Chapter 243 A bigger conspiracy
Duan Qingshan hurriedly stepped forward, and was about to shout, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, all misunderstandings, our own people", asking those people to put down their sticks.
Jiang Anning took a deep breath and slowly exhaled it, seemingly three times in a cycle, as if she was trying her best to restrain her anger. Then she just glanced at the people holding sticks and blocking her way.
Those people inexplicably felt a bone-deep fear that spread from the soles of their feet.
Forced out of control, they put away their sticks in fear and moved out of the way.
Duan Qingshan was a little dumbfounded.
Others were equally dumbfounded.
What just... happened?
"You..." Duan Qingshan was about to ask everyone what was going on.
Could it be that he recognized Jiang Anning?
But obviously, it was just them who saw Jiang Anning for the first time today!
Unexpectedly, other people were more surprised than him. They couldn't figure it out and asked him first: "Second Master, who is that young lady just now?"
The aura of his whole body is so scary!
They just seemed to have had their souls sucked out, their hands and feet were completely out of control, they just wanted to surrender and kneel on the ground.
I can't resist at all! !
It's like being bewitched! !
"That's your boss!" Duan Qingshan glared at the person and shouted a warning: "Please be alert! If there is anyone who dares to bump into the girl, don't blame me for being rude and rude to you. ! ”
The man quickly said: "How can you do that, Second Master! We are not the white-eyed wolves. We know who gave us a mouthful of food to eat, and we also know who it is. We are the victims of scourges, diseases and disasters among everyone." Time has given us a place to stay, allowing us to survive, and also protecting the whole family from disaster. ”
"The kindness that the girl has shown us is like repaying it all over again. Even if we spend our whole life repaying it, we will never be able to repay it fully."
"It's easy to add icing on the cake, but it's difficult to provide help when it's time!"
"We can still understand the importance of these."
"Yes!"
"That's right!"
Others also followed suit.
Duan Qingshan breathed a sigh of relief, and then remembered that everyone was indeed very respectful just now, so he nodded.
"You all wait here first."
He raised his head and glanced in the direction of Jiang Anning's boudoir, feeling inexplicably frightened.
After taking a long breath, he said again: "I'll go in and take a look first."
After saying that, he warned everyone: "No one is allowed to go in and disturb without my call or the girl's call. Do you hear me?"
Everyone nodded and agreed, "I understand."
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Beijing.
Jiang'an Hou Mansion.
Jiang Wei frowned, and although his eyes were fixed on the book in his hand, he actually didn't read a single line of it.
He threw the book down in annoyance and glared at Shengji next to him: "Still haven't you heard any news about Princess Shao'an?"
Shengji lowered his head, looking ashamed: "No."
"So is there any news about Aunt Gui? No?" Jiang Wei's patience was almost exhausted, and the anger in his heart was rising.
Sheng Ji buried his head even lower, not daring to look at anyone: "No, no."
"What about the news about Jiang Anning?"
Jiang Wei sneered: "You should be able to find out about her."
"She should have received the imperial edict by now."
He said "haha" twice with some disdain: "You are really lucky enough."
"Come to think of it, she must be very happy now, almost going crazy."
Jiang Wei was jealous and unhappy, and he laughed smugly: "The person who asked you to arrange for me to follow you should have passed my news to her by now, right?"
"What did she say?"
"Are you thinking about me, your young master, day and night? Now that you finally know the news about me, you are filled with joy and wish you could fly to the capital to meet me right away?"
He laughed proudly: "That's definitely the case."
"It's really hard for her."
“I don’t know how painful and difficult her life was during this time.”
"If she waits until she comes to Beijing and finds out that I have already been engaged, I'm afraid she will be even more heartbroken."
Jiang Wei's tone was full of excitement.
It seemed that watching Jiang Anning suffer was something that was pleasurable to both body and mind.
"But it doesn't matter. When she knows that she can be my concubine and take good care of me, then Princess Shao'an must also be generous and tolerant. When she gives birth to a son and a half daughter for me, After that, there is still a chance of being brought into the house. Even if she cannot become a concubine, there is still a possibility of being a concubine."
"She will definitely be happy then."
Sheng Ji was silent for a long time. After a while, he carefully considered his words and said as least as possible to his young master's self-esteem: "Our people haven't seen Miss Jiang yet."
Jiang Wei frowned: "Didn't you see it?"
He was furious: "What do you mean? Didn't I ask you to arrange for someone to go to Jiang'an County with the angel delivering the decree?"
"She cares about me and loves me so much. When she sees the people around me, she might not even care about the imperial decree."
Jiang Wei's voice paused: "Did you not do as I said and find someone familiar to follow you?"
That's why Jiang Anning didn't recognize the person, so that the person they arranged to go had no chance to get close.
Yes!
That must be the case!
With that little girl's wild cat-like personality, she would only show her belly to people she trusted and loved deeply, and she would always show her teeth and claws to others. If she didn't recognize the person he arranged to go to, she would definitely be wrong. Will allow strangers to approach.
If you show your courtesy for nothing, you are either committing adultery or stealing!
That girl is very smart!
Achievements:...
Sir, you are a little too confident.
He was speechless for a while. After a while, he regained his composure and stated the facts in as calm a voice as possible.
"The imperial edict was not received by Miss Jiang personally."
"Our people have never seen Miss Jiang from the beginning to the end."
Shengji suddenly paused, and then suddenly became enlightened.
yes!
Jiang Anning didn't accept the order at all.
Then it is quite reasonable for their people to never see Jiang Anning!
Hey hey hey, this can’t be considered as dereliction of duty on his part!
This is all excusable!
Shengji breathed a sigh of relief, and when he replied, he felt much more confident.
"Didn't you accept the order?"
Jiang Wei frowned: "Jiang Anning is so bold that he dares not to accept the imperial edict?"
Is she crazy?
Don't want to die?
It seems that hiring people to work in the outer chamber requires long-term planning.
Such a troublemaker with such a bold and shocking behavior may definitely bring disaster to the Jiang'an Marquis Mansion.
Even he didn't dare to refuse the imperial edict... Jiang Anning, a little country girl with no power or background, dared to despise the imperial power?
Don’t want to live anymore!
Even if you don’t want to live, don’t bring trouble to the Jiang’an Hou Mansion!
"It's not that I didn't pick it up, it's just that I didn't pick it up in person." Sheng Ji didn't know what Jiang Wei was thinking, so he just stated the facts honestly: "The people who heard from us reported that Jiang Anning has been there from the beginning to the end. She has never shown up, and even Manjiang'an County couldn't find any news about her, and even Jiangjia Village couldn't find any trace of her..."
This news came to Shengji three days ago.
Just going back and forth on the road delayed a lot of time.
In fact, this news was obtained by the informant of Jiang'an Houfu through inquiries half a month ago,
At that time, Jiang Anning was at Mrs. An's house, embroidering four screens with two sides and three different embroideries for Miss An's birthday.
Naturally, the informants of Jiang'an Houfu could not find out the news.
"Shouldn't you give me an explanation?"
Jiang Anning suddenly became a little angry when she saw the silent man who followed her into the inner room and followed the rules, only stopping behind the curtain.
This man is also good at pretending!
It was obvious that he had done some dirty tricks in private, causing everything in front of her to be filled with smoke and smoke, and even the boss had come out!
Is she some kind of bandit leader?
Still in charge...
The more Jiang Anning thought about it, the angrier she became. She glared at the person and yelled: "What do you mean by not speaking? Have I wronged you? Well, the second in charge!"
Duan Qingshan was so frightened that his tongue trembled and his face turned pale. After a while, he recovered from the fright and knelt on the ground with a plop: "Lord, Lord..."
He struggled to explain, but his tongue seemed to be knotted. He didn't know how to bite, swallow, and gasp, and he couldn't make any sound at all.
"Don't do this with me again!"
Jiang Anning glared at the person angrily, not wanting to show her face at all.
"What you said before, having people hold down all those women... did you mean those people outside?"
She looked at Duan Qingshan coldly: "The incident happened suddenly. If I had to call someone temporarily, I'm afraid it would be too late to do so quickly."
"Besides, you told me before that these people have no identity documents, let alone the means to settle down and settle down. With new household registration, they have no way to enter the city."
"In this case, they can only rush here from outside the city..."
"Based on what you said to me in the carriage before, it will definitely be too late to rush here from outside the city."
Jiang Anning sneered a few times: "Then, the most reasonable and possible explanation is that these people have been in Chaohuang Embroidery Fang from the beginning."
"Even if I'm not in the embroidery workshop, I'm probably somewhere nearby. When I hear your greeting, everyone immediately rushes over."
"Otherwise, I'm afraid it won't be that easy to capture everyone."
Duan Qingshan lowered his head and said in a low voice: "In fact, we didn't capture everyone..."
"Huh?"
Jiang Anning looked at the person with confusion in her eyes.
"Didn't you say before..." You were worried that those people would go out and make up nonsense to ruin her reputation, so you suppressed all those women?
Duan Qingshan buried his head lower, not daring to look at anyone at all.
"The slaves were incompetent. Although they had all the women who obviously had other agendas restrained at that time, they were still unprepared. Those who followed the women looked at the very strong and brutal guards."
He said guiltily in a low voice: "Although I had people chase me at that time, Chaohuang Xiufang was located in a busy city. It only took a moment for those people to blend into the vast sea of people and be nowhere to be found."
"The slaves only caught one guard in the end."
"But that man took poison and committed suicide at that time, without giving the slave a chance to interrogate him."
Jiang Anning was surprised: "Suicide by taking poison?"
She was really frightened.
Committing suicide by taking poison... This kind of death method that she had only heard about in her story books was actually chosen in order to avoid being tortured and forced to confess after being caught, but it actually happened in reality.
Still by her side.
Jiang Anning was stunned for a long time, and then came back to her senses when Duan Qingshan called out.
"My Lord? My Lord, are you okay? My Lord..."
Jiang Anning looked at the person dullly, unable to find her voice for a moment.
Who did she offend?
How could someone...even arrange for a dead soldier?
I heard that training a dead soldier is extremely expensive.
Even among wealthy families, few can afford to support them.
Only those aristocrats with profound background and wealth can have enough money and ability to train dead soldiers.
Is it too much to use such precious resources to deal with a little village girl like her?
Listening to what Duan Qingshan said, there were more than three or two guards who escaped.
If these people who escaped were all dead soldiers like the one who was captured... I'm afraid they were no longer ordinary nobles.
Jiang Anning had no reason to think of the imperial edict that had been sent all the way from the capital and came out of nowhere.
But she really couldn't understand why she would provoke such a big shot?
Could it be because she presented the Buddha image through Chaohuang Embroidery Workshop?
She thought again about Xie Lan, whom she met at Mrs. An's house, who claimed to be a descendant of the Imperial Prefect's house.
Jiang Anning's mind was in a mess, and she couldn't figure it out for a while.
In her previous life, she had been trapped in Jiang'an County and the Zhao family for most of her life, and had no chance to be exposed to these things.
"I'm fine."
Jiang Anning took a deep breath to calm down: "I'm just a little surprised, but also a little confused. What secrets do I have that are worthy of the people behind me spending so much effort and going to great lengths to deal with me?"
"Ha... Even such a precious resource as a dead soldier is willing to be used on me."
I'm afraid it's not a life-or-death feud.
Duan Qingshan pursed his lips and reminded in a low voice: "Maybe the secret is not yours, but your mother's?"
He reminded people: "Do you still remember what I told you before, what the county magistrate and Mrs. An said?"
Jiang Anning was slightly startled when he heard the words and seemed thoughtful.
Duan Qingshan added: "Actually, I have always been confused."
Jiang Anning looked up at him.
"What the three of them said together that day should be considered shameful."
"At least it shouldn't be in front of me..."
Duan Qingshan pursed his lips: "People like them should know better that the only ones who can really keep secrets are dead people."
"How could they just give me some gold and silver and then safely think that I have really been bribed by them?"
"Even afterwards, there was absolutely no intention to kill or silence anyone."
Jiang Anning frowned: "What do you mean?"
"They know that the slave is loyal to you."
"I will definitely tell you everything I heard them say that day, word for word."
Duan Qingshan curled his fingers slightly: "Perhaps, letting you know is their ultimate goal."
Jiang Anning frowned even more tightly.
"If the speculation you mentioned is true, then what are they planning?"
Let her know the truth about A Niang's death and arouse her hatred.
Is it possible that there is some conspiracy behind this?