Jiangshan is hired [rebirth]

Chapter 39

After returning to the mansion, Yun Miaoqing applied medicine to Huo Lan's wound after taking a bath, tucked in the quilt for her and turned off the lights before returning to her room.

She didn't go to bed right away, but took out a pen and paper and listed the things related to Du Wenyao one by one.She always felt that this matter was the key. If the case could be clarified, a series of interests might be involved.

After writing Du Wenyao's name, Yun Miaoqing added Yu Wang and Zhuang Wang to the left and right of his name.

Listening to Zhuang Wang's tone today, it seems that Du Wenyao has something to do with Yu Wang. He is so sure, did he order someone to tamper with Du Wenyao's relics?

This is not right, King Zhuang must not know what the trick is, otherwise he could find someone to report on King Yu directly.He also said that it is useless to see King Yu murder with only witnesses. Similarly, even if he found King Yu's things on the spot, it would not be enough to crucify King Yu. At that time, King Yu can say that he lost his things.

Du Wenyao's death is not the point, the point is why he died, and what he has mastered, this is what King Zhuang really cares about.

King Zhuang believed in this matter so firmly, either Du Wenyao had communicated with him before his death, or he had indeed witnessed it directly or indirectly confirmed from others that the murderer was King Yu.

Yun Miaoqing drew a circle on Du Wenyao's name.

The Du family has not taken sides in the establishment of the crown prince for a long time, but there may be a private bias.If Du Wenyao has the handle of Yu Wang in his hand, and he has a heart to favor Zhuang Wang, then Zhuang Wang has no reason to move him.

Moreover, King Zhuang asked Du Shouming to rummage through Du Wenyao's relics so confidently, which shows that he can be sure that he has nothing to do with Du Wenyao. In this case, he should not attack Du Wenyao. ...

Yun Miaoqing connected a line between Du Wenyao and King Yu. If the Du family really had a bias between King Yu and King Zhuang, she would be more inclined that Du Wenyao chose King Yu.

Du Wenyao's choice of King Yu means that he will definitely not exchange information about King Yu with King Zhuang. In other words, the murderer is likely to be from King Yu's side.

Yun Miaoqing rubbed the center of her brows, and added two other people on the paper—Qingjing Prefecture Yin and Shengshang. The roles played by these two people in this case were also subtle.

Without His Majesty's instruction, how could Yin Qingjing give such a deceiving investigation result.So His Majesty knew about this matter even if he didn't know the whole picture. He covered up the murderer and wanted to let this matter go.

In the eyes of the Holy One, it is hard to say who is the murderer, but——

Yun Miaoqing's eyes fell on the word "Qing Jing Fu Yin", this person must have been involved in this matter, if Du Wenyao's skeleton had not suddenly appeared half a year after his death, the former Qing Jing Fu Yin would not have been dismissed from office.

That's why she asked the little beggar Fu Zhou's group yesterday.Those people from Fuzhou came here strangely, there are so many thieves on the street every day, whether it is a coincidence that the Qingjing government officials arrested them or they are wiping their ass for whom is still open to question.If the person behind Qing Jingfu Yin can be dug out, the truth of this matter will not be far away.

Yun Miaoqing drew a horizontal line under "Governor of Qingjing", took out a few pieces of paper and wrote a letter.When my father was alive, he had many close friends who were students. Although many relationships faded after his death, there were still some people whom my father told her before he died that she could trust her and would definitely help her.

One of them is currently serving as an official in Fuzhou. Yun Miaoqing saw the faces of those people outside the West City that day, and later she asked the people's hometown from a beggar. She drew the faces of those people one by one. On the paper, ask that person to secretly help inquire about the news of these people.

Putting the finished letter into an envelope, Yun Miaoqing simply tidied up and lay down on the bed, but she still couldn't fall asleep, feeling that something was wrong.

Even if Du Wenyao has King Yu's handle, is it necessary for King Yu to kill him on the spot?She still believed in her original judgment that the incident must have happened suddenly, and the murderer hadn't prepared in advance, which made the incident so serious.

Combined with the fact that King Zhuang knew there was something wrong but didn't know what it was, Yun Miaoqing didn't think that Du Wenyao was going to expose King Yu immediately in front of His Majesty. Something must have happened that caught the murderer off guard and killed him on the spot in a panic people.

What else can I do...

Yun Miaoqing got up and put on her clothes, lit the candle again, and found out from the drawer the list of accompanying personnel in the palace that Yun Shujian wrote to her that day.

Her fingers slid across the many names one by one, and finally stopped when passing a certain name.

A very absurd conjecture was formed in her mind, ruling out all impossibilities, no matter how absurd this matter seemed, it was likely to be true.And if this matter is true, then there are several conspiracies involved in this case, which is far more complicated than outsiders imagined.

"Will mother come to the palace tomorrow?" Yun Miaoqing opened the door and asked the maid on duty in the corridor outside.

"Yes miss, madam will go to the palace to talk with the queen mother every two or three days."

"When mother wakes up tomorrow, ask her to wait for me, and I will go with her."

Five days later, Huo Lan took a break, and Yun Miaoqing took her to the East City as promised a few days ago.

The New Year's Eve is over, and people are gradually returning to their peaceful daily lives. Almost all the goods in the East Market are for the exclusive use of dignitaries, and the prices are ridiculously expensive. Ordinary people seldom come here, so it is much deserted than the West Market.

The deserted deserted, the style is the real style, each shop has an open door, a deep inner courtyard, and row upon row of pavilions, if the name of the shop is not written on the plaque outside the door, it can be regarded as the courtyard of some wealthy family.

"I heard that you had a fight with the guards recently?" Yun Miaoqing and Huo Lan strolled around the East City, visiting this shop and that shop.

The hair crown that Huo Lan had been using before was damaged by Zhuang Wang's sword last time. She had been wearing the uniform of a guard for the past few days and had a uniform crown, but it didn't affect her at all.When she came out today, Huo Lan was wearing casual clothes, her hair was simply tied with a headband, Yun Miaoqing saw it and thought about buying her a few more hair crowns.

"Ah...you heard about this too?" Huo Lan was a little embarrassed.

After returning from Prince Zhuang's mansion that day, Yun Miaoqing went to the palace several times with her mother in the past few days. Once, she got a set of eunuch's clothes from somewhere, thanks to Huo Lan who covered her up. Only then did she smoothly walk in some places in the palace.

Yun Miaoqing was obviously investigating something secretly, she was busy with her business, and Huo Lan had Huo Lan's work to do, so there was not much communication during this time.In Huo Lan's eyes, fighting with the guards was a trivial matter, but he never expected that the busy Yun Miaoqing would know about it.

Yun Miaoqing pinched Huo Lan's face: "When did I not care about your affairs?"

Huo Lan raised the corner of his mouth, as if his heart was swept by a fluffy little paw.

"Only a few people couldn't understand my sudden entry into the bodyguard's office, and I was promoted to a first-rank bodyguard within two days. They wanted to trouble me, and I beat them all to the ground."

Those people were in the same group as Huo Lan, and they just pushed her out at first.It doesn't matter to Huo Lan, she has been alone since she grew up, as far as she is concerned, Yun Miaoqing is enough, and everyone else is dispensable.

It was obvious that these people pushed her away first, but after seeing that she didn't even look at him, they got angry at her for being defiant.They didn't know that Huo Lan was promoted because of King Zhuang, they just relied on Miss Yun's family to believe that Huo Lan was a slut who only knows how to sneak up on women's skirts. After provoking Huo Lan again and being ignored, I just want to give Huo Lan some color.

If the police from Songluan County were here, they would remind them not to provoke Huo Lan, that little wolf cub. This guy looks like a lunatic when he fights, and she will bite you to death whenever he has a breath.

But if there is no if, these people see that Huo Lan is not strong at all, and they never thought that they would not be able to beat him.

Although the bodyguard office is not considered a military camp, it is no different from the military camp in terms of Mu Qiang.Huo Lan's fight not only defeated these provocateurs, but also shocked others. Many people who had disdain to talk to her before quickly changed their attitudes, and these days they took the initiative to call her brothers and sisters. This is why Huo Lan was able to cover for Yun Miaoqingxing.

"You, you are getting better and better." Yun Miaoqing had heard about the incident, but when she heard Huo Lan tell it again, she felt different.

As a bystander, the person who told her described the situation at that time very vividly. At the end, he kept feeling that Huo Lan was amazing, but when he came to Huo Lan, it seemed to be a very easy task.

Although it was relaxed, but with a little pride of wanting to ask for rewards, an invisible tail behind him waggled and waggled.

"What's the matter, luckily I had a fight with them, otherwise I might not be able to help you in the future." Huo Lan held Yun Miaoqing's hand, and when he thought that he had helped Yun Miaoqing, he was so happy no.

Between her and Yun Miaoqing, it was finally no longer that Yun Miaoqing unilaterally protected her, and she could also do things for Yun Miaoqing.

Yun Miaoqing followed her and rolled her eyes, but she was not as relaxed as Huo Lan.

"Then how are you getting along with those people in the guard office now?"

Huo Lan didn't seem to understand why Yun Miaoqing asked this, and just thought she was just chatting casually, so she also replied casually: "It's okay, that's all. As long as they don't talk bad things about you, I won't bother to talk to them."

However, Yun Miaoqing didn't just chat casually, she lightly rubbed the back of Huo Lan's hand, her mood became more and more heavy.

In the past few days, she secretly investigated Du Wenyao's death in the palace, and met a nanny who had served Zhuang Wang's mother and son in the early years.

"Your Majesty came from a humble background. At that time, she and Your Highness had a hard time. Your Majesty is a person who has endured hardships. She is better than when she was a palace maid. She doesn't think life is so difficult. But Your Highness is different. He was studying with the other princes, and the princes, mothers and concubines were favored. Which item was not better than him in terms of food, clothing, and play?

The people in this palace are very snobbish, the princes don't play with him, and the maids and eunuchs in other palaces don't pay much attention to him, not to mention other palaces, then the servants in the empress palace also don't care. Many are sneaking around and neglecting them. "

Without friends, the cold eyes of the people around made Zhuang Wang mature early. He was reading when his peers were studying, and he was also studying when his peers were playing.He knew from a very young age that only when he was better and more sensible than other princes could he get his father's attention and change his and his mother's situation.

If it only ends here, it will be a very inspirational story, but things in the world are not so perfect.

That nanny has now been transferred to the cold palace, and no one talks to her on weekdays. It is rare that someone is willing to listen to her nagging, and say whatever comes to her mind.She lowered her voice and told Yun Miaoqing quietly: "Your Highness was only five years old back then. I once saw him holding a dead bird and using a dagger to cut open the belly of the dead bird. The heart, liver, everything inside was taken out. come out……"

After so many years, Mammy still had a pale face when she said it, and rubbed the goosebumps on her arms, as if she could still feel the impact of that bloody scene back then.

Not to mention that Zhonglu is a prince, even if he was born in an ordinary family, it would not be a crime for a five-year-old child to gouge out the heart and liver of a dead bird, but Yun Miaoqing still found something unusual from this incident. .

On the night of the martial arts competition between King Zhuang and Huo Lan, when King Zhuang talked about Du Wenyao's death, that strange smile appeared in front of Yun Miaoqing's eyes again, and Huo Lan, who was standing beside King Zhuang at that time with an indifferent face, appeared with him. .

Huo Lan and Zhuang Wang had similar growth experiences, they were both bullied by the people around them, and they didn't have many friends, at least they thought so.

In order to sue Pan's mother and son, Yun Miaoqing got to know the people in Maoxi Village. She knew that there were still a few people who were kind to Huo Lan.

Later, he came to her and lived with her and Ginkgo for two years. Although Ginkgo didn't treat Huo Lan as meticulously as her, it could be regarded as taking care of her.Huo Lan was very polite to Gingko from the beginning to the end, and he didn't show much reluctance when Ginkgo left in the end.

Yun Miaoqing didn't care about these details in the past, only when Huo Lan was very clingy to her, it seemed that she was a little colder towards others in contrast, and now she realized the problem in retrospect.

She didn't want to blame Huo Lan. Based on Huo Lan's experience, asking her to be a person who loves all living beings is demanding her.Besides, Huo Lan and Zhuang Wang are different after all, at least Huo Lan never tortured and killed small animals, and never did bullying.

But what happened to King Zhuang finally woke up Yun Miaoqing. For the first time, she realized that she hadn't really cared about Huo Lan.

There are a lot of "first" experiences recently... Yun Miaoqing patted Huo Lan's head, feeling mixed feelings.

"Didn't you say you won't touch my head anymore!" Huo Lan didn't know what Yun Miaoqing was thinking, and grabbed Yun Miaoqing's troublesome hand from her head, but was still reluctant to let go.

That's all.Facing Huo Lan's smiling eyes, Yun Miaoqing was defeated.Since she is the only one in Huo Lan's eyes and no one else, she just needs to be optimistic about Huo Lan. If Huo Lan doesn't understand, she will teach her slowly, and she can't let Huo Lan go on the wrong path.

She bought three hair crowns for Huo Lan, had them packed in boxes and sent them to Yunfu. After checking that it was about the same time, she took Huo Lan into a restaurant.

Different from the restaurant in Xishi that I visited last time, this restaurant is composed of many small buildings, surrounded by bonsai rockery between the buildings, the environment is elegant, without disturbing each other, providing enough privacy for the guests .

This is where Yun Miaoqing and Du Shouming agreed to meet.

Huo Lan and Yun Miaoqing stepped into the door, Du Shouming was already waiting here.He was wearing a black robe today with a hood on it, and he was completely different from the swaggering appearance in Yunzhai in Songluan County that day.

Yun Miaoqing wanted to order someone to order, but Du Shouming stopped her: "Time is limited, I won't have dinner with you, you invite me to meet this side, if you have anything to say, just say it."

Yun Miaoqing obeyed Du Shouming's wishes and didn't ask anyone to come in, but she didn't follow Du Shouming's wish, she poured a cup of tea for herself and Huo Lan, and slowly said while holding the teacup, "Is Du Uncle Xianfu also so busy at home?"

"It's not busy. I don't have any business to do now. I just talk to His Majesty to relax." Du Shouming stopped urging Yun Miaoqing, and tapped his fingertips on the table.

"Huo Lan has been working in the palace for a few days. Has Your Majesty talked about her?"

"Your Majesty said that King Zhuang praised Huo Lan for his good martial arts in front of him, and asked him to promote Huo Lan's rank." Du Shouming stopped his movements when he said this, "Have you been to King Zhuang's mansion a while ago? "

Yun Miaoqing blew away the froth in the cup, and took a sip: "Du Uncle, didn't you ask this question knowingly?"

"Why did King Zhuang invite you to his residence?"

"What else can you do? You want to win us over to deal with King Yu."

Du Shouming frowned: "Prince Zhuang has a deep mind, you should avoid dealing with him, and be careful not to be spotted by him."

"Then what about King Yu?" Yun Miaoqing asked.

"Although Yu Wang is not as smart as Zhuang Wang, the Qi family behind him is not easy to mess with..."

Yun Miaoqing and Du Shouming chattered about, but they didn't talk about the main topic, and Du Shouming also changed his previous urgency, and answered Yun Miaoqing's questions slowly, almost always answering her questions, and even took the initiative to chat and laugh, saying to her They talked about some household chores, and the words were quite warm.

After about half an hour, Yun Miaoqing finally stopped going around in circles, and said what King Zhuang asked her to tell Du Shouming that night.

"I've checked Wen Yao's belongings carefully, and I haven't found anything..." Although Du Shouming said this, his expression became hesitant.

Before, he searched without a clue, but now that he has the exact direction, it is hard to say whether there will be new discoveries.

Yun Miaoqing also meant the same thing.

"I think what Zhuang Wang said is certain, it doesn't look like it's groundless, why don't Uncle Du go back and have a look?"

Du Shouming agreed, and then asked Yun Miaoqing if there was anything else.

"No, that's why I invited Uncle Du today. Since Uncle Du still has something to do, I won't hold on any longer." Yun Miaoqing said as she got up and sent Du Shouming out.

Du Shouming put on his hood, turned around at the door of the room and said to Yun Miaoqing, "Your Majesty will hold a spring hunt as usual in early March, and I will try to persuade His Majesty to let Huo Lan participate. In addition, if there is no urgent matter, we will rarely It's good to meet, there are many eyeliners in Jingzhong, if people see that I have been in close contact with Huo Lan, I will not be able to speak for him on His Majesty's side."

"Uncle Du is thinking that this time it's my niece who is careless. I must be more careful in the future." Yun Miaoqing obeyed the instruction, and did not insist on sending Du Shouming out. She only opened the door for him, and waited for him to leave Just called the store to serve.

When the food was ready, Yun Miaoqing served Huo Lan a bowl of soup: "Try this, the lamb tripe soup here is very delicious."

Huo Lan just had his head stuffed into Yun Miaoqing and Du Shouming's conversation, and he didn't like eating anything.It happened once in Prince Zhuang's Mansion last time, and it happened again this time. These were not found in books. She felt that she had to ask these people to understand what they meant and what they said, and learn to listen to them herself. Think about it, Yun Miaoqing can't always be alone and tired.

After returning home, Huo Lan immediately asked Yun Miaoqing her own questions. She wanted to know, and Yun Miaoqing broke them apart and told her one by one.

"...The reason why I talked for so long today is because I was testing him, and he was guarding against me."

"What are you probing, and what is he guarding against?" Huo Lan didn't understand much before, let alone here.

Yun Miaoqing didn't directly answer Huo Lan's question, but instead asked her: "Why did you say before he left that we should not meet each other?"

"He said he was afraid that people would see him having too close contacts with us."

"He was the one who introduced you to His Majesty. Since King Zhuang can see it, and His Majesty can also see it, it's not normal for him to come and go with us a few times. What's there to hide?"

Huo Lan was stopped by Yun Miaoqing.

"He was in a hurry to leave at the beginning, but he showed his flaws. After he realized this, he held his breath and dealt with me for a long time, just to bring out the last sentence logically in the name of caring."

"So he wants to get rid of us!" Huo Lan suddenly realized.

Yun Miaoqing snapped her fingers and affirmed her words: "Once your identity is revealed, he will be the first person to suffer as the referrer, so he doesn't want to have any contact with us, so that if that day comes, he can have nothing to do with you. Although he still has responsibility for pushing this matter to his subordinates without knowing the reason, it depends on how he coaxes the emperor."

Huo Lan nodded, secretly thinking that this person is really cunning, but Yun Miaoqing said again: "Since you are interested, then I will let you guess one more, do you think King Zhuang knows about today's matter?"

"Shall we meet Du Shouming? Of course he knows, isn't it the Du Shouming he asked us to meet?"

Yun Miaoqing smiled and shook her head: "I mean Du Shouming told us not to meet him too often."

Huo Lan fell into a daze again.

"If you want me to say that King Zhuang must have guessed that Du Shouming would be like this early in the morning. Even if there are many people around him watching, if he can't even get a secret message out, then he won't be able to compete with King Yu. He One move is called killing two birds with one stone, it not only alienated our cooperative relationship with Du Shouming, but also let Du Shouming help him investigate what he wanted to investigate."

Huo Lan: "..."

What did these people grow up eating, with so many twists and turns in their minds?She thought Du Shouming was annoying enough, if even Du Shouming could be tricked by King Zhuang, wouldn't it mean that King Zhuang was even more difficult to deal with.

Compared with these people, she really looked like a fool, no wonder Yun Miaoqing was worried about her coming to the capital alone.

As if seeing what she was thinking, Yun Miaoqing leaned forward and hugged Huo Lan, putting her head on Huo Lan's shoulder.They hugged each other many times during this period, and Yun Miaoqing seemed to fall in love with this way of expressing intimacy, whenever Huo Lan showed a sad, wronged or unconfident expression, she would use this way to comfort her.

"There is a saying that the mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole is behind. These people, one or two, are plotting against us, plotting against us, trying to make use of you, but still trying to control you. I won't let them do what they want."

The author has something to say: The scheming plot in Beijing really made me a little dizzy. It was either short or slow. Sorry for being late today_(:з」∠)_