Chapter 654 A Scandal

"Lady!"

Liu Ji suddenly emerged from nowhere and ran towards Qin Yao excitedly.

He watched her coming out of the direction of the Imperial Master's Mansion from across the river, and since she had been there for so long, he guessed that she must have figured out the teacher's location.

"You ended it so early?" Qin Yaohu asked. He looked like he had been waiting for a long time.

Liu Ji nodded and handed her the snow pear ice drink that he had been carrying for almost half an hour, "Thank you for your hard work, madam. Please quench your thirst."

The ice drink is packed in a bamboo tube with two holes punched in the mouth. A string can be strung on it and you can carry it in your hand and eat it while walking.

The store provided a long-handled wooden spoon. Qin Yao motioned Liu Ji to go home and said as he walked:

"He is found. He is alive and sick. There is no chance to meet him, but I have sent a message to him. Prepare some light and easy-to-digest food to bring with you tomorrow morning. I will try to see if I can send you in."

After hearing this, Liu Ji's eyes suddenly became bright and he looked at her and nodded hurriedly: "Yeah, I'll buy half a piece of pork liver on the way back later and make pork liver soup for the teacher."

Then he asked Qin Yao: "Madam, is there anything you want to eat? Let's buy it together later and I'll cook it for you tonight."

Qin Yao ordered a dish of sweet and sour pork ribs without being polite. Liu Ji noted that when he passed by a meat stall, he immediately bought the ribs and pork liver.

The couple gradually discovered the convenience of being in the capital, that is, the supply of pork was plentiful and could be purchased from morning to night.

However, the meat in the evening is leftover from the morning sale, and the quality is a little worse than that in the morning. But considering the price is also 10% lower, it is still a good review.

"What did you find out over there?" Qin Yao asked.

She didn't immediately tell Liu Ji about meeting the prince in the Imperial Prefect's Mansion today. The man was very timid and would be afraid if he knew too much.

If he had known that the Crown Prince might suddenly appear, or that the Imperial Preceptor had discovered the traces of their couple, his legs would have been too weak to climb the wall when he entered the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion with her tomorrow.

Thinking of this, Qin Yao turned her head and glanced at Liu Ji, who was enjoying herself, and clicked her tongue twice. Her face was so pretty~

There was an exclamation of "Oh!" from the street. Qin Yao turned around and saw that it was two women selling vegetables who had been staring at the smiling handsome man in the vegetable market. As they looked, they accidentally bumped into each other. Together.

"Bang!" The two of them looked at each other disgustedly. They snorted and immediately returned to their respective stalls. However, they still couldn't help but crane their necks to continue looking. Everyone disappeared and they couldn't bear to look back.

Liu Ji looked back and murmured suspiciously: "Is this vegetable vendor in Kyoto trying to eat people?"

Then I thought about it, this is the embodiment of charm, I smiled with big white teeth, "I'm so pretty!"

Qin Yao: "."

Maybe his eyes were too cold, so someone hurriedly put away the big tooth flowers and told everything he had asked about in the flower house today.

"Madam, I am very lucky today. I met a man named Lu Xiaofeng. His uncle is Jingzhao Yin. Others call him Xiaoyanei. He is also an errand in Jingzhao Yin. He knows a lot of things."

There is nothing that Lu Xiaofeng doesn't know about in the capital. He is a native of the capital. Before the Baili family entered the capital, his son had already lived in this world for more than a hundred years. His family seemed to still be members of several important families. The main family of Lu family in China.

However, the most powerful people are his uncle's family. His biological father has no ability and has an idle job to serve the old man in the house every day.

"In the words of a lady, it's like chewing on the old!"

When Mr. Lu gnawed on Mr. Lu, Lu Xiaofeng gnawed on Mr. Lu, perfectly inheriting the family tradition of nibbling.

After spending half a day in the teahouse today, Liu Ji confidently told Qin Yao that he had mastered half of the family secrets of the old aristocratic families in the capital from Lu Xiaofeng.

"There are also those from the Xiao family, the family of the widow Xiao who Mr. Ding married into. Last month, Mr. Xiao secretly set up an outer room and was discovered by Mrs. Wang of the Xiao family. Madam, guess what?"

There was no need for Qin Yao to answer, Liu Ji continued to say in an exaggerated tone: "In the end, the wife and Mrs. Xiao's natal brother were caught stealing by Mrs. Xiao herself, and the Xiao and Wang family became the biggest joke in the capital, hahaha Well--!"

Qin Yao glared back at her loud laughter. She admitted that this gossip was explosive, but!

"What does this have to do with the Imperial Master, I ask you?!" Qin Yao gritted her teeth.

If looks could kill, Liu Ji would be Ling Chi by now.

Liu Ji swallowed his saliva and said seriously: "Madam, it does matter. There is a big deal here. Please listen to me."

Qin Yao: "Tell me the key points."

Liu Ji: "Okay."

"The Imperial Master's mother comes from the Wang family. According to seniority, Mrs. Xiao is the Imperial Master's aunt, and Uncle Wang, who stole people from outside the Xiao family, is the Imperial Master's younger uncle. Mrs. Xiao, Mrs. Wang, and the Imperial Master's mother are completely different in temperament. "The Imperial Master's mother, Wang, has a soft temper and is well-known in Beijing for her good temper."

Liu Ji specially emphasized the three words "good temper", which means that he has such a good temper that he can laugh even when being bullied.

"But the eldest Wang has been dead for six years, and the Imperial Master has gradually become estranged from the Wang family. They are not close relatives."

"But the matter was so big that it even reached the palace, and the little Wang had a fierce temper. In a rage, he wanted to kill his own brother, the aunt, and Master Xiao. Thanks to the Holy Queen, The princess persuaded her and saved her life."

"When the Holy Queen led the army into the capital, it was the Wang family that first opened the city gate to welcome the Lord into the city, so the Holy Queen attached great importance to the matter of Xiao Wang this time, and sent the eldest princess and the national teacher to deal with the matter of Xiao and Wang's families together."

Qin Yao was a little impatient, and finally heard the key word "national teacher", and waited patiently.

Liu Ji said: "Logically speaking, Xiao Wang and Wang Xiaoji are both relatives of the national teacher's family. It is difficult for the national teacher to help the reason instead of the relatives, or to help the relatives instead of the reason. It is proper to be muddy."

"But the national teacher tried his best to protect the Xiao family, but the eldest princess protected Wang. In the end, according to the laws of Shengguo, Jingzhao Yin sentenced the thief to fifty strokes for men and thirty strokes for women, and exiled them to Lingnan together. Master Xiao was also suspended for three years."

This is a good result. Xiao and Wang's families have nothing to say. After all, it is the greatest luck to be able to keep this marriage.

But the matter is not over yet. Many people were involved in the scandal. Some people pleaded for Mr. Xiao, some people fanned the flames for the Wang family, and the concubine's family talked nonsense and revealed all kinds of shocking news.

All of a sudden, all the major factions in the capital appeared.

Liu Ji looked around and saw that there were not many people. He whispered: "The four major local families in the capital, Xiao, Lu, Wang, and Si, among which the Xiao and Si families are interested in the Eastern Palace, the Wang family is loyally supported by the eldest princess, and the Lu family is devoted to Your Majesty."

"Also, among the three provinces and six ministries, more than seven of them support the Eastern Palace, and only the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel have not yet taken sides."

"But!" Liu Ji emphasized, "The 20,000 guards of the palaces in the suburbs of Beijing, the 40,000 border troops in the northern border, and the two Jiedushis in Beibei Ting, a total of 100,000 military tokens are in the hands of the eldest princess."

"The remaining Beiya Imperial Guards, the Jiedushis of Xi'an, Shuofang, Fanyang and other six places, are all loyal to the Xu family where the Holy Queen is."

If there is any accident, the Holy Queen can immediately mobilize all the Beiya Imperial Guards in the palace for defense.

So, the only thing that the Holy Queen can control is the pitiful little Nanya Imperial Guards under the bridges of the city gates, and the king-making troops in various places of their Baili family.

The East Palace has ten armies, and only the troops that can be assembled within the vicinity of the capital are considered to be on par with the garrisons of the 20,000 palaces in the suburbs of the capital controlled by the Princess.

ps: (The above content has borrowed the names of ancient armies, but the settings are not exactly the same. The Jiedushi in the text refers to the frontier defense army. The Beiya governs the Ziwei Palace, which is equivalent to the royal private bodyguards. The Nanya governs the inner capital, which is equivalent to the various armed police, criminal police, special police, patrol, traffic police, etc. in the local public security system. Please do not criticize if it is a private setting) (End of this chapter)