Gel makeup

Chapter 27

Jiang Feng resigned from Wu Zhenying one day, and went to see Shen Huanhua with Shen Jiangdong the next day.

She got up early wearing a dress with swallowtail green sleeves and a pine-colored mud skirt. Her hair was tied up in a high bun with a row of grass roses tied with red velvet thread. Jin San's matter, the skirt is tied with jasper, and the ring is jingled while walking. Shen Jiangdong feels novelty, walks around her twice, just smiles: "I dare not recognize you."

Jiang Feng put on the golden red shirt outside, a little embarrassed, and didn't speak.

The two picked when Ye Xiufeng was not in the house, Jiang Feng asked: "This matter is such a big deal, why are Ye Xiang and He Xiang silent?"

Shen Jiangdong sneered: "It's none of your business, so it's natural to hold it high."

"Ye Xiufeng won't treat sister Huanhua slowly, will he?"

"He dared. I was deprived of my title and sent three thousand miles away."

Speaking of arriving at the residence of Shen Huanhua in the Ye Mansion, Shen Huanhua was old and had a bad pregnancy. He was crooked every day. When Jiang Feng saw him, he said, "I won't go to Fuzhou, I will go after you give birth."

Shen Huanhua smiled and said, "You're joking again. My brother often talks about your strengths. You go with my brother and help him grow his eyes, so I can rest assured."

Shen Jiangdong asked: "You stay in Ye Mansion alone, is it okay?"

Shen Huanhua said: "Sister Siqing, the former son, didn't worry about me, so she told me to go to Qingxi Garden in Nannei. I said I wouldn't go, because there were too many people. Besides, she was angry with the third brother again. If I went , I have become a messenger to the third brother, I am impatient."

Shen Jiangdong was surprised: "Get angry again?"

"Who said it wasn't? I heard that a cupboard of secret-colored porcelain was smashed, Amitabha. But it will be ready in two days. Don't worry about me. The house is really not good. After two days, Siqing will not get angry with the third brother." , I will go south.”

Shen Jiangdong thought that Siqing was cautious by nature, and Concubine Ding'an loved Shen Huanhua. Shen Huanhua's plan was the best, so he asked a few more words, and set off for Fuzhou the next day without mentioning it.

Although Chaoli's posthumous posthumous title for the Empress Dowager Renkang was suppressed, at the end of the year, due to the fixed military pay and the preparation of the Yongling Mausoleum and the mausoleum of the Empress Dowager, the situation was stretched.The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs were arguing with each other, and Ye Xiufeng and He Shizhi were very lively.

Not long after, Xiao Yi mentioned Li Siqing as a funeral matter, and the clan headed by Duan Wang, Kang Wang, and Anping County King strongly opposed it, but today he asked several clan relatives: "Uncles, uncles, and the empress dowager's last wish is so. How can it be tampered with?"

After Meng Guangshi's incident, King Duan and the others were unwilling to have any further quarrels with Jinshang, so what he wanted to do must provoke He Shizhi to do it.

So the memorials to Li Zhonggong appeared sporadically under Duan Wang's secret instruction, and He Shizhi felt like sitting on pins and needles.

On the ninth day of November, a censor presented new "evidence" of Ye Xiufeng's contacts with Fuzhou guards.He Shizhi was obviously unwilling to be used as a spear by King Duan. The censor who wrote the letter this time turned out to be King Duan's confidant in the eyes of everyone. King Duan tore up his most beloved green landscape scroll when he heard the words.

Shen Jiangdong and Jiang Feng who were in Fuzhou were not in the imperial capital and had never been involved in these matters, so they lived a rather leisurely life.It snowed heavily that day, and the two went to Jiang's old house in the suburbs of Fuzhou on snow. Jiang Feng sighed: "Ye Xiufeng has been in the cabinet for many years, so it is impossible for him to have nothing to do with Fuzhou. The time of the 'evidence' is wrong, not Fuzhou What can the things at the time of the case explain? He Shizhi must have a basket of such 'evidence' himself. The real 'evidence' may be in the hands of His Majesty, what does His Majesty want to do?"

Shen Jiangdong said: "Your Majesty wants to make the imperial concubine the queen, there is no doubt about it. But your Majesty does not want to break the current situation between He Ye and King Duan."

"Your Majesty doesn't want to, but King Duan does, so King Duan pushes He Shi, wanting to make Ye Xiang unable to stand up, and the imperial concubine loses the protection of her mother's family, so she can no longer be in the middle palace?"

Shen Jiangdong shook his head: "I don't think so. King Duan's objection to making the imperial concubine the queen is nothing more than fear of the power of his relatives. If Ye Xiufeng falls, he has no reason to object to His Majesty making the imperial concubine the queen. Maybe Duan Wang just wanted to provoke He Shizhi was in a difficult situation with the imperial concubine, but it's a pity that He Shizhi lifted a rock and threw it on Ye Xiufeng's head. Maybe Prince Duan is also depressed."

"Why, in the eyes of King Duan, the imperial concubine is more difficult than Ye Xiufeng?"

"Let's not talk about whether the 'evidence' is in His Majesty's hands. The Fuzhou case was not caused by Ye Xiufeng. If Ye Xiufeng had an accident because of the Fuzhou case, it would not be a major event of collaborating with the enemy and treason. The imperial concubine just lost the protection of her mother's family." But the first imperial concubine was chosen by the empress dowager, and the second was of high rank and had two elder brothers. No one could stop her from entering the central palace, unless Duan Wang and He Shizhi gave Ye Xiufeng a press. The hat of collaborating and treason. Do you know about Duke Yasukuni? Your Majesty is most afraid of this. If anyone puts the hat of collaborating and treason on Ye Xiufeng, His Majesty will definitely not let him go."

Jiang Feng murmured after hearing this: "Then this is an unsolvable deadlock?"

Shen Jiangdong smiled: "It's really a dead end. King Duan, He Shizhi, and Ye Xiufeng are all involved. If you want to break the game, you have to die. If Ye Xiufeng dies, this game will really break itself." He thought for a while and said, "Seeing that there is going to be chaos again, if not, you go back to Beijing. One is that I don't worry about Huanhua, and the other is...you are still in Fuzhou, He Shizhi is afraid that he will be in trouble."

Jiang Feng set off from Fuzhou to return to the Imperial Capital the next day. The snow fell heavily and the group of people traveled very slowly.Fortunately, the snow stopped just after dawn on the second day, so a group of people got up early and hurried on their way. When they were about to reach the north of the city, a young servant from Jiaguo Mansion rode over to greet him with snow all over his head and body, "Ma'am, what happened?" It's gone! Something serious has happened! The master in-law is gone! Something happened to the eldest girl in our family!"

Xiao Yi was probably the first person in Miyagi who learned of Ye Xiufeng's accident.On this day, she and Siqing eased up, and Siqing moved from Nannei back to the Ninghua Palace in the forbidden center, but Xiao Yi was not allowed to stay in the Ninghua Palace.Xiao Yi went back to the Zhengqing Palace alone, tossing and turning, looking through the scriptures left by the Empress Dowager Renkang, when the palace gate opened, Cheng Yingzhou hurriedly asked to see and report to the Ye Mansion, Xiao Yi was shocked when he heard the words: "How about the fifth sister? "

Cheng Yingzhou whispered: "I was frightened, it's not very good..."

"Then don't ask the people from the imperial medical office to go! You get someone to call Yizheng! Go!" The late emperor's descendants were weak, and Xiao Yi grew up with the late emperor's adopted daughters.Xiao Yi's fourth younger sister, Princess Xianju, married far away in the Jingjiang Mansion, and her sixth younger sister was poisoned by the Empress Dowager after the Yasukuni case broke out. In any case, Xiao Yi has always been very close to Shen Huanhua, the younger sister.

After a while, Cheng Yingzhou made arrangements and came back to report: "Mingli is Ye Xiang who read the letter from Mr. Ye Xiang and got really angry. In fact, someone gave Ye Xiang something to cause paralysis..."

The main hall was dark in the night, and the lights and candles were far away. I couldn't see Xiao Yi's expression, nor Cheng Yingzhou's expression clearly. I could only hear Cheng Yingzhou's trembling and indistinct voice. The informant..."

Xiao Yi talked with Cheng Yingzhou for a while, and said softly: "Go to He Shizhi's mansion again, you go ask He Shizhi, and say that I told you to ask - ask He Shizhi's mansion, is it lost? Two people?"

Cheng Yingzhou sighed, "I understand."

Xiao Yi said: "Does the imperial concubine know?"

Cheng Yingzhou thought for a while and replied, "In a while, I'm afraid someone will report it."

Xiao Yi said: "I see, you go."

He Shizhi, a scholar of the Huagai Palace, has been sleepless for many days because of the affairs of the court. He managed to sleep peacefully this night. On the other hand, he suffered from a heart attack, and it was useless to drink Yangxin decoction, and he died at the time of Yin."

He Shizhi was so startled that he stood there in a daze, and said in a low voice: "Dead..." After a while, he came back to his senses, and he ordered people to take the official uniform, and he didn't eat, so he was about to go inside, who knew He bumped into the expressionless Cheng Yingzhou head-on, Cheng Yingzhou greeted him politely and asked: "He Xiang, did you sleep well last night?"

After Cheng Yingzhou said goodbye, He Shizhi lost his three souls and seven souls, and only ordered a group of voices to go to Ye Mansion to send Biyi off.The family's confidant guests and staff came up to make fun of him and said, "My lord is very happy! You won't be going to court today, what kind of official uniform are you wearing? The little You'er who sang Nanqu at the banquet the other day was very cute, how about asking him to sing a song?" "

He Shizhi slapped his backhand and said bitterly: "Are you still in the mood to listen to the music? Let me ask you——Ye... Did you order the killing?!"

The staff was stunned: "Master is confused, didn't Ye Xiang die of illness?"

"He died of illness?" He Shizhi looked around, lowered his voice and said, "He didn't die of illness, he was poisoned to death."

The staff member raised his head in embarrassment: "Who did it?"

He Shizhi kept a word in his mouth, held back so much that the Tengjiao pattern was about to burst, and after a while he said in a low voice: "The two people who were put in by our house...are gone!"

The aide clapped his hands and said: "A secret thread in the house? Now it is said that Ye Xiang died of illness-has this matter never been lost?"

"I didn't give the order, and I didn't lose the wind, how did I know?" He Shizhi sighed, "The ready-made handle has fallen, and God knows when it will happen?"

The staff still asked: "Who has the handle?"

He Shizhi glared at him, and said, "Be more careful recently, and clean up the bad debts in your hands quickly."

"The matter in Fuzhou is over? We managed to settle the censor of Duanwang's family!"

"Why do you want to investigate when everyone is dead? This is what His Majesty meant! Didn't you see Cheng Yingzhou coming! Ye Xiufeng is dead, why bother?!"

The staff squinted and whispered: "Ye Xiufeng is dead but his daughter is still there. If you don't investigate Ye, how can you hinder..."

"Don't be an idiot," He Shizhi stretched out two fingers to poke the staff's heart, "Now we can't protect ourselves, so we have to follow His Majesty's wishes and don't hold back."

The staff member was stunned, and took a breath: "Your Majesty knows?" After thinking for a while, he was surprised, "Could it be that those two bastards in our house did it, and then fell into His Majesty's hands? Why doesn't Your Majesty know?" Attack you? What are you going to do?"

"Your Majesty doesn't attack me now, God knows that one day I will die without a place to bury me! I have to find out who stabbed the knife in the back first." He Shizhi suddenly remembered a person, so he said word by word: "Except for the one who stabbed me in the back last night." The two bastards, the other ones are fine, and the joints in Mrs. Jiaguo's hands are the most serious. No matter whether Mrs. Jiaguo has something against us, this person must be guarded against."

"This person is very skilled and vigilant, it is really difficult to strike. Moreover, Shen Jiangdong's position has always been unclear. If he touches his wife, we will have an enmity with the Duke of Jia. , we should not be offended."

He Shizhi said sadly, "Use your brain and think long term."

Xiao Yi knew that if He Shizhi had the guts to kill Ye Xiufeng, he wouldn't procrastinate to this critical juncture and cause trouble all over himself.And Prince Duan has no reason to attack, after all, Prince Duan and the Ye family are still close because of Princess Duan, and Prince Duan's mansion is even more discordant with the He family.As soon as Ye Xiufeng died, King Duan and He Shizhi fought hand to hand.Moreover, since Ye Xiufeng died, Siqing lost her relatives, and Prince Duan had no reason to hinder her from going further.Thinking about approaching Ninghua Hall, I saw a maid in plain clothes kneeling on the ground, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be Xia Ying beside Shen Huanhua.

Xiao Yi staggered, looked up and saw that Siqing was still wearing the middle single, but the two rows of jade tendons were falling straight down.

"What happened to fifth child?"

Xiaying was already crying, and Siqing reluctantly said: "Last night Huanhua was rushing to deal with the funeral, one was terrified when he saw the death scene, and the other fell, adults and children...neither survived..."

Xiaying didn't dare to cry out loud because of etiquette, but at this moment, someone said at the gate of the hall: "What did you say?!" When everyone looked up, it turned out that it was Concubine Ding'an who fell straight down.

(End of this chapter)