The general went out again at night

On the morning of the sixteenth, it rained heavily, and the huge sky seemed to have been pierced open, and the rain poured down.

The dense rain brought a chill, and the breakfast in General Fuyuan's mansion was moved to a smaller side hall, where the charcoal fire was burning vigorously and it was very warm.

The injury on Xia Qingshu's hand was mainly in the palm of the hand, but her ten fingers could move freely, so she rejected Liu Qi's suggestion to let her maidservant feed her.

She is not such a delicate person.

The siu mai in the kitchen is very delicious today, Xia Qingshu wanted to eat again after eating one, she poked at the top of the siu mai with the chopsticks, pierced it from the head to the tail, then clamped it firmly, and brought it to her mouth , the action is very blunt and unsightly, but very practical.

Special times call for special measures.

After eating another siu mai, Xia Qingshu looked satisfied, and was about to have a sip of sweet pumpkin porridge, when she saw a figure walking towards her through the rain curtain.

It's Long Xuan.

After Long Xuan entered the capital, Xia Qingshu placed him by her side and found him a small position in the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion.

After the two sons were arrested yesterday in the yamen of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, she ordered Long Xuan to pay close attention to the situation in the prison.He came in a hurry this morning, presumably something happened.

Xia Qingshu waved his hand, and the maidservants beside him retreated silently.Liu Qi also had something to do, so he quit after reporting.

There are only Xia Qingshu, Liu Yan and Long Xuan in the side hall.

"General, Mr. Zhou is blind in one eye," Long Xuan said with an inexplicable smile on his lips, "It also hurt the root of life."

"I can't save it?" Xia Qingshu put down the porcelain spoon in his hand.

"Yesterday, the Zhou family invited famous physicians from all over the capital to the yamen. It seems that there are still one or two imperial physicians in the palace, but they are still unable to recover. They are really going to die."

Zhou Bi was seriously injured, his face and body were bloody and bloody, Xia Qingshu ordered a clean small room for him to heal his injuries, and sent soldiers to guard the door.

Although Zhou Bi was wounded by Zhao Xuexin, he was the one who beat the boy who tried to persuade him in Yichun Building, so he is also responsible for the crime.

Considering his injury, Xia Qingshu specially ordered that Zhou's relatives and escorts would not stop him from visiting and accompanying him, and people would make troubles at will, as long as he was still in the yamen of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, it was very humane.

It's just that under such conditions, one eye was blinded and the root of life was injured, which can only show that Zhao Xuexin's fire caused all the trouble.

Xia Qingshu thought for a while and said: "I heard that the Zhou family has been passed down for several generations. When Zhou Bi comes here, he is very precious. The whole Zhou family still counts on him to flourish."

"That's right, the marriage is all set. It's the daughter of Mr. Liu, the left deputy capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. She was supposed to get married after the Chinese New Year. I don't know if the engagement should be broken now?

"This marriage must be held by Liu Yushi Gao Pan. The Zhou family's consent is required to terminate the engagement. But looking at Zhou Bi's current situation, it is unspeakably "miserable". I think the Zhou family will not let him go easily."

"If the marriage contract cannot be dissolved, then Liu Yushi and the Zhou family are together, and they will definitely deal with the Zhao family together."

"That's great." Xia Qingshu said happily, "Let them fight to the death first, so that we can search for information secretly."

***

The mansion of Zhao Yanyuan, a scholar of Wenyuange University, is not far from Chengtian Gate. It is only two miles away when he goes to court.

In the past, Emperor Hongsu sympathized with Zhao Ge's old age, and he still performed his duties loyally for the Great Yan court. The special arrangement was also regarded as a kind of glorious reward.

In other words, Emperor Hongsu noticed such small details in Mr. Zhao Ge's daily life, which is enough to show how high his status in the emperor's heart is.

Zhao Yanyuan, who was born as a Jinshi in Tianshun for 18 years, went through three dynasties. He was an official at the beginning, and then he was promoted step by step.In the last years of Yuanhe, when Emperor Yuanhe collapsed, Prince Ji Zhiyan was supposed to succeed to the throne with the edict, but unexpectedly King Wu conspired against him and led his troops into the Forbidden City to tamper with the edict.

Faced with the pursuit of the emperor's uncle, Ji Qianyao desperately protected his younger brother to escape from the imperial city and disappeared.

King Wu secretly sent someone to chase and kill the prince, but on the surface he claimed that the prince was dead, and took the opportunity to ascend the throne.Immediately after King Wu ascended the throne, a group of ministers resigned and went into seclusion. King Wu took the opportunity to change the court and arrange his confidants to be officials.

Zhao Yanyuan was one of those who returned to hermitage. After Emperor Hongsu was restored, he came out again to show his loyalty.After he returned, most of the ministers who resigned with him also returned, willing to help the new king eradicate traitors and help the country.Emperor Hongsu was overjoyed and trusted Zhao Yanyuan more and more.

However, such a famous and promising family is now planted in the hands of Zhao Xuexin, who is ignorant and incompetent.

Yesterday, after the soldiers of the five armies' governor's mansion came to spread the word, Zhao's mansion fell into chaos.

Early in the morning, Zhao Yanyuan, who had passed seventy years of age, sat on the main seat, holding a cane in his hand, with a sad expression on his face.His temples were already grey, and his face was full of wrinkles, but his eyes were not cloudy at all, they were still as sharp as eagles.

It must be because he didn't have a good rest yesterday because of his grandson, the dark shadows under Zhao Ge's old eye circles are very thick, he got up this morning and his breathing was quite heavy, and his expression was a little tired.

Sitting on the left and right ends of Zhao Yanyuan are a woman, and the one on the right is his wife Yang Shi, who is holding Zhao Yanyuan's sleeve and crying indistinctly.

On the left is his daughter-in-law Fang, who wipes away the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief from time to time, chattering endlessly.

"Okay, stop arguing!" Zhao Yanyuan threw his cane violently, and shouted violently: "Shut up, what problem can crying solve!"

The two women choked for a moment and immediately fell silent.

"You too! You just stand there stupidly and don't know how to save your son?" This time it was Yan Yuan's youngest son, Zhao Yebin, who was training.

"Father, I'm trying to figure out a way!" Zhao Yebin was well-proportioned, loved by Zhao Yanyuan and his wife since he was a child, he has a good foundation, he is middle-aged, he doesn't gain weight, but he still looks dignified.But his temperament has been spoiled, weak and helpless, a mud that cannot be supported.

Most of Zhao Xuexin's ignorance is inherited from his father.

There was another person standing in the hall, staying quietly in the corner, wearing regular clothes, wearing a sword on his waist, standing like a pine, he was a practitioner, there was no trace of panic and anxiety on his face, he was very quiet, only a pair of eyes glanced at him. Sweeping around, paying attention to the expressions of everyone in the hall.

"Father, why don't we buy Xia Qingshu with some silver and let her release Xin'er?" After thinking for a long time, Zhao Yebin finally came up with a method that he thought was credible.

As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Yanyuan yelled again, and the crutch in his hand hit the ground one after another. He was going to be pissed off by this unworthy son: "You are also a fourth-rank official of the imperial court after all, and you can't speak too much. Where's the brain?"

Zhao Yebin looked aggrieved: "Father, my son thinks this plan is feasible."

"If Xia Qingshu knew how to be flexible, would she send Xin'er and Zhou Bi to the yamen of the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army?" Zhao Yanyuan said angrily.

"But my son heard that the Fuyuan General's Mansion lived in extreme poverty. New clothes were only changed once a year, and food was not rich. Besides, Xia Qingshu just returned to the imperial court. This may be due to her unfamiliarity with political affairs. Focus on the money, at worst, give some houses, can she not be moved by it?" Zhao Yebin said with a serious face.

"Life is poor because their Xia family is a warrior, so they don't like fresh clothes and angry horses. They don't ask for rare food, just a full stomach. If they spend less, it means they are short of money? Do you remember that Xia Qingshu's ancestor also had a hereditary title? "Zhao Yanyuan was so angry that his face was flushed. He felt that he raised a pig and taught it for more than 40 years, and he was smarter than his son.

Zhao Yebin stopped talking, but after thinking about it carefully, he really felt that this method was too risky, so he kept his mouth shut and thought of other methods.

After half a stick of incense, he moved his body violently, his expression very excited: "Father, I thought of it! I thought of a new way!"

Zhao Yanyuan snorted, raised his eyes and stared at him, his face still not softening: "Tell me and listen."

"I remember that Xia Qingshu was often disrespectful to Her Royal Highness the Princess. Not only was she rude in the palace, but she even instigated the cook to go to Her Royal Highness's mansion to make trouble in private. My son thinks that Her Royal Highness must also hate this Xia Qingshu. Can we ask Her Royal Highness Looking for help?"

Zhao Yebin's plan was also a bad idea that couldn't be any worse, but it reminded Zhao Yanyuan that Xia Qingshu was so ungrateful that she clearly wanted to go against the Zhao family, and now she had to grab some of her handles, and if necessary, she could use her This is a good way to suppress it.

"His Royal Highness the Princess doesn't like Xia Qingshu, which means she will save Xin'er. Is there a connection between the two? Have you read all the books for decades?"

"There is always a connection." Zhao Yebin said in a low voice.

"Forget it, I don't want to talk to you, I want to play the piano to the cow." Zhao Yanyuan's eyes flashed to Ouyang Shijun who had been sitting silently in the corner.

"Shijun, what can you do?"

Ouyang Shijun shook his head, but secretly winked at Zhao Yanyuan.

Zhao Yanyuan understood, and stood up on crutches: "Since there are none, let's leave first. Everyone, don't act rashly, so as not to be self-defeating. Shijun, come with me to the study."

"Yes, godfather."