Chapter 229 Palace Affairs(1/2)
Without Yan Xuehuai looking for it, Chai Yan appeared.
"It's done." Chai Yan leaned into Yan Xuehuai's ear, not knowing if it was intentional. There was obviously no one else next to him, but he still used his breathing sound.
Yan Xuehuai rubbed her ears, itchy.
"Where are people?" she asked.
"In..." Chai Yan looked at her, paused, and said, "In Cuixian Street."
"What?" Yan Xuehuai subconsciously rubbed her ears again, looked at Chai Yan, and then nodded slowly for a while, "...Where is safe?"
"Safety", Chai Yan was sure, and after thinking about it, he thought he should explain, "Earlier, a mother and daughter who specializes in immortal dance, had a life in the south, so he hid in Cuixian Street. The You brothers who worked for Yan Jingxiu, the one named You Wu, were regular guests of the mother and daughter. It is also related to them that we can catch You Wu there. The mother and daughter are still in Cuixian Street, and Qi Wei is there."
Yan Xuehuai understood and asked again: "There are eight of the ten shops on the street closed, and Cuixian Street is still open? Are you not afraid of refugees going to grab them, or are you afraid of Feiyuwei going to check?"
Chai Yan smiled and said, "Have you heard of the name Xu Huaiyi?"
Yan Xuehuai thought about it and shook her head: "It seems that I have heard of it, but I don't know who it is."
"Xu Huaiyi is the Feiyu Guard and the actual person in charge of Feiyu Guard." Chai Yan said.
Yan Xuehuai frowned: "Flying Fish Guard should have an officer like a commander. This supervisor is even bigger than the commander?"
"The tutor is the supervisor of Feiyuwei, and the position of tutoring has always been a eunuch, so what do you think?" Chai Yan asked back.
"So that's it. It's so boring. It's so complicated. I heard before that Feiyuwei was obeying the emperor directly and was the sword in the hands of the emperor. Unexpectedly, the emperor was worried about his sword and had to add another tutor."
Yan Xuehuai had very few official places in the Great Wei Dynasty, and she was not interested.
She asked, "Cuixian Street has something to do with Xu Huaiyi? Is it him who covers it?"
"Cover?" This was the first time Chai Yan heard this word, and he didn't react for a moment.
Yan Xuehuai raised her eyebrows, the gap of the times, referred to as the generation gap.
"What I mean is that Xu Huaiyi is like the umbrella on the top of Cuixian's street, do you know?"
Chai Yan understood: "Well, Xu Huaiyi is the minister under the skirt of the boss of Cuixianlou."
Yan Xuehuai opened her mouth wide in surprise: "How much sorrow can you have for me? It's like a eunuch going to a brothel?"
Chai Yan... learned it again.
Last night, Yan Xuehuai, Chai Yan and Lu Jinxing discussed, and she went back to bed, but Chai Yan and Lu Jinxing were busy all night.
Strictly speaking, Lu Jinxing was busy all night, while Chai Yan got up early to wait for news.
Liuli led Feiyuwei to Xiaojue Temple. Feiyuwei searched Xiaojue Temple overnight, but finally found nothing.
Feiyuwei left Xiaojue Temple, and the mountain gate of Jueming Temple was knocked. Nan Gu cursed and opened the door like during the day. There were more than a dozen Feiyuweiwei standing outside the door.
The leading Feiyuwei claimed to have received a tip, and the rebels were hidden in Xiaojue Temple and Jueming Temple, and they are now here to search.
Nan Gu naturally refused and took out the title of princess. While the two sides were having a dispute, a flying fish guard rushed forward and pulled the leader to speak under the wall of the temple.
The Feiyuwei said that Xiaojue Temple had been searched and no trace of rebellion was found. It said that there were female relatives from the Fu Prince's Mansion in Jueming Temple, and there would inevitably be collisions at night. If you search until dawn, you can just strengthen the investigation.
The leader was very unhappy and complained for a few words before taking people away.
The words they said under the wall of the temple were heard by Yao Gu who was hiding on the wall. But the flying fish guards did not really leave, and just guarded outside Jueming Temple, as if they were really going to wait until tomorrow morning to continue the search.
There is a small teahouse about one mile away from Jueming Temple. Because the place is remote and the business of the teahouse is extremely poor, it simply closed down in the past one or two months.
Other shops can't continue to work, and even if no one takes over for a while, they will add a red paper to the door.
It’s just this teahouse, without red paper, and it’s not transferred. It’s the only way to close the door.
At the third o'clock in the evening, lights suddenly appeared in the small teahouse that had been closed for a long time, but the front and back doors were still closed, and there was an iron general outside the front door.
In Chai Yan's study in Liushu Hutong, Pearl was talking and said: "The two aunts of the Zhou family are so experienced. They saw that there was something wrong with the teahouse and asked us to stay nearby. Later, they saw the lights on inside, so we broke into the door. Ha, the place was really the exit of the secret passage, which led directly to Jueming'an. Nan Gu and Yao Gu took the Duke. The Duke was tied up with something in his mouth. Nan Gu had such a great deal of strength. She carried the Duke from the secret passage all the way."
The aunts of the Zhou family in Zhenzhu's mouth are Zhou Swai Dust and Zhou Descaling.
The two of them went together last night, and Yan Xuehuai specifically asked them to follow him. They might not be able to lead troops to fight, but the experience of the world, no one in the entire Liushu Hutong can compare with them.
Li Qiniang felt a lot of trouble when she heard this. Her daughter was afraid that she would worry, so she called her over to listen together. When she heard that Qi Wei was tied up by the five flowers, Li Qiniang held it down and didn't scold her.
Yan Xuehuai felt interesting when she saw Li Qiniang standing upside down and she looked like she was about to fight. She patted Li Qiniang's hand and signaled her not to be angry. She asked Zhenzhu again: "Where are Nan Gu and Yao Gu?"
Pearl gritted her teeth: "Yaogu is better. That ugly girl is really not good even if she wears monk's clothes. She is full of dirty words and doesn't know where the second lady found someone, but she even followed her. The aunt of the Zhou family said that these two people were talking too much and could not leave a living, so I made the decision and handed them over to the two aunts of the Zhou family."
Zhou Saochen and Zhou Saoqiu sat in the corner. Yan Xuehuai looked at them. Zhou Saochen then said lightly: "Clean it up."
Li Qiniang had to wait for a while before she understood what Zhou Saochen's words meant.
Li Qiniang quietly pinched her fingertips. From the calmness on Zhou Swachen and Zhou Feidi's face, you can think of what life they had lived with her elder sister over the years. Li Qiniang felt bitter in her heart, she was bitter, and the elder sister was even more bitter.
Ji Hai and nine other guards disguised themselves and accompanied Qi Wei, temporarily living in Cuixian Street.
At this moment, Wei Ming was beaten to death and never expected that Qi Wei would hide in a place like Cuixian Street.
In the palace, Wei Ming narrowed his eyes and looked at the trembling Queen Mother Hu and the same trembling child.
"Is the Queen Mother afraid?" he said quietly.
Empress Dowager Hu shivered, her body trembled even harder. She said in a trembling voice: "Ai...Ai's family is not afraid."
Wei Ming smiled slightly and looked at his fingers. Ten fingers were carved into white jade, pure and flawless.
"It's good if you're not afraid. If you're afraid, then just change someone."
Empress Dowager Hu's face was pale and weak. She slid down from the phoenix chair and fell to the ground. She looked up at Wei Ming, her eyes filled with tears: "You can't change, you can't change, the Ai family is the Empress Dowager, you can't change the Ai family."
Wei Ming stood up, walked slowly to Empress Dowager Hu, bent down and held up Empress Dowager Hu's chin with his index finger. His voice was soft and beautiful like the petals of spring.
"Since you don't want to be replaced, then you are obedient. You have killed the emperor. You are a sinner. The Sa family says you are the queen mother, and you are still the queen mother. If the Sa family says you are not, then you are not even as good as a prostitute. Do you understand?"
Empress Dowager Hu nodded desperately: "I understand, the Ai family understands, the Ai family understands."
Wei Ming's eyes slid over Empress Dowager Hu's face, and Empress Dowager Hu shivered again. She seemed to feel countless geckos crawling around her face. She subconsciously grabbed her collar, wishing there was a slit on the ground that she wanted to hide it and never come out again.
Wei Ming smiled coldly: "A disgusting idiot."
Empress Dowager Hu crawled on the ground and watched the feet wearing official boots disappear from her sight. She struggled to support her body and sit up. The child stretched out his little hand and wanted to help her up. The moment the hand touched Empress Dowager Hu, Empress Dowager Hu screamed and waved his hand, opening the child's hand.
"Get out of here, get out of here, don't touch me, what are you, as cheap as your dead mother, you are! "
The child looked at her in a daze, his hands still stopped in the air.
After a long time, the child's hands drooped. He looked at Empress Dowager Hu and said pity: "You are crazy."
Empress Dowager Hu stared at him, her eyes full of bloodshot: "What did you say?"
"I said you're crazy." The child repeated what he said just now.
Empress Dowager Hu suddenly stretched out his hand and wanted to cover the child's mouth: "No crazy, I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy, I can be the queen mother, I can really do it, I'm not crazy, I can't be the queen mother, I'm not crazy, I'm the queen mother, I..."
Wei Erxi hurried in from outside and whispered a few words in Wei Ming's ear. Wei Ming frowned and said, "Let the imperial physician go and see her."
Wei Erxi responded and, an hour later, Wei Erxi came back again and said, "Grandpa, the imperial physician said, the imperial physician said, the empress dowager was unconscious, and she might be really crazy."
Wei Ming's face was full of disgust, and he said, "Please take care of her. Without the instructions of the family, you are not allowed to walk out of her yard. The emperor is filial. Let's move in and serve her."
Wei Erxi agreed to retreat. After an hour, the palace returned to its former peace.
Liuli, who was dressed up as a husband, quietly walked into Liushu Hutong while the night was dark. Lu Jinxing sat alone in the doorman. When he saw Liuli, he asked, "Is there something happening outside?"
Liuli said: "Dr. Zhu, who lives in Fanerhutong, has not returned home since yesterday morning. His family secretly asked several other doctors whom he had been with, saying that he was called away by Wei Erxi yesterday and went to take the pulse of the empress dowager. Except for him, he never gave any other doctors."
The Empress Dowager went to Bailu Mountain and took away most of the imperial physicians in the Imperial Hospital. Only six people stayed in Xinjing. The Zhu family went to the other five families and learned that only the Imperial Physician Zhu was summoned to the palace.
Lu Jinxing thought for a while and said, "Is there still no way to contact the people in the palace?"
Liuli shook her head: "Since the day the Hu family was destroyed, our inside line in the palace has been broken, and we still can't contact us until now."
Lu Jinxing said: "Okay, go and be careful."
Liuli smiled, grabbed a piece of dessert the size of a chess piece from the table and stuffed it into her mouth. I don’t know what the dessert was called, it was fragrant and crispy.
"It's delicious." Liuli simply poured the rest into the purse she carried with her.
Lu Jinxing was extremely angry and blasted the glass out like a fly.
This was made by the boss's wife, and he had only got such a plate. Chai Yan was very angry.
The next day, Liuli, who pretended to be a firewood vendor, sent another message: "Doctor Zhu is dead!"
This was all within Lu Jinxing's expectations.
At this moment, even people with the status of Qi Wei almost couldn't come out when they entered the palace, let alone the imperial physician who was powerless.
"Has the body been found?" Lu Jinxing asked.
"A eunuch from the palace came to report the funeral, saying that Doctor Zhu stole things from the palace and had been sentenced to death. The eunuch who reported the funeral also searched Doctor Zhu's home, saying that it was the first time that there was a second time. Doctor Zhu must not be the first time that he stole things, and maybe there were stolen goods at home.
The old and young Zhu family could only watch the eunuchs flipped and smashed them at home, and took a few antiques and left."
Lu Jinxing locked his eyebrows and pondered for a long time. Something must have happened in the palace, and it was a big deal!
Too big could make the empress dowager's family destroyed, to too big to trap Duke Ding and comfort him, to too big to kill the imperial physician who went to the palace to diagnose the disease!
But now all their inside lines in the palace are broken, and the news from the palace cannot be sent out, and they cannot get in touch.
After sending Liuli away, Lu Jinxing walked around the house.
To be continued...