Chapter 97 Heart to Heart
The person who came to inspect the results of Feng Qingsui's disfigurement was Miss Lai Er, who was sitting in the elegant room on the second floor of the teahouse opposite the Treasure Pavilion.
"Seeing you causing trouble at the Treasure Pavilion, she smiled so hard that the corners of her mouth almost reached her ears."
Wuhuadao was the one who was in charge of secretly arresting people.
Feng Qingsui had no impression of this person.
He immediately ordered Wuhua to find out why she had committed such a crime against him.
Wuhua watched for two days, and then inquired about some other information and found out the reason.
It turned out that Miss Lai Er was obsessed with the imperial guard Lu Yunjin, and had asked her parents to find someone to propose marriage to her as early as when Lu Yunjin passed the military imperial examination.
Lu Yunjin refused the marriage proposal on the grounds that his grandmother had just passed away and he needed to observe mourning and it was not appropriate to talk about marriage.
Miss Lai Er was unwilling to give up and insisted on waiting.
She assigned people to stake out Lu's residence and the gate of the imperial palace. Whenever they saw Lu Yunjin going somewhere else, they were to report to her so that she could follow him.
If any woman tried to approach Lu Yunjin, it wouldn't take long before she was disfigured by an accident.
Having said that, Wuhua paused and kept the other person in suspense.
"Do you know who Lu Yunjin is?"
Feng Qingsui said with a smile: "Who else could it be except the man who stared at me on the roadside that day?"
“That’s right!”
Wuhua nodded.
"When Lu Yunjin was looking at you, Miss Lai Er was watching him from the carriage not far behind him. She thought he was interested in you and was so angry that she almost went crazy. She spent a lot of money to buy the Thousand Silk Box that day and had it delivered to the Ji Mansion the next day."
Feng Qingsui pondered for a moment and asked, "Where is Lu Yunjin from?"
"He's from the capital. But his grandmother is from He County, Weizhou."
Feng Qingsui smiled slightly.
What a coincidence.
Lady Lu was also from He County, Weizhou.
She didn't believe that Lu Yunjin didn't deliberately divert the trouble.
However, in order to avoid wrongly accusing a good person, she disguised herself and went to the prison.
Although the Lu family was sentenced to exile, they have not yet been escorted on the road and are now imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Justice Department.
No one cared about the exiled prisoners, so she used the excuse of delivering steamed buns and slipped a few coins of silver to the jailer. After checking the steamed buns, the jailer let her and Wuhua go.
She walked straight to the cells where the slaves were held and asked, "Who is the steward?"
The slovenly middle-aged man huddled in the corner sat up and replied, "I am."
Feng Qingsui lifted the cloth covering the basket in his hand and said, "Answer me a few questions, and these steamed buns will be yours."
The middle-aged man stepped forward immediately.
He answered whatever Feng Qingsui asked.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Feng Qingsui understood the relationship between the Lu and Lu families.
The Lu family's ancestral home was not in He County. The family moved there because Concubine Lu's father, Lu Chuanzong, took up a post in He County.
The Lu family's ancestral home is in the capital, but Lu Yunjin's grandmother, Ding, is from He County. When Ding was seriously ill, she listened to the Taoist priest's advice and returned to her hometown for recuperation.
At that time, Lu Yunjin was sending Ding back to He County.
When Lu Yunjin was accompanying Mrs. Ding in He County, he fell in love with Lady Lu at first sight. He frequently visited the Lu family and later sent a matchmaker to their home.
However, Lu Chuanzong had already decided to send Lady Lu to the palace because of her beauty, so that her success would benefit the whole family. He used the excuse that Lu Yunjin had no achievements yet and did not agree to the marriage.
Lu Yunjin was deeply inspired and worked hard. He passed the military examination and was elected as an imperial guard.
He wanted to propose marriage to the Lu family again, but Concubine Lu was chosen to enter the palace.
According to the Lu family's housekeeper, Lu Yunjin has not had any contact with the Lu family since he knew that Concubine Lu had entered the palace.
Feng Qingsui thinks that’s not entirely true.
Lu Yunjin is currently helping Lady Lu deal with her enemies, so they have a very close relationship.
The two must have had private dealings.
Lady Lu asked her admirer Lu Yunjin for help, and Lu Yunjin used his admirer to take action. They really have a mutual understanding.
After coming out of the prison of the Criminal Justice Department, she suddenly thought of a question.
When his brother-in-law was framed by Concubine Lu, the emperor believed Concubine Lu but not his brother-in-law. Besides being incompetent, was it because of Lu Yunjin's testimony?
After all, he was the imperial guard, and if he happened to be on duty at the time, he would most likely be there.
If you want to know the answer, you have to check the rotation records on the day of the incident.
This duty rotation was recorded in the palace and Wuhua was unable to check it.
She thought about it and went back home to find Ji Changqing.
Ji Changqing was drinking tea in the study. After hearing her request, he almost spit the tea in his mouth all over the floor.
"The rotation record of the imperial guards?! You're so bold!"
Is this something she can check?
Why is she checking this?
Want to slay a dragon?
Feng Qingsui added: "I only looked at the rotation records from July last year, not the current ones."
She only wanted the records for the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, but what happened that day was too eye-catching, and checking only that day would easily arouse vigilance, so she expanded the scope of her search.
Ji Changqing vaguely remembered that what happened to Minister Jiang's family happened in July.
Feng Qingsui wanted to check the duty records of the imperial guards, probably to investigate the case of Minister Jiang's disrespect.
Looking at the calm and determined eyes of the person in front of him, he sighed.
"I'll try, but I may not be able to find it."
Feng Qingsui smiled broadly: "Thank you, Second Master!"
The next day, when Ji Changqing entered the palace, he found Shangguan Mu and said to him, "You lost a jade pendant when you attended court last July."
Shangguan Mu: “???”
"I've never lost a jade pendant."
Ji Changqing confirmed: "You have lost it, and you will see an extremely similar jade pendant on a royal guard later."
Shangguan Mu: “???”
"To confirm whether the jade pendant was lost by you, you will go to the commander of the imperial guards and ask to see the duty records from July of last year to see if that guard was on duty on the day you lost the jade pendant."
Shangguan Mu: “…”
He finally understood.
"You want the rotation records for last July?"
He rolled his eyes.
"Why don't you check it yourself? Why do you want me to check it?"
Ji Changqing: "Last July, I was still a local official."
Shangguan Mu: “…”
Just as I was about to complain about who could remember the entire month's rotation records after reading them, Ji Changqing added, "Just remember the records for the ninth day."
The ninth day of the seventh month?
What happened in the palace that day?
I remember that there was a minister in the Ministry of Rites who was thrown into prison by His Majesty for being disrespectful and died in prison.
Why is this guy checking this for no reason?
Ji Changqing obviously didn't intend to tell him. After he finished speaking, he strode forward, leaving him behind.
He sighed and resigned himself to weaving the pattern of the jade pendant so that he could go to the commander of the imperial guards to have a chat.
In the Ji Mansion, Feng Qingsui fed two mice to the peregrine falcon that had sneaked over to see her, and said with a smile, "Can you do me a favor later?"
The peregrine falcon made a "hoo" sound and looked at her with bright eyes.
"I'll take it you agreed."
Feng Qingsui held it in his arms and took it to the donkey cart.
Wuhua drove the carriage out of the city gate.
Half a day later, at the Guangshan Marquis's mansion, Miss Lai Er was drinking tea and admiring the flowers in the courtyard, waiting expectantly for Lu Yunjin to come off duty so that she could go to see him at the palace gate.
A black shadow suddenly fell from the sky and hit her side.
She gasped.
Just when I was about to rejoice, a dense and terrifying "buzzing" sound rang out.
Countless hornets swarmed towards him.
"ah!--"
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