The Red Mansions

Chapter 354 The benevolence of women!

Here, Jia Heng and Qin Keqing got off the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and were about to board the carriage and return to the front yard.

Suddenly, there was a burst of noise from the end of the corridor. It was clearly Zhou Changshi from the Zhongshun Palace who had been stopped by the two nuns of the Ningguo Mansion, and he called out to Jia Heng from a distance: "But General Yunhui is in person?"

Jia Heng whispered to Qin Keqing: "Keqing, wait for me here first, I'll go over there to have a look."

Qin Keqing nodded her head, with a look of worry on her gorgeous jade face, she said softly: "Then husband, go."

Jia Heng came to Zhou Changshi, frowned and asked, "Zhou Changshi, what's the matter?"

Zhou Changshi bowed his hands and said: "General Yunhui, my prince was assassinated in the Zen room just now. The assassin escaped from the temple. General Yunhui is in charge of the soldiers and horses of the five cities. Please also mobilize the soldiers of the soldiers and horses to close the city gates. Capture the whole city and bring the assassin to justice."

Hearing this, Jia Heng frowned, and said, "Prince Zhongshun was assassinated? I wonder if his life is in danger?"

As the person in charge of public security in Shenjing, King Zhongshun always asked if something happened, or at least pretended to care about it.

Zhou Changshi said: "Fortunately the bandit Kou missed a single blow, the prince is fine."

Jia Heng thought "It's a pity" in his heart, and after a moment of silence, he asked: "There are five city soldiers and horse soldiers stationed nearby to patrol the police. Zhou Changshi can go to report the case. As for the closing of the city gate and Dasuo Shenjing, now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, the capital city There is a constant flow of internal and external traffic, such as closing the city gate, it will be inconvenient for people to come and go in Shenjing."

Zhou Changshi's complexion changed when he heard the words, and he said anxiously: "Jia Yunhui, my prince was assassinated, and the soldiers and horses of the five cities are in charge of law and order to arrest robbers, how can we be negligent?"

Regret appeared on Jia Heng's face at the right time, and he said in a deep voice: "I also feel very sorry for the assassination of the old prince, and I must do my best to arrest the murderer. Don't forget the panic of the people, Zhou Changshi, last time the whole city of Dasuo was caused by the turmoil in the Beijing camp, and now the city gates are closed and the whole city is arrested, I am afraid that the city will be full of wind and rain, and people will panic."

If King Zhongshun was buried in the hands of the assassin, needless to say, the whole city must be searched and the murderer must be found after digging three feet.

But now, isn't King Zhongshun still dead?
Hearing the words, Zhou Changshi's eyes darkened, and when he noticed the determined attitude of the young man opposite him, he felt a little unhappy, and said sharply: "General Yunhui, the clan was assassinated, and the five city soldiers and horses are in charge of suppressing law and order in Beijing and arresting bandits. , it is hard to escape the blame, if the murderer cannot be hunted down, it will be difficult for the top and the bottom to explain it!"

Hearing this, Jia Heng's face turned frosty and cold, and he shouted: "Zhou Changshi's words are unreasonable, the prince goes up to the mountain to worship Buddha, and he has his own guards to guard the safety, if he still thinks there are not enough manpower You can notify the soldiers and horses of the five cities in advance to send soldiers to guard and guard along the road. None of the above is an early warning. Now the villain is hiding in the temple and committing assassinations. No?"

Hearing the words of the young man opposite, Zhou Changshi's face turned livid, he snorted coldly, and walked away.

Seeing this scene, Jia Heng's heart surged with killing intent.

How domineering!

But he couldn't help but think about the follow-up of this matter.

If he did not guess wrong, King Zhongshun would then ask the officials to impeach him.

However, it's actually useless.

Next, he should order people to arrest the murderer, to arrest the murderer, he also needs to be aware of these villains who assassinated King Zhongshun.

As for King Zhongshun, why not him!
What he thought when he was overlooking from the Big Wild Goose Pagoda earlier, after he quelled the Liwei camp incident, he initially gained a firm foothold, and not all impeachments can be shaken.

It is not normal to be in a high position in the Chen Han court and have not been criticized.

"After this incident, it even happened to promote the Escort business."

Jia Heng thought about the follow-up turmoil and how to deal with it, then turned and walked towards Qin Keqing.

Qin Keqing said with concern: "Husband, just now you are loyal to the palace?"

"Don't worry about it, I'll take you back first." Jia Heng smiled and said comfortingly.

The husband and wife said, surrounded by a large number of nuns and maidservants, they boarded the carriage followed by the young servants and left the Da Ci'en Temple.

On the other side, Zhou Changshi returned to the meditation room, saw King Zhongshun, narrated the conversation with Jia Heng just now, sighed, and said: "My lord, General Yunhui has personal grievances and disregards official duties, and he did not agree to the invitation of the lower officials." Seal the city gates and force the entire city, and say that this will easily cause panic."

King Zhongshun laughed back angrily, and roared: "Jia Heng is so courageous! I am alone in the clan of the Han Dynasty, with the blood of Taizu and Taizong flowing in him, and now he is assassinated by gangsters. How dare he, a little first-class general Yunhui, Such negligence of his responsibility, how can there be a sage and an imperial court in his eyes?"

Zhou Changshi frowned, and suggested: "My lord, should I let the procuratorate impeach me?"

For example, King Zhongshun, who regards the elder brother of the emperor as the head of the clan and is now in charge of the House of Internal Affairs, cannot fail to raise a few obedient officials in case of emergencies, and this time he can take the opportunity to attack.

King Zhongshun's face was fierce, and there was a hint of hostility in his eyes. He said, "Let someone impeach Jia Heng'er right now! Let's say that this king was assassinated by gangsters in Daci'en Temple and was seriously injured. Let's say that Jia Heng'er was in charge of the Wucheng soldiers." Ma Si, the corpse is a vegetarian meal, this king is about to resign his position as the Ma Si of the Five Cities Soldiers!"

It can be said that he hated Jia Heng's position as the commander of the five cities' soldiers and horses. Regardless of what happened to Chen Rui the day before yesterday, even now, he doesn't listen to greetings at all, let alone use his arms and fingers.

In the past, who was in charge of the soldiers and horses of the five cities, who was not regarded by him as a domestic slave?
However, King Zhongshun was furious when he suddenly remembered something, frowned and said, "Don't tell me where I was injured!"

As he said that, he also felt that it was not realistic, his brows were furrowed, and his eyes flickered coldly.

The part where he was injured is too embarrassing, if this is spread even a little bit, what face will there be!

After struggling for a moment, the hatred for Jia Heng finally overshadowed all considerations.

Zhou Changshi suggested: "Your Majesty, if you don't just talk about the assassination and injury, it is said that Jia Heng is in charge of the Beijing Camp, the Five Cities Military Division, and the Jinyi Mansion's three yamen, but he can't control a bandit, causing him to assassinate the clan. Responsibility for dereliction of duty?"

King Zhongshun's eyes lit up, he even forgot the pain in his buttocks, and hurriedly said: "That's the impeachment, he holds several key positions by himself, if he gets in touch with bad people, I'm afraid there will be danger of accidents!"

Zhou Changshi nodded, and went to find the speaker as ordered.

But on Jia Heng's side, he and Qin Keqing boarded the return carriage, left Daci'en Temple, and headed towards Ningrong Street.

In the carriage, the husband and wife sat side by side.

Seeing the young man's brows furrowed, Qin Keqing said anxiously: "Husband, are you still worried about Prince Zhongshun looking for trouble?"

Jia Heng waved his hand and said, "It's just a small trouble, and it's easy to solve."

He was not worried about King Zhongshun, but worried about...

Just now, he found that someone seemed to be lurking under the carriage.

Jia Heng's face was indifferent, and he secretly pressed the long sword at his waist tightly.

The best way at this moment is actually to pretend nothing happened, in order to prevent the bad guys from taking risks.

Under the carriage, a woman in green was supporting the beams on both sides with both hands, and as the carriage moved forward, the clothes on her shoulders were already soaked in a mass of bright red, her forehead was covered with sweat, and even a sweat towel was wet.

As the carriage drove steadily on the street paved with bluestone slabs, the woman in Tsing Yi listened to the conversation between the husband and wife, with a hint of sarcasm in the clear eyes under the two beautiful eyebrows from time to time.

"This Jia Heng was originally the successor of Rong Ning, but he didn't want to become that confidant by chance..."

Thinking of that mean, ungrateful, cruel and merciless woman, the woman in Tsing Yi's brows and eyes were faintly sullen, and hatred rolled in her heart.

His eyes turned cold again, but Qing knew that he had no strength to fight anymore at this moment, so he took a deep breath, closed his eyes slightly, and calmly adjusted his breath.

At the same time, as the guards of Prince Zhongshun reported the case to the police station in the vicinity of Da Ci'en Temple, the five-city soldiers and horses patrolled the police and began to search and arrest Da Ci'en Temple.

There were many patrolmen and soldiers who met Jia Heng on the road and came forward to inquire, but when they saw Jia Heng, they dared not stop him.

And the woman hiding under the carriage also took a deep breath.

The carriage rattled and turned, and it had slowly entered Ningrong Street, and stopped in front of Ningguo Mansion. Jia Heng frowned, and helped Qin Keqing out of the carriage.

Just as he was about to order people to surround the carriage, he suddenly realized that there were not many people under the carriage.

"Using my carriage to avoid the search and arrest of the five city soldiers and horses in the city, but I was a bit quick-witted, and I didn't go to the Ningguo Mansion afterwards."

Jia Heng frowned, thinking about the assassin's origin, and sent Qin Keqing back to Ningguo Mansion.

After entering the mansion to rest for a while, he led people directly to Wucheng Bingmasi to sit in town.

In any case, a mysterious force came from Beijing and assassinated King Zhongshun. He needed to know the true identities of these people.

As night fell, the lights dimmed.

In a manor with a deep garden purchased by a merchant named Wan in the west of the city, surrounded by a secluded bamboo forest in the southwest corner, there was a sudden "click" sound in the study.

The tea cup fell to the ground with a "slap", and hot water flowed wantonly on the carpet.

"Who told you to rush to assassinate?" The young man's face sank like water, his eyes were cold and stern, and he stared closely at the bamboo hat and the woman in Tsing Yi who were not far away.

"The opportunity is once in a thousand years. If I kill that old thief, I will take half of my revenge!" The woman in Tsing Yi was expressionless, her voice was as indifferent as ice that would last forever, and the wound on her shoulder had already been bandaged.

The young man snorted coldly, and said in a low voice: "If you can't bear it, you will make a big mess! You know how reckless your actions are! If you attract the vigilance of that man, and use your minions to thoroughly investigate our orphans, the consequences will be disastrous!"

Speaking of this, the young gentleman became more and more annoyed, and he was still puzzled, and shouted: "Stupid! Reckless!"

The woman in the bamboo hat pretended not to hear the scolding, and said coldly: "Are you afraid? Do you want me to be like you in Beijing and be timid, and miss so many good opportunities for revenge!"

"Shut up!" The young man's face was blue and red, and he almost growled, "Do you think that if you kill that old thief, Zhao and Zhou's two houses have more than 1000 mouths, and you can rest in peace? Kill this old thief, and that old thief in the palace will die!" Can you still go to assassinate?"

"Why can't it be killed?" The woman in the bamboo hat asked with a cold light in her eyes.

The young man took a deep breath, calmed down the anger in his heart, stared at the woman in Tsing Yi, and said, "Can you use your brain! Uncle Zhou was so wise back then, how could there be..."

As the young master said, he didn't want to tear his face apart after all, so he swallowed the second half of the sentence back.

Speaking of her father, the girl in the bamboo hat lost her eyes for a moment, and she was a little angry in her calm heart, and said sarcastically: "You pretend that I don't know your thoughts, and that chair, no matter what time it is, it's not your turn to make it!"

The person in front of her is the same as her father, and she knows that she is seeking skin with a tiger.

However, the young master seemed to have been poked into his mind, his eyes were fierce, and he said in a low voice: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

The woman in the bamboo hat sneered and said: "Whoever that person belongs to, it should belong to him. Don't have any unreasonable thoughts. This is not only what I mean, but also the opinion of my father's old department. You are looking for your uncle's heir in Beijing. I can't find anything, I really can't find it, or I don't want to find it at all!"

Back then, her father believed in someone wrongly, and she will never believe in someone wrongly in this life. She only seeks revenge and sends those wolf-hearted and ungrateful people to the eighteenth floor of hell to repent!
The dark eyes under the young man's brows stared at the woman in Tsing Yi as sharply as a sword, and said in a low voice, "You think I didn't look for it in Beijing? There are no clues, no heirs to speak of... I've already suffered an accident!"

Besides, I don't know whether it's a man or a woman, a virtuous or a fool, how can the ancestor's country be easily entrusted to him?
What's more, the origin of the former prince's heir is also quite tainted. It is almost a royal scandal, and even the former prince was deposed as the culprit.
He is the blood of King Zhao, how could he bear to see the royal family humiliated?

The bamboo hat and the woman in Tsing Yi said: "You tell me what you have been searching for all these years, and I will go find it!"

"Nonsense! Riots are brewing in Henan and Shandong. If you don't return to Shandong to take charge of the overall situation, you are still in the capital?" the young man whispered.

The woman in the bamboo hat and Tsing Yi said coldly: "If you haven't found your uncle's heir, how can you make trouble?

The young master looked solemn, and said in a low voice: "The high black tower on Jigong Mountain has already taken action, and you still have no clue in Shandong? If you hadn't procrastinated, in August the eastern captives invaded, and Shandong dispatched troops to the north. You can set up a big banner. At that time, the Beijing camp has not yet been rectified. As long as there is a big disturbance in Shandong, the Beijing camp dispatches troops to suppress it, and the defense of Shenjing is empty, I can contact the old department in the Beijing camp..."

When mentioning the old things, the young man felt angry.

At that time, when he entered the Daming Palace, he could abolish the false emperor in the name of the Supreme Emperor...

The woman in the bamboo hat and the green dress frowned, and asked, "While the captives from the east invaded and the barbarians ravaged the northern border, at that time, whose world was in trouble, and for whom did the wedding dress be made?"

"The benevolence of a woman!" The young man scolded in a low voice.

He cursed in his heart: "You have the same virtue as your sick father, if you were a little bit cruel back then, that person in the palace would not have taken advantage of it!"

If he didn't need to rely on this cousin's influence in the White Lotus Sect to muddy the water, would he have to be submissive instead?
The bamboo hat and the woman in Tsing Yi did not argue with the young master, but said firmly: "I am in Beijing to find my uncle's heir."

Thinking of the woman in the bamboo hat who knew that nine donkeys would not be able to pull back once she got stubborn, the young man also had a headache for a while, and said: "Look for it, look for it, find it quickly."

The woman in the bamboo hat and Tsing Yi said expressionlessly, "Give me the experience and manpower you have been looking for over the years."

The young master said coldly: "I only give you half a year, if you can't find it, you have to go back as soon as possible, and you can't delay the important matter."

"When it's time to go back, I will go back." The woman in Tsing Yi remained unmoved, her tone firm.

Said, without saying much, turned around and left.

Seeing the woman in Tsing Yi leave, the young man's expression turned ugly and his heart became more and more irritable.

(End of this chapter)