Shengshichun

Chapter 342

How could Fu Zhen guess it?

She urged: "Just say it!"

"It's Shopkeeper Feng! It's Shopkeeper Feng who you asked me to send a message to before I went to Huizhou!"

Speaking of which, how could Fu Zhen not know this?

But she wondered: "Why did Shopkeeper Feng come to Beijing?"

"He came to see Aunt Ning. I found him soon after arriving in Huizhou. I heard that I was asked by you to see him. The next day he took the initiative to find me and said that he would follow me. Enter Beijing.

"So after I finished my work, I told him to come back together."

"Where is he now?"

"He's at Wanbin Building. You don't have to worry. I've already asked him to meet Aunt Ning."

"Is this the real girl?"

On the way back, Fu Zhen and Pei Zhan rode in a carriage together. Pei Zhan drank a lot of wine and still didn't talk much on the way, but his expression seemed very relaxed and happy.

"Exactly." Mrs. Ning greeted Fu Zhen with a smile, "Come and meet Grandpa Feng."

This night was speechless.

During the meal, they asked them about the disappearance of the Huzhou Emperor's eldest son. As expected by Mrs. Feng, Pei Yu was not with the Emperor at the time, so he did not know about it.

Fu Zhen then rushed to Wanbin Tower and asked if Mrs. Ning was indeed here. At this time, he and shopkeeper Feng were talking in the attic at the back.

There was silence in the attic for a while, and then Mrs. Ning's voice sounded from above the stairs: "Zhen'er, come up."

Fu Zhen didn't go in-depth. After drinking tea, he rushed to Ning's house.

"You must already know what happened to my grandfather at the dock that year."

As soon as they reached the bottom of the stairs, they heard voices upstairs, but the voices were muffled.

Mrs. Feng also said: "We are not outsiders. The food has been served. Let's go."

This once again surprised Fu Zhen. Shopkeeper Feng had an extraordinary friendship with the Ning family, and this would not change whether Ning Bochi was alive or not.

Fu Zhen walked up quickly and saw Mrs. Ning standing at the stairs to greet her in the huge attic. There was also a man in silk shirts in his fifties standing in the middle of the room, looking at him with kind eyes.

But in Fu Zhen's opinion, Wan Bin Tower's orders to Mrs. Ning would never be wrong. Even if Mrs. Ning didn't go, Shopkeeper Feng would never be neglected.

"In addition, now that I have found a good son-in-law, he has become the virtuous wife of General Pingxi, which is even more amazing!

The next morning, Pei Zhan went to the camp as usual, and Fu Zhen went to Mrs. Pei's room and had breakfast with the couple.

Fu Zhen stopped, coughed, and raised his voice: "Is mother up there?"

Mrs. Ning said: "Everything in the palace was revealed by Zhen'er and General Pei together. Uncle Feng doesn't have to worry about it. Just tell him."

Fu Zhen saluted, also called Grandpa Feng, and then said: "Yesterday, we heard from General Pei that Grandpa Feng came to Beijing with him.

"Very good." Shopkeeper Feng looked very kind. He nodded and smiled, and then praised: "We haven't seen you for many years. The real girl is getting better and better, and the bones in her body look stronger and stronger. It's really gratifying.

Pei Mu really didn't mean to see anyone else. He said hello happily, and then walked out briskly to meet Liang Chen and the others.

"I wonder how you are doing on this journey?"

Shopkeeper Feng then continued: "To be honest, life in our Feng family has not been easy in the past few years.

"I know. My mother told me many times that it was thanks to Grandpa Feng that you stayed with my grandfather in those days and took care of everything in the Ning family for him. Afterwards, you saved the huge property for our Ning family."

Fu Zhen had never met Shopkeeper Feng. He thought he came to Beijing to meet Mrs. Ning. Now that he was rushing there, he seemed a little serious, so he put his heart back in his stomach.

"That's good."

"It's a long story." Shopkeeper Feng sighed, "It all starts when Ling Zu encountered danger on the Huzhou dock that year, and this is also the reason why I came to Beijing this time.

"I don't know how happy I am to know this from my ancestors!"

Fu Zhen made up his mind to go back to Ning's house tomorrow and said to Pei Mu: "You're here unexpectedly, so let's stay and have dinner together. I'll take care of you tomorrow."

“My family’s shop has been hit one after another, either being robbed here or having a fire there. I have closed half of my family’s property in the past few years.

The dinner was a great time for both the guests and the host, and they stayed together until late at night.

"Who says it's not the case?" Shopkeeper Feng said calmly, "I was talking to your mother about this just now. It's not that I don't want to come, it's just that I can't help myself."

It's just that he suddenly wants to come to Beijing to see Mrs. Ning, which is a bit surprising.

After returning to Pei Mansion, he still stood under the carriage until Fu Zhen landed smoothly, and then walked into the house with him.

"None of these are important. Brother Ning and I are close friends of life and death. These are all matters of our duty." Shopkeeper Feng waved his hand, "I want to say something else.

"How did that happen?"

"If you are on tenterhooks every day, naturally you won't be able to care about anything else."

I originally thought that Mrs. Ning was still in the house at this time, but unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the house, the steward said that Mrs. Ning had gone to Wanbin Tower early in the morning. The reason was that an old friend from Huizhou who came to Beijing came to the restaurant, and she went there early. Some arrangements have been made.

Having said this, he glanced at Mrs. Ning.

Fu Zhen didn't need the guys to lead him and went up to the attic by himself.

Fu Zhen responded with a smile: "Grandpa Feng, why haven't you come to Beijing to see us for many years? I should have seen you at my grandfather's funeral. It's been six or seven years."

"What happened to your grandfather, I thought was a pure accident, but later I found out that there was a reason. One of the two parties who fought on the Huzhou Pier was actually His Royal Highness, the eldest son of the emperor, who even I tried to hide!"

"The eldest son of the emperor?!"

Before that, Fu Zhen had already speculated that the Ningbochi distress might be related to the emperor's eldest son, because there were many doubts about the old man's distress. Secondly, after that incident, the old man sent a letter to Mrs. Ning, and soon after that, he died.

With several key things put together, it is difficult not to associate the dock incident with Yang Yi. "Go on!"

"He told me this when I was escorting him to Beijing, but he didn't say that he was the missing eldest son of the emperor. He just told me that he was an extremely important person who was being hunted by another group of people. , was hit by the poisoned sword and fell into the water.

"It happened that he was on the water bank at that time. After the emperor's eldest son fell into the water, he must have been instinctively trying to survive, so he grabbed his robe by the water and pulled him under the water.

“Later, the eldest son’s people also arrived and moved them both together.

"In the hour when he disappeared, Brother Ning learned the identity of the emperor's eldest son from the two guards around him, and immediately began to rescue him.

"He is a wealthy businessman with a huge fortune. He tried every means to find a doctor to treat the emperor's eldest son's wounds, but he neglected that he was infected by the poison from the emperor's eldest son's wound.

"He showed up after covering their departure, but this also laid the root of the disease."

"So that's it!" Fu Zhen suddenly understood. Sure enough, he solved the mystery of the old man's injury, and many doubts were solved!
They also guessed that Mr. Ning's illness had another cause, but they did not expect that he fell ill because he was treating the eldest son of the emperor!
Then I thought about the relationship between myself and Mrs. Ning in Baiyu Hutong, and that murder case was also closely related to the eldest son of the emperor. It turned out that the fate between the Ning family and Yang Yi was so close!

Without any time to think about it, she immediately asked: "Who was the person who secretly hurt the emperor's eldest son at that time?"

"According to what your grandfather told me at the time, that group of people should be Dayue people!"

"...Why on earth did the eldest son of the emperor get entangled with the Dayue people?"

"That's unknown." Shopkeeper Feng said solemnly, "When I was escorting your grandfather to Beijing, the night before entering the city gate, he stayed with me and told me about this.

"He never told me that he was the eldest son of the emperor, so I didn't take it too seriously. I just thought it was a pity that he ended up in such a situation for someone who had nothing to do with him.

“So he later told me to be careful from now on, to keep a low profile, and to be especially wary of the Great Moon People.

"I didn't take it to heart at the time. For one thing, we are thousands of miles away from Dayue to the south. Especially when the two countries were at war, the people of Dayue would not have the courage to cross thousands of miles to do evil in the south.

"Secondly, I'm just a businessman and I didn't go to the dock that night, so they had no reason to look for me.

"But I still thought wrong. It was indeed calm for a few months afterwards, but when I returned to Huizhou after going to Beijing for your grandfather's funeral, I got the news that my family's property had been affected.

"The first time can be said to be accidental, but the second and third times followed immediately. I don't dare to be careless anymore, and I don't dare to say a word about what your grandfather told me."

"Uncle Feng has suffered." Mrs. Ning was full of guilt. "Although there have been letters over the years, you have always reported good news but not bad news. I know nothing about the Feng family's situation."

"This has nothing to do with you." Shopkeeper Feng said, "I, Mr. Feng, smell like copper, but I never dare to forget the word "faithfulness". I am not coming to Beijing to complain."

Fu Zhen asked: "Did Grandpa Feng deliberately choose this time to come to Beijing?"

"Exactly!" Shopkeeper Feng looked at her with piercing eyes, "The previous crown prince was executed, and Xu Yin, the minister of etiquette, was captured. The news has spread all over the country. It has also spread that the eldest son of the emperor came to Beijing with the help of Brother Meng Ning. , I immediately guessed that the poisoned person he saved on the dock that night was the eldest son of the emperor!
"Before General Pei arrived in Huizhou, I just received the news, and I wanted to go to Beijing immediately to tell you about it.

"What I want to say is that the emperor's eldest son should still be alive, and he should be deeply involved with Da Yue!"

Fu Zhen stopped breathing for a moment and said, "How can you be sure that he is still alive?"

"Isn't your grandfather's coffin currently in the suburbs of Beijing, and hasn't been sent back to Huizhou yet? There is a tomb for him temporarily built in the Ning family cemetery in Huizhou. On the anniversary of your grandfather's death not long ago, I went to visit his grave. At that time, I saw that someone had paid homage to his grave, and there was a phoenix painted on the dirt next to it!”

It's Phoenix again!

Fu Zhen couldn't help but take a deep breath when he heard this.

Yang Yi has a phoenix-shaped birthmark on his body. This phoenix appears several times in objects related to him. Mr. Ning died of physical damage because of saving him. So on the anniversary of his death, in addition to Yang Yi, there are also Who would draw such a mark next to the old man's grave?
The old man’s death anniversary is in May, which means he appeared just two or three months ago!

This time coincided with the last time Li Yi saw him.

Fu Zhen could even guess that after Yang Yi left his temporary place under Li's glance, he went to Huizhou to pay homage to Mr. Ning.

Yang Yi is not dead.

This fact has definitely not escaped!
After confirming this, Fu Zhen also became obsessed with another question: "Grandpa didn't tell Grandpa Feng, how did he know that the other party was a Dayue person? Did the eldest son of the emperor say it, or did he discover it?"

"He discovered it. We merchants have traveled all over the country and met tens of thousands of people. Although the few small countries outside the customs have studied our Han people's life for a long time, they do have some of their unique characteristics. It's not surprising that he can see it."

"Then, has he ever said why the eldest son of the emperor has entanglements with Dayueren?"

"I haven't said it. I think the emperor's eldest son may not have told him about this. Because after we parted ways on the dock, the emperor's eldest son only came to see him secretly once when he was ill in Huizhou.

"It was that time that the eldest son of the emperor confessed to Brother Ning, and Brother Ning also agreed to cover his entry into Beijing."

A look of pain appeared on Mrs. Ning's face: "My father didn't even tell me the truth about these things."

"He is also trying to protect you." Shopkeeper Feng sighed.

Fu Zhen was silent for a moment and said, "Grandpa Feng came to Beijing, does he want to see the emperor?"

"How dare we, ordinary people, expect to see Tianyan face to face? But if I can deliver this news to the emperor and empress and let them know that there will be an additional candidate for the crown prince at this time, my merits will be considered complete."

Shopkeeper Feng said with a sigh of relief.

Fu Zhen frowned upon hearing this.

This news is of course good news, but how can it be delivered to the palace casually at this time?
Of course, things in the palace, especially when it comes to possible disagreements between the emperor and the empress, cannot be said casually.

Thinking of this, she stood up: "Leave this matter to me, but there's no need to worry, Grandpa Feng. It's rare for you to come to Beijing, so let us entertain you well. You can live in peace for a while."

Shopkeeper Feng nodded happily: "Our real girl is the general's wife. What should I worry about, old man? I'm just waiting for your good news."

Fu Zhen agreed with a smile, and then the three of them walked down the stairs.

Shopkeeper Su happened to be waiting downstairs, so Fu Zhen asked Shopkeeper Su to lead Shopkeeper Feng to the city first and walk around.

Then she turned around and asked Mrs. Ning to stabilize Shopkeeper Feng first.

At this point, it is imperative to clear up this old case in the palace.

Yang Yi has been missing for so many years, and no one knows what his thoughts are on whether he should return to the palace to recognize his relatives.

And what attitude should we adopt to get him back?

This is no longer their decision.

Only the emperor and empress can decide.