cabinet first lady

Chapter 97 Absurd Ideas

When Zhang Anchao heard that Ruan Muyang asked him to go to Chuanyun Courtyard, he felt flustered.

Chen's expression was unclear, and her tone was full of dissatisfaction and complaints: "You are obviously injured and need to recover, why did the second sister-in-law call you over?"

"Maybe I want to ask about my second brother." Zhang Anchao suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and stood up.

"If it wasn't for the second brother, you wouldn't have been implicated and injured. I don't know what the second sister-in-law is going to ask." Chen's tone was filled with complaints about Ruan Muyang.She obviously felt that Zhang Anchao was really innocent this time and was implicated by Zhang Anyi.

Chen's words touched Zhang Anchao's heart, he frowned, looked around, and reminded in a low voice: "Don't talk nonsense, what if others hear it?" He was already guilty.

Mrs. Chen opened her mouth and stopped talking.

Zhang Anchao straightened his clothes, took a deep breath, and went out to Chuanyunyuan.

When he arrived, Ruan Muyang had cleared out all the servants who didn't want to do it, leaving only Fang Fang guarding the door, and Mo Jian who just came back was beside her, and Zhang Anyu was also there.

"Fourth brother is here too." Zhang Anchao's tone was very polite, "Second sister-in-law sent someone to call me here, but is there any news about second brother and Qingshi?" He carefully tested.When he stepped into the Cloud Chuanyuan, he panicked for no reason, for fear that he would be exposed.

Ruan Muyang shook his head, with a look of distress on his haggard face.

Zhang Anchao secretly heaved a sigh of relief.As long as Zhang Anyi is not found, what he did will not be discovered.

Since he came in, Ruan Muyang has been paying attention to his expression.Seeing him secretly relieved, mockery flashed in her eyes.Unexpectedly, someone as cunning as Luo Jie and as ambitious as Queen Mother Qiu would want to use Zhang Anchao's hand to harm Zhang Anyi.But it's useless for them to make thousands of calculations, and it's useless to arrange them carefully and carefully, because Zhang Anchao is a fool.

"Second Sister-in-law, Second Brother and Qingshi will be fine." Zhang Anchao said with a worried look, "If Second Sister-in-law needs my help, feel free to ask."

After speaking, he just moved his eyes and met Zhang Anyu's mocking gaze.

He frowned.His fourth brother has always been eccentric.

Ruan Muyang looked at Zhang Anchao's pretentious appearance, felt disgusted in his heart, and deliberately softened his tone and said, "I accept the third brother's wishes. This time, I asked the third brother to come here because I really need the third brother."

"Second sister-in-law, please tell me." Zhang Anchao felt a little complacent.

How good is his second sister-in-law?But she was just a woman, and she still wanted him to help her.

When his heart was flustered, Ruan Muyang's voice sounded: "I sent Mo Wen to look for it according to the third brother's instructions, but when he came back, Mo Wen told me that according to the footprints, your second brother and Qing Shi did not run south. of--"

Zhang Anchao was taken aback, his secretly raised lips didn't even have time to fall down.

"Maybe I remembered wrongly. It was an emergency." He tried to maintain his composure and explained.

Ruan Muyang suddenly sneered and asked, "Really?"

Zhang Anchao felt that his back was sweating all of a sudden.He nodded.

"A place as familiar as Lingri Mountain, even if it was chaotic at the time, if you think about it afterwards, you won't go in the wrong direction, unless—" Ruan Muyang stared at Zhang Anchao, his tone became colder and colder, "Unless the third brother said that on purpose Yes, I don’t want our people to find your second brother.”

In the end, she was very determined.

Those words hit Zhang Anchao's heart like a hammer, making him feel so painful that he couldn't breathe, and he almost couldn't stand up.

"How can the second sister-in-law say that? That's my second brother." His voice was already trembling.

At this time, Zhang Anyu said with a mocking voice: "Who did the third brother secretly see last night?"

Zhang Anchao looked at Zhang Anyu in horror.

Ruan Muyang also stopped putting on airs with him, and wished he could stop him with his eyes: "Yes, you also know that one is your second brother and the other is your own nephew, but you still have to be cruel. Zhang Anchao, it's all of us who underestimated you , I underestimated you, a wolf-hearted person. Don't see it!"

Mo Jiandeling stepped forward and kicked Zhang Anchao's knee. Zhang Anchao was so painful that he knelt down in front of Ruan Muyang.

Zhang Anchao despised women in his heart, kneeling in front of Ruan Muyang like this, he felt extremely embarrassed, but Mo Jian held him down, and he couldn't move at all. "Bold! You, a servant, dare to do this to me!" He shouted loudly.

But Mo Jian remained unmoved.

In the Zhang residence, a servant could treat him like this.

Zhang Anchao only cared about blaming others, but he never thought that he would fall into such a situation because of himself, and it was his own fault.

"I didn't expect you to let the fourth brother stare at me." He looked at Ruan Muyang with hatred and unwillingness in his eyes.

Ruan Muyang sneered and said, "Do you think I won't know if no one is staring at you and finds that you are in contact with suspicious people?"

Having said that, she paused for a moment, and her tone became sharper: "Zhang Anchao, among the four brothers of the Zhang family, only you are the stupidest."

Zhang Anchao, as the only concubine of the Zhang family, was very sensitive on weekdays.He always felt that he was in this situation because of his status as a concubine. If he was also a concubine, he would definitely be no worse than Zhang Anyi.Hearing Ruan Muyang poke at the pain in his heart, his expression gradually became ferocious: "What do you mean?"

Zhang Anyu smiled viciously, walked up to Zhang Anchao, looked down at him, shook his head and said, "Third brother, don't be dissatisfied, you are really stupid." His words were merciless.

Zhang Anchao blushed from the humiliation.

"If you want to pretend, you don't pretend to be. With your resentful nature, how could you let the second brother give up on you and go first? If the second brother really let you go, with your narrow-mindedness, I'm afraid He would hate him to death, why would he not be angry at all when he came back? This excuse is too stupid, and it makes people suspicious." Zhang Anyu's tone was lazy.

He kept posting words such as "blaming others" and "narrow-minded" to Zhang Anchao.

Zhang Anchao, who was kneeling in front of him, felt like an ant being trampled underfoot.Especially this person is still Zhang Anyu who he looks down on very much, usually ignorant and incompetent.

The veins on his forehead popped.

What Zhang Anyu said was too harsh, but it was exactly what Ruan Muyang wanted.She added: "Zhang Anchao, it's not how smart we are, it's you who showed your flaws. Your second elder brother took care of you well, why did you want to kill him? You're so cruel that you hurt your five-year-old nephew?"

Speaking of this, Ruan Muyang's eyes turned red.This is not fake, thinking of Zhang Qingshi, who has never left her before, living outside these few days and not knowing what kind of life he is living, she feels very distressed.

She had many enemies with Zhang Anyi, and there were many people who wanted to put Zhang Anyi to death, but this time they were their relatives, people from the Zhang family.

Looking at Ruan Muyang's red eyes, Zhang Anchao thought of Zhang Anyi who hadn't heard from him until now.

It's been the fourth day, and it must be more or less auspicious, and [-]% of them will never come back.

It was because of this that he, who was usually timid and timid, did not show any fear today.

He sneered, raised his head to look at Ruan Muyang, and said unwillingly and mockingly in his tone: "Not thin? If it wasn't for him, I would have missed the best time in three years to avoid suspicion? Later, I finally passed the exam. I just If he wants to stay in the capital, he also needs to spend a long time, which is simply a piece of cake for him, but he still has to put on airs with me—"

Ruan Muyang frowned deeply, not knowing whether to be angry or laugh.

She didn't expect Zhang Anchao's heart to be like this.From his tone, it seemed that if Zhang Anyi hadn't been the same examiner and had to avoid him back then, he would have won the top prize in high school.

But this matter can't be argued with him, and she doesn't want to argue with him about it.

But Zhang Anyu was laughed angrily by him, and said: "Third Brother really doesn't know what to do, you are just a tribute, if it wasn't for Second Brother, would you still be able to stay in Beijing?"

Only those with low self-esteem and sensitivity who look down on themselves will see anyone talking to him as if they are putting on airs.

Zhang Anchao pretended not to hear Zhang Anyu's words, and continued, "It's because of him that I don't have an official position. And I heard that I was able to win this year, and it was because of him that I failed."

"Who told you?" Ruan Muyang felt that Zhang Anchao was really stupid, "Did the person who asked you to do these things tell you? What good did they promise you?" In fact, she knew it in her heart, but it was inconvenient to show it .

Zhang Anchao pursed his lips and refused to speak.

"Zhang Anchao, you have done such a thing. If your second brother and Twenty One have any good or bad, you will not be enough to die ten thousand times. If you don't tell me, believe it or not, I will kill you right now?" Ruan Muyang didn't hide anymore own killing intent.This Zhang Anchao really couldn't stay.

Under Ruan Muyang's gesture, Mo Jian's hand squeezed Zhang Anchao's neck.

Sensing that Ruan Muyang really wanted to kill him, Zhang Anchao's eyes showed fear, his body tensed up, and he immediately showed his weakness, "I said, I said."

Ruan Muyang let Mo Jian let go.If Zhang Anchao had always looked tough, that would be fine, he could still be said to have a bit of backbone.But he immediately begged for mercy.She frowned in disgust.

After Mo Jian let go of his hand, Zhang Anchao seemed to be so frightened that he almost collapsed on the ground.He put his hands on the ground and lowered his head. When Ruan Muyang and Zhang Anyu couldn't see him, a smile and complacency flashed in his eyes.Immediately, he raised his head and begged for mercy: "It's Lord Yin Jiyin! He promised that as long as I do this, he will arrange an official position for me!"

Ruan Muyang naturally knew that it couldn't be Yin Ji's.

She underestimated Zhang Anchao.

Originally, he was going to expose him, but after a second thought, he decided to continue to use his tricks.She frowned and asked coldly, "It's really him?"

She wanted to expose him today, and then put him under house arrest until Zhang Anyi came back, but unexpectedly, she accidentally gave Zhang Anchao a chance to frame Yin Ji.There must be someone instigating behind this, so they just continue to plan.

Zhang Anchao nodded, and begged: "Second sister-in-law, please forgive me, I was wrong. I said everything."

At this time, Ruan Muyang still didn't know how to repent, his heart became cold, and his heart to kill him became more determined.

Zhang Anchao, who had learned the inside story in advance, changed his expression slightly. Seeing that Ruan Muyang didn't open his mouth to expose it, he didn't speak either.

"I didn't expect you to be bought by Yin Ji for an official position." Ruan Muyang looked at him coldly.

Zhang Anchao lowered his head lower, and a smile was quietly evoked on his lips, very proud, like a winner.

Ruan Muyang asked Mo Jian to send Zhang Anchao back, and then sent people to guard his yard, restricting his movements.

"What's the second sister-in-law's plan?" Zhang Anyu has been watching Ruan Muyang confront Zhang Anchao.A pregnant woman is always in a weak position in the eyes of others and needs help, but she is unusually calm and thoughtful, making Zhang Anchao go back proudly without any flaws.

I'm afraid Zhang Anchao thought that he had successfully tricked Ruan Muyang into a circle when he went back.

Ruan Muyang's mind was spinning all the time.While thinking of a countermeasure based on Zhang Anchao's reaction, she also had to guess what Zhang Anyi's plan was and how she could cooperate.

The assassination happened suddenly, except for the letter that night, they had no contact with each other, it was all based on tacit understanding and understanding of each other.

"Fourth brother, keep watching Zhang Anchao for me to see who will contact him secretly." It is impossible for Queen Mother Qiu to contact Zhang Anchao directly, and it is impossible to send someone she can't trust, so the person who contacts Zhang Anchao must be someone whom the Queen Mother Qiu trusts people, or relatives.

Zhang Anyu nodded and said, "It's on me." Being able to participate in it was also a coincidence. In the past few days, he gradually felt his immaturity and the gap between himself and that second brother.

This gap is undoubtedly his motivation.He reminded himself to hold back his temper and calm down.

Looking at Ruan Muyang's protruding belly, he thought for a while and reminded: "Second sister-in-law, you still have to take good care of your body." For a pregnant woman, it is not good to think too much.

"Thank you fourth brother for reminding me." Ruan Muyang bent his lips.

She thought that this pregnancy would be smooth and smooth, but her life seemed to have little fate with the word "smooth".

After discussing with Zhang Anyu, just as everything was arranged, Shen Wei came.

"Master Shen came just in time, I just happened to have something to say to Master Shen." Ruan Muyang dismissed everyone.

Shen Wei raised his eyebrows: "Sister-in-law, but what happened?"

Ruan Muyang nodded.After looking at Shen Wei twice, she felt that Shen Wei was a little different today. Although her fair complexion was still somewhat sickly, but when she took a closer look, there was a hint of ruddy, and her complexion was better than before, but her eyes now had a pale color. Light blue and black, with a trace of fatigue between the brows, it looks like——like being tortured for a long time last night.

Then she felt that her idea was too ridiculous.

Sensing Ruan Muyang's gaze, Shen Wei felt a little guilty for no reason, as if she had noticed something.

Last night she was really tossed hard, Yin Ji seemed to be insatiable, it made her feel pain between her legs when she walked today, which was very awkward.Fortunately, the official uniform is lenient, so you can't see anything unusual.

Probably really a guilty conscience.Shen Wei took the initiative to ask: "But what's going on in the house?"

After excluding his own thoughts, Ruan Muyang didn't think about anything else.She said: "I questioned Zhang Anchao in the afternoon. I thought he would confess to Queen Mother Qiu, but he said that it was Yin Ji who instigated him."

The two successes of "Yin Ji" made Shen Wei jump, feeling guilty for a while.

"He should have been ordered to frame Yin Ji." Shen Wei tried hard to put aside those messy thoughts and said, "Queen Mother Qiu wants to take this opportunity to frame Yin Ji, increase our dissatisfaction with Yin Ji, and let us take action against him."

Zhang Anyi searched for several days but couldn't find it. In the eyes of others, it was almost impossible to survive.Only Shen Wei is the backbone of his faction.The Empress Dowager Qiu wanted to provoke them, so that both of them would be hurt, and in the end they would reap the benefits without a single soldier.

Ruan Muyang slightly lowered his voice and said to Shen Wei: "Today is already the fourth day, if it drags on, I'm afraid the queen mother will become suspicious." She already had plans when she decided to let Zhang Anyu continue to stare at Zhang Anchao, but she didn't know Zhang Anyi What do you think.

Shen Wei looked at her unexpectedly and asked: "Madam sister-in-law means—"

In her opinion, Ruan Muyang is indeed more delicate and calm than ordinary women, but this is only used to sit in Zhang's mansion and deceive everyone.This was already a very difficult task for a woman who was more than seven months pregnant, but she didn't expect that she had other plans.

Ruan Muyang took a deep breath, and said calmly: "It would be most appropriate for me to sue the imperial court in the morning. If you have already prepared everything and there is only one chance, it will be the day after tomorrow."

She spoke surprisingly, which made Shen Wei look surprised.

Grasping the opportunity and attacking boldly is what Ruan Muyang is best at.

Without her saying much, Shen Wei immediately had an idea in his heart.Looking at Ruan Muyang again, Shen Wei can no longer treat her as a woman, her city is not inferior to the man who is an official in the court.

"It's just, Mrs. Sister-in-law, you are pregnant—" I am afraid that Zhang Er will not agree.

Ruan Muyang said: "I know my own body, and nothing will happen. Only in this way can they be caught off guard."

Her calm voice and tone were very convincing, Shen Wei was a little moved, but he didn't dare to make up his own mind.She frowned and thought about it, and said: "Let's wait until I go back and send someone to talk to Yuan Zai about this matter, let's see what he plans."

In order to prevent being discovered by Queen Mother Qiu's people, they were all very cautious, and even Shen Wei did not rush to meet Zhang Anyi.

"it is good."

Shen Wei left in a hurry.When she left Chuanyun Academy, she met Zhang Ji and Li Shi. "Uncle, aunt." She greeted and left.

The fact that Ruan Muyang sent someone to lock Zhang Anchao in the yard caused a lot of commotion in the Zhang residence.She did this openly, as if the entire Zhang Mansion was under her control.

How does this look like something a pregnant woman does?

So Zhang Ji and Li Shi came.

Seeing them, Ruan Muyang called out respectfully: "Father, mother."

"Just now I saw Mrs. Shen go out." As soon as she sat down, Li Shi said in a dissatisfied tone, "How can you, a woman, see a young man alone?"

Ruan Muyang didn't contradict her, but said: "It's about discussing the second master."

Mrs. Li opened her mouth and stopped talking.

"Why did you send someone to watch An Chao?" Zhang Ji asked.Something happened to Zhang Anyi, he should be in charge of the Zhang Manor now, but Ruan Muyang didn't inform him of anything, which made him feel very dishonored.

How could Ruan Muyang fail to guess Zhang Ji's thoughts?
His son and grandson are missing, but his main concern is himself.

"Back to father, the assassination of Er Ye and Er Er is related to the third brother."

After Ruan Muyang's voice fell, Zhang Ji and Li Shi showed surprised expressions.

"What did you say?" Zhang Ji asked.

"The fourth brother found out the clues, and then we asked the third brother, and the third brother admitted it himself. The person who instigated him was Yin Ji." At this point, Ruan Muyang asked them, "Father and mother think that the third brother Murdered the imperial court official, should I do this?"

Mentioning Yin Ji, Zhang Ji's face showed anger.He always remembers his dismissal.

Ruan Muyang continued: "This matter is not trivial. I didn't say it, but I told Mr. Shen first. Father, mother, the whereabouts of the second master and Er Eryi are unknown, and it may be bad luck if they can't be recruited for a long time. One of them is me. One is my son, I will take care of the third brother who harmed them, is it wrong?"

Her tone was weak, as if she really was a woman who had lost her husband and son, but her words were very strong, touching the hearts of Zhang Ji and Li Shi.

They were so questioned that they were speechless.

Zhang Ji's eyes were full of anger: "I didn't expect this rebellious son to do such a thing!" Among the sons of the first relatives and the concubine, among Zhang Anyi who was the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Zhang Anchao, who was nothing, Zhang Ji Naturally, he was on Zhang Anyi's side.

Li Shi is even more so.She has always been worried about Zhang Ji having an affair with other women and giving birth to Zhang Anchao, and she has made things difficult for Zhang Anchao and the Chen family all these years.She complained, "Look, it's all your son!"

Although Zhang Ji is confused, he is not so confused that he still has to help Zhang Anchao.Being so angry by Zhang Anchao for doing such a thing, and with Mrs. Li on the side lighting the fire, his expression was cold, and he said: "You actually turned your elbows like this! You bastard! I will ask the family law to teach him a lesson now!"

With that, he left.Mrs. Li followed anxiously.

They were going to deal with Zhang Anchao, so Ruan Muyang would naturally not stop them.She hoped that Zhang Anchao would suffer a little bit first, and that the news that Yin Ji bribed Zhang Anchao to assassinate Zhang Anyi would spread.

Seeing that Chuanyunyuan finally became quiet, Fang Fang came up to help Ruan Muyang to sit down, and said: "Madam, you are here for one afternoon and one night, hurry up and rest."

When she said this, Ruan Muyang felt extremely tired, as if he had no strength at all.

Being pregnant is easy to get tired, and her heart and mind never stopped throughout the day.

Seeing this, Fang Fang said worriedly: "I'll ask Hong Fang to call the doctor."

Ruan Muyang nodded.She also didn't want anything to happen to the baby in her stomach.

In an inconspicuous small courtyard in the east of the capital city, the guards are heavily guarded. The lights in the main house are on. On the simple bed, a small figure is curled up there as if asleep, with its mouth open and drooling slightly. At the corner of the mouth, beside the bed, a figure as tall as a mountain was sitting there, reading letters one after another, looking back at the little man on the bed breathing evenly from time to time, pulling the thin quilt for him.

The two people, one big and one small, were none other than Zhang Anyi and Zhang Qingshi.

(End of this chapter)