The first paparazzi in the Red Chamber

Song Xi: "What do you mean?"

"The eldest princess's mansion, which Mrs. Zhu has advanced for ten years, has been reused by the eldest princess five years ago, but the White Lotus Sect only started to develop three years ago. If she planned to kidnap the son-in-law from the very beginning, why did she want to?" Waiting until seven years later to start planning, isn't this reaction too slow? In these seven years, there are too many variables, and the son-in-law will inevitably be seduced by younger and more beautiful girls. Unchanged?

This Zhu family did not go to win back the sincerity of the son-in-law when she was the youngest to be favored, and persuade him to elope together. Instead, it took seven years to prepare for it. She used an excuse of "it is because you are greedy for wealth, so I want to seek money" Prevarication, it seems reasonable, but in fact, when you think about it carefully, it can't be explained at all. "

"Oh?" Song Xi raised his eyebrows, looked at Jia Amnesty curiously, and waited for him to continue to explain.

Jia Amnesty: "As for Concubine Dou's background, he is the son of Duke Dou, the great general of my court. His status is noble, and his family's ancestral property is rich. As Concubine Dou said, he was ordered by the emperor to marry the eldest princess. From the perspective of ordinary people, it would be difficult Do you think he is a person who only wants to be rich and honor to marry the princess?"

Hearing what Jia She said, Song Xi nodded in agreement.This is indeed a doubtful point. With Consort Dou's background, she can definitely match up with the eldest princess.When Consort Dou was in Beijing when he was young, he had some reputation. Everyone said that his son Xiaofu was talented as a general.It's a pity that his father Dou Guogong didn't know how to restrain his edge at that time, and used his military merits to provoke the imperial power several times.The emperor recruited Dou Guogong's only son as his son-in-law.This gift seems to be a supreme honor, but in fact, only the Dou family knows the suffering involved.

The emperor deliberately used the title of son-in-law to restrain the next generation of Dou Guogong's government from taking power. Because of the regulations of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the emperor's relatives and relatives could not hold the military power for a long time.Concubine Dou can't be a general, and his literary talent is so-so, and he can't come up with any good ideas for governing the country with literature, so he has nothing to do in the court.Now he can only hold the title of a civil servant equivalent to the third rank, and lives in a mess, almost like a dude.

Jia She continued: "If a woman really loves a man and wants to take him away, it is impossible to watch him and another woman happily all day and night without being anxious. The seven years since Mrs. Zhu entered the Princess's Mansion, compared to the time after that In the past three years, the contrast was too great. At that time, when Mrs. Zhu complained that Concubine Dou had let her down, there was indeed resentment in her expression, but when it came to her planning everything for Concubine Dou, I think her feelings were not It's true. Because later Consort Dou expressed his sincere feelings, hugged her, and grabbed her hand, her body was almost unresponsive."

"Must there be a reaction?" Song Xi asked.

As soon as Jia Shemo rolled her eyes, she got up and walked up to Song Xi, bowed her head and kissed his lips, and wrapped her arms around Song Xi's waist dishonestly.Song Xi immediately embraced Jia She with his backhand, and immediately kissed back, until Jia She forced him to push him away.

"This is the normal reaction of people who like each other."

Seeing that Song Xi was still staring at his belt, Jia She reached out and raised his chin, signaling him to pay attention to his words.Song Xifang looked up at him with a serious smile.

Jia Amnesty: "Today during the day, Mrs. Zhu and Concubine Dou confide in each other their feelings for the past ten years, and Mrs. Zhu also knows that he is about to be arrested, and it will be difficult for him to meet Consort Dou again. This should be regarded as parting from life and death. However, apart from saying that she was reluctant to part with Concubine Dou and shed a few tears, she didn't have any physical movements to show that Zhu Shi has affection for Concubine Dou."

Song Xi recalled the scene at that time, and as Jia She said, the Zhu family's reaction to Dou's son-in-law was indeed on the surface.

"What do you mean, the real leader hasn't been caught yet?"

Jia She frowned, and said in a bit of confusion: "Mr. Zhu is straightforward and has a sharp tongue. Ever since she took charge of the eldest princess's mansion, no one has dared to say anything wrong with her, which shows how capable she is. Then there is Mrs. Zhu." It is not simple, as can be seen from her confession. She can fool those women into willingly working for her with just one mouth. What is conveyed in the teachings of the White Lotus is also in line with Zhu's own experience There is a relationship, breaking away from men, using men... These should all come from Mrs. Zhu herself. Since all these are operated by Mrs. Zhu, it is not wrong for Mrs. Zhu to be called the leader of Bailian. It's just that she is the leader There must be another person behind him, and this person must be someone Zhu Shi admires very much and is willing to give everything for him."

Song Xi couldn't help laughing and sighing when he heard the words, "I didn't expect that there are people in this world who can control a character like Mrs. Zhu."

"It's as if you don't have such ability." Jia She looked at Song Xi inquiringly, and he felt that with Song Xi's intelligence, it should be no problem to mentally control a woman to work for him.

Song Xi sneered, "The weak will take advantage of women."

"..." Jia She raised his eyebrows.

Song Xi stretched out his hand to straighten a piece of hair at the corner of Jia She's temple, and then said, "You don't have a big maid who is useful around you, will you not get used to it? I have a few here who are quick to do things, and they are not bad. May I give it to you?"

Jia Amnesty shook his head and said that there is no need to be so troublesome.

"It's troublesome if you don't accept it. When I'm not around, how can you do without someone who takes good care of you?" Seeing that Jia Amnesty still wanted to refuse, Song Xi hurriedly said that he would only send two people to him and pick the best one. , Guaranteed that he would not want to return it after using it for a month.

Hearing that Song Xi was so confident, Jia Amnesty knew that he was really nice, so he took the opportunity to deliberately tease him, "All right, give me two of the most beautiful ones, the ones with tender skin that can squeeze out water."

Song Xi immediately cast a sidelong glance at Jia She.

Jia Amnesty measured Song Xi's waist with his hands again, and said with a smile, "It should be half as thin as this."

Song Xi immediately took Jia She's arm, pulled him into his arms, bit his ear and said, "You like thin ones? No, how did I remember that you prefer thick ones."

Jia She's ears felt hot all of a sudden, is Song really an ancient person?Speaking dirty words is worse than a modern man like him.

Seeing Jia She struggling in his arms, Song Xi didn't force him to stay, and looked around the room with a light smile, "Speaking of which, the Martial Arts Hall where I work... we shouldn't let go of this Gyeonggi Province."

Song Xi spoke lightly, paused for a moment, then turned a little harsh, as if what he said was a very serious thing that must be done.

Jia Amnesty immediately said, "No way!"

"Then Yushitai."

"Let me see if you have a fever and your brain is broken?" Jia Amnesty patted Song Xi's forehead with his palm.

Song Xi was quite happy to be touched, and slightly squinted his phoenix eyes.

"If it's not hot, then it's really crazy." Jia She sighed helplessly.

Song Xi stared at him with burning eyes, "I've been crazy for a long time, because of you."

Jia Amnesty felt that he couldn't talk to him, otherwise Song Xi would "go to the house to expose the tiles" in a while, so he picked up Mrs. Zhu's confession from the table expressionlessly, covering his entire face, and then curled the corners of his mouth and smiled.

Seeing this, Song Xi thought that he wanted to think about the case and deal with serious business, so he would not bother him anymore, so he read some miscellaneous books by himself as before.

Jia Amnesty asked his subordinates to carefully compare the roster of the White Lotus Sect, and asked Liu Zhizhong to summarize and draw the relationship between the members of the White Lotus Sect, straightening it out from the end a little bit upwards, and clearly marking the division of labor for each member of the White Lotus Sect.In the end, all personnel relations were summarized and summarized to Mrs. Zhu, and the entire system of the White Lotus Sect became clear.

Among the people involved, almost [-]% were widows who were in mourning, and more than half of them were from families of some background, who were secretly contributing money to the White Lotus Sect.For the rest who need help, the actual cost is only one-tenth of the total amount of the former.

All the wealth accumulated by the White Lotus Sect was converted into cash and stored in the Chang family in Yuzhou. It was placed together with the wealth of the young lady of the Chang family, and it was all classified as the property of the White Lotus Sect.Although the members of the White Lotus Sect have moved out of the Chang family mansion, there are still about 50 or [-] people guarding the warehouse. These people are the most loyal and devout believers in the White Lotus Sect.

In the name of the government, the government officials went to collect the money, but they were resisted desperately by the people in the Chang family mansion.Fortunately, their wise and powerful Mrs. Jia had anticipated such an event and brought a Taoist nun to explain to them the true face of the White Lotus Sect. These people were panicked and at a loss.The yamen guards took advantage of their confusion and took them into custody, which was considered a settlement.

It took Jia Amnesty a day to finally finish the interrogation of the White Lotus Sect. When Jia Amnesty was considering how to deal with the women involved, the whole capital was turned upside down by the White Lotus Sect.

After the incident, in only half a day, many officials' impeachment papers were sent to the Hall of Martial Arts one after another, and the result was as high as a mountain.Outside the capital, there was even more commotion. Many men gathered in front of Gyeonggi Prefecture, demanding that the women of the White Lotus Sect who should cheat men be severely punished.These deceived men shouted and angered one by one, intending to let these women understand that the end of challenging their men's authority should be miserable.

And the cause of this incident was just because of a book this morning.Last night, everything was calm in the capital, and only Jia She, Song Xi, and relevant personnel in Gyeonggi Province knew the truth about the White Lotus Sect.Unexpectedly, after waking up from sleep, a book called "Shocking Secrets" was placed at the doors of various shops in the capital, as well as the mansions of nobles from various aristocratic families.

The same is true for Rongguo Mansion, and it is very special that there are not only one volume, but a stack of twelve volumes.

When Jia Amnesty read and opened this book early in the morning, he felt that something was wrong, and immediately drove to the palace.On Song Xi's side, Jia Amnesty didn't make a special announcement. After he knew Song Xi got the news, he would definitely rush to the palace as soon as he did.

Jia Amnesty arrived at the palace gate first, and after waiting for a while, he saw Song Xi's carriage approaching.

Song Xi got out of the car and was not surprised to see Jia Amnesty there. He strode straight towards him with a book in his hand, "Have you read the contents yet?"

"Look, at the end of the book, all the believers of the White Lotus Sect were announced, just like those on the roster." Jia Amnesty said with a gloomy expression.

"Could it be that there are spies in Gyeonggi Province, and the roster was leaked and copied?"

Jia She shook his head, "That's unlikely. This roster came from the princess's mansion the day before yesterday. I checked and found that there are nearly a thousand copies of these books in the capital. The major printing houses in Beijing would not dare to accept such books." Jobs. Don’t say that it takes time for small workshops to secretly print, but for large workshops, it takes three days to complete typesetting, cutting and mounting.”

"What do you mean, this book called "Shocking Secrets" was probably printed a few days ago, before the incident happened in the White Lotus Sect?" Song Xi asked in surprise.

Jia She nodded, "There is only one explanation."

"Then this book..." Song Xi narrowed his eyes.

Jia Amnesty: "The author knows everything about the White Lotus Sect, even the name on the roster. Now that Mrs. Zhu is in prison in Gyeonggi Prefecture, it is impossible to order this matter. Either Mrs. Zhu, or the one I guessed people."

Song Xi thought for a while, then smiled incomprehensibly: "Then this person is weird. He single-handedly instigated Zhu to establish the White Lotus Sect. Now that it has grown so much, not only does he not cherish his love, but he exposes himself and destroys the future. He What is the purpose of doing this?"

"Maybe the White Lotus Sect is just a pawn to achieve his goal. There are more than just things about the White Lotus Sect written in the book."

"Shocking Secret" describes how the White Lotus Sect is a cult that uses men to make money, and at the same time it also exposes the love and hatred between Mrs. Zhu and Concubine Dou.This aristocratic love affair is mixed in the book, which will definitely attract the readers who collect the book to read it with gusto and criticize it fiercely.

""Secrets of Neighbors", "Secrets of Shocking Heaven", these books were released just after the trial in Gyeonggi Province. It seems that your every move is under his control. This person really cares about you."

"It can be seen from the matter of the winter bamboo shoots that this person has been staring at me. I am afraid that he deliberately let me discover the matter of the White Lotus Sect, in order to facilitate today's situation." Jia Shen recalled his second The scene where I saw the white lotus for the first time was really too coincidental. It cannot be ruled out that it was deliberately arranged by someone. Moreover, the white lotus appeared on the mobile phones of a large number of beggars after that. It may also be to attract his attention, because the group led by the black pig is Beggar, "It's just that I still can't figure out who this person is and what is the purpose of doing this."

While speaking, the two had arrived in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Jia Amnesty and Song Xi glanced at each other, then straightened up their manners, and entered the palace to report the matter to the emperor early.

Song Xi first passed the words up, reminding the emperor that this book will definitely cause an uproar in the capital in the near future. Come up like a flood.Then there is the virtue of Consort Dou, which will definitely trigger a wave of impeachment.

After listening to Song Xi's words, the emperor became even more puzzled. He took the book and flipped through it quickly. When he found a description of the relationship between Concubine Dou and the Zhu family, he was so angry that he threw the book on the floor of the hall. She scolded Concubine Dou for being so ungrateful that he had no respect for the princess, secretly raised a second wife, stopped his wife and remarried.

The emperor turned to ask Song Xi how to punish Concubine Dou's behavior in the Great Zhou Law.

"Thirty rod punishment, two years in prison." Jia She said.

The emperor sneered, "Ordinary people are like this. He was born in an official family and married a royal princess. How could I let him go lightly!"

"Your Majesty, the eldest princess asks to see you." The eunuch came in to report.

The emperor announced it immediately, and then realized that there were still foreign ministers here.Jia Amnesty hurriedly asked for an order to resign.

The emperor frowned and looked at Song Xi, and thought for a while, "You can't be considered an outsider, just stay here."

Jia She nodded in agreement and retreated to Song Xi's side.Then he heard a barely audible chuckle from his right ear.Jia She looked sideways, and it was indeed Song Xi who was smiling.

Jia Shefang realized that the emperor had just hesitated to look at himself, and then looked at Song Xi again before making a decision.It turned out that the emperor said that he was not considered an outsider, because he considered his relationship with Song Xi, and regarded him as Song Xi's daughter-in-law...

Thinking of this, Jia Amnesty felt embarrassed, and his heart beat twice.

The princess entered the palace. She was wearing a complicated and beautiful princess dress. She walked into the palace very noblely, then bowed her head and knelt down. The etiquette was meticulous and perfect to the point of perfection.After being excused, the eldest princess looked at Jia She and Song Xi who were standing aside from the corner of her eye.

"Hmph!" The emperor slapped the table angrily, and said with a stern look, "I will definitely decide for you about your husband's affairs, and let him fully understand the fate of offending our royal princess! I wish I could crush him with my own hands. Ten thousand pieces of corpse!"

After the emperor finished speaking, he wanted to pass down an order that Xuan Dou's son-in-law would see him, and he wanted to personally interrogate and punish him!

"Father, my son-in-law came to see you today to discuss this matter with you. Please forgive me and spare Madam Dou. In fact, she has been very kind to my son-in-law all these years, and he is Cong'er's biological father. , Cong'er can't live without him." The eldest princess lowered her eyes and spoke with the utmost humility.

The emperor looked at his eldest daughter in surprise, "The incident is so big that it will soon be known all over the city. Do you still want to spare him so easily?"

"From the day I married him, my son-in-law has been his wife. As a wife, there is no reason not to forgive her husband. Besides, these years, my son-in-law has indeed done something wrong, which has made my son-in-law feel cold. My son-in-law begs For the sake of son-in-law's filial piety in the past, father spared Consort Dou and gave him a chance to reform." The eldest princess said, then kowtowed, with her face on the ground, begging very sincerely.

The emperor: "Do you know what the consequences of this matter will be?" It was that people all over the city laughed at our big Zhou who had an incompetent and dumb eldest princess!

There was a slight anger in the emperor's question, and he hated it for nothing.

The eldest princess trembled slightly. She knew that her words had offended the emperor, so she still knelt down to the emperor and insisted on interceding with Consort Dou.

The emperor was so angry that he pointed at the eldest princess, his worthless daughter!But the emperor didn't say anything after all, just sighed helplessly.Since one of the husband and wife is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, he will mess with whatever he wants, so let them go.

The emperor dismissed the eldest princess angrily, and then sighed helplessly and angrily with Song Xi and Jia She: "It's no wonder that there is a saying among the people that 'a married daughter pours water', which means she is like this!"

After the emperor threw his anger out, he finally decided to fulfill his daughter's wish. Since she begged himself so, then her wish would be fulfilled.But the emperor's decision has a price, that is, the eldest princess exhausted the emperor's special preference for her, and the emperor will treat the eldest princess much colder in the future.

The emperor became more irritable because of this, he was not interested in Bailian's case, and impatiently sent Jia She to deal with the matter with full authority. Except for Concubine Dou, all the people involved in the case should be dealt with according to the Dazhou law.As for Concubine Dou, his crime is to stop his wife and remarry. Since his original wife has expressed his unwillingness to sue, then Concubine Dou is really innocent according to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

As for those who participated in the performance, the emperor naturally didn't want to see them, and Song Xi had all the power to deal with them.

The emperor rubbed his forehead, and immediately set off to seek comfort from the empress.

Song Xi took Jia Amnesty to the Wuying Hall.In the time since the two of them met in person in the morning, the memorials related to the Hall of Martial Heroes have accumulated to twenty volumes.

Song Xi sat down and read two books casually, then put them down with a sneer, "A small group demanded severe punishment of the White Lotus Sect. Most of the ones who participated in the performance were the virtues of the son-in-law. Did you see that there are eighteen books from your Yushitai .”

"It can be seen that my officials are dedicated to their duties. Look at how long it took for this to happen. They have quickly written a memorial for impeachment." Jia Amnesty's face was filled with a sense of pride that "the subordinates I have trained are amazing".

Song Xi had no choice but to push the memorial to Jia Amnesty and let him read half of it.

Seeing that there were still memorials, Jia Amnesty kept sending them here.Jia Amnesty went over to read one, and after a glance, he picked up the second and third... His face became thoughtful.

Song Xi kept his eyes down and sorted out the notebooks, focusing all his attention on the matter at hand, but whenever he wrote some well-known truths in a few strokes, Song Xi would draw a cross with a cinnabar brush and throw them aside.

Jia Amnesty: "The contents of these notebooks are similar."

"Of course, there's nothing special about it, so you just cross it over here like me." Song Xi instructed.

"The son-in-law raises a concubine and provokes the imperial power, the eldest princess is innocent, and Dou Cong is young and pitiful... The scriptures are full of hype, and the basic content cannot escape these." Jia She concluded.

Poor young...

With these words in Jia She's mind, his eyes kept staring straight ahead, but he didn't look at any specific place, his eyes didn't focus.

Song Xi noticed that Jia Amnesty was wrong and asked him what was wrong.

Jia She was stunned for a while, then suddenly narrowed his eyes and looked at Song Xi seriously, "Dou Cong suddenly appeared in the Princess's mansion last time."

Song Xi frowned, wondering why Jia She suddenly mentioned a ten-year-old child at this time.

"Do you remember that Dou Cong was about to leave later, but came back temporarily, and said a word to you, which caused the princess to be furious, and left without paying attention to the son-in-law. It was that sentence that made you 'don't Embarrassing nanny, without her, father will be sad." Jia Amnesty recalled carefully.

Song Xi narrowed his eyes gradually, and looked at Jia She coldly, "What do you mean by that?"

Jia Amnesty: "Before I thought something was wrong, and I never figured it out. Now I figured it out. At that time, Dou Cong was sitting on the wall of the courtyard. At his height, he must be able to clearly understand what happened in the courtyard. But after he entered the hospital, he pretended to be confused at first, and asked the eldest princess what happened to Consort Dou.

But later, when he turned back and rushed in front of you again, he said something like 'father will be sad without her', implying that everyone knew that Concubine Dou had something to do with the Zhu family.A ten-year-old child should understand everything.If he had known Consort Dou and Zhu's relationship was not clean, he would not understand what was going on when he saw his mother crying and his father holding Zhu's hand?Why do you pretend to be confused and ask what happened?Why didn't he express his anger directly?If you say that he is a timid child, he is a well-known little devil in the capital, and he has never been disciplined by Dou Consort and the eldest princess. "