How many buildings are in the mist

"Your Highness, thank you, sir." Xiao Pei waited for them leisurely in his official office, brewing some tea and incense.As soon as the two entered, they smelled the smell of incense and thought they had opened the body here.

"Master Xiao, how is the situation?" Xie Yan asked.

"To put it simply, the cause of death was indeed suicide by hanging, and no signs of poisoning were found. But—"

"But?" The two asked in unison, Xiao Pei said: "However, the officer found such a thing in the stomach of the female corpse." Look at it boldly—a clean round jade pendant was brought up on a wooden tray.The two of them tacitly understood that this was the jade pendant mentioned by the female officials that Dou Shi once wore but is now missing.

Xiao Pei said with a smile—this smile is really scary to Feng Zizhang and Xie Yan now: "This thing was found in the stomach. According to the officials, it can be seen that it is an important evidence. For the deceased, it must be It has a very important meaning, but it can’t be seen by others. It’s the pattern on it, sorry for my lack of talent and learning, I really can’t bear it. I don’t know if Mr. Xie can deny it?”

Xie Yan picked up the jade pendant and observed it against the light, but before he could see why, Feng Zizhang's face changed, and he immediately thanked Xiao Pei, and said that this matter happened in the palace, and it should be resolved in the palace. She had to take the jade pendant away as a witness, troubled Master Xiao to check the body, and asked Dali Temple to keep the body for him, and don't make it public.Xiao Pei understood it, said yes again and again, and ordered someone to bring up a coarse cloth bag to wrap the jade pendant.

After leaving Dali Temple, Xie Yan quietly asked, "What's wrong?"

Feng Zizhang waited for no one around, Fang whispered to her: "Do you recognize this pattern?"

Xie Yan touched the jade pendant in his pocket, "Like a spider?"

"No, it's red heart wood. With a little modification, it looks like a spider at first glance. This is the jade pendant of Zhu's family, and it belongs to Zhu's family."

Xie Yan was taken aback, and said, "I never knew the Zhu family had such a thing, how did you know?"

"Sister Xianzhi used it when she entered the palace. I have seen it. After she died and Zhu Shihan died, Zhu Hezhi was the only one left in Zhu's patriarchal house. Because of his lack of virtue, he failed to become the patriarch. It can’t be used; Zhu Shijing can’t use it if he isn’t the head of the family, nor can sister Xianwan marry into the royal family: so no one inherits this mark for a while. In the past, I saw this on the jade pendant and old clothes worn by sister Xianzhi Mark, my sister also allowed her to keep it, but she didn’t use it later.”

Xie Yan took a deep breath, "Then, according to your opinion, should we go down to meet His Majesty directly, or go to the prison to interrogate Zhu Shijing, or go to Zhu Hezhi?"

"What do you think?"

Xie Yan thought for a while, "Let's go to interrogate Zhu Shijing. After all, he is being held separately in the camp of the Habayashi Army, so it will be easier for us to find him. If you go to see His Majesty rashly, you don't know how His Majesty will deal with it. If you blame others, you will be fine." Not good. As for Zhu Hezhi, I don’t think he knows anything.”

"If you go to Zhu Shijing, have you thought about what to say?" Feng Zizhang asked.

Xie Yan said: "What do you think? Are we going to threaten directly, or use some tricks?"

"What do you think of Zhu Shijing?"

"Ambition, but no ability. He hasn't learned much about the so-called Confucianism passed down from his family. He pretends to be a gentleman, but he pretends to be a gentleman. He is best at deceiving himself and others, and deceiving the world."

"You don't have any good things to say."

"He is treasonous and collaborating with the enemy. What good things can I say? Let's say it openly. Although some people in Feng Zibai's rebel army say that they have a different position from mine, they will fight each other in the end. But I admire them, and they will rebel if they refuse to accept , relying on his own ability, if he can't beat him, he will die. What about Zhu Shijing? He was given the heavy responsibility of guarding the country, and he took the opportunity to rebel and defected to the enemy of Yan. Is he his master? I really want to put the ancestral tablet in front of him to see if he has face or not."

Feng Zizhang smiled and said, "Have you ever thought about why he did this?" Xie Yan asked her to say first, "My guess is that his purpose is exactly what he said in prison, that the army of Yan went south, Kill the elder sister and her supporters, and support Feng Xu or Feng Xi as the puppet emperor, and let him be in power as the actual ruler. Although Zhu Hezhi is the uncle of the country but has no ability, then find a chance Just get rid of it. Although this idea is naive, it is also in the interests of the Yan army. After all, let them rule by themselves, I am afraid that the family will not accept it. It was a good idea, but I didn’t see my ability clearly.”

Xie Yan snorted coldly, "An old thief who is trying to catch his name and is overestimated! It can be seen that there are many things in this world that are not flaunting themselves but reading crooked scriptures with crooked mouths!"

Feng Zizhang smiled and asked: "So, do you have a plan for those who are trying to catch fame?"

"It's already there, but you want me to tell you?"

"I already have it. If you still ask me, it's a waste of my tongue."

"Oh! If I didn't ask you, wouldn't it be a mess of priorities, Your Highness!"

Feng Zizhang picked up the whip and made a gesture to whip Xie Yan.Xie Yan stretched out his arms to stop him, but he didn't ride his horse away, he just waited to be beaten.

The two arrived at the Habayashi camp. Although the soldiers saw that it was the two of them, they still asked the purpose of their visit before opening the door.The two were lamenting how strict the rules Cui Xuanji gave them, when they were told that Wu Bao, who was in charge of the temporary custody, was not there. The deputy Cheng just sent someone to ask, hoping that the two of them would wait.The two were politely invited into Cui Xuanji's original government office to rest, and they couldn't laugh or cry.I can only hope that my leopard is not a fool.

Feng Zizhang asked Xie Yan, there should be no problem, right?Xie Yan said don't worry, the person Cui Xuanji picks is smart.

Soon someone came back to report, and then the deputy prime minister took Wubao's badge and led them into the prison.Behind the triple iron gate is Zhu Shijing who is locked behind the triple wooden fence.Hearing people's voices, Zhu Shijing immediately yelled, yelling that he wanted this and that.Feng Zizhang ignored his nonsense, and asked the guards to tie him to a chair with iron chains, and then left the two of them for interrogation.

After Zhu Shijing was tied to the chair with iron chains, he continued to yell endlessly.Xie Yan got upset and shouted: "Zhu Shijing! You are a prisoner of a traitor now! Don't do this to me!"

Zhu Shijing turned to make fun of Xie Yan, saying that she didn't have any official position, she was only an internal historian, and she would lose her life.Xie Yan felt his eyes rolled to the back of his head.She glanced at Feng Zizhang, and after she agreed, she went to the side to burn the soldering iron.

"Zhu Shijing." Feng Zizhang said, his voice was calm and crisp, like a frozen snowball, it must be very painful to hit someone. "Since you were imprisoned, you have talked a lot of nonsense, and none of them have confessed what should be confessed. Don't think that you are letting you go because you have been living in prison for a long time. Handle you with other war criminals. You are all going to die."

Zhu Shijing hid his panic with a sneer, saying that his status was different from other rebels, and even Feng Zizhang was not qualified to judge him.Feng Zizhang got a headache from his noise, and asked Xie Yan if there was anything he could use now, Xie Yan said only a whip, "It's iron."

"Let's fight for a while, until he stops talking nonsense." Feng Zizhang said.

Xie Yan walked up with a total of six iron whips, and with a light wave, the spikes on the iron whip pierced the air, making a sharp and terrifying sound.Since Zhu Shijing was imprisoned, he only suffered a little bit of sticking at the beginning, and he has been cared for since then; and because he was cut off by Cui Xuanji, he has never been lacking in medicine: Now Xie Yan wants to give him He was so frightened that his hairs stood on end. He first scolded Xie Yan and Feng Zizhang for being crazy, and then scolded them for being arrogant and not knowing who they were.

"You, you, you dare to touch me! You, you, you—"

Xie Yan didn't bother to listen, so with a swipe, Zhu Shijing's skin was torn apart, and the prison clothes were soaked in blood.He was in pain, screaming and cursing, and she beat him again.On the fourth blow, Zhu Shijing begged for mercy.She threw the whip to the corner, walked into Zhu Shijing's side and said sharply: "Old thief! We don't have time to waste with you. I will ask your questions later, and you have to make it clear. If there is anything we don't agree with." Satisfied, I will give you the same soldering iron and clamps over there."

Zhu Shijing pretended to be unconscious and remained silent.Seeing this, Xie Yan was a little angry, and poured a basin of cold water all over him.The cold water in the first month made Zhu Shijing cry out.

"If you don't wake up!" Xie Yan yelled in his ear, "I'll get you a bucket and soak it!"

Zhu Shijing reluctantly gave up resistance.Feng Zizhang said: "The day before yesterday, there was a female official in the palace, and Dou Shangshi was brought in by the queen." She spoke slowly, carefully observing Zhu Shijing's expression, "Come to me and take the initiative to explain a lot about you. The thing. It was shocking. Originally, we didn't believe it. But she showed such a piece of evidence." She winked, and Xie Yan took out the jade pendant from the coarse cloth bag and presented it to Zhu Shijing.

Feng Zizhang keenly saw that Zhu Shijing's face turned pale in an instant, and immediately added: "Tell me, what's going on. She's finished talking, now it's up to you. If you say it too, maybe my sister will take care of you; If you don't say it, then sister might as well let her go and kill you. Of course, you may be dead anyway. Killing you once is no different from killing you a hundred times, but the rest of the Zhu family may not be sure. After all, your treason and rebellion are already the crimes of the Yi people. You know, Xie Yan fought against the enemy in Wu County a while ago, and before she went to attack you, she fought against the Gu family. Later, the officers and soldiers went in and found several surviving children. Because of Gu Su's actions, His Majesty personally decreed to let these children live and not hold them accountable. The side branch has also been forgiven. You can do the same now. But, just be quick. Otherwise, we can go out from here in a while and tell my sister that you didn't say anything, and we can only take what Dou Shangshi said as an excuse. allow--"

"I'll say it! I'll say it!" Zhu Shijing shouted, "I'll say it all!"

Feng Zizhang flirted with Xie Yan, Xie Yan brought a glass of water for Zhu Shijing to drink.Then he took the iron whip and stood aside, threatening.

Zhu Shijing said that Dou Mi was none other than Zhu Shihan's illegitimate daughter, born of Zhu Shihan and a private prostitute surnamed Dou.Originally, Zhu Shihan was just going to play at a friend's house, appreciating the talent of this private prostitute, and gave her favor; and the private prostitute was also impressed by Zhu Shihan's elegance and elegance, and fell in love with him.The two love each other happily, Zhu Shihan already has a wife and daughter {152}, but he often meets her in trysts.Unexpectedly, the private prostitute became pregnant not long ago, Zhu Shihan had no choice but to pay for the private prostitute Dou's house, and let her live in a secluded courtyard in the mountains outside Jiankang City to raise her baby.After all, Zhu Shihan thought he was a great Confucian gentleman, and he didn't dare to take the private prostitute Dou's family as a concubine, and he didn't dare to recognize Dou Mi after his daughter was born.At first, he occasionally visited the mountains, but later he was promoted to be the emperor's teacher, and he cared more about his reputation, so he never went again.

Over time, when Dou Mi was seven years old, the private prostitute Dou Shi died of grief. Zhu Shihan had no choice but to place his daughter Dou Mi outside. For the chance to return to the sect, she didn't even ask her to change her name.We seldom see each other on weekdays, and never come here on Dou's death anniversary, even on festivals, they only send gifts.Dou Mi hated her father and her half-brothers and sisters more and more.

Later, Dou Mi escaped from the courtyard in the mountain and lived in Jiankang City, as if intending to tell the story.But Zhu Xianzhi knew about this through some channels, and went to rescue Dou Mi when he was almost killed by others, and took Dou Mi as his maidservant, and then entered the palace with her.She thought she had saved Dou Mi, but Dou Mi only resented Zhu Xianzhi even more because of this, thinking that Zhu Xianzhi not only knew her identity, but also boasted that she was the eldest daughter of a direct descendant, and used this to humiliate herself.When Zhu Shihan saw it, he thought his daughter didn't know it, and he didn't dare to reveal it, so he could only keep silent.Two years after entering the palace, Dou Mi was granted the title of female official and had a high status around Zhu Xianzhi, so she took the opportunity to poison Zhu Xianzhi's diet, and it continued for a long time, because the dose was so small that no one noticed it, and finally made Zhu Xianzhi weak and difficult to support. , chronically ill and died young.

After Zhu Xianzhi's death, Dou Mi once went to Zhu Shihan's face and taunted him with evil words, contradicting his father; wanting to burn everything together, he went to the holy newspaper officer, but Zhu Shihan knelt down to persuade him to keep him.Zhu Shihan also died soon, Dou Mi no longer thought about him, and was a little bit greedy for his power and position in the palace, so he only wanted to die in the palace.After so many years, when Feng Zihuan was preparing to implement the land reform, he had been monitoring his brother's every move, so Zhu Shijing, who knew the matter well, found Dou Mi, bought her, and asked her to poison Feng Zihuan secretly, in order to trigger Feng Zihuan's severe illness caused him to die suddenly; at the same time, he also poisoned Cui Xuanji to take the opportunity to cause Cui's crime of dereliction of duty.In this way, Zhu can act as an agent of the government by virtue of his nephew and uncle.

"Your Highness! I, I, I have already said all this! Go and save Your Majesty, before she falls ill, there must be salvation! There must be salvation!" Zhu Shijing shouted, while Feng Zizhang and Xie Yan can only be silent.Zhu Shijing didn't know, so he guessed that the emperor had been saved according to the trick they gave him, and suspected that Dou Mi might not have said this, so he yelled and shouted for a while.

Feng Zizhang asked, "Is Dou Mi still offline in the palace?"

"As far as I know, there is absolutely nothing. From the beginning to the end, from the beginning to the end, that woman must have committed the crime alone! Because she always said that a secret that no one knows except herself is a safe secret. Threate me with these words! Say her death is not a pity, but you are different, my lord, so I have to give her a lot of money. Your Highness! Your Highness! I am telling the truth!! This is all made by my brother. Your Majesty! Your Majesty—”

Xie Yan stepped forward and slapped Zhu Shijing unconscious.Feng Zizhang sighed: "Until now, you still called Dou Mi 'that woman'... Alas."

Xie Yan was about to ask her what to do, but unexpectedly, a wall of the interrogation room suddenly moved, and someone came out from inside.

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{152} Judging from the current historical data, concubinage was actually not a widely recognized behavior in the society at that time.Regardless of whether the marriage is arranged or not, and whether the relationship is good or not, it is quite common for a husband and wife to have no concubine. The case of no concubine for life is Wang Xizhi and his wife Xi Xuan.On the contrary, it is more dangerous to have a concubine. Whether it is Wang Dao or Huan Wen, the concubine must live elsewhere and cannot be taken home. After being found out, the main room is always in the posture of raising a knife to kill the concubine.Therefore, in this article, we also agreed according to the common situation of the aristocratic family at that time. Taking a concubine was a rare phenomenon in the aristocratic family, and it was even more unacceptable to accept a private prostitute.