Chapter 1173 The Old Family
The other party was too powerful and there were many people. After two days of investigation and almost alerting the other party, Dongfang Yi and Senior Brother did not dare to act rashly. They only quietly sent a letter to Xia Zihan telling her the situation.
In the darkroom, Xia Zihan, who had just received the letter, handed it to Chu Jingqi to read.
Chu Jingqi's injury has been recovering for three or four days. The wound has scabbed over, the pain has been relieved a lot, and she can move her body. However, she still has to sleep on her stomach and cannot get up alone. She has to be supported by someone to get to the ground.
Today, the three-day holiday invited by Rong San came. He went to the palace early in the morning to work as an errand. In the darkroom, there were only two people, Xia Zihan and Chu Jingqi. However, Rong San had a conscience and brought two discs before leaving. Desserts came in, and a large pot of chicken soup was brought, which was warmed on the small stove, filling the room with the aroma of chicken.
Chu Jingqi took the letter, unfolded it, and scanned the paper with his eyes. When he folded the paper, his eyebrows were tightened.
Xia Zihan rubbed his temples and said in a very solemn tone, "Aqi, tell me, who in the entire capital can recruit so many people overnight without being noticed?"
Chu Jingqi grabbed Xia Zihan, took her hand off, touched it with his own, and gently rubbed her temples, "The water in the capital is deep. Many established families were once famous and well-known. If they were Stomping his feet, the emperor's heart will tremble three times , later, perhaps because of fear that the big tree would attract wind and cause trouble, overnight, five or six established aristocratic families began to keep a low profile and not attract attention. As time went by, people in the capital would almost forget their past arrogance. , come unscrupulously.”
"These aristocratic families are still there. They keep a low profile on the surface, but secretly they are raising dead soldiers and a group of guards in the mansion. If they take action against our Chu family, we will definitely be caught off guard by their plan."
This time, the father and son were caught off guard by someone's secret plan. They didn't even have time to resist before they were stabbed.
Fortunately, there is no need to worry about life, and the person is still alive.
Xia Zihan was surprised, pulled Chu Jingqi's hand off, and held it in his hand as a heater, "Isn't it clear that our country does not allow dead people to raise dead soldiers? Even guards can't have more than 200 people. How dare they raise dead soldiers? They are not afraid When the emperor finds out, he will punish them for despising the imperial power and being arrogant.”
Chu Jingqi smiled sarcastically, "National laws and regulations are stipulated for those who are afraid of them. People who are not afraid of them will do whatever they want. Even if someone reports it, they must provide real evidence. Without evidence, it is all nonsense."
In the capital, many wealthy families secretly raise dead soldiers, even the Chu family does so. However, it is all a secret matter. Since it is a secret matter, it is not made public, even if it is known to others. , in the absence of actual evidence, who is willing to offend people for no reason.
However, in this assassination, the other party was able to send out hundreds of dead soldiers at once, forcing him to take Ayu to escape. This really surprised him, and he also carefully considered the families in the capital who had raised dead soldiers. They filtered them one by one, but no family could bring out hundreds of dead soldiers to deal with the father and son.
However, this thing does exist, and it is still a fact.
Chu Jingqi's words hinted both inside and outside that in the capital, people with power and status are the rules, and people without power, power and status have to follow the rules. Therefore, if you want to find out the murderer behind the scenes, You have to start investigating the powerful and status people first.
Xia Zihan bit her lip with a sinister look on her face, "No matter who the other party is, since he has provoked our Chu family, we must not let him go."
"Blood debts must be repaid with blood. However, as soon as our Chu family members leave the Chu family's gate, they will fall into the hands of the other party, making it impossible for our people to find out who the other party is." Xia Zi Han said frustrated.
As for those Chu family members who fell into the hands of the other party, they knew without guessing that their whereabouts would definitely not be cured.
Among them, in addition to a group of secret guards under Fox, there are also more than a dozen people under Chu Lin.
Chu Lin has spent a lot of effort to cultivate that group of people. Everyone is a treasure to Chu Lin and her, and they are like a family. Unexpectedly, at such a young age, the oldest one is not yet young. By the age of twenty, he would eventually die at the hands of a group of assassins. Really, it hurts to think about them.
Xia Zihan was much depressed. She said, "Dongfang Yi and senior brother were almost discovered, so Dongfang Yi didn't act rashly. Aqi, tell me, how about letting the two senior brothers from Dongfang Yi escape from the capital? What do you think?" Who is most likely to pick it up? ”
Since she couldn't start investigating from the people who were monitoring Prince An's Mansion, she would start investigating the big-name families in the capital one by one. She believed that if the other party sent so many assassins, something would eventually be revealed.
As long as Dongfang Yi investigates carefully, he will definitely find something.
"This is the only way at the moment." Chu Jingqi said.
Xia Zihan immediately wrote a letter to Qi Lan, and then included a note with the names of the six big-name families in the capital that were hidden in secret, as well as the most powerful families in the capital who dared to take action against the Chu family.
Chu Xuanyu and his son were both the Emperor's confidants and the most popular people in front of the Emperor. There were probably only a few people in the entire capital who dared to attack them.
Xia Zihan wrote five families according to what Chu Jingqi pointed out.
Xiao family, Lu family, He family, Gao family, and Zhao family.
The Xiao family, the Lu family, and the Gao family, these three families are the prince's maternal family and the natal family of the emperor's concubines. The emperor is now seriously ill, and the concubines in the harem are living in fear every day. Uneasy, at the same time, they all stared at the throne eagerly.
The emperor is seriously ill, and there are rumors in the palace that the emperor is dying, and he just needs to take this breath to die.
Once the emperor dies, each of them wants their son to inherit the throne and become the empress dowager so that they can continue their life of glory and wealth.
However, if you think about it, they are all the daughters of civil servants. Their parents' family has little power, and they do not have military power. Even if they want to fight hard, they have to beat them.
Therefore, for the sake of power and military power, these three families are very likely to take action against the Chu family at all costs, because in the entire Dasheng Kingdom, except for the second prince, only the Chu family has the most military power.
The second prince stayed in the palace all day long. Even if they wanted to attack the second prince, they could not find a chance. Therefore, if they wanted military power, they could only attack the Chu family and his son.
The He family is the in-laws of the Xiao family, the father-in-law of Xiao, and the mother-in-law of the late queen. Chu Xuanyu was also involved in Xiao Wei's matter. It can be said that Xiao Wei's death is inseparable from Chu Xuanyu. Once this matter is revealed If no one can find any clues, then the daughter of the He family is crazy and the blame for the nephew's death may be blamed on Chu Xuanyu.
Therefore, Chu Jingqi thought about it and included the He family among them.
(End of chapter)