Gel makeup

Chapter 16
Jiang Feng said, "Shut up!"

Shen Jiangdong said softly: "Don't worry, the people in this mansion can still be trusted."

Jiang Feng said: "The person under the couch of the pavilion where the imperial concubine rested just now is probably already dead. It is the imperial concubine who is not called Zhang Yang."

Shen Jiangdong hurriedly called the old housekeeper, Lao Xia, to take a look. After a cup of tea, Lao Xia reported back that he had indeed died of poison.Shen Jiangdong told Lao Xia to handle the corpse carefully, Lao Xia was obsessed with memorization, but he didn't ask too many questions, he just talked about the bad luck of the dead in the wedding ceremony, and dealt with it by himself.

Shen Jiangdong asked: "Who is it for?"

Jiang Feng thought for a while and said, "It should be aimed at me. But at that time, the imperial concubine made the move first. The assassin must have mistaken the imperial concubine for me, so he stabbed the imperial concubine first."

Shen Jiangdong became suspicious, "You two are dressed differently, how could you admit your mistake?"

"They're all wearing dark cloaks," Jiang Feng said. "The room is so dark that it's hard to tell."

Shen Jiangdong asked again: "The assassin wants to kill you, is it because you participated in the Fuzhou case?"

When the night wind blew, Jiang Feng's wine was completely awake.She lowered her eyes and said lightly: "Yes."

Shen Jiangdong's brows were full of worry, "You said you handed over the Fuzhou case file and evidence to the Ministry of Criminal Justice before you entered Beijing?"

Jiang Feng said: "Yes."

"But during the meeting, I took the opportunity to ask Yang Wanquan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment. He said that he did send someone to contact you, but he didn't contact you, and he didn't receive any evidence of the case from you!"

Jiang Feng stood up suddenly, his expression changed drastically.

"If you think about it carefully, who did you hand over to that day?"

Jiang Feng slowly recalled that the person in the green robe that day had no problems with the incision and matching cards, so he said: "That person... I didn't think there was a problem at the time. If he wasn't from the Ministry of Criminal Justice, he couldn't be in the incision against me. .”

Shen Jiangdong frowned: "If you were asked to recognize him face to face, would you be able to recognize who that person is?"

Jiang Feng suddenly fell back into his chair: "That man was wearing a bamboo hat. I didn't see his eyebrows clearly. I... I was about to enter Beijing at that time, so I was too careless." Jing, when the spirit is relaxed, it is too careful.

Shen Jiangdong suddenly asked: "When you entered Beijing, did someone attack you?"

Jiang Feng said: "Yes, but they failed. After entering the city, I turned around and met Chen Nanfei."

Shen Jiangdong sighed softly: "This is strange, could it be that it is a group of people that the imperial concubine met when she came to Beijing..."

"What's wrong?" Jiang Feng asked, "What did you remember?"

Shen Jiangdong returned to God and said, "Who is the assassin tonight? Do you have a count?"

Jiang Feng said softly: "It should be He Shizhi's person."

Shen Jiangdong was surprised: "Not from Ye Xiufeng?"

Jiang Feng shook his head and said: "Everywhere it is rumored that Ye Xiang is behind the Fuzhou case, but it is not the case. Besides, who is the imperial court official who keeps the dark line in the imperial capital? You have led the Jingwei, so you should know. The person tonight may be the same as that day Chen Nanfei, who was planning to assassinate the imperial concubine on the outskirts of the city, is all the way. Do you think Ye Xiang will send someone to assassinate his own daughter?"

He Shizhi's grandmother is the eldest princess of Yongqing, and his foundation is far deeper than that of Ye Xiufeng, who was born as a Jinshi in the late emperor's time.When the first queen was there, He Shizhi started to raise the dark thread for future contingencies.After Xiao Yi found out, he was very afraid of this matter, and ordered Shen Jiangdong, who was in charge of Jingwei at that time, to find ways to insert people from Jingwei in He Shizhi's dark line.

Shen Jiangdong took a breath and asked: "The other day Chen Nanfei could say that Ye Xiufeng killed the guard of Fuzhou, that's why he found Ye's imperial concubine to seek revenge."

"Do you think those who instigate and use Chen Nanfei will tell Chen Nanfei that he himself killed the Fuzhou guard?"

Shen Jiangdong was shocked: "You doubt He Shizhi? Then what happened to the Fuzhou case? Now that things have become like this, you should tell me, so we can discuss it."

It turned out that Jiang Feng's mother Ding returned to Fuzhou to keep her filial piety three years ago. Because she was low-key by nature and loved to go alone, no one in the Ministry of punishment knew that she was related to Jia Guogong Shen Jiangdong.Yang Wanquan did not know her identity until Yang Wanquan, the criminal secretary, asked her to investigate the matter of Fuzhou, at which time the Shenjiang family happened to discuss marriage again.

I just heard Jiang Feng say: "The epidemic spread after the disaster, and the situation in Fuzhou is too miserable. The chief minister wrote several times, and I couldn't refuse. I didn't expect that things were not so simple. Although I resigned from the ministry afterwards, I couldn't get rid of it. Today It also hurt the family."

Shen Jiangdong said eagerly: "There is nothing to be involved or not. Besides, if you had never discussed marriage with me, Yang Wanquan would not have asked you to investigate. To put it bluntly, it was because of me that you were trapped. Fuzhou, what happened? What's going on?"

Jiang Feng sighed and said: "If Hubu wants to come to the left, why does Hubu Shangshu Wu Tiande really live up to his name? He has no virtue. He was recommended by Kang Wang in the past, and he is very strong outside. After the disaster in Fuzhou, Hubu used gravel as a filling The two grains were sent to Fuzhou, resulting in insufficient supplies and salaries in Fuzhou, the people rebelled, and the garrison mutinied. After the chaos, for some reason, someone spread the word the next day that this matter was instigated by Ye Xiang. Presumably someone took advantage of the situation and rushed to Ye Splashed dirt on Xiang Xiang. It has been passed on for a long time and it is difficult to find out, and I don't know where it originated."

Shen Jiangdong was puzzled, "Didn't it mean that the stolen money was stolen from the Yamen?"

Jiang Feng smiled wryly: "After the riot, the yamen was smashed to pieces by the common people, and the tiles were robbed, and the money can still be left for the Ministry of Punishment to confiscate? With the money, what about the food? How many people are there in Zhili governor's yamen, and how big is it?" belly?"

"The criminal department has nothing to say about the matter?" Shen Jiangdong asked.

"They're not clean either." Jiang Feng closed the window and lit up the candles.

"If the thing is in He Shizhi's hands, he won't send anyone to trouble you again." Shen Jiangdong deduced.

"No," Jiang Feng shook his head again and again, "If He Xiang knew that I found out the truth about the Fuzhou case, he would also want to kill me."

"You have been in the Ministry of Criminal Justice for several years. You know most of the old background of criminal secretary Yang Wanquan, and he will not sell you. Besides, Yang Wanquan does not know that you have found out the truth now. Yang Wanquan has not received any evidence. He thinks that you have not found out anything. !"

"But someone wanted to attack me on the way to Beijing. It wasn't Ye Xiang who did it, and Ye Xiang had no motive to attack me. Then the person who attacked me on the way to Beijing could only be He Xiang, which means that He Xiang had already Noticed."

Shen Jiangdong was not at ease with Ye Xiufeng, "The governor of Fuzhou has changed several times in the past ten years. Ye Xiufeng may not have nothing to do with Fuzhou from the beginning to the end, and no one in the cabinet may be clean."

But Jiang Feng insisted: "Chen Nanfei wanted to kill the imperial concubine before, but tonight's assassin will directly kill the imperial concubine tonight. I still say the same thing, it is impossible for Ye Xiang to kill his own daughter!"

Shen Jiangdong sighed: "If it's He Shizhi... He Shizhi is scheming. Maybe the assassin came for the imperial concubine. If something happens to the imperial concubine, they can attack you and me in a fair manner. After all, our manor Shang and Ye Xiufeng's family are related by marriage." Shen Jiangdong sighed when he said this.

After hearing this, Jiang Feng asked, "Did you disagree with Miss Shen and Young Master Ye's marriage at the beginning?"

Shen Jiangdong said: "Agree or disagree, there is nothing to say now. The queen died early, and the prince had no mother to rely on; the imperial concubine gained power and had two sons. The He family even dreamed of bringing down the imperial concubine. Now there are two Minister, from now on..."

Shen Jiangdong shook his head and didn't say any more.

"Now there are two hypotheses. The first one is that Ye Xiang got the blood book left by the guard of Fuzhou. If it is Ye Xiang, he will take this thing to attack He Xiang sooner or later. But if it is Ye Xiang, then assassinate me and me tonight." The imperial concubine's people are not necessarily for the affairs of Fuzhou." Jiang Feng said.

Shen Jiangdong suddenly said sternly, "You said that if the legacy has already been in Ye Xiang's hands, why would he hold back against He Xiang and let the court slander him?"

Jiang Feng said disdainfully: "The more the foreplay is full, the more exciting the reverse will be. If you insist on guessing that Ye Xiang did it, then it can only be said that Ye Xiang made up his mind to step on He Xiang, making it difficult for He Xiang to turn around again." .”

Shen Jiangdong continued: "The second assumption is that He Shizhi got the blood book left by the Fuzhou guard, then he will be confident and continue to pour dirty water on Ye Xiufeng's head. Today the mansion is guarded by the forbidden army, and only Chen Nanfei, who was born in the capital guard, can let people come in and assassinate without anyone noticing. Moreover, the three guards of the mansion army have been led by the queen since the chaos of Emperor Taizong's imperial capital. Chen Nanfei is the man of the mansion army The commander of the guard, who used to work for Empress Rencheng He, is now a hidden danger for the Ye family's imperial concubine, this is really a good step."

Jiang Feng said: "Probably so. If you want to investigate, just investigate whether the person who assassinated and followed me several times has anything to do with the guard of the government army."

Shen Jiangdong said: "Okay. Just tell the criminal secretary Yang Wanquan that if you haven't found out what happened in Fuzhou, Yang Wanquan will naturally push the matter to the dead Fuzhou guard. You can get away, and he can get away too."

Jiang Feng sighed: "That's all we can do. Let's wait and see what happens. If His Majesty knows about Fuzhou, will he pursue him?"

"Your Majesty won't pursue it. What Your Majesty wants is a word of stability. Even if His Majesty knows what is the right thing to do, even if there is hard evidence, His Majesty will not pursue it now."

"why?"

"Firstly, to pursue the cabinet formed by the Empress Dowager to fight against the clan's painstaking efforts is to give the Zongwang headed by Duan Wang, Kang Wang, and An an opportunity. Your Majesty does not want to see such a situation. Second, Your Majesty Absolutely no desire to store easily, the prince is young, and now he needs the protection of a foreign family like He Shizhi."

"Ye He fights like this, Duan Wang is not sure how happy he is. I heard that the imperial concubine is doting on the sixth palace and has two sons. If your majesty really has the heart of easy storage, will you start with He Shizhi, a relative?"

"No." Shen Jiangdong was silent for a moment, "Your Majesty will never be easy to save. Your Majesty... His guilt for the former empress is irreparable, and it is impossible to discard the former empress when the prince himself is not at fault. Prince."

"How do you explain to His Majesty what happened to the assassin that night?"

Shen Jiangdong said: "If Your Majesty wants to pursue it, I can't."

Jiang Feng sighed: "After all, there is a mistake in our house." After finishing speaking, he turned his head and looked at Shen Jiangdong, "Why do you seem not in a hurry when such a big incident happened in the house? If Your Majesty pursues it..."

"No," Shen Jiangdong waved his hand, "Think about it, will His Majesty pursue it with great fanfare for the matter that the imperial concubine tried to hide just now? Besides, if you don't investigate the Fuzhou case, our family will not have this nosy business. Since His Majesty acquiesces in your investigation of the Fuzhou case, you already know what happened at night, think about it, don’t you?"

"I never knew that there is a reason to put all the responsibility on the superior!" Jiang Feng was very helpless.

Shen Jiangdong only said: "Let's go and see."

"By the way, imperial concubine... Didn't she grow up in Beijing?" Jiang Feng asked suddenly.

Shen Jiangdong said: "No. Ye Xiang found it from Jiangnan four or five years ago. I don't know who he grew up with before. Why do you suddenly ask this? Did you just see the imperial concubine make a move?"

Jiang Feng nodded: "That's right, I saw the imperial concubine make a move. If I were the only one to do it myself, it would be impossible to handle it so neatly, and it is likely to alarm the imperial army."

Shen Jiangdong hurriedly asked: "Can you see through the ways of the imperial concubine?"

Jiang Feng frowned and thought for a while, then hesitatingly said: "I can't tell, she's just very sensitive to changes and reacts quickly...Why, I heard that you and Ye Fu have been in-laws for a long time, don't you think you are still suspicious of the imperial concubine?"

"I don't dare," Shen Jiangdong quickly denied, "I'm just...curious. The imperial concubine herself and the entire Ye family are secretive about the past of the imperial concubine, so don't try it in the future."

Jiang Feng smiled: "You are curious, but I am not. Everyone has something to hide."

Shen Jiangdong saw a dagger beside Jiang Feng, so he picked it up and looked at it: "Why does this sword look so familiar?"

There was no key to the palace gate that day, it was almost midnight when Xiao Yi and Si Qing returned to the palace, neither of them felt sleepy.Xiao Yi followed Siqing all the way to Ninghua Hall, and dismissed the palace servants.Cheng Yingzhou, who was driving tonight, did not withdraw in the end, but kowtowed to the ground instead: "I am guilty, and my lack of precautions caused the assassin..."

"Old Cheng, did you wake up from a dream on the way? Where did the assassin come from?" Si Qing asked.

Cheng Yingzhou was taken aback for a moment, and immediately understood: "I made a slip of the tongue, it's because I'm confused."

Xiao Yi said: "Be careful in the future, you go down."

After Cheng Yingzhou withdrew, Xiao Yi asked Siqing: "Where's the assassin in Jiaguo Mansion just now?"

(End of this chapter)