The little lady in the palace

Chapter 159
In the Zhenfu Division, Meng Junhuai was sitting in the study room full of various case records and confessions. The screams from the torture room next door made him feel palpitations.

The palpitations were not caused by fear.He has been in charge of Jinyiwei for a long time, and he has long been used to hearing this kind of movement, but it seems that he has never been so restless as he is now.

He felt that there was a truth and a way out, which seemed to be very close to him, but also seemed to be thousands of miles away.

Forget it, don't think about that for now.

Meng Junhuai stopped his feet, let out a long breath looking at the moonlight outside the door, and forcibly turned his mind to the matter at hand.

Right now, the other two eunuchs who were arrested together with Qian Wu were the first to be interrogated.He hoped that they would not be too strict with their mouths, and it would be better if they could recruit some useful things so that he could use these things to pry Qian Wu's mouth.

After listening to the shouts from the next door for about half a moment, You Zexu appeared at the door: "Your Highness."

Meng Junhuai nodded: "Come in and talk."

You Zexu walked into the room, turned around and closed the door, and handed him the stack of papers in his hand. He was a little happy in the application: "It's a trick, it's not in vain that we blocked 23 assassinations along the way to protect them." return."

Meng Junhuai smiled helplessly while reading the confession.

He just heard about this matter from the people below.The group of people who came back from betting Qian Wu experienced 23 assassinations, large and small, which made You Zexu even more nervous. , invited him over without any delay.

——The "others" even included Yu Yin and his cousin.Meng Junhuai originally wanted to mention him a bit, thinking that no matter what, he didn't need to hide it, but after thinking about it, he probably didn't want to hide anything, but was afraid that some eunuch in the mansion would be dirty, and he talked too much. , After a long delay, they will be given the opportunity to pass these words out.

Therefore, except that You Zexu had to clarify the importance because he needed Yuyin to invite him out, the rest of the details were very vague.Now where people are being held and how many people are in custody, they are so cautious that they have not mentioned a word.

After two years, You Zexu has obviously worked out.

Meng Junhuai was thinking while reading the confession, he was relieved to see it, and said, "I heard that you were also injured, how is it?"

"Oh, I'm fine." You Zexu didn't care, "It's just that someone stabbed me in the back during the fight. It's just a flesh wound, and the scabs have formed. It will be fine after two days of medicine."

Meng Junhuai nodded, and said, "It's fine," but You Zexu hesitated, and said "That..." before hesitating to speak.

"What's the matter?" Meng Junhuai looked at him again, and he coughed in embarrassment: "Well... don't mention this to Xizhen, you see I just came back, she is very happy today, let her know This matter I..."

"Okay, I'm also married." Meng Junhuai frowned at him and chuckled, "You don't need to mention this, but your marriage should be mentioned."

You Zexu: "..."

Meng Junhuai's eyebrows twitched: "What? I don't want to marry her after two years? Then I'll find another husband for her."

"No!" You Zexu immediately denied it, and hurriedly explained, "Of course I want to marry, I want to marry every day. It's just that you said it so suddenly, I didn't realize it!"

It's almost there!
Meng Junhuai smiled in satisfaction and waved him out.Before sitting in the case, I went through the confession again, dipped a pen in cinnabar to mark a few key points, and then walked to the north.

To the north are dozens of prison cells.

Generally speaking, Jinyiwei does not care about detaining prisoners, but if the prisoners under trial go back and forth between Jinyiwei and the sky prison every day, it will take a lot of manpower, so dozens of rooms are set up here to detain these people. use.

Meng Junhuai walked all the way, and some prisoners in the prison shouted for grievances and cursed. He ignored them and went straight to the door of the most remote cell in the northwest corner.

The Jin Yiwei on duty opened the cell door, Meng Junhuai walked in, looked at the sleeping man tied into a "ten" on the wooden frame in front of him: "Fifth Lord Qian."

The person tied there raised his eyelids, and Meng Junhuai put the confession in his hand on the table next to him: "Your apprentice and junior have all recruited, do you want to say it directly, or do you want to suffer?"

He had already finished asking a question, but Qian Wu seemed to have just seen him: "Yo, Master Liu!"

Then Qian Wu laughed, a hoarse laughter echoed in the gloomy cell, and he said while laughing: "Tsk, you rank six among your brothers, and I rank five among our teachers. In this way, I am better than you Big? You have to call me brother, don’t you?”

He was deliberately interrupting to provoke him.

If it was put in a few years ago when he first received the Jinyiwei, Meng Junhuai might be furious.But now, he just sighed indifferently: "Okay, you took the Xichang, and I took the Jinyiwei, we all know the way, stop talking nonsense."

"Hey, hello——" Qian Wu dragged his voice, "You're right. But since we all understand, why do you think you can get the words out of my mouth?"

Meng Junhuai sat down firmly by the desk, looked at him and said, "When we all know each other, it depends on who can hit hard."

Qian Wu's eyes were slightly cold, and he was silent for a moment.It was also at such a moment that there seemed to be two fierce murderous auras colliding in the dark cell.

Then Qian Wu sneered disdainfully: "Sixth Lord, let's discuss it! I have a wealth of tens of thousands of dollars, with a mountain of gold, and I can buy ten palaces of yours! If you spare my life, I will share half of it with you!"

"Ridiculous." Meng Junhuai was about to reprimand him, but Qian Wu immediately said, "I can give you all of it!"

For a moment Meng Junhuai didn't know what words to use to ridicule him, so he could only look at Qian Wu with a smile on his face.Qian Wu's expression looked very serious: "Hey! Think about it, is it worth it for you to be so loyal to that person? You have only lived for decades. If you let me go, you just need to say that I was kidnapped by your subordinates. Then you can take the gold and silver mountains and go away, wouldn't you be happy? No one will randomly suspect that you are with me, no one will suspect, and no one will investigate!"

He was serious?

Meng Junhuai took a deep breath, stood up and walked to him step by step.On Qian Wu's wrinkled face was a eunuch's usual smirk: "How about it, is this deal worth it?"

Before he could finish speaking, he punched his left eye with a hard fist: "My nephew's life is hanging by a thread, you come to talk about money with me, are you crazy?"

Qian Wu's eyes hurt, and the back of his head hit the wooden frame behind him again, staring at him for a moment.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Meng Junhuai with one swollen eye: "Master Liu, they are all insiders and outsiders, you don't have to pretend to be so kind - we all know that that person is the Ninth Five Lord first, His son is first and foremost the eldest son of the emperor. Companion to the emperor is like companion to a tiger, if you serve the person in that position wholeheartedly, you may not end well!"

"Yes, companions are like companions to tigers." Looking at his face, Meng Junhuai couldn't help gnashing his teeth, endured and endured, and still grabbed his throat: "But you are wrong in the previous sentence! He is first My eldest brother, his son is first and foremost my nephew!"

In Prince Yi's Mansion, Yu Zhi felt that Meng Junhuai was suddenly busy again.

Counting that he hadn't come home for three days, she ordered Zhao Chengrui to pack up some change of clothes and send them to him, and also asked the dining room to prepare delicious meals for him.

Ming Jing's eyes lit up when she heard this, and when she ran over and hugged her arm, she was about to pull her away, and said coquettishly, "Let's go together! Let's go to see the father!"

"Your father is busy with business, we can't go, good boy!" Yu Yin squatted down and hugged her, squeezed her hand and said, "Brother Ah Cheng and Brother You will come over later, you can play with them, okay? "

"Hmm..." Ming Jing struggled for a while, although she missed her father very much, she still nodded generously, "Okay then!"

When it was approaching noon, Xie Sheng arrived first.You Zexu hadn't come yet, and lunch hadn't been prepared yet, so after chatting for a while, he became a little bored.He Jing could see this clearly, pulled his hand and said to Yu Yin: "Concubine Mu, let's go see the brothers and ask them to have lunch together at noon!" Then they went to the front house.

In the front house, several boys are not happy.

A while ago, it stands to reason that everyone can take a break from reading.As a result, the father suddenly ordered them to study as usual every day, and an extra hour of archery was added!

The reason the king father said was that he was afraid that they would slack off in their homework, but the boys were not stupid, they guessed pretty well when they touched each other.

Ah You said angrily: "Father has been busy outside recently, so he must have added homework for us because he was afraid that we would be disobedient! Otherwise, you see...why don't my sisters add it!"

In the eyes of the father, girls are always more sensible than boys!
Ah Qi was also very upset: "That's right, that must be the case! But why are we disobedient? How long ago was the last time I went out to play!"

Ah Li glanced at him: "The day before yesterday."

Ah Qi: "..."

A Zuo let out a burst of laughter, and A Qi, who had just been choked by the eldest brother, turned his head to vent his anger on his younger brother: "Hey, you still dare to laugh at the second brother? Are you in debt?"

Ah Zuo laughed even more excessively, and said, "Yes, second brother, can you clean me up?", which made Ah Qi speechless!

But if he really wants to "clean up", there is really no one in the mansion to care.Because these brothers usually say "I'll clean you up!", it's not a gang fight with sleeves rolled up in the alley, it's a real martial arts competition in a circle of the mansion. It's fair to win three games.

What happens after the match?After the competition, of course we will have tea together!Don't you have to make up when you're tired?
Therefore, as soon as one side declared war and the other side faced it, A Qi and A Zuo were ready to prepare for the next competition with their eyes bright.

A Zuo was wondering if he could borrow the archery field from his father, thinking that it was big enough for a good fight, when he saw the second brother who was next to him was suddenly picked up.

"Ah!" Ah Qi yelled, and You Zexu held him under his armpit with one hand. After looking at it, he felt that it was inconvenient to speak, so he changed his hands and held him in front of him: "I want to ask you something."

"... Cousin, tell me." Ah Qi was inexplicably guilty by him, You Zexu put him down, and squatted down himself: "Did you go out to play the day before yesterday?"

Aqi nodded: "Yes."

You Zexu immediately asked, "Where did you go?"

Aki obviously choked.

"Did you go to Bada Hutong?"

"Eight..." Before Ah Qi could speak, Ah Li was dumbfounded, "Are you going to Bada Hutong?!"

He blushed all of a sudden.What kind of place is that, everyone in Beijing knows except the kids who don't remember anything!
The second brother is ten years old after the Chinese New Year... Going to Bada Hutong? !
It doesn't matter whether it's at the aunt's concubine's place or at the mother's concubine's place, wouldn't the leg have to be broken? !
Ah Li grabbed Ah Qi's ear: "Did you really go to Bada Hutong? Tell me clearly!"

"Hey, brother...it hurts!" Ah Qi was pulled so hard by him that he grinned his teeth, looked at the pressing questioning of his cousin and brother in front of him, and the curious faces of the two younger brothers, and swore bitterly, "I'm just curious." I went to see it! I really did! I didn’t do anything! I didn’t do anything!”

"Tch." You Zexu was so angry that he laughed, "If you think about it, you have to do it too!"

(End of this chapter)