The first paparazzi in the Red Chamber

"How much do you know about Ma Tianmo?" Jia She asked.

Song Xi: "I don't understand. When he came to Beijing to report on his duties five years ago, he took the initiative to show his favor to me. I didn't take him seriously, but just accepted him casually. Of these local officials, one more is not too many, and one less is not too much. few."

Jia Amnesty understands that Song Xi means 'something is better than nothing', anyway, he won't let Ma Tianmo get in touch with the core secrets, so it doesn't matter if he accepts them casually.

"If you have no objection, why do you want to accept the favor of these officials?"

Song Xi: "This is the court. It's not yours alone, it's a group of people. Those who don't fit in are destined to be rejected. So you see, among the veterans left in the court, which one is not tactful and sophisticated. It is the upright Liu Zhongliang , Behind him, there must be some people to help him accomplish things, and the most taboo thing in the court is to fight alone."

Jia Amnesty nodded, understanding that what Song Xi said was indeed the status quo of the officialdom.

Seeing that Jia Amnesty didn't mind too much, Song Xi changed the subject and asked him how the current investigation of the case was going.

Jia She said: "There must be something to do with Prince Zhenyan. After he came, the first prince appeared, and in the accidents that occurred one after another, the people involved were all related to Zhenyan. Dou Huai's death may be due to knowing What, and was silenced. As for the Zhu family, it should be done conveniently, the purpose is to divert attention, making people think that the death of these two people may have something to do with the eldest princess. Dou Cong once mentioned to me that before his death, Dou Huai, What did you tell Jia Yucun about the third prince? Jia Yucun disappeared and returned to be an official, and he got to the official position with the help of the eldest princess's mansion, so there must be someone from the princess' mansion who should respond to him."

"If this person is Prince Consort Dou, then who is the person behind Prince Consort Dou? The third prince?" Song Xi then analyzed.

Jia Amnesty: "It's very possible that Dou Cong heard about it by accident. Could it be that they deliberately put on a show for others to watch? Even if they were doing a play, they wouldn't let a child with a weird personality listen to it. They should find someone more reliable. Only in this way can we confirm that their conversation can be passed on.”

Song Xi agrees with Jia She's statement, Dou Cong heard it by chance, it should be true.But when the third prince was mentioned, it was hard to say whether the third prince must be the mastermind behind the scenes.

"This can be judged, but now I need a key to open it, but I know that with my temper and style of doing things, there is no way to get this key."

Song Xi immediately understood what Jia Amnesty meant, and it didn't hurt to let him say it.As long as he can help, he will do his best.

Jia Amnesty looked at Song Xi for a while, then sighed, "It's time to move Jia Yucun."

……

Half an hour later, Jia Amnesty appeared in Gyeonggi Province and summoned Jia Yucun in the name of the key witness before Dou Huai's death.

Soon afterwards, Song Xi, who had finished handling the urgent affairs, arrived at Jia Yucun one step ahead.

Seeing that the key person hadn't arrived yet, Song Xi chatted with Jia She first, "I thought I'd asked him a long time ago."

Jia Amnesty: "I have been secretly sending people to monitor his every move, just to see how he communicates with others, but in the past two months, there has been no result at all, as if someone who knows me is watching him."

As soon as the two of them spoke a few words, Jia Yucun came over.

Song Xi immediately retreated to the back hall.

Jia Amnesty did not conduct a very formal interrogation in the courtroom, but let Jia Yucun sit in the side hall where he was, and chatted with him over tea, but the process of the interrogation was very serious.

The process of questioning was basically spent in a state of asking three questions, and Jia Yucun was very good at fooling Jia Amnesty.Jia Amnesty didn't care whether he answered his question truthfully, because he found that Jia Yucun's expression was very different from before, and he faced him with a face that hadn't moved for thousands of years.Such a face does not mean that you can control your emotions if you want to. Many people seem to have no expression on their faces, but when it comes to the eyebrows, eyes and mouth, there will be very subtle changes.But Jia Yucun is not. He can even hide these subtleties. This must be done after rigorous training and repeated practice.

Jia Amnesty suddenly understood what Jia Yucun was doing when he disappeared out of thin air.Someone made a transformation for Jia Yucun, and Jia Yucun must have the determination to accept this training, so that he will be reborn and make a comeback in just half a year.A person's willpower is generally divided into two types, one is in enthusiasm or love, and the other is in resentment or hatred.Jia Yucun must not be the former, he is aiming at revenge, wanting to avenge the humiliation he suffered at the beginning.It was too easy to guess who Jia Yucun wanted to take revenge on, they were him and Song Xi.

The reason why the person behind the scenes chose Jia Yucun must have considered that his goal was the same as Jia Yucun's.Then it is even more likely that this person is the third prince.After all, because the eldest prince and the empress are mother and son, no matter how stupid the eldest prince is, he will not be stupid enough to bring down his own uncle who can give him wings.

"You have also been a teacher in the Princess's mansion for a while, but do you know who Dou Huai has had a feud with, or who wants to kill him?" Jia She then interrogated Jia Yucun.

"My son-in-law, that's not right, it's Dou Huai. He's usually a dandy and offends a lot of people, but it's all trivial things, not just killing people. The status of a subordinate official is humble, and he is just a useless poor gentleman in the Princess's mansion. How can I know anything about Dou Huai. My lord is asking the wrong person, it would be better to inquire about this matter with the eldest princess." Jia Yucun answered the hypothetical question neither humble nor overbearing, and finally arrogantly suggested how Jia She should solve the case .

"According to what you mean, you and Dou Huai don't know each other at all? It's just because of teaching the children, we had a couple of occasional conversations, and you never talked privately?"

"Exactly, my lord." Jia Yucun said bluntly.

Jia She sneered, "That's weird, then how could someone hear you two whispering about the third prince on the evening of the 23rd near the rockery forest in the garden of the Princess Mansion."

Jia Yucun was startled, and immediately reacted, lowering his head so that Jia Amnesty could not see his expression.

"Is it unbearable?"

Jia Yucun: "I don't understand what your lord means."

"If you don't understand, you won't lower your head and dodge." Jia She sighed

Song Xi came out from the back hall at this time, squinting at Jia Yucun.

When Jia Yucun complained about Song Xi, his whole body shivered, and his legs felt weak.

"Do you still remember what I said to you back then, if you still want to gain some face in front of the clansmen, you can confess freely, I can reserve your current official position for you, and let you live a decent life."

Jia Yucun suddenly heard Song Xi's threats to him back then, clenched his fists fiercely, gritted his teeth, and his whole body was instantly ablaze.

"I don't know who told you some lies, which made you delusional. But I want to tell you a truth today. Sometimes the weak are weak, and they can't become strong. It's like an egg that breaks when you touch it. No matter how hard you try, it is impossible to knock over a stone. A wise person will choose a good tree to live in and be a hero who understands current affairs, only a fool will overestimate his own strength and seek his own death." After Song Xi said this with a bright face, He raised the corners of his lips and smiled slightly.

This smile reminded Jia Yucun of the past, the hairs all over his body stood up instinctively, and he shuddered.In the past year, the iron-like determination he had just built in his heart was instantly pierced by Song Xi's words, and it was about to burst.

"We haven't touched you, not because of how powerful you are, but because we want to catch a big fish through your little rain. Now that we know who this big fish is, why should we keep you, an eyesore, back and forth Swimming in front of your eyes? Why don’t you tell me, what’s the use of you, give me a reason?”

Jia Yucun's teeth were chattering, and he stared at Song Xi with a blue face, unable to speak.The emotions in his eyes were complex, including resentment, annoyance, and anger... But these complex emotions were compressed into a small part by a huge fear.

"If you can't even tell yourself, we don't know." Song Xi sneered and sent Jia Yucun to leave quickly. Now there is no need for him to say anything.

"Master Song is threatening me, thinking that I will be baited? Oh, I will never be fooled a second time." Jia Yucun roared angrily.

"Who do you think I bother to think about this little guy? You take yourself too seriously. You can live in peace until today because you are lucky to meet a good person with a benevolent heart. You don't want to Your life." Song Xi paused at this point, and looked at Jia She, "Master Jia wants to deal with everything fairly. Now I think, to deal with a rascal like him, we should use a rascal's method."

Song Xi didn't wait for Jia She to express his position, and immediately accepted the assumption in a sharp tone, and he was not allowed to stop him.

Jia Amnesty glanced at Jia Yucun and nodded helplessly.

Jia Yucun's eyes moved back and forth following the conversation between the two.Hearing this matter, he felt a little flustered in his heart, but he tried his best to hold his breath, and said to Jia She and Song Xi with confidence: "I am an official ordered by the imperial court. What you want to do to me, you should speak based on evidence."

"Evidence? I'll give you as much as you want." Song Xi sneered disdainfully, and then said to Heng Shu, "But the ordinary method of going to the government to convict is too boring. It's good to play some new tricks. I heard that Huang Yuande has become a new favorite recently. A beautiful concubine, if you should add some color to his head, it would be quite interesting."

Heng Shu: "Master Jia, my subordinates have already investigated, and this beautiful concubine will go to Fahua Temple to offer incense tomorrow. It seems that I have to trouble Master Jia until tomorrow morning."

"You, what do you mean..." Jia Yucun immediately stood up, facing the three of them defensively, and rubbed his heels back a few steps.

Hengshu pushed open the door, and respectfully invited Jia Yucun to go to the wing of Gyeonggi Province to rest for a while.

Jia Yucun hurriedly shook his head to express his disapproval.He looked out the door anxiously, wondering if he should just force his way out.How dare he stay here, if this continues, tomorrow he will be stripped of his clothes by these concubine and roll on the same bed with that beautiful concubine.At that time, if he was bumped into by Huang Yuande's vicious mouth and temper, he would definitely have no way out.

"I heard that Mr. Huang has a bad temper recently because of being demoted from the official position by the Holy One." Heng Shu sighed.

Without hesitation, Jia Yucun ran away.

When the guards outside saw this, they all looked this way.

Hengshu immediately said: "This person refuses to confess and wants to escape, so why don't you arrest him quickly."

The yamen servants immediately blocked Jia Yucun's way out.

Jia Yucun yelled to leave, forcibly pushed the yamen away, and ran out.Seeing this, the yamen servants naturally believed what Hengshu said, that Jia Yucun wanted to escape, so they immediately controlled him.

"What are you doing? I'm an imperial court official."

"Jia Yucun has a guilty conscience. As soon as the governor of Gyeonggi Prefecture was arraigned, he fled crazily, intending to escape from Gyeonggi Prefecture, and all the officials of Gyeonggi Prefecture can testify. You said that the emperor will believe you when he sees such a memorial. Will you still believe us?" Song Xi asked.

"You—shameless!" Jia Yucun gritted his teeth fiercely.

"One more thing, insulting the court officials." Song Xi looked at Jia Amnesty.

Jia Yucun was so angry that shortly after he was taken to prison, he clamored to see Jia Amnesty again.

After waiting for an hour, Jia Yucun thought over and over again in prison, and became more and more aware of the huge gap between himself, the weak and the strong.When Jia Yucun became more and more pessimistic and saw that his future was bleak, the cell door was opened, and he was escorted to Jia She and Song Xi.

Song Xi was sitting at the bottom left of Jia She, drinking tea leisurely.Jia Amnesty looked at Jia Yucun seriously.

Jia Yucun knelt down, took a look at Song Xi, then lowered his head and resigned himself to his fate, saying that he would confess everything, but he still asked Song Xi to let him go in the end like last time, and promised that he would not make things difficult in the future he.

"There's no guarantee. You're such a rascal, and you always like to get in front of us and get in the way. It's better to clean it up."

Jia Yucun hurriedly swore that he would never make trouble for Jia Amnesty and Song Xi again, and even said that he would make meritorious deeds and confess everything, only asking Song Xi to keep his promise and go around him.

Jia Amnesty looked at Song Xi.Finally understood Song Xi's words, to deal with rogues, you must use rogue methods.

Song Xi nodded to Jia Yucun.

Jia Yucun then truthfully told what he was doing during the time he disappeared, "It was in a hidden mountain forest not far from Beijing. The walls of the house were very high, and there were many capable people inside. Train my will, let my body and mind become more powerful and flexible than before. They originally wanted me to train for two or three years before going down the mountain, but because the situation changed temporarily, they used me to go out. I obeyed According to the arrangement, I went to the Eldest Princess Mansion to ask Mr. Zhao, and then according to their guidance, I negotiated with Dou Cong a way to get along with each other. After that, I really got the favor of the Eldest Princess, and then I got an official in the Ministry of Household Affairs. Do it. Later, I found out that Dou Cong was actually the person who contacted me, and the person we want to pledge our allegiance to is the Third Prince."

Jia Amnesty listened to Jia Yucun's words with clear logic, and many details were consistent with his previous judgment, so there should be no mistakes, so he continued to ask him if he knew the reason why Dou Huai was killed.

"I don't know. I started to wonder about this matter. I even wondered if the third prince was afraid that he would know too much, so he silenced him. Later, when I got the news, I was asked to find out the cause of Dou Huai's death, so I knew that Dou Huai's death was related to the third prince. The prince has nothing to do with it."

Song Xi looked at Jia She.

Jia She nodded, indicating that he felt the same way.The people who assassinated Dou Huai, without exception, were those true-faced people who wanted to attack him in the capital.From Jia She's point of view, these real-faced people seem to be inextricably linked with the First Prince.If it was the first prince who dealt with the third prince, it would be easy to explain.However, Dou Huai had already lost power, and the eldest prince's act of killing him not long after he left Beijing was really extreme, regardless of the risk.

After Song Xi heard about Jia She's doubts, he said, "It's also very likely that he temporarily transferred his hatred for the third prince to Dou Huai."

Song Xisui and Jia Amnesty briefly talked about his speculation. "Back then, the eldest prince was sent by the emperor to lead troops to fight. Part of the reason was that the emperor was bewitched by the third prince's grandfather's suggestion. At that time, the eldest prince had both talent and virtue, and he was very popular in the court, but he was somewhat proud. So he did something that made the emperor dissatisfied. The words of the third prince's grandfather were just an introduction, and the emperor actually wanted to frustrate the eldest prince's spirit a long time ago."

"In other words, the ultimate culprit of this matter is..." Jia She looked at Song Xi solemnly, very worried about the emperor's current situation.

"There is one more thing. At the beginning, the eldest prince wanted to lead an army to attack by surprise, but he was surrounded on the way. Such a coincidence, it seems that he was betrayed by someone, and someone tipped off the enemy." Song Xi said.

"I've also heard about this. Anyone who wants to come here will think it's the third prince's scheme. The eldest prince probably thinks the same way now, so he hates the third prince very much?"

Song Xi nodded, "But the sage didn't think so. At that time, the third prince was young and did not participate in the court affairs. As for the fact that the eldest prince was surrounded, after several investigations, it was confirmed that it was indeed a coincidence. It happened that someone from the enemy army was there at the time." Activities nearby, found the first prince's military horse, and then made a plan to attack. But the first prince doesn't believe this now, only saying that these things are done by the third prince and the concubine Xian, in order to clear himself and deceive everyone .”

"Everyone in the world is drunk and I am sober." Jia She said concisely, he paused, then turned to look at Song Xi, "You already knew about the hatred of the eldest prince, why did you tell me now?"

"Although I am his uncle, because of my similar age and similar conversation, we have been getting along for many years, and there is indeed some "brotherhood". So I begged me not to intervene in questioning what he did in the future. When it comes to the love back then, I couldn’t bear to refuse, even though I feel that he is completely different now, and he is not the one who can drink and chat with me. Mu Rui, who is a state affairs official, is gone." Song Xi paused, then looked at Jia She seriously, and asked him if he blamed himself for hiding this matter from him.

"No matter how close people are, there will be things that they don't know about each other. Besides, if you reminisce about old feelings, it can only show that you are a person of flesh and blood. I prefer the former to the ruthless and ruthless that is too decisive." Jia She road.

"I will keep my promise and not interfere in his affairs, but you can." Song Xi looked at Jia She, "I think he is not satisfied with dealing with the third prince."

Jia Amnesty: "That's true. I suspect that the 'Three Days' brothers belong to him. These three people pretended to be loyal to the third prince, but in fact they were instigating and luring the third prince to rebel, and they were accused of treason. Once, the prince was covered with a veil, so he couldn't see his heart from his face. But from all the things that happened before and after his appearance, it can be seen that he is very ambitious and extremely cruel, and he will use all means to achieve his goals .”

"Maybe it's as you said." Song Xi sighed, and said to Jia She, "I need you to worry about it."

"You really don't intend to intervene?"

Song Xi shook his head.

Jia Amnesty also understands Song Xi, after all everyone has their own insistence, he should respect Song Xi's choice.But he took care of this matter. At the beginning, several lives were involved, but now it is nearly [-] lives. No one deserves to die in vain.Moreover, if this incident continues, more people will probably die, and the people will most likely fall into the suffering of war.

The turmoil of the country has always been in dire straits for the common people.

"To deal with a person like him, you'd better not use normal methods all the time. Look at your previous investigations, they are just using normal methods, and he can see clearly." Song Xi sighed.

"It can also be seen from this that he has a thorough understanding of most of my habits, and that's why he successfully leads me to the wrong road time and time again, making me waste all my efforts and find nothing." Jia Shen analyzed , "Since I returned to Beijing, he has only appeared in front of me once, and his face is still covered. Please leave Beijing."

"It seems to be avoiding you." Song Xi pondered.

"He knows that I can tell my heart from my face. When he appeared and asked the emperor to recognize his relatives, he sent me to Liuzhou, which happened to allow the implementation of the Liuzhou incident he had planned earlier, and made the innocent third prince fall into the bait. The chaos created, for example, the third prince was ignorant of my investigation at the beginning, so he was very angry. After he got his innocence, he was naturally grateful to me. But at this time, Tang Tianli came and offered the third prince a very tempting My proposal should be to let the third prince fake his death in front of me, and Tang Tianli will be the bad guy, and take responsibility for the treason all by himself, for reasons like this. In short, the third prince is willing to cooperate with Tang Tianli to perform a scene of death in front of me. So much so that making the time twists and turns difficult to be logical is just to confuse me and lose my correct judgment on the real truth." Jia She analyzed.

"When did you figure it out?" Song Xi asked in surprise.

Jia She frowned and said: "I have some clues, but because everything is my deliberation, I can't base it on my own conjecture without real basis. It's like a mess, I need to first Find the thread that connects everything, and prove the authenticity of my entire speculation."