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Chapter 229 Change of Dingfan
King Xiao Jing was as drunk as mud, and grinned: "Sister-in-law of the Shen family, why... hiccup... came to my house?"

Because Jiang Feng knew his sadness, he jumped out of the car and persuaded him: "King Jing is drunk." After finishing speaking, he ordered the servants of Jiaguo Mansion to send Xiao Jing Wang back to the mansion together with the servants of the Wang Mansion. It doesn't matter if you're drunk, leave me alone! Sister-in-law of the Shen family, hiccup, aren't you going to stay in the capital?"

The wind was blowing and it was bitterly cold, Jiang Feng didn't want to stand at the corner of the street and talk to him, so he motioned to the attendants to persuade the Shinto to leave.I don't know whose sheepskin lantern was blown off by the wind, and it still hasn't extinguished after rolling on the ground.There was a shrill wind in the quiet street, and Jiang Feng thought of Lin Bofu's cold smile.

If Lim Bofu could marry King Xiao Jing, it might not be a bad marriage, but it's too late to say anything now.

A few days later, Siqing met Prince Duan's concubine Zhu Shi in Yining Palace. She had a round face and a round nose, and she was a favorite of the elders.

The noble concubine Ding'an met the newcomer, so she couldn't help nagging King Xiaojing again, and King Xiaojing almost ran away.

Siqing went back to Xiyuan to play in the Moon Pavilion at night, Xiao Yi was already sitting in it looking through Siqing's paintings, Siqing took off her coat and walked in and said a few words about the new concubine, but Xiao Yi's face was ugly, headless At the end, he said, "At first, I wanted to impersonate Zheng Yiqin and pass some false reports through Zheng Xianzhong, but because Zheng Yiqin hadn't interacted with Dingfan people for too long, he was seen through."

Siqing didn't hear clearly, "What are you wearing?"

Xiao Yi pulled out a bun full of pearls and emeralds from his sleeve, "I'm wearing this." After speaking, he put it on Siqing's temple.

Siqing rubbed her temples and smiled, "Third Brother is ingenious, ingenious, blessed and intelligent."

Xiao Yi gave a "squeak", "It's not what I wore."

"Isn't it you who wanted to pass the false report through Zheng Xianzhong?"

"Yes... Isn't this a leak?"

Siqing frowned, "So?"

Xiao Yi said: "Zheng Xianzhong was killed by Dingfan."

"Killed? Are you sure?"

Xiao Yi nodded, "His head was thrown in front of the formation, and he just died not long ago."

Siqing took a breath, "Such important news should be known to Zheng Yiqin. What about Lao Cheng? Let Lao Cheng talk about it."

Xiao Yi said: "Let Lao Cheng inform him tomorrow. One more thing, our spies came to report that Tang Peng's mother also died."

Siqing asked: "Dingfan also killed?"

Xiao Yi shook his head, "It should have committed suicide."

Siqing hesitated for a moment, Xiao Yi said: "Let's ignore Tang Peng for now, Chengfu can temporarily take over the Yulin Guard, and let's talk about other things later."

Si Qing said: "It's true that he didn't find out what plan he had for rushing into Xie Yan's house that night."

Just as he was talking, He Shun carefully reported: "The Ministry of Quan has something to ask His Majesty to see, and we are waiting for orders in the Maode Palace."

Xiao Yi nodded, "You also follow me through Maode Hall, and we will go from Maode Hall to Xiyuan in a while."

The two talked while walking, Xiao Yi asked: "The old eleven went back to the house?"

"Let's go," Siqing said, "How did I hear that after he got married, Prince Duan's illness got worse?"

"Huang Yuan also said the same," Xiao Yi said, "but there is one more thing...do you still remember the monk raised by King Duan?"

Si Qing thought for a while, "Xining injured Lao Cheng's fan monk in Xishan in 13 years?"

Xiao Yi nodded, "These foreign monks may be useful."

Siqing wore a light orange shirt with the pattern of Liuyun Wanfu, which hung down to the ground.At this time Xiao Yi stepped on the hem of Siqing's coat, and Siqing pulled out her hand and said, "Don't step on my clothes."

Xiao Yi said: "Your clothes are too long, it takes a lot of effort to walk such a long distance."

"Don't walk close to me, or you won't be able to step on it. I didn't step on it myself. Where did you just say?"

"The monk raised by King Duan is useful."

“How come you see?”

"The old thief of Dingfan has been repeatedly defeated recently. According to the spies, he intends to collude with the foreign countries in the southwest to cause chaos. And the monks beside King Duan came from the southwestern countries. If he can communicate with Han Shoushen, so can we. .”

Si Qing said: "So King Duan is still far-sighted, and he has played useful idle chess."

Just as he was talking about approaching Maode Hall, Shangshu Quanbu and others saluted, Siqing hurriedly retreated to dodge, who knew that Xiao Yi accidentally stepped on Siqing's clothes again, and the two of them staggered and almost knocked over each other.

Fortunately, everyone dared not look up.Xiao Yi was helpless, Siqing was annoyed, one dodged, the other took off his clothes, and finally returned to their respective positions.Siqing held her head high, shaking her clothes nonchalantly, and was about to leave, but when she turned around, she stepped on her clothes again, and Xiao Yi hurried to help her up.

Lingzhen hurried forward to hold the back of Siqing's clothes, and then Siqing slowly left.

In fact, how to deal with Tang Peng has always been a problem that has plagued Siqing and Xiao Yi.

Tang Peng was originally one of Jingwei's most trusted commanders, but he was first robbed of his wife by Ningshou Mansion, and then his widowed mother was detained by Dingfan.

Dingfan repeatedly asked him to do something, and when Dingfan's patience reached the limit, he once passed on to Dingfan the well-known trivial matter of Shen Jiangdong's estrangement with the king of Anping County.If Han Shoushen, the eldest son of Dingfan, hadn't come to Beijing to die, and Tang Peng happened to be there, I'm afraid he would have become Han Shouchen's abandoned son.

However, Han Shouchen didn't intend to let his elder brother go after his death, and made a big show of sowing discord, trying to cause disputes between the queen and the He family through him.Because Han Shouchen's layout was not secret, Tang Peng escaped once by relying on Jingwei's trust in him.Seeing that he was quite capable, Han Shouchen didn't intend to give up this tasteless pawn.Back in Kang Wang's mansion, Xiao Xu colluded with Han Shouchen to plot rebellion. Tang Peng, as one of the insiders, got the news of Dingfan before the uprising.But at the last moment, Tang Peng chose the plan to go out to Dingfan to dissuade Siqing from leaving Da Nei for temporary shelter.Although Siqing didn't leave, Tang Peng's betrayal bought her some time, otherwise the East Palace would probably have been blown to pieces by now.

After the explosion in the East Palace Hall, Tang Peng was stabbed by Siqing and seriously injured, but outsiders didn't know how he was injured, and thought he was injured in the explosion like King Kang and his son, so Tang Peng's departure from the Shouding Domain was not exposed Siqing didn't touch him for the sake of his betrayal.Originally, Tang Peng's treason was not discovered by Dingfan, and he himself was not held accountable. He could continue to hang out between the court and Han Shouchen, and Siqing didn't plan to do anything.Unexpectedly, during the sensitive period when Gu Heng's accident happened, he tampered with the guards of the Habayashi, and even bumped into Si Qing who was out of the palace.

Siqing reflected afterwards that the theft of the tribute had indeed caused an uproar in the court, and it was not impossible for the Habayashi Guard to receive the great entrustment of the Nancheng Bingmasi.If he hadn't been at Xie's house that day, then Tang Peng's fault for tampering with Habayashi guards didn't seem to be that big.That day when Yao Yuantu asked someone to write a book for him to scold him, he just learned about it, and he happened to be angry, and the reason why Tang Peng bumped into him happened to be related to the shipping department of Mingzhou City that Yao Yuantu was involved in. , I was a little too angry and suspicious, so I moved to kill.If Fu Linchuan hadn't been in Qingxi Garden that night, maybe Tang Peng had really been silenced by himself.

As one of the first attendants who followed Siqing to visit Wu Zhenying's mansion, he may not know about Siqing and Fu Linchuan, but Tang Peng definitely knows a thing or two about the intersection with Wu Zhenying, which is also an important reason why he fears Tang Peng.

Now that Tang Peng's mother died, it meant that Dingfan lost the bargaining chip to threaten Tang Peng.Tang Peng didn't dare to die before, because he was afraid that if he lost his value, his mother's fate would be even more miserable.Now that his mother is dead, Tang Peng has no obsession, and has no interest in life.

When Zheng Yiqin learned that his son had vomited blood and died, Tang Peng's reaction was not bad.Xiao Yi and Siqing have never dealt with him, and Siqing only used shady means to silence him. Tang Peng has been supported by Cheng Yingzhou in Jingwei. Once it is revealed that Tang Peng is a spy of Dingfan, Cheng Yingzhou will inevitably be implicated.After the festival, Xiao Yi wanted to settle the matter, so he demoted Tang Penglian to [-] ranks from command envoy to small banner officer on the charge of tampering with the Habayashi guards.

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In February, the imperial court won successive victories, Dingfan's collusion with foreign invaders failed, Han Xunli died in battle, and the court was full of joy.Three days later, Han Shouchen, the son of Han Xunli, "ascended the throne", granted all officials, and won the imperial court in western Guangdong.In a blink of an eye, the death day of Empress Dowager Renkang was approaching, and Xiao Yi didn't mention the matter of going to Xishan to worship, nor did he mention the old case of Duke Jinguo.

At the end of February, Jiang Feng received a letter from Tonghe, saying that Yan Mowei would give birth in late April and early May.

After Zheng Yiqin's death, Siqing wrote to Gu Heng, and asked several times how his elder brother Gu Heng was recovering. Gu Heng's reply was always vague, presumably his arthralgia was still not healed.

Because Shen Jiangdong started to have a fever before the first month of the month, and the old injury on his right arm was always painful after the fever subsided. Today, he used his left hand to rein in the horse while riding a horse. The ground was slippery in winter, and he accidentally fell off the horse and injured himself. I don't come to Xiyuan often.

Siqing felt bored, and often looked at Taiye Pool from Wanyue Pavilion, where the spring water was blue and the green willows were like silk, and the kabuki sang "Lanling King Willow" by the water.

The musicians sang it over and over again, and those who heard it felt even more sad.As Siqing's birthday was approaching, it always reminded her of Ye Lanmo's appearance last year. She wanted to open Ye Lanmo's scroll several times, closed it several times, and finally threw it into the fire.

When Han Xunli died, the situation changed.In February, Han Shouchen blatantly declared that Jinshang was not the descendant of the first emperor. Empress Renkang adopted Jinshang from the people because she was childless and greedy for profit.Originally, the Han family was a vassal prince with a different surname, so they made such a gimmick that neither fish nor fowl.But today, he is the only adult heir of the first emperor, and the rumors that Han Shouchen spread had already existed.

On this day, Siqing went to Qiongyu on the south bank of Taiye Pond to watch the scenery, and in the evening, because of the cold spring, she went back to the Moon Pavilion.Unexpectedly, all the attendants disappeared, Siqing pushed open the door, the apse study she had just arranged was smashed to pieces, Xiao Yi was sitting on the ground in front of the desk in a daze.Her intuition told Siqing that perhaps the late Jinshang's mother, Empress Renkang, had another story behind her.

Siqing was thinking wildly, but the sound of her opening the door startled the dazed Xiao Yi, who didn't raise his head, and said, "Get lost." This word has no emotion.

Siqing said lightly, "Okay."

When Xiao Yi heard the familiar voice, he quickly raised his head, "It's you? I thought..."

Siqing closed the door and wanted to leave, Xiao Yi stood up, "Don't leave, I didn't know it was you."

Only then did Siqing enter the hall and close the door, looked around at Xiao Yi's masterpiece, Xiao Yi was a little embarrassed, "Your cat did it."

Siqing's civet cat came out from nowhere and screamed loudly. Siqing hugged the cat and said with a smile, "No wonder it's like this."

Xiao Yi didn't speak, Si Qing turned around and sat on the ground, picked up a book and flipped through it, Xiao Yi saw that she was silent, so he asked: "Do you have anything to ask?"

"No," Siqing said, "Is it normal to get angry?" She suddenly stretched out two fingers, "It's the second time I smashed my things. I just arranged it. Give me the pair of Lianzhu bottles in Maode Hall I will make it up."

Xiao Yi said dissatisfied: "Last time you also smashed it."

"What about this time?"

"This time your cat is involved too."

Siqing said, "You bully cats that can't talk."

Xiao Yi finally smiled, "How about going back to Ninghua Palace? It's deserted here."

Siqing seldom saw Xiao Yi uncharacteristically erratic, and moved back to Ninghua Palace the next day.In the evening, Yunchu said that Xiao Yi was upstairs in Zhanyun Building, and Siqing put on an apricot red gown and went upstairs to find Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi was wearing a white crane cloak, with loose hair, standing in Zhanyun Tower and looking north.The crane cloak was light and thin, Siqing looked from behind him and saw his slender figure outlined by the moonlight.He was lonely and cold, and he didn't know what was on his mind.Siqing originally wanted to call him, but hesitated for a moment, saw him sit down again, tuned the Qin Zhen, and played a piece that Siqing couldn't name.

Xiao Yi was born in Tian's family, and he learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since he was a child, and he is far better than Siqing in these elegance.The Xiang Siqing he tuned did not know what recipe it was, and the song he played Siqing did not know whose composition it was.But there is such an elegant beauty playing the piano for her, mixing fragrance and ordering tea, she is happy to enjoy it directly.

But today Xiao Yi's song was not smooth, Qu Bi Siqing was about to turn around and leave, Xiao Yi found someone behind him, turned his head and asked, "Siqing?"

Siqing said: "How did you come through the Zhanyun Tower on the Ninghua Palace? Your steps are lighter than a cat."

Xiao Yi forced a smile, "Did I disturb your sleep?"

Siqing said, "I didn't sleep."

Xiao Yi was like a jade man again, cold to the touch, cold and silent, Si Qing said: "It's getting late, let's go back to the front hall."

Who knew that Xiao Yi unfolded his wide sleeves, like a big cat stretching its head out to be petted.Siqing smiled, and stretched out her arms to hug Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi said softly: "I like this, quietly watching from a high place."

Si Qing knew that this beautiful woman always liked to be clean, so she deliberately asked: "Then do you like to hug me?"

"of course."

"Won't you dislike it?"

"of course not."

Xiao Yi put his chin against Si Qing's head and rubbed it back and forth, Si Qing continued: "You don't think I didn't wash my hair for five days?"

"Of course not..." Xiao Yi suddenly realized, "Five days?!"

Just when Siqing wanted to watch a good show, Xiao Yi immediately said again: "You are lying."

Xiao Yijue got up early to go to the Zhengqing Hall for the morning court. Siqing was woken up and couldn't go back to sleep, so she got up early to wash up.Once back to Ninghua Palace, other than He Meiren, the other concubines all came to Ninghua Palace to say hello.

Siqing is used to being carefree, and she hasn't even washed herself up yet. Concubine Zhou held a mirror, concubine Fang Hui held a comb, and Miss Pei dressed her up with flowers, so she gave up.

(End of this chapter)