Chapter 144 Please Kill Someone
After Jiang Xue and Chen Xiu finished giving the instructions, they returned to Gu's house with Lu Qiongshuang.
As soon as the two of them fell from the courtyard wall, they saw Fu Dong standing in the courtyard. Jiang Xue was wondering, but when Fu Dong looked up and found them, she hurriedly walked up to her and whispered:
"Your Highness, a few people just came to the courtyard. They said they were here on the orders of their master to serve Your Highness."
"Where are you?" Jiang Xue didn't seem surprised. She just walked towards her residence and asked calmly, "Why are you the only one here? Where is Xiaochun?"
"We thought about waiting for His Highness to come back and deal with it. Sister Xiaochun said that having so many unfamiliar faces standing in the courtyard would be a bit eye-catching, so we just invited everyone to the side rooms to settle down."
Jiang Xue nodded and said, "Go get a basin of water first so that my cousin and I can wash up. I'll ask Xiaochun to call them to my main room later. I'll change my clothes and then come out to meet them. By the way, how many people are here?"
Fu Dong counted on his fingers and said, "Eight people, two of them are women. Judging from their attire, they look a bit like..."
Jiang Xue asked, "Like what?"
"Like the few people that day when His Highness sent carriages and horses from the same palace to Hedong to pick up Prince Consort Gu's mother."
Jiang Xue chuckled and said, "Don't guess anymore. Go and prepare for me to wash up. Let Xiaochun have someone entertain them well."
Eight people, I didn’t expect Jing Ye to send so many people at once.
Originally, she was thinking that after Banban sent the letter, she would be able to see Jing Ye when she returned to Wenqingxuan. But just now she found out that he didn't come, and only the people she nominated were sent. It seemed that he really had something to do.
Originally, when a foreign envoy came to visit, the Ministry of Rites would have arranged a lot of banquets and rewards. Thinking about the fact that he had been with me almost every day in the past few days, and sometimes he was even available at any time, I don't know who was entrusted to handle all these.
Jiang Xue sighed. Now that he was in a high position, he thought that he would be able to do things without so many constraints.
After all, life is more comfortable than it was back then.
Fu Dong nodded smartly, opened the door for Jiang Xue, and left quickly.
The two of them changed into their original clothes. Fu Dong took some water and washed Jiang Xue's face carefully several times before he let her hair down and combed it again.
Fu Dong combed her hair and asked carefully, "Your Highness and your cousin went out dressed like this, I believe no one recognized them, right?"
Before Jiang Xue could answer, Lu Qiongshuang laughed and said, "How could that be possible? Not to mention that not many people have seen my cousin, and the place we went to is where ordinary people live, plus-"
She came close to Jiang Xue, blinked her big eyes and looked at her with admiration, and said:
"Cousin, when did you become so good at deceiving people? Looking at your miserable expression, you really are a lonely woman who has traveled thousands of miles to find her relatives."
Jiang Xue stretched out a slender finger and pushed her forehead away, saying, "To put it bluntly, the common people regard the government as jackals, and the nobles even worse. If you go and ask them seriously, I'm afraid they will be even more frightened, and then they won't say a word to you."
Lu Qiongshuang nodded and said, "That's right. When I was wandering outside, I was also annoyed by these powerful people. But why did my cousin ask the boss of the noodle stall to ask him to help her question the people in the yard?"
"The old man that the noodle stall owner mentioned must be Huang Fu." Jiang Xue said lightly.
"Butler Huang?" Fu Dong paused while combing her hair and asked, "This Butler Huang in our mansion who has been with the Prince Consort for many years?"
Jiang Xue nodded and said, "That's right."
After thinking it over, Lu Qiongshuang tilted her head and asked her question.
"I just heard my cousin mention Suxi, and I guessed in my heart that the courtyard was where my cousin's husband, oh no, Lord Gu's original wife lived. But since my cousin has found her, why don't you take the initiative and capture her directly, and then put her in front of His Majesty and the Queen, so that this marriage that has troubled my cousin can be annulled? Why let the boss ask Huang Fu those questions, wouldn't it alert the enemy? Isn't my cousin afraid that the prince consort will take her away, and there will be no evidence, and he will tear his face off with you later?"
"Tear off the face?" Jiang Xue laughed, "That's what a reckless man says. No matter what the situation is, as long as I'm Princess Changle, he will never tear off the face with me openly."
Of course, he won't tear his face off, but if he is desperate, he will really do so to tell the dead to shut up forever.
Jiang Xue thought of the inexplicable yet extremely real dream on her wedding night, and her eyes suddenly turned colder.
"I told Huang Fu to know, just to let him know."
"Let him know that the hiding place of Suxi and her son has been discovered. As for the person who discovered it..." Jiang Xue smiled and said, "It's not just me."
Lu Qiongshuang was confused and said, "He found out, not..."
"Qiong Shuang, go and help me with something." Jiang Xue interrupted Lu Qiong Shuang and said, "You can go with Fu Dong. You have been bored for a long time since you returned to Beijing. Take her out for a walk. If you want to eat or play, just ask Fu Dong to pay for it. You have been struggling in Beijing since you were a child. By the way, go find a restaurant in a secluded location for me and book a private room."
"There should be fewer people around, and the surroundings should be quiet," Jiang Xue reminded, "I have something important to discuss with Jing Ye and He Zhilin tonight."
Lu Qiongshuang understood, patted his chest and said, "I can still do this little thing."
Fu Dong also smiled happily and said, "That's great. Normally when I go out, I either ride in a carriage or a sedan chair. I never have much fun. Thank you, Your Highness!"
Jiang Xue smiled at the two of them, and seeing that Fu Dong had already combed her hair, she sent them out.
She stood up, took out the jade pendant given by Jing Ye and pinned it in a conspicuous place on her waist. Suddenly she remembered something and hurriedly took out the pendant that Chen Xiu had picked up from her changed clothes. She walked to the desk, ground a little ink, and copied the pattern of the pendant onto paper.
She put the paper away, took a handkerchief to wipe the badge clean, then stood up and walked towards the main hall of Wenqingxuan.
Xiaochun had called everyone over. She smiled at them and asked, "How should I address you?"
Two petite women stepped out, one of them in green said respectfully, "I am Mo Lian, a servant, under the order of the master, and came here with Mo Tian to serve Princess Changle in the future."
Serving her? When did she ask Jing Ye to assign her a maid to serve? Jiang Xue frowned and asked, "Jing Ye asked you to serve me?"
Mo Lian and Mo Tian said yes at the same time, and one of them said, "These are the six feathered guards assigned by the Lord. They will be used by Princess Changle in the next few days."
Jiang Xue was somewhat puzzled by the arrival of these two people, but she did not ask any more questions. She just looked at the other six people, took out the jade token from her waist, and showed it to everyone.
The people Jing Ye gave to her might be able to follow her normal instructions, but what she wanted to do was more risky, so she still needed them to know that her intentions were Jing Ye's intentions.
When everyone saw the jade token, they all knelt on one knee and said, "Princess, please give your orders!"
Jiang Xue took out the bird-shaped badge from her arms and handed it to Mo Lian.
"Please, everyone, go kill someone tonight."
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