"Catch the assassin! Catch the assassin!"
For a moment, the lights in the Queen Mother's harem were shaking, and the guards and servants were in chaos. It seemed that the response was timely and the movement was quite loud. However, "just right" allowed this "assassin" to slip away easily in the crowd, except for Someone picked up the strand of "beard" and "wig" that fell on the ground, as well as a few pieces of clay-like "face fillers" and a set of red clothes. retreat!
The next day, when the news that the Queen Mother had been harassed by assassins reached Ji Yuan's ears, the king who had never been very "business-minded" became extremely "angry"!
The security of the Wei Kingdom has been good for many years, but now, in the palace of the Queen Mother, under the nose of the emperor, an inexplicable "assassin" is allowed to face the back garden of the palace. He can enter and leave whenever he wants, like entering a "no man's land" " He didn't believe it if there was no insider in this palace.
As a result, all the palace servants and guards in the Queen Mother's harem were imprisoned and severely interrogated one by one.
Finally, those palace servants who had not had time to spend the "windfall" could not withstand the torture in the palace and quickly confessed that there was a person who paid a big price and wanted to take advantage of it. I met the Queen Mother at night.
As for the identity of this person, they couldn't tell clearly. Apart from the fact that he was generous, dressed in red, and middle-aged, no other information was revealed.
"Any information?"
Ji Yuan issued an order to increase the punishment. After all, one of those people couldn't bear any more torture. All the people who could and could not be said began to say:
"When the Queen Mother was ill, she always liked to say 'Brother Dan' in her mouth. After this person came in, he also regarded himself as 'Brother Dan'. I was not far away at the time, and I heard that the Queen Mother was talking to him when she first saw him. Such a name. If we can find out who this 'Brother Dan' is, I'm afraid his true identity can be verified!"
"Brother Dan?!"
Ji Yuan carefully thought about all the relatives and friends around his mother, and it seemed that he had never heard of anyone named "Dan", so he went to ask his mother directly.
Faced with her son's repeated questioning, Tingyao, who had always been "sometimes clear and sometimes confused", "chooses" to remain "confused". She only talks about him from left to right and never reveals half of the word "Dan" in her mouth. Ji Yuan really had no choice, so he asked Mi Zixia if there was any good way to "set the question" out.
Seeing the Queen Mother's "madness and dementia", Mi Zixia just shook her head and said to Ji Yuan:
"If a person keeps sleeping due to scheming, no matter how many ways others call him, it is impossible to wake them up!"
Hearing what Mi Zixia said, Ji Yuan had no choice but to give up when facing his mother who looked "stupid and confused".
As the men intensified their torture, new news came: someone confessed that he knew that this set of clothes was the trademark of a famous assassin named "Yidian Hong", although this person had not been seen in the world for many years. Action, but I have heard from some older people that the real name of this "Yidianhong" assassin is "Wang Dan". It just so happens that there is a word "Dan" in it, which can be somewhat "responsive" to this matter. ” and association.
Ji Yuan went to ask Zang Boyu, an old minister, who was old enough and had heard some of the name "Wang Dan", so he asked someone to check it out.
After checking again and again, it turned out that when Yang Liuer was in the romantic place of Weiguo, he was ransomed by a man named "Wang Dan" and forced to marry him. He also lost a child. Later, for some reason, he entered the Si Mansion and changed his identity. He almost Became the young master of Si Mansion! Later, Sifu had a child of his own, and the child disappeared mysteriously.
Although these are all old stories, they cannot stop the folk rumors from circulating again and again. As this story gets passed around, its "flavor" changes. The most recently circulated version is that the child abandoned by the Firework Girl and the Knight had the special ability of "recruiting children", so he was taken out of Si's Mansion by a god. He was given the name "Nong Zhang'er", and later he went to the public specifically, dressing up in various appearances, sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman, to attract men for the common people.
Having boys means more labor in the family.
Many people do not offer land or heaven, but they all offer this "Nongzhang'er", saying that with his blessing, they will soon have a male child in their family, and their children will grow up healthily and be immune to all diseases!
When Zang Boyu presented the folk version of the anecdotal story about "Wang Dan" to Ji Yuan, he didn't even believe that there was such a thing, but "legend" is also a kind of "clue", more or less. There will be some connection with the "truth". So he specifically stated at the end of the memorial:
"Whether this child is such a god or not, I will make additional comments after I send people to the people to verify it."
Ji Yuan really didn't know that there was such a "folk fairy", so he went to ask Mi Zixia. Unexpectedly, Mi Zixia said with a smile:
"It's true! My mother has a 'Nongzhang'er' that she worships with incense every day. I heard from my mother that it's because of her pious worship that I was born like this!"
Ji Yuan couldn't help but feel miraculous about this "Nongzhang'er", and ordered someone to get a "consecration minister" for him to take a look at.
Not long after, the palace man quickly brought a statue from a workshop specializing in the production of "Nongzhang'er" clay statues. It was only about a foot tall, chubby, smiling, and wearing a bellyband with the word "福" in it. The look of a naked little boy.
Ji Yuan held this "big fat boy" in his hands, turned it back and forth, looked up and down for a long time, and said to Mi Zixia:
"It doesn't seem to be anything special!"
Mi Zixia smiled slightly, pointed his finger gently, and said, "You are so good at what you do."
Ji Yuan looked in the direction of Mi Zixia's finger, and sure enough, there was something special about being a "male":
"As expected! It's really a curious design!"
Mi Zixia covered her mouth lightly, looking like she wanted to laugh but didn't dare.
Ji Yuan pushed this "Nongzhang'er" into his arms and said with a smile: "Come on, come on, you can say goodbye to me again, is it effective?"
Mi Zixia took "Nong Zhang'er", hugged "him" in the most secure posture, and imitated his mother's behavior, giving Ji Yuan a "hey" female curtsy.
Then both of them laughed and couldn't stop for a long time.
In this way, this "Nongzhang'er" became a new "display" placed by Mi Zixia's "zhizhi" on the table where the monarch and his ministers often drank.
Zang Boyu's folk "interview" has not yet been completed. Ji Yuan has a new "hobby" here, which makes Zang Boyu a little intolerable, so he can't help but write a memorial, asking Ji Yuan to pay attention to this kind of "hobby". Folk objects that are not suitable for the palace should stay away from the palace and return to the people, so as not to break the king's spirit.
