The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

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Xiao Heng smiled.

Laughed too much.

He switched states in a second, weak and pale as if he could not lift the corners of his lips: "Take care too."

"En." The monarch nodded with a complex expression, put his hands behind his back, and led Zhang Dequan and the nanny holding the little princess out of the Qilin Hall.

...

Gu Jiao stayed in the intensive care unit until dawn before coming out.

She sat on a chair in the middle of the night and fell asleep lying on the edge of the bed. When she woke up, the Master Guo Shi was no longer there.

Outside the iron gate, the guards of two dead men resumed. They didn't react too much when they saw Gu Jiao coming out, as if she could come and go here as freely as the monarch.

"What did the national teacher tell you?" Gu Jiao asked the two of them.

One of them said: "Master Guoshi said that apart from him and Mr. Xiao, there is no third person going in."

Gu Jiao let out a groan, and muttered to herself, "This is more or less the same."

Xiao Heng opened the door of the room and walked towards Gu Jiao: "Are you tired? I asked someone to make porridge, go drink some."

"Okay." Gu Jiao walked towards his room together with him, "Where is the clearance?"

The two dead men were behind, Xiao Heng thought about his words and said: "He went to school, his sister came to pick him up."

This is to tell Gu Jiao that Xiao Qingkong is accompanied by Gu Chengfeng, and everything is safe.

Gu Jiao felt relieved and went to Xiao Heng's to drink a bowl of porridge.

Although Xia Tian was exhausted physically, she still had a good appetite. She ate another big meat bun.

"Where's the little princess?" she asked.

Xiao Heng said: "I went back to the palace with the monarch, and besides, the monarch seems to have regained my mother's status as a princess."

Although Xiao Heng didn't go to court, but the monarch personally addressed the third Princess Shangguan Yan this morning, I think there is nothing wrong with it.

Gu Jiao nodded in satisfaction: "That's great."

paid such a high price,

Finally, it's not just about dethroning the prince.

First restore the status of the princess, and the next step is to plan for the position of the prince.

Mentioning this, Gu Jiao suddenly remembered the conversation with the national teacher in the intensive care unit in the middle of the night.

She took the handkerchief, wiped her mouth, and said to Xiao Heng: "You don't need to find an excuse to go to the Prince's Mansion, I already know who the person who stabbed Gu Changqing is. It's Concubine Han's staff, a very powerful expert , People in the Jianghu are called dark souls."

"Dark Soul?" Xiao Heng murmured.

This appellation sounds incomprehensible.

"The national teacher told you?" He asked.

"Yeah." Gu Jiao nodded, "He also told me the secret of Master Han Wu. All the graying of Master Han's youth was caused by poisoning and premature aging, but it also improved his skills."

Xiao Heng was puzzled: "Premature aging? Improving skills? What kind of poison is this evil?"

Gu Jiao shook her head: "I don't know, I will look for an opportunity to ask Mrs. Nan later. But I think that Qi Xuan has been in the Han family for so long and has not cured the poison on Han Ci. I am afraid that the origin of this poison is not simple. There is also a person mentioned, I don't know if it is Long Yi."

Back then, the late emperor left a total of eight Dragon Shadow Guards, among which the younger one was given to His Majesty Zhaoguo, and the older one was given to Princess Xinyang.

These dead soldiers were all bought by the old Liang King through the underground martial arts field. The two parties signed a ten-year contract when they bought them, and they were trained by special personnel according to the requirements of the late emperor.

The Dragon Shadow Guards for Princess Xinyang were the first batch of dead soldiers, and they had almost finished training. If they still needed to go to the camp for training, maybe Long Yi had been exposed early.

Life is full of coincidences sometimes.

Gu Jiao and Xiao Heng talked about Killing Heaven and Dark Soul.

Xiao Heng asked: "Do you think Long Yi is killing the sky?"

Gu Jiao thought for a while, and said: "If it was only the national teacher who said so, I might not easily think of Long Yi's head, but last time I saw a portrait from the third floor in the Library Pavilion. Very similar to Long Yi."

Xiao Heng was silent.

third floor.

The entire National Teacher Hall, no, to be precise, the biggest secret of the entire Yan Kingdom is there.

If the person in the portrait is really Long Yi, then Long Yi is really big and has a history.

...

A quarter of an hour later, Gu Jiao was taken by Ye Qing to the third floor of Zangshu Pavilion.

She got a license from the National Teacher, and she can browse a certain designated area, but she can't wander around in other places.

Looking at the three-meter-high bookshelf in front of her, she said in a daze, "I'm just looking for a portrait of Shi Tian, ​​so there's no need for such a big show..."

Is this large bookshelf that occupies almost the entire wall all she can read?

Ye Qing pointed to the bookshelf, and said: "There are portraits of Shi Tian, ​​and there are also portraits of Dark Souls."

Gu Jiao was slightly taken aback: "What do you mean?"

Ye Qing explained: "The Sky Killer and the Dark Soul never show their true colors to others. These are the portraits painted by people who claimed to have seen the Sky Killer and the Dark Soul in Jianghu, and they were collected here by my master."

Gu Jiao squeezed out a few words between her teeth: "This, so many... I have to see the Year of the Monkey?"

How about I draw it for you directly, and you can identify it for me?

Ye Qing said again: "We have never seen Shi Tian, ​​you can only identify it yourself."

I recognize a hammer.

So even if I saw Long Yi's portrait, you still can't be sure that he is Shi Tian, ​​right?

...

Father-son cannibalism is a scandal.

If this kind of thing happened to the Emperor of the Zhao Kingdom, the Emperor of the Zhao Kingdom would definitely uphold the concept that family ugliness should not be publicized, suppress the news tightly, and then find some other reason to send the prince away.

King Dayan, on the other hand, didn't care. As soon as he came to court, he announced that Shangguan Qi had ulterior motives, slandered Shangguan Yan, and killed his father and king, and asked Zhang Dequan to publicly announce the abolition of the crown prince.

Along with the imperial decree to abolish the crown prince, there was also an imperial decree to restore Shangguan Yan's royal status.

From then on, Shangguan Yan became the third princess of Dayan.

The whole court was amazed.

Even though the news had been received last night, the news actually came from the Jinluan Hall, which made Concubine Han very angry!

She was so angry that her chest was about to explode: "What an assassination! What slander! That man named Long Aotian is clearly the secret agent of Shangguan Yan's placement in the Prince's Mansion! Is Your Majesty foolish? How could he even see the flaws in such a fight?" don't come out!"

She sent someone to the Prince's Mansion last night, and learned about Long Aotian's whole history of the Prince's Mansion. The traps are all traps!

"My lady, you can't talk nonsense!" The eunuch Xu Gao took a step forward in shock, "Be careful not to let people listen to you."

"This is my bedroom, who dares to spread the word?"

"That's what you say, but be careful when sailing for ten thousand years."

About Long Aotian, it was Xu Gao who went to the Prince's Mansion to inquire about it. To be honest, the trick of the third princess is indeed exquisite, and it is the king's mind that is firmly considered.

He has been in the palace for so many years, and he rarely sees someone who can count on the mind of a quasi-king.

Who is punished by the monarch and who is not punished is generally the will of the monarch himself. Those who take advantage of the situation to stumble the victims are actually just the monarch turning a blind eye and closing their eyes, which does not count how smart they are.

Xu Gao said: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid there are some experts behind the Three Princesses to give advice."

Concubine Han was thoughtful: "There is some truth in what you say. Ben Gong watched Shangguan Yan grow up. She is just a straight-hearted person, and she doesn't have too much thoughtfulness, otherwise she wouldn't have been calculated by others back then."

Xu Gao hurriedly said: "Isn't it, Madam? She has such scheming, why wait until now? I returned to Shengdu early to compete with the Second Highness for the position of the crown prince. Moreover, the temperament of the eldest grandson of the emperor is also different from before. Change is barely plausible, and the two of them changed at the same time, if there is no expert behind them, who would believe it?"

Concubine Han Gui coldly said: "We must find out the expert behind them! I want to see who has the guts to oppose me!"

Xu Gao smiled triumphantly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, our people have already been sent to the National Teacher Hall."

Concubine Han smiled when she heard the words: "Oh? So fast? There won't be any flaws, right?"

Xu Gao smiled, and said: "Zhang Dequan personally selected them all, all of them are his confidantes, even if we check the eighteen generations of ancestors, it has nothing to do with us."

Concubine Han said coldly: "The chess pieces that have been buried for so many years are about to come in handy. They were intended to be used in more important places, but whoever makes Shangguanyan and his mother hate it so much, I will use the hands of Eunuch Zhang to eradicate it for me. Get rid of these two eyesores!"

Xu Gao flattered: "Your Majesty is wise!"

Concubine Han Gui has already begun to think about the fruits of victory: "After the event is over...who would it be better to plant the spoils on? I see that Concubine Wang Xian is good, and Concubine Dong Chen is not bad either."

She said, laughing wantonly.

On the other side, Zhang Dequan took four palace servants to the National Teacher Hall.

Gu Jiao went to Zangshu Pavilion, only Xiao Heng was in Shangguan Yan's room.

Zhang Dequan bowed respectfully to Xiao Heng who was sitting in his seat: "His Royal Highness, the palace servants outside are selected by slaves. They are nimble in their hands and feet, diligent in their work, and clever in their work. Let them serve the third princess first." With His Royal Highness Changsun. Rest assured Your Highness Changsun, their backgrounds are all clean."

"Understood." Xiao Heng said.

Zhang Dequan smiled: "If there is no order, the slave will return to the palace first."

Xiao Heng nodded.

After Zhang Dequan left, Xiao Heng opened the curtain and looked at Shangguan Yan who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, holding half a watermelon and eating with a spoon: "Can Zhang Dequan be trusted?"

Shangguan Yan ate a spoonful of watermelon balls: "Oh, he is not bad."

Xiao Heng said: "So, how many people outside can stay?"

Shangguan Yan thought for a while: "Let's keep it for now, Zhang Dequan is the only person in the palace who won't harm me."

...

Lingbo Academy.

A carriage stopped in the alley diagonally opposite it.

This alley was originally used to park carriages for the students of the academy, but because this carriage came first, it occupied the first position.

At this point, the coachman's task was completed, and the old Jijiu settled the fare for him.

The coachman left satisfied with his reward.

The old Jijiu and the Empress Dowager Zhuang were waiting in the carriage.

"Are you sure you are waiting here?" Queen Mother Zhuang asked.

The old Jijiu said: "Qing Kong is in Lingbo Academy. After a while, when he gets out of school, Ah Heng will definitely come to pick him up. If Ah Heng doesn't come, Jiaojiao will come too."

Yan Country's summer is hotter than Zhao Country's, and today's weather is extremely hot, the carriage was baked into a steamer in a short time.

The Empress Dowager Zhuang became a small steamed shrimp, sweating profusely.

She leaned against the wall of the car hopelessly: "Didn't it just rain at night? Why didn't it cool down for a long time before it got hot again?"

Old Jijiu took a fan to fan her, and he himself was sweating profusely: "Yan country is really hot, I don't know how many children can bear it."

The Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't even have the strength to speak. She felt that she had suffered from heatstroke, and she slumped on the seat like a shrimp.

Seeing that she was so hot, the old Jijiu couldn't bear it, and said: "There is a tea shop next door, you go to the tea shop and have a cup of tea, and I will just wait here."

Empress Dowager Zhuang glared at him, and said weakly, "You don't need money for tea?"

The price of goods in Yan Country is so expensive, the money brought by the children must not be enough, she has to save it for Jiaojiao.

Of course, there is another very important reason, she wants to see Jiaojiao immediately.

Although it may not be Jiaojiao who came to pick up the clearance.

The two waited from morning to afternoon, so hot that they lost their temper.

Finally, Lingbo Academy started to dismiss, and students in school uniforms came out of the academy in high spirits one by one.

Empress Dowager Zhuang waited eagerly: "Why didn't you see the children? Go and find out, is the child prodigy class over?"

The old sacrificial wine went.

However, since the little princess had been hijacked near the academy, the academy's vigilance level has increased a lot, and they are all wary of strangers who come to inquire about news, especially about the child prodigy class.

The guard sternly said: "You are not allowed to inquire about the academy! If you don't leave, I will report to the police and arrest you!"

There are indeed additional patrol officers nearby.

The old Jijiu was a black householder, so naturally he couldn't fall into the hands of officials. He wanted to say that he was a family member of a certain student, but he looked down at his shabby attire, and swallowed the words that came to his lips.

Along the way, in order not to impress the thieves, they all dressed up poorly, with the most plain clothes and the most shabby carriages.

The old Jijiu was planning to go to a nearby shop to ask, but as soon as he turned around, he heard the guard and his companion say, "Keep an eye on that old man."

Old Jijiu's mouth twitched, is he being treated as a thief?

What happened to the Academy of Yan Kingdom!

I didn't ask about the information, so I could only wait honestly: "Don't worry, I've inquired at the inn. After school, there is only this door to go through. Clearance will definitely come out of it."

"Don't interrupt, let's go!" The Empress Dowager Zhuang ruthlessly turned his face away, staring intently at the gate of Lingbo Academy.

Finally, the emperor paid off, and a child of about ten years old came out.

Her eyes lit up: "The child prodigy class is over!"

The prodigy class is indeed out of school.

But Xiao Jingkong and Xiaojunzhu are always the two slowest ones. They received the book and received Lu Fuzi's doubts about life.

The little princess said to the little classmate: "Qing Kong, you go to my house to play today!"

Xiao Jingkong asked, "Where is your home?"

"Hmm...it's there!" The little princess pointed in the direction of the palace (what he thought), "I've been to your place so many times, but you haven't been to my house yet!"

Thinking about the small headroom is such a truth.

"Okay, but I'm going to talk to Master Cheng."

He has Master Cheng's tutoring after school today.

But in his opinion, tutoring is possible to ask for leave, anyway, he didn't think much about it.

The two little bean dings carried their schoolbags on their backs and went to Mrs. Cheng's place to ask for leave.

The little princess put her hips on her hips and stared at Master Cheng, Master Cheng didn't dare to disagree.

"Just now someone was asking when the child prodigy class ends. I wonder if there is another thief thinking about the princess? To be on the safe side, let's go directly to the academy to pick up the little princess."

"Yes!"

A carriage that looked ordinary but was extremely luxurious inside drove into Lingbo Academy with the privilege bestowed by the monarch, and stopped directly at the gate of the child prodigy class.

The four masters lined up in a row.

The nurse got out of the carriage and took the little princess's book bag: "Little master, it's time for us to go back."

The little princess said: "Today I want to invite Qing Kong to my house to play!"

The nanny smiled: "If the young master's family has no objections, it's natural."

"No opinion, no opinion." Xiao Jingkong made his own decision.

Anyway, he's not a bad brother-in-law, brother Chengfeng can't control him.

The two little peas got into the carriage.

Two of the four masters sat in the carriage, and the other two escorted them on horseback.

The old Jijiu looked around at the alley.

The carriage passed him by.

Another half an hour later, the last student came out of Lingbo Academy, and the guards of Lingbo Academy began to close the gate.

The old Jijiu was surprised: "Hey! What's the situation? Why is it closed?" He turned his head to look at the Empress Dowager Zhuang in the carriage, "Did you get out just now? Did you see it?"

"It didn't come out." The Empress Dowager Zhuang said.

She was getting old, but she hadn't reached the point of being old and dim-sighted. She was absolutely sure that she hadn't missed it.

The old Jijiu asked suspiciously: "Could it be that... Jing Kong didn't go to school today? It can't be that they didn't come to Lingbo Academy, something happened to them? They..."

Empress Dowager Zhuang said coldly: "Shut up!"

The old Jijiu resentfully fell silent.

After a sweltering day, the sky began to turn dark clouds, and it looked like it was going to rain.

The old Jijiu said: "Why don't you find an inn to stay and come back tomorrow."

Empress Dowager Zhuang stared and said: "The door is still closed, there is a gap left, wait a minute."

The aroma of fried pork with garlic sprouts wafted from the restaurant next door, and Lao Jijiu was hungry for a while, and then he remembered that they were just waiting for someone and hadn't eaten all day.

He was hungry, and Zhuang Jinse was so greedy, it was not much better after all.

"I'm going to buy some food." He said, touched his withered purse, coughed lightly, and said to the Empress Dowager Zhuang, "I've run out of money."

It was all his money that was spent along the way.

Empress Dowager Zhuang vigilantly held the burden in her arms tightly: "For Jiaojiao!"

Not a dime can be spent!

The old Jijiu had no choice but to dig his pocket up and down, and finally found two knives and coins that fell into it at some point in the broken interlayer of his sleeve.

He was lucky, usually two knives could only buy one steamed bun, but it was going to rain today, the boss was in a hurry to close the stall, so he gave the last two steamed buns to Lao Jijiu.

The old Jijiu gave the bigger one to the Empress Dowager Zhuang.

The heavy rain in Shengdu came as soon as it was said.

A hole was torn in the sky, the heavy rain drifted down impatiently, mixed with the howling wind, and the stalls on the roadside were blown over!

The old Jijiu took the remaining half of the steamed bun with his mouth, and hurriedly closed the car window and lowered the car curtain.

However, the weather was so bad that the curtains of the car were blown off with a snap, and the storm mercilessly poured in towards the carriage.

The old Jijiu hurriedly stood up, intending to block the wind and rain with his thin body, he clasped the door frame firmly with both hands, but unexpectedly, the roof of the carriage was blown away in the next second.

The old Jijiu was so drenched that he couldn't open his eyes, he went to grab the umbrella, trying to open it to protect the Empress Dowager Zhuang from the rain, but he didn't open the umbrella, he was blown and fell to the ground first.

"I can't go on like this! I have to find a place to shelter from the rain!" He wiped the rain from his face, tried to open his eyes, and stretched out his hand to the Empress Dowager Zhuang, "Come down quickly! I'll catch you!"

It is very dangerous for two elderly people to be exposed to such extreme weather. If they are not careful, they may fall and never get up again.

Empress Dowager Zhuang couldn't open her eyes for a long time, so she couldn't see the hand he stretched out. She hugged the bundle in her arms tightly with one hand, and grabbed the wall of the carriage with the other, and moved down step by step with difficulty.

She slipped and fell, and the all-powerful Queen Mother Zhao sat in the puddle in embarrassment.

The old Jijiu asked loudly, "Are you okay?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang protected the burden in her arms: "It's all right."

She tried to stand up, but fell back several times.

It took a lot of effort for the old Jijiu to finally get close to her, and the old Jijiu reached out and grabbed her arm.

He just pulled the Empress Dowager Zhuang up, and before she could stand still, both of them fell to the ground.

At this moment, a beggar in his early twenties suddenly rushed over from behind the two of them, snatched the burden from the Empress Dowager Zhuang, and ran away!

"money for the journey!"

Empress Dowager Zhuang's eyes turned cold!

That was money for Jiaojiao. She lived frugally along the way, and didn't spend a single silver ticket, and ended up being robbed by a thief like this?

Queen Mother Zhuang is angry!

She didn't know where the strength came from, and without caring about the injuries and bruises all over her body, she picked up the stick on the ground and threw it at the little beggar!

"oops--"

The little beggar was hit by a stick, and fell into the rain with a bang.

Empress Dowager Zhuang took the steps of an old lady to chase away her unfilial grandson, angrily came to the young beggar, picked up the stick on the ground again, and beat the beggar violently!

"I'll let you steal things from Ai's family!"

"Let you grab Jiaojiao's money!"

"Let you sneak around!"

"Let you stop doing serious business!"

The rain was heavy, and the Empress Dowager Zhuang spoke Zhao Guo dialect in a rage. The beggar didn't understand a word, but the stick on his body was clearly beaten.

"Ouch! Don't hit me! Don't hit me! Give it back to you! Why don't I give it back to you! You bastard, why are you so strong!"

The beggar was about to be beaten into a pig's head.

How could he expect a little old lady who fell down and couldn't get up to beat someone so hard?

This start is too heavy!

The Empress Dowager Zhuang went down with a stick again, nearly killing all his sons and grandchildren. The beggar trembled and looked at the stick that fell between his legs.

If the stick had been half an inch forward, he'd--he'd--

He looked at the old lady in front of him again, and saw the powerful murderous aura of a superior in her eyes, and he felt fear in his bones.

He didn't even dare to play tricks, he threw the bag in his hand at the old lady viciously, and ran away rolling and crawling while the old lady was picking up the bag.

The bundle was blown apart, the silver ingots inside fell all over the floor, and the silver bills were blown out by the strong wind, floating everywhere in the alley.

Empress Dowager Zhuang knelt down to pick up the bank notes.

The old Jijiu sprained his ankle just now, and he limped over after a long time. He looked at the Empress Dowager Zhuang who was squatting on the ground picking up silver and bank notes, and suddenly felt mixed feelings.

She is the daughter of the Zhuang family, she was born noble, she became the empress when she entered the palace, after the death of the first emperor, she became the regent empress dowager again.

She has been standing on the clouds all her life, and she has never bent down her noble body to pick up anything from the ground, let alone a pile of bank notes, even if an antique worth thousands of gold falls on the ground, she never takes a second look.

But right now, she—

He opened his mouth: "Zhuang Jinse..."

The Empress Dowager Zhuang picked up a bank note that had floated into the sewage pit, wiped it on her sleeve and kicked it back into her pocket: "When I first arrived in the countryside, my family was not rich, and Jiaojiao had to go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables every day before dawn. Picking the mountain goods and selling them in the market. In order to get two copper coins for the car, she carried the heavy mountain goods on her back and walked for more than ten miles."

"She was only fourteen at that time, and she couldn't even bear to eat a bowl of hot noodle soup outside. In the winter, she only ate a hard, cold steamed bun in the market. But she was not short of Liulang's Shuxiu silver, and the family ate it. She didn't lack any meat and vegetables, she didn't eat them herself, and left them for Liulang, Xiaoshun and Ai's family. When the little monk came later, she spared no effort to buy everything that should be bought for him, and she only bought a pair for herself. The cloth shoes are still with Liu Lang’s.”

The old Jijiu was shocked.

Empress Dowager Zhuang lowered her eyes and said: "If the money is not enough, she will always be short of her own... The Ai family doesn't want Jiaojiao to suffer, and she doesn't want her to suffer at all."

The old Jijiu's eyes were slightly red, and he didn't know if it was because of Gu Jiao or Zhuang Jinse.

He squatted down: "I'll pick it up with you."

Both of them squatted on the ground, silently picking up the bank notes that were wet by the rain.

The Empress Dowager Zhuang picked it up and suddenly felt someone coming.

She moved her body forward to block the banknotes in the puddle in front of her.

A young man in coir raincoat and bamboo hat, holding a red-tasseled spear entered the alley from behind her.

The Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't pay much attention and continued to pick up the banknotes.

The boy walked past her.

When he reached the entrance of the alley, the boy's steps suddenly stopped.

There were only the last few bank notes left, and there seemed to be more people coming to the alley, so Empress Dowager Zhuang accelerated the speed of picking up the bank notes.

Her legs were about to go numb when suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind: "...Auntie?"