Chapter 53: Suspicious
Zhou Yu's set of rhetoric is actually not rigorous, but Zhou Rukang at this time doesn't care.
Zhou Yu came here at the behest of Jiang Yichen. Zhou Yu is not a person who is good at greeting, every word he said was begged by Jiang Yichen for a long time, of course, Jiang Yichen also put in a set of large-leaf red copper armor.
Zhou Yan was escorted down, scolding and crying all the time. Zhou Rukang endured it again and again, but he didn't immediately execute him. Zhou Rukang ordered Ji Ying to raid the palace of the king of Chu, and the people in the palace were either killed or exiled according to the rank, and all items were registered and registered, and Yu Hai was responsible for supervision.
Of course, Ji Ying knows that the so-called "supervision" is just to find out the military deployment map so as not to be seen by irrelevant people, and Ji Ying still does not pay attention to the ownership of the deployment map.
After this toss, the time is almost over. Walking on the dark road of the palace, Ji Ying's legs were soft and did not obey the call. This bureau is not very big, but it is interlocking, and a slight mistake may be a catastrophe. Thanks to the peerless medical skills of the nomadic herdsman, thanks to Rong Zhe's ingenious organs, thanks to Zhou Yu's timely action, and thanks to Jiang Yichen for stabilizing the overall situation of the military and the commander-in-chief...... Thanks to God, she successfully avenged the grievances of her predecessors.
Ji Mansion has now been razed to the ground, and many of the bodies that were blown up need to be carried overnight, so naturally they can no longer be inhabited. Ji Ying placed Miao Tailor in the Hou Mansion next door for a night, and she and Li Yuhan went to the Princess's Mansion.
At the gate of the princess's mansion, Ji Ying saw not Jiang Yichen but Dong Jiu. Ji Ying gave a slight salute and asked, "Little Brother Jiu, it's been hard these days." Hasn't King Huai come back yet? ”
"It should be there soon."
"I didn't expect the follow-up to be so troublesome."
"It's already the fastest." Dong Jiu said, "Thanks to the large-scale rectification in the army a while ago, otherwise, with the irascible nature of the King of Chu, the forbidden army will definitely be used, and it will be even more unpeaceful at that time." ”
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves came from the quiet road. Jiang Yichen and several princess palace guards rode back.
Jiang Yichen jumped down from his horse and asked everyone to rest, then walked up to Ji Ying and Li Yuhan and personally led them into the door.
After Ji Ying entered the house, he bowed to Jiang Yichen. Jiang Yichen hurriedly helped Ji Ying up, and said half-seriously and half-teasingly: "What is this for?" You didn't make such a big bow when you were apprenticing. ”
Ji Ying looked at Jiang Yichen's smiling face and said, "Everyone thinks that the whole thing was caused by Ji Ying, but they don't know that you are actually the one who is in charge of the overall situation." I am here to thank you for all the adults who were killed, without you, Ji Ying would never have been able to do anything. ”
"You're serious. If you weren't resourceful and unscrupulous, you wouldn't have done it. Speaking of which, the teacher is very satisfied with your performance today, and it seems that the blue is better than the blue. Jiang Yichen's smile was even thicker, and he raised his hand to touch Ji Ying's head to show caresses.
Ji Ying was amused by Jiang Yichen's actions, and the tension and worries of the past few days were also swept away.
Li Yuhan saw that Ji Ying's face was much better and a lot more relaxed, he looked at Ji Ying's neck that was scratched by Zhou Yan, and said with concern: "Don't make trouble, Ji Ying still has a wound on her neck, deal with it, rest early, you will be busy tomorrow." ”
Li Yuhan didn't say it's okay, as soon as he said this, Ji Ying also felt a hot pain in his neck. She touched her neck, and there was a little blood.
Jiang Yichen was a little distressed. He called Dong Jiu and asked him to take Li Yuhan to rest, and then took Ji Ying's hand and walked to his bedroom. Ji Ying's hand was in Jiang Yichen's palm, it felt weird, but it was warm, she didn't break away, and she was even a little happy and moved.
Jiang Yichen asked Ji Ying to sit on the chair with his head tilted, he took the medicinal wine and ointment, and gently wiped the wound for Ji Ying.
The moment the cotton cloth soaked in medicinal wine touched the wound, Ji Ying hid back in pain, and took a cool breath in her mouth. Jiang Yichen blamed himself for being too heavy, and he was a little lighter.
"You bear with it, and you'll be fine in no time." Jiang Yichen comforted while taking medicine seriously.
Ji Ying let out an "um", and her eyes slowly shifted to Jiang Yichen's face. She boldly looked at the man's face close at hand, his skin was a little dark in the dim light, but it was wild and healthy. His two sword eyebrows were thick and slender, and his eyes were a little deeper. The bridge of his nose was high, and his lips were as rosy as fresh cherries. He didn't make any big movements for a long time, except for the occasional shake of his Adam's apple.
"Turn around," Jiang Yichen finished taking half of the medicine, intending to take the other half, he raised his eyelids and ordered Ji Ying.
The collision of eyes and eyes made the hearts of the two people shake at the same time. In Jiang Yichen's eyes, Ji Ying is a smart and rational person on the surface, rich in emotions in his heart, and easily impulsive. There are many things buried in her heart that need to be dug up slowly, so it will always arouse the curiosity of others. Jiang Yichen had to admit that although Ji Ying's appearance was not outstanding, he liked such girls.
Ji Ying saw Jiang Yichen staring at her, she was embarrassed for a while, her face turned red, and she hurriedly said, "You give me the medicine, and I'll take it myself." ”
Jiang Yichen also realized his faux pas, coughed to hide his embarrassment, and said, "You can't see it, so I'll come." ”
The small wound was treated for a long time, and when all the processes were completed, both of them secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Jiang Yichen proposed to send Ji Ying to the side room to rest, but Ji Ying hurriedly refused, saying, "No need, um...... I'm familiar with the princess's mansion, so it's good to go by yourself. ”
Jiang Yichen didn't insist either, and watched Ji Ying leave. After Ji Ying left, he still felt that the smell on her body had not yet dissipated.
Early the next morning, Ji Ying was ordered to raid the palace of the king of Chu. If the boxes of gold and silver treasures, the house full of gold filaments, and a shelf of account books are eye-popping, then the two military defense maps made of cowhide that Ji Ying found under the tiger skin blanket under the several cases in the study can make people crazy.
Ji Ying couldn't help but sigh when she held the two defense maps in her hand, she finally saw the monstrous power and supreme wealth of the emperor's relatives, and finally understood why the world was fighting for me, because these things were too dazzling.
But it is precisely because of these things that people have lost a lot of precious things, family, friendship, love, in the final analysis, they did not keep their hearts.
What is the original mind? More than ten years ago, her mother Ji Shu gave her such a problem, which made her search for so long. Mencius said: "The village is not subject to the death of the body, but now it is the beauty of the palace; The township is not subject to death, but now it is the worship of wives and concubines; The country is not subject to death for the sake of the body, but now it is for the poor who know that I am doing it; Yes or no? This is a loss of heart. Between gains and losses, people need to understand that the "original heart" is the original belief, which cannot be changed or violated.
Ji Ying put two arming maps on several cases and found that one of them was a defense map of the southeast part and the other was a defense map of the southwest part. Noticeably two missing. Ji Ying thought that she had landed somewhere else, so she looked around, but after looking for a long time, she still didn't find it.
Ji Ying sat in front of the defense map and asked repeatedly: "Why are there only two maps?" Could it be that some adult doesn't have a picture in his hand? It doesn't seem likely. Was it brought by the King of Chu? No, he will not enter the palace with evidence against him. Placed in the Hidden Dragon Casino? It's impossible, there are a lot of fish and dragons there, and the king of Chu will not put such an important thing there. What the hell is going on? ”
Suddenly, Ji Ying thought that when the King of Chu pleaded guilty, he said that Lord Zhao, General Qi and Marquis An were killed by him, but Taiwei Meng was killed by the prince. At that time, Ji Ying and His Majesty thought that this was the exculpation of the king of Chu, which was not credible, but now that I think about it, it is not impossible to do so.
The crown prince and the king of Chu have been fighting for many years, and the two of them are very familiar with each other, but they are only half a catty and eight taels, and they will not stab His Majesty's ears for a while. Now that the king of Chu has lost power and has nothing, he is naturally willing to shake out the scandal of the prince. Moreover, with the situation of the King of Chu at that time, whether it was three murders or four murders, the effect was the same, and he didn't need to clean up this matter.
No matter how stupid and crazy the King of Chu is, he will not assassinate the court officials twice at his own door, because it is easy to expose his family background, so the case of the murder of Lord Meng Xun personally experienced by His Majesty the Emperor was not planned by the King of Chu, but by the crown prince.
The crown prince wanted to use Ji Ying's hand to get rid of the king of Chu in front of the emperor.
Sure enough, it was the perfect plan. Ji Ying turned out to be a chess piece!
What about another one? No, this matter has to be reported to Your Majesty.
Ji Ying put away the drawings, put them in her arms and hid them, and walked out of the study door, but met with Yu Hai's father-in-law.
Yu Hai had a smile on his face and asked, "Did Lord Ji find anything interesting in the study?" ”
Ji Ying smiled and said, "What is my husband asking?" ”
Yu Hai took out two armor maps made of cowhide from his sleeves and said, "Our family has found two maps under the bed in the bedroom of the King of Chu, please look at them." ”
Ji Ying took the map and looked at it, it was indeed the remaining two arming maps. Could it be that she guessed wrong just now?
No! Wrong! The two defense maps that Yu Hai took were different from the two in her hand. The cowhide used in Yu Hai's arming map is very new, even though the corners have been deliberately worn, but there are no traces of polishing in the central part, and the two sheets in her hand are not obviously damaged, but because of years of wrinkles, there are faint traces in the central part. Moreover, Yu Hai's defense map notes are clear, and it is obviously newly made.
He had just personally inspected King Chu's bedroom, and there was nothing under the bed. Yu Hai is obviously lying, he is shielding one person, and that is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!
Is Yu Hai a member of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Is this what Yu Hai means or what the emperor means? None of this is known for sure. But she can't ask openly, because once she asks, it proves that she knows the existence of the military deployment map, which means that Li Yuhan, Jiang Yichen, and even Li Chengyu will suffer.
Ji Ying hurriedly changed her smile, took out the two drawings in her arms, and handed them to Yu Hai together with the drawings brought by Yu Hai, saying, "I'm a nerd, how can I understand the map?" I also wondered, what did the king of Chu do when he hid the two maps so secretly, and if he wants to come to his father-in-law, he is well-informed and can understand it, so let it be handed over to his father-in-law. ”
Yu Hai made a thousand, took the four drawings with both hands, turned around and handed them to the little eunuch beside him, and instructed: "Find a few people to properly escort this thing to the palace, and ask Your Majesty to check it personally." ”
The little eunuch took the order, and Yu Hai also greeted him twice, saying that he was old and in poor health, so he returned to the palace early by car.
After Yu Hai left, the more Ji Ying thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and it happened that Li Yuhan walked in, and he was entrusted by Jiang Yichen to help Ji Ying with some chores.
Ji Ying saw that the Chu Palace's mansion was full of busy sergeants, so she pulled Li Yuhan to a place where there was no one, told Li Yuhan everything that had just happened, and told Li Yuhan: "Since this matter is not over, I will not give up." ”
Li Yuhan was surprised, and warned Ji Ying not to act rashly, he said: "The king of Chu is a lesson from the past, so the prince will not easily follow in his footsteps." The crown prince is not as loyal and even stupid as he seems on the surface, he can still stand tall and fight back at the right time under the pressure of the former queen and the king of Chu for so many years, he must have his own ability. I told King Xiao Huai about this, and we will think about it in the long run. ”
"You...... Hey, be careful. ”
Ji Ying sent Li Yuhan out, and saw a sergeant galloping away with a letter bag on his back, it seemed that he should be going to the palace.
Ji Ying asked: "Second son Li, you see that sergeant is in a hurry, is something happening again?" ”
Li Yuhan's expression was solemn: "Look at this person, he is wearing a red armor soap robe, and a black hemp rope is tied around his waist, which is the dress of Hedong officers and soldiers." A few days ago, the embankment burst in Henan's Lanzhou, and more than 700,000 people were killed or injured. The emperor casually sent two people to relieve the disaster, and it didn't take long to hear that they were corrupt and perverted the people, so that the people rioted, and many granaries were occupied by the people. The local army had to be mobilized to suppress it. I think this is probably a soldier who reports on the military situation. ”
"From 'people's feelings' to 'military feelings'?" Ji Ying said angrily, "It seems that the so-called repression is just letting the army clean up the mess with the corruption and perversion of the law given to them!" ”
"Don't get so excited. You don't know how serious the disaster is in Hedong, and you don't know how complex the forces there are. I warn you, you are now out of your own pocket, and don't wade into any other troubled waters. ”
"Okay, you go first, I'm not stupid enough to make trouble on my own."