The "quite critical" here is a euphemism, because in Kong Zhong's subsequent description, the graceful woman's resentment towards the royal family does not sound "mindful" at all. The family died together.
Yun Yifeng was surprised and said: "Such a rebellious remark, and she said it so bluntly in front of Mr.?"
"I was too scared at the time, and I repeatedly advised her to be cautious in her words and deeds." Kong Zhong said, "After Jiang Erye heard it, he also had no idea. Go back to Cangsong Hall, and we can’t let them stay overnight.”
As for the woman's identity, I really don't know, and I can only guess based on the words, that the reason why she has a monstrous hatred for the royal family is because her father, brother, uncle, and the love of her life all died at the hands of the court.
This... Apart from Xie Hanyan, it seems that there is no second person to be found.
Yun Yifeng asked again: "About that maidservant, do you still remember any characteristics?"
"She is taciturn, and sometimes she can't say a word for a whole day." Kong Zhong said, "But I heard from Jiang Erye that the maid seems to have some interest in Jiang Wuye, so she wants to stay in Jiangfu."
What the romantic talent heard was really romantic. Moreover, it is said that the woman has no objection to this relationship, saying that Jiang Wuye has shown great kindness to his father and brother, and in the future he will rely on the Jiang family to avenge his hatred, and giving him his personal maid is also a kind of repayment. It's just that the fifth lady was really fierce, she didn't know how to speak for a moment, so she kept dragging, dragging, and dragging until Kong Zhong left Jiang's mansion, she still didn't say anything.
"Jiang Wuye has great kindness to her father and brother, and he will avenge her in the future." Yun Yifeng touched his chin, "Thank you, old man, what you said today is a big favor to me."
After saying that, he and Ji Yanran both bid farewell. The two left the Confucius house and walked a few steps in the direction of leaving the city. Seeing that no one was following them around, they made a tacit turn and both entered an alley, picked a lush tree, and quietly disappeared. In layers of branches and leaves.
It happened to be able to clearly see the movement of the entire Kong residence.
Yun Yifeng hit him with an elbow: "When did you find out the abnormality?"
Ji Yanran smiled: "What about you? Tell me first."
"The expression of speaking." Yun Yifeng said, "A while ago... In fact, until now, I often forget things suddenly, so I know what it feels like when I have a bad memory and try to remember. And that Mr. Kong, either answered correctly It’s categorical, without any thinking process, or just thinking about it for a long time, and then saying that I don’t remember anything, it’s too strange.” Any normal person should have some memories between “clearly remember” and “not remember at all”. Vague impression, if there are only the first two, it can only mean that the other party has been prepared for a long time, and he has memorized everything that should be said in advance.
"Also, seeing that the prince didn't say a word the whole time, I'm even more sure that there is a problem." Yun Yifeng asked again, "What about you?"
"I kept it simple." Ji Yanran smiled, "That letter was not Kong Zhong's original manuscript, but I copied it later." The original handwriting was scribbled and wild, as if written by a drunken man, but he deliberately tried to be neat when he copied it. The content of the greeting sentence was also changed, and the old man lying on the bed only glanced at the beginning, and readily admitted that it was written by himself.
Yun Yifeng: "..."
Your method is really simple.
"When I found that letter from Jiang's house, I sent someone to check it. It is indeed an old thing, and it is indeed Kong Zhong's own handwriting." Ji Yanran said, "So it can be ruled out that people today forged it and deliberately misled you. My suspicion."
But when I found the letter, there were many Fengyumen disciples at the scene. Behind the Fengyumen disciples, there was still a maid from the Jiang family standing with a lamp. It is not completely kept secret.
Yun Yifeng was vigilant: "Are you suspicious of my Fengyumen?"
"Didn't I also mention the Jiang family's handyman?" Ji Yanran immediately explained. How could the Fengyumen go wrong? The Fengyumen must be right. Ninety-nine percent of the time there are ghosts in the Jiang family. Let's settle the score with Jiang Lingfei when we go back.
"Forget it, the lord's suspicion is correct." Yun Yifeng leaned on the branch of the tree, "No matter who it is, the news was leaked, and the other party took the lead." I don't know who threatened or threatened Kong Zhong. It is only because of the lure that he said what he said just now, or simply, whether the person lying on the bed is actually Kong Zhong is still uncertain.
The evening sun passed through the gaps between the leaves, and it was a little hot on the face.
Ji Yanran covered him with her hand from the sun, bowed her head and kissed him, anyway, she was free, and the beauty was in her arms... The beauty was quite fragrant, jasmine mixed with a faint trace of medicine, which radiated from the black hair and the side of the snow-white neck, everywhere in the body It's beautiful, it's really like hugging a big fairy.
Yun Yifeng dodged to the side and ordered: "Sit down!"
"Is there any movement in the Kong residence?" Ji Yanran rubbed his neck.
There is no movement in Kong Zhai, but your movement is not small. Yun Yifeng was tickled by his breath and wanted to laugh, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to let the other party mess around—anyway, no matter how messy it was, he patted his head with his backhand to comfort him, and continued to stretch his neck Staring not far away.
Ji Yanran kissed her collarbone, and said with satisfaction: "Yun'er is quite cooperative."
"That is, without any real skills, how can you retain His Highness Xiao Wang who has seen the world." Yun Yifeng said a few perfunctory words in his mouth, but seeing that Kong Zhong had already left the yard, he hurriedly sat up straight. Ji Yanran was putting her chin on his shoulder, concentrating on the frivolous beauty, and now, her upper and lower teeth slammed together, and tears were about to come out: "Is this your 'real ability'?"
"Oh, I didn't pay attention." Yun Yifeng shirked responsibility, "Kong Zhong's fault." Who told him not to come out early or late, but to come out when His Royal Highness Xiao Wang was messing around? Sure enough, rebellious ministers and thieves can be punished with their hearts, and their hearts can be punished.
After Kong Zhong locked the door, he turned around tremblingly.
The sun was setting, the farmers were returning home, and the streets were bustling. All kinds of small stalls have been set up, and the proprietress of the tea shed is wearing a bright red dress, with a smile on her face-today, she opened the door and made a lot of money.
Kong Zhong carefully avoided the hustle and bustle, bent down and got into a secluded alley, turned around and walked towards the direction out of the city.
The footsteps also changed from the previous staggering and sluggishness to faster and faster.
The crutches were lost, the back was straightened, the wrinkled mask on the face was torn and thrown aside, and looking back, with deep eyes, it was the woman who pretended to be a saint in snow in the Northwest desert!
A horse was waiting for her by the side of the road.
The woman's face showed joy, she trotted a few steps, and stretched out her hand to untie the horse's rein, but her wrist suddenly hurt, and half of her body became paralyzed for an instant.
There was the rustling of the wind behind him.
The woman knew something was wrong, so she imagined that when she was in the desert that day, she used the magic trick to escape, but a snow-white snake-shaped soft whip had already wrapped around her ankle, and her whole body was dragged backward heavily, with a "bang" Falling under a tree—Master Yunmen is still very benevolent, considering that the other party is a middle-aged aunt, he specially picked the thickest and most fragrant flowers for her, so as not to fall too embarrassingly and miserably.
Ji Yanran half-sheathed her sword, and pressed Longyin to her neck: "Who is Your Excellency?"
The woman closed her beautiful eyes and refused to say another word.
…
Wanli City, government office.
Ma County Magistrate was eating meat and drinking wine with gusto, when he suddenly received a notification that His Royal Highness Xiao Wang had come down, he was so shocked that his beard almost flew off, he fell 18 times all the way, and crawled into it. lobby.
Yun Yifeng quickly supported him: "My lord, slow down."
"Officials down and down—"
"There's no need to salute." Ji Yanran waved his hand and asked straight to the point, "Where is Kong Zhong?"
Magistrate Ma hurriedly said: "At home, at home, the next official will send someone to call."
Yun Yifeng: "..."
Naturally, Kong's house was empty, not to mention people, not a single ghost could be found. Magistrate Ma was sweating profusely, and even said that Kong Zhong had been in poor health for the past few years, so he spent most of the time lying at home, hired a servant, and lived on the money sent by his son from outside, why did he suddenly disappear? A few days ago, when I was sitting on the street basking in the sun, I even had a chat with him, but I didn't hear that I was going to travel far away.
Neighbors also said that they saw Mr. Kong walking in the street the day before yesterday, bought his favorite sweet-scented osmanthus crisps, and teased the children in the shantang for a while, happily.
It seems that the disappearance is just a matter of a day or two.
In the prison, Yun Yifeng looked at the woman in front of him and sighed, "You won't kill him, will you?"
"What did I kill him for? An ignorant literati." The woman said coldly, "He went to find his son."
Yun Yifeng: "Looking for a son?"
"His only son is doing business in Nanyang, so I pretended to be a member of the Chamber of Commerce and said that I would pick him up." The woman said, "Kong Zhong was very happy, and he readily agreed, so I arranged for horses and horses to pick him up yesterday morning. Go south."
Yun Yifeng continued to look at her.
"I just want him to make room, so I won't kill innocent people indiscriminately." The woman seemed displeased at being stared at, and frowned, "I also invited a doctor and gave him a large sum of money. The chariots and horses should not be out yet. Lizhou, if you don't believe me, just send someone to chase after him."
"I will send someone to investigate clearly." Yun Yifeng nodded, and said again, "If everything is true, then you don't sound like a treacherous person, why did you set up this trap? I hinted at the prince to investigate Jiangnan Zhen, pointing out that he has a very close relationship with the Xie family in the past, what kind of enmity is there between you? Also, who tipped off the news and told you that we will come to Wanli City and find Mr. Kong?"
The woman said: "You have a lot of questions."
"I set up a ecstasy formation in the desert, which made me dizzy for several days, and even pretended to be my mother. Now I should answer a few more questions to make up for it." Yun Yifeng said confidently, "And it's not just that , you even made friends with Yerten, just because of this, it is already a felony to be beheaded."
"You don't have to threaten me with beheading. I'm not afraid of death. But before I die, I still have a few words to say to His Highness King Xiao."
"Why can I only tell His Highness King Xiao? It's the same for me."
"Tell you, are you from the Li family?" The other party looked aggressively.
Yun Yifeng said sincerely: "If you don't make troubles, maybe I'm the one by now."
The woman choked for a long time at this... brazen and calm answer.
Finally, he gritted his teeth: "The young lady asked me to bring these words to King Xiao."
Yun Yifeng frowned slightly, Miss... Xie Hanyan