Chapter 94 Approaching Jiang Rong
"Dong Xiqin is such a fool. What's the point of seducing Xie Lingxi? Jiang Rong is still alive. How can she just sit and wait for Xie Lingxi to divorce his wife and remarry?" The woman's voice was calm, without a ripple:
"A playboy is easy to deal with, but Jiang Rong is the biggest obstacle to marrying into the Northern Prince's Palace."
The maid took over the conversation cautiously: "This is the arrangement of the eldest princess, asking the second young lady to sow discord."
"My mother is even more stupid. Since she is the enemy, she should kill him with one strike. But she is so arrogant and self-righteous that she plays cat and mouse games." The woman sneered with her thin lips, her eyes full of sarcasm:
"If arsenic had been used at that time, there wouldn't have been the changes we have today. It ruined a good game for me!"
In her early years, Princess Anyang was betrothed by the emperor to the eldest son of Marquis Yongning.
Marquis Yongning and his eldest son led the army to garrison the southwest.
She lived in the southwest with her husband for a long time and returned to Beijing last year. She gave birth to two daughters and one son.
The eldest daughter had already married, and the second daughter was born weak and had been raised in the mountains. She is the one in front of you, Dong Xiqi, the Princess of Fuyi County.
Dong Xiqi has been smart and calculating since she was young. She chose her husband, Xie Lingxi, very early on.
In the current court, the Crown Prince, Prince Duan and King Ying are the three powers, and any one of them has the potential to become the biggest winner.
Taking sides at this time is a gamble with too great a risk.
What's more, the biological mothers of the Crown Prince and the King of England were from two other general families respectively.
If any of them comes to power, their biological mother will be the Queen Mother.
As a daughter-in-law, she is inferior to her mother-in-law, and her Dong family is still inferior.
Is there any difference between then and today?
It would be better to avoid the fight for the throne and choose a powerful person who will be as stable as a rock no matter who comes to power.
The Northern Prince's Palace caught Dong Xiqi's attention.
What's even more interesting is that the Prince of the North is an uneducated playboy, and the person who will be in charge of the Prince of the North's Mansion in the future will actually be the Prince's Consort!
If she could marry Xie Lingxi, the Xie family would be hers.
So over the years, Dong Xiqi has been secretly inquiring about Xie Lingxi's news and getting familiar with his preferences. He plans to wait until she returns to Beijing and then make an elaborate plan to lure Xie Lingxi into the trap.
I never expected...
Someone got there first.
This made Dong Xiqi, who was already frail, so angry that he fell seriously ill. He has only just recovered a little recently and can't wait to set off for Beijing.
Dong Xiqi's gaze fell on the small boat in the middle of the lake, his eyes were cold:
"There are only two people left in the Jiang family, and people still praise her for being kind and filial. Dong Xiqin is no match for such a powerful and ruthless character. I have to help my good sister."
"Let's go back to Beijing."
Dong Xiqi turned around and the maid followed closely.
And just a moment after she left...
On a small boat in the middle of the lake.
Xie Lingxi looked at the pavilion on the shore from afar.
"What are you looking at, my husband?" Jiang Rong followed his gaze but saw nothing.
Xie Lingxi felt that there was a gaze that seemed to be spying on them.
However, when he looked over, the person had already left.
"Nothing..." Xie Lingxi replied casually, paused, and looked at Jingzhe:
"Let Xiao Nanxing check if anyone has been to Bridgewater Lake."
Jingzhe obeys the order.
…
Mingxin Division, back hall.
Chu Jue bent over his desk and wrote furiously, and it took him a long time to stop.
He looked up suddenly and saw a middle-aged man in a red python robe and with a stern face standing not far from his desk.
"Dad! When did you come?" Chu Jue asked in surprise.
Chu Shouchen was serious and had a grim expression, "I heard that you are working on a big case recently. You are quite capable."
"Thank you for the compliment!" Chu Jue raised his chest proudly.
"Am I praising you? The cases in Mingxin Division are not enough for you to handle, yet you have to look for cases outside. These cases involve the Princess's Mansion and the Northern Prince's Mansion. You take such a difficult case." Chu Shouchen snorted coldly.
"What's the big deal? Isn't our Mingxin Division's main goal to arrest anyone regardless of their family background?" Chu Jue didn't care:
"You have handled so many major cases, and princes have beheaded several of them. My case is not serious enough to behead the eldest princess."
"That's the person the emperor wants to kill, so the prince can also kill him. But now the emperor doesn't want to touch Princess Anyang. You arrested her people, do you think you can afford to offend her?" Chu Shouchen said angrily.
Chu Jue was stunned. What? So our Mingxin Division can arrest anyone we want?
But it's not a big problem.
"I can't afford to offend you, but I still have you. Even if the sky falls, I have my father to support it!" Chu Jue smiled.
Chu Shouchen: This is a terrible thing!
"Princess Anyang met me and asked me to release all her people." Chu Shouchen said lightly.
Chu Jue's expression changed instantly, "Dad, you can't listen to her!"
"Do you think I should listen to you?" Chu Shouchen asked back.
Seeing Chu Jue's face becoming increasingly ugly, Chu Shouchen slowly said the second half of the sentence:
"But the old concubine of the Northern Palace also sent someone to pass on a message, asking the Mingxin Division to conduct a thorough investigation. If they let them all go, it would offend the Northern Palace. When these two families fight, both sides have to give some face."
"You can pick a few people as the murderers, and close the case within five days. Unseal Chunyue Pavilion immediately, and release all other unrelated people."
Chu Shouchen left.
Chu Jue was left alone in the back hall, feeling depressed.
He originally wanted to sentence the brothel owner and others who had beaten and killed the woman, and then find a reason to continue sealing Chunyue Pavilion.
Because once Chunyue Pavilion opens, it will be able to recruit more managers, and there will be more tragedies like Zhang's daughter...
And if the Princess's Mansion opens another brothel, it will continue to be closed under the pretext of investigating the case...
We must never let the tragedy of Ms. Zhang happen again.
But it doesn’t seem possible at the moment.
Chu Jue frowned, thought about it, and suddenly thought of someone.
Jiang Rong.
Thinking of that woman's ability to make things happen with a wave of her hand, maybe I can talk to her about it!
"Someone, go and ask the Northern Prince's wife to come over!" Chu Jue said.
The subordinates obey the order.
But after a while, he came back to report, "The Crown Prince's Concubine and the Crown Prince have left the capital to enjoy the lotus. It is said that they will be back in two days..."
…
A few days later.
Outside the capital, there is a Shili Pavilion, with willow trees swaying in the wind.
And in a pavilion on a mountain farther away in the suburbs of Beijing, a woman in blue clothes, holding a telescope, looked down at the Shili Pavilion.
"County Lady, it's the quarter past seven." The maid stared at the clepsydra and said nervously.
This copper clepsydra was brought from their mansion.
The time is unknown in the mountains, but the county lady needs the exact time.
"That's all right. Let her run to the outskirts of Beijing. In about a quarter of an hour, she'll meet the person she's supposed to meet." Dong Xiqi said calmly.
In another quarter of an hour, the carriage of the Northern Prince's Palace will arrive at Shili Pavilion on the outskirts of Beijing.
The maid took the order and left.
After a while...
A peasant girl appeared in the suburbs of Beijing, running away in panic, followed by four strong men holding wooden sticks.
Dong Xiqi's thin lips curved slightly.
Jiang Rong was able to keep a commoner girl rescued by Xie Lingxi by her side and entrusted her with important tasks. Regardless of whether she was truly kind-hearted or was pretending to be so in front of Xie Lingxi, she would, logically, have rescued this commoner girl.
She also deliberately picked a person from a nearby village whose background was similar to Jiang Rong.
My parents died early, and I was fostered in my second uncle's home, where I was bullied by his family...
I believe this will arouse Jiang Rong's sympathy even more.
That's right.
Her plan was not to get close to Xie Lingxi, but Jiang Rong.
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