Coincidentally, when Concubine Xiao went to visit Emperor Tianlong's bedroom, she actually met the two prime ministers on the left and right.

Emperor Tianlong fainted suddenly, and the emperor himself did not dare to ignore his body. But during the New Year, many things in and out of the court still need someone to help deal with.

It is not surprising that the two prime ministers will appear in the palace.

However, no one can see the status gap between the two prime ministers.

Gu Ping has expressed his intention to retire several times, but Emperor Tianlong has not yet agreed.

As for the other one......

Yin tenacity is now in the court, and the power is greater than ever.

Emperor Tianlong sharpened his knife to the family, and some families simply chose to rely on yin tenacity for mutual benefit.

In fact, Concubine Xiao felt strange when she saw them, and they felt even more surprised when they saw Concubine Xiao.

Who doesn't know that Concubine Xiao doesn't like Emperor Tianlong?!

Not only did they feel a little novel, but even Emperor Tianlong himself felt that there was an incredible feeling.

Concubine Xiao just went to the emperor's side to order, and she didn't really come to see him. Glancing around, she quietly found that in Emperor Tianlong's bedroom, there were indeed a few more faces that she had never seen.

Go back and ask someone to ask carefully, all of these people have a background.

"It seems that the emperor's illness has caused some people inside and outside to sit still." Mrs. Xiao found it interesting.

Needless to say, several adult princes are all interested in competing for the position of crown prince. A sprinkler eunuch beside Emperor Tianlong is the person of the Five Princes.

However, there are also one or two people who Concubine Xiao feels suspicious, but she can't find out. Speaking of which, there are only a few people in the court who have the ability to do this.

In the middle of the night, Concubine Xiao sat in the corridor of the dormitory, looking at the rockery in front of her, thinking while carrying a small wine bottle. As if staring at it like that, she could see through the hidden secrets in the rockery.

What did the girl of the Lin family want to tell her?

Emperor Xia Wen of the previous dynasty was poisoned and controlled by the eunuchs......

*

Lin Qiantan guessed that with Concubine Xiao's accumulation of contacts in the palace over the years, it should be enough to touch Emperor Tianlong's bedroom up and down.

Not to mention blocking drinking, it can also make those who are active in their hearts and have the heart to do something scruple when they start.

Emperor Tianlong must and must die according to the original trajectory. However, even if you want to die, it shouldn't be now.

The Silver Screen Pavilion in the middle of the night was just as quiet, and the branches rustled. Winter is not far away, and some dead leaves and broken branches that float from nowhere are swirling on the ground, rubbing and making noises.

Bishu grinds ink, brocade lotus makes a furnace, Lin Qiantan sits by the window on the second floor, reflecting the candle flame, studying the fragments of the Jinghua dream picture that she has gotten in her hands.

Three-fifths of the fragments have been able to be stitched together to create a rough original appearance. Lin Qiantan looked at it, this painting was really just a picture depicting the scenery of the streets of Dijing. She also didn't find any designs of the five elements of gossip in it, or the text hidden in the scene.

Lin Qiantan knew that there were some special techniques, either soaking in water to display the font pattern, or using fire to bake to achieve the same effect, but once this authentic work was precious, she was reluctant and did not dare to do it. Second, it's also because she wants to wait until all the pieces are in her hands before she explores.

But in addition to knowing that there was a fragment in Concubine Xiao's hand, Lin Qiantan didn't know where the remaining fragment was.

It wasn't early, Mama Zhong had already urged her to go to bed once or twice outside the door, and it was Lin Qiantan herself who said that she was hungry, so Mama Zhong let Jinhe get the stove and make some supper.

During the day, when she left the palace, she met Yin Ren and Gu Ping at the gate of the palace, and when she thought about it, she was still a little unhappy in her heart.

Gu Ping is a teacher, so he has long avoided suspicion and left. But instead of getting into his own car, Yin Ren called someone to come and find her.

That is, she happened to meet Mrs. Guangningbo entering the palace, and happened to pass by to help, so she was able to get out.

Yin Ren asked her to go to the restaurant outside to "sit down".

Lin Qiantan didn't like the look in her eyes when she looked at her.

In front of her, a letter sent to her by Wang Yuanzhao was resting on the edge of the table. The letter is about a few intelligence materials taken out of the underworld by Wang Yuanzhao's men when they fell off the cliff and climbed up a few days ago.

The information was carefully written in code, and Wang Pu spent several days barely deciphering a copy, which mentioned the industrial situation of Yin Ren in the Eastern Capital.

Lin Qiantan put down the fragments, put them in the secret compartment and locked them, and studied the deciphered contents of the letter for a while before lying down to sleep.

Lin Qiantan knew that Yin Ren had a lot of property under him, and the Eastern Capital and the Imperial Capital, as the parallel imperial capitals, had prosperous commerce and had always had the reputation of a cornucopia.

She also opened a number of stores there.

But others sell gold and silver, but Yin Ren is unique, and has opened several carving galleries......

Lin Qiantan pretended to have something in her heart, so she didn't sleep very peacefully. As soon as the light came, she was woken up again by the sound of children playing outside.

Those relatives of the Lin family still live in the Hou Mansion, and they don't know which family's children came to Yinping Pavilion early in the morning to set off firecrackers.

Lin Qiantan shouldn't have been woken up, but she was also woken up. Just get up and go out to see who's naughty. When the children saw her, they were not afraid. Instead, he deliberately threw firecrackers at her feet.

Lin Qiantan was completely unmoved, and the children were bored and scattered separately scolding.

Jinhe has a bigger temper, and when he sees this, he wants to teach people a lesson. Lin Qiantan grabbed her.

Jinhe was puzzled.

Lin Qiantan pointed to one of the little girls wearing a bib and smiled: "Look at her, is she five points similar to Zhimei?"

When Jinhe's sleepy eyes came out, several children had already muttered and walked away, and she only saw a back, and at this moment, she also looked at the child.

It was a kid playing with a couple of older brothers.

Lin Qiantan didn't say it, she didn't pay attention to it, as soon as Lin Qiantan said it, she saw that the child was really kind to Mei...... It's a lot like.

When Mei died unexplained, they have not found out the real culprit for Mei so far. Every time Song mentioned Mei Mei, she blamed herself and wanted to cry, and her family moved away because of such a reason.

Because he knew that there was such a child, Jinhe didn't need Lin Qiantan's instructions, he knew to ask, check, and before noon, he asked about the origin of the child.

That child was just from an ordinary family in the side branch of the Lin family. The parents are honest people.

And this kid didn't have such a personality before.

That is, after having a serious illness, she woke up from a coma and changed her weak state of being bullied by her brother in the past, and became a crazy and wild girl.

When Lin Qiantan heard this, she smiled and called Jinhe to send some money to the family privately, and asked people to keep an eye on it.

Jinhe knew what Lin Qiantan meant, Lin Qiantan said, she went, and after a while, after lunch, Lin Qiantan lay down to rest. If Mei had a spirit in the sky, would she entrust her life to others? She had a soft temperament before she died...... In the next life, don't do it again.

When Lin Qiantan was lying on the bed and falling asleep, Jinhe went to that house and secretly stuffed the silver coin. Lin Qiantan gave them only one condition for this money, and the parents of that family must raise a pair of children with the same conditions.

Lin Qiantan thought to herself, she would rather think that it was not a coincidence that this child would appear in front of her.

The Lin family can't live in the Hou Mansion all the time to look at people's faces, and the child's father and mother will move out sooner or later. Lin Qiantan hopes that she can pin her regret for Mei on her.

And the little girl probably didn't think that at this time, she unintentionally mischievous and naughty would give her a lifetime of good karma.

Regarding Mei's matter, Lin Qiantan only knew that it was very likely to have something to do with Xia Sanniang. But digging deeper won't dig anything.

Xia Sanniang is almost closed, and she has always been cautious in her daily routine, and there is really not much place for people to check.

Lin Qiantan sent people to investigate her near her home, but to no avail.

*

In a rough alley, a stout, dark-skinned man was carrying a freshly slaughtered creature to the door of a large room without any decoration.

Wang Dagou had just come back from working outside, which he and others had bought.

When the passers-by saw him, they were frightened by the big wolf and retreated. He also said that this wolf is so fat, I'm afraid it's enough to eat for a long time.

Wang Dagou smirked, he really looked like a rough man without a city, but when he landed in his yard, he looked different.

The people in the room also seemed to hear the sound and walked out, Wang Dagou was carefully putting the big fat wolf in his hand on the ground and handing it to Chen Wen and Chen Wu, and when he saw Xia Sanniang who was approaching by the maidservant, he smiled.

Xia Sanniang nodded, and Chen Wen went out for a walk outside the door, sure that there was no one, so Xia Sanniang opened her mouth and said something.

Then Chen Wu took the scissors, carefully cut open the belly of the fat wolf, and took out many of the objects buried inside.

The sparse gems fell to the ground, Xia Sanniang took a gem casually, only glanced at it, and threw it away.

It was a dowry left to her by her father.

Xia Sanniang seemed to be chattering, and talked about the old things again: "If it weren't for the drastic changes back then, this palace wouldn't have to flee in embarrassment like a rat crossing the street, and it has been in a nest for the past 20 years." These dowries are all colorful and precious gemstones, and any one of them is worth a thousand gold.

Wang Dagou hurriedly went over to support his mother and comforted him repeatedly.

Xia Sanniang continued: "You took out these, have you been discovered?"

According to what Xia Sanniang said, Wang Dagou went to a place overgrown with pine trees outside the capital and found what Xia Sanniang said.

Wang Dagou replied, "No." My son is very careful. ”

Xia Sanniang nodded again and said, "That's good." It's just that it's a little slower to come back. "She was originally the golden branches and jade leaves of the Great Xia Root, the dynasty fell, and she was escorted by the guards of the forbidden palace who were loyal to the lord and fled.

When she left in a hurry, the things in the whole half of the private treasury in the queen's palace were prepared for her by her mother, but they were cheaper than those surnamed Yan, and only these gems were taken to the craftsman for polishing, and when she left, she had the opportunity to take them.

Wang Dagou said: "After many years, the vicissitudes of life, the place that my mother said was bought to make a farm, so it took a lot of work and slowed down."

Xia Sanniang seemed to say that the weather was good today, and said indifferently: "But ants, kill them." It was originally the Huangzhuang, and it was her property.

Wang Dagou is not unprincipled to his mother in everything. At least not this one.

Everyone has wives and children, and although he went with his hands, he did not actually kill a single person. In order to stun the people up and down the farm, they dug pits and dug the soil, which was delayed for half a day.

It's just that in terms of lip service, Wang Dagou will not debate with his mother: "Naturally, he killed them all." It's just that the family happened to have a warehouse on top of the burial site, and the treasure chest really couldn't move if the goods were not moved. ”

Xia Sanniang saw these gems, explained the purpose, and went straight to the house. Wang Dagou can interpret her body language from the other party's cold and stiff body lines: these inferior pariahs have many tricks......

Xia Sanniang had a heart, and it was the time when she was sleepy in the afternoon, so she closed the door when she went back to the house, and she fell asleep after a short time. Wang Dagou finished taking care of the gems here, and then went out again.

Her mother is a princess of the Xia Dynasty, and what she is obsessed with is nothing more than fulfilling the last wishes of her relatives and restoring the world of the Xiao family. However, it took money to recruit soldiers, and all the money they looted from everywhere seemed to be thrown into the water, and the jewels here were the last ones.

He lamented that he still remembered that when he was very young, his mother was not like this.

Chen Wen and Chen Wu saw Wang Dagou walking out again, and immediately took the clean coat and handed it to him to put on.

Wang Dagou was strong and not afraid of the cold, so he only waved his hand and went out.

However, it was not "no one" outside the door as Xia Sanniang thought.

A group of dirty beggars were besieging a young man in cloth clothes and trying to snatch the clothes and money bag of the cloth man. Wang Dagou went over to help, and the man was able to get out.

The little man turned around step by step, and saw that Wang Dagou was not trapped by a few beggars as he imagined, and he was relieved.

He was merely under the orders of the lord's house, pretending to be in the vicinity of the king's house, but he was surrounded by beggars.

This uncle of the Wang family is a good person, but fortunately he came to help and dispersed these beggars.

But having said that, he couldn't wander around here anymore today. It's already been seen, how can you spy on it?

So he quickened his pace and quickly disappeared into the alley, not noticing what was happening behind him.

In the alley, the beggars who had just been dispersed by Wang Dagou jumped out from everywhere one after another.

Wang Dagou said something, and after they whispered yes, they all retreated.

Only one of them, who was fairly neatly dressed, still followed Wang Dagou's side, and Wang Dagou followed behind as Wang Dagou walked forward.

The man was of medium stature, a little thin, and at first glance he didn't have a few taels of flesh, but he inadvertently showed some muscles with iron and silver hooks. took advantage of the fact that there was no one, and even cleaned up his indecent look, and his face was serious.

Looking at it again, he turned out to be a very energetic young man.

The young man is a person who is secretly protecting Xia Sanniang's mother and son in disguise. The capital is not as simple as the villagers of Qianshi, and it is full of dangers, but it can't be like when you were in Qianshi Village, and you don't need to be protected.

The man followed Wang Dagou all the way into an alley, while reporting on which suspicious characters had approached here in the past half a day. Wang Dagou nodded occasionally and commented.

When the young man finished talking about business, he stopped talking, and Wang Dagou looked at him. It was also the first time that he didn't hold back. asked all the questions in his heart: "Master, why do we bother so much?"

What the real details of the Wang family are, they all know.

Who would have thought that how many people would say that Xiao Chen, the third princess of Great Xia, who was dead, would return to the foot of the capital incognito?

Their identity is sensitive, if they are honest and do not move, they will easily attract the attention of others, but as the master, Wang Dagou blindly let people go......

As a guard, he couldn't help but be disobedient.

Wang Dagou just said: "If the person who comes is not good, you will kill it." The other party didn't know anything, so why bother to kill. ”

There are some things that he is not willing to do in the first place, but everyone forces him to do them, saying that it is his responsibility. That's what you can do, but why kill innocents again and again.

When he was young, he was still young, and he couldn't make decisions about many things. But when he grew up, his orders were not so unpopular that no one disobeyed.

The young man saw that his persuasion was useless, so he simply didn't say anything. In fact, his master not only asked them to let go of the spies sent by the Dongshan Marquis, but also let them hide it from the princess......

Wang Dagou has to go out when he comes back. I don't have time to talk to him about that here. He looked at the young man who seemed to want to say more, and sneered: "It's okay if you don't listen to me, and don't recognize me as a master in the future." Mother wants to recover Daxia, you can help me well, no more than me, no less than me. ”

When the young man heard this, he was so frightened that he almost knelt down on the spot: "What did the master say!" You're a ...... with good roots."

Wang Dagou interrupted in a cold voice: "Since you know what I tell you to do, you can do it, there is no need to say more." With that, he turned and walked away.

The young man was so helpless that he stood where he was, and after a long sigh he turned and went into the corner. His begging equipment was still there, and he had to go back to be his beggar disciple.

I think that his father was also a guard loyal to the Great Xia Emperor, and his dying last order was to ask his son to inherit the mantle and support the summer room.

Emperor Xiao Yin's blood is pure, and his aunt Xiao Chen protected him incognito, and before he knew it, the children of the year grew up, and the eldest princess retreated into the background.

Although the loyal servant does not discuss the master, but he, the master, sometimes makes people really don't know what to say in their hearts!

Sighing in his heart, the young man in his twenties sat on the dirty ground. It just so happened that a passer-by passed in front of him, looked at him, threw a copper plate down, and knocked it into the broken bowl with a large mouth, making a crisp sound.

On the other side, Wang Dagou has already gone far away. The younger brother has been away from home for a year, and the brothers have not had a chance to get together. Two days ago, my brother came home, but his mother didn't give him any good looks. The mother and son had a fight. He went to persuade his brother today.

During the New Year, it was a time of festivities, and Wang Dagou was a little bad because of the conversation just now, and he was walking on the street and his mood improved. The younger brother invited him to a teahouse in the city for a small gathering. He had been delayed because he had gone home. Presumably my brother should have arrived.

Wang Yuanzhao was indeed already waiting in the box. The brothers have a good relationship. Due to his mother's eccentricity, many times, Wang Yuanzhao was taken care of by his eldest brother.

When the brothers met, Wang Dagou always talked about it, but he and his mother got along better.

Wang Yuanzhao is also willing to give face to his eldest brother.

The younger brother has become a loyal and brave general of the Great Shang, and the elder brother has not been congratulated yet, Wang Yuanzhao smiled: "It's just a junior general of the third grade."

Wang Dagou smiled: "Why are you still scheming with your mother, you don't know her, it's just that temper, knife mouth tofu heart."

Wang Yuanzhao shook his head with a smile, the knife mouth is right, but the tofu heart may not be there.

Seeing this, Wang Dagou also smiled bitterly.

's mother is the princess of the Xia Dynasty and his aunt, and in the half of her life, recovering the country has simply become an obsession in her heart. On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the younger brother rushed back with a living creature brought from the mountains outside the city and said that he wanted to let him and his mother try the craft.

However, in the face of her son, who had not been seen for almost a year, her mother became furious when she heard that her younger brother had been canonized as a "loyal and brave" general by Emperor Tianlong, and said that he was disloyal and unfilial.

My younger brother was splashed with cold water for some reason, how could he not be annoyed? The two of you said a word, and after a while, a good Chinese New Year's Eve was dissolved.

The corners of Wang Yuanzhao's mouth hooked up a hint of sarcasm, he, his mother-in-law, really didn't treat him as a son as always. is full of eyes, only his eldest brother.

Wang Dagou didn't say much, saving Wang Yuanzhao from being impatient.

After talking for a while, it was about the marriage of the Wang Wei family.

"When you get married and show your daughter-in-law to your mother, she will be happy."

It's only been half a year since the wedding, but the two families are like child's play. However, because Emperor Tianlong said "start a family early and start a business early", he moved his mind in advance.

When Wang Yuanzhao met Wei Jiabin on the first day of the new year, Wei Jiabin jokingly told him this.

But according to him, he had no intention of doing so.

Wang Dagou still remembers his mother telling him, "Knock and knock" Wang Yuanzhao's head - "Then the Wei family can be used, tell him, don't make moths." ”

Wang Dagou thought about it, but his mother swallowed it for him and didn't say it.

After the brothers met, Wang Yuanzhao sent the eldest brother away, and he went to the camp to meet his thousands of soldiers under his control.

Newly recruited soldiers are being assigned weapons in the barracks. Wang Yuanzhao went to the barracks to check it out for himself. Although the weapons of this batch of recruits are also newly made, they are somewhat lacking.

Someone did something in the middle, so bold that they dared to embezzle even the armaments of the imperial court.