Chapter 115: Poison
Sun Laodao was frightened again and again yesterday, and his heart was raised in his throat all day.
But sitting in the yamen early this morning, he felt that he was going to develop in the future.
First met the emperor on the street, he didn't do anything out of the ordinary, presumably in the emperor's old man's house, ahh
That night, his family Lord Lu was summoned by the emperor alone, and he was also assigned a secret mission, and Sun Laodao was fully responsible, so he could directly do things for the emperor.
With this kind of opportunity, their old grandson family may not have such dignity if they go back seven or eight generations.
Last night, he took his brothers from the patrol battalion to divide into five small detachments, and sealed off all the main roads around the Weifu on the pretext of strengthening patrols.
In this scene, even a rough person like him knew that there would definitely be uninvited guests who wanted to sneak into the Wei Mansion to commit crimes.
Sure enough, as soon as it was nightfall, more than a dozen men in black flew over, and the old knife riveted his brothers with all his strength and chased after them.
Those dog thieves were really capable, and the brothers of the patrol battalion relied on the advantage of numbers to suppress them, and chased almost half the city before they all wiped out the gang of thieves.
"Chief", an old brother of the patrol battalion approached Sun Laodao to report, "The casualties have been reported, thirty-seven brothers of our patrol battalion have died, twelve are seriously injured, and sixteen are lightly injured. ”
"Oops", Sun Laodao grinned, "Lightly touch Lao Yang!" ”
He slapped Lao Yang lightly on the head, he was so meritorious last night that he bit a man in black and didn't let go, and he was slashed on his leg, but fortunately it was a flesh wound.
"Make a list and report it together with the family pension, everyone can be regarded as a meritorious service."
Sun Laodao sighed, following them, Lord Lu, even during the Li Clan's rebellion, he was able to escape without being implicated, and this patrol battalion did suffer a lot of losses.
But as the saying goes, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and the new emperor must have remembered their sacrifice this time.
It's going to be developed, Sun Laodao thought beautifully in his heart.
"Boss, I just heard Lord Lu talk to the master", Lao Yang lightly helped the old knife to bandage the wound, but his mouth didn't stop, "Last night, those black-clothed people were divided into two groups, and after the group of people lured us away, the remaining dozen or so entered the Wei Mansion." ”
"What do you say? Have we been tricked? ”
Sun Laodao jumped up from the chair and was turned away from the mountain? It's not a meritorious service, it's a mistake?!
Lao Yang whispered in his ear again:
"I just listened to it piecemeal, and the lord and master seem to be guessing that the Wei Mansion is an empty city, and the target that the man in black is looking for is not there, we are just suspicious soldiers who are deliberately placed outside."
Lao Yang remembered that after they Lord Lu made this guess, he praised the emperor again in front of Master Sun, and said with interest at the end:
If you want to be a suspicious soldier, you must be a suspicious soldier, and if the emperor doesn't say it, we should not know. Now that we have made this achievement, it can be regarded as a meritorious service, and the emperor must remember this merit.
"The lord also said that we have made meritorious contributions, and the emperor will definitely remember it."
Lao Yang repeated Lu Xiang's original words to Sun Laodao, and helped him to the chair and sat down.
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At this time, the front yard of the Wei Mansion.
After the emperor left, Cheng Ye and Yiqiu still stayed in Fei Minghe's room.
Cheng Ye smiled:
"Lu Xiang's patrol battalion can also be regarded as a meritorious service, if it weren't for their fanfare outside, those people might not believe that people are in the Wei Mansion."
"The patrol battalion of Shuntian Mansion, I'm afraid that they haven't experienced such a big thing, and they directly fought with the dead, and this time the casualties and losses, Lu Xiang had to feel distressed for a while."
Yiqiu held the tea bowl and said with a somewhat stunned expression.
"Next, I have to trouble Shuntianfu to come here to deal with the corpses of the dead soldiers", Fei Minghe's expression was unwavering, as if he was thinking about something else.
"The only failure was to escape the leader in the end."
Cheng Ye was a little stupid, but he also knew that after all, the other party was a dead soldier who had undergone strict training, and it was already a great victory to be able to successfully ambush him in the family house and almost wipe out his entire army.
"I wonder if there will be another wave of attacks? After all, they always thought that people were in the Wei Mansion. ”
Yiqiu frowned and pondered, Huang Qi and the others should have reached a safe place, even if the other party gets the news now, they can't catch up.
"There won't be any more."
Cheng Ye and Fei Minghe said it almost in unison.
Cheng Ye's eyelids jumped, remembering that Cuiyi said yesterday that he hadn't returned for many days, and Wanjuanzhai was negligent in taking care of it, so he went in to help him clean up his room.
All the other subordinates of Wanjuanzhai are under surveillance, but Cuiyi is staying at Fei Minghe's place and has the opportunity to escape from surveillance to deliver news.
"She's really ......"
Cheng Ye swallowed the second half of the sentence after all, if she was really the one who delivered the news outside, she was now in the open, and she couldn't turn the storm under the noses of herself and Fei Minghe, but she could become a living mouth, a channel for them to understand their opponents and deliberately convey screened information.
Fei Minghe knew that he was worried, and smiled at him, "Brother Ye, don't worry, I have my own plans." ”
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The main hall of Funing Palace.
The Empress Dowager covered the emperor's hand and reprimanded:
"The weather when the snow melts is the coldest, why don't you bring two more hand stoves when you come out, and the backs of your hands are all ice."
The emperor suddenly remembered that the old lady Wei had told the same thing when he was in the Wei Mansion, but at that time his heart was warm and slightly sour, and now the same words came out of his grandmother's mouth, and his instinct was to be polite and perfunctory.
He felt a little gloomy in his heart, and responded with a smile on his face:
"Don't worry, grandmother, my grandson is not afraid of the cold when he is young, and his palms are still hot."
Qiao Gongshan went to the hall lightly and whispered beside the emperor.
The emperor's eyes flashed, and he said to Qiao Gongshan:
"You asked him to come to Funing Palace to reply", and looked at the Empress Dowager again, "The imperial grandmother is not an outsider, and she knows something about this." ”
Seeing that the Empress Dowager was slightly puzzled, the Emperor explained:
"It's Shen Chi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, who is helping his grandson investigate the case, and his grandson told him before that no matter what time there is a result, he can go directly to the palace and report directly to his grandson. The imperial grandmother also listened to it and went to the key point to help her grandson plan some ideas. ”
Slightly unexpected by the emperor, the empress dowager did not make any excuses, immediately nodded in agreement, and sat on the chair waiting for Shen Chi to enter the hall.
Regarding the reaction of the Empress Dowager, the emperor was slightly unhappy, and thought of the relationship between the ancestors and grandchildren at this time, so he decided not to think about it.
Shen Chi was also very surprised to enter the Funing Palace, and after entering the palace to pay homage, he submitted the closing statement, only waiting for the emperor to ask, and then answered, and made up his mind not to take the initiative to talk more.
The emperor hurriedly looked at the closing of the case at the end, raised his eyebrows and asked:
"Are you sure that corpse is Li Sansi?"
"When the minister conducted the autopsy, he found that in addition to the half-summer rice in the stomach of the deceased, there were some other ingredients, and after bringing it back for verification, it was found that it was some ...... Pills, which contain large amounts of Cnidium monnieri and epimedium weed, are based on ......"
Shen Chi coughed lightly, these words were really difficult to say in front of the Empress Dowager.
"What Shen Qing said about Cnidium monnieri or something, is it poison?"