The Red Mansion is so charming

Chapter 95

The old house of Yuan Fei's family was very spacious and the beams were high, even if a ladder was put on it, it might not be able to reach the top, so Mama Cui and others carried lanterns and looked around the yard, but none of them thought of looking up. Look.

Even Xiuyan didn't care too much at first, she already guessed that it was Young Master Qi who broke into the inner house at night, but who would have expected that sick thing to jump onto the beam?If it wasn't for Zhengde's fine-eyed hair thief, who just sneaked up on her and said that there seemed to be something weird on the beams, Xiuyan might not have been suspicious.

"Mother Cui, hang up the lantern under the eaves. There are people guarding the house. I don't think the thief dares to sneak in. Just search the garden and don't tell him to escape to the back garden." Xiuyan's voice was not loud, but Clearly passed into everyone's ears.

Cui's mother nodded hurriedly. After searching for a long time, she couldn't find any clues. Her forehead was already sweating.If you don't take it back again, I'm afraid that some people will suspect that they are dazzled, misread the shadow, and regard the wild cat as a thief!
Young Master Qi on the beam was even more flustered when he heard the words below.Once the light under the eaves is bright, it will be a matter of time before he is discovered!Young Master Qi couldn't help it, so he could only turn around and look back quietly. There was the back garden, which was pitch-black and occasionally accompanied by two or three dimly lit shadows.As long as he can escape into the back garden and climb out of the low wall, he can leave Fengwei Alley.

Young Master Qi looked down at Xing Xiuyan from above with fierce eyes!Keep the green hills, and don't worry about no firewood.This Liangzi is settled, he will definitely return to this place in the future, and settle this account with the Xing family clearly.

First Young Master Qi bent down and moved lightly to get behind the beam, jumping in the opposite direction from the main courtyard.

"what!"

A scream came from the backyard, everyone was shocked, hurriedly guarding Xiuyan, and saw a man over six feet lying on the ground with broken tiles on the bluestone floor, his calves were twisted and pressed under him, and his thighs were twisted. There is a sharp arrow clustered with feathers in the middle.

Seeing the bright lights, the thief tried to get up and run away.

Xiuyan looked at Zhengde standing in front of Master Wang, heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Master Wang is a great talent, thanks to you for subduing this guy."

Master Wang looked humble, and he didn't dare to look directly at Miss Xing's family in the night, he just said in a low voice: "What do you plan to do with this girl? If you send him to the official, you will tie him up and throw him into the woodshed, and I will personally escort him out at dawn. If the girl finds it bothersome, she can simply settle it, and according to our celestial calendar, breaking into a private house at night is regarded as theft, and the master can take his life!"

Young Master Qi hurriedly shouted: "You are blind! I am the young master of the Qi family next door, how dare you hurt my life! I have a reputation!"

Everyone was in an uproar, Xiuyan smiled and took a few steps forward, Zhengde's sword was already in her hand, the blade was nothing but sharp.Xing Xiuyan slanted the blade of the sword, and it hit Young Master Qi's throat: "Huh, when death is imminent, why do you still want to get away with it? Qi's family lives across the alley, why did you come to my house? It's clearly you, the thief who sees the alley. The place is chaotic and wants to take advantage of the opportunity to steal. Seeing that you are very skilled, I am afraid that you have done such wicked things, anyway, I will do justice for the sky today and cut off your eating hand first."

Young Master Qi was horrified!
Damn it, he should have expected that the Xing family went to great lengths to collude with that old hag to harm him, how could he be a good person!
"Girl, forgive me" before the words of fate were spoken, I saw Young Master Qi rolling around with his left arm in his arms, and the broken leg twisted embarrassingly on the ground following him.

There was a burst of blood, and even an old Jianghu like Master Wang would frown slightly when he saw it, but the little girl who was shot was still smiling.Master Wang sighed with emotion when he thought of some submissive daughters in his family.

The long sword approached again, and Young Master Qi didn't care about screaming for pain anymore, and looked at Xing Xiuyan tremblingly. "You, what are you going to do!"

coward!Xiuyan spat: "Are you scared now? Why didn't you think about the consequences of today when you killed the killer?" She bent down slightly and looked down, fixed her eyes on Young Master Qi, and said softly: "To tell you the truth, Qi The girl of the eldest grandma confessed everything, I just need to send her to the office of the Ministry of punishment. If you are sentenced to be executed in autumn, you will not be able to escape! Or, in order to please Song Shangshu, the Ministry of punishment will let you quietly in the prison Breathing out is a common thing, who can say for sure?"

Hearing Xing Xiuyan mention Song Shangshu, the last line of defense in Young Master Qi's heart was completely defeated. He almost begged: "Please let me live, as long as you let me go, I, I."

Only then did Young Master Qi realize that he didn't have a good card in his hand to turn over.But no matter what, he has to give it a try. What if the Xing family is greedy?He has a chance to live!Otherwise, if he fell into Song Lian's hands, he would surely die.

"I can tell the girl a shocking secret about Song Shangshu! If you hold this news, you can threaten Song Lian to add an official position to Master Xing!" Young Master Qi said hurriedly in a low voice, looking at Xing Xiuyan flusteredly.

Xiuyan smiled brightly: "Are you still thinking about how to harm others? I don't think you plan to have the other arm!" She raised her hand as a gesture!Young Master Qi screamed, and everyone looked at him again, and couldn't help laughing, this bastard actually fainted from fright!

The housekeeper who rushed over ordered the servants to tie him up, and Xiuyan hurriedly said: "You can't leave him in our house, Shuntian Mansion or the Ministry of Criminal Affairs must have sent someone to Qi's house next door. Give it to the chief officer, but remember, don't let the master know."

The housekeeper understood what the girl meant, and nodded quickly: "Don't worry, girl, I know what to do." The housekeeper looked around, touched a handful of dry soil from the flower bed at the foot of the wall, and wiped it on Young Master Qi's face.The lights are dazzling, who can recognize his identity!
As Xiuyan expected, Shuntian Mansion did not say a word, and locked Young Master Qi who had covered his mouth with a white cloth, and the messenger took two ten taels of silver ingots from Butler Xing, and his joy became more and more respectful.Just let Butler Xing rest assured that this kid dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head, first ask the brothers in the yamen to unload their arms and legs at night, so that this kid can behave better.

The Fengwei Hutong was in turmoil overnight, and the Qi family was involved in four murders, which not only alarmed the entire court, but even the empress dowager heard about it. When she learned that it was the eldest son who murdered the aunt and son, she couldn't help being furious, and went to do it in person in a phoenix chariot. The Qing Palace must ask Xiaozong to investigate this matter thoroughly and make decisions for the dead Mrs. Qi.

Xiaozong is the son of Concubine Xian. Although he grew up in Dongsi Institute, he has a very good relationship with his biological mother. Concubine Xian is not the most favored concubine of the Supreme Emperor, but no one dares to offend this gentle and talkative lady.

On the other hand, the empress dowager had no children in her life, but the relationship between the emperor and his first wife was very good. When she abdicated to let the virtuous, the empress dowager strongly opposed it, but her arms couldn't twist her thighs, so she had to reluctantly withdraw from Fengyi Palace, where the empresses of all generations lived , aggrieved and moved into Xiyi Palace, which is farthest from the center of power.

Because he persuaded the Supreme Emperor not to abdicate, the relationship with Xiaozong once fell to the bottom.The empress dowager understood that it was fine for her to die before the emperor, if the old emperor left first, Xiaozong would definitely not make her feel better.

It is useless to make up the relationship at this moment, so the empress dowager has been trying to let her relatives' natal family support the youngest son of the emperor, His Royal Highness Fu Wang, the eleventh younger brother of Emperor Xiaozong.

Faced with the empress dowager's aggressive tone, Xiaozong first smiled to appease him, and when he sent the person away, Xiaozong's expression completely darkened.Dai Quan, the great eunuch, said with a cautious smile: "Your Majesty will send the Criminal Department or Dali Temple to settle the case at will, and the Qi family on the left and right are no more than sixth-rank officials."

Xiaozong said angrily: "What does this have to do with the size of the official position? It is clear that the Queen Mother took the opportunity to ridicule me! She can't give birth to a son herself, so she still wants to be in front of the country! King Fu's father-in-law recently took aim at Xu Shiguang's position. Wanting to replace it, the Empress Dowager felt like a mirror in her heart. She was not making decisions for the Qi family, but she clearly wanted to help King Fu to stand up. Cheng Zimo, an idiot, immediately declared him into the palace. I want to ask, three people died in a row. He has no idea at all, he must ask the fourth one to be crushed to death on the Buddhist altar, is he willing to do so! Since he is incompetent, why would I use him!"

Dai Quan trembled all over, but said in his heart, Mr. Cheng, it's not because the old slave didn't plead for you, it's because you didn't do it properly.

A bright yellow shadow came in from outside the hall, and Dai Quan was amnesty: "I have seen the empress."

Seeing that it was his wife who came in, Xiaozong's face softened a little: "Aren't you taking care of the fourth child? Why are you free?"

The queen forced a smile and said: "Yun'er is fine, and Yun'er is watching, and the concubine made some sugar cakes for the emperor to taste."

Li Yun is the fourth prince of the emperor and the only son of the empress.She has been weak since her mother's womb, and grew up almost taking medicine these years. Now she is six years old, but she has always lived in the Queen's Fengyi Palace, and has not moved into the East Fourth Institute.

The emperor didn't like this sick son, but he didn't hate him either.He respected the queen, but he didn't love the queen. Li Yun's body was destined not to be the crown prince, so the emperor more or less felt ashamed of the queen, and he honored the queen's mother's family, the Guoan government, a little more.

The queen is good at taking advantage of this kind of honor, just at this time.

"The concubine heard that the Empress Dowager is coming, so she rushed over to see if the Empress Dowager has any explanations."

Xiaozong snorted, and Dai Quan hurriedly told the queen the whole story.After hearing this, the Queen laughed and said: "So that's what happened. Your Majesty misunderstood Mr. Cheng. The concubine heard that Mrs. Qi is a relative of Song Shangshu. Your Majesty thinks, there is Song Shangshu. Mr. Cheng saw Mrs. Qi making trouble. How dare you deal with it strictly!"

With a few words, the queen blamed Mrs. Qi.

"Besides, the concubine heard that this Mrs. Qi has a bad character and treated her two non-biological sons extremely badly. Maybe the murderer, the young master of the Qi family, has other hidden secrets?"

The queen's words were all in line with Xiaozong's wishes, and Xiaozong couldn't help nodding: "Extremely, extremely, I almost wronged Cheng Aiqing, Dai Quan, and fabricated it. I asked Cheng Zimo to handle the case personally, and Xu Shiguang from Dali Temple cooperated with the trial. The result will be reported to the court without delay!"

Seeing that she was preparing to make a draft, the queen hurriedly said a few words and withdrew.Xiaozong was in a good mood, and even sent the queen to the gate of the palace all the time, but when his wife disappeared outside the palace, Xiaozong seemed to be a different person, and his voice was cold: "Ask someone to find out whether the Duke of Guoan has gone with Cheng Zimo recently. Very close!"

(End of this chapter)