Chapter 250: Gravedigging
Chapter 250: Gravedigging
"Princess, the general can escape this time, but I don't know how many people are still waiting to step on it, if you don't cheer up, how can the general fight these people without distractions, although the prince is the emperor's son, but also your husband, as long as he treats the princess sincerely, how can he watch the general collapse like this, the princess still has to cherish herself!"
Seeing that this is useful, Mother Xu is even more energetic to link Shen Ke's honor and disgrace with the relationship between Du Yiyi and Ning Zhiyuan, no matter how rumors are rumored by the outside world, she knows that her princess is kind, and the friendship between the two brothers and sisters is as deep as the sea, as long as Shen Ke is in trouble, Du Yiyi can do anything wronged.
She is not Du Yiyi, but she has also walked Du Yiyi's road, Shen Ke's safety has long been linked to her, her own fate is also something that Shen Ke cares about, if Qinglan can really reverse the identity between the two, Shen Ke will definitely rise up, yes, now the emperor is grasping Shen Ke's handle, she can't let herself become the emperor's handle to clamp Shen Ke.
"Princess......" Seeing Du Yiyi stand up, Mother Xu, Forsythia and Bai Wei were nervous, and moved their eyes with her footsteps.
"I understand your words, and you also keep an eye on me, don't let Qinglan's master and servant get cheap."
The depressed half moon, it's time to attack by yourself, it's bearable to slap yourself in the face, if the emperor wants to use her to slap Shen Ke's face, he definitely can't bear it.
Hearing that Du Yiyi had actually woken up, Bai Wei grabbed Forsythia's hand ecstatically, and Mother Xu was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered the maid outside to come in and bring Du Yiyi's clothes.
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Leaving the Rui Wang's Mansion, Ning Zhiyuan and Qin Huai wandered around Liudong Street for a long time and then came to the Zhao Mansion in the south of the city, whether Zhao Jingzhi's father Zhao Qidong will be the first assistant of the cabinet has not yet confirmed that the Zhao Mansion has many more relatives who have heard the wind and come to make friends, Zhao Jingzhi has been in the military department for two years, and the last time he supervised the army in Suzhou, he was also counted as a military merit for him to completely get rid of the name of Confucian general, and he can really be ranked among the top of the military pyramid, and now he is also one of the popular candidates for the commander of the Left Army Governor's Office, Of course, people can't ignore that Zhao Jingzhi will be the emperor's future son-in-law, and this identity is a talisman that he will be able to rise to the top in the future, making people full of confidence in the descendants of this three-generation scholar who gave up his pen and followed Rong.
Today's heavy rain stopped those annoying clan relatives for Zhao Jingzhi, and he was able to sit down quietly after returning home to take a look at what had happened recently.
Hearing that Ning Zhiyuan was coming, he personally went out to greet him, and saw the master and servant who had been drenched in the rain and turned into soup chickens, so he hurriedly invited the two into the house and gave them a clean dress to change into.
Ning Zhiyuan's expression was so gloomy, it was not difficult to guess the reason for the song he sang, after the two of them changed their clothes, Zhao Jingzhi let his subordinates exit the study, waiting to hear Ning Zhiyuan spit out bitterness.
"The Su family has three scholars, and the Zhao family has three generations and three bachelors!" Ning Zhiyuan had wet hair and a shawl, and he was dressed in Zhao Jingzhi's clothes, but Qin Huai was much taller than Zhao Jingzhi, and his arm was exposed, which looked a little funny.
The Zhao family is now one of the hottest courts in the capital, in the past, Zhao Jingzhi was walking on the road to meet a few clan relatives who happened to be walking there, and now the two candidates for the command of the Left Army Governor's Mansion CITIC Tonghou have always been cold and do not like to make friends, this good friend and friend of the military department is of course the most contacted.
Ning Zhiyuan has been annoyed by Shen Ke for a few days, but if he wants to stay outside, he can only come to Zhao Mansion in addition to going to the inn.
"Is my father worried about this? His old man has long been determined to quit the court, Lu Shoufu has been his friend for many years, it is always difficult to refute his face, the current court is no longer the court of more than ten years ago, and his father is already disheartened! ”
Zhao Jingzhi supported his right elbow with his left hand, biting the transparent nail of his thumb and feeling sad.
Zhao Qidong was dismissed in his early years because he was innocently involved in a corruption case and was implicated, and then raised his children in the house for pleasure and did not get involved in court politics, the reason why Zhao Jingzhi entered the military department was more or less because of his father's influence on the civil officials of the current court had a bit of rejection, Zhao Qidong was friends with Lu Yi'an when he was a university scholar, and the two had very close contacts over the years, Lu Yi'an entrusted the position of the head of civil officials to Zhao Qidong because of his personality and ability to Zhao Qidong, But Zhao Qidong, who had long been disheartened by the imperial court, had no hope for the court that was now even more muddy and filthy, and he had no confidence in the position of the first assistant to the cabinet, and he was already a headache for Lu Yi'an's recommendation.
"Uncle Zhao is only eight buckets high, and the position of the first assistant of the cabinet is well deserved!" Ning Zhiyuan stroked his wet hair, spread the hair on the quilt to the back of the chair, leaned back on the chair and looked at Zhao Jingzhi, who always had a headache and would bite his nails and meditate, if it wasn't for the influence of his father, with Zhao Jingzhi's talent, he would have entered the Hanlin Academy like his father and grandfather and became a university scholar in the future.
"Back then, my father was still haunted by it! Without further ado, Lord Rao has investigated the matter of Suzhou, and since General Shen has regained his innocence, the day when he wants to be reinstated is not far away, I want to congratulate you on this matter! ”
Ning Zhiyuan is Shen Ke's brother-in-law, even if the relationship between the two is a little estranged, but after all, there is a Princess Rui implicated in the middle, and the rise and fall of honor and disgrace will eventually have some impact.
"What's there to congratulate, I'm already anxious now." Qinglan went in and out of the palace and the mansions of the ministers, she had also been to the Zhao Mansion, what Ning Zhiyuan was annoying was He also understood, from an unknown concubine to now famous among the women, Qinglan can be said to have taken the road of a concubine to the brightest peak, with her current momentum, if she continues like this, she will definitely not be able to escape the competition with Princess Rui in the future, and now Shen Ke has encountered the biggest hurdle in his life, and what the consequences will be in the future of the first person in the military cannot be confirmed. Of course, the same is true for Princess Rui in the Rui Palace.
"What a good thing!" Zhao Jingzhi sighed.
"Qin Huai and I will stay with you tonight, you tell your subordinates not to tell the outside world, I'm afraid it will be another storm!"
Ning Zhiyuan leaned on the back of the chair tiredly, and gently beat his messy head irritably, how to make a line between Du Yiyi and Qinglan so that they could coexist peacefully, how to find a fulcrum between the emperor and Shen Ke to make them take a step back? As soon as these two things came up, he didn't have the heart to compete with King Chao at all, and during this time, the queen was making waves with Qinglan again, and housework was really a headache and helpless.
"No wonder I saw you so depressed, just this night, you can't stay long." Although Zhao Jingzhi is Ning Zhiyuan's person, he is different from Qin Huai, Qin Huai is Ning Zhiyuan's subordinate and servant, but he is his assistant and friend, and it is okay to make jokes occasionally.
"When you marry Ning Xiao, you will understand what it means to be a clean official and difficult to cut off family affairs!" Ning Zhiyuan rolled his eyes weakly, and said sternly: "Is there any movement in King Chao during this time?" ”
Zhao Jingzhi, who was joking, adjusted his mentality when he heard this, and replied solemnly: "King Chao is busy taking advantage of General Shen's absence to rectify the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, with the approval of the emperor, although there are many voices of opposition, but it is also going on slowly, Jinyiwei and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division are completely on the bar, Ding Yanxiang and Zhu Ge have talked a few times and almost got into trouble, Dongchang is still low-key now, but the expansion speed is also very fast, and now only a quarter of the number of guards in the palace is from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses!" ”
"What happened between Jinyiwei and Dongchang?" Now I don't know how many people are waiting to see Jinyiwei and Dongchang fight, and Ning Zhiyuan is looking forward to it every day.
"Now the power of Dongchang is not as good as Jinyiwei, one is in the palace and the other is outside the palace, and there has been no trouble for the time being, but I heard that Shu Ruhai is a little dissatisfied with Zhu Ge!"
"Can you think of a way to intensify the conflict between the two?" Ning Zhiyuan pondered.
Zhao Jingzhi is in the military department, and he has a lot of time to deal with the Jinyi guard of the East Factory on weekdays, and Shu Ruhai has already had a grudge against Zhu Ge, if someone provokes it, the situation inside and outside the Jinyi Wei of the East Factory is likely to change.
"Shu Ruhai is scheming, it's not easy to provoke him, and Zhu Ge doesn't get in, it's even more difficult to provoke, as far as I know, Shu Ruhai's dissatisfaction with Zhu Ge is mostly because Jinyiwei's strength has grown too fast and his status in front of the emperor has plummeted."
Ning Zhiyuan got some of the news about the military from Zhao Jingzhi, and Zhao Jingzhi's position allowed him to enter and leave the military's various government offices, and he could also handle first-hand information, and many confidential secrets could be known.
Shu Ruhai's dissatisfaction with Zhu Ge is inevitable, but these two people are both thousand-year-old demons who have become elves, and it is so simple for outsiders to provoke them.
"Then I still have to come to this matter!"
Shu Ruhai is indeed a loyal minion, but Zhu Ge is not the person he is loyal to, as long as he finds the crack on the walnut, it is a matter of time to pry open this walnut, Ning Zhiyuan often goes in and out of Ning Yuan Palace, and he has a lot of time to contact Shu Ruhai.
"I heard that you went to Xishan today, what happened?"
Zhao Jingyi patted his head and remembered that he had forgotten such an important matter, "The Criminal Department received a case, because it was related to the military, Lord Dong also passed the case to the Ministry of War, and the cemetery of An Guogong's family on the west mountain was broken into by unknown people, and the graves of An Guogong and his wife were dug up, and the burial goods and bones inside were missing. ”
An Guogong, who has been dead for eleven years, was robbed of the tomb, which is indeed a bit incredible, the West Mountain is the place where the Criminal Department is used to bury death row prisoners has been guarded by soldiers, ordinary people can't go up the mountain, even if it is a tomb robber, even if it is a tomb robber, the An Guogong family died eleven years ago, the court couldn't find the murderer for three months, in order to comfort An Guogong's soul in the sky, the emperor specially opened up a place on the West Mountain as an An family cemetery to bury the An family who died in the cemetery, Among them, An Guogong and Duchess An Guo were ordered by the emperor to be buried, and the burial goods accompanying the burial were worth a lot of money, and An Guogong had a high reputation in the military and the people, how could there be tomb robbers to steal their tombs?
"Although An Guogong has been dead for eleven years, the military department has to be cautious about this matter, the older generation standing on the pyramid has always deeply affected the officers and soldiers of the three armies, especially An Guogong back then, that is enough to match Qin Guogong!" Speaking of the beloved An Guogong eleven years ago, Zhao Jingzhi, a Confucian general from a literati background, is also embarrassed, if An Guogong had not died back then, how could the military have become a plate of loose sand now?
Zhao Jingzhi sighed and sighed, but Ning Zhiyuan had a thunderous explosion in his heart, An Guogong and his wife slept peacefully in Xishan for eleven years without problems, but at this time, the body and funeral goods were stolen, and together with the news from Suzhou today, Ning Zhiyuan had a vision in his heart that he could not deny.
Could it be that the father already knew Shen Ke's true identity? Is this just a temptation, or is the father deliberately forcing Shen Ke to follow the old path of Qin Guogong?
"Then you went to see it, how is the situation?"
"The murderer is very sophisticated, leaving no traces, and it is strange to say, why would a tomb robber steal a corpse for the sake of wealth? It's been eleven years, and the corpses have become white bones, what use can he take them? ”
Zhao Jingzhi said puzzledly.
"This case, has it already spread?"
Ning Zhiyuan's mind was messed up, what would he think if Shen Ke knew about this matter? If he stands up, he will undoubtedly be able to confirm his identity, but this trick is even more ruthless than the crime of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country! Ning Zhiyuan bit his lip anxiously, and ordered Qin Huai, who was sitting on the side, "Qin Huai, you go back to the mansion to see the princess, and tell her to let her go to the Shen Mansion alone tomorrow." ”
Qin Huai glanced at Ning Zhiyuan, and after the two of them looked at each other slightly, Qin Huai picked up the umbrella outside the threshold and left.
"The prince is really a tender lord, and he still doesn't forget the princess." Zhao Jingzhi teased Ning Zhiyuan, walked to the bookshelf, picked up the scissors, and repaired the nail that was missing from his bite.
Ning Zhiyuan smiled and stroked his chest and said: "She is the most innocent in this matter, the theft of the bones of An Guogong and his wife, such a bad case, the Criminal Department and the Military Department should have reported it to the Emperor, right?" ”
"That's for sure, if it's not handled well, maybe there will be chaos, after all, the court also owes An Guogong's family an explanation, and many veterans in the military have received the kindness of An Guogong."
Although An Guogong was not born in the turbulent times, but with a limited life for Dahe to subdue the border countries, he led the iron cavalry, from the north of Oga all the way to the west, the flag of Oga planted in the territory of countless large and small countries, so that Oga can become a big country that dominates the Quartet today, he is regarded by the three armies as the blue and better than the blue An Guogong, but also considered to be the most capable general after the Holy Ancestor.
But it is this posterity who has placed the hope of countless people to make the descendants of Qin Guogong, who has had the merit of saving the driver, admired, but died in a quiet night for eleven years, this matter has always been the heart disease of Qin Guogong and others, with the martial arts of An Guogong, no one can confront him head-on, let alone kill him, and later gave them the answer in the autopsy given by Dali Temple, that night there was not only a fire that burned everything to kill all the knives, but also poison.
An Guogong I is famous, who will harm him? And how many people can harm him without him noticing? Except for the relatives of An Guogong who died that night, there was only one person, Qin Guogong and others all set their eyes on Zhu Ge, who An Guogong trusted the most, but at that time, Zhu Ge disappeared, and Dali Temple investigated for three months, but failed to give a result.
This case came to an end with such regrets.
Now that the graves of An Guogong and his wife have been stolen and excavated, this regrettable case has surfaced again, Yan Liu is regarded by the criminal officer as the most capable Dali Siqing in Dahe, and this case is the only unsolved case he has handled.
Eleven years is like a dream, some people have grown up, and some people have grown old.
Qin Huai, who hurried back to the Rui Wang's Mansion, talked about the case, Du Yiyi, who had just finished bathing and was going to bed early, hurriedly took Xu's mother, Forsythia, and Qin Huai rushed to the Shen Mansion with an umbrella.
She believes that Shen Ke has come to this day for the hatred he had eleven years ago, he assumed the name Shen Ke, starting from a small soldier, just to make the heavens clear, An Guogong and his wife are his parents, if Shen Ke knew the news, she didn't dare to imagine what kind of actions he would have.
The pouring rain was pouring down, and it slid down the edge of the umbrella to form a transparent curtain made of water, and Forsythia Xu's mother followed Du Yiyi on both sides, for fear that she would accidentally fall to the ground.
She hurried to the Shen Mansion.
The Shen Mansion was not in chaos, the housekeeper invited them in and took her to the backyard.
In the pavilion in the backyard, Lu Xiangxue couldn't cry anymore, the ground was full of broken pieces of wine jugs, and Shen Ke stood in the rain, silent.
The rain had already wet Shen Ke's body, and there was a yellow paper umbrella that fell in the rain on his side, and Lu Xiangxue's body was also completely wet, obviously Lu Xiangxue had also stayed in the rain before Du Yiyi arrived.
Shen Ke's grief is something only they can understand.
It was his own parents, who had died unexpectedly, who were uneasy after death, and who were now going to be exhumed and robbed, and he could do nothing, except for the rain, he could do nothing for his parents.
Looking at Shen Ke, who was sad but unable to speak in the rain, Du Yiyi picked up the umbrella that Xu's mother put aside, stretched it out and walked into the rain curtain.
The rain fell from Shen Ke's chin like a waterfall, mixed with the blood left on his clenched lips, the eyes that had to be narrowed by the rain contained his anger, and the clenched fists contained his anger, this rain was more like his anger.
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