Hello Chang’an

Facing Chang Suining, the official officer who came showed his waist badge and stated his intention.

The granddaughter of Mr. Jie Jun disappeared on the eve of leaving the cabinet, and her whereabouts were unknown. Over the past few days, the Jing Yamen traced suspicious traces on the way from Feng's house to Xingningfang -

Hearing this, Chang Ren was secretly glad that the girl had the foresight to not allow General A Dian to follow. Otherwise, upon hearing this, General Dian would immediately retort, "It's impossible, you're talking nonsense," and "I've clearly wiped it clean." .

And this official statement is indeed nonsense. Their actions that night definitely could not leave any suspicious traces. This statement is just a cover.

Moreover, he found a complete cover, and claimed that a watchman had seen with his own eyes a mysterious and suspicious figure at the back door of Chang's Mansion that night.

After the officer finished speaking, he said: "We have been ordered to search for the traces of the Feng family's wife. We also hope that your government will cooperate and not obstruct her."

Chang Sui Ning not only nodded and cooperated, but even asked Manager Bai to arrange for his subordinates to lead the way.

When the officials went to search, Chang Suining whispered to Chang Ren: "Keep an eye on them, and be sure to eliminate the possibility of them using their hands and feet to 'frame up'."

Outside of the Chang Mansion, everything is under the control of the Empress. She would never allow anything to go wrong in the Chang Mansion.

Those menacing officials went in and out of the various courtyards of the Chang Mansion without leaving any corner. Even the firewood pile in the kitchen was all pushed down and opened for inspection.

When some retired veterans saw this, they suppressed their anger.

Their generals have made many contributions to Dasheng, but Lang Jun was unjustly imprisoned first. Now these officials made another casual remark and treated the Chang family as if they were a den of guilty thieves!

Where is the justice?

"Get away!"

Seeing an officer kicking away the yellow dog guarding the door outside the kitchen, the yellow dog ran away screaming with its tail between its legs. The veteran was furious and was about to step forward, but was pulled back by his companions.

"The girl said... keep an eye on them, don't let them use provocation to catch you in the wrong place." The companion reminded in a low voice, but also frowned.

Xiao Duan Xiaowu knelt down and hugged the frightened yellow dog, hiding to the side and watching the ferocious officials with uneasiness in his eyes.

The officers searched like this for more than half a day, and the formation outside Chang's mansion also attracted attention and discussion.

"Did something happen again in General Chang's Mansion?"

"... Could it be that the husband of the Chang family also confessed the Chang family girl? The murder of the eldest grandson, the Seventh Lady... was it really the Chang family who instigated it behind the scenes?"

"But it seems that those officials don't look like they are from Dali Temple, but they look like they are from Beijing Yamen?"

Some people talked about it, some people explored it, and some people couldn't help but sigh: "General Chang Da is now fighting outside, and it's pity that these two sons and daughters are in the capital and they are struggling..."

"What you said makes it sound like the husband of the Chang family has been wrongly accused... Now there are all the witnesses and material evidence!"

"Where did you get the witness?"

"You don't know, right? Just last night, a monk committed suicide in Dayun Temple!"

This is true.

Last night, a monk in Dayun Temple hanged himself in the maple forest on the back mountain, and left a blood letter, saying that he had witnessed Chang Sui'an's murder in the forest that day, but he was afraid of bringing disaster to himself, and was afraid of raising the Sun family. Investigate him for not having rescued him, but for not daring to come forward to testify—

During these days, I have been repenting day and night, thinking that I am no longer worthy of being a disciple of Buddhism. I can only die to atone my sins and seek liberation.

This morning, the monk's body and the blood letter were sent to Dali Temple.

Chang Sui Ning found out about this matter earlier than Dali Temple because of Wu Jue's secret message.

First, Prince Rong was silenced, and then in the name of protecting Yao Yi's official reputation, he handed over the case to Han Shaoqing, the empress's confidant.

Then the witness was forged, and the "witness" died after leaving a record, so there was no possibility of verification.

Now, under the pretext of investigating the disappearance case, they are here to search for Feng Min's whereabouts...

Compared with what Chang had done before, all the actions controlled by the Holy Will now are like a tight net that is quickly tightened, leaving no room for the things in the net to struggle to escape.

The feeling of confinement also enveloped Chang Sui Ning tightly.

She stood on the corridor in the front hall, looking at the officials who were returning, and asked Xi'er: "How many days are left until the first day of the new year?"

Although Xi'er didn't know why the girl asked this question, she immediately answered: "Girl, the day after tomorrow is the first day of the new year."

The day after tomorrow.

Chang Suining repeated it in his mind.

Those official officials are already in front of us.

"What did you find out?" Chang Suining asked.

"I'm disturbing your house today." The chief official who returned without success looked a little worried, but he still said: "But the girl from the Feng family has a special status. She is the future concubine of the prince Yingguo. Before we find the person, we will wait and see. I need to leave a few people to stay outside your residence temporarily, I hope you understand."

Chang Suining: "Everyone, please excuse me."

Watching the officials leave, Xi'er felt extremely uneasy: "Girl, they are clearly trying to use some excuse to conduct surveillance..."

It's said to be guarding, but it's no different from monitoring and house arrest!

Chang Suining: "Surveillance is only one of them."

The surveillance was real, and the desire to find Feng Min as a witness and take him away was also real. Even though Chang Ren and the others left no traces of their actions that night, it did not affect Ming Hou's conclusion that Feng Min was in her hands.

It would be best to find Feng Min in the Chang family, and we could also weave a charge into her so that she would not be able to escape.

Even if he can't find it, he won't really return without success. After all the troubles of these officials, I believe everyone will soon hear that the reason why the side room of the Ming family that is about to pass the door is missing is related to the Chang family. A rumor.

In the eyes of outsiders, this matter may not seem to have anything to do with her brother's affairs at first glance, but with this "previous cause", if she "didn't know whether to live or die" and insisted on taking Feng Min to the government office to identify Ming Jin, then the government office could easily She interpreted this to mean that she had hijacked Feng Min first and forced Feng Min to frame Ming Jin—

Therefore, the official's high-profile search was equivalent to completely destroying the usefulness of Feng Min as a witness in her hands. Even if there was no need for the government to refute, the public would not even believe Feng Min's testimony.

The emperor's methods are always more comprehensive and thorough, he is better at cutting off threats fundamentally, and he knows how to calm down and reduce the occurrence of "criticism" among the people.

In other words, after this trip, Feng Min has no value in Chang Suining's hands.

Chang Sui Ning came out from the corridor.

It doesn't exist with her, but it can exist with others.

On the horizon, the cold wind tore at the dark clouds, and as they struggled, raindrops fell.

The rain came quickly, and the pedestrians on the long street were in a hurry.

Two carriages met head-on, and one of them was going very fast. The driver of the other carriage quickly dodged upon seeing this, but still could not completely avoid the other's rampage. One side of the carriage was scraped, and the carriage almost overturned.

The young boy in the car smashed his forehead and opened the curtain angrily.

The coachmen and entourage of both sides were already arguing.

There was also a person walking in the car on the opposite side, but his expression was leisurely and nonchalant.

Changsun Ji recognized the other party: "...Cui Liulang?"

"I broke my head. I'm so sorry." Cui Lang hissed softly and said, "But you also broke Brother Sui'an's head that day, so it's like canceling out the two!" Changsun Jiben said He was still somewhat respectful because he was a member of the Cui family, but his face immediately darkened when he heard this: "You collided on purpose!"

"So what." Cui Lang approached Changsun Ji provocatively with a pot holding an umbrella. Taking advantage of being a few years older than him and half a head taller, he became even more arrogant. "If I bump into you, I will kill you." My brain has been damaged, and you might have to come and say thank you when you turn around."

Changsun Ji wanted to reply, but Cui Lang didn't give him a chance to speak: "Speaking of the head... I have to go and take a look."

Cui Lang looked at the injury on the young man's forehead, then took off the money bag from his waist, stuffed it into the other person's hand, then took the other person's hand and patted it twice: "There is some silver here, please use it as my compensation."

With that said, regardless of Changsun Ji's extremely annoyed expression, he told the servants of Changsun's family: "The Rejuvenation Pavilion is just ahead. Let your husband go there and have a look. It would be bad if you are late and delay your condition! "

This statement is clearly humiliating!

"Cui Liulang is going too far!" Changsun Ji clutched the money bag tightly and was about to throw it away, but at the same moment he met Cui Lang's harmless eyes, he noticed something was wrong with the money bag in his hand. .

"Mr. Changsun just found out today that I, Cui Lang, like to bully others." Cui Lang shook his sleeves that were wetted by the rain, "Let's go, let's go. It's raining heavily today, so it's not a good time to quarrel."

Seeing Cui Lang returning to his carriage, the servants of Changsun's family were extremely angry: "Master, how could you just let them go like this!"

"I have my grandfather's confession today, so I have no time to argue with him. We will settle the score tomorrow!" Changsun Ji said with an ugly face: "Let's go!"

The young man sat back in the carriage and immediately opened the money bag.

Sure enough, there was no silver in it, just a small bamboo tube about the length and thickness of a thumb.

Just now he noticed something strange while holding it in his hand, so he didn't throw it away immediately.

At this time, he opened the bamboo tube and saw a rolled-up note hidden inside.

Changsun Ji hurriedly unfolded it and read it. There were only two lines of small characters on it - the truth is hidden behind the Guanyin Temple in the west of the city. You will know it as soon as you see it. You must be careful not to scare the grass and scare the snake.

The only signature is a regular character.

The young man's brows were still childish. Even though he had many thoughts, he did not make any decision on his own. Instead, he returned to the mansion and handed the note to his grandfather, Sun Yuan.

After Changsun Yuan saw it, he thought for a moment and then sent someone secretly to the place indicated on the note, repeatedly telling him to avoid all sight.

Regardless of anything else, just saying that the Chang family girl used Cui Liulang's dandy son to convey the news in this way, it can be seen that there must be many eyes and ears watching secretly.

And there were always more eyes staring at his eldest grandson's family.

When it got dark, a girl who was seriously injured and unconscious in a sack was quietly brought back to the Changsun Mansion.

Although the person was unconscious, there was also a letter that was brought back, to be precise, it was the girl's confession.

Looking at the whole story of the crime written on the confession, Changsun Yuan's expression changed several times.

Ming family...Ming Jin? !

"Father..." After reading this, Changsun Yan couldn't calm down the anger in his heart, but he still had doubts: "...could it be the Chang family girl's way of exonerating her brother? Who knows it's not a fabrication!"

Changsun Yuan looked at the unconscious girl with her eyes closed: "Medical treatment first."

Feng Min woke up late at night, and she immediately recognized the thin and cold face as Sun Yuan, the eldest left minister at the time, and the father of the eldest grandson Qiniangzi who she indirectly killed.

The very oppressive old man's eyes were like daggers: "Tell me again exactly what happened that day when you two committed the murder."

Feng Min was extremely frightened, but did not dare to disobey.

Her voice trembled weakly as she explained what had happened.

Seeing the tears of fear and regret on the girl's face, Changsun Yuan was heartbroken and asked one word at a time: "What was my Xuan'er's last sentence...?"

This is to test the authenticity of the other party, and it is also a father who wants to hear the last voice left by his daughter who died in vain in this world.

"The Seventh Madam Changsun spoke to the maid, saying..." At that time, Changsun Xuan was choked by Ming Jin, her voice was weak and frightened. Feng Min's tearful retelling at this time was also trembling: "Shu Xin, hurry up, go find Xiao Zao. …”

Shu Xin is the name of Chang Sun Xuan's maid.

Xiaozao is Changsun Xuan’s unique name for his nephew Changsun Ji. It is impossible for outsiders to know.

Changsun Ji, who was clenching his fists and with red eyes, heard this sentence. After being stunned for a moment, he couldn't bear it anymore, turned around suddenly, opened the door, and ran to the corridor.

Regardless of his image and manners, the young man stood on the porch and cried loudly along with the sound of rain.

When his sister-in-law had an accident, he was also picking chrysanthemums in the back mountain. He didn't see his sister-in-law for a while. He wanted to go find her, but was stopped by some friends on the way. They agreed to go Cuju together after returning to the city. The more they talked, the more they talked. , so he forgot about going to find his sister-in-law.

It's all his fault!

The boy cried louder and louder, feeling unbearable with grief and self-blame and regret.

Feng Min has been taken down.

In the room, Zhang Sunyan's eyes were full of suppressed sadness and anger: "In my father's opinion, is this credible?"

Although Feng Minzhi's words sounded flawless, because the opposite party was the Ming family, one had to be particularly cautious about this matter and beware of the possibility of being instigated and exploited.

Changsun Yuan held on tightly to the armrest of the Grand Master's chair: "Immediately ask someone to find out every move of the Ming family's mother and son in detail...quickly."

Without knowing anything, it is easy to find out the truth that has been hidden. However, if you get the "answer" first and then investigate backwards, it is often easy to find the flaws. Even if you cannot grasp the substantive evidence, it is enough to distinguish the truth from the false.

After Changsun Yan agreed, he asked his father: "If it is really what Ming Jin did..."

Changsun Yuan: "You will pay with your life."

…

Chang Sui Ning is naturally not afraid of the eldest son's family going to check the authenticity. Since it is true, he is not afraid of checking.

She chose to send Feng Min to the eldest grandson's family to borrow the power of the eldest grandson's family and to preserve the value of Feng Min as a witness.

The Changsun family has its own means, and I believe that this matter will be confirmed soon, and action will be taken immediately.

The Changsun family could use Feng Min as a witness to put pressure on the Ming Dynasty in the court, but this alone was not enough.

At least the Ming family still had room to defend themselves. This confrontation was destined to take a long time for both sides, but her brother couldn't afford it.

The role of the Changsun family is in the court, in the balance of power, and in favor of love. They will insist on seeking justice for the Seventh Lady, Changsun, but the justice that the Changsun family seeks will not be accurate enough to save her brother's life.

Everyone has different desires, but the fact is that the interests are like this. Even if her brother died in prison in vain, it will not affect the justice that the Changsun family wants to pursue later.

Therefore, for her, the Changsun family is just a relationship of leverage, not a partner who can advance and retreat together and can deliver all wishes.

Her Chang family son still needs to be saved by herself.

The rain continued all night.

The next morning, Chang Sui Ning put on her robe, **** her cloak, and brought the short knife that Cui Jing had given her at the apprenticeship banquet.

Good night~