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Chapter 385 A Question (6K+)

Seeing the girls in the room betting with Dali, Lin Yan couldn't help but glance at Ji Chongyan beside him: I've already caught Dali, so there's really no need to bet or anything like that!
"This bet on Dali seems to be 'out of a thousand', but Miss Jiang Si can't lose anything." Ji Chongyan didn't turn his head to look at Lin Yan beside him, but just looked intently at the girl not far away, reminding him , "The bet is a secret Dali is willing to tell, and it's not letting her go."

No matter how cunning Dali was, she was still led by the girl.

Seeing the girl in the room nodding to him, Ji Chongyan said: "Let's go in, we can ask Dali about something."

Seeing Ji Chongyan and Lin Yan walking in from the door, Dali was startled, but she wasn't surprised.

She didn't know when Miss Jiang Si got in touch with these two people, but it didn't matter, with a collaborator like Miss Jiang Si, no one would refuse.

The swelling and soreness in her neck reminded her of how hard the man with the gorgeous skin had struck her first.

But...it's not surprising at all.

Dali vaguely recalled the situation when she saw him 20 years ago. At that time, he was still held in the arms of Princess Zhaoyun, but he was just a baby.

She didn't pay attention to him at all.Without the mother of Princess Zhaoyun, leaving only the father of Master Ji, no matter how much the two elders of An Guogong love, after all, there is a separation of generations, and it is not easy to beat and scold.

How can a son disciplined by Master Ji be any better?
Even though they had enough food and clothing, when they were young and didn't know what to do, the An Guogong and his wife were not easy to beat and scold. Such a child who was "spoiled" and grew up would probably be a dude in the future.

This is the trajectory of the child's growth she thought back then.It's just that looking at it now, the grown-up Ji Chongyan is really far from the dandy she thought.

Because of Princess Zhaoyun, of course he hates her.

Dali thought for a while, and before he could speak, she instinctively began to defend: "It's your father you should hate, he..."

"Flies don't bite seamless eggs. You don't need to talk about his problems, I know." Ji Chongyan opened his mouth and interrupted Dali's words.

This is calling Dali a fly!Lin Yan glanced at Ji Chongyan: Chongyan's yin and yang ability is getting stronger and stronger!

Dali: "..."

She lowered her eyelids, not daring to look at Ji Chongyan's face, and just said: "I didn't mean to do that, I didn't expect that your mother would jump into the lake to avoid the pursuers, and I didn't expect that she would fall into the root of the disease... ..." Hearing that Ji Chongyan and the others were silent, Dali paused, and continued, "What's more, even with Master Ji here, he doesn't have any skills, and he can't help Princess Zhaoyun..."

A sneer interrupted Dali's words.

Even though he was reduced to a prisoner and started to "tell the truth" to Ji Chongyan, he still liked to shirk in his bones.

Ji Chongyan sneered, and said: "What is he capable of, but at that time he was serving in the Dajing Military Division under the shadow of his ancestors. Since the Zhao family raised troops, the Military Division has made some moves. If he How can you not know that the Zhao family has become Dajing's 'rebels' when you were still in the Bingma Division? Even if you can't do anything, it is still possible to tell grandfather in advance."

Of course he wouldn't expect Master Ji's father to do anything, but...if he let his grandfather know, he would never let his mother be so passive.

It took only two days from the Zhao family's rebellion to the dispatch of the Dajing soldiers and horses. At that time, many Dajing dignitaries living in Chang'an did not know about the Zhao family's rebellion. The first to receive the news was the Dajing soldiers and horses. , is the yamen where Master Ji is "goofing around".

But Mr. Ji, a member of the yamen, took a leave of absence for a few days and was not in the yamen at all.So much so that the colleagues around him didn't know that such a big event happened in the house after searching the house.

When the grandfather heard the news and hurried back home, Master Ji was still drunk and dreaming beside Da Li. At that time, the grandfather was so angry that he took a knife and went straight to the door and dragged Master Ji, who was only in his underwear, from the street all the way back to a mess. Anguo Gongfu.

However, it was still Dajing at that time, and the grandfather who was "connected" with the Zhao family was relieved of his post in the army and "rested" at home. To the outside world, it cannot be said that he was angry with Mr. Ji regardless of his wife and son's behavior, he could only hate him "Be fascinated by women's sex".

"You have a lot of guests, and there are not a few fish in the net. My father is just one of them. Why didn't you look for him sooner or later, but why did you come to look for him in those two days?" Ji Chongyan took a deep breath and suppressed his anger. With anger in my heart, I asked coldly.

He had checked these past events countless times. There were too many suspicions about Dali, and it couldn't be explained clearly by a single "coincidence".

The three people in front of her were completely different from those under her control in the past, and it seemed that there was no way to hide any lies in front of them.

"Yang Ling asked me to do it." Dali was silent for a moment, then said a name after a little hesitation.

Yang Ling, this name seemed to have never appeared before, and he had never heard of this person throughout the Dajing and Dazhou dynasties.

But Jiang Shaoyan knew this person.

"Yang Ling is the youngest son of the 'God of War' Yang Po, who was a well-known dandy in Chang'an at that time, and was also her guest of honor." Jiang Shaoyan said.

Such a detailed explanation made Dali couldn't help but look up at her: Although this girl knew everything from the maid beside Miss Jiang, such a plain and familiar tone always made people feel uncomfortable. It felt as if what she knew was not what she heard, but what she saw with her own eyes.

Ji Chongyan said "Yes", paused for a moment, and asked Dali, "Since Yang Po's family was mentioned, what did you and Yang Ling do during the battle in Baidi City?"

Of course Dali was incapable of deciding the course of the battle in Baidi City, but she hated her brother-in-law because of what she did for Miss Jiang back then, and she also participated in it.

After hearing the words, Dali lowered her eyes and fell silent for a while, then said, "At that time, I was very popular in Chang'an City."

This welcome naturally refers to the countless "welcomes" of the guests who entered the curtain. It is ridiculous that the Jiang family redeemed Dali and became a free body. The pair of sisters are still restless. Confidant" countless.

The identity is free, and the actions are the same as those in the flower boat.

"There was a wealthy businessman from Jiangnan Province who offered to meet me with a lot of money, and I agreed." Dali said, "At that time, my leg injury just happened, and after drinking for three rounds, the wealthy businessman asked me if I wanted to report my leg injury. Enmity, do you want... to get what you want."

She thought she was hiding it well, but she didn't expect that her inner thoughts would be seen through like this.

"I agree." Dali lowered her eyelids, not daring to look up at the faces of the people, but said dryly, "He asked me to deliver a letter to Yang Po through Yang Ling."

"What was written in the letter?" Hearing this, Lin Yan couldn't help but asked.

Dali shook her head: "I don't know."

"Did you take it apart to see?" Lin Yan asked her back, his eyes full of suspicion.

The beautiful and flowery girl in front of her was born with a heart of snakes and scorpions, which really made people suspicious.

"I dare not." Dali moved her lips and said, her pale face became more and more ugly, "He put medicine in the wine I drank, and he would die without the antidote. I... dare not."

Hearing this, Lin Yan couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and blurted out: "It seems that to deal with you, we can only fight poison with poison, and fight evil with evil."

It's useless to treat people like Dali kindly, even if you promise her kindness, she will feel that you are mocking her.It's better to just give the medicine directly, so that she will be good.

It's really... don't cry without seeing the coffin!Lin Yan frowned: For such a natural villain, it is really a waste to be soft-hearted.

"What does he look like?" After a pause, Lin Yan continued to ask.

Dali shook her head: "I don't know, he's wearing a mask, wrapped in a thick black cloak that reaches the floor, he can't even see his figure clearly, and his voice seems to have taken a secret medicine, it's a little hoarse and hard to hear clearly."

That kind of black cloak that reaches the ground not only makes the fat and thin of the person unrecognizable, but even the height... I don't know if there are pads in his shoes.

Unless someone like Jiang Shaoyan is overweight or thin like a bamboo pole, it is difficult to judge the fat or thin within the normal range.And this was 20 years ago. People's height, shortness, fatness and thinness are not static. If you only rely on these, wanting to know who they are is equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack.

It is naturally impossible to find this person by such a description alone.

At this moment, Jiang Shaoyan said: "That person knows about Miss Jiang's falling from the horse, and also about General Zhao's acting in place of Miss Jiang, and what's more about her..." The girl said, looking at Da Li in that room, After a pause, he said, "I'm very clear about her temperament."

Therefore, this person is very likely to be the person who was very close to Zhao's family at that time, just like... the person who did something to Chai Momo.

"It may be the same group of people, or even the same person." Lin Yan looked at Ji Chongyan and nodded solemnly.

Ji Chongyan let out a "hmm", noncommittal.

Seeing that he didn't speak, and Miss Jiang Si on the side didn't make a sound, Lin Yan coughed and asked again: "Besides that, what else did that person ask you to do?"

Dali sneered when she heard this, as if mocking herself: "Can I, a weak woman far away in Chang'an, control Baidi's situation?"

He agrees with most of these words, except for the word "weak woman", Lin Yan thought.

But although this is Dali's self-deprecating words, some words are true.

"The Zhao family's army, who has conquered countless battles in the south and won countless battles, even if they meet a strong enemy in Baidi, it is absolutely impossible to be so passive that they will stick to Baidi." Ji Chongyan said lightly, "There is a problem with the supply. It wouldn’t be the case if my uncle issued an extremely wrong military order.”

"It's just that the skills of real swords and guns are not as good as people's. They won't just be beaten and stay out of the city. Something must have happened in Baidi City at that time." This was something he had guessed early in the morning.

It’s just that during the war that year, the entire city of Baidi was trapped to death, and no one survived. Several rebel armies that faced Zhao’s army were also wiped out in the ensuing war. There is still no definite explanation for what happened that year.

"I really don't know." Dali looked down at the ground with a pale face, seemingly unwilling and self-deprecating, "I really want to know, but I can use my means to know too much. died."

She was not a woman who was interested in the current situation, so she didn't pay much attention to it, and just continued to wander among the rich and powerful.

"I haven't seen that person since that letter," Dali said here, paused, and then said again, "Until a few days before Zhao Jiadalang captured Chang'an City, I received a letter from someone. Give me a note, telling me that Mr. Zhao Jia Dalang will attack Chang'an City in the near future, let me leave Chang'an as soon as possible."

"If he takes down Chang'an City, he will be the Son of Heaven. I may not be angry with me about Princess Zhaoyun, so I ran away immediately." Dali took a deep breath as she spoke, "There is a detailed note from Chang'an in the note. He wrote down the route to the south and where to stay for a few days. I followed what he wrote. Although the journey was thrilling, I never encountered any soldiers from the Zhao family. , and then all the way back to Jiangnan Road.”

Everything seemed to confirm their guesses. The people behind the scenes were not only familiar with what happened to Miss Jiang and General Zhao, they were even so familiar with the course of action of the Zhao family's soldiers and horses.

The one who can do this must be the important minister who has made great contributions to the Great Zhou, and the person who made good friends with the Zhao family in the previous dynasty.

The behind-the-scenes men who attacked Nanny Chai, delivered the letter, and made Dali escape in time probably belonged to the same force.

"How did you meet Yang Yan?" At this moment, the girl spoke again.

Dali looked up at her, and said: "Although I fled back to Jiangnan Road, I was very uneasy. I was afraid that Mr. Zhao's family would be liquidated, so I thought about finding a place for the time being and changing my identity while the war was chaotic."

"Then when I went to Gusu to buy a house, I met Brother Yan." Dali said with lowered eyes, "My identity is special, so I would offend His Majesty. He made up an identity for me, and I have been staying in the Yang family's inner house ever since. A husband and a child..."

The girl couldn't help but chuckled when she heard this, she didn't comment on what she said, just paused, and then asked her: "Did Yang Yan meddle in these things?"

"Although he is a talented man of three years, but at that time when the Dajing tyrant was in power, he was sent to Jiangnan Road before the Zhao family's uprising," Dali said, and glanced at Ji Chongyan, "These sons of Ji must be able to find out. The military general Shengshi Wenchen in troubled times, he is just a civil servant, what can he do at that time?"

Ji Chongyan glanced at her, noncommittal.

Seeing this, Jiang Shaoyan didn't say whether she believed it or not. She just paused, and then said: "Your girl who was working as a concubine in Chang'an City was stabbed out a few days ago and became a concubine for three people. She came out of Chang'an City. It was taken away by someone, do you know who did it?"

Dali was startled when she heard that, a moment of surprise flashed in her eyes, but she immediately lowered her eyelids and said, "I don't know, I haven't contacted anyone since I left Chang'an City."

Jiang Shaoyan looked at Ji Chongyan, who nodded at her.

During the years Xiaoli was under his control, apart from wandering among Master Ji, Master Ji Er and Master Xu, she really had no contact with outsiders.

Dali's words seemed to be fine.

"What do you think?"

After walking out of the room where Dali was imprisoned, Lin Yan couldn't wait to speak.

After Ji Chongyan and Jiang Shaoyan looked at each other, he said to Lin Yan, "Half truth, half falsehood."

It's... dishonesty! .Lin Yan rubbed the center of his brows, sighed, and said, "Someone like the one inside has always been the most troublesome for the torture officer."

Such a person is good at lying, and lies can be told as truth, and truth can also be told as lies, and there is even truth in falsehood, and falsehood in truth, making it difficult to tell which sentence is true and which sentence is false.

"The two incidents of someone delivering a letter and a note should be true," Ji Chongyan said, "The purpose of these two incidents is consistent with the purpose of the person who attacked Nanny Chai that we originally guessed."

"Besides, although she has confessed the matter, she has not confessed to this person." Jiang Shaoyan said after thinking for a while, "It is the so-called confession but not fully confessed."

So even if they know this person, it won't help them find out who is behind the scenes.

"It's true that Yang Yan, the number one scholar with three consecutive awards, was treated coldly in Dajing." Ji Chongyan paused, and then continued, "The tyrant only likes beautiful women and men with beautiful wives. Yang Yan, who had not married a wife and had children at that time, Those who do not belong to any one of these two will naturally be treated coldly.”

Therefore, the number one scholar of Lianzhong Sanyuan was released to Jiangnan Road as a local official soon after.

This thing does sound plausible.

"In that case, in order to marry Dali, the death of the old bustard Hua was indeed done by him." Lin Yan couldn't help but sighed with emotion, quite helplessly, "It's a pity that there is no evidence."

With Yang Yan's current status, the one who died was the old bustard from the previous court, so it is impossible to move him without conclusive evidence.

"Yang Yan probably lied because of her beauty." After a pause, Jiang Shaoyan continued, there are some things that women are naturally more sensitive than men, "If you really like her beauty, For Dali whose identity could not be disclosed to the public at that time, Yang Yan's method can completely let her be the concubine, and in this way, her mother, Mrs. Yang, can be invisible and the back house can be peaceful."

People like Mrs. Yang obviously wouldn't like Dali to come in. Yang Yan must have put in a lot of effort to let her in. After entering the door, the two of them must have had a quarrel for a while.

Unless Yang Yan just has a brain and likes restlessness in the backyard, it is obviously better to let Dali be the outer room.

Ji Chongyan and Lin Yan also agree with this point.

"Yang Yan and her are obviously together for other reasons." Lin Yan said, looking back at the room where Dali was imprisoned, and after pondering for a while, he asked the two of them, "She is not honest, like the one in there." Yes, the content of my torture interrogation is generally divided into pre-execution and post-execution, do you want to...execute?"

"She is not only greedy for life, but also beautiful." Before the two of them could speak, Lin Yan continued, "If you punish her or scare her to toss about her appearance, maybe you can find out some of it."

Hearing the words, Ji Chongyan was silent for a moment, then shook his head, and said: "No need for now, I'll save it for later. Now that the punishment is being imposed, it's because of the questioning, regardless of whether it's true or not, most of the things she asks are useless truths." The words are just like the delivery of the letter just now."

Confessing but not fully confessing, this is not the result they want.

As for when is the "later" of "Let's talk about it later", Ji Chongyan looked at the thoughtful girl at the side and asked her: "Miss Jiang Si, when will the bet be accepted?"

This girl is not a procrastinator, and she is determined not to let Dali hide her secrets for too long, after all, it will cost her food to have an extra mouth, especially if she has a grudge against her.

So this bet shouldn't last long.

That being the case, then you can wait until the bet is accepted before asking.

"It won't be too long. After Yang Xianzhi enters the palace, it will take a few months or a year to see if the Dali Sect's 'unscrupulous means' is feasible." The girl thought for a moment, then looked at Ji Chongyan and Lin Yan's voice was calm but unquestionable, "Don't worry, she will take the initiative to confess when the time comes."

Ji Chongyan and Lin Yan didn't know Dali as well as she did.

If that's the case, then just wait.Lin Yan thought, although he believed in the girl's judgment, he still had some doubts: "Miss Jiang Si, how do you know whether Yang Xianzhi will be feasible after entering the palace?"

He believed that Fourth Miss Jiang was a smart person, but he had to judge the affairs of His Majesty's harem. The concubines in the harem had little contact with the outside world. How did Miss Jiang Fourth know this?
Regarding this, Jiang Shaoyan only shook her head and spit out two words: "Secret."

She needs time to prove some secrets, and if they are confirmed, she will know the answers to some questions.

"Your Majesty is not a womanizer," since the girl refused to say it, she could only guess. Lin Yan stroked her chin and said, "Even if Yang Yan tries to send Yang Xianzhi into the palace to compete for favor, it may be useless. But In this way, Yang Yan sent his sister and daughter to the palace to compete for favor, and I am afraid that Shi Yushi will grab a large sum of money."

Of course, these "private virtues" are not painful to Yang Yan.

"Let her stay here first." Jiang Shaoyan didn't mention these things again, but paused, and said to the two, "I want Mother Chun to meet Mrs. Yang and say that Dali has escaped."

ha?Lin Yan, who was stroking his chin, couldn't help being startled when he heard the words: Isn't their Dali ready?Why let Dali escape?

Jiang Shaoyan shook her head, and said, "Xiao Xuebai's disguise still needs to be added to make this dali a good one."

She has arranged for Mother Chun to do these things in advance.

Dali has already grasped it, and the words at the moment... Jiang Shaoyan looked at Ji Chongyan: "After Dechun's mother and Mrs. Yang have met, we will set off for Jiulongling."

The road ahead to Kowloon Ridge is unknown.

If you want to catch it, you have to catch it clean!

……

The night is deep.

In the Yang family's ancestral house, which had been extinguished before Xu Shi, only the lanterns on the road sticks were left, but the lights were brightly lit.

Mrs. Yang, who had already been sitting on the bed, did not rest early as usual, but still held the book in her hand, and looked outside the door from time to time.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps, and along with the footsteps, it was Xiu'er who looked around subconsciously.

"Old madam!" Xiu'er, who trotted in from the outside, walked quickly to the side of Old Madam Yang, facing the anxiously expecting old Madam Yang, Xiu'er shook her head, and said in a low voice, "I didn't come back! "

As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Yang's eyes lit up, she quickly lifted the quilt, stood up and said, "Help the old man up!"

snort!The hearts of the servants in this house are all spoiled, if Dali doesn't come back, will they lose their backbone?
"The people in this house have forgotten that they still have old bodies!" Mrs. Yang put on her outer clothes, picked up the dragon-headed crutches in her hand, and tapped the ground with a bit of suppressed excitement in her voice, "Go, follow the old body!" Go and see!"

(End of this chapter)