Sun Shangshu's House.
The wife of the Sun family, as usual, picked up the boiled soup and walked to the study in the southwest corner.
Sun Zhengquan lowered his head, staring at the letter in his hand in a daze, the door squeaked, disrupting his thoughts.
"You haven't slept in the house for a few days? Is this Minister of Industry trying to kill him?" Mrs. Sun reached out and poked his shoulder.
"Shu Er." Sun Zhengquan took her hand.
Mrs. Sun looked at his dark blue eyes, and the messy white hair on the temples froze. She couldn't remember how many years he had never called her like this.
After being married for many years, her heart sank for no reason.
"Thank you for your hard work." Sun Zhengquan looked up at her and smiled. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were piled up in one place, showing his age.
"Why are you looking at me like this?"
Sun Zhengquan looked at her for a long time, his eyes became slightly red, and after a while, he said solemnly: "You go out first."
Mrs. Sun's hand trembled slightly, "Did something happen?"
"Nothing, just someone will come to me later." Sun Zhengquan said.
"Who will come to see you so late?"
Sun Zhengquan waved his hand, "People from the Ministry of Works,"
Madam Sun nodded suspiciously and said slowly, "Then you should rest earlier."
The sky was gloomy outside, and there was silence all around. There was a thunderstorm, and there was a pattering sound of rain.
Sun Zhengquan sat in front of the desk, staring at his black gauze hat.
Suddenly, behind him, there was the sound of the soles rubbing against the window frame.
Hearing such a sound at this time, it stands to reason that he should be afraid, but for some reason, the heart that has been swaying for a lifetime will suddenly become calm, like a lake in the middle of the night, with no wind and no waves.
Sun Zhengquan raised his head and saw a man, dressed in black and covered with a face towel.
This is Eunuch Lou, one of the most powerful people around Empress Xu.
"Master Sun." Eunuch Lou nodded.
"Eunuch Lou appeared here late at night, what is your intention?"
Eunuch Lou didn't say much, but handed a letter to him, "Master Sun, just look at it."
Sun Zhengquan took it, opened it slowly, and looked at it, as if he suddenly saw Empress Xu's cunning eyes in the letter.
Every time she made a move, she had to leave a back hand. Such a wrist made people shudder.
It was only a day after the news that Jingzhao Mansion was detaining people... This act of using the plague to eradicate dissidents was transformed by her - the Turks paid a lot of money to buy the governor of Luoyang, and sent the people infected with the disease to Chang'an, intending to disturb the Great Jin Dynasty Chaogang.
There was a sneer at the corner of Sun Zhengquan's mouth. When Empress Xu decided to use his hand to act, she must have reached this point.
The ninety people who contracted the disease were all taken over by the Sun family.
That old lady is also the wife of the old housekeeper who has been by his side for decades.
And these have nothing to do with His Royal Highness Sixth Highness and Queen Xu.
Sun Zhengquan slapped the letter on the desk with a slap. "What does Niangniang mean, cross the river and demolish the bridge?"
Lou Gong said in a fair way: "My lady wants the servants to tell the adults, the adults are deceived, and the crime committed is dereliction of duty, not conspiracy. According to the laws of the Jin Dynasty, they will not sit together, not hanged, but only exiled for 2,000 miles."
"That's it? Exile for two thousand miles?" Sun Zhengquan's mouth was full of sarcasm.
Although the punishment of exile is different from the death penalty, after all, how many people can walk 2,000 miles away alive
Lou Gong said: "The niangniang also said that if Master Sun has grudges in his heart, he might as well think about his wife and children."
Sun Zhengquan stood up abruptly, swung the soup bowl in his hand to the ground, and said angrily, "Is she going to do what she did to Shen Wenqi and do it to me again?"
"Master Sun is careful." Eunuch Lou said with a chuckle: "The Shen family is wronged, you don't count." The implication of these words is: seeking wealth and wealth at risk, this path is also your own choice. .
Sun Zhengquan fell down on the chair, pursed his lips for a long time, and then said, "What else did she say?"
"Niangniang promises you that if the Sixth Highness succeeds in the future, she will treat the Sun family favorably in the future." After Eunuch Lou finished what he wanted to say, he quietly retired and returned to the imperial city.
In Anhua Hall, Empress Xu looked at the smoke lingering on the side, fiddled with the tea cup with her left hand, and said softly, "Have the words been passed on?"
"Hui Niangniang, the old slave has passed it word by word."
Empress Xu closed her eyes and smelled the aroma of the tea, and said, "That's it. Sun Zhengquan is pregnant with his wife and children, and he knows what to do."
The sixth prince clenched his fists and said, "My son told you that this strategy would not work, so it's just that the Sun family is willing to take the blame. Has the queen mother ever thought, what if he doesn't want to? What if he bites back? Wouldn't it set fire to itself? ?"
Seeing that Empress Xu didn't say anything, the sixth prince continued: "When a plague continues, I don't know how many people will lose their lives because of this, but I am..."
Before he could finish speaking, Empress Xu raised her hand and gave him a slap.
"Human life? Can you sit in that position without bloodshed? Last year, in the defeat with Goguryeo, Duke Huguo was killed in the battlefield, and my Dajin died 100,000 sons. This is not human life?"
"When your Xiao family seized the country from the previous emperor Wen, they slaughtered people all over the city. This is not human life? Your father is old, and if things change in a day, you really want the prince to sit in that position and want to take it again. It will be difficult to come back, even if you take it back by force, you will be stabbed in the spine, the name is not right, the words are not smooth, understand?"
"Wherever wolves eat meat, and sheep eat grass wherever they eat, Ye'er, don't let your mother feel that you are unbearable."
The sixth prince took a deep breath, "Mom, calm down."
Empress Xu threw a book on his chest, "Go to the Auditorium, and ask the saint to go to Yangzhou to treat the epidemic."
"Empress mother, the Sun family and the Xu family are closely related. If this incident occurs, will the royal father suspect us?"
"More than half of the more than 90 people are Turks, and the evidence is here, so what if you are suspicious? Fighting for a plague, such a joke, your father and emperor will let the people of the world. Do you know?"
"My son understands."
After a long while, Empress Xu said again, "Why are you staying here if you don't leave?"
"There is still something I don't understand about my son, and I hope my mother will let me know." The sixth prince said.
"you say."
"Sun Shangshu is loyal to his mother and son. Why didn't his mother ask Li Di to do such a dangerous thing?"
"Li Di, a son of a poor family, what foundation can he have?" Empress Xu paused and said, "Besides, Li Di is a wolf, if this matter passes through his hands, even if you threaten the lives of everyone in the Li family, It's also useless."
The sixth prince was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "Mother rest early, and son will go back now."
Empress Xu gave an "um", then rolled up her sleeves and said to her fairness, "Place the Sun family well and don't treat them badly."
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The sky was white with fish belly, and a thick milky white mist gradually rose, covering the entire Chang'an with a gloomy color. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and the mist flew away, drifted away, and disappeared above the Shangshu Mansion...
After the little eunuch read the imperial edict, Zhou Shuan led more than 70 personal soldiers to copy Sun Shangshu's mansion.
The personal soldiers rushed into the study and turned back and said sternly: "Master Zhou! The guilty minister, Sun Zhengquan, committed suicide, and there is only one confession letter left on the case."
Sun Mi heard the words, her pupils widened, she rushed into the book and screamed, and Aye was sobbing like a complaint.
Madam Sun passed out.
For a while, the female family members of the Sun House fled with their heads in their hands.
Zhou Shuan stood in front of the Shangshu Mansion and whispered, "Is the body intact?"
Chu Yidao: "Complete."
"Give it to Zou for an autopsy to see if there are any traces of homicide. If necessary, the autopsy can be dissected."
"You dare! You are not allowed to touch me Aye! He is not guilty! He was framed!" Sun Mi yelled at Zhou Shuan with red eyes.
"take away."
The breeze blew across his handsome and clear face, his expression was the same as his sharp outline, looking at the desolation and fear written on the faces of the people in front of him, without the slightest sympathy.
The cries in the prison of Dali Temple have been uninterrupted for ten years. Some people were imprisoned for injustice, others took it upon themselves, and he couldn't even remember that this was the residence of the first officials he copied.
Sun Mi walked around in front of Zhou Shu'an and knelt down, "My little girl, please, don't dissect Aye's body."
Seeing that the body of Sun Zhengquan had been wrapped, Sun Mi burst into tears and rushed over and said, "Please, please, let me take another look."
When Zhou Shuan turned around, he suddenly remembered that in September last year, he was the same way.
He watched as Shen Yan chased all the way to Dali Temple, turned over and dismounted, bowed and begged him to see the Marquis of Yunyang for the last time.
He didn't answer, and she collapsed and knelt down, her eyes were full of tears, but they never fell.
The first time he saw her, she got off the carriage. She was extravagant and beautiful. He sat beside her, and she couldn't see him.
The second time he saw him, she was staring at Li Di's name on the Gongyuan list. He stood behind her and stepped on him when he turned back.
The third time he saw her, he was in a high position, she was already a wife, but when his eyes met, his arrogant spine was easily shattered by the look of despair.
The cold wind was raging, and the goose feather-like snow fell on her shoulders. He tilted the oil umbrella and put it over her body, and said to her, "Mrs. Li, go back."
Come back.
I heard that your husband loves you and loves you, and he will not make you feel wronged in the future.
Thinking of this, Zhou Shuan chuckled lightly, the only time in this life was careless, that if you miscalculated, someone else can make you feel better...