Second Married Dandy: She went crazy to kill the eldest daughter

Chapter 219 Murder

When the old lady saw Su Chengying come in, she waved and sat beside her to talk. She didn't mention Gao Yulan at all.

The Fourth Madam Jin also didn't want to upset Her Royal Highness the Princess because of the Gao family. Seeing that the old Madam didn't mention Gao Yulan's intention, she kept silent and chatted about family matters.

This year passes very quickly. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the New Year's Eve will be completely over. Therefore, people in various countries pay more attention to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month than the thirtieth day of the first lunar month.

Early this morning, news came even from the palace that the emperor planned to take the empress and the Tang Dynasty envoys on an incognito tour to enjoy the lanterns in the city.

The reason why the Duke of Guo's Mansion knew the news was because the maiden brother of the fourth wife, Jin, was a guard in the palace and secretly sent the news to the Duke of Guo's Mansion. He also hoped that the people of the Duke of Guo's Mansion would not go out to enjoy the lanterns at night. He bumped into someone he shouldn't have bumped into.

The fourth lady, Jin, smiled and said, "The ladies in the mansion didn't sleep at all last night. They were all thinking about going out to play today."

The old lady looked at Su Chengying and said, "Speaking of which, you haven't seen the lanterns in Beiliang. Let's go out with the sisters in the mansion to have a look tonight."

The fourth lady, Jin, nodded, "I heard that my brother-in-law said that the emperor wanted to leave the palace incognito. I felt uneasy. I was afraid that the sister in the palace would be unlucky and bump into her. Her Highness the Princess has always been prudent. There is a Princess who will lead the palace. It’s always better to have sisters than to let them go crazy on their own.”

Su Chengying was not very interested in things like watching lanterns, but she knew in her heart that the old lady's proposal to let her take the daughters in the house out together would not only allow her to enhance her relationship with the younger generations, but also allow her to strengthen the relationship with the people in the city. Leave a good reputation in their hearts for protecting and caring for the younger generation.

Not wanting to betray the old lady's kindness, Su Chengying smiled and said, "Don't worry, old lady and fourth madam, I will definitely take good care of my sisters this time."

The fourth wife, Mrs. Jin, originally thought that Su Chengying would not agree. After all, her daughter was really ignorant.

Seeing Su Chengying nod her head now, the fourth lady, Jin, was grateful and quickly returned to her yard, held Dongfang Chunyue's ear and started chattering.

After Su Chengying walked out of the main courtyard, he slowly walked back while lowering his eyes and thinking carefully about the news coming out of the palace. It seemed that the Tang Dynasty envoy had been staying in Shangjing for a while, although Emperor Liang never meant to be harsh. , but in a foreign country, who is not cautious all the time?
Especially Lu Zhijie and Cheng Chang who are around the eldest prince, they are by no means ordinary people. How could they not understand the simple truth that doing more is worse than doing less.

But unfortunately, the Tang Dynasty envoy agreed to Emperor Liang's invitation.

Su Chengying frowned slightly, no matter how much she thought about this matter, it was a bit unbelievable.

Beiliang Imperial Palace.

Lu Zhijie returned to the Royal Courtyard with the people from the Tang Dynasty Mission. He bent over and clasped his fists before turning around and leaving.

The people from the Shengtang Mission looked at Lu Zhijie's back, and the smiles on their faces disappeared in an instant.

"Master Shangshu, what exactly does Lu Zhijie want to do?" one of them said with disdain.

Today, Emperor Liang had no intention of taking the Tang Dynasty envoys on an incognito tour, but Lu Zhijie casually mentioned that he heard that the Queen of Beiliang liked fireworks, so he specially prepared a large number of fireworks in the city for this purpose. Empress Bo smiled.

When Emperor Liang heard this, he was not satisfied with the intentions of the Tang Dynasty envoys, but also did not want to neglect the queen, so he proposed to take everyone on a tour incognito later.

Another person said, "If you didn't know better, you would have thought that Lu Zhijie is from Beiliang."

The Minister of Rites frowned and said, "Since the matter has come to this, you still need to be careful about what you say. Go back and have a rest." Cheng Chang waited for everyone from the Tang Dynasty envoy to leave before walking out from a corner not far away. , turned around and went to the yard where Lu Zhijie was.

When he walked in and saw Lu Zhijie drinking tea, Cheng Chang walked over and said, "Mr. Lu, you know that people in the Tang Dynasty Mission are saying that you will do anything to please Beiliang."

Lu Zhijie motioned Chengchang to sit down, poured him tea himself, and then said casually, "So what? Anyway, the emperor's mind now is to stabilize the relationship between Shengtang and Beiliang, so what if I am in Beiliang?" Your Majesty will not be overly concerned about flattery, let alone implicate the eldest prince."

Cheng Chang took a sip of tea and said, "Mr. Lu has put so much effort into it, is he really just trying to please Beiliang?"

Lu Zhijie smiled faintly, "Of course not. Since the eldest prince has given the order to get rid of the eldest girl of the Su family, those of us below must naturally get things done."

"So, what Mr. Lu means is..."

"If Zeng Xili is simply allowed to harm the people of Beiliang, even if Zeng Xili was once a member of the Su family army, but now that the Su family army has ceased to exist, and now that Emperor Liang attaches great importance to the eldest daughter of the Su family, I am afraid that in the end, even if someone in Beiliang wants to If we want to investigate, Emperor Liang will secretly protect the eldest daughter of the Su family."

After all, compared to the people in the city who were doing nothing, Su Chengying, who knew medical skills and was willing to save lives and heal the wounded for the people of Beiliang, was the more important one.

"If you want Emperor Liang to completely have the intention to kill the eldest girl of the Su family, you have to find someone who is far more important to Emperor Liang than the eldest girl of the Su family." Lu Zhijie said with a half-smile.

Chengchang thought for a moment and suddenly said, "Is Mr. Lu planning to... let Zeng Xili assassinate Emperor Liang?!"

"That's it. Only when his own safety is threatened will Emperor Liang be angry with Su Chengying because of Zeng Xili. This time, if Zeng Xili really kills Emperor Liang, it will be the best. With such civil strife in Northern Liang and the princes fighting for power, The eldest prince can then take advantage of the situation and contribute to the deployment in Beiliang."

When Lu Zhijie tried to force Emperor Liang out of the palace today, he had already made complete plans.

He looked at Chengchang, paused and said, "Even if Zeng Xili didn't kill Emperor Liang, Emperor Liang would have been extremely angry when he was already in danger. Su Chengying would definitely be angered by that time. The former Su family's army assassinated the emperor. This one crime is enough to make Su Chengying's head fall to the ground and his head is missing."

The eldest prince has many talented people around him, so Lu Zhijie naturally has plans for himself.

Regardless of whether the eldest prince was angry with him regarding the matter of Su Zhenzhen and Qin Zhangyuan, he had to do the matter at hand beautifully.

Only in this way can the eldest prince value him more.

After Lu Zhijie and Chengchang finished drinking tea, they quietly came to the door of a dark woodshed in Chengchang's yard.

Chengchang, who was always cautious, first looked around, then carefully opened the heavy lock on the woodshed, and then invited Lu Zhijie to step inside.

The dark and cold woodshed was cramped and cramped, with only four sides visible.

Right in the middle of the woodshed, Zeng Xili was tied up by several iron chains, with messy hair and bloodshot eyes.

Hearing the footsteps, Zeng Xili slowly raised his head. When he saw Lu Zhijie and Cheng Chang, his empty eyes showed no reaction at all. He just looked at them blankly, as if his eyes had no focus.

(End of this chapter)