dhibooks Chapter 70
Chapter 70
Xie Anlan told the imperial doctor that Fu Bo's old arms and legs couldn't run anymore, and finally he went to Chaoyun.
With just such a big meeting, the movement in front of the Prince Chen's Mansion spread throughout the entire imperial capital.
When Xie Cangming heard the news, he directly smashed the teacup in Jinghua Palace. Hearing that Xie Anlan had passed on the imperial doctor, fearing that someone would be seriously injured, he ordered in a deep voice, "Send more people to Chenwang's mansion, in case there is something wrong , and to be treated in time.”
Following the emperor's order, the people below continued to wonder if the concubine Chen was seriously injured and was about to die.
The Royal Hospital will treat injuries, and most of them followed Chaoyun to Chenwang Mansion.
At this moment, there was a mess in front of the Prince Chen's Mansion, some people were watching the excitement, and some people were surrounded by guards to check one by one.
A group of imperial doctors were squeezed into Prince Chen's mansion from the crowd, all of them looked solemn, followed behind Chao Yun, and entered the prince's bedroom.
Sitting on the bed, Lu Chengjie looked at the blood that was gradually drying up on his legs. Facing the tense faces of Lu Chuyi and Xie Anlan, he stopped talking several times.
Fortunately, the arrival of the imperial doctor broke his embarrassment.
only……
When he looked up and saw a row of imperial doctors standing at the door, he shrank his pupils and was completely shocked.
Not only him, but Lu Chuyi also stared at Xie Anlan dumbfounded, muttering in his heart, the lord, it's just a little injury.
Xie Anlan was also slightly startled, but fortunately he just raised his eyebrows and didn't care.
A group of imperial doctors walked into the bedroom, looked around, but found no seriously injured patients, and asked Xie Anlan with a slightly puzzled expression, "Please tell me who needs medical treatment."
Xie Anlan nodded, "Of course the concubine needs medical treatment, otherwise what would I ask you to do?"
"..." The imperial doctors cast their eyes on Lu Chengjie, who was half leaning on the couch, looking energetically at them.
No matter how you look at it, this doesn't look like a seriously injured patient.
Adhering to the benevolence of a doctor, an imperial doctor stepped forward and asked Lu Chengjiao warmly, "Please tell me where the injury is."
Lu Chengjie pointed to his leg with reddish cheeks.
I saw a slender and straight leg, from the thigh to the calf, tied with a dozen bamboo sticks of different lengths, and a little blood clotted on the blood-white trouser leg.
The imperial doctor went forward to check carefully, and found that no tendons were injured, and there was no other damage. He smiled, and then dutifully took off the bamboo sticks.
Carefully applied the anti-inflammatory and anti-swelling ointment, bandaged it up, and looked at the prince with a complicated expression.
"It's okay, you can go." Xie Anlan glanced at her tightly wrapped thighs, and nodded with satisfaction.
Is this the end?
All the imperial doctors smiled wryly, and each of them left the Chen Palace with solemn expressions.
When the other princes learned that something happened to Xie Anlan, they all sent their servants to wait outside the Prince Chen's mansion to wait for the news.
As soon as the servants saw that many imperial doctors came out of the Prince Chen's mansion with indifferent expressions on their faces, an ominous premonition immediately rose in their hearts.
He hurriedly stopped the two imperial physicians and asked, "We are from Kangjing Palace and Guangling Palace. Dare to ask this imperial physician how are the wounded inside?"
Among the many imperial doctors, only one imperial doctor treated Lu Chengji, and the rest were waiting outside the hall. When the imperial doctor came out, he didn't say anything to them, and they naturally didn't know much about the situation inside. .
This will be asked, and I can only shake my head blankly.
After asking several times in a row, they all kept silent. The servants panicked and didn't dare to delay, so they all went back to report to their masters.
"What? Critically ill?"
When the princes heard the news, they were all shocked, they just turned somersault in the carriage and became critically ill.
How much this hurts! ?
The princes didn't procrastinate, they found some medicinal materials that were beneficial to injuries from the warehouse, and brought their families to the Prince Chen's mansion.
Even Xie Guanchao put aside his prejudice against Xie Anlan for the time being, and came here with a hundred-year-old ginseng in his arms.
Xie Anlan looked at her brothers lined up in front of her, all nervously concerned about her brothers, rubbed her swollen forehead, and couldn't help laughing.
"Are you okay?" Xie Qiongxi looked him up and down when he saw Xie Anlan, and asked softly after seeing that he was unharmed.
"It's okay." Xie Anlan shook her head.
"Then... where's the seventh brother-in-law?" Seeing that Xie Anlan looked okay, they couldn't help but ask again.
"I'm fine." Before Xie Anlan could answer, Lu Chengjie walked out by himself.
At this moment, apart from the slight blueness of the bumped forehead on his face, and a change of clean clothes on his body, there is nothing unusual at all.
"Then I'm relieved." Xie Guanchao patted his chest, and hurriedly put away the century-old ginseng that Routong took out as a gift.
Facing other people's strange gazes, he was neither embarrassed nor embarrassed, "Seventh brother is so rich, and he must not lack such cheap ginseng. Since it's okay, I'll take it back."
While receiving it, he said, "Our Beiji is very poor. As a prince, I have to plan carefully. Who told us that our only valuable iron ore has been cheated."
The third concubine thought for a while and said, "Didn't you offer it with your own hands? How could this become someone cheating on you again."
Xie Guanchao suddenly felt an arrow hit his knee.
"Okay, fifth brother, don't talk about iron ore." The third prince Yun Yuan, who was standing by, patted Xie Guanchao on the shoulder, "Who doesn't know that seventh brother opened mines on your wasteland, and you also got involved with it?" In the future, you Beiji will not be poor by relying on this big iron mine, and if you keep saying those words all day long, it will hurt brotherhood."
Although it is true that Xie Anlan monopolizes the iron ore by himself, the manpower and material resources required to mine such a large iron ore are also enormous, and it revolves around the consumption of these people. In the future, the land will not be too poor, and Xie Guanchao will take advantage of it , otherwise, he himself couldn't get rid of the iron ore mining in such a short period of time.
Xie Guanchao had been afraid of him as the third brother since he was a child, so he nodded reluctantly when he heard what he said, for he wasn't yelling anymore.
"But we found out, who did it?" The great prince Xie Xiaotan didn't pay attention to the fights of the younger brothers. He is everyone's elder brother. He has already passed his thirties, and his two children are about to grow up. His mind has already matured, so he frowned and asked Xie Anlan.
"There is no news yet." Xie Anlan tilted her head, "It is definitely not that easy to investigate this matter. There are many people on the street, and when the incident happened, they ran a lot. It would be a waste of time to investigate one by one. .”
"Why is it so troublesome." Xie Qiongxi smiled softly, "All horses that enter the imperial capital have been recorded, and you only need to send someone to check who the horse came from. Get up soon."
"It has already been checked." Xie Anlan nodded, "But I'm afraid it will not be that easy. It is precisely because these horses have been registered, the perpetrators will definitely not be so stupid as to use their own horses."
The Fourth Prince Xie Guangchi sat aside, looked at this, then at that, and finally said weakly, "Then there is no possibility that it was an accident?"
"It's absolutely impossible." Xie Xiaotan's deep eyes were fixed, and he shook his head negatively, "The imperial capital is always heavily guarded, and horses are precious things. If there is any abnormality, they have been taken away for treatment. Coming up the street, it was a coincidence that I bumped into the carriage that the seventh brother had just returned home, it is impossible for two coincidences to happen in one event, it must be man-made."
After Xie Xiaotan finished speaking, he looked at Xie Anlan and sighed.
In the past, he, the seventh younger brother, was nothing more than a bastard, but now he is smart and promising, but all the schemes are put on him, and the life from now on may not be peaceful.
Xie Anlan didn't notice Xie Xiaotan's complicated eyes, she lowered her head thinking about something.
Repeatedly chewing those words Xie Xiaotan just said in his mind.
Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in front of his eyes, and he raised his chin and asked, "Is it possible for this horse to be driven crazy in a short time?"
Xie Qiongxi frowned and asked, "Is there any scar on that crazy horse?"
"Nothing." When Gao De cut the horse, Xie Anlan saw it clearly. There was no wound on the horse, and a wound that was too small should not be able to stimulate the horse into that crazy state.
"Is it possible to poison?" Xie Qiongxi asked again.
"A dose of poison that is too small will not have much effect on the horse, and a dose of poison that is too large may cause the horse to die immediately, unless..." Xie Anlan said casually, suddenly stopped, and frowned.
"Unless what?" Lu Chengjiao asked suspiciously.
"Unless the person who poisoned the horse knows the habits of the horse like the back of his hand, he will make the horse go crazy at the right time and crash into our carriage." Xie Anlan picked up the teacup on the table and twirled it for fun , took a meaningful look at Lu Chengjiao.
Lu Chengjiao's gaze paused for a moment on the cup in his hand, then he paused suddenly, pursed his lips, and said two words, "Green tea."
Xie Anlan nodded.
It's not impossible. At the tea shop, the princess of the Grassland Department that the two of them joined forces to run away in anger, it is reasonable for her to seek an opportunity to retaliate wantonly.
It is right to think about it, no matter how courageous the Yongchao people are, they would not dare to assassinate him, the prince, at most they would set him up, or find ways to make friends with him and get some money from him, there is no way to kill him possible.
The only people who can take his life are people other than Yongchao.
The husband and wife were playing some charades, and others couldn't figure it out, so Lu Chengjiao called Lu Chuyi, whispered a few words in his ear, and Lu Chuyi went out with a solemn expression.
"The seventh brother has a clue?" Xie Xiaotan asked.
Xie Anlan held the teacup in his hand, and brushed his fingers unconsciously on it, "It's not a clue, it's just some guesses."
Xie Xiaotan stopped talking.
Several people were talking in Xie Anlan's mansion. After Xie Cangming hastily handled the memorial on the imperial case, the emperor and empress set up the palace together.
It is not a trivial matter for the emperor to go out of the palace, and soon it spread throughout the palace.
Meng Heyou sat in front of the bronze mirror again, looked at himself carefully, heard someone whispering outside, and asked Qian Cao, the maid beside him, leisurely, "What happened outside, it's noisy."
Qian Cao went out to inquire about the meeting, and came back to report, "I heard from the maids that when the Prince Chen and his wife returned to the mansion at the end of the time, a crazy horse came out of nowhere on the street, startled the carriage, and was injured. I heard that it was still injured. Not lightly, most of the imperial doctors in the imperial hospital are helpless, and I am afraid that they will not be able to do it now, and the emperor and empress have all sent out of the palace to visit."
A flash of anxiety flashed in Meng Heyou's eyes, "Have you found out who was injured?"
"It's Princess Chen." Qian Cao replied honestly.
Meng Heyou's face turned pale, bit his lips, tightened the handkerchief in his hand, gritted his teeth inappropriately, and asked, "Then the king of Chen is fine?"
"I heard no." Qian Cao lowered her head and replied in an inaudible voice.
After Meng Heyou listened, the handkerchief in her hand was about to be torn apart by her, and then she calmed down slowly, threw the handkerchief into the charcoal brazier, and watched it calmly turn into ashes bit by bit.
In the palace on the other side, Xue Ling also happened to hear the news.
"It's good that Princess Chen is dead, so as not to get in the way." Ning Dong said beside Xue Ling.
"Don't say that, if the concubine is injured, Prince Chen will be in grief for a long time. If so, I hope that concubine Chen will be fine." Xue Ling said with a pale face.
Ningdong thought, "Then the princess can take advantage of the gap."
"Not so good." Xue Ling lowered her eyes, somewhat resisting.
"What's wrong, princess, don't forget your mission." Ning Dong's tone became cold.
"Understood." Xue Ling lowered her eyes, and a fierce light flashed in her eyes.
The arrival of Xie Cangming and Ran Ruyan made everyone in Chenwang's Mansion stand up to greet them.
Before he could walk out of the main hall, Xie Cangming had already arrived.
"No." Xie Cangming raised his hand, waiving their salute.
His dignified eyes looked at Xie Anlan and Lu Chengjia for a moment, and seeing that they were all fine, he relaxed.
"It's good that it's okay, it's rare for everyone to get together. Today there are only brothers here, and there are no monarchs and ministers, so I won't talk about those empty etiquette." Xie Cangming sat on the main seat of the main hall, looked at the brothers below, and smiled faintly.
"Some trivial things, but also to disturb the second brother..." Xie Anlan showed a slightly embarrassed expression.
He told the imperial doctor who was treating the disease not to talk too much, but he didn't tell him not to tell Xie Cangming.
Xie Cangming pursed his thin lips, his eyes were slightly red, and said in a low tone, "Seventh brother-in-law is critically ill, how can it be said to be a trivial matter."
"..." Xie Anlan opened his lips, looked at the intact Lu Chengjiao, and pondered for a moment.
"Second brother, isn't the seventh brother-in-law all right? Well, he can run and jump." Seeing that Xie Cangming's eyes were flushed, Xie Guanchao thought that he hadn't seen Lu Chengjiao just now, so he hurriedly pulled Lu Chengjiao to him to show him.
Xie Cangming glanced at him like an idiot.
Turning to look at the other brothers, I saw that they were all bowing their heads in thought, and their heavy hearts eased a little.
Fortunately, it's not a bunch of fools.
"Second brother wants to take this opportunity..." Xie Anlan clicked.
Xie Cangming hummed lightly.
"But this doesn't mean that one of the two princesses did it. Why..." Xie Qiongxi frowned warmly.
Xie Yunyuan sat at the side, his eyes turned a little cold, and he said softly, "Whoever says nothing can become something."
"That's right." Xie Qiongxi frowned and thought about it, then said with a smile.
"Besides, it might not be there." Xie Anlan lifted his chin and continued to play with the teacup in his hand.
"Forehead……"
Xie Guanchao watched the brothers discussing and discussing, but after listening to it for a long time, he couldn't understand what they were talking about, and his head was in a daze.
"Isn't it talking about the seventh brother-in-law's illness? Why did it get around to the foreign princess again?"
"Fifth brother, try the sunflower seeds on the table. These are five-spice sunflower seeds fried by my cook. They taste pretty good. You should eat more." The spiced sunflower seeds on the plate were brought to him.
"Really?" Xie Guanchao raised his eyebrows, "Then I'll try it."
Xie Guanchao peeled a sunflower seed and put it between his lips, the salty smell filled his mouth, his eyes lit up, "It really tastes good."
Xie Anlan smiled, "If Fifth Brother likes it, put more on when you leave."
"Success, it's up to you to be righteous." Xie Guanchao nodded.
The third concubine heard Xie Anlan say that she could pretend to leave, and she reacted the fastest, "I want to too."
"Okay." Xie Anlan looked at the few sunflower seeds left on her table, and asked the servants to add more.
She didn't chime in today, thanks in large part to the spiced sunflower seeds.
The third princess was satisfied, and lowered her head to peel the sunflower seeds again.
Seeing that she liked it, Xie Yunyuan grabbed a handful, slowly peeled it in his hand, and peeled it into a hill before sending it to her.
The third concubine's face darkened, "I don't want this, it's delicious only if you peel it yourself."
Xie Yunyuan's expression froze for a moment, and he brought back the sunflower seeds that looked like a hill, and ate them one by one.
The fifth princess glanced at them enviously, then saw Xie Qiongxi peeling one for his little daughter-in-law, and then looked at Xie Guanchao who had a plate of sunflower seeds to himself and happily ate.
The gums are bleeding out.
"I dote on Your Highness." Lu Chengke had already peeled a pile aside, and pushed it in front of Xie Anlan.
Xie Anlan smiled, twisted one, threw it into her mouth, and smiled happily.
Xie Guangchi looked around weakly, and quietly stuffed a handful of melon seeds into his fourth concubine.
The fourth princess was immersed in her own world, when she was suddenly interrupted by Xie Guangchi, she was extremely displeased, but she still didn't say anything, and peeled off one by one.
But she didn't eat it herself, but threw away the chicken called Jin Jin that Xie Anlan raised.
For a while, the atmosphere in the main hall was a little delicate.
Fortunately, Lu Chuyi came back in time, breaking the dull atmosphere in the room.
"How?" Lu Chengjiao asked in a low voice.
"As expected." Lu Chuyi really admired their young master for thinking of the key so quickly.
Without waiting for Xie Anlan to ask, Lu Chengjie took the initiative to talk to him again, "I asked Chuyi to check the horse's stomach, and found the residue of madweed inside."
"Crazy grass?" Xie Anlan frowned.
"It's a kind of grass that makes cows and horses go crazy after eating it." Lu Chengjie explained, "Very few people know the efficacy of this grass because it's not common."
Xie Anlan frowned, "But how did this horse bump into our carriage?"
"The carriage has been tampered with." Lu Chengjie's eyes turned cold.
"What kind of manipulation?" Xie Anlan's carriage was always guarded, it was impossible for anyone to get close to it, and every time someone went out and entered the door, someone would check it, so it should be very difficult to do anything.
"It's not necessarily about destroying the carriage, it's about the smell." Lu Chengke frowned, "The horse's sense of smell is already sensitive, and a mad horse is even more sensitive. If there is a smell that horses like in our carriage, it will come to us It's not impossible for us to rush."
"Smell?" Xie Anlan frowned even tighter. He and Lu Chengjia were both men, and incense was never used in the house, so there would be no smell.
"It's not about incense, the smell of grass is fine." Lu Chengjia couldn't help but want to smooth Xie Anlan's frown, but when he thought of the people in his room, he gave up.
These words can basically identify the murderer, but there is not enough evidence to prove that it is that person.
"So I asked the first day of the junior high school to visit many surrounding streets. Sure enough, someone saw the personal maid of the grassland princess wandering on the street in front of the Wangfu these two days. Horse dealer."
On Wangfu Avenue, there are many dignitaries living in this area. It is not surprising that horse dealers like to sell horses around here.
But it was strange that several horse dealers appeared in just a few days. After all, this horse is not cheap, and it is impossible for people to buy it every day.
"Lu Yi asked some horse dealers in private, and got a piece of news that someone recently offered a high price for a good horse in the horse market, but the buyer didn't show up, and just asked them to bring the horse to Wangfu Avenue. I will leave a handkerchief in the streets and alleys, and if I don’t like it, I will only have a pebble.” Lu Chengjie took out the handkerchief while talking.
Xie Anlan took it and measured it carefully. It was very ordinary, and it didn't have any patterns embroidered on it. You can buy it easily in the market.
Can't find anything.
"But..." Lu Chengjia smiled slyly at this point, "It is impossible for a human being not to leave traces."
"Fortunately, the first day of junior high school went quickly, and the bank note they traded hadn't been spent yet. I asked him to buy that bank note back, and I found something." Lu Chengjie took out the bank note from his wide sleeve while talking. Here are some banknotes.
"These are the silver tickets I won from the two princesses in the gambling shop. When they first entered the Yong Dynasty, they would definitely go to the bank to exchange for gold and silver. The amount they exchanged was large, so the numbers on the stubs of the silver tickets must be Consecutive numbers."
Said that Lu Chengjie put the numbers of those bank notes together one by one, Xie Anlan went over to have a look, and it really was consecutive numbers.
Looking at the bank note that Lu Chuyi brought back, except for the mismatch in the mantissa, everything in front of it is the same.
"This pile belongs to the princess of the Grassland Department. As long as all the bank notes on her are put together, this number can be matched..." Lu Chengjia said that it is equivalent to the truth.
"I admire." Xie Anlan's eyes were filled with amazement.
In this dynasty without monitoring, the other party has done all the preparations. Even if you can see his figure, there is still nothing you can do without evidence.
But now that Lu Chengjie has directly pulled out the evidence, the other party probably didn't figure it out. Some people are so careful that they even pay attention to the number of the bank notes they have used.
Other evidence can be destroyed, but no one will destroy this bank note.
Not only Xie Anlan was amazed, but Xie Cangming was also amazed. For the first time, he showed a look of approval to Lu Chengjiao, "This is very good. With solid evidence, it is much more convenient to implement some things."
After speaking, his eyes inadvertently swept across the daughters-in-law of the other brothers, and then darkened again.
"Then I'll leave the whole process to the second brother." Xie Anlan gave all the bank notes in his hand to Xie Cangming.
Xie Cangming nodded and took it, his eyes were red again, and he said in a low tone with a little sadness, "It's almost Chinese New Year, so you should spend more time with your seventh brother-in-law at the house, so that he can recover from his injuries."
"...Okay." Xie Anlan felt that his second brother was wasting his talent if he didn't act.
By the time these brothers were sent away, night had already fallen, and the crescent moon hung high, bringing some light to this dark and silent night.
Xie Anlan returned to the room, Lu Chengke was bending over to make the bed, Xie Anlan walked over, hugged him from the back, leaned his head on his back, and said in a sour tone, "Are you right? Those two princesses are interested?"
"Huh?" Xie Anlan asked Lu Chengjia inexplicably.
"Otherwise, why did you keep their bank notes?" Xie Anlan said while undoing his belt with his backhand.
Lu Chengjie pressed his hand, "No, I just wanted to pay attention to their movements through bank notes. Don't move, I will tell you carefully."
"I just wanted to see the injury on your leg, and I didn't do anything." After Xie Anlan finished speaking, she felt a little wronged again, "You don't believe me now, and you said you don't like those two princesses."
"I really don't." Lu Chengjiao had no choice but to let go of the hand that was pressing on him.
As the clothes fell to the ground, Lu Chengjie's eyes gradually turned red, and he cursed in a low voice, "Xie Anlan, you lied to..."
All the words behind were blocked by people.
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