In February of the seventh year of Yuanqing, there were three major events that made the entire Jingyangjing talk about -

The first attempt of the imperial examination system was finally carried out in anticipation of the restoration and improvement of the imperial examination system, and the first children's examination of the Dalong Dynasty was successfully held, and it is said that more than 200,000 students from all over the country signed up to participate.

The four princes gave birth to a daughter, the four princes gave birth to their daughters, and now the saint finally looked forward to the birth of his grandchildren after eight years on the throne, Long Yan was overjoyed, made an exception and was named the princess of Longqing, and gave Xiangzhou and Baoqing as its fiefdoms, and the ordinary people were fortunate to be intrigued, but the nobles were quietly discussed, and there were conceited people with a keen sense of smell such as Qin Xiang and his henchmen who thought that it was a sign that the saint had "placed great hopes" on the four princes, and they were more and more cautious in their words and deeds compared to others.

The third is the anecdote that makes the people of Kyoto gather and are particularly concerned, whether it is a nobleman or a cloth cloth, a feast party or a chance encounter in the street market, they will have no scruples to judge their heads, laugh and scold - the case of the Xie brothers killing their mother, and the family conspiracy to collude to blame the clan in an attempt to extort money.

Most of the idlers gathered in the major teahouses and restaurants began with the topic of "have you heard of it......", or whispered, or talked highly, and in the end it caused nothing more than a laugh.

No matter what terrifying version it is, there is only one truth, the Xie brothers' murder of their mother is undoubted, and what is confusing is the reason and the details of the murder.

"It is said that Nian's sex is vicious and violent, it's not that I am talking nonsense, she went to the Chu Wangfu on the day she was killed, what kind of family is the Chu Wangfu? The prince and the prince are both ministers of the Son of Heaven, but they have both military power and government affairs, and that year dared to scold in front of the palace of the king of Chu, I saw it with my own eyes! If it weren't for the turmoil caused by the Nian family, the father and son of the Xie family would not have whimsically married the princess and killed the elders. ”

"You still don't know why Nian's is making trouble? It's not for her eldest grandson, although the third grandfather Xie has long been deprived of his official position, he is a white body, but he is also a son of a famous family, that Xie Qi...... Hey, I actually learned to use the scam of the immortal jump to make money, but it is a pity that the prestige of Xie Jin, the prince of Zhenguo, was corrupted and reduced to a laughing stock by so many unscrupulous descendants. Nian's is to save Xie Qi from prison, and he also vainly tries to preserve the quality of his grandson's prisoner, not to mention pleading well, after being rejected, he is angry and wants to beat people. ”

——Talking about this man, who was dressed in a vermilion silk robe and wore a gold crown on his head, he looked like a nobleman, and his words were also reasonable and well-founded, which attracted the convincing of many people.

Listen to him continue: "This Nian's is fierce, and he is very harsh on his concubine on weekdays, and it is Xinger's concubine who kills people, and it is said that he smashed through Nian's temple, and coldly watched her bleed to death, which shows the hatred in his heart." ”

Someone questioned: "Doesn't Nian have two sons-in-law?" Why don't you investigate the heinous crimes of that concubine, killing your mother is a heinous crime! ”

The discussion suddenly exploded, drowning out the man's words: "The whole family wants to cover up the crime, it is not as simple as killing the mother of the concubine, I heard that it was the hand of the son-in-law, and the old lady Xie tried to blame the trouble and blackmail because of the desire to protect the son. ”

"It's not as simple as that, how did I hear that it was actually the old lady Xie who killed the murderer, it is estimated that he has been suppressed by the Nian family for most of his life, and no matter how unbearable this Hedong lion roars, the children and grandchildren are covering it for him."

"This is reliable, although the old lady Xie is old, she is still a frequent visitor to Yihong Street, I heard that there are hundreds of beautiful maids in her yard, and she is the most amorous, and the old man of the Nian family has long been disgusted."

"That's not right, if the Nian clan is really so fierce, can you still allow the old lady Xie to hug the flowers and wine?"

"Hey, the Nian family is nearly seventy, how can I still satisfy Mrs. Xie, and when this woman is old, what she pays attention to is not the waistband of the man's pants, but the financial power in her hands."

The topic gradually became distorted.

There are even more terrifying speculations -

"It is said that the four sons are dissatisfied with Nian's arbitrariness and joint efforts."

"I heard that in fact, Nian's can't have children, and the children themselves are all concubines, and in order to hide people's eyes, some of them will be recorded in their names as concubines, and the biological mothers of these people are poisoned by Nian's, how can they not hate?"

"This is not reliable, if Nian is really fierce to his descendants, how can he run for Xie Qi? What I heard is the truth...... someone pretended to be mysterious and lowered his voice, which suddenly attracted a bunch of brains to gather intensively: "This Nian's family, in fact, does not abide by women's morals, taking advantage of the fact that Mrs. Xie is out drinking, how can she stand the loneliness of the empty boudoir alone, those two sisters-in-law are not the species of Mrs. Xie, I don't know how to learn the truth, I am deeply ashamed, so I hurt the Nian family to keep her bloodline pure." ”

In short, most of the rumors are unbearable, some reprimand the Xie brothers for being disobedient and unfilial, and some questioning the unkindness of the Nian family itself.

The third grandfather Xie and his family are all white, and they were directly shackled and detained in prison by Shuntianfu that day, just because the case is related to Xungui, in the end there is still a little face and there is no public trial, but the more "mysterious" the official office, the more disturbing the rumors outside, Nian's corpse has obvious fatal injuries, of course, it will not be angry to death, the third grandfather and several sons can not justify themselves, at first they actually argued that Nian was beaten and seriously injured by the people of the palace, but on the same day, Nian's sprinkled and went to witness a lot of circumstantial evidence, and the third grandfather's family was obviously empty-mouthed.

As soon as Yin of Shuntian Mansion was tortured, some people confessed, and there was even the testimony of Nian's cronies and housekeepers, the evidence of the crime was conclusive, and the case was concluded very quickly, but for a while, the people involved in the case had not been sentenced for a while.

To know the truth, you still have to listen to the words of the prince and his wife when they returned to the high pavilion in the front courtyard of Guan Sui Yuan that day, and enjoyed tea and plum blossoms.

Although there is rain in February of this year, the rain is not urgent, a plum forest in Guan Sui Yuan has not withered when it is gone, there are still new buds on the branches to be bloomed, high and downward, it is the wind and rain that blow inexhaustibly, the old red hugs the new white.

Yu Feng's mood was not affected by a farce, and he put on a posture to reveal the stunt of "dividing tea", and the peak blade cliff of Wujin soup noodles jumped out, and the white smoke rose around, making this blade wall as vivid as the real scene.

The tea cup was gently moved, and the soup noodles were lightly rippling, but it did not destroy the danqing in the water outlined by the soup flowers.

Yijing admired the fading color of the jade flowers in the soup, and the foam was depressed, so he raised the lamp and tasted it carefully, the corners of his eyes were slightly raised, and he bowed his head in admiration: "I haven't seen you have such leisure for a long time." ”

"Today is the time to comfort the princess of the world is well arranged, it is not difficult to guess that there are my eyes and ears in the Xie Mansion in the outer city, and it is clever that Mrs. Xie was notified in time, as well as the family of Nian...... can also accurately analyze people's hearts, see through the third master's family's greed and viciousness, and do not stop until the goal is achieved, taking advantage of the mentality of the second uncle and the second aunt who are unwilling to settle things, and let them stumble in the palace to cheat, so that I can act cheaply and win a big victory. Shizi also smiled at the corner of his lips.

"It's nothing, I always have a way to stumble them and can't go back to fight the fire, at most I can use it as a last resort, but it is the son of the world, the ears and eyes of the arrangement are very useful, and it is the key to the victory, otherwise it will be difficult to look at the body of the third old lady inexplicably." Yijing complimented him back.

"Even if I didn't arrive in time, Mrs. Xie saw the difference." Yu Feng shook his head: "She and several cousins from the Guogong Mansion went to the door of the Xie Mansion, and after eating for a long time, they didn't see the banners hanging outside, and they all wondered if the rumors were wrong, and the third old lady did not pass away." ”

In fact, the next person stepped forward to knock on the door for a long time, and there was no response, and the second old lady who went with him couldn't hold it back, and personally stepped forward to knock on the door, and threatened that no one should break into the door, so there was a little guy who opened the door tremblingly and earnestly opened the door to greet him, and the second lady had sharp eyes, and saw that someone in the corner of the corridor was probing his brain, which was the grandson of the third grandfather.

Isn't it suspicious that the grandmother died, and the people from the clan, as the younger generation and the master, did not open the door to greet them, but shrunk their heads and peeped?

Mrs. Xie was still sitting in the car, and when she heard the second lady's angry reprimand, she couldn't help but be lonely in her heart.

When I went to the inner house, I saw a few girls who had not yet reached the house, all of them panicked.

The main courtyard where Nian lived was silent, and the white flags were hung up, but there was no one to be seen.

According to the custom, the big burial was put into the coffin three days after death, so at this time, although Nian was buried in a small funeral, she still stopped in the bedroom where she used to live, and did not move to the hall.

Nian's is an elder, and Mrs. Xie and others naturally want to cry and mourn, but the granddaughters of the Nian family cower and dare not step forward.

In the tent, Nian's body was covered with brocade, and Mrs. Xie saw that she was wearing a flower crown on her head, but there was a green ink sable rat Zhaojun set around her forehead.

Although the noble lady has to be buried when she dies, and those with grades are even phoenix crowns, Nian's because the third prince was stripped of the rank of the false seal, there is no decree on the body, and it is in line with etiquette to wear a flower crown, but isn't it suspicious to surround Zhaojun again?

Everyone in the world knows that Zhaojun has to expose his hair in a bun, how can anyone wear a flower crown forehead and a hat?

Mrs. Xie was even more suspicious, and at a glance, she saw that Nian's face was very hideous, and there was a chill on her back, and she didn't dare to look at it carefully.

Please go out of the hall and sit down, only the servant woman served tea, Mrs. Xie only felt that her eyes were raw at a glance, except for Nian's mother Zhan who accompanied Fang is a familiar face.

Speaking of what happened, Zhan's mother was full of grief, and it was still the cliché of "heartache", "I couldn't eat last night", "I didn't have a big sleep in the middle of the night, I only said that I couldn't sleep well".

Mrs. Xie couldn't find anything strange, but she always felt that she was not very steady, so she asked the other servants.

But they looked at each other.

Zhan's mother was anxious in her eyes, so she had to admit that these were not the personal attendants in Nian's room, and they were transferred from elsewhere today.

In other words, the only person who usually takes care of her is Zhan's mother who stays here.

Mrs. Xie felt more and more weird.

But not long after, another mother-in-law came in in a panic, reporting that someone from the Nian family had come, and the porter didn't dare to let them in.

Mother Zhan's face turned white, and she kept secretly coveting Mrs. Xie's face, but she met Mrs. Xie's questioning gaze.

"The Nian family is the third aunt's maiden family, how can they be turned away." Mrs. Xie asked solemnly.

Zhan's mother's knees trembled, and it was easy to give an explanation: "The master and several masters and wives are not at home, and they are not fully prepared before leaving, so it is not easy to welcome condolences...... There are only a few little Langjun and little ladies at home, and I am afraid that I will not be able to be the master......"

Mrs. Xie frowned, and it was not good to blame the third lady for leading the family to the palace to make trouble despite the funeral, but she became the master, and pointed out to arrange the mourning shed in the mourning hall, so that Zhan's mother could gather the servants in the mansion and arrange trivial affairs to the stewards, so that the servants could perform their duties, which was in line with etiquette.

In this way, the silent Xie Mansion became busy, and it looked like a funeral.

The family of the third old lady's nephew came, and the men were naturally in the front yard, and the female dependents came in to cry.

Mrs. Xie never saw the acquaintances who were waiting for Nian in the past.

These words were naturally the son of the world who took advantage of the convenience of arranging the mourning hall to go to the front yard and inform the prince in private.

"The eyes and ears you arranged are not Zhan's mother, right?" Yijing asked at this time.

"Zhan's is the companion of the third old lady, the most loyal, difficult to buy, of course I won't beat her idea, but the person she married is a domestic slave of the Zhenguo Mansion, and she has a sister-in-law, who loves to covet small profits the most, and is very easy to win." Yu Feng smiled lightly: "After the third master split up, the Yang family was instructed to beg the Zhan family to go with him to wait, and it was also important to be the mother of the inner library steward, seeking fat shortage, she had the heart to stay close to the Zhan family, and the Zhan family would not hide anything from her." ”

The prince talked eloquently.

It turned out that this Yang family was also frightened when he heard that Nian's "life and death were alive and dead" early in the morning, and he was about to deliver the news, when he heard that the third master ordered the door to be closed, the palace was under martial law, and the servants were not allowed to go out.

Fortunately, Mrs. Xie came, and the granddaughters who were spinning around like headless flies were caught off guard, and watched the eldest aunt give orders and disrupt the grandfather's arrangement, but they didn't dare to stop it.

Except for the very strong eldest granddaughter who retorted with her eyes: "Auntie, this is a dog with a mouse, how can she be the master of my family?" But Mrs. Xie picked up the shelf and reprimanded her back, and Cousin Xie was lonely, although she was anxious, she was helpless.

Yang had a chance to get close to Zhan, but when he saw that her face was trembling, under questioning, the helpless Zhan was honest with his sister-in-law.

The truth is terrifying!