Chapter 233 – Purple Oil Pear Strings
Jiang Yishi laughed, ”Cun’er already has so many private rooms. Sister have someone keep an account and put it in the treasury. Oh, and take out the gifts from the Grand Princess’ residence.”
She didn’t trust He and didn’t want the gifts she brought.
In the evening, Meng Zhimo came back and said that she heard Yunxiu say that Fu Clan and Second Lady Ding spoke alone in the house for a while, and that she didn’t know what they said.
However, after the guests left, Fu went to the storehouse to rummage through the cupboards and took a few small ornaments and strings, hanging jewelry back to the house …….
Jiang Yishi said, “Is it possible that the Zhao family asked Fu to send something, and Fu hid it in those ornaments and gave it to the person they wanted to harm?”
Meng Zhimo said, “There is this possibility. How Fu sends it, let’s wait and see.” He added, “I’ve heard that the Upanpan Monk has already passed Jinzhou and should be returning to Ushi Zang.”
In order to track the Wu Fan Monk without letting him and Xuan Diao notice, the people who tracked him were not only far away, but also changed their group of people every one or two dozen miles. The sections that were really bad to track were abandoned, and some people were arranged at certain places along the road that must be traveled to Us-Tibet, and then continued to track them until they were sent out of the Jin and Dynasty.
Meng Zhimo fell asleep, but Jiang Yishi was still awake. She suddenly felt that there was a hint of a clue that seemed to be there, but she couldn’t catch it, and it was hard to think about it.
The next day, Hua Hua proposed that she wanted to go see Li Zhenbao, and then go to the Qingluo Mountain behind Zhaoming Nunnery to play for two days.
Jiang Yishi did not put, but also need a small thing to mess with eavesdropping. Gave it a wish that when the paymaster whisked away, it could go out wild for as many days as it wanted.
She is still not worried about Li Zhenbao, so she asked Sister Wu and Wu Yougui to Zhaomingan to Li Zhenbao to send a can of tonic soup. Although Jiang Yishi didn’t make the soup herself, she added a bit of eye water to it.
Sister Wu came back and said that although Princess Jumbo was still not quite conscious, she was better than the other day.
She heard Sister Chai say that when she was unconscious, she said things like “stop” and “give up on me”, so they suspected that she might have been mesmerized by something.
Not only did the Silent Cang presidency perform the dharma, but they also brought in the Ring Wyvern presidency from the Temple of the State of Retribution and the Abbot Jiben from the Temple of Heung Po to perform the dharma.
After Sister Wu left, Hua Hua said fervently, “It must be that Li Zhen Bao’s father in her previous life found another better medicine, if it wasn’t for the senior monks and nuns over here doing the magic to lock her soul, Li Zhen Bao might really have come to life in that world, and died completely in this world.”
Jiang Yishi sighed, “I don’t know if Little Zhenbao is blessed or not. Saying that she is blessed, she has to suffer so much every day. If you say she’s not blessed, her relatives on both sides are doing their best to save her. In fact, she has already had the choice to let the relatives on that side give up, but the relatives on that side just can’t give up ……”
Three days later, Fu’s maternal nephew came to the capital on business and came to visit Fu specifically. Fu’s very happy, let the kitchen sent a table of good mat noodles to the main courtyard, Meng Ruyu and Meng Hua went to accompany the guest.
Flowers listen to the whole process, back to Jiang Yishi for live broadcast, Jiang Yishi listen to half on the call to stop. Perhaps deliberately, Fu and that nephew did not say a little about the topic of the Marquis of Zhennan and Zhao Guifei.
Although some of Meng Hua’s words scolding Jiang Yishi and Meng Ruimo, Fu’s and Meng Ruyu were teaching her how to behave, there really wasn’t any useful ones. However, Jiang Yishi also learned that nowadays, Meng Hua hated her more than she hated Meng Yue and Meng Ruimo.
The next day, Fu had her maid take a few brocade boxes and a basket of lemons to Fu An Hall.
Fu smiled and said, ”Nanzhong is rich in jadeite jade and fruits, this time I was given some jewelry and lemons. Lemon infused water is good to drink, divide a dozen in one courtyard.”
He also opened the brocade box and gave the old master a small jade pendant, the old lady a pair of jadeite bracelets, and the second and third ladies each a jasper hairpin.
The old lady and the others expressed their gratitude.
As soon as Fu left, the old master put everything away, including the lemons.
Although the second and third houses didn’t know specifically, they knew that the old master didn’t trust the Fu Clan nowadays, and perhaps there was something else that they didn’t know about. Not only did they turn things in, but also promised not to tell anyone.
Central and southern provinces are full of barbarians, those barbarians are not only good at making poison, but also good at casting parasites.
In his early years, the old master had quelled a rebellion in the south, and had once saved the life of an elder of the Miao tribe. That elder gave Old Master two people who knew about poisons and parasites, a husband and wife. They changed the men’s surnames to Meng in order to be more loyal to Elder Lord Meng.
Now that both of that husband and wife are dead, the son is still serving the Elder Duke, which is Meng Zhong.
Meng Zhong’s family life in addition to the old master others do not know, Meng Ruimo or last year when the old master is ready to hand over the hands of the power directly to him, only to know that thing.
Meng Zhong’s skill in making poison and placing parasites is far from being able to catch up with his parents, but he can definitely tell if there are any parasites. As for poisons, he could identify several rare poisons that the Southern Barbarians were good at making, and he could also tell the general poisons of the Central Plains, but he couldn’t do anything about the secret poisons of other places.
The old man asked Meng Shen and the others to take the stuff to the other courtyard for Meng Zhong to identify. Cutting all the lemons open, no poisons or parasites were found. The few ornaments and jewelry, also found nothing unusual.
This made Meng Zhimo, who had rushed back to the capital afterward, so frustrated that his eyebrows were wrinkled into a frown. There were some places where they even tore a hole and still found no abnormalities.
The old man said, ”If you don’t have this much determination, how can you do great things? The more cautious they are, the more it means they want to kill in one hit.”
Meng Zhimo hurriedly said, “Grandfather is right.”
What he was anxious about wasn’t Fu’s inaction, but that he couldn’t get rid of her for the time being without catching evidence that Fu was helping Marquis Zhennan to frame Duke Cheng’s House.
Previously, he thought that he would be able to put Fu to death if he found evidence that she was having an affair with Zhao Hu, but now he had to keep waiting.
He felt that he had waited too long for that day.
The old master’s one-liner put him to shame. Yes, this point of determination are not, how to protect the people who want to protect ……
On the evening of April 28th, after dinner, the old Grand Duke went to the study in the front yard.
Today, Meng Ruimo is coming back from the military camp, the old master recruited his two sons and a few adult grandchildren to discuss matters of the court in the front yard study.
The second old master and Meng Ruyue and Meng Ruyue all came, and Duke Cheng was the last to arrive.
Duke Cheng smiled as he presented the old Duke with a brocade box, ”General Hao of Qiongtai returned to the capital for an audience with the Emperor, and today my son drank wine with him at the food. He gave me a string of purple oil pear, extremely beautiful. My son couldn’t use it and honored my father.”
He took the string of beads out of the brocade box. Second Master Meng inhaled first, “Oops, it’s full tumor scar texture, this is the first time I’ve seen it.”
The old master’s eyes narrowed. He didn’t want to believe that his son would follow Fu to harm himself, and he also knew that General Hao of Qiongtai had entered the capital. But this time period of his son’s gift delivery was too coincidental.
The old man took the string of beads, which was dark purple in color, with a beautiful texture, sufficient oil, and a faint medicinal fragrance. There are thirteen wooden beads, string gap there hanging a small light green round gemstone.