The Red Mansions

Chapter 833 She Zhen Qing can't just admit defeat like this!

Ningguo Mansion

After taking a bath, Jia Heng put on a blue brocade robe and walked to the back hall, where he saw bright lights, and in the emerald green hall, one after another of clear or bright eyes greeted him.

After a lot of tossing back and forth, because it is winter and the nights are long, the sky is completely dark at this moment, and it is time to eat.

"Brother Heng."

"Brother Heng."

Princess Xianning, Princess Xiao, Baochai, Daiyu, Xiangyun, Tanchun, Baoqin, Zhenxi and other girls looked at the young man, as well as You Shi, with concern on their faces.

Everyone had already learned about the result of King Chu's assassination from the mouths of Princess Xianning and the little princess just now, and after Tanchun's explanation, they were all worried.

Bao Qin was the first to ask, "Brother Heng, has the assassin been caught?"

Jia Heng said: "Most of them were killed on the spot, and the three who escaped have already been arrested by the people of Jinyi Mansion. I think news will come soon."

Tan Chun frowned, and said, "How could a well-behaved man assassinate the King of Chu?"

While Jia Heng was speaking, he sat down and said: "The motive is not clear yet, it may be an assassination against the Zong vassal by the rebellious party, and the King of Chu has already sent more people to guard it."

Tanchun asked: "Just now I heard from Sister Xianning that Wang's son was unfortunately killed, and I don't know what happened?"

Jia Heng pondered for a moment, and said: "I'm also a little puzzled. It is said that those people are all here for the king of Chu. They are busy assassinating the king of Chu. It is impossible for them to miss the vice car. I will ask someone to investigate. At that time, the assassination What's going on, the scene was too chaotic before, so it's hard to ask."

It's not that there are so many villains, but the layout of the whole scene is a bit strange. The king of Chu is protected by a group of guards, and the child of the king of Chu, Chen Chun, is lying in a pool of blood, and then Zhen Qing stays there.

Jia Heng is not a god, and he did not expect the "ugly" performance of King Chu driven by his survival instinct when the situation was urgent.

Naturally, the King of Chu would not tell the truth. As for the people who were present at that time, apart from Zhen Qing paying attention to her child, the other nuns and female officials did not dare to say a word.

Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, it is the villain who is insane, and actually kills a child.

And after the investigation, most of them will be covered up by the king of Chu.

The knife that the gangster took out was the cause of the death of the son of the king of Chu, and it was even more blamed on the poor life of the son of the king of Chu.

Dai Yu's bright starry eyes under her smoldering eyebrows stared intently, and asked: "Brother Heng, this matter... will there be another disturbance in Beijing?"

After all, she has been with Jia Heng for a long time, and Daiyu got Jia Heng's word of mouth. In addition to the previous explanation, she also understands some of the situation Jia Heng is facing—surrounded by political enemies.

Jia Heng said: "When I was in Yangzhou, I was assassinated by the Jurchen gangsters, and the gangsters didn't catch them later, and they haven't been caught until now. There are many things, and manpower is sometimes exhausted."

As the governor in brocade clothes, he would inevitably be assassinated, let alone a son of the former King Chu's clan?
Moreover, the child died young, and it would be unreasonable to involve his military minister and the enemy hero in this matter.

He was dealing with the aftermath of the war against the captives, and he was busy ransacking the Zhen family's house. Do you really think he is a god, with clairvoyance, good ears, and three heads and six arms?

The end result is still... no one has claimed responsibility for it.

However, he was a little worried about Zhen Qing's state. Although Zhen Qing's self-regulation ability should not cause grief to the point of ruin, he was still a little worried.

Xiang Yun frowned, and said softly: "These villains are too vicious."

Baochai sighed lightly.

Secretly said that life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky.

The Zhen family had a great business, and it collapsed overnight, and now the house is leaking and it is raining all night, and that Princess Chu also lost her beloved son.

I don't know how heartbroken it should be?

It is really not easy to be safe and smooth in one's life. Those who are rich and honorable are after all...

Previously Zhen Qing and Zhen Xue often visited Ningguo Mansion, when Baochai saw the two concubines, he was envious deep down in his heart, but after this incident, it can be said that his heart was quite shaken.

No matter how much you read from books and dramas, there is no more touching experience than the experience under your nose.

"Master, Miss, the food is ready, let's have dinner first." At this time, Yuanyang said, seeing everyone talking and discussing.

Everyone sighed and sighed a few words, and they didn't want to say much, then sat down at the table and began to eat dinner.

After Jia Heng finished dinner, he didn't accompany a few girls to discuss matters there. He returned to the study alone, stared at Chen Xiao who was sitting on the teacher's chair behind the desk at some time, and asked, "Xiaoxiao, the gangsters have found out ?"

Chen Xiao raised her eyes to look at Jia Heng, and said in a clear voice, "I caught one, and ran away with two. They ran separately, and Jin Yi Tiqi is still searching the whole city."

Jia Heng looked at the girl, walked closer, and asked in a clear voice, "Did you go to eat?"

"I'm not hungry." Chen Xiao shook her head, pursed her pink lips, fixed her eyes on the young man, and asked, "You don't have anything to ask me?"

Jia Heng said: "I asked you, but you didn't know how to tell me, I'm too lazy to ask."

As he spoke, he took Chen Xiao's hand and said softly, "Don't always sit in my seat."

Then, sitting on the huanghuali wood grand teacher's chair behind the desk, he delivered the memorial and said: "This memorial must be handed over quickly, and there are also flying pigeons to pass the letter. I reported it to Beijing earlier."

"Flying Pigeon to deliver the letter, I have already sent the Jinyi Mansion Guard to deliver it just now." Chen Xiao said softly, his eyes moving slightly.

Jia Heng nodded, looked at the girl, picked up another memorial, and wrote a new memorial, saying: "How to write this memorial? It must be given to someone behind the scenes."

Chen Ling pursed her pink lips, and suddenly said softly: "Actually, I didn't hide it from you on purpose before."

The teacup in Jia Heng's hand paused slightly, the light from the lantern shone on the young man's face, his eyes flickered with his slightly dim sword eyebrows, and said: "It's understandable."

Chen Xiao walked up and said, "Chen Yuan should not be in Jinling now."

Jia Heng frowned, his eyes fell on Chen Xiao's still face, and he said in a clear voice, "The son of King Zhao is called Chen Yuan?"

Chen Xiao nodded and said: "Back then, he used feigned death to escape from being implicated. Later, I lived in the rivers and lakes, and I will see you again. He has a group of well-trained dead soldiers under him, and it is these dead soldiers who came to assassinate this time. .”

Jia Heng was silent for a moment, looked at Chen Ling with burning eyes, and did not speak.

"I don't know where these dead men are hiding. He himself was on guard against me. We got together because of our common hatred." Chen Xiao seemed to see what Jia Heng was thinking, and said in a low voice.

Jia Heng said: "Then can you provide me with clues to find them?"

"I had already quarreled with them before, and we broke up in the end." Chen Xiao said softly.

Previously, he suspected that Chen Yuan was coming for the person in front of him, and he didn't want the two sides to conflict and quarrel with him, and he didn't want to provoke Chen Yuan's real intention of coming.

Jia Heng looked at Chen Xiao, and said softly, "Then if we can't find these people now, how can we explain to the palace?"

"Just report it truthfully, and say it's the remnants of King Zhao and the Prince's party. There won't be too many twists and turns in this matter." Chen Xiao said.

Jia Heng was silent for a moment, staring at the dark night outside the window, and said in a low voice: "This is the only solution for now."

Immediately, she lowered her head and wrote the memorial, while the quiet girl beside her was helping Jia Heng to study the ink, and looked seriously at the boy who wrote the memorial.

After a while, Jia Heng put the playbook aside, dried his handwriting, turned his head to look at Chen Xiao and said, "Xiaoxiao, tell me earlier about anything in the future, the two of us can make up our minds together.

When Chen Xiao heard the words, Momo's hand paused, met those quiet eyes, remained silent for a moment, and said, "Okay."

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In the post house——

The body of Chen Chun, the prince of Chu, had already been carried down, and the remains were rectified so that the coffin could be found for burial. Zhen Qing was lying on the bed in the inner room, facing the curtain on the bed, her eyes were dazed, and her silent tears had already flowed. Do it, my thoughts flew for a while.

Just now, the scene where the king of Chu ran away abandoning his son seemed to be a flashback in Zhen Qing's heart, every time it made Zhen Qing feel chilled and angry.

"Princess, eat something." The female officer on the side said with a tear in her voice.

Since the pain of bereavement, Zhen Qing has maintained this state for several hours, like a lifeless log.

Zhen Qing still turned a deaf ear, her heart was ashamed, immersed in the great grief of losing her beloved son.

The female official was Zhen Qing's personal servant girl brought out from Zhen's family, and she belonged to her confidants, seeing this, she felt distressed and said: "Wangfei abuses her body like this, what should I do?"

For some reason, Zhen Qing suddenly thought of Jia Heng, and was startled, her eyes that had lost focus gradually gathered a faint glow.

She, Zhen Qing, can't just admit defeat like this!

She also wants to be the mother of the world, and she wants to make that person regret everything he did before!She wants to rebuild the Zhen family!
What bargaining chip does she have now?

That's right, she still has a child in her stomach, so she can't abuse herself like this. There is that bastard's child in her stomach, and that bastard has no children yet. This is his eldest son!
As long as there is his child, he is so powerful that he will definitely help her.

As for why it is a son, not a daughter, well, Zhen Qing is confident in her belly and will definitely give birth to a boy.

Thinking of this, Zhen Qing stood up, holding back her tears, and under the light, her seductive and charming face turned slightly pale, took the lady's millet porridge, and sipped it.

At this moment, perhaps it was the warmth of the millet porridge that made Zhen Qing burst into tears again, dripping down into the bowl.

Her Chun'er, her child, why, why didn't the one who died...

And in the study room separated by a wall, the lights were like beans, the halo was orange, and it was almost deathly quiet.

Chu Wang Chen Qin's handsome face was gloomy and gloomy, his eyes were bloodshot, and Liao Xian, who was not far away, looked worried and said comfortingly: "Your Majesty, please give me your condolences."

In fact, just now, both of them saw Chen Qin's survival instinct in times of crisis, but at this time they just tacitly refrained from mentioning it.

After all, this was a bloody disaster, and the prince can't be blamed for his eagerness to survive. It can only be said that those murderers were too ruthless.

Chen Qin looked sad, and sighed: "You two gentlemen, what should we do now?"

He had only this son under his knees, and now he died in an accident, and the Zhen family was ransacked, and the concubine was bedridden, almost ashamed, and now he had mixed feelings.

Is the position of the Eastern Palace still possible in this life?

Liao Xian thought for a while and said in a low voice: "My lord, the most urgent thing is to write a memorial and report this matter to the Holy One in detail."

After thinking about it, Liao Xian reminded: "You must not blame Uncle Yongning for this matter."

Chen Qin paused for a moment, temporarily suppressing the sadness in his heart, and asked doubtfully, "Why?"

Liao Xian said in a low voice: "If the prince blames Uncle Yongning, then Uncle Yongning will definitely use it to confront the prince when he stopped the guards of the Jinyi Mansion earlier? How will the people of the world think of the prince at that time? But now the prince never mentions the Jinyi Mansion. Wei, I only say that the villain is cunning and fierce, and everything is due to fate! Then the world will spread the name of the prince's generosity and virtuousness. Otherwise, if the investigation reveals the past, the protection of Jinyi Mansion Guards will be declined by the prince. It's your fault."

In fact, there was no mention of it yet. Once Yongning Bo was bitten, people would investigate the whole story from the beginning, and so many people saw the prince abandoning his son for his own escape... the impact was too bad.

The only way out now is to downplay the matter.

Feng Ci nodded and agreed: "Liao Changshi is right, even if there is no prince, someone else's impeachment memorabilia will be delivered to Beijing for those who were offended by Uncle Yongning in the south of the Yangtze River."

It is equivalent to the fact that the king of Chu appeared in the role of a victim, so don't add too much drama to yourself. Complaining about others is easy to offend everyone, and it is easy to make enemies.

When the King of Chu heard this, his complexion changed, and complex expressions appeared in his eyes.

It can't be blamed that he is still thinking about the countermeasures here, only if he survives the difficulties safely, can he avenge Chun'er and find out the real culprit in the future!
Liao Xian pondered for a moment, seeming to see some concerns under the silence of the King of Chu, and said with relief: "My lord still has to focus on big things now."

In fact, the concubine is strong in the mansion, and the retainers of the Chu mansion have a deep understanding. On the one hand, they admire Zhen Qing's methods, and on the other hand, they are also worried about the king of Chu.

Not to mention other things, since the king of Chu got married for so many years, he has only one son under his knees, which is enough to make people's hair stand on end.

If the king of Chu cares about it, Zhen Qing can be charged with hindering the continuation of the Tian family's heirs.

But because of the Zhen family, the King of Chu didn't investigate it carefully, and even held back his concubine Liu's miscarriage.

And at this moment, a palace guard entered the study room, with a slightly anxious expression on his face, he said in a low voice: "My lord, Duan Dianjun drew his sword and committed suicide."

Chen Qin was shocked, and hurriedly said: "Where is the person? Go and see alone."

He is already in a state of desperation now, and if he loses a general in the family, it will be even worse.

Duan Dianjun, formerly known as Duan Lingchen, was a fierce general discovered by Chen Qin. He clearly felt guilty and blamed himself for not protecting Chen Chun, the son of the Chu king, because of the previous battle at the posthouse.

"My lord, I was discovered by several captains, and I will be rescued." The guard said quickly.

Chen Qin just walked under the eaves of the corridor, heard the words, sighed and said: "Why is this? If you don't blame him for the death of your son, why should he bother?"

As he spoke, he went to see Duan Lingchen who was lying on the bed in the wing room with Liao Xian and Feng Ci.

Duan Lingchen's neck was stained with blood and was already entangled in cloth strips. At this moment, the seven-foot-tall man couldn't stop crying, and said, "Your Majesty."

The surrounding guards held Duan Lingchen's arm tightly, and whispered comforting words.

After a while, the voice of the general came from outside the house, saying: "The prince is here, the prince is here."

The King of Chu looked at Duan Lingchen, who was not far away, and approached him so close, he said, "Why did the Lingchen come here? It's just a coercion by the villain. Why did you come here?"

Duan Lingchen struggled and thought: "My lord, it's all my fault for not protecting the prince well."

The King of Chu looked at the opposite side and said: "The minister should help Chun'er avenge her, how can she kill herself with a useful body?"

If you don't pull it a little longer, your hearts will be scattered.

Liao Xian and Feng Ci looked at each other with some inexplicable meaning in their eyes.

Speaking of cold-blooded, it can be said that while Chen Chun's death hit the feudal lord at this moment, it also condensed a certain unyielding will of the King of Chu.

Duan Lingchen burst into tears and said, "My lord."

The King of Chu also shed tears and said sadly: "I shouldn't have brought Chun'er to the post house. If I didn't come to the post house, I would not have suffered such a calamity while still in Zhen's house."

After the king of Chu stayed at Zhen's house, the guards of the Chu king's mansion were in the palm, and the guards of the Jinyi mansion were outside. It can be said that the guards were strict, and there would never be such an assassination.

When everyone saw the King of Chu crying loudly, some generals and civil servants in the Prince of Chu's mansion looked sad and felt very sad.

Liao Xian and Feng Ci also felt uncomfortable.

The night was deep, the lights were dim, and I didn't know when it was Xu time. The north wind was howling outside the window, blowing the black tiles on the eaves, and the sound of "woo woo" was endless.

In the Yamen of the Governor of Liangjiang, in the study in the backyard

A charcoal brazier has been placed in the small table to dissipate the chill after the temperature in the room drops, and the flickering candles on the high table cast shadows of the people in the room.

Shen Bing, governor of Liangjiang, looked gloomy and said, "Is this an opportunity?"

Just today, Shen Fang met with some Qingliu officials in Jiangnan official circles, such as Guozijian Jijiu Fang Yaochun, Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate's right deputy capital censor Lu Jinyi, Minister of Rites Fu Xiye, Li Kedu Shizhong Xiang Tingsong, Engineering Ke During the incident, Lin Ruicheng and other Qingliu from southern provinces.

Still discussing the big news about the downfall of the Zhen family in the south of the Yangtze River, unexpectedly, in the afternoon, shocking news came from the posthouse where King Chu was staying.

Bai Sixing said: "Dong Weng, I heard that the King of Chu was unharmed, but the prince's son, Concubine Zhen's son was unfortunately killed. This matter is not enough to stir up trouble."

After all, Jia Heng is not specialized in security work. The Dahan custom-made vassal kings all have 330 personal guards. This regulation is to solve the prince's travel ceremonies and security matters.

Lu Chaoyun said: "If this Jia Ziyu is just a small Jinyi commander, no matter whether it is his negligence or not, as long as the blame is shifted to him, he will definitely not be able to go around."

Shen Fang's eyes dimmed, and he asked, "Let someone impeach him first."

Bai Sixing nodded, and said: "It's possible, but Dong Weng should not have too much hope, the emperor's holy family to Yongningbo is at its peak."

It's okay to add trouble to others, but don't expect to use this excuse to shake the holy family.

Shen Fang nodded and said, "Where is the king of Chu, Mr. Yuan and I will go to the posthouse tomorrow to observe the king's movements. If it is blamed on Jinyi, then the momentum will be even bigger."

Because of an accident at the post house, Jinyifuwei and Jiangnan Daying sealed off the entire post house, and the king of Chu was cleaning up the aftermath, so the officials of Jinling were not allowed to go to express their condolences.

Bai Sixing said: "Dong Weng, Uncle Yongning just won a big victory over the captives and captured Prince Jurchen. It's the time when the sky is in full swing. These methods are hard to work, it won't happen overnight."

Shen Fang nodded and agreed: "I understand this, it didn't happen overnight."

Jia Heng's status today also did not happen overnight, how could it be possible to cut it off all at once?

(End of this chapter)