Chapter Seventy-Five: Shocking Mystery

Trying to balance her breathing, there was a feeling of urgency in her body, and after taking a breath, she began to speed up her pace, and she wanted to see Granny Xiang quickly. There seems to be a steady stream of oppressive force in her body, so that her arm is not very obedient, and can only rely on her own consciousness to restrain it, as if she can't get rid of it, what's going on?

In the cell, Granny Xiang hugged Ru Mo tightly, very excited, then took a deep breath, bowed slightly to Ru Mo, and solemnly knelt in front of her; "Whether the lives of my family of twelve can be unjustly snowed depends on you, my mother-in-law has already seen it, girl, you are not an ordinary person, you must be able to help your mother-in-law, right?"

Ru Mo helped Granny Xiang up, her thoughts were still in confusion, and she asked shallowly; "How can I help my mother-in-law?"

Granny Xiang stared at Ru Mo quietly with rare gentle eyes, opened her lips lightly, but her tone was still cold, "Girl, mother-in-law has a pill here, which was developed with the Five Poisons and Soul Breaking Powder, you dissolve it in a teacup and serve it to the little marquis to drink......."

"No, it's a matter of fact, even if Brother Shen is wrong, he can't kill him like this." Ru Mo was really taken aback by Granny Xiang, if this old woman becomes vicious, she is really a hundred times more powerful than Shen Yue.

Granny Xiang smiled, shook her head helplessly, and sighed; "What's the matter, the little girl is tempted? Think about it, think that Shen Yue is extraordinary, handsome and talented, anyone will be tempted, and a 'Brother Shen' is really affectionate?"

"No, Granny Xiang, you misunderstood, the person I like is not Shen Yue, it's just that since I have been in contact these days, I have found that Brother Shen is not like a person who cares about human life, there must be some misunderstanding in this, wait for me to find out......" Ru Mo wiped the blood stains on the corner of Granny Xiang's mouth, and persuaded emotionally.

"That's enough." Granny Xiang drank Ru Mo and said with a furious face; "Girl, you're trying to push your mother-in-law to a dead end, and you're also pushing yourself to a dead end....... Try your saliva, don't you feel like your stomach is on fire?"

Ru Mo's mind was blank in an instant, and the moment a stream of saliva slipped into her throat, she only felt that her internal organs were gradually burning like they were burning, and it became difficult to breathe, and there was a stream of qi and blood in her body that was hitting indiscriminately, making her bow her head and moan uncontrollably.

"Girl, you're weird, aren't you? See that purple vein on your arm? It will continue to grow and spread, although it can only be seen on your wrist line now, but it will not be long before it will crawl towards the major artery in the center of your arm, and if you don't stop it in time, the consequences will be unimaginable, and your life can be endangered at any time!" Granny Xiang raised her head, fed Ru Mo a pill to relieve her, and scolded again; "Mother-in-law expected that one day you would not listen to your mother-in-law, so when I was helping you to heal the poison, I buried a 'purple vein vine' in your veins, did my mother-in-law tell you? People who know how to develop incense are generally masters of poisoning. ”

Ru Mo rolled up her sleeves in pain, and immediately saw a few purple threads looming on her wrist line, and said blankly in her eyes; "Mother-in-law, do you know the concubine in the palace? I've already found out that you and her really have a fight. Hehe, Brother Shen is right, I was blinded by my mother-in-law's words because I was grateful for my mother-in-law's life-saving grace, in fact, the stupidest person is still me, but it doesn't matter, death is death, even if it is death, I have to figure out what is going on, and Brother Shen or mother-in-law is innocent, you are all innocent, right?"

Granny Xiang looked at her suspiciously, as if she were prophetic; "Innocent, you know, girl, I won't give you a chance to find out from my mother-in-law, I can't wait, I've been waiting for all these years, it's time to see my husband........"

"Mother-in-law, don't ......." Ru Mo failed to stop the poison swallowed by Granny Xiang, Granny Xiang finally looked directly at Ru Mo with cold eyes, and made a last almost hideous voice, "Girl, your poison, Granny Xiang can't solve it, if you want to settle accounts with your mother-in-law, your mother-in-law is waiting for you at any time underground!"

In the dim cell, Ru Mo was staring at Granny Xiang's corpse in a daze, only to know that Shen Yue approached her, "brush" twice, a rope wrapped around her waist, lifted the rope and pulled it again and again, it was still relatively loose, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, "Brother Shen, what are you doing here?"

"Sister, when you come to visit the prison, you will probe my important prisoner to death, do you think I should lock you up?" Shen Yue's expression was cold and indifferent.

"I'm going to die?" Ru Mo turned her head and stared at Shen Yue angrily, "Granny Xiang died by taking poison herself, if that poison hadn't been swallowed by Granny Xiang, then it was probably you Shen Yue who died now?"

"Granny Xiang won't do a loss-making deal......" Shen Yue's eyes glanced at Ru Mo, and there was a hint of melancholy in her shrewdness, "Do you know how my father died?"

"How did you die?" Ru Mo was surprised; "Isn't it old and sick to death?"

Shen Yue suddenly smiled sadly, "He died to protect the Shen family......."

"Why does the old marquis want to protect the Shen family, who dares to kill you?" Ru Mo was a little confused when she heard this, and couldn't help but ask in wonder.

Shen Yue smiled abruptly and muttered for a long time before he said; "The reason why my Shen clan was able to gain a foothold in this Jianchang City all originated from a shop, and that shop was the 'Xiangxiang Building' opened by Granny Xiang. In the heyday of Tangxianglou, the daily flow of customers continued, and the wealth was rolling, and with the growing growth of the store, it began to unscrupulously promote the supply of goods, and soon the goods were dispersed to the capital and even the palace. Everyone knows that our little emperor loves incense, and the incense building sends a batch of incense to the palace every three months for our emperor to develop and play. With the increasing demand in the palace, it is far from enough to supply only one Xianglou, so Xianglou began to monopolize the shops that buy and sell incense, and there is a great momentum of self-respect. At this time, my father, that is, the old marquis, found out that the incense sold in the incense building was not only their ancestral good unique spices, but also some spices and incense powders with strange tastes, and the configurations used in them all contained slight toxins. My father was afraid that the incense with toxins would be sent into the palace, and the consequences would be unimaginable, so he contacted several ministers in the capital overnight and began to jointly submit a letter to the emperor, but unfortunately the book was withheld. ”

"Why was the fold withheld? Who has that guts?" Ru Mo was shocked, she never thought that Shen Yue still had such an unspeakable hidden story, and the little marquis of Jianchang, who had always been gentle and elegant, had also stayed on the blade?

Shen Yue sighed and continued; "Who would dare to be so bold? The emperor is high, and in addition to those ministers, there are of course those who are neither men nor women surging under his nose. Wrapping incense Lou sent incense to the palace in such a large quantity, just ask the emperor, where can the concubines use it daily? It was precisely because of this that the eunuchs were given an opportunity to collect money, and they took the incense out of the palace, found a shop and sold it, exchanged it for a lot of silver, and put it in their own pockets. ”

"So are the eunuchs headed by the chief eunuch?" Ru Mo frowned, with an angry face.

"Hmm!" Shen Yue nodded; "But after a long time, there is no impermeable wall, and the emperor is not always closed. Later, after the emperor found out one or two of them, not only did not stop it, but it intensified. The battle ahead requires food, and the expansion of the city also requires a large amount of construction silver, in addition to making new court clothes for the ministers, and the rouge gouache of the harem ladies, which all cost money. The silver in the treasury is getting smaller and smaller, so ......"

"So the money from the sale of poisonous incense has been filled into the treasury and run into the emperor's pocket?" Ru Mo tightened her lips and asked with palpitations.

Shen Yue calmed down at this moment and said lightly; "Private trade is a capital crime, and it should never be used to recharge the treasury with the money from buying and selling poisonous incense, but since it has been done, no one dares to say that the current emperor knows the law and violates the law, right? So I have to find a scapegoat, which is out of here, unfortunately this scapegoat is my father 'Jianchang Hou'. ”

"In order to protect the Shen family and the title of the marquis, the old marquis pleaded guilty?" Ru Mo was really taken aback, she couldn't imagine that there was such an entanglement between Jianchang's Hou Ye and the palace, it was too tortuous.

Shen Yue cleared his throat, "It's not entirely just to keep the title of the Shen family and the marquis, my father is more for the warriors in front." ”

"Warriors ahead?" Ru Mo rolled her eyes, feeling a little inexplicable, what does the warrior in front of her have to do with incense?

Shen Yue smiled bitterly, "My father's greatest wish is that he can't spread his ambitions on the battlefield, so he wants me to always care about the war ahead." Now there are Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Xiao Baorong of the Southern Kang, which can be described as internal and external troubles, and they are always ready to attack it, so as courtiers, what we can do is to share the worries of the imperial court and ensure that the treasury is sufficient to supply and demand the military salaries at the front. ”

"Knowing the law and breaking the law...... Brother Shen....... Are you letting Qin Xiangzhai follow the old path of entangling Xianglou? What's the difference between you and Granny Xiang like this?" Ru Mo weighed it for a moment, and her eyes widened in surprise.

Shen Yue shook his head and smiled, "Sister, you have raised your brother Shen, I don't have the two strokes of Granny Xiang, even if she dies, she will have to pull a cart on her back, that shrewd old woman, when she dies, she still doesn't forget to calculate people......."

"I don't understand what you said, Brother Shen, you said that Granny Xiang is calculating?" Ru Mo's face was stunned, if Granny Xiang calculated people, didn't she calculate her? Hey~ It's not long before you die!

Shen Yue looked at the iron pillar of the cell and pointed casually, "Do you see those jailers guarding the cell?" They will all be put to death immediately. ”

"Why?" Ru Mo couldn't help but be shocked, they really took human life as a child's play, even if they were lowly jailers, they also had families and wives and children, how could they be executed casually? And what crime have they committed?

"Godgirl, do you really think that Granny Xiang is looking down on everything and dying of fear? Hehe, the old woman did it on purpose, because only the famous Granny Xiang died tragically in prison that it could cause a shock. If this matter is spread out, the lives of the twelve members of her family back then will be dug up again, and at least I will show my loyalty to the court and avoid a fortune, or at worst, I will be able to take my life. Shen Yue said while thinking.

Ru Mo didn't expect to laugh dryly, "Hehe, Brother Shen, no, who dares to be so nosy, talk fast, don't worry, no one dares to say it, and I don't have that idle time." ”

"There is no impermeable wall in the world, if you don't say it, I don't say it, naturally some people will say it, even if I pardon these jailers today, they will not survive, and naturally someone will want their lives. Today's conversation between you and me is a matter of urgency, and it is a taboo in the imperial court, and it must not be dispersed, and the only way is to make those jailers become dumb, or die more completely, right?" Shen Yue turned sideways slightly and looked at Ru Mo.

Ru Mo looked at herself with a shudder in her heart, the rope is added, I'm afraid she is the one who will be destroyed first, right?" That one....... Brother Shen....... This is more thorough....... You don't have to kill me........ Because I'm not long dying!"