Chapter 808: Plans and Rumors
Seeing Du Jinning's handwritten letter at the contact point, Qi Muyuan almost didn't shed tears.
Although the more he went to the back, the more certain he was that Du Jinning had escaped by himself and was not victimized, the worry in his heart had never been put down.
Now that I know that Du Jinning is safe and sound, and there is definite news, why don't you call Qi Muyuan mixed feelings? The meaning of thought revealed between the lines of her words made his heart sprout with vitality and vitality in an instant, like dead wood and nectar.
Qi Muyuan returned home and said to Qi Bokun, who came back from the palace with a tired face: "Du Jinning has passed the news. ”
"Oh?" Qi Bokun suddenly perked up and asked, "How is she?" ”
"It's good." Qi Muyuan said, "She didn't say anything else, she only asked her if she showed up, whether she would use her original name, or whether she needed to change her face and completely change her identity." ”
Qi Bokun's eyebrows furrowed, thinking carefully about the question.
Du Jinning's change of identity can actually solve many problems. There is no need to be held accountable for the original crime of bullying the king, and she will not be criticized because she went to the academy to study, participated in the imperial examination, and was an official together, and was always with men everywhere.
The family fell apart because of Du Jinning's disappearance, and the family must hate her to the core. After she returned, the family did not dare to trouble her openly, but it was predictable to slander her with rumors.
The crowd is full of gold, and the bones are destroyed. A man caught up in gossip can take it and kill himself, let alone a woman.
In addition, Qi Muyuan will also be ridiculed.
But if you change your identity, it is impossible for Du Jinning to wear a veil all the time when she walks outside. Her appearance is very similar to Du Jinning, and she will also solve the problem of high-yield rice that is difficult for all officials of the Ministry of Industry. In doing so, the original merit is lost, and the bad reputation of fooling the people is lost.
In short, it's not good to do anything.
He said: "What did Du Jinning say himself? ”
Qi Muyuan shook his head: "She didn't say it, she just asked like this." ”
Qi Bokun, as an old fox on the same channel as Du Jinning's brainwaves, instantly understood what Du Jinning meant.
She wanted to know what the Qi family thought.
If the Qi family is not afraid of rumors, she will naturally return with her original identity; If the Qi family asked her to change her name, she would ...... It's hard to say what the idea is.
He raised his eyes, looked at his grandson deeply, and said, "Come to think of it, you understand what she meant by asking, right?" So, what do you think? ”
Qi Muyuan smiled freely: "I'm not even afraid of the name of the broken sleeve, and am I afraid of others saying those unfounded rumors?" Du Jinning grew up with me, we went to school together, took the imperial examination together, and became officials together, whoever wants to say half a word of gossip about Du Jinning, I spray him in the face. ”
As soon as he heard the latter sentence, Qi Bokun was relieved.
Yes, Du Jinning went to school with his future husband and became an official together in the imperial examination, even if there was anything, it was only with Qi Muyuan. said that she was having an affair with another man, what did Qi Muyuan think of her, a fool? Can a fool be admitted to Tanhua, and in just three years, he has achieved the position of the fifth product in Dali Temple, specializing in investigating major cases? Where do gossips put the Qi family?
Moreover, if Du Jinning is named a princess, he will be a royal person. Criticize the royal people, when Qi Muyuan's secret service agency is dispatched and find out a few people to punish severely, no one will dare to chew the root of the tongue anymore.
There is no family to stir up trouble, and ordinary people have no conscience unless they don't eat the rice researched by Du Jinning. If you direct public opinion in this direction, you will not be afraid of anything.
He sighed, "But I'm thinking too much." Okay, just do as you say. ”
After saying this question, Qi Muyuan said the second question: "Du Jinning also asked, is the emperor satisfied with the current Jiang family?" ”
Qi Bokun was slightly stunned, then his eyes lit up, and his interest was even higher: "She means ......" He blinked and didn't continue.
There are some things that don't need to be said, everyone knows what they mean.
He touched his chin and thought about it, and said to Qi Muyuan: "Don't be in a hurry to reply to the letter first, I'll take a look at the emperor's tone tomorrow." ”
Qi Bokun, an old fox who has been in the court all his life, wants to make a dozen turns in the wind, so that people don't know what he is talking about.
On the second day, when he came back with Zhao Yu's words, he said to Qi Muyuan: "You told Du Jinning that the emperor was just a temporary compromise. can weaken or get rid of the Jiang family, the emperor can't ask for it. ”
Qi Muyuan nodded, wrote a letter, went to the contact point that night, and put the letter in.
This contact point is actually a very ordinary and dilapidated small courtyard, when Du Jinning re-divided the property to her sisters to make up the dowry, she mixed it with the property given to Du Fangfei, but the title deed was in her own hands. Du Fangfei is not as shrewd as Du Fangling and Du Fanghui, and he doesn't know that such a courtyard exists. So except for Du Jinning and Qi Muyuan, this courtyard is usually empty.
Because it is so dilapidated, it rains and leaks, and it is windy on all sides, and even beggars do not want to live in it; In addition, their letters are placed in a relatively private place, and if they are not followed, no one will find out that this is their contact point.
In this way, they contacted twice back and forth, and the two sides unknowingly made the plan.
But if this is to be done in a real way, you can't rush it. The time was set for the return of the officials who had gone to Japan to find people.
At this time, it depends on luck to take a boat to Japan, and if you are lucky, you will have a smooth journey, and you can get there in ten to twenty days; If you are unlucky enough to encounter wind and waves, you may not be able to reach it for two months.
So if it doesn't go well, Du Jinning may have to return to the capital in half a year.
Fortunately, Qi Muyuan is not an impulsive person. Even if he misses Du Jinning again, he knows that Du Jinning's whereabouts at this time cannot reveal the slightest bit of information, otherwise his efforts will be wasted. Du Jinning never said where she was in the letter, he didn't ask, and he didn't ambush the person who took the letter at the contact point.
Time passed, and the officials of Honglu Temple went to Nippon in the summer, and when the weather turned cooler and autumn came, they returned. also brought back a piece of news that Du Jinning was not in Japan.
But I don't know how this word was spread, but it spread all at once, and the people knew about it. The most important thing is that the news has changed dramatically.
The gossip in the market said that Du Jinning was actually in Japan, but he just hid and did not let the officials of the Great Song Dynasty find him.
The rumor also said that Du Jinning was chased and killed by the family and fled to Japan, and the Japanese king appreciated him very much and married the princess to him. Lord Du Jinning reciprocated the favor by benefiting the people of Japan with the high-yield rice he had studied, and planned to stay in Japan and not come back......
As soon as this rumor came out, and then think about the incompetent officials of the Ministry of Industry who made the high-yield rice inferior to ordinary rice seeds, the people of the entire capital were blown up.