more humiliating.
"Ah, Mrs. Shan, if Dacheng doesn't show up tomorrow, this account will fall on your head!" Long Wu walked over with a smile.
Bai Xiuying was stunned, her face turned pale. Fang Cai has been angry, angry why these people opened their eyes and said nonsense, and the people on the side didn't think much about it, and after listening to the words of Long Wudi, Bai Xiuying suddenly remembered. If Shan Dacheng is not there, three hundred guan can fall on him, this is ...... Three hundred? Even Sanguan can't take it out by himself!
looked at Long Wu, but saw that Long Wu was looking at his dilapidated mansion, and his mouth was still sighing, "This house is only a few dozen times, right?" ”
Wait for Long Wu and the officials to leave for a long time. Bai Xiuying came back to her senses and sat on the ground, but Yan Poxi's crisp words sounded in her ears: "Sister, don't worry." My lord is good to me, who wants to bully my sister. That's self-defeating! When Yan Poxi said these words, the gentle smile and confident expression on the corner of her mouth were scoffed at by herself, but now, isn't it just confirming this sentence?
Bai Xiuying sat there like a clay sculpture, speechless for a long time......
A few days later, just when Wu Zhi was preparing to meet the various matters of the envoy of Xiao Fengxian, the king of Lanling County, Lu Cheng sent a message, although he did not dare to say it explicitly, he also faintly suggested that the lady of the other courtyard should move away from West Street.
It turned out that after the turmoil that day, Bai Xiuying ran to Cai Jiu to cry overnight, Cai Jiu listened to Bai Xiuying's words, and he was also very surprised, I don't know who made such a big face to make a shocking reversal of the errand he was assigned.
Hearing that Bai Xiuying now owes someone 300 yuan, Cai Jiu couldn't help but laugh, these people are also hurting things, right? I was even more annoyed in my heart, I heard that there was Lei Tuiguan on the IOU, and when he went to the door, Lei Tuiguan didn't dare to offend him, only when he said Lu Cheng, Cai Jiu knew that there had been such a big person in Bianjing City in the past few years, although he didn't have much of a boundary with the powerful, but he had a close relationship with the inferior officials and officials, and even a few court officials also had some friendship with Lu Cheng, and Lu Cheng did a few big things for them, and these officials couldn't help but look at each other differently.
Let's just say that Lei Tuiguan was originally a small official, after getting acquainted with Lu Cheng, Lu Cheng helped him do a few things, and even exposed the details of a Jiangyang thief who was rampant for a while, Lei Tuiguan reported to Shangguan, not only Shangguan was promoted, but he was also promoted because of the Jiangyang thief case, and since then Lei Tuiguan has admired Lu Cheng with all his heart, so he became a Chinese man without saying a word after Lu Cheng found him.
Lei Tuiguan would not tell Cai Jiu the details of his acquaintance with Lu Cheng, only said that Lu Cheng was very capable, Cai Jiu was curious, and asked Lei Tuiguan to make an appointment to meet Lu Cheng on his behalf, Lei Tuiguan did not dare to disobey, so he only made an appointment with Lu Cheng to introduce Cai Jiu to him.
Lu Cheng has a loyal personality, completely different from Long Wu, he knows that there are a lot of ghosts at first sight, Cai Jiu saw Lu Cheng and rescued the heart of friendship, in Cai Jiu's eyes, although Lu Cheng is a bad head, but he is very capable of doing things that others can't do, not to mention that Cai Jiu is cunning, and he already knows Lu Cheng's temperament when he asks him, if it is Long Wu, I am afraid that Cai Jiu's first thought is how to kill this guy. He didn't know that Lu Cheng remembered Wu Zhi's life, except that he had the backer of the king behind the scenes, and there was no need to deliberately hide things from people in the capital, because Wu Zhi knew his temperament, anyway, as long as he didn't tell about himself and the intelligence network, it didn't hurt to talk about it.
Later, when Cai Jiu asked if the lady of the mansion that Bai Xiuying knew was Lu Cheng's concubine, Lu Cheng was startled and almost fell off the chair.
Cai Jiu saw Lu Cheng's strange appearance, and was even more curious and interrogated, Lu Cheng had to vaguely say that it was his sister, and he didn't know if Cai Jiu believed it or not, Lu Cheng was a little worried after he went back, so he sent a letter to Wu Zhi.
Wu Zhi smiled slightly when he saw Lu Cheng's letter, it seems that Yan Po regrets that she has to move, otherwise it will be a little inappropriate for Cai Jiu to see her coming to the door. What's more, except for Cai Jiu, Bai Xiuying now runs to Yan Poxi's house every day to kneel down and beg, begging Yan Poxi to let her go, this woman is really thick-skinned, but she is like an ant, and Wu Zhi is too lazy to pinch the ground.
At that moment, Wu Zhi sent a message to the guards and found another house in the city as soon as possible to settle Yan Poxi. Wu Zhi himself didn't have much kung fu, Xiao Fengxian's mission had already arrived in Youyun, and he would arrive in Bianjing in less than ten days.