The Possession of My Beloved (Hidden Charm) - Chapter 172

    In the end, Miantang’s whole bowl of bird’s nest soup and eggs were not eaten for nothing, and she was stunned to support it until noon.

    The sun was scorching outside, but Miantang was about to snore.

    She was never so exhausted when she was chased by Cui Xingzhou’s men and horses on Yangshan Mountain. And at that time, she probably didn’t expect to fall into the hands of the old enemy, King Huaiyang, so she could still be like this…

    However, the King of Huaiyang was refreshed and relieved. He first coaxed Miantang to get up to eat and then went to bed. face.

    Now Koudao is settled, but the internal trouble has not been resolved. If the Japanese hadn’t colluded with the worms established by the imperial court, they would not have become more and more unscrupulous in the Beihai.

    The five fine-iron cannons were related to the artillery casting skills recorded in the Jingcheng Weapons Supervision.

    If no one gave them these secret blueprints, even if the people of Yingsi Temple had fine iron, they would not be able to cast such precise artillery at all.

    Unfortunately, Yingsi Temple, whose legs were crushed by the artillery, was a tough man, and he refused to open his mouth to confess.

    And his other subordinates are not so tough. After being served by a big punishment, he finally admitted that the general Yingsi Temple has a special channel to get all kinds of weapons and ships. .

    So their ships have always been more flexible and faster than the ships of the North Sea navy.

    But who is the mysterious person who gave the drawings to Yingsi Temple, they really don’t know, they are all the generals who have a single line of contact with him.

    As for the two imperial envoys who escaped, after revealing the date of the Beihai navy’s dispatch of troops, they were considered to have achieved good deeds.

    The King of Huaiyang graciously asked them to be temporarily wronged and put them into the prison cart, and went to the Jingcheng Criminal Division with the gang of Japanese and Japanese from Yingsi Temple to tell us the ins and outs of their collusion.

    In these circumstances, Cui Xingzhou also wrote it in the memorial early in the morning and went straight to heaven.

    The bandits in the North Sea were annihilated in one fell swoop, and the fact that the Japanese warship was captured unscathed was quickly communicated to the capital.

    For a time, the people were boiling, and the brave deeds of the King of Huaiyang were written into various paragraphs. Then these romances were talked about by storytellers in Dayan’s teahouses.

    After tidying up the place and clearing up the remnants of the Japanese, the King of Huaiyang piled up the captured Japanese supplies on the small teaching ground, and let Miantang take a group of soldiers and family members to divide the things. To the people of the nearby villages.

    These villages have suffered the most over the years.

      Strings are braided into a skirt around the waist.

    Look at the various materials on Kou Island, as well as the cloth and china from robbery of merchant ships, they are piled up like a hill.

    In addition to those that need to be put into the national treasury, some common fabrics and utensils are selected and registered, and then they can be distributed to the local poor people. It can be regarded as a thank you for their help to the children and soldiers of Zhenzhou during this time.

    Master Su said that he could actually witness Dayan Xiongshi expel the Tartars with his own eyes in his life. Even if he died of old age in Beihai, he would have no regrets in this life.

    Miantang is also very familiar with this job. This is similar to the way she used to rob the rich and help the poor on Yangshan before. I didn’t expect that she had already been put to sleep by the King of Huaiyang, and she could do it again. Go back to your old business.

    Although Cui Fu was not pregnant yet, she was afraid of getting tired, so Miantang asked people to put a reclining chair in the grass shed, and asked Cui Fu to drink the iced coconut cheese and watch a Just watch the fun.

    Liu Miantang called someone to carry a ladder, and sat at the top of the ladder with an oil umbrella, commanding the whole situation, instructing everyone how to sort the items, and reminding some Ai Zhan from time to time The little cheap woman pays attention.

    “The Zhou An family’s hand is gentler, sorting out the tea set with the Yingyuan rubbing at the bottom of the pot. Those things are very precious. You can share them with ordinary people, and he can’t take them well. For things, if you break one hundred taels of silver, it will be gone. We have won such a big battle, and we have to let the emperor see some good things for the court! It’s all about honoring the emperor, but it’s not a wrong book. …”

    Speaking, she took a small china teapot and took a sip of water, then glanced at it and said: “And Li Shan’s family, what are you sitting secretly under your butt? I’m not talking about you. , how many times have I seen the beautiful fabrics and wanted to share it with my own family. The reward for the generals will be calculated separately by the prince. After sitting so much, I will almost take you to the sky! Don’t worry, it will be distributed to your family. There’s enough cloth for you to change your footbindings every day!”

    As soon as these words came out, the soldiers in the small square burst into laughter. That Li Shan family explained shyly, that was why the ground was cool and put the fabric in the skirt.

    In the midst of laughter, someone suddenly came running in a hurry.

    “Princess, Miss, something is bad!” I saw Mo Ru running and sweating profusely.

    Mian Tang frowned and said, “What’s the matter, talk slowly, don’t be surprised.”

    Mo Ru swallowed and spit: “A letter came from my hometown in Zhenzhou, saying that it is… that the old concubine can’t do it…”

    As soon as these words came out, Cui Fu stood up immediately, and his body shook slightly.

    Mian Tang hurriedly got off the ladder, went over to support Cui Fu and frowned, “What’s going on?”

    Mo Ru shook his head and said, “I can’t tell for a while, so I’d better ask the princess and the eldest lady to go back to the house and ask the prince.”

    When Cui Fu followed Miantang all the way back to the house in a sedan chair anxiously, she saw Cui Xingzhou and Li Guangcai sitting together and discussing matters with a serious face.

    Before Cui Fu went in, he asked tremblingly, “I… what happened to my mother?”

    Li Guangcai hurriedly stood up and supported her arm, comforting: “Don’t worry, my mother-in-law just caught the cold, and she will be fine when she gets a famous doctor.”

    Cui Fu took a look at the family letter and realized that her mother didn’t know how to catch a cold when she went to a dinner recently, or what was going on. Soreness and irritability in my chest. Recently, when I was walking in the palace garden, I fell to the ground. If the senior management hadn’t called the man in the mansion in time, he took Danshen tablets to continue his life. .

    The senior management did not dare to hide the old lady’s condition from the prince, and hurriedly dispatched people to the post station to deliver the letter to Cui Xingzhou.

    After all, it is an unbearable moral flaw.

    According to this situation, Cui Xingzhou should go back to Zhenzhou to visit his mother. If the concubine really can’t survive this level, once she dies, she will return to her hometown as a son and keep filial piety for three years. Entered the court as an official.

    Liu Miantang doesn’t remember much about her mother-in-law and concubine now. Naturally, there is no sadness to speak of.

     But on the way back, she kept listening to Cui Fu talking about how healthy her mother was, she looked even younger than some women in their thirties, how could she suddenly get sick so serious?

    Listening to these words, Miantang suddenly thought that if the concubine was seriously ill, I was afraid that Shi Guozhang could take the opportunity of Cui Xingzhou’s absence from the court to overturn the ironclad evidence and escape. A catastrophe…

    Just now, I can’t think of anything else. Fortunately, because I was afraid of losing the battle and fleeing, my luggage was packed.

    Cui Xingzhou was going to set off the next day, and brought his family back to Zhenzhou first, and then decided whether to go back to Beijing after going back to see his mother’s condition.

    In the evening, Cui Xingzhou teased Xiao Yier for a while, and after the mother-in-law coaxed Xiao Yier away to sleep, she suddenly said to Miantang: “I just received news at night, the two imperial envoys and Yingsi Temple was escorting the capital on the way someone assassinated…”

    Miantang frowned and said: “Shi Guozhang is jumping off the wall, we must remove witnesses like Yingsi Temple and the two imperial envoys, and cover up his accusation of colluding with the Japanese and framing the prince. How about it? Did they get it?”

    Cui Xingzhou narrowed his eyes and said: “These assassins act very strangely, like specially trained dead men, not afraid of life and death, they are all strapped with explosive packs, and they will ignite the explosives when they can’t get through. I perished with the guards. I sent a lot of guards, and there were also a lot of masters, but they were forced to blow their way out with their flesh and blood. But the strange thing is… those assassins are all going to Yingsi Temple, No one went to bomb the two imperial envoys… In the end, the Yingsi Temple was blown to pieces and died.”

    Miantang was puzzled after hearing this. After all, the most powerful evidence that Yingsi Temple colluded with the Japanese was actually the two imperial envoys. After all, they deliberately leaked the military plane to Yingsi Temple!

    There is no reason why those dead soldiers only killed Yingsi Temple and left two living proofs!

    Is it? Those assassins weren’t sent by Shi Guozhang? Who would that be? What terrifying secret do you want to hide?

    After thinking for a while, Miantang asked, “Yingsi Temple has a study on the island, specializing in handling letters, have you checked it?”

    Cui Xingzhou said: “I ordered all the objects in his study to be brought back. I have read all his letters, including those written in Japanese, and asked someone who speaks Japanese to translate them. There is indeed a testimonial letter in which he and Shi Guozhang contacted and smuggled iron ore, but there is no mention of the five cannons.”

    Miantang pondered silently for a while, but still had no clue, and said to Cui Xingzhou: “I…I want to go and see what Yingsi Temple uses, maybe I can find something.”

    There are several guards guarding the gate of the courtyard.

    Mian Tang and Cui Xingzhou walked into the house, lit the candles, and saw that on the bookcase, the ground was covered with neatly stacked letters and various objects, and at a glance, they had checked carefully. .