novelraw Chapter 987
Chapter 987
On this day, Ding Mei was sitting in the cell reading a book.The footsteps approached from far away, and she said casually without raising her head: "Please ask Mrs. Zhao to help me sell two more books, and a box of sweet-scented osmanthus crisps from Shijintang, thank you."
The head of the female cell hesitated for a moment and said, "Oh... obey."
"I'm sorry." Ding Mei raised her head as she said, and suddenly saw a few men standing beside the head of the female prison.The leader was an old man in brocade robes, followed by a few servants.She smiled and said, "What am I saying, your tone of voice is so weird just now." Nai stood up and bowed, "Hello, my lord. May I ask your surname?"
The brocade robed old man outside the cell coughed twice, motioning for the head of the female cell to open the door.The head of the female cell quickly opened the cell door without saying a word.The old man walked slowly into the cell and looked around.I saw that this cell was bigger than other places, and there was a window.There was a table and two chairs in the cell.The table is not too small, and there are glass clear oil lamps, books, four treasures of the study and snack boxes on it.The chair has cushions.There are also a bunch of dim sum boxes on the table, which are from different dim sum shops, all of which are sweet-scented osmanthus halva.
The old man said: "Do you only eat sweet-scented osmanthus crisps?"
"That's not true." Ding Mei said, "I only eat sweet-scented osmanthus crisps while in prison."
"Why?"
"I came in because I was coaxed by a little girl with sweet-scented osmanthus crisps. As the saying goes, you will gain wisdom if you suffer from it. I have to remind myself not to make such mistakes in the future."
The old man nodded: "Can you blame her?"
"I don't complain. It's me who despised her. Besides, she looks so beautiful. I can't complain about her."
The old man was a little amused, and looked at the head of the female prison outside. "I heard you're doing well."
"Not bad for prisoners."
"Did you hear the disordered footsteps just now?"
"I was reading a book and didn't pay attention."
"Then how do you know it's 'Aunt Zhao' who came instead of the jailer?"
"Aunt Zhao is the head of the cell. I give the most hits, who dares to steal my business from her?"
The old man raised his eyebrows. "Isn't it a loss to give such a high tap?"
"No loss. Labor costs are inherently expensive, not to mention that they have monopoly rights. It is a win-win deal for me to increase labor costs to obtain the best service. After all, money is not important to me, and Mrs. Zhao can rely on money to improve the quality of life.”
The old man frowned slightly, many of the words Ding Mei said were not very familiar to him.Nai sat down and said, "You are willing to be the concubine of the world."
Ding Mei thought for a moment and said: "If the prince orders me to pretend to be the prince's concubine for a while, I am willing."
"Would you like to be the real concubine?"
"The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics."
The old man couldn't help laughing, nodded and said: "Okay. Then you can become an official." After speaking, he got up and walked out.
Half an hour later, the Supreme King decreed to release Ding Mei from prison, and appointed him as a political counselor to preside over state affairs together with the other three veterans.
A few days later, a fast horse entered Shu, and the colony rebelled, and the son led the army to put down the rebellion and was not allowed to return for the time being.Fortunately, I also received a letter from the capital, saying that Situ Cen led the elite soldiers of the Yan State Special Battalion to Dacheng for negotiations.
The Taishang King does not only have two sons, the King of Shu and Situ Cen.Hearing that the son did not know when he would return to the country, they immediately jumped up like a resurgence, and they did everything to win over generals and ministers.Taishang Wang calmly added the official title of cabinet bachelor to Ding Mei.However, this move did not stop them for a while, on the contrary, they jumped up and down even more vigorously, which has already provoked several generals.
One day, Taishang Wang suddenly learned that his sixth son had divorced his wife and was going to marry the granddaughter of General Feng, the Commander of the Chengdu Guard, a few years ago. With a sneer, he ordered, "Find out, when is the marriage date."
After a while, he lowered his head and said back and forth: "It's the 26th of the twelfth lunar month." Taishang Wang nodded.
On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, the sedan chair had just been carried away from Feng's house in less than a stick of incense, when the old eunuch and the young eunuch came in a mighty manner. "Passed down the Taishang Wang's handbook. The 26th of the twelfth lunar month is an auspicious day. It is easy to marry and increase the official position. Special promotion to Feng Yongwei from the second rank to serve as a doctor."
The Feng family was stunned.Doctor Zhongfeng is a civil servant with a false title and no real job.And the Feng family is full of generals.This promotion is actually a dismissal.Uncle Feng immediately asked: "May I ask who the Commander of the Chengdu Guard will be?"
"I don't know." The old eunuch who delivered the decree said with a smile on his face, "The Taishang Wang hasn't figured it out yet, anyway, it's not someone who will get married today." After saying that, he dropped the decree, turned around and left.The entire Feng family was in chaos.
It wasn't until the next day that there was another news that the commander of the Chengdu Guard was replaced by Wang Wei, the hero of the rescue.Both the government and the public were shocked.
Three days later will be New Year's Eve, and the Shu Palace entertains civil and military officials as usual.Because neither the King of Shu nor Situ Cen had any males, the atmosphere at the banquet was a bit weird.For a while, the sixth child ate too much wine, knocked on the table and sang opera with his voice hanging.The Supreme King shouted, "Take him down!"
The sixth child laughed, and took the case again: "Who dares to touch me!" Nai drunkenly pointed at the emperor, "Only the second and third are your sons, and none of us are your sons! They are the first sons, haha! My father, king, you I am not a son! Your father has only one son, and he was killed by you! Now the third child rebelled and got out. The second child fell into the hands of the enemy. Poor, he only has one son, and he was killed by himself Exiled! Going to fight now, eight out of ten I won’t come back~~ The rest are no more noble than anyone else.”
Taishang Wang sneered and said, "Is that what you think? Do you think it will be your turn?"
Lao Liu swayed and said: "Father, you are Lao Liu, and I am also Lao Liu. If you can be the King of Shu, why should I not!" He waved his hand and said, "It's not just me, all the brothers here don't think so? Big, how about we share a piece for each of us?"
Taishang Wang stopped drinking: "Presumptuous!"
The sixth child laughed and said, "Presumptuous, I'll be presumptuous! What's the matter? You're almost buried, how long can you live? Once you die, what will we do, can you control it?"
As soon as the words were finished, someone said loudly: "If the Supreme King is going to make people pissed off, the Kingdom of Shu will be under the jurisdiction of the Federation within half a year." Everyone was stunned.Seeing Ding Mei standing up, Shenzhizhengshi, and calmly glanced at all the sons and grandsons of the phoenix and dragon. "Which one of you has the ability to keep the Kingdom of Shu under the power of the Federation? Or do you think that if the Kingdom of Shu is divided, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Beijing will help you?"
Lao Liu clapped his hands and smiled: "It's a big one for him."
Ding Mei smiled and said: "He has a friendship with Jia Cong, and he wants the whole Shu Kingdom to talk about it, and what big and small things are there. They just think that the prince and the prince are more suitable to be the King of Shu than himself. At present, Minister Situ is gone. I rushed to Dacheng to rescue the prince, and brought the best special battalion in Yan Kingdom. Can you think it over and over again?"
The table was full of silence.After a while, the Supreme King walked away with a flick of his sleeves.
On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, all the officials went to the palace to congratulate him, but the sixth child did not come.The Supreme King thought that he was either ashamed or annoyed, but the Queen Mother sent someone to complain, but his newly married daughter-in-law did not come.The Taishang Wang was pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, when he suddenly heard an urgent report: the sixth child died suddenly.Taishang Wang was so shocked that he dropped the tea bowl in his hand.
Ding Mei immediately asked: "What is sudden death?"
The big housekeeper who reported the letter to the Old Sixth Mansion wept and said, "It was a sudden death."
Ding Mei said: "Death is due to illness, injury, poison, etc., which kind is the Sixth Highness?"
The big housekeeper cried: "I don't know why. It was fine last night, but this morning, I saw that the person is hard."
Ding Mei hurriedly went to see the veteran Qiu Liang.Qiu Liang stood up and said, "Old minister, go and have a look."
Ding Mei said: "Weichen is going too. I know many ways to kill people secretly." Qiu Liang knew that she had been the head of Qin State's spy, and nodded.
The old eunuch Wu Fang flashed out from behind the crowd, and begged the Supreme King, "This old slave also wants to go and have a look."
The Supreme King glanced at the officials. "Anyone else want to watch the excitement?" Everyone bowed their heads and remained silent.The Taishang Wang looked at the three of them with a sinking face, "I found out."
"Your servant obeys." "Old slave obeys."
The three of them left the palace together and rushed to Lao Liu's residence.
It turned out that on the wedding day, the sixth child learned that the bride's grandfather had lost his official position, so angry that he didn't even enter the bridal chamber, and sent Miss Feng to a secluded courtyard the next day.He came back drunk last night, and the personal eunuch took care of him and went to sleep on the kang.This morning, he couldn't get up even after the people around him yelled several times.Seeing that the time for court congratulations was approaching, a confidant eunuch who had always had a good face boldly opened the curtain to call him, only to realize that he had died.
Qiu Liang has handled cases all his life and has seen countless dead bodies.Seeing that His Highness the Sixth Highness died of suffocation on the spot, he guessed that he was probably suffocated to death with a quilt, pillow and other things while he was drunk.There are six eunuchs and maids on watch at night, and they testify against each other.Since he fell asleep last night, no one has lifted the curtain.
Wu Fang sneered, "Could it be a ghost?"
Ding Mei pondered: "If you are someone with high martial arts skills, it would be easy to get past these people. But His Highness the Sixth Highness is not worth killing. Unless it is for revenge."
Wu Fang frowned: "Is the Sixth Highness not worth killing?"
Ding Mei said: "Assassinating a child of the Tian family is no better than killing a local ruffian. The court will not stop until it finds out. His Highness the Sixth Highness doesn't even have an idle job, but he is a wealthy idler. What's the benefit of killing him?" Wu Fang was silent.
Qiu Liang coughed twice and said, "First interrogate and then talk."
So Qiu Liang presided over the trial, and called the people in the mansion to come for trial.The eldest son of His Royal Highness Six was the most domineering, with his eyes turned upwards, and he made Qiu Liang unhappy from the very beginning.Ding Mei listened for a while, then went back to report and left.
Back at the Shu Palace, Ding Mei begged to see the Supreme King.The Taishang Wang glanced at her and stepped back. "Say it."
Ding Mei went back and passed by one after another, and finally said: "Supreme King, your grandson really disrespected Lord Qiu, I, a young man, couldn't stand it, so I came back."
Taishang Wang hummed: "Is it the same as your guess?" Ding Mei's expression moved slightly.Taishang Wang said, "You are Yan'er's confidant. How can you go up and join in the fun when it's too late to hide from such a thing?"
Ding Mei sighed lightly: "Almost."
"Say."
"It's so important to go to the palace to congratulate the palace on the first day of the new year. It's obviously not right for someone to urge the master until it's almost too late. If the eldest son hasn't woken up yet, let's say at least twenty people dare to break into her bedroom. What's more, the sixth highness He is still ambitious, it is impossible to have no staff in the house."
"Hiss..." Taishang Wang nodded unconsciously, "The lonely king didn't think about this part."
"It has dragged on for so long, it's nothing more than their mansion arranging how to tell lies, how to train witnesses to perjure testimonies, and how to forge the scene." Ding Mei said, "The only one who has this ability is the new owner of the mansion."
Taishang Wang shuddered: "Bold!"
"However, Mr. Qiu said that His Highness the Sixth Highness returned home last night. If the uncle did it, the layout could have started last night, and there is no need to be forced to be so hasty this morning. Therefore, it was not him who did it. His mother has already been divorced. Back to her natal family, but there are two biological younger brothers." Ding Mei said in a daze, "Children are like small animals, they depend on their mother the most before they grow up. To take away their mother is no less than a world collapse for a child. Once a person is in despair, there is nothing he cannot do."
Taishang Wang took a deep breath for half a day and said in a trembling voice, "Call Qiu Liang and Wu Fang back."
The case was closed on the third day of the first lunar month.His Highness the Sixth Prince died of excessive drinking and sudden death.
After a few days, the Taishang Wang fell ill, and the doctor said that he must rest, at least for a year or so.Ding Mei hurriedly went to Qiu Liang and said, "This master can't make any mistakes! No matter what, let him go to rest."
Qiu Liang sighed: "I don't know. Rao, one of them just died, and those few people just refused to stop."
Ding Mei said: "Let them bounce around, what can they jump up to?"
Qiu Liang then recruited several old ministers to persuade the Supreme King.After thinking about it again and again, Taishang Wang decided to move to a Zhuangzi in the suburbs for a temporary stay.Before he left, he withdrew more than a dozen generals who had hooked up with his sons.
At the end of the first lunar month, Wang Wei, commander of the Chengdu Guard, took some fresh fruits from the south to visit the Supreme King.I heard that the Supreme King summoned him to hold a secret meeting in the warm pavilion for more than three hours, and after he came out, Wang Wei was full of ambition.The Supreme King asked him to bring out a stack of manuscripts.
From the next day, the martial arts class moved wildly.I don't know where the Taishang King conjured so many officers. Almost all the generals in the entire Shu Kingdom have changed.Although the general who had lost his official position was dissatisfied, Wang Wei had the Tiger Talisman in his hand, so there was nothing they could do.The officers and soldiers of the Shu Kingdom immediately began to reorganize, and teachers were also hired to teach the soldiers to study, which was somewhat similar to the federal army.
Knowing that the Supreme King of the Shu Kingdom has almost abolished the generals of the country, Zheng Chen, Cai Zhou and other countries immediately sent people to seek talents.It didn't take long for a large area to go away.Wu Fang, a history lecturer at Shu University, suddenly disappeared.
On the other side, Situ Cen fought with Shui Rong for more than half a month in Dacheng, and finally found the traces of the Fang family's guerrillas, and led his troops to chase them.After finally catching up, he went into the sea by boat again, saying that he was going to Java to seek refuge with his friends.
Situ Cen went after Java again.Zhou Xiaolan said that this matter was purely false, her sister was neither short of money nor left Java.Situ Cen naturally refused.After a few troubles, when I returned to the posthouse that night, I suddenly received a post signed by Situ Pan.Situ Cen was taken aback, why did King Yan come here?Come in please.
Not long after seeing someone coming, Situ Cen was stunned for a long time.His appearance is undoubtedly his ninth uncle, but his body is very strong, not at all the sickly appearance in Beijing. "Uncle Ninth, are you...well?"
Situ Pan said: "I have never been sick."
"That……"
"The one in Beijing is the substitute I found in the early years." Situ Pan sneered, "Now Li Gui has become Li Kui." Situ Cen didn't recover for a long time.Situ Pan sat down and asked, "Are you looking for your brother?"
Situ Cen was overjoyed: "Uncle Jiu knows?"
"I don't know." Situ Pan said pitifully, "But I know it's not that easy for you to find him."