Chapter 489: All Falsehoods and Truths
Qingluan went downstairs to the kitchen, just as Li Laoba, the food delivery porter, was unloading meat, vegetables, fish balls and other things under the kitchen, squatting on the stool under the kitchen in his free time, smoking a cigarette pouch and asking the kitchen girls for some bargains.
Several chefs hurriedly shut up and did things, Qingluan is the personal maid of the county lord, although she is not their leader, but this girl has a bad temper, and everyone dare not provoke her.
Li Laoba knew Qingluan, and hurriedly extinguished the cigarette pouch to say hello, Qingluan checked the meat and vegetable dishes sent in, nodded and said: "Yes, they are all carefully selected dishes, hard work." ”
Li Laoba said with a smile: "Then it goes without saying, this is the dish sent to the chef of our Qingwangfu County, which is naturally the best in this town." ”
Qingluan smiled and said, "What I said is, Li Laoba, there is something hard for you." ”
"What kind of hard work, isn't this killing the villain? What is the girl but commanded. ”
Qingluan said: "The county lord has recently been obsessed with planting flowers, as soon as the year passes, it is the season to plant flowers in March, the county lord has seen a flower when he is in Chengdu Mansion, and he likes it very much, but unfortunately he has not seen it in our Ningxia Town; Those of you who are running outside are well-informed, and you may have seen this kind of flower, can you get some flower seeds for the county lord to make the county lord happy? ”
Li Laoba hurriedly said: "Isn't this a trivial matter?" What flowers? It's easy to find it by name. ”
Qingluan frowned and thought for a while: "Oh, I forgot, so let's do it, you go upstairs with me to see the county lord, and the county lord will tell you the name of the flower and the color and shape of the flowers, which is also easy for you to find." ”
Li Laoba opened his mouth and said, "See...... See the county lord? ”
Qingluan said: "What? The county lord doesn't eat people, what are you afraid of, maybe the county lord will be rewarded."
Where is Li Laoba afraid, how can a person like him see the county lord, this is just surprise, as soon as he heard that there may be a reward, he was even more excited, and nodded his head in thanks.
Qingluan smiled and said: "Come on, come with me, if this thing is done, the county lord will definitely reward you greatly." ”
"Thank you Miss Qingluan, thank you County Lord!"
Li Laoba carried the basket on his shoulders and followed Qingluan upstairs, Qingluan knocked in front of the county lord's door and said: "County lord, the maid brought Li Laoba here, you can ask him yourself." ”
A female voice came from inside the room, "Bring him in." ”
Qingluan answered and pushed the door open, opened the curtain for Li Laoba and said, "Go in." ”
Li Laoba was at a loss, the fragrance of the house sprayed from the open curtain had already made him dizzy, and he saw the magnificent decorations in the house, the carpet on the floor, and the shoes full of mud, and he was even more ashamed that he couldn't move.
Qingluan saw his hesitation, and couldn't help but reach out and push him on the back, Li Laoba staggered in, and before Li Laoba got up from the ground, he heard someone above his head: "This brother, I'm sorry." ”
Li Laoba was still in a daze, only to feel a heavy blow on his neck, his eyes were dark, and he fainted without even seeing what the county lord was sitting in front of.
Wang Yong retracted his hand, and Li Laoba lay straight on the carpet with his back to the sky, his face pale. The county lord of Ping'an asked worriedly, "You can't kill him, right?" ”
Song Nan smiled: "It's just that I fainted, and I woke up after half an hour." Not to mention, this face and figure are really similar to Wang Yong's brothers. ”
Wang Yong touched his face and said, "Am I so ugly?" I seem to be better looking than he is. ”
Song Nan couldn't help but smile and said: "Of course, you are much better looking than him, don't be verbose, take off his clothes and change, I am afraid of complications if I delay for a long time." ”
Wang Yong immediately took action, took off Li Laoba's short jacket and cotton pants, put them on, and took Li Laoba's ear-hanging hat and put it on his head, and then hung his waist card for entering and leaving the palace on his waist. Qingluan made some tricks on Wang Yong's face according to Li Laoba's appearance, cut off the fluffy beard on Li Laoba's face and glued it to Wang Yong.
While dressing up Wang Yong, Song Nan explained how Wang Yong would hide his disappearance after he went back, if no one came to visit, it would be fine, if someone came to visit or invited to a banquet or something, he would say that he was unwell and excuse himself, in order not to arouse suspicion, Song Nan asked Wang Yong to find someone to put on the armor of his brocade guard commander and pretend to be, even if it was to show his figure, it was enough to dispel the doubts of others.
Wang Yong nodded again and again: "This is a good way, adults have fair skin and a well-proportioned figure, I can only let Miss Yang pretend to be you, the height is about the same, the skin is also white, and it will be real when you wear armor." ”
Song Nan said: "You discuss it with Lord Yang Hou Dabiao, and anyone can do it, as long as you don't show it." In addition, tell them that tomorrow night, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the county lord will help me get out of the house, and you and Hou Dabiao will take someone to meet me in the lantern market. ”
Wang Yong responded, looked at the dress, went out and went downstairs with a basket, Qingluan deliberately pretended to have something to do, and walked in the head and secretly led the way for Wang Yong.
Standing upstairs, watching Wang Yong's thick back from the window, and even passing through several inspection roadblocks set up by the palace guards in each passage disappeared, Song Nan breathed a long sigh of relief, Wang Yong could get out, and he was at ease.
"What to do with this man?" The county lord of Ping'an frowned and pointed to Li Laoba, who was lying on the ground in disheveled clothes.
Song Nan thought for a while and said: "I can only keep him in captivity first, and I am not afraid that someone will come to look for him, after all, he has already left the house in full view of everyone, see where to hide him." ”
The lord of Ping'an said: "There is no place to hide him upstairs, there is a flower house on the north side of the courtyard, it is now the cold winter season, and no one is in and out of it, so I don't want to lock him up." ”
Song Nan nodded and said, "It's okay, I'll send him there when it gets dark, but now he can only hide in the house." ”
After that, Song Nan immediately made a move, blocked Li Laoba's mouth with a towel, blindfolded his ears and plugged his ears, and then wrapped him whole with a quilt, tying him like a big dumpling. He said: "This brother, I can only wronged you first, and after the matter is over, I will definitely compensate you." ”
Then vacated the big box in the corner of the room, threw Li Laoba into it, closed the lid, took out a dagger and pierced two ventilation holes on the side of the box.
The lord of Ping'an County watched intently as Song Nan finished his work, and when he turned around and sat at the table, he suddenly asked, "Who is Miss Yang in the Snow Tower?" ”
Song Nan said with a smile: "Lord Yang Yiqing's daughter, originally in the capital, this time I came here, she missed her father, so she brought her here." ”
"Is she your wife?"
"No, no, don't say nonsense, my wife is the lord of Shuyi County of the British Mansion, and her name is Pei Ming."
"It turns out that Lord Wang said that there is also a county lord in your house, who is your Shuyi county lord, who must be extremely beautiful and gentle." The county lord of Ping'an smiled.
"Where, where, the appearance is still good, but the temper is not gentle." Thinking of the little county lord's babbling appearance, Song Nan's face showed a gentle smile.
The county lord of Ping'an sighed lightly: "You must be very happy, and the county lord Shuyi must be very happy, it's good." ”
Song Nan couldn't answer, he knew that the Ping'an county lord in front of him had been married, but her husband died within a year, and she had been widowed for four or five years, and other people's happiness might arouse her sadness.
The silence in the room was a little embarrassing, in order to hide the embarrassment, Song Nan reached out and took the teacup to drink tea, and suddenly saw that the lord of Ping'an had a different expression, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"You...... You're serving the wrong cup again. The county lord of Ping'an said softly.
Song Nan lowered his head in amazement, the faint lipstick mark on the edge of the teacup in his hand was in his eyes, and he hurriedly put down the teacup in embarrassment; The county lord of Ping'an looked as usual, stretched out his hand and handed over a piece of silk handkerchief and said, "Wipe your mouth." ”
Song Nan smiled embarrassedly and took it and wiped it on his mouth twice, and took it to his eyes, but saw that the two pale red colors on the white silk handkerchief were the lipstick marks on the teacup, as if he had kissed the lord of Ping'an through the teacup. Thinking like this, he couldn't help but raise his eyes and glance at the red mouth of the county lord of Ping'an, how could the county lord of Ping'an not know what Song Nan was thinking, and a red cloud flew on his face.
The atmosphere in the room was a little ambiguous, and in the troubled thoughts, the situation of sleeping together last night also came to mind, which made the two of them have a fever on their faces. After a while, it was the county lord of Ping'an who first regained his composure and asked, "Since you dare to enter the palace, why are you being found to make such a big commotion?" ”
Song Nan fixed his mind and said: "Originally, we were well prepared, but unfortunately something went wrong. ”
"What's that difference?"
Song Nan took out a blank piece of paper from his arms and said, "It's this map that is causing trouble." ”
"Oh?" The county lord of Ping'an took it curiously, opened it and spread it on the table, only glanced at it twice, and said, "What is the place drawn on this map?" Could it be that I'm Qing Wangfu? ”
Song Nan said: "Yes, it's the Qingwang Mansion that was painted, but unfortunately I'm afraid it's full of mistakes." ”
"It's not just full of mistakes, it's just that the donkey's head is not right on the horse's mouth, except for the three halls in the front hall that are drawn correctly, the rest of the places are scribbled, who drew this map for you?"
"What? Completely wrong? Song Nan was surprised. I thought that although Zhu Changshun was familiar with the palace, he was a slave after all, and he couldn't see all the places, and it was inevitable that he would make mistakes when painting, but he didn't expect that except for the three halls in front of the palace, the rest of the places were wrong, which was intentional.
"You see, the west building where we stayed has moved seven or eight courtyards to the east, and the garden behind it is also empty, and the garden of my palace is at the west end, how is this Buddhist hall located in the north? It should be on the side of the southeast three halls, and the stables and halls of these courtyard houses have all been moved, which is simply a scribble. The county lord of Ping'an pointed to the map.
Song Nan frowned and was silent, this Zhu Changshun seemed to be deliberately doing this, but Song Nan was not worried about this, he thought of a strict question, if Zhu Changshun was intentionally like this, who instructed him to do this, how could he know that he was going to break into the palace before he instructed Zhu Changshun to deliberately draw a fake map to trap himself, wouldn't he say that his intention to enter the palace was already known? What's the cover-up? If this man had already informed the king of Anhua, what would ......
Song Nan's scalp was numb.
"Lord Song, Lord Song?" Seeing Song Nan in a daze, the county lord of Ping'an shouted twice.
Song Nan came back to his senses, reached out and took the map and threw it in the brazier, watching the rising flames devour the paper into ashes.
"County Lord, I think I should be open and honest with you, I want to tell you the purpose of my entry into the palace, I wonder if the county lord is interested in listening?"