Chapter 219: Sheep Fat Fish Pei, or There Is an Inside Story
It was the beginning of Shen, but the sky had already dimmed, the low and humid clouds were thick and thick, and a gust of north wind tightened, squeezing out the rain in the clouds, and falling down tricklingly.
The carriage of the Weiguo Mansion rolled on Qingque Street, and the light became more and more dim in the heavy brocade curtain.
Qiu Yue and Xia Ke sat left and right, both looking curiously at the little master's sometimes slightly frowning, sometimes high eyebrows - what's wrong? It's not that Du Yuniang specially set up a banquet to invite each other this time, according to the presence of the prince of Chu, Wu Niang should not feel bored, but the expression at this time, why is it like this...... Sadness?
It turned out that they didn't know that the beautiful scenery came to Baisha Dutou today, mainly to test Mama Song.
At this time, Yijing did not worry about "business".
It's just because Yu Feng has some weird behavior.
Is it because of "revenge" for his "appreciation" of Yulang? No, no, Brother Feng is not such a "boring little device" person, Yijing raised his fingers, nudged his eyebrows, and thought about the whole thing again-
All the weirdness is because when Du Yuniang took off the cloak on her shoulders, she didn't care, the jade pendant that was left behind, the water color was not good and the mutton fat was carved, but the carving was exquisite, a Pisces pendant.
Yijing only glanced at it and didn't pay attention to it.
Yu Feng stretched out his hand to come, took a closer look, and asked Du Yuniang where he got it.
Du Yuniang didn't pay much attention to it herself, and replied casually - given by the benefactor.
Yu Feng's unusual attention made Yi Jing pay attention to the fish pendant, which seemed to have tiny handwriting engraved on one side.
"I see that there are still words on the jade pendant, or it is passed down from others." Yu Feng seemed to have some deep meaning at that time, and his gaze at Du Yuniang was also quite questioning.
Yi Jing wanted to come to take a closer look, but saw that Yu Feng had already handed the fish pendant back to Du Yuniang: "I want to come here, I value the girl very much." ”
When Yi Jing noticed that Yu Feng said this, there was a kind of caution between his eyebrows, which was not obvious, and it seemed that he was slightly dissatisfied...... But in a breath, it was as plain as usual.
There's a lot going on here!
The texture of the jade pendant is not good, and the pattern of Pisces is common in the market, even if it is exquisite, it is not rare, just by those words, can it be broken out of the family heirloom, even if it is a family heirloom, it should have nothing to do with Yu Feng, why does he care so much? Yijing was full of doubts, but she heard Du Yuniang say with a smile: "The slave family doesn't know the name of that Langjun, and I haven't seen it before, that is, Qianrao Pavilion, which only came during the New Year's Festival, praises the slave family for singing well, and the piano sound is moving, so I can reward it." ”
"Others have a heart, and the girl cherishes it." Yu Feng said again.
The topic is here, and it will not continue, but Yijing always feels that he seems to be a little dignified, after a banquet, he has few words, and his eyebrows are slightly frowned, but the dissatisfaction is not aimed at Du Yuniang, which is quite weird.
Finally found an opportunity to ask, Shizi was obviously perfunctory - irrelevant matters, but the weather was cold and affected his mood.
Obviously earlier, I still had the heart to "flirt" with her.
As soon as Yi Jing thought of this, his thoughts were bifurcated again, his cheeks burned, and he pushed the fingers in the center of his eyebrows to slide down, covering his eyes tightly.
This situation, in the eyes of Qiu Yue and Xia Ke, I felt more and more surprised, the two maids exchanged glances, without waiting to ask, the car and the car had stopped, and saw their little masters, those doubtful, depressed, and shy emotions were all converged, as usual "approachable", and the porter gossip "witty words like pearls", the reward was also very happy, on the soft sedan back to Luqing Garden, after changing clothes, went straight to Yuanying Hall.
"Could it be that Wu Niang had a conflict with the prince today?" Qiu Yue didn't know why, and pulled Xia Ke to gossip.
"Not really." Xia Ke spoke cautiously, but smiled silently.
This seems to be a bit like the first bloom of love, Wu Niang is really a big girl.
Yijing "confessed" today's whereabouts in front of her grandmother as usual - she just wanted to go to the teahouse to ask about the business, but later heard that a batch of new tea had arrived in Baisha Dutou, and she was curious for a while, so she went to see the rarity, and after a delay, she returned home a little later.
The eldest princess was already indulging her granddaughter's "freedom", and she didn't ask carefully, only saying that these days were rainy and rainy, and it was not suitable to go out. Yijing responded one by one, and it happened that Qi Niang and Ba Niang came over, and proposed to play the Huizi card, and the three juniors "communicated in series", and won a lot of "gambling money" from their grandmothers.
On this day, I didn't wait for Su Zhi's reply.
After another two days, Xia Ke was talented, and the boss asked Yijing to go to the racecourse.
Su Zhi first talked about Mama Song's witness, he spent two days, probably touched the bottom of the person, obviously, felt that the witness was credible: "The woman's surname is Qi, she was originally a palace maid trusted by Empress Gaozu, when she reached the age, she was released from the palace after being strict, and married a palace guard as his wife, she still remembered the events of the year, because she was familiar with Mama Song in the palace, and when she heard that it was her distant relative, she agreed to settle Wansi in one place, and she didn't know that Wansi was a slave of the Guogong Mansion, so she connected to the stable woman who was born, all of whom were found by the Qi family, She was also present when Wansi gave birth, and later Wansi handed over the child to Song, and she also saw it with her own eyes. ”
Su Zhi sighed: "It seems that Song Hui should be the bloodline of the old prince, but the Song family has done so many evil things......"
"I also think this person's testimony is credible." Yi Jing bowed slightly: "But it seems that Mama Song has been prepared for a long time, and deliberately found such a credible person, just in case, someone will question it in the future." ”
On that day, Yulang pretended to be Wansi's son, and Mama Song was not flustered for half a minute, and she was very confident, which showed that she was very sure and understood that Yulang was a "fake" identity.
"But Ah Weng, why is Mama Song sure that you are tempting her? It stands to reason that the 'son of Wansi' appeared inexplicably, shouldn't the person she suspect first be Wansi? She is so determined, which shows that she knew that Wansi was no longer alive. "The scenery is undoubted.
Su Zhi also bowed his head frequently: "When she heard that the person was Wansi's son, her attitude was extremely sarcastic, and she didn't even ask Wansi where she was, and the old slave had this suspicion." ”
"Also, why did Wansi coax Mama Song to say that her grandfather had given her that jade pendant?"
For this doubt, Su Zhi didn't know much.
"This temptation, we know that Wansi was poisoned by Mama Song, and there is another witness, or we can use Qi's Shun to touch the melon to check if there are other strange things, such as the Wen Po ......" Yi Jing thought, Wansi should be on guard against Mama Song, will she really entrust the child to her with confidence? What happened back then, and how Mama Song killed Wansi, did not find out this, and Song Hui's identity could not be confirmed after all.
"The old slave also thought of this, and asked where Qi's wife was now, and Qi also provided an address, but the old slave looked for it, but the woman said that Wen Po was originally rented to live in her house, and it had been almost 20 years since she moved away, and she didn't know where to go, but she only remembered that her husband's surname was Zhang, so she was called Zhang's sister-in-law, but the woman was greedy for money, and asked the old slave for ten taels of silver, so she was willing to tell another strange thing."
The scenery was immediately concerned.
"said that there was a descendant in the old year, copied the accent of Nanzhejiang, and also asked her to inquire about the whereabouts of Sister-in-law Zhang, and every few months, I would look for her once and ask if there was any new news."
Because the owner of the house didn't know the name and surname of the descendant, let alone the origin of the descendant, he couldn't provide any useful information, and Su Zhi and Yijing didn't know whether they were related to Song Hui's life experience for a while.
It is difficult to make more progress in this matter for a while, but the days are still dull and flowing, and in the blink of an eye, March.
Yuanqing five years of rainy winter, the continuation of too long, the cold rain has withered the plum red, but the black branches have not yet bloomed new green, the whole Jinyang Beijing, still shrouded in the gray skylight, the city despite the hustle and bustle, always reveal the haze and cold, even the clear waves in the streamer river, the flow is also slow and heavy, so that the festival arrives, the girls who step on the spring are difficult to find the grass and spring flowers to insert the sideburns, so they have to helplessly take off the green and yellow wicker, braided in the hair to meet the occasion.
The Fanglin banquet originally held in March had to be postponed due to the late arrival of peach and plum and the late return of Chunyan, and there was no news about the spring banquet in the nobleman's mansion for the time being.
Only the Weiguo Mansion is still a succession of visitors, all because of the two imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate, led the order to go to southern Zhejiang, that "violent" move - more than 30 officials who participated in the performance of the three princes were all confiscated family property, cut officials and seized, and found out that dozens of officials were related to the bribery case.
Although many of the officials involved in the case were guilty of bribery, some of them were not even killed, and there were many innocent people who had never been corrupted.
Although Qin Xiang's henchmen were unwilling, they did not dare to point the finger at Wei Guogong for a while, but the Son of Heaven did not want to kill, so he ordered the Ministry of Shangshu to participate in the auxiliary investigation, and Dali Temple reviewed the charges.
It's just that Jin Xiang "doesn't care", and the officials and the chief of Dali Temple have to go to the Weiguo Mansion frequently, hoping that Su Yi can leak the opportunity for a day or two - which ones should be held accountable, which ones should be let go, and what is the intention of the Son of Heaven?
Su Yi only has one sentence - you should judge the crime impartially.
It can be seen that in the eyes of some noble courtiers, Su Yizhi's special status has been undoubtedly revealed, and he is affectionate and righteous, and he has never seen him envelop the nobles, let alone accept the "benefits" of officials in southern Zhejiang, but in this limelight, he dares to uphold justice, confront Qin, and save Xun is more expensive than fire and water.
Therefore, even the nobles who have nothing to do with Southern Zhejiang have gradually set their sights on the Weiguo Mansion and began to move around frequently, and the trend of metallographic has gradually collapsed.
Jin Xiang naturally understood, but he thought that Wei Guogong was born in the end, and he didn't want to see the situation of Qin Xiang as the leader and the family was dominant, so he could take this opportunity to win Wei Guogong's help.
The most direct and simple gesture of favor is marriage.
Called a few grandchildren to him, but Jin Xiang was very frustrated, the excellent ones are all married, and the unmarried ones are just some concubines, although there are two concubines in the Guogong Mansion, but the identity is also higher than his own family, so he looks at his granddaughter-
Liuniang is still not married......
Although the reputation is a little bad, in the final analysis, it is also some gossip, and because of the situation, Su Ying, the concubine of the Weiguo Dynasty, has been returned.
immediately called the eldest daughter-in-law and asked her to go to the Guogong Mansion to visit the Duchess of Guo.
On the fifth day of the first month of March, the three princes finally returned to Beijing, and in the Nanhua Gate of Jinyang City, the people greeted each other - there were those hot-blooded civilians who were bent on denouncing the filthy officials of Southern Zhejiang, and more of them were young girls who wanted to see the demeanor of the three highnesses, and even the daughters of the nobles rented the box of the teahouse and wine shop along the road, and in the half-open and half-hidden carved windows, they were looking forward to the pride of the son of heaven who was freshly dressed and angry, and they could "look at each other".