Chapter Twenty-Six: The Conspiracy Revealed
Zhang Meiying walked out of Yaxian Pavilion, flew into Linxiang Pavilion, pushed the door in, looked around carefully, there was no sign, after thinking about it, Zhang Meiying really couldn't think of who the murderer was, so she was sad and returned to Yaxian Pavilion again. Thinking that Li Sheng was about to be beheaded for public display, and she couldn't find evidence to overturn the case for him, she was very sad, and tears couldn't help but fall into an uproar. She had a lot of questions, and she said in her heart: "Why did my father put Li Gongzi to death for a servant?" Did he perceive my affection for him? Could it be that his father designed to frame Li Gongzi? No, my father usually likes to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, and he treats Li Lang as his own, how can he harm him? God, please tell me, who is going to harm Li Lang? ”
Zhang Meiying believed that Liu Fu was definitely not killed by Li Sheng, but she racked her brains and couldn't find out who the real murderer was.
On the fifth watch of the next day, Zhang Meiying came to Linxiang Pavilion again and checked the clues, but still found nothing. But seeing that the folding fan was still on the bookcase, she picked it up and unfolded it to take a look, and suddenly remembered the scene when she gave the fan a few days ago, and couldn't help but have mixed feelings, her heart was like a knife, and her eyes were gloomy**. After a long time, she closed the folding fan again, put it in her arms, and let out a long sigh.
Since Li Huaiyu was imprisoned, many bedbugs have bitten him with injuries, and he has been in severe pain all over his body, and his heart is extremely sad. He muttered to himself: "Could it be that I, Li Huaiyu, am full of talent and ambition, but I want to die here?" God, why is my Li Huaiyu so miserable? I asked myself, I have never done anything unreasonable since I was a child, why did God treat me so cruelly? Mother, brother, where are you now? Alas! I am suffering in prison, who will feel distressed......" Thinking of the Zhang family's father and daughter, Li Huaiyu continued: "Daddy keeps saying that he treats me as his own, but why does he have to put me to death? My sister treats me so considerately, and now that this has happened, will she still treat me like before? ”
"Alas! Li Xianggong, this life and death are fate, wealth is in the sky, you still want to open up! A white-haired cell boss opened the cell door and brought a plate of food and drink.
Li Huaiyu looked at the sumptuous wine and food on the plate, understood that this was a severed head meal, and asked, "Cell boss, is this going to behead me?" ”
The cell leader was an elderly man, with a compassionate heart, seeing that Li Sheng was in his prime and knowledgeable, but he was going to the guillotine, he was very sorry in his heart, and said: "Xianggong, you can appoint it!" Hate only hates that you were born at the wrong time and fell in troubled times. ”
Li Huaiyu disagreed, and asked: "What you said is so unreasonable, the cell boss, now that I have built the Tang Dynasty to calm the war in all directions, how can it be said that it is a troubled time?" ”
The cell boss said: "Childe doesn't know. Although my Tang Dynasty has dominated the world, the new construction of the country is waiting to be rebuilt. At present, the northern Turks are eyeing the Central Plains and repeatedly invading the Central Plains; The southern country of Annan is ready to move, and sooner or later it will raise troops to attack the Tang Dynasty; Even Shangguan Yun in Qingzhou and Niu Jianguang in Shezhou have become increasingly powerful. The imperial court continued to send troops to the south and the north to suppress the people, laboring the people and losing money, and being unable to govern the localities, resulting in corrupt officials and corrupt officials perverting the law for bribes, running rampant and domineering, and brutalizing the people at will. In such a world, how can the prince say that the world is peaceful and prosperous? ”
Li Huaiyu thought about it, what the cell boss said was very true, and he only sighed that he could not serve the country and benefit the people. He picked up his wine glass and said, "Okay, Li is a pillar of talent after 20 years, why are you afraid of death?" With that, raise your glass and drink it down.
The cell boss poured him another cup and said, "Good! Just at Li Xianggong's arrogant spirit, my old man wants to have a drink with you! The cell boss lifted the wine jug, touched Li Sheng's wine glass, and lifted the jug to drink.
After dawn, in order to comfort the Zhang family's father and daughter, Liu Lanying personally cooked a table of good dishes and gathered with them in the living room.
Liu Lanying ordered Steward Zhang to bring a pot of wine, she poured a full cup for everyone, and said: "Let's not be sad, drink a glass of wine, and let all the worries disappear!" He raised his glass and drank it all.
Zhang's father and daughter didn't want to waste Liu's kindness, so they also raised their glasses to drink. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Zhang Meiying suddenly fell to the ground and was unconscious.
Zhang Zhong's frightened soul flew out of the sky, picked up his daughter, and asked, "Ying'er, what's wrong with you?" ”
Liu Lanying stood up unhurriedly, and said with a smile: "Haha... She's poisoned! ”
Zhang Zhong asked puzzledly: "This is so good, how could she be poisoned?" ”
Liu said: "I put a colorless and tasteless poison in the wine, she drank the poisonous wine, how can there be no reason to die?" ”
When Zhang Yuanwai heard this, his lungs were about to explode, and he glared and asked angrily: "You thief mother-in-law, why do you want to harm my daughter?" ”
Liu Shi walked a few steps and said, "That stinky girl always presses my head, I wanted her to disappear from my eyes." ”
Zhang Zhong put down his daughter, stood up and raised his fist to smash at Liu.
Zhang Neng dodged to block Liu, shook Zhang Zhong's fist with a palm, and said, "Grandfather, I advise you to save it!" As soon as this Zhang Meiying dies, it will be as simple as pinching you to death if I kill an ant. ”
Zhang Zhong was taken aback and asked angrily, "Steward Zhang, what are you doing here?" ”
Zhang Neng clasped his fists triumphantly and said: "Zhao Jinhu, the capital of Xia Naijiang, is only committed to being your housekeeper in order to obtain your Zhang family's property." ”
Zhang Zhong was stunned. I saw Steward Zhang's fierce face, unfathomable, and he felt that he didn't know him at all. He picked up his daughter again and asked, "Everyone drank a pot of wine, why are we all fine, but Ying'er is poisoned and died?" ”
Liu said: "Hmph, I use a medicine wine jug." This pot has two wine storage bins, one bin is poisoned wine, and the other bin is good wine, just turn the lid to the left, it is poisoned wine, and turn to the right, it is good wine. When I poured wine for Zhang Meiying, I turned the lid of the pot to the left, so she was the only one who died of poisoning. ”
Zhang Zhong asked calmly: "So, Liu Fu was also blamed on Li Ergongzi after you killed him?" ”
Zhao Jinhu said: "Exactly." He stroked his beard again and added: "That night, while Li Ergongzi was asleep, I used the smoke escape technique to enter the room through the small hole in the window paper, put the short knife under his bed, and after going out, I used a dart to punch the pre-written note into your room. ”
Zhang Zhong asked again: "Is the matter between my daughter and Li Gongzi true?" ”
Liu said: "Although the two of them have ambiguity, they have not done anything out of the ordinary. Zhang Meiying wrote to Li Huaiyu: 'The bright moon shines in Kyushu, and Bichi is in the middle of the marriage. Peony Sijun wants to break his soul, dare to ask how affectionate is Red Lotus? Li Huaiyu refused: "The red lotus love belongs to him only, but it is a pity that the peony is empty and sad." Fate creates two things into siblings, why bother to suffer in vain? I imitated Li Huaiyu's glyph and changed the rejection poem to: 'Red Lotus intends to become a couple, vowing to cut candles with the peony.' Since the two things are made in heaven, why not go to the end of the world side by side? So there were many misunderstandings later. She smirked and screeched: "Haha......"
It turned out that Zhang Meiying came out of Linxiang Pavilion that evening, and when she passed by the front yard, she was seen by Zhao Jinhu. He watched Zhang Meiying return to Yaxian Pavilion, his eyes rolled twice, he looked up at the sky, saw the moon and the wind was high, and said in his heart: "I'm afraid I won't be able to come back in three or five days when I go out to talk about business, hehe, this is exactly what I want." He was very proud, turned around and entered the north courtyard, and came to the bottom of the second wife, Liu Lanying. He looked at the east and west for a while, jumped upstairs with courage, and approached the door of the second wife's room lightly, and heard several maids and mothers-in-law walking out of the house, and he jumped on the roof with his feet. When the maid and mother-in-law went downstairs and walked away, he jumped down again and knocked lightly on the door three times: "Madam, I'm here!" ”
Liu Lanying opened the door, put Zhao Jinhu in, looked around, latched the door, took his hand to the bed, and said, "Brother Jinhu, the slave family misses you so much!" ”
Zhao Jinhu took Liu in his arms, kissed her on the lips, and said, "Heart and liver baby, you think about my brother badly!" Come on, we're ......."
The two of them entered the tent together......
Zhao Jinhu is a native of Jiangdu, and after entering Zhang's mansion, he changed his name to Zhang Neng. Zhang Zhong saw that this person was very capable, and arranged the big and small things in the mansion in an orderly manner, making him the housekeeper of the Zhang Mansion. Zhao Jinhu knew that Zhang Yuanwai was very eager to have a son, so he arranged for his little Liu Lanying to meet with Yuanwai. Zhang Zhong was eager to ask for a son, and when he saw Liu's flowery appearance and moon appearance, he found a matchmaker and married him. Unexpectedly, Liu's passed through the door for more than five years, and did not give birth to a boy and a girl. Every time Zhang Yuanwai left the house and went out, Zhao Jinhu went to the North Courtyard to have a tryst with Liu. Later, after Zhao and Liu sowed discord, a conflict broke out between the eldest wife Feng and Zhang Yuanwai, and the estrangement deepened. One day, in a fit of anger, Feng built a Buddhist hall in the south courtyard, where he ate fasting and recited Buddha every day, and no longer asked about the world.
After Zhao Jinhu and Liu's Luo tent were like this, Zhao Jinhu said: "Our Miss Zhang is usually so solemn, and now she is also starting to think about spring." ”
Liu was very curious: "How do you say this?" ”
Zhao Jinhu said: "I saw her go to Linxiang Pavilion to talk to Li Xianggong, and she didn't return to Yaxian Pavilion until nightfall. ”
Liu thought for a moment and said, "Oh? No wonder it was at the banquet yesterday...... That little girl and Li Xianggong eyebrows and smiled, so that's the case? ”
Zhao Jinhu said: "The master originally had a daughter, and now he has a son, it seems that you and I have no share in this family property." ”
Liu said: "Brother Jin Hu, why don't we decide a good plan, get rid of Zhang Meiying and Li Huaiyu first, and then get rid of Old Man Zhang?" As long as these people are dead, won't this family property become you and mine naturally? ”
Zhao Jinhu said: "The lady doesn't know, that Zhang Meiying is a martial arts master who has worshipped a famous teacher, and it is difficult to get rid of her!" ”
Liu said: "Is it true that we have no way at all?" ”
Zhao Jinhu stroked his beard and said confidently: "But if you want to get rid of that Li Huaiyu, it's as easy as a hand!" ”
Liu asked, "Brother Jin Hu has any clever plan, you might as well talk about it." ”
"Just a little trick, let that Li Huaiyu be ruined, let the outside hate him to the core, and have the heart of killing, then Li Huaiyu will definitely die?"
"But Zhang Meiying is not dead, how can our plan be realized?"
"As long as the master executes Li Huaiyu to death, we will use a little counter-plot to make the Zhang family's father and daughter turn against each other, water and fire are incompatible, hum, in this way, we want to get rid of Zhang Meiying...... Isn't it much easier? ”
Liu was very happy and said, "Hmph, when those people are eradicated, won't all the family property in this Zhang Mansion belong to the two of us?" Haha......"
"Baby, let's go on......" Zhao Jinhu touched Liu Lanying's pretty face, and the two hugged into the bed again.