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Chapter 374 The Mountains and Gods

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Taohua Fairy and others used a relatively hidden means of contact with Luo Moniang, and the method was written by Zhang Ning.

It is to choose an antique shop first. The peach blossom fairy's people first put an ordinary thing in it for the store to sell, but the price is marked very high; of course, irrelevant people cannot spend a lot of money to buy an ordinary thing.

But it is always sold, and the main reason is that the other party asks to contact at the agreed location.

This detailed work method was first developed by Zhang Ning. It was neither known nor considered carefully, and it was almost never exposed.

Because there is a very reasonable explanation for this strange thing in the world, that is, the bribery method in the officialdom: the briber puts something in the store, saying that it is a heirloom for sale; then the crime of bribery is bought at a high price, and the benefits are circulated in secret between buying and selling.

When merchants who open antique shops encounter such a thing, they will take the opportunity to ask for high mid-price fees and benefit from them; but they generally do not suspect that it is related to detailed activities.

Zhang Ning worked as an official in the Ming Dynasty for several years and still had some understanding of these things, so he made clever changes and applied them to detailed works, and has not been exposed yet.

The Peach Blossom Fairy stayed in Guzhuang in the countryside of Yangzhou Prefecture for a few days. The spy who entered the city found that the goods sold had been sold, so he hurried back to report the signal.

I encountered something in Yangzhou City that day, but unexpectedly it stopped in just a few days.The Peach Blossom Fairy didn't know what was inside, but after a few days, Luo Moniang contacted her and decided to take this risk and sneak into Yangzhou City again.

When they left Guzhuang and came to a room in the city with a prepaid accommodation fee for the next month, Taohua Fairy still couldn't suppress her uneasiness.

The appointment of Luo Mo's mother has not come yet. Maybe she will come after nightfall?

While listening to the movements around, the Peach Blossom Fairy observed the situation outside through the gaps in the window.

Yangzhou City was full of traffic. After the imperial court controlled the Jianghuai area, it maintained good order and the market gradually flourished. However, under such circumstances, it was like a dragon's pond and tiger's den for the peach blossom fairy.

Because she does not have a legal identity in this area.

In the past, I was used to traveling to the world for many years. When I was trafficking in slander salt, I directly clashed with the government inspectors more than once, and then faced the pursuit of the constable. And my colleagues who also traveled to the world might not be trustworthy for the sake of some benefit.

Every time she feels nervous and scared...

The same is true until now. It seems that no matter how many times I have experienced this, I can't get used to it.

She didn't say it verbally, but sometimes she still thought in her heart: Why did Zhang Ning ask her to do these things?

Is his gentle and pity-loving gaze just a disguise?

Or is he somewhat similar to Peng Tianheng, the owner of Taohua Villa a long time ago, and he just treats himself as a useful tool?

As for liking ambiguousness, it doesn't mean anything. Peng Tianheng also thought she was pretty and wanted to sleep with her several times. If he hadn't been afraid of her relationship with the rest of Jianwen's party, it would be hard to say what he would do.

Not so!

The Peach Blossom Fairy quickly remembered that in the Luxi Miao Army camp, Zhang Ning asked him to assassinate the government envoy. In the darkness on the eve of dawn, he grabbed his wrist and made a difficult choice and let go; she also remembered that in the battle formation where gunpowders were filled with gunfire, the scene of shells flying around and corpses everywhere, he was standing in front of the battlefield where war was flying, and he might have difficulties.

The Peach Blossom Fairy seemed to see the calm but confused face.

Women are always too likely to think about the details and some subtle feelings.She is no exception. The feeling of one moment is more important than the conclusions through the causal inferences before and after.

Just then, a knock on the door came to mind.The Taohua Fairy immediately came back from a moment of distraction, took care of herself, and signaled her followers to open the door.

The person who came was not Luo Mo Niang, but her maid, and only sent a letter.The Taohua Fairy asked someone to go out to confirm if anyone was following him, and then opened the envelope to see the content.

The handwriting was written by Luo Mo's mother, and it is not convenient to meet in the letter for the time being...

Sure enough, although Luo Mo Niang was nostalgic, she still had some concerns. She seemed unwilling to take too much risk to help them.

However, the letter revealed an important news. Wang Gouer, the chief of the Sili Supervisor, had a confidant eunuch, Wang Zhen, who would come out from the Beicheng River to purchase items on every 300% of the year and 60% of the time, and described the place where eunuch Wang Zhen entered and the route he often took.

Because the Peach Blossom Fairy mentioned last time that she wanted to find Wang Gou'er.

Seeing this, the Peach Blossom Fairy had seen hope. With this news, it would be much easier to find Wang Zhen and meet Wang Gou'er through Wang Zhen.

……

The third day of March is the day mentioned in the news.

Sure enough, the ugly eunuch with sharp mouth and monkey cheeks and different sizes on both sides of the left and right eyes came from the expected place to travel to the palace.

It is a very good job to buy goods for the palace. The eunuchs in the early and mid-Middle Ming dynasties were not that brave, but it was a certain thing that was worth one or five cents or two taels on the internal affairs book.

Such a fat man, Wang Gou'er, who is in power, has to be held responsible to his own people. At the same time, he can still share the big deal without taking risks.

This person is Wang Zhen.

Wang Zhen had a large number of eunuchs around him, most of whom were carrying loads and carrying things. He just bought them according to the things on the books and kept the accounts himself.

Just as he walked into a grain, oil and grocery auxiliary, and was going to the warehouse to see the goods in person with a very responsible attitude, suddenly a woman in the corridor at the door said in a voice: Are you okay with Eunuch Wang?

This made Wang Zhen stunned. When he turned around, he saw a woman in a robe wearing a hat.

Although I can't really see my face, I know that I don't know you when I hear the sound...

In addition to palace maids, there are only a handful of women Wang Zhen knows. His appearance determines that it is unlikely that he will be a woman, so it is easy to judge whether he is an acquaintance.

However, Wang Zhen only entered the palace after he became an adult, and his relationship with his hometown was not as clean as that of ordinary eunuchs. He wondered: Could it be the person entrusted by his wife at home?

Wang Zhen asked curiously: Who are you, know our family?

The woman said: I came from Nanzhili and was entrusted by someone to bring you a letter from home. Please accept it.

It was a coincidence that Wang Gou'er was guessing that the woman said that.

She is naturally the Peach Blossom Fairy.

An eunuch has become an eunuch. Generally, his family feels shameless and will not recognize him. He often changes his name and surname after going to the palace. On the other hand, if his family still recognizes him, he doesn't have much to avoid.

Some popular eunuchs have a promising career and will look for opportunities to return home to experience the feeling of returning home in glory. Of course, local officials and gentry dare not offend them on the surface, but it is hard to say whether they really look down on them in their hearts.

Wang Zhen asked the Taohua Fairy to come forward and write a letter to him.

Since it was a letter from home, of course he would read it himself.In fact, most of the other eunuchs next to them were illiterate at all, but Wang Zhen was different. He was a serious scholar who passed the exam.

When Wang Zhen saw it, what kind of letter was it?

On the first piece of paper inside, there are good calligraphy words with flowing clouds and flowing water. It says: Wang Zhangyin and Wang Zhen conspired to deal with eunuch Haitao, and he had contacted the king (Zhang Ning) internally and externally. Wang Zhen made a bridge and made a connection with letters. I don’t know if there is a single word left on Wang Zhangyin (it’s useless), but I still have several original manuscripts in my hand.

I specially asked someone to copy a picture at will, so that Wang Zhangzhang will see if he still remembers what happened back then...

Wang Zhen's asymmetrical face suddenly changed color.

Fairy Taohua said: After reading the letter from home, can you borrow a step to speak now?

Wang Zhen looked around and ordered other eunuchs to guard outside, even the shopkeeper was blocking outside.

Then he took Taohua Fairy into a warehouse where the goods were stored.

He lowered his voice and said anxiously: Zhang Ping'an was an official in the imperial court back then, how do we know that he was a rebel?With this, what do you want to do? Want to hijack us?

The Taohua Fairy was quite calm: The Xiang King’s meaning is not that you had internal and external conspiracy with him back then, but the inside story of the matter itself.Have you forgotten Eunuch Wang, or did Wang Gouer tell you the truth?

What's the truth?Wang Zhen frowned, his little eyes turned around and thought about something.He dared not act rashly, but it seemed that he would not be so easy to submit.

Fairy Taohua said: Haitao poisoned the concubine of the late emperor to death. Was he conspiring to poison, or was it really poisonous in the "incense ash" seized?This old case is related to the death of the emperor's grandfather today; the truth has been revealed, but if there is another hidden story and old story again... I think you have to go back and tell Wang Gou'er about this and let him talk to us before you can explain it clearly.What do you think?Or do you think you can make your own decisions alone?

Wang Zhen doesn’t need to think too much, and answers immediately: How to contact you?Our family will first tell our godfather Wang Zhangyin and let him make an idea.

His answer was expected by the Peach Blossom Fairy and Zhang Ning’s plan many days ago. Since this matter is not only implicated by Wang Zhen, and Wang Zhen is not the mastermind, of course he does not need to bear it alone. The easiest, cost-effective and wise way is to ventilate the backing behind him.

Haitao's incident alone cannot really threaten Wang Gou'er. The Taohua Fairy must use another thing to deceive him after seeing Wang Gou'er himself.That matter was very serious, the death of Emperor Yongle.

This matter had come to an end as the Peach Blossom Fairy said, but it was very tortuous.

Probably the reason was that Hu Ying smelled a strange fragrance in Emperor Yongle's mourning hall, and then saw this object during the investigation of the rest of Jianwen's party, which led to the question of Emperor Yongle's sudden death on the way to the north. Later, the eunuch Haitao intends to use this incident to attack his political enemy Wang Gou'er, and fought for several rounds in front of Xuande.

What is the truth? Did Emperor Yongle be poisoned to death by spies?Who is poisoning it? Is it Wang Gou'er? Or is there someone else?No one knows, at least Zhang Ning doesn't figure it out.

Zhang Ning was an official under Hu Ying back then, and had handled many relevant cases and knew some of the ins and outs of the matter, but even so, he didn't understand...

But he felt that this could be used to deceive Wang Gou'er.

If it was really Wang Gou'er, he would definitely feel guilty and would inevitably think that Zhang Ning had already known the secret. After all, Zhang Ning's current identity is Prince Jianwen and the man is there; even if it was not Wang Gou'er, after so many twists and turns, he would suspect that there is someone else, and he himself did not do it but could not get rid of it.

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If Wang Gou'er really has something to do with the death of Emperor Yongle, he will definitely die without a place to bury him.

Emperor Xuande's feelings for Zhu Di were deeper than anyone else, including his parents. At that time, he was only a few years old, and was brought by his grandfather to teach and demonstrate his literary and military skills. The deep feelings among them were difficult for outsiders to understand. Even Zhu Di passed the throne to Zhu Gaochi was not because of his eldest son, but more because of his grandson.

Zhu Di was the legitimate grandfather of Emperor Xuande and his idol he admired. In Emperor Xuande's heart, he was like a mountain and a god.

Who touched his God, his faith, a eunuch eunuch?

The outcome is self-evident...