The old lady is reborn

But Gong Qifang hopes that they can face off as soon as possible, and it would be best if they can compete with each other earlier.

There must be people from the prince and Xiyue watching her room. I don't know how much of what she said just now was heard, whether she heard a word or not? The voice was so soft.

Gong Qifang deliberately said: "Madam sent many beauties here, isn't that enough for internal and external cooperation?"

Unexpectedly, these words made the Duke's wife feel proud for some unknown reason.

"That's a distraction that will mess up your vision. Let Xiyue be busy for a while. If you pick the beautiful and resourceful ones, it will be hard to guarantee their loyalty.

Perhaps after entering the palace, she was really blinded by wealth and status, and wanted to climb up the social ladder, but she may not be reliable. "

Gong Qifang was silent at this moment: I will listen to what ideas they have when I attend the banquet at Prince Rui's Mansion. If they have plans to overthrow the virtuous king, they can take advantage of the opportunity.

While Gong Qifang was preparing for the banquet, Song Ying received a reply from Liu Guan.

The bad news is that most of the gang members do not intend to come forward to testify, and they do not want to bring up the past.

The good news is that three people are willing to come forward, tell the story of what happened, and testify against the wise king.

But these three people also have their own conditions.

The first one hopes to seek asylum for his family.

His family and another Kung Fu family have had a feud since their ancestors.

They had fought for many years and had killed each other. But in the past few years, his family had declined rapidly due to various natural and man-made disasters, and the two families, which were originally evenly matched and could compete with each other, now seemed unable to support each other.

The grudge between the two families was too deep. He thought that after he testified against the virtuous king, his family would be protected, and it would not matter whether he lived or died alone.

Song Ying asked, "Does the dispute and grudge between the two families involve matters related to the country, the nation, and the court?"

Liu Wan shook his head: "I've been listening for a long time. They are all small matters. At first, they were just misunderstandings. But people in the underworld are sometimes impulsive and reckless. Once they start to act and someone dies, the matter can no longer be resolved. It can only escalate from one level to another."

Song Ying asked again: "How many family members does he need to protect?"

"With the two families fighting like this, the number of people in both families has decreased quite quickly. All he wants to entrust to his family is his one son, one daughter and one wife."

Song Ying nodded: "What about the other two families?"

One of them was seriously ill and from a poor family. He wanted money to provide for his family.

The other was a lonely man. His parents and wife had all died. He had no children and never remarried.

Now he is in his prime, and has a lot of kung fu skills among the martial artists.

He thought that after he testified against the virtuous king, the current emperor would forgive his crime of assassination and allow him to go to the border and join the military camp. He wanted to gain military merit on his own.

After hearing this, Song Ying said to Liu Guan: "I will pay you two sums of money first, one for your escort agency.

For the other sum, you can divide it among these three companies first. It’s up to you how to divide it.

I will report the matter as soon as possible, and come to you as soon as I get any news."

After Song Ying told Huaiyuan about this last time, Rong Huaiyuan had already reported it to the current emperor.

The current emperor immediately sent people to secretly investigate what happened that year. If his second brother had ever tried to kill him, it meant that he had ulterior motives, as he was also the crown prince of the Eastern Palace back then.

How could such a thing not be investigated?

Gong Qifang and her daughter have been secretly investigating King Xian and Duke Dingguo for many years. Although they are weak, they have been with Duke Dingguo for many years and always have clues, and they are not on guard against by people in the underworld.

As soon as the emperor ordered a secret investigation to begin, someone rushed to Jiangnan to find Gong Qifang's mother and learn all the inside information she had investigated.

And brought her back to Kyoto secretly.

Those who investigated the wise king from different perspectives also gained something, which could form supporting evidence.

The feedback from Liu Guan was exactly what he needed. His Majesty told Rong Huaiyuan: "I have approved it all!"

The matter was then handed over to the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple for handling.

Soon, Gong Qifang and her daughter received a huge surprise.

Prince Xian took Gong Qifang to attend the banquet hosted by his fifth brother Prince Rui.

Soon, the wife of Duke Dingguo started to make some small movements. Seeing this, Gong Qifang got up and changed her clothes.

Sure enough, the wife of Duke Dingguo followed and approached Gong Qifang when there was no one around.

She thought she had something to say, but she felt a chill on her waist. Lady Dingguo took a bunch of hairpins from her head, which were obviously the kind with specially polished tips, and stabbed them hard into the flesh of Gong Qifang's lower back.

"I found out about the beauties I sent to the palace that it was you who fanned the flames and made the virtuous king threaten the Duke with my daughter.

If she hadn't had one of her hands cut off, she wouldn't have committed suicide!"

Through the clothes, the hairpins did not penetrate too deeply into the flesh. Although it was painful and blood oozed out, it was not fatal.

Gong Qifang looked at her in confusion, and asked, enduring the pain: "Did the beautiful woman you sent to the palace find out? How do you know that it wasn't the wise king or Xiyue who heard something and wanted to kill two birds with one stone?

You seemed to be clear-headed that day, knowing that those beauties might not be reliable, but you are not clear-headed today?"

After hearing this, Lady Dingguo was a little stunned, and then said: "It's not just one person who said this! Anyway, it doesn't matter, the Duke and I have already decided to go all out.

I want all of you to die and be buried with my daughter."

Gong Qifang asked: "Is the hairpin poisonous?"

Dingguo Kungfu Master nodded and said with a smug smile: "You won't live longer than my daughter! If you die now, your life span will not be as long as hers."

Gong Qifang was depressed. Why couldn't he win? He thought there was hope. He thought he could get rid of them all.

If I can live a good life with my mother, my grandmother and cousin can also live in peace, and the whole family can live happily together.

After all, I was useless and too careless.

I don’t know how sad my mother would be.

The wife of Duke Dingguo laughed wildly: "My daughter must have been in great pain after losing a hand, but the poison you were poisoned with will make you feel even worse. Were you very proud when my daughter died?

What I hate most in my life is that your mother and you are so proud of yourself. Today is the first time you appear as a princess, and it will also be the last time.

You will suffer a lot when you die. I said I will make you suffer a hundred times as much as my daughter has suffered."

As she was speaking proudly, her knees suddenly gave way and she fell to the ground.

Gong Qifang had no idea where these two sudden guards came from.

They first tied up the wife of Duke Dingguo, then bowed to Gong Qifang and said, "Princess Xian, the Lady of the Protectorate specifically instructed that you must be well protected today.

Princess Xian, please rest assured. There is no poison on the hairpin at all. We have been ordered to keep an eye on Duke Dingguo and his wife, and we have already replaced the poison.

But the higher-ups instructed that the perpetrator must be proven guilty so that Princess Xian would suffer physical pain.

If she plots to murder the princess, she won’t be able to escape even if she is the Duke’s wife.”

This unexpected turn of events made Gong Qifang overjoyed. If she could punish the wife of Duke Dingguo, she didn't care about any physical injuries.

I have suffered so many physical injuries since I was a child, and have never received any compensation. If I can get anything this time, it will be worth it.

When the wife of Duke Dingguo heard these words, she was so angry that she trembled all over and her teeth bled.

Gong Qifang calmed down after feeling so happy and sad. But from what she had just said, it seemed like something big was going to happen today. "The maidservant beside me was also sent by the Xianwang Mansion. She is not my person. You can deal with her as you wish."

The two guards waved behind them, and sure enough, a group of people came and took away the two maids around Gong Qifang.

These two maids obeyed the orders of the Xianwang Mansion and were often rude to Gong Qifang and looked disdainful. Now they kept struggling and shouting, "Princess, help me!"

The guard said again: "Princess Xian, please move to Nan'an Marquis's Mansion. Madam Huguo is waiting for you there."

Gong Qifang couldn't help but ask, "Is today's banquet over?"

"Almost. The Royal Guards have surrounded the mansion.

After successfully arresting the virtuous king, the others who should be arrested should have been arrested, and those who should be sent away should have been boarded by the carriages of the various mansions."

Gong Qifang's heart was filled with joy.

It turns out that today is the day to capture the virtuous king!

When he arrived at the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion and met Lady Song Ying, the Protector of the Nation, he could not hide his feelings and was so excited that he choked up.

Unexpectedly, Song Ying smiled and stepped aside, behind her was Gong Qifang's mother.

Gong Qifang bowed deeply to Song Ying, then threw herself into her mother's arms with tears in her eyes.

When Song Ying saw this, she left the yard and asked the mother and daughter to stay for a good chat.

Not far away, she saw Mingdai waiting for her. Mingdai wanted Rong Yunmiao to go home.

After a while, even among the people, the saying was spreading:

The wise king fell.

The Duke Dingguo's Mansion collapsed.

The virtuous king was given poisoned wine, and the Duke of Dingguo and his wife were beheaded at the entrance of a busy street.

Accomplices such as Xiyue were sentenced to beheading, exile, or imprisonment.

Gong Qifang and her daughter felt relieved. They bought a new house next to the mansion where their grandmother and cousin lived and moved in happily. From then on, they lived the life they had been longing for for half their lives.

Gong Qifang never had a nightmare again. Her mother often felt that her only regret now was that her daughter did not have the happiness of being loved and married like other girls.

My daughter's best years were wasted, and I had to walk on thin ice with her and live in fear. Even though we were far away in the south of the Yangtze River, I often couldn't sleep or eat.

Now I have no intention of getting married. I just want to live next to my mother, grandmother, cousin and their whole family. I can see them often and I will be very satisfied.

The mother still felt sorry for her daughter, and Gong Qifang often comforted her, saying that these were the best days of her life and she was very happy.

Mingdai wanted to bring Rong Yunmiao back as soon as possible. After talking with Song Ying, Song Ying was quite hesitant.

Rong Yunmiao returned home once for the matter of Gong Qifang, also known as Master Jingxin, and then returned to Yunlan Temple, still living in the small nun's residence at the front mountain gate.

According to my grandmother Song Ying's instructions, I should not go to the private courtyard at the back of the mountain gate to visit Master Jingxin during that period of time, as she would start to make various moves.

If someone were to discover her connection with the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion through Rong Yunmiao, the other party might be more prepared and things would be difficult to handle.

The virtuous prince had abdominal pain because Gong Qifang put medicine in his tea, and the medicine was given by Song Ying.

Song Ying asked Luo Xiaoran for help. After listening to the purpose, Luo Xiaoran prescribed a stomachache medicine for Song Ying based on the condition he accidentally discovered during a consultation many years ago.

The pain does feel like being poisoned by the strangulation poison, but it is just pain and will get better on its own.

However, there are also cases where severe pain can lead to other diseases, or when the pain occurs, the person happens to be riding a horse and falls off the horse, becoming disabled or killed.

This pain is mostly caused by accidentally eating the same wild fruit or coming into contact with the juice of its branches and leaves.

Luo Xiaoran had treated several cases of this kind before. Patients were sent to the hospital in a hurry, but the cause of their illness could not be found. They were in so much pain that they thought they were going to the underworld. But after a while, they recovered as if nothing had happened.

How could Luo Xiaoran give up until he found out the reason? He even wondered what was going on in his dreams.

After a round of visits, we finally found that all the patients had been exposed to the same fruit.

Using this fruit dried and ground into powder, or drinking the juice of its branches and leaves, can cause abdominal pain, as if the fruit and juice can cause a violent reaction in the abdominal intestinal cavity, like a person constantly spasming and shaking.

After this medicine is ground into powder and added into water, the color of the white water turns slightly black and red. If you take a small taste, there is no special taste.

In order to drug the virtuous king, Gong Qifang bought various teas to try in advance, and finally found the most suitable tea color and perfect blend.

After the two mansions collapsed, Mingdai realized something big had happened, and came to discuss with her mother-in-law to bring Yunmiao back as soon as possible.

Song Ying advised Mingdai to ask the child what he or she thought when she went to see Rong Yunmiao this month.

Mingdai thought that what did she know as a child?

After staying in Yunlan Temple for a year or two, Yunmiao would grow one or two years older.

She is one or two years older than him but she has already called off an engagement once. Wouldn't she be in a dilemma when it comes to discussing marriage again?

But when Mingdai hurried up the mountain to Yunlan Temple to see her daughter, Rong Yunmiao was reluctant to go down the mountain. She only told her mother that she felt very good here, and felt more and more comfortable the longer she lived there. She felt peaceful and at ease in her heart, and she wanted to live there for a long time and did not want to go home.

Mingdai's aspirations were frustrated and she was very depressed.

Looking at my daughter, I used to be able to find her among many little nuns at a glance, but now she is becoming more and more like one of them. She used to be so different and out of place, but now she looks like a drop of water into the sea.

It was as if a person had stayed in a temple for too long, and the smell of incense filled his whole body, and even his aura had changed.

Mingdai returned to the Marquis' Mansion with mixed feelings.

For some reason, the young couple Rong Yunhai and Yan Danqi suddenly remembered their first meeting when they bought the golden marigold pastry.

At that time, they were still young boys and girls, but now they have already become parents.

The two of them took Fengchu girl to the store again.

When they got off the carriage at the place, the girl Fengchu was the one who queued up seriously to buy the golden marigold pastry.

The two of them were so affectionate that Feng Chu felt it was unbearable to watch. Only when the young master was around did the parents behave normally.

Although it's not a good idea to watch, he is my master after all. I have to be obedient if he gives me an order.

So Fengchu, who was standing in line, looked at Rong Yunhai and Yan Danqi from time to time. He couldn't help but praise them in his heart: They are so beautiful, and they look even better together.

But suddenly he felt as if someone was talking to him. Feng Chu came to his senses and found that a pair of little brother and sister were standing in front of him.

Isn't there an auntie in front of me? Are these two people queueing directly in front of me? !

Fengchu puffed up his cheeks, storing up anger.

The young man behind her was eating a piece of marigold cake and said to the two half-grown children, "Why, you don't have any more marigold cake?"

The brother and sister were staring at Fengchu's puffed-up cheeks in a daze. After hearing this, they hurriedly said, "Oh, yes, yes."

Then he stuffed two golden marigolds wrapped in oil paper into Fengchu's hands.

The little girl said, "Beautiful sister, we have something urgent to do, so we want to queue up next to you, from the back to the front to this big brother, and they all agreed.

If you don't like it, we can stand behind you."

Feng Chu looked behind him and saw that everyone in the row was eating, and the person behind him had already started eating his second one.

You are really soft-hearted.

Feng Chu stepped back silently and asked, "Since you two have already bought so many golden candies, why are you still queuing up?"

Three voices rang out almost simultaneously: "Now you don't need to queue up to buy golden marigold cakes, you can just buy them next to them."

Feng Chu was stunned for a moment: "Then what are you queuing up to buy?"

"It is said that the imperial concubine in the palace made snowflake crisp candy many years ago. It has the same recipe and tastes just as good. I want to buy some to try."