"The yard next to the gambling house is Cao Yi's private property. It is not written in his name, but he has raised some people in it."
"We were afraid to scare the snake away, so we didn't follow in. We just sent people to ambush around the yard. Not long after that, we saw someone coming out of the yard and went to a medicine house in Wennan Lane. Inside the medicine house, There's a poison doctor."
Yun Shang raised her eyelids: "Seeking poison?"
"It should be."
Yun Shang couldn't help laughing when she heard Xu Lin's response: "These two brothers are interesting. They both want to poison each other, and I don't know who will be able to do it in the end."
Xu Lin lowered his eyes and did not respond.
Yunshang rubbed her fingers lightly, and remembered what Luo Qingyan said before, and wondered if this show was for them again, or if it was a play put on by their Cao family.
Yun Chang thought for a long time before saying: "Just keep watching. We don't participate in the struggle between the two brothers. We just sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight."
"yes."
"Has Cao Han been peaceful these days?" Yun Shang asked.
Xu Lin nodded: "I have always been very quiet. Except for going to court and dealing with political affairs, I stayed in the mansion for the rest of the time. We have always sent people to watch over him. Every day, I just read books and practice calligraphy, and said to my wife. Speak, teach and teach your children, and occasionally go to the courtyard of the mistress of the Cao family to say hello, and live a very well-behaved life."
Yun Shang hummed: "I remember, Cao Han's wife is the daughter of a butcher, right? Does he have two sons and a daughter?"
"Yes." Xu Lin nodded.
"What do his wife and children do on weekdays?"
"His wife and children are even more boring on weekdays." Xu Lin pursed his lips: "Cao Han is a concubine, and his wife is the daughter of a butcher. He hardly communicates on weekdays, and stays in the house all day embroidering flowers." Cooking and cooking, and rarely going out of the house, I only visit my mother's house once in a while."
"Cao Han is a concubine. His two sons have no way to go to study in ethnology, so they study in Zixuan Academy in the city. They go out to the academy early in the morning and return to the residence in the afternoon. After returning to the residence, they do their homework and accompany their father. Niang talks and eats, almost every day."
"Cao Han's daughter stays at home most of the time. Cao Han hired a female teacher who teaches four books and six arts for her daughter, and she learns these things in her yard."
Yun Shang nodded and did not speak. Xu Lin slightly raised his eyes to look at Yun Shang's expression, and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, Madam, Cao Han's wife and children, all of them have sent someone to watch."
Yun Shang hummed: "Cao Yi's wife and son have already left Jincheng, so send someone to keep an eye on them."
"Okay." Xu Lin responded, and after a moment of silence, he continued: "By the way, Madam, do you know that although Cao Yi sent his wife and children out of the city, he left behind only one young daughter. "
Yun Chang's body paused slightly: "Little daughter?"
Yun Chang frowned and recalled, it seemed that someone had mentioned Cao Han, the youngest daughter, to her.
After thinking about it for a moment, he remembered.
It was indeed mentioned.
Cao Han mentioned it.
Cao Han had told her before that the old lady of the Cao family wanted to find a chance to get married with Washington, and Cao Yi's youngest daughter was the one she chose, and she wanted to marry the seventh son of Washington.
"Cao Yi's youngest daughter, has she already had contact with the Seventh Young Master of Washington?"
If not, Cao Yi wouldn't just keep her.
"Yes." Xu Lin nodded: "I have met the seventh son a few times, and it seems that we have a very happy conversation."
Yun Chang responded, thinking secretly in her heart, and said after a while: "I see, is there anything else to report?"
Xu Lin shook his head, Yun Chang swung him back, and then left the study.
Luo Yi was still standing in the yard, and when she saw Yun Shang coming out, she quickly saluted.
Yunshang nodded, and walked over: "I'll go first, you just take care of Qianyin and the child."
Luo Yi responded, and Yun Chang was about to leave, but Luo Yi suddenly said, "Your Majesty, do you know why there are so many hidden guards around His Majesty?"
Yun Chang's footsteps suddenly stopped: "The hidden guards around His Majesty? There are a lot of people missing?"
Luo Yi originally wanted to ask Yun Shang, but when she saw Yun Shang's confused expression, she paused for a while, before he hesitated and said: "When I entered the palace yesterday to announce the good news to Your Majesty, I noticed that His Majesty In the Tai Chi Hall, the number of hidden guards who used to protect His Majesty in the dark suddenly decreased a lot."
"Because of Qianyin's labor, His Majesty doesn't send his subordinates to do things much, and the time when he enters the palace is much less, and he doesn't know what's going on. At that time, he wanted to ask His Majesty, but Without asking, someone came to see His Majesty, and His Majesty saw that His Majesty had something urgent to deal with, so he didn't ask any more questions, and Qianyin and the child in Jia's family needed to be looked after, so they came back first."
"The subordinate thought that the empress should know."
Yun Chang really didn't know about this matter.
Yun Shang pursed her lips and remained silent for a moment, then raised her head and asked Luo Yi: "Your martial arts are much better than mine, and you are more familiar with hidden guards than I am, so can you notice that there are not many hidden guards around me? "
Luo Yi shook his head: "Not only are there no fewer hidden guards around the empress, but there are also a few more."
Yun Shang pursed her lips even tighter when she heard the words: "Do you know where His Majesty has dispatched hidden guards several times recently?"
Luo Yi, as the leader of the hidden guards, although Luo Qingyan didn't let him worry about the dark guards because of Qianyin's labor recently, and he didn't know the exact number of the hidden guards, but he did know the approximate whereabouts of the hidden guards .
"The empress and His Royal Highness have always had these two places. It's just that the empress and His Royal Highness lived in Weiyang Palace before, and the hidden guards gathered together to protect them, so there were fewer. Now that His Royal Highness has moved to the East Palace, another one is assigned. A batch of hidden guards went to the East Palace to protect His Highness the Prince Zhou Quan."
"Bianguan, the imperial capital of the Yelang Kingdom, Liucang, Siyang, and Nanyang are all places where people are always watching."
"Some people were also sent to Jingcang County before."
Yunshang nodded, and Yunshang knew about the affairs of Cang County, that is, the place where the red dot on the map taken out from Xiangyi Palace was located.
"Besides, in the past two days, two groups of hidden guards have gone to Lucheng and Yunzhou respectively."
"Lucheng and Yunzhou? What are these two places?"
"I heard that the local officials of these two places wrote a letter, saying that there seems to be some changes, and the specific situation is not yet known to the subordinates."
Yun Shang nodded, and thought about it in her heart: "How many people are there in total, except for those who have been stared at before, how many people are left?"
"There are more than 300 people in the dark guards. There have been a lot of things in the past two years, and more and more people have been sent out by the dark guards. We have less than 30 people who can be flexibly transferred."