Yucuo of the Red Chamber

Chapter 138

Here, Eunuch Chen went outside, and bumped into the woman who was rushing in, he hurriedly stopped her and said, "What are you panicking about? I understand."

The woman hurriedly said: "Outside...outside...a lot of officers and soldiers came..."

Eunuch Chen said: "What did they say?"

The woman said: "Let the inside go out and talk to someone, otherwise they will come in and search."

Eunuch Chen said: "Calm down, I'm still here, don't scare the girl if you are in a panic, see how many heads you have to pay for it. It's best to go out and ask the leader to come in. Remember, he is only allowed to come in alone. ,I have something to say."

At the moment there was a torch outside, illuminating the surroundings, these few words were heard outside, Zhao Tangguan responded: "Who are you, so loud?" Although it was a question, he didn't dare to speak too much.

Eunuch Chen understood what he heard, and replied very politely: "Chen Lin, the servant of Daming Palace, serves Miss Lin according to the purpose. I don't know who is leading the team. Please come in and talk. Others, please stay outside for the time being. I frightened Miss Lin, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the Supreme Emperor to do business. If there is any negligence, please forgive me." At the same time, he ordered the mother-in-law to bring two stools and two cups of tea.

Tangguan Zhao decided to leave the others outside, and brought a judge to go in with him, so as to put on a good posture and avoid lowering his self-esteem.He followed his wife into the yard, and replied: "I am Zhao Shi, the official of Jinyiwei Hall. Today, I am ordered to accompany Prince Zhongshun to search Jia's mansion. I heard that there is an imperial servant serving here, and it seems to be the empress dowager's favor." Yes, so I came here to ask Miss Lin to move, so we can do things better. If there is any offense, please forgive me."

Eunuch Chen nodded inwardly, and went on to say: "I have met Mr. Zhao. Mr. Zhao is following the emperor's order to search Jia's mansion. It is not wrong to come here. But Miss Lin is not a member of Jia's family, so she is naturally not among them. Master Zhao, please be considerate. I can also deliver an order to the Empress Dowager tomorrow, wouldn't it be convenient?"

Zhao Tangguan said: "My father-in-law's words are reasonable, but this case is unusual. This is the garden of Jia's mansion, and it should be inspected together to ensure that nothing is lost. It is only fair. If there is any offense, please also report to the emperor. Queen Mother explained."

Eunuch Chen paused for a while, knowing that he just wanted some benefits, or he really didn't expect that there was a girl he couldn't touch hidden in Jia's mansion, so he wanted to show off his prestige.Although Eunuch Chen himself did not know why the Supreme Emperor issued such a secret decree, since that was the case, he was not afraid, but he didn't want to use it until it was absolutely necessary.Thinking of this, Eunuch Chen is inconvenient to ask what the case is. Although he knows five points, he can only pretend not to know, and thinks of another sentence: "Miss Lin has come here alone, and has no other place to go. I don't know if Mr. Zhao is going to let you Where did she move to?"

Tangguan Zhao thought that Eunuch Chen’s service was softened. Although there was Eunuch Chen here, since he had the background of the Empress Dowager, there were probably a lot of valuable things. Dispatched by the emperor, the official is small and powerful, which is a little bit like an internal official.After a moment of complacency, he said indiscriminately: "All the female relatives are temporarily gathered in the right wing of Rongxi Hall, and I will let people take good care of Miss Lin..."

Eunuch Chen sneered and said, "I thought Mr. Zhao had found a good place for Miss Lin. It turned out that he was a family member of a prisoner. If this is the case, we might as well go back to the palace overnight, so as not to trouble Mr. Zhao."

Tangguan Zhao was taken aback, he didn't expect him to say such a thing, but he refused to admit defeat, and said in a stiff tone: "You are internal officials, so naturally you have nothing to do with criminal officials, I can't stop you, please leave if you want to leave." As soon as possible, if it's too late, I'm afraid that the palace gate will be closed and you won't be able to enter."

"Master Zhao is overthinking. The Empress Dowager gave the decree that Miss Zhunlin of the Daming Palace can come and go as she pleases. I don't know when Mr. Zhao added a time limit? Could it be that the Daming Palace is also under the control of Mr. Zhao?" Seeing that Eunuch Chen hadn't finished speaking for a long time, leisurely said Come out and have a look, and help him by the way, so that these people can be sent away quickly and everyone can go to bed early.

Tangguan Zhao was proud of himself, and unexpectedly saw You Ran going out, and...now he opened his eyes wide and looked carefully, it turned out that Eunuch Chen was a seventh-rank internal official, and You Ran also had a rank, but now he couldn't get down, so high He didn't dare to easily offend the servant of a high-ranking internal official.After hesitating for a long time, I had to answer: "Even so... this is still the place of Jia's mansion. We follow the emperor's order, and we should search it, so that we can exchange business. Everyone is doing business for the emperor, so why make things difficult for each other."

Seeing that his expression had calmed down, Eunuch Chen said: "Master Zhao is determined to search this place, we dare not make things difficult for Mr. Zhao. If he enters the palace now, it will probably be after the third watch. I don't know what the Empress Dowager will say when she sees him. What?"

Tangguan Zhao didn't dare to take the emperor's imperial decree to fight against it. After thinking about it, he didn't respond, but he still refused to give in. It seemed that the more Eunuch Chen was like this, the more he had something, and the more unwilling he was to give up.

Eunuch Chen said: "If Mr. Zhao is unwilling to prepare a sedan chair to take us into the palace, then we all leave and don't disturb Miss Lin's rest. I will naturally enter the palace tomorrow morning. Please come with three imperial edicts. I will never make things difficult for you. How about it?"

"Three imperial decrees?" Zhao Tangguan was taken aback. He didn't know what Eunuch Chen wanted, but Eunuch Chen wanted to leave Jia's mansion. Unless there were other imperial decrees, he couldn't stop him. how?"

Eunuch Chen said: "The first imperial decree is to take Miss Lin into the palace. Do you think Mr. Zhao has any objections?"

Zhao Tangguan nodded and said: "This is natural."

Eunuch Chen said: "The second imperial decree, Miss Lin's belongings have nothing to do with Jia's house. Master Zhao, do you have anything to say?"

This... Tangguan Zhao shook his head.

"The third imperial decree, Mr. Zhao deliberately made things difficult for Miss Lin, can he deal with it at his discretion?" Eunuch Chen said coldly.

"You...don't bully others too much!" Hall Zhao was furious, and his old temper became stubborn again.

"I'd like to advise you, get out and don't hinder Miss Lin's rest, we will naturally enter the palace tomorrow morning; you insist on confiscating Miss Lin's place, and put her with the prisoner's family, who is aggressive?" Eunuch Chen confronted each other.

"This is the place of Jia's mansion. I can search it if I have an imperial decree. I came to invite you in person and kept a low voice. I have done you a lot of face." Hall Zhao jumped up and said, it seemed that he was ready for someone to come in and search.

"I'm afraid you can't afford this face. If you still want to save some face, let him go out first. I will show you the secret decree of the Supreme Emperor. If not, don't blame the loss of face. You have to send more Guard here with manpower, you can handle it yourself." Eunuch Chen took out a scroll of yellow silk from his sleeve.

"You don't care about your secret decree, you can't interfere with the imperial decree to investigate the case. Besides, the Daming Palace usually doesn't interfere in politics, so you don't want to humiliate yourself." Zhao Tangguan also became more and more courageous, and he didn't know why.

Eunuch Chen smiled and said, "Okay then, kneel down to accept the order, do you have any objections?"

This... Tangguan Zhao didn't expect this level, if he accepted the order, he would have to bow his head and kneel first.

"There is an imperial decree: 'Gusu Lin's daughter, the orphan of Lin Ruhai, the former Lantai magistrate, is virtuous and virtuous, dignified and courteous, and I love her deeply. From the day the decree is issued, the world will treat her with the courtesy of the eldest princess, and there must be no violation. This is it.' Do you hear me clearly? The eldest princess salutes, and the crown prince has to give her a salute when she sees her. Is Mr. Zhao going to search her residence? Do you want to see this secret decree?" Eunuch Chen read the secret decree and looked at it. Tangguan Zhao sneered.This was originally a honor left by the Supreme Emperor for everyone, probably to prevent such things from happening in the future, or to think that similar troubles will be encountered in Jia's mansion or other places in the future, so he hastened to make up the imperial decree a few days ago.

This time...Tangguan Zhao naturally has nothing to say, he still has nothing to see about the secret decree, this time it is good, he has to send a hundred Jin Yiwei guards closely, he has to bow his head, he is really dissatisfied, But there is no way.

"No wonder this place is called Feng Laiyi, but what do you mean by 'treating her with the courtesy of the eldest princess'? She is not the eldest princess." The officer who came with her was a little confused, so why did the "eldest princess" appear all of a sudden?

"I don't need to bother you, anyway, when you see her, it's like seeing the eldest princess, that is, the emperor's royal sister." Eunuch Chen said.

"That's not okay. This is the place of Jia's mansion after all. She is the eldest princess, and no one else can do it; and just saying that, who knows if it is true, we have to check it out. Otherwise, if we hide the suspect for an excuse, we can't bear it." I'm sorry." The officer's brain is easy to use, and this is justified and barely passable.

Eunuch Chen snorted and said, "You don't know how to live or die, why don't you go away? You still want to see Miss Lin? She lived in the palace for nearly twenty days without even daring to offend the emperor, and the crown prince only ran into her once. Do you think You have a lot of face, are you courting death?"

Tangguan Zhao understood what he heard, and hurriedly dragged the officer to apologize. It seemed that he would suffer a disadvantage if he stayed any longer, so he might as well leave early.But it would not be embarrassing to arrange some guards for her.

Everyone in the room also heard about it, who knew that Daiyu was still able to help sleep after taking the pills given by Buddha, and she fell asleep quickly after reciting scriptures for a while, so everyone knew that she enjoyed the courtesy of the eldest princess , only she herself does not know.

When he got up early the next morning, Eunuch Chen had already asked for an order, and Dade personally brought Princess Fengyu to come.Daiyu's things were almost packed overnight, and the rest was guarded by Jin Yiwei and the mother-in-law, so she didn't dare to mess with it.At the moment, she didn't care too much, Daiyu sat on Feng Yu, and hurriedly left the place of right and wrong.

Let's talk about the search of the house, which started around the second watch last night, and by the time of daybreak, there was already a clue. However, Prince Zhongshun was still in the wing, and it was inconvenient for everyone to disturb him, so he had to continue to count clearly, so as not to miss it later.

He only went to Rongqing Hall after Prince Zhongshun coaxed the person next to him to sleep with a few words, came out to ask someone to bring her food, and watched her.Jia Mu woke up in the middle of a long time, and Yuanyang hurriedly told that everything outside seemed to have been searched, but they were the only ones who hadn't moved at all.Of course, the wing room was a little far away, and they couldn't hear the noise no matter how loud it was, or they didn't care about it.After hearing the words, Mother Jia didn't know whether she fell asleep or passed out again, anyway, she was still in a state of confusion at the moment.