"Brother Tang, time is limited today. Please come to Kongqing Pavilion another day and we will tell you everything that has happened over the years." Huo Linglong said. There were too many things to tell Brother Tang at once, so they could only do it another day.
General Tang asked curiously, "Kongqing Pavilion?"
Hua Mingqiao explained, "Kongqing Pavilion is my niece's property and our territory. Brother Tang, didn't you purchase a batch of medicinal herbs at Kongqing Pavilion? You can use this as an excuse to come to Kongqing Pavilion to find us."
The Kongqing Pavilion Pharmacy was opened two years ago and quickly became the largest pharmacy in Xiye City. In the past two years, many of the medicinal materials needed by the Northern Border Army were purchased from the Kongqing Pavilion.
General Tang really didn't know that Kongqing Pavilion was run by Hua Mingqiao's niece.
General Tang said, "I'll be free in two days. Please wait for me in Kongqing Pavilion."
"You guys should leave quickly, it will be bad if someone finds you."
Huo Linglong and Hua Mingqiao both nodded.
The two of them left the study, jumped onto the roof, and disappeared into the night in an instant.
General Tang slept soundly that night. It could be said that it was the most restful night he had slept in the past ten years.
Two days later, Kongqing Pavilion.
General Tang rode to Kongqing Pavilion. He was dressed in a crab-shell green, tight-sleeved uniform that made him look tall and majestic. He dismounted, tied his horse at the door, and walked into the main gate of Kongqing Pavilion. He called over a waiter and asked, "Helper, is your boss here? I want to see him and ask if I have all the herbs ready."
The waiter was an old friend of Kongqing Pavilion. He recognized General Tang at a glance and greeted him politely, "General Tang, please wait a moment. I will go and invite the boss."
The guy had just walked to the backyard when a few more people came to Kongqing Pavilion to buy medicine.
"Brother, have the herbs I wanted to buy arrived?"
"I'm so sorry, the herbs you need haven't arrived yet. Please wait for two days."
Hua Mingqiao slammed his palm on the counter and shouted angrily, "Is this how you do business? Wait two more days? You can wait, but I can't. Is my business still going to continue?"
The clerk said, "Shopkeeper Zhang, if you really need it urgently, why don't you add some more silver and I can see if I can urgently transfer the goods from another shop."
The owner of Zhang's Mutton Shop was displeased when she heard this. "It's one thing you can't get the goods back, but you're raising the price? Where's your boss? Send him out to see us. If he doesn't give us an explanation, we're not leaving today!"
The couple at Zhang's Mutton Shop had a serious quarrel, and the waiter had no choice but to tell the owner, Jiang Li, about it.
Not long after, the boss Jiang Li, dressed in black and with a cold face, came out reluctantly. He couldn't even handle such a small matter. In front of Hua Mingqiao, General Tang and others, he scolded the clerk for doing his job improperly and said that if he made the same mistake again, he would be fired.
Jiang Li and Hua Mingqiao apologized, politely invited them to the backyard, and promised to negotiate the price.
Ever since Zhangji Mutton Shop became popular, Shopkeeper Zhang has started to develop new methods of cooking mutton, intending to create a mutton dish that is unique to Xiye City, one that not only retains the freshness of the mutton, is suitable for the physique of people in the north, but also has to be beneficial to the human body.
This gave him the idea of adding some medicinal herbs that are good for the human body when cooking mutton. It just so happened that Kongqing Pavilion was just across the street, so he didn't have to go far to find Kongqing Pavilion to buy the medicinal herbs he needed.
Unexpectedly, Kongqing Pavilion kept making excuses and had not purchased the medicinal materials that Manager Zhang needed for several days.
Today, General Tang will come to Kongqing Pavilion. After seeing General Tang enter, Hua Mingqiao and Huo Linglong took this opportunity to enter Kongqing Pavilion as well.
Jiang Li brought Hua Mingqiao and others to the backyard and invited them to the main hall.
"You can talk without worry, no one will disturb you." Jiang Li's voice was as cold as ever.
Hua Mingqiao said, "Brother Tang, Young Master Jiang Li is one of us."
Only then did General Tang let down his guard.
Jiang Li tactfully went to the next room, leaving the three of them some space to relax.
Huo Linglong told General Tang everything that had happened over the years, including her marriage and the birth of her children with Hua Mingqiao, and Hua Fushu's help in building Qingyun Mountain. She also told him about the deaths of Cai Yuanchang, He Youdao and others.
General Tang sighed deeply after hearing this. That sudden incident had affected so many people and ruined so many people's joys and sorrows.
Like him, like Linglong, like Aqiao, and like those soldiers who should have served the country but died innocently.
"Brother Tang, how do you want to redress the grievances for my father and the soldiers?" Huo Linglong asked.
General Tang informed Huo Linglong and Hua Mingqiao of his painstaking planning over the years. He had planned to go to Beijing to meet the emperor with the evidence he had found after taking control of the Northern Territory, and sue Prince Qinghe for framing General Huo Qing and slaughtering innocent Northern Territory soldiers in order to seize military power in the Northern Territory.
After hearing this, Hua Mingqiao said, "Brother Tang, if you truly present this to His Majesty, will His Majesty believe you and punish Prince Qinghe to redress the injustice done to the Huo family and the soldiers?"
What Hua Mingqiao said was exactly what General Tang feared most. He was afraid that the emperor would not believe what he said, and then everything he had done would be in vain and he would not have a good ending.
It doesn't matter if he dies, but the grievances of General Huo Qing and his soldiers cannot be buried in the dust.
"Brother Tang, what if His Majesty also wants to get rid of Prince Qinghe? Then, can we clear the name of the Huo family and the soldiers?"
Huo Linglong suddenly said this, and her words undoubtedly gave General Tang a bolt of surprise.
"What did you say?"
Hua Mingqiao explained the deal they had made with the Emperor, "Brother Tang, Linglong is right. His Majesty intends to eliminate Prince Qinghe. We have reached an agreement with His Majesty: if we help His Majesty seize military power in the northern border, His Majesty will agree to overturn the Huo family's case."
General Tang was stunned, but he quickly reacted and said, "You haven't been fooled. Even if His Majesty wants military power in the Northern Territory, he has plenty of ways to do it. He may not kill Prince Qinghe, who is his uncle."
"Brother Tang, we haven't been fooled. What we said is true. His Majesty has long wanted to get rid of Prince Qinghe. No one is allowed to sleep soundly beside the dragon bed. Prince Qinghe has long harbored ambitions to rebel and usurp the throne. That's why he planned to frame the Huo family ten years ago."
Hua Mingqiao suddenly changed the subject and looked at General Tang with a firm gaze. "Moreover, the untimely deaths of your majesty's two young princes are both related to Prince Qinghe. Regardless of whether Prince Qinghe has ambitions to usurp the throne, your majesty will not let him go."
He remembered very clearly that His Majesty had once said to him, "The deaths of my two sons were suspicious. As a father, I would rather kill them by mistake than let a suspicious person go."
When His Majesty said this, the hatred and murderous intent in his eyes were clearly visible and could not be deceived. Moreover, Ye Zelin also told them the cause of death of the two little princes.
He is also a father, and he knows whether what His Majesty said is true or false.
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