Chapter 16
: Throwing a stone ()
Su Jin took his eyes and looked at Tan Zong's expression carefully. Seeing that he was not a fake, he had to stop the dissatisfaction in his heart first. He gently pushed Tan Zong away his frivolous bad hand and cleaned up a little, then nodded and said, "Young Master is right. This young master Jiang and Hu San are indeed of extraordinary origin."
"I already know Hu San, is it from the Cheng Palace? I am afraid that my status in the palace is not low. Even if I am not the prince's companion, I am afraid that I am a martial arts teacher. But the identity of Mr. Jiang is hard to guess. This person's name is similar to that of King Cheng among the princes. But according to the Dashun rule, the royal family's children cannot leave the capital at will without the imperial edict. I don't know if there are any clues about you?" Tan Zong thought about it carefully, but he felt that Mr. Jiang was afraid that he would be the Cheng Palace. It's just that this matter is of great importance. If he rashly contacted before he was confirmed, it would be unbeautiful.
Su Jin was a delicate heart. He knew that Tan Zong had guessed something in his heart just by looking at Tan Zong's expression, but there was still lack of evidence and it was difficult to make a clear judgment. Therefore, he told an allusion: "It is rumored that after Emperor Taizu founded the country, he was very happy to visit in a very indifferent manner, and he only used a pseudonym every time he went out..." When he said this, Su Jin suddenly stopped talking, apparently trying to sell Tan Zong for a secret.
Unfortunately, Su Jin forgot that there was a confused guy in this room who was outspoken and eager to show his feelings. Therefore, before she could sell it, she was given away for free.
"I know this. Sister Qinghe once told me that Emperor Taizu liked to use the pseudonym Jiang Xianyun the most. Even the few late emperors who went on a mini-dress visit also liked to use the pseudonym Jiang's surname." As he said that, Lianxiang deliberately straightened her chest and signaled that she could gain knowledge and be commended.
Qinghe on the other side couldn't help but touch her forehead, and she felt that this sister Lianxiang was really a mess today: it was obvious that the eldest sister and husband in the family were there now, so you insisted on getting a kick, but why didn't you find yourself sick?
"I can't say that I need to teach this stupid sister more in the future, otherwise I don't know if I offended the eldest wife at home one day, and then I really want to die." With this thought in my heart, Qinghe was too lazy to listen to the words on the other end of the bed, but she just thought about how to teach Lianxiang a lesson.
On the other end, Tan Zong really felt Lian Xiang's wish and praised, "Liang Xiang is indeed well-informed and well-recorded, even if she remembers this thing." He raised his hand and gently pinched the tip of the girl who was happy to receive praise, looking extremely intimate.
Then, Tan Zong pondered for a few breaths before slowly saying: "I'm afraid that this Young Master Jiang's identity will be as I thought."
Su Jin nodded and said, "I'm afraid that's the case. I just don't know why this King Cheng came to Nanjing Prefecture now and why he was walking with the Baili Family?"
"Baili Family?" Tan Zong was stunned and woke up randomly and said, "Is it the Baili Family outside the city, which is known as the second largest in Nanjing Prefecture?"
Su Jin gently pulled her hair in front of her forehead and said, "It's the Baili Family. I can do this smoothly in Qiuyue Tower. It's because I borrowed the favors of Baili Family. I only realized today that Qiuyue Tower is actually a Baili Family's shop. No wonder I have never heard of anyone making trouble in Qiuyue Tower."
Tan Zong was too lazy to think about who the boss behind Qiuyue Tower was, but he secretly tied the lines here together. Then he couldn't help but stand up excitedly and slapped his high fives and said, "Haha, I didn't expect there were quite a lot of tricks here. I'm afraid the court has been preparing for this trick for many years."
After saying that, Tan Zong almost blurted out that he wanted Su Jin to take his phone number, but he saw that Su Jin was dressed in ancient costume. He realized that he had already penetrated his soul, but he could not be as rushing into the future. He had to lie down slowly and secretly wonder how to get along with the line of becoming a king.
Tan Zong was already sure that the court, no, to be precise, is the current official family. The emperor must have a strong determination to thoroughly investigate the corruption case of Nanjing River Embankment, otherwise he would not have sent two groups of people, and even the leaders of the country were the fifth prince today.
Moreover, according to Su Jin, the King Cheng went to Jiangnan early and even went to Suzhou for a walk. I was afraid that this case was either related to Suzhou or went to Suzhou to secretly mobilize personnel.
But no matter what, King Cheng is probably the winner of this river embankment case. If Tan Zong wants to successfully take off in the Dashun officialdom, he may not have to contact this prince to borrow this big east wind.
Seeing Tan Zong thinking hard, Su Jin was a little misunderstood by Tan Zong's meaning, and only said that Tan Zong was worried about how to contact King Cheng, but did not know that Tan Zong had a greater plan. Therefore, when Tan Zong heard that Su Jin had invited "Jiang Wu" to come and talk to him, he immediately stopped him.
"This matter is not so simple. Please let me think about it carefully. No matter what, you have to think of a proper way." As he said, a trace of inspiration flashed through Tan Zong's mind. Tan Zong thought about it carefully and felt that this method was feasible. Even if he couldn't catch the big fish of Jiang Wu, he could still catch Cao Qiaomu, the loach. Therefore, he asked Su Jin: "Then what token does Jiang Wu have left for you?"
Although Su Jin didn't know Tan Zong's intention, he still nodded and said, "There is a folding fan that I put in the box. I originally planned to do something wrong, so he begged him to come out to save his husband, but he didn't want him to beg him to beg him to come out and return home by himself. Therefore, he didn't use it and left it there."
Su Jin's words undoubtedly revealed two meanings: one is that she had guessed that Tan Zong would suffer last night, and the other is that she was ready to rescue Tan Zong.
Tan Zong could not hear this, so he was extremely moved, so he hugged the woman in his arms and intimate her. However, he offended Tan Zong's big pillow behind him.
Unable to say that, Lianxiang moved Tan Zong's head from her thighs in anger, and immediately woke Tan Zong up from intimacy.
"This girl is jealous." Tan Zong was not angry, but he pinched the confused girl's nose to be intimate. Then he ordered Su Jin to say, "You will call your girl to send the folding fan to the pawnshop later. Do not need the pawnshop of Baili Family. Don't send it to the wrong place."
Su Jin was stunned, and then thought of Tan Zong's meaning, and couldn't help but say in his heart: "My husband uses this trick to throw stones and ask for directions in his heart. I'm afraid that even those who have been immersed in the officialdom for many years may not have such thoughts, but I don't know how such scholars like Mr., who study every day have so many thoughts. Could it be that he is really talented?"
But Tan Zong didn't know Su Jin's idea, so he just buried his head deeply into Lianxiang's chest, and was too lazy to pay attention to the woman's attitude of refusing and greeting. He just thought to himself: "It's a dragon or an insect, so he bet on this shop."
But Tan Zong didn't know that the Baili family, who had originally planned to react for two or three days, noticed the abnormality of the folding fan that night, so they hurriedly sent it out of the city, and fell into Jiang Wu's hands again shortly after.
"Young Master, look at this folding fan, but what did you do on your body?" Baili Gui put the folding fan in his hand respectfully. After Jiang Wu took it, he quickly took a few steps back and then stood in the room like a wooden carving.
This folding fan was originally Jiang Wu's possession. I don't know how many times I played with it on weekdays, so I just looked at it briefly and nodded, "It's really my hand, but why is this thing in your hands?"
Although Jiang Wu's tone was plain, Baili Gui, who knew the temper of the royal family, did not dare to bully Jiang Wu's good temper. He even knew that if he didn't answer well, he would not die immediately, but he would probably have a good life in the future. Therefore, he quickly explained: "When I say to Master, there is a maid in my pawn shop at noon, and it was a deposit of 500 taels of silver. After the people below took it, they hurriedly sent it over."
"Do you die?" Jiang Wu would not suspect Baili Gui was lying, so he secretly said: "Does Su, everyone is short of money? It shouldn't be. Just those two women saved her a lot of silver, so how could they be short of money?"
Although he had a conclusion in his heart, Jiang Wu still didn't dare to confirm it, so he looked up and asked, "What else is there to be with this thing?"
Baili Gui said without hesitation: "It's just this thing, there's no other."
"Strange." Jiang Wu's doubts were resolved a little, but he couldn't help but a bigger doubt arose in his heart: "Why is Mr. Su's actions? Could it be that Tan Zong was jealous and insisted that everyone Su throw this thing away?" But he couldn't discuss this with Baili Gui, so he had to let Baili Gui retreat, and then he said, "Qiaomu, you have contacted Tan Zong, how is this man?"
At this time, there was no one in the room, but Jiang Wu finished speaking, and a person suddenly came from above the beam of the room. It was Cao Qiaomu.
Unlike Baili Gui, Cao Qiaomu was casual in front of Jiang Wu. He pulled a chair straight and sat down. He poured himself good tea, and then said, "This boy is definitely different from an ordinary scholar. I think he is extremely skilled in speaking and doing things, and he is also very wise and dares to take risks for his life and death. He is not as immature as an ordinary scholar. Instead, he is like a worldly veteran in the officialdom, so he is so arrogant that people can't see through it."
Seeing Cao Qiaomu brag about Tan Zong so much, Jiang Wu was a little disbelief, so he couldn't help but ridicule and said, "Oh, there are not many words that can be "God-eyed Cao" that can't be seen through. There are not many in this world. Do you really look up to him so much?"
"If you can't see through, you can't see through. What's there to say?" Cao Qiaomu took a sip of tea and replied unhappily: "I thought about it carefully last night. Even if I accidentally fell into it, Tan Zong seemed to be embarrassed, so I could watch it, but he was at ease. Even the second game was broken, just like an antelope hanging on his horns."
Cao Qiaomu's words aroused Jiang Wu's arrogance, and he couldn't help asking Cao Qiaomu to tell him what happened last night one by one. After Cao Qiaomuzai finished speaking carefully, Jiang Wu couldn't help but take a breath and said, "This man is indeed extremely courageous. He dares to endure it for so long in the fire scene. I'm afraid that even your subordinates dare not do this."
"This is not the case." Cao Qiaomu waved his hand and said, "I see that his injuries are only a bit worse than the back, but they are just some scalds, not burns. I think he made preparations in advance, so he only injured his back but did not hurt other places. The rest were just a few fire bubbles, and I think they were accidentally burned when they came out of the fire."
"In this way, he really released the fire?" Jiang Wu glanced at Cao Qiaomu, and saw that he was just drinking tea, so he couldn't help but analyze it himself: "As you said, this fire was so strange, I'm afraid there were some articles in it? Could it be that Tan Zong was trying to help the Wang family destroy those accounts? But, didn't you say that the Wang family sent someone to make a death penalty for Tan Zong? How could Tan Zong do such a thing for the Wang family? Could it be to kill someone to silence him?"
"Killing someone to silence? I'm afraid it's not that simple." Cao Qiaomu couldn't help but sneer after hearing this, but ignored Jiang Wu and just drank tea on his own.
Seeing that Cao Qiaomu stopped talking, Jiang Wu, who had already become curious, couldn't help but threaten: "Okay, Cao Er, if you don't explain it clearly to me today, after returning to Beijing, I will tell my second sister that you have found a lover in Nanjing Mansion. Every night, you will be happy about Beijing!"
"You are used to using your sister-in-law to suppress me. I don't know what bad luck I had in my previous life, so how could I know someone like you." But Jiang Wu's threat was too ruthless, even Cao Qiaomu, a tough guy who did not bow to power, had to compromise temporarily.
Since I wanted to explain the key points clearly, Cao Qiaomu carefully considered it and sorted out the matter. Then he said, "Wang's eldest son Wang Dong and Tan Zong have a grudge against him to seize the 'wife'..."
Cao Qiaomugang said, and was stopped by Jiang Wu, "Stop! What hatred of taking away your wife, don't talk nonsense."
"It's only you, a slutty boy, who is obsessed with Su Jin and sent him over to fold his fan. He really lost the royal face." Cao Qiaomu was too lazy to see Jiang Wu's face soaring into a pig's liver, and said straight: "If you want me to explain clearly, listen carefully and stop me from interrupting."
"Okay, okay, it's up to you. But you remember, you can't destroy everyone Su anymore, otherwise I will stop fighting with you!"
"Tsk, I'm too lazy to pay attention to you guy." Cao Qiaomu sneered, but he also knew that although this prince was smart among the princes, he was less cunning after all. If he really angered, even the person with "half brother-in-law" would not be able to take care of him, so he did not dare to anger Jiang Wu anymore. Then he continued: "There is such a slut in the middle, how could people like Tan Zong do things for the Wang family? So there is no need to explain the bureau in the prison. The key is still in the fire in the government warehousing."
Seeing that Cao Qiaomu stopped drinking water when he said the key point, Jiang Wu couldn't help but ask: "Oh, didn't you say that the fire was made by Tan Zong? Is there any other hidden information in it?"
"The fire is undoubtedly Tan Zongfang, but there must be some hidden feelings inside." Cao Qiaomu said, and his thoughts couldn't help but return to the fire scene, and the influence of that person appeared in front of him.
When Jiang Wu saw Cao Qiaomu stopping again, he felt that this person was disgusting and aroused his addiction. However, he said that he would stop for a while, which made people want to tear him down and then he was willing to: "Why are you, you are so traumatized again at this moment? You should say it quickly."
"Drink, you don't even have any patience. As expected, you are still better to be the prince of Xiaoyao like now. The throne is really not suitable for you to sit on." As he said that, Cao Qiaomu shook his head, and made Jiang Wu feel ashamed and want Cao Qiaomu to die!
"I won't tease you anymore." Cao Qiaomu drank the cup of tea in one breath, and finally told her thoughts in her heart: "Although the fire was extremely burning and it made people dare not enter, there were several doubts:
First, although the fire is everywhere, the real fire, that is, the doors and windows, is much smaller inside, which seems to be the arsonist who intends to stop someone from entering the fire.
Secondly, among the firefighters, I saw that many people were not interested in putting out the fire, but instead searched for something everywhere, even if someone went into the pond to sneak through. Although the man was hidden and did not even cause a sound of water, he could not escape my eyes."
Third, when Tan Zong came out of the fire, he had a volume of the Nanjing government account book in his hand. I saw that the account book seemed to have fallen to the ground intentionally, but was taken away by the Wang family, and then handed over to a Wang family manager. Although the person in charge was capable, the mute servant was a failure, like that kind of person. I only took a glance and knew that this person was not weak in skill, but I was afraid that he was not inferior to me. How could he be just a servant in the family?
Fourth, the fire burned such a confidential place, but Wang Ren did not show up from beginning to end, which was really suspicious.
The last point is that Tan Zong once mentioned that the fire was released by a man in black who sneaked into Wenyuan Courtyard. He knocked the man in black unconscious and went to the fire to rescue the bill. However, when he came out, the man in black was rescued. Although the flaws were everywhere, he also revealed a few information. I thought about it carefully last night and found that Tan Zong clearly had something in his words, but unfortunately I couldn't hear it at that time."
"What is there in the words?" Jiang Wu was even more curious at this time, so he hurriedly urged: "How can there be any in the words?"
"Hehe, the man in black is real, the setting fire is fake; the scapegoat is real, the scapegoat is fake, the scapegoat is fake. Thinking of the later jail, it is not difficult to guess that the fire is also a game, and Tan Zong was originally just a scapegoat prepared in the game, but he unexpectedly got mixed up and escaped. Moreover, with Tan Zong's character, he was afraid that he would have left a backup plan, and now this folding fan is the signal he sent."
"What do you mean? Signal?" Jiang Wu stood up and said, "You mean, he already knows your identity? He even knows why you and I come?"
As soon as these words were said, Jiang Wu's aura suddenly changed: At this moment, he did not look like a slutty young man. He was clearly a king who determined the life and death of tens of millions of people in one word, and it made people unable to help but surrender.
Cao Qiaomu also corrected his face and said seriously: "Although this is not far from the point of view, I said before that this person is not as talented as others, and even those who have been struggling in the officialdom for decades are not as good as him."
Chapter completed!