… After receiving the message from her sister-in-law, Jiang Yahong was puzzled at first, and then shocked. She hesitated in the room for a while before making up her mind: “The confessions with fingerprints and private seals were all written to Nineteenth, and now Nineteenth’s wife’s How can I refuse the request?”
This matter might have been a bit difficult for him in normal times, but now that Mrs. Dou had only one breath left, the whole house was half focused on her and half on trying to get justice with the fourth room. The mess was perfect for him to start with.
So he finished the work quickly and asked his sister-in-law to inform Qiu Yilan.
"What to do next?" Zhuang Man came to the door in person under the banner of "visiting her aunt and cousin." She didn't hang around Mrs. Zhuang for long before she was kicked out by Jiang Yashuang with satisfaction and ran to Qiu Yilan in high spirits. He asked, "Is there anywhere else I can help you with?"
"No more!" Qiu Yilan said lazily, "Next, just forget about this incident and act like nothing happened!"
Zhuang Man felt very disappointed: "Is there really no place where I can help?"
"Absolutely not!" Qiu Yilan knew that she was doing good deeds at a young age, so she warned in her tone, "I have nothing to do with this matter, so don't do anything wrong!"
"Then can I listen nearby?" Upon hearing this, Zhuang Man rolled his eyes and begged.
Qiu Yilan disagreed at first, but after chasing her several times he couldn't drive her away. Thinking that she was usually tight-lipped and now she was a participant, she reluctantly agreed.
After letting Zhuang Man stay, Qiu Yilan didn't waste any time and called Su He to answer: "What did Concubine Feng say?"
"I was surprised at first," Su He said with a smile, "but after thinking about it for a while, I agreed."
"Concubine Feng?" Zhuang Man asked confused.
"That's Prince Qi's side concubine, the Queen Mother's former eldest maid, Ni Jin, who was later adopted as an adopted daughter by Feng Jijiu." Qiu Yilan glanced at her, "In the case of the Dou family, I originally wanted to get a ladder and come out together. Step down, but the big room has made it clear that it is unethical, and now it still wants the lion to open its mouth - it is not nothing to say, let us in this room figure out how to deal with the aftermath! "
Zhuang Man asked: "What does this have to do with Concubine Feng?"
"She is just a side concubine, Princess Qi is the main concubine!" Qiu Yilan said lightly, "But how many days has the main concubine been recuperating in a village outside the city? Do you think she would be willing to live like this for the rest of her life?"
"If you don't live like this for the rest of your life, how else do you want to live?" Zhuang Man blurted out, and then he realized, "You plan to do something to her? But why is Concubine Feng willing to help? Although she became Feng Jijiu's adopted daughter, she is really the palace It’s not a secret that I was born as a maid, so I can’t become the main concubine! It’s all because of Aunt Jiang’s personal request!”
"Prince Qi is still young and has a weak character. If the current Princess Qi is removed, someone in the family may want to have a princess who will shine in the family and take a fancy to him. The current Princess Qi has made a big mistake and was pressured by Zhuangzi. She is basically in name only. ! For Concubine Feng, there is nothing better than a concubine who can do nothing but carry her name... Why bother?"
Although Feng Nijin became a concubine through Qiu Yilan's help, she is already a concubine now and has the experience of serving the Queen Mother Guo Jiang. Even if she is wary of Qiu Yilan, she is not obligated to obey her words. the point.
So Qiu Yilan definitely didn't convince her, or it wasn't all based on intimidation, so Zhuang Man wondered: "Or is Princess Qi already dealing with her and she has no choice?"
Qiu Yilan glanced at her approvingly: "It's great that you can think of this! But you forgot one thing: Dafang's lion opened his mouth this time!"
Zhuang Man asked in surprise: "What? Concubine Feng was not mentioned!"
"The sky is full of asking prices to pay back the money - Dafang wants some life-sustaining pills and the entire Zhenxi Army. Do you think it's possible?" Qiu Yilan laughed lightly and said, "They themselves know that we will agree without any price. What is the price, so the next step must be to discuss! If it is discussed like this, whether it is Jiang Huizhi's future status in the palace, or the possibility of Princess Qi returning to the palace... who knows whether she will be brought along casually? "
"If Sifang is really willing to talk to them, do you think these two things are important to Sifang and grandfather?"
Of course it's not important!
Zhuang Man pursed her lips: After Jiang Huizhi entered the palace and was given a high position, Xin Fubing was the first to suffer the loss of face. Xin Fubing is the granddaughter of the Marquis of Jibei. Although she has a good relationship with the juniors in the fourth room, in front of Jiang Tianchi and his wife... one of the many juniors That’s all!
As for Princess Qi returning to the palace, this doesn't matter to the fourth room! Prince Qi, Concubine Feng, Concubine Tong... Do the moods of these people deserve to be worried by the fourth room
"So in order to prevent Princess Qi from resurrecting, Concubine Feng agreed to cooperate with you, sister-in-law?" Zhuang Man pondered, "This concubine is not slow to respond." She did not expect so much.
However, "What does dealing with Princess Qi have to do with the current situation of the Dou family? Even if Princess Qi does something unwise now, for the sake of thinking that the Dou family is dying, I don't think we can do anything to her at all."
"What if the unwise things she did caused Dou's bad luck, or even..." Qiu Yilan asked unhurriedly, "What if she died because of it?"
Zhuang Man was shocked: "This..." She pondered for a moment, "Princess Qi once almost forced her husband to death! Although the incident was covered up, who among the nobles didn't know the inside story? She would do something crazy again. It's quite possible. But why would she attack Mrs. Dou? Mrs. Dou loves her, her legitimate daughter! And if she's in a situation where she doesn't feel sorry for her, then her life will be even more hopeless, right? "
Qiu Yilan said lightly: "I feel sorry for my mother. She is still recovering from her illness outside the city!"
"But there is always hope, right?" Zhuang Man insisted, "If the Dou family is gone..."
"Then we have to take care of her funeral affairs, and then Princess Qi will come back to express her condolences. No one can stop this!" Qiu Yilan said calmly, "If she comes back to express her condolences and cries particularly miserably and emotionally, then bring up Speaking of Mrs. Dou's love and care for her during her lifetime, if someone like Xiao Dou could say a few words for her, maybe she would not have to go back to Zhuangzi outside the city, even if she couldn't go back to Prince Qi's Mansion immediately, and stay there? The Duke's Mansion is only a few steps away from the Prince's Mansion, which is enough to influence it. "
"While transitioning in the Duke's Mansion, I might have the opportunity to move back to the Prince's Mansion and become the master of the family. In this case, it would be hard to say what will happen to Concubine Feng now, including her life!"
Zhuang Man gasped and thought quickly: "The reason why I started now is because I want to use this to put pressure on Si Fang and be more sure of achieving her goal?"
"No!" Qiu Yilan narrowed her eyes and said calmly, "The more reason is because the main room insisted that Mrs. Dou was dying, which made Princess Qi mistakenly think that she was really dying. Thinking about Mrs. Dou, she was dying anyway. If she was going to die, it would be better to love her daughter for once. Originally, when Dou died, Jiang Yayue and others would need Ding You, which would be a blow to Dafang! Princess Qi also knew this, so she usually wanted to kill her biological mother! When you are a stepping stone, you also have to think about whether the consequences will be worth it.”
"But if Mrs. Dou is bound to die, there is no need to think too much?" Zhuang Man murmured, "In this way, it was not only Princess Qi who killed Dou, but also the whole family? It was they who took the initiative to spread the rumors throughout the city. Princess Qi misunderstood! This led to..."
She took a deep breath and looked at Qiu Yilan with a complex expression, "This way my aunt's responsibility will be much lighter! After all, if Princess Qi hadn't killed her mother, maybe the Dou family would not have died?"
"I'm sure he won't die!" Qiu Yilan sneered, "You think I wanted to send life-extending pills to that side through my grandmother and grandfather before, but what about that side? Not only did they not rush there in a hurry, but they also had the leisure to share it with me. Negotiating the price - In this case, either Dou's injuries are not as exaggerated as they say! Or everyone is more unfilial than the others! What do you think they will choose? "
Any fool would choose the former one!
Zhuang Man bit her lip: "So you asked my brother-in-law to put those things in Dou's dowry room... and then find Feng Concubine..."
"I sincerely want to reconcile with them, but they think I am weak and can be bullied." Qiu Yilan said lightly, "Then I have no choice but to cut the knot quickly - after all, I can't afford to waste time with them now!" Even if she is in good spirits and can spend some time with Dafang Mushroom, she still has to consider Jiang Yashuang's worries, right
Besides, Dafang's behavior this time really disgusted her - Jiang Qizheng's whereabouts are still unknown, has anyone mentioned it from beginning to end? He was just trying to smooth things over, but he immediately started shaking and pretending to be a master! There's no reason why people don't want to slap them!
"I still want to make amends, I want to push my limits, I want to show off my authority..." Qiu Yilan sneered, "Let's go play alone in a room by ourselves! I won't accompany you anymore!"
—Two days later, Mr. Dou died!
Dafang, wearing sackcloth and mourning, knelt down outside Qin Guogong's study and asked Qin Guogong to seek justice!
In the fourth room, Jiang Yashuang left her mother in the care of Chang's mother, her wife in the care of Qu's mother and Zhou's mother, and went to fight alone.
He already knew Qiu Yilan's arrangement, so he asked as soon as he came up: "Ning Yi said that he would give you pills two days ago, but you were so procrastinating and refused to take them. It shows that auntie's situation is not very critical! If it is, you guys Are you still thinking about it? Auntie died just a few days ago. Who knows why it’s our mother’s fault?”
Naturally, Dafang thought this was sophistry - but after a heated exchange of words, and after Empress Dowager Jiang heard the news and sent Lady Official Lin to the scene to mediate, Dafang finally agreed to let the Taiyuan Hospital organize personnel to examine the cause of Dou's death.
This investigation naturally revealed that Dou's co-author died of poisoning!
When you get here, Dafang doesn’t know that the Fourth Fang is behind it? But in front of everyone, a large group of imperial doctors came to the common conclusion that it was too late to regret it - since it was a poisoning, and it was an acute poison recognized by the imperial doctors, then the first suspect was naturally in the main room, especially those who had served him closely these days. people!
Qiu Yilan asked Jiang Yahong to arrange the suspects and naturally uncovered Dou's dowry!
This dowry reacts quickly and is loyal enough! Seeing that the remaining poison was found in his room in public, he knew that it was basically impossible to explain, so he simply knelt down with a plop: "Young Master Nineteenth, didn't you say that as long as I obediently do things for you, you will definitely do it for me?" A decent ending for the slave?”
It's just that Qiu Yilan was also wary of what she was doing. Jiang Yahong, who had been warned long ago, winked, and someone dug out a hidden compartment in the dowry room and took out Princess Qi's "handwritten letter"!
Following Jiang Yashuang's request, someone was immediately sent to confront Princess Qi at Zhuangzi outside the city. Concubine Feng secretly placed people there to help, and both witnesses and physical evidence were available. The big house knew that the situation was over, and everyone remained silent.
"Tell all the idlers to disperse!" Seeing this, Duke Qin sighed and stood up with a gloomy look on his face. At this moment, the usually steady old servant stumbled in and said in a trembling voice: "Old Master!"
This was the first time that Duke Qin saw his confidant for many years acting so rude, and his heart suddenly became awe-inspiring: "But the Western Barbarians or the Northern Hu?"
“The Second and Sixth Young Masters were assassinated in Shazhou!!!”
a bolt from the blue! ! !
After a moment, Jiang Tian'ao's vision went dark and he collapsed to the ground!