The first paparazzi in the Red Chamber
Chapter 69 Chapter 1 Paparazzi
However, Jia She felt that it was difficult to find a reason to enter the princess mansion, and it was basically impossible to apply Wang Ziteng's trick.Wang Ziteng's matter had been communicated to the emperor in advance, so he made a trick to pretend to be a thief, and lured people from Gyeonggi Province to conduct a legitimate search.But the matter of the third princess is different. She has a noble status and is favored by the emperor.Jia Amnesty is negotiating marriage with the third princess, and he is also involved in it.
If he had followed Wang Ziteng's example and said hello to the emperor first, there was no basis for it, and he might arouse the emperor's taboo. Once the emperor thought that he did not want this marriage and deliberately plotted to slander the three princesses, what would he say to the emperor? There will be discounts in the ears.
And Song Xi is not easy to do it in the open, so the matter involves the struggle of imperial power to some extent, even if this matter is really the fault of the third princess, as long as he takes the initiative to get involved in it, it will inevitably arouse the emperor's suspicion and fear.
Thinking of this, Jia Amnesty felt that asking Song Xi to solve the matter immediately was a little too urgent, so he changed his words and said, "I'm not in a hurry, just wait for two days, you can plan carefully first."
Because the two were still in the palace, Jia Amnesty moved closer to Song Xi's ear and spoke in a low voice.
Song Xi felt Jia She's warm breath, his ears were itchy, and his heart was itching too.
He nodded his face with his fingers and asked Jia She to kiss him, and he might immediately think of a good idea to solve it.
"You know it in your heart, neither of us can face this matter." Jia Amnesty said in a serious tone.
Song Xi nodded, of course he understood that this was a taboo.
"The Gyeonggi Prefecture under your jurisdiction cannot move first."
"I know, so give me a kiss first." Song Xi tapped his cheek again.
Jia Amnesty looked around, the officials hadn't left after the court, and there were still a few behind them.When Jia Amnesty turned his head, although those people were far away, they immediately stopped and saluted him.Jia Amnesty also nodded his head in return, and when he turned to look at Song Xi, his face became a little hot.He dared to say these words in front of people, so he was thick-skinned.
Let's talk about the officials behind.
Their rank is low, it is absolutely impossible to surpass the two adults in front of them directly, and it is not good to go fast, otherwise they will be suspected of eavesdropping on the speech of the two adults, so they can only choose to follow from a distance.
At this moment, several officials saw Master Song poking Master Jia in the face twice, and Master Jia looked embarrassed, and immediately distanced himself from Master Song.
"You say what Master Song and Master Jia are talking about, you want to poke him in the face!"
"Didn't you see Master Jia looked back at us in embarrassment just now?"
"Yes, what can you explain?"
"Master Song is calling him shameless, he feels ashamed and embarrassed!"
"It makes sense, it makes sense. Sigh, Mrs. Jia can't think about it, mixing with a lonesome person like Mrs. Song, it's inevitable that you will suffer and be scolded."
"That's right." Several officials cast sympathetic glances at Jia Amnesty.
Although they were all envious of Jia She being able to associate with Mr. Song and walk side by side, but when you think about it carefully, it is really not easy to be friends with Mr. Song.It is necessary to have a strong heart, and you must always endure the tragic situation where you are inferior to others in every way and feel inferior to yourself.
At this moment, Jia Amnesty felt the gaze projected from behind, and his face became even hotter.
"Look at you, what I did just now was too intimate, the people behind are all watching." Jia Amnesty said in a low voice.
"It's envy." Song Xi corrected lightly.
Jia She found that Song Xi was not only thick-skinned, but also shameless.
The two continued to walk forward, Jia She pondered for a while, and asked Song Xi: "Are you really capable of solving it today?"
Song Xi nodded, indicating that there would always be a way to think about it.
Jia She suddenly pressed Jia She's shoulder and led Song Xi to turn right. There was no one on the left or right of this road.Before the doubts appeared on Song Xi's face, Jia She's smiling lips fell on Song Xi's cheek.
When Lippan left, Jia She could clearly see the dazed look in Song Xi's eyes.
At this time, the footsteps of those officials walking over were clearly heard.
Jia Amnesty immediately let go of Song Xi's shoulder.
When several officials passed by the intersection, they turned their heads and saw Mrs. Jia and Mrs. Song confronting each other, and their eyes met, which can be described as lightning and thunder.Several people glanced at each other, there was someone who was going to say hello to the two adults, and the others hurriedly pulled him away.In this embarrassing situation, they should stop bothering them, and be careful not to burn themselves.
Hearing the sound of those people walking away quickly, Song Xi leaned against the palace wall with a smile, his eyes were facing the morning light, the smile on his face was bright and exciting, and he had a confident charm that conquered everything.
Jia She leaned on him and kissed his lips deeply.Song Xi responded violently, almost wanting to tear Jia Amnesty to pieces on the spot.
Every time Jia Amnesty took the initiative, Song Xi couldn't control himself.Fortunately, Jia Amnesty had the sense to separate them in time when the next wave of footsteps came.
"I think it's a bit too bold for us to do this kind of thing in the palace." After Jia She took a seat in the carriage, his heartbeat eased a little, "Next time you don't provoke me in the palace."
Song Xi used his hands to shave the broken hair from Jia She's sideburns behind his ears, and smiled lightly, "I'm not afraid of people knowing."
Jia She looked at him in surprise, "Aren't you afraid of being seen and telling the emperor?"
"The palace people are not so bold. Knowing that this kind of thing has reached the ears of the emperor, they will not kill me, but they can kill themselves. Who would make such a stupid choice."
"Tsk, that's a big talk, you're confident enough, if someone isn't afraid of you." Jia Amnesty hypothesized.
"Then I'll take the opportunity to tell the emperor that I'm going to marry you." After Song Xi said that, he hugged Jia She and bit his ear, as if a child wanted sweets willfully.
But Jia Amnesty is not sugar, after the emperor knew about it, how could he easily spare them.
Jia She only joked when Song Xi coaxed him to be happy.It was just a joke, and he was very happy to hear it, at least Song Xi said that he attached great importance to this relationship.
Jia Amnesty stretched with a smile, then leaned on Song Xi with his shoulder, and asked him if he had thought of a way.
"When you kissed me and made me burn with passion, I thought about it." Song Xi put his arms around Jia She, and pressed his lips warmly to Jia She's ear, "You see, your' "Encouragement" is very useful, and the more the better in the future."
"Let's talk about your method first." Jia Amnesty sat up straight and looked at him seriously.
Song Xi stared at Jia She, and smiled.
"The method is a bit too simple, and I can't say it out loud, but the most direct and simple method is suitable for dealing with a woman like her. It's not interesting to say it, but it will be more interesting if you wait to see the result."
"Then I'll wait for the good news."
After arriving at Yushitai, Jia Amnesty bid farewell to Song Xi. When he got up, Song Xi pulled him and nodded his cheek.Jia Amnesty smiled helplessly, and kissed Song Xi again before saying goodbye to him.
As soon as Jia Amnesty settled down at the Yushi Terrace and drank a cup of tea, Qin Zhonglu, who had a good job, came.Holding "Secrets of the Next Door" in his hand, he asked Jia Shen how the debate in court was going.
Jia Amnesty told him the result.
Qin Zhonglu patted the book and sighed: "It should be like this. It's not such an inhuman way to buy and sell concubines. People who don't even want their own parents and children are worthy of being called people. I really don't know what Ding An thought back then. Yes, to do such an inhumane thing, I don’t know how to be blessed when I was born. Now I want to have two more children, no matter who gave birth to them, I haven’t yet!”
Qin Zhonglu sighed, his family was too small.
"You still have a son, why are you so thin?"
Qin Zhonglu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that Mrs. Jia seems to have a brother-in-law named Lin and has no children yet.
"Look at my mouth, I don't know how to be blessed when I was born in a blessing." Qin Zhonglu blamed himself.
Jia Amnesty: "Anything else?"
Qin Zhonglu laughed, and then ran to the subject of his visit this time, "I heard you and Mr. Song had a quarrel?"
"What?" Jia Amnesty looked at him.
"Don't blame me for talking too much. Mr. Song is good at everything. The shortcoming is that he is too talented and a little arrogant. Sometimes you just go if you can't make sense with him. We don't have the same knowledge as him." Qin Zhonglu comforted him.
Jia Amnesty heard that Qin Zhonglu was looking for his own good, and asked him amusedly where he heard the news from.
"The people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice just said that when they just came down to the court, they saw that the two of you were not dealing with each other, and Mr. Song seemed to scold you for being shameless?" Qin Zhonglu opened his eyes wide, observing Jia She with good intentions.
Jia She laughed.
Seeing Jia Amnesty, Qin Zhonglu sneered, and reckoned that the matter was quite close.Hurriedly called Liang Leyun over and asked him to bring the plate of dim sum in his room.
Of course, Jia Amnesty would not explain the details of his relationship with Song Xi to Qin Zhonglu. Those people misunderstood that they were at odds, but it would be better than gossiping about their being too close.
In a blink of an eye, Liang Leyun brought up a snow-white plate, and when the plate was put down, it was as if he saw a painting.The black branches are dotted with shaped pastries made of snow-white and translucent tissue paper, and the flower centers are decorated with red fillings.
"Isn't it exquisite and beautiful?" Qin Zhonglu asked Jia She proudly. He had admired this dessert all morning, but he still didn't know where to start, and he was reluctant to part with it.
"not bad."
Since it was Qin Zhonglu's good intentions, Jia Amnesty had no reason to refuse her, so he "taken out" a flower from the middle without saying a word, and stuffed it neatly into his mouth before Qin Zhonglu could stop him.
Qin Zhonglu stared at Jia Amnesty's mouth, feeling as if something he loved was taken away and he wanted to cry.
Jia Amnesty nodded, indicating that the taste was not bad, so he started directly and ate the "tree trunk".
Qin Zhonglu looked at the dim sum that had been destroyed into a mess, and then saw Jia She's eating and drinking without worrying about it, and really regretted that he was meddling in his own business.Why do you need to comfort him, he has such a good appetite, he doesn't look like someone with emotional problems at all.
Qin Zhonglu pursed his lips, feeling a little pain in his heart, then silently picked up a flower and stuffed it into his mouth.
Jia Amnesty ate two more flowers, then drank up the tea, and let Qin Zhonglu take care of himself. After filing the case, he continued to check the list of Jiang Hong Torreya's contacts.
Qin Zhonglu came over to join in the fun with a plate, and took a look.There could be more than 20 names densely written on a piece of paper. Every time Jia Amnesty looked at a name, he had to check the corresponding person's file and household registration.This work is too detailed, and it makes me tired just looking at it.
Qin Zhonglu shook his head feeling bored, bid farewell to Jia She, and went back to his room to enjoy his snacks.After going out for a while, Qin Zhonglu came back again and told Jia Amnesty that the plate of dim sum he ate was called "One Tree White Plum".
Jia Amnesty: "Oh."
Qin Zhonglu's heart ached again, he pursed his lips, and silently turned to leave.He owed his mouth and asked for anger.
……
After Song Xi sent Jia Amnesty back to Yushitai, he whispered to his subordinates to pass on the message, and ordered the coachman to go back to the palace to meet the queen.
After Song Xi warned the queen last time, the two have been in a state of cold confrontation.The fifteenth prince went to Song Xi's mansion yesterday, and Song Xi heard that she was ill, so he came here to meet her and ask her a few words.
The queen drove away the idlers in the Hall of Chunhe, and asked Song Xi what he thought of the third princess marrying Jia She.
Song Xi: "She's stupid."
The queen felt a little guilty, "How about I ask the emperor? Tell him about your matter clearly, and the marriage will definitely be settled."
"Eldest sister knows that I have a way to deal with it, so why bother to say so much and sacrifice myself." Song Xi said indifferently.
"I am sincere. Look at you, you never accept my favor." The queen lowered her eyes and sighed.
"Eldest sister, take good care of your body and take good care of the fifteen princes." Song Xi looked at the queen, "not to mention that there may be a daughter missing in the future."
The queen was stunned, Fang realized that Song Xi was going to attack the third princess.After all, the third princess was raised by the queen, so it is impossible to say that she has no feelings.
"This child has no sense of proportion emotionally. If she is self-willed for a while and wants to marry Jia Yushi just to attract your attention, you too..."
"She embezzled 120 million taels of silver from the treasury." Song Xi interrupted.
The queen was stunned again, very surprised.Obviously she didn't expect the third princess to go out of her way.At first, I thought that this girl was just too attached to feelings, and she was a little bit stupid, but she never expected that she would dare to reach out to the treasury and steal money directly under the eyelids of her father.
The queen took a breath and quickly calmed down.From Song Xi's words, the queen knew in her heart that the three princesses could not be rescued.
"How long have you known?"
"Some days. When things go wrong later, I have to trouble my eldest sister to keep an eye on her and cut off the news."
After Song Xi finished speaking, he got up to say goodbye.
The palace people told the three princesses to ask for an audience.
Seeing that Song Xi's face was not disturbed when he heard the news, the queen sent the palace servants to drive the third princess away.
After a while, the palace man came again and said that the third princess refused to leave.
Song Xi slightly saluted the queen, then turned and left.
The queen saw that he didn't mean to dodge on purpose, so it could be seen that he never had her in his eyes, so the third princess provoked his taboo, and she didn't deserve any special treatment from him, even if the special treatment was out of disgust. Come.
The queen sighed helplessly, and then ordered the three princesses to enter.
Seeing Song Xi coming out, the third princess took two steps forward.
Song Xi stepped aside and saluted the third princess from a distance.
Gong Nai rushed to invite the third princess to enter.
The third princess looked at Song Xi, her lips moved slightly to speak.
Gong Nai smiled and urged the third princess: "Third princess, hurry up, the empress is waiting for the third princess."
The third princess glanced at Song Xi with eyes that could almost be activated.Song Xi lowered his eyes halfway, looking like a lone crane, not looking at her at all.
Even if she decided to marry Jia She, she didn't attract his 'different eyes', even a look of disgust.
The third princess was extremely uncomfortable with chest tightness, but she had to endure it, and followed the palace nurse into the Hall of Spring Harmony with a calm heart.She found reasons to perfuse the queen, forced a smile, and pretended that she was not sad at all.This kind of torture is even more uncomfortable than falling into eighteen layers of hell.
After the third princess was freed from the Hall of Spring Harmony, she ran back to her bedroom and wept.
She regretted it.
I regret that when I first met Jia She in Fahua Temple, I didn't act boldly and directly.She thought that the relationship between men would not be too deep, even though Song Xi had a strong ability to control, Jia She might not.
The third princess had sent beauties to seduce Jia She several times and threw herself into her arms, but failed repeatedly. None of the thin Yangzhou horses she had carefully selected caught Jia She's eyes!
Why this is, the three princesses don't understand.
After all, Jia She used to be such a lecherous old dude who didn't care, how could he become so thorough?
Nanny Qi saw that the third princess was sad, and deliberately dissuaded the third princess again: "Si Tianjian has already combined the horoscope and handed it over to the Queen Mother. I heard that a few auspicious days have also been prepared. If you combine it again, you will let it go." The empress dowager and the emperor discussed and agreed. This matter is not a joke, and if it goes on like this, there will be no chance of regretting it."
"I know." The third princess said in a hoarse voice, and then she held her head in her hands a little out of composure. The more she thought about it, the more she felt a splitting headache, and then she suddenly coaxed her eyes to look at Nanny Qi, "You said that if the person surnamed Jia died, he How? Should he hate me and want to kill me?"
Nanny Qi was stunned, and looked at the third princess in a daze.
"Mommy, you know, I don't ask him to like me now, or to be together. I just want him to see me in his eyes, see me, and remember me in his heart. That's enough. I suffer Enough of being indifferent and ignored by him every time!" The third princess recalled the scene of meeting Song Xi just now, her heart was twisted like a knife, her body shook, and she burst into tears.
Nanny Qi hurriedly took the third princess into her arms, and advised her to calm down, not to be impulsive, let alone ruin herself for a ruthless man.
"Princess, the old slave still said the same thing at the beginning, it's not worth it, everything is not worth it. Let's enjoy the dignity of the princess and find a man who can make us happy. If it doesn't work, we'll go back Beiyuan, there are a lot of handsome and heroic men for the princess to choose from. If you don’t like this one, you can change to another one, and you don’t have to be bound by only one man for the rest of your life. What a wonderful day.” Qi Nanny patted the back of the third princess Back, coax her, persuade her.
The tears of the third princess were like broken beads, falling one by one non-stop. She leaned against Nanny Qi, hugged her, her eyes were empty, and she stared straight ahead in a daze.
"Yeah, why am I so overwhelmed, why must he be, why! Obviously there are many choices, but after having him in my heart, those so-called choices are no longer choices. Mammy, what should I do, I also want to Get out, but I only have him in my heart, only him!"
"Princess, you are insane, you are truly infatuated. However, falling flowers have feelings and flowing water has no meaning, you have to control yourself. If you continue like this, this old slave is really afraid that you will go to hell." Qi Nanny patted The third princess's back, advised her to think about it, and before the marriage with Jia She was settled, she quickly found a way to explain to the queen mother and stop the loss in time.
The third princess cried until she was in tears, shaking her head and saying it was too late.Now she would rather go all out, marry Jia She, guard Jia She, let that person like her, taste the taste of infatuation but can't get it.
Nanny Qi looked at the third princess distressedly, sighed, and stopped talking.
The third princess wiped away the tears on her face with a handkerchief, and gradually became calm, "Say what you want."
"Princess, don't blame me. This old slave wants to tell the truth. The princess is not infatuated at all. It's revenge, very malicious revenge." After finishing speaking, Nanny Qi knelt down to apologize to the third princess.
Nanny Qi broke the truth with one word, and the three princesses were in a daze for a long time.
After being in a daze for a while, the third princess wept and sighed: "Mammy, you are right, this is malicious revenge, I don't like it at all."
After crying enough, she suddenly calmed down and ordered someone to bring water.
The third princess washed her face and asked someone to put on her makeup again. "I'm going to find the emperor's grandmother and tell the emperor's grandmother that I don't want to marry Jia She. The only person I've liked all these years is Song Xi. I don't want to use those shameful revenge methods anymore. I just want to confess My own voice, I beg the Queen Mother to fulfill me."
Upon hearing this, Nanny Qi hurriedly stopped the third princess, "If this matter is going to go, the old slave should go, some words are much better to be spoken from slaves than directly from the princess. "
"It's useless for you to say. How many years ago, there was an old lady who told the Queen Mother, but in the end it didn't matter. I didn't dare to ask directly, and they didn't say anything. It's ridiculous that I have been waiting, and finally What I'm waiting for is the news of his engagement to someone else. This time I want to say it myself, even if I give up, I will die completely."
After the third princess finished speaking, she lifted her skirt and ran out quickly, as if she had returned to ten years ago, the young girl who was persistent and impulsive for love.
Ci'an Temple.
After hearing the three princesses' cry, the Queen Mother's face became more and more serious, and the hand holding the handkerchief even trembled a little.
Hearing the last words of the third princess begging to be fulfilled, the queen mother was so angry that she couldn't speak for a while, and only sighed slowly.
The third princess has not been able to hear the Queen Mother's response, and her heart is even more suspended. She is crying and kowtow to apologize for her mistake. A feeling of relief.
"Pass down the decree of Ai's family, so that Si Tianjian no longer has to live together, and no one is allowed to mention the marriage between the third princess and Jia Yushi." The Queen Mother finished speaking as calmly as possible, and sent the third princess back first. She has to think about it carefully, and then discuss it with the emperor.
The third princess hurriedly kowtowed to thank the Queen Mother, expressing that as long as she could marry Song Xi, she would rather give up her identity and power as Princess Beiyuan.
The queen mother glanced at her, said "um", and sent her off.
The emperor came in a hurry.Before he came, he had already heard the general account of the incident from the nurse next to the queen mother.The emperor didn't expect that the third princess, a girl, would shamelessly come to the queen mother to ask for marriage, which greatly violated the princess' dignity.
"Why, you men are allowed to ask for marriage infatuatedly, but women are not allowed to do the same? She is a princess, and she has experienced a marriage again. She lives more clearly, and it is understandable. Besides, she fell in love with her back then. Song Xi is something that all of us know. It is still the same today. It can only be said that she is infatuated. This persistence is really like that of her biological mother Li Guifei back then." The queen mother frowned and looked at the emperor, "This matter What do you think?"
The emperor turned cold, "They are not suitable."
"How inappropriate, let's talk about it." The queen mother didn't insist on the third princess marrying Song Xi, but she was curious about the emperor's reason.
"Song Xi he—" the emperor paused, not knowing what to say to the queen mother.
Coincidentally, at this time, someone came to report that the princess mansion was on fire.
"Geng Junliang, the general patrolling the city, took them to fight the fire, and found a batch of silver carts in the Princess Mansion."
The emperor narrowed his eyes: "Silver car?"
"It is said that there are dozens of carriages made of sterling silver. They were all the carriages that accompanied the third princess when she returned to Beijing." The eunuch answered carefully and explained.
The emperor's eyes were full of doubts, and he hurriedly asked the eunuch if he knew how Geng Junliang found these carriages.
"The place where the carriage was parked was close to the princess's back kitchen. I don't know who started the fire in the kitchen. The fire started and burned several houses, and finally spread to the stables and carports. General Geng found that all the other wooden carriages were destroyed or burned. Most of these dozens of carriages can be preserved intact, so I felt very strange, knocked them with a knife, scraped off the paint, and found out that those carriages were made of silver."
The Empress Dowager's complexion changed drastically, and she looked at the emperor.
The emperor also looked back at the queen mother with a cold face, and got up to say goodbye to the queen mother.
The queen mother tried not to let herself think of the bad, but only asked the emperor to check the matter clearly.
After the emperor left Ci'an Hall, he had mixed feelings.Using a silver carriage to conceal people's eyes and ears shows that there is something wrong with it.It is impossible for the third princess to be innocent, it just depends on whether the trick is big or small.
The emperor immediately thought about the candidate in his heart to handle the case.Jia Amnesty was the one who made him feel at ease and could investigate the case clearly and respect the facts.It's just that Jia She was involved in the engagement relationship with the third princess two days ago. The emperor was worried that if Jia She really fell in love with the third princess, he would inevitably be partial, so he asked Song Xi and Prime Minister Wu to join in, assisting Jia She in name, in real life. for joint supervision.
The emperor's oral order was issued soon.
It was related to a scandal in the royal family. Before the matter was investigated clearly, the emperor naturally asked them to investigate it secretly and not to leak information.
Because Yushitai is located closer to the Princess Mansion.
Song Xi and Prime Minister Wu arrived at Yushitai one after the other to gather.
Jia Amnesty called several bankers from the household department and ordered them to prepare silver-melting tools and coal to be transported to the princess mansion.
In front of Prime Minister Wu, Jia Amnesty asked Geng Junliang, the general patrolling the city, to be in charge of guarding the city, and asked the bankers of the household department to build a silver melting furnace on the spot, and let them rush to work day and night to melt these carriages into silver pieces that could be weighed. Tell him the weight.
Prime Minister Wu nodded, it was necessary to weigh the amount of silver first.
All the servants of the princess mansion were also brought under control, among them were more than [-] guards who were originally from Beiyuan.
Jia Amnesty took Song Xi to a room to discuss first, and asked Song Xi to repeat all the contents of the note that his elder brother received when he was kidnapped.Then he asked Liang Leyun to crumble these few sentences into pieces, using every word in it, and make up a short essay similar to an oath.
Jia Amnesty immediately ordered Liu Zhizhong to take the rest of the princess mansion away for interrogation, leaving only the Beiyuan guards, and then leisurely said to them with their hands behind their backs: "In our Great Zhou, everyone has to copy a copy before the interrogation. An oath. The so-called 'oath' is an oath to guarantee that what you say is true, and those who have to sign it will be hit by thunder!"
Jia Amnesty pointed to the sky, and said to these Beiyuan people with a little bluff.
The Northern Yuan guards couldn't stop laughing when they saw the incompetent posture of the Song officials.They Beiyuan people never believed in the theory of retribution from ghosts and gods, they believed that man would conquer heaven.
Isn't it just copying some shit oath again, what is it, easy!
The guards copied it one after another, but they didn't think much of it.
Seeing that these guards could write Chinese characters, Jia Amnesty couldn't help admiring the three princesses, obviously after a long period of training.
Song Xi felt that Jia Amnesty's move was good, and immediately let the guards reveal flaws in their handwriting without any precautions, which can be said to be directly collecting evidence invisibly.If he were to do this matter, he might be directly and roughly interrogated, which would definitely take time and effort, and the effect would not be good.
Soon, the guards finished transcribing the article.
Jia She threw it all to Song Xi to see.
Prime Minister Wu actually didn't understand what was going on, he knew that Da Zhou didn't have any custom of "oath", but he nodded cooperatively throughout the whole process, as if such a thing really happened.
At this moment, Prime Minister Wu watched Song Xi flip through the article to identify the handwriting, and then he suddenly understood the purpose of Jia Amnesty and Song Xi's handwriting identification.
Song Xi finally fixed his eyes on a piece of writing, and he was sure that the handwriting was the same as the threatening letter that the robbers gave his sister-in-law back then.
The evidence that the third princess sent someone to kidnap brother Song Xi is conclusive.
Song Xi's face was as calm as water, but his eyes were turbulent, and his eyes could condense everything coldly.Even Prime Minister Wu, who stood beside him, calm and unhurried, felt a chill. Prime Minister Wu shivered slightly, and moved from Song Xi's side to Jia She's side in disgust.
Prime Minister Wu didn't know that Song Xi's purpose of checking the handwriting was to find out about his elder brother's kidnapping. To be precise, Prime Minister Wu didn't know that Song Xi's elder brother had been kidnapped.So he asked Jia She very confusedly, what kind of trouble did those Beiyuan guards' words cause, which made Song Xi so angry.
Jia Amnesty couldn't answer, so he just changed the subject in doubt and asked Prime Minister Wu: "Is he angry?"
Prime Minister Wu asked Jia She to take a closer look, pulled Jia She aside, and complained in a low voice: "Isn't this called anger? You may not understand, Mr. Song is a real gentle gentleman, with a calm personality like a chrysanthemum, which can make him feel happy." There are not many people with such an expression, and the person who wrote that article is very sure that the guards are unlucky! Uh, the third princess will probably be implicated as well. But what are the three princesses up to?"
Jia Amnesty shook his head, saying that he would only find out after careful investigation after the silver melting was over.
Prime Minister Wu twirled his beard meaningfully, and sighed with emotion, "Old man, young people play things, but I can't understand, I can't understand."
Jia Amnesty smiled, then turned his eyes to Song Xi again, and now he also felt the coldness emanating from Song Xi.If you are angry, you should scold, at least twice, will Song Xi be too restrained like this?
Afterwards, Song Xi took these Beiyuan guards back to Gyeonggi Prefecture for interrogation in person.
Jia She and Wu Cheng also expressed that they don't like to watch bloody things, so they went home separately.
The silver melting continued, and Geng Junliang followed Jia Amnesty's instructions and led guards throughout the process.
Because Song Xi made an order in advance, the queen cut off the channel for the third princess to receive and pass on the news.
The third princess still doesn't know that the princess mansion has been burned, and the silver carriage has been found.
The eleventh prince only got the news the next morning, and hurriedly sent someone to inform the third princess, but his people were stopped by the people from the Queen's Chunhe Hall on the way.
The eleventh prince realized that the empress had already known about this matter, and he was terrified. He shrank his neck and never showed his face again, just obediently and quietly waiting in his residence.
In the afternoon, the melting of silver was completed, and the payment and measurement were just nearly 120 million taels.
This number is subtle. Jia Amnesty did not need to wait for other results, and reported this data to the emperor first. He also mentioned the 120 million taels that happened to be lost in the fake official bank case, so as to prevent the emperor from forgetting.
The emperor just wondered how the three princesses brought such a huge amount of silver, and felt that the number of one hundred and two was a bit familiar.Turning to hear Jia Amnesty mentioning the money lost in the fake official bank case, the emperor understood and was furious.He never thought of it.This fake official bank case will involve his daughter.
The third princess just cried with him yesterday, looking like a little girl infatuated.Suddenly, someone told him today that his daughter stole 120 million taels of silver from his treasury, and even swaggered and appeared under his nose with the money.
What a scheming, how could he raise such a wolfish and ambitious princess!
The emperor trembled with anger, blew his beard and stared, and immediately summoned the third princess to confront her.
When the third princess got the news, she thought that the emperor had figured it out and agreed to her marriage with Song Xi.She was on the way and had already swore secretly that if her father really made her happy this time, she would be sincerely grateful to him and would not blame him again.
She will also find a way to return all the official money to the treasury, devote herself to caring for her husband and children, assisting Song Xi wholeheartedly, honoring her father and emperor, and helping the queen's fifteen princes succeed to the throne.
If he had followed Wang Ziteng's example and said hello to the emperor first, there was no basis for it, and he might arouse the emperor's taboo. Once the emperor thought that he did not want this marriage and deliberately plotted to slander the three princesses, what would he say to the emperor? There will be discounts in the ears.
And Song Xi is not easy to do it in the open, so the matter involves the struggle of imperial power to some extent, even if this matter is really the fault of the third princess, as long as he takes the initiative to get involved in it, it will inevitably arouse the emperor's suspicion and fear.
Thinking of this, Jia Amnesty felt that asking Song Xi to solve the matter immediately was a little too urgent, so he changed his words and said, "I'm not in a hurry, just wait for two days, you can plan carefully first."
Because the two were still in the palace, Jia Amnesty moved closer to Song Xi's ear and spoke in a low voice.
Song Xi felt Jia She's warm breath, his ears were itchy, and his heart was itching too.
He nodded his face with his fingers and asked Jia She to kiss him, and he might immediately think of a good idea to solve it.
"You know it in your heart, neither of us can face this matter." Jia Amnesty said in a serious tone.
Song Xi nodded, of course he understood that this was a taboo.
"The Gyeonggi Prefecture under your jurisdiction cannot move first."
"I know, so give me a kiss first." Song Xi tapped his cheek again.
Jia Amnesty looked around, the officials hadn't left after the court, and there were still a few behind them.When Jia Amnesty turned his head, although those people were far away, they immediately stopped and saluted him.Jia Amnesty also nodded his head in return, and when he turned to look at Song Xi, his face became a little hot.He dared to say these words in front of people, so he was thick-skinned.
Let's talk about the officials behind.
Their rank is low, it is absolutely impossible to surpass the two adults in front of them directly, and it is not good to go fast, otherwise they will be suspected of eavesdropping on the speech of the two adults, so they can only choose to follow from a distance.
At this moment, several officials saw Master Song poking Master Jia in the face twice, and Master Jia looked embarrassed, and immediately distanced himself from Master Song.
"You say what Master Song and Master Jia are talking about, you want to poke him in the face!"
"Didn't you see Master Jia looked back at us in embarrassment just now?"
"Yes, what can you explain?"
"Master Song is calling him shameless, he feels ashamed and embarrassed!"
"It makes sense, it makes sense. Sigh, Mrs. Jia can't think about it, mixing with a lonesome person like Mrs. Song, it's inevitable that you will suffer and be scolded."
"That's right." Several officials cast sympathetic glances at Jia Amnesty.
Although they were all envious of Jia She being able to associate with Mr. Song and walk side by side, but when you think about it carefully, it is really not easy to be friends with Mr. Song.It is necessary to have a strong heart, and you must always endure the tragic situation where you are inferior to others in every way and feel inferior to yourself.
At this moment, Jia Amnesty felt the gaze projected from behind, and his face became even hotter.
"Look at you, what I did just now was too intimate, the people behind are all watching." Jia Amnesty said in a low voice.
"It's envy." Song Xi corrected lightly.
Jia She found that Song Xi was not only thick-skinned, but also shameless.
The two continued to walk forward, Jia She pondered for a while, and asked Song Xi: "Are you really capable of solving it today?"
Song Xi nodded, indicating that there would always be a way to think about it.
Jia She suddenly pressed Jia She's shoulder and led Song Xi to turn right. There was no one on the left or right of this road.Before the doubts appeared on Song Xi's face, Jia She's smiling lips fell on Song Xi's cheek.
When Lippan left, Jia She could clearly see the dazed look in Song Xi's eyes.
At this time, the footsteps of those officials walking over were clearly heard.
Jia Amnesty immediately let go of Song Xi's shoulder.
When several officials passed by the intersection, they turned their heads and saw Mrs. Jia and Mrs. Song confronting each other, and their eyes met, which can be described as lightning and thunder.Several people glanced at each other, there was someone who was going to say hello to the two adults, and the others hurriedly pulled him away.In this embarrassing situation, they should stop bothering them, and be careful not to burn themselves.
Hearing the sound of those people walking away quickly, Song Xi leaned against the palace wall with a smile, his eyes were facing the morning light, the smile on his face was bright and exciting, and he had a confident charm that conquered everything.
Jia She leaned on him and kissed his lips deeply.Song Xi responded violently, almost wanting to tear Jia Amnesty to pieces on the spot.
Every time Jia Amnesty took the initiative, Song Xi couldn't control himself.Fortunately, Jia Amnesty had the sense to separate them in time when the next wave of footsteps came.
"I think it's a bit too bold for us to do this kind of thing in the palace." After Jia She took a seat in the carriage, his heartbeat eased a little, "Next time you don't provoke me in the palace."
Song Xi used his hands to shave the broken hair from Jia She's sideburns behind his ears, and smiled lightly, "I'm not afraid of people knowing."
Jia She looked at him in surprise, "Aren't you afraid of being seen and telling the emperor?"
"The palace people are not so bold. Knowing that this kind of thing has reached the ears of the emperor, they will not kill me, but they can kill themselves. Who would make such a stupid choice."
"Tsk, that's a big talk, you're confident enough, if someone isn't afraid of you." Jia Amnesty hypothesized.
"Then I'll take the opportunity to tell the emperor that I'm going to marry you." After Song Xi said that, he hugged Jia She and bit his ear, as if a child wanted sweets willfully.
But Jia Amnesty is not sugar, after the emperor knew about it, how could he easily spare them.
Jia She only joked when Song Xi coaxed him to be happy.It was just a joke, and he was very happy to hear it, at least Song Xi said that he attached great importance to this relationship.
Jia Amnesty stretched with a smile, then leaned on Song Xi with his shoulder, and asked him if he had thought of a way.
"When you kissed me and made me burn with passion, I thought about it." Song Xi put his arms around Jia She, and pressed his lips warmly to Jia She's ear, "You see, your' "Encouragement" is very useful, and the more the better in the future."
"Let's talk about your method first." Jia Amnesty sat up straight and looked at him seriously.
Song Xi stared at Jia She, and smiled.
"The method is a bit too simple, and I can't say it out loud, but the most direct and simple method is suitable for dealing with a woman like her. It's not interesting to say it, but it will be more interesting if you wait to see the result."
"Then I'll wait for the good news."
After arriving at Yushitai, Jia Amnesty bid farewell to Song Xi. When he got up, Song Xi pulled him and nodded his cheek.Jia Amnesty smiled helplessly, and kissed Song Xi again before saying goodbye to him.
As soon as Jia Amnesty settled down at the Yushi Terrace and drank a cup of tea, Qin Zhonglu, who had a good job, came.Holding "Secrets of the Next Door" in his hand, he asked Jia Shen how the debate in court was going.
Jia Amnesty told him the result.
Qin Zhonglu patted the book and sighed: "It should be like this. It's not such an inhuman way to buy and sell concubines. People who don't even want their own parents and children are worthy of being called people. I really don't know what Ding An thought back then. Yes, to do such an inhumane thing, I don’t know how to be blessed when I was born. Now I want to have two more children, no matter who gave birth to them, I haven’t yet!”
Qin Zhonglu sighed, his family was too small.
"You still have a son, why are you so thin?"
Qin Zhonglu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that Mrs. Jia seems to have a brother-in-law named Lin and has no children yet.
"Look at my mouth, I don't know how to be blessed when I was born in a blessing." Qin Zhonglu blamed himself.
Jia Amnesty: "Anything else?"
Qin Zhonglu laughed, and then ran to the subject of his visit this time, "I heard you and Mr. Song had a quarrel?"
"What?" Jia Amnesty looked at him.
"Don't blame me for talking too much. Mr. Song is good at everything. The shortcoming is that he is too talented and a little arrogant. Sometimes you just go if you can't make sense with him. We don't have the same knowledge as him." Qin Zhonglu comforted him.
Jia Amnesty heard that Qin Zhonglu was looking for his own good, and asked him amusedly where he heard the news from.
"The people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice just said that when they just came down to the court, they saw that the two of you were not dealing with each other, and Mr. Song seemed to scold you for being shameless?" Qin Zhonglu opened his eyes wide, observing Jia She with good intentions.
Jia She laughed.
Seeing Jia Amnesty, Qin Zhonglu sneered, and reckoned that the matter was quite close.Hurriedly called Liang Leyun over and asked him to bring the plate of dim sum in his room.
Of course, Jia Amnesty would not explain the details of his relationship with Song Xi to Qin Zhonglu. Those people misunderstood that they were at odds, but it would be better than gossiping about their being too close.
In a blink of an eye, Liang Leyun brought up a snow-white plate, and when the plate was put down, it was as if he saw a painting.The black branches are dotted with shaped pastries made of snow-white and translucent tissue paper, and the flower centers are decorated with red fillings.
"Isn't it exquisite and beautiful?" Qin Zhonglu asked Jia She proudly. He had admired this dessert all morning, but he still didn't know where to start, and he was reluctant to part with it.
"not bad."
Since it was Qin Zhonglu's good intentions, Jia Amnesty had no reason to refuse her, so he "taken out" a flower from the middle without saying a word, and stuffed it neatly into his mouth before Qin Zhonglu could stop him.
Qin Zhonglu stared at Jia Amnesty's mouth, feeling as if something he loved was taken away and he wanted to cry.
Jia Amnesty nodded, indicating that the taste was not bad, so he started directly and ate the "tree trunk".
Qin Zhonglu looked at the dim sum that had been destroyed into a mess, and then saw Jia She's eating and drinking without worrying about it, and really regretted that he was meddling in his own business.Why do you need to comfort him, he has such a good appetite, he doesn't look like someone with emotional problems at all.
Qin Zhonglu pursed his lips, feeling a little pain in his heart, then silently picked up a flower and stuffed it into his mouth.
Jia Amnesty ate two more flowers, then drank up the tea, and let Qin Zhonglu take care of himself. After filing the case, he continued to check the list of Jiang Hong Torreya's contacts.
Qin Zhonglu came over to join in the fun with a plate, and took a look.There could be more than 20 names densely written on a piece of paper. Every time Jia Amnesty looked at a name, he had to check the corresponding person's file and household registration.This work is too detailed, and it makes me tired just looking at it.
Qin Zhonglu shook his head feeling bored, bid farewell to Jia She, and went back to his room to enjoy his snacks.After going out for a while, Qin Zhonglu came back again and told Jia Amnesty that the plate of dim sum he ate was called "One Tree White Plum".
Jia Amnesty: "Oh."
Qin Zhonglu's heart ached again, he pursed his lips, and silently turned to leave.He owed his mouth and asked for anger.
……
After Song Xi sent Jia Amnesty back to Yushitai, he whispered to his subordinates to pass on the message, and ordered the coachman to go back to the palace to meet the queen.
After Song Xi warned the queen last time, the two have been in a state of cold confrontation.The fifteenth prince went to Song Xi's mansion yesterday, and Song Xi heard that she was ill, so he came here to meet her and ask her a few words.
The queen drove away the idlers in the Hall of Chunhe, and asked Song Xi what he thought of the third princess marrying Jia She.
Song Xi: "She's stupid."
The queen felt a little guilty, "How about I ask the emperor? Tell him about your matter clearly, and the marriage will definitely be settled."
"Eldest sister knows that I have a way to deal with it, so why bother to say so much and sacrifice myself." Song Xi said indifferently.
"I am sincere. Look at you, you never accept my favor." The queen lowered her eyes and sighed.
"Eldest sister, take good care of your body and take good care of the fifteen princes." Song Xi looked at the queen, "not to mention that there may be a daughter missing in the future."
The queen was stunned, Fang realized that Song Xi was going to attack the third princess.After all, the third princess was raised by the queen, so it is impossible to say that she has no feelings.
"This child has no sense of proportion emotionally. If she is self-willed for a while and wants to marry Jia Yushi just to attract your attention, you too..."
"She embezzled 120 million taels of silver from the treasury." Song Xi interrupted.
The queen was stunned again, very surprised.Obviously she didn't expect the third princess to go out of her way.At first, I thought that this girl was just too attached to feelings, and she was a little bit stupid, but she never expected that she would dare to reach out to the treasury and steal money directly under the eyelids of her father.
The queen took a breath and quickly calmed down.From Song Xi's words, the queen knew in her heart that the three princesses could not be rescued.
"How long have you known?"
"Some days. When things go wrong later, I have to trouble my eldest sister to keep an eye on her and cut off the news."
After Song Xi finished speaking, he got up to say goodbye.
The palace people told the three princesses to ask for an audience.
Seeing that Song Xi's face was not disturbed when he heard the news, the queen sent the palace servants to drive the third princess away.
After a while, the palace man came again and said that the third princess refused to leave.
Song Xi slightly saluted the queen, then turned and left.
The queen saw that he didn't mean to dodge on purpose, so it could be seen that he never had her in his eyes, so the third princess provoked his taboo, and she didn't deserve any special treatment from him, even if the special treatment was out of disgust. Come.
The queen sighed helplessly, and then ordered the three princesses to enter.
Seeing Song Xi coming out, the third princess took two steps forward.
Song Xi stepped aside and saluted the third princess from a distance.
Gong Nai rushed to invite the third princess to enter.
The third princess looked at Song Xi, her lips moved slightly to speak.
Gong Nai smiled and urged the third princess: "Third princess, hurry up, the empress is waiting for the third princess."
The third princess glanced at Song Xi with eyes that could almost be activated.Song Xi lowered his eyes halfway, looking like a lone crane, not looking at her at all.
Even if she decided to marry Jia She, she didn't attract his 'different eyes', even a look of disgust.
The third princess was extremely uncomfortable with chest tightness, but she had to endure it, and followed the palace nurse into the Hall of Spring Harmony with a calm heart.She found reasons to perfuse the queen, forced a smile, and pretended that she was not sad at all.This kind of torture is even more uncomfortable than falling into eighteen layers of hell.
After the third princess was freed from the Hall of Spring Harmony, she ran back to her bedroom and wept.
She regretted it.
I regret that when I first met Jia She in Fahua Temple, I didn't act boldly and directly.She thought that the relationship between men would not be too deep, even though Song Xi had a strong ability to control, Jia She might not.
The third princess had sent beauties to seduce Jia She several times and threw herself into her arms, but failed repeatedly. None of the thin Yangzhou horses she had carefully selected caught Jia She's eyes!
Why this is, the three princesses don't understand.
After all, Jia She used to be such a lecherous old dude who didn't care, how could he become so thorough?
Nanny Qi saw that the third princess was sad, and deliberately dissuaded the third princess again: "Si Tianjian has already combined the horoscope and handed it over to the Queen Mother. I heard that a few auspicious days have also been prepared. If you combine it again, you will let it go." The empress dowager and the emperor discussed and agreed. This matter is not a joke, and if it goes on like this, there will be no chance of regretting it."
"I know." The third princess said in a hoarse voice, and then she held her head in her hands a little out of composure. The more she thought about it, the more she felt a splitting headache, and then she suddenly coaxed her eyes to look at Nanny Qi, "You said that if the person surnamed Jia died, he How? Should he hate me and want to kill me?"
Nanny Qi was stunned, and looked at the third princess in a daze.
"Mommy, you know, I don't ask him to like me now, or to be together. I just want him to see me in his eyes, see me, and remember me in his heart. That's enough. I suffer Enough of being indifferent and ignored by him every time!" The third princess recalled the scene of meeting Song Xi just now, her heart was twisted like a knife, her body shook, and she burst into tears.
Nanny Qi hurriedly took the third princess into her arms, and advised her to calm down, not to be impulsive, let alone ruin herself for a ruthless man.
"Princess, the old slave still said the same thing at the beginning, it's not worth it, everything is not worth it. Let's enjoy the dignity of the princess and find a man who can make us happy. If it doesn't work, we'll go back Beiyuan, there are a lot of handsome and heroic men for the princess to choose from. If you don’t like this one, you can change to another one, and you don’t have to be bound by only one man for the rest of your life. What a wonderful day.” Qi Nanny patted the back of the third princess Back, coax her, persuade her.
The tears of the third princess were like broken beads, falling one by one non-stop. She leaned against Nanny Qi, hugged her, her eyes were empty, and she stared straight ahead in a daze.
"Yeah, why am I so overwhelmed, why must he be, why! Obviously there are many choices, but after having him in my heart, those so-called choices are no longer choices. Mammy, what should I do, I also want to Get out, but I only have him in my heart, only him!"
"Princess, you are insane, you are truly infatuated. However, falling flowers have feelings and flowing water has no meaning, you have to control yourself. If you continue like this, this old slave is really afraid that you will go to hell." Qi Nanny patted The third princess's back, advised her to think about it, and before the marriage with Jia She was settled, she quickly found a way to explain to the queen mother and stop the loss in time.
The third princess cried until she was in tears, shaking her head and saying it was too late.Now she would rather go all out, marry Jia She, guard Jia She, let that person like her, taste the taste of infatuation but can't get it.
Nanny Qi looked at the third princess distressedly, sighed, and stopped talking.
The third princess wiped away the tears on her face with a handkerchief, and gradually became calm, "Say what you want."
"Princess, don't blame me. This old slave wants to tell the truth. The princess is not infatuated at all. It's revenge, very malicious revenge." After finishing speaking, Nanny Qi knelt down to apologize to the third princess.
Nanny Qi broke the truth with one word, and the three princesses were in a daze for a long time.
After being in a daze for a while, the third princess wept and sighed: "Mammy, you are right, this is malicious revenge, I don't like it at all."
After crying enough, she suddenly calmed down and ordered someone to bring water.
The third princess washed her face and asked someone to put on her makeup again. "I'm going to find the emperor's grandmother and tell the emperor's grandmother that I don't want to marry Jia She. The only person I've liked all these years is Song Xi. I don't want to use those shameful revenge methods anymore. I just want to confess My own voice, I beg the Queen Mother to fulfill me."
Upon hearing this, Nanny Qi hurriedly stopped the third princess, "If this matter is going to go, the old slave should go, some words are much better to be spoken from slaves than directly from the princess. "
"It's useless for you to say. How many years ago, there was an old lady who told the Queen Mother, but in the end it didn't matter. I didn't dare to ask directly, and they didn't say anything. It's ridiculous that I have been waiting, and finally What I'm waiting for is the news of his engagement to someone else. This time I want to say it myself, even if I give up, I will die completely."
After the third princess finished speaking, she lifted her skirt and ran out quickly, as if she had returned to ten years ago, the young girl who was persistent and impulsive for love.
Ci'an Temple.
After hearing the three princesses' cry, the Queen Mother's face became more and more serious, and the hand holding the handkerchief even trembled a little.
Hearing the last words of the third princess begging to be fulfilled, the queen mother was so angry that she couldn't speak for a while, and only sighed slowly.
The third princess has not been able to hear the Queen Mother's response, and her heart is even more suspended. She is crying and kowtow to apologize for her mistake. A feeling of relief.
"Pass down the decree of Ai's family, so that Si Tianjian no longer has to live together, and no one is allowed to mention the marriage between the third princess and Jia Yushi." The Queen Mother finished speaking as calmly as possible, and sent the third princess back first. She has to think about it carefully, and then discuss it with the emperor.
The third princess hurriedly kowtowed to thank the Queen Mother, expressing that as long as she could marry Song Xi, she would rather give up her identity and power as Princess Beiyuan.
The queen mother glanced at her, said "um", and sent her off.
The emperor came in a hurry.Before he came, he had already heard the general account of the incident from the nurse next to the queen mother.The emperor didn't expect that the third princess, a girl, would shamelessly come to the queen mother to ask for marriage, which greatly violated the princess' dignity.
"Why, you men are allowed to ask for marriage infatuatedly, but women are not allowed to do the same? She is a princess, and she has experienced a marriage again. She lives more clearly, and it is understandable. Besides, she fell in love with her back then. Song Xi is something that all of us know. It is still the same today. It can only be said that she is infatuated. This persistence is really like that of her biological mother Li Guifei back then." The queen mother frowned and looked at the emperor, "This matter What do you think?"
The emperor turned cold, "They are not suitable."
"How inappropriate, let's talk about it." The queen mother didn't insist on the third princess marrying Song Xi, but she was curious about the emperor's reason.
"Song Xi he—" the emperor paused, not knowing what to say to the queen mother.
Coincidentally, at this time, someone came to report that the princess mansion was on fire.
"Geng Junliang, the general patrolling the city, took them to fight the fire, and found a batch of silver carts in the Princess Mansion."
The emperor narrowed his eyes: "Silver car?"
"It is said that there are dozens of carriages made of sterling silver. They were all the carriages that accompanied the third princess when she returned to Beijing." The eunuch answered carefully and explained.
The emperor's eyes were full of doubts, and he hurriedly asked the eunuch if he knew how Geng Junliang found these carriages.
"The place where the carriage was parked was close to the princess's back kitchen. I don't know who started the fire in the kitchen. The fire started and burned several houses, and finally spread to the stables and carports. General Geng found that all the other wooden carriages were destroyed or burned. Most of these dozens of carriages can be preserved intact, so I felt very strange, knocked them with a knife, scraped off the paint, and found out that those carriages were made of silver."
The Empress Dowager's complexion changed drastically, and she looked at the emperor.
The emperor also looked back at the queen mother with a cold face, and got up to say goodbye to the queen mother.
The queen mother tried not to let herself think of the bad, but only asked the emperor to check the matter clearly.
After the emperor left Ci'an Hall, he had mixed feelings.Using a silver carriage to conceal people's eyes and ears shows that there is something wrong with it.It is impossible for the third princess to be innocent, it just depends on whether the trick is big or small.
The emperor immediately thought about the candidate in his heart to handle the case.Jia Amnesty was the one who made him feel at ease and could investigate the case clearly and respect the facts.It's just that Jia She was involved in the engagement relationship with the third princess two days ago. The emperor was worried that if Jia She really fell in love with the third princess, he would inevitably be partial, so he asked Song Xi and Prime Minister Wu to join in, assisting Jia She in name, in real life. for joint supervision.
The emperor's oral order was issued soon.
It was related to a scandal in the royal family. Before the matter was investigated clearly, the emperor naturally asked them to investigate it secretly and not to leak information.
Because Yushitai is located closer to the Princess Mansion.
Song Xi and Prime Minister Wu arrived at Yushitai one after the other to gather.
Jia Amnesty called several bankers from the household department and ordered them to prepare silver-melting tools and coal to be transported to the princess mansion.
In front of Prime Minister Wu, Jia Amnesty asked Geng Junliang, the general patrolling the city, to be in charge of guarding the city, and asked the bankers of the household department to build a silver melting furnace on the spot, and let them rush to work day and night to melt these carriages into silver pieces that could be weighed. Tell him the weight.
Prime Minister Wu nodded, it was necessary to weigh the amount of silver first.
All the servants of the princess mansion were also brought under control, among them were more than [-] guards who were originally from Beiyuan.
Jia Amnesty took Song Xi to a room to discuss first, and asked Song Xi to repeat all the contents of the note that his elder brother received when he was kidnapped.Then he asked Liang Leyun to crumble these few sentences into pieces, using every word in it, and make up a short essay similar to an oath.
Jia Amnesty immediately ordered Liu Zhizhong to take the rest of the princess mansion away for interrogation, leaving only the Beiyuan guards, and then leisurely said to them with their hands behind their backs: "In our Great Zhou, everyone has to copy a copy before the interrogation. An oath. The so-called 'oath' is an oath to guarantee that what you say is true, and those who have to sign it will be hit by thunder!"
Jia Amnesty pointed to the sky, and said to these Beiyuan people with a little bluff.
The Northern Yuan guards couldn't stop laughing when they saw the incompetent posture of the Song officials.They Beiyuan people never believed in the theory of retribution from ghosts and gods, they believed that man would conquer heaven.
Isn't it just copying some shit oath again, what is it, easy!
The guards copied it one after another, but they didn't think much of it.
Seeing that these guards could write Chinese characters, Jia Amnesty couldn't help admiring the three princesses, obviously after a long period of training.
Song Xi felt that Jia Amnesty's move was good, and immediately let the guards reveal flaws in their handwriting without any precautions, which can be said to be directly collecting evidence invisibly.If he were to do this matter, he might be directly and roughly interrogated, which would definitely take time and effort, and the effect would not be good.
Soon, the guards finished transcribing the article.
Jia She threw it all to Song Xi to see.
Prime Minister Wu actually didn't understand what was going on, he knew that Da Zhou didn't have any custom of "oath", but he nodded cooperatively throughout the whole process, as if such a thing really happened.
At this moment, Prime Minister Wu watched Song Xi flip through the article to identify the handwriting, and then he suddenly understood the purpose of Jia Amnesty and Song Xi's handwriting identification.
Song Xi finally fixed his eyes on a piece of writing, and he was sure that the handwriting was the same as the threatening letter that the robbers gave his sister-in-law back then.
The evidence that the third princess sent someone to kidnap brother Song Xi is conclusive.
Song Xi's face was as calm as water, but his eyes were turbulent, and his eyes could condense everything coldly.Even Prime Minister Wu, who stood beside him, calm and unhurried, felt a chill. Prime Minister Wu shivered slightly, and moved from Song Xi's side to Jia She's side in disgust.
Prime Minister Wu didn't know that Song Xi's purpose of checking the handwriting was to find out about his elder brother's kidnapping. To be precise, Prime Minister Wu didn't know that Song Xi's elder brother had been kidnapped.So he asked Jia She very confusedly, what kind of trouble did those Beiyuan guards' words cause, which made Song Xi so angry.
Jia Amnesty couldn't answer, so he just changed the subject in doubt and asked Prime Minister Wu: "Is he angry?"
Prime Minister Wu asked Jia She to take a closer look, pulled Jia She aside, and complained in a low voice: "Isn't this called anger? You may not understand, Mr. Song is a real gentle gentleman, with a calm personality like a chrysanthemum, which can make him feel happy." There are not many people with such an expression, and the person who wrote that article is very sure that the guards are unlucky! Uh, the third princess will probably be implicated as well. But what are the three princesses up to?"
Jia Amnesty shook his head, saying that he would only find out after careful investigation after the silver melting was over.
Prime Minister Wu twirled his beard meaningfully, and sighed with emotion, "Old man, young people play things, but I can't understand, I can't understand."
Jia Amnesty smiled, then turned his eyes to Song Xi again, and now he also felt the coldness emanating from Song Xi.If you are angry, you should scold, at least twice, will Song Xi be too restrained like this?
Afterwards, Song Xi took these Beiyuan guards back to Gyeonggi Prefecture for interrogation in person.
Jia She and Wu Cheng also expressed that they don't like to watch bloody things, so they went home separately.
The silver melting continued, and Geng Junliang followed Jia Amnesty's instructions and led guards throughout the process.
Because Song Xi made an order in advance, the queen cut off the channel for the third princess to receive and pass on the news.
The third princess still doesn't know that the princess mansion has been burned, and the silver carriage has been found.
The eleventh prince only got the news the next morning, and hurriedly sent someone to inform the third princess, but his people were stopped by the people from the Queen's Chunhe Hall on the way.
The eleventh prince realized that the empress had already known about this matter, and he was terrified. He shrank his neck and never showed his face again, just obediently and quietly waiting in his residence.
In the afternoon, the melting of silver was completed, and the payment and measurement were just nearly 120 million taels.
This number is subtle. Jia Amnesty did not need to wait for other results, and reported this data to the emperor first. He also mentioned the 120 million taels that happened to be lost in the fake official bank case, so as to prevent the emperor from forgetting.
The emperor just wondered how the three princesses brought such a huge amount of silver, and felt that the number of one hundred and two was a bit familiar.Turning to hear Jia Amnesty mentioning the money lost in the fake official bank case, the emperor understood and was furious.He never thought of it.This fake official bank case will involve his daughter.
The third princess just cried with him yesterday, looking like a little girl infatuated.Suddenly, someone told him today that his daughter stole 120 million taels of silver from his treasury, and even swaggered and appeared under his nose with the money.
What a scheming, how could he raise such a wolfish and ambitious princess!
The emperor trembled with anger, blew his beard and stared, and immediately summoned the third princess to confront her.
When the third princess got the news, she thought that the emperor had figured it out and agreed to her marriage with Song Xi.She was on the way and had already swore secretly that if her father really made her happy this time, she would be sincerely grateful to him and would not blame him again.
She will also find a way to return all the official money to the treasury, devote herself to caring for her husband and children, assisting Song Xi wholeheartedly, honoring her father and emperor, and helping the queen's fifteen princes succeed to the throne.
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