Volume 2 Northern Xinjiang Chapter 137 The Fourth Force
For a few breaths, Li Yuejiao looked at Chen Sanniang blankly, waiting for the solemn woman in front of her to suddenly laugh, saying that she was joking.
But Chen Sanniang saw that her expression was sluggish, looked at her more and more seriously, and said sincerely: "Madame, please calm down, I also know that this matter is too difficult to believe, so when I saw it in the Taoist temple, I thought I was dreaming."
Li Yuejiao heard her say so solemnly, of course she believed her words - because there is no one in the world who can make up such an outrageous lie.
How can it be the old marquis?
Her expression slowly calmed down from shock, her eyes were empty, and she was already recalling all kinds of old things about the old marquis.
His marriage was only obtained because his mother saved the old marquis, but that was seventeen years ago, and he still hasn't remembered it.
Li Yuejiao didn't think that the old marquis had calculated more than ten years later.
Before marriage, she had never met the old marquis.
When she first married into the Marquis of Anyang, the old marquis had already seen through the red dust because of the death of her only son and eldest grandson, abandoned the world, and went to the Taoist Temple to cultivate immortals.
Even if it was the wedding of his grandson, the old marquis also talked about the mundane things, refused to come back, and only gave a pair of three-legged golden cicadas carved from jade to their husband and wife.
This gift of fortune and evil spirits looks grotesque in the wedding gift, and Li Yuejiao, as a bride, can only wonder in her heart; Lord Xiaohui smiled and said, "Lord Hou is getting more and more childish."
Only Xue Zhen's face was pale, and he didn't comment or look at her.
Li Yuejiao was in the second month after marriage, under the leadership of the lord of Xiaohui, and went to the Taoist temple to meet the old marquis.
The old man has the appearance of a fairy-like bone, because he doesn't care about everything, and his temperament is sparse, so he can't see the age of the young man from the appearance.
But he treated the county lord of Xiaohui and Li Yuejiao very well, and asked Xue Zhen how his health was, and asked if their husband and wife could be harmonious.
At that time, Li Yuejiao was going to the frontier for Xue Zhen's newlywed, and was ridiculed by many people, but after the old marquis heard about it, he laughed and said:
"My grandson is a good son with the world in his heart, and my granddaughter-in-law should support her."
Li Yuejiao only had grievances in her heart at that time, but when the elders told her so, she could only nod her head and say yes, thanking the old marquis for his teachings.
Li Yuejiao's teeth bit her lip gently, thinking about these old things.
The world says that the old marquis of Anyang is unreliable, shakes his hands, and is incompetent, but the lord of Xiaohui commented on her father-in-law and said:
"Lord Hou is just not talented, not as good as his ancestors, and not as good as his children and grandchildren who have both civil and military endowments, so he is just out of the crowd. If he is really incompetent, how can he keep his title in this world of great contention with the early death of his father and the support of his brothers? It's just now...... Be discouraged, and act more and more outrageously."
Li Yuejiao has always believed in the ability of the lord of filial piety to look at people, so she never dared to look down on the old marquis like the world.
But because of this, the more she didn't believe that the old marquis of Anyang was that kind of person.
If the old marquis turned out to be a conspiracy, then Xue Zhen's decision to put his life on the line was like a tragic joke.
Or even, the bombing, his own mother......
She bit her lip harder and harder, and her lips turned pale.
But in the past six months, the biggest lesson she has learned is that no one she thinks will be what she thinks.
For example, Chen Sanniang opposite her, I used to think that she was here to be a concubine and a lady, but she was a serious spy.
Li Yuejiao's gaze fell back on Chen Sanniang's face, and it took a long time before she asked her:
"Then what did Governor Jiang and the old marquis say?"
The voice was calm, so that she and Chen Sanniang were surprised.
However, when Chen Sannian saw her like this, he was relieved, and then slowly whispered about the experience of the past two days.
「…… There must be something wrong in the palace of Yujing City, right? Although you can't see it from the outside, many ministers have been visited by the brown-clothed people, and some people have been locked up in the brown-clothed people, but the person surnamed Jiang should be the first two, but he was only cut down, and there was no one
Dispose of him, and leave him unguarded. And on the night he was cut from his post, he left home after the curfew, and went out of the city in disguise through a city gate guard, and went to the Taoist temple to meet the old marquis."
"I thought he was going to be unfavorable to the old marquis, and I was still thinking about whether to make a move, but as soon as he saw the old marquis, he knelt down and called his father-in-law, and said what happened before, and said that today's things fell short, all because of your husband and wife's troubles," Chen Sanniang said, watching Li Yuejiao's ruddy face fade, and a little anger floated, so he held her hand again, calmed her emotions, and continued, "Then, the old marquis scolded him for not doing enough and failing more than anything, and also scolded you husband and wife for being troublesome, and after being angry, he let the surnamed Jiang go back, Wait for the man's command."
When Li Yuejiao heard the last sentence, she still frowned, and asked curiously, "That person? Who?"
Chen Sanniang shook her head: "He only said that the person, surnamed Jiang, never went out after he went home, and no one came to look for him before I came."
But Li Yuejiao intuitively felt that something was wrong, thought about it, and asked Chen Sanniang to say what the old marquis and Jiang Governor said again.
Chen Sanniang remembered very well, and sure enough, she retold their conversation very similarly.
Sure enough, that's not right.
Li Yuejiao looked at Chen Sanniang and asked, "Are Sanniang sure they didn't mention that you went to my grandfather to ask for medicine?"
Chen Sanniang shook her head: "When I asked for medicine, it was only me and Ling Zu, and he didn't say that no one should know."
"Don't you think their words are weird?"
"Huh? How so?" Chen was puzzled for three years.
"The reason for the incident is that they took advantage of my father, even if the old marquis wants to do some conspiracy, assassinate the king and kill the driver, and think that the prince is nosy, why do you think I am also nosy? If I knew that I saved Your Majesty, then it would be explained, but I saved Your Majesty to save my father, they hurt my father, and my daughter saved her father, how can I say that I am nosy?"
Li Yuejiao not only couldn't figure it out herself, but also said that Chen Sanniang was dizzy.
She followed Li Yuejiao's words and pondered for a while, before she suddenly said:
"Madame, do you suspect that Governor Jiang didn't tell the truth to the old marquis? Is there someone else behind Governor Jiang?"
Li Yuejiao thought about it carefully and nodded vigorously: "Yes, I suspect that I can't tell you the details yet, but I just think it's weird." And Sanniang, the person in the mouth of the old marquis, could it be a person from Shanyetang? Or, is it...... The man of your mouth?"
Chen Sanniang's face darkened, and she pondered for a moment before shaking her head and said:
"I don't know who he's talking about, but I don't think it's mine."
「…… Sanniang, if you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what happens." Li Yuejiao reminded her.
Chen Sanniang still shook her head firmly:
"The man in my mouth...... In fact, Madame should have guessed that it was the third prince of Chen Guo."
Guess it should be a royal nobleman, Li Yuejiao heard it and thought to herself, but I don't know the royal family of Chen Guo, I can't guess that it is the third prince.
But she didn't say it, just listened carefully to what Chen Sanniang said.
Chen Sanniang continued: "He was ordered to secretly take charge of the Mountain and Wild Hall, and the Master of the Mountain and Wild Hall has another person, I don't know his name, I only know that he is an old citizen, and he is about the same age as Ling Zun. Because the third prince was in charge of Shanyetang, in the years after his death, I compiled a lot of information about Zhao and Zheng for him, and there is no trace of it, which can prove that the old marquis of Anyang has an affair with Shanyetang or the three princes, and there is no evidence to prove that the old marquis has collusion with Chen and Zheng. Madame, he couldn't have thought of what happened after that, so he couldn't have deliberately hidden it from me."
After she finished speaking, she also realized the problem, her expression became solemn, and she reminded: "Madame, don't drill the horns, sometimes the more impossible things are, they may be true."
"Is it like this?" Li Yuejiao was persuaded, but because of Chen Sanniang's determination, she fell into a deeper fog, her eyes were empty again, staring at the window and muttering, "How can this be......
She always thought that the person behind these things should be Shanyetang or Chen Guoren, but looking at it today, there is still a possibility of a fourth force in these treacherous clouds?
There really is this in the world
Species, flies camp dogs for a few years, the two countries, the two royal relatives and nobles, the two countries, the people, are all in the palm of the hand?
How ambitious does that have to be? How terrifying is it?
In her mind, there was even a monster with seven or eight heads, more than a dozen arms and legs, and several hearts, which scared Miss Li to shiver.
But in the same way, she also made up her mind.
No matter how terrifying it is, isn't it because of her that she has failed, and she has found clues?
Thinking about it, Li Yuejiao solemnly told Chen Sanniang:
"Sanniang, tonight, please don't tell the prince, and ask Sanniang to go back to Beijing to monitor the old marquis and Jiang Governor, since the old marquis said that Jiang Governor will be believed, let's wait for him to believe it."
Chen Sanniang could understand the reason why she was reluctant to tell Xue Zhen, and nodded after a smile:
"Okay, don't worry, madam, the surname Jiang is not difficult to follow, the only thing I'm worried about is those brown-clothed people in Yujing City, many of them are masters, so it's not easy to deal with."
"If Sanniang needs any help, she can go to Renxin Hall to find my father," Li Yuejiao said busily, "Even if you can't find out for a while, you won't be afraid, it's important to save yourself."
"I know."
The two talked again, and Chen Sanniang simply rested with her clothes in Li Yuejiao's room for one night, and the next day before dawn, she had already quietly left.
And Li Yuejiao tossed and turned all night and didn't sleep well, and after sending Chen Sanniang away the next morning, she was even more sleepy, so she simply opened the door and asked the store for hot water to wash.
The inn was quiet, although there were guards from Xue Zhen in front and behind, but obviously no one found out that Chen Sanniang had come.
Li Yuejiao knew that it was not the guard's dereliction of duty, but that Chen Sanniang was a master, as long as she was not injured, the ordinary guards and sergeants would not be able to beat her out of ten.
Not long after, Xue Zhen and the others also woke up, and everyone went north as usual, and no one said much.
By the afternoon of that day, it was snowing heavily, and the sound of falling snow and the sound of wheels were intertwined, dyeing the official road with an ethereal color.
Du Day's donkey cart was difficult to walk in the snow and was left behind.
When Li Yuejiao saw that no one would notice, she hurriedly and silently began to change the medicine for Xue Zhen.
Xue Zhen's face was much better today, and only when he was fiddling with Li Yuejiao, he asked:
"Madam, did Sanniang come to you last night?"