The queen must start from the head

Chapter 134
In the blink of an eye, it is summer.

In the imperial city this year, the summer heat came early, only the beginning of June, and the ground in the imperial city was hot enough to scald the soles of the feet at noon.

At noon, the sun was overhead, and the taverns and tea shops on both sides of the street were full of customers who came to have lunch.

A young couple walked under the sun holding an umbrella, and the man took out a silk scarf from time to time to wipe the sweat of the lady with a slightly protruding pregnant belly beside him.

"Miss, are you tired from walking? Would you like to sit down and have a drink of tea?"

The beautiful woman dressed as a young woman shook her head and said, "No, let's walk for a while and turn around this street. In front of us is our makeup shop."

Although the man loved his wife dearly, he couldn't resist her, so he had to hold an umbrella for her, and the two continued to walk forward.

This man was Huang Chang, who came to Beijing for the exam this year. After he passed the exam, because of his high ranking and the fact that someone in his family had money, he made some connections, so he stayed in the imperial city and became a small official.

At that time, Northern Qi sent troops to the north to fight Da Qin desperately, no one knew what the final result would be.

At that time, he fell in love with Gu Qingxuan, the daughter of the owner of the Gu family's cosmetics shop, at first sight. Regardless of whether it was a war or not, and what the final result was, he foolishly brought someone to his door to propose marriage.

But for some reason, Boss Gu, who was born as a businessman, didn't seem to like scholars like him very much, so he made things difficult for him for a while.

After Gu Qingxuan found out about this, she quietly observed Huang Chang for a long time, knowing that his character, appearance, and family background were all good, so she moved her daughter's heart.

After having this elbow-out daughter, Boss Gu had no choice but to marry his only precious daughter to her in the end.

Huang Chang was an official in the imperial city, and his family bought a house for him here.

After the young couple got married, they lived in this house.

Right now Gu Qingxuan is pregnant, but today is the Tiankuan Festival on June [-]th, so it stands to reason that she has to go back to her mother's house.For this reason, there was this little couple walking under the sun.

After the two walked for a while, the Gu family's makeup shop finally arrived.

Huang Chang's mother-in-law and Gu Qingxuan's biological mother, Zhu Shi, had long been watching eagerly in front of the shop, but at this moment two people appeared in sight, and hurriedly greeted her.

Boss Gu slowly walked out from behind the counter, with a shy general's belly. Hearing his son-in-law greet him and salute him, he said "hmm" in a polite way.

This little boy abducted his daughter, and still wants him to show a good face?There are no doors!
Mrs. Zhu was a little dissatisfied with her husband's attitude, so she took the time to glare at him. As a strict wife, Lao Gu was forced to smile bluntly, and led her daughter and son-in-law into the backyard.

My mother-in-law knew that her daughter was going back to her mother's house today, so she went out early in the morning to buy fish and meat. The enthusiasm when cooking made Lao Gu's heart sour.

Now the table is full of four people, and there are food and wine.Lao Gu didn't say anything else, opened a pot of Nurhong, and poured a big bowl for his son-in-law and himself.

"Come on, finish this bowl!"

The father-in-law took the initiative to toast, as a son-in-law, he must never be cowardly.

When Huang Chang was studying in the past, he hardly drank alcohol, but after staying in the imperial city and becoming an official, he could drink a little.At this moment, I touched the big bowl of wine with my father-in-law, raised my head and gulped it down.

Seeing that his son-in-law's bowl of wine had bottomed out, Lao Gu was satisfied and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Not bad, not bad, this looks like it! Hahaha, let's come again!"

As he spoke, he filled another bowl of wine for his son-in-law.

Gu Qingxuan couldn't stand it any longer, "Father, don't force your husband to drink! He has to go to the Yamen in the afternoon!"

"What is drinking this little wine?" Old Gu waved his hand indifferently.

Seeing that he was determined to get his son-in-law drunk, Mrs. Zhu's hand placed under the table immediately twisted Lao Gu's thigh hard, causing his face to turn red to the color of pig liver in pain.

The daughter and son-in-law only thought that he was blushing from drinking, and didn't think much about it.

Seeing that he stopped making trouble, Mrs. Zhu quickly raised her hand to pick up a piece of fish meat for her daughter and said, "Come on, don't worry about your father, eat vegetables quickly! Try it, is this braised fish still your favorite flavor in Xuan'er ?”

Gu Qingxuan lowered her head, and obediently took a bite of the fish. The smooth taste reminded her of the time when she was unmarried at home, and an inexplicable touch came to her heart.The feeling of gratitude to her mother was only felt more deeply when she was also a mother herself.

Seeing that her daughter liked it, Zhu happily gave her son-in-law a piece of fish with chopsticks.

The last one was Lao Gu who had been screwed by her just now.It's just that when she went down with the chopsticks, she accidentally found a string of white things protruding from the belly of the fish. She didn't know what it was.

It was Lao Gu who was drinking a little wine and his eyes were slightly smoky. Suddenly, a bright light flashed in his squinted eyes. He picked up the chopsticks and slashed open the belly of the fish two or three times. pearl.

The other three people on the table were stunned. Where did the big pearl come from in the belly of this fish?
Before the four of them could react, the door of the shop that had been closed in front was suddenly kicked open from the outside.

Immediately afterwards, a group of officers and soldiers in soap clothes rushed in, the leader wearing the purple-black official uniform unique to the warden.As soon as he entered, he saw the pearl necklace protruding from the belly of a plate of fish on the table.

"Come here, pick up that pearl and examine it to see if it's the South Sea pearl that was lost in Zhenbei Houye's mansion!"

As soon as the officer spoke, a soldier immediately stepped forward, took out the big pearl, and held it with a white scarf for inspection.

The other guards surrounded the three members of the Gu family and Huang Shang, preventing the four from getting away.

After a while, Xiao Bing reported to his chief, "Report to my lord, this is exactly the pearl lost by the Hou Mansion!"

Huang Chang saw that something was wrong, so he bowed his hands to the official of the prison department and said, "My lord, my subordinate is Huang Chang, the assistant officer in charge of official documents in the yamen under the Imperial City Division. Today, my subordinate and Zhuo Jing came to the home of my father-in-law As a guest, but I don’t know why, a pearl suddenly appeared in the belly of the fish, and I don’t know why my lord broke in at this time and appeared here?”

Hearing what Huang Chang meant, the official of the prison department smiled and said, "Huang Zuoguan, right? A few days ago, the Zhenbei Hou Mansion was attacked by thieves, and a bunch of treasures in the house were stolen by thieves. This officer has just received a report that the stolen goods from the Zhenbei Hou Mansion are hidden in the Gu family's powder shop!"

As the head of the family, Boss Gu, how can he let such a shit basin be held on his head?Immediately, his face flushed with anger, and he shouted angrily, "It's unreasonable, this is clearly someone who is making a false accusation!"

The official of the prison department doesn't care about this, since he has received a report, he has to bring someone to investigate.

"Whether it's a false accusation or not, we have to check it out. Come here, search this place for me!"

"You!" Boss Gu angrily wanted to take a few steps forward to comment with the visitor, but Zhu grabbed his arm. The latter shook his head and begged him not to go up with his eyes.

Gu Qingxuan, who had experienced such a sudden change in her family, was also leaning against her husband's arms with a pale complexion at this time, looking a little dazed and at a loss.

After a while, the warden staff searched the entire courtyard of the Gu family.

"My lord, I didn't find it here."

"I don't have it here either."

After the people below reported the situation one by one, the official from the warden raised the pearl in the white scarf and asked, "Where did you get this pearl?"

Mrs. Zhu hesitated and said, "I bought this fish from the morning market this morning. When I slaughtered it, the belly of the fish was cleaned up and there was nothing there. But for some reason, after serving dinner, Suddenly this extra thing came out, and then you, my lord, came on the back foot... ".

Like her son-in-law, she felt that what happened was too strange, and the timing of this lord's appearance was too coincidental.

Huang Chang hurriedly said again, "That's right, the officials can testify to this matter. The bead was indeed discovered suddenly from the belly of the fish after it was served. If someone really stole the stolen goods, why didn't they just hide the stolen goods? How about putting it in the belly of a fish that has been cooked and ready to be eaten? Someone must have framed this matter secretly, and I hope your lord will find out!"

This happened so suddenly today, it made his eyelids twitch, and he had a faint feeling of bad premonition.

The eyes of the warden officer's eyes darkened a little, and he said in a deep voice, "Whether you are wronged or not, you will only find out if you go to the yamen for interrogation! This aunt who bought fish for cooking is the most suspicious person. Next, I will Please come with us. Someone, take this person away!"

"No!"

When Gu Qingxuan saw her mother being detained, tears welled up in her eyes. She turned her head and begged her husband, "Sir, my mother didn't do anything! Please speak up and save her!"

Places like Yamen have always been tortured into tricks.Her mother is already very old, why has she ever been to that kind of place?In case she was tortured to extract a confession, she would not even dare to imagine such a scene!
At this time, Boss Gu stood up, staring at the prison official with squinting eyes and said, "Wait a minute, since you want to take the thief who stole the treasure, what can she do as a woman? The stolen goods appeared in my house, you can take me to the Yamen for interrogation and let her go!"

After the other party listened, he pondered for a moment, but in the end he waved his hand and took the two of them away.

Gu Qingxuan didn't expect things to develop to this point. She rolled her eyelids up and immediately passed out in her husband's arms.

"Qingxuan! Qingxuan!"

Huang Chang called a few times to no avail, quickly picked him up, and hurried out to find a doctor.

　It's New Year's Eve, I wish you all a year of fish (Yu)!

　　In addition, I would like to add another sentence-Wuhan, come on!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)