By mid-March, Huang and others had regained their strength after half a month of recuperation. These two aunts have always been known for their ability. As soon as they started helping, Wei Changying and Ji Chunmian, who had been so busy before, breathed a sigh of relief. Not to mention that they were able to relax immediately, but they also felt much more relaxed.
A few days later, another piece of news came out of the imperial capital. It was said that Emperor Xingping felt sad about the decline of the clan, especially the fact that almost none of the eldest daughters survived, and decided to restore the commoner Shen Bao's royal status and make her a princess. However, Shen Bao insisted on using her original title and became Her Royal Highness Princess Qingxin.
Shen Bao can survive, which means he has a great destiny.
When the Duanmu family decided to break out, considering Duanmu Xinmiao's medical skills, they decided to make an exception and bring her as their only female family member. However, Duanmu Xinmiao cared about her sister and nephew and refused to leave. Instead, she ran to Prince Cai's Mansion to find her sister Duanmu Weimiao when her grandfather Duanmu Xingfenfu died for his country.
Of course Duanmu Weimiao was surprised when he saw her at that time, but before Duanmu Weimiao forced her to chase the Duanmu family's team, Duanmu Xinmiao revealed a secret - there were secret passages and secret rooms in Ji's house, and the point was, there were secret passages and secret rooms inside. Prepared water.
This secret passage and drinking water were a way that Ji Qubing tried when he was planning to escape from the control of Mrs. Song of the Wei family.
According to Ji Qubing's plan, he would dig a secret passage leading outside the city and escape to Xiliang to find his uncle. Ping Ji Qubing himself, even if Mrs. Song was not in the imperial capital, it was of course impossible for him to do such tricks without the eyes of Mrs. Song.
Therefore, this matter was left to Duanmu Xinmiao.
At that time, Duanmu Xinmiao had been living alone in a separate courtyard for several years. As the unmarried daughter of the Duanmu family, and her biological mother had passed away, she had no savings of her own. However, her grandmother and sister Queen Mother Cai gave her a large number of jewelry, especially jadeite.
In addition, Duanmu Xinmiao was obsessed with medical skills. In order to study medicine and pharmacology, he often sent people to pawn these things. So when she raised money, it went unnoticed.
Afterwards, she concealed her purpose, consulted Queen Mother Cai, and selected a loyal old servant among the people left behind by their biological mothers to entrust the matter.
The old servant was quite capable. He first made people buy the house that was later called Ji Zhai in a roundabout way, and then used kindness and power to find a group of people to do the job.
But those who found it all said that this secret passage was easy to dig, but it was impossible to dig all the way to the outside of the city because the foundation of the city wall was very deep and thick, and there were soldiers patrolling the city every day.
If they pass through the wall, not to mention whether they have the ability to break through the foundation of the city wall, during the process of breaking through, the vibration will be transmitted to the city, and the city defenders will definitely notice it. If they don't go through, they can only dig the secret passage deeper than the foundation of the city wall... They can't do that kind of fortification - for the most prosperous and majestic city in the world like the Imperial Capital, the depth of the city wall means that the enemy can attack the city. It is a bit wishful thinking to dig into the city from under the city wall.
The old servant reported these words to Duanmu Xinmiao. After Duanmu Xinmiao thought about it, he offered advice to his master Ji Qubing: Anyway, Ji Qubing's purpose was to escape from the control of the Wei family, not to use tunnels to leave the city. Since this method doesn't work, simply dig a tunnel, hide enough food and water, and sneak in for a long time if someone doesn't pay attention. If he doesn't see him for a year or two, Mrs. Song will suspect that he has left the imperial capital. When Mrs. Song relaxes her surveillance, Ji Qubing can leave quietly...
Although there were many loopholes in her idea, Ji Qubing was almost going crazy trying to escape, so he adopted it.
So Duanmu Xinmiao asked the old servant to dig a secret room, prepare enough dry food for easy storage, and dig a well in the secret room... With the cruelty of their master and disciple, they had to kill everyone involved in this matter, except the old servant. All outsiders were silenced.
Then Ji Qubing deliberately provoked enmity with the Ji family, and then pretended to give in and bought this well-furnished house. After he lived in Ji Qubing's house, he refused to treat others easily because he was thinking about " "disappearance".
However, what Master and Disciple Ji Qubing did not expect was that Mrs. Song would actually ask Mr. Huang to arrange for someone to serve him closely... Mr. Huang even sent his second son's family away...
With Ni Tao and his wife watching, Ji Qubing couldn't find a reliable chance to enter the secret passage. In order not to expose the escape route that Duanmu Xinmiao had worked so hard to kill and silence, Ji Qubing could only hold back. As a result, he actually found a way to completely cure Wei Zhenghong, so there was no need to do this.
So this secret passage and the secret room in the secret passage remained.
Coincidentally, the food Duanmu Xinmiao sent in when he sent people to build this secret tunnel can of course not be eaten at this time. But when Ji Qubing let out the news that he had been able to cure Wei Zhenghong, in order to prevent him from being assassinated, he prepared another batch of dry food and sent it in, so that he could hide in and avoid the limelight in case something went wrong.
That batch of food was put in only a few years ago and has been stored in the cellar. Some of it is still edible. Even if it is slightly poisonous, Duanmu Xinmiao can eliminate it by bringing a few handfuls of medicinal materials from Ji's house before going in.
When she created this secret passage, it was to prevent the Wei family from tracing it. Of course, it was very concealed - after all, if Ji Qubing disappeared under the circumstances, the Wei family would definitely dig up the house.
Compared with the secret passage built according to this requirement, most of the attention of the Rong people was on high-ranking families, so after leading Queen Cai's mother and son, Shen Bao, and Ni Tao and his wife to go in together, in addition to worrying about insufficient food, every day Apart from living frugally, there is nothing to worry about in terms of safety.
After Wei Changying learned about what happened earlier, he was quite moved by how powerful the Gu family was after Emperor Huanzong's dethronement: If Gu family had entrusted Shen Bao to someone else, even her natal brother, that would have been the case during the changes in the imperial capital. He was destined to die with his elders; but he was entrusted to Duanmu Xinmiao, and was later arranged by the younger sister of the Queen Mother Cai... Surprisingly, the two sisters who followed the Duanmu family not only chose their lives, but they were still in danger!
Otherwise, given Shen Bao's appearance, which can be called a beauty and a disaster, would he be afraid of having less trouble in this world
It's a pity that the deposed queen, who was extremely resourceful both before and after her death, gave birth to a son like Shen Xun who failed to live up to expectations. He was able to torment the originally solid position of crown prince, which led to the downfall of the Gu family and the death of his uncle Gu Xiaode...
Thinking of Shen Xun, Guard Chief Ying's pupils shrank slightly, and he suddenly raised his head and asked Shi Man'er: "Someone came over from the capital yesterday. Have you asked your husband how you are lately?"
Of course, the Huang family was not the only one to survive the birth of children in the Shen family and the huge dowry of the Chief of Guard Ying. As these people gradually learned that the Wei army had entered the city, came out of their previous hiding places one after another, and found their way to the Chuncao Lake, the pressure on Shi Man'er and others increased greatly. Now they became more respectful. After hearing this, they hurriedly said: "In reply to Madam, maid After asking, he said that he has been worrying about the baggage these days, and even though Shen Die was watching, he still stayed up late the past two days. "
... After burying Shen Xuan and others, the Shen family changed their tune. Shen Zangfeng no longer called him son, but was promoted to master. Wei Changying and Huo Qingling also became the third wife and sixth wife.
Moreover, Shen Zangfeng took the lead in supporting Emperor Xingping's ascension to the throne, and he wanted to reciprocate the favor.
Originally, Ming Peitang had the hereditary and irreplaceable title of Marquis of Yongding. Emperor Xingping was a puppet anyway. It didn't matter whether the Shen family was powerful or not, so they simply proposed to give him an additional rank of Duke of Dingguo. The Su family was succeeded by Su Xiuming, who was also made Kang Lehou and became Kang Guogong.
Only the Liu family received symbolic praise from the court and some rewards in terms of money and silk, without any mention of titles... Obviously, they were left to fight to find out the outcome. The court, or the Shen family, and the Su family did not want to get involved, at least not yet. Intervene in this battle in Ranxiatang.
It seems that the Shen family has taken the initiative now. Even if the great Wei State Zuo has his last breath, even if the world is in chaos, with the Xiliang army in hand, he can conquer the world if he advances, and he can have both sides when retreating... But Wei Changying knows that everything is okay. It's so simple. The short-term smoothness in front of me is just a facade. If nothing else, let's just say that Shen Zangfeng has been unanimously recognized by his brothers and has been recognized as a knight, but he has not been called the leader of the clan. This is a problem...
Although it is said that to officially become a clan leader, one has to return to Xiliang to open an ancestral hall, the time and situation are not suitable to do so at this moment. However, there is a hidden worry at hand - the golden seal of the Shen family's lord is missing!
The golden seal of the Valve Master represents the identity of the Valve Master. Shen Xuan has been in charge of it before, and Shen Xuan will certainly not fail to take it with him when he breaks out. But there was no trace of Shen Xuan's body. When Shen Zangfeng and others buried him, they could only set up a tomb, let alone the whereabouts of a small gold seal
Of course, if Shen Xuan is here, the golden seal will be gone if it is gone. At worst, it will be recast. The problem is that both Shen Xuan and Shen Zhou are dead. The oldest person in our sect is Shen Lianshi. Earlier, when Shen Xuan was still alive and trapped in the imperial capital, the Shen clan members in Xiliang became restless. It is conceivable that once they knew that the gold seal of the clan leader was lost, they would definitely It will make a big fuss.
Even if Shen Zangfeng returned to Xiliang to recruit troops and killed a group of clan members who made the most noise, he could not kill all the clan members...
Shen Zangfeng can't go back to Xiliang for the time being, so it should be okay to keep this matter a secret for a while.
The most troublesome thing for Shen Zangfeng right now is the Xiliang army's baggage. There are 300,000 soldiers and horses, and the daily consumption is extremely staggering.
Originally, the Xiliang army did not bring enough baggage when they set off, and the imperial capital was destroyed because the food and grass were burned and the people were frightened. The tens of millions of stones of food and grass in Yanzhou, the largest storage and transshipment place in the north of the Wei Dynasty, were also used by Shen Zangfeng and Su Xiu. Ming Yi burned it... If it hadn't been for the capture of part of the baggage left by the Rong people when they fled, the Xiliang army would have been hungry by now.
However, the food and grass left by the Rong people was limited, which was only a temporary solution to their urgent needs...
Wei Changying thought about what her husband had to worry about at the moment, and couldn't help but feel that Shen Zangfeng might be exhausted mentally and physically if he discussed the matter of Shenbo and Shenxun with her husband at this moment.
But then she thought about it and thought: "Yes, how could I think that I can't get involved in this matter and should not take care of it? In order not to be an enemy, my husband burned years of food and grass in Yanzhou, so that now the army is in the north There is nowhere to get food. But the north has no food and grass to supply the army, but the south is not like that! Especially Fengzhou and Jiangnan are both Shangzhous in this dynasty, and the land is fertile and productive. Even in the past two years, there have been civil uprisings. , but what are the methods of grandfather and grandfather? These two places are much better than other places in the country!"
The guard chief Ying slammed the account book shut and ordered: "Prepare the car and ask Guang'er to come over. I want to go to the city to find my husband to discuss matters!" (To be continued)