Chapter 799: Depressed
The third prince was very dissatisfied with Xiao Guifei's use of his manpower.
The point is, she will be called, but let people do risky things, but she didn't say hello to his son afterwards, which is too much! What's even more excessive is that she still refuses to tell her son why she wants to kill her nurse's family!
Because she is Xiao Guifei's nurse, her son-in-law is still a middle-level military attache that the third prince has been attracted to over the years, and he originally planned to use him to intervene in the guards, but because Xiao Guifei suddenly sought to release him, the plan died. With such a person, the whole family is dead, and it is naturally impossible for the third prince not to know, and when he first heard the news, he was still sulking. After all, the military attache who was released from abroad will return to Beijing one day, but it is impossible for the dead to come back. It took several years of hard work to win over people, and now that all the hard work has been wasted, and the benefits given are all in vain, how can it not be frustrating? !
What is even more depressing now is that this person's death was actually done by the third prince's own hands!
He has spent a lot of effort over the years, and it is not easy to gather this group of people, all of whom are extraordinary Jianghu people, and there are even Jiangyang thieves among them, who can't see the light, the purpose is to use their clever skills to do something ulterior when needed in the future, and secretly eradicate a few people who are in the way. Although he didn't call these people much over the years, he had sent them a few times, and each time the results were pleasantly surprised. He expects a lot from them! I don't know if I will be able to use it in the future, but it is better to be prepared than to have no one to do when the time comes!
But Concubine Xiao not only sent these people to do dangerous things, but also let them stay in "Shunji", so that when the emperor sent someone to take Xu Laishun, he also locked them away. If there are no these people, Xu Laishun is just a small person, and he hasn't committed any major crimes, the emperor will teach a lesson at most, even if he really beats people to death, there will be no serious consequences, the big deal is to choose another person afterwards. But with those people, Xu Laishun was arrested with them, in case the identity of those people was discovered by any official, a crime of colluding with Jiangyang thieves would be enough to make Xu Laishun irreversible! With the emperor's suspicious temperament, if he suspects that these people were recruited by the third prince, and wants to do something unseemly, and then find the rest of the people at hand - then the matter will be troublesome!
The third prince didn't want to be suspicious of the emperor and fall out of favor before the great cause was accomplished, and then be kicked out of the ranks of the candidates for the prince. He has great ambitions, and now that he sees that the crown prince and the second prince are both defeated, it is when he comes out to show his face, how can he fold here?!
He discussed it with Xu Dewang, and then sent a secret letter back to his mother Xiao Guifei through the channel he had just opened. He is currently unable to move, Xu Dewang can't go out, Xu Laishun's whereabouts are unknown, and he can only hope for Xiao Guifei. Concubine Xiao knew that he was secretly collecting people, and even roughly knew where he placed these people. Taking advantage of the fact that the emperor's side had not yet discovered the identities of those Jiangyang thieves, they were not suspicious, so they had to quickly let people empty the Zhuangzi, move people to a more secret place, and sweep away all traces. If it is possible, it is best to exonerate Xu Laishun, if he really can't exculpate him, he can only think of a way to let him die quietly in prison with others, and he has to die without arousing suspicion.
In the end, he asked his mother one thing again: What was the reason for killing the nursing mother's family, even her son-in-law?! If there is any fatal secret in this, Xiao Guifei has to make it clear to him, otherwise he will not be able to cooperate with her actions.
The secret letter soon reached Xiao Guifei, but the messenger said that the people on the emperor's side were keeping an eye on it, and in order to prevent revealing the stuffing, let Xiao Guifei and the three princes be a little more patient and not send the letter again for the time being. Otherwise, not only are not only these subordinates in danger, but even the two nobles, once the emperor knows that they are secretly spreading news, they will also not be able to get good.
Concubine Xiao Guifei was noncommittal, and only ordered the palace people around her to reward the messenger, and then sent the person away.
She read the letter written by her son and slapped it on the table with some impatience.
How could she tell her son about the old things back then?! If it weren't for the sake of extinguishing her mouth, she would not have been able to exterminate the nurse's family, even the latter's son-in-law. The son is of great use to the son-in-law, and she is so wasted, isn't she sorry? But there is no way, the nurse's daughter followed her into the palace, and she knows some of the old things of the year, in case she is careless and shows her husband and children, as soon as the nurse dies, their family may leak secrets due to resentment, Xiao Guifei can't afford this risk, so she can only choose to cut the grass and eradicate the roots!
Now that the roots are gone, how can she increase the number of insiders? Even if it's your own son!
What's more, Empress Cao knew about it, and the insiders of the Cao family didn't know how many. At the moment, they can't take care of it for the time being, in case one day, they are cornered, they would rather risk angering Shengyan, confess the sneak attack on the other courtyard back then, and then confess to her......
When Xiao Guifei thought of that kind of consequence, her scalp was numb!
She actually knew that she was canonized as a concubine soon after entering the palace, and her status was only below the queen for many years, even if she was not favored, few concubines dared to show her face, and her son was also very favored by the emperor - not because the outside world thought that the emperor favored Xiao Mingde, and favored his sister, but because she was a little like her eldest sister Xiao Mingzhu, and the emperor rewarded herself with a title to compensate Xiao Mingzhu. She was indeed resentful, but she would never refuse such a good thing. The eldest sister has been dead for many years, and now she is Xiao Mingyu who is a concubine in the palace! What does she have to complain about?!
However, when she knew that the emperor had buried her eldest sister in her name in the imperial mausoleum, and she was still known as "Xiao Guifei", but only left a small side hole for herself, she really couldn't bear it. Even if the eldest sister once had an affair with the emperor and conceived a child regardless of her shame, she has been dead for many years after all! In the past ten or twenty years, she has served the king hard, she is the one who endures the lonely life in the palace, and she is the one who really gives birth to the heir for the emperor! What does it have to do with Xiao Mingzhu? Why should Xiao Mingzhu be allowed to enjoy her posthumous honor, but she herself can only be buried in the side cave aggrievedly, as if a slave is a servant?!
While she was full of anger, the news that someone was spying on the nurse's family poured cold water on her. She didn't know where those people came from or why they had their eyes on the nurse, but she couldn't take any risks! The emperor can ignore the love for many years, and arrange a small side point for her to be buried behind her bones, once he knows the old things, it is impossible to spare her easily!
Even though her heart hurts, she still decides to kill the nurse's family.
This matter can't borrow the hands of the Xiao family, and she doesn't have many people to use, so Xiao Guifei had to send her son to secretly collect the Jianghu guests. Things went well, and the people were successfully killed, but when the aftermath was being dealt with, he encountered a brainless and more serious county order. She was afraid that the county order would really find out the problem, so she had to borrow Xu Laishun, who was under her son, to go to the ministry to do tricks, which would ruin the future of the county order......
She did these things without telling her son. At that time, the third prince had been worrying about getting rid of the Lan family's unsatisfactory marriage, so she didn't bother, and she didn't want him to know.
But now, Xu Laishun and others have been arrested, and the emperor has asked the reason, does she really want to continue to hide it?