However, just as the Queen Mother's party finally regained a city, Qin Guogong, who had closed his eyes to rest, said lightly: "The elite of the Western Army is known to both the government and the public, but the imperial guards guarding the mausoleum cannot be entirely blamed!"
Although Cao Zizhong and others are not very agile people - otherwise they would not be sent to guard the mausoleum - but it is a matter of life and even the family. No matter how stupid people are, they are much smarter at this time. After hearing this, they immediately recognized it smoothly: "Qin Guogong Clearly aware of the situation! It is true that the Zhenxi Army is brave and good at fighting, and will never be able to stop it!"
When he recognized it like this, everyone was in an uproar!
Qiu Dian's face turned the color of pig liver: a job like guarding the mausoleum should be done well, and there is no credit; once something unexpected happens, like now, it will basically not end well. Therefore, people with some connections or background would avoid this job. What you have to do is either you have no backing and you are incompetent, or you are capable but have offended someone you cannot afford to offend.
Since Cao Zizhong is in this position, he is obviously easy to bully for important members of the Queen Mother's Party like Qiu Dian.
Qiu Dian wanted to cleanse Kuang's family and attack the Queen's party, so sacrificing such a person was not a big deal - but he didn't expect that the Duke of Qin would seize the opportunity and win over this person with just one sentence!
At this moment, Cao Zizhong and others, in order to survive, hugged the outstretched thigh of Qin Guogong. Driven by the desire to survive, people's thoughts surged like a fountain: "Qin Guogong's Dharma eyes are like torches! In fact, what the last general just did It’s not true, the truth is that the Zhenxi Army secretly left some men behind when they escorted the crown prince of Zhang Guogong to Beijing the day before yesterday in order to sneak attack on the imperial mausoleum and excavate the tomb of General Wu Lie! "
The Empress Dowager Shanggu wished she could come down and strangle him to death: "You are so brave! You dare to slander the Duke in front of everyone!!! The Ai family thinks that you have been bribed by the Western barbarians and deliberately framed the situation at this juncture. The soldiers of Zhenxi Army are fighting bloody battles on the front line! Why are the people angry if they don’t kill them?”
"Why is the Queen Mother so anxious?" Of course Queen Jiang came out to stop her. She interrupted Queen Mother Gu with a sneer, looked around at the ministers and said loudly, "I think this Cao Zizhong is a loyal and good person as his name suggests! Otherwise, as a guardian, he The general of the mausoleum must be punished if anything happens to the mausoleum, and there is still some time before the sacrifice period. If he is really treacherous, why not secretly conceal the news of the accident at General Wu Lie's tomb and quietly repair it? Could it be that Ruan Qingyan came back afterwards? Will he even open up the grave to check if there are any deficiencies in the contents? Maybe he will see a completely new grave, and it’s not too late to be grateful to him!”
"Now he returns to Beijing to confess as soon as he discovers something is wrong. He is obviously an honest man and will not lie!"
Queen Mother Gu looked at Queen Jiang angrily: "Didn't he just say that he had caught a few tomb robbers?! How come he is now being attacked by the Zhenxi Army again?! You are so confident that you have the nerve to say that he is honest?!" You Do you dare to be more shameless!
Queen Jiang definitely dared to say: "We are currently deploying troops in the west, and the West-Suppressing Army is the main force. Naturally, Cao Zizhong wanted to cover up the overall situation for them, so as not to be used by those who wanted to shake the morale of the army! Maybe he planned to report quietly when there were fewer people?! As a result, Queen Mother, you want to deal with him without asking anything. If something happens to him if he is delayed, wouldn’t it be a mistake to tell the truth? So of course you have to tell the truth! ? This is obviously adapting to circumstances!"
The queen got up, and the queen's party naturally joined in. In a few words, they praised Cao Zizhong for his unparalleled loyalty, and by the way, they made the Kuang family black and white. Obviously, they had to attribute this matter to the Kuang family!
How could Queen Mother Gu admit it? While scolding Cao Zizhong for telling lies with his eyes open, and Empress Jiang for not knowing how to pretend to understand, she also tried to get Xue Chang to help talk about the war in the Western Barbarians - she was just talking nicely, but seeing that the two rear party members were about to fight in the court, Xue Chang just He stood up and said: "What happened now is just Cao Zizhong's one-sided statement. It is better to send people to the imperial mausoleum to investigate and find out the truth and the ins and outs before drawing a conclusion!"
He also reminded, "General Wu Lie was buried with the emperor's mausoleum. Since something happened to his tomb, he didn't know about the emperor's mausoleum...?"
"Xue Xiang's words make sense!" Empress Dowager Gu said with a sullen face. She was about to send an imperial envoy to rush to the imperial mausoleum immediately. Of course, Empress Jiang said that the imperial envoy could not only send one person, but the key point was that she could not send anyone from your party! So the two empresses had another big quarrel, and each of them chose two people. In the end, Xue Chang said that as the prime minister, he could not ignore such a big matter, so he recommended Cheng Jin, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, to go together!
... After finally appointing the imperial envoy, it was already late at night after the court meeting, but the queen's party was still in high spirits when they returned to the study room of the Duke of Qin. Especially Jiang Tianqi and Jiang Tianzhen, who were relatively weak in concentration, almost laughed out loud. : Xue Chang’s assist is great! Send someone to check? As soon as the Jiang family received the news that General Ruan's grave had been dug, they sent people to arrange it, okay
At that time, the chamberlain who summoned the ministers to the palace had not yet arrived!
Of course, Queen Mother Gu received the news at about the same time as the Jiang family, but the Jiang family didn't feel that Queen Mother Gu's manpower arrangements were better than their own - because Cao Zizhong was now dragged to the Jiang family!
"Send enough manpower to protect him!" Qin Guogong personally ordered, "The Queen Mother will definitely not admit that Zhenxi soldiers sneaked into the imperial mausoleum to dig graves - it will be up to him to smooth things over then!"
Jiang Tianao smiled and promised: "My nephew will have it done before he enters the house!"
Jiang Tianqi loves to keep things quiet with him, so he continued: "We have to teach him how to speak well so that he can match our family's arrangements!"
"What the third brother said is true, but this person has just been able to seize the chance of life given by the second uncle, which shows that he is very resourceful." In terms of IQ and means, Jiang Tianao is similar to Tang Zimo. They were both beaten in front of Xue Chang. But there is no problem in abusing his cousin Jiang Tianqi. Jiang Tianqi said calmly at this moment, "It is about his family's life and future, he must be more careful than us! Third brother, please relax, there will be no problem in this matter!"
"I hope so!" Jiang Tianqi failed in his attempt, and his cousin turned away unhappily, showing his thoughtfulness.
The Marquis of Jibei looked helplessly at Qin Guogong - the latter frowned slightly, then returned to his normal expression, as if he had not heard the conflict between the two cousins, and said slowly: "Okay, now let's get down to business: This grave of General Wu Lie... was it done by you?"
At this question, everyone in the study looked at each other for a moment, then shook their heads: "Absolutely not!"
"This kind of behavior is too crazy, what can we do?"
"Yes, our Jiang family also has a martial arts background. Although we have no friendship with General Ruan, we have no grievances. We became in-laws last year. Qiu Jinglan even took risks in Shazhou in the name of Ruan Qingyan... How can we go? Disturbing his elder spirit?"
Although the Queen's Party is arrogant and domineering, digging people's graves is no longer a matter of sworn hatred, but a blood feud for generations! And the poachers are from the Allies - even if it is a bitter plot, no one can be so crazy as to fight against the three younger members of the Ruan family!
Ruan Ciyi can ignore the three remaining juniors of the Ruan family to a certain extent, but look at how cruel the brothers and sisters who are actually the blood of the Qiu family are: Brother, let’s not talk about it, let alone the fact that the Jiang family is currently treating him He is more important than his own children, and his mentor Xue Chang is a real supporter! And with his talent and government, as long as he doesn't die midway, he will definitely play an important role in becoming a powerful official in the future!
Although my sister is a female prostitute, at the age of twelve or thirteen she was able to force her uncle's biological mother who inherited the title of king to death, and she was not buried in the ancestral grave. Even her uncle and aunt were disgraced for many days. Can she be regarded as an ordinary female prostitute
Not to mention how well she married—the first wife of Duke Qin’s favorite and most valued grandson! Zhenbeijun will be the future matron of the house! And who doesn’t know that the 19th son of the Jiang family loves his first wife so much that he doesn’t even have a common room in the backyard
As long as the members of the Queen Mother's Party are not crazy, they would rather let their father watch the carriages and sedans of the Queen Mother Party than try to take advantage of General Ruan's grave!
Duke Guo of Qin also knew that these people would not do this - but the question came, if it wasn't them, then who? He couldn't really be a tomb robber who coveted the grave goods of General Ruan, could he? Let’s not talk about how these people dared to touch and attack near the imperial mausoleum. Let’s just say that the man who was hacked to death by the imperial army was definitely a guard of Duke Zhang’s palace!
It's just that it's easier to gamble, because Kuang Shihan and his son are not in Beijing, and the Kuang family's daughter-in-law, Princess Changping, has her own princess mansion. There is no master in Zhang Guogong's mansion in Beijing, so the discipline of the servants will inevitably be lax... It is said that this guy often goes out to gamble. I'll go back to work on errands in three to five days.
Therefore, when something happened this time, Duke Zhang's mansion didn't know anything about it. They thought he had gone to some casino again!
So this matter must have something to do with the Kuang family. It can be said that it is a clear attempt to trick the Kuang family!
Qin Guogong frowned, ignored this matter, and made some arrangements for this sudden incident... After that, he sent everyone away, leaving Jiang Yashuang alone, and asked solemnly: "It's not you who did this. of?"
Jiang Yashuang almost vomited blood: "Grandpa, although my grandson knows that he cannot be kind to women, he still knows..."
"Did your wife do that?" Qin Guogong was not in the mood to hear what he had to say and asked calmly.
"How is that possible?!" Jiang Yashuang found it completely unbelievable. "When my grandson's father-in-law died, Ning Yi was still in her infancy! After that, her brother faked his death and left. The people who raised and cared for her were her mother-in-law and her grandfather Ruan. Even if you want to reduce the pressure on your brother, you can't be so disrespectful to Grandpa Ruan, right?"
In fact, Qin Guogong also felt that this was unlikely, but according to common sense, Qiu Yilan was the most suspicious: "The so-called tomb robber killed by the imperial army was indeed a guard of Zhang Guogong's palace. This matter was actually a frame-up for the Kuang family! Ordinarily, the ones who have the biggest grudge against the Kuang family are your wife and brother and sister. As you saw just now, no one here admitted to doing this. I believe this, after all, the grudge between our family and the Kuang family is! For official reasons, you wouldn’t take such an unethical step! However, your daughter-in-law’s brother and sister have a personal feud with the Kuang family, and they are still sworn in. Now that Qiu Jinglan is not in the capital, and she is too busy dealing with everything in Shazhou, it can’t be him. "The eldest daughter of the Ruan family is an ordinary woman, and she is definitely not capable of such a thing! If you think about it this way, the most likely person is your wife!"
Jiang Yashuang frowned: "My grandfather's speculation seems reasonable, but have you forgotten? Although my brother has 'Tianya' in his hands, he has not let Ning Yi interfere at all! Even if Ning Yi intervened in private, now the 'Tianya' business Don't even accept it, go all out for the Shazhou situation! How can you find people to send Ning Yi to do such a thing? What's more, given the relationship between Ning Yi and Ruan's grandfather, do you think the people in 'Tianya' will do it? Accept the order? After all, they are loyal to their elder brother. How could they dare to do such an unethical thing without his elder brother's permission? Where would Ning Yi have the personnel to do this? No matter how unbearable it is, it’s the imperial army after all, how can it disturb Grandfather Ruan by sending just a few servants as dowry?”
"..." Qin Guogong was silent for a moment and said, "Yes, from a logical inference, your wife is actually the most likely, but from a practical analysis, she is also impossible. But the fact is that not only was the grave dug, but one person died!"
"Could it be the old members of the Ruan family?" Jiang Yashuang pondered for a while and said, "Although Grandpa Ruan was strict in running the army, he often showed kindness. Although he was intimidated by the Queen Mother Gu, no one dared to do it again after Kuang Shihan came to power. I send my greetings to Grandpa Ruan, but there are still many people who still miss him... Seeing that my brother is already in Shazhou, those old men are worried about an accident, so they make a desperate move? "
Qin Guogong thought for a long time and nodded slightly: "If there is no ill will towards our family, it is probably like this. But..." He pondered for a moment, "Go back and explain it clearly to your wife! The person who did it cannot distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, so we cannot ignore it!"
Jiang Yashuang said respectfully: "Yes!"
... But after he returned to the hospital, he was in vain because Qiu Yilan was not at home at all—after receiving the news, he rushed to Li's house to check on Ruan Ciyi's condition!