Forced to be a third person: I turned around and left the palace to marry a villain

Ganzhou, Hexi Province, is no stranger to Gan Ning.

Jiang Xue asked him to go look for people and find out the news, which actually allowed him to go home for a while.

Gan Ning was a little excited, nodded and said, "I'm going to pack my bags and set off early tomorrow morning."

Jiang Xue gave a few instructions, then took out her jade plaque and handed it to him, saying: "If anything happens on the road, take your Wu Anlang's order book and my jade plaque to the Yamen of Xunzhou Prefecture, and you can always find something. Give you something to rely on."

Gan Ning thanked Gan Ning, but Jiang Xue sent him away and called Xiaochun, saying: "Go and withdraw some banknotes from my private account and give them to Gan Ning tomorrow. I have something to ask him to go to Hexi." Don’t wrong him.”

Xiaochun nodded and suddenly said to Jiang Xue: "Your Highness, Chen Jin came to report that today the prince-in-law asked Huang Fu to go to the inn to send a family letter."

"He said it was a letter from home?" Jiang Xue asked, feeling a little confused, "Did Gu Lintan say it?"

Before entering the palace today, she specifically mentioned to Gu Lintan that someone would go to Hedong to pick up his mother from Beijing, just to see how Gu Lintan would react.

"Yes, when Huang Fu delivered the letter, he asked the porter to prepare a carriage. That's what he said." Xiaochun replied, "Chen Xiu has already gone to find a way to replace the letter. I will probably get it tomorrow."

Jiang Xue nodded and said: "Let them keep an eye on Gu Lintan for the past few days. He must communicate with Tong Hedong at this time. There must be other more secret channels."

Xiaochun said cautiously: "Yes, I will tell the two brothers now."

Jiang Xue reached out and rubbed her temples, a look of exhaustion on her face.

In the coming days, I am afraid that I will be very busy every day.

At present, Gan Ning, Ruan Yi, Sui and Jiang Qibin have all been sent out, leaving only two brothers, Chen Jin and Chen Xiu, and Xu Chong.

She recalled what Jiang Yu found out today. Su Xi was born in Suzhou.

Who should be sent to Suzhou now?

She had originally considered asking Jing Ye's people to investigate.

But first of all, she had already handed over the matter of taking care of her mother and the food supply business to Jing Ye. If she told him about the Suzhou matter again, she would be owed a lot of favors. Even though the two are in an alliance of interests, there is no reason why Jing Ye has to do all the work.

Secondly, Su Xi's identity will directly involve her divorce from Gu Lintan. She put aside the relationship between Gu Lintan and other matters for the time being. The charge of abandoning the chaff and raising an extramarital wife was enough to give her the confidence to sue the court for divorce.

But if the ins and outs of this matter were grasped by Jing Ye, it would inevitably not become a bargaining chip for him to use in exchange.

And Jiang Xue could not let anyone influence the timing of the revelation.

If Gu Lintan's identity is really the orphan of the Chao family, then the involvement behind the scenes would involve treason.

So who is the person behind him, and who is involved in this matter?

Before I can find out the clues to these two problems - the incident in Suxi must not be exposed, otherwise, if the snake is alerted, someone will immediately cut off the tail to survive.

but--

Jiang Xue's current plan is that before all of Gu Lintan's court-related activities are investigated and exposed, she must first obtain the imperial edict of an absolute marriage.

Gu Lintan's forged identity, sneaking into the central government, and collaborating with the enemy and treason will be brought to the forefront sooner or later, and the Yousi Yamen will thoroughly investigate all the relevant evidence.

She didn't want to get involved with Gu Lintan after he was convicted and cause embarrassment to her father. Moreover, only by breaking up the marriage and losing Gu Lintan's reliance as a consort, could the various departments investigate the matter with lightning speed.

Therefore, Jiang Xue wanted to grasp the rhythm by herself.

If she leaves it to Jing Ye, if Jing Ye's thoughts change, she will fall into a passive situation.

Jiang Xue sighed helplessly. It seemed that Wu Anlang had to send out another one in the past few days.

But using one less person is not an option right now. She must have some manpower of her own.

Those sent out to investigate must have good skills, thorough thinking, and a flexible mind.

After all, Wu Anlang is the only one in a million, and the guards of Changle Palace——

The guards in Changle Palace may be able to be used to look after homes and protect the courtyard, but if they are to be sent out to do work, they are still not enough.

Fu Dong came in with hot water and saw Jiang Xue who was frowning. He carefully asked, "Your Highness, are you tired? Let the slaves quickly remove your makeup and freshen up."

Jiang Xue was silent and nodded.

"Your Highness, will you go to the Prime Minister's Mansion tomorrow morning?" Fu Dong asked casually while twisting the handkerchief.

"Go," Jiang Xue said, "After all, the good news about my grandfather has not come yet. As a junior, I am outside the palace, so I should visit him often."

"I don't know when the Prime Minister's illness will be cured, so that Your Highness and Your Majesty don't have to worry every day," Fu Dong gently wiped Jiang Xue's hands and sighed, "And Miss Cousin, with her lively temperament, I'm afraid it will be very uncomfortable to be detained in the prime minister's house every day."

"After all, Qiong Shuang has stayed in Jianghu for a long time, and those habits can't be changed for a while," Jiang Xue said with a chuckle, "When grandpa gets better, I will find an excuse to take her out."

Fu Dong nodded, put down the veil, and reached out to remove Jiang Xue's hairpin ring.

Jiang Xue suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Qiong Shuang, why did she forget Qiong Shuang?

She raised her eyes and looked at Fu Dong with vigor and vitality, and said, "There is a way."

Fudong asked: "What solution? What kind of difficulties has Your Highness encountered?"

Jiang Xue smiled and said, "It's nothing. You reminded me that with Qiong Shuang's temperament, he must have a lot of friends in the world."

"Your Highness," Fu Dong said hesitantly, "the reason why the servant said this is because I just heard some maids discussing in the courtyard."

"What are you talking about?"

"It seems that the uncle's wife intends to propose marriage to the cousin," Fu Dong whispered, "I don't know which family started to spread the news. It seems that they have begun to look for the son of aristocratic families among all the families in the court. .”

"Nonsense," Jiang Xue frowned and said, "Grandpa is still ill. How can we discuss the marriage in such a big way at this time? Such words cannot be spread out of the Gu family. You should be more alert and tell the servants in the family to stop talking about it. "

Fu Dong lowered his eyebrows and said, "Yes, I have already scolded and beaten some of the gossips. But I heard that it was precisely because the prime minister fell ill suddenly, and it was during his illness that he told the uncle and his wife that he wanted to My cousin will have her home as soon as possible, and my uncle and his wife are rushing to take care of it, so this matter has only spread in the past two days."

Jiang Xue frowned deeply and suddenly asked: "Do you know which families the Prime Minister is interested in?"

"It seems to be the eldest son of the Minister of War, and the second son of Xu Guogong, General Zheng, who inherited the title of Marquis of Zhenyuan from his maternal ancestor's family."

Jiang Xue, the second son of Xu Guogong, was somewhat impressed.

Xu Guogong's wife is the only daughter of Zhenyuan Marquis. In the early years, the old Zhenyuan Marquis worked for the emperor's grandfather. The emperor's grandfather sent him to lead the army to attack the state of Qian. Although he won many battles, he was seriously injured in the last battle. After the victory, he returned to the court. , the opportunity for treatment was missed, and he died of serious injuries.

Since he only had one daughter, in order to prevent the hero from having no heirs, the emperor's grandfather issued an imperial edict that in the future, the eldest son of the heirs born to the marquis' only daughter would inherit the title of the Duke of the country, and the second son would take his mother's surname and enter the imperial family. The family tree of Zheng Yuanhou, who succeeded to the position of marquis.

Xu Guogong's second son's surname was Zheng Mingmian. In order to express his gratitude to the old marquis for his loyalty and bravery, his father named him General Tahong and detached the Zheng family's Zhenyuan army that had been returned to the royal family. When Zheng Mian became an adult, he was placed under his command.

There has been no war in Daji for many years. Although this army is named after him, it has never been actually used.

Therefore, Zheng Mian has no military exploits at the moment, he just has a false title.

But after all, he has such an army under his name. Zheng Mian himself is not a weak scholar. He likes to go to the school to train troops when he has nothing to do. It is said that he is good at running an army.

As for the Minister of War, he seems to be a stubborn old man, but he can also be regarded as a breath of fresh air.

Jiang Xue saw the emperor many times and was so angry with him that he never formed any clique for personal gain and was a very upright man. However, because of this, every time he had a disagreement with his grandfather over political opinions, he would not sell any face to the emperor. , and did not sell any face to the already seventy-year-old Prime Minister Lu. Both of them were powerful ministers. The emperor was very tired when he tried to comfort and mediate from him and choked back with his righteous words.

As for his eldest son, Jiang Xue didn't know much about him. She only knew that among the children of these aristocratic families, he had the best skills. His father had given him a sword during the palace banquet a few years ago.

As for temperament - as the saying goes, a tiger's father has no dogs, so he probably has the same upright temperament as his father, the minister.