On the eighth day after Yang Zhengde's fake death, Yang Shixian and his mother began packing up their belongings and disposing of their property. Word quickly spread, and soon everyone in the capital who cared about the Yang family knew that Yang Shixian was preparing to return home with his coffin.
The emperor was heartbroken that such a loyal and upright minister like Yang Zhengde did not have a good end. He vomited blood and fainted when he first heard the bad news. Although the imperial physician quickly revived him, he was asked by the imperial physician to stay in bed to recuperate because he had damaged his vitality.
Until Yang Shixian made all the preparations before leaving and went to the palace to say goodbye to the emperor and his son, the emperor was not allowed to get out of bed.
The imperial physician responsible for treating the emperor was sent by Empress Dowager Dalu, who was actually very angry about Yang Zhengde's death.
Just as Lu Tong expected, the Lu family did not want to break the current three-way balance of power.
She knew very well that without Yang Zhengde and Fan Ting to restrain Lu Tong, Lu Tong would soon no longer be satisfied with being just a regent.
They are brothers from the same mother and have worked together for so many years. The ambition that Lu Tong thought he had concealed well had actually been noticed by the Lu family a long time ago.
She just didn't expect that Lu Tong would actually attack her directly.
Mrs. Lu thought that the slight physical discomfort she felt a few days ago was just a normal sign of her age.
It was not until the news of Yang Zhengde's death from poisoning and the emperor's vomiting blood and coma reached the harem that Da Lu also fainted in panic. Only then did she vaguely realize that something was wrong with her body.
She was a very intelligent woman. After realizing that something might be wrong with her, she did not immediately launch a high-profile investigation. Instead, she first sent a trusted imperial physician to examine the emperor, and then asked the eunuch who was absolutely loyal to her to secretly investigate what kind of traitor was around her.
Not only Yang Shixian, but even the emperor and Xiao Yuanjin were kept in the dark about what happened in the Empress Dowager's palace.
The only person who knows all the struggles and conspiracies in the capital is Yu Zizhen, who has his own plug-in.
She has been very busy recently because she has to receive a lot of information and do a lot of preparation work in advance. Yu Zizhen even suspended her original study tasks.
Apart from the one hour each morning and evening of fixed martial arts training time, Yu Zizhen basically used the rest of the time to deal with her complicated affairs that could not be made public.
Because the price was severely pressured, Yang Shixian did not sell the Yang family's several properties in and around the capital as originally planned.
Before leaving, he personally delivered all the house deeds, land deeds and other things to Yu Zizhen.
Although it is not easy for Yu Zizhen to directly transfer the Yang family's property to her own name at this critical juncture, with the deeds given by Yang Shixian, Yu Zizhen can take over the Yang family's property privately.
Afraid that Yu Zizhen would not want them, Yang Shixian, who had lost a lot of weight in just ten days, did not directly say that he wanted to give these things to Yu Zizhen.
He handed the box containing the deeds to Yu Zizhen and said, "I'm going to take all the servants of the Yang family back home. These shops and farms are empty anyway. If you need them, why not take them first?"
Yu Zizhen was too embarrassed to accept the Yang family's property. She was about to refuse when she heard Yang Shixian say, "If you don't need them, then consider these deeds as your temporary safekeeping for me. When I come to the capital again, you can return them to me."
Yu Zizhen thought about it and decided to accept the deeds that Yang Shixian handed over.
She said to Yang Shixian, "You don't have to wait for me to come to the capital. I will return these things to their original owners when we meet next time."
Yang Shixian's eyes widened in surprise. Did Yu Zizhen mean that he would also leave the capital in the near future?
Yu Zizhen met his gaze and nodded slightly, "Keep it a secret."
Yang Shixian came back to his senses and nodded vigorously towards Yu Zizhen.
Yu Zizhen smiled and told him about his subsequent arrangements for the Yang family's affairs. "On the day you leave, I will arrange for a 'trader' to set off with you. I have arranged for them to meet you at the city gate. Then you can leave together."
"The leader of my caravan is a plump, fair-skinned young man named Lu Cun. He's incredibly lucky. If you follow him, even if you encounter some setbacks along the way, you'll surely be able to turn misfortune into good fortune."
Yu Zizhen said this to comfort Yang Shixian, but the native people of Da Qi were still very superstitious. After Yu Zizhen said this, Yang Shixian immediately believed it all.
He memorized the code that Yu Zizhen wrote to him, then tore the note into pieces, and finally soaked it in tea to completely destroy the evidence.
Facing Yu Zizhen's surprised and puzzled eyes, Yang Shixian explained, "I'm just a scholar who knows a little bit about riding and shooting. If I carry this thing with me, I might not even notice if someone steals it ten times."
Instead of doing that, he might as well just memorize the contact code in his head.
Yu Zizhen gave him a thumbs up and said, "Better safe than sorry. I'm relieved that you're being so cautious."
She didn't tell Yang Shixian that he didn't need to be so cautious, because in addition to the "merchant caravan" headed by Lu Cun, Yu Zizhen also sent two other teams, which were dispersed before and after the teams of Lu Cun, Yang Shixian and others.
One of these two teams is a caravan led by Wen Xiaoman. In their team, the bodyguards alone account for half of the total number of people in the team.
The other team was led by Lu Mingxuan, who had changed his appearance. They were a group of officials' families who were returning home to visit relatives. Everyone in this team, including the seemingly weak and harmless old people, women and children, could knock down at least three ordinary strong men.
With them escorting them all the way, even if the Lu family wanted to wipe out the entire clan, the final result would be failure.
After all, with the father and daughter pair of Big Lu and Little Lu not getting along with each other, the number of people that Lu Tong can mobilize is not as many as before.
The Lu family, which had been barely able to suppress the factions of Yang Zhengde and Fan Ting, saw its strength decline by more than one level after a fundamental conflict of interests arose among the three giants within their faction.
But Lu Tong no longer had time to think about these things. He faced pressure from the Empress Dowager Lu and instructed those assassins to kill Yang Zhengde, and put the blame for the assassination on his other political enemy Fan Ting.
After the Yang family left Beijing, they realized that the balance of the capital could no longer be maintained and that chaos would soon break out. Yu Zizhen proposed digging a tunnel in the eldest prince's bedroom.
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