Chapter 76 Jingzhao Yinfu investigates Suxi
Upon hearing this, Xiaochun asked, "Your Highness, what message do you want to convey to the Second Prince?"
"You just need to ask Chen Jin to inform the second brother that the fish has surfaced, and ask him to come over when he is free in the next few days."
Xiaochun nodded and said, "Yes, Your Highness."
Then he turned and walked out of the house.
Jiang Xue ordered someone to serve the meal. While they were having dinner, Fu Dong came back.
Jiang Xue asked, "Has the ginseng soup been delivered?"
Fu Dong nodded and said with a smile: "I used the best quality ginseng, which I brought from the palace. I boiled it in one pot, making a bowl of thick ginseng. I watched the Prince Consort eat it."
Jiang Xue said helplessly: "Why are you doing this? Ginseng is a tonic. If you drink this bowl, what will happen if the prince consort is too weak to take the tonic?"
Fu Dong pouted and muttered, "I just don't like him, but Your Highness has to find a way to deal with him. My Highness, what kind of life have you been living in this mansion? You have to be sneaky every time you go out, either pretending to be a maid or jumping over the courtyard wall. We have never suffered such hardships in the palace."
Jiang Xue laughed and said, "That's because you don't know. The palace wall I climbed over when I was a kid was much higher than the wall of the Gu Mansion. I even crawled through a dog hole to sneak out."
As she was talking, she suddenly thought of Xiao Qi. Her mood became depressed and she stopped talking. She just stirred the porridge in the bowl with her hands.
Jing Ye...is he really fulfilling Xiao Qi's dying wish just because they share the same suffering?
Jiang Xue was a little discouraged. She shouldn't have had a conflict with him like that. Now that he said he would never see her again, even if she had many questions in the future, she didn't know how to ask this Buddha.
Fu Dong saw that she was probably thinking of something sad, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "Your Highness, do you think the food is not tasty? Why don't I go to the kitchen and make something that Your Highness will like."
Jiang Xue shook her head and said, "No need. By the way, you sent the ginseng soup over. Does Gu Lintan have any questions?"
"The prince consort looked at me..." Fu Dong said anxiously, "He seemed somewhat pleased."
Delighted? It would be better to say that he was pleased. Fu Dong curled his lips in disdain.
"He asked me whether I had been to the Prime Minister's Residence today, when I came back, how I felt, etc."
"So what did you say?"
Fu Dong blinked playfully and said, "According to what Your Highness said, I heard that Your Highness came back before noon. In order to pray for Prime Minister Lu, he built a small Buddhist temple to pray quietly and never left the courtyard again."
Jiang Xue nodded, put the bowl down, took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth, and said, "Anything else?"
"The Prince Consort asked me to comfort His Highness and told him not to worry. If Prime Minister Lu doesn't get better in the next few days, he, as a student, will go find a good doctor for him."
Jiang Xue frowned, thinking that Gu Lintan was going to start nominating He Zhilin.
She asked, "Has Brother He come to deliver medicine today?"
"It hasn't come yet," Fu Dong said, "This Mr. He is really something. He is obviously busy, but he is unwilling to prepare the medicine all at once. What will happen if it delays His Highness's use of the medicine?"
Jiang Xue smiled. After all, she wasn't really sick.
"Go and tell the concierge to let Qingxuan know if he comes today. Bring him over here. I have something to say to him."
Fu Dong nodded in agreement.
Jiang Xue said, "I'm a little full from eating. I'll go to the courtyard to practice boxing for a while."
Jiang Xue carried the bucket for about half an hour and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed. She thought for a moment and went back to the yard to move the stone lock that Chen Jin had brought back that day.
The stone locks were still a little heavy for her. She was gritting her teeth and trying to lift one of them when suddenly two figures appeared in the yard.
It was Chen Jin and Jiang Yu.
Jiang Yu frowned as he watched his sister struggling to move the stone lock, and couldn't help but ask, "Xue'er, what are you doing?"
Jiang Xue was concentrating on exerting her strength when she was startled by the sudden sound. Her hand slipped and the stone lock almost fell to the ground.
Chen Jin hurriedly stepped forward, picked up the stone lock and put it aside.
"Where did you find this thing?" Jiang Yu asked in a deep voice, looking at the two stone locks.
Jiang Xue looked at Chen Jin who was standing aside with an embarrassed look on his face, and said, "I asked someone to find it for me. Qiong Shuang said that lifting heavy objects more often can help build strength. I thought that since I'm just eating and sleeping in the mansion anyway, I might as well practice more to strengthen my body."
Jiang Yu stepped forward and lifted the stone lock to weigh it. It was not heavy, but...
He looked at Jiang Xue's slender figure that could be blown down by a slightly stronger wind, and suddenly sneered.
"It's too dangerous to use this thing to train your strength. If you really want to practice," he pointed to the corner of the yard and said to Chen Jin, "build a six-foot-high hanging pole here, make it stable, and let her hang from it by herself. When she can hold herself up, then you can play with the stone lock."
Jiang Xue had a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, and she shivered a little when the night wind blew. She hurriedly said, "Brother, please come into the house with me. It's very cold standing here."
Then he signaled Chen Jin to step back with his eyes.
Jiang Yu went into the room with her, and Xiaochun immediately took out a handkerchief to wipe Jiang Xue's sweat.
Jiang Xue took the handkerchief and said to Xiaochun, "You two go and wait outside the room. I have something to say to my brother."
After the door was closed, Jiang Yu asked, "Well, what did you find?"
Jiang Xue said: "Brother Emperor, I found the residence of the mother and son who are related to Gu Lintan."
Jiang Yu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Did you take him down?"
"No," Jiang Xue shook her head and said, "It's not appropriate to close the net at this time. I need to use them to scare Gu Lintan."
"Tell me, what do you want me to do when I come here?" Jiang Yu said helplessly.
"I need my brother to help me find out the origins of this mother and son."
"Origin?" Jiang Yu asked in confusion, "Since you suspect they are Gu Lintan's wife and children, why don't you just arrest them and ask them? Why go to so much trouble to check their origins?"
"Because I think Gu Lintan's background is not simple." Jiang Xue pondered for a while, and said: "He was able to rise so fast, I think the people who paved the way for him have hidden or modified all the information about him. If we directly check the source of the candidates, we may not find anything."
"But Gu Lintan was very careful and secretive in his arrangements for the mother and son. From what I can see, he doesn't want anyone to know about the existence of the mother and son."
"But Gu Lintan doesn't have the ability to see through everything yet. He has just entered the officialdom, so he must be careful and cautious in everything he does."
"So, if he had concealed the existence of the mother and son from everyone, including the people behind him, then it might be difficult to investigate Gu Lintan, but it would not be difficult to investigate the mother and son."
Jiang Xue guessed that the mother and son were Gu Lintan's weak spot.
If he was really a chess piece, he would never let the chess player take advantage of his weak spot.
Jiang Yu listened to Jiang Xue's analysis, pondered for a moment, and asked, "Jingzhao Yin?"
"Yes," Jiang Xue said with bright eyes, "When I was a child, I followed my brothers to attend the Taifu's class and learned that the person who was good at managing household registration, population, and tax records in the capital was Jingzhao Yin."
"If a foreigner enters the capital, he must show his travel permit. If he stays in the capital, he must go to the government office to register for his travel permit and official documents. Since they have real estate in the capital, there must be evidence to prove it."
"I learned that the mother and son entered the capital several months ago. At that time, Gu Lintan was just a scholar. He had no ability to influence the travel documents issued by local officials, and he had no way to deceive the Jingzhao Yinfu."
"So, my royal brother, you have to think of a way to find out the origins of this mother and son in Jingzhao Yinfu without leaving any trace."
"Also, we need to find a way to tell Gu Lintan that someone is investigating this mother and son."
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