Feng Qing Shaoyi

Chapter 25 Guidance
That night, Qi Ze went to the prison of the Ministry of War to look for Zhang Sheng, to see if he could find any news from it.The environment in the prison is very dirty, the ground is full of dust, there are rats squeaking in my ears, and the tip of my nose is full of stench, which makes people want to vomit.Fortunately, there are windows, and the moonlight can still shine in, so that there is still a glimmer of light in the dark cell.

Following the jailer to Zhang Sheng's cell door, Qi Ze knelt down and looked at Zhang Sheng lying on the ground under the brighter moonlight.Zhang Sheng's face was ashen, his head was tilted, his eyes were closed and he was lying on the ground, his hands and feet were cold, and he was already out of breath.

Zhang Sheng died in prison, what's going on?Zheng Shen just sent someone to lock him up, and did not use torture.Moreover, Zhang Sheng is a slick-tongued coward who cherishes his life, and it is impossible for him to think of committing suicide.

Except for dust and oil on the surface of the clothes, there was no blood at all, and there were no wounds on the body.Qi Ze turned his head and saw a rice bowl next to it. It seemed that Zhang Sheng didn't eat much, so he just took a bite with his chopsticks.

Zhang Sheng was sent to the Ministry of War before noon today. Could it be that he was imprisoned and he was flustered and nervous, so he was not hungry?Considering that Zhang Sheng had no marks of being stabbed with a sharp weapon, the possibility of poisoning is relatively high.

Qi Ze picked up the rice bowl on the ground, and dumped the food in the bowl to the corner of the cell. Under the pile of hay, many mice scurried around together, and the creaking sound made people's hairs stand on end.One of the mice ran to a piece of meat, smelled it, and took a bite.There was really no response at first, but then suddenly his body twitched and he fell to the ground.

Looks like he was poisoned to death!
But in this prison of the Ministry of War, who would come to kill a person in the market.Could it be the same person who stole her document and seal?And being able to enter the prison seems very likely to be someone from the Ministry of War.

That's strange, no matter how capable Qi Chen was, he couldn't put his hand into the military department, and he didn't usually see any contact with anyone in the military department.Being able to steal her things without even noticing it, it seems that Qi Chen is not just alone, but someone has joined forces with him.

But who is this person?Why did you help Qi Chen?Does Qi Chen really have such a great charm for a person who doesn't communicate much to help him?And she doesn't have any enemies in the Ministry of War, even if she has, it's just a small friction in life, so that she was killed by such a ruthless hand from the other party.

Seeing that Zhang Sheng's clue was broken, Qi Ze had no choice but to give up.Although Zhu Yu said that there are many people like Zhang Sheng who use money to enroll in the army.However, the Ministry of War did not make any publicity about this matter. It would disturb the social order, and if it spread to the ears of border soldiers, it would also cause unnecessary troubles.

On the second day, Qi Ze went to the Ministry of War as usual.As soon as he entered the front yard, he heard Cui Guangzong's voice complaining to Zheng Shen. The voice resounded through the sky, and the birds on the tree fluttered their wings and flew away.

"Why? Lord Shangshu, this is not fair. Qi Langzhong accepts bribes to help people join the army casually, disrupts the government, ignores the court, and the evidence is solid. Why does Lord Shangshu help Qi Langzhong intercede with His Highness the Crown Prince?" Cui Guangzong turned to Zheng Shenda Shouted, the little official next to him looked at Zheng Shen's face in fright, and shrank away.

"Cui Langzhong, that's why you yelled at me early this morning. Do you still see me as a minister?" Zheng Shen stared at Cui Guangzong and said sternly.

Zheng Shen usually manages the military department with strict rules and dignity, and few officials dare to yell in front of Zheng Shen.Seeing Cui Guangzong baring his teeth and claws in front of Zheng Shen today, the officials looked on in surprise.

Seeing Zheng Shen looking up at them, they all hurried to do their own business, not to join in the fun.

Cui Guangzong also seemed to come back to his senses, looking at the way Zheng Shen looked at him, sweating coldly, regretting that he was so quick to talk.Hastily bowed his head and said: "The lower official was only short-tempered for a while, and he uttered wild words when he felt resentful. Please forgive me, Lord Shangshu."

"Hmph. You don't think it's fair. Qi Langzhong is still young, and he is the only son of General Hussars when he first entered the officialdom. Who didn't make any mistakes when he first entered the court, not to mention that I was only delaying time by pleading with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." .” Zheng Shen glanced at Cui Guangzong, and threw the official document in his hand on the table.

"But what happened this time..." What happened this time is not something that can be ignored just because of a small mistake made when entering the officialdom.Faced with Zheng Shen's obvious partiality, Cui Guangzong was very surprised. What kind of ecstasy soup did Qi Ze pour into Zheng Shen to make Zheng Shen, who is known for his fairness, so partial.

"Master Shangshu knows that Langzhong Qi has just entered the officialdom and lacks experience, so why did he promote Langzhong?" Cui Guangzong gritted his teeth and said, he had already offended Zheng Shen anyway, so he didn't mind asking.

"Because Qi Langzhong's ability is outstanding, and he has a unique eye. The last time the matter of the military salary was solved by Qi Langzhong, even His Royal Highness praised him repeatedly, and agreed to wait for some time to wait for the investigation. Why don't you say I don't give Qi Langzhong Promotion?" Zheng Shen said loudly, making Cui Guangzong unable to refute for a moment.

"Cui Langzhong, do you have any questions?"

"There are no lower officials." Cui Guangzong raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and gritted his teeth.

"Since you have nothing to do, let's go down!" Zheng Shen glanced at Cui Guangzong, picked up the official document on the table and continued to look through it.

"...Yes." Cui Guangzong looked up at Zheng Shen, squeezed his fist in his sleeve and said.

Zheng Shen looked at a tree in the distance after watching Cui Guangzong go down, and said, "Okay, come out, I've been watching for a long time."

Qi Ze knew that Zheng Shen saw her hiding behind a tree just now, and heard Zheng Shen tell her to come out, so he came out as promised. "Master Shangshu." Qi Ze bowed and saluted.

"I believe you have heard it too. His Royal Highness only agrees to allow you some time to investigate. You only have five days. If you fail to investigate during this period, follow the laws and regulations. At that time, the official will not be able to protect you." Zheng Zheng Shen straight to the point and said without looking into the matter of Qi Ze hiding behind the tree just now.

"Yes, it's from the lower government." Now that the matter has been investigated, it is known that it was Qi Chen's handwriting. Although the five days are relatively short, I believe it is enough, no matter how urgent it is, it is useless.

Zheng Shen raised his eyes to see Qi Ze's calm and composed appearance, and was a little surprised.Five days, it is not an easy task to investigate this military status.But with Qi Ze's calm demeanor, it seems that he is still somewhat sure about this matter.

"Since you know about it, why don't you investigate quickly, don't ruin your reputation as an official." Zheng Shen continued to flip through the official documents in an orderly manner, without looking at Qi Ze again.

"Yes."

Although he knew that it was Qi Chen who did it, Zheng Shen really thought highly of Qi Ze, because Qi Ze had never had a clue as to the identity of Qi Chen's other assistant in the Ministry of War.There are at least a few thousand officials in the Ministry of War plus small officials, and I don't know when it will be investigated.

Back at Fusheng Pavilion at night, Qi Ze was looking at the official records of the Ministry of War, trying to find some information from it, and see who had contact with Qi Chen.

In the deep night, it seems that endless layers of heavy ink are smeared wantonly on the sky, and the melting moonlight seems to be deeply hidden here, and no light can be revealed.The evening wind blew by, and the bright red frosty leaves seemed to be unable to withstand such a blowing, rattling.

In the dead of night, people have already fallen asleep.In only one room, a man with a gentle face was reading a book under the dim yellow candlelight, and his indifferent and cold eyes were also dyed with a layer of warmth by the warm yellow light, shining brightly.No matter how noisy the outside is, the inside is very quiet.Seeing the man quietly reading a book, my heart inexplicably calmed down.

A gust of wind blew from the window behind the man, and a purple-clothed boy seemed to come from the thick ink-like night. The fluttering skirts and the corners of the mouth matched the dark red maple leaves behind him.The young man bent down to look at the man who was seriously flipping through the pages. His charming and exquisite eyebrows were even more dazzling than the burning fire, which made people intoxicated.

"Qi Ze, you will never find it if you search like this." The young man snatched the book from Qi Ze's hand and sat opposite him, "Instead of searching in books like this, it's better to find something novel, maybe you will find something new." What unexpected gains."

"Master Que, what are you doing here?" Qi Ze looked at the young man in front of him cautiously. After all, Fushengge was guarded by her people, but he didn't expect him to be in a land without people.Forget about being in Yijun Tower last time, but this time he even went to her house, so he is not afraid of being discovered by people in the Qi Mansion.

But it seems that if she finds out, she can't do anything to him, she can't beat him, let alone the people in Qi Mansion.Moreover, Que Yu is too smart and wise, he probably already knows about the matter of the Ministry of War this time, and he knows more than she does.

"Qi Ze, even though I have hurt the Qi family before, you don't have to look at me like this." Que Yu flipped through the booklet in his hand, feeling bored and put it on the desk in front of him.

"Master Que, it's not whether you have harmed the Qi family before, but that you have to be vigilant." Qi Ze said while staring at Que Yu.

Hearing what Qi Ze said so directly, Que Yu pretended to sigh and said, "Oh, I always thought that because of our friendship, the two of us can be regarded as good friends who can talk about everything."

"...Young Master Que, you made a mistake. We haven't met a few times, and we can't even talk about friendship." Qi Ze didn't know where Que Yu was confident that they were good friends, they had never met A few times, they didn't go out together as often as Xu Siheng and Chu Kainan.

"Really? But I think the friendship between us is very deep, such as the time when we rescued you in Chenyue Tower, and..." Que Yu suddenly moved closer to Qi Ze's face, the corners of his lips curled up, "I'm leaning on you." The time Junlou looked at the picture."

People think that the friendship between men and men will be easier and simpler. If you think about it carefully, it is true.Many men can become friends just by saying a few words and doing a few things.And how does a man know that your relationship is very good, it is because of erotic pictures.

As long as the pictures are seen together, and several people share the new pictures they got recently with each other, they also look at them with gusto and make comments.These few people are definitely close buddies, and they are what Que Yu thinks are "good friends who talk about everything".

So for Que Yu's opinion, she was very helpless, "...Young Master Que, you made a mistake again. You were the only one who watched that time, and I didn't." Qi Ze felt that she had to maintain this last bit of stubbornness.

Que Yu looked at her and said with a smile: "I don't know who said that picture was from last year, they know better than me. Haven't you seen it together?"

"No."

Hearing Qi Ze's concise and affirmative answer, Que Yu gritted his teeth angrily and said, "You can forget everything you have done. To a woman, you are really a heartless person." Raising Qi Ze's face, "Qi Ze, you are so cold, you won't please women." As if she didn't expect that Qi Ze's face would be comfortable to hold, she grabbed Qi Ze's other half with the other hand Face.

Qi Ze: "..."

"Young Master Que, can you let go? If Young Master Que likes men, I suggest you go to the Xiaowan Building, a mile east of Yijun Building. The appearance of the people there is said to be no worse than that of women, so you can do whatever you want." Qi Ze The eyes still said indifferently.

Seeing Qi Ze like this made Que Yu so angry that he gritted his teeth and said, "Qi Ze." The hands pinching his face became even stronger, "I didn't expect you to know a lot about these things, could it be the third son Qi? Is it a broken sleeve?"

Qi Ze: "..." Let's say she doesn't count, she is indeed not as good as Long Yang.Let's say she forgets, her sexual orientation is still normal, this question is really difficult to answer.

The reason why she knew was that once when she went out with Xu Siheng and Chu Kainan, she saw a building similar to Yijun Tower next to Yijun Tower, but there was no woman in it, so she asked curiously.Unexpectedly, Chu Kainan looked at her with that strange expression, and said directly: "Of course there are no women here, because this is a small mansion. Could it be that Mr. Military Minister thinks it is not good to be an official and wants to make a living in another way?" ?”

After that, Qi Ze ignored Chu Kainan for several days.It was Xu Siheng who persuaded Chu Kainan to apologize to her, and she gave up.

Qi Ze felt his face hurt from being pinched, so he frowned.Que Yu also knew that he hurt her, so he quickly let go.

"It seems that I have to avoid you in the future, it's a little dangerous." Que Yu said jokingly.

Qi Ze just glanced at Que Yu, his expression still calm, "Don't worry, even if I am as good as Long Yang, you are not my type."

Que Yu: "..." Does this person have no sense of shame?Too thick-skinned.

"Young Master Que, you haven't told me what's the matter with you here? If there's nothing wrong, can you leave?" Qi Ze was still in a hurry to find out who was in charge of supporting Qi Chen in the Ministry of War. Picked it up again.

"Oh, I came here to tell you something you don't know. If you drive me away now, you will regret it." Hearing Qi Ze's order to evict him, he said with a wicked smile casually.No one thought of driving him away yet, Qi Ze was the first one, I really don't know who this kid's temper is like.

Qi Ze's eyes darkened when he heard this, as expected Que Yu knew, and knew more than she did.However, why did Que Yu want to tell her what he knew?
While Qi Ze was still thinking, he heard Que Yu's voice. "Do you think that with Qi Chen's ability alone, the people in the Ministry of War will really support him?" When Que Yu came, seeing Qi Ze checking the roster of the Ministry of War, he knew that Qi Ze already knew that there was a support in the Ministry of War people.

"You mean to say that the reason why the people from the Ministry of War joined Qi Chen was because of other people." After Que Yu said this, Qi Ze figured it out.It is impossible for Qi Chen to have the ability to make others listen to him and respond to him, but it is possible if there is a noble person behind him to help.

Who is this person?He was able to make the people in the Ministry of War listen to him, and even risked being discovered to kill Zhang Sheng in prison.That can only mean that this person issued an order, not because of ordinary court colleagues or friends.

Since it is an order that has to be done, it is very likely to be a royal.Now that the crown prince and the king of Jin are in a quarrel, it is possible to get rid of her for some benefit.Some time ago, King Jin took the initiative to show his favor to her in order to win her over.Then it can't be King Jin, then there is only one other one left.

Qi Ze looked into Que Yu's smiling eyes, and slowly said, "This man is the prince."

Que Yu said with a smile: "Smart, it really saves effort to talk to smart people, and you can get it right."

No wonder Qi Chen was extraordinarily quiet during this time, and often left early and returned late.It turned out that they joined forces with the prince, but Qi Yuan and Qi Wen didn't seem to know it either.As Qi Chen is the designated heir of the Qi family in the future, it is extremely important who he chooses to support.

Now that the Qi family is an important representative of the old family, they can no longer be alone and have to make a choice.If Qi Chen chooses the crown prince, doesn't that mean that the entire Qi family will support the crown prince.Then why did King Jin choose her?If the King of Jin did not know that Qi Chen had chosen the crown prince, then it is possible, but at the same time, there is also a possibility that the King of Jin knew that Qi Chen had chosen the crown prince, but he could not let go of the influence of the Qi family and chose to be with everyone in the Qi mansion. It's not right for her.

But if it is the second possibility, it shows from the side that Qi Chen joined forces with the prince not overnight, but for a long time, so Qi Chen went to the most useful official department in the court.It seems that Qi Yuan and Qi Wen should know right away, knowing that the so-called eldest grandson of the Qi family made the decision for the entire Qi family, it would be good if it didn't make Qi Yuan and Qi Wen die of anger.

No wonder Qi Chen was in a hurry to get rid of her and Qi Zhe with the affairs of the Ministry of War. It seemed that he knew that his decision would disappoint Qi Yuan and Qi Wen, so he needed a chance to get rid of them together.

In retrospect, the development of the whole matter was not caused by the prince.At that time, she was still wondering why Murong Sheng, as the crown prince of a country, suddenly remembered that he went to the market that day, it seemed that he had already picked his target.Just waiting for Zhang Sheng to commit a crime, he had a natural reason on the spot to single out the matter of military status and remove his suspicion.

As expected of the master chosen by Qi Chen, he is as good at acting as he is, and he is a tiger with a smiling face.These two people are really hard to like.

"Then why did you come here to tell me this?" Qi Ze was still very curious. Que Yu didn't need to tell her this news, but why did he come anyway.

And Que Yu just looked at her and kept smiling, with the indelible ice in his eyes, and the familiar indifference at the corner of his mouth, and after a long while, he said, "What do you think?"

"You don't want to borrow the Qi family, and use me to muddy the muddy waters between the crown prince and the king of Jin, right?" Seeing the corner of Que Yu's raised mouth, she knew she was right, "Then why don't you use your Que family? The current Que family is more ostentatious than the Qi family, isn't it?"

Que Yu laughed when he heard this.After that, he tilted his head to look at Qi Ze, and said, "Have you ever seen someone watch a dog bite a dog and use himself as a bait?"

Qi Ze stared at Que Yu, couldn't help gritting his teeth, and instantly had the thought of strangling him to death.This person's mouth is too disgusting, let's just scold the crown prince, King Jin and the Qi family, and even scold her along with him.

But even the Crown Prince and the King of Jin dared to scold him, this person is really bold and confident.

(End of this chapter)