Concubine

Chapter 129 Difficult choices

Yang Qiuchi explained to Song Zhixian: "When I found out that the news of Deng Youlu's arrest had leaked, my doubts about Song Qing turned into doubts. I spent the whole night thinking about every moment we were together, I decided to set a trap and test it to see if she was a spy."

"I found out the contents of the letter on purpose in front of her, and rushed to Ningguo Mansion to report to Jin Yiwei. I know that she has no carrier pigeons around her, and she has been under my nose. There is no way to report the letter. The only chance is to go to Ningguo Mansion. After I go to report."

Song Yun'er also interjected: "Father, on the way my brother has already quietly told me that Song Qing might be Jianwen's person, and asked me to keep an eye on her movements. I can't believe this fact, but I believe my brother's words. She went out on the pretext of going to the latrine, and while I asked Hou Xiaoqi to notify you, I followed her to Hao's house, only to find out that she was indeed a spy."

At this time, Niu Baihu and others entered the room and told Yang Qiuchi that they had arrested Mr. Hao, his wife and all the maids and servants in Hao's house, and escorted them back to the Jinyiwei yamen.

Niu Baihu told Yang Qiuchi that Hao Qian, the eldest daughter of the Hao family, had not been caught, and she didn't know where she had gone. They tortured Hao Yifeng and others, but they couldn't tell.This time Yang Qiuchi didn't bring the little black dog, so he couldn't track him down.The two guessed for a long time, but they couldn't figure out where Hao Qian would go.

Niu Baihu knew that Song Qing was the woman of Yang Qiuchi, the special envoy of Jinyiwei Commander, so he didn't dare to make random claims to arrest people, and asked everyone to leave the room, and asked Yang Qiuchi what to do with Song Qing.

How to choose is very difficult for Yang Qiuchi. Although Song Qing was coerced to help the remaining Jianwen party, she is still a rebel after all. If I let her go privately, it would be a felony. I am afraid that I will be the special envoy of the Jinyiwei Commander. Well, if I fail, I will lose my head.However, if he wants to send his first love to the guillotine with his own hands, he can't do it anyway.

Therefore, Yang Qiuchi decided to take a gamble, betting on his position in the hearts of Jin Yiwei Commander Ji Gang and even Ming Chengzu. Can't care less.

Yang Qiuchi's bet is that he arrives in time with the letter sent by the pigeon, and the plot to hijack the concubine Xian is successfully stopped.If this bet is correct, not to mention letting go of a small member of the Jianwen Yu Party, even if you let go of two more, although punishment may be indispensable, at least there will be no danger to the head.

However, if my news is late and I don't catch up, and Concubine Xian is hijacked or even killed, Ming Chengzu is furious, and I happen to bump into his anger, I am afraid that this head will not be saved.

In the days since he came to the Ming Dynasty, Yang Qiuchi had already felt that Song Zhixian and other officials were more afraid when it came to the current emperor, and they knew that the emperor was not a good person.In history, Ming Chengzu was indeed known for his cruelty, vicious methods, and disrespect of his relatives.

However, even in the worst case, one's own head may not be absolutely impossible to keep, it depends on Ming Chengzu's rationality.Because I am still very useful to them, at least in arresting the Jianwen Yudang, so far my achievements are the most remarkable. If Ming Chengzu is sensible enough, he may let himself commit crimes and make meritorious deeds, and capture all the Jianwen Yudang who hijacked Xianfei within a time limit He even asked to capture Emperor Jianwen in exchange for his own head, so there was still a chance of life.

In addition, I can also add some bargaining chips on my side: I cracked the rebellion case of Hao's family in Ningguo Mansion this time, and I also captured Jianwen's confidant young supervisor Wang Yue, killed Jianwen's chief guard Hong Ying, cracked the He family's enemy case, captured Widow Xie, the liaison officer of Jianwen, added these bargaining chips, and then deducted Song Qing, who is just a young man, as a bargaining chip. After a comprehensive balance, Yang Qiuchi estimated that if he released Song Qing privately, the probability of losing his head was probably the most out of 90.00. Only [-]% of it.In other words, there is a [-]% chance that I won't lose my head because of it.

He decided to take a gamble, not to mention the high probability of immortality, even if it was a little lower, Yang Qiuchi would take a gamble and let Song Qing go.Because, let him send the woman he first loved to the guillotine with his own hands, he can't do it no matter what.

Yang Qiuchi asked Niu Baihu to take the other prisoners back to the Jinyiwei prison first, and Song Qing handed it over to herself.

Yang Qiuchi is the special envoy of Jin Yiwei Commander, and Niu Baihu must of course obey his orders unconditionally.Immediately led the troops to escort dozens of members of Hao's family back to the Jinyiwei Prison.

Except for a few guards at the gate and Jin Yiwei who were waiting to arrest Hao Qian, the Hao family was empty at the moment.

Yang Qiuchi asked Song Zhixian and others to return to the post, leaving only himself and Song Qing.

Song Qing didn't know what Yang Qiuchi would do to her, so she began to cry softly.

Yang Qiuchi ignored her, rummaged through boxes and cabinets in the study to find some men's clothes, but found a few ingots of silver, picked them up and looked at them carefully, let out a sigh, thought for a while, and finally found a piece of cloth These ingots of silver were wrapped and stuffed into his arms.She found a few more men's clothes and put them on the desk, and said, "You change these clothes." Song Qing didn't know the purpose of Yang Qiuchi's words, and looked at Yang Qiuchi stupidly.Yang Qiuchi urged: "I'll wait for you outside, change quickly!" After speaking, he turned and left the study.

After a while, Song Qing came out from the study, dressed in men's clothing, looking extraordinarily handsome and free and easy, but her face was full of sorrow, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes.

Yang Qiuchi didn't speak, he took her to Hao's stable, took out two horses, put on the saddles, flew on them, and said to Song Qing: "Get on the horses, follow me!"

Song Qing guessed that she treated Yang Qiuchi like this, took advantage of his feelings, and hurt him. Yang Qiuchi must hate him, and wanted to take herself to a certain place, tortured herself to vent her anger, and even killed herself.But she had no choice but to get on the horse and follow Yang Qiuchi.The two horses galloped out of the city.

The heavy snow had been falling intermittently for several days, and the two of them rode for more than ten miles in the wind and snow, before Yang Qiuchi reined in the horse.

Song Qing looked at Yang Qiuchi, got off the horse silently, stepped on the thick white snow, walked to the side of the road, turned her head and smiled sadly at Yang Qiuchi, waiting for him to make a move.

Riding on the horse, Yang Qiuchi raised his eyes and looked into the distance. The sky was overcast, snowflakes were still falling silently, and the cold wind was blowing. Then he looked down at Song Qing, and saw that her round face was already a little shivering from the cold. Red, with tears in his big eyes, he couldn't help but feel colic in his heart.

Yang Qiuchi took out the bag of silver that he found from the study from his arms, threw it on the snow with a snap, and said, "You go. Take care!" Taking a deep look at Song Qing, he turned his horse sharply Head, run to the way you came.

Song Qing was very surprised. With tears in her eyes, she followed closely for a few steps and shouted, "Brother Qiuchi~!"

Yang Qiuchi's figure had gone away, and slowly turned into a small black spot, disappearing into the wind and snow.

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In the hall of Jinyiwei Station, Song Yun'er and Song Zhixian were sitting by the side in a daze.Song Qing is the niece of the magistrate of Song County. They are not only worried about Song Qing at the moment, but also worried about themselves.Song Qing's participation in Jianwen's rebellion is a felony that implicates the nine clans. Although Yang Qiuchi said just now that they will not be implicated if they are innocent, who can say clearly before the dust settles.

Long Zixu was also staring blankly at the snowflakes flying outside the window, wondering what he was thinking.

Hou Xiaoqi and the other four Jinyiwei servants didn't dare to disturb them, they sat in a daze and drank tea silently.

It was very quiet in the room.At this time, Yang Qiuchi walked in from the outside.

Song Yuner went up to meet her, and wanted to ask how Song Qing was. After all, Song Qing was her cousin, and the two of them got along very well during this time, but it was not easy to ask. She knew that Yang Qiuchi liked Song Qing very much. At this moment, I must be very sad, for fear that this question will touch the wound in Yang Qiuchi's heart.

Yang Qiuchi sat down and said softly to Song Zhixian, "Uncle, I let Song Qing go."

Song Zhixian and Song Yun'er looked at him with wide eyes. Although they estimated that Yang Qiuchi might do this, when they found out that Yang Qiuchi really did it, because they didn't know Yang Qiuchi's true identity, they didn't know Yang Qiuchi's true identity. Knowing that Yang Qiuchi thinks that [-]% of him will not die, he is very worried.

Long Zixu walked up to Yang Qiuchi and sat down, hesitant to speak.Yang Qiuchi was a little strange and asked, "Is there something wrong with Mr. Long?"

Long Zixu thought for a while, as if he had made up his mind: "Young master, I know there is a place where Hao Qian, the eldest lady of the Hao family, might be hiding."

"What?" Yang Qiuchi was startled, "Why didn't you say that just now?"

"I...I..." Long Zixu hesitantly blushed.

Yang Qiuchi asked anxiously, "Where is she?"

Long Zixu said in a low voice, "It's in Hao Qian's room in Hao's house."

"No, Niu Baihu said that they searched the room carefully, but they didn't find Hao Qian."

"There is a mechanism in the room, which is very hidden and outsiders can't find it. She may be hiding in the secret room behind the mechanism."

Yang Qiuchi stood up abruptly: "Take us there quickly." Turning back to Hou Xiaoqi, he said, "Send someone to inform Niu Baihu to bring Jin Yiwei to Hao Qian's room in Hao's house. Let's go first to prevent Hao Qian Qian ran away."

Hou Xiaoqi agreed and sent someone to notify.

Yang Qiuchi and others rushed out of the post and came to Hao Qian's room in the Hao family compound.

Hao Qian's room is really a boudoir. There are ancient calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, which are authentic works of famous masters at first glance.There are pens, ink, paper and inkstones on the desk, and a half-painted painting of flowers and birds. On the bed, there is embroidery by a female worker. By the window, there is a Guqin and a square and antique wooden plinth, on which is a set of Go. There is a chessboard, and there is a delicate small incense burner beside it.

Yang Qiuchi sighed a little, Hao Qian was as beautiful as a flower, and she knew everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, a typical talented woman, if she was not the daughter of the Hao family and did not participate in the Hao family's rebellion case, it would be great.

Yang Qiuchi asked Long Zixu where the agency was.Long Zixu walked up to the Go table, grabbed both sides of the thick chessboard, and turned half a circle counterclockwise, when he heard a soft sound from the wall where the calligraphy and painting hung, Long Zixu walked over and pushed hard. , the wall turned and opened, and it turned out to be a narrow secret door.The wall was almost two feet thick and made of a single block of granite.The inside of the secret passage is so dark that it is so dark that it is hard to see clearly.

"Mr. Long, why are you so familiar with the organ in Ms. Hao Qian's boudoir?" Yang Qiuchi asked with a smile.

Long Zixu blushed and said nothing.

After waiting for a while, Yang Qiuchi couldn't help feeling anxious when he saw that Niu Baihu and the others hadn't come yet.Hou Xiaoqi said: "Master, let's go in and arrest that Hao Qian, she is a girl, there are so many of us."

Yang Qiuchi thought for a while, nodded in agreement with Hou Xiaoqi's suggestion, and asked Long Zixu, "Is there a mechanism inside?"

"No." Long Zixu said affirmatively, after thinking for a while, he added: "Not before."

It seems that this Long Zixu has entered this secret room before, perhaps more than once.However, for some reason, Yang Qiuchi was not at all surprised that Long Zixu knew about Hao Qian's secrets.

Yang Qiuchi was about to go in. Song Yuner grabbed Yang Qiuchi and said, "Brother! Let me go in first." Before Yang Qiuchi could speak, he stepped into the secret room first, and Yang Qiuchi and others followed suit.

The secret passage was very dark and narrow, and Yang Qiuchi and others groped forward with the help of the light penetrating from outside.After walking not far, Yang Qiuchi heard a sound behind him. When Yang Qiuchi turned his head, he saw that the light coming through the secret door was getting smaller and smaller, and he exclaimed: "The door~!" It was already pitch black, and the secret door had automatically closed.

Yang Qiuchi asked urgently: "Mr. Long, what's going on?"

"I, I don't know either." Long Zixu's voice trembled.

"Go and open the door!" Yang Qiuchi whispered.

"I, I don't know how to open it! I've never opened it from the inside, it's her..." I stopped here.

Song Yun'er panicked as she couldn't see her fingers in the secret passage. Girls were afraid of the dark, even if they had martial arts, they couldn't avoid it.Song Yun'er turned her head, groped and grabbed Yang Qiuchi's arm, and called out tremblingly, "Brother, what should I do?"

Yang Qiuchi also groped and grabbed her hand, and said in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, Yun'er, brother is here, it's okay." In fact, Yang Qiuchi was a little nervous when he was suddenly locked in the secret room. Close it, even if Niu Baihu and the others came in and searched carefully, it would be difficult to find the mechanism of this secret room.

Yang Qiuchi touched the wall of the secret passage with his other hand. It turned out to be hard granite. His heart sank. Even if he had tools, it would be difficult to chisel this kind of stone. He asked, "Which one of you has flint?"

No one answered, who in broad daylight had nothing to do with that thing, it was heavy in his arms.

I have no choice but to go in first, hoping that Hao Qian will hide inside, she must know how to open the secret door from inside, or there may be other exits inside.

Song Yun'er was not afraid of the enemy, but she was afraid of the dark, so she didn't dare to take the lead. Yang Qiuchi squeezed past her, took her hand, and walked forward gropingly.

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