The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Lin Daiyu guessed that one of Lou's relatives was in danger, and everyone was slightly startled.Zhan Feng immediately said: "Do you think Mrs. Lou was sent to find Cong'er by our spy?"

Daiyu nodded and said: "The biggest omission in King Yan's life is that he didn't care about the backyard. Princess Lou of Yan Princess deliberately picked it up to cover up for him during his dormant period. No matter whether her family or herself, although there is no major fault, there is no great merit. "

Jia Cong rested his cheeks and said: "In short, it's okay to be a virtuous concubine, but not smart enough to be a Yan concubine. If it's inconvenient to change wives because of the embarrassment of the son, you should send someone to teach carefully, or be by her side Arrange for a reliable person to supervise. However, he ignored this woman so much that he didn't do anything."

Daiyu said: "Regardless of whether King Yan has returned to Beijing or not, it is obvious that he is going to make trouble in Beijing. I'm afraid the trouble is not small."

Jia Cong seemed to have cleared his mind: "This trouble targets the entire capital indiscriminately, including the children in King Yan's mansion. King Yan's temperament is to make big things careless, so he probably won't send away women and children. I'm afraid Scaring the snake. After all, we have a lot of people who know him here. As the person in charge of the backyard of the palace, Mrs. Lou will consider this issue."

Roman said: "Princess Yan loves the second child the most. Although the second child died early, there is still a concubine and a concubine who are raised by the princess' side."

Jia Cong said "Oh": "Rumors about prostitution and chaos in the palace, this idea is not guaranteed by the people around King Yan, and then try to talk to a few princes, and use their power to make a plan. I don't necessarily mind, Lin Uncle, that old man must care."

"No." Roman Feng Ziying and Lin Daiyu said at the same time.Jia Cong made a gesture of invitation.Lin Daiyu said: "This matter will hurt his own reputation."

Feng Ziying said: "If he wanted to, there would be too many excuses to send his heirs out of the city. He didn't think about it."

Roman nodded and said, "Not bad."

"Okay." Jia Cong said, "Then Mrs. Lou is in a hurry to see me today, and we are also in a hurry for our detailed work."

Daiyu smiled wryly and said: "Our people will never be her parents and brothers, they are likely to be eunuchs and eunuchs. If King Yan knows about this, no matter how hard he pretends to be, it will be difficult to save his life." Nai looked at them .

Liu Xiaoqi first said: "There are five masters in that mansion, they are two mothers and daughters. The mother was originally placed in Yan Wang's mansion by Liu Dengxi, she was not an important person, but just to spread a word. That girl is considered to be the son of Prince Yan's family, and the fifth master managed to send her into Lou's courtyard, and gradually gained trust. Now she is married, and she is Lou's confidant daughter-in-law, very smart. I suspect it is her."

Feng Ziying said: "There is a eunuch who belongs to me and is quite trusted by Mrs. Lou, but King Yan ordered me to install him."

Zhan Feng said: "There are people like me in Prince Yan's mansion, but they are not close to serve, but they are also highly valued."

Jia Cong said: "From this point of view, the most likely one is that confidant wife. We have only just entered Beijing, and the eunuchs under Brother Feng may not have such a strong subjective initiative."

Daiyu asked: "Has Xiaoqi contacted her recently?"

"I don't know." Liu Xiaoqi said apologetically, "Nothing happened recently, I didn't pay attention." He stood up, "I'll go over and find out." Then he asked who Zhan Feng was, it turned out to be the gardener of the garden in the mansion .He was wearing night clothes inside, so he just took off the outer clothes and left.

Lin Daiyu warned: "Be careful."

Jia Cong said: "The King of Yan may have other masters in his hands."

Liu Si smiled and said: "Don't worry, if he doesn't have the real ability, he wouldn't be able to survive now." Liu Xiaoqi raised his eyebrows and smiled, and flew out of the window like a shadow.

Everyone then discussed.Since some people collect rice at a high price in the suburbs, the idea probably has to do with grain.Lin Daiyu thought that the purchase of grain was not to raise grain and grass, but to clear up the surplus grain in the suburbs of Beijing.Food is the paramount necessity of the people.If there is a mistake in the food, the people will have to rebel.Wanting to make the huge capital lack food, she only thought of burning for the time being.How many people can burn the granaries in the capital?It's just too difficult.Apparently they had other methods.

On the other side, Liu Xiaoqi found a place where no one was around and entered Yan Wang's mansion.He had been there several times, knew the direction, and went to Princess Lou's courtyard.First, I walked around the yard twice, and saw a big pagoda tree protruding from the yard, so I climbed up the yard wall from here, and jumped into the crown of the tree.Looking back again, my heart skipped a beat: he has very good eyesight, and he can see that a different color of dust has been smeared on the top of the fence. People guessed that someone might have come to Lou's place to inquire.Liu Xiaoqi quickly held his breath and looked around, pretending that no one noticed him.If he turned around and left, that side's secret agent might not just be dead tomorrow.

After much deliberation, he gritted his teeth, took out a small stone from his bosom and threw it into the courtyard.In the green forest, this is called throwing stones to ask for directions, and it is used by thieves to test the owner's defense envoy.Not long after, there was a very slight sound of footsteps coming from not far away.Liu Xiaoqi sat on the tree and waited, that person must also be secretly checking.After a while, Liu Xiaoqi jumped down from the tree to look around, and suddenly felt that someone was staring at him.He deliberately put his footsteps heavier than usual, and his breathing was louder.This is the back of Lou's courtyard. There are several rockeries piled up, and a pavilion was built on the top of the rockery.Liu Xiaoqi first went up to the pavilion to inspect it for half a day, and then came down from the other side of the rockery.Walking around a few times as if no one else was there, he said something in a low voice with a smile - he spoke the local dialect of Ganxi area, which he learned when he helped Su Zheng coax the bandits, and no one in Beijing could understand it.

There are more than 20 rooms in Lou's courtyard, and Liu Xiaoqi went straight to the west.There were not many lights in the yard tonight, except for a few main rooms, the rest of the rooms were dark.Liu Xiaoqi poked from the first room in the northwest corner, and punctured all the windows of the side rooms on the west side.After reading it, I muttered a few words in Ganxi dialect, looked over from the southwest corner, and looked back again, a total of three times.After reading it, Liu Xiaoqi scolded a few times with a frowning face, turned back to the big locust tree, climbed up without hesitation, and turned over the wall from before.

After walking a dozen steps outside, Liu Xiaoqi felt someone staring at him behind him, so he pretended not to notice and walked north.Crossing a small path is the courtyard of a concubine of King Yan, and Liu Xiaoqi circles around the courtyard twice and climbs up the courtyard wall.This time he sat on the wall for a while, and it was obvious that there was no dust here—they only guarded Lou's yard.Liu Xiaoqi did the same thing, and punctured the window paper of the house on the west side of the yard.I looked back and forth three times, scolded a few more times, and returned from a long way.

In this way, the people who led the follower poked the windows on the west side of the seven yards.Coming out of the seventh courtyard, Liu Xiaoqi simply sat on the side of the road to rest.After waiting for a cup of tea, no one came to disturb him, so he knew that this person probably wanted to follow him to the end.Nai looked up to the sky with a long sigh, stood up and left.This trip went straight to the place where he entered the mansion, climbed over the wall of the palace and went out.

There is an alley behind the palace, where all the slaves released from the palace live.Liu Xiaoqi walked through the alley all the way to the end, but the follower hadn't shown up yet!In desperation, he had no choice but to steal clothes from a family's yard to put on his night clothes, and stole a horse.The servants of the palace are full of brocade clothes, and Liu Xiaoqi is also good-looking, and he has become the young master of a rich family in the blink of an eye.He then rode straight to a flower building.Seeing that the place of singing, singing and dancing is ahead, Liu Xiaoqi suddenly reined in the horse and was stunned for a long time, then turned the horse's head and walked back.

This time when he arrived at Dingchenghou's Mansion, Liu Xiaoqi randomly found a place to tie his horse, and jumped into the mansion without any hesitation.Immediately, he found the outer study of Lord Dingcheng with ease.It's almost five o'clock now, the people in the mansion are already asleep, and the study is empty.Liu Xiaoqi saw that there was still ink left on the desk, so she couldn't help but secretly happy.Then he closed the door and window of the study room, and lit the candlestick inside by himself—making it look like a master.After tossing around for half a day, he extinguished the candles, opened the door, and Liu Xiaoqi swaggered out.Go around a courtyard and pass through a moon cave door, which is the outer study of Grandpa Xie Jing.Xie Jing has gone to Wu country, and this place is usually locked.Liu Xiaoqi easily unlocked it, walked into the family's study, closed the door, and lay down on the imperial couch with all her clothes on.

Not long after, Liu Xiaoqi started snoring.After a while, someone poked a hole in the window.After a while, there was a slight sound of footsteps gradually going away.Liu Xiaoqi then snored for a while, got up, poked the hole a bit bigger, and dodged out.

Those who followed him had to go to Dingcheng Houwai's study to check what he had done, and Liu Xiaoqi took the opportunity to return to Yanwang's mansion.Turning into Lou's courtyard again, everyone in the courtyard fell asleep.Liu Xiaoqi searched for half a day, but couldn't find the daughter-in-law.Then she went to look for her mother again, but she didn't see anyone.Liu Xiaoqi hesitated for a moment, didn't go looking for the gardener, just eavesdropped on the chatter of the night watchmen in the mansion, but still didn't hear anything.Just as I was about to look elsewhere, I suddenly remembered the orphan of the second son of King Yan.This son was raised by his grandmother.

Then he went back to Lou's courtyard and saw two women guarding outside the Nuan Pavilion in the east, so he guessed that the little Wangsun lived here.Nai meowed a few times, and the woman who was so frightened that she dozed off suddenly woke up.The two looked around for a long time without seeing any movement, and they breathed a sigh of relief.

Now that you are awake, you must have a spiritual meeting.One whispered, "Old girl, can we leave tomorrow?"

The other sighed: "The whole father-in-law even dares to scold the princess, I can't see it going."

The first one said: "Didn't he agree to everything at first! Why did he change his mind again?"

Another said: "Who knows!"

half an hour. "Zhou Deshan's family doesn't know whether they are dead or alive."

"The empress is the empress after all, what would he dare to do without evidence?"

Liu Xiaoqi's heart was slightly touched by a stone: his own person might still be alive.Just pricking up their ears to listen, the two of them each gave a long sigh and fell silent.After waiting for a long time without any further news, Liu Xiaoqi was about to leave when a woman asked, "What did Zhou Deshan's family say? Why did you send Xiao Wangsun to the Zhuangzi?"

The other said: "I don't know." After a while, she said again, "I heard a sporadic ear, and I heard it from Miss Luluo and Miss Hongying. Zhou Deshan's family told the empress that we were helpless. Since the Duke of Qi sent the head to your door, why not do it?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"The two girls don't know either."

The two of them sighed again and stopped talking.After a while, he began to doze off again.Liu Xiaoqi didn't dare to stay any longer and left quietly.

All the way back to the Lin Mansion, those who were discussing the matter were lying on the chairs and sleeping lightly one by one.Seeing him coming back, they all got up and called Lin Daiyu out from the next ear room.Liu Xiaoqi told the story all over again, his face sank like water: "It's obvious that our people were caught by that whole father-in-law."

Feng Ziying said: "Since they left an ambush, they suspected that she was a spy, and they would not kill her immediately. I just don't know where she was sent for interrogation." He asked, "What Ganxi dialect did you speak?"

Liu Xiaoqi laughed and said: "The first sentence is that the prince's mansion is nothing more than that, there is not even a dog that can bark." Everyone smiled.He went on to say, "What followed was, 'Not at all, are you kidding me?'"

Jia Cong asked with a smile, "What did you do in the study of Master Dingcheng?"

"I wrote a letter." Liu Xiaoqi said, "I found the letter from Marquis Dingcheng to Xie Jing in the study, opened the envelope, stuffed mine inside, and sealed it again."

"What's in the letter?"

"The weather in the capital is very cold, the late chrysanthemums have withered, the wintersweet is in full bloom, and the plum blossoms are about to bloom. Tianqi Temple held a temple fair a few days ago. There were dragon and lion dances at the temple fair, and candied haws with big hawthorns."

Jia Congqi asked, "What is this?"

Liu Xiaoqi spread her hands: "What I wrote is a hidden language!"

"What cryptic?"

"How would I know! Let Eunuch Quan guess slowly." Everyone laughed.

After laughing, Jia Cong said: "Although we didn't find our own people, it also disturbed the enemy's sight. It's enough for them to guess for a while."

Zhan Kun nodded, and said: "From the words of the two night watch women, we can see that Princess Lou didn't just want to send her grandson out of the city these few days, but she had thought about it a long time ago. At first she had no idea. It seems that the Duke of Qi came to visit recently. I met Lou."

Feng Ziying interjected: "The wife of Qi Guofu visited Mrs. Lou a few days ago."

"That's right. Lin Xiang wanted to collect the land tax from the Duke's mansion, but Qi Guogong and others were unwilling to pay it, so they discussed making rumors that Cong'er was promiscuous and messed up the backyard of the prince's mansion, and contacted Mrs. Lou to ask her to help sing the opera. Zhou Deshan's family went down the donkey, Taking advantage of the situation, he persuaded Mrs. Lou to use this name to send the little Wangsun out of the city. That father-in-law agreed—it should be the king of Yan who agreed." Gong Kun said, "I never thought that Gao Mengsheng returned to the Jiaofang Division. Let's know this in advance, Conger So they invited sixteen gongs, drums and suona teams to make a fuss all over the capital. If the crime of rape cannot be charged, the little prince and grandson will naturally not be able to leave. The princess is worried, fearing that something will happen in Beijing that will hurt her grandson; Zhou Deshan's family is also worried , fearing that we would not get any news, so she persuaded the concubine to look for Cong'er."

Luo Tainiang said: "The king of Yan and Mrs. Lou must have not met yet, it is all the father-in-law passing on the message among them. Otherwise, she would not dare to disobey the words of the king of Yan even if Mrs. Lou had ten guts. I am afraid that there is something unclear about it. .”

"Well," Jia Cong said, "Lou's family should have rushed to play a side ball before King Yan gave a clear order to 'cancel the previous plan'. In this way, Lou's still took a lot of risks. She is really very happy." Worried that her grandson will be affected."

The old man Zhan Feng suddenly said: "Xiaoqi, you send two more people to Yanwang Mansion."

"what?"

Zhan Feng tapped lightly on the desk: "In this matter, what is King Yan's greatest strength?"

Everyone asked: "What?"

"He is the real King Yan." Zhan Feng said, "We are fighting against the fake King Yan. Before we gain a foothold, the fake one must be the real one to succeed."