"But don't say that." Qin Yining hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him. "It's all my own. I know your embarrassment. Besides, I'm fine right now."
Mu Jinghu was originally asked by Pang Xiao to help, and he didn't owe her, not to mention that there was a reason for the incident, how could she blame him for it
"Okay, okay, if you continue to be so polite, the tea will be cold." Pang Xiao smiled and poured a cup of tea for Mu Jinghu himself.
Qin Yining also brought the honey water to Qiu Feishan.
The hatchback was seated, and Qiu Feishan then looked left and right, and asked with a smile, "Didn't the uncle come back to the mansion with him?"
Tianjizi is Mu Jinghu's elder. Even if Qiu Feishan has a heart for Tianjizi's threats and calculations, she still has to ask a question out of politeness.
Qin Yining didn't know how to answer for a while. He had just relieved the embarrassment with Mu Jinghu, and told him that Tianjizi was locked up in the blink of an eye. No matter what the reason, it was not very acceptable, right
On the contrary, Pang Xiao was very calm, and said to Mu Jinghu bluntly: "My uncle was in the army to confuse the public, disturb the heart of the army, and was locked up by me."
Mu Jinghu was stunned for a moment, scratched the back of his head, and said after a while, "This is something she can do. You put her in jail?"
"It doesn't look like this on your face. I just locked her in a room and didn't allow her to walk around and talk nonsense."
"Oh, that's fine, just lock it up, just have food and shelter."
Qin Yining was speechless for a moment, picked up the tea bowl and poured a large mouthful of honey water.
It seems that Tianjizi's popularity is not very good.
Mu Jinghu looked around and made sure that there were no outsiders, so he coughed a little awkwardly and said, "Pang Fox, in fact, I have one more thing to tell you."
Pang Xiao knew Mu Jinghu too well. If it wasn't for a major event, he wouldn't show such an embarrassed look. He knew that he must have something important to hide from himself all the way back.
"What's the matter?" Pang Xiao asked calmly.
Mu Jinghu sighed: "Actually, that's what happened. When I was in Bo'an Town, the incident in the Qiu Family Courtyard was not as simple as I said. At that time, I didn't sneak out to light a fire, but After my uncle and I sneaked out, we gave medicine to the master in that house."
Pang Xiao raised his eyebrows, "Actually, I guessed it."
Mu Jinghu said in surprise: "How do you..."
"If it was really burned to death, the people in that house could not have died silently, nor could they have died so cleanly. None of these people survived, and they must have lost their ability to move or were poisoned before they were burned. , or killed and cremated."
Mu Jinghu nodded awkwardly.
Being able to guess this, Pang Xiao hadn't asked him yet, it was entirely out of trust and respect for his friends. On second thought, in fact, Pang Xiao's intelligence is not something that anyone can deceive him casually.
Pang Xiao said: "I have no other intentions, everyone has the right to maintain privacy."
"I know who you are," Mu Jinghu nodded and continued, "I didn't deliberately hide this from you, it was because what I found in the Qiu family's house was strange, and I wasn't sure about it myself, so I just kept going. I didn't say it. That day my uncle asked me to use medicine for all the masters, and these people confessed some of them, some of them, and one of them, Qiu Feijing, who claimed to be the son of Qiu Yuanqing."
"Oh? Qiu Yuanqing's son is not born in Jianchuan City, why did he go to Bo'an Road?"
"I don't know much about this, but he claimed to be Qiu Yuanqing's son at first, and he threatened us and lured us. Later, when he couldn't see it, my uncle gave her a very tortured medicine, and he couldn't take it anymore and was dying. Before that, give me a letter."
Mu Jinghu looked at Qiu Feishan.
Qiu Feishan took out an envelope from her sleeve.
Pang Xiao took the envelope and unfolded it, but found that the letter was just an ordinary greeting, and there was no clue.
Qiu Feishan then smiled and said, "This letter does not seem strange on the surface. Only important people in the Qiu family's direct line know that this letter contains secret words."
"Password?"
"Yes. The Qiu family has been inherited for more than a hundred years, and naturally has its own method. This secret language is not difficult. It corresponds to a booklet, so I will not elaborate on the method. I will only tell you the content of the letter." Qiu Fei Shan smiled, then looked at Qin Yining, "I will make up for it."
Mu Jinghu patted Qiu Feishan on the shoulder.
Pang Xiao and Qin Yining both laughed, "Anyway, thank you very much."
"You don't need to thank me. The general meaning of this letter is to instruct Qiu Feijing to go to the Dingsheng Restaurant in Danzhou City, Danzhou Prefecture, on the tenth day of the October lunar month, in the name of the young master of Guangtong, to meet with the people of the Lu family. The family plans to buy an imperial envoy from the Lu family."
"what?"
Qin Yining stared in astonishment. There is too much information in this paragraph of Qiu Feishan. Especially the last sentence.
"Can the Lu family buy and sell officials?"
"Since the Qiu family can find the way of the Lu family, it means that the Lu family is indeed in this business."
Qin Yining asked, "They want to buy imperial envoys, so the imperial envoys are... not the imperial envoys of the old capital's generation, right?"
Qiu Feishan nodded and said, "That's exactly what the letter means. You may not know that my Sitong account was originally the property of the Qiu family on the bright side, and all the Qiu family's speeches were made by the Sitong account. The Qiu family naturally hid behind and refused to reveal their identity.
"Now that the Sitong number is independent, Qiu Yuanqing has set up another Guangtong number, and asked Qiu Feijing to be the chief shopkeeper. This time, if the Lu family asks about the purchase of the imperial commissioner, they plan to say that the Guangtong number will be in the university. The development of this area in the old capital of Yan suffers from the fact that there is no one in the court, if there is an imperial envoy who is his own, things can be done much more smoothly."
Pang Xiao was surprised: "But I didn't hear that the imperial court was going to send an imperial envoy to the old capital."
Qiu Feishan smiled and took a sip of honey water.
Qin Yining turned pale in shock: "Could it be that the Lu family has the ability to control and employ people? Not only the appointment of officials in the DPRK, but also the dispatch of imperial envoys?"
"That's why I said that since Qiu Yuanqing found a way to buy it, the Lu family must have this ability, and it is definitely not the first time they have done this kind of thing. Qiu Yuanqing's actions are still rigorous, if it is not With few successful examples, he would never have thought of borrowing the Lu family's abilities."
Qin Yining lowered his eyes, his slender fingers turned the tea bowl filled with honey water, his mind was racing, and finally asked, "Are the Xianshi family and the hidden family planning to cooperate in this generation?"
Qiu Feishan suddenly looked at Qin Yining, her eyes full of complexity.
"I'm not sure about this." Qiu Feishan said bitterly: "It's been a long time since the family of the world and the family of the hidden world have changed. We are the family of the hidden world, so we have a deep memory of this matter and are very cautious about inheritance. But as the side of the prominent family, it may have regarded this incident handed down from the ancestors as a legend."
"In other words, the Lu family is not sure if there is a hidden family, or the Lu family doesn't know that there is a hidden family, but the Qiu family knows that the Lu family is a prominent family?" Pang Xiao said.
Qiu Feishan nodded and said solemnly: "Qiu Yuanqing, who can do anything for what he wants, he can even kill his own father..."
Speaking of this, Qiu Feishan suddenly choked up.
On that day, she was refuted by her grandfather, who wanted to arrest her and marry her. She also felt resentment in her heart because her grandfather disliked her as a woman and refused to reuse her.
I just didn't expect that that day was the last time we met in this life. Her fate also turned on that day. She was forced to marry, and her grandfather died at the hands of her son...
Qiu Feishan closed her eyes and tears almost fell.
Mu Jinghu quickly put his arms around Qiu Feishan's shoulder and coaxed her: "Shanshan, don't cry, don't be sad. Grandfather definitely doesn't want to see you so sad. Grandfather can feel at ease when you are well."
Qiu Feishan sniffed and said sadly, "I know, I just... I didn't expect to see him again in the future."
Taking a deep breath, Qiu Feishan forced herself to calm down.
Pang Xiao and Qin Yining were also a little emotional, and the room became extremely quiet for a while.
After a long time, Qiu Feishan continued: "I mean, Qiu Yuanqing is very ambitious, he may have even greater ambitions, and it is not necessarily the case that he wants to stand out from the crowd. It is unknown if they cooperate with the Lu family.”
Pang Xiao said: "It is indeed possible. But there is also a possibility that Qiu Yuanqing just wants to use the Lu family. After all, the Qiu family knows everything about the Lu family, but the Lu family doesn't know anything about the Qiu family. It's good to be able to use this resource. choose."
"Exactly." Qin Yining also said, "The Qiu family wants to buy an imperial envoy and put it near the old capital, it must be to deal with the prince."
Qiu Feishan said, "You should have guessed the prefect of Qi in the old capital now, he was bought by Qiu Yuanqing. It's just that this man is quite rich, and he has learned from the experience and lessons of the prefect of Yang at that time. As. So Qiu Yuanqing probably thought that a prefect is not enough, and if you add another imperial envoy, maybe it will be easier to do things."
As for what to do? Of course, it was to deal with Pang Xiao and Qiu Feishan.
In Qiu Yuanqing's eyes, Pang Xiao was the one chosen by Qiu Feishan, and naturally he was the enemy.
"All of this is understandable, but it's just unexpected that the hidden family will also take advantage of the prominent family." Qin Yining shook his head and stopped talking about this topic, but said, "I guess the sage's thoughts about the prince may be It has been confirmed by the Lu family, the sage may have long wanted to arrange a commissioner in the old capital, and if the Lu family really wants to sell officials, it should be about employing people."
"Definitely." Pang Xiao also nodded.
Listening to Qiu Feishan discussing such a complicated matter with Pang Xiao and Qin Yining, Mu Jinghu remained stunned, unable to speak at all, seeing that their topic had come to an end, he said, "It can be seen from an ordinary greeting letter. With so much content, it seems no wonder I couldn't understand it at the time."
Hearing this, Pang Xiao couldn't help chuckling, nodded and said, "That's true, if Boss Qiu didn't understand the secret language, it would be impossible for outsiders to understand the important news."
Qin Yining also smiled and said, "Yeah, thanks to you guys."
"Shanshan didn't say it, we just made up for it. I hope our friendship will not be affected after this incident."