Jin Tingjiao

Chapter 48 Is He Dead?

She didn't expect that the person Shen Chongxin and his wife rescued was the personal bodyguard of Emperor Qin Ling!
The palace guards of the previous dynasty were all loyal to the royal family all their lives, and their loyalty to the master was engraved in their bones!

Even if such a person will not have any influence on the new court, it is safe to kill them after all. It is no wonder that the Great Zhou court issued a death edict after knowing about it!

... No wonder Shen Xin scolded Aunt Pei as a lackey of the Helian people back then. The words she said were not only aimed at Aunt Pei, but scolded the entire second room, and regarded Shen Chongxin and his wife as people who worked hard for the Qin court. .

"Didn't Emperor Qin Ling go south under the protection of the courtiers headed by the Zhang family? Why did his guards still appear in the suburbs of Beijing?" She couldn't help asking.

"It is said that they were the group of people who stayed behind. News of Emperor Ling's death came before he could leave Hebei. Afterwards, he went into hiding in the capital area."

Aunt Pei sighed.

Shen Xi frowned, and murmured: "I really can't remember these things."

"The wife never told the girl, so the girl naturally doesn't know." Aunt Pei said, "The girl is innocent and simple, and the wife doesn't want the girl to hide too many secrets, so she didn't have time to tell many things."

The original owner's previous temperament obviously couldn't hide her words, even if she didn't say it herself, it would be easy for others to trick her.

If Mrs. Hu didn't tell her, it wasn't because she disliked her, but because she was clearly protecting her. After all, when a person couldn't hold back the secret in his heart, then in all likelihood, he would be harmed by this secret.

So it makes sense to be kept in the dark.

Shen Xi understood that Aunt Pei was taking care of her face, so he nodded to accept her favor.Then said: "Then presumably, this guard must have been caught and killed later."

"not at all."

She only thought that this person had no possibility of escaping, but Aunt Pei looked at her with piercing eyes and said: "He was infected with typhoid fever and fell ill.

"The master hid him in a secret place. At that time, he had already taken the medicine and the cold and fever subsided. In addition to the trouble, the wife also asked the master to bring him a large pot of boiled soup and dry food. At that time, it was impossible to die of illness. possible.

"Later, until the death of the master and wife, the Ministry of Criminal Justice had no news of this person.

"Miss knows, our old man is the second in command of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, even if it is Lingyun Pavilion's full-time job to capture Helian, the Ministry of Criminal Justice cannot fail to receive some wind.

"What's more, there is no yamen in Lingyun Pavilion, only the East Prison, and the roster of arrested people is still in the hands of the third division."

Shen Xi was slightly startled: "So, he is still alive?"

Aunt Pei turned her face away and said nothing.

Shen Xi saw that she was avoiding, so he asked again: "Where is he?"

Aunt Pei was helpless, she looked out of the window and said in a daze: "The master hid him in the southern suburbs that night when he returned to the city.

"At that time we had a small village in Qingshi Town in the southern suburbs, and the master said he was going to collect the bills, but he actually placed him there.

"He should have been there until we went to Xing'ergou. But then all our property was gone, and no one knew his whereabouts.

"Xing'ergou is not far from Qingshi Town. Later, when I went to the town to do some shopping, I saw that the Zhuangzi had long since belonged to someone else. Our house in the town had lanterns from another family hanging on the gate.

"But he possesses martial arts, so it is not so easy to die."

After she finished speaking, she looked back at Shen Xi.

Shen Xi was not as optimistic as she was.

After all, there is no place for him in the world anymore.

Even if he is not pure Helian, even if he is already a bodyguard, but who made him a member of Qin Lingdi's palace?
There are not many people like Shen Chongxin and his wife in the world, and most of them are not punished because of their possession.

However, until they went to Xing'ergou, that person was still in Qingshi Town, even if he was not in Shen's house, but only lived in the town, Aunt Pei and the others were not afraid of causing trouble again if the government found out?
Aunt Pei seemed to see her doubts, so she went on to say: "At that time, everyone had seen the famous courtiers in the Great Qin Dynasty. Except for those who recognized them, there were no portraits of other insignificant people. After more than ten years, there are no portraits. Few can identify it.

"Who would remember what a bodyguard looked like? Not to mention that they didn't even have the bodyguard's name at that time. It was only when someone reported to the court that they found out."

"Who reported it?"

"How do you know?" Aunt Pei wiped her eyes, "If a person does something bad, he won't jump out by himself."

Shen Xi also guessed that they didn't know, otherwise they would have talked about it long ago.

But she straightened her crooked body.

At least what she said earlier was right, there were so many guards in the palace, even Qin Lingdi's close attendants probably didn't have the right to be regarded as a thorn in the side of Emperor Tuoba.

Presumably it was because he was just a bodyguard, Shen Chongxin and his wife did not harm their father, brother and children after the incident was exposed.

And it has been 12 years since the Great Qin Dynasty subjugated, and 12 years of wind and frost are enough to change a person's appearance.

Besides, it is unlikely that anyone will keep in mind what a guard looks like, so the possibility of being stared at and hunted down is extremely small.

In this way, the probability of this person's survival is more than half!

At this moment, Shen Xi couldn't let go of this guard whom he had never met before.

If she can find this person...

She needs a martial artist by her side, but it is extremely difficult to choose this candidate, and it is not possible to just find a nursing home to meet the requirements.

Not only does he need strong martial arts, but he also needs to have the loyalty not to betray her even if he knows the truth that she is from Helian...

This Daqin's bodyguard is really appropriate to say.

She pondered here for a while, then asked Aunt Pei: "What's his name?"

"It's called Qi Jiu." Aunt Pei said, and dragged the needlework basket, picked up a plain silk handkerchief inside, and began to embroider.

Qi Jiu.It really looks like the name a guard should have.

Shen Xi thought to himself.

"How many people know about this?"

Aunt Pei looked out of the sewing basket and said, "Everyone knows the cause of the master's and wife's death. It's just that only you and I know the identity of the Helian people and their relationship."

Shen Xi nodded.

Before Hu's death, he told Aunt Pei this passage, presumably for her to pass it on to him in the future.

However, she was a little curious about Hu's trust in her so much: "The relationship between you and my mother is somewhat unexpected."

Aunt Pei paused slightly, then looked up at her in a daze.

Shen Xi also looked over and saw that she didn't even have a decent hairpin on her head, and suddenly thought of the Zhuangzi's house in Qingshi Town she had mentioned earlier.

Pearl once said that Shen Chongxin and his wife had a prosperous life when they were in the second room.

In the case of no family separation, even if there is no Wanguan family property, at least based on Hu's dowry and Shen Chongxin's official position at that time, at least it will not be too bad.

And just now Aunt Pei said that they all have a small house in the southern suburbs, so what about these family properties?
(End of this chapter)