Chapter 851 Big Deal

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"But don't say that." Qin Yining hurriedly reached out to help him, "We are all our own people. I know how difficult you are. Besides, I'm fine now."

Mu Jinghu was originally asked by Pang Xiao to help, and he didn't owe her anything. Besides, there was a reason for the incident. How could she blame him for this?

"Okay, okay, if you continue to be so polite, the tea will get cold." Pang Xiao smiled and poured a cup of tea for Mu Jinghu with his own hands.

Qin Yining also gave the honey water to Qiu Feishan.

After sitting down on both sides, Qiu Feishan looked around and asked with a smile: "Didn't Master come back with you?"

Tianjizi was Mu Jinghu's elder. Even though Qiu Feishan had feelings about Tianjizi's threats and calculations, she still wanted to ask him out of politeness.

Qin Yining didn't know how to answer for a while. He and Mu Jinghu had just resolved their embarrassment and told him in the blink of an eye that Tianjizi was locked up. No matter what the reason was, it was not easy for people to accept, right?

Pang Xiao, on the other hand, was very calm and said to Mu Jinghu straightforwardly: "Uncle Ling made monstrous words in the army to confuse the people and disturb the morale of the army, so I locked him up."

Mu Jinghu was stunned, scratched the back of his head, and said after a while, "This is something she can do. Did you put her in jail?"

"It doesn't look like this on your face. I just locked her in a room and didn't allow her to move around and talk randomly."

"Oh, that's okay. Just lock him up. As long as he has food and shelter, he will be fine."

Qin Yining was speechless for a moment, picked up the tea bowl and took a big sip of honey water.

It seems that Tianjizi's popularity is not very good.

Mu Jinghu looked around and made sure there was no outsider. Then he coughed awkwardly and said, "Pang Fox, actually I have one more thing to tell you."

Pang Xiao knew Mu Jinghu too well. If it wasn't a big deal, he wouldn't look so embarrassed. He knew that he must have concealed something important from him all the way back.

"What's going on?" Pang Xiao asked calmly.

Mu Jinghu sighed: "Actually, that's what happened. When we were in Bo'an Town, the incident at the Qiu Family Courtyard was not as simple as I said. It wasn't me who quietly sneaked out and lit a fire, but After my uncle and I sneaked out, we drugged the master of the house.

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Pang Xiao raised his eyebrows, "Actually, I guessed it."

Mu Jinghu said in surprise: "How did you..."

"If they were really burned to death, the people in that house could not have died quietly, nor could they have died so cleanly. There were no survivors among these people. They must have lost their ability to move before they were burned, or were poisoned. , or were killed and burned.”

Mu Jinghu nodded awkwardly.

Being able to guess this, Pang Xiao hasn't asked him yet, purely out of trust and respect for his friend. When I thought about it, I realized that Pang Xiao was so smart that no one could easily deceive him.

Pang Xiao said: "I have no other meaning. Everyone has the right to maintain privacy."

"I know who you are," Mu Jinghu nodded and continued, "I didn't hide this from you on purpose. It was actually because there was something fishy about what I discovered in the Qiu family's residence, and I couldn't be sure about it myself, so I continued I didn’t say anything. My uncle asked me to give medicine to all the masters that day, and these people confessed a lot, and one of them was named Qiu Feijing, who claimed to be the son of Qiu Yuanqing."

"Oh? Qiu Yuanqing's son couldn't have been born in Jianchuan City, so why did he go to Bo'an Road?"

"I don't know much about this, but he claimed to be Qiu Yuanqing's son at first, and threatened and lured us. Later, when he failed to see it, my uncle gave her a very tortured medicine. He couldn't stand it anymore and was about to die. Beforehand, give me a letter."

Mu Jinghu looked at Qiu Feishan.

Qiu Feishan took out an envelope from her sleeve.

Pang Xiao took the envelope and opened it, only to find that the letter contained an ordinary greeting with no clues.

Qiu Feishan smiled and said: "On the surface, there is nothing strange about this letter. Only important people in the direct lineage of the Qiu family know that this letter contains secret words."

"Secret word?"

"Yes. The Qiu family has been inherited for more than a hundred years and naturally has its own method. This secret message is not difficult. It corresponds to a booklet. I will not go into details about the method. I will only tell you the content of the letter." Qiu Fei Shan smiled and then looked at Qin Yining, "This can be considered as my fault."

Mu Jinghu patted Qiu Feishan on the shoulder.

Pang Xiao and Qin Yining both smiled, "Anyway, thank you very much."

"No need to thank me. The general meaning of this letter is to instruct Qiu Feijing to go to the Dingsheng Restaurant in Danzhou City, Danzhou Prefecture, to meet with the Lu family on the tenth day of October, in the name of the Shaodong family of Guangtong Hao. Qiu Feijing The family plans to buy an imperial envoy from the Lu family."

"What?"

Qin Yining stared in shock. There is too much information in this paragraph of Qia Qiu Feishan. Especially the last sentence.

"Can the Lu family still buy and sell officials?"

"Since the Qiu family can find the Lu family, it means that the Lu family is indeed in this business."

Qin Yining asked: "They want to buy an imperial envoy. That imperial envoy... won't be the imperial envoy from the old capital, right?"

Qiu Feishan nodded and said: "That is indeed what the letter means. You may not know that my Sitong account was originally the official property of the Qiu family, and all the speeches of the Qiu family were made through the Sitong account. The Qiu family naturally hid behind and refused to reveal their identity.

"Now that Sitong has become independent, Qiu Yuanqing has set up another Guangtong and asked Qiu Feijing to be the chief shopkeeper. If the Lu family asks about the imperial envoy this time, they plan to say that Guangtong will be in Datong. The development of the old capital of Yan is due to the fact that there is no one in the court. If there is an imperial envoy who is one of our own, things will go much smoother."

Pang Xiao was surprised: "But I didn't hear that the imperial court was going to send an imperial envoy to the old capital."

Qiu Feishan smiled, picked up the honey water and took a sip.

Qin Yining was shocked: "Does the Lu family now have the ability to influence the emperor's employment? Not only the appointment of officials in the court, but also the dispatch of imperial envoys?"

"That's why I said that since Qiu Yuanqing found a way to buy it, the Lu family must have such ability, and it is definitely not the first time they have done this kind of thing. Qiu Yuanqing is quite rigorous in his actions. If it weren't for the Without successful examples, he would never think of borrowing the Lu family’s abilities.”

Qin Yining lowered his eyes, twirling the tea bowl filled with honey with his long fingers, his mind racing, and finally asked: "Are the visible family and the hidden family planning to cooperate in this generation?"

Qiu Feishan suddenly looked at Qin Yining, her eyes full of complexity.

"I'm not sure about this matter." Qiu Feishan said bitterly: "The visible family and the hidden family have not changed for a long time. We are a hidden family, so we have a deep memory of this matter and are very careful about inheritance. But as a member of the Xianshi family, perhaps they have regarded this incident passed down from their ancestors as a legend."

"In other words, the Lu family is not sure whether there is a hidden family, or it means that the Lu family does not know that there is a hidden family, but the Qiu family knows that the Lu family is a visible family?" Pang Xiao said.

Qiu Feishan nodded and said seriously: "Qiu Yuanqing is a man who can do whatever it takes to get what he wants. He can even kill his own father..."

Speaking of this, Qiu Feishan suddenly choked up.

That day, she was refuted by her grandfather, who wanted to arrest her and marry her off. She also resented her grandfather because he disliked her because she was a woman and refused to reuse her.

I just didn't expect that that day would be the last time we would see each other in this life. Her fate also took a turn that day. She was forced to marry, and her grandfather died at the hands of her son...

Qiu Feishan closed her eyes and almost shed tears.

Mu Jinghu quickly put his arms around Qiu Feishan's shoulders and coaxed her: "Shanshan, don't cry, don't be sad. Grandpa definitely doesn't want to see you so sad. Only if you take good care of yourself can Grandpa feel at ease."

Qiu Feishan sniffed and said sadly: "I know, I just... I didn't expect that I would never have the chance to see him again."

Taking a deep breath, Qiu Feishan forced herself to calm down.

Pang Xiao and Qin Yining were also a little emotional, and the room became extremely quiet for a while.

After a long time, Qiu Feishan continued: "What I mean is that Qiu Yuanqing is very ambitious. He may have even greater ambitions. He may not necessarily want to be prominent and be a minister. If he really has these thoughts, breaking the rules of his ancestors is really a big deal." It is also unknown whether we will cooperate with the Lu family."

Pang Xiao said: "It is indeed possible. But there is also a possibility that Qiu Yuanqing just wants to use the Lu family. After all, the Qiu family knows the Lu family well, but the Lu family knows nothing about the Qiu family. It is good to use this resource. choose."

"Exactly." Qin Yining also said, "The Qiu family wants to buy an imperial envoy and place it near the old capital. It must be to deal with the prince."

Qiu Feishan said: "You should have guessed that the current Magistrate Qi in the old capital was bribed by Qiu Yuanqing. It's just that this man is very experienced in the city and has learned the experience and lessons of Magistrate Yang at that time. He has always been nothing. So Qiu Yuanqing may have thought that if one magistrate is not enough, adding an imperial envoy might make things easier."

As for what to do? Of course it was to deal with Pang Xiao and Qiu Feishan.

In Qiu Yuanqing's eyes, Pang Xiao is the person chosen by Qiu Feishan, so he is naturally his enemy.

"All of this is understandable, but I didn't expect that the hidden family would sometimes take advantage of the visible family." Qin Yining shook his head and stopped continuing the topic, but said: "I guess the emperor may have some thoughts about the prince. It has been confirmed by the Lu family. The Holy Emperor may have long wanted to arrange an imperial envoy to the old capital. If the Lu family really wants to sell officials, they should start with the employment of left and right people."

"That's definitely the case." Pang Xiao also nodded.

Listening to Qiu Feishan, Pang Xiao and Qin Yining discussing such a complicated matter, Mu Jinghu kept a blank expression and couldn't get a word in. After seeing their conversation come to an end, he said: "Can you tell from an ordinary greeting letter? With so much content, it seems no wonder I couldn’t understand it at the time.”

Pang Xiao couldn't help but chuckle when he heard the words, and nodded: "That's true. If Boss Wuqiu can understand the secret language, it will be impossible for outsiders to understand the important information in it."

Qin Yining also smiled and said, "Yes, thanks to you."

"Shanshan didn't say it, we just made up for it. I hope our friendship will not be affected by this incident."

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