Chapter 190 They are all ruthless people
Su Qianqian opened her eyes slightly and saw Qin Hanzhang sitting with his eyes lowered, his right hand stroking the area of his left arm where he had been injured a few days ago.
"Didn't you see anything?" Su Qianqian asked puzzledly.
"Lu Jun invited me to a secluded place over there to discuss Liang Xun's case. I thought it was the princess's instruction, so I went with him.
After entering the room, he walked out, looked back and saw Zhaoyang, realized something was wrong, closed his eyes, and retreated to the inner room following the sound, so I didn't see what happened to Zhaoyang. ”
Qin Hanzhang looked up at Su Qianqian, and calmly explained in his pleasant voice what had happened in that courtyard.
"I fastened the door from the inside and checked the window. I found it had been nailed shut, but someone had pried it open, so I was able to get back to the front yard without any problems."
Qin Hanzhang breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Su Qianqian calmly: "So you don't have to believe what Princess Zhaoyang said, but I did go to that courtyard."
"My Lord, are you explaining...to me?" Su Qianqian asked tentatively.
Qin Hanzhang tried to keep his expression calm and nodded slightly: "Yes, I am worried that you will be troubled by misunderstandings like before."
Although he spoke calmly, his ears couldn't help but turn red, and his voice was a little more nervous than usual.
[My Lord, you can actually take other people's emotions and thoughts into consideration. It's not easy for a soldier to do that. Could it be that he has really come to his senses? The Qin family is going to produce another romantic person. Will it be a good deal for me? 】
Su Qianqian was thinking wildly in her mind, and replied calmly: "How could I do that? I had to make up my mind in an emergency. Even if she saw it, it would be nothing. The princess lowered her status to do such a thing. The emperor and the queen would not condone it if they knew."
Qin Hanzhang's ears turned redder, and he nodded and changed the subject:
"Today's events are quite strange. Although the Prime Minister's Mansion is not as solid as a rock, it cannot be so full of loopholes. Someone must have secretly tampered with it, and there must be someone in the Prime Minister's Mansion who is the culprit."
Su Qianqian also nodded: "The three things that happened seem unrelated, but in fact they are all related.
Princess Zhaoyang set a trap for you simply to force you into marriage so that you won't be sent away to marry a foreign prince. Princess Zhaoning would naturally want to sabotage it, so the back window is most likely that Princess Zhaoning knew about Zhaoyang's plan and interfered.
Princess Zhaoning did the same thing in order to avoid the marriage, but was framed and mistakenly entered the prop cabinet of the acrobat.
If the plan fails, it will be more likely that the marriage will be a diplomatic one. After all, all the famous families in Da Qi will know about it secretly, and who would be willing to marry a princess with such a reputation? ”
[My dear, there is a big melon here! 】The system suddenly said mysteriously.
[What’s the big news?] 】Su Qianqian blinked. She was just curious about who did this.
[Mrs. Xiao already knew that it was Concubine Xiao who caused her and her son to be separated. If Princess Zhaoning had not acted like a demon, Mrs. Xiao would not have wanted revenge.
But she insisted on making trouble in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and wanted to take the opportunity to plot against Prime Minister Xue's nephew, Xue Dinglian, one of the four famous young masters of Xijing. Madam Xiao then made some arrangements to make Princess Zhaoning look bad in public.
She knew clearly that someone had tampered with the plan, but as a princess she wore her undergarments during the banquet, which was itself a scandal, so she naturally dared not speak out. She also had to prevent the news from leaking, so she was unable to investigate what had gone wrong. 】
The system broke this big news.
[Princess Zhaoning, the mute, took a big mouthful of Coptis chinensis, and I am afraid that she was eating back all the sufferings of the first half of her life. 】Su Qianqian smiled in her heart.
[So after being immersed in it for decades, who wouldn’t be a ruthless person? I just want to give you face, or I just want to slap you in the face. 】
The system is amazed.
Qin Hanzhang's eyes flickered slightly: "So Princess Zhaoning's marriage is almost a foregone conclusion."
"That's what I thought." Su Qianqian nodded.
"As for the beating of Master Qiu, it's a two-birds-with-one-stone move. The emperor will certainly not be able to hide it. It will dampen Prince Xiang's spirit, ruin Xue Wanning's reputation, and he will be dissatisfied with Prime Minister Xue. Add to that the matter of the two princesses, and the Prime Minister's Mansion will be surrounded by enemies from all sides."
"Who did this and for what purpose?" Qin Hanzhang asked with a frown after hearing Su Qianqian say this.
"Whoever benefits from it is the mastermind."
Su Qianqian narrowed her eyes slightly, and instantly became more cunning.
[The first person who can benefit should be the eldest daughter who just returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion. This matter is closely related to her, but she must have found a backer behind her. 】
The system said faintly.
[This young lady is probably just a chess piece, being used by others because of her obsession... I can't care about that. I have to repair the walls of the mansion tightly first to prevent that thing from really happening...]
Su Qianqian said in her heart.
The carriage stopped at the second gate of the Marquis' Mansion. As soon as I got off, I was shocked by the scene inside the gate: the second and third old ladies came to greet me in person, and their eyes were shining.
[What did you eat that you shouldn’t have?] Does the Marquis' Mansion need to crack down on pornography and drug use? 】
Su Qianqian said in her heart and automatically blocked the gambling item.
A few days ago, I learned to play leaf cards out of boredom. I won against the lady and three old ladies and they almost had to pawn their jewelry. This entertainment activity was popular for only three days before it was banned.
"Let's go to Fushoutang first. Mother is waiting for you."
The second and third old ladies carried Su Qianqian and stuffed her into the sedan chair, and even considerately gave her a heater.
Su Qianqian was taken to Fushou Hall. Madam Qin and Mrs. Du were waiting in the room, and their eyes lit up when they saw Su Qianqian and Qin Hanzhang.
Am I so popular now? 】Su Qianqian was a little suspicious.
Qin Yuzhuo did not follow her and went back to the courtyard to change her clothes. No one paid any attention to her. They were all waiting for Su Qianqian to talk about what happened in the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Su Qianqian described what happened in vivid detail. The three old ladies were sometimes nervous and sometimes laughing as she spoke, and they were more interested in it than listening to a book.
After she finished speaking, Madam Qin said with emotion, "It was just an ordinary banquet, but so many things happened. It is really a troubled time. Even a person like Prime Minister Xue is like this, how can our Wuning Marquis Mansion be immune to it?"
"Mother is right. Although the war in the northern border has subsided, the chaos in the court has never been eliminated. Our mansion is attracting a lot of attention right now. How can we be safe?"
Mrs. Du agreed with her mother-in-law's words and turned to ask Qin Hanzhang, "How is the investigation going on with what Eunuch Liang said?"
"Mother, I went to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel to look up Zhou Tang, but there were only a few words about him, saying that he had served as a herald officer, and there was not much information. Although he did not die of natural causes, there is no file in the Ministry of Justice, nor is there any autopsy record."
Qin Hanzhang frowned. In the past few days, he had found various excuses to check case files and books from many years ago. He couldn't ask anyone else to do it, so he only took his trusted guards and Shi Yan to search through the vast amount of files.
"What about the Ministry of Revenue?" Su Qianqian suddenly said.
"I only heard that he divorced his wife. Where did his ex-wife go? Did she leave her children behind? Does he have parents or brothers?"
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