Chapter Seventy-Six: The Chaos Eases (3)
Ling Suihan: "This is strange, Weichen has never sent a letter to the Department of Supervision. ”
Xiao Yuexi was so busy that her fingers flew to the ground, and she looked up at Ling Suihan, and after a while, she scolded: "What do you think I said? I would have asked you to sit down and analyze it with me, but you didn't listen! If we said it earlier, can we check it out a little more smoothly? I'm going to check the farts now! The daylilies are all rancid! ”
"Ahem......" Su Su glanced at Xiao Yuexi cautiously. Madame, image ......"
Xiao Yuexi glared at her, and then asked Ling Suihan, "What else?" What have you been thinking about these days? ”
Ling Suihan immediately said: "Wei Chen's trip, in addition to the emperor and a few young divisions who accompanied him, even His Royal Highness King Xian and the few guards of the State Supervision Department are not clear to them. So Wechen was wondering who exposed Wechen's whereabouts. ”
Unconsciously, Li Ran and Xiao Yuexi both put down the herbs and looked at Ling Suihan, what he said, if it was true, the people hiding behind it would be even more confusing.
It's just that if Ling Suihan had mentioned these words earlier, his credibility would have been higher, and he only brought them up at this time, it seems that the person behind him has already been hidden, so it doesn't matter what he says......
Ling Suihan didn't notice Xiao Yuexi's scrutinizing gaze, and continued: "Although the few young masters brought by Weichen lack experience, they are also the best among the people, and this trip is all folded in, and Weichen is also very uncomfortable, but he also becomes more cautious, and he immediately thinks that his whereabouts may be exposed......
"Wait!" Xiao Yuexi interrupted suddenly: "How did you break it?" ”
Sure enough, he calmed down for too long, couldn't he hold his breath? Xiao Yuexi thought with fire in his heart, and sat back to see what kind of clues he could throw.
Ling Suihan sat in the courtyard for a small hour, as if he had vomited everything he should have vomited, and the whole person was in a state of emptiness, and without waiting for Xiao Yuexi to say anything, he got up and said, "Weichen still has something to investigate, so he will retire first." ”
Seeing him leave, Li Ran's eyes sank, turned his head to look at Xiao Yuexi, and asked bluntly, "Do you believe it?" ”
"Huh!" Xiao Yuexi's cold smile said it all.
Li Ran looked in disbelief in the direction he was leaving, and exclaimed, "What's wrong with this person?" Why don't you play a dozen emotional cards to win trust? Everyone is on guard against him, what's in it for him? ”
"What if he's just the bait being pushed to the surface?" Xiao Yuexi asked coldly.
Li Ran was stunned for a moment, only to hear Xiao Yuexi continue: "When we were all waiting for him to explain, he gave me a pot of poisonous wine; When the situation stabilized a little and we had the energy to investigate the people behind the scenes, he showed us his great suspicions...... He wanted our eyes to turn our attention to him. ”
In the last sentence, Xiao Yuexi said very firmly, she turned her head to look at Su Su and said, "Su Su, help me find Chengfeng to come over, I have something to explain." ”
Although Su Su couldn't understand the twists and turns inside, he bluntly felt his wife's distrust of Ling Zhengyuan, and suddenly came to his senses, and happily responded "Okay", and rushed away.
"What are you going to do next?" Li Ran couldn't help but ask.
Xiao Yuexi's face was as usual, but she didn't have the heart to fiddle with those herbs anymore. She said coldly: "Ling Suihan jumped out at this time, proving that the direction of our current monitoring and vigilance is not wrong, continue to be vigilant, and at the same time keep an eye on Ling Suihan...... If it doesn't work, I'll go into the city. ”
In the last sentence, she said vaguely, but Li Ran understood that she wanted to use Shouyue.
"You're really getting out of sight." Li Ran teased.
Xiao Yuexi raised her eyebrows and looked at him, and said as a matter of course: "His names are so straightforward, what else do I have to see?" ”
Li Ran paused, looked at her gaze and couldn't help but scrutinize a little, and always felt that there was something different about her.
Xiao Yuexi didn't notice his gaze, because she was in a momentary distraction.
The story that Ling Suihan told them was diametrically opposed to what he had heard before, especially after realizing that he was thinking differently, what he said was worth pondering.
According to him, Xiao Yuexi roughly sorted out the whole thing - after Ling Suihan and the others secretly escorted His Royal Highness Xianwang all the way into the Binzhou territory, they began to investigate the inside story of the epidemic, but as soon as they made a move, they encountered an attack, and they didn't have time to think about it at the time, until these few days, Ling Suihan reacted, and the attack that they easily repelled was actually just a temptation.
After that, Ling Suihan inadvertently startled the snake, and felt that the matter could not end well, so he sent a secret letter to the emperor, and on the night of the secret letter was sent, they encountered an ambush again, this time the other party was obviously more prepared, he was captured and lived in the bandits' den, until Xiao Yuexi came to the door.
The biggest deviation in the middle is Ye Wanxiao's testimony.
One said that he would be imprisoned after sending a letter to the emperor, and the other said that he would be uprooted only after receiving Ling Suihan's handwriting.
Especially Ye Wanxiao also saw Ling Suihan and those people mingling together in the half-dead stall, and through their conversations, he was convinced of the fact that Ling Zhengzhi had betrayed.
At the moment, no matter whether what Ling Suihan said was true or not, it gave people the feeling of diverting their attention, Xiao Yuexi wanted to correct his name from the beginning, but now he doesn't know how to believe it unconditionally.
Indeed, Ye Wanxiao's testimony also has many loopholes. For example, how did Ling Suihan send a message to them when he didn't know that a few of them were leaving for Binzhou? For another example, the problem of handwriting is no longer convincing, and the other party can even imitate the words on the saint seamlessly!
But all these doubts were diluted by Ling Suihan just right, and right now, he was the biggest doubt.
I can't say what kind of mood it is, when Xiao Yuexi saw Chengfeng, her face hadn't eased yet.
Seeing her expression, Chengfeng couldn't help but look at Li Ran cautiously, and asked silently with his eyes what was wrong.
Xiao Yuexi explained to Chengfeng the idea that had been formed just now, and at the end, she said worriedly: "It's so smooth, it's really unsettling......"
In the afternoon, Wei Chang came to report on the progress of the fishing village in the west, and with him came Coptis chinensis.
The news of Mrs. Xiao's visit to the epidemic area had been released, but Huang Lian lobbied between the various garrison camps to rush the generals back, and when he heard Xin'er, he was half frightened to death, just in time for Wei Chang to come to report, and hurriedly followed.
As soon as he saw Xiao Yuexi, Huang Lian seemed to have seen a living ancestor, and before he rushed in front of her, his left and right feet tripped over each other in a very uncoordinated manner, and he almost made a five-body gift.
Wei Chang quickly pulled him on the side, and finally let him stabilize his round body, but he still said in a panic: "Weichen didn't know Taishan before, and he didn't know Mrs. Xiao's identity, so please ask Mrs. Haihan if he is slack!" ”
"In extraordinary times, Lord Huang should not be detained by this set of false etiquette." Xiao Yuexi had to say these words to those patients at least a few times a day, and now she changed her name and was still familiar with it. "Two adults, please be seated."
At this point, Huang Lian finally understood in hindsight why Wei Chang respected a cloth boy so much.
Huang Lian came this time, naturally, not only to formally pay a visit to Mrs. Xiao, but for the first time, a trace of joy appeared on his sad face, and he reported: "Since Madame revealed her identity, the commanders of the garrison camps have been relieved, and Weichen has already ordered a group of people to completely stabilize the epidemic situation here. ”
Why did he suddenly breathe a sigh of relief, Huang Lian knew very well that without the prestige of Pingnanhou, or if he changed to a favorite concubine, there would be no such result, after all, people almost didn't take the saint himself seriously, and the merits of the former envoy of the state were there, and there was as much slander as there was admiration. The brother and sister, who had mixed reputations, stood up at this time and inadvertently had an excellent effect.
Xiao Yuexi didn't say anything good or bad, but said indifferently: "Lord Huang has worked hard. ”
Wei Chang didn't wait for Huang Lian to finish showing his modesty and respect, and couldn't wait to say, "Madam, there are some new discoveries on the minister's side. ”
Xiao Yuexi hurriedly looked at him.
It turned out that Wei Chang patiently dismantled the cellar for a few days according to what Xiao Yuexi said, and sure enough, someone couldn't sit still last night, and went to the fishing village in the middle of the night to check the secret passage. Wei Chang was very smart this time and didn't dare to startle the snake, he only followed in secret, and after following along the way, he found something terrible.
"The minister followed all the way to the south of the mountain, and saw the man in white who you said, he seemed to attach great importance to the matter of the secret passage, and he personally came out in the middle of the night to wait for the news, and when he learned that the secret passage was not discovered, he was still a little surprised."
Wei Chang couldn't wait to tell all his discoveries, and the speed of his speech was raised quickly, picking out the key points and talking non-stop, and he didn't even bother to drink his saliva.
He seemed to be in poor health, his voice was hoarse, his speech was weak, and he stood for a while as if he could not stand. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that he is pretending to be sick and deliberately leading you to be fooled, in that case, their conversation last night may not be as good as possible. ”
Xiao Yuexi silently calculated in her heart, combined with Ling Suihan's words today, she felt that it was not possible for him to pretend. After all, now that her identity as Mrs. Xiao is undoubtedly exposed, she can no longer risk her life as she did before, this obvious truth, it is impossible for the masked man not to understand, at this time, putting this kind of useless bait has no other effect than waste. Xiao Yuexi preferred to believe that they had fallen into passivity, and they had no choice but to release Ling Suihan, so as to get themselves out of it.
Xiao Yuexi glanced at Huang Lian silently, but Huang Lian cleared his throat and said, "Mrs. Xiao, there are still some things in Weichen's Mansion, so I will retire first." ”
Xu was a little embarrassed by his empathy, Xiao Yuexi smiled, and in exchange for him running away in a panic.