The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 384 Husband and wife abuse scum (two more)

"It turns out that Concubine Jing is also on the imperial edict." Gu Jiao suddenly realized, "No wonder she wanted to steal the imperial edict and hide it."

Xiao Liulang hummed: "One is to save his life, and the other is to hold the last hole card."

Gu Jiao rested her chin on her hands and said thoughtfully: "My aunt will not be threatened by anyone, even if she really took out the imperial decree and said, 'If you don't agree to my conditions, I will announce the imperial decree to the world and die with you. ', my aunt won't give in either. So..."

Xiao Liulang nodded: "So the most dangerous step for her is to really die with her aunt."

Gu Jiao slapped the table with her palm: "This bad woman!"

Xiao Liulang looked at her frizzy appearance, although a bit unreasonable, a smile flashed across his eyes.

Of course, thinking of his aunt's situation, his smile disappeared.

Seeing the imperial decree happened when he was a child, and it was not something he cared about very much at that time, so that memory has long been submerged in the long river of his memory.

If Gu Chengfeng hadn't mentioned it this time, he might never have read that memory for the rest of his life.

"You have to steal the imperial edict back." Concubine Jing couldn't hold such a time bomb in her hands. Gu Jiao didn't care if Concubine Jing was alive or not, but my aunt couldn't go to hell with her.

Xiao Liulang said: "Before then, don't push her too fast, lest she die impulsively with my aunt."

"Hmm." Gu Jiao now finally understood what her husband's note meant not to act rashly. With Concubine Jing's current situation, it was really not suitable for them to provoke her.

This woman is already crazy, who knows what she will do in a fit of rage.

"Oh." Gu Jiao sighed.

She folded her hands on the table, her little head drooped and rested on the back of her hands.

Xiao Liulang couldn't hold back again, and raised his hand to stroke her little furry head: "I won't wait too long."

"En!" Gu Jiao nodded.

She believed him.

So trusting that you don't have to ask him about his plans.

"Let's talk..." She straightened up in thought.

Xiao Liulang withdrew his hand calmly, the soft touch of her hair still remained in the palm of his hand, and he gently rubbed it with his fingertips.

Gu Jiao didn't notice his small gesture of reminiscence, she looked at him suspiciously and said, "What kind of person was the first emperor? Why did he want my aunt and Concubine Jing to be buried with him?"

Xiao Liulang paused,

His first reaction was to leave the mother and keep the child, but after thinking about it carefully, he was not sure if that was the case.

It was difficult for him to describe what kind of emperor the late emperor was. The late emperor had already passed away when he was born, and all his knowledge of the late emperor came from the late emperor's documents and some rumors he heard.

But judging from the series of arrangements made by the first emperor before his death, he was a man with means.

Let Empress Dowager Zhuang and Concubine Jing be buried, probably because they saw the influence of these two people on the new emperor, worried about the dictatorship of foreign relatives, the fall of power in the court, or the former emperor had other plans.

The emperor's mind is deeper than the sea, who can guess it?

For example, he couldn't figure out why Princess Xinyang also had the Dragon Shadow Guard in her hands?

In the end, Xiao Liulang had no choice but to say to Gu Jiao: "One day, the truth will come to light."

He didn't say he didn't know, of course he didn't know, but if she wanted to know, he would find out.

Xiao Liulang looked at the endless night: "It's getting late, you should go back and rest."

Gu Jiao nodded: "Well, then I'll come see you tomorrow night."

Xiao Liulang looked at her without refusing: "Okay."

After Gu Jiao left, Xiao Liulang turned off the light and lay down on the thin bed. Gu Jiao asked Gu Chengfeng to put the snack box quietly on the bedside table.

The night was very quiet, but his thoughts were not peaceful.

Someone was scurrying around in his mind in disobedience, and it took a lot of effort for him to regain control of his own mind.

He began to think about the imperial decree.

The imperial decree was left by the first emperor, and even the current emperor has to obey it. Although the Empress Dowager Zhuang and the Zhuang family are powerful, they have not yet reached the point where they can compete with the last emperor's edict.

As a woman in the harem, Empress Dowager Zhuang has done too many things that are not tolerated by the world, and the first thing she bears the brunt of is listening to politics behind the curtain.

The reason why those former emperor’s former minions did not attack the Empress Dowager Zhuang is that the Empress Dowager Zhuang did have the means to suppress them, and the second was that the late Emperor was unable to go to court due to serious illness in the last days of his reign, and the Liu family was ambitious, so the late Emperor had no choice but to come. One move to drive away the tiger and drive away the wolf-appoint a virtuous empress to supervise the country at that time.

Before the first emperor had time to withdraw the power of supervising the country after removing the virtuous virtues, he passed away.

Xiao Liulang guessed that the first emperor probably thought that anyway, he left the imperial decree to let the virtuous be buried, so it doesn't matter whether he withdraws his power or not.

It's a pity that the imperial decree was stolen by Concubine Jing because of a bad move.

After being virtuous, it was the first emperor who supported the state supervisor, and after the new emperor ascended the throne, she continued to listen to the government behind the curtain, so she didn't offend the former emperor's old department so much.

But as soon as this imperial decree comes out, the late emperor's old department will surely bite the Empress Dowager Zhuang into the imperial mausoleum like a hungry wolf.

So what Gu Jiao said was right, the imperial decree could not continue to fall into the hands of Concubine Jing, she had to find a way to steal it back and destroy it.

It's just that with the Dragon Shadow Guards around, it's very difficult for them to succeed.

"Dragon Shadow Guard." In the darkness, Xiao Liulang narrowed his eyes slightly.

On the second night, Gu Jiao really came and brought Xiao Liulang's favorite spicy beef, skewered it with bamboo sticks and put it in a jar, and the two of them sat in the room and cooked the beef.

"I'll come tomorrow?" Gu Jiao asked him before leaving.

Xiao Liulang smiled softly: "I can go back after the exam is over tomorrow, no need to come here."

Gu Jiao: "Oh."

She still wants to come.

It was fun to have sex with him secretly in the middle of the night.

Xiao Liulang was the invigilator and did not take part in marking the examination papers. After the examination, he packed his bags and left the Tribute Academy.

It wasn't too late, so he went to the Hanlin Academy first to deal with the official duties that had fallen in the past three days.

Since the confrontation with Zhuang Taifu outside the Imperial Academy, not many people in the Imperial Academy dared to find fault with him openly. Everyone knew that he was going to invigilate the exam, not just playing around, and they didn't dare to assign him Official business is nothing more than some sorting out of scriptures.

He spent an afternoon sorting out the scriptures, and then sent them to Xueshi Han.

When he came back from Xueshi Han's office, he met Ning Zhiyuan poking around near his office.

"What's wrong?" He stepped forward and asked.

Ning Zhiyuan turned around when he heard the words, and said: "I just heard that you are back, how is it? Is the invigilator going well?"

Thinking of the scene of having sex with someone at night, Xiao Liulang couldn't help laughing and said, "It went well."

Ning Zhiyuan glanced at him strangely: "You kid...you don't smile normally."

Xiao Liulang lowered the corners of his lips, held back the smile between his brows, and said seriously, "You came to me just to say hello?"

When it came to business, Ning Zhiyuan didn't continue to joke with him: "That..."

Ning Zhiyuan scratched his head, and said embarrassingly: "I brought my family to the capital, just your sister-in-law and them, your sister-in-law asked me to bring friends to sit at home, I don't have any friends in the capital, so I'll ask you... The sky is too empty..."

When he asked this question, he was actually very disturbed. Although he and Xiao Liulang were Sanding Jia in the same subject, their identities and circumstances were actually very different.

He can be regarded as the emperor's favorite person, but the emperor treats him differently from Xiao Liulang after all. Of course, the main reason is that the two people have different abilities. He has self-knowledge and does not have any jealousy.

It's just...a little inferiority complex.

Not only was Xiao Liulang appreciated by the emperor, but he also had a good relationship with the queen mother, otherwise he would not be able to suppress Mrs. Zhuang.

If such a person befriends himself, is he arrogating himself?

What's more, he has no money, the house is rented, and his family is quite poor.

Thinking of this, Ning Zhiyuan didn't wait for Xiao Liulang's answer, and hurriedly refused for Xiao Liulang: "However, the Imperial Academy is very busy recently, and neither of us should be free..."

"Okay." Xiao Liulang said.

"Huh?" Ning Zhiyuan was taken aback.

Xiao Liulang said: "I'll go back and ask my wife when she's free, and visit with her."

Ning Zhiyuan was dumbfounded: "Ah..."

This, this, is this agreed?

...

Gu Jiao came to the Gongyuan to meet Xiao Liulang twice, and Xiao Liulang somewhat learned about the current situation from Gu Jiao, so he decided to go to the palace.

"Your Majesty, Xiao Xiu wrote to ask for an audience."

In the imperial study, Eunuch Wei reported in a low voice.

The emperor's hands that were reviewing the memorial paused, he pressed his tired head, and said, "He hasn't come for a few days."

Eunuch Wei hurriedly said: "Xiao Xiuzhuan went to the Tribute Academy to invigilate the exam for three days."

"Ah, the examination of the Sixth Division." The emperor almost forgot about it. The Sixth Division has an assessment every year, usually in June. This year, due to the visit of Liang Guo's envoys, the palace examination was postponed for a month, let alone the Sixth Division's assessment. .

Not all officials participated in this kind of assessment, it was just a random test, presided over by the Imperial Academy, but it was very strict.

"Let him in," said the emperor.

"Yes." Eunuch Wei went to the door and led him in.

Xiao Liulang cupped his hands and bowed: "I have seen Your Majesty."

The emperor picked up a memorial and said lightly, "Why are you free to come to me today?"

Xiao Liulang cupped his hands and said, "I have something to play."

"What is it?" asked the emperor.

Xiao Liulang said seriously: "On the first day I was invigilating the examination at the Tribute Academy, someone put arsenic in my dinner."

The emperor frowned.

"Weichen originally left the evidence of the crime, but the weather is too hot, and the evidence has been destroyed." Having said that, Xiao Liulang still took out a small porcelain bottle from his sleeve.

Eunuch Wei went forward to take the small porcelain bottle, uncorked the bottle, a smell of rotten green onion came to his nostrils, Eunuch Wei hurriedly covered his nose.

It's all like this, so it's not easy to defile the emperor's eyes.

The emperor asked, "How do you know it's arsenic?"

Naturally, Xiao Liulang would not say that Gu Jiao had been to the Tribute Court, and sneaking into the Tribute Court without permission was a death penalty. Even if His Majesty would not punish Gu Jiao for his crime, why waste Gu Jiao's goodwill in His Majesty's heart?

Xiao Liulang said: "Your Majesty forgot that Jiaojiao is a doctor? When we were in the countryside, there were rats at home, so Jiaojiao made some rat poison with arsenic, and this minister even beat her."

This is a lie.

Gu Jiao would never allow Xiao Liulang to get any dangerous items.

But Xiao Liulang has properly learned the old Jijiu's official thick and black knowledge, and he can't change his face when he speaks.

Xiao Liulang continued: "The man pretended to be a bodyguard and brought me food. I saw that he was not the bodyguard in the morning and noon. I kept my mind on it, and only then did I realize that the food was tampered with."

The emperor frowned suspiciously: "Who would go to the Gongyuan to attack you?"

The Gongyuan was heavily guarded, and it was impossible for ordinary assassins to sneak in, let alone poison Xiao Liulang's food.

The emperor looked at Xiao Liulang fixedly: "I have never heard such news from the Gong Yuan."

Xiao Liulang met his scrutiny and scrutiny without any hesitation: "I have kept silent, I don't know who the murderer is, and I dare not make things big, lest the murderer jump over the wall in a hurry."

When the emperor thought about it, he looked at Xiao Liulang and said, "You go back first, and I will investigate this matter and find out."

Xiao Liulang cupped his hands: "My minister resigns."

To be cautious, after Xiao Liulang left, the emperor called the imperial doctor and asked him to examine the green onions.

The chopped green onion was picked out of the egg drop soup, and it has already deteriorated, but the imperial doctor still detected the arsenic on it.

"Return to Your Majesty, it's arsenic." The imperial doctor said.

The emperor's eyes turned cold: "Understood, you step back."

That night, the emperor called the chief guard of the Gong Yuan and asked him if there was any suspicious person in the Gong Yuan.

The guard said: "On the first day of the exam, it seems that someone sneaked in, knocked out a guard, and even took off the guard's clothes. It's a pity that the subordinate was incompetent and failed to catch him."

This matches what Xiao Liulang said.

The emperor ordered a thorough investigation into the matter.

Unexpectedly, the case of the poisoning in the Gongyuan never came to light, and another incident happened to Xiao Liulang the next day.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty is not well! Miss Gu and Xiao Xiuzhuan are injured!" Eunuch Wei rushed into the imperial study in a hurry.

The emperor snapped down the booklet in his hand: "Where is the man?"

Eunuch Wei worriedly said: "In the medical hall...Miaoshou Hall...it was the slave who saw Eunuch Qin rushing out of the palace and asked what was wrong, so Eunuch Qin told the slave that Miss Gu and Xiao Xiuzhuan had an accident!"

Xiao Liulang is the emperor's favorite courtier, not to mention Gu Jiao, her weight in the emperor's heart is almost the same as his children.

The emperor didn't bother to approve the papers anymore, changed into normal clothes, and took Eunuch Wei to the medical clinic.

In the wing room of the small courtyard, Gu Jiao lay unconscious on the bed, Xiao Liulang stood by the bed, his left hand was wrapped with gauze and hung around his neck, and there were bruises on the corners of his mouth and forehead.

This was the first time the emperor saw the two of them being injured in front of him, and he froze for a moment: "...what happened?"

"Your Majesty." Xiao Liulang stood up and wanted to salute him, but he looked at his arm hanging with gauze in embarrassment, and bowed instead.

"You don't need to be too polite." The emperor raised his hand, came to the bed, looked at Gu Jiao who was unconscious with closed eyes, glanced at a pile of blood-stained clothes in the basket beside him from the corner of his eye, and his breathing tightened, " How is the little genius doctor?"

Xiao Liulang said in a low mood: "Doctor Song has seen it and said that she lost a lot of blood..."

The emperor's eyes turned cold, and his eyes fell on Xiao Liulang's arm: "What's wrong with you?"

Xiao Liulang lowered his eyes and said: "Weichen is fine, but his arm is dislocated, and it has been connected."

Is it okay to dislocate your arm? How can a frail scholar stand this kind of pain?

The emperor's face became ugly: "What's going on? Where were you injured?"

Xiao Liulang said with a sad face: "It's near Chang'an Avenue. Weichen met an assassin on the way home from the Imperial Academy. It happened that Jiaojiao came to the Imperial Academy to pick me up, so he fought with the assassin. Jiaojiao couldn't Fighting against him, he was seriously injured. Behind Jiaojiao used a hidden weapon to destroy the mask on the assassin's face, and the assassin escaped."

The emperor asked: "Can you see what the assassin looks like?"

Xiao Liulang shook his head: "It was too chaotic at that time, I didn't see his facial features clearly, I only remembered that he had a tattoo on his face..."

The emperor hurriedly said, "What tattoo?"

"Like...like..." Xiao Liulang tried his best to recall, and said, "Forget it, maybe Weichen got it wrong."

The emperor frowned and said, "It's okay for you to say it."

Xiao Liulang hesitated for a moment, then said, "Like a turtle, but also like a snake."

Turtle body and snake tail.

Xuanwu.

Dragon Shadow Guard's tattoo!

Dragon Shadow Guards are dead warriors, but not every dead warrior is qualified to be a Dragon Shadow Guard. Back then, the late emperor bought a large number of dead warriors from the Yan Kingdom, and they were already strong enough when they bought them back. However, the late emperor was not satisfied with their strength.

On the basis of this, experts were invited to train the dead soldiers with all their strength. In the end, only a dozen or so Dragon Shadow Guards were produced out of more than a hundred dead soldiers.

Some dragon shadow guards died during the mission, and what the late emperor left him was the youngest dragon shadow guard.

The first time he saw them, he was shocked by the basalt tattoos on their faces. It is said that they were tattooed by the late emperor to distinguish the Dragon Shadow Guards from ordinary dead men.

In the whole world, no one else has such tattoos.

The emperor's mood suddenly became complicated: "Are you sure you read it right?"

Xiao Liulang thought for a while: "Weichen... not sure. Weichen just glanced at it in a hurry, maybe he made a mistake."

The emperor closed his eyes.

I must have read it wrong.

The Dragon Shadow Guard is now in the hands of Concubine Jing, how could she send someone to assassinate Xiao Liulang?

Although she didn't want to get close to the Queen Mother's lineage, strictly speaking, Xiao Liulang was not from the Queen Mother's lineage. Xiao Liulang was a minister who was single-handedly selected by her, a disciple of the emperor, and her own!

Concubine Jing has no reason to deal with Xiao Liulang.

The emperor waited in the room for a while, and Doctor Song came over to change Gu Jiao's medicine on the way, but Gu Jiao still didn't wake up.

The emperor watched basins of blood coming out from the back of the screen, and couldn't bear to look down.

On the way back to the palace, he didn't say a word.

"Your Majesty." Eunuch Wei wanted to remind him that the palace is here.

The emperor suddenly sighed: "Concubine Jing wouldn't do that, would she?"

"Huh?" Eunuch Wei was taken aback.

what's the situation?

Does Your Majesty suspect that the person who assassinated Xiao Liulang was sent by the empress dowager?

The Dragon Shadow Guards usually wear masks, and Eunuch Wei didn't know that they had tattoos on their faces.

"It must not be her." The emperor didn't know whether he said this to Eunuch Wei or himself.

How dare Eunuch Wei answer?

This is your mother and son's business, and I can't get involved.

He remembered that His Majesty and the Queen Mother seemed to be getting farther and farther back then. It seemed that His Majesty was not so close to the Queen Mother overnight. Gradually, His Majesty began to quarrel with the Queen Mother, and every trivial matter was blamed on the Queen Mother.

Sometimes he is quite injustice for the Queen Mother.

According to feng shui, it's the turn of Concubine Jing now?

Your Majesty, are you suffering from a disease that must piss off your mother?

"cough!"

Eunuch Wei covered his mouth before his own.

The emperor got out of the carriage.

His thoughts were a little confused, there were two voices in his head, one voice told him that Xiao Liulang would not lie to him, and the other voice told him that Concubine Jingmu would not betray him.

"Who?" Eunuch Wei said suddenly.

"What's the matter?" asked the emperor.

Eunuch Wei pointed to the end of the imperial garden and said, "I just saw a sneaky figure going there."

Isn't that the direction of Gong Fang?

Perhaps someone was anxious to come out.

The emperor didn't want to see a servant show his respect, but for some reason, he was always a little uneasy, and he turned around as soon as he took a step, and went in the direction of Gong's room.

In the end it was Gong's room, the emperor didn't really go in, but just watched quietly not far away.

Unexpectedly, he heard a familiar voice.

"What? You, you missed again? Thanks to you being the Dragon Shadow Guard, why can't you even kill a weak scholar!"

This is... the voice of Concubine Jing!

Concubine Jing said, and missed again.

Concubine Jing also said that a scholar who has no strength to restrain a chicken...

I must have heard wrong...

The sound continued.

"Does your majesty know that you are such a waste? When your majesty gave you to me, you didn't want you to eat and wait to die! It's just killing a lame man, and you're not a martial arts master! Are you dragon shadow guards so capable!"

"If I had known earlier, I might as well have bought a few quack killers! They are also more straightforward than you!"

It is impossible for the emperor to lie to himself that the voice did not come from Concubine Jing.

He only felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet, rushing up to the top of his head!

As soon as the beauty makes a move, you will know if there is one.

Merry Christmas Eve.