Pingyang Fu of the Red Chamber

Chapter 158 Junior Sister Is Really You
In front of Rongguo Mansion,
Protector Right exclaimed there, trying to stop the leader Bai Shuiyue.

Unexpectedly, the leader moved quickly, jumped three times in a row, and directly passed the people in front of him. Ying Xiancai caught an empty hand and jumped up anxiously.

Looking around, he hurriedly disappeared again.

And Bai Shuiyue stepped left and right, and came to the vicinity of the carriage, her movements were elegant and quick, and she was close to the carriage in a blink of an eye.

The guards didn't react for a while, Duan Hong saw it and shouted;
"Warning! Enemy attack!"

The guards immediately wanted to protect the carriage and drew out their weapons. Zhang Jinyu walked in front, unexpectedly, something happened behind him, so he hurriedly grabbed the horse's head and prepared to return for help.

Seeing that the guards had already reacted, Bai Shuiyue threw two stones directly, hitting the heads of the two guards behind the carriage with precision, and they also arrived in response.

Seeing the opportunity, Bai Shuiyue moved forward one by one, jumped into the carriage through the rear window.

And the girls in the carriage also became alert when they heard the sound of warning.

The two daughters, Lan Yue'er and Lan Shu'er, immediately drew their sharp daggers from their seats and prepared.

Yang Hanyu was also surprised by the second daughter's reaction, this is not something a maid can do, it seems that she doesn't need to do it herself, Yang Hanyu also silently holds the purse in her hand, it is the famous hidden weapon of the Zoroastrian Cult flying all over the sky.

Shooting at close range is basically impossible to dodge.

Wang Shi was also secretly vigilant, holding the short blade in his hand.

At this moment, a person turned over from the rear window of the carriage, and the two daughters, Yue Shu, immediately attacked the figure and stabbed at the figure. At the critical moment, Bai Shuiyue yelled;
"Junior Sister is me."

Hearing such a familiar voice, Wang didn't even think about it, and slapped the second girl's arm like lightning, and the dagger stabbed on the two walls of the carriage, and nailed it with a "thump".

Zhang Jinyu ran back with the people, and saw someone jumping into the carriage from outside, almost fell off the horse in fright.

loss of voice;
"Hurry up and protect the carriage, don't hurt the people in the carriage."

Hearing her son's voiceless words, Mrs. Wang hurriedly spoke out to comfort him;

"I'm fine, let's go ahead and talk about it when we get back home."

How can Zhang Jinyu believe it, someone went in just now, but he saw it clearly, so he hurried to the carriage with a knife and asked;

"That ceremonial officer, if you ask for anything, I will definitely answer it. Please don't hurt the people in the car."

Bai Shuiyue was a little funny, looked over, and asked in a low voice;

"Junior Sister, is this your son?"

Wang Shihan also said without fear,
"It's really time for you to come. You will be on your way later."

After speaking, he got out of the carriage.

Zhang Jinyu was outside the car with a treasured sword in her hand. When she saw her mother, Mrs. Wang getting out, she wanted to ask, but she was stopped by Mrs. Wang's eyes.

"Go home immediately."

Although Zhang Jinyu was a little puzzled, she guessed that there must be something strange in it, and immediately turned back on the horse and shouted;
"Listen to the order and return home immediately."

"It's Lord Hou."

Looking at the convoy going away, a group of dazed common people and people from Jia's mansion were left behind.

The second wife, Mrs. Wang, wanted to go up to ask what was going on, and Wang Xifeng was also worried, but Jia Mu stopped her instead.

"You guys, keep your eyes open, you still can't tell, there must be something strange about this person."

The second wife, Mrs. Wang, immediately understood what Jia Mu meant. Only Wang Xifeng was a little worried, but Jia Lian didn't feel anything. If Luo Yunhou, a lone assassin, can't even handle this, then his reputation is in vain.

When everyone saw the Hou's convoy going away, Mother Jia led the people back to Rongguo's mansion, and the people in the surrounding streets dispersed because there was nothing to watch.

Imperial City Office,
Dai Quan has come here frequently these days, watching the progress of the case.

"Li Qianhu, what's going on over there?"

"Return to Dugong, Ma Qianhu is already under control and thoroughly investigating Quan Gong's family."

"Okay, let me know if there is any news."

"It's Lord Dugong."

South of the capital,

They are all gathering places for petty officials and ordinary people. A few days ago, Sima Qianhu of the imperial city led people to the house of Quangong, a hundred households of imperial edicts.

It was sunny that day,

Ma Qianhu brought people to the outside of the yard. The place was quiet, as if no one lived there. Ma Mengquan felt that something was wrong. In broad daylight, every house smoked, how could there be such a quiet yard.

Even if you are not cooking, you need to have a voice, and there is no one watching the other yard.

Ma Qianhu gestured to the people behind, and the people in the Imperial City Department immediately understood, and the people who were separated climbed up the wall from the outside of the yard to look in. It was very quiet, and a general flag whispered;

"My lord. The yard is quiet, as if there is no one there."

Ma Mengquan was convinced that something had happened to Quan Gong's family, and asked,

"No one, then there is a ghost. Brothers, be careful, don't go to the main entrance, turn over the courtyard wall, and then be careful of that thing to open the door."

"Yes, my lord."

The people from the Huangcheng Division climbed in from the courtyard wall, then went to the gate, and picked the door bolt with a long knife.

Give it a strong bucket, and in an instant, the powdered jar fell from the door rail. As soon as it hit the ground, a large amount of water was spilled, leaving it on the ground and making a sizzling sound. It must be extremely poisonous.

The people in the Imperial City Division felt their scalps go numb when they saw it, Zongqi said timidly;
"My lord is wise, there are traps in this yard."

Ma Qianhu was also a little caught off guard. He didn't expect it to be a trap. It is necessary to be careful all the time.

Only then did he lead someone to open the door from the outside, then walked over the puddle on the ground and walked in.

"Well, be careful, bring a long stick over here, and stab it first if you see something wrong."

"Yes, my lord."

Then Huangchengsi and his party walked inside with all kinds of forks, sticks, brooms and other items.

When I came to the main house, the doors and windows were closed, and I couldn't see the inside of the house, and there was no trap at all outside.

Several Xiaoqi didn't dare to go in directly, they looked at each other, raised their long sticks and stabbed in from the side.

There was only a "pop", and another heavy object fell to the ground, no need to ask, it was the same venom as before.

The door is wide open,

A few people hurriedly hid aside, waited for a while and didn't see anything else falling, and there was nothing unusual, so they came to have a look.

After checking, there was no trap. Ma Qianhu had already come to the door of the house from outside the yard at this time, and beat around with a long stick to make sure there was no trap before leading people in.

After taking a look at the house, which is full of ordinary household items, there are still uneaten meals in the kitchen.

Walk over to pick up the lid, the food has already stale in such cold weather, it should have been a few days.

Going to the back room, even the living place is very simple, there is only one kang, and there are laid bedding on it, presumably it is going to sleep, so it seems that it should have happened in the evening.

Ma Mengquan went over to rummage through it, but found no clues, then went to the cabinet on the kang, opened the cabinet and looked inside, and found that there were still a few taels of silver and a ten tael bill.

It must not be asking for money, it was obviously aimed at Quan Gong himself, that's not right, Quan Gong didn't go to prison, did he kill his wife in that family?

Thinking of this, Ma Mengquan was also puzzled, what could make Quan Gong kill his wife and then go to prison to die?
At this moment, the voice of the general flag came from behind,
"My lord, a body was found in the cellar."

It turned out that the General Banner of the Imperial City Department led people to repeatedly search the yard and found a cellar. He tapped the entrance with a fork and found nothing abnormal before going down. There was a smell of corpses as soon as he went in. Don't need to ask. There was a corpse here, and a few people went out to open the entrance to ventilate, and the general flag came to report.

Hearing this, Ma Mengquan immediately put down the things in his hands and followed.

A few people came to the cellar. Although it was ventilated, there was still some smell at this time. When they came inside, they saw two corpses lying there, a man and a woman.

Ma Qianhu put on his handkerchief and went up to check carefully. The woman was of course Quan Gong's mother-in-law.

But who is the other, look carefully, another man's entire face has been cut off, the method is a rare disguise, and he is wearing a uniform of a prison guard, don't ask, it must be Quan Gong himself.

Ma Mengquan stood up and said;

"This place is sealed off, and people are being dragged to the imperial city's yamen, where they are being inspected carefully."

The general flag asked;

"My lord, who is this?"

"Who, of course it's him, hurry up."

"Uh, it's my lord."

Ma Qianhu brought a group of people back to the Si Yamen of the Imperial City and went to see Dai Quan.

"Duke, it has been discovered that Quan Gong died at home, and was melted into a disguise mask."

Dai Quan said;
"It's hard work. The work in the yamen has also been tested. That person is disguised. Then I checked the entire prison guard one by one. I didn't find any accomplices. It means that I was assassinated by the cunning and insidious of the descendants. , be quick and ruthless."

Ma Mengquan naturally guessed that the governor must find out about this, but he still paid attention to it.

"Report to Duke Du, there are still discoveries under my post."

Dai Quan became interested and asked;
"Oh, I also found out that it really was you, Ma Mengquan. The seat was vacated after this frugal incident happened. After this incident, you will fill the vacancy."

Ma Mengquan was overjoyed;
"Thank Duke Du for cultivating, and the subordinates must follow Duke Du."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, tell me what you found."

Only then did Ma Mengquan calm down and tell his findings. It turned out that when he was sure that there was a trap in Quangong's house, he knew something was wrong. First of all, since the liquid in the jar was highly poisonous, why didn't it touch the pollen liquid? The front was safe and sound.

Ma Mengquan boldly guessed that the pollen and liquid are highly toxic in combination, they are fine when separated, and highly toxic when combined.

Then Ma Qianhu dipped a little pollen on the tip of his nose with his finger and asked, it turned out to be a special kind of gouache, and he just knew the smell.

After Dai Quan listened, he immediately asked questions;
"Where did you smell it?"

"Return to Dugong, in the Spring Building of Yichun Courtyard in the capital."

Ma Qianhu replied decisively, Dai Quan touched his nose,

"It turned out to be him. Ma Qianhu, how do you judge that other brothels don't have this thing?"

"Hui Dugong's subordinates are not sure whether other brothels have this thing, but they know that few people use this thing. Brothels use rouge powder from the south of the Yangtze River, and few people use pollen from the south."

Ma Qianhu himself guessed with some uncertainty there.

"I've done my frugal business, and I'll keep an eye on Yichunyuan after this matter to see if there are any flaws."

Ma Mengquan was overjoyed and knelt down to thank him.

"Thank you Lord Dugong."

Dai Quan, who just wanted to get up and run away, was stopped by Ji Yunhui who went out to investigate,

"Duke, Yichun Courtyard, something happened to Chunlou?"

"What, what happened?"

Dai Quan was also a little surprised, this was mentioned just now.

"Return to Dugong, in the Chunlou, Luo Yunhou and Jia Zhen of the Ningguo Mansion led people to make a big move there, and smashed the Chunlou."

Ji Yunhui reported in detail, Dai Quan wondered if the emperor had told Luo Yunhou,
"What's the matter?"

"Returning to Dugong, it is said that Jia Zhenduo Luo Yunhou of Ningguo Mansion just made a marriage."

Dai Quan couldn't believe it. Isn't this an excuse? He felt a headache for a moment. The Jia family is now, hey.

"and after?"

Ji Yunhui recounted what happened afterwards.

"Later. After we negotiated, we went back to our homes."

Dai Quan was secretly relieved after hearing that it had been resolved.

"It's an eventful autumn, Ji Baihu has worked hard, no, Ji Qianhu, Mengquan made up for his lack of frugality, so you make up for his vacancy and work hard."

"Thank you Dugong for cultivating,"

Ji Yunhui was overjoyed, and Dai Quan encouraged him and returned to Da Nei.

The people around the Imperial City Department congratulated enviously, and Ji Yunhui waved his hand;

"Let's go, at the Drunken Immortal Tower, my brother treats you."

"Thank you, Lord Qianhu."

There was a burst of congratulations around.

Ma Jian also said when he came out;

"Your boy, another day, today is a frugal treat, and the brothers are happy."

"Thank you, Mr. Jian."

There was another burst of flattering sounds.

And Ningguo Mansion,

Mother Jia saw that Marquis Luo Yun was fine, so she took the people back to Rongguo Mansion, turned a corner and went to Tianxiang Building in Ningguo Mansion, also to comfort Brother Zhen.

When I came to Tianxiang Tower, I heard the sound of throwing bowls and cursing inside.

Mother Jia was not used to it, and opened the door with a cane, which made Jia Zhen choke.

Seeing Youshi lying on the ground wiping tears there, he said angrily;

"Why, he has become so prestige at home that even the old lady like me is ignored. Brother Zhen has become more and more capable."

Jia Zhen didn't come back to her senses for a while, but she saw that Jia's mother was here, so she didn't dare to be presumptuous, just came and knelt down;

"What did the old ancestor say? Isn't this sulking? I'm also aggrieved."

Mother Jia ignored it, and brought in the second wife, Li Wan, Jia Lian and his wife, and Wang Xifeng and Li Wan hurried over to help Youshi.

When the old lady sat down, she yelled loudly;

"Say, who is behind your back?"

(End of this chapter)