The turmoil in the temple will never just blow up in the Wanmin Palace. It will disperse after leaving the palace gate. It is never a joke.
The matter of Pang Ban, the commander of the Xuanqing Guards, being given a five-day deadline by the emperor at the court meeting has become a hot topic. Except for the common people on the street, everyone who is better informed has heard about it and is curiously waiting to watch the show.
At this time, no one dared to talk randomly. It is obvious that this is another round of competition between civil servants and Xuan Qingwei. The winner or lose is uncertain. If you join a hasty talk in a certain direction, you will be easily remembered. Talking in a low voice behind closed doors in a small circle or at home is almost enough.
The center of the incident is the Qin family. If people outside are mainly just watching the fun, the Qin family is in a desperate situation with life and death at stake.
Just look at the Qin family's mansion, which is now being guarded as a pig cage, and you will know what the Qin family's situation is now. If it were normal circumstances, how could Xuan Qingwei dare to blatantly surround the residence of a dignified fourth-grade official? Being so arrogant now is completely treating the Qin family as dead people.
But even though they were nervous, for three days in a row, the Xuanqing guards just surrounded him and didn't take another step forward. At the same time, people from the Qin Mansion will not be restricted from entering and exiting the mansion, but those who come out will be followed, but they cannot use the teleportation circle or leave the city.
This situation of standing still is very puzzling. You must know that the news from the previous temple has spread throughout the past three days. The five-day deadline given by the emperor is no joke. Once it is exceeded, Pang Ban will take the blame with his head no matter how shameless he is.
Did Xuan Qingwei encounter some trouble that prevented him from continuing to advance? !
This thought became more intense in the afternoon of the third day. The Qin family saw the hope of life, and the civil servants who were watching Xi Ya also saw the hope. There are still two days left, and we will see the result in two days!
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It's still that small courtyard hidden in the imperial city.
Shen Hao didn't serve any hard food today, but instead ordered himself a bowl of plain noodles for lunch. Standing opposite was still Zhang Liao. This guy brought his own meatloaf today, so he didn't join in the fun of noodles with Shen Hao.
"So there is really a friendship between Qin Yurou and Chen Youwen? And it's not ordinary?" Shen Hao took a big mouthful and asked Zhang Liao vaguely while chewing.
"Yes, sir, the sugar shops around Baishan Mountain have been run by a new group of people for a long time. Most of them were taken over by some local gentry and government officials. But the people inside have not changed much. Some of the senior people are here. If you ask people who have been working in this industry for more than ten years or even decades, many of them can think of a man named Chen Youwen here many years ago.
Back then, Chen Youwen had a lot of empty talk to talk about in the candy shop, but the Wen family was there at the time, so people who knew the situation kept their mouths shut. Now that the Wen family is exterminated, these people have spoken out clearly for the sake of money... ....”
The Impermanence Department sent by Zhang Luo actually didn't have enough manpower, and they also borrowed some people from the Little Ghost Department. Otherwise, it would take who knows how long it would take to collect these scattered information.
According to the information Zhang Liao received, there was news that a noble lady in the Wen family had fallen in love with a strong, mature and cold-looking sugar worker. This little worker was actually quite old, he was almost fifty at the time. It was difficult to achieve success after learning so late, but he was always looked after, and he went from being a diligent worker to a core apprentice, and he was even able to make sugar in a pot in just over a year. , and it usually takes five or six years for experienced people to have the opportunity.
This little worker is Chen Youwen.
The lady in the rumors is Qin Yurou, the head of the Wen family.
This kind of thing has been reported in the small circle of sugar shops from the beginning, and it won't be the first time. But no one felt envious at the time. Because the person who had gossiped about "a certain Wen family lady" has disappeared. Some people said that they had seen corpses in mass graves and haystacks in the wilderness. They made it sound like it was true. It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, but it doesn't matter. Zhenzhi knew that getting involved with that lady was not a good thing.
Later, Chen Youwen disappeared after learning most of the sugar making skills in the second year. Everyone around Baishan Mountain who knew about this said that Chen Youwen was dead. If someone hadn't asked about it now, they might have forgotten about this "little worker" who hurriedly appeared and disappeared near Baishan Mountain.
Ordinary people may think that this kind of thing is like a fantasy, that the head of a dignified cultivator would go out and mess around? Is the target still a lowly worker? But in Shen Hao's eyes, this kind of thing is really not uncommon.
From the outside, it seems that the high doors and red walls are filled with people. People who are not inside will always attach their best wishes for life to them and develop their own imagination, so they feel that the red walls are full of beauty.
And those who know a little bit about the world behind those high doors and red walls will not associate the world inside with "beauty". The inside and outside are the same. What is shiny is dirty.
There are too many cases of unsatisfactory marriages due to marriage, let alone the union of a high-level monk and a mortal woman who cannot practice. The huge gap is beyond the imagination of outsiders. The physical decay alone is very realistic: a monk in his seventies or eighties can still toss in bed two or three times a night, while ordinary people will wet their shoes when they pee at that age. There is no comparison. It's really no joke that ordinary women's appearance is easy to age.
From another perspective, on the one hand, being disliked by others, and on the other hand, in the colorful world outside, it is difficult for men and women to say that they can keep themselves clean.
Shen Hao knew that there were so many so-called noble ladies who came out to look for wolf dogs and local dogs. Otherwise, how could the small hall in the flower house for female guests have such a booming business?
"So Chen Youwen and Qin Yurou are probably mistresses?" Shen Hao finished his bowl of noodles and continued to listen with interest while drinking the noodle soup.
"Yes, sir. But everyone in the Wen family is dead. No one who really knows the truth can be found. We can only get some fragmentary information from the mouth of the old man in the sugar shop. But what is certain is that Chen Youwen did have an affair with Qin Yurou. The relationship, and it was Qin Yurou who called the local sugar shop that allowed Chen Youwen to learn in the sugar shop in two years what others would have learned in five or six years, and finally became a sugar master.
In addition, news came back from the Jinfengyuan Workshop in the Imperial City, saying that the reason why Chen Youwen was able to become a sugar master as soon as he entered was because he followed the path of the Qin family, but it was not Qin Yurou who came forward but a steward of the Qin family. Over there in the big house Yes, his name is Huang Ping. "
"Huang Ping? Is he still in the Qin family now?"
"Yes, I have always been here. Now I am the foreign affairs steward of the Qin family's main house, and my status is quite high."
"A person in charge of foreign affairs? That means you can often meet him outside? Find an opportunity to bring him back for trial to see if Qin Yurou helped Chen Youwen enter Jin Fengyuan.
In addition, Chen Youwen's line can start listing dossiers. "
