reluctantly fall
Before the three-day deadline agreed by Gongyanghuai and Nangong, Gongyanghuai got his wish to see Qi Yan.
Before the beginning of the early morning, the ministers were waiting for the news in the side hall. Gongyanghuai was eager to see it. Today is the last day of the agreed deadline. If I can't convey the news of Qi Yan's surrender to Nangongda tonight, I will be impeached by Cui Yushi of the Zaochao tomorrow. Qi Yan's memorial will be submitted to the sky, and the most important thing is: he also had to submit to Nangongda's arrangement and impeach Qi Yan together.
This is what Gongyanghuai doesn't want to see anyway. He and Qi Yan knew each other at a young age. He was able to gain a firm foothold in the court thanks to Qi Yan's help several times... He Gongyanghuai has never been a person who repays kindness and revenge, but unfortunately Today is no different than in the past: the elder brother is obsessed with Confucianism, and even though he is the second son of the Gongyang family, he has to shoulder the rise and fall of the entire Gongyang family, and he cannot help himself.
Gongyanghuai spent a lot of money to pass the news through a palace maid to the impassable Weiming Palace, but he did not say it explicitly, just asked Qi Yan to cancel the leave today.
Gongyanghuai: "Yuanjun!"
Qi Yan looked around, and saw that many adults were looking over here, and bowed their hands to Gongyang Huai: "Master Gongyang, how are you resting?"
Gongyanghuai understood and exchanged a few words with Qi Yan: Please invite Qi Yan to have a cup of tea in the morning and later.
Early in the morning, Nangongda glanced at Gongyanghuai without a trace, the latter sent a signal to him, and Nangongda invited his personal servant to whisper a few words to him.
Gongyanghuai exhaled in relief, but this scene did not escape Qi Yan's eyes.
The meeting passed safely, Nangongda deliberately did not mention the examination of the examination, Nangongwang was absent, and the Nangongda family was the only one.
Nangong Jingnu didn't come this morning. She was dealing with another matter in the study.
After the concubine's mansion caught fire, Nangong Jingnv took care of Qi Yan while she was undressed, while ordering Chen Chuansi to secretly investigate the real cause of the fire.
Even though she had already guessed that the mastermind behind the scenes, Zuo, were just the royal family, and she couldn't move them for the time being, but that didn't mean she didn't do anything.
Chen Chuansi won the forty-nine true biography, and with Nangong's backing, it was natural and convenient to move.
He investigated several treasures in the warehouse of Tongyuan Bank in Beijing. After in-depth investigation, he found many treasures that are priceless. It's Xie An, Xie Yuanshan... .
Intuition told Chen Chuansi that he still had a backer behind him, but Chen Chuansi did not dare to startle the snake, and handed over the situation to Nangong Jingnu.
Nangong Jingnu looked at the dossier on the bookcase and laughed in anger: What a courage! Arson doesn't count, but the private treasury of the Concubine's House was evacuated. I want to see who the master behind you is!
Nangong Jingnv: "At all costs, let this palace find out who is the master behind Xie An."
Chen Chuansi: "Yes."
What Nangong Jingnv didn't know was that this was just a play directed and acted by Qi Yan. The treasures of the Concubine's Mansion were emptied by Qi Yan himself, and he ordered someone to sell it to Tongyuan Bank by special means.
The wealth of the Xie family is not accidental. Xie An is very careful. If it was placed in Tongyuan Bank, he would not take these things rashly, but... Nangong Wang's birthday is coming soon.
The reason why Xie An followed Nangong Wang so determinedly was that, on the one hand, his status as a businessman in the Wei Kingdom was very low, and Xie An needed a strong protective umbrella to prevent all levels of government from raiding. The most important thing is that Qi Yan inquired: Nangong Wang had promised Xie An that if he could become the emperor, he would seal Xie An as the emperor's merchant and be solely responsible for the purchase of the palace.
This is what Xie An wants the most. With the identity of the royal merchant, Xie An transformed into a nobleman.
Xie An did his best to support Nangong Wang, but in the past few years, even if he was rich and rich, he could not bear it. Hua Hua's money was put into the pockets of those adults, but it was Xie An's Tongyuan Bank that was emptied.
It will be Nangong Wang's birthday in a while, and a batch of unparalleled treasures will appear at the right time, how can Xie An not be moved? Even if he had doubts in his heart, he became more courageous when he thought that these things would soon be able to enter the Prince's Mansion.
Of course, Qian Yuan and Gu Feng also contributed a lot. Qian Yuan was once the son of Xie An's house, and although he followed Qi Yan in Xie's house, he still had some connections.
Qian Yuan made a lot of money and gave the other party a land deed of a hundred hectares of fertile land at one time, and this happened.
After that, it was relatively simple. Qi Yan believed that Nangong Jingnu loved her. A man-made fire almost took her own life, even though Nangong Jingnu comforted Qi Yan and said that she would be wronged for a while.
But Qi Yan didn't believe that the other party would do nothing... The clue was revealed to Chen Chuansi by Qi Yan, and the plan was made by Gu Feng.
Now, Qi Yan is no longer fighting alone. In the end, I would like to thank Nangong for this witchcraft disaster. Otherwise, how could Qi Yan accept this group of people who have no place to stand and swear allegiance to the death?
With Gu Feng as a strategist and Qian Yuan as a business-minded shopkeeper, Qi Yan's road to revenge is much easier... .
He directed and acted the third fire, and the nightmare that had disappeared for several years came again. The scene in the dream was no longer the king's tent in the barn, but the Nangong Jingnv dressed in imperial clothes.
Standing in the raging fire, she stared at Qi Yan with resentful eyes and asked her: Why
Every time this time, Qi Yan would wake up with a start, and his underwear was soaked in cold sweat.
It was she who planned everything with her own hands, and it was she who never had the possibility to live in peace with Nangong Jingnv, and she personally pushed the relationship between the two to the abyss of doom. She and Nangong Jingnv could only survive alone, or... All jade and stones are burnt and perish together.
"Clap!" The tea cup fell to the ground and shattered.
Gongyanghuai: "Yuanjun? Don't you worry?"
Qi Yan regained her senses, her face pale.
For some reason, when I was talking about it, I lost my mind... I remembered the nightmare last night.
Qi Yan's heart skipped a beat, and for a moment she wondered if she should tell Qian Yuan to take it easy and not sell Xie An to Nangong Jingnu for the time being
Maybe there is still a step between them...
Gongyanghuai saw that Qi Yan's face was not very good, and sighed deeply: "Yuanjun, you and I are both close friends of Tongze, and they are like brothers... I, count me, beg you, promise, don't let me be too Difficult to do!"
Qi Yan didn't answer and asked, "Do you support the Fifth Prince?"
Gongyanghuai was silent for a long time, and said faintly: "This is not a decision made by me alone, but a decision made by all the elders of the entire Gongyang Mansion. Your Majesty is not in good health now, and the matter of the state heir is pending, although all the princes are concubines, But the fifth prince has served as the prince of the supervising country for many years, and the prince is only one name away from the prince."
Seeing that Qi Yan didn't speak, Gong Yanghuai said to himself: "The eighth and ninth masters are too young, so I don't need to talk about the second or fourth. The prince and the fifth prince are more suitable than the fifth prince."
Qi Yan hooked her lips and said lightly: "The most important thing is that the power of the fifth prince's mother's family is slightly weaker than that of the third prince. If the fifth prince is enthroned as the number one hero, there will naturally be more benefits."
Gongyanghuai's face squinted, his eyes were a little complicated, and he smiled bitterly: "Yes, several elders in the family also consider the same, Yuanjun... I am indeed inferior to you, so you should also understand that this matter can be big or small. , good birds choose wood to perch."
Qi Yan looked straight into Gongyanghuai's eyes: "If the third prince also threatens me with the same reason, what should I do?"
Gong Yanghuai was stopped in one sentence, he hesitated for a while, and replied, "I'm afraid he won't be able to come back for a while, and the fifth prince will definitely have a way to keep you."
Qi Yan: "Baishi, don't you think about it? If the fifth prince can't sit in that position in the end, what should your Gongyang Mansion do?"
Gongyanghuai's heart was pounding, and a few words were forced out of his mouth: "Since Gongyangfu wants to be a hero of the new dynasty, it must take risks."
Qi Yan sighed and said in a low voice, "Go back and think about it. Before everything is settled, it's still too late to look back."
Gongyanghuai sat in the chair and didn't recover until Qi Yan left for a while. Obviously he was ordered to persuade Qi Yan, so how could he be told by the other party in turn
That afternoon, Qi Yan told Nangong Jingnv that Gongyanghuai had persuaded him to join the Fifth Prince's camp, but the latter didn't seem to care: "What did you say?"
Qi Yan replied: "I told him that the fifth prince might not be able to sit in that position, and let him turn around as soon as possible before it is a foregone conclusion."
Nangong Jingnu's beautiful eyes flowed, and she smiled lightly: "You are very fond of Gongyang Mansion. I have asked my father and emperor for instructions on the exam questions. As for the Jinzhou students on the list... As long as they are justly selected, they will not be able to reveal anything. Big waves."
Qi Yan: "Although Gongyang Mansion is not as good as it used to be, it still occupies the seat of Jiuqing. In the future, the court will not be full of new faces. This minister understands that Baishi has a cheerful and free temperament, and is one of the few people who can calmly accept His Highness' ascension to the throne. ."
Nangong Jingnu nodded and asked, "I want to ask you something, do you recognize Xie An?"
Qi Yan's heart froze: Are you and Nangong Jingnu a step too late
Qi Yan lowered her eyes, thought for a moment and replied, "His Royal Highness is talking about Xie Yuanshan, the richest man in the capital? If it was him... but there was a relationship."
Nangong Jingnu: "Oh? When?"
Qi Yan told Nangong Jingnv what happened back then: "Brother Yuanshan invited a lot of poor students at the banquet, and after the conference was released, Brother Yuanshan came again, and seeing that the minister lived in a shabby house, it would be a mess. The Chu mansion was given to the minister, I am ashamed to say it... Since then, the minister has neglected to communicate with Brother Yuanshan, and we have not seen each other for many years, why did Your Highness suddenly ask this?"
Under Qi Yan's unmarked guidance, it really aroused the vigilance of Nangong Jingnv. According to the laws of the Wei Kingdom, merchants were not allowed to entertain officials without authorization. This Xie An was smart, not only avoided the laws, but also made friends with future officials of the court in advance.
As for Qi Yan, it was probably because he was ordered as a concubine, and Xie An didn't dare to cause trouble and didn't show up again.
Nangong Jingnu: "It's nothing, I just want to implement some things. You go back to bathe and change clothes first, and go to Ganquan Palace with me. The royal father wants to see you."