novelraw Chapter 107
Chapter 107
Tanchun was startled, and hurriedly asked, "How do you know?"
Dong Ming whispered back: "The little one slept on the roof last night. When it rained in the middle of the night and woke up, he saw that Nanny Zhu was on fire, so he ran to see the situation. At that time, he ran out of the yard in a panic. If he didn't set the fire, who else could it be?"
Tanchun spent the past few days copying scriptures in his room, praying for the dead Uncle Zhang, but he didn't know that Dongming was wandering around outside, staring at Jiang Che for a long time.
It's just that Jiang Che acted cautiously, and Dong Ming didn't find any flaws in him for several days.Last night he was so worried that he couldn't sleep, so he
Simply climb to the roof to breathe.Who would have thought that when he woke up from the rain, he saw Zhu Mama's wing was on fire!
Naturally, he jumped and fell off the roof. He ran to see what was going on, and happened to meet Jiang Che... It's a pity that Dongming didn't sleep on Jiang Che's roof last night, otherwise he would have lost his life. People caught it on the spot!
Tanchun's expression became more and more serious, and he led Dongming a few steps away, avoiding the crowd, and then asked him carefully: "When you arrived, Mother Zhu's place was already on fire? Did you hear any movement?"
Dongming shook his head: "It's already on fire, the whole room is on fire, but I haven't heard any movement."
After thinking for a while, he said again: "Maybe there was some movement, but the villain was anxious to chase that person and wanted to see if it was Mr. Jiang, so he ignored it."
It was pitch black in the middle of the night, he only saw the man's face, and wanted to confirm with him, but he was scattered by the guards who rushed out to put out the fire.Fortunately, he also picked up something that could prove the identity of that person.
Dongming took out the handkerchief hidden in his bosom and handed it to Tanchun: "Young Master, look, it was left by that person last night, and the word Jiang is embroidered on it!"
Tanchun took a look, and sure enough, she saw the word Jiang on the handkerchief, but what attracted her attention more was the embroidery on the handkerchief.
Dongming didn't know embroidery, so he couldn't tell.
The lotus leaf stitches on this veil are exactly the same as the half embroidered mandarin duck veil she saw at Jinhe.It should have been embroidered by Xiu'er... A woman embroiders a handkerchief for a man, so what is the relationship between them?
Tanchun immediately became suspicious.
She had already investigated Xiu'er's origins because of the accident where Madam Zhu scalded the "princess master".
Xiu'er was born in a peasant family, and her family was poor, with only her mother and younger brother, so she entered the palace and became a palace maid.First she worked in a flower house, then she was transferred to the Shangyi Bureau, and then she became a dowry maid.There is nothing suspicious about these, but now that she has contact with Jiang Che, it is not easy for her.
I don't know if they had a relationship before, or if they had a relationship in this wedding party...
And there was such a big fire last night, why did the guards on duty wait until the entire wing was burned before going to put out the fire?Or did someone deliberately transfer the guards on duty?
Nanny Zhu committed suicide in fear of crime, but there was no movement at all, isn't that unreasonable?Jinhe only got his face scalded by the hot water, and the pain was terribly painful. If Nanny Zhu was burned to death, would she be able to keep silent?
If it was true as Dongming described, there was no movement in the wing room, it could only mean that Mammy Zhu was not struggling and shouting, but that she was unable to do so.
Either they were tied up and gagged, or they passed out or... died before the fire started.
In the entire post station, who else could do this except Jiang Che?
Just a veil cannot convict senior officials of the Ministry of Rites when catching people and stealing stolen goods. Moreover, Jiang Che is completely suspicious of denying that the veil is his own. After all, there are many people in the military guard with the surname Jiang.
Tanchun sighed anxiously, seeing the soldiers carrying out the corpse, he hurriedly asked Dongming to inquire about the news.Dongming went for a while and trotted back: "I heard that Mr. Jiang was inspected by someone, and that Nanny Zhu was burned to death. His Excellency felt that it was unlucky, and he was afraid of bumping into the princess's happy event, so he told him to throw it directly into a random graveyard."
"Just throw it away?" Tanchun was surprised: "How can it be done?"
Dongming thought for a while, then hesitated and said, "My lord, when a person is burned, he either rolls on the ground, bumps around, and slaps the flames on his body indiscriminately. He is a person who wants to die. People can also shrink up. The villain saw that the corpse was straight, it didn't look like it was burned to death, but it seemed to have died before..."
Tanchun was frightened, and said in secret, "If it's true as you said, then the fire might be to cover up the traces on her body."
"Young Master, if this is the case, Mr. Jiang said that he had examined the body and confirmed that Nanny Zhu was burned to death, that is nonsense!" Dong Ming said angrily, "If Nanny Zhu's body is thrown away like this, then what will happen?" good!"
Tanchun waved his hand and ordered in a low voice: "Take someone to follow, and quietly hide Zhu Nanny's body. I'll ask Lord Hou to find someone to test it again in secret. Remember not to startle the snake."
"Hey!" Dong Ming responded and ran away.
It happened that Aman came over and saw Dongming running in a hurry, so he asked casually, "Why is he going?"
Tanchun said vaguely, "Send him to offer incense to Uncle Zhang."
Aman also knew this sad thing, so he stopped talking about it and asked Tanchun, "This place is dirty and unlucky, why are you here?"
Tanchun said: "Such a big thing happened at the post station, so I naturally want to take a look." She was about to talk to Aman about the re-examination, but it was hard to mention this person coming and going, so she invited Aman to her yard Make tea and drink it.
Aman doesn't know much about tea tasting, but Tanchun likes it, so he nodded with a smile like pecking rice: "Good tea, I like drinking tea too!"
Tanchun set up the tea set in a smooth and smooth way, and Oman was dumbfounded.Aman picked up the small teacup, afraid that if he exerted force with his hand, the small teacup would be crushed.
With a light sip, Aman drank a cup of tea, and said with a silly smile: "This teacup is too small, I can't even taste all the flavors after one cup."
Tan Chun smiled and said, "Usually drinking tea is done in teacups, but today I am tasting tea, so I use this set of eighteen tea sets."
Aman said embarrassingly: "I see that you drink tea very elegantly. I always drink tea with a big bowl at home. Drinking like that can quench your thirst."
Tanchun was happy, and said: "This is served in a big bowl, how can it be called tea? It's all boiled water!"
"Alas—" Oman sighed, a little embarrassed.
Laughing for a while, Tanchun didn't want to embarrass Oman, so he said, "Everyone has their own way of drinking tea and water, and I like it. Let's drink tea today and use this small teacup to quench our thirst tomorrow. It’s a teacup and a big bowl, even a teapot.”
Aman was very nervous. He rubbed his head and chest again, and suddenly remembered something serious.He took out a letter and handed it to Tanchun: "This is... a letter from your brother. Look at me, I almost forgot what I said."
Tanchun Zhanxin saw that Baocong had succeeded in suppressing the bandits and captured Bogda Asen.It's just that Aman doesn't seem to know that his brother is going to rob his relatives, so Bao Cong tells Tanchun to hide it from Aman first.The letter also stated that the person who colluded with Asen to rob his relatives should be caught, so he decided to pretend to be a horse bandit to rob his relatives again. Please Tanchun find a way to let Jiang Che take the "princess master" out on a trip.
Tanchun read the letter for a long time, Aman was very curious, and asked her what she wrote, Tanchun smiled and said: "My brother has successfully suppressed the bandits, and he said that he wanted to pretend to be a horse bandit to rob relatives again, so as to attract the horse bandits in the wedding procession. Collusion traitor. He asked us to find a way to let Mr. Jiang take the 'Princess' out for a trip. Do you have any good ideas?"
Aman thought for a while, and said: "There is no place to enjoy the scenery here, but relying on the mountains and fields, many people go hunting and horse racing, so why not use this as an excuse."
Tanchun nodded, "Alright, that's it."
He also talked about the doubts about Nanny Zhu being burned to death, as well as Dongming and his own conjectures. Tanchun asked Aman to find someone for another autopsy. Aman naturally agreed, patted his chest and promised to handle the matter well.
Two days later, Tanchun imitated Huan'er's tricks when she was a child, clamoring to bring brocade and go out to play.
Jiang Che didn't seem to want to make more troubles, he just tried to persuade the outside world that it was not peaceful, but Tanchun was unmoved, Jinhe also said that he wanted to go out, and Aman was beside him to encourage him, saying: "It's just two or three thieves. What's scary? With me here, you can play wherever you want, don't worry!"
In the end, he threatened Jiang Che ferociously: "Could it be that Mr. Jiang thinks I'm not capable of protecting the princess?"
"No, no, that's not what I mean..." When it comes to this point, Jiang Che can only agree.
After the goal was achieved, Aman and Tanchun returned to their smiling faces, exchanged a few words with Jiang Che, and left hand in hand.
Just after leaving the courtyard, Tanchun muttered, "Jiang Che seems to be very afraid of something happening to the princess, he doesn't look like someone who conspired to rob his relatives..."
Oman shook his head, "Not the mastermind, but also an accomplice, this time he will definitely show his feet."
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Bao Cong was quite surprised when he received Tanchun's letter!
Unexpectedly, Nanny Zhu was burned to death!
At first, I guessed that Nanny Zhu was a traitor, but now that Nanny Zhu died like this, what happened?
Tanchun said in the letter that Nanny Zhu was probably killed by Jiang Che, could it be that Jiang Che was the traitor who colluded with Asen?But what Jiang Che did before didn't look like...
But no matter what, Tanchun agrees with his thoughts, and hopes to find out this traitor by "robbing relatives" for the second time.
"No wonder Grand Concubine Nan'an has seen many girls, but only my third sister!" Bao Cong muttered.
Liu Xianglian asked curiously, "How do you say that?"
Bao Cong explained: "My three younger sisters have had ideas since they were young. They used to help with housework at home. I didn't expect that they can even plan and understand things like investigations. They are really more capable than many men. Mrs. Nan'an Concubine Hui's eyes are like torches, and she can tell at a glance that my sister is a treasure."
Liu Xianglian quite agreed, saying: "It was said that in your Jia family, only the stone lion at the door is clean. Now it seems that, apart from you and Baoyu, this girl's family is a hero compared to each other."
Bao Cong smiled, proudly said: "The Jia family today is not the Jia family of the past."
As long as he is still in Jia's house for one day, he will try his best to broaden the boundaries of the women's life in the family.If they have the ability, they should be made to show it, so that they don't have to be bored in the back room all their lives.If they don't have the ability, let them live comfortably for the rest of their lives.
With the plan in place, Bao Cong and Liu Xianglian tossed out many horse bandits' clothes with big swords, pretended to be horse bandits together with the soldiers and guards, and called a few horse bandits who had surrendered but never killed anyone to mix in and make a big noise.
If you want to draw out a spy, you must first contact the spy.
Bogda Asen was in a coma and couldn't find a way to communicate.Simply, when the bandits were suppressed before, there was still the third leader alive, so Bao Cong took him out to threaten and lure him, and carefully interrogated him.Only then did I know that they had special beggars to deliver letters.When you go to rob relatives, you must tie a gray cloth strip on the big knife as a sign.
Two days later, sure enough, a beggar came to deliver a letter, saying that the "princess master" was going out to play and hunt.Bao Cong and others went over in the middle of the night and set up an ambush first.
After dawn, it took another two or three hours before the two carriages arrived at the place. Hundreds of soldiers guarded the carriages, and Jiang Che and Aman rode beside them, protecting the princess' carriage tightly.
Jiang Che asked the guards to check and make sure there was nothing abnormal around, and then let the princess get out of the car to play.
Tanchun and Aman were together, surrounded by horses, one taught and the other learned, it didn't look like they were here to catch spies, but they really came to have fun and outing.
Even looking at it from a distance, Bao Cong was stuffed with dog food.
He missed Lin Daiyu more and more.
When he met the wolves that night, he only thought of surviving, but later escaped from death, and when he came back to his senses, he broke out in a cold sweat.If it wasn't the wolf god who came to repay his favor, but a real pack of wolves, with his martial arts, would he still have the luck of narrow escape?
After waking up, Bao Cong begged Liu Xianglian to teach him how to practice swordsmanship for several days.I was very tired during the day, but I still couldn't sleep well at night, either dreaming of beasts and monsters, or dreaming of Lin Daiyu crying.
After much deliberation, when Tanchun is settled here, he still has to go back as soon as possible.I don't know how Lin Daiyu is doing in the capital, is she angry with him?
"Bao Cong, they are leaving." Liu Xianglian reminded.
Bao Cong looked from afar and saw the maid helping Jinhe to get into the car, so he raised his sword and said, "Come on, let's rush over, remember to only stun people, don't hurt them."
The soldiers and guards all responded, pretending to be horse bandits, and galloped out with Baocong Liu Xianglian on horseback.
"The horse bandit! It's the horse bandit!" The maids screamed in panic.
Aman greeted him and fought with Liu Xianglian in disguise, while Bao Cong mixed in the crowd, slashed left and right, and carefully observed the actions of Jiang Che and others.
Jin He had already got into the car, and the car was surrounded by disguised horse bandits and guards, as well as some maids running around and screaming.Jiang Che yelled to protect the princess, but he himself was far away from the princess's car, as if being squeezed away by a horse bandit.
While fighting with Liu Xianglian, Aman pays attention to Tanchun.I saw her being squeezed by the crowd, and without realizing it, Xiu'er grabbed her arm and wanted to drag her to the edge of the line, then she stretched out her hand to cover Tanchun's mouth and nose, knocking her out.Aman was in a hurry, and hurriedly said to Liu Xianglian, "There is something wrong with that maid! The Princess seems to have been hijacked!"
He was in a hurry to rescue Tanchun, but was separated by the crowd and was too late to go there.
Liu Xianglian hurriedly comforted him, "Don't worry, look clearly, Bao Cong is there too!"
It turned out that Bao Cong had also noticed this maid earlier, Xiu'er was obviously the personal maid serving the "Prince Master", but at this critical moment, instead of guarding the "Princess Master", she appeared beside Tanchun.Bao Cong immediately understood that Xiu'er must know that Tan Chun is the real princess.
Immediately, Bao Cong didn't care about pretending or not, Jiang Che didn't like Jiang Che, hurried over to knock Xiu'er unconscious, and snatched Tanchun back.
The soldiers and guards fought with the fake horse bandit for a long time, and found that they were all acquaintances, and gradually stopped fighting.
Tanchun was placed in the carriage with Jinhe.The maids were all driven to the center, and tremblingly crouched on the ground, and the unconscious Xiu'er was even tied up and thrown on the ground.
The guards in horse bandit outfits surrounded Jiang Che and his guards.
"What the hell is going on here?" Jiang Che panicked.
Bao Cong sneered, and asked back: "What's going on, doesn't Mr. Jiang know better than me?"