Fengmou in troubled times

The urgent report of Wang Fangshou of Yaoshan County was sent to the imperial palace in Liangcheng, Kyoto. The news of the death and injury of the two princes who were inspecting the disaster area immediately spread to the court and the public.The Party of Five Kings headed by Chen Xiangguo lost their trust and made a mess of porridge.The Second Prince's faction celebrated with their foreheads and hands, secretly delighted that there was one less competitor.The other officials who watched the excitement were not willing to be lonely, and they all mentioned that the seventh prince had just returned to the country, so he killed the first prince, and now he killed the fifth prince.

Concubine Chen Gui in the deep palace heard the sad news that her youngest son fell into the water and died, she rolled her eyes and passed out.The fifth concubine happened to be in the palace too. Seeing that Concubine Chen was unconscious and everyone in the palace turned on their backs, although she also lost her face and burst into tears, she fainted and added to the chaos. I went to ask the imperial doctor to come for diagnosis and treatment, and even the emperor did not forget to pass the news.

When Chen Guifei woke up faintly, thinking of her two sons who had suffered accidents in the past six months, she couldn't help but feel sad and burst into tears.The fifth concubine cried with her for a while holding the handkerchief, unconsciously talking about the long journey in the comforting words, the prince's body may not be able to be sent back to the palace at seven o'clock, isn't it going to be perfunctory on the road.Concubine Chen Gui, who was crying loudly, raised her head abruptly, her expression so ferocious that the five princesses quickly fell silent, only to hear Concubine Chen say bitterly: "Just now that person said that Lao Qi was only seriously injured?! Why didn't he die, but Is it my son Yizhen?!" Crazy waved over the medicine bowl presented by the servants, Concubine Chen shouted hoarsely: "He is a broom star! Just like his vicious mother, he is really a disaster! That When the slut dies, why don't you take this bastard with you!..."

The fifth concubine broke out in a cold sweat, but she managed to stop crying, and hurriedly grabbed the mad Concubine Chen, and screened away the servants on the left and right with a nervous expression. "Mother Concubine," she persuaded in a soft voice: "When the son married into the palace, you said that in this palace, the first thing you have to control is your own mouth. What you said just now, others After listening to it, I don’t know what to arrange.” Seeing that Chen Guifei calmed down a little, the fifth princess continued: “Furthermore, I think that what happened this time may not necessarily have something to do with the Seventh Prince... "

"What! Your husband's bones are still cold, and now you are speaking for that disaster star in front of me..." Concubine Chen's face changed again when she heard that, but the fifth princess hurriedly cut her off, "Mother Concubine , I'm not saying this to help the Seventh Prince, but to remind you not to let the real culprit go unpunished."

Concubine Chen Gui was stunned for a moment, and finally calmed down: "You said...the real murderer..."

The fifth princess patiently explained: "My lord, he also knows some kung fu. How can he inspect a dam so well that he can accidentally slip and fall down? These words are okay for others, but I can't believe them anyway. Yes." She breathed a sigh of relief as she spoke, and couldn't help crying, "However, during a visit to the disaster area, the two princes were almost killed. Concubine Mu, do you think this is a coincidence, or was it deliberately arranged? If something happened to the prince and His Royal Highness, who can benefit the most, don't you see clearly?"

After all, she was also a concubine who had been struggling in the palace for many years. The more Concubine Chen calmed down, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that it made sense. After following her daughter-in-law's words, she straightened out the twists and turns. "Could it be the second child? Is he going to prepare for the throne?..." As soon as these words came out, Chen Guifei shuddered, "Yes, it must be!" She couldn't help but grabbed the fifth princess hands, "He has a wishful thinking, I will never allow him to get what he wants! You go out of the palace now, find my brother and your uncle, and ask him to come to this palace for a while after he retires tomorrow." Come on. I can't let my son Yizhen die in vain! I must avenge him..."

After tirelessly persuading and comforting her for a while, the Fifth Princess then resigned and left.After the carriage she was riding in left the palace gate, it stopped in an alley one street away from the Fifth Prince's Mansion, and not long after, another carriage came slowly and brushed past the carriage of the Fifth Princess and stopped.

"Lord Ling Ye." The fifth concubine ordered someone to lift the curtain of the window, and respectfully bowed to the carriage to the end, "I am fortunate to live up to my fate, and I have told Mrs. Chen everything you ordered. "

A smiling face appeared behind the opened car curtain, it was Ling Ye, the deputy leader of Helian Sacred Church.He showed a satisfied smile to the fifth princess, and said kindly: "You did a good job, thank you for your hard work."

The fifth concubine hastily resigned modestly, but she heard Lingye ask thoughtfully: "So, did Fang Yizhen really slip into the water?"

She said yes, but she had doubts in her eyes. Master Lingye had many sources of news, and she probably knew about the big and small things in the disaster area earlier than her, so she didn't understand why he would ask such a question.Lingye's question was originally a question to herself, and of course she didn't expect her to be able to answer anything. "You go back first." He waved his hand casually, ignoring the fifth concubine opposite, knocked on the carriage board to signal the driver to drive away, and headed for the house where he and Fang Linyuan lived when they were young.

The sound of peddlers on both sides of the street came to his ears, but Lingye's thoughts were not here at all.From Fang Linyuan's assassination to Fang Yizhen's falling into the water, this series of events was originally carefully planned by the two of them, but for some reason, the cause of Fang Yizhen's falling into the water changed from another dam collapse to a foot slip.If this change was not a coincidence, then there must be another group of people who couldn't bear it anymore and took the initiative to deal with Fang Yizhen.But who is behind the scenes...

The only thing that can benefit from Fang Yizhen's death is the few remaining princes who are qualified to inherit the throne. The second prince, Fang Liancheng, is the most suspected. This is why they let the fifth princess say those words in front of Concubine Chen deliberately, so as to attract Concubine Chen Use all the strength of the Chen family to deal with Fang Liancheng.The second is Fang Jinghui, the fourth prince. Although he has shown his incomparable loyalty and attachment to Linyuan over the years, he still has a long way to go if he wants to gain Lingye's trust completely.Apart from these two princes, it is also possible for the cold-blooded emperor Fang Hua to do it himself.The rule that a tiger's poison does not eat its son does not seem to apply to Fang Hua, after all, many princes who died young in the deep palace all died at Fang Hua's hands.Ling Ye repeatedly speculated to no avail, so he had to give up. Fang Linyuan never sent the letter back, so I don't know if he was thinking about these things too.

However, he has to heal his wounds, think about how to appease the victims, oppress the rich businessmen, and have a romantic relationship with Feng Yinran, Fang Dajiao probably can't spare time to think about other things... Ling Ye curled her lips, and the sudden recognition appeared... Knowing made him a little unhappy, but he couldn't get rid of Feng Yin quietly without being discovered by Fang Linyuan, he was really aggrieved and useless.

Ling Ye, who was a little bored, leaned on the window and looked out, suddenly saw an extremely familiar figure flash by, it was the Fourth Prince Fang Jinghui.Although it was only for an instant, Lingye still sensitively sensed the great oppressive feeling brought by the man beside him who couldn't see his face clearly.This feeling is very familiar... Ling Ye couldn't help but looked in the direction of Cai and laughed, his ability to remember people and events has always been very good, there is absolutely no possibility of admitting mistakes.Moreover, that person may not bother to hide his aura, no matter how much he disguises and changes, the coercion is still there, and it has not changed over the years, so how can he deceive his memory.

Now that that person came, he even connected with the Fourth Prince Fang Jinghui, it's not in Lingye's character if he doesn't take advantage of it.I hope Hierarch Fang Da will not stay too long in Yaoshan City, and teach that person to wait until he loses his patience.

……Dividing line……

When Fang Hua's decree reached Fang Shou, in addition to symbolically ordering the magistrate of the city to strengthen law and order and patrol, and to pay attention to eliminating dangers on the river embankment, he also urged Fang Shou to perform his duties. The two princes had accidents one after another and did not punish any officials. Fang Shou didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

"A Dian, what do you mean, Your Majesty?" Seeing that Fang Linyuan glanced briefly at the imperial decree, he went back to his room and continued to read in the name of healing his wounds. Fang Shou, who was at a loss, couldn't help asking Song Dian.

Song Dian, who was drinking tea leisurely, raised his eyelids, glanced at Fang Shou, who seemed to him to be pretending to be stupid, and said slowly: "I didn't see that His Majesty sent the best imperial doctor in the palace to give Qi Your Highness went to see a doctor, but didn't mention how to deal with the body of the fifth prince? Now I think your vision is indeed good, or your gambling luck is a little bit better than others. Although your majesty has not expressed it publicly so far, but It seems that he treats our Seventh Highness indeed a little differently."

Fang Shou, who only noticed Song Dian's praise, raised the corners of his mouth smugly, even though Song Dian's words were not really a compliment after careful investigation. "I don't know how long it will take for the imperial doctor sent by His Majesty to arrive. I can't help being envious when I see His Highness the Seventh Prince sitting in the room so leisurely, reading, writing, playing chess and drawing."

Song Dian shook his hands, and almost couldn't resist pouring the hot tea in the cup directly on Fang Shou's face, "You are such a free and unfettered prince, I am ashamed to say I am envious! Get out early tomorrow morning and help me with the affairs in the yamen. !"

This roar was like a thunderbolt.Fang Shou swallowed, and involuntarily nodded in agreement under Song Dian's cannibalistic gaze, and thus became Song County Magistrate's pen-and-ink book boy.

Feng Yinran, who was out on errands, naturally knew nothing about what happened in Yaoshan Palace and what was written in the imperial decree.Because Fang Linyuan was "severely injured and dying", it was inconvenient to show up, so the heavy responsibility of extorting wealthy businessmen and officials of Yaoshan City naturally fell on Fang Shou and Song Dian.Although Feng Yinran contributes the most, it is mainly to build bridges behind the scenes and collect the weaknesses of the bullies by the way, but the work of offending people on the stage is handed over to Fang Shou and Song Dian who use power for personal gain.However, as the team of the bullies grew stronger, the matter of raising food and materials for disaster relief went very smoothly. Fang Shou, the king of Yaoshan who had been "coolie" for a few days, finally went on strike. It was in Feng Yinran's hands.

After wandering around Yaoshan City for a day, Feng Yinran, who came to the last grain store non-stop, greeted all Fang Shou's "Masters" again in his heart,

Only then did he calm down his anxious mood, took the paperwork given by Fang Shou, and walked into the shop.Even though he was just passing on a message and pretending to count the number, others would have to worry about the shipment.But after running like this for a day and seeing all the wealthy merchants in Gaoshan City, Feng Yinran still felt tired.Sure enough, too many leisure days have passed, and the corners of her lips curled up in self-deprecating manner. Feng Yinran, who was wearing a veiled hat, walked into the hall, and saw the owner of the grain store greet him in fear.

"My lord," this grain merchant is the one with the largest stock of grain in Gaoshan City, and it is said that he is also related to a certain important person in Beijing. He is usually domineering and domineering, and even Fang Shou would give him a little bit of shame.Seeing Feng Yinran at this moment, he looked respectful, as soft as dough, completely unable to get angry.Before Feng Yinran was surprised, the boss apologized and said with a smile: "I'm really sorry, my store and all the food have been bought by a nobleman. The little one promised the prince to donate food before, and Mr. Lao himself Talk to that gentleman again."

Could it be that this little boss wants to retreat, make up a buyer, and push the matter of donating food to nothing?Feng Yinran sized up the boss carefully, but he couldn't see any fraud in his expression, "Where is the new boss of this store at this time?"

"My lord heard that my lord brought people to carry grain today, and I'm waiting for my lord in the house." The grain merchant wiped the sweat from his forehead, and the veil on the veil blocked Feng Yinran's expression, making the grain Mr. Shang has a sense of insecurity talking to himself. "My lord, please come in, the villain will leave now."

Feng Yinran waved his hand and didn't stop him. There were guards sent by Fang Shou outside the grain store, and this place was Fang Shou and Song Dian's territory. Few people knew his real identity during his trip, but He is not afraid that someone will take the opportunity to disadvantage him. "Let the guards wait outside now, I'll go meet the mysterious new owner of this store by myself." Feng Yinran turned around and gave instructions to the bookkeeping master Song Dian pointed out to him, and walked to the back room of the grain store. past.

The moment the door was pushed open, something came with the wind, and hit Feng Yinran's veil with the sound of piercing through the air.Feng Yinran didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly shot out with the knife with his left finger, blocking the attack of the thing, and quickly drew out the long sword with his right hand to break the situation, hooking the thing in the blink of an eye and not allowing it to retract.He took advantage of the situation to look up, but saw a young man in dark red clothes standing in front of him, holding a shiny silver whip in his hand, who else could it be if it wasn't his bad friend Shao Suhong who had known him for two lifetimes.

"Shao Surong, what the hell are you doing!"

The love-breaking and the dragon-binding whip were twisted together, if it weren't for the fact that these two weapons were forged for the purpose of slaying demons and demons, and they were so tough, they would have been broken by now.Feng Yinran held the hilt of the sword, and shouted at Shao Suyun, who was smiling and holding a whip across the way: "Aren't you full, don't let go!"

Sticking out his tongue, Shao Suyun quickly withdrew his strength from Shan Ruliu, and put away his weapon resentfully. "Aran, have you eaten gunpowder? We haven't seen each other for so long, why are you so fierce to me?"

Feng Yinran glared at him, took the teapot on the table and took a big gulp, "Didn't you accompany Ziyi to the deserts of the Western Regions? Why did you come here to buy some grain business again? Could it be the rice of the Jingyao Society?" Is there not enough food?"

"You have a little conscience, okay? I didn't come here to collect grain for you!" Shao Suhong said, patted his chest, pointed in the direction of the granary and said very righteously: "The grain in the entire granary is whatever you want, why? So, buddies, right?" He winked at Feng Yinran and said with a smile, "Aran, are you moved?"

He gave him a cool and calm look, Feng Yinran was neither surprised nor delighted, but picked up the lid of the teacup, skimmed off the tea foam, and said indifferently: "It's nothing to be courteous, it's either adultery or robbery. Tell me, There is something you want to entrust to me."

After coughing twice, Shao Surong, who was exposed, refused to admit it, touched his nose and said sadly: "Ah Ran, you are not cute at all, you will die if you pretend to be touched?"

"Yes." Feng Yinran replied crisply, "Although you are not as rich and powerful as the leader of Jingyao Society, even if this warehouse of grain is worth half of Yaoshan City, this Marquis is not bad. What's the matter? Say it quickly, there is no time to wait."

Sure enough, only Fang Linyuan's people were left in his eyes... The neglected Shao Suyun couldn't help but slander, but he really didn't dare to speak out.He blinked his eyes, sniffled his nose and said pitifully: "Aran, I'm here to beg you for help! I lost Susu, uh, Ziyi, what should I do! "

In Shao Surong's topsy-turvy narration, Feng Yinran relied on her outstanding comprehension ability to finally understand the whole story.However, Shao Surong followed Duan Ziyi to the desert of the Western Regions begging for nothing. When the two were trapped in the desert, they happened to witness the duel of several senior masters.After watching the duel as spectators, the two had benefited a lot. When they approached to talk, Duan Ziyi suddenly discovered that one of the masked women had purple eyes.Duan Ziyi, who was concerned about her own background, followed that senior without hesitation, and Shao Surong, who followed Baba, chased him into the territory of Cangjue and lost him. After searching to no avail, he heard from Zhen Su who was stationed in Liangcheng Feng Yinran and Fang Linyuan were helping the disaster in Yaoshan City, so he came to find them first, and bought a granary with a generous sum, and only then did the two meet.

"It was hard for me to make some progress with Susu, but now I can't even find anyone! Aran, why do you think I'm so miserable!" Shao Suhong hugged the veiled hat that Feng Yinran had thrown aside. Crying bitterly, it seemed that looking at this veil reminded him of the missing Duan Ziyi, "Aran, what do you think I should do?"

"It's alright, alright, can you take care of your own image a little bit..." Rescuing her veiled cap from Shao Suyong's claws with a headache, Feng Yinran managed to use Duan Ziyi's name to make Shao Suyong Su Rong regained her composure, "Come back to the Prince's Mansion with me first, Zi Yi has always been a measured person, maybe it's not certain that she's stuck in something and can't get away."

Shao Surong reluctantly accepted the proposal, "Yin Ran, you and Linyuan have a smooth journey, you must not understand my pain." He looked out of the window with a rare seriousness and sadness on his face, "I used to laugh at myself But I was obsessed for a while, but now I am really stuck in it and can't extricate myself." He kept the sadness that moved Feng Yinran for half a minute, then suddenly changed the subject, "Aran, I haven't eaten for a day, I I want to eat you fried rice with eggs!"

Feng Yinran: "..."