At night, Wen Qingzhu sat at his desk and looked at the white paper in front of him quietly.
Not long after, there were hurried footsteps outside the door. Lu Tao hurried back, stopped in front of Wen Qingzhu and replied, "Yes, it's Prime Minister Pei!"
Wen Qingzhu stood up, grabbed the white paper with both hands, and immediately crumpled it into a ball.
"How dare he take advantage of Master Li Wu! Damn it!"
She slammed the table, extremely angry.
Li Wei deserved it, but Pei Yu couldn't find any other place to attack him, so he actually took Li Wu's idea!
Wen Qingzhu sat down slumped. She was fully prepared, but she didn't expect that Pei Yu would not come from the front at all.
Lu Tao stepped forward to comfort him: "Don't worry, Miss, this time, we won't let him take advantage of it again!"
"No, Pei Yu is actually very similar to Pei Yi. He just wants to force me to do something so that he can catch my fault! If he doesn't succeed once, he will definitely do it a second time!"
Wen Qingzhu's tone was a little tired, and his eyes were very heavy: "A person like him never cares about others. This time it's Li Wu. In order to avoid confronting me directly next time, he may be an innocent person!"
"Then why not take the initiative?" Lu Tao suddenly said.
Wen Qingzhu turned around and looked over, only to see Lu Tao saying extremely seriously: "Anyway, Pei Yu wants to force the young lady to do something, and the purpose is actually to find out the madam's faults. Okay, let's give him something wrong." Enough!"
"What do you mean?" Wen Qingzhu slowly calmed down and vaguely understood what Lu Tao meant.
Early the next morning, news came from the criminal prison cell that Su Yun had committed suicide.
The person who came to report was the young jailer from before. He lowered his head and his voice was a little low.
Wen Qingzhu didn't say anything, but felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
Does this count as forcing Su Yun to die
If Su Yun was locked inside for the rest of his life and never knew what was going on outside, then he could live forever.
The young jailer raised his head with wet eyes: "Madam, Mr. Su Huo, I saw Mr. Su Yun for the last time."
Wen Qingzhu suddenly raised his head and stared at the young man in front of him.
There was a strange expression on the young man's face, which looked like joy but not happiness, sadness but not sorrow. It looked very distorted.
"My father was Master Su Yun's most powerful confidant. My mother, my brother, and my sister who was one year older than me all died on the day the Su family was destroyed."
Wen Qingzhu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but nothing came out.
The young man suddenly smiled: "Madam, there is no need to say anything. I am the person saved by Mr. Zhou Sang. I have been working hard to get closer to the prison. A few days ago, when I became the apprentice of the chief jailer, my identity was discovered by Mr. Su Huo, but He didn’t say anything, but kept helping me.”
"Then when you saw Su Yun, why didn't you take revenge?" Wen Qingzhu knew that he was trying so hard to get close to Su Yun just to get revenge.
The young man seemed to have thought of something and smiled bitterly: "Master Zhou has been kind to me. I will not kill Su Yun. I have just been following Master Zhou's instructions to investigate the affairs of the Su family. I didn't expect that one day I found out that someone who was supposed to be dead was still alive. At that time, I wanted revenge.
But then I saw Su Yun with my own eyes, and I realized that he was also a poor man, who had been deceived all the time. Even the chief jailer who didn't know what was going on outside was just like him. He lived in the shadow of Emperor Shunde and could not break free from the shackles all his life. . "
"What about you in the future?" Wen Qingzhu asked again.
The young man whispered: "Master Su Huo gave me several arrangements. After thinking about it, I decided that it would be better to leave the capital. After all, Master Su is the most difficult person to face. His biological father killed his entire family with his own hands. But he was left alone."
Wen Qingzhu suddenly thought that the fifth day of April was Su Huo's wedding.
The person who reported the news just now was from Zhou Sang, so he must have gone to Zhou's house first.
Today is the third day of the Lunar New Year. What about Su Huo and Zhou Yi’s marriage
Although Su Yun appeared to be dead long ago, in fact, Su Yun just died today.
Wen Qingzhu went to Zhou's house and met Zhou Yi. She was happily preparing for the wedding.
Holding Wen Qingzhu's hand, he said with a happy face: "I have finally waited for this day! It's okay!"
"Did your father say anything?" Wen Qingzhu asked tentatively.
Zhou Yi keenly noticed that there was something in Wen Qingzhu's words, stared at her and asked, "Did something happen again?"
Wen Qingzhu quickly covered it up: "What's the matter? I'm just curious about why you guys took so long to get married after you got engaged early."
"My father said that he had arranged a deal with me and Su Huo. It is not advisable to get married early. We must choose a suitable day."'
Zhou Yi had been silent before, but now she spoke openly.
Wen Qingzhu thought for a moment, Zhou Yi was afraid that he didn't know about Su Yun.
"Why do you seem to be worried about something?" Zhou Yi is a very careful and smart person, so of course he can see something strange about Wen Qingzhu.
Wen Qingzhu raised his head and was about to reply when Xi'er suddenly pushed the door open: "Prince Ning is back! He went to Qianyuan Palace to find the prince!"
The two of them looked at the door together. Xi'er's face was red, she must have rushed here in a hurry.
"Sister Wen! Do you want to go to the palace and have a look?" Zhou Yi looked at her worriedly. Li Wei was beheaded yesterday, and Prince Ning most likely went there because of this matter.
Wen Qingzhu shook his head: "No need to go, the prince will take care of this matter."
Seeing the look on her master's face, Xi'er understood in her heart and said her goodbyes before retreating.
Wen Qingzhu looked gloomy, and Zhou Yi was not in the mood to check her dowry.
Returning to the Hou Mansion at night, Wen Qingzhu ordered people to keep an eye on the news in the palace and Prince Ning's Mansion.
There was a reason why she decided not to get involved in this matter.
Jiang Yuanhan specially invited her and Fu Lie into the palace that day, and made his decision as soon as he opened his mouth.
It shows that he has already prepared a way to deal with Prince Ning.
After waiting and waiting, Fu Lie came back first before hearing any news from the palace.
Wen Qingzhu went over to meet him and took off his robe for him.
Fu Lie suddenly grabbed her hand and said, "Miss Zuo is missing!"
"What's going on?" Wen Qingzhu was shocked.
Fu Lie pulled her to sit down: "The people on my side have found out that it was the Huns who did it, and they are King Zuoxian's people!"
Wen Qingzhu immediately opened his eyes wide: "Do you also know King Zuo Xian?"
Hearing the overtones of Wen Qingzhu's words, Fu Lie asked thoughtfully: "I have met King Zuo Xian twice before. He has a Central Plains name called Wang Tu."
Wen Qingzhu's heart immediately jumped: "What does he want from you?"
She remembered that meeting very clearly and could definitely tell that Wang Tu, the Zuoxian King of the Xiongnu, was a man of great talent and strategy.
"He wants to recruit me." Fu Lie's eyes became complicated and he talked about what happened between him and Wang Tu.
When they met for the first time, Wang Tu disguised himself so well that he thought Wang Tu was from Daqi.
That time Wang Tu did him a favor, and Fu Lie even admired him a little.
Later, Wang Tu encountered difficulties and wanted to transport a batch of silk and satin from Lingcheng to Dingyuan.
Fu Lie had a very good impression of him before, and since he had sent people to investigate Wang Tu, there was basically no problem.
So he immediately came to help.
Just as he was about to send the things out of the city gate, a person beside Wang Tu hurried over and whispered something to Wang Tu.
Fu Lie's ears were very good and he immediately recognized that this was Xiongnu language.
Because of Wen Qingzhu's relationship, he also learned part of the Xiongnu dialect and vaguely understood two words.
One is Ironware and the other is a fourth prince.
Fu Lie immediately ordered people to surround them. Wang Tu smiled and explained that this was a remote dialect of a place.
It's a pity that Fu Lie could still be fooled if he had never heard the Huns' words.
But Wen Qingzhu understands.
Fu Lie didn't give Wang Tu any room to turn around. He ordered people to arrest people and inspect the goods.
Before his people could get over, Wang Tu showed his fierce look and fled with his people.
Later, Fu Lie checked and found that what Wang Tu wanted to transport was not silk and satin at all, but excellent and rare black iron!
"He wants to transport black iron to the Xiongnu?" Wen Qingzhu couldn't sit still now.
Fu Lie nodded: "Yes, we should be preparing for war."
Wen Qingzhu grabbed his hand and asked, "Then why didn't you tell me?"
Fu Lie was silent for a moment before saying, "At that time, your whole mind was focused on the prince. I want to tell you that I didn't find a chance."
Wen Qingzhu was stunned for a moment, but soon understood the jealousy hidden in it.
For a moment, Wen Qingzhu didn't know how to face him, so he could only look away.
Fu Lie held her shoulders and asked her to turn her head: "Qingqing, I have been working hard, and I am very confident that you will fall in love with me!"
Wen Qingzhu's heart was in chaos at that time.
The next day, the imperial edict came down, lowering Jiang Yuanan's title to that of county king, and ordered him to take his wife and children to Ganzhou!
Wen Qingzhu was having a meal when he got the news.
Fu Lie wanted to deal with the army handed over by King Ning and left the Hou Mansion early in the morning.
"Your Majesty, that's very good." Wen Qingzhu only said one sentence and continued to eat.
But before finishing the meal, Lei Shuo suddenly came to the yard, looking very panicked.
Wen Qingzhu stood up immediately and caught her: "What's wrong?"
Lei Shuo pulled Wen Qingzhu out and walked out. Wen Qingzhu stopped firmly: "First of all, please explain clearly what is going on?"
"It's Qiniang! She's having a dystocia! Go and save her quickly! Po Wen and the doctor both said that Qiniang can't be saved! You also had a dystocia when you gave birth to the little prince! You can definitely save her!"
Lei Shuo cried with tears all over his face.
Wen Qingzhu didn't need to think too hard to know that Lei Qiniang's sudden attack must be related to Jiang Yuanan.
She immediately ordered Lu Tao and Xi'er to prepare surgical tools and take them to Prince Ning's Mansion.
Fortunately, Prince Ning's Mansion and Ping Guohou's Mansion are not far apart.
They arrived here in two quarters of an hour.
When passing by the front yard, Wen Qingzhu glanced at the yard where Jiang Yuanan lived. There seemed to be movement there.
Wen Qingzhu followed closely behind Lei Shuo and asked her, "What exactly is going on?"
Lei Shuo also glanced at Jiang Yuanan's yard, and said in a somewhat hateful tone: "Prince Ning today, no! It was Prince Ning who went to see Qiniang as soon as he returned to the house. Within a quarter of an hour, Qiniang had a seizure. Okay, we rushed over in less than half an hour."
"You guys came to the palace in less than half an hour?" Wen Qingzhu's heart changed, meaning that as soon as Lei Qiniang had an attack, he sent someone to Lei's house.
At the gate of the yard, Lei Shuo walked faster, but also explained angrily: "Because Jiang Yuanan said he wanted to divorce his wife!"
Wen Qingzhu was shocked. Did Jiang Yuanan hate Lei Qiniang, or did he want to protect her