According to Li Zhen's speculation, according to Pei Huaixuan's character, he would never be willing to kill Shoufu alone. Otherwise, there is a ready-made Mrs. Zhao in the prison who he doesn't need. Fu's life, and then fled all the way outside the pass, no one can catch him.

His goal is not only to pay back the blood debt, but also to get back the principal and interest.

For example, Shoufu's family members benefited from his chicken and dog ascending to heaven.

What Pei Huaixuan wants is to bring the entire Chang family back to its original shape.

Li Zhen saw through this point, and then joined Pei Huaixuan to contact the emperor, he probably knew what he wanted to do.

But the risk is too great. Li Zhen still understands the emperor, and he is still very suspicious. He only believes what he sees.Even if Pei Huaixuan was close to him, but he did not see the murder after all, the emperor would not believe it just because Pei Huaixuan opened his mouth, and he would see through that Pei Huaixuan contacted him to use him.

As Song Yingbai said, Pei Huaixuan should not be so stupid, so he created a truth for the emperor and let the emperor see the evidence of the first assistant.

And what is the evidence?Corruption?No, this reason won't upset anyone, unless the person who is greedy is a special bank for disaster relief, but people like Chang Liangzhu are cautious and will not be foolish enough to touch this kind of money and fall into the trap.

Li Zhen sat at the desk in his office, trying to figure out Pei Huaixuan's purpose.

But at this moment, Chu Qiu walked in, saw that there was no one else in the room, walked up to Li Zhen, and said in a low voice: "My lord, you are right, I sent someone to investigate, Pei Zhenfu really did what you said Yes, send someone to look for datura pollen."

"Understood." Li Zhen said with a solemn expression: "You go down and prepare the horse for me, I'm going to Pei Zhenfu's place."

Chu Qiu said and went out, Li Zhen frowned and stood up, sighing in his heart, it seems that he can only play more and more.

-

When Pei Huaixuan heard that Li Zhen had arrived, he was a little surprised, but he couldn't avoid seeing him, so he went out to greet him, "So it's Master Li, what's your business?"

Li Zhen saw the matter straight to the point, "Can we talk alone?"

"Just talk about my brother."

"It's not him, it's you."

Pei Huaixuan thought it was interesting, smiled, and waved his followers to go down, took Li Zhen to an interrogation room alone, closed the door, "tell me, what do you want to do?"

"You have been targeting Shoufu recently. Although I don't know what deep hatred you have, but with your current posture, either you die or he dies. There is no way out. Of course, I also saw the clues and made some words in the palace. , knowing that you have the emperor as your support..."

Before he could finish speaking, Pei Huaixuan had already grabbed his lapel, pushed him against the wall, and threatened viciously, "Don't get in the way, or I'll take care of you too!"

"I'm not in the way, I'm here to help you! Do you think I want to help you? If I'm not afraid of hurting Song Yingbai, I will care about your life?!" Li Zhen said: "I probably guessed what your plan is, but that's for sure no!"

"You still covet my younger brother?" Pei Huaixuan sneered and said, "I don't have any scruples now, let me tell you, if you don't give up, I won't even keep you!"

Li Zhen lowered his head and smiled, a little helpless, "I am sincere to him, otherwise, if you hinder us, I will watch you lose everything and cause death, isn't it good? Why come to save you."

"You came to save me?" Pei Huaixuan snorted and laughed.

"I know what you're going to do, but I don't think so. Why don't you listen to my plan." Li Zhen raised her eyebrows, looking confident.

Pei Huaixuan suppressed his anger. Li Zhen should not be underestimated. He said that he had seen through his thoughts, so he might as well listen, "Then tell me."

Li Zhen pushed Pei Huaixuan away, straightened his clothes, and sat down at the table, "Okay, then I'll tell you, I don't have any purpose, I just hope that Song Yingbai and his family are well."

"..." Pei Huaixuan said, "Stop talking nonsense, I don't have much patience now."

Li Zhen thought, forget it, forget it, the other party's attitude is not good, but he is a brother-in-law, so he can't be provoked, so bear with it, "Then listen carefully..."

……

Two quarters later.

Li Zhen slammed the door out, "Since you have this attitude, then we have nothing to say!" With a sullen face, he strode out.

Seeing Li Zhen like this, other people in the corridor avoided him one after another.

Then Pei Huaixuan came out, bit her lips tightly, and said coldly, "Master Li, go slowly!" Then she walked to the other side with a dark face.

-

As the night was dark, a figure in a cloak got off the sedan chair, quickly got into the back door of Chang Mansion, and quietly came to a secret room.

The man took off his hat, and it was Jiang's head.

Chang Liangzhu's face was gloomy, "I received news today that my father-in-law's younger brother was taken away by people from Jinyiwei in his hometown. Needless to say, it was Pei Huaixuan who did it. I don't want to sit still, I have to think of a way. How about you Dugong?" explain?"

Jiang Pai's face showed embarrassment, "Our governor said that Mr. Chang is the head of all officials, and he will respond to all calls in the court. If he deals with Pei Huaixuan, will we still use our Dongchang?"

When Chang Liangzhu heard this, he said angrily: "Li Zhen was already difficult enough to deal with before, but now that the emperor favors Pei Huaixuan, wouldn't your life in Dongchang be even more difficult? Wouldn't your Cao Xiaochuan die in Pei Huaixuan's hands? Well, from the moment Eunuch Cao moved Cao Xiaochuan, they were doomed to be mortal enemies. Cao Xiang wanted revenge, and Pei Huaixuan knew he would. It's me, but if you stand by and watch, when his power grows stronger, you will be the ones who will die."

Seeing Chang Liangzhu's urgent need for Dongchang, Jiang Patou couldn't help but said, "Master Chang, these words are what our governor means. He wants to stand by and watch, but it's not what I mean. In fact, Song Yingbai made repeated remarks. The first time he got into trouble with me, I didn't like him a long time ago, so I wrote down everything for him. Our governor kept telling me to bear it, but I can't bear it anymore! I want to deal with that bastard!"

When Chang Liangzhu saw that Jiang Baotou had the same purpose as his own, he hurriedly said: "Then please Jiang Baotou to go out and investigate Song Yingbai carefully. He is Jin Yiwei. If my own people check him, he will be found out. I just ask you The East Factory is on the move."

Jiang Baotou just wanted to clean up Song Yingbai, and Chang Liangzhu's request was right for him, so he immediately agreed, "No problem, I'll go to his place to check it out myself."

Although Cao Xiang forbade him to act rashly, but the first assistant spoke up, he had to give face, and he wanted to catch Song Yingbai himself.

After coming out of Chang's house, Jiang Baotou took advantage of the night and walked straight towards Song Yingbai's mansion.

He climbed over many courtyard walls without any strength. In less than a quarter of an hour, he was already lying on the roof of Song Yingbai's bedroom, looking in through the cracks in the bricks and tiles. He watched for most of the night and found nothing unusual.

But he didn't give up, and came to investigate again the next day, but failed after several days, just when he was about to give up.

At night, I saw Song Yingbai sitting at the table and sighing, holding a shiny golden object in his hand, which seemed to be a longevity lock.

After stroking for a while, he got up and opened a hidden compartment of a bookcase, put the longevity lock in, then called in the maid as normal to take care of the wash, and soon went to bed and fell asleep.

Jiang Pao hesitated for a moment, decided to go into the tiger's den to catch the cub, so he quietly came to the door, and when he was trying to open the door, he suddenly found that the window was not closed. He tried to push it, and it was indeed open.

Jiang Paotou was wondering, does this guy even sleep with his windows closed?

Suddenly, I heard the voice inside: "Li Zhen? Is that you?"

Jiang Tiaotou hurriedly dodged, at this time the north wind was howling, and the window clicked, and Song Yingbai inside seemed to think it was the wind, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Jiang finally understood that this window was reserved for Li Zhen, and it seemed that the two of them really had an affair.

He secretly smiled, the window was originally reserved for adultery, but it was convenient for him. After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, after confirming that Song Yingbai was fast asleep again, Jiang Bian quietly opened the window and slipped in.

His lightness skill is very good, and his steps are light, even a cat may not be as light as him.

Seeing that the curtain was in place, he came to the bookcase with confidence, followed Song Yingbai's example and unscrewed the switch, and saw the longevity lock inside.

He didn't think the longevity lock was something important, maybe Song Yingbai missed his mother, so he took it out to have a look.

What Jiang Biantou wanted to see was the secret compartment where the longevity lock was hidden, and if there was anything else important.

But there was nothing besides the Longevity Lock. He reached in and touched it unwillingly, and found a little powder, and there was a special fragrance drilled into his nose.

Suddenly there was a dagger on his neck, "Turn around."

The hair on Jiang's head stood on end, and he absolutely couldn't turn his head back, but soon, he smiled in relief, what was he worried about, Song Yingbai couldn't beat him if he didn't use indiscriminate means.

He snorted, turned around suddenly and knocked Song Yingbai's knife flying, and kicked Song Yingbai again, then rushed out in one step, jumped out of the window, and turned onto the roof.

In the process of running, Song Yingbai caught up and cursed: "Who are you, dare to break into a hundred households of Jinyiwei?" But soon the curse became farther and farther away, and when he looked again, Song Yingbai was already behind him It became a small black spot.

Only then did he slow down, put his fingers under his nose and sniff, "This is?"

The next day, as soon as Jiang Taitou entered the Dongchang yamen, Cao Xiang called him over and scolded him, "I won't let you provoke Song Yingbai, why did you go? He came to our Dongchang this morning to name someone by name." If you want to see me and say that I sent someone to steal his house, I ask you, did you do it?"

Unexpectedly, Jiang Taitou admitted without hesitation, "It's me."

Cao Xiang sneered coldly, he actually felt a little interesting, after all, those who blatantly disobeyed his orders and admitted without any concealment were really a minority.

"It's true, but I think this adventure is worth it, because I discovered a big secret." Jiang took out a paper bag, opened it and put it on the table, "Look, Dugong, these powders are made by me. I found it in the secret compartment of Song Yingbai's house. I smelled a special fragrance at that time, and I couldn't remember it for a while. After I went back, I carefully scraped off the powder stained on my fingers and compared it carefully. Guess, this is What powder?"

Cao Xiang put his nose in front of the powder, sniffed it, and his eyes turned cold, "You don't need to tell me, I can smell it, it's mandala pollen. Could it be that Song Yingbai and the others think... If so, then it would be interesting gone."

Jiang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "It seems that we have to talk to Mr. Shoufu."

At this time, Wu Zhiying came in, first met with Du Gong and the boss, and then said respectfully: "Duke Gong, you asked me to investigate the matter, I checked, but there is still no result..."

Cao Xiang was very disappointed, and glanced at Wu Zhiying, "Are you serious?"

"I'm paying attention. Although there is no clue about this matter, I got another important piece of news." Wu Zhiying hurriedly said as if she was redeeming her sins: "Someone heard Song Yingbai calling Pei Huaixuan brother."

Cao Xiang laughed and said, "This is also called important news? Isn't it normal to call him brother?" The relationship is good, and it is normal to call him brother.

Wu Zhiying said: "In fact, Song Yingbai never called Pei Huaixuan's elder brother in public, but only called him Pei Zhenfu Mr. Pei. And if Pei Huaixuan is really Song Yingbai's real brother, then it can explain many things, such as why Li Zhen seems Being robbed of love by Pei Huaixuan but not jealous, but giving way to Pei Huaixuan everywhere."

This is a substitution method. If a hypothesis is brought in to make things very reasonable, then the hypothesis is not a hypothesis, but a fact.

After thinking about it, Cao Xiang murmured: "It makes sense." Looking at Wu Zhiying again, he couldn't help but feel more pleasing to the eye. Although he is not as good as Xiao Chuan now, he is a good seed, "Then you come too, come with us See Shoufu."

"Thank you, Dugong!" Wu Zhiying said with a bright smile, with anticipation in his eyes to meet the important person.

-

Chang Liangzhu thought that Jiang Baotou was the only person who came to visit, but he didn't expect Cao Xiang and a young eunuch to be there.

"I thought Duke Du was ready to stand by and watch me, a bad old man, die." Chang Liangzhu teased.

Cao Xiang said with a smile: "Master Shoufu is in his prime, so why belittle yourself. I didn't intervene before because I couldn't see clearly Pei Huaixuan's purpose."

Chang Liangzhu tried to calm down and took a sip of tea, "Could it be that you can see clearly now?"

Cao Xiang pretended to be tricky, "I see clearly." He took out the powder that Jiang Taitou brought back, "Look."

Chang Liangzhu is only the chief assistant, not Jinyiwei and Dongchang, how can he tell what the powder is, but he also knows that it must not be a good thing, "Poison?"

"No, it's a fake death pill!" Cao Xiang twisted a little bit, "Mandala pollen, after taking it, it's almost as if you're dead. The pulse and heartbeat will drop to the lowest level, and even senior operators can't tell the difference. Of course, except for the factory guards. , we can tell the difference. Jiang Taitou found this kind of medicinal powder at Song Yingbai's place last night, which is what you saw in front of your eyes."

Chang Liangzhu didn't quite understand, "What is he going to do? Fake death?"

"I suspect that it's not that he is cheating death, but that Pei Huaixuan is trying to cheat death to frame you!" Cao Xiang sighed, "Oh, Mr. Chief Assistant, you are in big trouble. Pei Huaixuan is now very favored by the emperor. If the emperor thinks you killed him , the consequences may be serious."

"Why did Pei Huaixuan pay so much money to frame me?" Chang Liangzhu said loudly, but he already had an answer in his heart.

At this time Wu Zhiying interjected: "Actually, Pei Huaixuan and Song Yingbai may be blood brothers. Mr. Chang, think about it, have you offended anyone? His family has two sons."

Chang Liangzhu nodded his head, it turned out to be really them!It was the brothers from Yao Zijie's family who came to take revenge. He had been worried that they would survive the drowning, but he didn't expect that they were actually still alive.

Come to ask for life, come to ask him for life.

He was so weak that he almost slipped off the chair, his lips were trembling, his eyes were empty, and when Cao Xiang called him back to his senses, he found that his clothes were soaked on the back.

Cao Xiang smiled, "It seems that Mr. Chang has a feud with their family."

"No, this is all a misunderstanding..." Chang Liangzhu hurriedly said.

"Hey, needless to say, I'm not interested either!" Cao Xiang sneered, "That's a matter between you and Pei Huaixuan and Song Yingbai. I only care about whether I can use this opportunity to defeat Pei Huaixuan. He has become bigger, and with a Li Zhen, there will be no way for us to live in Dongchang in the future, and there is still a feud like Xiao Chuan between me and me, if he lives, I'm afraid I won't be able to live."

Chang Liangzhu wiped off the cold sweat from his forehead, "You're right, you're right, we have to get rid of him!"

Wu Zhiying saw the opportunity, and said, "Pei Huaixuan has a vicious mind. I heard that he actually has a sorceress who is very good at using Gu. I heard that Wu Wei, the son-in-law of the captain-in-law, was cursed to death by her. It's extremely miserable. But he didn't use her to help you curse, but he tried his best to frame you, and I'm afraid he didn't just want your life alone."

"I want to make your whole family suffer, no, it's the whole clan." Jiang Tie pouted, "He is really cruel."

Wu Zhiying continued: "The emperor's feelings for Pei Huaixuan are extraordinary. As the saying goes, what you can't get is the best. If the emperor didn't get it, but was killed by Mr. Chang, what would be the consequence? And Song Yingbai did this. Younger brother, when his elder brother dies, he will definitely expose the various crimes Lord Chang has committed. The emperor must think that Lord Chang murdered people to cover up the evidence of his crimes back then, I am afraid you have a hundred mouths and you can’t tell clearly."

Chang Liangzhu said: "Since I know his plan, I won't let him succeed."

Cao Xiang first sighed, then smiled and said, "Master Chang, why don't you understand? At the moment when Pei Huaixuan was about to take revenge on you, your life is not yours. The only difference is that it is you, or you are dead." Your whole family. At the lowest level, Pei Huaixuan will kill you with a knife, and then leave the desert."

Chang Liangzhu squeezed his teacup tightly, "Then we have to kill him first."

"How do you kill?" Cao Xiang taunted: "Pei Huaixuan is a master, can anyone under your command take his life? And he also has a younger brother Song Yingbai. By the way, Song Yingbai and Li Zhen are still in love. Song Yingbai is dead. Will Li Zhen bypass you? You are the one who will die! Don’t you want to get rid of Li Zhen too? Well, even if you can, what about Duke Jing? What about the Empress Dowager? Can you get rid of them too?”

Wu Zhiying added: "Besides, once Mr. Chang kills Pei Huaixuan, it will be no different from Pei Huaixuan's plan. He originally wanted to blame you for killing him, but you really went to kill him. If he is dead, the emperor will not If you spare the murderer, you still won’t survive.”

Chang Liangzhu gritted his teeth and said, "This is a dead end!

Cao Xiang raised his eyebrows, "That's right, you are doomed, there is no solution."

Chang Liangzhu threw the teacup on the ground, "Impossible! I won't die!"

Wu Zhiying said unhurriedly: "Our governor is right. I'm afraid Mr. Chang really has to die. If you don't die, you will be framed by Pei Huaixuan. You and your whole family will die."

Cao Xiang smiled slightly, "However, my lord is as smart as usual, why don't you look at the fake death medicine again, and you should be able to figure out a way."

Chang Liangzhu looked at the mandala pollen on the table, and suddenly understood, "You mean, let me take this fake death medicine, and frame Pei Huaixuan instead?"

Cao Xiang nodded.

"No, I won't eat it! If I eat it..." After feigning death, all official positions will be lost, and he will become an ordinary person.

Cao Xiang smiled contemptuously and said, "If you don't eat it, Pei Huaixuan will. Then you will become a murderer, not to mention the position of Chief Assistant, even your family members will be worse than death!"

Jiang turned his head and glanced at Chang Liangzhu, "I found out about the mandala powder, so I knew what the two brothers were up to. They made mistakes on purpose to attract the emperor's attention. When Pei Huaixuan took medicine to fake his death, the people from Jinyiwei insisted on him It was a real death, and even if the people in Dongchang said that he was a fake death, Li Zhen and Song Yingbai would also excuse that there was a conflict between the people in Dongchang and Jinyiwei. die."

Cao Xiang listened and shook his head, "You are wrong. Pei Huaixuan let Song Yingbai make a mistake in order to seduce the emperor. I said that the emperor treats Pei Huaixuan unusually. You can understand the meaning of unusualness. I won't clarify."

Chang Liangzhu was taken aback, "This... Could it be that the emperor..." is a broken sleeve?

"It doesn't matter what the emperor is, the important thing is that he is very, very fond of Pei Huaixuan, Pei Huaixuan died in your hands, you can think about the consequences yourself." Cao Xiang said: "But if you fake death in Pei Huaixuan's hands, it will be hard for Pei Huaixuan to be dumb and eat coptis. It’s hard to say, even if the emperor favors him, he will be imprisoned and wait for the trial of the three judges. And you can take this opportunity to escape incognito.”

Chang Liangzhu was startled, then sighed, and said with a smile: "I just said, why do you bother to help me so much? You actually want to use this to hurt Pei Huaixuan, and use my fake death to make it happen. It is in the best interest of Dongchang that you and Pei Huaixuan go to prison. Maybe even Pei Neng can be pulled down. At that time, there will be one less eunuch who has the final say in the palace. Inside and outside, you will benefit! "

Cao Xiang raised his eyebrows and said with a sly smile: "Yes, this is indeed my plan, but do you have any other choice? My old Chang Ge. If you don't do it, fine, we won't force it." Said When it's over, get up.

"Slow!" Chang Liangzhu rubbed his temples in pain. He really had no choice. The moment Pei Huaixuan recognized him, his head was no longer his own. The only difference was whether to kill him alone or his whole family.

If he can use fake death medicine to save his family and life, he can only reluctantly give up his power. He raised his eyes and almost bit his lips to bleed, "You also said just now that the people in Dongchang and Jinyiwei will distinguish fake death, so how can I hide it from you?" Pass?"

"If you invite Pei Huaixuan, our people will lie in ambush and drug him. After he faints, you will take the drug of feigning death. When he wakes up, your family will rush in to face you who is in feign death." Crying unceasingly, let everyone in the courtyard come to watch, and make sure that you are the one who died.

Then our people would catch Pei Huaixuan. He had just woken up at that time, and he was in a daze, so he was easy to catch.

Then wait for Wu to examine your 'body', and he will be sure that you are indeed dead.If someone testifies, the emperor will believe your death.

The people in Jinyiwei definitely don't believe it, but I will stop them for at least three days and argue with them. At this time, your family will carry you out of fake death and replace it with a real dead body that looks very similar to you.Three days later, the Jinyiwei people will see the real corpse. Of course, no matter how the real corpse is examined, it is really dead. They have nothing to say. "

"But there are no people who are exactly alike in the world, so what if people from Jinyiwei say that the corpse is not mine?" Chang Liangzhu said.

"That's why I stopped them for three days. For three days, let's not remove the body after death. It's not the same as when it was alive. Besides, the corpse will still swell in three days. Even if they say it's not you , the evidence is insufficient, and your family will insist that it is you, who will the emperor believe? Your family? Or the Jinyiwei who has conflicts with you?" Cao Xiang smiled.

Chang Liangzhu said bitterly: "...I'm afraid this is the only way to go."

"This is called tricks. He wanted to harm you, but you turned against him." Cao Xiang said: "It's not too late, just say that you want to apologize to them, and invite Pei Huaixuan to come home tonight to implement the plan, so as not to have long nights and dreams." .”

Jiang nodded and sneered, "Tell them to come and go."

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like