After eating three large bowls of white rice in one go and sweeping away the four dishes like a whirlwind, Fang Jie leaned back and burped comfortably, stroking his slightly bulging belly with his hand and groaning with satisfaction. Fang Jie felt very happy to survive the disaster and then eat until he was full.
"Drink the medicine in a moment."
Shen Qingshan put the cooked medicine aside and said, "Mr., you cooked this by yourself. She has worked harder than anyone else in the past two days. I spent the whole night looking through the classics in the library, trying to find something to cure you." Method. I always think about how you are born with good luck. There is no shortage of people around you who can help you, and most of them are women. "
Fang Jie burst into laughter and said, "What do you want Big Dog and Qilin to think?"
Shen Qingshan smiled and said, "Now I have a serious matter to discuss with you."
"What's up?"
"Should I stay here or go back to the shop?"
Shen Qingfan asked, with a little expectation in his eyes. But Fang Jie's answer after pondering for a while disappointed her, and then she glanced at Fang Jie resentfully.
"It's better to go back to the shop."
Fang Jie thought for a while and said: "Anyway, I have already agreed with my husband that I will go back to the shop to live every day from now on. We will live in the martial arts courtyard. If anything happens, we won't be able to leave. It's easier for you to be outside." Get away."
"Fang Jie, do you always plan for the worst possible outcome?"
She couldn't help but ask.
Fang Jie nodded and said: "I am not an optimistic person to begin with. Now that I have stepped into the muddy water with one foot, it is so easy to get out. The emperor pushed me in with one word, but I can't pull you in too. . I have told Mr. Zhuo to tell Xiao Yao not to go to Chang'an City immediately after returning from the northwest, but to find a place to live outside. I feel more at ease since Da Quan and Qilin went to Jiangnan."
He sighed and said: "Who knows what kind of turmoil will happen in Chang'an City in a while. I can't let our entire army be wiped out because of other people's affairs. I'm betting on my own future, but I can't involve your lives. If You and I both live in the Yanwu Academy and can¡¯t leave even if we want to.¡±
Shen Qingshan frowned slightly and said, "You can't even trust the people in the yard?"
"Except for my own people."
Fang Jie shook his head and said, "I can't trust anyone."
Shen Qing snorted and said, "In that case, I will live in the shop. But do you think Xiaoyao will listen to you and live outside the city and not come back?"
Fang Jie was startled for a moment, then shook his head: "Her temperament"
"Fang Jie do you think Prince Yi's matter is difficult to solve? Or have you discovered something that forces you to plan for the future? Prince Yi really dare to have that thought?"
Fang Jie said: "I can't see clearly now. I don't know whether he wants to fight for power or something else. The emperor's wisdom is not comparable to that of ordinary people. I don't think Prince Yi will succeed if he dares to have that intention. His What's the bargaining chip? Why should I compete with the emperor who owns the world? Because I don't know his bargaining chip, I'm even more worried. The emperor is smart, and Prince Yi is not an idiot. If there is nothing that gives him confidence, why should he think he is? Can?"
Shen Qing fan said: "Then let's go, okay? Ignore these rights and wrongs."
Fang Jie smiled and said, "Nothere is something I have to do."
"What's up?"
Shen Qingfan asked.
"I must recover the blood debt of Fan Gu's two thousand people and eight hundred frontier troops. I now suspect that Li Yuanshan's purpose of massacre is related to Prince Yi. Maybe Prince Yi is hiding behind it. This is why I am willing to allow the emperor to stay close to Prince Yi. I am not a good person, but I remember all the people who are good to me. Two thousand eight hundred ghosts are standing behind me, waiting for me to bring justice to their murderers. , debtors pay backI don¡¯t have the ability to kill Li Xiaozong and Li Yuanshan now, so I have to climb up.¡±
Fang Jie let out a long sigh of relief. This was the first time he said these words to others, so he felt a little more relaxed.
"I'll be with you."
Shen Qingfan said: "Although I have never met those soldiers and folks, since you have decided, I will accompany you."
Fang Jie took her hand and asked her to sit down on his lap: "When I first came to Chang'an City, all I thought about was to live peacefully. For a while, I even thought that if I could not die, I would This loser who can't practice can just find a place to farm and become a farmer. After arriving in Chang'an City, everything didn't develop as I expected. Only then did I realize how weak I was, even if I wanted to find a place. ??Can it be done just by farming? No, because now I don¡¯t even have the right to control which direction I go. "
"Then I'll fight for it. At least I can get back my right to do whatever I want."
He paused and said: "I always feel that the reason why Prince Yi is confident has something to do with Li Yuanshan. But Li Yuanshan is just a general with one guard, so what can he do no matter how elite his troops are? And the one who is thinking about Fan Gu The eunuch who wanted to kill me, why would he take action against an insignificant person like me? Speaking of which, he used to be the eunuch Bingbi of the imperial study room. How could he take action personally because of a soldier in the Fangu border army? What is his relationship with Li Yuanshan? ?¡±
"He died in Fangu, and Li Xiaozong killed him himself."
Fang Jie frowned: "The eunuch's entourage is also dead At first, I thought that Li Yuanshan massacred the city to cover up Li Xiaozong's intention to kill me, and to erase the stain on Li Xiaozong's behalf. But now I I realized that I took myself too seriously. Li Yuanshan was not even interested in killing me, so how could he massacre the entire people of Fangu City because of me? I was thinking He massacred the city and wanted to bury it? Could it be the death of that eunuch?"
"It is precisely because I was involved that I took everything into consideration, thinking that Li Xiaozong was targeting me and Li Yuanshan was also targeting me. The reason why I didn't die was because I was lucky. I met the boss's wife and met the red-sleeved trick. Lame Lord, it became clear to me later that I was just an ant in Li Yuanshan¡¯s eyes at that time, so how could he go to war because of me?¡±
"After thinking about this, I thought of the eunuch."
Fang Jie thought for a while and continued: "What made Li Yuanshan kill a once powerful eunuch Bingbi at the expense of slaughtering the city? You must know that Wu Peisheng is the closest eunuch to the emperor. Sometimes he can even Affecting the emperor's thinking. Li Yuanshan was not afraid that killing Wu Peisheng would be a major crime that would implicate the entire family once it was exposed? This only shows that Li Yuanshan killed Wu Peisheng because there was a bigger crime than killing eunuch Bingbi. sin."
"What could be a greater crime than such a felony?"
he asks.
Shen Qingshan was silent for a while and then softly uttered two words: "Conspiracy."
Fang Jie nodded and said: "Later I thought about whether Wu Peisheng discovered some secret about Li Yuanshan, so that Li Yuanshan had to kill him. At that time, Wu Peisheng deliberately left with Li Yuanshan in order to conceal the fact that he knew some secret. He even lowered his status and came to Fan Gu to kill me. He just wanted to paralyze Li Yuanshan. But my status at that time was really insignificant, and I would be dead if I died. But Wu Peisheng probably didn't expect what he discovered. Li Yuanshan already knew about it, so he laid a killing plan in Fan Gu. The killing plan was originally aimed at Wu Peisheng, not me. "
"The reason why Wu Peisheng didn't run away immediately was because he didn't know that Li Yuanshan had seen through him. Or maybe he wanted to find more things."
Fang Jie said solemnly: "I wouldn't have figured these things out until I had experienced so many conspiracies and intrigues after Chang'an City. Because people are always self-centered and think that everything happens because of themselves. In fact, Otherwise, I was actually an outsider at the time. What I can¡¯t figure out now is, what did Li Yuanshan want to hide? Is what he was hiding the biggest bargaining chip for Prince Yi?¡±
"Soyou must first become Prince Yi's confidant."
He paused and said in a solemn tone: "I am even thinking now that the reason why the emperor entrusted this matter to me is because he also suspected that Wu Peisheng's death was not simple, and I am the only one in Fan Gucheng. He knew I would be willing to get to the bottom of this matter."
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Prince Yi¡¯s Mansion
On the boat
Prince Yi looked at the koi swimming in the pool and sighed: "In order to let them live well in the middle of winter, Gu spent a lot of money to keep the water in the pool warm. They also have self-awareness and dare not Swim outside the pool. Even these humble creatures know that they can¡¯t live without Kaigu. Why do some people always think that they can live without Kaigu? "
Qin Liuqi knew who he was talking about, and after thinking for a while he replied: "Perhaps Li Yuanshan felt that the prince's back hand was in his hand, so he inevitably became proud and thought that the prince could not do without him now." ¡±
"Such a person is the most shameful."
Prince Yi snorted coldly and said: "Insatiable greedThe Li family is just a prominent family in a remote place in Longyou. Without Gu, how easy will it be for the Li family to truly become prosperous? Li Yuanshan has forgotten that heHis own identity and arrogance are becoming more and more disgusting. "
He threw the letter in his hand into the stove.
"How dare you speak to me in this tone? He really thinks of himself as a big shot."
Qin Liuqi hesitated for a moment and said, "Do you want my subordinates to send someone to beat it?"
"No need."
Prince Yi waved his hand and said: "Don't he think he can't live without him? Then let him think like this The more this happens, the more dedicated he will be, because he will regard everything as his own business. Come and do it.¡±
"My subordinates are worried that they will lose control."
Qin Liuqi asked.
Prince Yi smiled and said: "He is not the only one in the northwest. Li Yuanshan is an orphan. He thought that others would not be able to steal the secret if he sent heavy troops to guard it. It was too naive. He said in the letter from Fei Ge that he would let it go after a while. If you open a defensive line and let the Meng Yuan people fight back to Mandu Banner, Your Majesty will be furious. As long as this is done more skillfully, Yang Kai will not be able to stay in the northwest. But Li Yuanshan forgot that Gu can be eliminated by this. Drop him."
"Anyone who has an affair with a Meng Yuan person will have a knife hanging over his head at any time."
"Also tell Li Xiaozong to continue to keep an eye on Li Yuanshan."
Qin Liuqi nodded and said, "Li Xiaozong's secret letter said that he suspected that Li Yuanshan had discovered something and had been ostracizing him these days."
"Gu likes to deal with young people the most. From the beginning, Gu has been close to the upstarts of the Yanwu Academy. The top three in the last term, the top five in the last term, Gu tried their best to attract Fang Jie from this term. Yu Xiao, Pei Chuxing, Xie Fuyao, and Gu also all wanted to come over, because Gu knew that the future of the Sui Dynasty still relied on these young people. Gu originally thought that Li Xiaozong was just a dispensable little role, but now Li Yuanshan. Since he is getting further and further away, I am willing to support Li Xiaozong."
Prince Yi smiled and said: "Gu is just an idle prince with no real power, so he only interacts with those young talents just to talk about romance. Everyone feels like this. What a wonderful thing it is No one would have thought that the emperor had been preparing for ten years to conquer the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, and Gu had been preparing for this matter for more than ten years. "
¡°The prince is far-sighted and others will not understand.¡±
Qin Liuqi bowed his head and said.
Prince Yi smiled and said: "Now Gu has made everyone feel that Gu really wants to go to the northwest to seize military power But who can guess, whether he goes to the northwest or not will make no difference to Gu. If His Majesty really Let Gu go, but he will go far away Gu likes Chang'an City, so he won't go anywhere."
He turned around and glanced at Qin Liuqi and said: "Let those in the court go out and suggest that Gu go to the northwest to take charge of military affairs. The voice of Gu Tai understands Gu's fourth brother the more this happens, the more he becomes He will not let me go to the northwest. The fourth brother thinks he understands everything, but in fact he understands nothing! Li Yuanshan also thinks he understands everything, but in fact he is just a dispensable pawn. With him, , Gu feels more at ease, without him Wouldn't Gu do nothing? "
Qin Liuqi whispered: "The eighth day of the second lunar month is auspicious. It is said that the day for dispatching troops has been decided."
Prince Yi smiled and said: "If there is good luck once, there will be a second time, a third time"