I am fish

Chapter 71

The eldest princess stayed in Qu County for two days before leaving for the next county to continue to release grain. On the day of leaving, the people in Quxian City lined up to see each other off, chanting endless praises and praises for the eldest princess.Wei Tingxu didn't accompany him, instead he stayed in Qu County with nothing to do, and didn't tell Zhen Wenjun to do anything, as if he was waiting for something.

Xiaohua's toxin has spread all over her body, and she is weak and can only rest in bed.Zhongji used cotton cloth to suck away the poisonous juice overflowing from her body day and night, and he did not sleep a wink for two days and nights.Lingbi went to visit her a few times, and when she came back, she told Zhen Wenjun that Xiaohua was too miserable, her body was swollen by the poisonous gas, and she was twice as big as a girl.It coincides with Guijiu's ten-year poisoning period, and I don't know if he can survive this test.

Wei Tingxu often stayed by her side to chat with her, and Xiao Hua's mental state was not bad.Zhongji said that the poison spread all over the body, causing bone-biting pain, but it was actually very difficult.Since the beginning of her treatment, Xiaohua has never complained, let alone cried out for pain. Zhongji admires her a lot.

"Miss Xiaohua is really a hero, I have never seen such a resolute person." Zhongji said with emotion, "I once asked her what beliefs can support her through difficult times, and she said that she just wanted to heal her injuries quickly. Go to the girl's side and do things for the girl. It's really enviable that Miss Wei can get such kind help from Xiao Hua."

Zhen Wenjun sees that Zhongji's focus on Xiaohua does not seem to be another eyeliner of the Xie family.On the other hand, Mr. Xu often went out to watch a few patients boil some medicines the next day, and collect the broken money. He often sat by the stove and boiled medicines with a broken fan and hummed songs. He seemed quite leisurely.

Zhen Wenjun secretly followed him a few times, and saw him walking around the market, helping the victims of the disaster, and it didn't look like he wanted to pass the news to anyone.But the fact that Xie's family sent Ah Xin to her door made her even more suspicious of other secret operations besides her, and felt that Xie family knew Wei Tingxu's situation well.Xu Gong and Zhong Ji are the biggest suspects. Which of these two is the secret agent, or are both of them?

Having a pair of dark eyes looking at her behind her back always made her jealous. When she was thinking hard about how to make this person show his original form, Wei Tingxu was still leisurely, holding a piece of wood to carve every day, and only chatting with Zhen Wenjun, talking about big things Talking about the battle on Yubei's front, all the ministers and ministers around today seemed to be idle.

Monk Zhen Wenjun Erzhang couldn't figure it out, and couldn't help but ask Wei Tingxu after holding back for two days: "Is there nothing you want me to do, sister?"

Wei Tingxu, who was carving wood, asked without raising his head: "What does my sister want to do? The food has also been distributed, and the victims are busy thanking the eldest princess. Why don't we take this opportunity to rest when we are tired?"

Zhen Wenjun was paralyzed on the table opposite Wei Tingxu, like a puddle of mud, extremely bored: "My sister just assign me some work, my bones are weak after a few days of idleness, why don't I give my sister a couple of pumps?" The stick comes comfortably."

"It's really a leather monkey, but you have a leisurely life, and you want to be beaten?" Wei Tingxu put the puppet, which has gradually grown into a human shape, into his sleeve, and waved to her, "Come here."

Zhen Wenjun got up quickly, jumped to Wei Tingxu's side in three steps and two jumps, imitating the posture of the guards and saluting, "Sister, if you need anything, just ask."

Wei Tingxu poked her forehead with his index finger: "Take me to the study."

Zhen Wenjun's heartbeat instantly increased, and the word "study" sent out a strong signal.

Ever since she tried to steal Wei Tingxu's handwriting and was caught by the guards that day, the incidents between Ah Xin and the eldest princess followed one after another. She never had a good chance to go to Wei Tingxu's bedroom alone, let alone the study room. Etc.Although Xiaohua is bedridden, Wei Tingxu has to take care of everything when she travels, but firstly, no matter how courageous she is, she dare not do it in front of Wei Tingxu and Lingbi, and secondly, she always feels that the guard who likes to break into the door Observe yourself in the dark, if you act rashly, you may be stolen and caught.

Today the guard was on duty in the outer courtyard, and Lingbi had been ordered by Wei Tingxu early in the morning, and he didn't know where to go. Right now, it's only Wei Tingxu and himself, and it's time to wait if he doesn't start now.

In the end, when the two arrived in the study, Zhen Wenjun thought that he would help Wei Tingxu sort out the letters just like Xiaohua did before, burning what should be burned and what should be kept.Unexpectedly, the idle work was missed, and Wei Tingxu directed her to take out the books in the box in bundles to wipe the ashes and dry them.Wei Tingxu was drinking tea at the side, continuing to carve the wood in his hand, reminding Zhen Wenjun from time to time which books are more precious and he should be extra careful.

After coming down, Zhen Wenjun felt that his arms and legs were almost not his own, so he slumped beside Wei Tingxu's legs tiredly, and heard Wei Tingxu ask her in a somewhat cunning voice: "Are you comfortable?"

Zhen Wenjun gritted his teeth: "Comfortable, very comfortable."

"In the past few days, you have come to help me take out all the books in the box and dry them in the sun. If they are bored all winter, they will be eaten by moths if they don't dry well."

Zhen Wenjun replied: "Yes."

When she was sorting out the books just now, she saw that there were many annotations made by Wei Tingxu on the volumes. Compared with letters, this kind of handwriting is the least defensive, and the habitual strokes and strength are fully displayed.Stealing the letter rashly will inevitably arouse the suspicion of Wei Tingxu and the guard, but what if it is copied according to her handwriting?

She secretly wrote down Wei Tingxu's habit of writing in her heart, and secretly practiced it a few times after returning home. Taking advantage of helping Wei Tingxu sort out the books for a few days, even though she was right under Wei Tingxu's nose, she could do it freely. Compare the difference between imitation and Wei Tingxu's handwriting.When the books were sorted out, she came up with a set of words that were very similar to Wei Tingxu.

Zhen Wenjun deliberately chose some common words, even if Wei Tingxu found out, there is no way to find out the source of these words.She wrote the words on the silk cloth, cut into small pieces and stuffed them into the steamed cakes.

Li Yanyi put hundreds of carts of food in Qu County for disaster relief, but there are still victims everywhere in Qu County who can't eat enough.Especially some children who have lost their parents are almost naked in the cold spring.During the day, they squatted in front of the doors of various rich families and begged for a little food. At night, they hid in dilapidated shacks, cuddling each other to keep warm.Wei Tingxu saw that they were pitiful, so he asked people to take all the leftover steamed cake noodle soup to the children in the street shacks.

The time and place are right to act.Zhen Wenjun hid the steamed cake stuffed with a piece of cloth in his sleeve, went out with a basket full of food, and came to the shack agreed with Yan Ye, and searched for his whereabouts while sharing the food.Yan Ye appeared by himself within two circles, and Zhen Wenjun took out the steamed cake in his sleeve and gave it to him. He thanked him and disappeared into the crowd...

After returning, Wei Tingxu called her over and said that he had a gift for her.Zhen Wenjun was surprised:

"What a good day today, my sister actually wants to give me a gift."

"Why, you don't know?" Wei Tingxu looked even more surprised, holding something in his hand and covering it with a cloth, as if he was sure that Zhen Wenjun would think of it, he looked at her with a smile and waited for her to speak.

Zhen Wenjun stood there awkwardly and awkwardly, his smile was stiff, his eyes rolled around, and he made a huge determination before he suddenly realized "Oh", and said happily: "My sister still remembers! It's really... I forgot all of them!"

Wei Tingxu lifted the cloth and handed a wooden doll in front of her: "Do you look like you? I have been working hard with me all these years, and I have never celebrated your birthday. This year is exactly I have time to spare, and I want to personally make a sincere and honest gift for you, as a 17-year-old gift."

Zhen Wenjun took the wooden doll, and saw that it was so lifelike that it was exactly like himself, with its teeth and claws showing a bit of a naughty monkey-like appearance.Looking at Wei Tingxu's fingertips injured in several places, he didn't expect Wei Tingxu to be so attentive to her.

"How is it? Do you still like it?" Wei Tingxu asked after seeing that she didn't respond to the wooden doll.

Zhen Wenjun caressed the doll lovingly, and tears slowly leaked from his eyes.

"I like it, I like it very much." He said this sincerely, his voice was a little hoarse when tears rolled down, "I didn't expect my sister to care about me so much, I... It's great to be by my sister's side."

"Why are you still crying? It's a great day. Come." Wei Tingxu waved to her, and Zhen Wenjun hugged the puppet in his arms and knelt down in front of Wei Tingxu.Wei Tingxu wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, held her beautiful face, and looked at it carefully.

"My sister is seventeen in a blink of an eye, and she cries whenever she says she wants to."

Zhen Wenjun was about to talk sweetly, Wei Tingxu continued: "It's time to get married, still like a child."

Zhen Wenjun choked for a moment, immediately hugged Wei Tingxu, and put his face on her lap: "I don't want to marry! Sister, don't let me marry, please, my sister wants to stay by my sister's side and serve her! "

"It's all childish. Okay, okay, don't cry now, or your eyes will be swollen tomorrow."

At this moment, there is still some element of acting, but Zhen Wenjun's heart is really sour.Wei Tingxu was indeed kind to her, but she was just a trick after all, and even just secretly passed Wei Tingxu's handwriting to the enemy.Thinking of the hypocrisy between her and Li Yanyi, it seemed that they were covering up some suspicions.Although he didn't know exactly what happened, Zhen Wenjun speculated that it might be because of the subsequent development of the A Xin incident, and the divorce plan might not be simple.Wei Tingxu didn't tell her because he didn't want more people to know.The less people know about guessing, the better, so as not to show the horse's feet and add to the chaos.She and Li Yanyi hid some things in their hearts, will that handwriting cause more incidents?The answer is yes.In fact, the more incidents there are, the more valuable Zhen Wenjun will be as a meticulous writer. This is the strategy she set up early on.But now she encountered the most terrible problem, she gradually developed real feelings for Wei Tingxu.

If the Xie family asked her to kill Wei Tingxu in exchange for her mother's life, would she be able to do it?

Her answer was: I don't know.

She wants to thank Xie Fuchen for taking her mother over from Xie Taihang, she only needs information and not assassination.Otherwise, she will fall into a more difficult situation.

Zhen Wenjun told himself that Wei Tingxu was just a weight in her hands, and she must not be emotional, no matter what the emotion is.

Li Yanyi's footprints almost covered the entire Suichuan, from Qu County all the way to the north, even went to Qi County, which has the most refugees and is almost occupied by the Hu people.In the several counties of Suichuan, there are many stupid officials like Hu county magistrate who like to search for the people's fat and anointment. Naturally, there are also good officials who love the people like a child.Along the way, Li Yanyi not only distributed food, but also punished evil and eradicated traitors. Wherever he went, he was applauded and welcomed by the people.

When this matter reached Li Ju's ears, he didn't feel much.He knew better than anyone what kind of person his sister was.

Li Yanyi is very good at superficiality, relying on her status as the eldest princess, she can leave the Forbidden Garden and run around. There are no old officials chasing after her saying that the emperor should be cautious and put safety first, and he should not wander around for the sake of the common people and the stability of the world. .The state affairs are so heavy that he needs to review them in person, he is so busy that he is overwhelmed, and he has to get angry again and again because Li Yanyi trips him up.Li Ju has been tempered to the point of losing his temper.

At the beginning when Yao Wei became an official minister, the position was vacated, so Li Ju wanted his confidant to take over the Shangshutai, but he didn't expect the Queen Mother to step in and personally appointed Zuo Xu to take over.This Zuo Xu is Li Yanyi's teacher, don't they have the same hatred?Zuo Xu's taking office left Li Ju with no place to close the door to vent his anger. He never went to Shangshutai, and asked Feng Kun and Xie Fuchen to come to Tai Chi Hall or the study to meet him every time.Now Situ Weilun who is in charge of people's livelihood, Sun Yao who is in charge of etiquette, the chief minister of agriculture and forestry who is in charge of finance, and Zuo Xu, who makes decisions for the emperor, are all Li Yanyi's people.This group of people is menacing, and they have already created the power to cover the sky with one hand, and they are eyeing his throne.Besides a group of veterans standing behind him, only Feng Kun and Xie Fuchen could contend against Wei's party.

Xie Fuchen is the censor Zhongcheng, in charge of supervising the officials, he also did several important things in his early years, which was quite praised by everyone.If he had not been in power for many years, and his disciples and old officials were everywhere, I am afraid that the young emperor might not be able to win the support of veterans.Xie Fuchen is his legs, the pillar on which he can stand on the Taiji Hall so far; although the head of the country Feng Kun is expensive as the general of the hussars, since the founding of the country, in order to prevent foreign relatives from taking power, every head of the country will be awarded this title.Hussar General is a high-ranking general, but he has no real power in his hands, and the military power is still in the hands of Sima.

The current old Sima who holds the military power is the queen of Zhonglie. Although he is quite close to the eldest princess, he has always been making suggestions for Li Ju.He is the only neutral faction who holds great power in the current dynasty, and thanks to him who has always remained neutral, otherwise Li Ju and Li Yanyi might have already decided the winner in this fight between the same rooms.To put it bluntly, Li Ju felt that if all the military power fell into Li Yanyi's hands, he might have died long ago.It is true that Da Yu has no soldiers, but there are still a pile of dead camels. Da Yu's army, plus all the gentry tribes and villagers who have not registered as soldiers, add up to at least 15 troops.This is still Da Yu's last strength, Li Ju wants to hold him firmly in his hands, and wait for the future to join forces with the secret army.

The old Sima was over seventy years old, and had not returned home due to special reasons.Last month, he finally submitted his official memorial and asked Li Ju to give up the position of Sima.Li Ju understood that the old Sima was getting old and tired after all, and wanted to stay away from the center of the whirlpool.Since Yao Wei, there has been a trend of retiring in the court, and he can understand it.

Li Ju has already drawn a big red circle on the memorial and stamped it with a seal, but it has not been announced to the public yet.He wanted to wait for Xie Fuchen to take over as Sima as soon as he came back from the north.The reason why I lost the Shang Shuling before was because Li Yanyi and the Geng family got ahead of me because I acted too hastily and leaked the news.This time——Li Ju told himself that this time he must keep the secret and never fail again.

Li Ju's appointment edict had just been issued from the capital, and Xie Fuchen was already on his way back.

Of course it's not because the monarch and his ministers have a tacit understanding.

Three days ago, an express letter flew to Mengliang, and Xie Fuchen, who was dormant here for many days, was seriously ill by the strong and strong north wind but was still carrying out the secret military plan, fell ill on the spot after receiving this letter.

The letter Xie Fuchen received first was from Wei Tingxu, and it was an extremely vicious letter.

Wei Tingxu asked Li Yanyi to come to Liu Feng first to find out how guarded Li Yanyi was against her, and second because she really wanted to use Liu Feng to find out Xie Fuchen's whereabouts.Liu Feng was indeed an experienced veteran, less than a month after he went to Mengliang, he found out the location of Xie Fuchen who had been hiding in the mist.

Wei Tingxu has never been a person who allows others to attack and does not fight back. She will retaliate, and if someone punches her three times, she will definitely retaliate three times.This time, the separation between her and Li Yanyi must not be left alone.

Li Yanyi and she are both smart people, and they won't mess themselves up at critical moments.Li Yanyi's ability to let Liu Feng out without asking any more questions shows that she has missed the trick—at least not now.But the feeling of being calculated still made Wei Tingxu feel stuck in his throat.

This matter was naturally done by Li Ju's party, but Wei Tingxu knew Xie Fuchen more or less since the Wei family and the Xie family had come and gone against each other for so many years.Xie Fuchen has always claimed to be the leader of the Qingliu, who adheres to the three cardinal principles and five constant principles, and is respected as a great Confucianist in the world.This great Confucian would never force his own daughter to take Furongsan, or even send her to someone else's bed, in order to suppress political opponents.Don't say he doesn't know how to do this, even if he finds out that others have done it, he will be angry for several years - just like when the private affairs between Ah Xin and Li Yanyi were sung throughout Dongchun, Xie Fuchen knew about it Afterwards, Ah Xin was severely punished according to the family law. He was so angry that he fell seriously ill and did not go to court for three full months.

Therefore, Wei Tingxu guessed that Xie Fuchen who had been in Mengliang was not the mastermind of this divorce scheme.Maybe it was Li Ju's own thinking, or maybe the head of the country conspired, it doesn't matter, anyone can do it.From the standpoint of Qingliu, it is very risky to use Ah Xin as an introduction. If you are not good at separating political enemies, you may cause discord among your allies.This is a risky move, presumably the planners are already mentally prepared to take the risk.

That being the case, don't let this preparation go to waste.

As the head of the Xie family, Xie Fuchen must know about this matter.If he doesn't know, Wei Tingxu will let him know.

Xie Fuchen fell ill, Liu Feng wanted to find out about him but had no chance.Xie Fuchen hardly took a step out, and stayed inside the house all day long.Liu Fengshou stayed there for a full ten days and there was no news, only people coming in and out delivering medicine.

Liu Feng sent the matter back to Suichuan, and Wei Tingxu vaguely tasted it after receiving the news.

"Xie Fuchen is really calm. I sent the message in the name of the Xie family, but he was able to hold back. He probably guessed that it was a tactic of alienation from us."

In a small room late at night, with an oil lamp in front of it, Ah Liao and Wei Tingxu face each other, with two wine glasses in hand.

"He's definitely very angry, but he definitely won't directly ask for an explanation. The eldest princess and I can suppress our suspicions, not to mention Xie Fuchen, he won't go to Xingshi to inquire about his crimes. But no matter whether they will mention Ah Xin or not, Xie Fuchen They will keep an eye on Li Ju and others, and Li Ju is also afraid of Xie Fuchen's revenge, so he will naturally be more on guard." Wei Tingxu drank the wine, "Let's repay him in the same way."

"That matter..." Ah Liao approached, "Is it about to start?"

"That's right." Wei Tingxu's alcohol-smelling face gave off a dangerous breath, "This plan of alienation is just right here, and we must thank the person who gave it a lot. Xie Fuchen will soon have the opportunity to attack Feng Kun. To avenge the daughter, and Li Ju can't say a single unnecessary word. Aren't Xie and Feng two called Da Yu's spine and the emperor's legs? I'll break one leg first."

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