box of hearts

Chapter 31 Suo Nanzhi (12)
He was originally a small role in the officialdom, but because the regent ordered "upgrade" in the early days of his power, that is, to inform, he used this to start his career, skyrocketed and took charge of the Zhenfu Division.The so-called Zhen Fusi in the current dynasty is different from the previous generation. It is a spy police organization that specializes in targeting dignitaries. It owns private prisons and can arrest, torture, and even execute suspects without court justice.The book that Fang Kaiyin, the leader, is most familiar with is not the Four Books and Five Classics, but the "Luo Zhi Jing" written by the traitor Lai Junchen in the Tang and Wu Zhou Dynasties[9]. He is better than Lai Junchen in the cool method.In the torture room full of tricks, Fang Kaiyin can hear any sentence he needs from anyone.And the only person who can make him obedient is in front of and behind the table.

Prince Tuanlong, who was wearing an apricot white collar, put on his regular clothes, Qi She's face was as heavy as iron, and his expression remained calm, "Secretly intercept the tribute?"

"Yes." Fang Kaiyin's eyeballs were burning with undisguised excitement, as if gurgling out bright red blood, "This time, our household servant, Mr. Wang Zhengxun, has thrown himself into the trap. Look, my lord, it's Lu Impeach him in person, or impeach him with a seal? Or directly arrest him and put him in prison, and let the humble official personally 'entertain' him?"

Qi She lowered her eyelids, her pupils fluttered for a while, then raised her eyes and said calmly, "Neither."

Towards dusk, the atmosphere in Ciqing Palace became more and more lively.After the Empress Dowager Xihe of the Palace of Compassionate Ning left with a sullen look on her face, the second assistant Wang Zhenghao and his younger sister Wang Shi described many follow-up plans, as if the day when the regent Qi She was defeated and killed was just around the corner.When he bid farewell and withdrew, he was bumped into his arms by the eunuch Wu Ran who rushed in.

"It's not good, the big thing is bad!"

Wang Zhenghao was very displeased with Zheng Hujia, "Why are you panting and neighing?"

Wu Ran cried and said, "It's not good, Master Fang Kaiyin brought someone to the door and beheaded the fourth master under the sword."

"what?!"

Both the brothers and sisters of the Wang family turned pale.Wang Zhenghao murmured in a daze: "The servant of the household department, the cripple San, dares to escape the detention and interrogation, just, just..."

Suddenly hearing the sound of "哗啦", Mrs. Wang on the throne smashed a Jihong flower goblet to pieces, stamped her feet and cried, "It's all bad ideas from you and Daddy! What are you talking about? It's safe and secure, it's good now!" , so that the fourth brother lost his life!" She rushed down and twisted the skirt of the elder brother, tearing and pushing, "You pay me for the fourth brother, pay for the fourth brother! My poor fourth brother, it is in vain for you to be careful all your life , but died in the hands of my own family in the end!..."

Eunuch Wu Ran hastily kowtowed and stopped to persuade, finally pushed the weeping Wang into a chair and sat down.Wang Zhenghao didn't care that a beautiful mustache was falling apart, so he just apologized: "Sister, the matter has come to this point, it's useless to be sad. The most important thing right now is to think about what to do next. Fang Kaiyin and the lame Sanna The bones and tendons were broken, and Fang Kaiyin dared to do such an outrageous thing as murdering the deputy hall official of the household department, and the cripple San had a lot to do with it. I thought that the cripple San always made plans before moving, and did things without leaking, but this time It is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us to make such a gaffe."

Hearing this, Wang stared at her elder brother with red and swollen eyes, and spat on his face with a "bah".

Wang Zhenghao wiped it with a wry smile, "Sister, don't be self-willed anymore. You love the fourth brother, don't you feel sorry for me when I am the eldest brother? Just to prevent the fourth brother from dying in vain, I have to use his words You must not only get rid of Fang Kaiyin, but also let the cripple San also suffer. Sister, without delay, you immediately order Fang Kaiyin to be handed over to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and then take the lame San into the palace and reprimand him face to face. The serious crime of arbitrarily arranging authority and forming a party to act recklessly took him away. This time, I will go out and fight him!"

Wang sobbed twice, and threw herself into her brother's arms with a "wow".Wang Zhenghao showed embarrassment, relieved on the one hand, and wiped away his tears on the other hand.

"The humble official came back to his life."

The setting sun shone through the long window through the carved flowers. Under the window, Qi She was reading a book intently. "What fate?"

Fang Kaiyin presented a wooden box with a flattering and smug smile, and pulled open the box.Inside the box was a bluish-white human head with slightly parted lips, as if there were unfinished words. "Didn't the regent order that the humble official take the head off Wang Shilang's neck?"

"When did I tell you?" Neither the person nor the wooden box moved Qi She's eyelids, he just turned the book to a new page with his slender fingers.

The smile disappeared from the face of the cruelest official, and Fang Kaiyin opened his mouth, suddenly horrified.

On the other side of the incident was the Empress Dowager Donggong whose cheeks had recovered a bit of blood.A big seal in Wang's hand was hanging upright on the edict paper, he took two deep breaths and turned to look beside him.

Wang Zhenghao warmly encouraged: "Sister, don't be afraid, the Imperial Army is in our hands after all."

"What if the lame three refuses to enter the palace?"

"Then punish him for not obeying the order."

Mrs. Wang let out another long breath, shaking her hands and using seals.But before it could be implemented, Wu Ran ran in from the outer hall again, panting, "I-I'm telling the queen mother, I'm telling the old man, it's said outside, that Lord Zhenfu Sifang has been killed by the regent!"

The sweat-stained imperial seal slipped from her hand, and Wang stared blankly at her elder brother, "What's going on?"

After being stunned for a moment, Wang Zhenghao slammed his hand on the imperial edict slowly and heavily, "The lame three saw it, so why not send that bastard Fang Kaiyin to kill the fourth younger brother first, and then retaliate against Fang's 'Jiaozhao' If you kill a minister without authorization, you will be executed."

Mrs. Wang seemed to understand, "But isn't the Fang surnamed one of my own who the youngest has painstakingly supported for many years?"

"That's right, it's thanks to Fang Kaiyin and the gang of cruel officials that the lame man's status is stable day by day, but let's forget that the cunning rabbit dies and the lackey cooks. Compared with using severe punishments and harsh laws to make everyone feel insecure, now I'm afraid the cripple San is more interested in winning people's hearts, and he will think that Fang Kaiyin will set up a big prison at every turn. He is worried that he has no excuse to cut his power. Now he is sleepy and meets a pillow, and he has earned the reputation of killing harm for the country. , and got the benefit of two consecutive troubles, so beautiful! It's our Wang family who 'lost his wife and lost his army'."

Mrs. Wang flickered, and she was soft in the golden lacquered chair behind her. A blue and white seed jade plug on her head fell to the ground, and there was a broken cry, "Then, fourth brother's bloody feud, why don't we just not mention it for nothing?"

"No." There were extremely hard thorns protruding from Wang Zhenghao's eyes, and he turned to stare at the eunuch behind his sister, "Wu Ran, if I remember well, you have a brother-in-law outside the palace ?”

Wu Ran's color changed, "Hui Ge Lao's words—" He paused for a long time, his right hand trembling slightly.At the end, I had no choice but to wave the whisk to wipe away the dust, "Yes."

11.
Because of this "yes", Wu Ran could not fall asleep until the fourth watch that night.

With a cough, sit up straight.The wife beside him was still not asleep, so she immediately got out of bed and helped him find the chamber pot under the bed - a gold-plated skull.

The eunuch's wife and the chamber pot made of skulls, these two strange things have a history.

Wu Ran's wife's nickname is Lusi'er. When their common master, the Queen Mother of the East Palace, was still the queen, Lusi'er was his personal maid.Queen Wang is beautiful but arrogant, and she is not happy, while the slightly handsome Lusi'er is docile and well-behaved.One day, when the queen was taking a nap, the Holy Master suddenly came and pressed Lu Si'er next to the alchemy cauldron in the alchemy room, causing the evil fire to escape.After the Queen knew about it, she was very sad. One day, she pointed to Lusier and gave her pet supervisor Wu Ran a pair of food. The men warmed the rice on their behalf, and over time, "due food" refers to the eunuchs and court ladies becoming friends.Since then, Lu Si'er was sent out of the palace and became Wu Ran's concubine wife. Except for the bed, she was no different from an ordinary couple.

The reason why Wu Ran became a eunuch was because of another thing: the skull chamber pot.Wu Ran was born in Guanzhong, and his family had spare money and family friends, so he made a baby marriage for him early.When he was 13 years old, his fiancée, whom he had never met, was spotted by the county magistrate of Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province, and wanted to take her as a concubine, but his parents refused to withdraw, so that he was beaten to death by the police.Wu Ran was the only child left in the family, who wrote a pleading paper in classical Chinese that seemed unintelligible, and went to the Yamen to beat drums to complain.First, I was beaten by the board according to the rules, but I didn't wait until I went to court. I only waited for a black cloth bag with a hood, and heard a black voice from outside the bag: "If you dare to rob my wife, you brat will be punished for the rest of your life." I can't be a wife!" Wu Ran woke up, everything she needed was gone, a goose quill catheter was inserted in her lower body, and after the tube was pulled out, she became a eunuch in the palace.After more than ten years of bitter and fearful life, suddenly the sky was cloudy and the moon was bright, and by chance, she was promoted by the Queen Wang to her side.Then suddenly one day, I ran into a childhood friend outside the palace. At the beginning, Wu Ran and him had a very good friendship in school, and they had sworn to heaven and earth.This person has been willful and heroic since he was a child, and he loves to fight against injustices. After hearing the truth about the ruin and death of his old friend back then, he was so angry that he drank a bowl of wine and left immediately.When he came back two and a half months later, he beheaded the former magistrate and now the governor, dug up a bare skull, and gave it to Wu Ran as a chamber pot with gold as a backing.

In the stillness of the night, Wu Ran looked down at his wife Lu Si'er and the drowning device in her hand, sighed, and urinated heavily.

After all, it was sleepless, the next day Dongfang Weiliang boarded the car and left the city, and arrived in front of a mansion in Wanping County.Seeing the handsome horses and chariots coming, the disciples were very courteous, "Sir, who are you looking for?"

Wu Ran was dressed like a layman, wearing a kitten bag and a straight skirt, and looked like a fair and clean scholar.He took out a name card from his sleeve and handed it Weiwei, "I'm looking for your master, Master Qiu Ruogu."

(End of this chapter)