Red Mansion Royal Cat

Chapter 220 The Emperor Was Green?
Only Yuanchun, Jiamu, Daiyu and the young Princess Chun'er remained in Fengzao Palace. The emperor took the imperial concubine Yang to Chuxiu Palace with a cold face.

Before going out, he seemed to think of something, and took away the little fat man who was full of thoughts.

The little fat man muttered that there could only be one man in the palace, and was slapped on the head by the emperor.

"Can you call me a man?"

Jia Cong looked down at the little bird, and closed his mouth in grief and indignation.

"Grandmother, you can see, the wind in the palace never stops!"

Yuan Chun said quietly, the old lady was already frightened, but now she was even more flustered.

The old lady's hands were trembling slightly, and she asked tremblingly, "Yuan'er, tell me the truth, are you in any danger?"

In the yard, Daiyu took the little princess to play with butterflies. Yuan Chun looked at the two innocent little girls, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "Grandmother, don't worry, I have Ningrong and Rongfu behind me. No matter how strong the wind blows, For the time being, it won’t be able to blow to Fengzao Palace.”

"Then what if..., I'm afraid that your indomitable nature will make His Majesty despise you."

"No case!"

Yuan Chun held the trembling hand of the old lady, and comforted him softly: "You still don't understand, not fighting is fighting. Look at the imperial concubine, she doesn't have a prominent family background, she doesn't have the beauty of the six palaces, why is she so popular? Respect? Even His Majesty once said that only the Yang family has the honor of the imperial concubine."

"Imperial Concubine, don't you want to fight?"

Endless doubts arose in the old lady's heart. Before the emperor came to the throne, the Yang family was only the second concubine of the palace, and there was no communication between the two.

It was 49 years after Zhaowu that she really got to know Yang Shi, and she didn't know Yang Shi at all.

However, since Yuanchun became a concubine, every time she entered the palace to see her, most of them had to go to Yikun Palace to meet Yang.

Yang gave her the impression that she was always covered in a faint fragrance of herbs, not fighting or grabbing, and soft-spoken...

In her opinion, if such a person hadn't been protected by the emperor, he would have been torn apart by other concubines in the palace long ago.

I saw Yuan Chun smiled: "Miss Yang is the person I admire the most. She seems to be indifferent, but she can command such respect from His Majesty. Do you think she really has no wrists? She is the most skilled person in the palace." .”

Having said that, the old lady became even more worried: "Then will she be unfavorable to you?"

Yuan Chun shook his head and said in a low voice: "Mistress Yang has only one princess under her knees, and she devotes herself to raising the two children left by the Empress Yuan. The fourth prince's position in the East Palace is as stable as Mount Tai, and she is destined to be the future Queen Mother. You say such a person , would you care about the existence of an imperial concubine who does not fight or snatch?"

"Then what if you give birth to a little prince in the future?"

As the old lady spoke, she glanced at Yuan Chun's stomach, both hopeful and worried.

Yuan Chun couldn't help laughing: "Grandmother, if you really care about it, there will be chaos. Unless the fourth and fifth princes have accidents, whether it is a saint or your majesty, they will not let my child become the crown prince. It is the civil and military officials of the previous dynasty. , and will not let someone with the blood of the Jia family become the prince. The disaster of the descendants, the former court is very vigilant!"

After Yuan Chun said this, the old lady was both relieved and regretful.

She muttered to herself: "It's a pity, our family can't become the Cao family after all..."

"The Rongguo Mansion is already a prominent figure in the imperial court, so why bother to think about it?"

Yuan Chun could see very clearly that the future of Ningrong Jia's family would be the pillar of the country.It is not impossible for one family and two males to reach the peak, after all, the emperor once told her that brother Cong has infinite possibilities.

As long as the Jia family doesn't do the treasonous thing, the Rongguo Mansion will inevitably be divided into another mansion.

……

In the side hall of Chuxiu Palace, the door was wide open, and a woman was hung on the beam in the hall. The bright red palace attire seemed to be stained red with blood, which made people feel terrified.

"Sister Qi, when did this happen?"

The lord of Chuxiu Palace is Concubine Qi who is in her thirties. She has an ordinary appearance and her only advantage is that she is old enough.

In the early years, the saint bestowed on the emperor who was still a prince, and served the emperor for more than [-] years, but unfortunately he has no children so far.

She held a string of Buddhist beads in her hand, and kept plucking...

Hearing Mrs. Yang's question, she sighed and said: "The palace servants from Fengzao Palace came to inform Luo Guiren that she wanted to go back and change her clothes, but she didn't expect to wait and wait until she didn't come out, so... oh! It's all my concubine's fault." , the concubine failed to manage Chuxiu Palace well..."

"What does it have to do with you? You can always tie someone who wants to die to your leg!"

The emperor couldn't bear to criticize this poor man. If he hadn't been tricked back then, maybe Qi Concubine's child would have been saved.

Concubine Qi bent her knees and wanted to kneel, but Yang hurriedly pulled her up: "Your Majesty said it's none of your business, so why bother?"

"Your Majesty, he did hang himself."

There are many talents in the palace. A middle-aged servant came out to report briefly after inspecting Luo Guiren's body.

Jia Cong followed the investigation's servant into the room. The furnishings are slightly different from those in the Central Plains, with an extremely exotic color.

There was a piece of paper on the table, and she said one thing with a few strokes. She gave the hibiscus paste to Mrs. Zhou, and the reason was jealousy.

The handwriting is illegible, it should be due to time constraints.However, Jia Cong never believed that things would be so simple. According to the experience of Gongdouju in his previous life, things that are too coincidental and too smooth are often unreasonable.

"Lord Luo believes in Buddhism?"

Jia Cong pointed to the small Buddha statue in the altar. The traces of incense candles were very heavy, which should be caused by years of worshiping Buddha.

The palace servant secretly glanced at Luo Guiren who was put down, and couldn't help shivering when Jia Cong asked him.

She replied respectfully: "After the nobleman went to the north from South Vietnam, he went to Dabaoen Temple to invite Buddha statues back. These years, the incense has been burning day by day."

Jia Cong nodded, and leaned closer to the Buddha statue to observe carefully.

This Buddha statue is Maitreya Buddha, one of the three Buddhas. It is made of gold-lacquered copper, small and exquisite, and is no different from other Buddha statues.

Huh?
Jia Cong put the sandalwood on the altar on the tip of his nose and took a slight sniff.The scent is unique and seems to be very different from other sandalwood scents.

Using a little strength with his fingers, he crushed a piece of sandalwood into powder, and the taste became even stronger.

"Jia Xiaosan, what did you find?"

Jia Cong expressed his doubts, and the emperor immediately ordered someone to put away the sandalwood and hand it over to Xia Shouzhong to send it to the incense maker for identification.

"Your Majesty, I always feel that this matter is a bit strange..."

"Where?" asked the emperor.

Jia Cong shook his head, staring at Luo Guiren's red palace attire, he couldn't figure it out!

"I don't know, I just feel... don't you think the investigation went too smoothly?"

"It's so smooth, it's so smooth that I doubt it."

The emperor took the paper from Xia Shouzhong, read the few last words on the paper, and snorted coldly: "Jealousy? Just jealousy. Can I be fooled? She is a prince and daughter of a foreign vassal, and she has no cronies in Beijing. Where did she come from?" hibiscus paste?"

"The old slave also feels that something is wrong. The Forbidden City is isolated from the inside and outside. Even if it is purchased in the palace, there are strict rules. A rare thing like hibiscus ointment can't be easily obtained by a foreign prince and daughter who has been in the capital for three years. What's more, noble Zhou smokes it. Over time, how big is the amount needed?"

Xia Shouzhong's words are not unreasonable. Furong cream is a consumable product, so how much lotus cream is needed to make Zhou's D addiction so great?

Unless Luo Guiren's hands and eyes are open to the sky, it is impossible for a person to look like this.

Jia Cong looked at the situation of the side hall, and the layout style of Nanyue was quite different, which made people feel novel.

The paintings on the wall should be the scenery of South Vietnam. There are not many books on the bookshelf, but there are many gadgets.

There are quite a few flowers and plants, but most of them are seasonal flowers and plants, so there is nothing strange about them.

Jia Cong checked each piece, picking it up and putting it down while shaking his head...

Boom!
empty?

When putting down a small clay doll on the bookshelf, it accidentally touched the inner wall, and the sound came out was a bit strange.

dong dong!

Jia Cong tapped lightly twice, overjoyed.

He pushed away all kinds of sundries here, and indeed a small hidden compartment appeared.

The emperor also noticed Jia Cong's abnormality, and when he stepped forward, Jia Cong had already pulled out the dragon head dagger from his waist.

"Your Majesty, please hide first, it will be bad if there is a trap."

"This is in the palace, where did the trap come from?"

Jia Cong curled his lips: "That's not necessarily true. I have read it in the scriptures. In general, secret rooms and the like, either have poisonous smoke or hidden arrows..."

Snapped!
Another slap on the head, the emperor said with a cold face, "Open it quickly!"

Crunch!

The secret compartment is very small, and there is no poisonous smoke and dark arrows as Jia Cong said. Instead, it is covered with snow-white fox fur, and there is a wooden box inlaid with gems on it.

The wooden box was not locked. Jia Cong put it on the table and opened it. Inside was only a golden crown of hair and a few letters.

Now the emperor's face turned completely black... No, it turned green!

This golden crown is obviously a man's thing, and it is of the Central Plains style.

Gee...

Jia Cong glanced at the emperor's green face secretly, and his mind was boundless.

He didn't dare to look through the letters in the box, worried that he would know too much and be killed by the green emperor above his head.

For a while, the emperor didn't look through those letters, his arms trembled slightly, Xia Shouzhong opened his mouth and didn't dare to speak, the atmosphere in the side hall was a bit dignified, like the biting winter, making people want to tremble uncontrollably.

"Brother, look at what is written in this letter!"

"My lord..."

Xia Shouzhong almost knelt down, but the emperor snorted coldly and said nothing more.

Gritting his teeth helplessly, he took out one of the envelopes and opened it to read.

"Eh? My lord, this is a letter from the 49th year of Zhaowu!"

The emperor snatched it away, only to see that the letter was written by a man named Yu, and it was written to Luo Guiren.

The time of writing the letter was indeed the winter month of Zhaowu 49, and Luo Guiren should still be her princess in Nanyue Kingdom at that time.

The emperor snorted coldly from time to time while reading the letter.Jia Cong's heart was like a cat's scratching, he stood on tiptoe and took a peek...

"Here you are! If you are so curious, sooner or later you will be punished!"

The emperor's face is much better than before, at least now it's just cold, not so green.

Jia Cong muttered, "I'm here to investigate the case, investigate the case!"

He said so on the lips, but his body honestly took the letter and read it carefully.

It turned out that this man named Yu and Luo Guiren had met and fell in love since they were still alive, but they had to separate because of the obstruction of the Nanyue King.

Most of his heart was full of longing, but Jia Cong was puzzled by the place mentioned in it.

Zhen'an Mansion!
"Strange, this person named Yu is actually in our Daxia territory. Isn't Zhen'an Mansion under the Guangxi Chief Envoy?"

Xia Shouzhong reminded: "Little General Jia, Zhen'an Mansion is next to Nanyue Kingdom..."

"I know I know……"

Jia Cong couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he took out the remaining letters and opened them one by one.The emperor also picked up one and examined it carefully.

"Zhang Yu, this person is from the Zhang family!"

There were not many letters, and the emperor quickly found out the real identity of this person from one letter.

which one?
Zhang Ting's Zhang of the former prince Taifu!
The name Zhang Ting was very familiar to Jia Cong, Master Jing even suspected that Qin Keqing might be the daughter of the Zhang family.

He puzzled and said: "That's not right, my father said that the Zhang family was exiled to Lingnan, but this letter said that Zhang Yu is the Juren of Zhen'an Mansion."

"I know."

The emperor was very impressed with Zhang Ting. Zhang Banchao was not just joking.

At that time, the Supreme Emperor wanted to kill all the old and young members of the Zhang family, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty interceded for him, and he also thought about the material disputes in the court, so the whole family was exiled in Lingnan.

According to the Law of Great Xia, the only way for exiled people to succeed is to fight hard on the battlefield for the last chance left.

Imperial examination?The Great Xia Dynasty also had political trials!
"My lord, look here..."

Xia Shouzhong handed the letter in front of the emperor, pointed to a part of it and said, "Here... Nan'an County Prince's Mansion..."

Jia Cong also stood on tiptoe and leaned over. It turned out that this letter was written in the third year of Yuanyou. Zhang Yu said in the letter that the king of Nan'an County and him are old acquaintances, so they can get in touch more.

In this letter, most of them are complaining about good fortune and tricking people, complaining about the king of Nanyue beating mandarin ducks with a club, and caring about Luo Guiren earnestly, seeking help for him in the capital...

After reading all these letters, except for eating melons that beat mandarin ducks, I found no clues about the lotus cream.

Moreover, the Huo family has long been sunk by Jia Cong, and he wants to follow the clues to investigate...

Ok?
Jia Cong suddenly picked up the last letter and looked at the time, the seventh day of April in the fifth year of Yuanyou.

Jia Cong was full of doubts: "Your Majesty, if it was before, these letters were probably sent to the palace by the daughters of the Huo family. But who sent the letter in April this year?"

"Come here, send all the people who serve Luo Shi to the Imperial Prison, investigate!"

thump!
Before the emperor finished speaking, a young eunuch who was huddled in the corner suddenly knelt down: "My lord, this servant is guilty! The servant's godfather is in charge of purchasing in the palace. This letter was sent to the palace by the servant's godfather..."

Where is the imperial prison?Except for people like Xu Jin and Xu Qingteng in Daxia, no one is not afraid of them.

What's more, this little eunuch is only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he usually hears people talking about the horrors of the Imperial Prison. When he heard the emperor ordered them to be sent to the Imperial Prison, he was terrified on the spot.

After a period of intermittent surrender, the emperor finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

The Huo family is dead, but Zhang Yu's connections to Luo Guiren are not limited to the Huo family.

There is another connection behind the Huo family, which is in the capital, and it is even more secretive.

"Send it to the Imperial Prison for careful interrogation!"

The emperor looked coldly at Luo Guiren who was covered with a white cloth, and said in a cold voice: "Jia Cong, go and find out what the origin of this Li's firm is, how can it be so powerful?"

Xia Shouzhong sighed slightly, and said in a low voice: "My lord, there is only one Li's firm outside Xiyuan, and it's the natal family of Princess Li in Prince Yizhong's residence!"

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　Deleted more than 1000 words, added some more, and finally removed the part about D products.

　　never write this again...

　　Wow, cry, it's too difficult.The plot may be a bit out of line, so I have to re-do it, sorry.

　　I will update here tonight, take a nap, and continue to update the codewords when I come back from get off work.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)