Chapter 13: Framing the Storm
When the stone door opened, it was a small stone chamber with a downward staircase on the floor. Shen Qianfeng originally wanted to move forward, but was stopped by Jiang Qi for the first time. I listened to Jiang Qi's order: "Come on, go in and have a look." β
The two men in black immediately appeared in front of him, and without hesitation, they thought about walking down the passage. Shen Qianfeng knew that one of them was the one who had been guarding him, the leader of the secret guard called Tianmu.
After a few breaths, Tianmu hurriedly rushed out from below and replied, "Back to the master, the silver and gold are inside." β
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's heart was relaxed at once, and after two days, he finally had an eyebrow. His position was retained, so he looked at Shen Qianfeng with a smile on the corner of his mouth and said, "Third brother and sister, if you need anything, just tell the third brother and I will do my best to find it for you." β
Shen Qianfeng didn't speak, but was pulled down by Jiang Qi. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was embarrassed for a while, what do people want to have their own third emperor brother. With so many dry mouths, the strength of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the Qingyuan Empire is not worth mentioning in front of the Divine Pavilion.
Jiang Qi and Shen Qianfeng, as well as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, just went down to take a look and came up, and when they found another exit from the secret passage. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already sent someone to chase after him, no matter where the other exit is. No matter who the murderer is, he has nothing to do with Shen Qianfeng now.
Just as Shen Qianfeng opened his mouth to go back, he saw Tianmu muttering in Jiang Qi's ear for a long time. The more Tianmu spoke, the tighter Jiang Qi's brows wrinkled. In fact, she had already guessed something, didn't kill Shen Qianfeng a few days ago, is she going to do it again this time? But now she is no longer the original owner who only knew tasteless evasion. Now I have a marriage contract with the third prince, and I just helped His Royal Highness the Crown Prince solve the urgent need.
At this time, Shen Qianfeng was strangely waiting for the outcome of this matter on the side of the stone wall. Sure enough, when Jiang Qi told his eldest brother the prince the news from the secret guard, the prince's face was already very exciting.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince secretly said stupidly, if he wanted to kill this real Shen family's concubine before, he Jiang Heng could turn a blind eye. But now it's impossible, not counting that she helped herself, even if it is the identity of the future concubine of the third brother, even if his father wants to move, it may hurt his muscles and bones, and his younger brother protects the calf There is no reason. If you don't give an explanation today, if the people of the Divine Pavilion let go of the theft of the treasury this time, it is estimated that it will be very troublesome.
"I'll handle this matter, and I'll ask the third brother to worry about the theft. After speaking, he walked out directly, and walked towards the Shen family all the way, and the defendant of this matter, someone who originally wanted to go back, was sent to the Three Kings' Mansion.
The first time the hostess entered the door, she was just for the guards in the Three Kings' Mansion, and the maids got to know the future hostess at a glance.
And at this moment, the Shen family has already fallen out of trouble, and Ao is wrong. The confrontation was at the gate of the house that the third prince gave to his wife who had not passed the door, and a group of soldiers from the Kyoto Yamen and the soldiers of the patrol battalion surrounded this courtyard to death. In front of these officers and soldiers, there were more than a dozen men in black who confronted them, and at first glance, these men in black were very difficult characters.
As for the officials of the Kyoto Yamen and the soldiers of the patrol battalion, they did not dare to step forward. They are the people of the Three Kings' Mansion, and these people are all from the terrifying Divine Pavilion. The situation has been frozen there like this, but the generals led by the soldiers of the patrol battalion are people who have been on the battlefield with the third prince before. This person's name is Wang Shuo, and he is also very difficult when he knows who this place is. But this time, the accusation of the eldest lady of the Shen family is too serious, and it has already gone to the Great Heavenly Court. Even if he wanted to do something philosophically, it would be impossible to release the water.
Xiaohua and Xiaomei were originally going to let these officers and soldiers come in and search, because that thing had already been manipulated by the two of them. Even if they are searched for bad luck, they will not be their own princess, and they are not afraid. But the official of the Kyoto Yamen was talking about things with his own princess, and what he said was very ugly.
It simply evolved into the current situation, when he quickly slandered Shen Qianfeng and Mrs. Situ in his heart. Then he saw a man rushing from the opposite street on horseback, and with a sword he stretched out his sword and cut off the head of the man who was spewing dung.
Shen Qianxue was standing beside the official at this moment, and when the hot blood sprayed on his body, most of his fanatical eyes were instantly sucked in by him. The man in front of him was not the third prince, but His Royal Highness the crown prince of the current dynasty.
Shen Qianxue and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince actually didn't have the emperor's will, in fact, they had long been accustomed to things on the ground in Kyoto. So when his fiancΓ©e was embarrassed by himself, he wondered what was going on.
Could it be that the prince's brother didn't come to kill Shen Qianfeng, but to protect Shen Qianfeng. She absolutely didn't believe that this man could change so much in one day. Her second sister has already become the future third princess, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince changes his mind at this time and robs people.
Shen Qianxue shook her head vigorously, impossible is absolutely impossible. When the mood was in turmoil, I heard the prince Jiang Heng shout: "This is the token of the third brother, you stand down!
The guards of the Three Princes' Mansion saw that the token taken by His Royal Highness the Son of Heaven belonged to their own prince, and they knew that their own prince already knew about it. So Xiaohua immediately signaled the secret guards around her to push it over, and the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion and the Kyoto Yamen went to the doctor and began to search.
As for the arrester who was killed by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he didn't care about it, and rushed here to slander the future princess. It's just that you don't have enough heads to cut off, of course His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knows that person is knowingly committing a crime. So he has already asked people to investigate this matter, and he doesn't give his third brother a perfect explanation. It is estimated that after returning to the palace today, my father will not let himself go so easily.
Now that Shen Qianfeng's brain is pumping, isn't he afraid of his father's anger if he is willing to deal with Shen Qianfeng at this time?
At this time, Shen Xiongfei had already brought his wife and aunts and ladies out and knelt down in the open space in front of the door. Shen Xiongfei didn't know what was going on, he had just discussed things with his colleagues in the military department, and as soon as he talked about the key place, he heard that his family was surrounded by people from the Kyoto Yamen.
"It was Qianxue who did it, why didn't you stop her? Don't you know the secret decree of the royal family?" Shen Xiongfei said to Guo Lanyue with a gloomy face.
Guo Lanyue only knew about the secret purpose, but her daughter, who was gentle and humble on the surface, was a selfish little woman in private. It is estimated that in the past two days, I saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been running to the yard of the second lady for the past two days, and the little girl who ate the wrong thing has made such a big thing. Isn't that still going to be a family?
Guo Lanyue looked towards the crowd and didn't see Shen Qianfeng finally let out a breath. I hope that the marriage of His Majesty the Emperor just now can save the Shen family. Otherwise, the big thing planned by the Guo family and the Shen family was just the impulse of the eldest lady who suddenly put the alliance established by the two families in jeopardy.
At the critical time, Guo Lanyue said something in her husband's ear, which calmed Shen Xiongfei's anxious heart.
What Guo Lanyue said was: "The second miss is not here!"
Shen Xiongfei suddenly cleared his mind, and the second girl was not there. is with the third prince, so the third prince will definitely settle this matter if he wants to clear up the relationship. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Shen Xiongfei has no hope. After all, this prince is not something that the Shen family and the Guo family can control at all.
When the Shen family panicked, the officers and soldiers finally rushed out of the gate. Because the thing had been found, the tall officers and soldiers came to the front of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince after digging up a witch Gu in their hands. He held it high in front of the crown prince and said, "Back to Your Highness, this is what the eldest lady of the Shen family said, and there is a sentence cursing the Qingyuan royal family on it." But ......"
"But what?"
The soldier replied, "The name written on the witch doll is not the name of the second lady of the Shen family. The name of the inscription is Shen Qianxue!"
His Royal Highness the Prince's face darkened suddenly, and as a result, the witch doll jumped off the horse directly. Following Shen Qianxue's approach, every step was filled with a murderous aura that made the girl kneeling on the ground tremble.
Shen Qianxue didn't know what happened to the prince's brother, who was gentle and elegant to him on weekdays, and he actually had murderous intent towards himself. Shen Qianxue called in a coquettish voice: "Brother Prince, I don't know what Xue'er did wrong to make Brother Prince so angry." β
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also knew his father's secret decree, even if it caused a big incident, none of the daughters of the Shen family could die. But I also have to give a satisfactory explanation to my third brother, on the other hand, Shen Qianxue has the support of the Guo family and the Shen family behind her. In the future, after he ascends the throne, he will not be led by the nose of the Divine Pavilion.
So he gritted his teeth, threw the witch doll in front of Shen Qianxue and said, "Shen Qianxue, don't be smart. This time you will be punished with a small punishment and a big commandment, lest you do not know your status, and if you do something wrong in the future, it will affect the prince. β
Looking at the doll that rolled down in front of him with his name written on it, Shen Qianxue was stunned. But when I thought that my prince brother would, it was also warm in my heart to protect myself blatantly in such a famous public.
But when she heard His Royal Highness the Prince's next words, the girl kneeling on the ground knew that she had really stabbed the big basket this time.
Shen Qianxue listened to the voice of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, which made her stupid in place like a magic sound. He knelt stupidly until the whip fell on him. That's right, in order to calm the anger of the third prince, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince decided to teach the future crown princess a good lesson. Otherwise, she will really become the crown princess and concubine in the future, and she will find trouble for herself in the palace.
His position as the crown prince will really be taken away in minutes, thinking of his second brother's disdainful eyes towards him. Jiang Heng knew that he had to hug the third brother's thigh.
After ten lashes were struck, the beauty on the ground, who had been overwhelmed, was already lying on the ground covered in blood and only had half a life left.
"Drag her back and find a doctor to heal her wounds!" the prince said as he got on his horse, and then said to the officials of the Kyoto Yamen and the soldiers of the patrol battalion: "You all go back, if you have any questions, you can ask the prince's mansion to come to His Royal Highness!"
The meaning of this sentence is that this matter is fine, but the world is the future prince of the current dynasty. After the crowd dispersed, a small figure disappeared around the corner of the street.
Then a figure followed closely and entered the courtyard of the Shen Mansion, and the little girl followed by the black-clothed secret guard went directly to the courtyard of the fourth lady Zhang. When Zhang and Fourth Miss Shen Qianqiong returned, the little girl knelt directly in front of her young lady and said, "I'm sorry, Fourth Miss, I messed up my matter!"
Shen Qianqiong has no other harm, that is, she has been a small-bellied chicken intestine since she was a child. I feel uncomfortable when I see others getting better, and when Shen Qianxue went out to report the case to the Yamen in Kyoto today, Xia Mei, the girl next to her, found out. When she turned around, Shen Qianqiong sent her out to find an opportunity to pour dirty water on her second sister. I didn't expect that the dirty water was not splashed, but it lost a life.
As soon as she returned to the room and sat down on a chair, the little girl Xia Mei hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
Shen Qianqiong was really unhappy, the eleven-year-old girl's little face was pouted, and there was a smart beauty. But the breath on that face became heavier and heavier: "That big sister is a fool, such a superficial skill of marrying trouble is really rotten." If it seems to me that this second sister of ours is really a master of the depths, if you want to kill her, or ruin her reputation. Isn't that the third prince mine?"
Zhang gave her head a hard time: "You stinky girl, don't you want to live anymore." You still don't understand the atmosphere today?"
Shen Qianqiong's tears of pain came out, and she choked up and said: "Mother, we don't have any identity background, do we have the support of the mother's family, if our daughter doesn't think about retreating in advance." What will my mother do in the future?"
The Zhang family is actually the daughter of the owner of a silk and satin village, a small family, who just saw Shen Xiongfei at a glance and wanted to marry into the general's mansion. Because the mother clan is simply ordinary people, they can only be quietly carried in by the general through the side door.
Zhang took his daughter into his arms and comforted him softly: "I know that my daughter has grown up, although my mother can't find you a prince to marry, but I also want to find you a good person, my mother just hopes that you can live happily in this life." β
Shen Qianqiong wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and asked a question she shouldn't have asked now.
"Mother, why does the third prince fancy that the second sister is not the other sisters?" she rolled her eyes and asked in a low voice, "Is it that the eldest mother has some ulterior secrets." β
Zhang immediately covered his daughter's mouth and whispered to his daughter: "Xiaoqiong, you have to remember that you want to survive in this family." Don't mention that name again, not at all!"