Chapter 166: The Zhao Family Was Raided and Imprisoned
Qin Muyun heard the hidden meaning in Qi Yanzhou's words.
"I know that in this terrible world, running away is useless."
He always thought that being a playboy was the best way to balance the family power and keep his family safe.
Because the emperor does not allow any family to produce too many talented people, especially important officials.
But the appearance of Ye Chutang made him realize how ridiculous it was to hide one's abilities.
Giving in will only make people think you are weak and can be bullied.
But fame can put you above power.
Seeing that Qin Muyun had figured it out, Qi Yanzhou smiled and said, "With your talent, you will soon make a name for yourself."
After that, he asked, "Will the matter of the weapons in Prince An's Mansion implicate your master?"
The emperor would certainly suspect that the Imperial Observatory was bribed to deal with Zhao Mingxu.
Qin Muyun said affirmatively: "Master is not wrong. Even if the emperor is suspicious, there is nothing he can do."
"That's good."
"Ziqian, let me tell you your fortune."
Qi Yanzhou saw Qin Muyun reaching into his arms for copper coins and grabbed his wrist.
"Your body hasn't recovered yet, don't worry about it."
"Even if you stop me now, I will still tell your fortune later. Let go."
Qi Yanzhou knew that Qin Muyun was a man of his words, so he had to let him go.
Three coins, tossed six times.
"Shui Tian Xu, also called Xu Gua. Keeping to the right path and waiting for the right opportunity is a middle-upper Gua."
Qi Yanzhou didn’t understand the hexagram, but the “middle-upper hexagram” was enough to prove that tomorrow’s plan would go smoothly.
"What's the meaning?"
Qin Muyun said: "This hexagram is composed of two different hexagrams stacked on top of each other. The lower hexagram is Qian, which means strong and vigorous; the upper hexagram is Kan, which means danger and pitfall. When you are strong and encounter danger, you should be prudent and cautious, and not act rashly. You should wait and see what happens, and you will surely succeed."
[Note: Taken from the Complete Interpretation of the 64 Hexagrams in the Book of Changes]
After that, he also gave a detailed explanation from six aspects including career, business and decision-making.
After listening to this, Qi Yanzhou only said two words.
“Good news!”
Qin Muyun also thought it was a good omen. "In this case, I feel relieved."
The two had a meal together and drank some wine.
When leaving Guangjuxuan, he happened to see the Imperial Guards escorting Zhao Mingxu passing by the door.
Zhao Mingxu, with a deathly pale face, looked at Qi Yanzhou, his eyes bursting with intense hatred.
"Qi Yanzhou, you will not die a good death! I curse you to have no descendants!"
Qi Yanzhou grabbed the jade pendant hanging around his waist and smashed it on Zhao Mingxu's mouth.
His four front teeth were knocked out and his mouth was full of blood.
"If you keep talking nonsense, I will cut off your tongue."
Before he finished his words, a cold light reflected into Zhao Mingxu's eyes.
He was stabbed so hard that he immediately closed his eyes. Fearing death, he wanted to curse but didn't dare.
Qi Yanzhou asked the Imperial Guards, "What has County Lord Zhao done wrong?"
"Your Highness, Zhao Mingxu intended to rebel and is now a criminal. He has been sent back to the palace, his property has been confiscated and he is under house arrest, awaiting the Emperor's decision."
After saying that, he took Zhao Mingxu away.
Qi Yanzhou thought that the emperor would punish Zhao Mingxu immediately, but he didn't expect that he would endure it.
He guessed that the emperor was afraid of affecting tomorrow's wedding, so he delayed the decision.
Qin Muyun clicked his tongue twice.
"It's really sad that Zhao Mingxu went from being the high and mighty Prince An to being a prisoner in just over a month."
"From the day Atang arrived in the capital, the situation in the court and the world changed completely."
After Qi Yanzhou finished speaking, he headed towards Prince Chen’s mansion.
Qin Muyun was shocked by his words.
He thought about what had happened recently and suddenly remembered something his master had said.
"Mu Yun, although the fate of a country cannot be predicted, we can 'see the big picture from the small' and peek into the secrets of heaven. You must remember that the secrets of heaven are ever-changing. From the moment you know about it, it is only a foreshadowing, not the ending."
He had never really understood what the previous sentence meant, but now he finally understood.
Qin Muyun looked towards the direction of the palace and whispered, "Master, I want to learn the Tui Bei Tu."
"Tui Bei Tu" is a book of heaven's way, which can predict the future with relative accuracy.
Only extremely intelligent people can learn it.
Otherwise it is easy to damage your wisdom and turn you into a fool.
Qin Muyun knew that he was not a very smart person, but he wanted to do something for the people of the world!
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Not long after Ye Chutang had dinner, he heard the news that Zhao Mingxu's house had been raided and he had been imprisoned.
She sat beside the stone table, looking at Ning Chuyuan who was full of joy, and finally felt the reality that she was about to get married.
"Aunt Jin, please come with me."
Jinzhi looked at the sky which had already darkened and said disapprovingly, "Miss, you are getting married tomorrow. It is not auspicious to go out tonight."
Ye Chutang smiled and said, "I have to let my mother know that the child she has worked so hard to raise has now found a good match and is getting married."
After getting married, you have to go into exile and have no time to worship.
And she wanted to go and tell the original owner in person that the revenge of the mother and her two children had been taken!
Jinzhi was moved by Ye Chutang's filial piety and tears welled up in her eyes.
"Miss, just worship at home."
After saying this, she prepared to go out to buy incense, candles, and paper money.
Ye Chutang grabbed her arm and said, "Let's go to the cemetery."
When she left the house, she also called Ye Jingchuan.
Ye Jingchuan didn't dare to face Tang Wanning at all and didn't want to go at all.
As a result, Ye Chutang fed him a poison pill and he became obedient instantly.
On the way out of the city, Jinzhi bought incense, candles, paper money for worship, as well as Tang Wanning's favorite fruits and snacks.
Ye Chutang asked Ye Jingchuan, "How did you abandon your brother?"
Ever since she met the head of the Song family at Huating Academy, she often thought of their conversation.
I always feel that Song Mingyu has ulterior motives when he mentions the original owner's brother again and again.
Especially the sentence he didn't finish when Song Jingning rushed into the main hall.
"Since ancient times, there have been people who died young..."
If she guessed correctly, the head of the Song family wanted to use the ancient people's treatment of those who died young to trick her into talking.
She now began to suspect that Song Jingning was her biological brother!
Ye Jingchuan didn't know what Ye Chutang was thinking, and was frightened by her cold expression and swallowed his saliva.
"Why do you suddenly ask this?"
Ye Chutang's eyes suddenly became full of murderous intent.
"My brother died a violent death. I want to know the details so I can hold a memorial service for him and build a cenotaph for him."
Ye Jingchuan immediately thought of his eldest son who was strangled to death by Kong Ru and thrown away by him.
The child was only the size of a palm, his body was covered in bruises and wrinkles, and he looked ugly and scary.
When the image of the child came into his mind, he shuddered involuntarily.
Ye Chutang wanted to slap Ye Jingchuan away.
"say!"
Ye Jingchuan was so frightened that his body trembled, and he quickly said: "Butler Chen knows best."
He regarded the premature death of the child as an ominous sign and did not pay much attention to it at all, and directly handed it over to Butler Chen to deal with.
After Butler Chen finished his work, he wanted to report to him.
He refused, not bothering to listen to a word.
Ye Chutang gave Ye Jingchuan two words, "Beast!"
Ye Jingchuan was scolded and did not dare to refute. He shrank into a corner of the carriage to reduce his presence.
The carriage swayed and came to the cemetery.
The moon hung in the sky, casting a layer of silver frost on the ground, making it seem exceptionally cool and clear.
The night wind rustled the leaves, accompanied by the chirping of insects and birds.
The lantern on the carriage emitted a dim light, illuminating the area and attracting moths to fly into the flame.
Ye Chutang jumped out of the car, helped Jinzhi down, and came to Tang Wanning's tombstone with her.
"Mom, your daughter is here to see you."
Jinzhi had only been here on the day Tang Wanning was buried. Now, fifteen years had passed. The new grave had become an old grave, and even the tombstone looked weathered.
She immediately knelt in front of the tombstone, with a thousand words in her heart, but in the end she could only cry.
Ye Jingchuan was too embarrassed to see Tang Wanning in the first place, and when he heard her sobbing, his hair stood on end.
Ye Chutang hooked her finger at Ye Jingchuan who was hesitating.
"Come here, kneel down and repent."
"Chu'er, I'm your father, how could you..."
Ye Chutang interrupted Ye Jingchuan's preaching.
"Don't force me to do it. I have no filial piety towards animals."
Ye Jingchuan was so embarrassed by the scolding that he knelt in front of the grave reluctantly.
He lowered his head and dared not look at the tombstone.
It was as if there were a pair of eyes on the tombstone, examining his shamelessness and meanness.
Ye Chutang squatted down, took out the incense and lit it.
While burning yellow paper money, she recounted the process of revenge.
After saying that, she looked at Ye Jingchuan and said, "Mom, this man won't have a good ending either."
Ye Jingchuan immediately raised his head and shouted angrily: "What do you want to do?"
"You'll soon find out."
Ye Chutang took out the double-sided embroidered handkerchief embroidered by the original owner from the space, placed it on the incense and candles and lit it.
She said in her heart: "Ye Chutang, you can rest in peace."
Although Jinzhi felt that Ye Chutang's behavior was a little strange, she did not ask any further questions.
She talked to Tang Wanning for a long time, only reporting good news and not bad news.
"Miss, the young lady is getting married tomorrow. We should leave now. When the young lady doesn't need me anymore, I will come to accompany you."
Ye Chutang touched the tombstone and suddenly said, "Mom, is my brother still alive?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a strong wind suddenly blew, as if Tang Wanning was responding.
On the way back to the city.
Ye Jingchuan asked Ye Chutang, "Chu'er, what did you mean by the last sentence you said?"
Ye Chutang leaned against the wall of the carriage, closed his eyes and said nothing.
"Why do you think your brother is alive? Did you get any news?"
"Is your brother really alive? Where is he? Is he doing well?"
“Chu’er, speak up, your brother is also my son!”
Ye Chutang suddenly opened his eyes and looked coldly at the anxious Ye Jingchuan.
The light from the carriage fell into her eyes, like two burning flames, making people feel cold.
Ye Jingchuan felt as if his neck was being strangled by an invisible hand, making it difficult for him to breathe.
"Chu...Chu'er..."
Ye Chutang chuckled mockingly.
"Ye Jingchuan, do you think Kong Ru will let my brother live given her viciousness?"
The answer is naturally no.
The fear in Ye Jingchuan's eyes turned into disappointment.
"Then why do you ask that?"
Ye Chutang spoke each word with emphasis, "Thanks to you, my brother's body is gone. I would rather believe he is alive than to see him die without a burial place!"
Every word was so heart-wrenching that Ye Jingchuan's face suddenly turned pale.
But he still argued, "The burial of those who died young is a custom that has existed since ancient times."
Jinzhi retorted, "There are countless people who die young due to difficult childbirth, but very few are buried at sea. Generally, they will ask a high monk to pray for their souls before cremation."
Only a vicious and cruel person would let their own children become wandering ghosts!
Ye Jingchuan was so ashamed that he retreated into the corner.
There was no conversation along the way until they arrived at the Shangshu Mansion.
After entering the door, Ye Chutang said, "Ye Jingchuan, let's sever our father-daughter relationship."
Ye Jingchuan looked at Ye Chutang in disbelief, "What are you crazy about?"
"If you want the antidote, write a letter of severance. In half an hour, you will die of the poison."
"Don't act like a demon, your life is still in the hands of the emperor!"
Ye Chutang curled his lips, his smile was strange and cold.
"With the Emperor here, even if my father dies, it won't delay my marriage to get the antidote."
This is an effective threat!
"With the support of your mother's family, you can thrive in the harem."
"unnecessary."
After Ye Chutang finished speaking, he looked at Jin Zhi and said, "Go find Butler Chen and ask him to go to Ningchuyuan."
Ye Jingchuan looked at Ye Chutang's leaving back, murderous intent in his eyes.
He turned around and left the Shangshu Mansion, going to the clinic to see a doctor for detoxification.
The poison that Ye Chutang fed Ye Jingchuan was technology and ruthlessness, and he was not worried that he could detoxify.
After returning to Ningchu Courtyard, she drank some spiritual spring water from the space and waited for Butler Chen.
Butler Chen was busy with the trivial matters of tomorrow's wedding and arrived late.
"Miss, what urgent matter do you want to see me for?"
Ye Chutang got straight to the point, "Tell me how you threw my brother into the river?"
As soon as these words came out, Butler Chen knelt down in fear.
"Miss, calm down. I am just following your orders."
"Stop talking nonsense and speak!"
Butler Chen immediately explained in detail what happened after he took over the dead baby.
The water burial was proposed by Old Madam Ye, ordered by Ye Jingchuan, and carried out by Butler Chen.
Housekeeper Chen wrapped the baby into a small ball in a small quilt and put it in the wooden basin for washing clothes.
In order to prevent the wooden basin from being too light and being overturned by the water and the corpse from floating away, he also placed two large stones at the bottom of the basin.
Then he placed the wooden basin into a large river that ran through the capital city.
Ye Chutang asked, "What is the direction of this river?"
"In the capital, it runs from west to east."
"Are there any marks on my brother's body? Are there any characteristics on the quilt and the basin?"
When Butler Chen heard this, he knew that Ye Chutang wanted to find the eldest master's body.
In his opinion, it was simply a fantasy!
But he didn't dare say it out loud. After thinking for a moment, he shook his head.
"No marks, no features."
Jinzhi said angrily: "You're lying! You didn't even look carefully!"
She looked at Ye Chutang and said, "Miss, there is a mark on the back of the young master's shoulder that looks like a gold ingot, and there is also a word 'Ning' embroidered on the quilt that wraps him, which is not very pretty."
The quilt was sewn by Tang Wanning herself. For the sake of comfort, there were no words embroidered on it at first.
One time when she went to the shop to check the accounts, she encountered some troublemakers and not only injured her wrist, but also had a miscarriage.
She endured the pain and embroidered the word "Ning" on both quilts.
It is both the Ning of Tang Wan Ning and the Ning of happiness, longevity and health.
After hearing this, Ye Chutang couldn't help but wonder: Could it be Song Jingning's Ning?
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