Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty
Chapter 42 Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty
Fang Yizhi then ordered someone to bring in the legendary Qing Niang.
Li Mingda walked to the window, opened the window slightly, so that he could have a look at this woman called Qing Niang.
The woman has a plump figure, a melon-seeded face, a cherry mouth, and a pair of almond eyes with flowing water, giving off a seductive charm.Her graceful steps give birth to lotuses, with uneven bumps, and her waist can be seen writhing seductively with every step.He was full of flair, but judging by his face, it was not the kind of beauty that would overwhelm the country and the city, and his appearance could only be regarded as upper-middle class.
Li Mingda felt that someone beside him was short of breath, and turned to look at Tian Hanshan.
Tian Hanshan hadn't felt his own princess's movements at this time, his eyes stared straight at Qingniang, and his throat moved.
Li Mingda coughed.
Tian Hanshu came back to his senses, and hurriedly asked his princess if she wanted some tea.
Li Mingda stared at him.
Only then did Tian Hanshu understand the meaning of the princess's cough, he apologized with an embarrassed smile, and lowered his head shyly.
"All men like this?" The doubts in Li Mingda's eyes became more serious.
"Uh... this... It's useless for your lord to ask me, I am no longer a man now." Tian Hanxi said embarrassedly.
"The heart is the same as that of a man." Li Mingda hit the nail on the head.
Tian Hanshan was seen through his thoughts, and nodded resignedly, "That woman is quite charming, I can't guarantee that all men are like slaves, but at least seven out of ten people would like to see such a woman."
Li Mingda smiled inexplicably, turned around and sat down to drink tea without making judgments.
After a while, Fang Yizhi's question came from the next door.
Qingniang then knelt down and reported her family background, but only said that she was a fake mother in a brothel, and nothing else.
Fang Yizhi asked her again: "What is your last name, where did you originally live?"
Qing Niang raised her head and glanced at Fang Yizhi in fear, then she lowered her eyelids halfway, her eyelashes trembled, and her voice trembled slightly, "My concubine's surname is Lu, and her name is Qing. She is from Tong County, Anzhou."
"Fu Yunzhi said that you were the mastermind, and lied to him that he opened the prison door. You led people to poison the eight people who caused trouble in Ling'an Temple. Can you admit it?" Fang Yi asked directly.
Qingniang looked at Fu Yunzhi who was kneeling beside her, tears welled up in her eyes, "Why did the county magistrate frame the concubine?"
Fu Yunzhi turned his head and stared at her, "Poisonous woman, you seduced me with sex, and forced me to conspire with you, killing eight people, and you still want to deny it!"
After Qingniang and Fu Yunzhi looked at each other, she listened to Fu Yun's scolding with a sad expression, and then she burst into tears, crying like pear blossoms with rain.
Seeing this, Li Ke, who was sitting on the sidelines, couldn't help interjecting: "But there's something else going on in it. Why did she, a weak woman, kill those eight people for no reason? By the way, the three people who were complaining for them Squire, what's going on now?"
"Recovery." After Fang Yi said coldly, he ordered someone to present three letters to Li Ke.
When Li Ke saw the envelope now, he had a bad premonition in his heart. He took it and opened it, and it turned out that it was as he feared, and the letter contained the words "heavenly return".
After all, this matter is related to the descendants of Queen Xi.
Li Ke looked at Fu Yunzhi suspiciously, and then at that charming and weak woman Lu Qing'er, unable to figure out what was going on in his mind.He had no choice but to look at Fang Yizhi and ask again.
"These three squires have been carefully checked by the imperial physician. Diarrhea is just a common disease. The reason why they fainted, vomited blood, and had a headache and dizziness was caused by mistakenly ingesting a poison called Xuehongcai. They have been kept for more than two days. Drink water and take two doses of Qingrejiedu pills to recover. After the accident in Ling'an Temple, a mysterious person sent them three packs of medicine with this letter that night, and the three packs of medicines contained Qingrejiedu pills." Fang Yi went straight.
Li Ke nodded, wondering when Fang Yizhi had found out about this matter.
"I sent someone to question me a long time ago, but I have always denied it. Today, after further investigation, it was found that the three of them suddenly recovered from their illnesses, so they used forceful measures to scare them before they were willing to confess. After receiving the letter, the three gentry Zhang, Wang, and Zhao followed suit. Taking the method and it really worked, I felt that I should be grateful, so I kept it a secret." Luo Ge, who was in charge of the matter, reported back carefully.
Li Ke frowned, and immediately glared at Fu Yunzhi, "The descendants of Queen Xi? What is the way of heaven? Why do these things, what is the reason, what is the purpose, honestly!"
Li Ke crumpled up the letter in his hand and threw it on Fu Yunzhi's face.
Fu Yunzhi's face was full of panic, not understanding why.He hurriedly opened the letter and looked at it. He was so frightened that he trembled all over. He kowtowed and cried to Li Ke: "My lord, I don't know about this. The descendants of the Queen of Xi made a connection. Besides, there is no descendant of the King of Xi, and if the officials want to make it up, they can’t make it up like this, who would believe this nonsense!"
After several shocks, Fu Yunzhi still refused to admit it.Immediately ordered him to shut up, Fu Yunzhi knelt on the ground obediently, obeying the order and did not speak anymore.
Fang Yizhi turned his eyes indifferently, and glanced at Qingniang, "What about you?"
Qingniang was stunned for a moment, looked at Fang Yizhi, tears flowed down like before, "I don't even know who I am."
"The eight dead people are said to be the ones who betrayed you, and you don't recognize them?"
Qingniang shook her head, "I dare not recognize them, Qingniang doesn't know them."
"I've never seen them before, so I'm so sure, you must know them." Fang Yi said bluntly, and sent someone to take Qing Niang to identify the corpses immediately, and now his people have taken the corpses of the eight dead from Fufu. The county transported it to the morgue in Anzhou City.
Qingniang was full of arguments, before she could speak, she heard Fang Yizhi make a judgment for herself, and looked at Fang Yizhi in shock.Her almond eyes were wide open, a little angry, but also a little pitiful, as if she had a lot to say.
When Li Ke saw this, he was about to speak out. At this time, a word came from outside the door, saying that Princess Jinyang had something urgent to ask Li Ke to come.
Li Ke took a look at Fang Yizhi, and was just about to refuse, when he was persuaded to go.
"If the princess has nothing to do, she will definitely not look for the king." Fang Yi said straightforwardly.
Li Ke sighed and had to agree to go.
Fang Yizhi immediately ordered someone to take Qingniang away and ask her to identify the dead body. "If you don't recognize her, let her stay in the morgue for an hour so that you can remember."
Qing Niang hurriedly broke free and kowtowed to Fang Yi. Although her words were a little excited, compared to the panic-stricken Fu Yunzhi before, Qing Niang's behavior was considered calm.
"Qingniang refuses to accept, I don't know if Fang Shizi can allow Qingniang to make a difference?"
Fang Yi looked at her coldly and nodded.
"Not to mention staying in the mortuary for an hour, even in the blink of an eye, Qingniang will admit everything because of fear. But the confession is not from the heart, but because of Qingniang's fear. Qingniang has heard about it a long time ago. Fang Shizi's reputation is that he is a wise gentleman who is well-informed and understands the truth. Now Qingniang is tortured and forced to confess, and made a false confession. I am afraid that it will violate the original intention of the Shizi's investigation. Qingniang suffers and despises her life One, if it’s gone, it’s gone, but the son was born in a powerful family, so it’s too worthless to use Qingniang’s humble life to ruin your reputation. In fact, this will not only delay the reputation of the son, but also make Qingniang lose her life for nothing. lose!"
Fang Yizhi looked at Qingniang right now, he didn't expect a woman from a brothel to be so eloquent, so he gave her a chance, "What else do you want to say?"
"The son is wise, let's see why Qingniang, a weak woman, wants to slaughter eight irrelevant men. I heard that these eight people are the troublemakers who were unknown in Ling'an Temple before. What interests does Qingniang have? Qingniang has Lives in a good brothel, manages more than [-] girls in the courtyard, usually believes in one Taoist priest at most, takes a few talismans for good luck, never goes to worship Buddha, how can he care about Ling'an Temple, let alone think about it troublemakers.
Furthermore, just now I heard what the king said, it seems that those eight people are also related to the matter of Queen Xi, so it is even more impossible to have something to do with Qingniang.Qingniang came from a miserable background, her mother was a poor cook, she grew up in the villages and counties near Anzhou, she had never even been out of Anzhou City, so how could she have anything to do with Xi Wang. After Qingniang finished speaking, she kowtowed to Fang Yizhi, emphasizing again and again that she believed in Fang Yizhi's wise decision and would definitely return her innocence.
"It's no wonder that you are well-known in Anzhou, but you are a talented woman with a sharp tongue." Fang Yi sighed.
Li Mingda had just sent Li Ke away next door, upon hearing this, he immediately got up and went straight to the main hall.
After entering the door, because Li Mingda was wearing men's clothing and Yuchi Baoqi was not there, Tian Hanshan continued to use the name of Yuchi Baoqi.
Qingniang took a look at the young man who had just entered the door, and kowtowed to her to greet Princess Jinyang.
Li Mingda was stunned for a moment, looked at Qingniang, and suddenly laughed, "You have good eyesight, or are you good at news?"
"Back to the princess. Qingniang has seen too many women because she has been running a brothel for many years. Therefore, as long as she is a daughter, no matter what her clothes are, Qingniang can tell at a glance. The princess is beautiful and imposing, and she is different from ordinary women It’s easier to recognize if it’s different.”
Fu Yunzhi, who was kneeling on the side, heard the words "Princess Jinyang", and suddenly forgot all his fear and regret for the time being.At first, he wanted to laugh at Qingniang's blind recognition of the wrong person in his heart, but when he heard 'Yuchi Erlang' respond, his whole body seemed to be struck by lightning, and he looked at Li Mingda in shock.
This, this is Princess Jinyang?Not Yuchi Erlang?But she obviously doesn't have the talent and courage to be a woman, she dares to live in a haunted house, but her voice is indeed a little girly... The more Fu Yunzhi thinks about it, the more he feels that he is too stupid to recognize her identity as a princess. That whore can't beat it either.
This Qing Niang just cried pear blossoms with rain, not to mention the pity of Wu Wang, and then cleverly conquered Fang Shizi with her eloquence, and now her blue eyes have attracted Princess Jinyang's admiration.
This woman is really more courageous than a man, she is obviously from a lowly background and has never seen anything in the world.
Fu Yunzhi really wanted to be unconvinced, but he had to.Thinking that he was not even as good as a woman from a lowly background, and seeing that she was about to be killed by this woman, he was trembling with anger.
Qingniang completely restrained her previous coquettish attitude, her eyes softened, and even her tone of voice was like that of a normal woman.She repeatedly kowtowed to Li Mingda, asking the princess to observe clearly.She then kowtowed to Fang Yi again, to show her innocence.
"Qingniang's biggest sin is to serve others with her color, and live by it. But apart from this, Qingniang has never done anything against her will. I sincerely ask the princess and Fang Shizi to investigate clearly, and pay Qingniang's innocence." After Qingniang finished speaking, she kowtowed to the two of them in a serious manner.
"Lu Qing'er, you came from a poor background, where did you learn such eloquence?" Li Mingda asked.
Qingniang hurriedly replied: "Qingniang's mother is a widow, and she remarried to a squire when Qingniang was six years old. My stepfather asked my husband to teach me how to read and write. The little fur in Qingniang's belly is That's learned."
"Since you have become the daughter of a squire, how did you get to where you are now?"
Qingniang: "Mother and stepfather died one after another. Qingniang's stepbrother had long coveted Qingniang's beauty and wanted to force Qingniang to be his concubine. Qingniang refused to commit herself, so her elder brother hastily married a farmer suffering from tuberculosis. Soon Her husband died, and Qingniang's house was taken away by her uncle's family, she slept on the street, and was rescued by her fake mother Liu Siniang, so she had no choice but to embark on the current road of no return. After the fake mother died, the brothel was taken over by Qing Mother took over and managed it for three years."
"It sounds like you are a man with a long life, it's a little pitiful." Li Mingda sighed.
Qingniang hurriedly kowtowed to thank the princess for her concern, and then said, "Although she is suffering, she may have won the princess' sympathy, but Qingniang knows in her heart that the prostitution that Qingniang did is despised by others. Qingniang is ashamed of her biological parents. , I am ashamed of my stepfather's kindness in nurturing, and I am ashamed of them!"
Qingniang fell to the ground and wept bitterly.
"It's quite pitiful, isn't it?" Li Mingda turned his head and sighed to Fang Yi.
Fang Yi looked at Li Mingda in puzzlement, and immediately ordered someone to take Qingniang away.
Luo Ge: "What about the identification of the corpse?"
Qing Niang hurriedly looked at Fang Yizhi with hope, she didn't want to spend an hour with those eight corpses.But Qingniang knew in her heart that it was difficult to deal with a noble man like Fang Yizhi with ordinary tactics.Crying pitifully will be of no use to him, so at this moment she can only look at Fang Yizhi with the eyes of "I believe in your judgment very much", hoping that he can be said by what she said before. Move, take pity on the fragrance and cherish the jade a little bit.
"Go." Fang Yizhi was straightforward without thinking.
Qingniang's face turned pale in an instant, she never thought that what she spent so much time acting and saying would not shake Fang Yizhi's decision in the slightest.
Before Qingniang was taken away, she turned to beg Li Mingda pitifully.
But he didn't allow her to say the second sentence, so Fang Yi asked someone to gag her, and directly threw her into the morgue.
After a while, Luo Ge came to report, "Lu Qing'er didn't recognize her, and she screamed from time to time after being locked up in the morgue, as if she was very scared."
Fang Yi didn't respond, and instead served tea.
Di Renjie watched from the sidelines the whole time, and at this point Fang asked Fang Yizhi's intentions for this move.
"This woman is not simple. If I don't break her heart, I'm afraid I won't find anything." After Fang Yi finished talking, seeing that Li Mingda hadn't spoken, he turned his head and asked softly, "Could it be true that the princess's pity for her just now came from the heart?"
Li Mingda came back to his senses, and immediately denied, "How can I sympathize with her."
"Then why did the princess say she was pitiful just now?" Di Renjie asked.
"The experience is pitiful, but I have no sympathy for it." Li Mingda turned to ask Fang Yizhi if he could find out about Lu Qing'er's life experience.
Fang Yi said straightly: "Bao Qi has been asked to go to the local area to investigate in detail, and the Lu family also needs to investigate. She said that the stepbrother who forced her to submit was named Lu Sheng, and now he is quite famous in Anzhou City. Wealthy."
"Where is the princess mansion?" Li Mingda asked.
"I should know the news, but I don't know how Prince Consort Pei will respond."
Li Mingda nodded, indicating that she should also go back and have a look, and by the way, hear about the news about Pei Consort.Fang Yizhi, Di Renjie and others rushed to see them off. When they were outside the house, Li Mingda suddenly stopped and turned to stare at Di Renjie.
"Besides telling you to come to Anzhou City to assist Fang Shizi in handling affairs, the sage has anything else to say?"
Di Renjie froze for a moment, then shook his head.
"Think again."
Di Renjie scratched his head, looked at the sky and thought carefully, and suddenly said: "There is really a gossip, the sage asked me to handle the case and finish the work, so I can take this opportunity to travel and learn a lot."
Fang Yizhi also smiled and said: "The sage also instructed me and Baoqi in the same way."
Di Renjie said "ah", and said again: "Before I left, I heard that Wei Shuyu was also called by the saint, but I don't know if he will come too."
When Li Mingda heard that he would have another child, his head grew big.She had guessed her father's intentions, otherwise someone would have solved the case and sent people from Chang'an one after another.
Fang Yi realized that Li Mingda's expression was a little off, so before sending Li Mingda on the horse, he said to Di Renjie: "I think you are the most insipid towards that Lu Qing'er, and I still need to trouble you to check on her condition at the morgue." .”
Di Renjie agreed, saying that he came this time to learn from Fang Yizhi, and then he bowed and retired first to monitor Lu Qing'er.
Only then did Fang Yizhi turn around, and asked Li Mingda in a low voice if he had any thoughts, "Just now I saw that your lord's expression seemed distressed."
"There is 'masculinity', but it has nothing to do with the case." Li Mingda got on the horse and turned to look at Fang Yizhi.Wearing Tsing Yi, the jade tree stands tall, and seeing it is like a jade mountain ascending, and the light shines on people.
Li Mingda's head hurts even more, and he regrets that he promised Aye to come to Anzhou, so why can't he let her relax here?He brought so many children from aristocratic families over and said that they were investigating the case together, only ghosts would believe it.
Li Mingda swung his whip immediately, and galloped away from Fang Yizhi's sight without looking back.
Luo Ge followed her husband to stand in place for a long time, and then saw him move a step before he dared to say: "The princess really seemed to be in a bad mood just now, and I don't know what made her unhappy."
Fang Yi turned his eyes to see the street where Li Mingda had disappeared, then turned his eyes away, and went straight to the mansion with a cold face.
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Linhai Princess Mansion.
As soon as Li Mingda got off his horse, he was greeted by the housekeeper. "The princess has been talking about it for a long time, and she has already prepared the food and wine, waiting for you to come back."
"Drinks and wine? It's not too early or too late, what wine to drink." After Li Mingda threw the rein in his hand to Biyun, he followed the butler to see Li Yuqiong.
Sure enough, Concubine Pei was there.It seems that her aunt didn't just invite her to drink.
Li Yuqiong smiled and asked Li Mingda to sit down, then sat next to her, holding her hand and sighed, "I have been in poor health for the past two days, and I have not been able to take a good tour of Anzhou City with you. Today I am in good health, and tomorrow we will How about going out to visit the mountains and rivers, and Auntie will take you to taste some delicious food unique to Anzhou City, which is guaranteed to be something you have never seen in Chang'an City before."
"That's good, I like eating and playing things the most, so don't worry about it." When Li Mingda said the last sentence, he took a special look at Concubine Pei.
Concubine Pei's expression changed as expected, and then he said to Li Mingda with a smirk on his face: "Exactly, it's a pity that I'm afraid I'll be stumbled by some chores tomorrow, so I won't be able to stay with you, but I really want to have fun together."
Li Yuqiong immediately turned her head to ask Concubine Pei what's the matter, why can't she let it go and wait for another day to talk about it.
Concubine Pei glanced at Li Mingda, and said to Li Yuqiong in embarrassment: "But it's not something I can control, it's about Wu Wang's side, it seems that something happened, please ask me."
"Ask you? How polite is that, and you don't even look at his identity. You are his uncle, so he should come to see you and respect you if he has a reason. Why should you be questioned. Come on People, send a message to King Wu, telling him to come see me tomorrow." Li Yuqiong said in a temper.
Concubine Pei hurriedly advised Li Yuqiong not to get angry, "You are just fine, so don't get angry anymore. This is a trivial matter. I heard that eight people who caused trouble in Ling'an Temple died, and a county magistrate and a A courtesan. Although I don’t know how this matter has something to do with me, since I’ve been specially sent to let me go, I still want to go and have a look.”
Li Mingda secretly looked at Concubine Pei's face, and his doubts intensified.Just now in Prince Wu's Mansion, she listened to everything she could hear, the case was not yet to the point of directly interrogating Concubine Pei, and Fang Yizhi was just trying to startle Concubine Pei, but did not intend to interrogate him.From the beginning to the end, it seemed that no one asked him to go to the palace, but now this son-in-law Pei said that someone wanted him to go.
Concubine Pei was talking nonsense, so Li Yuqiong easily believed it and stood up for it.It can be seen how deep her aunt's feelings for Prince Consort Pei are.
Look at this concubine Pei, besides having a good skin and a hypocritical mouth, what else can he do.How could her aunt be so obsessed with this kind of person.
"Sister, you just came back from Wu Wang's mansion, but tell me, is your third brother's move too much!" Li Yuqiong said angrily.
Concubine Pei immediately looked at Li Mingda, and because he couldn't guess what he was thinking from his expression, Concubine Pei spoke first: "Si a little girl, how could she know this, even if something happened, his third brother wouldn't tell her, right? "
After finishing speaking, Concubine Pei stared closely at Li Mingda's eyes with a hint of threat.
Li Mingda looked back into Concubine Pei's eyes, "Uncle seems very angry and a little anxious."
Concubine Pei's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately dodged Li Mingda's gaze, and wanted to explain, but was interrupted by Li Yuqiong's laughter.
Li Yuqiong took Li Mingda's hand and said to Prince Consort Pei: "Now let's drink and have fun, don't talk about those troublesome things. King Wu, I will tell him tomorrow, you don't have to worry."
Concubine Pei nodded, reluctantly agreed, then picked up the wine glass at hand, and poured it into his stomach sullenly.
Seeing him disappointed, Li Yuqiong said, "Did you just say you have something to deal with?"
Concubine Pei was stunned for a moment, and immediately expressed his expression as if he was about to receive an amnesty, and nodded in agreement as if in a daze, and then the aunt and nephew said goodbye.
After leaving the door, Concubine Pei said angrily: "Little girl is not easy to fool, she won't even say a word for me!"
The servants around Concubine Pei comforted him, and then told Concubine Pei: "Ms. Qing has been arrested, and Fang Yizhi is interrogating her. Concubine, will our affairs be exposed?"
"Don't talk frustratingly! Qing Niang is not that kind of person. She has a more dexterous mouth than us. She knows what people are saying best, so she won't reveal the truth so quickly. But people should be rescued as soon as possible, otherwise something will happen sooner or later. .”
"How to save?"
After a while of silence, Concubine Pei sighed and said, "If it's really impossible, I can only ask the princess."
"It's a pain for the son-in-law. If the princess knows about this, she will be sad for a while."
"It's not that I haven't done it before, what are you afraid of, just coax it. By the way, I asked you to remake those few pieces of Persian jewelry, but if they are done, they can just be given to the princess."
"Si, why are you so dazed!" Li Yuqiong raised the volume so that Li Mingda could no longer be distracted to listen.
After Li Mingda came back to his senses, he took the wine that Li Yuqiong handed over with a smile, a little confused: "Sizi is not good at drinking, I just drank a glass, if I drink this glass, I'm afraid I won't even be able to walk."
"What are you afraid of? I can't walk anymore. I'll stay here tonight. My aunt has never slept with you before. It's just that our aunt and nephew took this opportunity to get close." After Li Yuqiong finished speaking, she signaled Li Mingda to drink.
Li Mingda raised his glass and drank it all, and respected Li Yuqiong at that time.
Li Yuqiong hurriedly poured the wine for her, "Since it's a respect to me, you must have three glasses in a row to show your sincerity."
Li Mingda smiled helplessly at Li Yuqiong, "I really can't refute this, well, I respect my aunt." Li Mingda drank two more glasses in succession.
Not long after, Li Mingda's face turned red, as delicate and beautiful as peony petals.
Li Yuqiong saw her start to play and laugh, and knew that she had drunk too much, so she asked someone to help her to the couch.Li Mingda fell on the couch, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.
Li Yuqiong looked at Li Mingda's pretty face, couldn't help touching her own face, and sighed, "It's nice to be young and beautiful, but I'm old."
The maids hurriedly said that Li Yuqiong was as beautiful as a fairy, not inferior to Princess Jinyang in the slightest.
Li Yuqiong laughed at herself when she heard the words, "Forget it, it's okay to coax me by saying this, but now this comparison is not good." Li Yuqiong picked up Li Mingda's hand and compared it with her own. Jade, as thick as sackcloth.
"To be old is to be old, that's all, but the son-in-law is not old at all." Li Yuqiong said at this time, his words were a little sad, with a trace of fear.
"The son-in-law treats the princess with all his heart, and the maidservant sees it in his eyes. He is really envious of others. Besides, this person is old after all. The son-in-law has not shown it in the past two years, and it may not be in a few years. The servant's family My uncle was also an old man at the beginning, he was in his forties, and some people thought he was under thirty. But after fifty, he is old and has no glory like before."
"Shut up, you are not allowed to curse the son-in-law like this. I would rather he stay young forever, and not have to worry about living like I do." Li Yuqiong sighed, and ordered someone to prepare water, she wanted to take a bath.
After speaking, he heard Li Mingda's voice on the couch, and rolled over.Li Yuqiong hurriedly went to help her, and when she saw her eyes open, Li Yuqiong smiled and pinched Li Mingda's face, "You girl is really impatient of drinking, and you are really drunk after only four cups. Get up quickly, after taking a bath Let's sleep again."
Li Mingda nodded, then got up, took a bath and changed clothes, then lay down on Li Yuqiong's couch, and lay down with Li Yuqiong.
Li Yuqiong was reading a book, Li Mingda leaned over to take a look, "What is Auntie reading?"
"Buddhist scriptures, as long as you don't have a headache, you must read them every day before going to bed, and use them for meditation." Li Yuqiong put the book down, and then looked at Li Mingda, "Tell my aunt, you have been running outside for the past two days, but you followed Fang Yizhi The case has been investigated."
Li Mingda: "My majestic princess, how can I follow a prince to investigate the case." Even if it is investigated, it is Fang Yi who followed her directly.
"Our son is promising." Li Yuqiong stretched out his hand and touched Li Mingda's face joyfully, "Think about it, if my son-in-law's and my first child could stay, it would be as old as you."
"Why is it gone?" Li Yuqiong and Consort Pei have never had any children.Li Mingda didn't like to ask too many questions about this kind of matter. Now that Li Yuqiong took the initiative to mention it, Li Mingda asked along the way.
"It's a bad life. Your aunt may have committed too many sins and suffered retribution."
"Auntie, don't say that. When you married the son-in-law, how old were you, and you were born in a deep house all the time, how could you commit any crimes?"
Li Yuqiong took a deep breath, "Sis, you don't understand, my aunt did betray someone back then. Although that person is no longer here, he still refuses to let me go under Jiuquan. He came to me in the dream and said he wanted me to pay him with my life."
"Who is so bold, dare to talk to my aunt like this, let me see if I can help you teach him a lesson in my dream." Li Mingda said slightly drunk, and stretched out his fist and punched it in the air one time.
Li Yuqiong was amused by Li Mingda's actions, and went to hold his son's hand, and said happily: "I don't want a son, if I can have a daughter like you, that's fine. It's a pity, the sky doesn't fulfill my wish. I just hope If we change the method this year, we can have a good result."
Li Mingda nodded, his eyelids drooped heavily, and his breathing gradually became heavy.
Seeing this, Li Yuqiong covered Li Mingda with a quilt and went to sleep herself.Suddenly hearing Li Mingda calling Prince Consort Pei, Li Yuqiong thought it was funny, so she perked up her ears to listen to what Li Mingda had to say.
"...Why do you want to betray my aunt, but tell me how to talk to my aunt, how to speak...Auntie cares about you so much, but you sue King Wu in front of my aunt, aren't you guilty? What's so good..." After Li Mingda finished speaking, he turned over and turned his back to Li Yuqiong.
After Li Yuqiong heard this, she no longer felt sleepy, she sat there, staring at the back of Li Mingda's head absently.
"Pei Zitong!" Li Yuqiong murmured involuntarily, and immediately got out of bed, ignoring her shoes, and ran out barefoot.Seeing this, the maids rushed to catch up.
Li Yuqiong pushed away the side room where Consort Pei lived, but there was no one in the room except one of his attendants.
"What about others?"
"My son-in-law, he just left the house to-"
"Come on, bring him back to me!" Li Yuqiong shouted.
Half an hour later, Concubine Pei was recovered.
Li Mingda lay on the couch, listening to the noise from the east wing all night.Because of this, I learned more about the relationship between Pei Consort and Li Yuqiong.
In the early morning, the sound died down.Li Mingda closed his eyes and slept until the sun was up.When she got up again, she found that Li Yuqiong was sitting beside the bed. Although her eyes were full of tiredness, she was very energetic. She asked with a smile if she slept well last night.
Li Mingda nodded, then got up and went behind the screen, and the servant girl waited for her to change her clothes.
"Si, Auntie has something to ask for your help." Li Yuqiong said to Li Mingda through the screen.
"what's up?"
Li Yuqiong: "Help me persuade your third brother and Fang Yizhi to stop investigating the silver mine. I won't hide it from you. Your uncle is responsible for this matter. I only found out not long ago. Put all the things he gained back. He is so rich and honored, he is really dissatisfied. This matter is his fault, my aunt admits it, and begs for mercy, hoping that the big one can be resolved."
"Silver mine?" Li Mingda asked.
Li Yuqiong was stunned for a moment, "What? You really don't know, the sage asked Fang Yi to come to Anzhou, isn't it to investigate the case of stealing a silver mine?"
"I don't know." Li Mingda shook his head, wondering why Li Yuqiong didn't quarrel with Prince Consort Pei last night, why did he suddenly talk about silver mines in the morning.
Li Yuqiong frowned, "This is weird, then what case are you investigating with your third brother and Fang Yizhi?"
"The descendants of the resting queen."
Li Yuqiong was shocked, his face turned pale.
Li Mingda only said these four words, if ordinary people don't know what they mean, they will definitely ask what they mean.But Li Yuqiong's reaction made Li Mingda conclude at a glance that she must know about this matter.
Li Mingda took this opportunity to press Li Yuqiong, "Why doesn't my aunt ask about my prostitute Qingniang?"
Li Yuqiong was shocked, "Last night you—"
"Since we are a family, I won't hide it from my aunt. I got drunk on purpose yesterday, just to tell my aunt about this hard-to-talk thing without being so embarrassing. If you tell me this kind of thing directly, my son really doesn't know how to proceed." Mouth. This woman is well-known in Anzhou, and she is called Qing Niang."
"I know, I knew her a long time ago." Li Yuqiong's expression was stiff for a long time, and finally he sighed and confessed to Li Mingda.
Li Mingda walked to the window, opened the window slightly, so that he could have a look at this woman called Qing Niang.
The woman has a plump figure, a melon-seeded face, a cherry mouth, and a pair of almond eyes with flowing water, giving off a seductive charm.Her graceful steps give birth to lotuses, with uneven bumps, and her waist can be seen writhing seductively with every step.He was full of flair, but judging by his face, it was not the kind of beauty that would overwhelm the country and the city, and his appearance could only be regarded as upper-middle class.
Li Mingda felt that someone beside him was short of breath, and turned to look at Tian Hanshan.
Tian Hanshan hadn't felt his own princess's movements at this time, his eyes stared straight at Qingniang, and his throat moved.
Li Mingda coughed.
Tian Hanshu came back to his senses, and hurriedly asked his princess if she wanted some tea.
Li Mingda stared at him.
Only then did Tian Hanshu understand the meaning of the princess's cough, he apologized with an embarrassed smile, and lowered his head shyly.
"All men like this?" The doubts in Li Mingda's eyes became more serious.
"Uh... this... It's useless for your lord to ask me, I am no longer a man now." Tian Hanxi said embarrassedly.
"The heart is the same as that of a man." Li Mingda hit the nail on the head.
Tian Hanshan was seen through his thoughts, and nodded resignedly, "That woman is quite charming, I can't guarantee that all men are like slaves, but at least seven out of ten people would like to see such a woman."
Li Mingda smiled inexplicably, turned around and sat down to drink tea without making judgments.
After a while, Fang Yizhi's question came from the next door.
Qingniang then knelt down and reported her family background, but only said that she was a fake mother in a brothel, and nothing else.
Fang Yizhi asked her again: "What is your last name, where did you originally live?"
Qing Niang raised her head and glanced at Fang Yizhi in fear, then she lowered her eyelids halfway, her eyelashes trembled, and her voice trembled slightly, "My concubine's surname is Lu, and her name is Qing. She is from Tong County, Anzhou."
"Fu Yunzhi said that you were the mastermind, and lied to him that he opened the prison door. You led people to poison the eight people who caused trouble in Ling'an Temple. Can you admit it?" Fang Yi asked directly.
Qingniang looked at Fu Yunzhi who was kneeling beside her, tears welled up in her eyes, "Why did the county magistrate frame the concubine?"
Fu Yunzhi turned his head and stared at her, "Poisonous woman, you seduced me with sex, and forced me to conspire with you, killing eight people, and you still want to deny it!"
After Qingniang and Fu Yunzhi looked at each other, she listened to Fu Yun's scolding with a sad expression, and then she burst into tears, crying like pear blossoms with rain.
Seeing this, Li Ke, who was sitting on the sidelines, couldn't help interjecting: "But there's something else going on in it. Why did she, a weak woman, kill those eight people for no reason? By the way, the three people who were complaining for them Squire, what's going on now?"
"Recovery." After Fang Yi said coldly, he ordered someone to present three letters to Li Ke.
When Li Ke saw the envelope now, he had a bad premonition in his heart. He took it and opened it, and it turned out that it was as he feared, and the letter contained the words "heavenly return".
After all, this matter is related to the descendants of Queen Xi.
Li Ke looked at Fu Yunzhi suspiciously, and then at that charming and weak woman Lu Qing'er, unable to figure out what was going on in his mind.He had no choice but to look at Fang Yizhi and ask again.
"These three squires have been carefully checked by the imperial physician. Diarrhea is just a common disease. The reason why they fainted, vomited blood, and had a headache and dizziness was caused by mistakenly ingesting a poison called Xuehongcai. They have been kept for more than two days. Drink water and take two doses of Qingrejiedu pills to recover. After the accident in Ling'an Temple, a mysterious person sent them three packs of medicine with this letter that night, and the three packs of medicines contained Qingrejiedu pills." Fang Yi went straight.
Li Ke nodded, wondering when Fang Yizhi had found out about this matter.
"I sent someone to question me a long time ago, but I have always denied it. Today, after further investigation, it was found that the three of them suddenly recovered from their illnesses, so they used forceful measures to scare them before they were willing to confess. After receiving the letter, the three gentry Zhang, Wang, and Zhao followed suit. Taking the method and it really worked, I felt that I should be grateful, so I kept it a secret." Luo Ge, who was in charge of the matter, reported back carefully.
Li Ke frowned, and immediately glared at Fu Yunzhi, "The descendants of Queen Xi? What is the way of heaven? Why do these things, what is the reason, what is the purpose, honestly!"
Li Ke crumpled up the letter in his hand and threw it on Fu Yunzhi's face.
Fu Yunzhi's face was full of panic, not understanding why.He hurriedly opened the letter and looked at it. He was so frightened that he trembled all over. He kowtowed and cried to Li Ke: "My lord, I don't know about this. The descendants of the Queen of Xi made a connection. Besides, there is no descendant of the King of Xi, and if the officials want to make it up, they can’t make it up like this, who would believe this nonsense!"
After several shocks, Fu Yunzhi still refused to admit it.Immediately ordered him to shut up, Fu Yunzhi knelt on the ground obediently, obeying the order and did not speak anymore.
Fang Yizhi turned his eyes indifferently, and glanced at Qingniang, "What about you?"
Qingniang was stunned for a moment, looked at Fang Yizhi, tears flowed down like before, "I don't even know who I am."
"The eight dead people are said to be the ones who betrayed you, and you don't recognize them?"
Qingniang shook her head, "I dare not recognize them, Qingniang doesn't know them."
"I've never seen them before, so I'm so sure, you must know them." Fang Yi said bluntly, and sent someone to take Qing Niang to identify the corpses immediately, and now his people have taken the corpses of the eight dead from Fufu. The county transported it to the morgue in Anzhou City.
Qingniang was full of arguments, before she could speak, she heard Fang Yizhi make a judgment for herself, and looked at Fang Yizhi in shock.Her almond eyes were wide open, a little angry, but also a little pitiful, as if she had a lot to say.
When Li Ke saw this, he was about to speak out. At this time, a word came from outside the door, saying that Princess Jinyang had something urgent to ask Li Ke to come.
Li Ke took a look at Fang Yizhi, and was just about to refuse, when he was persuaded to go.
"If the princess has nothing to do, she will definitely not look for the king." Fang Yi said straightforwardly.
Li Ke sighed and had to agree to go.
Fang Yizhi immediately ordered someone to take Qingniang away and ask her to identify the dead body. "If you don't recognize her, let her stay in the morgue for an hour so that you can remember."
Qing Niang hurriedly broke free and kowtowed to Fang Yi. Although her words were a little excited, compared to the panic-stricken Fu Yunzhi before, Qing Niang's behavior was considered calm.
"Qingniang refuses to accept, I don't know if Fang Shizi can allow Qingniang to make a difference?"
Fang Yi looked at her coldly and nodded.
"Not to mention staying in the mortuary for an hour, even in the blink of an eye, Qingniang will admit everything because of fear. But the confession is not from the heart, but because of Qingniang's fear. Qingniang has heard about it a long time ago. Fang Shizi's reputation is that he is a wise gentleman who is well-informed and understands the truth. Now Qingniang is tortured and forced to confess, and made a false confession. I am afraid that it will violate the original intention of the Shizi's investigation. Qingniang suffers and despises her life One, if it’s gone, it’s gone, but the son was born in a powerful family, so it’s too worthless to use Qingniang’s humble life to ruin your reputation. In fact, this will not only delay the reputation of the son, but also make Qingniang lose her life for nothing. lose!"
Fang Yizhi looked at Qingniang right now, he didn't expect a woman from a brothel to be so eloquent, so he gave her a chance, "What else do you want to say?"
"The son is wise, let's see why Qingniang, a weak woman, wants to slaughter eight irrelevant men. I heard that these eight people are the troublemakers who were unknown in Ling'an Temple before. What interests does Qingniang have? Qingniang has Lives in a good brothel, manages more than [-] girls in the courtyard, usually believes in one Taoist priest at most, takes a few talismans for good luck, never goes to worship Buddha, how can he care about Ling'an Temple, let alone think about it troublemakers.
Furthermore, just now I heard what the king said, it seems that those eight people are also related to the matter of Queen Xi, so it is even more impossible to have something to do with Qingniang.Qingniang came from a miserable background, her mother was a poor cook, she grew up in the villages and counties near Anzhou, she had never even been out of Anzhou City, so how could she have anything to do with Xi Wang. After Qingniang finished speaking, she kowtowed to Fang Yizhi, emphasizing again and again that she believed in Fang Yizhi's wise decision and would definitely return her innocence.
"It's no wonder that you are well-known in Anzhou, but you are a talented woman with a sharp tongue." Fang Yi sighed.
Li Mingda had just sent Li Ke away next door, upon hearing this, he immediately got up and went straight to the main hall.
After entering the door, because Li Mingda was wearing men's clothing and Yuchi Baoqi was not there, Tian Hanshan continued to use the name of Yuchi Baoqi.
Qingniang took a look at the young man who had just entered the door, and kowtowed to her to greet Princess Jinyang.
Li Mingda was stunned for a moment, looked at Qingniang, and suddenly laughed, "You have good eyesight, or are you good at news?"
"Back to the princess. Qingniang has seen too many women because she has been running a brothel for many years. Therefore, as long as she is a daughter, no matter what her clothes are, Qingniang can tell at a glance. The princess is beautiful and imposing, and she is different from ordinary women It’s easier to recognize if it’s different.”
Fu Yunzhi, who was kneeling on the side, heard the words "Princess Jinyang", and suddenly forgot all his fear and regret for the time being.At first, he wanted to laugh at Qingniang's blind recognition of the wrong person in his heart, but when he heard 'Yuchi Erlang' respond, his whole body seemed to be struck by lightning, and he looked at Li Mingda in shock.
This, this is Princess Jinyang?Not Yuchi Erlang?But she obviously doesn't have the talent and courage to be a woman, she dares to live in a haunted house, but her voice is indeed a little girly... The more Fu Yunzhi thinks about it, the more he feels that he is too stupid to recognize her identity as a princess. That whore can't beat it either.
This Qing Niang just cried pear blossoms with rain, not to mention the pity of Wu Wang, and then cleverly conquered Fang Shizi with her eloquence, and now her blue eyes have attracted Princess Jinyang's admiration.
This woman is really more courageous than a man, she is obviously from a lowly background and has never seen anything in the world.
Fu Yunzhi really wanted to be unconvinced, but he had to.Thinking that he was not even as good as a woman from a lowly background, and seeing that she was about to be killed by this woman, he was trembling with anger.
Qingniang completely restrained her previous coquettish attitude, her eyes softened, and even her tone of voice was like that of a normal woman.She repeatedly kowtowed to Li Mingda, asking the princess to observe clearly.She then kowtowed to Fang Yi again, to show her innocence.
"Qingniang's biggest sin is to serve others with her color, and live by it. But apart from this, Qingniang has never done anything against her will. I sincerely ask the princess and Fang Shizi to investigate clearly, and pay Qingniang's innocence." After Qingniang finished speaking, she kowtowed to the two of them in a serious manner.
"Lu Qing'er, you came from a poor background, where did you learn such eloquence?" Li Mingda asked.
Qingniang hurriedly replied: "Qingniang's mother is a widow, and she remarried to a squire when Qingniang was six years old. My stepfather asked my husband to teach me how to read and write. The little fur in Qingniang's belly is That's learned."
"Since you have become the daughter of a squire, how did you get to where you are now?"
Qingniang: "Mother and stepfather died one after another. Qingniang's stepbrother had long coveted Qingniang's beauty and wanted to force Qingniang to be his concubine. Qingniang refused to commit herself, so her elder brother hastily married a farmer suffering from tuberculosis. Soon Her husband died, and Qingniang's house was taken away by her uncle's family, she slept on the street, and was rescued by her fake mother Liu Siniang, so she had no choice but to embark on the current road of no return. After the fake mother died, the brothel was taken over by Qing Mother took over and managed it for three years."
"It sounds like you are a man with a long life, it's a little pitiful." Li Mingda sighed.
Qingniang hurriedly kowtowed to thank the princess for her concern, and then said, "Although she is suffering, she may have won the princess' sympathy, but Qingniang knows in her heart that the prostitution that Qingniang did is despised by others. Qingniang is ashamed of her biological parents. , I am ashamed of my stepfather's kindness in nurturing, and I am ashamed of them!"
Qingniang fell to the ground and wept bitterly.
"It's quite pitiful, isn't it?" Li Mingda turned his head and sighed to Fang Yi.
Fang Yi looked at Li Mingda in puzzlement, and immediately ordered someone to take Qingniang away.
Luo Ge: "What about the identification of the corpse?"
Qing Niang hurriedly looked at Fang Yizhi with hope, she didn't want to spend an hour with those eight corpses.But Qingniang knew in her heart that it was difficult to deal with a noble man like Fang Yizhi with ordinary tactics.Crying pitifully will be of no use to him, so at this moment she can only look at Fang Yizhi with the eyes of "I believe in your judgment very much", hoping that he can be said by what she said before. Move, take pity on the fragrance and cherish the jade a little bit.
"Go." Fang Yizhi was straightforward without thinking.
Qingniang's face turned pale in an instant, she never thought that what she spent so much time acting and saying would not shake Fang Yizhi's decision in the slightest.
Before Qingniang was taken away, she turned to beg Li Mingda pitifully.
But he didn't allow her to say the second sentence, so Fang Yi asked someone to gag her, and directly threw her into the morgue.
After a while, Luo Ge came to report, "Lu Qing'er didn't recognize her, and she screamed from time to time after being locked up in the morgue, as if she was very scared."
Fang Yi didn't respond, and instead served tea.
Di Renjie watched from the sidelines the whole time, and at this point Fang asked Fang Yizhi's intentions for this move.
"This woman is not simple. If I don't break her heart, I'm afraid I won't find anything." After Fang Yi finished talking, seeing that Li Mingda hadn't spoken, he turned his head and asked softly, "Could it be true that the princess's pity for her just now came from the heart?"
Li Mingda came back to his senses, and immediately denied, "How can I sympathize with her."
"Then why did the princess say she was pitiful just now?" Di Renjie asked.
"The experience is pitiful, but I have no sympathy for it." Li Mingda turned to ask Fang Yizhi if he could find out about Lu Qing'er's life experience.
Fang Yi said straightly: "Bao Qi has been asked to go to the local area to investigate in detail, and the Lu family also needs to investigate. She said that the stepbrother who forced her to submit was named Lu Sheng, and now he is quite famous in Anzhou City. Wealthy."
"Where is the princess mansion?" Li Mingda asked.
"I should know the news, but I don't know how Prince Consort Pei will respond."
Li Mingda nodded, indicating that she should also go back and have a look, and by the way, hear about the news about Pei Consort.Fang Yizhi, Di Renjie and others rushed to see them off. When they were outside the house, Li Mingda suddenly stopped and turned to stare at Di Renjie.
"Besides telling you to come to Anzhou City to assist Fang Shizi in handling affairs, the sage has anything else to say?"
Di Renjie froze for a moment, then shook his head.
"Think again."
Di Renjie scratched his head, looked at the sky and thought carefully, and suddenly said: "There is really a gossip, the sage asked me to handle the case and finish the work, so I can take this opportunity to travel and learn a lot."
Fang Yizhi also smiled and said: "The sage also instructed me and Baoqi in the same way."
Di Renjie said "ah", and said again: "Before I left, I heard that Wei Shuyu was also called by the saint, but I don't know if he will come too."
When Li Mingda heard that he would have another child, his head grew big.She had guessed her father's intentions, otherwise someone would have solved the case and sent people from Chang'an one after another.
Fang Yi realized that Li Mingda's expression was a little off, so before sending Li Mingda on the horse, he said to Di Renjie: "I think you are the most insipid towards that Lu Qing'er, and I still need to trouble you to check on her condition at the morgue." .”
Di Renjie agreed, saying that he came this time to learn from Fang Yizhi, and then he bowed and retired first to monitor Lu Qing'er.
Only then did Fang Yizhi turn around, and asked Li Mingda in a low voice if he had any thoughts, "Just now I saw that your lord's expression seemed distressed."
"There is 'masculinity', but it has nothing to do with the case." Li Mingda got on the horse and turned to look at Fang Yizhi.Wearing Tsing Yi, the jade tree stands tall, and seeing it is like a jade mountain ascending, and the light shines on people.
Li Mingda's head hurts even more, and he regrets that he promised Aye to come to Anzhou, so why can't he let her relax here?He brought so many children from aristocratic families over and said that they were investigating the case together, only ghosts would believe it.
Li Mingda swung his whip immediately, and galloped away from Fang Yizhi's sight without looking back.
Luo Ge followed her husband to stand in place for a long time, and then saw him move a step before he dared to say: "The princess really seemed to be in a bad mood just now, and I don't know what made her unhappy."
Fang Yi turned his eyes to see the street where Li Mingda had disappeared, then turned his eyes away, and went straight to the mansion with a cold face.
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Linhai Princess Mansion.
As soon as Li Mingda got off his horse, he was greeted by the housekeeper. "The princess has been talking about it for a long time, and she has already prepared the food and wine, waiting for you to come back."
"Drinks and wine? It's not too early or too late, what wine to drink." After Li Mingda threw the rein in his hand to Biyun, he followed the butler to see Li Yuqiong.
Sure enough, Concubine Pei was there.It seems that her aunt didn't just invite her to drink.
Li Yuqiong smiled and asked Li Mingda to sit down, then sat next to her, holding her hand and sighed, "I have been in poor health for the past two days, and I have not been able to take a good tour of Anzhou City with you. Today I am in good health, and tomorrow we will How about going out to visit the mountains and rivers, and Auntie will take you to taste some delicious food unique to Anzhou City, which is guaranteed to be something you have never seen in Chang'an City before."
"That's good, I like eating and playing things the most, so don't worry about it." When Li Mingda said the last sentence, he took a special look at Concubine Pei.
Concubine Pei's expression changed as expected, and then he said to Li Mingda with a smirk on his face: "Exactly, it's a pity that I'm afraid I'll be stumbled by some chores tomorrow, so I won't be able to stay with you, but I really want to have fun together."
Li Yuqiong immediately turned her head to ask Concubine Pei what's the matter, why can't she let it go and wait for another day to talk about it.
Concubine Pei glanced at Li Mingda, and said to Li Yuqiong in embarrassment: "But it's not something I can control, it's about Wu Wang's side, it seems that something happened, please ask me."
"Ask you? How polite is that, and you don't even look at his identity. You are his uncle, so he should come to see you and respect you if he has a reason. Why should you be questioned. Come on People, send a message to King Wu, telling him to come see me tomorrow." Li Yuqiong said in a temper.
Concubine Pei hurriedly advised Li Yuqiong not to get angry, "You are just fine, so don't get angry anymore. This is a trivial matter. I heard that eight people who caused trouble in Ling'an Temple died, and a county magistrate and a A courtesan. Although I don’t know how this matter has something to do with me, since I’ve been specially sent to let me go, I still want to go and have a look.”
Li Mingda secretly looked at Concubine Pei's face, and his doubts intensified.Just now in Prince Wu's Mansion, she listened to everything she could hear, the case was not yet to the point of directly interrogating Concubine Pei, and Fang Yizhi was just trying to startle Concubine Pei, but did not intend to interrogate him.From the beginning to the end, it seemed that no one asked him to go to the palace, but now this son-in-law Pei said that someone wanted him to go.
Concubine Pei was talking nonsense, so Li Yuqiong easily believed it and stood up for it.It can be seen how deep her aunt's feelings for Prince Consort Pei are.
Look at this concubine Pei, besides having a good skin and a hypocritical mouth, what else can he do.How could her aunt be so obsessed with this kind of person.
"Sister, you just came back from Wu Wang's mansion, but tell me, is your third brother's move too much!" Li Yuqiong said angrily.
Concubine Pei immediately looked at Li Mingda, and because he couldn't guess what he was thinking from his expression, Concubine Pei spoke first: "Si a little girl, how could she know this, even if something happened, his third brother wouldn't tell her, right? "
After finishing speaking, Concubine Pei stared closely at Li Mingda's eyes with a hint of threat.
Li Mingda looked back into Concubine Pei's eyes, "Uncle seems very angry and a little anxious."
Concubine Pei's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately dodged Li Mingda's gaze, and wanted to explain, but was interrupted by Li Yuqiong's laughter.
Li Yuqiong took Li Mingda's hand and said to Prince Consort Pei: "Now let's drink and have fun, don't talk about those troublesome things. King Wu, I will tell him tomorrow, you don't have to worry."
Concubine Pei nodded, reluctantly agreed, then picked up the wine glass at hand, and poured it into his stomach sullenly.
Seeing him disappointed, Li Yuqiong said, "Did you just say you have something to deal with?"
Concubine Pei was stunned for a moment, and immediately expressed his expression as if he was about to receive an amnesty, and nodded in agreement as if in a daze, and then the aunt and nephew said goodbye.
After leaving the door, Concubine Pei said angrily: "Little girl is not easy to fool, she won't even say a word for me!"
The servants around Concubine Pei comforted him, and then told Concubine Pei: "Ms. Qing has been arrested, and Fang Yizhi is interrogating her. Concubine, will our affairs be exposed?"
"Don't talk frustratingly! Qing Niang is not that kind of person. She has a more dexterous mouth than us. She knows what people are saying best, so she won't reveal the truth so quickly. But people should be rescued as soon as possible, otherwise something will happen sooner or later. .”
"How to save?"
After a while of silence, Concubine Pei sighed and said, "If it's really impossible, I can only ask the princess."
"It's a pain for the son-in-law. If the princess knows about this, she will be sad for a while."
"It's not that I haven't done it before, what are you afraid of, just coax it. By the way, I asked you to remake those few pieces of Persian jewelry, but if they are done, they can just be given to the princess."
"Si, why are you so dazed!" Li Yuqiong raised the volume so that Li Mingda could no longer be distracted to listen.
After Li Mingda came back to his senses, he took the wine that Li Yuqiong handed over with a smile, a little confused: "Sizi is not good at drinking, I just drank a glass, if I drink this glass, I'm afraid I won't even be able to walk."
"What are you afraid of? I can't walk anymore. I'll stay here tonight. My aunt has never slept with you before. It's just that our aunt and nephew took this opportunity to get close." After Li Yuqiong finished speaking, she signaled Li Mingda to drink.
Li Mingda raised his glass and drank it all, and respected Li Yuqiong at that time.
Li Yuqiong hurriedly poured the wine for her, "Since it's a respect to me, you must have three glasses in a row to show your sincerity."
Li Mingda smiled helplessly at Li Yuqiong, "I really can't refute this, well, I respect my aunt." Li Mingda drank two more glasses in succession.
Not long after, Li Mingda's face turned red, as delicate and beautiful as peony petals.
Li Yuqiong saw her start to play and laugh, and knew that she had drunk too much, so she asked someone to help her to the couch.Li Mingda fell on the couch, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.
Li Yuqiong looked at Li Mingda's pretty face, couldn't help touching her own face, and sighed, "It's nice to be young and beautiful, but I'm old."
The maids hurriedly said that Li Yuqiong was as beautiful as a fairy, not inferior to Princess Jinyang in the slightest.
Li Yuqiong laughed at herself when she heard the words, "Forget it, it's okay to coax me by saying this, but now this comparison is not good." Li Yuqiong picked up Li Mingda's hand and compared it with her own. Jade, as thick as sackcloth.
"To be old is to be old, that's all, but the son-in-law is not old at all." Li Yuqiong said at this time, his words were a little sad, with a trace of fear.
"The son-in-law treats the princess with all his heart, and the maidservant sees it in his eyes. He is really envious of others. Besides, this person is old after all. The son-in-law has not shown it in the past two years, and it may not be in a few years. The servant's family My uncle was also an old man at the beginning, he was in his forties, and some people thought he was under thirty. But after fifty, he is old and has no glory like before."
"Shut up, you are not allowed to curse the son-in-law like this. I would rather he stay young forever, and not have to worry about living like I do." Li Yuqiong sighed, and ordered someone to prepare water, she wanted to take a bath.
After speaking, he heard Li Mingda's voice on the couch, and rolled over.Li Yuqiong hurriedly went to help her, and when she saw her eyes open, Li Yuqiong smiled and pinched Li Mingda's face, "You girl is really impatient of drinking, and you are really drunk after only four cups. Get up quickly, after taking a bath Let's sleep again."
Li Mingda nodded, then got up, took a bath and changed clothes, then lay down on Li Yuqiong's couch, and lay down with Li Yuqiong.
Li Yuqiong was reading a book, Li Mingda leaned over to take a look, "What is Auntie reading?"
"Buddhist scriptures, as long as you don't have a headache, you must read them every day before going to bed, and use them for meditation." Li Yuqiong put the book down, and then looked at Li Mingda, "Tell my aunt, you have been running outside for the past two days, but you followed Fang Yizhi The case has been investigated."
Li Mingda: "My majestic princess, how can I follow a prince to investigate the case." Even if it is investigated, it is Fang Yi who followed her directly.
"Our son is promising." Li Yuqiong stretched out his hand and touched Li Mingda's face joyfully, "Think about it, if my son-in-law's and my first child could stay, it would be as old as you."
"Why is it gone?" Li Yuqiong and Consort Pei have never had any children.Li Mingda didn't like to ask too many questions about this kind of matter. Now that Li Yuqiong took the initiative to mention it, Li Mingda asked along the way.
"It's a bad life. Your aunt may have committed too many sins and suffered retribution."
"Auntie, don't say that. When you married the son-in-law, how old were you, and you were born in a deep house all the time, how could you commit any crimes?"
Li Yuqiong took a deep breath, "Sis, you don't understand, my aunt did betray someone back then. Although that person is no longer here, he still refuses to let me go under Jiuquan. He came to me in the dream and said he wanted me to pay him with my life."
"Who is so bold, dare to talk to my aunt like this, let me see if I can help you teach him a lesson in my dream." Li Mingda said slightly drunk, and stretched out his fist and punched it in the air one time.
Li Yuqiong was amused by Li Mingda's actions, and went to hold his son's hand, and said happily: "I don't want a son, if I can have a daughter like you, that's fine. It's a pity, the sky doesn't fulfill my wish. I just hope If we change the method this year, we can have a good result."
Li Mingda nodded, his eyelids drooped heavily, and his breathing gradually became heavy.
Seeing this, Li Yuqiong covered Li Mingda with a quilt and went to sleep herself.Suddenly hearing Li Mingda calling Prince Consort Pei, Li Yuqiong thought it was funny, so she perked up her ears to listen to what Li Mingda had to say.
"...Why do you want to betray my aunt, but tell me how to talk to my aunt, how to speak...Auntie cares about you so much, but you sue King Wu in front of my aunt, aren't you guilty? What's so good..." After Li Mingda finished speaking, he turned over and turned his back to Li Yuqiong.
After Li Yuqiong heard this, she no longer felt sleepy, she sat there, staring at the back of Li Mingda's head absently.
"Pei Zitong!" Li Yuqiong murmured involuntarily, and immediately got out of bed, ignoring her shoes, and ran out barefoot.Seeing this, the maids rushed to catch up.
Li Yuqiong pushed away the side room where Consort Pei lived, but there was no one in the room except one of his attendants.
"What about others?"
"My son-in-law, he just left the house to-"
"Come on, bring him back to me!" Li Yuqiong shouted.
Half an hour later, Concubine Pei was recovered.
Li Mingda lay on the couch, listening to the noise from the east wing all night.Because of this, I learned more about the relationship between Pei Consort and Li Yuqiong.
In the early morning, the sound died down.Li Mingda closed his eyes and slept until the sun was up.When she got up again, she found that Li Yuqiong was sitting beside the bed. Although her eyes were full of tiredness, she was very energetic. She asked with a smile if she slept well last night.
Li Mingda nodded, then got up and went behind the screen, and the servant girl waited for her to change her clothes.
"Si, Auntie has something to ask for your help." Li Yuqiong said to Li Mingda through the screen.
"what's up?"
Li Yuqiong: "Help me persuade your third brother and Fang Yizhi to stop investigating the silver mine. I won't hide it from you. Your uncle is responsible for this matter. I only found out not long ago. Put all the things he gained back. He is so rich and honored, he is really dissatisfied. This matter is his fault, my aunt admits it, and begs for mercy, hoping that the big one can be resolved."
"Silver mine?" Li Mingda asked.
Li Yuqiong was stunned for a moment, "What? You really don't know, the sage asked Fang Yi to come to Anzhou, isn't it to investigate the case of stealing a silver mine?"
"I don't know." Li Mingda shook his head, wondering why Li Yuqiong didn't quarrel with Prince Consort Pei last night, why did he suddenly talk about silver mines in the morning.
Li Yuqiong frowned, "This is weird, then what case are you investigating with your third brother and Fang Yizhi?"
"The descendants of the resting queen."
Li Yuqiong was shocked, his face turned pale.
Li Mingda only said these four words, if ordinary people don't know what they mean, they will definitely ask what they mean.But Li Yuqiong's reaction made Li Mingda conclude at a glance that she must know about this matter.
Li Mingda took this opportunity to press Li Yuqiong, "Why doesn't my aunt ask about my prostitute Qingniang?"
Li Yuqiong was shocked, "Last night you—"
"Since we are a family, I won't hide it from my aunt. I got drunk on purpose yesterday, just to tell my aunt about this hard-to-talk thing without being so embarrassing. If you tell me this kind of thing directly, my son really doesn't know how to proceed." Mouth. This woman is well-known in Anzhou, and she is called Qing Niang."
"I know, I knew her a long time ago." Li Yuqiong's expression was stiff for a long time, and finally he sighed and confessed to Li Mingda.
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