Chapter 126: Poison kill

When the news of the fall of Jian'ou City reached the capital, Qin Nuo accepted it calmly. In fact, after the fierce defeat in Guanxian, the high-ranking court made plans for Jianye's fall.
It also made Qin Nuo even more sneer. Huo Donglai came to know very well what the General Zhennan government had done in Nanchen these years, perhaps because of the friendship of the same robe, maybe because of the same camp, or because they received enough The benefits are hidden. Today's defeat in Nanchen is not only the "merit" of Zhennan's general government, but also the negligence of all courtiers.
The court failed to accept Jianye, and the court calmly accepted this reality, but the folks were not so calm.
All people see only one fact.
During Emperor Jing Yao's year, Nan Chen was captured, but the new emperor lost his helmet and armor after more than one year, and lost most of the territory that he had fought for more than a decade.
Who is wise? Who is faint? it goes without saying!
Looking at the news report sent by Qianlin Division in the past few days, Qin Nuo looked calm. He had expected this trend of public opinion. Fortunately, Queen Mother Huo had been rushed to the summer resort for quiet repair, otherwise his ears would not stop.
On the contrary, Dongbo is less calm.
"Should I suppress this argument too? The previous battles with Nan Chen and Bei Shuo have also suffered fiasco defeats, and they have not been discussed so loudly."
"Fangmin is more important than Fangchuan. You don't need to bother about it. When the war situation reverses, the trend of public opinion will naturally follow."
"Slave just refused to be convinced, and now the teahouses and restaurants are praising the wise and martial arts of Emperor Jing Yao at that time ..."
Dongbo said angrily that she was a smart woman, because she met Qin Nuo and gave her space to spread her wings. Many things look more clear and long-term than ordinary scholars. Regarding the qualifications of the emperor and government affairs, people in the palace can see the score at a glance, even once in the last three or five days. Interestingly, I often go to the hot springs palace or summer resort, staying for a few months, ignore the political affairs. Today, in the mouth of the people, it has become a peerless Mingjun.
"The predecessors planted trees, the descendants took advantage of the cold, the predecessors dug pits, and the descendants wrestled." Qin Nuo laughed lightly.
"The emperor doesn't seem to worry about the fighting at all."
"Tactical victory is difficult to reverse the strategic decline." Qin Nuo said frankly.
In the face of absolute power comparison, it is difficult to maintain the advantage of relying on tactics for a short time. This absolute power comparison includes the human, material, and financial resources between the two countries. Obviously, after so many years of trials and hardships, Nan Chen's national strength has deteriorated, and it is impossible to support long-term wars.
Therefore, Qin Nuo was not worried about the long-term war with Nan Chen.
"I only worry a little bit, that is, Beishuo robbed in the fire. Fortunately, last year's snow disaster was not as severe as expected."
Compared to this, the focus of Qin Nuo's eyes is now on the progress of the leaked case.
Under the pressure of the entire court, the Ministry of Penalty devoted almost all its power to this matter. Within a short period of time, all personnel who had previously been in contact with the R & D of Kaitianbo were investigated.
Under the same scrutiny of the sieve, the results were quickly reached.
In the early days of Nanyingfang, the only person who had access to the drawings of the Kaitian Crossbow Organs was only a few people from the Ministry of Industry, as well as the craftsmen responsible for modulation. Not many people, one by one to investigate personnel relations, immediately locked the suspect.
A middle-aged mathematician from the Ministry of Industry, Guanbai walked from the Ministry of Industry in Liupin. Ten years ago, he married a lady from a famous family member who returned from Nan Chen to continue, which is longer than everyone else. Zhou, the ancestral eighteenth generation of innocent resumes, this marriage is particularly noticeable.
An official from the Ministry of Criminal Affairs called this person to question, but the Ministry of Industry said that he had taken a vacation two days ago. Tang Chen immediately killed someone in his home, and everyone was stunned.
In the secluded small house, the ground is full of dead people!
It should be the lady from Nan Chen who poisoned her husband and herself in the soup of dinner two days ago, not only poisoned her husband and herself, but also a dozen servants and her two children.
Tang Chenxuan reported the results after a detailed investigation.
The king walked, Qin Nuo faintly remembered, when he met Pei Yan in Nanyingfang for the second time, he was one of the engineers in the engineering department who was surrounded by him. Already a destiny year, looks like a chunky.
Before the Ministry of Industry undertook the research of opening the crossbow, Wang walked to sleep and forget to eat, and took the drawings home several times for calculation, so he was secretly copied by his wife and passed on secretly.
The clue came here, and it was interrupted again.
"I'm really curious. This is the leader of the South Chen who is lurking in the capital. The code name is Yaoguang." Qin Nuo walked slowly in the Qianyuan Hall, and said in a deep voice, "Since the previous epidemic, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs has obtained clues It ’s been more than half a year, has there been no progress so far?

Ge Changhai knelt on the ground with everyone from the Criminal Department.
Qin Nuo has lost his temper with them.
"I can detect this point. This time, I'm counting your clearance. The previous military order has been cancelled, but I have to order again. About this Yaoguang, within half a month, I want to hear useful information. Hope this time Don't let me down either. "
Qin Nuo said with a smile.
Tang Chen and other members of the Criminal Department always felt cold-hearted. When did the emperor have such a deep sense of oppression?
Qin Nuo set aside his words and set aside this matter. Although Ge Changhai was mediocre, there were still a few capable officials below.
However, this incident followed a follow-up storm in the Beijing aristocratic circle that Qin Nuo had not thought of.
In the afternoon of that day, the red sunset on the horizon was drenched in half the sky.
At sunset, most people ended their busy days and returned home.
In such a leisurely time, a house in the north of Qingyunfang suddenly made a noise, the voice was screaming, and the neighbors were disturbed.
Many people went out to watch the excitement.
Qingyunfang was originally the place where officials and princes gathered. This house in the north was immediately recognized as the house of the Jiang family. Their ancestors also had knighthoods. After three generations, the knighthood came to an end. The family was gradually declining. It's pretty frustrating. There are people who have been promoted by imperial examinations from generation to generation. Today, the head of the family is the jinshi of Jing Yao's early years, and he is the five-ranked Zhizhou in the west.
Why did the government officials and ordinary people suddenly become so upset?
At the gate, a shy middle-aged woman was kneeling on the ground, crying sadly, she was beautiful and elegant, and at this time she almost carried her breath away in tears, making people look at her with compassion.
A young child next to her dragged her clothes, her face panicked. It was a girl who was only four or five years old, and seemed to be frightened by the change. She shrank beside her mother, like a little quail. , Looking around in horror.
Someone who was familiar with the Jiang family immediately recognized that this wasn't Mrs. Jiang's Xuanxian? Seems to be Ye, and her biological daughter, how was she kicked out?
At the threshold, an old woman with silver hair was walking on the ground with a cane and slamming the ground, saying coldly: "Our family cannot tolerate your Big Buddha. Come on. And Min Niang, if you still admit My grandmother, come in quickly, and we will still be family in the future. If you do n’t agree, just follow your mother and get out!

The little girl named Min Niang looked at her grandmother in horror, and couldn't understand why the kind mother who had been kind suddenly changed her face overnight and wanted to drive them out of the house.
"Is it Mrs. Jiang who is disobedient to her mother-in-law?" The neighbors were surprised when they saw this, but they should not be so openly noisy. I heard that Mrs. Jiang was just a continuation of her strings, but she had a gentle temperament, served her mother-in-law with respect, and treated the children left in front carefully. Although he had only one daughter, he had a good relationship with Mr. Jiang.
A kind-hearted neighbor approached and persuaded, "The old lady is going to die, how can the family have overnight hatred?"
Another lady also said, "I think Mrs. Jiang is very sorry and regretful. I must have known it wrong. Why should your elderly care about it?"
"Yeah, Lord Jiang is still working outside the country. Even if he wants to leave or divorce his wife, there must be a reason."
The neighbors talked eloquently, and the old lady with a cold look reluctantly knocked the cane angrily and said, "Our family cannot afford this kind of daughter-in-law of the Southern Chen family.
Nan Chen's legacy? Several neighbors stopped talking. The look towards Mrs. Jiang began to change.
I heard that Mrs. Jiang came from Shuxiang Mendi, but she did not expect it to be Nan Chen's Shuxiang Mendi. Also, Mr. Jiang's appearance is not outstanding. Nearly fifty people are just a barren prefecture, but they can marry such a beautiful and well-known wife. A group of people were still wondering. It was only that Mrs. Jiang was very introverted and hardly went out. After marrying for so many years, her neighbors did not even know that her family was Nan Chen's old.
Since the unlucky Ministry of Industry walked poisoned the whole family by Mrs. Xu Xian of Nan Chen.
Such scenes have recently been staged in many people's homes in Beijing. Most of them were sent to the countryside by servants or continuants, or they were directly expelled from their homes.
Since Nan Chen's death, many Nan Chen's nobles have been captured in the capital, and some have returned to work. In the past ten years, many noble branches of Nan Chen have laid their foundations in Beijing. There are also some couples who are married to Dao Xungui, most of them are noble or continuation strings. There is now a panic among these groups.
Although the probability of being recruited is very low, once you ca n’t stand it, your family will be destroyed! The lady walking in the labor department, not only her husband and the child in front of her, but even her own children were poisoned together, which was cruel and scary.
It's no wonder that this old Mrs. Jiang is going to expel her daughter-in-law.
Mrs. Jiang wept and mourned with more than a gimmick. She cried and said: "Although my family is from Nanchen, but it is from the state of Mizhou, she returned to the court before the break of the country. How could it be involved?
Mrs. Jiang looked stubborn, only to see people coming and going around, gradually increasing, and her heart became increasingly impatient.
This woman relied on not to leave. At dusk, many returnees passed by here and were attracted. It's so noisy that it doesn't have a good reputation at home.
There was a rush, and suddenly a familiar voice sounded.
"Grandmother, my mother was married to my father Mingming. How can we drive people out of our house because of this desire? We, the poems of the Jiang family, can't do anything like this."
Accompanying the voice, a thirteen-year-old teenager hurried over to the end of the street. He hurriedly saluted to the old lady, then bent over and raised Mrs. Jiang, who was crying.
A familiar neighbor immediately recognized that the young man was the Erlang of the Jiang family, the son left by his former wife, but he lost his mother and was raised by this wife, who was no different from his own.
He raised his stepmother and comforted his sister in a low voice.
When he heard that his grandson was also going against him, Mrs. Jiang sank.
Before waiting to speak, another teenager emerged from behind the crowd.
"Ruzong makes sense. The old lady thinks carefully and thinks carefully." The young man who spoke was an erect young man, with a beautiful face, which made people forget.
He bowed and saluted: "In the school, I often hear Ru Song mention grandmother, who is wise and acquainted, but most loving. How can the tragic separation of the flesh happen because of rumors?"
Mrs. Jiang suddenly became cautious. The young man he knew now had an identity not unlike that of an ordinary official, but from the Huo family.
The young man was Huo Chengguang. He and Jiang Rusong were classmates of White Deer Academy. The emperor suspended the courses of Yushuge because of his busy work. He was a good learner, so he took advantage of his free time to return to the former academy for classes.
When I got home, I bumped Jiang Rusong in a carriage, and saw this kind of drama unexpectedly.
Regarding Huo Chengguang's identity, Mrs. Jiang hesitated, and when she saw the neighbors pointing around, the more people gathered. Finally, helplessly knocked on the ground and shouted, "Don't cry, just come in."
Mrs. Jiang finally had a chance, and she whispered quietly, got up with the support of her daughter and son, and entered the house.
Without the excitement, the crowd in the street market gradually dispersed.
The originally blocked passageway was finally smooth.
Huo's servant immediately drove the carriage forward, and the book boy asked diligently, "Master, are you okay?"
Huo Chengguang did not answer him, his eyes turned to the other side, and he respectfully greeted: "Leader Pei, leader Ren, General Yan."
All three were on horsebacks, with dozens of knights behind them.
Pei Tuo, headed by him, motioned to his head with a solemn look, applauding: "You did a good job just now."
Huo Chengguang also bowed solemnly, not only because the opponent's title was above him, but also because several people had taught him martial arts in the palace, and it was considered half a master. Although Pei Tuo was a few years older than him.
"Yes, why are these national affairs important to implicate innocent women?" Yan Chang said, and then said, "Finally, it's dispersed, or we really have to send someone away."
Just now they came out of Pei Yue Mansion and were going out of the city to the barracks, but they were blocked here halfway. I am worried about how to get there.
Ren Jinglei turned to look at his wife's disappearing door, and was a little lost.
Pei Tuo noticed and turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ren Jinglei returned to God, and sighed suddenly: "The lady is a Lingxiu woman full of poetry at the first sight. It is really ..."
Pei Tuo was speechless. "The woman just cried from beginning to end. Where do you see that people are full of poetry?"
"There is a poem and a qi in the belly from China." Ren Jinglei returned his eyes, "What does the illiterate know?"
Pei Tuo was too lazy to care about her.
Yan Chang sighed, "This world ... even if that lady is back at home, I am afraid that the future will not be easy."
Ren Jinglei looked somber next: "This is not something we can manage." Urging: "Let's go, don't delay the time when the gate is locked."
Pedestrians and horses passed by.