Chapter 56: Beware of the Prince
"How can I not care, how can I let go?" Wang Siqi shook his head, this princess, it was herself who provoked her, why did she want to take revenge on her child?
Wang Siqi didn't understand, he was enshrined in front of the palace back then, and he didn't know why, but he was looked down on by this princess, and at that time, he had just gotten married.
The princess wants to marry, but he refuses, and the emperor and the queen mother naturally refuse. In this way, the princess cried, made trouble and hanged herself, and ran to the house to find him in person, but he refused behind closed doors.
Later, this princess married into another civil official's family, and life has been so peaceful, and it has been twenty years now.
If it hadn't been found out that Ah Xiang was the person she arranged to come in, Wang Siqi would have forgotten about her a long time ago.
The civil official she married left five years ago, and she herself lived in a simple house, and the people of her children and grandchildren came out to walk around.
That day, in the palace, Liang Bingwen interrogated Ah Xiang with him, and directly pointed out her appearance, which was very much like the personal maid next to Princess Borou.
After some questioning, it was indeed the daughter of the princess's personal maid, for the sake of her mother, she pretended to be an orphan at a young age and mixed into the palace.
Over the years, she has been very obedient and hardworking, and has been following the princess's wishes, taking the powder from the people she arranged, mixing it in food and tea, and feeding it to Wei Zhen and Wei Jin.
According to the princess's will, all the children in the palace should be harmed by her.
On the contrary, Wei Shen likes to practice martial arts, always lives outside the house, follows Wang Siqi to study with the master he is looking for, and rarely comes back, even if he comes back, he is the most picky eater at home, always don't want this, don't eat that. That's why it's not contaminated.
As for the remaining two children, they were born to concubines, both of whom are gentle and virtuous, and they do not compete for favor on weekdays and do not mix with things at home. After having a child, I put all my mind on the child.
Do everything yourself, pay special attention to eating, what others send, always let many people follow to try, Ah Xiang is afraid that there are too many people to eat, and some people will not be able to stand it, so they will be exposed, so they don't dare to poison them.
These days, she should have stopped, Wei Jin took medicine every day, and her poison, taking it out, didn't have much effect. However, the princess knew that Wei Shen was back, so she wanted her to provoke Wei Shen.
On that day, it happened that she groped again after a few days, and then she was tested by the hairpin brought by Liang Zhezhe. Fortunately, Wei Jin was fine, and Wei Shen didn't touch the pastries and food she sent.
"So many years have passed, the princess is like this," Gongbo Shengde didn't know what to say, the entanglement back then, it was the princess who was alone, let go of her arrogant self-esteem, prayed with a dead face, repeatedly refused and avoided, and made her turn from love to hate, coupled with the world's sayings, the ridicule of the royal family, her heart was distorted.
Collusion with the Witch God Division is something that no one expected. The Witch God Division of the Qi Kingdom, originally, was an inconspicuous existence, and no one took it seriously.
Who knows, it turned out to be the tip of the iceberg hidden in the deep sea, when its power infiltrated, no one knows, it is so mixed with it, many things, in the bottom of the matter, you can't see through the reason.
"In any case, you shouldn't come to my children," this is Wang Siqi's bottom line, there were all kinds of grievances back then, and they should have come and break by themselves, extending to the next generation, which is really vicious.
"Princess Borou, I'm afraid I'm also being used as a trick," what kind of existence the Witch God Division is, Gongbo Shengde already knows. It's just that it's an empty shell, used to fool the people in the tribe, who would have thought that it has such a big force behind it.
"Many people in the capital have been bought by the Witch God Division," these days, Liang Bingwen has been secretly investigating, starting from the people who colluded with Ah Xiang, I don't know if I don't check, once I check, the forces and connections behind this should not be underestimated!
I don't know how it works, how it can be under everyone's noses, so many people are inserted, and they are quietly drugged. These manpower and material resources will inevitably consume a lot of financial resources, where does this wealth come from?
"Lord Huangpi, didn't you say that the Witch God Division is at odds with the royal family of the Qi Kingdom?" Wang Siqi doesn't know much about the history of Qi Kingdom.
This country, located in the north, the land and climate are not very good, when Wu and Wei were inextricably linked, it became a country of its own, the strength is weak, every year from Wu and Wei, buy grain and cloth.
It's that the three countries behind it are established, and the other two countries don't take it seriously. This Qi country, firstly, the land is barren and the grain harvest is not good, and secondly, it is rainy and snowy for half of the year, and the population is not large.
Close to the Wei side, there are some towns, the further north, the colder, the smaller the population, and after the capital of Qi, and then to the north, under the snow-capped mountains, there are tribes and nomads.
In such a climate and land, they can only graze and hunt, cattle, sheep and horses are raised, and there are more wild animals in the snow, and they hunt bears and tigers every year, and their fur is used for clothing, and flesh and bone are used for rations.
When it comes to winter, it snows continuously, and there is no food in the tribe, so they will run to the side of Wu to spread wild, burn, kill and loot.
Most of the troops stationed here by the State of Wu were in conflict with these tribes. For these tribes, the Qi country is short of food, grass and fur, so they take people to scavenge, and this group of people is hungry and cold, so they pretend not to know. Wu Guo also negotiated with them many times for this reason.
Later, there was really no way but to encourage the people on the border to trade more with the people in these tribes, and Wu even encouraged caravans to go to these tribes to buy their furs, wine and meat.
In this way, the contradictions on the border between the two countries can be considered stable. Yan Guogong, who was in the State of Qi, was the first to do business with the merchants of the Wei State and made it.
From the founding of Wu to the present, many ministers have written to crusade against Qi and merge with Qi, but in the end there is no follow-up. Everyone knows in their hearts that in such a poor place, the displaced tribes can't control it, so why bother? Besides, if the army all moves north and the Wei State attacks, what is good?
"It's about discord, but how it's discordant, no one can say, this Witch God Division, the Qi State was established after the establishment of the second monarch," Gongbo Shengde shook his head, all this is still confused, and he is looking for someone to inquire!
After the founding of the Qi State, the nomadic tribes on the border did not obey, and when winter came, after there was no food, they would often harass the surroundings of the capital of Qi, and their country was also in danger. Therefore, the second monarch created the Witch God Division to encircle and suppress the nomadic tribe.
These border nomad tribes originally had different beliefs among the tribes, but the legends about the snow-capped mountains were unanimous for each tribe. The State of Qi used this as a base to create the Witch God Division, and used troops to kill and conduct to make the people of these tribes obedient.
Every year, the witch god will wander in the tribe when it is warm, and in the winter, he will nest in the capital, in a special house, and rarely speak or express his attitude towards the affairs of the court.
It is precisely because of this that Wei and Wu did not take this witch god in their eyes.
The previous information, I am afraid that it was deliberately released by the Wushen Division, why it infiltrated into the forces of the Qi State, when, when it started, and where it has reached now, it is all necessary to find out.
At present, everything they say here can only be a kind of speculation, without really grasping its exact information, all this is just empty talk!
"It can only be like this," Wang Siqi sighed, Princess Borou, he couldn't move, the emperor sent Liang Bingwen here, after knowing about it, Dali Temple did not receive this case, only asked Liang Bingwen.
If Liang Bingwen hadn't had some friendship with him, he would still have been kept in the dark with the information he found. Now, he is like a dumb person eating Coptis chinensis, he can't say what he is suffering about, and no matter how unhappy he is in his heart, he can only endure it.
"Relax, everything will be fine,"
Gongbo Shengde comforted him, and the two of them sat there in silence for a long time.
"Do you know that beggar?" Speaking again, Wang Siqi asked something else.
"What's wrong with him?"
"The poison on his body should not be under the witch god," the corpse was very weird, Huang Pi couldn't find out the clue, and after the emperor learned about the actual situation of the three beggars, he had some suspicions and sent Liang Bingwen to investigate.
"What do you mean by that?" This rumor is that compared with the appearance of voodoo attacks, it can't be caused by other poisons!
"Presumably, it is Taiyi Ning's side, with Gu worms, that will have such an effect," Liang Zhesi got the hairpin given by Xiao Zhezhe and handed it to Huang Pi. Huang Pi's mind was lively, so he immediately asked them to take it and go to the corpse of the three beggars for verification.
Sure enough, in addition to a small amount of voodoo, there was also Gu poison hidden on the corpse, and it was unknown what kind of poison it was.
"Is the emperor suspicious?" The two words of the prince, Gongbo Shengde, did not speak out loud, but only made a mouth shape.
"His thoughts, the emperor can't figure it out," Wang Siqi nodded, "Zhezhe was assassinated in October, I'm afraid it was his arrangement." ”
The forces around the crown prince are no longer under the control of the emperor, and he has investigated and understood the Wushen Division earlier than the rest of them. Three years ago, or even more than a decade ago, he had noticed something unusual.
It's just that he didn't tell anyone else, and he acted silently by himself. The emperor's attitude towards him is still unclear, and he will not inherit the unification in the future, and no one can give an accurate word.
Perhaps, the emperor is just watching from afar, and with the current power of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, it is difficult, very difficult.
"His Royal Highness the Prince's side, it's even more difficult to figure out, Xin Xin's side, you have to pay more attention, Zhezhe's words, the emperor's side means, is to keep it, but Xin Xin-" The person she married is the prince's son, although she has set up another mansion, but it is unknown whether Ye Qiongwen can take charge alone.